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atomheartbevo

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  1. Hedgehog getting spicey and trying to demote him while Trump is posting AI videos of the six behind bars. "Five of the six individuals in that video do not fall under @DeptofWar jurisdiction," Hegseth wrote on social media. "However, Mark Kelly (retired Navy Commander) is still subject to UCMJ—and he knows that." “The video made by the ‘Seditious Six’ was despicable, reckless, and false," Hegseth wrote. “Encouraging our warriors to ignore the orders of their Commanders undermines every aspect of ’good order and discipline.'"
  2. Russia’s economy has turned into a militarized, "two-speed" system in which the military-industrial complex and war rents prop up growth by draining resources from the private sector and normal civilian industries. Russian economy and the Russian regions are kept afloat by the war and state procurement, while the civilian sector and most regions are slipping into stagnation. Rising incomes and employment are essentially a bubble inflated by federal spending and a labor shortage, and by 2026 regional budgets risk falling into the red - meaning that ending the war without deep restructuring will almost certainly trigger a new, severe economic collapse. The reforms and structural changes needed to escape this trap are politically out of reach for the Kremlin. As a result, the regime’s goal is not to prevent a crisis, but to avert a collapse: prolong the "neither war nor peace" mode withing the country for as long as possible while maintaining high military spending; intensify manual redistribution of resources in favor of the defense sector and "loyal" regions; mask the deterioration in living standards with statistics and propaganda; rely on gray export schemes and partial sanction relief without changing course. In this context, Moscow’s interest in "peace negotiations" is not an attempt to end the war, but an effort to secure a favorable pause: to freeze the front and its territorial seizures, extract partial sanctions relief, and buy time to stretch out the inevitable crisis into a long, managed stagnation of the wartime economy.
  3. Always thought he as an Irishman from Wisconsin, didn’t realize he was an Italian from New Jersey.
  4. The Man responds. When I was 22 years old, I commissioned as an Ensign in the United States Navy and swore an oath to the Constitution. I upheld that oath through flight school, multiple deployments on the USS Midway, 39 combat missions in Operation Desert Storm, test pilot school, four space shuttle flights at NASA, and every day since I retired – which I did after my wife Gabby was shot in the head while serving her constituents. In combat, I had a missile blow up next to my jet and flew through anti-aircraft fire to drop bombs on enemy targets. At NASA, I launched on a rocket, commanded the space shuttle, and was part of the recovery mission that brought home the bodies of my astronaut classmates who died on Columbia. I did all of this in service to this country that I love and has given me so much. Secretary Hegseth’s tweet is the first I heard of this. I also saw the President’s posts saying I should be arrested, hanged, and put to death. If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies who care more about their own power than protecting the Constitution.
  5. It is a mystery. One of the great “what ifs”. Imagine if there was somebody of his stature still around now, with his forces.
  6. “You know, giant strapping young men come up to me and they say “President Trump, why do they call you President, they should call you Warlord of America” and you know, they have tears in their eyes when they say it. And they tell me there is a warlord on Mars and I tell them “no, Leon has a lot of ideas, but he hasn’t gotten there yet.””
  7. I do not think it will go the way hedgehog thinks it will go and it will elevate Mark Kelly’s status even higher. Ole Petey knows nothing will happen, he’s just trying to scare other vets into shutting up. This administration is falling apart and lashing out at everybody and everything. It has no discipline, no guardrails. It’s going to Thelma and Louise itself off of a cliff. Trump has lost control of Congress, his lawyers fuck up simple things like the Texas redistricting case, and they can’t even prosecute his enemies because he can’t get anybody appointed who will do his dirty work.
  8. I think the Texas bar exam requires you to be at least 18 years old.
  9. They can always get a new coach. Russians on the other hand are screwed. When things go south, they are really going to go south.
  10. What if I told you that Carter cared more about other planets… And even had a family there
  11. Are we gonna bomb somebody today? CNN: Breaking news… this is big, we have learned that the justice department's case against former FBI director Jim Comey and the New York attorney general have both been dismissed
  12. Hell, Trump got Dick Cheney to vote for Kamala Harris.
  13. What’s the Dem equivalent of Trump losing Nick Fuentes, Laura Loomer, and Marjorie Taylor Greene?
  14. I didn’t know we were buddies in real life.
  15. https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/aviation-news/us-issues-security-notam-for-venezuelan-airspace/ Apparently 8 airlines have canceled flights into Venezuela.
  16. My problem with it is that there always has to be a supporting cast of sorts, and even a situation where members of that supporting cast are at the same level - one could make the case for Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, etc.
  17. Sources: Art Briles to coach at Division II Eastern New Mexico - ESPN
  18. The EU's peace plan, written knowing that Russia will not agree to it.
  19. Couldn't have been improved on but definitely would have liked to have binged it the first time, or at least 3 episodes at a time. Washington was definitely the real deal. He dealt with that mutiny, and he could have created a dictatorship of sorts, but he didn't. Like that one historian said, I'm not a fan of the Great Man theory, but I feel like Washington is one of a select few that could fall into that category. I don't think anybody else could have done what he did. Gates obviously blew it. Benedict Arnold proved that some things cannot be defeated.
  20. Holy shit, the Russian should have kept still and not fired, he might not have been spotted. And that drone operator's favorite scene in any movie?
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