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961 - The Dogs of War feat. Seth Harp (8/18/25) (Patreon)

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2025-08-19 05:17:04
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2025-08-21 01:35:37
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Journalist and author Seth Harp returns to the pod to talk about his horrifying and expansive new book The Fort Bragg Cartel. We talk with Seth about America’s forever-war machine and the global drug empire it empowers, with a special focus on the case of Delta Force officer William Lavigne, who killed his best friend before turning up dead near Fort Bragg in a still-unsolved murder. We also discuss the rise of JSOC, the third Iraq War and its ongoing ramifications, the US military’s ties with the brutal Los Zetas cartel, and the eternal shadow war waged in the name of empire.

Buy Seth’s book here (and give it 5 stars on Amazon!): https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/730414/the-fort-bragg-cartel-by-seth-harp/ 

And follow him on X at @sethharpesq

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interzoa

Brag is back, in pog form

Methew

Ah yes another Seth harp interview. Liking the book so far Hamas> delta force

Rene

Let my man rest good lord

birdguy123457

What a wonderful day to be named Seth

dfumps

Felix at 4:45 with a Shakespeare reference

Michael

Cry havoc and let slip the hogs of war.

Travis

Felix begins speaking at 4 minutes and 44 seconds tonight

Anthrope Salmagundi

My ONLY criticism of the book is that there’s no mention of how the Call of Duty series has been used to propagandize to young white men and funnel more of them into the special forces by spectacularizing real life American “foreign policy” *cough* Soleimani *cough* actions as good-vs-evil world saving fights.

Dee Rubes

Debuckel? Little Carmine wrote this book?

Chapo Bath House

Man, I'm on Dexedrine and I'm barely keeping up at my desk job AND my apartment looks like shit. Tf

Reed

Half way through the book and it’s fantastic

Reed

Definitely more sober and braver

K H

43:35 Yet people still want to pretend the US is using Israel. Like the US is using the oil industry or the banking industry or the weapons industry. LOBBY groups use the US. The US doesn't have the will or capacity to do what China does. Imagine Elon Musk saying about Xi what he said about Trump while being in the country and on his personal platform. Imagine what would happen to him, let alone twitter. The USA is completely hollowed out and nearly every other country on earth is tethered to a rotting worm ridden corpse. It's delusional jingoism. Tbh idgaf about China, but they are a real country making laws on behalf of their own nation state's future. The US is not a real country, and the only reason these guys seem impressive is because they can sit and gather data on targets for months then murder them with impunity. Go do that shit in Russia or a functioning country like China and see what that does to the body count. Mafia didn't get killed that often either murdering random officials pestering them. Everyone is vulnerable when your enemy has satellites, helicopters, and minisubs and you don't know it's coming.

Antipaganda

I can't buy this book in Australia, at least in ebook form. 😄 Clever of the US to try and stop its allies from understanding the full horror of the US Empire.

Dec

Q told me Jay-Z was Felix all along

Michael Miller

American soldiers are such fucking pussies. The autistics in this chat who LARP as samurai are more impressive than these dog tamers and peasant rapers.

Last Years Man

~Well my name’s John Lee Pettimore/ Same as my daddy and his daddy before~

Taz

I was and grew up in north carolina. I cannot describe how omnipresent heroin was in Charlotte in like 2010-2016. It was EVERYWHERE and cheap too

justdave

That's not what I said

Squeet Deedle

Just got this bad boy yesterday. Can't wait to feel real fuckin bad!

Ian H

Call it the Bevins effect, when everyone interviews the same author. Seth just needs Trillbillies to complete the cycle.

Matthew

Nominative determinism is so back

Joshua Garcia

I rode my bicycle 22 miles to pick this up. It’s really worth it! It was sold out in the city so I had to ride into the outer rims.

