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Let Those Cowards Come
Tim Kennedy.
One can become despondent, looking at the sad state of masculinity in the US today. The image crafted by pop culture is that men today are metrosexuals, obsessed with obtaining the most flattering skinny jeans, and/or the most appropriate pomade for their beards. Heck, the new crop of rising males introduced into the vernacular the term “skinny-fat.” Jesus wept. [Note: more accurate here is a statement made about Jesus in Team America, but CoC.]
All is not lost in the realm of American manhood. We’ve still got guys like Tim Kennedy. [I might’ve posted the video here before, but it’s well worth a watch. And yeah, I can testify to the fact that there is no BS/promotional exaggeration going on, here.]
Kennedy gets alerted by the FBI: ISIS wants you’ve dead. We’ve got credible threats.
Kennedy: They can send whoever they want, as long as they don’t want them back. Let those cowards come.
No, I have no financial interest in this company. I just know it’s owned by vets, some of whom I’ve worked with. That last link isn’t even to one of my favorite shirts. My favorites are:
- When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our friend
- I survive on caffeine and hate…and sometimes a little whiskey (AMU regulars will pick up what I’m puttin’ down, here)
- Whiskey and Bad Decisions
Masculinity is not dead as long as Boss Mongo’s around.
I’m not bad@$$ enough to have any of those shirts, but Tim Kennedy is great.
I’d take Mongo at peak intoxication over an army of pajama boys.
Thanks, darlin’.
Amen to that.
That’s me, I’m a giver. I’m drinking for you, brother.
I remember the video from the first time. Amen to everything. Bring on the alpha males.
Maybe it’s just a Jersey thing but I kinda liked this one . . .
Yup. On the scale of friends: you’ve got friends, good friends, and “help me bury a body” friends. You are blessed if you have lots of the last. But with great power comes great responsibility.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub792aeMjlM
Ordered Boss. Needed a good shirt as I’ve started running again because I’ve gotten too fat-fat. Good stuff.
I’m liking the concept here.
The Joan of Arc one is being worn with great distinction by someone dear to @westernchauvinist and @trink. Prayer warriors can gear up at Ranger Up, too…Rah! and Thanks, Boss!
Well Boss . . . this ain’t poetry, but by G-d it’s the powerful truth. The pathetic portrayal of young American men today is nauseating.
We are so blessed that men like you and Tim Kennedy are ready to do whatever needs to be done.
No apologies.
I’m going to go off thread and nominate my daughter for the tough guy club. She confronted a guy who sucker punched someone he didn’t know on the streets of Portland. He told her he punched the guy because he felt like it. My daughter told him he was under arrest. He responded by giving her the finger. She didn’t say another word and just punched him in the sternum. He fell to the pavement and she cuffed him. His girl friend started getting verbal with my daughter. She said I just took your boyfriend out, I’m pretty sure I can take you too so start walking.
She remembered my advice when she was sworn in. I told her some people will not stop what they are doing until you put the boots to them. Made me proud that night, and I gave her a big atta girl.
You did a good job raising her!
Yay testosterone!
My 13 year old son wants the Old Man’s Club shirt.
@dougwatt
Your daughter is a chip off the old block, and more of a man than a dozen metrosexuals.
Seriously, that’s the kind of scene a movie has to establish that the protagonist is an action hero.
Like!
Doug, your daughter makes me proud. All the little Mongettes are good on theory, less so on practice (thank God)…well, couple of “frat boy” encounters. They seemed to comport themselves well. Locally, my little ladies have earned the description of “scrappy.” Hope when the moment comes, they can demonstrate the competence and aplomb that your daughter did.
Ooooh, I’m glad you mentioned there was a Joan of Arc shirt.
Sadly, I don’t think I’m tough enough to wear the signature line T either but Joan of Arc’s my confirmation name so I’m gonna have to get one of those . . . then I’ll cut off the sleeves and wear it to the gym. :)
Buy it for him. Then tell him you’re hermetically sealing it in one of those “as seen on TV” vacuum bags and it goes at the top of the closet. He gets it when he earns it. Earliest available earning age is 35, with appropriate badass credentials.
Well, I’m not sure if that inspires me to try harder or just give up.
I showed him this. He told me disappointedly that he will be able to buy his own by the time he’s 35. I told him that the one in my closet would be much much more valuable and certainly not for sale… he’s still pondering that one…
When this kid was 2, he would not leave the house without his “things,” which consisted of a cloak, belt, and sword. Now he’s a brown belt in karate. He’s got a lot of potential as a hero, let me tell you…
I wish the “No Whining” came in kids’ sizes…
I want this framed for my office.
And, uh, to add context: he did see what the back side of the shirt said, right?
It inspires you to try harder.
Made me look.
I may need to get one of those for my dad, now.
Rangers. They’re never subtle, but sometimes can be convinced to be indirect.
Well, Dad was JAG (“Chairborne Rangers”) but I still think he’d get a kick out of it.
Aside from some fun stories of tortuous training early on, Dad never gave us the impression that his time with the Army (mostly Reserves) was anything other than safe.
But then that action-packed show JAG came out years ago so of course I called him up immediately: “OMG, you really held out on us! Why didn’t you ever tell me that being a JAG Officer was so exciting!!?”
Didn’t see this ’til now. Good (long, for folk with internet ADHD) video of TK kind of expounding on the threat–and on Trump. At the 10:00 mark, he articulates something that every SF guy, Ranger, and SEAL I know agrees with.