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God, Please force them to speak the truth.

I’m tired of the gaslighting. I’m tired of the spin. I’m tired of the lies and half truths. I’m tired of the “Revelations” and “New Information” that is actually old stuff that we all knew, or suspected that was denied, or swept under the carpet.

I pray to God that for one week no one could lie.

It might get us into World War III but damn it would be so refreshing to hear nothing but truth.

For three years we’ve been told the Border is Secure. We all knew it wasn’t. Now suddenly Biden and Mayorkas say the border isn’t secure and it’s the Republicans or Trumps fault.

WHAT THE FUCK? So for the past three years while you assholes had control and Donald Fucking Trump didn’t have control of anything in the government, the border was secure? Well assholes, Trump still has no control over anything in the government so what’s changed? 

Nothing! You’re just admitting what the whole fucking country has known all along. You’re only admitting it now because it’s an election year and you see the handwriting on the wall.

A lot of the American public would probably be just fine with putting you all on trial for treason. If found guilty, the summary executions on the capital steps would probably make a fortune on pay per view.

But now, it’s too late. The damage is done the FBI is telling us that something akin to 9/11 isn’t just possible it’s probable. It’s only a matter of when some terrorist group or groups decide to start setting off bombs, or flying planes into building, or shooting up large gatherings, or blowing up school busses. 

Now, the only way to deal with the problem is to deport every single illegal immigrant without mercy. Oh and their anchor babies too. That necessity will degrade the quality of life for all Americans. We’ll have to have our papers, and present them on demand to every law enforcement officer we encounter. Talk about destruction of the American way of life!

No matter what happens in the upcoming election. Whoever or whatever was running the Biden Administration will have succeeded in destroying this country.

But remember… There wasn’t any border crisis for the past three years. Biden, Mayorkas, Jean-Pierre, and the talking heads on the news told us so. This crisis? Well Trump did it!

Joe Biden according to a Federal Prosecutor shouldn’t be tired for mishandling classified documents because he’s a kind old elderly man with memory issues.

Karine Jean-Pierre says the same week that Joe Biden is fit and does more in an hour than most people do in a day. So which is it?

I’ll choose to believe my lying eyes. Joe Biden is unfit for office. It’s obvious, it’s been obvious from the start and I’ll never understand how he got elected in the first place. I’m no fan of Donald Trump. But DAMN! I’ll take Donald Trump over an empty sock puppet, any day of the week.

The media telling us that everything is fine. The economy is doing well, prices are falling, and if you’re not seeing this golden age you’re obviously a MAGA White Supremacist.

Or that shoveling another trillion dollars into the burn pit called Ukraine and funding Hamas in the name of humanitarian aid while providing Israel weapon systems is right and just. Why do journalists never question that Egypt will not accept Palestinian refugees nor will any other middle eastern country. And how is it in any way Humane for us to be prolonging a war that Hamas started, by supporting both sides?

Typically if an arms dealer does that kind of thing, they’re killed or end up in international court for committing war crimes.

Blaring from outlets and protestors 24/7 is the accepted illogical “fact”; Men can become women, Woman can become men and subsequently “Birthing Persons” but they’re still men. Binary gender is wrong, gender fluid is right. If you go on a date, decide to hop in the sack and find that the entity you’ve brought home does not have expected equipment, you’re supposed to suck it up and make do. Even though you’re not going to be emotionally or sexually satisfied. It’s impolite to say you don’t like Bait and Switch.

It’s not just the politicians, or the media, or even the insanity of society at large.  It’s the SPAM inundating my email, and my mail box.

“Your account is locked… We’ve been trying to reach you.”
“Here is the information you requested from <Insert Name Here>”
“Your package delivery has been suspended…”

It’s the bullshit text messages

“Hi Bob, hey I enjoyed our date last night”
“I’m not Bob, and we didn’t have a date last night”
“Oh I’m sorry to bother you. You seem kind, would you like to date me?”
“What about Bob? I’m a Bros before hoes kind of guy. You’re sure acting like a ho.”
“You’re very mean you should be reported to the police, I’ll say you raped me. Send me 5000.00 in bitcoin and I won’t report you…“

And let’s not forget the phone calls.

