No probs l actually just C&P it from a list l just drew up for a Wounded Warrior buddy who is going in for another big operation & long bed recovery .
Hope you enjoy
I did 6 tours in remote COP's in Afghanistan,we only stayed sane from being sent decent movies to escape watching - here are my stand by's ,my family has served from WW2 ,Korea,Vietnam & me in Iraq & Afghanistan at every Xmas & Thanks Giving we still watch these -
Lawrence Of Arabia (full version pref) One of the greatest movies/cinematography ever made- recommend book
Westerns -
Tom Horn -IMO one of the greatest true Old West stories, recommend his biography as well .In A way very similar to times we face now ,with old values being thrown out & replaced with shitty new version. Steve McQueen fought for & sold his house to get the story told ,one of his last films.
Lonesome Dove - just epic Western-
Jeremiah Johnson - Brought & still occasionally hunt with a Hawken Plains Rifle - .50 cal rifled
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly -Classic
Legends of the Fall - IMO a under rated movie & weirdly relevant to what we are seeing now.
Crime
Bullitt - Classic Great Car chase
The French Connection - IMO best movie Gene Hackman ever made
Dirty Harry -All-
God Father -early better IMO-
Ronin
"Gomorra" Italian Mafia series well worth watching, like a cross between a foreign The Wire & Sopranos .Based on real events, involving all the way up to Italian PM's
War -
Thin Red Line -As a veteran this is one of the truest representations of life in combat ,up there IMO better than with the Saving-Pacific genre
Apocalypse Now-Nuff Sed
The Deer Hunter
Full Metal Jacket
Das Boot
Patton
Platoon
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Longest Day
The Sand Pebbles
Foreign must see war movies -
Breaker Morant - recommend book as well -Based on true story of a Australian legend during the Boer War & another reason why they are morons not now being a Republic. Another strangely relevant to events morons here & there are trying to do to our SF's & Combat Vets ie go fight a war for us but don't hurt anyone's feelings.
Gallipoli Australia (1981)
Stalingrad (Germany, 1993) - follows a battalion of elite German assault engineers as they deploy from sunny Italy to the farthest reaches of the Russia steppes. Their mission: To break the iron Soviet resistance in the rubble and bring the grinding battle to a victorious conclusion.
Come and See (USSR, 1985) Everyone should see this movie at least once it will shake you to the bone ,as a Combat Veteran l find it harder to watch than Saving Private Ryan .-
Set in occupied Byelorussia, the film covers a young lad who seeks to join the partisans and see the war. He gets his wish — and the viewer joins him as he descends into the abyss.
Sought of a Russian WW2 version of Apocalypse Now
White Tiger- Like a Russian Non gay & not full of pasty, noodle armed,. hollyweird douchebags version of Fury - It is just a cheesy war propaganda film like we used to make cool seeing the rusky version of it.
Old School buddy/funny -
Any Which Way series - Clint Eastwood
Anyone got full article ?Archive is being blocked - PS C&P of full Article -An influential pro-Trump discussion board active in the buildup to Jan. 6 faces the prospect of being shut down by its web-hosting company for allegedly fostering white supremacist and violent extremism.
Robert Davis, senior vice president of Epik Inc., told The Wall Street Journal his firm warned TheDonald.Win it might be dropped within days if it fails to better cull what he said are discussions glorifying violence, propagating white supremacy and fomenting extremism.
“They need to recognize the critical role they play as an inspirational place rather than a hotbed of extremism,” Mr. Davis said. “Epik has no tolerance for anything that incites hate or violence.” If the site didn’t fix the problem speedily, he added, “they’re gone from Epik and it will be hard for them to get service anywhere.”
TheDonald.Win has been identified by law enforcement and analysts as an important online staging platform for the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol that federal prosecutors are investigating as a seditious act and President-Elect Biden characterized as domestic terrorism. Recent posts on the forum viewed by the Journal have included further calls for violence, including a threat to kill House Speaker Nancy Pelosi about which the FBI was informed, according to people familiar with the matter.
The owner of the domain TheDonald.Win, Jody Williams, said he has been trying for months to purge a surging tide of violent, racist and anti-Semitic postings, an effort he said has triggered multiple daily death threats from censored posters against him and his family. Mr. Williams said a small cluster of the site’s most powerful moderators—including one who controls its code—have thwarted his efforts to rein in such content even as it grew over the last 10 months.
