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Posted on another thread, but Rutte, Stubb, and Meloni are Trump whisperers and hopefully they will keep things in between the lines. Personal rapport and the last meeting he has go a long way with DJT. Also, with that many heavies in the room there hopefully won’t be a need for JD.
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KU’s “Whitehawk” alternate is pretty good work from adidas. Love the font and numbering, and the old Jayhawk. I’d rather see it on a blue helmet.
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No, that’s the amazing thing is it’s all Ukrainian territory they are talking about. Russia is prepared (allegedly) to move out of of parts of occupied Sumy and Kharkiv oblasts in exchange for Kyiv handing over parts of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts that Russia is currently around 1k men per day trying to capture. The analogy here is that someone who stole your electronics and guns is now offering to give you back your own TV in exchange for some of your wife’s jewelry that he didn’t manage to steal yet. Media need to stop using the Russian and Trump framing.
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Iowa State gets what I think is overall an upgrade. Better: Numbers and stripes; color on color is hard to do right and the white with accents pops. The stripes on the sleeves and helmets are a good call-back to 1990s no-nonsense looks; there are some real pro football vibes here in a good way. Red on white and white on red is a good classic, contrasting look so hopefully no color rush stuff. OK: I don’t like small word marks; either make it integral to the jersey or leave it off (preferable). The script “Cyclones” is simply fine here and is better than the “I State” logo. I kind of miss the Whirly Bird and think it could work well here as college football should be fun.
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This may be a hot and unexpected take from me but it was appropriate in 2000 to take a pragmatic but firm and principled approach to Putin to see what could be accomplished. And in some ways this happened, Putin did attempt to make a half-hearted pivot West and position Russia as a GWOT partner and we did get stuff out of it. A lot of people forget how key the Russia facilitated Northern Distribution Network was to sustaining operations in Afghanistan all the way through the mid-teens. It was never on the table for him to be a democrat. What happened is that we fell down on the “pragmatic and firm” part in a lot of ways and Putin cannily exploited us by trying to make everything purely an issue of pragmatism. We also scored some own goals by blundering into foreign adventures where Russia could make itself either helpful or harmful at relatively low cost (Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iraq fallout). But even worse we had a bipartisan series of leaders who allowed him to do what he does everywhere: turn Russia relations into a political issue instead of a national security issue. Russia and how the United States relates to it have been important campaign issues since 2012, with the GOP and Dems switching sides based on how Putin wanted them to. And even before that, we had the very stupid and political reset button whipped out by HRC for a photo-op with Lavrov; thus forcing Obama into either an admission of failure or to keep fucking the chicken long past the point of enjoyment. This was an own goal long after GWB came around to McCain’s view; and then in 2012 you had Obama gleefully pretending like Russia was still a potential partner. This is all incredibly stupid. Russia should never be an issue in American elections; Russia is a solved but difficult problem that we keep trying to find different solutions for. Only Putin wins when Russia takes up this much oxygen in internal political discussions and its truly a grand strategic masterclass that he has put on by keeping a declining and brittle Russia on the front burner.
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It’s really fucking embarrassing that an official U.S. negotiator would try to tell the American people that he got Putin to consider passing a law making it illegal for Russia to attack Ukraine. It was illegal the first time under Russian and international law!
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This is a really great lineup for Team Zelenskyy though. Stubb, Rutte, and Meloni are Trump whisperers.
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Today Rubio ruled out new sanctions on the morning shows, saying that they would upset the potential peace deal. I’m increasingly convinced that the two presidents are colluding on negotiations charades and that putting off new sanctions is the point.
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“I’ll stop drinking if you confirm me to be SecDef” was an incredibly alcoholic thing to say. And his whole stance of “it’s not a problem and never has been but I’ll stop to make all these buzzkills happy” makes me concur with Bates. If he had said “I have a problem but even as I’m being confirmed, I’m also working with professionals for the appropriate diagnosis and recovery plan to commit to” it would have been far more mature and reassuring— but would have cost him the nomination.
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I have to say that it seemed like Hegseth was in a flat spin but shit seems to have simmered down in terms of an endless stream of rank incompetence broadcast straight to journalists. I’m assuming that Wiles scared him into shutting the fuck up and they installed some OG MAGA-world minders in the executive suite.
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Vlasov’s Army was an interesting one. But all these folks knew one or the other was going to kill them so they got out in front.
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GOP Rep just retweeting shit from Sputnik, what a time to live.
