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Tuco

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  1. I don't know who else follows GeographyNow, but he's a youtuber who has been doing videos on all of the UN recognized countries in alphabetical order. He made it up to Ukraine. Good primer on the country including current events.
  2. So, the staffer accusing Schlapp of sexual assault went public today after the courts said he needed to in order to move forward with the lawsuit. CNN The most shocking part: What kind of bleeding heart liberal nonsense is that? That's gotta be bullshit, right?
  3. There’s about to be a bunch of downtown Walgreens closing throughout big cities. Forget the red state / blue state thing. The real divide is urban rural. In those locations, it’s never much of a walk to a competitor. And it’s hard to get staff. Downtown retail is already struggling since Covid and remote workers. Those stores are fucked.
  4. Yep. Wealth, even enough wealth for a plane ticket and a hotel stay, is sufficient to insulate them from the worst repercussions of these laws. They can afford to support poorly written, one-sided, virtue signal laws, because they can always buy their way out of it. This isn't about crafting a workable system. Nebraska's heartbeat bill is likely hitting the floor this week. Republicans have a fillibuster-proof majority. Senator Cavanaugh is looking to pull out every delay tactic, on every bill, as she vows to "burn this session to the ground." Activists are talking about civil disobedience to gum up the session and delay it. I really wish it all had a chance of working.
  5. The first thought that comes to mind: Don't walk under a fork lift's load. I may have had too many site safety orientations.
  6. This seems like a really bad way to launder money. Generally, you want to funnel illegal cash into legitimate business in a way that doesn't leave a paper trail. Cash businesses are great for that. But there is all sorts of documentation required for transferring money into a campaign and all sorts of documentation to go from the campaign to the car wash. I know these people are stupid, but that seems overly complicated and stupid. My best bet is that the owner used the same tax-id for the car wash as he did for his aviation company. It could still be a grift, but one that is harder to prove. The other reasonable possibility is that it is just straight-up embezzlement: the owner and a campaign worker cut real checks to a fake company for fake services.
  7. Ok, so pretty obvious embezzlement. Now the question is who helped. —— Edit: one of the responses said the donor also owned an aviation company that has a jet. Might be a case of setting up multiple companies under one entity.
  8. Is this where the simulation sets it up so a bunch of prolifers hold rallies to pull the plug?
  9. I would say his military bonafides exceed any President since the first Bush. Which is also an indication that no one really cares that much about military service. I agree with the good talker / lack of charisma thing. He probably has a better shot of winning the Presidency than becoming a Senator from or Governor of fucking Indiana. I think changing states would mean ditching the Mayor Pete from the conservative Midwest state thing and make him look like an opportunist. So, it’s more likely he would take high profile appointments to build the resume.
  10. Well, sure. But I think there is a large percentage of Pro-Putin Americans who justify that support in their version of Christianity. I’d be curious in what the correlation is between having a favorable opinion of Russia and identifying yourself as Christian or Evangelical Christian. I would guess over 90% for Christian.
  11. I would say a huge part of it is because Russia is about 50 years behind the US on social issues. They are proudly homophobic. The two conservative organizations the Butina courted were the the NRA and the National Prayer Breakfast. Putin frequently uses “anti-woke” rhetoric that is directly quoted by US Christian outlets. The Wagner Group uses Crusader iconography and rhetoric. There are many right wingers who believe that the US has lost its Christian culture and look to Russia as the last bastion Christian power. Fucking Christians.
  12. If it makes you feel any better, you’re both wrong. Calories are a unit of measurement. It’s fine to use less. You get your oil changed in “15 minutes or less.” My fuel tank holds “less than 20 gallons.” It’s all pretty much bullshit anyway.
  13. West Virginia isn't as red as it seems. Up until 2020, there were more registered Dems than Republicans. (In 2020 it was 36.8% R to 36.5% D; link ) The mental disconnect there is that West Virginia Democrats aren't really national Democrats. They are their own category, born out of the coal miner unions. The good news for Manchin is that he isn't really a national Democrat either. So, yeah, there are a lot of WVDems (and former WVDems) who are still politically aligned with a candidate like Manchin but wouldn't consider voting for a "liberal" like Biden. The shift from state party affiliation to national party affiliation has probably been the most dramatic political shift in my lifetime. West Virginia is just behind the curve a little. Who know how long a candidate like Manchin can hold out, but he might have another cycle in him.
  14. To recap, the Civil War was merely a disagreement of tradition versus change. And, "tradition" is also the reason she gave for defending the flag and agreeing with Confederate Memorial Month. And, for what it's worth, I think the interviewer asked the question in a way that would illicit an answer offensive to his group. He didn't ask a question obscured by academia like, "what were the primary causes of the civil war?" Something like that would give her leeway to lean into the states' rights nonsense that still passes for legitimate in some circles. He asked "Why was the Civil War wrong?" Straight-up, down the middle of the plate. And she fucking dodged the obvious answer. Because she is a fucking cowardly slimeball.
  15. I think live-action is a better medium for something this serious.
  16. Oh. Maybe that explains why you are a bit high strung.
  17. I assume they could only grant immunity for criminal repercussions. His license would be out flapping in the wind.
  18. He means “white people,” right?
  19. Fair nuf.
  20. So, here in Seattle we have a vote coming up. It’s a ballot initiative on whether the city should set up a board to manage nonprofit social housing coops basically. King County has a great website that summarizes the initiative, provides details, and has a pro and con position. The pro position is penned by some liberal Democrats. No surprise there. The con position is penned by some liberal, grassroots, activists, who believe it’s an unnecessary distraction that diverts resources from current efforts. Hard for me to distinguish who is right. They both seem like good people who disagree on how to achieve a noble goal. Meanwhile, my friends back in Nebraska are fighting efforts to make drag shows illegal. Abortion, voting rights, and gun control are also on the docket. I almost feel guilty.
  21. What request?
  22. Yeah, Dems have been addressing the material needs of rural Americans and old people for decades, and they continue to lose those groups, and by increasing margins. Most people are too ignorant or lazy to understand how they are affected by financial policies.
  23. I think he would be more conservative than Warren or Sanders, but there is nothing I have read that would imply he is more conservative than Biden. During the campaign, in response to Warren’s antitrust statements, Pete said the FTC needs to be given additional tools to fight big Tech monopolies. It isn’t terribly controversial, but it’s more than Biden said. My guess is you’d prefer Buttigieg because he’s on the bench. 2nd string quarterbacks are frequently popular. I would also prefer Buttigieg. But I don’t believe his familiarity with the military or corporate America would translate to a more generous deference for either. Like a good butcher, his familiarity with the pig means he knows where to apply the knife.
  24. Based on policy? I would say Biden is more conservative. Is there a policy position where Joe is left of Pete? Or it more of a personality thing?
  25. The spy ballon thing reminded me of the time Japan bombed Omaha in WW2. Relatively late in the war, the Japanese desperately wanted to disrupt the American war effort. The loaded up a bunch of balloons with incendiary ordinance and launched the them into the air stream, with a leakage rates that they believed would cause them to land in the US. They were mainly trying to cause forest fires in the western US. The effort wasn't terribly successful, although I think it did cause some fatalities as a few people who found unexploded bombs didn't stay clear. And, one of these bombs did come down in Omaha, near an area of town called Dundee. The US Military didn't want the Japanese to have any notion of whether it was successful, so they completely covered it up.
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