I’m sure you are all about to deliver the reply. So I’m just going to post it right here:
Am I showing my taste in obscure Catholic themed vigilante vs the mafia movies again? Fine. This is my review of Roadhouse Brewing Highwayman Pilsner:
Unless you are living under a rock you probably heard about this guy in Maine that supports the Nazis. No not Tucker…he just has people on his show that hates the Jews the Palestinian Genocide Israeli Government. I’m talking about the fringe leftist that’s made hay on social media recently.
No…wise ass…not Stephen King. What the hell is going on Maine?
When I first heard of the Totenkopf I was towards the end of my time in the Air Force and the outrage of the day was a few units in Iraq had coopted symbols for unit/morale patches that resembled others that were previously used by other units of a particular historical disdain. This one in particular was the SS symbol used by MARSOC. The truth is, this is a simple skull over cross bones image that has been used in many different contexts from piracy, the Oakland Los Angeles Oakland Las Vegas Raiders, Marvel Comics, and even workplace safety. Yes this one has Prussian Origins that are not necessarily affiliated with units of that particular historical disdain, but lets be real they coopted damn near anything that looked cool. Even to this day, there are still controversies involving US Special Forces taking certain images and using them for their own purposes.
Incidentally doing this with Native American symbolism, is somehow okay.
Anyways, with this bit of information I looked at this story with some amount of skepticism and nuance and can only conclude one thing: Maine is about to elect a Nazi to the Senate. This guy is retarded. What the hell is going on in Maine?
A Pils for an article about Nazis? Let’s not look too hard into this one. Germans seem to have a hand in everything that seems decent enough on the surface. Hell, Hitler had a dog, a car, boots, and probably a collection of buttplugs. It doesn’t make my dog a Nazi, but Count Danuka’s is. Poor pooch. The beer is solid, so no worries on that front. Roadhouse Brewing Highwayman Pilsner: 3.1/5
Anybody who wants to be elected should be excluded as mentally unfit.
A new take on The Lottery?
During the informal investigation in 2022, Gordon said officials couldn’t find the source of the patch or the person who created it in the first place. Officials concluded that the soldiers wearing the patch were ignorant of the symbolism and its historical meaning.
“There was nothing that they found that clearly identified somebody trying to display any images of hate,” Gordon said.
Elves did it in the middle of the night.
Hateful images undermine the warrior ethos.
Riiiiiiight, because SF guys are too dumb to know the history of 20th century militaries.
They did it because both the Africa Korps and Totenkopf are very well-done symbols. They knew the swastika could not be on the palm tree so they substituted in the SS symbol. Why? Because since 1990 we have been fighting in deserts and SF is viewed, correctly, as an elite formation. This was meant to be an “in group” morale thing. But they fucked up and forgot every damn smart phone is a collection system and posting shit online is stupid.
I have a bunch of respect for the SF but they are made up of people, and people do dumb things sometimes. (I know I did when I was at the A-Team level.)
Soldiers have used the captured symbols, weapons and flags of defeated enemies as battle honors to promote unit morale and identity for as long as there have been soldiers.
You are absolutely correct. I have a picture I recently found online of a US Army (((chaplain))) performing services inside Goebbel’s living room.
In 2004 we shipped back to the battalion HQ a 6ft by 6ft oil painting of Saddam on horseback leading a charge and two bronze missiles from the statue of Saddam the Army blew up in Tikrit. Since they were captured government property, we just had to inform the proper people. Goddamn that painting is ugly. I assume it is still there with the bronze plate I had affixed to the frame explaining its capture.
Since they were captured government property, we just had to inform the proper people. Goddamn that painting is ugly. I assume it is still there with the bronze plate I had affixed to the frame explaining its capture.
I thought war trophies were verbotten.
War trophies that have triggers and magazines, or go “pew pew” are verboten NOW for individuals. Plenty of SKSs came back with the Rangers and 82d from Grenada. Then the anti-fun crowd got involved before Desert Storm kicked off.