The site’s transformation is emblematic of how far-right groups have leveraged growing frustration among some Trump supporters to propagate their ideology into mainstream politics, analysts say. Along with groups such as the conspiracy-theory group QAnon, white supremacists have also helped foster a surge in threats of violence, feeding what was fringe far-right thinking into the mainstream, those analysts say.
“There’s been a convergence of all those groups who want to overthrow the government, and certainly the Biden election,” said Marilyn Mayo, a senior research fellow at the Anti-Defamation League’s Center for Extremism. “We’ve seen a number of groups come together who are supporting Trump for different reasons.”
Robert Evans, who studies far-right extremism at the research firm Bellingcat, said white supremacists and other far-right groups see the president as a tool for achieving their aims and “made a conscious effort to radicalize Trump supporters” through sites like TheDonald.Win.
Mr. Davis of Epik said he believed that the platform TheDonald.Win, like some others, has been increasingly permeated by white supremacists and other extremist groups and the site’s moderators failed to take sufficient action. “There are threads that need to be pulled out,” he said, “Moderators have taken their eye off the ball.”
Site traffic on the discussion board, which grew out of the popular /The_Donald Reddit board that was shut down in June 2020 for violating Reddit’s rules on harassment, doubled in the last quarter of the year to more than 16 million visits in December, according to web analytics.
Mr. Williams said at the start of last year, volunteer moderators were able to successfully weed out racist, anti-Semitic and violent posts, deleting an average 3,400 such entries out of an overall daily total of some 100,000 posts a day and ousting offenders.
But the March Covid-19 lockdown marked the beginning of a rise in antigovernment postings, he said, as growing unemployment and health restrictions sparked anger among the site’s users. Racist posts multiplied as users reacted to countrywide #BlackLivesMatter protests and riots, Mr. Williams said.
Against that background, Mr. Trump’s casting of the presidential election as rigged set off a virtual powder keg, the domain’s owner said, especially as the media reported urban areas with majority Black populations turning the tide for Democrat Joe Biden in traditionally GOP-won states. Posts violating the site’s rules on racist, violent and extremist content surged, he said, which in turn “acted like a bat signal to the people we had fought so hard to keep out.”
Mr. Williams said he doubled the number of moderators from about 15 to 30 since the November election to keep up with the accelerating growth in site traffic. Several moderators who had fought an internal battle against the permissive moderators left the site in the wake of the Capitol attack, dispirited by the blame directed at site, worried about legal liabilities and scared of violent reprisals amid an avalanche of subsequent threats, he said.
As Epik warned the site in prior weeks about long-building vetting concerns, Mr. Williams said tensions escalated among divided moderators. After three FBI requests about users because of threatening posts and Epik’s latest threats to shut down the site, Mr. Williams said one top controlling moderator responded to a final plea for better oversight with a note saying, “Or we could just not be pussies.”
A request for comment from the moderators drew a response from someone using the name Kekpepekek, who wrote: “Get bent. Stop making things up for a story.” Kekpepekek, whose pseudonym incorporates white-nationalist memes, didn’t elaborate.
Epik has come under scrutiny itself for hosting other anonymous sites that have far-right content, especially Gab, a networking site that was used by the man that killed 11 in a 2018 shooting at a synagogue in Pittsburgh. Social-media platform Parler earlier this week transferred its domain to Epik after the platform was forced offline when major vendors cut critical support for its services, citing some subscribers who used it to promote the Capitol riot. Epik said it htd been caught off-guard when Parler registered with the hosting firm.
Critics question whether Epik applies its “zero-tolerance” principle aggressively enough. Mr. Davis rejects criticisms of the company as a haven for white supremacists as unfair, saying the firm tries to encourage free speech without fostering extremism and seeks to persuade site owners to better vet discourse on its sites instead of simply shutting sites down.
I have said right from the start all the RINO's & Swamp bottom feeders are just as corrupt as the Libtards ,look at how quickly even those in close races conceded going all the way back to Florida etc , how quickly they were to attack candidate Trump on utter BS ,they did not want any investigation or anyone who would call for a clean up of the Swamp because they risked being caught doing the same things .
The same as l have never known anyone to say Romney was a good candidate & did not given them the creeps ,he is like a walking ,talking Cartoon/comic Scumbag character, everything that core conservatives reject .
Our whole system is a joke & will continue to be until Term limits & IMO age limits are applied & their support teams re-vetted ,look at laughable performance of all these scumbags from both sides during questioning etc at hearings ,it is like a argument at a Retirement Home over who ate the last bit of cake.
His wife was diagnosed with & getting treated for Guillain-Barre syndrome & suffered partial paralysis,he said this year they were going to take a proper family Christmas holiday break, from memory back in the last week of Jan.
