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Tuco

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  1. I am curious if he is going for Moscow or taking control of the Russian army. At this point, he could completely choke off the southern half of the front. That is some fucking leverage.
  2. You don't think he has a plan? I don't know if he reaches for Moscow today, but I doubt he just launched a major military operation because he had a bad day.
  3. The Ukrainian troll game is strong.
  4. 1. Do pilots want to fly that mission? You all are assuming that the military still wants to fight for Putin. The coup is their best hope for the war in Ukraine being over in the next three years. 2. The limitations of air superiority have definitely been demonstrated during the last year. I am curious about artillery.
  5. He certainly should be.
  6. Yeah, he's dead if he fails. He knew that going in. Which means he was pretty sure he wouldn't fail.
  7. In Obama's defense, he was asked whether he ever shot a gun, he said that he shot clay pigeons "all the time" at Camp David, and then the White House released a photo of Obama shooting a gun. He didn't look like a someone who was an experienced shooter, but he didn't really claim to be an experienced shooter. And that's what the Republicans focused on during the discussion on the gun control, because it was an easy distraction. In Trump's defense (can't believe I typed that), he has never, ever tried to appear working class. His whole brand is high-rolling business man. He is also white trash, which tends to have some overlap with the "white working class" voting block. He genuinely likes professional wrestling, McDonalds, and fucking anything that moves. He is racist, sexist, and profoundly ignorant. Playing around in a tractor cab was just playing. His bullshit is always geared at looking wealthier than he is. Well, and pretending to be religious.
  8. You decided to remove the context. Once, again, I think everyone know that Fetterman has brain damage from the stroke and that has resulted in an impairment of his speech. He has a disability. That's true of millions of Americans. What makes you a shitstain is the insistence to project that beyond what is you can observe. Millions of disabled deal with that shit on a regular basis. You claiming it to be perfectly legitimate would be like saying, "this is a thread about Obama being black so why are people complaining when I say he loves fried chicken and watermelon." You have extrapolated something unsupported from what little you can observe. It is what millions of disabled people have to deal with on a daily basis. My crazy liberal woke mindset is that perhaps you should actually try to determine whether a disabled person is capable of performing a job before just discarding them based on irrelevant attributes. Since we have that codified in our federal law, I consider it to be a shared American value. So, getting back to my original comment: Do you have any indication, other than the speech issues, that Fetterman is having cognitive issues that are interfering with his job? If not, maybe just shut the fuck for a while. And now I can assume the GOP talking point is that Fetterman is a trust fund baby. The fucking irony.
  9. So, the brain is weird and it would be stupid to assume that a stroke would affect everyone's speech pattern the same. I've posted on this thread my interaction with a neighbor who was having a stroke and she was mixing words up, but speaking them relatively clearly. So, obviously different than your anecdote. Because anecdotes aren't science. Do you have any indication, other than the speech issues, that Fetterman is having cognitive issues that are interfering with his job? If not, maybe just shut the fuck for a while. Be sure to inform us if he starts rambling about insane shit, like Jewish space lasers or trickle-down economics.
  10. Probably, although the local laws are probably more restrictive. And any decent size contractor has a strong motivation in keeping their Recordable Incident Rate low. But, the unions may be pushing rules that provide some additional break time. And that's not a terrible thing.
  11. Blacks for Trump, aka “Michael the Black Man”, is a nutcase with a history of violence. Way overdue to be banned from contact with Trump. But, FoxNews recently ran an article on him, which is likely the reason for him getting banned now.
  12. The last two cut off: ...they were 16 but looked 20. xii: "I think of you as my daughter. Is that weird?" - which Giuliani said will engaging in sexual contact with Ms. Dunphy.
  13. I think you are still giving people way too much credit for tracking anything. "My Aunt Buela went to LA to be on the Price is Right, and she said there was a homeless guy pissing on a toddler. A toddler! Ain't no way I want that for America!" That's the level of political discourse in America. Great, he compared our inflation rate against the UK. Do you think Hannity's audience believes the UK (or any European country) is the baseline? The baseline is whatever they think it should be.