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Making any foreign policy issue a central plank of a campaign is a terrible and losing strategy. The only real foreign policy election in our lifetimes was 2004. Support for addition arms and sanctions for Ukraine has never dipped below fifty percent nationwide and has always claimed even a substantive chunk of GOP voters but they lined up behind the guy who wouldn’t do it. Other messaging will win out.
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Someone is either in a lot of trouble or no trouble at all depending on whether they are career or political appointee. Actually, there will for sure be a career person found at fault. https://www.npr.org/2025/08/16/nx-s1-5504196/trump-putin-summit-documents-left-behind
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In Munich Hitler dressed up demands for the Sudetenland by appealing to the demands of the local ethnic German population and their alleged self-determination and desire to unite with Germany. In fact, the Sudetenland was home to Czechoslovakia’s well-designed and maintained hill country defensive positions which were integral to the smaller nation’s strategy to defend itself and buy time while waiting for Allied assistance. The Czechoslovaks had been investing in a modern and capable military. At Munich Hitler was handed Czechoslovakia’s defensive lines and Czechoslovakia lost any faith in Allied assistance. It was defenseless when Germany decided to take the whole thing, which was the plan all along. Extremely strong parallels here for what Putin wants in Ukraine and why.
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Putin appears to have accomplished what he came for: Trump drops calls for the killing to stop and decides his timeline is no longer in effect; no consequences on the horizon for Russia; and Putin’s core demands are still miles away from what Ukraine can possibly accept for a true peace agreement. Setting the stage to walk away and blame Zelenskyy.
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Early returns on Alaska are: not much. The vibes from Trump were cranky, sullen. The delegation didn’t eat together, no questions at the press conference. He’s distancing himself from it, putting the ball back in Zelenskyy’s court. He’s clearly tired with this whole thing and wants a way out and will likely end up lashing out at Ukraine since they are the ones who will respond in some way.
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The jersey is ass. The word mark is huge and the numbers don’t match anything else.
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Georgia Tech is not using any navy, opting instead for grey and gold. The uniforms are just fine but schools need to use their colors. We should have left grey alts in 2018.
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I think the issue is that, as @Hank Kingsley has pointed out, this isn’t a strategy. In the first instance, there aren’t enough poor and blue collar Americans to win national elections. Second, even if they were, the issues are different. Why are you poor? Were you born into generational poverty and shitty schools and never had a chance? Were you middle class and then the factory in town moved to China? Did you graduate with a CS degree and now no one is hiring? Trump appeals to parts of the poor and blue collar all the time, that’s what the tariffs and bringing back manufacturing schtick is all about. You can (accurately) say it’s all BS and hypocrisy and a sham but you can’t say he’s ignoring that sector and their issues. He’s all about them and it was likely key to the win. If step one of your plan is “create a class consciousness in America” then it’s time to ask if the plan is really to win an election. Otherwise, the question is HOW are you going to appeal to the working class.
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There’s a post two above me calling him the blueprint.
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I seriously question the wisdom of using a successful ranked-choice NYC primary as the blueprint to win competitive first past the post general elections nationwide.
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Dems also need to take a page from the recent GOP guidebook: No one criticizes the nominee, no one criticizes the party, and once in office, no one criticizes the president. Argue for your stance. Criticize proxies when needed. Criticize (carefully) policies while treating it as a given the nominee/party/president will come around. But never, ever, ever go on tv or the internet and let voters think there light be a reason not to vote for the nominee.
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One thing the Democrats need to do across the board is implement some message discipline and demand that their talking heads eliminate criticism of “America” or “the country” or different systems and instead make every critique as personal and targeted as they can. This is something the GOP does very effectively. The GOP never talks about the need for “America” to reckon with its failings. They say awful things about America, but blame the lib cucks. Dems can do this too. Instead of “America must atone for its sins of racism and discrimination” try “Neanderthal assholes are ruining our beautiful country with their racism.” The first bit leads you into a fruitless debate about whether America is really a racist country and will alienate people who might otherwise vote for you. The second only alienates self-identified Neanderthal racists and that small group isn’t voting for you anyway. Instead of a critique of “capitalism,” try attacking “greedy billionaires who are ruining markets.” You can then make the same proposals for solutions, it’s all just targeted at groups that most voters don’t like or identify with. I think some Dems are getting better about this but still fall short because it’s intellectually dishonest (a bit) and confrontational. But whatever, we are trying to win. It’s very crafty because it basically allows most people to tell themselves they aren’t part of the problem set you’re talking about. No one wants to feel called out by an elected leader.
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