What did that One Star General do to merit eight rows of medals?
 

What did that One Star General do to merit eight rows of medals?

 

Neither one of them has ever fought in a war that made us safer or freer — nor any war that was morally justified for defense (or even legitimate pre-emption of an imminent threat to us here in the USA).

Neither one deserves our respect or gratitude or these damn foolish “medals.”

Neither of the regime’s paid murderers should use medals and other nonsense to brag about their “service” to aggression and evil.

Replies: @Telimektar

I had an uncle, deceased some years ago, that went active duty USMC in January 1942. His last combat was Iwo Jima. Three beach landings and a bunch of campaigns. He was considered "highly decorated". He had a single row of ribbons. Bronze star, which was considered a big deal. If you read the medal citation, it WAS a big deal. He had been seriously concussed, crawled out of the foxhole to retrieve a fellow Marine some 100 feet away.

He told a few stories. One. I asked him if he saw the flag raised on Iwo. He pointed out that the famous pic was staged, and a photo op. The original flag was much smaller, on a higher pole. He said he and another guy had spent three days in a shell crater. Couldn't raise their head above ground level--the Japanese had everything pre registered. When they saw that flag go up, they said to each other: "Someone has control of something, somewhere. We might live yet."

The thrill of pilfering is a thing. Exists in all races; seems a standard deviation higher in Blacks.

Replies: @Corvinus

Yes, that's my impression of Portland antifa.

In contrast, in 2020, Beverly Hills (which is really rich) was one of the few places on the west coast where Trump supporters could rally with the confidence that the cops would repel antifa attacks.

Replies: @Zero Philosopher, @James Forrestal

How many years of violent riots and we have to wonder who Antifa are? Notice that the he newly focused House Rs are asking FBI et al for answers for what appears to be the first time. I don’t recall Paul Ryan ever demanding answers. Would McCarthy have gone there but for the Gaetz rebellion? I think not.

I hope America is watching and learning that you have to fight to win. You even have to be willing to piss off the media to win.

Replies: @Inverness

I think many of them drop/flunk out, typically by the end of their sophomore year. Drugs and alcohol play a role 100% of the time. My impression is that a disproportionate number are really downwardly mobile, parents have decent to good jobs and really disappointed the life they planned out for their child is crashing and burning. Tim Kaine's son is a good example.

We moved NATO east by admitting Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Hungary, and other former Warsaw Pact countries, as we had agreed not to.
 

Well, you go crawl into an overturned tank and fetch out the shells, some of which will be broken open. They are not indestructible.

I would happily pull out the shells if there isn't a fire because I understand how bullets work.

They not only need to be struck in the primer with the right amount of force but they also have to be pressurized in barrel.

There are videos of the Abrams flying 10 feet in the air from a jump. Being flipped over is nothing.

The narrative the media supports is that we did not provoke this war by moving NATO east.

How did we move NATO east? Ukraine wasn't in the process of applying to NATO and didn't have the votes of France, Germany and Turkey. Or are you just following Putin's total bullshit claim of NATO silos being planned for Ukraine? Why didn't he issue an ultimatum if it was about NATO? What good would silos do if there are already a dozen trident subs in the Atlantic that can flatten Russia?

Putin has since moved away from that bullshit excuse and now claims the war is about Donbas.

The leaked plans show that he planned on continuing to Moldova. He can't even maintain a consistent line of bullshit. He isn't very good at this.

He is just playing conqueror in his last days and you are repeating his lame excuses. Age old Russian imperialism. The LPR/DPR that he claimed in March were independent states are now just Russian territory.

That’s how I can sometimes tell that videos are BS, because the intended audience knows nothing and I know something.
Video evidence is no evidence, at this distance.

Well here is a dashcam of a Russian missile hitting a civilian area:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fK1ZnFZ2dgI

Would you say that is BS or real?

Putin is a half pint dictator that thought he could take Ukraine in 2.5 weeks. The Western media does not need to maintain a narrative. They can just put a live camera on him like a natural disaster. He is losing it mentally as seen by his human wave attacks using conscripts.

