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1 hour ago, Hagbard Celine said:

if he can't tell you what he does, he does something interesting

on the scouting front, i found the regime's proposed re-education program slate of merit badgers

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I'd have gone past Webelos if most of these were on the menu. 

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39 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

 

 

Who says it's them? She looks a little too broad, and he looks too trim.

 

3 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

Think about making a retired, decorated career naval officer, who flew combat and who also flew into space, go through a uniform inspection after calling him back to active duty,  all because the Secretary of Defense is a fucking idiot who didn’t understand that he was looking at a photo taken in a mirror.

Think about how fucking petty that is, and then things start to make sense.  

A master sergeant or chief petty officer needs to cuff this sorry bitch until he cries.

 

3 hours ago, Leeroy Jenkins said:

Kash's biggest problem is that he is not white.  Easy to get rid of him.  

He looks like he has a 30 watt wire up his ass and he doesn't know the next time Trump might hit the switch.

 

1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

Interesting timing, just got an out-of-the-blue text from one of our cousins (married into wife's side of the family).  He's military academy-educated, served as an officer, and has worked in defense-adjacent fields for 20+ years (no, I don't know exactly what he does, he can't tell us).  My reply was because his text followed an OLD exchange about, well, dinner.

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This cousin has long been a "I know it's bad, but it's not THAT bad" guy.  He's smart as hell, an engineer, and on the conservative end.  He bailed on the GOP a while back, but reluctantly.

Welcome, friend of the republic. Welcome.

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3 hours ago, Chad Fuck said:

As a current Scout leader, I have seen much less of this.  Like any volunteer organization, I suspect it strongly depends on the quality of volunteers in your local unit.  I can truthfully say that amongst our leadership, I'm not entirely sure where everyone stands politically.  Be we all stand together in the focus on our youth.  Going camping, cleaning up parks, and generally having fun while doing good works should not have to be a political act.  

I have to say it was more political during the LDS people leaving scouting.   but I mean, people discuss the social issues that led to the Mormon church no longer using BSA as the official youth program in the church.

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2 hours ago, Hagbard Celine said:

if he can't tell you what he does, he does something interesting

I take care of a lot of active duty military and I guess what you would call contractors/consultants/whatever. Sometimes they just start telling me things and I will say should I know about this? They usually kind of chuckle and keep talking. I guess they figure HIPAA covers shit like that lol. 

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7 hours ago, C-Man said:

This is several days old so I assume it's been posted but just in case. President Dropfoot and his grandson putting on suits to throw the football around and then limp along the Presidential Walk of Shame is something alright.

 

Can you say ataxia class?

I knew you could!

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2 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

https://www.theverge.com/transportation/829284/republicans-want-to-get-rid-of-car-safety-features-like-aeb

 

 

 

Republicans want to get rid of car safety features like AEB.

All cars are currently required to have automatic emergency braking by 2027. But that mandate could get tossed under a new plan by Senate Republicans to eliminate certain safety rules, in the interest of making cars more affordable. Also under scrutiny are alarms warning if there’s a child left in the rear seat. Weirdly they’re not targeting expensive creature comforts, like heated steering wheels and wireless charging. Just the safety ones.

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2 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

https://www.theverge.com/transportation/829284/republicans-want-to-get-rid-of-car-safety-features-like-aeb

 

 

 

Republicans want to get rid of car safety features like AEB.

All cars are currently required to have automatic emergency braking by 2027. But that mandate could get tossed under a new plan by Senate Republicans to eliminate certain safety rules, in the interest of making cars more affordable. Also under scrutiny are alarms warning if there’s a child left in the rear seat. Weirdly they’re not targeting expensive creature comforts, like heated steering wheels and wireless charging. Just the safety ones.

Bring back the Pinto for affordability!

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Posted
6 hours ago, Hagbard Celine said:

surly scouters (that are not magats) please pm me we'll get an offline thread going

6 hours ago, Chad Fuck said:

We had a decent Scout thread going but I can't seem to find it right now?

 

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4 hours ago, RomaVicta said:

A master sergeant or chief petty officer needs to cuff this sorry bitch until he cries.

Bless Beavis And Butthead GIF by Paramount+

A master sergeant or chief petty officer would have recognized that the photo was taken in a mirror as well.

But not Major Whisky Pete.

 

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5 hours ago, Chad Fuck said:

Well, when I first saw this bit I was five.  So physical comedy was my jam.   I thought Mr. Bill was the peak of comedic humor.  

That sounds just like me except my Mr. Bill was Benny Hill.

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7 hours ago, Chad Fuck said:

Amen, amen.