A lot of the Local Liaison Medic Teams all had this stuck in the front of their log/notebooks . As the Choppers dropped in to final approach / stand by, about to land in another remote Medieval village, where the Taliban had done a job on the locals, you would often see the Medics flipping to this now grubby, sweat & blood stained note, stuck crooked to a nondescript blank page, like a final private pep talk they were giving themselves .
The teams needed on ground security & the Kids were not good at taking hand signal directions, so the Military decided to get their monies worth out of me & l was tasked with trying to calm the kids & explain what was happening & why in local dialect .
I have always been proud of what we achieved in the Embedded Training Teams (ETT's),took down some of the worst of the worst Jihadist's & bomb builders in our Kill or Capture targeted raids & gained valuable intelligence, mainly in the heart of their strong holds in the 'Taliban Bad Lands on the border.Of my 6 tours in the Military it taught me the most about the ,how low the Jihadists would stoop ,the task we faced & the impossibility of it with one of our arms tied by the hand wringers back in the US,a lot were the same pathetic cowards throwing themselves on the floor & taking selfies for their social media & photo ops just days ago .
Anyone asked how there was no standard evacuation drill they should have all been trained to follow, you know like every other large work place & school in the USA & would be fined or closed down for not implementing ?
Meghan McCain is just pissed , because her Dad never got crowds like this -
I have said right from the start the RINO's are just as corrupt as the Libtards ,look at how quickly even those in close races conceded going all the way back to Florida etc ,they did not want any investigation because they risked being caught doing the same things .
The same as l have never known anyone to say Romney was a good candidate & did not given them the creeps ,he is like a walking ,talking Cartoon/comic Scumbag character .
We all know a soft cock you does not have any friends,the pizza delivery guy does not count.
Hey Bud, all considered we had a ball ,thank Fuck we all agreed the best thing was to stay outside of the shithole & we had a great secure place for all our gear to stay .
The Wounded Warriors never fail to impress with how they are the epitome of a real 'Hard man '& it is a honor to be friends & ride with them.I dont have to tell you Unc's & his Buddies thoughts on all this ,l have been pissing myself listening to him on the phone ,l have never heard anyone express Rolling Eyes so well by voice alone 😆 .Heading over to his place on the Week End to show him some pics & the new peep sight for my 458 Lott finally turned up ,l will send your regards & up with a sick dog at the moment, l suspect while l was away the wife fed a Lab the way a Lab dreams of being fed . 😆 😆
We own a Cattle Ranch & the family owns 4 others ,all up we would have easily over $2.5 Million in Heavy Equipment alone .AIG are one of the worst insurance agencies we have ever dealt with & totally screwed over a local Rancher who had been with them for over a Decade,we dropped them in 2002 .
In the Military we had a saying ,"Like Herding Cats "
A lot of the Local Liaison Medic Teams all had this stuck in the front of their log/notebooks . As the Choppers dropped in to final approach / stand by, about to land in another remote Medieval village, where the Taliban had done a job on the locals, you would often see the Medics flipping to this now grubby, sweat & blood stained note, stuck crooked to a nondescript blank page, like a final private pep talk they were giving themselves .
The teams needed on ground security & the Kids were not good at taking hand signal directions, so the Military decided to get their monies worth out of me & l was tasked with trying to calm the kids & explain what was happening & why in local dialect .
I have always been proud of what we achieved in the Embedded Training Teams (ETT's),took down some of the worst of the worst Jihadist's & bomb builders ,of my 6 tours in the Military it taught me the most about the task faced & the impossibility of it with one arm tied by the hand wringers back in the US.
What 'humans'will do to the innocent for their own gain , is a sobering thing -
u/pray_for_kekistan why are mods still allowing direct links to Twatter & Idiot Book as well as all the fake news scumbags etc etc ,T_D is putting money directly in their pockets ,make screenshots or Archive the only allowed links from these commies .
I am probably one of the few on here who can speak from experience of extended travel , working & living in foreign countries .Long answer sorry as that is the only proper way to cover it if you are serious.
After l got out of the Military l spent just over 2 years contracting to major NGO's ,spending time working in most major EU cities.Me & Royal Marine l met through this work shared a common bond of being motorcycle nuts & had both raced off road for years ,we made a blood oath while working in a African shithole that if we got out in one piece we would ride from London to Moscow on ADV bikes, avoiding the Euro Trash tourist traps & camping out with the "real"people all along the way ,only using motels/hostels/B&B's etc after every 5 days to wash clothes /dry out/recover .