Replies: @stari_momak, @jinkforp

Some speculate that those Leopards will be sent to Poland ( which is the usual route for NATO to provide their Ukrainian proxies with weapons) but will stay there to reinforce the Polish army, which the idea to maybe push across to Western Ukraine or even worse, to invade Bielorrusia!
There's no way those tanks are going to the front lines in Eastern Ukraine anytime soon, for the reasons you mentioned.
Some Poles are concerned about being the growing number of Ukrainian refugees, about the foolishness of Polish politicians dreaming about a Greater Poland and about being used then bled to death by NATO like the Ukrainians are.

Replies: @Jack D

There will be friction. Real trains are not HO scale. They are vulnerable. Simple interruptions can interfere with traffic hundreds of miles away. Putting things right is not Thomas the Tank Engine stuff. Complications arise. (Imagine, for example, righting a flipped tank with a turretful of loose 120mm rounds.)

Flipping a tank is not going to set off 120mm rounds. They require a striking hammer just like regular bullets. You can slam a rifle with a magazine full of bullets and they won't go off. Pretty old tech.

The same Ukraine that had Joe Biden’s son on the payroll? An honest media would have brought these things up.

I am very critical of the MSM. It's in my history. But that still doesn't mean I will assume that they lie about every single story.

In the case of race they lie to maintain a narrative that it doesn't exist and Whites are to blame for everything. In the case of guns they lie about what common gun violence looks like. What is the narrative they need to lie about in regard to Ukraine? Russia is the aggressor? Well they don't have to tell lies in that case. Putin launched the invasion and we have his leaked plans. Putin was trying to freeze the Ukrainian population by bombing power plants which is a war crime. That action is independent of Western media.

I don't trust the MSM but if they say that drinking paint is bad for your health that doesn't mean they must be lying and the opposite is true. You aren't thinking critically if you take the position that everything from the MSM must be false. That's actually no different than the lib that believes everything on CNN. You are taking a position before determining what is true or false.

There is plenty of non-MSM media that reports on the war. I don't see why you are so hung up on the topic.

And video means nothing. I myself have seen dinosaurs come to life onscreen. I have watched Jawas fight Imperial storm troopers. I saw the Titanic sink. War footage is childs’ play.

No one is faking drone or cell phone video in a Hollywood studio. This is a real war and you can see the destruction in satellite images from independent sources.

Replies: @jinkforp

That is why we are letting the Ukie's do the fighting.

Replies: @Anon

German tanks will require Teutonic levels of diligence to keep them running. Russian tank designers recognize that their tanks will receive Slavic care, and accordingly make them simple.

Ukrainians will master German tanks and they will shrug at any maintenance.

BMW/Mercedes have had quality control problems but German engineering on the whole is better than Russian.

A cruise missile does not have to hit a specific car to derail a train, any car will do. And the locomotives would be the easiest thing to hit, being big, at the front of the train, and having a strong heat signature.

So what? The train derails. A crane comes and picks up the tank. This is Thomas the Train stuff. Not that hard.

The Nazis had train problems because they had long supply lines through occupied territory. The Ukrainians will shrug at a weekend delay caused by a derailment. Have a look at rail lines in Ukraine. A tank could drive to the nearest crossing.

If I had a stockpile of cruise missiles I would still not waste them on targets that could be destroyed by a cheap, imported drone.

Well Putin wasted most of his missiles trying to take Kiev.

The use of such drones says nothing about the availability of cruise missiles. Does the fact that WW2 submarines would use their deck guns on small craft mean that they had no torpedoes?

It isn't speculation that he is short on cruise missiles. He was criticized by his own propagandist for wasting them on civilian areas. If he had thousands of cruise missiles then he wouldn't be buying Iranian drones.

Unless you have a day job with the CIA, neither you or I know how many HIMARs were sent or received or what damage they did or did not do.

You asked for a figure and I gave you the official number. What else would you expect? The HIMARs are clearly causing major havoc as seen by the New Year's attack.

Our own media, for example, shamelessly lies about anything race related, and pretends to believe that men and women are interchangeable. How would they not lie about this war?

They lie about race and gender because it is part of their ideology. That doesn't mean they lie everywhere else.