“Hello there you qualify for an electrical service discount.”
“Oh really? Since the solar panels on my roof pay for my electrical service are you saying that if I sign up you’re going to pay me more every month based on the KWH I sell back the the electrical grid?”
“Well someone in your household contacted us.”
“Doubtful unless you’re using a Ouija Board“

For someone like me, this kind of crap is literally painful. It’s like having a constant buzzing in your ear that you can’t get away from. It takes cycles out of my brain and sucks up time because I can’t believe what I’m hearing and l have to get to the bottom of it.

The Cognitive Dissonance all this causes is damaging. There have been some studies that suggest continued exposure to Cognitive Dissonance can in fact cause psychological damage.

You can’t turn it off. There is no escape. The constant crashing of lies, insanity, and stupidity is everywhere. From inside your home to screens blaring on top of the gas pump.

It’s no wonder people in this county are medicating themselves into numbness. With drugs(legal and illegal), alcohol, food, or staying in their parents basements looking for the next masturbatory VR thrill. Honestly, I’m not sure I blame them.

What I want is for truth to be normal again. I’m not sure it ever was. 

Failing that, I want to sue the Federal government for creating an unhealthy living environment for me and millions of other people due to their chronic lies.

Obviously I’d like a shit ton of money. But I’d settle for every member of our government having to wear shock pants that were lie detectors.

Shock Pants were created by Scott Adams in the Dilbert comic strip and also appeared in the Dilbert TV series. I’m not sure which appearance came first.

I’d love to watch Joe Biden or Mayorkas or Karine Jean-Pierre or Donald Trump, fry their private parts with Shock Pants or simply tell the truth.

Their choice.

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Hmm. 20,000 per month?

That kind of money goes a loooooonnnnngg way anywhere, but in Florida, Dang!

An article in the New York Post reports a Mother of 3 in Florida has been banned from picking up her kids from school pickup area. The ban is over a sticker for the Mom’s OnlyFans account on the back windows or her car. (Hey you Gotta advertise!) She is allowed to park across the street, collect her children, then walk everyone back across the street to her vehicle.

The school in question is a Christian School, can you see where there might be a problem?

Skimming further in the article I noticed a couple of things and these are what stopped me from just moving on to the next insanity.

The Mom’s account makes $20,000 a month.
The Mom only has sex with her Husband on camera. They don’t do any swapping or 3 somes. 
The couple films in a studio. The implication is the studio is at a location different from the family residence so the children aren’t exposed to the production of pornography. (I’ve often wondered how “God Fearing Christians” made babies when the entire family lived in a one room cabin. Mom & Dad had to get busy somewhere…)

As I was thinking about it, I was struck by this line of reasoning.

Mom & Dad Employed – Check
Mom, Dad, Children all live together, A Nuclear Family – Check
Mom & Dad’s business isolated from the home – Check
Mom & Dad are in a monogamous relationship – Check
Nobody is being exploited against their will – Check

Isn’t that exactly what the Religious Right wants? Just asking… The school itself is a private school, they’re gladly taking the tuition money that’s earned from Mom & Dad having sex with each other on camera.

There is one school of thought that says Mary, you know, the prostitute, financed the ministry of Jesus himself with earnings she’d saved from doing “business”.  It seems a little hypocritical of the school to take the money from these parents, then ignore Mary’s integral part in the story of Jesus. In this case they’re just broadcasting from their marriage bed.

I think the real problem is this.

The Mom is kinda hot. After 3 kids, she’s a total MILF.

There’s another parent Lexy Thomas, who is a TikTok influencer trying to get the Cline children tossed out of the Christian school. 

She claims that the school administrators did nothing about the decal. I’d say forcing the Clines to park across the street is about all they could do. The school is private property and they’ve said the Clines may not drive their vehicle on school property.

Even so, the TikTok Scold is pushing to have the Cline children removed entirely from the school.

Isn’t there another teaching in the Bible? Something like, let not the sins of the father be visited upon his children? Apparently, TikTok Lexy missed that particular bible study class.

The Clines say they’ve been upfront and above board about what they do and how they earn a living.

One student was apparently suspended for attempting to access the OnlyFans site on his phone while at school. This has provided fodder for the TicTok mother to keep making an issue about the Clines.

