Earlier this evening Newt Gingrich, or rather whomever he was paying to spam people’s cell phones with text messages, texted me.
Newt, or whomever he paid to spam texts to people’s cell phones never responded to my reply.
Also, I checked with my county’s supervisor’s of elections office website tool for checking my voter registration. I’m registered and my standing order for a mail in ballot is both good until December 2022, but I am confirmed to receive my mail in ballot for the 2020 election. Of course, for some reason, Newt seems to think I’m still living in Pennsylvania based on the link he texted me. As Charlie Pierce likes to say: “Newt Gingrich, a stupid person’s idea of a smart person”.
Open thread!
Mike in NC
Shitstain Newt Gingrich predated Fat Bastard by over 20 years.
SiubhanDuinne
Hahahahaha, very satisfying response.
Adam L Silverman
@SiubhanDuinne: I did my undergraduate degree at Emory. I know far more about Newt Gingrich than I care too.
HumboldtBlue
Might as well post this in the new thread.
Bret Terhune has another doozy.
Adam, do you plan on writing about the Bonhomme Richard?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
as someone with cultural and family ties to the Catholic Church and a lot of respect for the good people in that institution, it galls me that his…. wife…. is our ambassador to the Vatican. Such a fucking embarrassment
and those pictures… gadzooks
lollipopguild
I am shocked, Shocked, that your carefully worded and polite response has been ignored!
Gretchen
Teen manning the carry out counter at my local bbq restaurant today told customer he needed to wear a mask. In response customer showed kid his gun. Ex-Marine owner chased customer out. https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/507169-kansas-man-in-maga-hat-shows-restaurant-worker-his-gun-after
Adam L Silverman
@HumboldtBlue: It’s gonna be in dry dock for a long time!
AnotherBruce
No reply to the reply? Sad.
Adam L Silverman
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: The Pope could have refused her credentials.
Adam L Silverman
@Gretchen: I’ve eaten there. Good Q!
Tim C.
Related: This year I’ve gotten way more outreach from Conservative and Republican campaigns. This makes no sense as I’ve never donated to any cause related to them. I think the internal Republican scamming is going full tilt right now. Lots of ads and outreach, but it’s all unfocused, just saying they have “contacted” so many people to get more money from their donors with no actual effort to determine the value of the contact.
Alison Rose
Adam, you’re my new favorite person.
(Other than my mom.)
HumboldtBlue
@Adam L Silverman:
Not much of a dry dock when the keep dumping water from helicopters on it. I ask because my brother spent 30 years including 12 at the nearest fire station and I’d like to get some attention to the difficulty those Navy personnel and fire crews have to deal with.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Gretchen: There are no ex-Marines, once a Marine, always a Marine.
Adam L Silverman
@Alison Rose:
Sab
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: And the Catholic Church went nuts when my husband wanted to marry me, an Episcopalian who had previously married a Jewish guy. They didn’t recognize my Jewish marriage and yet they didn’t recognize the divorce. How do you Catholicly annul a Jewish marriage that they never thought was legitimate. It’s a puzzlement.
Ruckus
Adam, I’m shocked, shocked I say, at such language. He was getting hummers.
Of all the words in the english language, you couldn’t find one or two dozen that described him in a more forceful and properly descriptive tone? I can give examples if necessary. I can’t imagine that you’d need them but there we are……
Adam L Silverman
@HumboldtBlue: I’m really the wrong person to ask. But I know who to ask to see if they’ll do a guest post. Please stand, sit, lounge, and/or lie down by.
Adam L Silverman
@Sab: I believe it requires a rabbi, three nuns, a live chicken…//
Currants
@SiubhanDuinne: Yes, it was!
SiubhanDuinne
@Adam L Silverman:
Oh, I know him all too well.
Martin
The only shame of it is that Newt will never see it.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Ruckus: I was going to say, Adam needs to go to the Ruckus School of Replies to Asshole Politians(RSoRAP).
Gretchen
@Sab: So what happened? Did they figure out a way or did you get married elsewhere?
Martin
@HumboldtBlue: Really rancid electrical/chemical smell for a few hours this afternoon. I can’t imagine the smoke made it this far north, but I can’t find any other explanation for it.
What a shitshow.
