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Jayne S's avatar

That strait is a part of Persian history it makes me so disgusted. Persia has always been great!

Lisa S ☮️💜🤷🏻‍♀️'s avatar

Waj i am wondering if you could possibly please consider doing Kash Patel voice again? It’s extremely and unnaturally helpful for my mental health. Because laughter heals. 🤩😂😬🤓

Elaine Cimino's avatar

What’s being exposed in these side-by-side comparisons isn’t just a matter of optics—it’s a matter of function.

Food, in any institutional setting, is not symbolic. It is operational. In prisons, for all their flaws, meals are governed by minimum caloric and nutritional standards. There are baseline requirements for protein, carbohydrates, and essential vitamins. The system recognizes a simple truth: if you do not feed people adequately, the system itself begins to fail.

Now contrast that with what is being reported from deployed service members. Smaller portions. Limited access to fresh produce. Meals that are calorically inconsistent and nutritionally thin. This is not simply “bad food.” This is a degradation of intake at the exact moment when physical and cognitive demands are at their highest.

The human body does not negotiate with rhetoric. It runs on fuel.

When caloric intake drops below demand, the body compensates by reducing output—fatigue increases, reaction times slow, decision-making degrades. When micronutrients are lacking—vitamin C, iron, B-complex—immune function weakens, recovery slows, and long-term health begins to erode. These are not abstract concerns. In a military context, they translate directly into readiness, performance, and survival.

And that is the contradiction at the center of this moment.

We are watching a system capable of mobilizing billions of dollars in weaponry and logistics across the globe, yet failing to consistently deliver the most basic requirement to its own personnel: adequate nutrition. Not gourmet meals. Not luxury. Fuel.

At the same time, the public-facing narrative grows louder, more theatrical—language borrowed from film, posturing mistaken for strength. But performance does not sustain a force. Supply chains do. Discipline does. Care for the people inside the system does.

If those foundations begin to crack, no amount of rhetorical aggression can compensate for it.

Because in the end, power is not measured by what you can project outward—it is measured by what you can sustain from within.

And right now, that distinction is becoming impossible to ignore.

Pamela Fender's avatar

Aaron Parnas stated that some of the food they are providing for our military is EXPIRED!!!!

Cathy's avatar

Hazards of over-long deployments and long supply lines. It's unacceptable.

Pamela Fender's avatar

No surprise that the sailors are feeling seriously depressed.

Pamela Fender's avatar

Columbus didn't discover America. Others landed here before that fucking rapist.

Jennifer Schertz's avatar

The reason Trump and the GOP do not care about poll numbers is that they all KNOW he only has a few months left to live. They are all nihilists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihilism

Jayne S's avatar

Shumer needs to go

Jayne S's avatar

Once again Lebanon pays for the beauty of their country

Lynda's avatar

Thank you for your information, insights, and spot-on morality.

Maureen's avatar

Waj - you're totally right about greatness and black musicians!

Kayan Sherrer's avatar

Waj I can't help but love the way you state things!!! Your off the hook!

I love both of you and I am right there with you guys in your views!!! Thank you guys for all you do.

Danielle you're the greatest of pointing out truths about white privilege! Love you girl! Keep it real don't ever change! 💯

JL Stone, MD's avatar

Thank you so much for showing the “food’ that soldiers/sailors are eating and comparing that to what the pentagon big-wigs are eating (and we are paying for)!

Jayne S's avatar

I just reposted that they are fucking starving

Elaine Cimino's avatar

Now we’ve apparently arrived at the Bible according to Quentin Tarantino—while the people actually carrying out these missions are going hungry.

Let that sink in.

We have leadership quoting Pulp Fiction like it’s scripture, chest-thumping about strength and dominance, while sailors on deployed carriers are rationing food, skipping fresh meals, and relying on trays that look like prison rations. Not rumors—reported. Not isolated—systemic.

You don’t get to cosplay as a crusader while your own service members are hungry.

That’s not strength. That’s failure.

This is the part they don’t want to talk about: a military machine that can burn through hundreds of millions in munitions without blinking—but can’t maintain a basic supply chain for food and hygiene. That’s not a logistics hiccup. That’s a priorities problem.

And it exposes the bigger truth running through your piece—this isn’t strategy, it’s spectacle. Expensive, performative, and increasingly detached from reality on the ground.

Because while leadership plays war like it’s a movie, the people inside the system are living the consequences—long deployments, broken supply lines, collapsing morale.

If you can’t feed your own sailors, you don’t project power. You project decay.

And the world can see it.

Lynda's avatar

My two favorites!

Elena Freshman Schumann's avatar

You have to start thinking about what is real not what you want to happen. The USA is fine, though I still cannot figure out the Iran situation. Most people could care less about Iran and I do not blame them. We have to start thinking about ourselves and work on improving our own country not someone else's.