To be honest, the boy could have gotten in trouble for trying to access any porn site. The kid probably just saw the OnlyFans decal and typed it into his phone. I’ve done that with site names rolling by on cars. I think you can just take a picture of the sign with an iPhone and it will open it automatically. So I highly doubt the boy in question was “Suddenly and Shockingly” exposed to pornography.

The paywall alone should have stopped him.

The problem is an old one and it’s not about sex, or morals, or “The Children”. 

The problem is jealousy.

The photo to the right is purported to be Lexy Thomas. She’s a plain jane, and why the heck should she be the only person not having any fun? 

Sex is sacred, and only to be engaged in to make a baby. Otherwise the jaws of life are required to open her legs, Right? Ever notice how puritanical women always claim to be the victim and surprised, when their Man finds other pleasurable company, because they stopped putting out.

This photo appears to be from her TikTok account. If you’re going to be an “Influencer” why the hell didn’t you at least put some effort into your profile picture? Come on lady. 

Lets see… 

Hot 35 year old blond bombshell with a great rack making money screwing her husband on camera (pictured above)

OR

This ————————————————>

Survey says,

Bombshell!

There was a line in the article that caught my attention.

Several parents began to take note of the sticker during pickup and drop-off at the religious school, and word began to spread about Cline’s vocation.

‘Several Parents’ a.k.a. other mothers, a.k.a. vindictive gossips.

I was reminded of Loretta Lynn’s Harper Valley P.T.A.

Update:  02/12/2024 The children have been kicked out of the school.

So the nasty busybodies got their way and I’m sure they’re feeling super righteous about themselves. 

It would be really funny if the Porn Parents turned around and purchased the school. I’d probably laugh myself right into a stroke.

For the moment, The Harper Valley P.T.A. won. I have faith that Karma is a stone bitch and something will happen to the busybodies.

I think it would be really interesting to know how many Only Fans accounts tracked back to the oh so righteous parents whose children are still attending the school. 

After all, if a man has to rely on his hand because he can’t rent “The Jaws Of Life” to open his shrew busybody of a wifes legs he’s gonna need some interesting stimulation.

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My, My, My, The DOJ finally authenticates Hunter’s Laptop

You know, the importance of this isn’t so much that the laptop is Hunter’s. Nor is it that the laptop contains some of the filthiest videos I’ve ever seen, (and that’s saying something!) Even the fact that the laptop contains business communications between Hunter and various foreign entities where it’s clear that Hunter is selling influence isn’t the issue in my mind.

All of these points are important, but not as important as the fact that the way this laptop has been investigated and dealt with, demonstrates breathtaking corruption at the highest levels of our government. 

Once respected institutions that the American people looked to for justice, are now as befouled and besmirched as a diseased whore’s bedsheets.

Russian Disinformation? HA! How many times over the four years of the Trump presidency did we hear that stupid shit?

51 Intelligence officers confirming the laptop was Russian disinformation calls into question their competence.

I’m not an intelligence officer but as I peeled through what I could of the disk image I noted a consistency that any computer professional would have seen. That told me back in 2019 the laptop was real and not Russian Disinformation. I wrote about it on this very blog.

So clearly, I’m better at data analysis, than those 51 intelligence officers and should have their job.

The FBI and DOJ calling into question the computer repair shop owner’s honesty and integrity after he turned the laptop over to the FBI, then later Giuliani, was obscene.

This guy was just trying to collect on a bill. Then realizing the stuff on the laptop was freaking nuclear he gave it to the “proper” authorities. When the FBI did nothing, said nothing, and left him without any instructions, he turned the disk image over to Giuliani.

Yeah, it was a disk image. Hunter took the MacBook Pro to the repair shop because it had water damage. He wanted the computer repaired and the data recovered from the drive. In these situations the computer might be totaled (water and electronics don’t really mix), but the data on the drive is often recoverable, after all that’s what you’re interested in right? You can move the data to another computer.

Here, you have an honest businessman trying to do the right thing and absolutely no-one from the FBI or DOJ gave him any guidance or instruction. Isn’t that kind of their job?

Instead, after the story breaks, he can’t even go to work because the media frenzy created by the whole Russian Disinformation claim made it look like he was the bad guy, a Russian Spy, a nefarious operator looking for a million dollar payday.

The Authorities, our FBI and DOJ willingly destroyed this man, his life, and his business.

Now some of the 51 Intelligence officers admit they signed their letter not because the Russian Disinformation claim was true, but because they hated Trump.