Other war trophies are still permitted. There are different limits on what individuals and units can return with. One BDE shipped back a Sherman tank captured near Tikrit. The customs MP’s permitted my Soldiers to send back all manner of government stuff from license plates (clearly military only), IR headlamps, medals, uniforms and ceremonial swords (all manufactured in Germany in the 1930s), etc. etc. etc. (I still use a chunk of marble from Saddam’s main palace as a coaster.) Bayonets were okay as well.
(((Jarflax is correct. Soldiers will return with evidence of their victories. Trying to stop that is stupid and destructive.
I have a chunk of Zepplin Field grand stands.
I’ll call it a war trophy.
I liberated a sign out of the hospital building at FOB Rustinyah. It translates to “statistics”. Probably for their lab or records room.
My unit was super uptight I brought the sign home at great risk to myself. The chain of command all brought the clap back.
I still use a chunk of marble from Saddam’s main palace as a coaster
Okay, that’s awesome.
Bureaucrats and lawyers hate and fear anything that could annoy or offend someone, or simply not strictly controlled. Our society, and the West generally, is now run by lawyers and bureaucrats. The military is just another thing their attitudes are ill suited to run.
RC in the kill chain:
“So you guys think there’s a decent chance they need killing’? Good enough. Weapons free!”
Soldiers being interviewed during the investigation
Still too warm for Stouts over there?
No, I just have a bunch of Pils and IPA to go through first.
I mean, its no Earthquake…..
…no
Well, yeah. I just had my first porter of the season. Tucson is probably a month away from proper stout weather.
Going to Santa Fe to close on the new house next week. Planning to make the Santa Fe Brewing brewpub beg for mercy before I head back to Tucson for more moving chores.
As much as I rag on NM being “Sam’s Choice AZ” that’s actually a nice area.
The Christmas ales are out in force here now. The stouts are also out, in fact I just picked up a mixed four pack of Flying Monkey chocolate stouts.
Incidentally doing this with Native American symbolism, is somehow okay.
Are you sure?
Yes. The rank of Chief Master Sergeant comes with a number of time honored traditions, one of which is a literal feathered headdress in the Chief’s office.
His being a Democrat is more proof he is a Nazi than some dopey tatt.
I don’t even think he covered it up. There’s a distinct lack of swelling and redness for someone that just got a tattoo.
He has covered it up now. A typically dreadful coverup.
Big black star?
Eventually we are going to run out of symbols if we ban them because someone evil used them.
+1 Chief Wahoo
Wait a second, what evil man wore Chief Wahoo?
/hides the girlfriend’s shirt with Mickey Mouse wearing Chief Wahoo
Charlie Sheen, obviously
Wait a second, what evil man wore Chief Wahoo?
Whitey obviously.
mexican sharpshooter:
You know there was a local push for Charlie Sheen to throw out one of the first pitches for the last time the Indians were in the World Series, right? We embrace Major League.
/goes and gets a four pack of Major Lager
I did not, but wasn’t he on house arrest at that time?
mexican sharpshooter:
I don’t think so, but it wouldn’t have really mattered. In fact, if he had an ankle bracelet on at the time, it would have been better.
(((New Yorkers))) get out now.
I remember this lovely “democratic socialist” conducting frequent two-hours hate sessions around the corner in my old neighborhood. Now she will have a seat at the table at last.
Sarsour means cockroach in Arabic and she knows that. Her ancestors did something to earn that sobriquet.
Something like this maybe:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2g9H8vz3QM
Faisal means peacemaker in Arabic. He’s a guy who keeps enemies apart.
https://centralfloridapost.com/2017/07/13/linda-sarsour-queen-of-jihad/
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Linda Cockroach and her Islamist friends at ISNA and CAIR are trying to erode our freedoms and liberties from within.
By Taylor Foland
It’s no surprise that “Sarsour” when translated from Arabic, literally means “cockroach.” How ironic right?
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It’s like jihaaaaad with a sword made of ice!
She is loathsome. In a sane society, her endorsement would be a total dealbreaker. But New Yorkers are about to get what they vote for, I fear.
Wish me luck. I don’t live in NYC, but work there three days a week.
I hate coming there.
