Blake Tapper

@blaketapper.bsky.social

Not as cool as Anthony Bourdain

Everything I don't like I'm going to frame as disrespectful to the troops. Aaron Rodgers talking Fauci? Disrespecting the troops. Guy on I43 swerving through traffic? Disrespecting the troops. Too many olives in a pimento loaf? Disrespecting the troops. There's no end to the disrespect.

I don't know when Republicans decided that every job where a rich CEO refuses to fairly compensate someone for their labor was a "starter job" unworthy of a living wage, but we need to shed that idea.

Hegseth's idea of the ideal fighting force is something like the Kadyrovtsy and the VDV. Two groups of muscular hyped-up ready for TikTok fighting forces that are absolutely ineffective and get shellacked regularly by Ukrainian farmers and dorky drone operators.