All joking and clever Tweets aside... how the fuck can anyone- with a straight face- say the San Bernardino attack wasn’t covered by the media? It was literally the lead story every day for about two weeks... and then was a story AGAIN with Apple’s refusal to unlock a fucking phone. DONALD TRUMP HAD STRONG OPINIONS OF…

A cab driver almost hit me on my bike two years ago when I had to swerve to avoid a pedestrian who stepped into the bike lane on Bleecker. He also honked his horn. The press never reported anything about it.

Third rule in Latino families: leave your wife after she donates her organs to you.

Protip: If you ever happen to become invincible for just 30 minutes, do not spend that time fishing.

I really like “makes you invincible and better at fishing”.

I’m just sad Arenea doesn’t get the Pink Ranger Suit.

This is complete bullshit. It’s a flat-out lie by Tony Bartel, period. GameStop has ALWAYS used pressure tactics on both store employees and customers in order to meet certain metrics. Overall store sales performance is irrelevant to the company, it’s all about the specific metrics they choose to focus on during a…

Haha, that’s hilarious. She was Secretary of State, not a military arm of the government no matter what you believe.

We agree that the problem lies with the plan of attack. My point here is that a lot of plans get made and then shelved. That’s what military oversight is for- saying ‘yes, that’s a good plan, no that’s too risky.’ And I think it’s logical to assume that Trump wants to be more aggressive, and that he is more prone to…

Buddy, there is a reason why the commander in chief is there. It’s his responsibility and he is held accountable. It is his job to ensure and know that the people being sent in are appropriate for the job instead of regulating abortion and doing shit in the white house that is not his direct job. The president of the…

It depends on how hands on he was with the decision making process. For most of these raids, I presume it rarely goes higher than the JSOC commander, which I believe is a two-star position, either an Army Special Forces general, or a Navy SEAL admiral.

Nope. They place the blame with the person whose job is to take the blame.

No, Obama did lead and plan the raid for killing Osama bin Laden. The role of the President in raids is much bigger than you think it is. Especially on a raid of this importance in a country that hasn’t had a non-drone U.S. raid involving military “boots-on-the-ground” tactic since 2012. This was a really big deal. It…

It is all on him. If he dared blame the troops carrying out the mission, he’d be finished. The Commander-In-Chief owns that responsibility. It cannot be dodged or re-assigned.

Well, because all of this is executed on intelligence gathering. It looks like whatever they thought was in this location simply wasn’t there and was further compounded by mechanical failures. That’s a huge intelligence failure and Trump as the Commander-in-Chief is principally responsible for acting on bad…

Well, considering the reason that Obama didn’t approve the raid while he was president because he was shown the factors involved and determined that the risk was too great, there’s certainly some blame to be placed on the person in charge.

I don’t think Kai Mai understands the President’s power or responsibility is concerning the military. He/She’s been arguing in circles with me but you can tell they don’t come from a military background.

No, I think the question is was this a rushed mission for something other than striking while they needed to? Was Trump/Bannon/et al trying to cap off what they thought was a winning week of Presidenting? Was it supposed to be a diversionary political tactic? Was he advised properly on giving the go on this from…

If anyone has a chance to, read Jeremy Scahill’s “Dirty Wars”. He details the rise of the JSOC which has basically become a hit squad for the US government. He also details the obsessive hunt by both Bush and Obama, and their use of the JSOC, to find Anwar al-Awlaki, who evidence suggested was nothing more than a…

I would say, first off, that as commander in chief, he has to own it. Second, the huge amount of civilian lives, seemingly indiscriminately, certainly looks like a huge shift in tactics, as there doesn’t seem to have been any effort to avoid/keep that at a minimum. It also not only becomes propaganda for enemy…