What do they need to lie about? It isn't like race where they feel the truth can't be told. Putin is a loser dictator and you can keep a live camera on him. It's like covering the weather or a dog show. Putin has attacked civilian areas that were caught on dash cams. There is no propaganda needed. He is a psychopathic dictator and doesn't hide it. There is no taboo narrative that needs to be maintained.

There is no need to follow MSM news on the war. I follow independent European outlets and also keep close tabs on drone footage. Unlike previous wars we have a lot of footage directly from the soldiers. I really don't care about what some CNN magic mulatto has to say on the subject.

Replies: @jinkforp, @stari_momak

I am not Tiny Duck with a new mask.
 

“Discard” was my screen name for years until it was rejected, maybe a year ago
 

The “Discard” signature is there to allow some continuity, so people can exercise some judgement about my credibility.
 

Every few weeks the computer rejects my name, and I don’t know why.
 

Was going to post this. At the time it was made, it was considered anti-racist, because it was giving the Chinese community visibility.

Replies: @ChrisZ

Flower Drum Song. Japanese actors playing Chinese people. Ethnic stereotypes.
 

"Echk-tually, the Nicaraguan was played by a Guatemalan. I couldn't even. Ruined the whole picture."

Mother of Christ, give it a rest already.

Nancy Kwan, the star of Flower Drum Song, was Chinese.

In Wikipedia, 12 main cast members are listed for the film. Six were Chinese in real life, four were Japs, one a Filipino, and one a negress (What, no White people?)

Does it bother you that Marlon Brando played Don Corleone when he wasn't Italian? Or that "Southerners" Rhett and Scarlett were played by a guy from Ohio and an Englishwoman with Indian and Armenian blood? Or that "ladies man" Rock Hudson wasn't so much a Pillow Talk-er as a Pillow Bite-r in real life?

You want a bang-up excellent Asian film character from a 1960s movie? May I suggest Mr Yunioshi from Breakfast at Tiffany's--Mickey Rooney knocked it out of the park. That's the same film where a thirtysomething Dutchwoman played a 19 year old named Lula Mae from Tulip,Texas, and where Patricia Neal, who was from the coal mining town of Packard, Kentucky, played a chic Upper East Side matron.

Glad that you didn't interfere with any of that.

Replies: @Renard

US immigration law being obeyed - imagine that!
 

Discard
 

Replies: @jinkforp

It takes a couple days in America to clear away a derailment, unless you get a lot of cars in the dirt.

Yes a derailment is just a weekend delay. Really not a big deal.

It isn't like WW2 where the Germans had extremely long supply lines and partisans were able to seriously disrupt the rail lines by blowing them in the Polish woods.

I don’t know that you can conceal tanks.

Well the Germans were certain in 1944 that you can't conceal a massive offensive. And the Allies did just that.

And do you imagine that Russia has no ground observers among the Poles? Perhaps unmanned observers?

Poles traditionally hate the Russians but there are always spies at work. The Ukrainians will most likely ship them on multiple trains. They moved in HIMARs and 60 ton howitzers without any train attacks so I don't see why you think this is so high risk. HIMARs were more of a threat than Leopards. But Putin probably wasn't paying attention until they started hitting ammo dumps with them. Putin did the same with NLAWs and javalins. He didn't seem to think they were a big deal until his tanks started blowing up. His megalomania seriously clouds his judgement.

You seem to be counting on Russian failure and Ukrainian success. What if the dice don’t always roll your way?

I would like this stupid war to end and Ukraine doesn't win by losing 100k men and getting their borders back. Both sides ultimately lose thanks to a bitter old man who tried to play conqueror. Ukraine can win independence but it won't be much consolidation to someone that lost a husband or son. Russia at best can win Eastern Ukraine. They just spent thousands of men to take a mining town that is in ruins. Russian kids that lost a dad won't think it is a win that Russia gained a pile of rubble. Russia is underpopulated and actually has abandoned cities in the East. They don't need land and their economy will shrink as a result of this war. Just a dumb move by Putin and he is too childish to admit it was a mistake.

This assumes that the Russians know which train is carrying tanks, that the tanks are not camouflaged on the trains and/or moving at night, etc.

