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Woland

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  1. Russia has a cycle of liberalization/authoritarianism as well it’s military being fit/ total shit. It’s about time for liberalization and surely this has to be rock bottom for the military.

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  2.   I honestly don’t see how Putin is NOT going to use a nuke at this point since he has really painted himself in a corner and seems hell bent on the this strategy.  Baring assassination he really has no othet options.  So how do you guys see us responding?
    1.  Russia uses a small battlefield  tactical nuke use.  I don’t think we do anything.  Putin will be completely isolated so I think we will stir up global outrage, send more conventional weapons to Ukraine and watch Russia implode.
    2.  Russia nukes a city.  All bets are off.  I think we will actually respond forcefully and get directly involved in blasting their military to the stone ages.  Its WW3 at this point.
     
    fun times.

    Putin could make the order and the Russian military could tell him to stick it up his ass. There is a history of the military ignoring nuclear orders.
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    Since February, two of my Russian friends managed to get Israeli passports for their kids and themselves. She is already living in Geneva with one kid and he was waiting in Moscow with the other until they could move into their new house in Switzerland.
  4. Slouching our way to the educational bottom:

    Texas school district orders removal of Anne Frank’s diary from shelves

    It was the latest in a string of book removals being implemented at schools at the behest of conservative activist parents and school board members

    https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-714895

    There needs to be a web site listing all the banned books in Texas with short descriptions of their content. Then we share the hell out of it and do an end round these idiots. It would probably make these books more read than if they were still on the library shelves.
  5. I would like to for one moment refocus on the fact your republican neighbor is a racist.  If ever, at any point in time, they complained about Obama golfing.  
    Even one fucking time.
     
    If they ever thought Obama was a Muslim and Trump was a Christian. Clearly racist IMHO. Unless you think a white guy that fucks around on his wife, and never goes to church, but always to golf course, is the "real" Christian.  

    This is how you MAGA… Yes, Trump has flaws, but those flaws are a strength, a strength needed in the desperate struggle against the socialist/communist libs who hate God and want to eat your children.
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  6. Forget Trump for a moment despite this being the Trump thread--while his inability to declare candidacy would be great, I additionally fear that DeSantis knows just as well how to apply the same methods of rule--witness his recent Florida administration purge. A lot of this Monday news action still leaves the Democrats wandering around in circles staring at their feet, while Rs reframe the relevant topics. The percentage to which you refer may decide that the quieter authoritarian is preferable to the bombastic one. It's all up in the air at this point.

    To be fair to the Democrats, reframing relevant topics for the base is exponentially easier for the Republicans.
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  7. I had to get a lower-level security clearance in my late-20s.  They scared the shit out of me with all the "what could happen" scenarios.  It seemed as if I was facing the Rosenberg treatment should I fail to appropriately stamp a document.
    In hindsight, I probably didn't need to worry so much.
    rosenbergs-113633245.jpg

    Aid an attempted coup? Nothing happens. Forget to stamp the toilet-paper requisition? Straight to super-max.
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  8. I'll reiterate something I said elsewhere. If the hog problem is really that bad, and I think it is, that's a government problem that the Lege should be working to solve, not leaving it to individual land owners to deal with it piecemeal. Take the money that Abbott is wasting on his pointless border stunts and spend it fixing the fucking hog problem, or the electric grid problems, or the mental health care crisis in Texas, or anything else that actually has some value aside from boosting Abbott 0.3%, leaving him tied with "Someone Else" in the Presidential primary polls. 

    I think it’s the aggies that are figuring out that shooting hogs makes the problem worse. You have to take out the whole sounder at one time.
  9. I think it’s just proof of the absurdity of conspiracy theories in general, especially when they involve the federal government. The more people that are involved, the harder it is to organize, keep on script, hide the bodies, etc.  Trump’s inner circle is full of true believers and they couldn’t pull this off or keep it contained, but we are supposed to believe that a country wide conspiracy to defraud the presidential vote full full of random minimum wage vote counters is able to stay buried because deep state? Believing these lies (and according to testimony Trump seems to be fully invested) should be an immediate disqualifier for office in any political system for a country with nukes. 

    All the evidence is coming out next week!
  10. 5 hours ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

    are the foreigners white? 

    It seems, even when they are white, that many hold out on making English their primary language. And a lot of places where the people are white the people are also socialists and communists.

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