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Brandywine

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  1. All I can say is - DANG! That was a wild ride.
  2. Finished the first 4 episodes and ready to continue but waiting on wife to stop dragging her feet or I’m starting without her. Love this series!!!’
  3. Where does this guy get off? He goes golfing in his plush hotels whenever the going gets to tough. And isn’t Melania trying to build a tennis court at the White House?
  4. That article is spot on and it pisses me off. Claim that he saved 2 million lives so that any deaths below that number is a victory! So Trump! Wake Up!!!!! America!
  5. I knew Christopher didnt have anything to do with this. I like both their work but it can be confusing. Interstellar is a perfect example.
  6. I like it too. Kind of rambling here. This last episode was OK but not bad. It did at times seem a little all over the place. It would be interesting to know how Michael Crichton would have felt about how his creation is being presented. Had he been involved it probably would have been different in some ways - but he was a visionary and future thinker, so I think he would have liked it. However, I will say- those Nolan boys can put out confusing films and stories.
  7. And that's still probably way more than Trump, which I suspect is 0.
  8. Trump said he was going to watch Robert Jeffries yesterday for Easter. I wonder if he actually did and if his ADD kicked in and he started his tweeting of vile and venom?
  9. He just thinks he’s being cute and funny. He spends too much time being childish and immature instead of doing his job. A job he and his family are being paid for, handsomely.
  10. Tonight wasn’t all that great to me.
  11. Why hasn’t twitter kicked him off by now? This 8th grade bully needs to leave. He accuses people of not being nice to him and yet he’s the worse bully on social media. And he’s President of the US. He’s a messed up immature child.
  12. Trump has lied and conned his whole life and gotten away with it. He’s doing it now too. He and the GOP deserve each other. They’re made out of the same cloth and all in on it!
  13. How in the hell did Trump get away with that against McCain? Especially since Trump’s a draft dodger.
  14. Because Easter, Jesus, Christianity mean nothing except votes to him. That’s it, period. As far as he’s concerned- he’s God.
  15. I hope this is OK posting this and I'm not sure what the policy is. So forgive if I'm posting something I'm not suppose to post. I thought this was well said. It is an opinion, btw, written by the Dallas Morning News Editorial Board. https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/editorials/2020/04/08/trump-is-responsible-for-the-navys-broken-chain-of-command/ Trump is responsible for the Navy’s broken chain of command The weeklong drama that ended Tuesday with the resignation of acting Navy secretary Thomas Modly is all the more tragic because it didn’t have to happen. None of it. Not the firing of USS Theodore Roosevelt Capt. Brett Crozier for a letter he wrote about a coronavirus outbreak on his ship. Not the subsequent tirade aboard the Roosevelt that led to Modly’s resignation. Not the fear and uncertainty among military families, nor the outpouring of support for Crozier that followed his April 2 firing. Before you choose sides about who was in the wrong here, you should first ask yourself how we arrived at this broken chain of command and what it says about our commander in chief and, by extension, the morale of our 2.2 million active and reserve service members who are under unimaginable stress in often close quarters with little room for social distancing or quarantine while deployed. Modly, you might recall, was an “acting” Navy secretary because his predecessor, Richard V. Spencer, was fired for trying to prevent President Donald Trump from once again intervening in the military justice system’s handling of a war-crimes case involving a Navy SEAL who was acquitted of murder but convicted last July of posing for photographs with a dead Islamic State fighter in Iraq in 2017. Spencer was eventually fired for not including Defense Secretary Mark Esper in his attempts to convince the White House to not intervene in whether the SEAL should be demoted, as the jury in his military trial had ruled, or be allowed to keep his trident pin, an insignia SEALs wear denoting their membership in the elite force. All this, Spencer said in an op-ed after being fired, was highly irregular. “Normally, military justice works best when senior leadership stays far away,” he wrote. “A system that prevents command influence is what separates our armed forces from others. Our system of military justice has helped build the world’s most powerful navy; good leaders get promoted, bad ones get moved out, and criminals are punished.” Fast-forward to last week’s firing of Crozier, a Naval Academy graduate and respected captain of a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, and you’ll see that good leaders