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atomheartbevo

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  1. Dude went to the Ricardo Montalbán school of ab workouts.
  2. I don't have time to write a manifesto several paragraphs, but I've had this thought percolating in my head for a while: Prior to Trump and the MAGA politicians (those who were elected in 2016 or after) there was a bit of order in how things worked - seniority mattered. You had to put in the work and eventually you would get a turn at bigger and better opportunities. That could be a favored committee appointment in the House or Senate, or moving up from state legislatures to the House of Representatives, or taking a cabinet position, etc. It could even mean getting a chance at the White House - George H.W. Bush put in his time. Bob Dole put in his. John McCain put in his. Newt Gingrich, and so on, and so forth (even if they didn't make it out of the primaries). George W. Bush kind of jumped ahead in the line, going from governor to President with such a short career, but you could also view his election as a continuation of his dad's administration, and he was Governor of Texas. And then along comes Donald Trump and MAGA. Trump was a long-time Democrat and didn't do shit in the past to deserve to jump to the front of the line other than have money and name recognition and say bad things out loud. Trump has a whole lot of people jump on his bandwagon. If you're an old-school Republican in Congress, toiling away for years in shitty committees, and putting in your time and then you watch all of these MAGA politicians like Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, etc. come in with no background, no hard work, and they get committee assignments you wanted or get attention or campaign donations that you feel should have went your way, and you get these White House staffers who are telling you what to do, even though just a few years before they were still in college. You have Elon Musk and his DOGE bullshit wrecking things for your constituents and they are blaming you for his and Trump's fuckups. You see all of these people in Trump's orbit who had not spent years and years of shaking hands at county fairs, going out to eat with campaign contributors that you loathe, cutting ribbons at the grand opening of a Piggly Wiggly in Bumfuck, Georgia, etc. and these people are jumping ahead of you in line. You're camped out in line for Whitesnake or Hall & Oates tickets for 12 hours and then 10 minutes before the tickets go on sale, these motherfuckers walk right past you and go to the head of the line and get the best seats in the house. And these people will destroy you at the drop of a hat if they think you are not loyal enough to them and Trump, even though nobody knew who the fuck they were 8 years ago. They don't give a fuck about you spending 12 years (or 20) in Congress working up to a committee assignment you coveted - they are going to give it out to whoever the Yankee Democrat-turned-Republican favors. It has to really piss you off, especially when you realize that some of your political ambitions may not come to pass because the MAGA politicians have jumped ahead of you in line. Especially when you watch some of your longtime colleagues be shoved out of the House or Senate because they aren't loyal enough to the Yankee Democrat-turned-Republican.
  3. Are we taking bets on votes?
  4. Ehh if it didn't matter, Trump wouldn't be melting down, wouldn't have been pressuring Republicans, wouldn't publicly announce that he wants Republicans that want the files released to lose their primaries, complete with calling them RINOs/traitors. I've got one of the pizzagate/Qanon nutsos in my family (she had last voted for Obama in 2008 before Trump in 2016). She bailed on Trump over a few things and didn't vote in 2024, but "Epstein didn't kill himself" was a part of the equation (he didn't fulfill the fantasies Q promised them). Earlier this year with Trump pretending there were no files, that sealed the deal, although she didn't even bother voting last November. She helps run one of the larger Qanon conspiracy sites (although she does not like the term "Qanon" because it's not "accurate" and is touchy about it) and I keep tabs on a it a bit out of morbid curiosity, and they are not pleased with everything happened. Some of them really believed Trump would release the files. But let's say only 10-20% really care about the Epstein files, Maxwell being pardoned, etc. After the elections earlier this month, can Trumpland afford those people staying home next year? And it's easy to research these types in your family in some states, to see what their voting patterns were prior to Trump. I can see how several of my relatives voted in Texas (or at least get an idea), as well as Oklahoma. If they were voting sporadically prior to Trump, and then he pulls this shit, and he's not on the ballot next year, it's not a good look for Republicans.