As I said before, the Ukrainians have already received vast arms shipments from the West - hundreds of ex-Soviet tanks, HIMARs, howitzers, etc. and the Russians have shown no capability of being able to significantly disrupt these deliveries. The Polish-Ukrainian border is around 200 miles long with numerous rail crossings and endless possibilities for just driving stuff across (not to mention Slovakia, Hungary and Romania). The crossing points are hundreds of miles away from Russian held territory.

Throughout this war, even in the very earliest days when Kyiv was partially surrounded, the Ukrainians maintained the ability to move very high value targets (e.g. Zelensky himself, high level foreign dignitaries such as Boris Johnson) in and out of Ukraine by rail. The on time record of the Ukrainian railroads is still today better than that of British railroads. The Russians have not been able to damage the rail system in the way that they have damaged the utility system.

If Russia had the capability of being able to disrupt tank deliveries they would have done so already, but they don't have it. You don't have to believe Western media reports but you also shouldn't believe Russian blogger fantasies either.

It does matter if tank engines have lots of miles on them. They are extremely high maintenance. Why do they only last 6000 miles, max?

You'd have to provide some data for the Leopards. They are going to have much lower maintenance costs than the Abrams due to having a traditional diesel engine. I wouldn't underestimate German engineering.

But let's say a tank has 3000 miles on it. So what? If that tank is used to kill a hundred Russians then it is a success. The cost of the tank to Ukraine was $0. They kill more Russians than if that tank crew had been infantry. So what if they leave it disabled in a field? Shrug. Ask for more.

How many HIMARs were sent, and how many arrived?

At least 20.

They came by rail and yet we haven't seen any footage of cruise missile attacks on trains. The Bradleys are currently being transferred by rail and Putin is most likely underestimating their attack power. They are not heavily armored but can take out a tank if they spot it first. They are extremely deadly against unsupported infantry attacks which is what Russia has been using.

Were they trucked? Do we know? And cruise missiles are just fine for destroying trains, which run on tracks, slowly, and can’t escape.

There is no reason to believe that Russian cruise missiles are accurate enough to hit a specific car. If they had a stockpile of cruise missiles then they wouldn't be buying 2 stroke engine drones from Iran. The Iranians basically make drones out of lawnmower engines and Western commercial GPS chips. But more importantly Putin is clueless about war and is losing it mentally. He has been two steps behind everything the West provides to Ukraine. I guarantee the Bradleys will surprise him just like the HIMARs. He doesn't seem to bother spending even 5 minutes reading about these weapons. Putin is no Stalin or Hitler. He is more like Nicholas II and doesn't even bother researching the enemy.

Replies: @Jack D, @jinkforp, @PhysicistDave

I would not be so sure that the Ukrainians are not idiots. Most people are.
 

I do not know that any rail flatcar would work. Do Ukrainian flatcars have a 70+ ton capacity? And after a year of war, how many flatcars have they got? And trains are very vulnerable to airpower.

LOL what do you think is going to happen? The Leopards are going to cross the Polish border and only at that point the Ukrainians will learn that they are really heavy?

Ukraine had more military hardware than France before the war started. They are not some backwards Slav state that can't figure out how to transport some modern tanks.

A standard box car can hold 70 to 100 tons.
https://www.csx.com/index.cfm/customers/resources/equipment/railroad-equipment/

That pro-Putin blogger should stick to writing about homosexuals taking over.

Replies: @jinkforp

Yes, I am speculating on the condition of the tanks, as you are speculating. The average tank will be halfway through its service life, unless the NATOs send their newest and best.

They'll have new tracks and will fight until they are destroyed. It doesn't matter if their engines have miles on them.

That pro-Putin blogger is overthinking this.

If a Leopard tank kills a hundred Russians then it is a huge success. Who cares if the engine blows at some point. The cost of the tank is $0 to Ukraine.

A trainload of tanks is a really juicy target, and even derailing the train, a simple task, will put them all on the ground. I can’t see the Russians letting a trainload get very far from the Polish border.

Well they let the HIMARs in along with T-72 tanks from various countries.

