I'm unfamiliar with the incident, but I should think Chesty's position was that upon running out of fuel, or in the event of malfunction, the flamethrower would still be a useful weapon with a bayonet fitted. It would accord with the mindset of an aggressive commander whose philosophy is to attack.

From the guy's history, it sounds like he was hoping to roast the enemy like marshmallows over a campfire.
https://www.military.com/off-duty/20...m-forever.html

When they really are useful as generators of carbon monoxide to clear out bunkers and tunnels.

Plus, when you think of all the **** he did, a bit of self-deprecating humor seems entirely likely. "I want to bayonet the guy I just fried to death!" just feels like the kind of joke a Marine would make.

USB port...

No they burn people but that's unpleasant to think about so it's better to say they suffocate instead.
They would squirt the fuel to douse everything through the openings before giving it a flame.

https://youtu.be/GpIoqyjWvzI

No way; that would imply he has some means for accepting new information.

See you Lindy and raise you gun jesus.

YouTube Video This video is not hosted by the ISF. The ISF can not be held responsible for the suitability or legality of this material. By clicking the link below you agree to view content from an external website.

I AGREE

The benefit to the gasses is that they go around corners and further into a tunnel than the fuel can directly get to. They certainly directly burned people but they also caused death through displacing oxygen/carbon monoxide.

It's a myth whatever 'Gun Jesus' says.

Tell us about the Garand 'Ping' next!

Picture is from earlier in the year, not last night. Speculation was that it's a shunt for hydrocephalus. Google "Trump Shunt".

In his first comments to camera since the debate Trump says "I don't know who the Proud Boys are." but he doesn't denounce them.

Then

Q: White supremacists clearly love you. Do you welcome that?
TRUMP: "I want law and order to be a very important part, it's a very important part of my campaign"

Q: Are you preparing for a Joe Biden victory?
TRUMP: "There won't be"

Trump Tweets

Should be arrested on the spot!
Quote Tweet

Paul Sperry
@paulsperry_
BREAKING: Former FBI Director James Comey insisted today on the Hill that his investigation of the Trump campaign -- which included falsified evidence and illegal wiretaps -- was done "by the book”

https://link.springer.com/article/10...79-020-00237-9

This seems to show that the super heated toxic gasses were likely also a killer in many situations.

Because they sear the lungs, you burn, it's not the oxygen being consumed by the flame or carbon monoxide doing it.
Flamethrowers were nasty and brutal but we don't like to admit we are roasting people or burning their lungs because we are the good guys.

Anyway. totally off topic.

Trump Retweets

Paul Sperry
@paulsperry_
All of these FBI, CIA & DOJ crooks are running out the clock until Nov. 3, while doing everything they can to boost Biden's chances. They know that if they can drag Biden across the finish line, they can be pardoned for their rank corruption. Only voters can hold them accountable

Comey refutes Senators' assertion he spied on Trump, when in fact he sent Pientka to surveil Trump at a security briefing & Comey himself recorded Trump several times. He also neglects to mention he ok'd FISAs a/o tails, NSLs, trash covers on no fewer than 5 Trump campaign aides

Sen. Cruz to Comey: "You were deliberately corrupt or woefully incompetent, and I don't believe you were incompetent."

Trump Retweeted

House Judiciary GOP
@JudiciaryGOP
James Comey is a fraud.
Quote Tweet

Sean Davis
@seanmdav
Comey just claimed Trump is a Russian asset because Trump said he didn't trust the very same U.S. intelligence agencies that tried to frame him for treason, fueled by Russian disinformation and funded by Hillary Clinton and the DNC, in a coup that was led by Comey himself.