What happened to Honor? What happened to Truth being the highest principal? 

Those 51 individuals dishonored their respective agencies, and themselves. They, the FBI and DOJ, I believe  should all be punished severely for their part in what can only be described as a bloodless Coup d’état.

The so called January 6th insurrection was a logical consequence to people realizing that the Coup had already happened. The march on the Capital was in fact We The People demanding redress to grievances. 

Allow me to reiterate again because this can never be said too many times.

No Capital Police were killed on Jan 6th. The Crowd was unarmed, there were no guns, rifles, or bombs being carried by the crowd. The only weapons were in the hands of the Capital Police. They had the guns, rifles, teargas, and flash-bangs. The only person shot on Jan 6th was Ashli Babbitt, she was murdered by a Capital Police officer with a history of poor judgement regarding firearms. 

Yet somehow an unruly crowd demanding their voices be heard by their elected officials, got turned into a dangerous insurrection. The DOJ run by Merrick Garland arrested hundreds of people present at the Capital on Jan 6th, well after the fact. Many have been wrongfully Imprisoned, held without trial or bail, they are in effect, political prisoners and have been denied their right to a speedy trial, along with the rest of their constitutional rights. 

Don’t even get me started on the Jan 6th committee, and their theatrical bullshit. For all that’s holy don’t get me talking about the unbelievably unfair sentences some of the Jan 6th protestors have been hit with. 

All of which is further evidence, albeit circumstantial, that the FBI, and DOJ, are no longer about actual justice. These arms of the government have become ENFORCEMENT / PROTECTION arms of the authoritarian shadow government behind the puppet carcass known as Joe Biden. These authoritarians are the real danger to our democratic republic.

It might be that Donald Trump, because he’s a wildcard, or Robert Kennedy, because these folks may have been involved in the assassinations of his family members, and he believes that’s the case, are threats to the shadow government which is why they’ve gone so hard after Trump perverting the justice system in the process, or why Robert Kennedy has repeatedly been denied the secret service detail presidential candidates enjoy.

I know that line about Trump and Kennedy is the stuff of conspiracy theory. But at this point, when so many lies have been told and “truths” we’ve accepted have turned out to be lies…

How are we as citizens to place any faith or trust in our government or our presumably fairly “Elected” officials? 

But there’s more! 

The collusion between Facebook, Twitter, Google, the government, and media served to censor what was real and mostly accurate information. It wasn’t possible to post comments about the laptop or repost the New York Post article that broke the laptop story.

That censorship effectively put moronic Joe Biden in the Whitehouse as a figurehead to some truly evil cabal of people operating behind the scenes. Joe Biden may be “The President”, but at this point pretty much everyone I know believes he’s nothing more than an animated corpse being used as a puppet. 

In other words, the election was in fact stolen! This is born out by polling results stating that 70% of the American people who voted for Joe Biden would have rethought their vote had the information about the Hunter Biden Laptop been widely available and discussed. The margins Trump versus Biden were mighty slim. It wouldn’t have taken much to push Trump into the win. As it was, suppression of information about the laptop appears to have dragged Joe Biden into the win and across the threshold of the Whitehouse.

That same collusion between technology giants, the media, and government went on in continued disservice to the American people in particular, and the world in general during the COVID panic.

Doctors, therapies, effective medications, and real clinical data were all suppressed in favor of an irrational narrative designed to make pharmaceutical companies hundreds of billions of dollars injecting people with an ineffective vaccine that may well have long term unpredictable side effects.

Now we have the WHO speaking at Davos and the WEF meeting telling us they think there’s going to be another pandemic, (there will be, the normal cycle is about every hundred years or so.)  Except the WHO is talking about another pandemic soon… Oh? So they mean another man-made pandemic. Hmm… 

News out of China is that the motherfuckers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology have created COVID 2.0+ and yippee it’s 100% fatal in their mouse study. (Please note. The mice in question are genetically modified to express some human proteins for experimentation purposes.) Remember that the WHO is funded mostly by fucking China!

What a fucking coincidence!

The WEF, WHO, and Elites at Davos are big time depopulation control freaks. But they also like to make money so I’m absolutely sure that China will release their new “Decimator” virus and then try to sell us all a new and improved vaccine. 

