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  1. Also, 64D chess: Trump is a great ally by giving a boost to Zelensky!  From NYT

    Trump’s Attacks Give Zelensky a Bit of a Reprieve at Home

    The Ukrainian leader’s approval rating is rising, and critics have backed off after he was humiliated and criticized by President Trump, who has also demanded new elections in Ukraine.

     

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  2. On 2/21/2025 at 8:38 AM, SuingToGetAMessageBoard? said:

    I've been wondering how Rubio was going to handle all this.  He's the most "traditional Republican" of the whole administration, and his post as SoS puts him in the face of the most non-traditional Republican stance the admin has taken -- buddying up to Russia.  It'll be interesting to see if he can (1) steer policy a little less Russia friendly (2) ends up getting at odds with Trump and having to resign (3) just tries to talk out of both sides of his mouth and survive for four years.

     

     

    WaPo: Rubio saying there might be a restart of aid.  Notable is this funny paragraph

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    Rubio said the initial suspension of aid “came about because we felt the Ukrainians were not committed” to negotiations to end the three-year war to repel Russia’s invasion, but if that changes, U.S. policy will probably change too, he said Monday as he landed in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah.

    Really?  Because the only thing your two bosses had to say was that Zelensky wasn't thankful enough, and we make foreign policy decisions based on the fee-fees of our leaders.

     

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    The Trump administration may resume U.S. military and intelligence support for Ukraine if its leaders commit to a peace process during a high stakes meeting Tuesday in Saudi Arabi, Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters.

     
     
     

    Rubio said the initial suspension of aid “came about because we felt the Ukrainians were not committed” to negotiations to end the three-year war to repel Russia’s invasion, but if that changes, U.S. policy will probably change too, he said Monday as he landed in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah.

     

    “My hope is we’ll have a really good meeting tomorrow and be in a different place,” he added.

     

    Rubio’s meeting will be his first with senior Ukrainian officials since the Oval Office blow up between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that resulted in the aid being cut off.

     

    The decision stunned Ukrainian officials and alarmed U.S. allies in Europe who are desperately hoping for the talks to restore U.S.-Ukrainian relations as a wave of Russian attacks has continued to hit government and residential buildings across Ukraine.

    Ahead of Rubio’s arrival in Jeddah, U.S. officials said they were pleased at the high-level delegation Zelensky chose to send. “The fact that they’re coming here at senior levels is a good indication to us that they want to sit down, and they’re ready to move forward,” a senior State Department official said on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive talks.

     
     
     

    The Ukrainian delegation will be led by Zelensky’s top aide, Andriy Yermak, alongside Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha, Defense Minister Rustem Umerov and Deputy Head of the Presidential Office Pavlo Palisa. Rubio will be joined by White House national security adviser Michael Waltz and Middle East Envoy Steve Witkoff.

    Zelensky will not attend the meeting but will be in Saudi Arabia to meet Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh.

    “These are separate events,” a Ukrainian official told The Washington Post.

     
    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his top adviser, Andriy Yermak, attend a meeting with Vice President JD Vance during the Munich Security Conference in Germany last month. (Leah Millis/Reuters)

    “We hope for results — both in bringing peace closer and in continuing support,” Zelensky said in a video address late Sunday.

    Zelensky is under extraordinary pressure to placate the Trump administration and demonstrate support for the president’s diplomatic drive despite his unanswered push for a U.S. security guarantee that would deter Russia from reinvading Ukraine.

     
     
     

    Trump has insisted that the United States be repaid for the more than $100 billion it has spent in its support for Kyiv since Russia invaded more than three years ago. To that end, Kyiv and Washington are negotiating a deal that would provide the United States access to rare earth minerals in Ukraine that U.S. officials say will provide a type of security guarantee for Ukraine given the presence of U.S. businesspeople — an arrangement many Ukrainian officials view as insufficient.

    The Trump administration has ruled out allowing Ukraine into NATO, viewing that as placing new burdens on the United States and obviating a path to peace with Moscow.