What do you think they would hit the train with? Cruise missiles? Putin is launching Iranian 2 stroke engine drones at civilian areas in Kiev. He already wasted most of their cruise missiles in the initial attack. In case you hadn't noticed he isn't very good at war.

Replies: @jinkforp

I can’t see the Russians letting a trainload get very far from the Polish border.
 

Replies: @John Johnson, @jinkforp

1991 GAO report on annual cost of operating tank.

https://www.gao.gov/assets/nsiad-91-114.pdf

The point being is that they wear out quickly even in peacetime. Unless the Ukes are getting brand new tanks, they are likely to average 2500 miles on them, halfway through their designed service life. And if the generals sending them off have any sense, they’ll send their oldest vehicles and keep the newer ones. Driving them another 500 or 1000 miles to the front will cost you 20% of them due to breakdowns, without allowing for any Russian interdiction.

You're speculating on the condition of the tanks.

There are train stations within 100 miles of the front.

The Ukrainians don't care about long term use.

So yes, they will need to sent tank transporters along.

Well that pro-Putin blogger said they won't be getting tanks because of transportation problems.

I am pointing out that they could utilize tanks even without trucks to carry them.

Replies: @Jack D, @jinkforp

"To give credit to Commentary editor Norman Podhoretz, at least once he published a letter that pointed out a foolish error he had made in a book review."

Did he ever publish a letter pointing out the foolish error he made by having a career and a worldview, instead of jumping off a cliff and sparing the rest of us his poison?

Replies: @keypusher

"These people don’t like White America."

Or, as we called it until recently, America.

You did the right thing, but my point is, if we don't all have your foresight, then we all get screwed.

Thanks, jinkforp, you took the words right out of my fingertips.

Bucky Fuller thought modern homes would be better and more affordable if they were built on assembly lines using aircraft manufacturing techniques, and so he invented his Dymaxion House:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/0c/f9/57/0cf957bf8382d932d639033ca62ccabf.jpg

Sort of resembles an Airstream camper in materials and craftsmanship, or maybe a diner. It was a gee-whiz idea of the time that never went anywhere. All mechanicals were in a core section from the factory, so no installation was required. Just put the house in place and plug it into the utilities.

Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic, @Joe Stalin, @Jack D, @Corn, @Tex

A lot of tract housing is more prefab than you think. A lot of stuff is precut and sometimes even brought to site already formed in panels. However, there's not that much labor savings possible in framing. A half a dozen Guatemalans can frame a house in a day. It's the other stuff where the cost and expensive labor is - plumbing, electrical, HVAC, cabinets and trim, tiling, flooring, painting, etc. The real savings is if you can do all of that in a factory and not just the framing.

Yeah, I hear they also have gulags in AMGOT’s called GIBSMO as in gibs me mo.

It’s possible to get a CCW in California? And in LA? I had no idea.
 

Replies: @Steve Sailer

Police chiefs and county Sheriffs in California's centers of urban squalor tend to be highly politicized. If you live in Bay Area and adjacent counties your odds of obtaining a CCW are next to nil unless you have a well-networked lawyer. The rural(ish) counties north, south, and east of LA and SD, now that the indigenous whites have mostly fled, are controlled by Democratic Party aligned Latinos. Best bet for law-abiding whitey in the Golden State is to move to far north counties -- excluding the Hippie dominated coastal enclaves Mendocino and Humboldt -- like Shasta, Siskiyou, and Modoc. It's State of Jefferson territory, and if the local constabularies have steel in their spine when facing pressure to subvert the law by Bonta's office or the goons of the terribly-faced Garland, you're likely to get a CCW, if you don't have a criminal record. But there's no need to carry concealed weapons in those parts: the dudes up there usually carry AR-15s or 12 gauge pumps in their auto transports.

If you live in a place like LA where the pressures of the current anarcho-tyranny regime are tremendous (Steve, stay in your closet), consider a drop gun.

Ben Hecht's memoir "A Child of the Century" is a great read. I dunno how much is true, but the man could tell a story. His experiences as a Chicago newspaper reporter in 1910-1920 are the basis for "The Front Page" / "His Girl Friday."

Replies: @Bill Jones, @Batman, @Joe Stalin, @Joe Stalin

If you don’t mind, what books can you recommend?
 