Ruckus
@Adam L Silverman:
There was a report in Business Insider about the ship and they saw that retired Adm. James Stavridis had made a twitter comment that the ship should just be scuttled, it’s 23 yrs old, the fire is so hot that the max anyone can stay to fight the fire is 15 min, none of the watertight doors could be shut because of hoses, lines, etc so the fire will consume far more than otherwise. Having some limited experience with naval ship fires, I’d bet that most of the forward part of the ship will be wiped out and have to be rebuilt. The Adm is probably quite right, it will be better to just build a new replacement of the later class of ship.
Kristine
@Tim C.: I think you’re right. I had a call from the NRCC today. It didn’t get through–either it disconnected after one ring or the spam blocker blocked it.
Adam L Silverman
@Ruckus: @?BillinGlendaleCA: I’m just old fashioned that way.
Ruckus
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Glad to see that my best remaining talent is still intact and working properly. OK only remaining talent….. 71 fucking years. Damn.
John Revolta
Ooof. THAT’S gonna leave a mark
Adam L Silverman
@Ruckus: I was being facetious about dry dock. The last thing I saw this morning was that while the fire control guys had initially made progress in getting it under control, it eventually got away from them. I would guess that they’ll write it off as a loss and one of the amphibious assault ships in the production pipeline will be renamed so that Bonhomme Richard stays active in the fleet.
Ruckus
@Adam L Silverman:
I’m more old fashioned than you, after all I’ve had more time to absorb politics and more time to be disgusted by them because of that.
Sab
@Adam L Silverman: I hope nothing bad happens to the chickens and the rabbi. The nuns are on their own.
The nuns at my husband’s high school wouldn’t sign off when the Coast Guard accepted him in 1969. They thought the Marines would be good for him. He went back to Coast Guard and they just laughed and forged nuns signature.
His brother had just come back from Vietnam with Bronze Star with Oak Leaf clusters, determined that his brothers wouldn’t go.
columbusqueen
@Alison Rose: Me, too, Adam. Hugs and kisses galore!
HumboldtBlue
@Adam L Silverman:
I’m just gonna drink beer, let me know if I can help.
I’m fascinated not by the loss of the ship, but the intricacies of dealing with an event such as this.
lumpkin
So would it be a bad thing if we started texting to the phone number on those messages to express our thoughts about Newt? Just curious.
Alison Rose
@Adam L Silverman: Okay, now that I’ve complimented you, help a girl out. How do you embed images in comments? Am I being dense when I can’t see that in the code options? Or is something only Blog People can do?
Sab
@Gretchen: County Court, with a very sweet Catholic retired judge from a neighboring county. Lovely ceremony.
Ruckus
@Adam L Silverman:
I agree. This is going on for too long, far too much damage and heat. They probably have to take the front half down to the waterline and start over. When I was in they thought 25 yrs was as much life as they could get out of a ship but now they are asking for 50 yrs. With less maintenance. About 5 yrs ago I took a navy day tour of the current DDG series, which was the type of ship I served on for 2 yrs. I have never seen so much rust, even on the ship that berthed next to us 50 yrs ago, which was a destroyer built and launched just after WWII. That modern DDG looked like a 25 yr old cargo ship on it’s way to dismantle. A rust bucket it was. 50 yrs? Not a prayer.
NotMax
You know what you did.
:)
Danielx
@Adam L Silverman:
Current speculation is this will be first carrier sunk since 1945 and it would be cheaper to build new than repair For damn sure a lot of the steel will never be the same again.
Ruckus
@lumpkin:
Wanna bet it’s blocked? Almost worth a burner phone and service though….
NotMax
@Alison Rose
Only the front page elite are granted that ability.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Doug R
You’re so very trusting of us. Or that’s a burner phone.
LeftCoastYankee
I once quoted that Charlie Pierce quote to a Republican co-worker and he looked sad and defiant and said, “I think he’s smart.”
“You don’t say,” was not the apology I think the Fox TeeVees told him liberals would give him.
NotMax
@Jim, Foolish Literalist
Especially considering the impediment of having died in 2009.
Cameron
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: “Lou Saban…great guy…that prime-time series of his in the 80’s…a gentleman and a laugh-riot…and don’t even get me started about his tour with Frederick Douglass…”
The Thin Black Duke
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Dare we hope that Trump might lose the ability to speak by November?
Sab
@Gretchen: I am so proud to be an American were people are brave enough to chase these gun nuts off.
They do that in churches and synagogues. In malls and big box stores they just let them run rampant.