We spent over 6 months in total ,l see others with obviously no idea recommending Switzerland it was the most corrupt & American hating country we encountered, with threats at the border crossings ,police threatening to fine you thousands & confiscate your vehicle for being a couple of miles over the limit ,even if you were trying to over take as quick & safe as you could on winding mountain roads (they actually target over taking areas .They would have 1/2 dozen cops waiting all for a 4 mph speeding ticket).Wildly over priced for most things,bland food & people have been wrapped in Gov't cotton wool for so long, they will just blindly walk into moving traffic ,we actually seen a guy ran over when he walked between a car & trailer it was towing as it took off at intersection.Last place l would recommend .
We spent a lot of time in the following countries due to the hospitality & great way of life .I am a Born & Bred from a Montana Cattle Ranching family that was among the first Cattle Ranchers there,l know country hospitality ,these people were great human beings & again we lived with & among them for months on end..
First recommendation & down in order is the Czech Republic ,Poland ,Ukraine , Hungary & Russia .We obviously travelled just before the revolution in Ukraine & the fact some of the war devastated areas are where we travelled through still gets me ,when l see the villages & farm houses with the duck egg blue & green paint schemes & guys firing mortars out of farm house court yards just like we sat around drinking,eating & laughing with the locals.
But that brings us to a important point the reason the hospitality was so impressive is these people were all poor by our western standards ,but would still give you the shirt off their back ,would l take my girls to live in any of them ,no way ,no where near the opportunities on offer here.
If l was forced with HS age kids especially girls,the only picks would be Czech Republic ,Poland or Hungary & then in a major city where they have their own problems & rat race,tiny cramped housing & inner city housing built around eating out a lot ,so tiny by American standards unworkable kitchens/storage etc ,these were built for a different out dated time when security threat was low & even worse when taking in the fact you are from the number one target for local crime gangs & terror threats now .
Don't kid yourself major cities in Texas have been Libtard shitholes for years now ,when l got out in 2010, our family Ranching business was still partners in 2 Cattle Ranches in Texas ,l was offered a position in Dallas which l turned down as l knew what came out of their & it wasn't cattle,my older brother jumped at it ,he has been trying to leave for 3 years now & they are really worried how their HS kids have been indoctrinated .
We chose the hard road & set up our own Ranching & Guiding business in High Country Montana ,could not be happier since 2018 we own outright our 350Acre ranch/homestead & are partners in the surrounding 1800+acres Cattle Ranch .My wife runs a Horse Riding //Breeding Stables from our Ranch & as a Guide l have my own 1200 yard range & sporting clays field for clients,we are as self-sufficient as we want.
We are lucky in States like Montana in the real rural areas we still have a formal rural property code which are referred to as the "Code of the West", a caution adopted by a number of western counties. The Code warns newcomers wishing to locate in rural areas of the county not to assume that their rural road will be plowed immediately after every snowfall, that a farmer's field treatments may raise dust that will drift across the property line, that a rancher's cows may moo on the other side of the property-line fence all night, that if there is an emergency it may take an ambulance, fire truck or sheriff's deputy a while to respond, that rural areas may be subject to uncontrollable wildfires, and more.
Basically, the Code declares, people living in rural areas are and must be more independent, self-regulating and tolerant of local practices and customs than their city-dwelling cousins.
Just the way we like it.
America is far ahead of any country ,a few years ago we considered going partners in Hunting/Fishing /Guiding business in New Zealand, another often touted "Utopia".I spend considerable time OS guiding in the Alps as l specialize in Long Range Hunting ,so spent a lot of time there & the Hunting was among the best in the world .
Along with the gun laws,Chyna Flu Clusterfucks they have recently encountered ,the major cities are over crowded,grid locked shit holes that rivals LA & London for traffic chaos & overpriced housing. This is due to the corrupt /incompetent Governments failing in the rebuilding after the earthquakes a DECADE ago,they are still only now demolishing buildings in the city centers a fucking decade later,a Banana Republic would do a better job . New Zealand like Australia's greatest mistake was importing British Bureaucrats & police to top positions,most from failed Government entities there.They have one of the worst rates for underprivileged / youth offenders,that funny enough no one mentions apart from the locals.
The New Zealand government is currently paying millions for a culling operation using helicopter gunships to decimate one of the most sought after & rare game animals in the world the Tahr that lives in its Alps & Game Hunters from around the world spend Millions of Dollars every year to travel to NZ to hunt .The fact they have to use helicopters in the steep remote areas means every other game animal is effected with Deer ,Chamois etc all harassed out of their favored areas to starve to death or scared into never leaving thick brush gullies again. The New Zealand Government has always been criticized for poisoning the forests with aerial dropped 1080 poison & now this on top will decimate the hunting & wildlife.