  5. feel like the Air Force could simulate that so that he believed it.
  6. Trump wants to pardon Maxwelll. This is not what they signed up for. He can say it’s all Dems but he’s talking about pardoning a child sex trafficker They want those files. These are the pizzagate morons that were dumb enough to think Tom Hanks and Oprah Winfrey were draining juices from kids to stay young. They want everything
  7. Yep. Napolean who? The UK in 1834, with the American colonies/Canada/Caribbean would have been a massive economic and military powerhouse on a level hard to imagine. I think they could have pulled it off.
  8. I do like that they really hammered home a couple of major points that many don't realize: Washington's army got pretty fucking small as many Americans were not fully committed to this endeavor. A lot of British would have been fine with the colonies leaving if it stopped the hemorrhaging of money and they still had trade, and a lot of American patriots/rebels would have been fine staying within the empire if things would go back to the way they used to be. #2 is an amazing alt-history topic to run down the rabbit hole on - had the Brits backed off, listened to the American grievances, compromised in some manner (yes, they had enormous war debts still left over) and you don't have Washington, Adams, Franklin, Hamilton, Jefferson, Adams, and all of the other Founding Fathers getting together and building a new nation, what happens? If American remains a colony (or 13 colonies) into the 19th Century, what does that do with British military engagements and foreign policy into the 19th Century, Napolean, etc. What about the French Revolution? Just crazy to ponder.
  9. I did as well. NASCAR 4 for life.
  10. Oh there was a reason why Trump asked that only Democrats be investigated. And as everybody has said, he's locking up the evidence as part of an ongoing investigation. Yes, I'm one who mentioned that the emails are from the estate. There's no way the estate would be allowed to have photos and videos of the pedophiles since it's illegal to possess. That stuff was taken out of the mansion and from the island and will be buried here
  11. So we're giving the Chinese a chance to go over the F-35. Lovely.
  12. Nah, would not be a good look going into next year's elections.
  13. Yeah, I was in the Army during those days, and we had Marines who came through training on our base (artillery) and we had a few gay soldiers but they kept that shit way on the downlow, even if we suspected it, and the same was probably true of the Marines. One of my friends, you would never know unless you were friends with him, and even then it was only revealed or talked about with his closest friends when we were off-duty. Lot of paranoia. Probably didn’t help that a lot of the senior NCOs were boomers/Vietnam vets,
  14. I had a history teacher in high school who talked about how everybody involved had been British citizens outside of the Hessians and French and Indians, and it stuck with me. Even Hamilton was born in the West Indies under British rule,
  15. Gary Hart wishes he had this media. Because what the Epstein estate holds is not the criminal evidence (photos and videos) that was confiscated by the feds.
  16. If you can ignore the TikTok effects, he described her as a “36 hours a day attention needer”. He could have said attention whore, but he’s too polite
  17. It's only a protest against taxes and corruption and not the war. But as others have pointed out, a protest is a protest and gotta start somewhere, and this one is harder to discredit as being unpatriotic or whatever.
  18. Ukraine going to pick up 100 Rafeles, including some from French reserves.
  19. The Qanon and Pizzagate types are not forgetting this. Their movement may have fallen apart after they realized they were being taken for a ride by "Q", but those fuckers are still passionate about child trafficking (witness the Sound of Freedom movie which raked in a shitload of cash).
  20. Russian Oil Plunges With Top Producers Days Away From Sanctions - Bloomberg
  21. There will be a wreck one day. I followed this guy for a while, and he was in the top tier of wingsuit flyers, and then he ran into a tree and died.
  22. Yep. She may have been right about the war, but she could have done her protests in the US and not held the little photo ops that she did.
  23. While looking at that, came across this Peter Thiel Cuts Stake In PayPal Mafia Company Tesla. Musk Issues This Warning.
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