We just had our first young woman make Eagle out of our Troop.  On paper, because we're required to do so, we have a boys and girls Troop.  But they all work together and effectively operate as a cohesive unit.  Because guess what?  Life is co-ed.  And our Troop is growing with both boys and girls for all the reasons you mention.  Mainly, because it's fun to go outside and do challenging stuff.   Onward and upward.  

Yeah, we are in an odd situation because there are a lot less girl troops in our area, but they are gaining fast and new ones are coming online this year (and the switch-up to allow co-ed/family troops will change/improve that even more), and as a merit badge counselor, I've seen them work harder to make Eagle than the boys. Some of that maybe due to some of the girls coming into it later and so they are on a time crunch, but the majority show up prepared for whatever they are working on, and some of the boys, you have to drag it out of them. My son is that way - it's like "come on kid, it's right there in the book you are holding, at least show me that you are serious about it."

We work with a couple of troops (as merit badge counselor) and our son is in a troop and our daughter is in Cub Scouts, and all of them appear to be growing fairly well (COVID really messed things up and we lost troops and packs in the area from them not pulling in young kids during that time), and the ones with girls appear to be growing very well.  It seems like the girls in both Cubs and in the troop we work with are a lot more outdoor-focused than the local Girl Scout troops.

 

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8 hours ago, Gatorubet said:

As a former adult leader and long time acting Scout Master, those assholes pretending that the BSA charter mandating no political affiliations does not matter makes me so ragey.

Unfortunately, MAGA is deeply embedded in scouting right now.  

I think it depends on where you are at and the chartering organization.  Girls have already made up nearly half (and growing) of the claimed number of Mormon kids who were pulled out in 2020, and COVID had a larger impact overall than them leaving. We know of a lot of Mormon, err LDS outside of Utah who stayed in Scouting so for all of the LDS threats, I'm not sure they were able to pull out as many as they claimed they were as well.

Now I have seen it here in Austin - one of the nearby packs and troops was chartered through a conservative church and they made it clear girls were not welcome back when it was opened up to girls (we were looking for a Cub Scout pack with girls as well and they made it clear girls had no place there). Whether they've changed that stance or not, I don't know since we never hear of those units, other than when they have kids transfer to our units.

It's been 7-8 years since it started happening (LBGTQ stuff and girls being added) so I'd imagine that those parents for which it was an issue have either bailed on scouting or made their peace and stuck it out (and are on their way to aging out anyways).

7 hours ago, Chad Fuck said:

As a current Scout leader, I have seen much less of this.  Like any volunteer organization, I suspect it strongly depends on the quality of volunteers in your local unit.  I can truthfully say that amongst our leadership, I'm not entirely sure where everyone stands politically.  Be we all stand together in the focus on our youth.  Going camping, cleaning up parks, and generally having fun while doing good works should not have to be a political act.  

Same.  Being Austin, we will obviously trend more a certain way, but we have plenty of dads who are Good Ole Boys and you're not sure where they stand, and that's good that they keep political things out of it.

5 hours ago, Ojo Rojo said:

Same.  I'm part of two different Scout groups - one Boy Scout and one Cub Scout.  I'm a den leader for the pack and on the parent committee for the troop.  I've been on many campouts and other events and I can happily say that politics never came up.  I have occasional thoughts about where certain people stand politically, but it's not germane to what we're doing.  Both groups have a lot of really high-quality people running them, so we've been lucky, I guess.

Same (and I'm in the same leadership boat as you). And those times when politics have come up, it was less about a certain party, and more about a certain policy that affected us directly (earlier this year there was a lot of discussion about DOGE and getting rid of national parks).

I will say this though, with the older kids, just by virtue of the merit badges involved with making Eagle Scout (and many in our troop aspire to that), those kids are a lot more engaged in terms of knowing what the politicians are doing that helps or hurts them, and how the political processes work, and they are pretty vocal about things. They watched DOGE and the White House trying to fuck up our National Park system, and today some of them have been discussing Whisky Pete's threats on a group discussion (they have plans for the National Jamboree).

Republicans ain't helping themselves with a lot of kids coming out of Scouting.

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2 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Chaser

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So how do we stop this?  There has to be a way to regulate it. Not with this admin and congress of course, because they are traitors, but if we can somehow get control back, this has to be stopped. 

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2 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

So how do we stop this?  There has to be a way to regulate it. Not with this admin and congress of course, because they are traitors, but if we can somehow get control back, this has to be stopped. 

Keep dropping those community notes about where he's from, keep reporting him, etc.

My guess is Elmo removes the feature in a few days.

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10 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

Bring back the Pinto for affordability!

...and get Ralph Nader's ass back here to do something about these fkn searchlights being used as headlights.  And please tell him I am still waiting for the discount I was supposed to get on my next Chevy pickup due to the ban on the 1984 side mount fuel tanks.  tyvm

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