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atomheartbevo

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  1. Yep. Napolean who? The UK in 1834, with the American colonies/Canada/Caribbean would have been a massive economic and military powerhouse on a level hard to imagine. I think they could have pulled it off.
  2. I do like that they really hammered home a couple of major points that many don't realize: Washington's army got pretty fucking small as many Americans were not fully committed to this endeavor. A lot of British would have been fine with the colonies leaving if it stopped the hemorrhaging of money and they still had trade, and a lot of American patriots/rebels would have been fine staying within the empire if things would go back to the way they used to be. #2 is an amazing alt-history topic to run down the rabbit hole on - had the Brits backed off, listened to the American grievances, compromised in some manner (yes, they had enormous war debts still left over) and you don't have Washington, Adams, Franklin, Hamilton, Jefferson, Adams, and all of the other Founding Fathers getting together and building a new nation, what happens? If American remains a colony (or 13 colonies) into the 19th Century, what does that do with British military engagements and foreign policy into the 19th Century, Napolean, etc. What about the French Revolution? Just crazy to ponder.
  3. I did as well. NASCAR 4 for life.
  4. Oh there was a reason why Trump asked that only Democrats be investigated. And as everybody has said, he's locking up the evidence as part of an ongoing investigation. Yes, I'm one who mentioned that the emails are from the estate. There's no way the estate would be allowed to have photos and videos of the pedophiles since it's illegal to possess. That stuff was taken out of the mansion and from the island and will be buried here
  5. So we're giving the Chinese a chance to go over the F-35. Lovely.
  6. Nah, would not be a good look going into next year's elections.
  7. Yeah, I was in the Army during those days, and we had Marines who came through training on our base (artillery) and we had a few gay soldiers but they kept that shit way on the downlow, even if we suspected it, and the same was probably true of the Marines. One of my friends, you would never know unless you were friends with him, and even then it was only revealed or talked about with his closest friends when we were off-duty. Lot of paranoia. Probably didn’t help that a lot of the senior NCOs were boomers/Vietnam vets,
  8. I had a history teacher in high school who talked about how everybody involved had been British citizens outside of the Hessians and French and Indians, and it stuck with me. Even Hamilton was born in the West Indies under British rule,
  9. Gary Hart wishes he had this media. Because what the Epstein estate holds is not the criminal evidence (photos and videos) that was confiscated by the feds.
  10. If you can ignore the TikTok effects, he described her as a “36 hours a day attention needer”. He could have said attention whore, but he’s too polite
  11. It's only a protest against taxes and corruption and not the war. But as others have pointed out, a protest is a protest and gotta start somewhere, and this one is harder to discredit as being unpatriotic or whatever.
  12. Ukraine going to pick up 100 Rafeles, including some from French reserves.
  13. The Qanon and Pizzagate types are not forgetting this. Their movement may have fallen apart after they realized they were being taken for a ride by "Q", but those fuckers are still passionate about child trafficking (witness the Sound of Freedom movie which raked in a shitload of cash).
  14. Russian Oil Plunges With Top Producers Days Away From Sanctions - Bloomberg
  15. There will be a wreck one day. I followed this guy for a while, and he was in the top tier of wingsuit flyers, and then he ran into a tree and died.
  16. Yep. She may have been right about the war, but she could have done her protests in the US and not held the little photo ops that she did.
  17. While looking at that, came across this Peter Thiel Cuts Stake In PayPal Mafia Company Tesla. Musk Issues This Warning.
  18. Yeah, I get that, but I just remind myself that the Russian drone operators are training on Ukrainian civilians, animals, and vehicles.
  19. And then we are going to find out the files can't be released because they are part of an active investigation that Trump ordered this past week.
  20. Pretty sure she was fired for saying she was closer to Trump than his daughters. And she had her lawyer deny they were banging, but it's interesting that it came up in old emails, and is not some new accusation. Her wikipedia photo is weird as fuck, being cropped from this:
  21. He probably didn't, it's more about making MAGA deny it.
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