{"id":9022,"date":"2026-02-24T03:22:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T03:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/?p=9022"},"modified":"2026-02-24T03:22:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T03:22:43","slug":"a-beastie-boy-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/a-beastie-boy-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"A Beastie Boy Moment?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Greetings and Salutations!<br>Whoo!  Hot times in the comments!<br>Keep it civil is my only request.<br>Now&#8230;<br>The title tonight?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Beastie Boys - Sabotage (Official Music Video)\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z5rRZdiu1UE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Which leads me into this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If true, this is a huge potential scoop. Are crew members actually sabotaging the ship to avoid going to war? \ud83e\udd14\ud83e\udd28 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uW4XK6gPht\">https:\/\/t.co\/uW4XK6gPht<\/a><\/p>&mdash; SIMPLICIUS \u0470 (@simpatico771) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/simpatico771\/status\/2026068503380349012?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 23, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em><strong>A <\/strong><\/em><strong><em>very interesting thread<\/em><\/strong><br>One I can very well believe.<br>Especially since the Boat has been on an 8 month long tour without a break, as well as the general attitude towards &#8216;not dying for Israel&#8217; being almost rampant throughout the lower enlisted these days&#8230;  <br><br>This ain&#8217;t the same DotMil I remember that followed orders blindly and without question.  In fact Gen Z and a LOT of Millenials have made it a <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">point<\/span><\/strong> o be contrarian assholes when it comes to their service.<br><br>One of the comments summarizes it nicely: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>They are inside a large moving target, impossible to miss from space, sailing to fight an Israeli war and to distract people from the Epstein files. It may be hard to sink a carrier, but 500kg of explosive detonating inside a confined space full of aircraft fuel and ammunition will at least kill and disable hundreds of sailors.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Yep.<br>No wonder the Yids are shitting in their yamakas.<br>Them lil hats know the jig is up.<br><br>So otherwise, Discuss as needed<br>I&#8217;ve got an oh-dark early doc appointment<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">More Later<br>Big Country<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/bottle-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9023\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/bottle-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/bottle-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/bottle-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/bottle-1200x676.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/bottle.jpg 1343w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings and Salutations!Whoo! Hot times in the comments!Keep it civil is my only request.Now&#8230;The title tonight? Which leads me into this: A very interesting threadOne I can very well believe.Especially since the Boat has been on an 8 month long tour without a break, as well as the general attitude towards &#8216;not dying for Israel&#8217; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/a-beastie-boy-moment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Beastie Boy Moment?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9024,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9022\/revisions\/9024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}