    Rubio emphasized that the conflict in Ukraine has calcified into a war of attrition and that neither Russia nor Ukraine can prevail militarily. He said both sides would have to accept concessions but that the first objective for U.S. officials was understanding Ukraine’s position.

     

    “The most important thing that we have to leave here with is a strong sense that Ukraine is prepared to do difficult things — like the Russians will have to do difficult things — to end this conflict,” he said.

    Rubio said the mineral deal was not a core focus of the meetings in Saudi Arabia, but emphasized that “it’s certainly a deal the president wants to see done … doesn’t necessarily have to be done tomorrow.”

    Ukrainian officials have bristled at the way the Trump administration has handled the negotiations, in particular by excluding them from the initial talks with Russian officials in Saudi Arabia.

    Trump, who called Zelensky a “dictator” who was ungrateful for U.S. support, has softened his tone in recent days.

     

    On Sunday, when asked whether he would consider lifting the intelligence pause, Trump said “we just about have. I mean, we really just about have, and we want to do anything we can to get Ukraine to be serious about getting something done.”

     
     

    Among the types of intelligence that have been suspended is the provision of satellite imagery services used by Ukrainian artillery and drone units to assess quality targets and keep tabs on Russian positions and depots.

    Rubio clarified that the Ukrainians are “already receiving defensive intelligence information as we speak.”

    The United States also stopped the transfer of any of the $3.85 billion in remaining military equipment available for Ukraine as well as halted the delivery of weapons already in transit after having been approved by the Biden administration.

    “The pause in aid broadly is something I hope we can resolve, obviously what happens tomorrow will be key to that,” Rubio added.

     

  3. Any positives they have is because they are part of a command economy with a dictator in their pocket.  They can have Trump mandate certain purchases; they can get value out of being a 'technology company' as Elon tries to say, through other means.  They can't continue their inane valuation with consumer purchases of vehicles any more imo.

  4. Egerton sucks.  Dude is boring.

     

    I think they have different routes.

     

    Rough and tumble story line (Daniel Craig-esque):

     

    Henry Cavill - Find Quality British Films & TV Quickly

     

    Gentleman spy storyline (Pierce Brosnan-esque):

     

    Tom Hiddleston | Rotten Tomatoes

     

    Morose introspective storyline (something new)

    Robert Pattinson | Rotten Tomatoes

  5. just tried to watch the monologue. made it about halfway through.  i don't really know how to say it sucked.  he is obviously right leaning so maybe just too much of that has soaked into his comedy now and it turns me off more than most.  it's not like i haven't laughed at him generally in a lot of stuff before though.  but those were some weak couple minutes. 

    i closed it after the 'have you ever had sex with a black guy' joke. i think that is just aimed at 19 year olds in general so i'm so far out of the target audience it just hits me as uncomfortable.  unfortunately, not 'uncomfortable farley interviewing jeff daniels,' but 'uncomfortable dumb kid having to present in front of the class.'

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  6. On 2/17/2025 at 12:21 PM, Buzzrock said:

    I’m curious where all that money goes. Seems like a ludicrous amount for a movie that is largely made on green screen and a laptop. 

    If you sit through the credits you’d understand.  Evidently the only people that didn’t work on this movie were you and me. 

    Just now, South Austin said:

    fixed

    Bingo. 

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  7. I get bored with super hero fights because there is no tension.  Everyone is invincible.  My kids had a good time though.  
     

    one thing stuck out to me.  “The president wants Bob and I to come to the White House” or something. Poor grammar made it through that many folks working on it?  It’s not like it was intentional because that’s part of Cap’s character or something. 

  8. On 2/21/2025 at 8:38 AM, SuingToGetAMessageBoard? said:

    I've been wondering how Rubio was going to handle all this.  He's the most "traditional Republican" of the whole administration, and his post as SoS puts him in the face of the most non-traditional Republican stance the admin has taken -- buddying up to Russia.  It'll be interesting to see if he can (1) steer policy a little less Russia friendly (2) ends up getting at odds with Trump and having to resign (3) just tries to talk out of both sides of his mouth and survive for four years.

    Bolton says 2. 

     

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/point-resign-former-u-national-220229216.html

     

     

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