I’m expecting Nancy to applaud Biden tonight with a framed copy of his speech.
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I’d rather she have handcuffs for all the russkie agents in Congress ready to go.
Would be a nice touch, what with the Ukrainian Ambassador in attendance and all.
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Maybe he can still make a campaign video if he gets out his Tonkas and plays with them in the basement, makes them go back and forth while he makes vroom-vroom noises, and then talks about liberty and freedom.
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My nephew rode his bike into DC from Arlington after he got off work. He says he thinks he saw 8 or 9 trucks but wasn’t even sure if they were just regular trucks sitting there as on any other night.
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Now that I’ve seen Javelins do their thing I understand why the Ukrainians get so giddy over them. When that rocket engine goes POP and the thing roars off looking for a tank to kill it’s quite something.
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I was thinking Adam Schiff, in his mobster interpretation, but Smirnoff is a great idea.
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JK Simmons is always great, but he was especially awesome in that.
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Limp.
Heh.
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And just think. Somehow perfectly legal for them to have, and us to literally pay for, but, despite your 2A Rights, you can’t keep one for home defense.
Fucking ridiculous, and I hope the Supremes are watching this closely.
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Well, you know what we molon labe people say: Maybe it’s illegal but I’d rather be judged by 12 than attacked by a tank. Or something. We say lots of stuff. They’re not cheap. I checked. 
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Nice to hear you can bike from Arlington to DC. When I lived there many decades ago it was not an option, unless you used that tiny two lane bridge miles upstream, and the VA roads to it were very not bike friendly.
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If anyone had thrown a Tonka on stage, the tiktok would have broken records.
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That’s the huge deal, you can duck back into cover soon as you fire the thing. And it’s programmed to strike from above, where the armor is thinnest.
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Yeah. “Fire and forget.” Costs more than my house but it’s a good missile.
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If this mook gets any traction in his run for MD guv, I know what’s gonna be in the oppo commercials. “Where’s the Cummins? Where’s the Peterbilt?”
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Yeah, lets see them test those guys for doping.
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4 Representatives tested positive?? I hope all Ds have the class and sense to be masked, because the Rs will need to strut their maverickiness, which just can’t be done with a mask on.
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Dude. Just one traffic jam cleared and it’s all worth it.
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Small, portable, deadly, and fire-and-forget.
For those among us who are not much into missile technology, “fire-and-forget” is a term of the art; it basically means "the missile guides itself to the target, so the operator doesn’t have to stay in place as a sitting duck guiding a TOW missile or something like that until it hits. Because tanks tend to take notice of big puffs of smoke like you get from a missile launch, and will then try their hardest to disrupt the guidance.
That’s “disrupt” as in “into tiny little pieces”.
But the Javelin uses thermal guidance (works especially well in cold conditions) to steer itself, so the guy who fired it can duck and scurry away.
Also, the back-blast from launching a Javelin is relatively small. Oh, and it can be set up so the missile part and the aiming part are physically separate.
In short, the thing is ideally suited for small, mobile infantry groups to set up ambushes, strike at large lumbering armored targets, and then vamoose so they can live to fight another day. Which is exactly the kind of fighting that’s been going on in Ukraine.
And the success is not accidental. After all, NATO countries have been spending most of the time since the end of WW2 trying to figure out how to stop invading columns of (at the time) Soviet tanks, since that was the WW3 scenario that everyone was prepping for. Turns out it works pretty darn well, especially in the hands of motivated forces who are defending their homes.
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