AB

Great ep. Seth is a national treasure

Jonathan Rose

Fucking outstanding! Such a great ep. Thank you boys for bringing Seth front and center. And thank you, Seth, for the work that you’re doing.

hu4d

I've always thought that that was a little bit overblown as a concept. Like, the CoD games have been some of the most popular and highest selling video games for what, 20 years now? Yes they're obviously very successful as propaganda but the idea that they've significantly increased military recruitment, especially into special forces, doesn't really pass the smell test for me. It's like 1 standard deviation from saying video games cause violence

Isaac Andersen

For the third week in a row true anon and chapo cover the same topic and have the same take

Here, Try This

Didn’t have a Steve Earle appearance on the bingo card

Antipaganda

I'm sure it's not just that the publisher hasn't sorted an Australian publisher yet...

Jabroni Ludd

people really want to put their heads in the sand about narco terror being state funded and state sanctioned. This country is three industries in a trench coat and its petrochemicals, weapons and end users for those weapons, and muthafuckin narcotics

Matty C

So many people I knew in the military that wanted to do “operator” shit were either relentlessly bullied growing up or were raised around hunting and shit. I agree that the CoD propaganda was always overspoken regarding special warfare. It WAS extremely effective at brainwashing the regular population into accepting it as valid though.

JDF

insta-classic book, incredibly insane tale

Isaac Andersen

There’s still plenty of time left in the day. I better hear at least one new detail or that dog is gonna get it

Chas Padunski

I love that Felix can’t let steroids come up without bringing up that they’re actually very safe and fine.

Thomas Stevens

The three jobs that require steroids for optimal performance are MMA, Delta Force, and podcasting.

Doug Cartel

Shout out to Brace for avoiding becoming a victim of the GWOT

Oliver Clozov

"when the black helicopter comes, everybody dies" set to marketing music was genuinely ghoulish

Doug Cartel

The most ironic thing about this drugged up soldier death cult operating in fort Bragg is that for all their self-worship over their combat skills, modern combat has proven that a couple nerds with Xbox controllers and a box of drones can hold off a whole division (But hey maybe this won't be true ten years from now who knows)

Doug Cartel

I remember this marine giving me this sarcastic recitation of his master's degree to highlight how ridiculous his study topic sounded and I replied with 'oh yeah, like NGO stuff' and he replied 'yeah that's exactly it' all surprised n shit This was like late 2015-early 2016 so I already had read about the role NGOs played in overthrowing the Ukrainian government at the end of 2013 Can't fool me motherfucker

ploob

Your goldfish is going down mutherfuckah!

ploob

Yeah, what about the tip line??

Big Problem

They chow down on Burger King in their air conditioned little prefab bases during the day and then go out at night to slaughter families while they sleep. If they had to fight in the same conditions that, say, hamas or hezbollah has to fight in, they’d fold in a week

Michael Shields

Felix - Aaaaaactually...steroids are pretty ok.

LET ME DELETE MY ACCOUNT YOU FUCKING ASSHOLES

Felix needs another deep dive on fucking anything episode. Damn, make thats like a non scripted every 3 - 24 months recurring thing. But then make it shorter in between them so it like every 3 - 6 months, or whatever...(please dont break off and charge another $X a month. You and the related nitwits need to make a network. No one can pay these fucking 25 dollar same ashole every channel podcast shit. We dont need no bake bean fingered freaks in the podcasts

Evan Scott

I love when every podcast i listen to does the same interview lol

Isaac Andersen

The tip line didn’t actually happen. It’s fake news. Are you still talking about the tip line? Texas is happening

THEKILLERWHALE

Seth mispronounces "debacle" in a strange and embarrassing way. Felix smiles and nods approvingly.

Brad

Do we think CIA Pete helped to come up with the term ‘alleged Mexican white’ as he was helping with heroin logistics during his time at McKinsey…I mean serving our country.

Jack Ross

Damn crazy how half my friend group got hooked on Heroin at this exact point in time, interdasting

Jack Ross

What’s funny is I’ve got something new and different from every interview too. It’s embedded deep in this smooth brain now

Doom Hermit

Seth Harp. So hot right now.

Last Years Man

Chris always cones through. will miss him while he's gone.

Last Years Man

I think Seth wrote the book as an eXcuse to go on all his fav podcasts

hrtzgod314

Doctors prescribe steroids, abusing them is the problem. So yes

Tea for the Tillerman

Got tricked by the Bevins book, he really writes godawful prose. No offense. Well researched for sure but a bad writer stylistically.

