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  1. bin laden was dumped in the indian ocean - the gulf of mexico would be appropriate
  2. most reading this will not be alive if and when that happens
  3. are we going to fight, or fold?
  4. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c798egw3jz8o Who is Elissa Slotkin, the Democrat chosen to rebut Trump's speech? 13 hours ago Madeline Halpert BBC News Senator Elissa Slotkin, a Democrat who won the US Senate seat in the swing state of Michigan last year, will provide her party's response to President Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday. A former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) analyst, Slotkin became the youngest Democratic woman elected to the Senate at 48 when she won her seat in a state that former Vice-President Kamala Harris lost last November. Slotkin will give her speech after Trump's, which is not a traditional State of the Union address but is expected to serve the same purpose. She is due to lay out the Democrats' vision for the US to rebut Trump's speech. "From our economic security to our national security, we've got to chart a way forward that actually improves people's lives in the country we all love, and I'm looking forward to laying that out," Slotkin said in a statement. In her rebuttal, she plans to "communicate that Democrats are fighting to lower the cost of living and protect Social Security and Medicaid while Republicans cut taxes for their billionaire donors and Elon Musk", House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, a Democrat, said. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer called Slotkin a "rising star" in the party last week as he announced her as the pick to provide the Democratic Party's rebuttal. He said she was "great on both economic and national security" topics. Slotkin is new to the US Senate, but she served in Congress as a member of Michigan's delegation to the House of Representatives. She was first elected in Democrats' 2018 wave of success, flipping a Republican seat. Prior to her political career, she held a variety of government jobs. She held national security positions in Presidents George W Bush and Barack Obama's administrations. She served in Bush's National Security Council, and, under Obama, she served as acting assistant secretary of defence for international security affairs and in the State Department. The CIA recruited Slotkin, who is fluent in Arabic and Swahili, shortly after she earned a graduate degree in international affairs at Columbia University in New York City. She served three tours in Iraq as a CIA analyst. The moderate Democrat focused her 2024 Senate campaign on lowering costs for Americans, a move that helped propel her to a narrow victory over former Congressman Mike Rogers, even as Trump won the state. Slotkin is a member of the committees on Armed Forces; Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs; Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry; and Veterans Affairs.
  5. some of us have to watch just in case the lies, the hate, the evil, is all just noise now - i'm becoming immune to it
  6. after reading the piece on the paypal mafia, we might want to hope he does not croak and put vance in the job
  7. i'm relieved most showed up he would have declared martial law if the dems no showed fingers crossed there is no mass walk-out before this is over
  8. the winning play is take all of his worst lies tonight and inject them in to every stream, influencer, instatube
  9. they absolutely can do that smilefuck the fascists in dc message truman on social - inject it in to every algorithm, every stream, fight fire with fire - tonight is not the venue for the fight let's say the dems do a walkout - that gives gasbag all he needs to declare martial law
  10. this the hate engine is already lined up to sieg heil whatever he says, mtg behavior from the dems will play great around the world but domestically it's useless
  11. on last night's oscars there were several digs at the public at large about the loss of 1000 screens over the past couple of years this was the starter kit: not that the academy will ever read this, but a surl discussion of this topic will be interesting why is the public cinema endangered? - the #1 reason I dislike the public cinema is the assault on my retinas and eardrums for 15, 20 sometimes 25 minutes showing previews for films I WILL NOT PATRONIZE in any format - #2: the price of concessions is assrape; 2 hfcs sodas and a popcorn is now $25 bringing the total expenditure to $50; and i hate hfcs; if theater owners can't make money on your film without $10 sodas then maybe the art houses and alamos of the world are the only theaters that should remain in business - #3: you want us to patronize your best work, but it's not available; the brutalist was released on the coasts on december 20th to make your oscar deadline, nationally on january 24th and has made $10m in 5 weeks; i had never heard of it before last night; today in north texas, with 8 million residents, the brutalist is showing at 410pm at the mockingbird angelika and at 440pm at the grapevine mills amc; houston: 2 screens, 3 showings, austin, belton & el paso round out the cities where the brutalist is showing less than 10 times today in a state of 28 million people - #4: the shopping mall was a 20th century construct overtaken by the digital age; while b&m retains it's foothold in certain segments, the advent of 82" in-home theater for the masses has already made large-screen projection obsolete for theatrical art (captain america is not theatrical art)
  12. does the tower know about this? are they going to bring in boots to suppress the protests again?
  13. a cat5 with wormsign the likes of which even god has never seen is going to take dead aim at MAL on labor day weekend god has a plan
  14. in our noon hour on cnn a pub said "dotard is trying to thread the needle" in that having the reason for the rare earths shakedown is so the us can have an economic presence in ukraine because nato can't & won't admit ukraine or get involved at this stage, and this economic presence is the security guarantee convoluted, but logical - except if this was the play why the fuck didn't they spin it this way on the 21st of january? somebody on the inside should get a medal +++ in the past hour johnson has said we're not aligned with russia and dotard now says the rare earths deal is still alive they fucking got their clock cleaned overnight and now they are backpedaling +++ the live updates page on cnn has all of it
  15. at this morning's huddle, the minions had to explain to mr. dotard that the europeans have a plan that does not include Z rolling over so, let's pivot 180 degrees back to tariffs which were supposed to be a month away, but instead we will bring them forward 30 days with no warning, and of course no preparation every day is a new wag the dog total chaos omaha oracle on tariffs yesterday on cbs: https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/03/business/warren-buffett-tariffs-trump/index.html
  16. Z taking the high road, no doubt in concert with counsel taken this weekend imho it feels like the king, macron, starmer & merz are building a firewall around madman Z's UK exit presser only in ukranian validates the "cards" lost-in-translation idea - he will not be ambushed again collectively, europe will run circles around dotard's dipshits - it's not even close to an even contest: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/02/zelenskyy-offers-no-apology-to-trump-as-he-says-row-brought-nothing-positive?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us this is not about Z but is important to the real politik as events unfold: https://theconversation.com/germanys-chancellor-in-waiting-prioritizes-real-independence-from-the-us-but-what-does-that-mean-and-is-it-achievable-250708
  17. europe laughs heartily at dotard's nobel lust before it's all over, we should place a prop bet in vegas for his eventual exit 1) qualifying for and 2) actually winning the darwin award the year he exits
  18. the french made up 50% of the force on the ground at yorktown; we had no navy, but the french had 29 boats at the party and cut off the english attempt to relieve cornwallis the frogs carried the day also upthread re: the battle of britain, number of each bird used in the summer of '40: 1700+ hurricanes 300+ spitfires
  19. quoting forward
  20. i got a handjob in the map room of the pcl can someone please break into the insta of this dulce gal?
  21. rfk jr. now urging measles vaccinations (4 hours ago) https://www.axios.com/2025/03/03/kennedy-jr-measles-outbreak-vaccine?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
  22. that was the tonys, not tonight's oscars, just sayin
  23. almost none 2 maybe 3 oblique references the producers laid down the law - no politics but just like the dt/cr dichotomy here, it's impossible to keep "politics" out of "the news" when there is a fucking coup underway
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