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atomheartbevo

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  1. I put it at 75% or greater at this point. We are barreling down the road towards it and somebody appears to have cut the brakes. We are laying way too much groundwork. This is not trying to stop some drugs or intimidate Maduro.
  2. You only need to look at how Russians treat wounded Russians. American soldiers will risk their lives and move heaven and hell to help their wounded buddies, Russians have been caught on video executing them, and Russian officers deliberately report KIAs as MIAs so that families don’t get benefits. That Russian loyalty may be transactional, but their whole society is pretty fucked up. The best and brightest fled in 2022/2023.
  3. It was not over capacity. In the spring, they were told they were under capacity. More importantly, parents were told that portables would be moved into Lamar so that Lamar classrooms would not be packed to the walls when they were going to close the middle schools for this fall. AISD had no problems with portables when they needed to placate parents over class sizes being too big at Lamar. Portables became bad over the summer when AISD needed them to count against schools. Bond money that was already allocated was not being used at BW that would’ve addressed certain issues that were also used against it. Other schools received their bond money within that timeframe, ours certainly did, and a lot of our stuff was not critical. When we drove by BW every now and then, there was one of those big bond money signs out front and then apparently it mysteriously disappeared in the lead up to all of this. It’s a hot mess on AISD’s part and I’m very concerned about the boundary changes that were coming out of that because they affected my kids’ middle school and high school, and because they seemed to have lost focus on the state takeover. And I wonder what else was going on. Moving forward, AISD Needs to be hyper-focused on the state takeover and I’m concerned that they won’t be. If or when the state takes over, there will be more than enough parents who have the means who will move their kids to private schools, and plenty of parents on the fringes of Austin who may not be able to afford a fancy private school, but maybe tempted to move a few miles down the road to a different school district. A lot more schools would have to be closed if that happens, and I don’t see those students coming back to AISD when the state lets it go several years down the road.
  4. $19.99 for me as well. That’s a hard pass. I’m about to shell out for Zootopia 2.
  5. So are we invading Nigeria or Venezuela on the morning of December 19?
  6. Unless you’re in Utah.
  7. "Putin has spent the entire year trying to play President Trump for a fool. If Administration officials are more concerned with appeasing Putin than securing real peace, then the President ought to find new advisors. Rewarding Russian butchery would be disastrous to America’s interests. And a capitulation like Biden’s abandonment of Afghanistan would be catastrophic to a legacy of peace through strength." ——- Comparing him to Biden is the chef’s kiss and bound to piss of Trump.
  8. Maybe an extinction-level event for the GOP. She is holding out for her pension, but may get out early enough not to be too tainted (helped that she was the loudest out there pushing for the release). I know we think it's about the primary, but she might be self-aware enough and willing to leave office and come back later on after the dust settles.
  9. Trump’s Ukraine Peace Plan Would Grant Key Russian Demands
  10. Fucking idiots are sending a lot of fire downrange into civilian areas
  11. Budanov personally welcomed her home
  12. And tying into the above, Russia simply can't sustain this, and even when we skip posting this stuff daily, this is happening every night now.
  13. Having just watched Ken Burns' The American Revolution and having gone back and started watching his Vietnam series, there's definitely some comparisons to Ukraine to be made (a lot to be made to the Revolution series, even if it was about our founding, still some great comparisons to be made). As one of the historians on the Revolution series said, and as many other historians have said and several of us have mentioned the quote in this thread, Washington realized he didn't have to win, he just had to not lose. Britain was still heavily in debt from the Seven Years War, and with France and Spain entering, it went from them trying to take the North American colonies to them running the risk of losing a lot more than those colonies (including the Caribbean colonies, Canada, etc.) and the British public getting worn out. Similar in Vietnam - they didn't have to defeat us (and arguably couldn't in a stand-up fight with our air power), but they just had to outlast us (or rather the American public's support). Same for Ukraine. They don't have to win the major battles, but when Russia dips into their gold reserves, when they shut down exports because infrastructure was knocked offline or sanctions shut them down, when they have to leave oil & gas infrastructure because Ukraine keeps taking out air defenses elsewhere faster than they can manufacture them, that's Ukraine winning battles that aren't on the battlefield.
  14. When you lose Nick Fuentes, Laura Loomer, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Lauren Boebert, it does not bode well midterms.
  15. Turf wars. Factions. This from one of the statements above sums it up.
  16. There’s now at least two back pedals
  17. Holy fucking shit. This is fucking insane.
  18. https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-launch-new-phase-venezuela-operations-sources-say-2025-11-22/ U.S. hopes to ramp up pressure on Maduro government Covert operations expected to be first step, sources say U.S. options include overthrowing Maduro We are going to launch this before December 19th aren’t we?
  19. I do think it would be hard to cover up something his massive, and there's always the quote about something sufficiently advanced would appear like magic to some, but there are some respected people in this doc. But in Trump's case, it's the exact kind of thing he wouldn't shut up about - it would drive him crazy to have to sit on something that would draw so much attention to him. This is the guy who bragged about releasing JFK files, Amelia Earhardt files, and other conspiracy-related stuff (he went out of his way to appeal to conspiracy fans). He would love to be the President who goes down in history as revealing the biggest conspiracy in all of humanity. If he stepped up to the mike, there are 70 million people and a couple of news networks that would take it seriously.
  20. Trump wouldn’t be able to shut up about them if they were. He would be the President that talks about it.
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