Don’t make the mistake I did thinking the WEF was a bunch of pompous Europeans screwing their own countries that we didn’t have to worry about. American politicians are there too collaborating with the world Elites. We know this because Blinken’s Boeing aircraft broke down in Davos. No doubt due to diversity hire mechanics mandated by Pete Buttigieg’s DOT.

Again, in what world would I or anyone trust the United States Government or so called world leaders?

Then there’s the question of Ukraine. My God, what the hell is that about? We know Hunter was doing something that made no sense in terms of his experience,  but was making a shit ton of money at Burisma in Ukraine. We know that for some inexplicable reason, Joe Biden as Vice President during the Obama administration, caused the lead investigator of corruption in Ukraine to be fired. (Joe Brags about it all the time.)

Coincidentally the investigator that was fired was looking into Burisma and finding dirt. Flash forward 6 years or so and suddenly The US is goading Russia into attacking Ukraine by making it known Ukraine will be joining NATO.

Vladimir putinOf course Putin is going to react.

The question to ask is why now? Why announce the NATO thing with Ukraine? 

Could it be that someone was expecting the collateral damage of a war to wipe a bunch of evidence?

Wars don’t just kill people, they kill buildings and records. Transaction records, loan paperwork, property titles, and all kinds of other things are utterly and irrevocably destroyed. 

Honestly I wouldn’t put it past the Biden’s, or whoever is pulling Biden Inc’s strings to have started a war killing thousands of people just to cover up some dirty financial dealing, or to protect their identities.

The cold hearted nature of the Biden administration speaks loudly and clearly that they don’t care about anyone but themselves. The upper class is to be protected at all costs and the lower class is completely expendable.

I’m supposed to trust the fairness and justice of our government? I’m supposed to believe that I’m equal, and have equal rights? I’m supposed to trust the Governments 3 letter organizations, FBI, IRS, DEA, EPA, FDA, DOJ, FAA, CIA, NSA, Etc?

No, I tried that for most of my life. There’s only so much disappointment a man can take. 

I’m not going to be able to have my faith restored in Government until Corrupt Officials are being shot for treason against the capital wall.

Yeah, I’m SUPER pissed off about the breath-taking corruption playing out before my eyes.

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You go Texas!

It is with a high degree of satisfaction that I’ve been watching the latest dust-up between the limp-dicked federal government and the state of Texas.

Sadly the Federal Government is limp-dicked in EVERY SINGLE aspect of their being except dealing with American Citizens.

American Citizens, our government rapes metaphorically, beats, incarcerates, drugs,  forces submission and obedience if a citizen questions anything, shits and pisses on our head and all the while tells us everything is just hunky dory.

Don’t you dare speak ill of the government! The FBI will kick your door in at 4am, shoot your dog who rightfully attempts to defend you and your family and haul you off to the nearest gulag where you’ll rot for the next indeterminant number of years. Speedy trial? Yeah, MY ASS!

It is because this is how I feel about the government that I’ve been laughing my ass off as Texas and the Feds square off.

You see, I think it’s pretty damn obvious that the Federal Government has failed in its constitutional duty to secure the nation. Texas on the other hand has had quite enough of the bullshit and has stepped up to secure its own border.

I’ll tell you what, if Texas stopped me as I was driving across country and passing through their territory to see my passport I’d be just fine with it. If Texas chooses to secure all its borders that’s gonna be just fine with me too, and I could see myself asking the great state of Texas if I could live there.

See, I want to live in a place with secure borders. I’d even be willing to help secure a border with a bunch of like minded volunteers.

Since the Federal Government has FAILED Texas, and Texans in managing the border, it’s completely rational to me that the State of Texas would take action to insure its own security and wellbeing.  The people of Texas have been very patient and kind for THREE YEARS!

Eventually anyone, no matter how big hearted, is going to run out of patience.

The question I have is what does the DHS think they’re going to do? Are they planning to roll tanks to Austin, or Eagle Pass, to enforce an illegal order from Washington D.C.?

What then? Do the MORONS in DHS and the White House really believe they’ll be able to set Texan against Texan to enforce the opening of this stretch of border again?

I think it’s more likely that Texas, and I mean the good people of Texas will say “FUCK THIS SHIT!” Then demand Texas secede from the Estados Unidos and revert back to being an independent republic. Oh and just so everyone is clear… They’re going to start drilling oil again too. So we’ll all be able to thank Texas for affordable fuel.

