Greetings and Salutations!
Crashed out hard again last night. Was hungry as all git oot and ate my ass off too… what with the antibiotics and just healing going on. Tired and hungry 24-7 it seems. Dinner was homemade chinese pork dumpling soup with veggies and rice with a chikin stock.
Sat heavy and knocked me right out.
Hence an unusual morning update
I mean I -did- do the homework, so forgive me if none of the ‘stuff’ below id hot off the presses so to speak. First off a great article (h/t CA) from bad cattitude :
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/the-american-rubicon
A really good breakdown into the TSA or “Thousands Standing Around” as it’s known by its nickname in real Law Enforcement circles. A quote: “…a DC insider once explained to me that “the TSA makes sense once you stop thinking about it as security and realize that it’s a jobs program”.
Completely and 100% True.
Lil BCE Storytime:
Waaaaaaaaaaaaay back billllllyuns of years ago when I first got out of the Army, I quickly came to the realization that One full time job in the Greater Boston Area was in NO WAY going to cut it to raise a family of 4. 2x Littles, and the Esposa? Even though this was during the pre-IT Invasion/collapse (i.e. when the Dotheads and Streetshitters stole all of our jobs in Information Technology… circa 1999/2000) even then corporate ‘Murica was always underpaying us tech geeks.
So I took a second job at a packie.
Now for those of you unfamiliar with the term, a ‘packie’ is a “package store” which is also better known as a liquor store. The terminology came from Massachusetts Blue laws that mandated that booze had to be sold in sealed packages for drinking off-site. Hence a “Packie” (often spelled “packy”) is a New England regional slang term for a “package store,”. When one of your frens yelled out “Hey, I’m going to the packy! anyone need anything?” That meant they were going on a booze run.
The one I worked at was right on the main drag of Hancock Street in Quincy. It was a shithole where the local derelicts came to get their pint of morning “Ruble”…a noxious 80 proof ‘vodka’ brewed in Somersworth MA that was like $2 a pint. REAL rotgut. Right up there with Ye Olde College favorite “Cossack Vodka” at $9 a handle (1.5liter).
<Shudder>
I think my liver just clenched at the memories…sheesh
So Needless to say, this place was a shambles 24-7.
The neighborhood ‘nexus’ for all the po’folk and drunks.
Used to piss me off sometimes, but it was fun other times…
Anyways
While I had one or two fellow employees that I loved working with (s’up Tony!!!) we had other… I dunno… I mean… don’t get me wrong, but this one guy? Let’s just say the owner fired him for being incapable of counting change and NOT being able to be taught how to use a calculator nor the register…
Dumber than dirt I swear.
So he got let go. This was right before 9/11. He’d still come in to load up on his beer and booze, and such… I mean the place was the local hub for that exact reason.
Well post 9/11 he showed up.
In Uniform.
He was one of the very first TSA agents ever!!!
Seems right after the announcement of the forming of the department, he went down, went through the first TSA class, and got hired up right then and there. Needless to say, seeing this I (of course) immediately went down and tried to get in… I mean if Lunkhead could get in on that sweet sweet FedBux?
Yah… More the Fool am I.
Nope. No dice. It took me a few years to find out that I was too smart/intelligent… this began my first slow IRL that everything was fake and ghey.
Literally a guy too stupid to make fucking change got the gig, but me? With 10 years active duty military experience was a “no go” at this station? Yeeeah… that sort stung… until I figured out the reason(s) why.
A funny thing is that guy?
In 2004 after my house getting nuked in Iraq I was as y’all may recall, the company sent me home for a ‘breather’. They also sent me home with a ‘shopping list’.
Specifically for Ammunition. As contractors, we couldn’t draw from US DotMil supplies. So I ended up buying two five gallon paint buckets worth of ammo. A LOT of ammo can be stored in one of those orange Home Depot buckets. When properly sealed, and stacked, two of them buckets fill a standard issue DotMil old-style duffle bag.
So at the airport I declared it when I checked in my bag(s), and went on my merry way.
While waiting and having a beer or 4, I got paged over the announcer to “…please come to the gate”… post 9/11 that was a rather ominous thing, but I had a hunch it was about my checked bag.
Now mind you, I had declared that I had ammo in my checked bag.
Just how much was the problem apparently.
Sure enough, there were four Mass State Troopers in all their Gestapo Glory if you’ve never seen the Mass State Police Uniform, well… you tell me:
Change it out to ‘basic black’ and Hugo Boss might have grounds for a lawsuit …
Jes’ Sayin’
Now along with the four drooling thugs (and yeah, Mass Staties tend to be ‘thuggish’ pinheads in my experience) there were 2 EDO techs, and two TSA Minions and lo and behold!
My old packie coworker!!!
In a suit.