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Jim, Foolish Literalist
as somebody said earlier, watch Jared’s eyes while The Beast rambles (video)…
Ruckus
@Sab:
Good brother.
I think anyone that enlists in the marines is good people, even if they do it for all the wrong reasons. But we ask a lot of them, and the reward is all inside them. That Bronze Star with clusters was probably the least they could do. I’ve met and known a few marines that were there. Normal guys doing abnormal jobs. I knew an E5 back in 73, who could no longer chose which member of his squad was going to be killed that day. He described the movie Hamburger Hill to me in such detail, years before it was written and made, by someone else, that when I saw the movie years later I could tell you what was going to happen next. I sat there stunned to watch as I heard him in my head tell someone that it was his turn to climb up the hill on his belly against crossing machine gun fire, which he knew would be the last time anyone talked to that man. He said to a man, each one went up the hill. And never came back. It’s been 47 yrs since I sat with him and he told me that. I can barely type this.
Adam L Silverman
@HumboldtBlue: Way outside of my areas of expertise.
Cameron
It looks like they’ve just devolved to blanketing specific area codes – you got 610, you’re in the Philly suburbs. I get all kinds of political calls from Philly because my cell area code is 215, even though I’ve lived in Florida since late 2016. And let us not forget that Newtie is from central PA originally,,,,Hummelsville or Mechanicsburg or somewhere else around Harrisburg.
Adam L Silverman
@Alison Rose: I think only signed in front pagers can do the embeds of images. I think that was a Cole level decision that was made during the rebuild. Same reason that logged in front pagers can fully embed tweets, youtube videos, and gifs.
Martin
Orange County, CA board of education voted 4-1 to open schools next month. No social distancing or masks required.
I will be shocked if the teachers don’t strike over this. CA teachers won’t lose their credential if they strike.
NotMax
@Cameron
The eye of Newt is upon you.
Martin
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Is there a human being alive that doesn’t immediately think of Lindsay Graham?
Adam L Silverman
@Ruckus: As you’ve seen me write here many times over the past three years, on both the front page and in comments, we have far too much operational requirements for the actual force we have. Both personnel and material. For all that we spend on the military we don’t actually have the money going to fund the operational requirements of today. In the case of US Navy Pacific, their optempo is nuts. The fleet motto might as well be “there’s never time to do it right, there might be time to do it over, if we live long enough…”
FlyingToaster
@Tim C.:
Not just GOP. We’ve been getting calls from various Democratic & related groups. This after our reply since 2004 has been “We only donate directly to candidates. Take us off your call list.”
There’s a bunch of D robocalling going on, as well. I’ve had to field several (most aimed at HerrDoktor by name, who NEVER donates to callers). The robocalls are all pre-recorded call-n-response things that take a moment to id as robots. The few live script readers are nearly as bad (the last one didn’t stop talking when I told her to put us on her do-not-call list).
I got a call from a Markey volunteer on my mobile; I cursed (“Oh For Fuck’s Sake, NO”) and hung up. Added that number to my SPAM contact. I suspect that like last February, I’m now going to get a shitton of texts that have to all be “STOP” and “BLOCK SPAM”med.
Adam L Silverman
@Danielx: Not a carrier, an amphibious assault ship. But my guess is that it won’t be feasible to fix her.
Danielx
Noted this earlier and it appeared to me the Post buried the lede a bit in this article.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/07/13/trump-administration-recommend-national-guard-an-option-help-hospitals-report-covid-19-data/
Too lazy to do paste right on da phone, but for me the two salient points – okay three – were…1) hospitals no longer to report data to CDC? WTF? I know there’s no real federal coordination, but the CDC is all we have. 2) so, you gonna make states responsible for coordination of reporting Covid-19 data ? Do we suspect certain governors might be, mmm, dilatory in this responsibility? Say it ain’t so….3) why is the National Guard even coming into this discussion at all? Do we possibly suspect that this might be an attempt to control all information from hospitals about the pandemic? Put the National Guard in hospitals to collect data, watch them fuck it up, blame it on the Guard, federalize the Guard in order to fix things, throw a security blanket over the whole mess…oh, and think the whole deal will work. Sounds like Jared to me, but only an aging cynic with an imagination could come up with such a concept.
billcinsd
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Lou Saban was a good coach. He led the Buffalo Bills to consecutive AFL championships in 1964 and 1965 — you know back when Trump could still learn a little
Formerly disgruntled in Oregon
@Martin:
Wow! That’s fucking stupid. The kind of stupid that kills folks. Fuck.