Replies: @Anon

"You’re a Chicago lover? If you don’t mind, what books can you recommend?"

Well there's always "In the Jungle of Cities" by Bertolt Brecht.

European intellectuals used to fantasize about an imaginary Chicago, a city none of them had visited.

Being a major cultural force is one thing. But it is another to know whether that force is largely for the good or the bad.Chicago, like NYC, is on the bad side.

Like NYC, Chicago has delivered all the evil it could muster in areas that many see as contradictory: dehumanizing laissez faire by the RICH; radical academia and resulting radical politics and journalism; corrupt labor movements; Jewish bribery everywhere; old WASP money allied with Jew money to romanticize Negroes, etc.

Replies: @That Would Be Telling

American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley - His Battle for Chicago and the Nation

https://www.amazon.com/American-Pharaoh-Richard-Battle-Chicago/dp/0316834890

Mike Royko's Boss is a classic, if you're interested in understanding how The City That Works worked. A collection of his columns would be a great intro, too.

Replies: @mmack

The Outfit by Gus Russo. Just so happens that Joey and Nick Bosa of 49ers and Chargers are great grandsons of Tony Accardo, a big Outfit guy.

https://www.amazon.com/Great-American-City-Enduring-Neighborhood-ebook/dp/B007P56K2A?ref_=ast_sto_dp

He's a Sociologist. And makes an interesting case for the city. Someday I'm going to figure out how he adjusts race out of his data.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7WxRrqaxmM

Fictionalized version of Cabrini Green removal.

Yes the city is doomed, but through unfunded public pensions, not race per se.

The Mexicans + Whites outnumber Blacks. High degree of race realism. Boy's Town is very realistic.

High Mexican population may facilitate a Brazilification future.

Never been there, but I know that Chicago once was a major cultural force in this country.
 

I'm talking about Left-Wing people, in general. If you add "wealthy" to it, then it becomes a different kettle of fish.

I recall seeing, multiple times, from 'Audacious Epigone', that liberals do miscegenate more than conservatives. (Sadly, I cannot find the exact blog posts right now to prove it…)

Anyway, still: I would bet that WEALTHY liberals are more likely to miscegenate than conservative counterparts of similar wealth.

They spit on it first.

Yep, they're all in a panic at Defense News magazine, and the Pentagon, about enlistment. (((They))) know that a black ⚫️, brown and LGBTQ military 🪖, undermanned at that, will be be ridiculous fighting force which would mostly cut and run, even against the Iranians.
The only exception/caveat to this is the advanced technology (weaponry) of the Anglo-Judaic Empire, but hopefully China will assist Russia, with both helping Iran, in overcoming this.

Replies: @anonymous

normal Whites who question immigration will get disemployed by the Bezos’ and Tesla’s.
 

The 10% figure comes from the Kinsey report of the late 1940’s. It was demonstrated to be deliberate fraud in the 1980’s when European AIDS researchers could not replicate its findings and pressured the Kinsey Institute (?) to open its books.

Well I have seen it cited from a Masters/Johnson study. But whatever the origin the number is undoubtedly fraudulent.

Even in the age of gayness they can't seem to find a reputable poll that shows more than 5%.

The often cited 10% has become a political number. Some will even claim 15% as part of the nebulous bisexual category.

If 15% of women were gay or bisexual then you would see lesbian couples everywhere. Far more women would choose to date women if they could. Women are not naturally attracted to effeminate liberal men and they are certainly not attracted to women. I even had a liberal girlfriend tell me it was frustrating that she couldn't force herself to be attracted to liberal men.

Kinsey specifically recruited his test and survey subjects from the County Jail of Marion County, Indiana (which had a much higher percentage of sexual deviates than the jails of Monroe County, around Indiana University (Bloomington, Indiana), where his office was and where he and his staff conducted their orgies^H^H^H↑H^H^H "research".

I know from personal conversations with a fellow student at Purdue that working for the Kinsey Institute was the cause of MANY divorces. The Kinsey Institute is a racket... a bordello masquerading as a research facility.

So yes, California is the prototype for America’s multi-racial future. Whites on the bottom
 

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