the cutting edge of readiness


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It's a democratic hoax

Fire the people who keep it clean and then use much more expensive soldiers.



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I was right.

We have turned our honorable National Guardsmen into our National Gardeners.

They aren't thrilled about that, and we should be ashamed to put them in that position.

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If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC - KV

That's not what I pictured when they said,

"We're going to clean up the swamp"

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The GOP are now:

Guardians
Of
Pedophiles

>>Beckoning deployed troops to these war-torn environs are custodial and landscaping duties, which have been colorfully labeled as "beautification" despite a police-call reality that has devastated enlisted morale since the Bronze Age.
Such D.C.-based chores reportedly once fell to National Park Service staff, but in the wake of significant NPS cuts, the administration, which has a well-established affinity for landscaping, has determined that personnel wearing orange reflector vests atop camouflage have the warrior ethos necessary to beautify....

...But inside the soul of each unwitting service member is a warfighter who grows more lethal with each cigarette butt lifted from the mean streets of the National Mall.
Few training methods, after all, guarantee a better fighting force than boredom-induced annoyance.<<

This man can write!

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

Pulled from their family and jobs to pick up trash.

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I was right.