IN CHARGE OF THE ENTIRE LOGAN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT TSA CONTINGENT!!! Needless to say HE was THRILLED to see me! It was “old home week”!
Turns out when they x-rayed that bag, everyone geeked.
When I explained the reason why I was carrying a ‘company level’ resupply of live rounds, and once it was inspected by the EOD guys, I was green flagged to fly, as well as my ammo, much to the extreme disappointment of the four badged thugs who looked like they were straining at the leash to use their saps on my nugget.
Whomp-Whomp boys >sad trombone music<
All thanks to my newest and bestest bro.
(not gonna argue right?)
Yeah… seems that he had ‘time in grade’ with the TSA, and as each progressive class came behind him, he kept making rank… I have no idea where he is now, but I bear him no ill will… I was just shocked amiright? For all I know, he’s in DC.
What’s really fucked up however was when I tried to transport it into Iraq? The chair-farce got involved and got all shitty ‘cos it (the ammo) wasn’t palletized of all fucked up things. They made me abandon it in Germany… fuck knows what they were going to do with $2k worth of Russian 7.62×39, and 9mm Makarov, as well as some ‘odds and sods’ of like .32 browning (7.65mm… we had some Walther PPs that the secretaries carried as a close-in sidearm… pretty cool as they were all wartime WW2 marked).
No idea what happened to it all to be truthful…
SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE had a great time shooting it off I bet.
See, We needed new 7.62×39 as Iraqi quality control on ammo manufacturing was less than zero… I trust rounds made by “Bubba” after him drinking a 12 pack of Miller Lite than Iraqi made BBs let me tell you.
In the end I did some ‘dope dealing’ with the SF kids on Striker at one of the Saddam’s Sons Palaces… THAT got us some ammo when we really needed it… anyways… another story for another time…
So… other needful things. An interesting observation on the latest news from the DotMil:
It’s a bit conspiracy oriented
But then again, what isn’t these days.
For those who don’t do twatter:
They’re moving the draft-eligible age up to 42 and removing the marijuana conviction loophole because there aren’t enough Americans willing to fight and die for Israel.
Remember the military announced Palantir would be integrated into everything they have a few days ago. Palantir already has a full profile on every American, including age and address.
They’re doing it on 4/20 as a big fuck you to everyone.
This is also why the 50-state rapid response National Guard needs to be operational in April and ICE is now being deployed to airports. Anyone who wants to avoid the draft by leaving the country by plane won’t be able to.
I’m more confident than ever a massive false flag is coming. I’m also very confident anyone draft-eligible who has said certain things online about Jews and Israel will be immediately drafted. Palantir will likely be used to stalk dissenting Americans.
The bone-spurs draft dodger is now setting the stage for a Draft while purging America of redpillers and noticers trying to save the country from its current occupation.
That being said
Guy makes a point
OrangeRetardBad (yeah, new name) is literally acting like a fucking moron. Unless this truly is the Matrix and he has some insight, there’s no fucking way in Hell that our troops are going to be able to deal with Iran on the ground.
We barely were able to keep control of Iraq…
And Iran?
It’s HUGE
636,000 SQUARE MILES
Iraq was about 150k square miles
And we barely kept our shit together…
Spare me the “they’ve been terrorists and terrorist sponsors for 40 years!” and “They’ve killed a 1000 of our people!” My reaction there is turn that mirror around and look in it…
The US has been fucking things up EPICALLY since 1946.
The Military Industrial Complex, i.e. “The Bureau of Eternal War and Misery” as well as the Izzies have been wantenly slaughtering people ALL over the world.
So I mean………
One man’s Terrorist is another Man’s Freedom Fighter.
NGL
Things are seriously fucked up.
What few folks I still know who worked in Kuwait were evacc’d to Germany, and they now have gone ‘dark’. Word -I- got is that things are FAR worse than are being reported. Like WAY worse.
Think the “Krainian Model” of casualty/damage reporting.
You know… how Krainfeld states that the official death count for the Krainian Military is about 75,000 KIA?
Uhhhh yeah.
FFS… the graveyards in Kiev can be seen by the ISS they’re so fucking HUGE now…
And IF that is the case, methinks it’s a situation where all them folks at the top don’t fear or worry about us that they’ve fucked us over so utterly and completely since 2001 with the 9/11 bullshit and that we’ve taken it without so much as a serious statement other that “VOAT HAAAAARDER!!!” That they’re untouchable.
It’s almost time to remind them that they ARE touchable.
I mean it’s time for change.
I think if they’re hiding KIAs and bullshitting, THAT RIGHT THERE? THAT is worthy of a violent overthrow, and I’ll stand by that.
So your thoughts?
More Later
Big Country
Epic. Glad you’re back in action brother!