  14. As we learned with Hillary, right wing talking points are effective in winning elections. There were a ton of independents and even Democrats who believed, or at least half-believed, the absurd bullshit the right wing nutcases had been saying for years about Clinton. There are more who believe that California is failing. Shit, there was an article in the Atlantic about SF being a failed state. Citing reality or a nuanced understanding of reality doesn't really matter. It would be really hard to work through those talking points in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Georgia. But, California is extremely productive for fundraising. With his connections, he would build a massive war chest in the primaries.
  15. 48% agreed/35% disagreed/17% didn't know It's really tough to win a general election while supporting Trump with those numbers. But, for Republicans, it's 67% who disagree with the charges. Hard to win a primary if you support the rule of law here.
  16. That's got to be a weird dynamic. Do you celebrate when your dead Nazi great-grandfather is returned? What's the protocol here?
  17. The rise of pop-country was a response to modern black music integrating into mainstream music. It was the music industry version of suburban white flight. But Garth seems ok.
  18. The potential of the Ukrainian economy is a bigger threat to the Russian power brokers than NATO. Ideally, Ukraine wins this war, they continue to make progress in countering corruption, the west pours a shitload of investment into the country, the average Ukrainian has their standard of living greatly increased, and the average Russian watches it all from a very close distance, both geographically and culturally. At that point, all the discussions on arm treaties and pipelines won't make any difference. It will boil down to people wanting a better life for themselves and their children, and Putin being in the way of that. [I assume this has already been said a bunch of times, a bunch of different ways, on this thread.]
  19. 1. Pretty much all human intelligence sources are anonymous to the public. The European spy agency who fed the CIA the information knows who it is. It's not like it was posted on a message board. 2. That doesn't necessarily mean the Ukrainians did it. It would be surprising if they didn't have conceptual plans drawn up on how to blow up the pipelines. But it does demonstrate they perceived some advantages in destroying it. 3. I still absolutely do not fucking care if they did. They are fighting for their lives.
  20. Now, I understand. You think there is a reasonable chance that nothing will happen, but, in such a situation, the people who said nothing would happen are still stoopid, because they didn't correctly map out why nothing happened. Sure "people are involved" has been shredded, but "any time you get any case in front of 12 people you can't possibly know the outcome..." is the kind of insightful, hard-hitting, analysis I come to this board for. Seriously, invest less in convoluted insults. They aren't paying off.
  21. I think you are extrapolating way too much. I'm certainly not saying this shit shouldn't be pushed as far as it can be pushed. But, calling the "nothing is going to happen" crowd stupid is fucking asinine. There is plenty of shit that should have stuck, but didn't. And, as much as I may appreciate the legal analysis, the reality is there is no precedent - legally or politically - for sending an expresident or future candidate to prison. The legal consequences here aren't like some trigonometric proof we can work through in a vacuum. People are involved. Politics are involved. I certainly hope Trump goes to prison and I recognize that is one of the several possible outcomes. But if the last six years have demonstrated anything, it's there is wide chasm between logic and reality. Y'all believe he is going to prison. Cool. I hope you're right. You want to throw shit at everyone who would lay money the other way? Go fuck yourself. Not everyone has to agree with you.
  22. You seem very concerned about whether people think Trump will have any consequences. Not sure why. Question for the board: let’s assume Trump is convicted and sentenced to three years in prison. How confident are you that Biden wouldn’t pardon him prior to that sentence starting? 100%? 75%?
  23. Yeah. For the last 7 years or so. What channel were you watching? I would think Trump's most solid legal defense would be to claim that he is a lying piece of shit. His vulnerability to prosecution is based on him speaking honestly to people in a room. He could have been looking at a Denny's menu and claiming it was secret war plans. Would that really seem unlikely or out of place considering what we know about him? Shit, they could bring in a couple hundred million character witnesses who would testify that he just says stupid shit all the time, and for no particular reason. I doubt Trump would make such a claim, which makes me smile a bit.
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