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atomheartbevo

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  1. Could be their version of warrant officers. They have them https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_ranks_and_insignia_of_the_Russian_Federation#Other_ranks If you click on the Russian words for warrant officer and senior warrant officer, it takes you to pages discussing their use, similar to how we use them. Could also include officer cadets and maybe federal police officers.
  2. But we don’t have military snipers knocking off Mexicans trying to cross the border, or helicopters shooting them for that matter. He treats them like shit and they are disappearing under ICE detention, but the military hasn’t killed over 80 of them like we did with Venezuelans I think it’s probably a mix of Epstein files and oil, but it’s interesting that Venezuela is now the #1 threat in the world to the United States.
  3. It maybe Congress’s only chance to stop an invasion of Venezuela. And he does not have enough support in Congress as it is, otherwise he wouldn’t be trying to use 9/11 bullshit to justify this, but would have asked for the authority. He keeps track of what elected Republicans say about him and he knows there’s enough resistance to war with Venezuela. The fact that Trump is trying to deny it happened in his own way is significant. This is the guy who bragged about killing an Iranian general, who has openly talked about six Dems in Congress should be executed. And then somebody told him this is a problem and all of the sudden he doesn’t think it’s right to kill two dudes clinging to wreckage, even though he claimed their boatload of drugs would have killed 25,000 Americans. Somebody told him this wasn’t good. Maybe they even told him that this was the kind of illegal orders that Kelly and others were warning about. Maybe it’s why we’ve seen a couple of senior officers step back or step down. Trump is up to something, and we may have been days away from civilian Venezuelan aircraft being shot down by American fighters, but this “double tap” thing has him spooked so me thinks there’s a lot more to it.
  4. @Brisketexan Will appreciate this. to all my republican friends.. i was one of you. for 40 years i have voted republican.. but this shit is out of control, even russia is saying this "peace plan" is just going to give them the chance to rearm for the next war.. we want to win, we want to support our friends, we dont want to trade europe for russia (we cant have both). we are tired of the orange child throwing fits. we want to know why the only country without tariffs is russia.... we want to know how why we are officially broke and trump is spending BILLIONS on himself (plane, white house, F47 (not ready), and the white house... someone is paying for all that gold).. i remember when being a republican meant for something, and yes biden was shit.... but you dont change out blue shit with red shit... you do better... republicans stand up and for something!!!! do better.. would Ronald Reagon, or Lincoln stand by trump???? NO, so why are you??? even if that means taking one for the team (USA) and staying home next november.... NO i will NEVER be a dem, but i will never be a maga POS either.... thank you proud conservative, Texan, combat vet US ARMY
  5. Still mind-boggling how many officers they've lost.
  6. Jared Kushner being intimately involved with this tells us everything we need to know.
  7. Wait, are people who voted for the Leopards Eating Faces party, in fact having their faces (or those of their family or friends) eaten by leopards? I actually have a theory that this is partly why he wants to invade Venezuela instead of Mexico. While there are many with Venezuelan blood in the US, there's not that many, so they can kill a bunch of them and probably be okay with non-Venezuelans in next year's elections. Start seeing a bunch of Mexicans being killed by American Marines and soldiers, and shit gets dicey with next year's election. The other reason that we don't invade Mexico is that the cartels will probably go apeshit along the border and most importantly of all, Mexico has 130 million people. It would work out about as well as...Russia fully invading Ukraine.
  8. He may be a real estate developer out of his depth and getting played, but he understands (Darth) Putin's negotiating strategy, although @Brisketexan may claim this strategy as his own.
  9. You obviously didn't get to the part where the kid's mom got nude. Edit: Oh shit, this is about Polar Express, not The Pole Sexpress. Need to wear my readers more often.
  10. I would be surprised. In 2019/20, was there this much infighting? I remember Republicans leaving Congress, remember some sniping at one another, but don't remember anybody directly calling out Trump. And shit, when Trump loses Laura Loomer, MTG, Lauren Boebert, and Nick Fuentes...something is in the water.
  11. Almost 35 years ago...the skill....damn.
  12. Is it surprising though? They elected Democrats to the Senate. A Jewish guy and a Black guy.
  13. Pretty sure A/S/L is over 30 years old at this point.
  14. We will see more coaches leaving in the middle of the night versus having this immortalized on the internet
  15. This past year has felt pretty upbeat, and yes, there's recency bias and all that, but we are seeing an uptick in interest and numbers, and I've got friends at other packs and troops that are doing better as well. I think we are also seeing a lot more interest amongst the younger kids/parents - our kindergarten and 1st/2nd grade dens are larger. I think some of it probably is people who were doing outdoor stuff during COVID and looked around and saw tjat Scouting was what worked best for them. But, as I said, since we added girls and kindergartners, we have a LOT of parents who are showing an interest or signing their kids up because we are one of the few "serious" activities where the whole family can be involved, regardless of boy or girl, and the fact that we cover Kinder - 5th grade is huge for a lot of parents. In fact, if we took girls out of our pack, we would be close to the size we were before COVID. And there's still a lot of people who didn't realize we added girls (and kindergarten), and it's just a matter of them finding out or seeing their friends' kids in it. There just really is no other activity that covers both boys and girls from kinder - 12th grade (once you move out of Cub Scouts) and that the parents can participate in as well.
  16. Wait, you're saying she picked it up off the ground and the officials missed it?
  17. The smart thing to do, you can't rely on us anymore - I don't think it's a coincidence we pulled troops from the Eastern flank. US Withdraws Some Troops from Europe But Denies Broader Pullback
  18. I've seen the full video from Air Force One, but here's the most relevant part, and looking like they'll try to find a scapegoat: Trump: "No, I wouldn't have wanted that. Not a second strike…Pete said that didn't happen." Q: "Are you saying there was no second strike?" Trump: "I don't know. I'm going to find out. But Pete said he did not order the death of those two men."
  19. More Republican Reps growing a spine.
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