Aaron Grote
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Aaron Grote
@aarongrote.com
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Here to learn and share. Former US Marine, terrain park designer, riverboat pilot, a bunch of other weird stuff, and now marketing.
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It'll be interesting to see what his handlers tell him "the very minimum as required" *is*.

Appropriations feels predictable, they feel no obligation to anything.

More interesting is stuff like, if there's an air traffic controller shortage in like Keokuk or something, does he pull from NYC first?
Sandwich ballistics are impossibly complicated. Distance, wind, elevation, temperature, humidity. At extreme ranges even longitude matters.

That this guy direct-laid one implies an incredible amount of experience.

This guy's a pro. A sandsassin.
It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.
Trial Begins for Man Accused of Lobbing a Sandwich at a Federal Agent www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...
Really anything outside of 30 meters is ((clears throat)) SUB-optimal.
I'm kind of starting to think of things as, "What if hipster culture didn't go away, it just became everything?" Like irony, not as an aesthetic but as an ideology? The rejection of meaning not as in-group signaling, but as society?
76% of Americans saying there is literally nothing they would fight for is another way of looking at this, and IMO that is the read that says more about where we are, how we got here, and what happens next.
New @politico.com poll:

24% of American believes that there are some instances where political violence is justified.

There was little partisan divide in that belief.

But younger Americans were more likely to say violence can be justified.
POLITICO Poll: Americans are bracing for political violence to get worse
POLITICO Poll: Americans think it’s likely a political candidate will be assassinated in the next five years.
www.politico.com
I know that's sarcasm and this is me agreeing, I wish people knew how far those units have to hump tons of gear to try getting their reach farther than their opponent's.
I love this, thank you.

The Servant Song also helps me.

Also remembering that the Good Samaritan parable was Jesus's answer to, "Ok, I'm supposed to love my neighbor as myself. Agreed. But who IS my neighbor? Surely not all THOSE people?"
Found a Hegseth X post from September.
This video was from September, FWIW.
Did a US account ever post this?
And um, I think that's a Saab Gripen? I'm guessing that's not the only non-US stock visual in there, too.
I mean first of all Sphere is a feminine word so they'd have to start with a complete category rebrand.
Trump's Truth Social posts from today alone would have been a bad decade of US politics in some stretches.
Please do a strategic airlift Yort.
And we gave up a lot to get there, including big stuff like sensitive chip sales.
Policy evaluation 101: Set the baseline.

Trump took office Jan 20, so compare outcomes to Jan 19. "Less bad than last week" is not "good."

Tariffs still higher, soybean sales lower, rare earth access tighter than on Jan 19.
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“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess...”
Per Danny Kemp via press pool

Trump is at the Halloween party at MAL

“Official theme is Gatsby and ‘a little party never killed nobody’, we’re told.”
oh no

golden showers in the white house

how have things gone this wrong
Reminder that there's a big component of the admin that supports Israel in this war not because they support Jews, but because they see this war as a way to kickstart the end of the world and second coming of Jesus.

I'm not making this up.
The flow of US weaponry & diplomatic cover to Israel won't disappear overnight. But the 'Judeo-Christian' consensus undergirding decades of the US-Israel 'special relationship' is gone. MAGA philosemitism & Christian Zionism will soon be a thing of the past www.972mag.com/israel-us-ma...
Israel’s iron grip on the American right is slipping away
Generational shift, isolationism, and nationalist anger are breaking the GOP’s pro-Israel consensus. But the left must remain wary of their motives.
www.972mag.com
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We're at the point where "they came for" Veterans with the woke kind of cancer. It's tough to see anything stopping you or I from being the next target, because they make decisions based on imaginary criteria.

You are, I am, whatever they want us to be. One day we'll be the monster in their closet.
Their hate is not about protecting women. Or babies. Or America.

It's about wanting to really live in the tragicomically simple fantasy world of their imagination. Where men are men & whites are white & everybody else knows their damn place -- being gratefully subservient to these Chosen People.
SCOOP

The admin is making it harder for male vets w/ breast cancer to get their care covered

The admin cites Trump order: “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government”

I got the memo laying it all out

www.propublica.org/article/vete...
Meanwhile, the hard men of Gondor:
Mobile web. Just the website on Android Chrome.
Web is just press and hold. Haven't used the app.
We're at the point where "they came for" Veterans with the woke kind of cancer. It's tough to see anything stopping you or I from being the next target, because they make decisions based on imaginary criteria.

You are, I am, whatever they want us to be. One day we'll be the monster in their closet.
Their hate is not about protecting women. Or babies. Or America.

It's about wanting to really live in the tragicomically simple fantasy world of their imagination. Where men are men & whites are white & everybody else knows their damn place -- being gratefully subservient to these Chosen People.
SCOOP

The admin is making it harder for male vets w/ breast cancer to get their care covered

The admin cites Trump order: “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government”

I got the memo laying it all out

www.propublica.org/article/vete...