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  1. 23 minutes ago, Schulz2.0 said:

    Much different from our current government where corruption is openly encouraged.

    And Putin demands elections in Ukraine all the while nobody wants to talk about there not being any fair elections in Russia for decades, because Putin jails his election rivals, and even murders them. 

    And after 2022’s main invasion, Ukraine can’t even have elections because it’s under martial law.  When Russia leaves, they can lift martial law and go back to elections.  Hell, even if they could hold elections, we know Russia would not pass up the juicy target that would be lines of Ukrainians waiting to vote.  

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  2. “The Autopen is not allowed to be used if approval is not specifically given by the President of the United States.”

     

    I could swear Joe Biden was President.  Also, Trump lashing out like this means some other scandal (or details about a current scandal) is about to rear its ugly head.

    Poor Venezuela. He’s already announced a ground war of sorts, it’s just a matter of time where the scandal is too big.

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  3. On 11/25/2025 at 3:50 AM, Parliament said:

    Add in a Crossfitter and you have a REAL party.

    19 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    And a Subaru owner.   The entire meal will be taken up by a conversation touting the benefits of CrossFit and owning a Subaru and political discussions will not be able to happen.

    And a libertarian.  A libertarian at a Thanksgiving dinner with a Crossfitter and Subaru owner would complete the trifecta, and probably result in three deaths.

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  4. 3 hours ago, MissingInAction said:

    I love this movie. It had all the best comedic actors of the time, John Williams score, Christopher Lee as a nazi, zoot suit riot, Ned Beatty blasting an AA gun through a house, incredible practical effects, and the list goes on.

    If you dont like this movie you hate Merica!

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  5. We are absolutely going to war.

    https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/27/politics/trump-says-us-land-action-in-venezuela-very-soon
     

    President Donald Trump suggested Thursday that the United States is preparing to take new action against alleged drug trafficking networks in Venezuela, telling service members during a Thanksgiving call that efforts for strikes on land will be starting “very soon.”

    “In recent weeks, you’ve been working to deter Venezuelan drug traffickers, of which there are many. Of course, there aren’t too many coming in by sea anymore,” Trump told service members in the call.

    You probably noticed that people aren’t wanting to be delivering by sea, and we’ll be starting to stop them by land also,” the president continued. “The land is easier, but that’s going to start very soon.

    Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all

    The longer the U.S. surveillance aircraft followed the boat, the more confident intelligence analysts watching from command centers became that the 11 people on board were ferrying drugs.

    Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a spoken directive, according to two people with direct knowledge of the operation. “The order was to kill everybody,” one of them said.

    A missile screamed off the Trinidad coast, striking the vessel and igniting a blaze from bow to stern. For minutes, commanders watched the boat burning on a live drone feed. As the smoke cleared, they got a jolt: Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck.

    The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack — the opening salvo in the Trump administration’s war on suspected drug traffickers in the Western Hemisphere — ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, two people familiar with the matter said. The two men were blown apart in the water.

    Hegseth’s order, which has not been previously reported, adds another dimension to the campaign against suspected drug traffickers.

     Some current and former U.S. officials and law-of-war experts have said that the Pentagon’s lethal campaign — which has killed more than 80 people to date — is unlawful and may expose those most directly involved to future prosecution.

    The alleged traffickers pose no imminent threat of attack against the United States and are not, as the Trump administration has tried to argue, in an “armed conflict” with the U.S., these officials and experts say. Because there is no legitimate war between the two sides, killing any of the men in the boats “amounts to murder,” said Todd Huntley, a former military lawyer who advised Special Operations forces for seven years at the height of the U.S. counterterrorism campaign.

    Even if the U.S. were at war with the traffickers, an order to kill all the boat’s occupants if they were no longer able to fight “would in essence be an order to show no quarter, which would be a war crime,” said Huntley, now director of the national security law program at Georgetown Law.

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  6. 2 hours ago, PTINS said:

    The sad reality is we are almost 3 years down the road, and here we are. The former arsenal of democracy; now we have our hands extended, not to lift those that need a hand, but to pull them out of the way so we can make a few bucks off of what they have.

    Yes, but we gave them enough aid to survive, and they've had to build a homegrown defense industry that includes the means to hit Russia deep, hard, and where it counts, and that nobody can tell them how to use, and Europe is finally starting to step out of our shadow.

    It's unfortunate that in our lifetimes, we are watching the US give up our world leadership role, the "arsenal of democracy", but the kids are...errrr..Ukraine is going to be all right in the long run.  We gave them the bare minimum, and they pulled themselves together and are hurting Russia far more here in 2025 than we could have imagined at the end of 2022.

    They may have just lost Pokrovsk, but Putin was going to do anything possible to get a victory ahead of all of these bullshit peace talks to anchor his claims over Ukrainian land and to try and lay the groundwork for something before the 4th anniversary comes up, but guess what?  He killed or wounded almost 15% of the entire Russian Army just to take this town of 60,000 people. Imagine if we killed or wounded 15% of the United States Army to take a city the size of Pflugerville.

    And Finland and Sweden joined NATO. 

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  7. 1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Also, this baffles me, she hired her paramour at $250/hour.  

    I've been a paramour for a lot less than $250 hour.

    I didn't feel "low-quality"

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