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Jeffrey Epstein needs his own thread
- Hegseth & the Boys
Hegseth still got that “inactive reserve major” energy going on.- Trump’s America
- I'm Chevy Chase, And You're Not (documentary)
You can be disappointed, and it can piss you off - Burt Reynolds was a nice guy as far as almost everybody is concerned, but he was unhappy (when he was dating her) that Sally Field was finding critical acclaim while he was pigeon-holed into Smokey and the Bandit-style roles even though his movies were ruling the box office. He had every right to be bitter after he didn't get a lot of dramatic roles after Deliverance (and he was probably pissed that Voight got more attention out of Deliverance than he did) - his career would have been far different had he at least received some decent nominations with Deliverance. But he still kept it together, went to television when it seemed the right thing to do, and most people he worked with genuinely liked him.- Mamdani's Mamdate
- Things not going well in Venezuela
After Trump posting that tens of millions of barrels of Venezuelan oil will be brought to the US and sold, and the money will be directly under his control, he's removed all doubt that it was ever anything but oil. And it ties into what I was saying about how we do not have the troops in place to occupy and control Venezuela - he was never going to have the US physically control Venezuela with boots on the ground when he controls their oil exports. As long as X amount of oil every month finds its way to American refineries, he's going to let Maduro's people continue to control and oppress Venezuela.- Building a gaming PC
So I'm curious - we've got a 6GB RTX 2060, and that and my 3700x CPU will be great for my daughter's system (fits the motherboard, have 16GB on that thing). I used to upgrade every year or two, but, well, with the 2060 and 3700x CPU you can tell it's been 4-5 years since I last did anything. We do a lot of Minecraft (lots of mods), lots of RTS games, mostly older games (sims, nothing made within last 3-4 years for the most part) but wanting a little bump for some flight sim stuff (and MMOs). Would something like this for $300 be a worthy upgrade over the 2060? (and I have not shopped around, just the first short-form factor card I pulled up, I know I can do cheaper) PNY GeForce RTX 5060 Overclocked 8GB GDDR7 PCI Express 5.0 Graphics Card with Dual Fan Black VCG50608DFXPB1-O - Best Buy Trying to keep the price down, but willing to do 12GB if necessary, and yes, trying to stay to the shorter form-factor, because it's a smaller case. 12GB too expensive. I can go 40x0 series if it's a better price, but I still have to keep the short form-factor.- Political Cartoons - The Politics Thread.
- My 2026 Health Insurance Premium Increase
Denial?- Русский корабль - иди нахуй
Man @PTINS they are working over the fuel depots lately- Epstein and Maxwell
- Things not going well in Venezuela
Is this some of that oil that Trump is claiming for himself?- Things not going well in Venezuela
And by the way, for those wondering, yes, it's absolutely real that he's going to order those tankers to the US and then somehow control the money. https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115850817778602689- Trump’s America
- Trump’s America
Edit: double post- Tell Me About Texas a&m
- Things not going well in Venezuela
It's not about oil, it's about drugs and bringing democracy to the Venezuelans. This really makes me wonder who the fuck Trump owes a shitload of money to. He owes somebody really bad.- What's happening in Iran?
All we need is to threaten them to help unify or make things worse. With so many police supposedly defecting, that is what is giving me some hope.- Comic Relief: Satirical Tweets and Memes
Pretty sure they aren't celebrating now, as Maduro's people are cracking down on anybody celebrating.- What's happening in Iran?
- Greenland
in my little manifesto in the VZ thread about Trump and Whiskey Pete not putting together the forces needed to actually, physically take over just Caracas, let alone the rest of Venezuela, I mentioned that it looked like they threw together whatever was needed for a very short-term mission. Like literally just went from drug interdiction to oil tankers to rolling on into capturing Maduro, which admittedly the Deltas trained for months to do. Only tying up a very small part of our amphibious assault forces and none of our large-scale air assault. I think they didn’t bother with putting together what was needed to truly take over Venezuela (airborne, lots of helicopters, a lot more than a few thousand Marines on three ships) partly because deploying a force that large would have gotten Congress involved. No, Congress isn’t going to impeach him until next year at the earliest, but I do think he is wary of Congress. If he thought they’d back him, we’d see Americans in downtown Caracas right now. And another Republican just bit the dust, so their majority is even slimmer.- Things not going well in Venezuela
This morning after dropping my youngest off at school, I hung out with one of her classmates' dads, who served in the Navy. He was on a support ship for both invasions of Iraq, so he knows how the logistics for major invasions work, even if he was way in the rear and they weren't the full-on traditional Marines storming the beaches invasions with landing craft you think of when you think of this stuff. Something that is bugging him, and me, and tying into something @Nice Guy Eddie mentioned in another thread - Where's the occupying force? He (not Nice Guy Eddie) said that the only amphibious assault assets we've really deployed there are The USS San Antonio, Fort Lauderdale, and Iwo Jima, and the first two are apparently more like support docks. He said at max, we are talking 2,500 - maybe 2,800 or so Marines between the three and maybe on some other ships. He said we have around 20 of these ships (two classes) and it feels like we only brought the ones down that happened to be doing nothing. I looked around at lunch as well, and it's not like they can hide a bunch of ships in plain site in such a busy/populated area - all of the ships that have been announced have been spotted numerous times in the Caribbean, with no unknown ships. This is not the middle of the Indian Ocean or Diego Garcia. There were people taking photos of our fighters in Puerto Rico. Now, to play devil's advocate, once can argue that the 82nd Airborne Division and 75th Ranger Regiment are not that far away by air, and they always have an alert component. But Venezuela has 200,000+ in its military, another 20,000 or so Cubans, and millions in militias (which may not all actually exist, but you don't need but a few hundred thousand to make things hard). It's a country of 25 million people, with 3.25 million in the capital area. While Marines are badass, as are the 82nd and 75th, we ain't going to take over the country with a few thousand Marines and a few thousand airborne and a few hundred Rangers we fly in. When we have invaded in the past where we know the target in advance (I don't count Afghanistan as that was pretty ad hoc initially), we do all of the prep work. It's why our operations have worked so well, and why we have a massive logistics chain. It would seem logical that we would also have the 25th Infantry (Light, my old unit) because they are out of Hawaii and acclimated for tropical conditions (they even have a jungle warfare school out there). We would be staging the 101st Air Assault to Florida or even Puerto Rico and getting their helicopters loaded onto US Navy amphibious assault ships/transports/aircraft carriers or flying them to Trinidad & Tobago, because our troops are going to be using helicopters. We would have the 82nd and their larger gear in Puerto Rico, along with the 75th prepping to take over military airfields/airports. We would most likely have the 25th's airborne component getting ready as well (although instead of Hawaii they are in Alaska, it's a long story). Probably the 10th Mountain as well even though they are not technically a mountain-trained division, but they are a light infantry division. We would have a shitload more Marines sitting on Amphibious assault ships in the Caribbean. TLDR: There's just so many things that need to happen for us to legitimately control Venezuela and we are doing none of that. But on the other hand, all of the assets that were assembled were thrown together fairly fast and easy. Almost as if the DOD/Trump realized Congress would get involved in some way if they did a large-scale operation, so roll with something smaller - just gonna transition from drug interdiction to kidnapping Maduro and call it a win and hope the follow-up leadership does what we say. Which is why, I think, Trump threatened to kill Rodriquez if she doesn't do what he says (fate worse than Maduro who is looking at life in prison). He's currently got no leverage.- Greenland
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