B

we need the ghostbusters to just clean out all the ghosts that haunt the entire national history huh

MCL

I’ve spent time in South America doing anthropology stuff and I’m pretty convinced that the government is preoccupied with just controlling existing drug networks that they control and are only working to nullify start up organizations like fishermen or unaligned cartels. They also produce the fentanyl that is in the USA

Ant koz

I posted something similar when trueanon did “afghan heroin” episode… the thing that’s hard to figure in the heroin situation and actually points to some serious competence in whoever arranged the Afghan to America dope traffic line is the different ways dope is processed. Afghan heroin in Europe is almost always #3 where powdered Mexican dope in America is almost always processed one step further into #4, a salt. (Think crack vs powdered cocaine) This is why you see people “cooking” dope in movies, #3 afghan heroin has to be cooked with some type of citric acid to be injectable, it’s why most people in Europe smoke it off foil. #4 Mexican heroin is already processed that further step and can be mixed into water and injected without cooking. I’ve done powdered heroin in probably ten states around the Midwest/south/east coast and never had to cook it, always could mix it in a Gatorade cap or overturned soda can or the bucket of the needle, pull it through cotton and it’s ready… so my theory is that someone knew a flood of #3 afgan heroin in American markets would point to clear trafficking from a country we were occupying and that they were smart enough to either process it further in Afghanistan, or fly it to Mexico and process it there and traffic it in from Mexico further obfuscating where it was grown… it’s also worth stating that as someone who works in harm reduction currently I do not know of a single American market that has heroin on the street (powdered heroin that is. I think there is still some Mexican tar dope out west). As far as I can tell all heroin in America currently comes from boutique dark web shipments. The street now is entirely very powerful synthetic opiate analogs that are far more dangerous. They also lack the euphoria that came from heroin. It doesn’t even really feel good. It’s just super strong and doesn’t last long. If you have a habit, where heroin could last 8-12 hours before the onset of withdrawal, this stuff is 2-3. You basically do a dose, the first hour you are so fucked up you’re in danger and unconscious, and when you wake up you’re already starting to get sick. But, in my city, a vial of the shit costs $3, so you’re never far from your next dose. What a fucking nightmare. Every step of this “crisis” has been mismanaged. Terrance from trillbillies has done some of the best reporting if this subject interests you. But it’s just remarkable and a perfect stand in of how liberalism can only make things worse. Have an oxycontin overprescribing problem, but for a drug that is easy to dose and safer than street drugs? Make it illegal and cause a heroin epidemic that increases death… have a heroin problem? Eradicate it entirely from your streets and replace it with essentially poison that increases death and disease further… this is what profit incentives do inevitably in every area of our society… but yeah, I’m pretty sure the difference in how heroin is processed from America/mxico and Europe/Afghanistan helped whoever was responsible for the heroin pipeline hide where it was coming from.. if you read all this, thanks, sorry, it feels way long and way all over the place…

delle_chiaie

fort bragg cartel trying to sell me this fuckin book

Jack

'Kill List' also comes to mind with Harp's book

Chapo Bath House

The human body was not meant to watch Kurt Sutter shows for 25 hours at a time

Ant koz

That movie goes so fucking hard. I like all of Wheatley’s shit, but god damn do I want him to get back into that tone and subject matter.. one of my favorites from any modern director

Michael

On the special forces being almost exclusively white, the late Glenn Ford who was executive editor with Black Agenda Report talked about how during the Vietnam War a good chunk of the elite units, specifically the air borne were majority black. Ford said during the war the black soldiers in these units started organizing for better treatment and around other issues and he said since the end of the Vietnam War the U.S. army has made sure that elite units are overwhelmingly white.

Biannual Beats

Immediately bought the (audio) book after the episode ended.

Austin Williams

Gonna be a rough six months for the girlfriends in the demographic. Not as rough as for the ones in the book though.

Austin Williams

[waving the open book around in the kitchen] "See babe this is what I was talking about at the art fair!"