My advice look for somewhere rural in America where the girls can finish school go to college a few hours away & visit,once they are doing their own thing move out further the way things are going with Tech you will in a few years be able to do basically every thing remote & off grid ,we are completely self-sufficient for power & heating saving us thousands every year, we only get a gas top up twice a year as during winter all cooking is done on a wood fired range that also supplies hot water & heating when used,all timber comes from our own stands.
We eat & butcher 95% of our meat from our own Cattle or what we hunt & grow our own vegetables same as my ancestors have done for generations & l get a lot of satisfaction from it including ,making many high end meat products ,l now can not stand the tasteless vegetables sold plastic wrapped in stores.
Montana Hunters Free Range Wild Hog Pancetta prep
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Finished Home Made Goodness
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Ranch Elk Ham
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Ranch Salami made with Wild Hog & Venison (Elk & Deer) & Wild Hog Bacon
Every time one of these shills post the BS (I deliberately go through all new posts every day l am on T_D just for this,a habit from helping those in crisis for over a Decade & l would like to think others would help me if l was in the same situation) l make the point of replying & messaging directly explaining my qualifications & offer to put them in contact with other trained professionals if serious ,of over 20 not one has even bothered to reply or take up the offer & quickly disappear once fronted with the offer .I did one just recently late at night (shill happy hour )offered & did stay up for another hour for them to reach out ,nothing disgusting shill/moron shut down .
I have told the Mods numerous times on the old site these posts need to be removed straight away, with contact to the hot line provided it is just another version of a PSYOP & common problem with anonymous contact.
If anyone ever wants to talk ,l will help where l can, if you need more than a open, nonjudgmental talk /discussion on ways to lift yourself up ,l will try to put you in contact with trained counselors in your area . I have seen first hand the frequent failure/consequences of suicide & attempts ,from a multi tour Combat Veteran it is not a answer to anything ,in any way.
REACH OUT, HELP IS ALL AROUND YOU.
OP if you seriously want to talk l am a Veteran who has worked with a Veterans group helping Veterans in crisis for over a decade ,l am trained & ready to help,l will stay up for another 1/2 hour to see if you reach out ,if not contact me tmrw.
Suicide is never the answer & too many people are now disconnected from reality, l have seen first hand that the vast majority of times it is neither immediate or painless. Reach Out, same offer goes for any Pede in a similar situation.
The only retard is OP, this was at the Oregon protest last year,OP is no different to a Libtard believing anything they are told & too stupid & lazy to spend 5 sec's doing their own research ,the very thing we call out Libtards for.
Rep. Mike Nearman let violent protesters into the Oregon Capitol. Here’s how lawmakers could respond
The White House turns off the lights at 11pm every night .
White House lights are turned off at 11pm every night .
Didn't GAB offer the Mods free access to their servers when the new site was being set up & they refused?
You are either a shill or a idiot my guess is both,this is from today,he put it on his twatter & it was deleted, so people are retweeting it to him .
Here the mods have posted this several times & said to use them when it goes down IMO in under 2 weeks,they have set up these as alternatives .The whole idea of the captcha BS is to make using the site harder & harder as they have done to other sites before shutting down,the next stage is it will log you out automatically ,forcing you to go through the whole process multiple times ,
thedonald.xyz
thedonald.one
thedonald.space
The Wounded Warriors are the heroes ,some of the hardest men l have ever met ,rode with bleeding stumps from their special prosthetics rubbing & long hours of hard riding & never complained.
It is a real pity more photos can not be shared,this was sent by a Veteran friend who recognized the flag & where we were,we got permission from the Secret Service to have a see through bag with their required Meds left with them for the Wounded Warriors so during the speech we basically in their post .
The" Hopkinson Flag" was the First Official American Flag: This 13-Star Flag became the Official Flag republic flag on June 14th, 1777 as the result of a resolution of the continental congress. Much evidence exists pointing to Congressman Francis Hopkinson as the person responsible for its design. Each of the 13 founding Colonies was represented by 1 star and 1 stripe.
National POW/MIA Flag Act of 2019 requires the POW/MIA Flag be displayed whenever the American Flag is displayed on prominent federal properties to honor the more than 81,000 Americans who are listed as Prisoners of War (POW), Missing in Action (MIA), or otherwise unaccounted for from our nation's past wars and conflicts.