My kids aren’t going back to school in the Fall, no matter what. Making serious plans for homeschooling now.
Adam L Silverman
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Winslow is intimating that Trump is really referring to Lindsey Graham here. Winslow, who is both a PI and a detective fiction novelist, has previously tweeted – about a year or so ago – that a friend of his with the US Secret Service told him, shortly after the first time Trump golfed with Lindsey Graham, that half way through the round Trump handed Graham a file folder to look at. Graham opened it, looked through it, got a weird look, handed it back, and the following Monday was all in on Trump.
James E Powell
@Tim C.:
I’m surprised that I no longer get any. Some of my “friends” from back in the Bush/Cheney years thought it was funny to sign me up for all kinds of right-wing bullshit.
Sab
@Ruckus: He died in January. We are all so grateful he didn’t see this clusterphuck, and that we could have a big funeral.
He came back from Vietnam and all he cared about were his buddies. His marriage failed, and he volunteered on veterans’ suicide hotlines for every holiday for years.
I met some amazing old vets at his funeral. Barbuddies for years. Also his boss at his company. We never even knew what he did, only what company he worked for.
Cameron
@NotMax: Eye of Newt, asshole of Turtle….
seaboogie
What unites the righties is a complete lack of self awareness. It is total. Sometimes shocking for a normal person to behold, but sometimes you just have to take a step back and say “wow!”. I guess we’re getting used to that by now, but still…shameless is too small a word “for those afflicted thusly”*.
*Using such language because I am trying not to “otherize” by saying “them”. In related news, I told my mom today that I had had Corona virus and she did not ask me even one question about that. (I’m fine, and also why I never dreamed of reaching out to her when I was ill.)
Adam L Silverman
@Cameron: My cell # is still from the one year I lived in Long Island. Which was the year I was recruited to go to work for the Army. When I got back from Iraq everyone who needed to reach me had that number, so I’ve never changed it despite living in a lot of different places since then.
Alison Rose
@NotMax: CLASSISM!!!!!!!!!
Alison Rose
@Adam L Silverman: Probably for the best, I’d definitely take advantage of it and spam the fuck out of you all with cat and birb memes.
Adam L Silverman
@Martin: @Formerly disgruntled in Oregon: 4-1 GOP majority on the school board is the explanation for this.
NotMax
@billcinsd
On hearing the name Saban, somewhat surprising Dolt 45 didn’t blurt out “He’s great. I never miss Power Rangers.”
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Adam L Silverman: I hadn’t heard that… interesting. Though Jim’s Razor tells me that if there were anything to know about Graham’s personal life, something would’ve leaked out by now.
My own non-graham thought that trump was having some brain fart and he saw Chris Dodd (or someone like that) getting drunk and handsy at a golf outing in the 80s (or something like that) and he doesn’t know Dodd retired.
Cameron
@Adam L Silverman: I do get it. People who want to reach me know how to do it, so I live off the cell phone. No land line. But one gets the double whammy – phone calls begging for money from some place you don’t live, mail begging for money from somewhere around where you do live. Since I don’t have any money, I don’t care.
Tim C.
@FlyingToaster: I get the Democratic ones too, but that makes sense cause I’ve given money before and will again. There’s no way I should be on a donor list for a Republican though, they have never gotten a dime from me.
Though I do try to string them along for as long as possible when they call. I figure if they are chatting with me and I’m wasting their time, they have less time to call someone who will actually donate.
Adam L Silverman
@NotMax: Haim Saban is Jewish. Also an Israeli operative.
Adam L Silverman
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Don’t look up the Lady G hashtag. You’ve been warned.
Ruckus
@Adam L Silverman:
I’ve heard about the staffing levels and the ops levels and I’m just astounded that it’s not worse. I know it’s 50 yrs ago and there are things that exist today that didn’t, and that a lot of the jobs that we had to do were holdovers from days when if you couldn’t see it, it couldn’t see you. It’s 50 yrs later and technology has progressed. But stress and hours are still the same. An example, when we were in port there were 2 men, armed with loaded 45 pistols on watch at a time. My in port watch was being one of those men every third day. I was the roving watch the other was the quarterdeck watch. I went on the ship above as I said about 5 yrs ago and there were 3 armed men on the quarterdeck and a man on the pier with a side arm and a long gun, looked like an M16 but probably was something later, all with body armor. They looked like they hadn’t slept in days. As this was an on duty ship we didn’t get to go below, just outside and the bridge. So I didn’t get a look to compare and contrast. It’s a different world and a different navy. Smaller, far fewer sailors, more time at sea as I understand it. Not a good prospect for stress and alertness.
