Mattis for SECDEF

[Snatch Napkin]

Why don't you eat a DICK?!

Too rubbery after cooking it. Too greasy when fried.
Kinda reminds me of tripas, in texture.
Not a fan.

[Craizie]

Too rubbery after cooking it. Too greasy when fried.
Kinda reminds me of tripas, in texture.
Not a fan.

Good, well thought out answer. Have you tried them raw?

[Snatch Napkin]

Good, well thought out answer. Have you tried them raw?

Not yet?
Are they better that way?
I kinda figured they would be too stringy if the membrane wasn't at least parched.

[sc281]

If I was 70yr old Trump, towards the end of my life, I could give a shit about money(esp because he already has "enough"), I would want to leave a legacy as a badass president that turned a dying country around. That legacy could/would last an eternity.

True that. It's the only real immortality for us mortals. Hell, we still research Aurelian 1741 years after his death.

Restitutor Americum has a nice ring to it.

[Chili]

It is really cute how you guys still think this is going to be a change to anything but the status quo. The Washington elites will continue their reign of power, Trump amd his people will join the club and play the same games, and nothing to very little will actually change. All the same cans will be kicked down the same roads as they have been for years, and they will continue to get rich while setting up the economy for a massive collapse one day. This is going to be more of the same, just like the last time, and the time before that, and the time before that, and the time before tht, and so on.

[sc281]

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[threefortytwo]

If I was 70yr old Trump, towards the end of my life, I could give a shit about money(esp because he already has "enough"), I would want to leave a legacy as a badass president that turned a dying country around. That legacy could/would last an eternity.

this.

fucking doom and gloom up in this thread.

[Strychnine]

A General Mattis Christmas Story

December 2010
Featured from the National Museum of the Marine Corps Museum’s Facebook Page


A couple of months ago, when I told General Krulak, the former Commandant of the Marine Corps, now the chair of the Naval Academy Board of Visitors, that we were having General Mattis speak this evening, he said, “Let me tell you a Jim Mattis story.” General Krulak said, when he was Commandant of the Marine Corps, every year, starting about a week before Christmas, he and his wife would bake hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of Christmas cookies. They would package them in small bundles.

Then on Christmas day, he would load his vehicle. At about 4 a.m., General Krulak would drive himself to every Marine guard post in the Washington-Annapolis-Baltimore area and deliver a small package of Christmas cookies to whatever Marines were pulling guard duty that day. He said that one year, he had gone down to Quantico as one of his stops to deliver Christmas cookies to the Marines on guard duty. He went to the command center and gave a package to the lance corporal who was on duty.

He asked, “Who’s the officer of the day?” The lance corporal said, “Sir, it’s Brigadier General Mattis.” And General Krulak said, “No, no, no. I know who General Mattis is. I mean, who’s the officer of the day today, Christmas day?” The lance corporal, feeling a little anxious, said, “Sir, it is Brigadier General Mattis.”

General Krulak said that, about that time, he spotted in the back room a cot, or a daybed. He said, “No, Lance Corporal. Who slept in that bed last night?” The lance corporal said, “Sir, it was Brigadier General Mattis.”

About that time, General Krulak said that General Mattis came in, in a duty uniform with a sword, and General Krulak said, “Jim, what are you doing here on Christmas day? Why do you have duty?” General Mattis told him that the young officer who was scheduled to have duty on Christmas day had a family, and General Mattis decided it was better for the young officer to spend Christmas Day with his family, and so he chose to have duty on Christmas Day.

General Krulak said, “That’s the kind of officer that Jim Mattis is.”

The story above was told by Dr. Albert C. Pierce, the Director of the Center for the Study of Professional Military Ethics at The United States Naval Academy. He was introducing General James Mattis who gave a lecture on Ethical Challenges in Contemporary Conflict in the spring of 2006. This was taken from the transcript of that lecture.

https://blog.usni.org/2010/12/17/a-general-mattis-christmas-story

[helosailor]

https://blog.usni.org/2010/12/17/a-g...hristmas-story

[Gasser64]

It is really cute how you guys still think this is going to be a change to anything but the status quo. The Washington elites will continue their reign of power, Trump amd his people will join the club and play the same games, and nothing to very little will actually change. All the same cans will be kicked down the same roads as they have been for years, and they will continue to get rich while setting up the economy for a massive collapse one day. This is going to be more of the same, just like the last time, and the time before that, and the time before that, and the time before tht, and so on.

Same attitude that some people around here had, saying "Oh come on guise, hillary will win! Its obvious..." Only for her to go down in flames.

What you're saying could happen. Its not outside the realm of possibility. But I'd hazard a guess that its going to be at least 50/50. 50% baddass stuff that we love, 50% fluff/filler/status quo.

[Gasser64]

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That thing never should have been put on TV. I mean just look at it.

[The King]

That thing never should have been put on TV. I mean just look at it.

Wonder what gender it identifies itself as, and by extension which bathroom it is most comfortable using.

[Strychnine]

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He looks confused.

[helosailor]

He looks confused.

Understatement of the decade. lol

[Gasser64]

Clearly its a man who too late, decided to be a woman while still in the womb. Didn't work out so well, as we're all aware.