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Gatorubet

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  1. Not fences to stop cattle. Huge, tall, strong barriers…. And then, I dunno….we make Mexico pay for them?
  2. I think a better plan is to let all the shitheads in the Dakotas and Nebraska and Iowa lose their farms - and then after we drive all those people down into Kansas to whatever fate befalls them. We put up big game fences around those states, import buffalo from Yellowstone, and see how long it takes for the Buffalo to come back in sufficient numbers. I understand that how to keep the buffalo from interacting with abandoned meth labs could be a problem…
  3. That was me last week. “OMG! I just found two frozen quarts of Eggbeaters!! “Eggs are back on the menu boys!”
  4. Constantine says that they are closing many post offices in cities across Russia. In a city that would have five post offices, they now have one or two and the others have been shut down. he notes that post offices fall under the budget that would receive its funds from fuel sales. Since Russia is running out of money and still needs money to wage war, something has to give, and what is gives are services and access to infrastructure that help civilians. Because Russia does not care about peasants. One thing I did not know is that the old pensioners who are not techno types still go to the post office every month to collect their rubles. Russian post offices act like sort of a state bank to give people their pension money. He says because of the reduction of post offices, all of these old people have to stand in long lines at the remaining post offices - often subject to the weather as they stand outside, holding their quality built Russian walkers. He says that this is the type of thing that will actually piss people off. Vehicle owners are only allowed 2 liters of gas a week because of widespread gas shortages, and now some angry relative has to use some of that scarce gas driving granny to the post office across town. In the last day or so, Julia Davis in one of her Russia Media Monitor YouTube videos showed the pro-Putin Talking Heads fighting with their guests - one who pointed out that in 100 something days, the 3 day special military operation will have lasted longer than the Great Patriotic war against Germany. This exchange took place on widely watched Russian state TV. The host’s head exploded and he started arguing with him. The guest reminded the host that the host had claimed back in 2022 that Ukraine would be taken within a week. The host said “ we could have if we had wanted to.” That is a level of negative news and pushback that I have not seen before. Whether it is significant is anybody’s guess.
  5. Vlad being salty. The Nordics and Baltics getting itchy.
  6. Here , I rise to defend jumping on trampolines. When I was social service coordinator of my fraternity, I set a record in fundraising by coming up with a marathon trampoline jump (with the sorority I most wanted to see on the trampoline). There was a traffic light near our fraternity, and I got the Gainesville traffic engineer to make the red light longer, so the pledges could go up and down asking for money. I persuaded the university president and our then head football coach (Doug Dickey) to participate. it was always hard to get my fellow asshole fraternity brothers to participate in charity fundraisers, but everyone enthusiastically showed up to watch the Delta Gamma sisters jumping on our trampoline. That charity event was extremely well received.
  7. We should probably merge RD‘s “Goddammit, I just got scammed” thread with this one….
  8. As a protestant, it is important to ensure that the message be biblically accurate and sound. For example, a Cowboy Church pastor should try to emulate the same things as the ancient Cowboys in biblical times.
  9. Paul and the Galatians. They were Thracian Celtic Gauls - and a warrior society. you had to appeal to aspects of their culture if you wanted success in conversions. Like when the church tried to convert Norse/Viking peeps, they tried to emphasize the archangel, Michael and his sword battling a serpent. And Christmas associated with Yule logs and holly. They were not cool with that whole “turn the other cheek and allow yourself to be slaughtered” stuff.
  10. I never figured out making the King James version the hill to die on for the only acceptable translation for some people, as clearly a bunch of early 17th century Englishmen were not the best people to translate the earliest Greek and Aramaic texts. I love some of the KJV translations as prose, but not so much as exact meaning of second century scripture.
  11. This new position is probably causing confusion for some of Trump’s supporters.
  12. “Trump Prime Soy Steaks and Burgers” See, he was able to corner the soybean market real cheap like… after raising beef prices.
  13. This might be as simple as Trump wanting to side with the winner, as a transactional Dipshit he doesn’t really care about the merits of anything. Trump always thought that Russia would win. Somebody told him that Ukraine will win and Russia is going to go down bankrupt and humiliated, with Trump being on the wrong side. Trump doesn’t care about children stolen, or hospitals bombed, or Ukrainian women raped. But now that Ukraine is destroying Russia’s capability to fund its war, and Europe is joining together to say fuck Trump - we back Ukraine - that leaves Trump on the outside of claiming glory for the success of Ukraine. I don’t think he can stand that possibility, and therefore will back Ukraine until such time Russia has an upper hand again, and then he’ll swap.
  14. It is happening today. I know it. I’m sure of it. I went out and got a tattoo in preparation.
  15. They should be making five or six flamingos a day by now and stockpiling them. The amount of damage a flamingo can do (compared to a long range drone) has to be significant. I am waiting for the day that several of them slam into each of all the major oil refineries.
  16. Somebody in Russia or someplace like that really, really wants me to click on the text message from FedEx where they are trying to reach me because they can’t deliver my package.
  17. I listened to the J-Pow speech and question and answer today in Rhode Island. Orange Turd will be unhappy. In the question and answer, he emphasized that the Fed is not political, and does not make decisions to help or hurt any sides’ political positions. He used different verbiage, but he said that people who attacked the Fed for political reasons are stupid dip-shits. Basically, he said there’s just as much risk from inflation as there is from a slowing economy. He says in this environment, there’s nothing the Fed can do that does not have a risk - because there is risk coming from both the need not to have the economy weaken unnecessarily and the need not to provoke an increase in inflation unnecessarily. The Fed is between a rock and a hard place. On the same drive, before the Powell speech, a Bloomberg analyst was saying the biggest problem right now is not tariffs per se, or immigration policy, but that nobody in business has any idea what to do because everything the administration is doing is challenged in court or up to TFG‘s day-to-day whims. He said that business is fine no matter what happens, as they can plan to deal with the current world realities. But as it stands, business can’t take a position or invest money (say - on building a plant in America to avoid tariffs) if three months from now the Supreme Court says that Trump had no authority to implement the tariffs in the first place. Essentially, Trump has kneecapped the world‘s economy through a combination of uncertainty, child-like hubris resulting in changed positions that are not related to actual trade imbalances, and TACO walk backs. The Narcissist in Chief wants everyone to look at him and hang on his every word. They are. The problem is, everyone listening to him inexorably leads to them saying, “Shit, who knows what’s going to happen. Let’s just sit and wait. no need to hire right now and no need to build.”
  18. Dammit! They were my go-to cheap direct flight N’Awlins to Cancun - that got me checked in my room in Isla and then on Playa Norte swallowing a mojito by 1 p.m.
  19. I forgot to point out the “May” in “May face devastating shortage of workers under Trump immigration crack down”. Even though the content of the article says that all of these rock-rib republican business people have concluded that they are fucked right now - and will be fucked for the foreseeable future... ….like, the Bama media can’t cross that line and actually say TFG’s immigration policies are fucking everyone. That would be a bridge too far in Trumplandia.
  20. Link to the article: https://www.al.com/news/2025/09/alabama-construction-industry-may-face-devastating-shortage-of-workers-under-trump-immigration-crackdown.html At least they have Senator Tuberville to use his giant brain to come up with a solution to this problem.
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