Adam L Silverman
@Ruckus: It is amazing that we don’t have more problems because of this stuff. And it doesn’t help that the President’s political appointees have largely broken the DOD and the Services as well.
Ruckus
@Adam L Silverman:
Fire goes on this long, this strong, it’s big. With no water tight ability it’s spread a lot farther than it would have under way. As I stated earlier I’d bet it would have to be cut back and rebuilt from the waterline up stem to midships. At least. They want to save it because it just spend time in drydock and as you say the force is spread thinner than jam on a cracker.
piratedan
@Danielx: on your point #1 reporting medical data is a complicated affair…
these days, the idea that you have a single hospital that serves a single location are kind of gone. A good many hospitals are part of a chain/group, be it for profit, location or even religiously based. They will be reporting their data to various entities, county and state health departments and it’s the responsibility of those entities to report any numbers further up the governmental food chain.
In times of crisis like this, the fact that there was little federal coordination meant that our local governmental health agencies are having to ship data to Homeland, the CDC as well as FEMA and each agency is asking for different data in regards to what information matters the most to their particular area of concern.
The fact that Trump has not designated one agency to take the lead and coordinate matters as we have 50 states doing their own thing making this up as they go along and competing federal entities all asking for data but not exactly coordinating and helping as much as we might hope.
because of this fragmentation is a part of the reason why California is going back into lockdown, no one agency was taking the lead in performing contact tracing leaving that to be done at the local level with little if any oversight.
this is what is maddening, some of the local stories are awesome but because there was no federal follow up, much of it was unsustainable.
Ruckus
@Adam L Silverman:
Two major deadly collisions in how many years?
How many captains relieved of duty on top of that?
The military spread thin, the equipment tired, everyone overworked, shitforbrains treats them like servants or actual slaves, treats the leaders they are supposed to follow about the same…
Moral must be at an all time level, what with way too many combat zone deployments, too few troops in all services.
We’ve been at war for what 17 going on 200 yrs. How many people who thought a career in the military might be good have clocked out in 8 or 10 yrs? Officers without enough training have to be put in charge because there aren’t enough qualified or time to qualify them properly.
Sounds like a disaster to me. And I thought it was bad decades ago. They are asking more with less than then.
Adam L Silverman
@Ruckus: We rotate the command groups from XVIII ABN Corps and III Corps into and out of Iraq as the command elements of Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve every year.
Martin
Ok, the OC School Board vote is mostly symbolic. They don’t have authority over the county districts, so I think this may only affect unincorporated areas, which we don’t have many of.
Ruckus
@Adam L Silverman:
So a year in country, a year out, a year back, a year out….
Bet that wears a bit thin after not all that long.
Adam L Silverman
@Ruckus: It’s corrosive as hell. The Army’s ordered a command climate survey at Hood because of the murder of PFC Guillen. Given that the command group has been in Iraq since last August, what exactly is that going to tell you. That the caretaker 2 star and half a dozen colonels aren’t the same as the official Corps command group?
Full disclosure: the current III Corps Commanding General is my former boss. I was his Cultural Advisor from October 2007 to November 2008 and deployed with him to Iraq when he was a colonel commanding a brigade combat team. I have offered repeatedly to go to Iraq if he needs me onsite.
sukabi
Adam Silverman, oh no you didn’t!
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You may have short circuited any comeback Newt was planning.
?????????????
Ruckus
@Adam L Silverman:
I’m just going on my experience of decades ago and the knowledge that the military changes slooooooowly and that the concepts are still exactly the same but the mission has been going on for almost twice as long as Vietnam, with a smaller force. I know a kid who joined the NG and was deployed to the middle east, 2 yrs ago I believe. It sounds a bit different, but it is warfare and people do get shot and blown up.
ballerat
@Gretchen:
“Your gun’s not going to kill coronavirus. Now get the hell out of here.”