Trump Tweets
LIAR!!!
Quote Tweet

Paul Sperry
@paulsperry_
BREAKING: Comey swears he doesn't remember hearing anything about Steele's primary subsource, Igor Danchenko, being the subject of an FBI C.I. investigation, as a suspected Russian agent, and doesn't recall his own CrossFire Hurricane team interviewing Danchenko in Jan 2017

Catherine Herridge
@CBS_Herridge
NOW: Under oath Senate Judiciary @Comey “I don't remember any information reaching me about the source for Steele." WHY IT MATTERS: Newly declassified records show FBI Russia team knew as early as Dec 2016 the primary source for the Steele dossier was the subject of 2009 FBI

Anybody else smell a Russian bot, da?

The lies just keep on coming. he obviously won't stop because he can't stop. How can this dirtbag be allowed to serve as our president? Where the heck is the Deep State when we need 'em?
From the Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper:
What trump was referring to was voting at satellite offices where voters can request a mail-in vote, then fill it out and submit it. Technically they are not polling places and poll watchers are not permitted. Also,
trump poll watchers arriving for duty. (This is a JOKE!) ;)

Trump Tweets

So weird to watch @FoxNews interviewing only failed Dems, like Represenative Tim Ryan of Ohio, who got zero percent in his recent presidential run, and following Sleepy Joe’s train to wherever. What a difference from the past - But we will win anyway!!!

Just landed in Minnesota. Hasn’t been won by a Republican since 1972, and we saved Minneapolis. Also opened the massive and beautiful Iron Range, which Obama and Sleepy Joe closed. Thousands of jobs started back. They will close again. How can we lose?

Trump Retweeted

Grover Norquist
@GroverNorquist
Joe Biden will raise taxes on people making under $400,000.
You do not want to believe that?Watch Biden say it himself:

(video in link)
https://twitter.com/GroverNorquist/s...57138849878016


Grover Norquist
@GroverNorquist
Video: Yes, Biden will ban fracking.
He admits it on camera

(video in link)
https://twitter.com/GroverNorquist/s...56880346550273

Not a joke in a few weeks. You're going to have heavily armed thugs from out of the precinct standing around polling places to intimidate voters.
Some of them will be the local police.

To poke at a couple things in the aftermath of the first Presidential Debate...

“The Family Is Worried Brad Will Start Talking”: Trumpworld Panics Over Debate Fiasco as Campaign Turmoil Mounts

Were these more normal times, that alone would be horrific. With Trump, it's pretty much par for the course.

Unconfirmed - and with the way things are, campaign finance violations are not so likely to be punished, but it would be interesting to see happen.

Elsewhere, for the fun of it, Mark Hamill had a comment -

Ouch.

Oh, and in unrelated matters, because it's worth some note -

Katie Porter reminds pharma CEO how much of his $13 mil salary came from tripling cancer drug price

As a simple summation quote -

Maybe we should have a separate thread for Brad Parscale. But rumors he was stealing money raise questions. His association with trump was notoriously lucrative. As Business Insider reported:
Wikipedia states:
On top of this, Parscale was stealing?

Why was Parscale demoted in July? Because trump sensed his reelection was in trouble? Did they blame Parscale? Did trump humiliate him in meetings?

Parscale was reported to have ten firearms in his home. To have physically abused his wife, begun drinking heavily and threatening to 'harm himself.'

Strange man, even stranger story. Working for donald trump: not a good career move.

I hope Parscale pulls a Cohen.

IIRC one of the first Lincoln Project ads heavily implied Parscale was stealing from the campaign.

IIRC, it had to do with the Tulsa rally fiasco. It was overhyped and under attended embarrassing Trump.

Pascale hyped the Tulsa debacle, and Trump must have hated the empty hall.

It was a costly embarrassment for the campaign.

Dems should prepare an Impeachment in case there is evidence for voting fraud by the Trump campaign, and signal that to their GOP counterparts.
Trump losing would be a blow to the GOP.
Republicans aiding and abetting the attempted stealing of an election would destroy every incumbent Republican.

I think that that's wishful thinking that would likely be shown to be false when put to the test, unfortunately, given the trend so far. That's before getting to the part where there's lip service to fair elections at the same time as they work to sabotage electoral integrity under extremely thin pretexts, regardless.

