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Tuco

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  1. The fucker might not make July. He hasn't been seen since Rostov and Russian state media announced "jk, he is still under investigation for armed revolt." On one hand, this weekend has been a major tease. He had a shot at Moscow and Putin. Shit, even if he had just camped in Rostov for a couple of days, choking out supply and diverting troops, you have to think the Southern front would have collapsed. But, that stupid shitstain is all but dead and his forces are scattered and pissed off. That's a pretty good weekend.
  2. Well, either Pretzel made a deal, or, more likely, TASS is spreading misinformation that the coup is about to be settled to avoid others joining up.
  3. I'm okay with not solving the whole problem at once. What happens in Russia is pretty low on my priority list. For now, I will celebrate the complete fucking implosion of the Russian war effort.
  4. Homer's boss: "If you throw a coup on Friday, don't bother coming in on Monday." Homer: "Whoo-hoo, four day weekend!"
  5. …and, even if Wagner stops now and doesn’t move on Moscow, you have to think logistics are completely fucked. Putin isn’t going to resupply troops through Wagner held Rostov. Unless this shit is fixed in the next 24 hours, I’d expect to see mass desertion, surrenders, or possibly organized retreat from the fronts in the next 72 hours. And I have no idea what is going on in Belarus. That can’t be a coincidence, but I don’t know who is driving it. Could be a similar dynamic where suddenly a major supply line is completely fucked.
  6. Well, since he is saying the invasion was built on lies I doubt he will continue the pointless war of attrition. I think that is his selling point to get the regular army flips. My bet is he would pullback to pre invasion lines and fortify. So, conflict would continue over Crimea, but probably be a cooler stalemate, possibly an outright ceasefire.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. The Ukrainian troll game is strong.
  10. 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.
  11. He certainly should be.
  12. Yeah, he's dead if he fails. He knew that going in. Which means he was pretty sure he wouldn't fail.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. That's got to be a weird dynamic. Do you celebrate when your dead Nazi great-grandfather is returned? What's the protocol here?
  23. 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.
  24. 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.]
  25. 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.
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