Loved that.
ballerat
@Danielx: This is a pretext to deploy the military in cities.
Trump wants the national guard in cities because he wants to escalate any protests into violence, and he believes can energize his base that way — lots of fox news clips of the military crushing protestors. He knows his base will lap it up.
Also he thinks cities are enemy territory.
Ruckus
@Sab:
Sorry that he’s gone.
I use the VA, I actually think it’s damn good care. You have to understand the way it works and why and then it’s good but if you fight it, it’s not. But my point is that I go to the hospital rather than a local clinic. I see a lot of vets. A lot. Many of them with wounds they’ve had for decades. I sat with a number of them for weeks getting treatment for my cancer and they all had been to Vietnam, and they had stories, boy did they have stories, were all black, and ranged from privates to 2 officer pilots. One fella didn’t trust me at first but one Monday he walked in with no one else there and needed really badly to talk. So he did. His brother had died on Sunday in the VA hospital. Both drafted in the army, regular infantry. That was a hard day. I’ve seen a few days like that, I spent 2 months in a navy hospital in 73 and most of the guys in were marines in various stages of injury, from mental to can’t walk at 19-20 – played a mean game of basketball from his wheelchair – he was unstoppable because he’d run right over you. And every thing else you can imagine and a lot that no one should be able to. War is hell and while I didn’t get that info first hand, I can guarantee it’s true.
Adam L Silverman
@sukabi: I did it.
prostratedragon
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: “And how did you happen to be there, sir?”
Jared might not be a bright boy, but I bet he’s bright enough to have been thinking/dreading that.
Adam L Silverman
I’m to bed. Catch everyone on the flip.
joel hanes
I got the same text message.
My reply:
Newt, you were principally responsible for breaking Congress.
Fuck off and die.
ballerat
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Is that clip recent? From today? I can’t tell. Sone commenter said it’s from last year.
sukabi
@Adam L Silverman: ???
Sloane Ranger
@Martin: Trump said “on the other side.” so I’d assume the person he’s talking about is a Democrat. Someone upthread said they thought this clip was from some time ago, perhaps during the Impeachment? Were any of the House Impeachment managers from NY?
I think Trump’s talking out of his hat again. If he had anything really compromising on a Democrat, he’d have tweeted it out by now.
Bo
I’m reminded of what Betty Cracker said back in 2012 about Newt:
https://balloon-juice.com/2012/03/24/or-else-it-gets-the-hose-again-open-thread/
Geminid
@Sloane Ranger: Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), House Democratic Caucus Chairman, represents Brooklyn and was an impeachment manager. Jeffries is a very sharp and deep politician who may well succeed Pelosi as speaker. He’s fairly young- mid 40’s, I think. I doubt if anybody has any kompromat on him.
SFAW
My recollection is that Krugman was the originator, but these days I also seem to be recalling winning the the 1982 Olympic Decathlon, so I might be worng. [NB: Yes, I realize you didn’t say Charlie originated it.]
Geminid
@Sloane Ranger: Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), House Democratic Caucus Chairman, represents Brooklyn and was an impeachment manager. Jeffries is a very sharp and deep politician who may well succeed Pelosi as speaker. He’s fairly young- mid 40’s, I think. I doubt if anybody has any kompromat on him.
spaps
I got that exact same text, but it was addressed to my brother and this was my response:
Fuck gingrich and fuck trump you vile, philandering, bloated sacks of shit. You got the wrong number you parasitic, corrupt, walking ethics complaints
JAFD
For a bit there, thot we were going to talk about Philip Sabin, military historian, author of Lost Battles, Reconstructing the Great Clashes of the Ancient World. Darn
J R in WV
@Ruckus:
I don’t believe the Bonnehomme Richard will ever sail under it’s own power again. IF it wasn’t for the million+ gallons of fuel in the bunkers they should tow it out to sea and put the fires out by sinking her. Sad to say. Glad no one appears to have been killed by the fire.
This just goes to show that our current USN is wildly mismanaged, if the
hadn’t already made this clear.
I’m sure there are some competent staff in there somewhere, but dammed if it looks like they’re actually in charge of anything, and can’t protest the strange orders of the nut jobs actually in charge without losing their position.
EthylEster
Needs a bigger font.
EthylEster
@joel hanes wrote: Newt, you were principally responsible for breaking Congress. Fuck off and die.
I admire your quiet succinctness.