If they vote for him they deserve everything they will get. Hopefully other people will take note and avoid that fate.
I have already emailed by Congresscritters that under NO circumstances should a single cent of Federal funds be used to bail out NYC. Hopefully a staffer will read it to Hirono since I am convinced she is non-sentient.
I know my emails are just shaking my fist at the blue blue sky of Hawaiian politicians.
I was scrolling through the app formerly known as Twitter the other day, and I guess Zohran ate rice with his hands again, leading to a bunch of leftists calling everyone racist for noticing. After all, Americans eat hamburgers and pizza with their hands. And ribs and chicken wings! These are all exactly the same.
Anyways, it occurred to me last night that if SNL had any balls they could make this a recurring sketch.
Zohran arrives at a party.
“Hey, would you like some chips and dip?”
“Sure!” *grabs a chip, shoves his fingers deep into the dip, shoves his fingers into his mouth and sucks the dip off* “Wow, this is great dip!” *does it again* “Hey, you’ve got to try this dip!”
“Why are you eating it like that?”
“What do you mean? This is how we eat in my country!”
Everyone around him is obviously disgusted, but they reluctantly start eating the dip with their fingers to prove that they’re not racist.
Or Thanksgiving with Zohran, where he sits down with a family and starts eating mashed potatoes and stuffing with his fingers.
The kid says “Why is he eating like that?” and the parents scold her for being racist, then put down their forks and start eating everything with their fingers.
Mayor Zohran has a diplomatic meeting with a couple of delegates from some third world country. To make them feel welcome he serves them food from their home country. When the plates arrive he starts digging in with with his fingers. The diplomats look at him weird and ask for forks.
etc. I think SNL could get a half-dozen good sketches out of this, then another dozen sketches after it’s completely played out. Hell, ten years ago this would already have been a South Park episode.
Picture I saw of that was mated next to one of him eating pizza with a knife and fork.
If it was deep dish he was probably right,
Eating deep dish pizza is probably more damaging to a New York mayoral candidate than open communism or eating rice with his hands.
I thought of another one:
Zohran is at lunch with someone. His guest is relieved when he orders a burger. When it arrives he says he’s doing keto and dumps everything out of the bun, scrapes all the mayo on top, then starts grabbing chunks of burger and toppings. Also dumps ketchup all over the top of the fries and starts eating those by the handful.
In Tanzania, I surprised some vendors by taking a small fried lentil dough ball (bagia) rather than put it back and take a bigger one. I explained that in my country, if you touch food, you’re obliged to eat it or throw it away, so we use forks, etc. more often than people in other countries. Basically, my tribe (Americans) are really scared of germs.
Other fun facts: many people in poor countries believe that only children, the sick, and the old need to drink boiled/filtered water and that everybody has a little malaria.
Oh yeah, and albinos get their arms chopped off by witch doctors more often when an election is coming up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gNIVB-SyBs
Whatevs. Chama Cha Mapinduzi (party of revolution) has been in charge for 60+ years.
symbolism:
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2025/10/flags-and-sincerest-form-of-flattery.html
There is not a chance in hell that SNL will make fun of him in a sketch. I can see him making a puff-piece cameo appearance, though, where they will fawn all over him.
The point of your sketches are why we dont have them and wont.
“…a society of emasculated liars are easy to control.”
For the linguists.
Why is Japan Called JAPAN in English, and Not Nihon?
TLDW Since Japanese writing came from China they originally used the Chinese word and pronounciation. But they weren’t happy with the weak characters used to represent it. They changed it and the new word filtered back to Europe completely butchered becoming “Japan”.
大きな目のワイフの国
Irish spacemarine song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSiLZoPk9Hc
Himmler in that picture looks like he’s about to snap in a Z formation.
Speaking of that “Totenkopf” thing…
I am trying to articulate a relationship between “There is no such thing as antifa” and “Everybody knows exactly what that skull and crossbones means”.
It’s called leftism with apologies to NA
Short answer: “That’s DIFFERENT!”