Trump Tweets

In just 3 and a half years, we have secured America’s Borders, rebuilt the awesome power of the U.S. Military, obliterated the ISIS caliphate, fixed our disastrous Trade Deals, and brought JOBS back home to America – and back to MINNESOTA! #MAGA

As VP, Biden wiped out the Iron Range – seven plants were idled and more than 2K workers were laid off. After I put Tariffs on foreign steel, the Iron Range came roaring back to life! If Joe gets in, the Radical Left will shut down the Iron Range FOREVER!

I want to defend & preserve our nation’s historic values. Our opponents stand with rioters – I stand with the heroes of Law Enforcement. Biden says Antifa is just an idea. Ideas don’t assault cops & burn down buildings. Antifa is a domestic terrorist org.

Last night I did what the corrupt media has refused to do: I held Joe Biden Accountable for his 47 years of lies, 47 years of betrayals, and 47 years of failure. The whole nation saw the truth — Joe Biden is too weak to lead this Country!

Trump Retweeted

Paul Sperry
@paulsperry_
all this memory loss and out-of-the-loop i dunnos is strange for a guy who took copious notes after playing a case agent spying on Trump and locked them in his home safe, and wrote a book and is writing a second book now
Quote Tweet

Tom Elliott
@tomselliott
SUPERCUT!
@Comey "can't recall" anything about the Russia probe he oversaw

Trump Tweeted

So when will something significant happen to James Comey? Got caught cold. He is either very dumb, or one of the worst liars in political history. TOO LONG. EMBARRASSING!

Comey is a disaster who cheated and lied. How do you write books when you can’t remember anything? Should be tried for treason. This is ridiculous!

Gosh, if only Donald J Trump knew anyone in, or had any influence over, the people who could bring such an alleged traitor to justice :rolleyes:

President Biden has a lot to answer for :mad:

Trump Retweeted
Lindsey Graham
@LindseyGrahamSC
US Senate candidate, SC
Great news for South Carolina and a compliment to the @weareboeingsc workforce!
This would never have come to pass had President Obama’s NRLB been allowed to shut Boeing’s South Carolina operations down!

Really? The things people see!

Website of the Republican effort to stop mail-in votes:
https://www.protectthevote.com/

Not for us furriners. :)

They use Amazon. Does Trump know?

I fear you are right.

I suspect if there were some undeniable, clearly-documented evidence of Republican-led voter fraud, then the responses would be.

- QAnon predicted this type of false flag operation.

- The Dems did five times as much but they didn’t get caught because they are so practiced at it.

- Yeah, yeah whatever. I don’t have time for that story because President Trump is in the National Archives Building demanding that the Consititution be removed from the case so he can sign it.

-Don't you get it? We are fighting for the Soul of America!

- Isolated incident(s).

- I don’t believe it because the Democrats have made over 10,000 false or misleading statements since President Trump took office.

- But those numbers wouldn’t have changed the outcome in that state.

- You do understand that this type of reporting just helps Sleepy Joe Biden. More MSM liberal bias.

- LaLaLaLaLaLa (I cant hear you).

- But, but, but ... we were trying to re-elect Donald Trump - the greatest president ever.

- I’m rubber, you’re glues, whatever you say bounces off of me a sticks to you.


OK, so maybe half are facetious - but not impossible.

I really should not be surprised or discouraged that the death of facts would lead to the death of logic.

........
Now If you’ll excuse me, I am off to run the numbers on selling snake oil products on Etsy.

“You’ll experience contentment and relief beyond all imagination. Wouldn’t you like a sharper mind and a better memory? Mopey and lassitude will disappear, as will feelings of dejection.
You may ask if this is approved by the FDA, and I’ll tell you we use only the finest and purest ingredients.
The regulators won’t let me say that this product will increase your love of America, so I won’t say that. Instead, I’ll just let you read the testimonials”