Divemedic

Alternate Social Media

Now that I am banned from Facebook, I have been trying to use Gab and MeWe. No one uses them. I am posting in a vacuum on MeWe. No feedback, and no interaction whatsoever.  Gab is slow and only manages to load about 50% of the time. 

The shutdown of Parler and the extreme restrictions on Facebook and Twitter have turned social media into an echo chamber of neutered conservatives, RINOs, and rabid liberals. This is a disaster for freedom and a force multiplier for the communists. We are going to have to keep working on ways to push back. 

By Divemedic, ago

Ridiculous

 The President was impeached for trying to overthrow the government. His attempt was unsuccessful because the best people he could come up with for carrying out this plot were a nut in a Viking hat and the cast from Duck Dynasty:

and the terrorists will be prevented from completing this plan in the future, thanks to brave heroes like this guy and his buddies from the National Guard:

Dumbest attempted coup ever 

By Divemedic, ago

Where I lose it

 In the middle of all of the family stuff for the holiday, my heat began giving me problems. The day after Christmas, it was 30 degrees outside. We noticed that the heat pump was making this noise here:

The good news is that I have a service contract, so we called them. The tech calls us and says that as long as the interior of the house is above 40 degrees, it isn’t an emergency, and he will put us on the schedule for the next business day. 

The next business day, a different tech shows up and can’t figure out the problem. After making numerous cell phone calls, he comes in to tell us that the reversing valve is bad, and he doesn’t have one. They will order one and return when it comes in. 

Two days later, he returns and spends 4 and a half hours replacing the valve.

So over this past weekend, it gets cold again and we notice that the compressor is still making the noise. A third tech comes out and decides it is the compressor. He informs us that only a basic compressor is covered, and if we want to replace it with the same type we have, there is a $250 upcharge. 

We agree to the upcharge, so they order the part. A fourth tech shows up to install it. My wife and I had to work, so we had my father in law house sit while the repairmen were here. When I get home, I discover my $200 smart thermostat sitting on the kitchen counter, and an $18 generic Chinese piece of crap on the wall. 

It seems that he didn’t know how to work the smart thermostat, so he replaced it. I was upset about that, since the noise that the A/C was making had nothing to do with the thermostat, but whatever. I will put it back in. Except I can’t, because the tech busted the pins off of the thing when he yanked it from the wall. 

So now, I have to also buy a replacement thermostat at a cost of $180. It will be here hopefully by Friday. My wife is crying because she thinks that she is the one who screwed up. Not a good night in the Divemedic household. 

Did I mention that the family is at least back home?

By Divemedic, ago

Meal Team Six

In the news today:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi personally thanked a group of the troops standing at attention in the front of the Capitol…Pelosi gave each of the troops a so-called challenge coin, marking their mission of protecting the seat of the legislative branch of the American government

Here she is, talking to the troops. I want you to pay special attention to the guy I circled in the front:

Here he is, close up. 

All I can say is HOLY SHIT! Seriously, this did has a front butt. Doesn’t the NG have a fitness standard? The only thing this fat mother fucker is guarding is the chow line, and what is up with how he blouses his boots?

Just wait until he transfers to the space force. 

By Divemedic, ago

Republicans: an open letter

 There is a growing movement for you to side with the Democrats and vote to impeach President Trump. It will be impossible for any impeachment to take place before the end of his term. At this point, you are probably thinking that this is about support for Donald Trump. That is because you are fucking quisling fucktards that would sell your children into slavery, if it meant that you would have more money and power for yourself. 

I am not a Republican. I couldn’t care less about you, your political party, or your personal ambitions. What I do care about is this nation, the freedom of its citizens, and the constitution that safeguards those freedoms. All things that you will sell out if it means your continued feeding at the public trough. I only allied myself with your party because we were nominally supporting the same goals. As soon as your party abandons those goals, we are no longer working towards the same result, and our temporary alliance will have run its course. 

The only reason for you to do this is so that you can appease those who would take away those rights by ensuring that Donald Trump cannot run for office again. Meanwhile, you are sitting there appeasing those who are busy running roughshod over those who you are supposed to represent. 

They have eliminated the right to vote by stealing the election. They are silencing those who complain, making enemies lists, and going after those who appear on that list. They are plotting to eliminate gun ownership, the right to petition for redress both through speaking in the public square and in the courts, and they are plotting to continue to have us locked in our homes.

Enough. If you do not grow a spine and defend this nation, I will never again vote for a Republican candidate. I won’t donate another dime to your party or candidates, nor will I counsel others to do so. With your lack of support for the President (who was selected by the voters of YOUR party) you ceased to be my ally. 

This is fast becoming a war between this nation’s government and its citizens. You are on the cusp of becoming our enemy. Choose sides wisely, for I fear that I am not the only person who feels this way. 

By Divemedic, ago

Order of Battle for National Guard

The current strength of the National Guard units in Washington DC is 15,000 personnel. That amounts to more than twice as many troops as are in Iraq and Afghanistan combined. 

One of the states providing units to the Washington, DC Führerbunker is Pennsylvania, whose National guard is in possession of the US National Guard’s only Stryker brigade, the 56th Brigade Combat Team (SBCT). Here is a video of them pulling into a rest stop on their way to Washington, DC. (Note that the vehicles are all armed for combat, including mounting M-2 heavy machine guns.) 

The units (as complete units or at least elements of those units) that I can identify as having been assigned to this mission are listed below:

The entire Washington, DC national guard

56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team

Troop B of the 102nd Cavalry Regiment

1-114th Infantry Regiment

 508th Military Police Company

229th Military Police Company

153rd Military Police Company

102nd Military Police Battalion

104th Military Police
Battalion

229th Brigade Engineer Battalion

160th Engineer Company 

261st Theater Tactical Signal Brigade

198th Expeditionary Signal Battalion

1049th Transportation Company

 262nd Component Repair Company

108th Wing

177th Fighter Wing.

105th Airlift Wing

174th Attack Wing

166th Security Forces Squadron.

There may be other units, but this is what I have been able to find so far. 

By Divemedic, ago