Get off social media, or at the very least stop screaming into palantirs void! Do the stuff IRL, Use CB and one time code. Have an out regardless of your current sitch. Use that personal phone sparingly. I got an bad feeling about the near fuuutch!
I’m glad you’re on the mend.
May God bless you and keep you.
Sight alignment and trigger control
“My reaction there is turn that mirror around and look in it…”
600 dead Americans? No problem. 900 dead Americans? Eh… but 1000?! That, sir, is a bridge too far and it’s time for some canned sunshine! It’s kind of like 7 rounds in a mag, yep. 10 rds? Sure. 11? WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE! Give me a fucking break.
Also, Cheeto Sheinbaum has a nice piquant after-dinner flavor to it.
Do you really think DJT cares what he leaves behind there? He was taking out Iran so they can’t bother us. He asked the Euroweenies for “help” securing their oil and they said no at first. Wanna bet he said you’re gonna be on yer own, so step up? Word has it that most US troops there have been taken off the bases/targets…all the easier to load ’em up and bring ’em home. Israel seems to be taking a lot of missiles as well. I see DJT doing what W should have done, busting up everything, declaring victory and coming home, with a hearty “Don’t make me come back” over his shoulder. End of April will tell, I think he wants this done and dusted before going to see Xi.
back in 1981, I was at ft. Meade. yeah, that one. anyway, ran into a buddy of mine from 1/503 PIR back when it was at ft. Campbell. found out his new WIFE was some big thing/whatever with the NSA.
so, I got a small “tour” of the place. scared the shit out of me. even back then, they tracked and recorded
EVERYTHING on the air waves and phone lines. the “room” or space I saw was about football size.
full of machines with spinning reels of tape. unreal. now about cell phone. yeah. I do not have one.
they scare me with all that can be done by “them”. CB or shortwave or GMS are all good ideas.
remember they can also be tracked and found. RDF, you know? if you transmit any thing, do it short as possible and in code or something. going into Iran is just fucking stupid. 2000 Marines and 3000 troops from the 82 are nothing but bait. and then there the people in Iran. yeah. they a lot smarter than most inbreed ragheads. pissing them off is not a smart move by any means.
what amazes me is how they trying like mad to sell this bullshit?
BTW, back when the TSA started there was a moron kid who helped out at my buddy’s junkyard.
he found out about the TSA from a PIZZA box. got hired and was later on, like 1 year or so was running
a shift at the Philly airport ? and this was a kid who had a hard time telling the difference between copper and bronze. my buddy calls the TSA ,”the stupid assholes”
as far as the “news” goes, I have not trusted ANY thing since 1972. hell, I don’t even have a TV.
what really pisses me off is the fact that the clowns in DC still think we can fight a war like WW2 again. NO. we can not. we do not have the factories, skilled or even semi skilled workforce.
we really do not mine or cast metal anywhere near like we used too. we don’t even made machine tools like we used too. but yet, we have assholes like the fag Lindsay (?) who wants to fight any war.
not that he would ever put his ass on the line. God, I am glad I am a old man anymore.
That “packie” vernacular was always more of a thing from Boston south and east. The rest of New England knew the expression and it was a dead giveaway to a South Shore D-bag everytime.
The Mass SP are a little band of jackboots if ever there was one. One Statie shot a woman after dark on the last day of the deer season a few years ago and was not even charged or reprimanded. There were the game law violations of shooting after closed hours and out of season and failing to identify your target. Anyone else would have also faced a negligent discharge rap and had the book thrown at them. This guy, off scott free. He is probably still on the force now and you are lucky they didn’t shoot you.
Yes the war is a chinese charlie foxtrot. Iran has total IRBM dominance within the range of those missiles and there is no prospect of us bombing that arsenal out of existence. They could just stop with the missiles if they wanted and do nothing but shoot drones for months and there is nothing to stop them from making as many as they want of getting more through Russia. There most certainly is a limit to how many interceptors can be produced and the effectiveness of intercepts is less than 20% anyway. There is nothing our ground troops can do to salvage the situation except let the Iranians missile and drone a bunch of them where ever they end up. The oil facilities of the Gulf Region are the financial footings of the American Empire. If they are destroyed, it is game over for America as a global power. It is as simple as that, and the longer this goes on without Trump realizing he has been defeated, the more likely it will be that that will happen.
Oh, and who the H*ll picked Hitler’s birthday for this Palantir business? Good luck to them with that, the little hat backlash is very deep and is spread broadly across the political spectrum.
TSA was a scam from the start. All they have ever done is harass the traveling public. Security my ass. Can’t stand commercial flight – sucks the big one. Yeah we need to start stringing up the politicos.
Damn dude, those buckets full of ammo in the duffle must have been sort of heavy.