I underestimated the greedy stupidity of Secretary of Raytheon Stonks Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Leaving Americans in Afghanistan Mark Milley.

In President Eisenhower’s farewell address in 1961 he said:

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

Austin and Milley are the physical embodiment of that.

So whats the latest news about our foreign policy?

Psaki cleans up Biden's ridiculous statement on allowing a small incursion into Ukraine: "If any Russian military forces move across the Ukrainian border, that's a renewed invasion, and it will be met with a swift, severe, & united response from the United States and our Allies."

— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) January 19, 2022

BREAKING: State Department orders families of U.S. embassy personnel in Ukraine to begin evacuating the country as soon as Monday: U.S. officials

— Lucas Tomlinson (@LucasFoxNews) January 22, 2022

Oh great…

Russia has nuclear tipped hypersonic missiles that can totally evade our missile defense systems.

We do not have equivalent weapons.  We spent two decades shooting medieval goat fuckers in the desert, we abandoned our development of strategic weapons.

(Probably because our top strategic enemy is China and the Chinese have successfully purchased our political class who would never sign off on developing weapons to use against their cash cow.)

So now we’re picking a fight with a nation with missile technology superior to ours, with a military that doesn’t teach its soldiers Critical Race Theory or list their preferred pronouns, over some country in Eastern Europe that happened to have been at the heart of a corruption scandal involving bribing the crackhead son of the current president.

Anyone else get the feeling we’re getting close to playing Fallout IRL Edition just so that a lot of corrupt assholes can keep lining their pockets?

Maybe my tinfoil hat is too tight but we could have squeezed Russia’s balls hard by blocking their pipeline to Germany and selling natural gas from Texas to Germany cheap.

But that doesn’t pump Raytheon Stonks.

We’re only six months out from having the Taliban step on our dicks and these guys are now playing chicken with the Ruskies.

Remember when Obama said “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to fuck things up.”

We about to find out just how bad he can fuck things up.

“Does the Pentagon have any indications that perhaps a submarine may be trying to defect?”

“No, we do not.”

(clip h/t @PeteKDCNews ) pic.twitter.com/yOVSd6UQ6S

— Howard Mortman (@HowardMortman) January 21, 2022

Some of the places I have to go for work are Gun Free Zones and some are not, but you can tell they would frown on Carry. My solution after a bit of research was this: Reminton RM380 in a Galco Tuck-N-Go 2.0 holster and 2 spare mags in a Sticky Holsters double mag pouch.

When not regularly clipped to my belt, the holster can be removed quickly and slip in the pants’ pocket without problem. The mags do stay inside a pocket all the time, but the pouch keeps them secured and oriented to my liking.  If the location is fully GFZ, I can remove all quickly and secure it in a gun box without having to do the Disarming Macarena/Strip Tease in the parking lot.

Sharing in case somebody needed an idea for his/her own EDC.

I am used to see all kinds of Email Scams just like I am sure you do too. But I have to admit this one forced me to pause for a second:

This is not some generic mass scam originated in some computer farm in the former Soviet republics, but something specifically targeted at me as a shooter or Second Amendment supporter or (most likely) I pissed off somebody who reads the blog. I have been “subscribed” to some silly things online, but this is not the 90s and most places do have protections against fake subscriptions.

Anyway, their command of the English language is worse than mine which was the first giveaway. And if I am not mistaken, Paypal has not quit its ban on being used to pay for gun and I believe Springfield Armory returns the favor by not accepting Paypal as form of payment.

Nice try!

So I go online to look for blog fodder.

One of the things that is trending is West End Caleb.

In a nutshell, this dude in New York is on a hookup and dating app.  He’s hooking up with these girls who all give it up on the first or second date. Then as soon as he scores he disappears.

He’s a scumbag.

So these girls are creating and longer and longer thread of TikTok videos of their experiences with this piece of shit to the point where it’s trending and gone viral.

So these sluts are doxxing this piece of shit for doing exactly what this app was created to do, i.e., pair off people with poor morals for meaningless sexual encounters.

Fundamentally, I shouldn’t care about this.

I’ll let the late great Norm McDonald sum up my deepest and most sincere feelings on this matter:

But I’ll tell you why this upsets me.

Because everything goes on social media nowadays.

I open my browser and my news feed contains stories from The Daily Dot or some other pop culture site about a video that has gone viral over some bullshit minutia.

Some waitress didn’t get a tip from a rude couple or someone got into a minor argument over a last donut in the case at the grocery store (both are real examples) and instead of it being settled privately, it’s gone viral.

The alleged victim has a TikTok video with hundreds of thousands of views and a Go Fund Me with a $10,000 goal because she got stiffed on a $20 tip.  The alleged perpetrators are being doxxed and destroyed without the opportunity to defend themselves.

I’m old enough to remember when shit like this was settled in person.

I was a waiter once.  You get stiffed and you go back into the kitchen and call that customer a dick.

You get into an argument at the Kroger and you end it with “fuck you, fuck your mother, and fuck everyone who has fucked your mother, which is most of the fucking state.”

And that’s it.

No permanent damage.

Today, it feels like one of those westerns where the gunslinger comes to town and pushes everyone around because he’s the quickest draw in territory.

Except in this case it’s the TikToker or Twitter user with thousands or millions of followers who can get their narrative out faster and to more people to murder your reputation online who is the gunslinger in the black coat.

This is the greatest evil of social media.

To borrow the words of the Bolshevik revolutionary Pasha: “The personal life is dead in America. Social media has killed it.”

That’s some fine police work! Moment sobbing girl, 9, and five adults are ARRESTED at New York’s Natural History Museum for refusing to show COVID vaccine cards: Onlookers heckled heavy-handed NYPD cops

The arrests, which come amid soaring crime in the Big Apple, took place on Wednesday. Trouble began when a half-dozen purported members of the New York Freedom Rally – a group that has been staging anti-vax protests throughout the city – attempted to enter the Manhattan museum without showing their vaccine passports in violation of rules. Those require every visitor five years and older to show proof of vaccination.

Here us video:

https://twitter.com/yael_becker/status/1484196546358956032

NYC has had a record number of people pushed in front of subway trains in the last year and a 343% increase in anti Asia hate crimes but they have cops to pull an unvaxxed 9-year-old out of a museum.

A pox on NYC and the Waffen NYPD.