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  1. On 12/1/2025 at 4:49 PM, TonyTexas said:

    Victoria has dropped on Netflix. I strongly recommend, particularly for fans of The Crown and Downton Abbey type shows. It’s about the reign of Queen Victoria and Jenna Coleman is great in the title role. 

    I’ve seen episodes here and there on PBS and watched some tonight (up with sick kid). Amazing production values.  Would be cool if Netflix picked up production for additional seasons.  

    Really solid series.  

  2. 57 minutes ago, Incredulity said:

    and pajamas with bed head and slippers. 

    I would like the women on all of my flights to be dressed in pajamas and slippers with mussed-up hair.

    sexy connie britton GIF

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    Russia deployed its full hybrid warfare toolkit against Moldova in 2025 - energy blackmail, election interference, separatist proxies, even "denazification" rhetoric echoing Ukraine invasion pretexts.

    It failed. Pro-European forces won parliamentary elections with 50%+ despite Kremlin-funded disinformation and vote-buying schemes.

    Chisinau severed all Russian gas imports after Gazprom's cutoff, diversifying to the EU and Azerbaijan instead.

    A new military strategy explicitly names Russia as the primary threat and mandates NATO-standard rearmament.

    The pro-Russian Gagauzia leader sits in jail while Transnistria's gas-starved economy teeters toward reintegration talks.

    What remains of Russian influence? A bankrupt Transnistrian enclave and a few thousand demoralized troops Moscow cannot sustain.

    Thirty-three years after independence, Moldova is finally escaping Moscow's orbit. Not through war, but through the systematic dismantling of every lever Russia once possessed.

    Frontline report: Moldova escapes Moscow's orbit through slow strangulation of Russian influence - Euromaidan Press

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  4. If Bradley actually goes up in front of Congress next week, do we think they'll get the original guy that resigned as well?

    And will Bradley take the fall?  They didn't have that little get-together last night just for shits and giggles, that was all about getting stories straight.

  5. 1 hour ago, HOOKEM4 said:

    Sadly, if the orange god says it's so, it is so. Those that fully drank the koolaid will never change until they die. It is so blatantly clear what is going on that the mere fact there are still folks supporting him completely disqualifies them from being taken seriously. They want suffering, they hate to mask their pain and they are actively supporting the unraveling of everything that actually made America great. Sad sad little people. They will be in the bread lines with the rest of the folks they hate while their God celebrates another imaginary achievement in his grand ballroom. 

    Pardoning Mr. Silk Road was all the proof they should have needed that he doesn’t care about drugs,

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  6. 2 minutes ago, Carrizo Chorizo said:

    The crime was that it was a double tap strike, correct? 

    The crime is that if you blow up a ship or shoot down an aircraft, and there are survivors in the water, they are no longer considered combatants, and therefore you cannot kill them legally. I don’t know if it was Hegseth or Bradley, but somebody tried to claim they were legitimate targets because they could call their buddies to come pick up the drugs.  That is insane.  People clinging to pieces of a blown up boat are not thinking “oh, I’m gonna call my buddies to come get the drugs and continue on their way to America. “

    We prosecuted Germans and Japanese after World War II, who had killed Americans and other allies in similar situations. We even hung U-Boat commanders who machine gunned people in the water.

    And that’s before we get into the question of whether we are actually at war with Venezuela or not. Hint: we are not at war. We also cannot designate them as terrorist based on 911 because I’m fairly certain Venezuela was not involved with 911. 

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  7. 28 minutes ago, Vegas64 said:

    you attack and he stays in power, 100%. But if you can topple him, it can be done quickly.

    2. The thoughts are that however unlikely you can pressure him to self-exiling,

    He knows that if the US gets their hands on him, he’ll end up like Noriega. He’s not leaving willingly.  And one huge difference between this and Panama is we actually had military bases in Panama.  We don’t have that here.  We would have to put a lot of troops in to the country from ships and that’s not easy with the way their geography is. 

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  8. In fact, my gut says that those veterans in Congress would not have made that video unless they knew there were illegal orders being given.  The timing of their video and the subsequent flip out by Trump and Hegseth speaks volumes.  

    And I may have missed it, but I don’t recall Trump and Hegseth going out there saying the video is meaningless because they’re not giving illegal orders. Instead, they attacked the video and claimed they were telling service members not to obey legal orders.  That means they probably thought they were lawful and now they realize they’re not or they believed that nobody outside of the Department of Defense knew what was going on.  Or they were trying to project that they were only giving lawful orders.  

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  9. 30 minutes ago, hayden_horn said:

    they are shook, because i have little to no doubt that there is actual documentation out of their control about what really happened.

    Kelly might have seen it in a briefing he would have received as the timing matches up.  He couldn’t come out and talk about any specifics because it would’ve been classified, but he could’ve put out a generic video saying don’t follow any illegal orders.  

    I think that’s why Trump and Hegseth flipped out so much over Kelly.  

    I know there’s a story floating around earlier today that the Washington Post got it wrong, but they’ve had ample opportunity to spend a few minutes over the weekend or yesterday to look at the video, and if there had been no survivors, Trump and Hegseth would be out there saying that. Hegseth would’ve made sure to tell Trump.  

    And Hegseth is pretty insecure, and he knows that decorated Navy admirals are not gonna go down for some two-bit Army major who had a spotty and short career and never held a major command.  

    Hegseth and Trump are definitely acting like there’s a video out there and it’s out of their control. 

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  10. Trump stayed up tweeting hundreds of times in just a few hours last night. Is somebody nervous after a meeting?

    https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/01/politics/trump-venezuela-meeting

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    President Donald Trump and top national security officials huddled at the White House Monday to discuss next steps on Venezuela, as the administration faces renewed called from lawmakers to release more information – particularly about a controversial decision in September to strike a boat in the Caribbean twice, killing remaining survivors in the second blow.

    Key members of Trump’s Cabinet and national security team, including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine and Secretary of State Marco Rubio had been expected to attend, sources familiar with the matter said, as well as White House chief of staff Susie Wiles and deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller.

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    The Oval Office meeting, which attendees began arriving for just before 5 p.m., comes as the United States has increased pressure on Venezuela with strikes on drug vessels and a military asset buildup in the Caribbean. The US military has amassed more than a dozen warships and 15,000 troops in the region as part of what the Pentagon has branded “Operation Southern Spear.” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Monday that Trump was “meeting with his national security team on this subject and on many matters,” adding, “It’s part of his responsibility to ensure that peace is ongoing throughout the world.”

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    The meeting also comes as Trump and his top military officials are facing growing questions about the legality of the US strikes on alleged drug boatsin the region killing more than 80 people. The US is not officially in a war with Venezuela, and lawmakers from both sides of the aisle have said they plan to examine reports that the US carried out a follow-up strike on a suspected drug vessel after an initial attack did not kill everyone on board.

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    “The law is clear,” Maine Sen. Angus King, an independent, told CNN on Monday morning. “If the facts are, as have been alleged, that there was a second strike specifically to kill the survivors in the water — that’s a stone-cold war crime. It’s also murder.”

    On Monday, Leavitt identified the official who ordered the follow-up strike – Adm. Frank M. “Mitch” Bradley, commander of the US Special Operations Command – and said he was acting “well within his authority.”

     

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