don’t always get promoted. To the contrary, in this administration under this commander in chief, they often get fired. On April 1, Modly said of Crozier that “The fact that he wrote the letter up to his chain of command to express his concerns would absolutely not result in any type of retaliation.” Yet the very next day, the acting Navy secretary did an about-face, saying Crozier was fired for sending a letter asking for help to better contain a COVID-19 outbreak aboard his 5,000-crew ship in a “non-secure, unclassified” email that he should have known would be leaked. In the letter, Crozier said nearly 100 of his crew members had tested positive and he called for “decisive action,” removing all but some 500 essential crew members from the ship so they could practice social distancing on the ship’s close quarters. “Sailors do not need to die,” Crozier wrote in the letter. “If we do not act now, we are failing to properly take care of our most trusted asset — our Sailors.” In a video that has since gone viral, his crew appeared to appreciate his efforts, chanting his name and applauding as he left the ship after being relieved from duty. After firing Crozier, Modly made the misguided decision to board the Theodore Roosevelt on April 5 in Guam and say of the ship’s former captain that if he didn’t think his letter would be released he was either “too naïve” or “too stupid” to be the ship’s commanding officer. Modly apologized, but then resigned not long thereafter. Since leaving his command, Crozier has tested positive for the coronavirus and the number of his former crew that have tested positive has risen above 150. Importantly, the Navy says it now has plans to quarantine all but 1,000 crew members in Guam, where the carrier is docked, about 500 more than Crozier argued were needed aboard the vessel. What’s most disturbing about all this is that it reflects the chaos emanating from the White House and our commander in chief at a time when what we need is a steady hand and trustworthiness. The unprecedented number of acting secretaries in this administration and the incredibly high turnover rate in nearly every department is also a sign of poor leadership. Modly’s performance aboard the Theodore Roosevelt was, in our view, more than enough for him to tender his resignation. But then, we place responsibility for the entire episode on the desk of the president. It’s up to him to create an administration where competent leaders and the systems they oversee, both in the military and the government, work properly. What’s incredibly telling, and sad, in all this, is that two decent and well-respected Naval Academy graduates and military leaders are now sidelined at a time when we need them most. Tragically, all three men, Spencer, Crozier and now Modly, exited the scene at a time when their service was needed. We’ve said it many times, but, yes, leadership matters, especially in times of crisis. Sadly, what we’re seeing is that under this commander in chief’s leadership, critical components of our system are cracking apart. That’s dangerous even in the best of times.
  16. It’s been a very long time since I read the books but I also thought they were lesbians. And Pussy was head lesbian. Of course it was not talked a lot about back then just assumed. I just remember In the movie those girls running out of the planes and thinking “those girls have some big bazookas”. Pretty hot!
  17. I’m just so upset Ivanka’s upset. Bless her very, very, very tiny cold heart.
  18. Trump was total entertainment, and he lied and told them he’d give them anything they wanted. IMO, his master stroke was giving an inauguration speech to his base that presented the US as a black hole waste land that he inherited, which was a lie and what they believed. It allowed for him to take credit for the growth, both in jobs and economy, that we were already experiencing under Obama. Trump is a con artist. I dread this presidential campaign.
  19. If Joe has dementia then what the hell is going on with Donald? He has short term memory as well as ADD, lies, can’t read or comprehend complex problems. And he’s a con artist. So, there you go! Sounds like we’re screwed!
  20. The other party liked Bernie only because they knew Trump would landslide him. Just cram socialism down everyone’s throat and how it will destroy the American life we know and it’s an easy win. 23 Trillion for Medicare for all is a hard pill to swallow. But that was in a recent period when all things seemed normal.
  21. They don’t care, try to stop them. Such BS.
  22. The man lives in a fantasy world of his own making. He'll never believe he is out of control. It's not in his nature.
  23. Watching it. It’s well done but slow. It does have a Man in the High Castle vibe. It’s close to being paired with that series. And very scary in the since that it is so close in ways to what we’re dealing with in real life right now.
  24. Polls did us no good last time. What’s to say they’ll work this time.
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