Dick Warlock

Can't believe the episode art is not the cover of the Skipper Seal Make Your Bed book. Major oversight by Chris Wade imo!!!

Gubriel

Just speaking personally I feel like I was much more ambivalent about the US military when I played 200+ hours of every COD game. Despite growing up in a very anti war family I found myself wondering if going into the military was all that bad, and I'm glad I stopped

Ben Clarkson

I did the reading to prep for the episode. Highly recommend. Couldn't stop listening.

Chapo Bath House

Sounds like an internal DSA memo about members trying to steal POC valor

Relax Max

Seth said they tend to filter out complete psychopaths for Delta and JSOC operators. It wasn't followed up on so maybe this is a dumb question but why not? Having zero empathy sounds like it would be a benefit for your portfolio.

C. Andrew

Busting (jailing and executing war criminals) makes me feel good!

T

Great interview. Really captures how Shawn Ryan's entire oeuvre is an attempt to white wash the reputation of America's death squads.

Chapo Bath House

I guess you protect your investment somewhat if you screen out the guys who immediately want to kill their coworkers? Sounds like that doesn't always work

Justin Racine

My dad was once offered to join Delta Force in his service and said he would have taken it if not for caring about our family.... honestly given trainwreck evil that division was I am thankful he even in his centrist oaf-ness made the right decision .3.

Schwartz666

Ohhh, didnt think about looking for the audio book! Good call homie Edit: Hell yeah, it's on Audible

C. Andrew

Start doing roids and coke and I guess you could be a murderous supersoldier with a shitty apartment instead

Schwartz666

"A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste" by Rocky the Toothless Gorehound

T

An episode by Felix about whatever his current obsession is, released whenever the height of his current obsession happens to be. An interview with a fighter pilot. An interview with a zookeeper.

C. Andrew

I will continue to vacillate between 'I would be scared having to fight JSOC guys because they are so evil and ruthless' and 'these guys are one day of withdrawal away from killing themselves and/or drooling on the floor'

Zachary J Rodell

Thank you Seth. Now im one of those guys that say, "I did not now know you could do drug in the military. But you gotta be like hella good".

Jonathan Thomas

Reminds me of the high ranking Nazis who were all addicted to methamphetamines and opiates.

Nate Foust-Meyer

I motion that dogs should NEVER be subjected to this military psychopathy

T

King Von's children's book would be about the correct use of playground equipment: How To Slide Correctly

Jonathan Thomas

Yeah, the US is basically Capitalisms mafia and jsoc are just the Enforcers and attack dogs

I.P. Freely

“Muhajideen” 😂 it wasn’t Felix this time

I.P. Freely

“Alleged Mexican White” goes hard as a band name

Jacob Cruickshank

great episode, gonna get the book - but whats the best way to track down the lone survivor/ zdt episodes of the show? i can’t find them by googling or in the patreon app, really curious to listen

David Cox

“When the black helicopters arrive, everybody dies laughing”

b2b saas purveyor

in NC in '03 as i & my friends all got strung out everyone speculated that cheap strong dope was ubiquitous there bc it was smuggled in via NYC ports & then driven to NC as the highway junctions there are a natural distribution hub, but that ofc never made sense. also, extremely dumb / fun NC joke band tune abt Fayettenam https://youtu.be/wxXgrVSnx-o?si=BsbT356deQBLCGp1

Gabriel Carr

Alright help me out what the song is plz

Agent Grange

I agree that there is something significant about JSOC being a predominantly white organization, and contributes to them acting as a gang of marauding werewolves. However. I have heard that this is partially due to the rigerous swimming qualifications. Don't shoot the messenger on this.

Agent Grange

Whenever we talk about these assassination squads able to operate with impunity I'm reminded how badly America needs to lose a direct conventional war as a part of our Century of Humiliation to dispose of this idea that a 6'5" high speed low drag operator with a decade of bastard-training doesn't die like everyone else when faced with a conscript with a stamped-steel high powered semi-automatic. It's like they have the same mentality as cavalrymen going into WW1 thinking they're the untouchable best of the best only to get mowed down by a maxim gun, killing the whole mystique overnight. It'll be the only way we lose the rampant fascist "operator aesthetic" that plagues this country where everyone thinks of themselves as a temporarily embarrassed Navy Seal in shitty Oakleys.

