Granny asking “is this the dayroom” as she’s walked across a minefield.
maybe when Feinstein retires she could do this.
Retires? They’re going to string her skeleton up with wires and puppet it around like a marionette for the next fifty years minimum.
Increasing life expectancy of vets by hiring only old people would be a big brain move.
So this is anecdotal but I was at an event this weekend and walked by the by the army recruitment stand a few times. It was deeply amusing how little interest they were getting. Probably had something to do with their idea of a good time was challenging people to fitness tests.
There was also someone who flipped off a Blackhawk and then proceeded to get into an argument with people around him.
They always recruit at my university with a pull-up bar. It makes me sad the Jehovah’s Witnesses nearby don’t do the same tactic. They just have a signboard with pamphlets.
Honestly, I seriously wonder if they couldn’t offer college funding how much interest there would be at all in high schools. I’d imagine it would be 0.
I had a bit of an existential crisis in ~2018 when I went back to my majority black high school for a friend’s kid’s event and saw so. Many. ROTC kids there. It’s a very poor, very minority district and it was extremely to see kids who have been systematically impoverished and disenfranchised by the American empire sign up to fight, kill, and die for the same empire as a way out of that very poverty and disenfranchisement. It hit me like a punch in the face, and then a GOP candidate for local office walked up to me while I was still freaking out, and all I could manage was a completely incoherent response. Friends, I was not winning hearts and minds that day.
Pentagon just requested an additional 3 billion a year for a Werther’s budget