Posts posted by atomheartbevo
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6 hours ago, TwiceHorn said: I'm curious why it's the CIA all of a sudden, and not the USN or other DOD military, making these strikes.
I have thought all along that it would be CIA doing these things because they're used to being lawless. And outside the military chain of command.
4 hours ago, Irwin F Fletcher said: Maybe so he doesn’t have to go before Congress to get "approval" for armed conflict.
I know, I know, this regime doesn’t believe they need permission for any action. That said, the American public has no desire for this conflict.
The interesting thing to me is that if he hadn't mentioned it publicly in an interview, we might not have known about it at all.
I'm also guessing that it's about risking CIA assets and not US military personnel.
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On 12/29/2025 at 12:03 PM, gernblansten said: https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/23/politics/justice-department-redactions-review-epstein-files
The Justice Department’s leadership asked career prosecutors in Florida to volunteer over the “next several days” to help redact the Epstein files, in the latest Trump administration push toward releasing the hundreds of thousands of photos, internal memos and other evidence around the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
A supervising prosecutor in the Southern District of Florida’s US Attorney’s Office emailed the entire district office on Tuesday — two days before Christmas — announcing an “emergency request from the [Deputy Attorney General’s] office the SDFL must assist with,” according to a copy of the email reviewed by CNN. “We need AUSAs to do remote document review and redactions related to the Epstein files,” the email said.
These are the kind of people who are going to make it easy to get at redacted text, because you know that they are pissed that D.C. is telling them to give up their holidays.
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4 hours ago, Pancho said: 3 hours ago, DDD Dad said: If it was unanimously approved won’t Congress just override the veto?
Congress will most likely make sure, because Johnson, for all of his faults, is going to try to shore up Republican seats anywhere and everywhere and Trump's little stunt hurts the GOP in Colorado. Trump doesn't think that far ahead - he saw a chance to fuck with Boebert and took it.
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7 hours ago, Parliament said: Fair. But am I allowed to want them all dead?
Yes
7 hours ago, Parliament said: Maybe it's the drugs, but I feel optimistic about 2026.
So do I. Would have been great if they had more long-range stuff a year ago, but you go to war with the army you have or something, not the one you want.
I feel optimistic as well though. I didn't anticipate that the amount of Russian deaths/casualties would rise as fast as it did, but Putin was desperate to take some major towns ahead of "negotiations" and Russian soldiers paid dearly (as did some Russian generals apparently).
Time to dust off the parallels to Afghanistan, except Russia/Soviet Union was substantially larger manpower-wise in the 1980s, and has lost far more troops in the 2020s (crazy to think Afghanistan only cost them 15,000 - 25,000 deaths).
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2 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said: Trump being surrounded and advised by Scientologists would be the icing on the cake. Not sure that even @Brisketexan could have developed that plot twist.
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13 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said: I have apparently missed out that it has tremendous impact on people with amazing forms of mental illness. I admit my error. Many such cases.
So I didn’t see the original on its first run in theaters, forgot why, but didn’t. I had friends though that were obsessed with it, like seeing it after work almost every day and going early on the weekend showings. I very clearly remember CNN and other outlets talking about it being a serious mental health thing. I remember thinking it was some kind of furry thing going on, but it was grabbing “normal” people.
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21 minutes ago, flatdawgs said: to say nothing of the odds your taxes may end up being late).
Oh this decision will be reversed in April. Lot of people do not pay attention to these little details. They’ll get fucked and they’ll bitch to Congress and it’ll get changed. We are talking about people who mail this stuff in. They’ve skipped technology or are in a situation where physical paperwork is needed for some reason.
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Stop fucking believing everything Putin says.

Putin’s aide Ushakov stated that during a conversation with Trump, Putin complained about an alleged Ukrainian attack on his residence. According to Putin’s aide Yuri Ushakov, Trump was "shocked" by what he heard, and Russia may now reconsider agreements reached earlier.
However, there are discrepancies regarding the drone attack, as Russia’s Ministry of Defense reported that 89 UAVs were shot down over Russian territory on the night of December 29.
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Meanwhile, Putin doing Putin things. Who knows what this is meant to cover up
Reuters report that Putin has signed a law that officially allows Russia to ignore rulings of foreign and international courts. The new legislative act stipulates that decisions of foreign courts vested with criminal jurisdiction are no longer enforceable on the territory of Russia if the cases were considered without the participation of official representatives of the Russian Federation.
Reuters

Putin amends law to let Russia ignore foreign criminal co...
The move appears to be a response to several initiatives to go after Russian officials and military officers for alleged war crimes in Ukraine, something Moscow denies its forces are guilty of. -
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So far this year, we've bombed
Iran (we are about to bomb them again alongside Israel because Bibi needs a diversion)
Yemen
Syria
Iraq
Afghanistan
Somalia
Nigeria
And guess who joined them this holiday season?


Donald Trump says US struck Venezuelan facility 'very hard' on Christmas Eve
Asked about Venezuela during a Friday appearance on the “Cats & Cosby” show on New York’s WABC radio, Trump lauded the U.S. military’s attacks against purported drug-smuggling vessels in the region and added that U.S. forces hit a facility two days earlier.
“We just knocked out — I don’t know if you read or you saw — they have a big plant or big facility where they send the, you know, where the ships come from,” the president told hosts John Catsimatidis and Rita Cosby. “Two nights ago, we knocked that out. So we hit them very hard.”
It is unclear where the facility is located, how the attack was carried out, what damage was done or whether there were any casualties.
On Monday, Trump shed some more light on the attack, saying the U.S. personnel hit an “implementation” area.
“We hit all the boats and now we hit the area, it’s the implementation area. That’s where they implement. And that is no longer around,” the president said while at Mar-a-Lago, standing alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Trump said there was a “major explosion in the dock area where they load the boats up with drugs,” adding it took place “along the shore.”
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Israel
in Cloak Room
2 hours ago, 'stache said: Even if her turn is genuine (which I don't believe for a second) you don't come back from her bullshit into respectability.
I 100% believe she turned on Trump and she’s trying to hurt him. She made the decision a few months ago and what’s she has done and is doing - there is no coming back in terms of anybody who is all-in on Trump.
But it’s clear that she thinks she can have her pie and eat it or something - she clearly believes she can outlast Trump and be around to pick up the pieces, but when Trump is gone, the GOP will fracture into several little groups, and it’s a question of how much political capital she can muster. She’s certainly got some hardcore Qanon types backing her, but all they care about is conspiracy stuff.
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