Steve D

This was incredibly illuminating.

C. Ries

Well I think even the more sober and analytical guys in that world would admit that their outfit is not designed to be a load bearing structure in large scale pitched battles, they need a lot of latitude, a long leash and expensive support to work effectively.

C. Ries

The Amazon search for the real book returns like 7 or 8 fake AI generated book covers as competing listings underneath lol someone is mad

etienne

they were ALSO deep inside the western military machine, at least after WWII

son dog

Thanks dude

Xi Jinpenis

Steroid tricknology! Yeeeeahhhh

Xi Jinpenis

The one star reviews are also retarded.

Biscuit

Wait Will is under 6 foot? Unsubscribed

Kyle Samuel

Incredible urge to line dance at end of episode. Excited to pick up the book!

Agent Grange

You're absolutely right. However, this gets into the interesting problem where post-9/11 Rumsfield-ification means that our entire military is basically oriented around JSOC and providing the support needed for global special operations. Our military isn't made for near-peer pitched battles anymore, and I think it shows in the logistics and training we've provided Ukraine failing to have much of an effect. SSO and to an extent Azov paramilitary units really oriented themselves around trying to mirror American special forces with their raids into Russia-proper and it hasn't actually achieved much of anything for them strategically other than being costly expeditions that eat up resources and manpower while their counterparts in the infantry and mechanized units keep getting the shit kicked out of them whenever they try to do an actual breakthrough. Kursk was a perfect example of an operation that would have been a perfect raid, but fell apart when they tried to capitalize on the success of that raid into actual strategic gains. There's also something to be said about just how many of those Ukrainian tier one operators who would be lauded as the best of the best are dead now and replaced by a second or third or fourth wave of recruits, and what that is going to do to the politics of the country when this war is over.

Michael

Psychopaths don’t tend to be very intelligent. So that might be part of it.

Paul

Winston Salem mentioned 😝

eduard karpoev

Mostly good stuff. My only thing is Seth has talked about he thinks JSOC guys are in Ukraine or Gaza, but then doesn't think these "accidents" are cover for them dying in places like Ukraine or Palestine where it would be horrible for the US to admit they have guys involved on that level there when obviously they are. Like in Afghanistan or wherever they are just mostly killing random civilians or untrained people at night they are only gonna average 1 or 2 casualties a year. However, in actual real combat zone like Ukraine when the lowest level guy they would face is still a guy with a year in conscription & then combat experienced they are obviously gonna take more casualties.

XxX_ShingyDisciple_XxX

Waiting for that one guy w 5000 word comments to tell me how to feel about this 💅

K H

I would think they're taking HGH in order to boost recovery time. Hard to believe they wouldn't if the idea has already been floated through official channels.

Last Years Man

The worst part is... once you let a dog do something like that, I don't think they ever go back to being a normal domesticated animal. Hence the dentures...

EXN

Great interview. Great qs. Good stuff fellas 👍

Breakaway

I remember a friend who was working in harm reduction in the early 2010s saying her organization had to warn heroin users not to use lemon juice for cooking, because it can cause some kind of nasty sepsis or something.

Breakaway

He might be kind of a shit lib, but Copperhead Road is an all time banger

Leyland

I got the audiobook from US audiobookstore while waiting for the hardcover to arrive. Only link that allowed international sales.

