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  1. Adult converts to Catholicism are the best because they generally cite apostolic succession and authority as a prime reason for conversion and then their brains break when the Pope tells them they’re wrong.
  2. I do not believe there is a tabloid reporter, I think that Ashley crashed out because it was Valentine’s Day and she realized she had a child with the worlds richest man who won’t even call her.
  3. I hope your son will stay in. The goal here is to make officers like your son leave in disgust and make soldiers like the one quoted stay. That is also what’s behind the purge of the civil service, it’s nothing to do with efficiency or saving money for the taxpayer.
  4. I’ve lost track of the number of lawsuits that the sitting POTUS has against media outlets who said things he didn’t like. Caroline Leavitt said the AP was pushing “misinformation” at the same time JD claimed that “misinformation and disinformation” are Soviet terms. (He is right on the last one, Soviet intel coined the term and taught its practice). JD Vance’s speech combined with a meeting with AfD was first red meat for his idiot base and second an announcement that the United States is controlled by the extreme right and it will work to advance the extreme right in Europe.
  5. He is officially a Special Government Employee in the White House. I haven’t seen his title released, usually it’s something like Senior Advisor. I struggle with a historical analogy. Grand Vizier to one of the more decadent Sultans? Rasputin?
  6. Surprised this hasn’t made it here. Number 13 with I believe the fifth woman? Also, I think only all were conceived via IVD save Grimes’.
  7. Alt National Park Service exploded because they are good, factual place to get some insight on what is going on inside federal agencies from the inside. Same reason fednews exploded on Reddit. It’s actually the algorithm working as it should, organic traffic to the page boosting its visibility.
  8. Kamala delivered well-structured and thoughtful speeches three times at MSC, it was kind of her thing and Biden very notably assigned it to her. When you cook yourself in contrarian alternative media as Anastasia has, you become extremely ignorant in the classic sense. You just don’t know what is going on or has happened, no matter how much computing power you have. You end up believing tragically stupid things, like “Kamala could never deliver a good speech in Munich.” Many such cases.
  9. A lot of times people don’t realize when they are in the middle of tremendous historical change. At the moment the United States is experimenting with a dual-executive system. There’s a lot of debate to be had over the balance of powers and whether one is subordinate to the other and how much the functions are truly delegated and/or coordinated. And we will see how long it lasts and what it evolves into. But a future historian writing with remove in space and time will write that Elon Musk served as a co-executive with Trump. He is without question the most powerful non-President to ever hold a position in the executive branch and is more powerful than any cabinet official.
  10. “Move fast and break things! Be a disrupter!” We need to find anyone who ever said that unironically and put them in the new Greenland penal colony. https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/climate/nuclear-nnsa-firings-trump/index.html
  11. Consider that speech the launch point of his Crusade for Neo-Nazi Dignity. My valve is acting up.
  12. I was mostly talking about the people at MSC, who for decades have gotten our private assurances that we don’t mean the batshit things we tweet.
  13. Every GOP politician in America is fully capable of giving a speech that boils down to “they say we need to worry about Russia and China, but the real enemy is Woke.” I will concede that even now most of the GOP that is worldy enough to travel abroad resist giving that speech to a room full of the CHODs and Defense Ministers we hope might help us fight Russia or China if needed.
  14. No one in that hall was stunned by Vance’s brilliance or eloquence. They were stupefied at one of the most insane and counter-productive speeches ever delivered by an American elected leader overseas. Despite what Americans may believe, Europeans are actually rather less alarmist about America and more inclined to think we will ultimately be normal and it is shocking to see a representative of the superpower behave like Viktor Orban because deep down they still think we are a serious country. The speech wasn’t for them, it was entirely performance art for the base back home. MSC is always partly a showcase for Americans to do that— but the genius of Trump is his ability to make all the implicit scuzzines of politics extremely explicit.
  15. Just to be clear, there are no federal workers being laid off. No one has implemented the federal version of that yet, a RIF. All these probationary employees are being told they’re released for unsatisfactory performance. That’s because even in a probationary role, indiscriminate mass firings are illegal. But it is easy to release a “poor performer” in that period with less documentation and no appeal rights. So they just lie and say everyone was a poor performer. It’s a super shitty thing to do.
  16. Who could have seen that libertarians would end up being the biggest cringe bootlickers of all?
  17. Hannity is going to get a “joint” interview with Musk and Trump from the White House. Has a sitting POTUS EVER done a “joint” interview with another American? I am struggling with my historical analogy. Am I watching Diocletian create the tetrarchy? Am I a Russian titular councillor trying to understand why Rasputin is speaking for the Tsar? Regardless, I think any historian will have to write that in 2025 the U.S. experimented with a dual executive system. https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5146248-trump-elon-musk-hannity-fox-news-doge/amp/
  18. The lawyers are the first to show the most courage. Thank you SDNY Assistant Attorney General.
  19. There is not one. That’s really true, it doesn’t exist beyond what the Oval burps up from day to day.
  20. Russia won, yall. Not the it’s war on Ukraine. Russia captured a U.S. political party and its supporters and won. It’s over except for the formalities. Good work all around everyone.
  21. The Yasen M is a problem for our (and Allies) surface fleet. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not popping off like Hesgeth. It’s not existential. But it’s a problem. https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/rusi-defence-systems/yasen-m-and-future-russian-submarine-forces
  22. The Yasen-M class is a very capable boat and the Improved Kilo II is as well. The latter is a diesel-electric but it is astoundingly quiet and well-armed. The Russian military has pockets of competence and investment and the submarine service is one of them. The Chinese would very much like to have boats as capable as the Russians.
  23. Russia has some submarines that are a serious fucking problem for us.
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