The latest report I saw said the DHS has given Texas until today for Texas National Guard to clear out and return control of the border to DHS and CBP.

In other words to just open the border and allow everyone and anyone to cross without vetting, inspection, or ID.

Hey, that means DHS is also perfectly happy being complicit in Sex and Drug trafficking. Is the big guy, (Biden) getting his 10% of that action too?

Will DHS be the relevant department for aggrieved citizens to sue when some Arab/ Iraq/ Iran/ Hamas/ Islamic/ whatever middle eastern fuck blows up a building full of women and children? Those are typical islamic targets if what we’ve seen in Israel is any indication.

That’s not being racist or Islamophobic. That’s a fucking statement of fact. So all you bleeding heart leftists… Shut the fuck up. It’s going to happen and we all know it’s going to happen. We just don’t know when.

Oh, I know you pearl clutching liberal dumbfcuks, “3 People drowned, because Texas took control…”

Uh NO. Yeah people drowned, but not as a direct result of Texas having control of the border. Here’s a couple of little facts. They’re harsh, and they’re going to trigger you.

Animals die during migrations. It’s a fact. Humans are animals, some animals die during migration, what’s happening at the border is migration, that’s why we call them migrants, ergo, humans are going to die. Deal with it!

I notice you’re not at all concerned about the homeless citizens already on the streets of cities all over America dropping dead from hunger, poor health care, exposure, or drugs. But somehow these poor migrants illegally crossing the border deserve heart wrenching sympathy?

Uhhh NOPE! They fucking chose to come here illegally. They fucking knew what they were doing was against the law. If they die in transit so the fuck what? I guarantee you that there are trails of bodies in the bushes all along the “Migration” paths. Nobody is shedding any tears for those folks who didn’t make it.

Here’s another thought. If you’re a migrant, (A.K.A. Illegal immigrant,) and you can’t swim…

MAYBE YOU SHOULDN’T BE CROSSING A DAMN RIVER!

What the fuck did you think was going to happen? Did you believe angels from El Norte were going to swoop in and pluck your dumb ass out of the water?

Thank god Darwinian rules are still in effect.

I’d say don’t bother to retrieve the bodies, let ‘em wash downstream and serve as an example. Same goes for those who die in the desert.

I know I sound brutal about it, but come on. At last count, the number of migrants has exceeded the actual populations of several states. Clearly this is fucking unsustainable.

On the other hand now would be a really great time to establish a false ID. Go to Mexico, send your documents back home via a friend or Mail. Cross the border illegally, get apprehended, then give CBP a false name. Collect your free phone, your 5K and notice to appear in 2035. Go to MA collect your driver’s license, and green card, then return to your home with a nice neat legal government issued fake ID. Oh and lets not forget that FREE Healthcare you can get in California as an illegal.

I really think if Texas were to break free of the suffocating clutches of what our insane federal government has become, I’d honestly consider moving to Texas!

Like my ancestors before me, I will be free, I will not submit to the hideous perversion our politicians have made of The Founders dream of a Constitutional Republic.

I’d be willing to bet that at least some of our founders would be demanding duels at dawn with the jackasses in Washington D.C.

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Oh this is so out of control.

You’ve got to be kidding me!

This is nothing more or less than Piracy.

It harkens back to the Barbary Pirates of the 16th and 17th centuries. There were wars fought against these Pirates. Hey, guess what? They were Muslims too! Funny how that works.

These pirates are obviously well funded and you do have to wonder which country is providing the pilots, the weapons, and oh, the ships actual location or the manifest. This particular operation was supposed to be so the Houthis could seize an Israeli shipment.

I’d say we need to go back to the old mechanisms of deterring piracy. Shoot to kill. Dump the bodies overboard. I’m the kind of asshole that would allow them to land their pirates to determine that they are in fact pirates. Then start shooting the pirates on board, and make sure that a surface to air missile blows their transport right the fuck out of the sky.

I think that private mercenaries should be allowed to provide security for every single ship passing through the Gulf and the Red Sea.

BTW were those missile pods mounted on the helicopter? Really? isn’t that shit usually reserved for governments? I pray the armaments are not from Biden’s disastrous Afghanistan pull out.