Kendall

Just cracked my copy and noticed that it’s the epigraph to the book. 🧡

Ham Stroker’s Jackula

We need to create our own Gamma Force which is one better than delta to stop them

Ant koz

Not sure.. as an east coast user that never saw tar and only used the further processed heroin, I never had to cook. But I always thought it sounded like a pain in the ass having to cook up using citric acid, carrying the shit around.. all the times I fixed quick in a bathroom or car or on bathroom break at work, all that prep would have cost me jobs and secrecy. apparently most European using afghan dope agree as it’s much more common to smoke it in Europe. In America the further processed number 4 dope besides being easily injected is also much more soluble by the body when inhaled (sniffed) where the afghan #3 can be sniffed but is less soluble than the salt form… in reverse smoking the #4 salt is extremely wasteful as it burns way too fast. I guess to reiterate my overall point these differences helped them claim none of the heroin in America came from Afghanistan, but almost certainly they were just processing it further.. if I was an operator trafficking drugs, I’d have arranged a deal for Mexican cartels to further process Afghan #3 and sent it there. These cartels would have already had the means to process the dope, and already had the trafficking system in place to get it into the states. Getting large amounts of heroin into Mexico has to have been easier than getting it into the states, plus you’re then relying on the cartels to do the hard part of getting it into America and distributing to a network of dealers. It’s a dream scenario honestly. I bet there were operators forcing heroin production in the the hills of Afghanistan from behind the sights of their rifle, stealing the product, and shipping it to Mexico where the cartels had the means to do the difficult parts of trafficking, as well as providing cover for where the dope originated… there’s just no fucking way nothing in the states came from Afghanistan, having a heroin epidemic in your country while you’re occupying the country that produces over 90% of the world supply is no fucking coincidence, Impossible

C

Will is so good at his job, legitimately.

Fresh

I always heard there was a lot of drugs coming out Fayettenam because “it was half way between Miami and NYC” which also never made sense.

pizzapope

Disagree, both books were fantastic 👍😁

🤷🏼‍♀️

I'm in Crete, double dragoning, listening to my homies wishing for for healing vibes

Dee Rubes

I find it hard to believe that someone capable of the other rigorous requirements couldn’t put in the time and effort to learn to swim. Like as a population in general I believe there is a gap, but top-level athletes? Seems more like a convenient excuse for a racist.

Dee Rubes

100%. Making doggos evil is evil.

Dee Rubes

I think they are too unstable and disloyal so they would be a liability. That said, Ive heard multiple SF influencers say they are also selected for having few moral qualms, and this leads to them not trusting each other outside of combat. Because they are prone to basically stealing anything, including their buddy’s wife.

T

Felix is trying to create the Deltoid Force

United Eric Emirates

Had a friend who went into JSOC post 911 (age 30 no less) and saw all the shit in Iraq. He left after less than 10 yrs noting among other things that as a Jewish guy from NY he was increasingly feeling marginalized due to his status as a non white, non conservative Christian. And other men he worked with, blacks and Latinos, the same. The ‘True Belivers’ as he called them were taking over the officer ranks. Clearly the ‘whites only’ angle mentioned in this interview has become even more of a thing and would be interesting to get more insight how, as an increasingly criminal organization, its members can still square it all w ‘Christian values’. Maybe that’s where all the heroin comes in?

Jingle Jangler

HGH is super expensive but im sure plenty are on it

Zach H.

Really, fellas? “Hogs of War” was right there for an episode title.

K H

Government hgh

Ant koz

It’s Not for television addicts. Requires A fusing. No distinction, no space between. One entity. One body. I must become not as television is… but to take its form in all ways, even the seemingly insignificant… be The television

Ant koz

Thank you

Ant koz

Thank you for your service… public announcement

Tea for the Tillerman

I always thought chapo would like Steve’s 2004 anti-bush album The Revolution Starts Now ft songs like “Condi, Condi” and “Fuck the FCC”

Hunter

Black guys aren’t in special forces bc they suck at swimming. It’s not a secret you can ask any black dude in the military and he’ll tell you the same thing

Craig Randall

I instantly thought of Little Carmine

justdave

And they're always talking during the movie

Special Adeline

i was in stupid English class with all the ROTC kids in my senior year of high school and my teacher assigned us lone survivor for our reading lmao

Special Adeline

She acted like she wasn't sure if she was gonna assign it that year or not and then all the ROTC kids were like "nooo no cmon Ms Madden you have to pleeease" and she was like "oh alright I suppose" when she was obviously just gonna do it anyways lol

Special Adeline

Also I was in the smart kid English teacher's poetry class and when he saw the book on my desk he was like "is that seriously your assigned reading"

Ian

Nice of this guest to laugh so politely

TK

I spent many years in Rocky Mount, NC. I always thought that it was the perfect halfway point between NYC and Florida along the 95 corridor. Almost all the guys I knew there dealt with serious opioid addiction. It’s definitely a little bit of both.

