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  1. What's the lesson for Ukraine from this win from 45 years ago, when you defeated a Russian team [during the 1980 Winter Olympics] against all odds?
     

    President Trump: Well, it's a similar situation, isn't it? Let's see what happens. We're working on seeing if we can make a deal right now. We're going to see. We'll soon know.

     

  2. The only reason he might push for it is for some votes.

    But this comment..

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    “We’re looking at it. Some people like it, some people hate it,” Trump said this summer. “Some people hate the whole concept of marijuana because it does bad for the children, it does bad for the people that are older than children.

    They are called “adults” Donnie.

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  3. 2 hours ago, Texas Jeff said:

    Trump's plan was to give each person on an exchange plan a total of $1500.  Per year.  Unless you are under 50 years old, in which case it was $1000.  Per year.  In an HSA.

    2 hours ago, VABuckeye said:

    Trump logic.  Gotta love it. 

    37 minutes ago, miguelito said:

    It's a banana Michael, what could it cost, ten dollars?

    He knows his audience can be bribed for cheap.

  4. 3 hours ago, cmontexas said:

    AI needs to have the same regulations as nuclear research

    I'm going to start collections of photos of various politicians' family members (wives and mothers) and start generating lots and lots of AI porn using those photos.

    Wouldn't take too much spreading that around before Congress gets interested.

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  5. EU Foreign Policy Chief, Kaja Kallas: "The EU just decided to indefinitely immobilize Russian assets. This ensures that up to €210 billion in Russian funds stay on EU soil, unless Russia fully pays reparations to Ukraine for the damage it has caused. We keep increasing the pressure on Russia until it takes negotiations seriously."

    And more sanctions:

     

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  6. Wish they would pound Moscow and St Petersburg, but I understand why they don’t for now.

    Odesa is without electricity, water, gas, and communication after one of Russia’s most intense attacks of the war. More than ten explosions have been reported, involving ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, Oniks missiles, and Kinzhal hypersonic missiles. This is a city of 1 million people, including 200,000 children. Russia’s aim is clear: to create a humanitarian catastrophe in Odesa on the eve of Christmas. Another wave is expected — over 50 Shahed drones are approaching.

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  7. 4 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

    See this is the shit that really gets me. White collar crime. These people deserve the worst punishment.  

    Yeah, it’s not some guy wrongly convicted or who spend 20 years in prison for some marijuana he did when he was 18. It’s a guy who spent years deliberately ripping off thousands.  

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  8. More on what @Schulz2.0 posted earlier - Russia fucking aorund with Turkey?

    Hours after phone call Friday between Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Russia’s Vladimir Putin, the Russian Armed Forces launched a major ballistic missile and drone attack against the Odesa Oblast of Southern Ukraine, striking two ports and damaging at least three commercial vessel, all of which were owned by companies based in Turkey. One of the vessel, the Panamanian-flagged and Turkish-owned CENK T, a roll-on/roll-off passenger ferry, was struck by at least one drone, starting a large fire which caused extensive damage to the ship, according to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine.

     

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  9. 2 hours ago, Ghost of LL said:

    It may be rational for Russia to believe that if it wants to retake the Baltics, 2026 is going to be its last chance.  After that, Europe's rearmament may make that impossible.

    I get the parallels with WWI, but the problem for Putin is that he's running out of manpower fast - put aside that the soldiers we've seen in Ukraine seem to be getting nothing for body armor and helmets (other than what they can strip off of the dead) or it's inconsistent and that they are getting little training. As the video I posted above mentioned, he's reached the limit on paying civilians to voluntarily join up. The regional governments can't afford it, and a lot of outlying areas are pretty tapped out anyways.

    When that draft notice came out last week about calling up reservists, I think there was a very good reason they mentioned calling up reservists to join the National Guard - that organization exists to protect the government itself.  It's not a part-time gig or anything, it's literally the guys who would be putting down demonstrations.

    He is going to have to mobilize young men in Moscow and St. Petersburg at some point, and that is not going to go over well.

    The population as a whole already knows that Ukraine was too much - we are about to hit the 4th year after the 3-day excursion to Kyiv and the people of Moscow have heard air raid sirens and outlying suburbs have lost power and heard the explosions.  Going after NATO countries would be far worse.

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  10. 2 hours ago, Sawbonz said:

     2026 is going to be interesting 

    Very interesting, especially among the younger Republicans (in their 50s and under) who still plan on a career in politics past Trump - they don't want to be tainted, and when you look at the shit-storm that has been brewing, they have to be nervous - when districts start flipping, it's not a given they can be easily flipped back (and 2026 means just 4 years until redistricting). Hell, Trump is willing to let tens of millions of Americans watch their healthcare costs soar within the next two months, which is going to piss people off and get them out next November, and he still can't figure out what to do with the economy, other than offer bailouts from the tariff problem he created.

    And then there is 2028. It's pretty much a given the GOP will lose big next November, and you don't want to be the Presidential candidate in 2028 because you will lose and when you lose, you're out.  You can be war heroes like Bob Dobbs Dole or John McCain and it won't matter. You pick a bad year to run, that's your only chance.

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