so he knows exactly what the military can/should do, and what can go terribly wrong

None of them know what to do with their hands. They look like noone has picked them for their kickball team.

I work in this industry, they sure as shit hire a lot of idiots (minor self burn, I know). Anyone with his rank, clearance and connections has half a dozen companies drooling over them. Competence doesn’t matter nearly as much as knowing the right people and being on good terms with them.

Has the Incelwaffe begun its character assassination campaign yet? It works fast these days.

You kind of also get the feeling he was summing up his experience as SecDef over the last year.

“I didn’t know where I was going,” Esper said.

Probably a Murder of Karen since they are accomplices in it.

a karevan

May I submit “A Microsoft Teams meeting of Karens?”

And now this,

Did you see what he told NBC yesterday?

Maybe it was something to do with this? Seriously, how fucking awkward is this shit? Just standing in front of a boarded up church in ill-fitting suits, weird postures. Nobody knowing wtf to do with their arms.

“The killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis policeman is a horrible crime. The officers on the scene that day should be held accountable for his murder. It is a tragedy that we have seen repeat itself too many times. With great sympathy, I want to extend the deepest of condolences to the family and friends of…

Your writing brings up a very pressing point: how do we properly describe a group of Karens?

The people in the streets protesting, and even destroying things, have not broken the social contract. The contract was broken long before they started fighting back. Civil disobedience didn’t prevent a man from being choked to death on a city street in broad daylight with people watching and recording the entire…

The saddest part is how many murdered Black people and uprisings didn’t even make this list.

You left out The Boston Busing riots of the 70's. The death and injury of two men in December of 1986 at Howard Beach NY at the hands of a mob of white teenagers. The Central Park Five’s bullshit conviction in 1989 and a certain Editorial by a fat, repulsive, sexual predator in The NY Times. The murder of Yusef…

So he’s one of those guys who constantly expresses “deep concern” at everything the President says/does, then votes in line with him anyway? Illinois used to have a Congressman like that, but we voted Peter Roskam out.

Yes. Omaha has gotten a lot more liberal (the 2nd Congressional District went for Obama in 2008, before the state powers that be gerrymandered the fuck out of it to include all of those right-wing military FUCKS south of Omaha in Sarpy County, almost 100% ensuring that that will not happen again), and so is Lincoln,…

Sasse is the worst.  He wanted the luxury of being a Trump skeptic/critic but didn’t want to stand up to him even once about anything important.  He makes Romney look like goddamned GI Joe.  Nebraska people, what’s up?  Omaha is a cool city.  How is this moron getting support?  Is the rest of the state garbage?