Ben Burke

The McRaven mention caught me off guard. Admiral McRaven is famous for a speech he gave at the University of Texas commencement in 2014 which was in fact about making one's bed. I had to watch it more than a few times in communication courses at UT.

Broadway Joe

My stepdad grew up in Fayetteville during the Vietnam War. His friend’s dad was a Green Beret and after he got home from a tour he bit off and ate a frog’s head in front of him and a bunch of other kids as a goof.

Joshua Berger

Holy fuck the canine dentures stuff is horrifying

BlackWolfSkinwalker

A true psychopath who cannot hide it effectively is probably not functioning at a high enough level

Scott Grabel

Is “Indecent Proposal” still so indecent?

Man

So what youre telling me is, we are living in the plot of the first Lethal Weapon movie

Thomas Côté

Ive got no where else to comment this so : I was listening to the legendary 1st chapo episode about the Bengazi movie, and Matt said something that blew my mind "the reason that bengazi failed at the box office... is that it ends on this note of loss and mourning and failure... Which makes it a truly fascist text, the fact that its so obsessed with failure and loss and weakness. But thats not what people wanna see" That was recorded almost 10 years ago. This blew my mind because I just finished watching Alex Garland's Warfare which had a much better reception, far better critical and viewer reviews, though it made way less money (16mil vs 8mil opening weekend). Warfare is 90 minutes of SEALS getting their shit rocked by Iraqis after a B&E gone wrong basically. DJ Shipley, famous SEAL influencer, acclaimed this movie and even forced his fuckin wife to watch it. His take was basically 'look how fucked up these wars made us'. In a big way, Warfare is bringing the war home. Very Apropo with Seth's book i think. All this to say : Warfare (2025) episode when?

JDF

Love that the epigraph is a quote from Bubbles’ sponsor. A lil bit of hope before your soul is extinguished by what follows. 🐍 🥃 🇻🇳

Samuel McGuire

Wait. Have i been saying ‘debacle’ wrong?

ERIC

Hanging out with my old man dog today and having some cognitive dissociation trying to understand how someone could rip out a malinois' teeth and give it dentures to become a more insane breed. Seth Harp is fearless for his reporting.

NYCM&AHole

Where’s the slop? CHRIS WADE = SLOP DELAYED

Torbjörn

Strike at the stop factory?

The Children of Jack Acid

I feel like you're holding back. Could you go into more detail? As it is now, I'm still JUST able to scrooooooooooooooooooooll down and get to the rest of the most recent posts in my Patreon feed, albeit with a lot of patience and a minor cramp in my middle finger. Could you go the extra mile, and post a comment so long that it forces me to shrink my browser's font size, just to click past it?

K H

Either you did this as a bit with ai or you have shizoaffective bipolar. Nothing in between.

Sam

I agree with you in spirit. But the point is the United States doesn’t have to do this in China or Russia to be effective in its use of savagery and violence to maintain its empire. And I think there’s overwhelming evidence that JSOC has played a vital role in killing Russians in Ukraine. As well as clear support for Israel’s efforts in the targeted assassinations of Hezbollah, Hamas, and Iranian leadership and command structures. I wish it wasn’t the case, but I think the ugliness is the point…we don’t have to win a big war, we will just fucking annihilate your country and make life a living nightmare for everyone in it.

K H

I think it was telling the fact the guy boasting about it specifically said we will destroy your whole "village." That tells you a lot about who and where they are operating against. The myth of them being legendary gunman is bullshit. Al Jazeera did a piece paralleling this and they were simply killing political dissidents, though they operated under a mercenary flag.

Carbisari

the machine has learned to yap

Vito Gulla

This is fucking obnoxiously long and it’s annoying as shit to have to scroll past when I just want to listen to a post.

Will

Pleased to report that per variety, Seth has secured the bag