cdrsalamander@cdrsalamander·45dOpinion
Now? Dude...that was a given when I was in college in the 1980s. The pro-Sandinista people? Education majors was the easy bet.
CDR Salamander
cdrsalamander@cdrsalamander·216dWorld
Quoting @WallStreetApes
Private equity firms and real estate investors bought one-third of all single-family residential properties sold in the second quarter of 2025 That is an increase from 27% from the first quarter, and the highest percentage in the last 5 years, per CNBC This MUST be stopped
I will repeat what I have been saying for years. This should not be legal. As it is, we need a law that makes it illegal, and all PE should be forced to liquidate their holdings in 5 or 10 years, whatever is the best compromise number. If, like me, you have kids in their 20s who have done everything right, done what…
cdrsalamander@cdrsalamander·240dWorld
Quoting @conor64
A question for Republicans: if evidence emerges that proves one of the strikes Trump ordered killed a totally innocent fisherman with no drugs on board his boat at all, what consequences do you think would be most appropriate?
Conor, you dear, sweet, summer child. I spent years in my 20s in the Caribbean chasing these foot-soldiers of death. No one fishes out of these.
cdrsalamander@cdrsalamander·241dWorld
Quoting @WhiteHouse
📹 DESTROYED: Confirmed DRUG-CARRYING SUBMARINE navigating towards the United States on a well-known narcotrafficking transit route. "Under my watch, the United States of America will not tolerate narcoterrorists trafficking illegal drugs, by land or by sea." - President Trump
As a junior officer in the 1990s as we watched these go by and nobody doing anything but tracking them, we beggedto be able to do this. It took three decades, but we got there.
cdrsalamander@cdrsalamander·259dWorld
Quoting @FischerKing64
Think how bizarre it is that Hegseth needs to say any of this. He has to talk down to his Generals because they really went along with all this nonsense rather than focusing on being an effective fighting force.
Almost 17 years ago, the Chief of Naval Operations visited us while deployed to Afghanistan. He told us his number one priority was diversity. He said that 4 feet from my face many months into a deployment.
cdrsalamander@cdrsalamander·267dWorld
Using “CE” & “BCE” as opposed to “AD” & “BC” is the equivalent of using pronouns in your bio. I hold this truth to be self evident.
cdrsalamander@cdrsalamander·276dWorld
Replying to @AmyMcGrathKY
@AmyMcGrathKY Amy, do you remember 2018-2022? I do. These are the rules the left made.
cdrsalamander@cdrsalamander·321dWorld
Quoting @sandibachom
"Superb performance by ICE agents today at immigration court. A military aged male who did not speak any English, only Arabic, was about to be let loose in the nation he was not invited to by compliant judge for two years. As he tries to escape accountability, he is arrested and brought into custody."
cdrsalamander@cdrsalamander·359dOpinion
Quoting @sentdefender
Photos released by the White House showing U.S. President Donald J. Trump and other senior officials, including Vice-President JD Vance, Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Marco Rubio, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine, in the Situation Room during tonight’s series of strikes against nuclear facilities inside Iran.
Caption contest
cdrsalamander@cdrsalamander·367dWorld
Quoting @TheInsiderPaper
BREAKING: Incredible Footage Shows Iranian Missiles in Barrage Toward Israel
Your weekly reminder that in open source, it is generally believed that the USA can produce 50-75 THAAD interceptors a year. Many estimates ave 60-84 SM-3. I'll let you do the math from there.
cdrsalamander@cdrsalamander·431dWorld
Sometimes it is important to remember that GenX grew up with something that, sadly, the younger generations cannot even fathom.
cdrsalamander@cdrsalamander·437dWorld
Quoting @GraduatedBen
Brooks Brothers had great American made oxford shirts up until their 2020 bankruptcy. They were made at the Garland Shirt Factory in North Carolina. The factory is still hanging on by a thread. Brooks Brothers CEO should go down tomorrow and button up the contract.
The factory closed last year. Go to google maps and look at it and it’s town. I spend a fair bit of time on secondary roads in The South. Closed factories like this are in small towns all over the place. When they close, the towns start to die and all the pathologies that come with that. Sad and tragic, but hey, you…
cdrsalamander@cdrsalamander·490dWorld
Quoting @Kristinawong
.@SecDef @PeteHegseth arrives at Headquarters @US_EUCOM.
The unnecessary wearing of combat utilities has got to stop. They look sloppy, are sloppy, and dressing down like this, in this context, in this location, when the SECDEF is visiting, is simply disrespectful. As others have said, when your junior personnel like those in the honor guard are in the appropriate uniform…
cdrsalamander@cdrsalamander·711dWorld
Quoting @ThatEricAlper
Bruce Springsteen’s “Born In The U.S.A.” has jumped to #9 on the U.S. iTunes Song Chart, the 40th consecutive year of people not listening to the lyrics.
It. Is. Not. A. Patriotic. Song.
cdrsalamander@cdrsalamander·725dOpinion
Quoting @CurtisLeeCICMCC
The first F-35B for the Japan Air Self-Defense Force is now under construction in Fort Worth, TX. Apart from expecting the first F-35B soon, the Japanese Helicopter Destroyer, JS Kaga, will also head to the US in November for her first F-35B testing after a major upgrade.
If Japan is buying F-35B made in the USA, how about we do them a solid and buy some US-2 made in Japan. If you want friends, be a friend.
cdrsalamander@cdrsalamander·774dOpinion
Quoting @JHolmsted
The best and brightest.
When you don’t study the classics, you don’t study war. You don’t study war, you don’t understand the dynamics & tactical application of a shield wall, or how heavy infantry advances across open terrain. Add that to lack of discipline or training…and here you go.
cdrsalamander@cdrsalamander·2097dWorld
Everyone takes things the wrong way on twitter, and that is why we can't have fun.