Medium answer: It is willful deceit by the far left to hide their communist goals in plain sight. The current “masked” faces of antifa have been instructed to operate in a cellular structure, just like any other insurgent movement. They are the expendable to bring about the mass uprising (6% of the population) and the war of movement phase of an insurgency. The elimination of the current street thugs will enable the current underground portion to grab power when the time is right. The auxiliary of this insurgency is the same as always- the underground uses them until it is useful or convenient to abandon them.
When I went through SF school we studied insurgencies, resistance movements, and their philosophical roots for months. (Hence my comments about the SF guys not knowing what their symbols were.) If you read the existing commie and islamist texts on resistance it is all out in the open to read.
Historical aside: Without my effort you can find the first generation antifa waving their banners and see their propaganda from Germany when the international socialists and national socialists were fighting for power. This generation has just substituted English for German in the flags and propaganda. The flag and some of the handbills from then and now are exactly the same. Until it became uncomfortable to admit it current antifa spokes freely admitted their roots. But since the communist movement is deeply unpopular in the US and parts of Europe they try to deflect questons of their history and goals.
This is accurate and obvious which is why I dont understand the tolerance for it.
When you see rattlesnakes in your house dont shrug and tell yourself “Everything is fine”
If you read the existing commie and islamist texts on resistance it is all out in the open to read.
Nationalism is the natural counter to Bolshevism? It worked in Spain and its how we have Azov.
Communism/bolshevism is a utopian ideology that requires the erasure of history. History is the lifeblood of nationalism. So, yes, nationalism is the natural counter to communism/bolshevism.
I saw something the other day which basically claimed Mamdammy is just a sheep in wolf’s clothing. He will be a pragmatic liberal catering to the money men, throwing a few scraps to the activist fringe.
I would not be surprised either way. I would not be surprised if he turns out to be as bad as the non-left leaning media makes him out to be. I would also not be surprised if he is just putting on a show for the election and then turns out to be no big deal.
Well, reality (and much state law) will stop him from achieving the communist, Islamist utopia of his dreams. But he can certainly cause a lot of damage “smashing the system” along the way.
Whatever happens, it going to be a long four to eight years full of performative horseshit like this.
Buckle up.
Maine is about to elect a Nazi to the Senate.
About to elect? We’re a year out. Janet Mills just entered the race making it a total of 14 candidates for the office. I think it is a bit premature to say Platner is going to win the race.
I dunno, Maine seems pretty wild. With their one syllable name and all.
Stop talking about that State! Every time you do that people remember it! This is how we end up at war with Spain!
🙂
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14 candidates for the Dem nomination? Looks like the analysts think Collins is very vulnerable. So she’ll just move even more Left as the 2026 election nears.
Janet Mills just entered the race
And suddenly, just like that, Platner became a Nazi. Weird, huh.
I would also not be surprised if he is just putting on a show for the election and then turns out to be no big deal.
Deblasio 2.0 is my guess.
D-Day diary of a Chinese officer
The captain of the giant Royal Navy battleship called his officers together to give them a first morsel of one of World War II’s most closely guarded secrets: Prepare yourselves, he said, for “an extremely important task.”
“Speculations abound,” one of the officers wrote in his diary that day — June 2, 1944. “Some say a second front, some say we are to escort the Soviets, or doing something else around Iceland. No one is allowed ashore.”
The secret was D-Day — the June 6, 1944, invasion of Nazi-occupied France with the world’s largest-ever sea, land and air armada. It punctured Adolf Hitler’s fearsome “Atlantic Wall” defenses and sped the dictator’s downfall 11 months later.
The diary writer was Lam Ping-yu — a Chinese officer who crossed the world with two dozen comrades-in-arms from China to train and serve with Allied forces in Europe.
“Speculations abound,”
Every soldier, sailor, and airman in England (and in Nazi forces on the Western front) knew the invasion of France was coming.
The “speculation” was as to the location.
Suppressed Lee-Enfield
That’s cool.
I love that Willem Dafoe gif. I love that movie.
It’s nothing like modern slop.
Absolutely. Willem Dafoe is underrated in all his performances.
https://imgflip.com/i/aa69vo
https://media1.tenor.com/m/1OES239y4TQAAAAC/ds.gif