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Gatorubet

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  1. We are not talking much how Kaliningrad is in a bad place, having been cut off from Russia’s supplies, including fuel delivery. Russia must spend an extraordinary amount of money and effort trying to keep it supplied. When Lithuania closed the border and prevented the usual transit route of Chinese and Russian goods to flow to Europe, Leshchenko seized more than 1000 freight trucks stuck on the other side of the border in Belarus. That action has fucked Russia and China. It fucked Russia because it can’t collect duties on the trade coming through exporters, and it fucked China because China can’t get it stuff to Europe through that route. The expectation is that China will now send It’s goods through a southern freight route that goes through Turkey. Essentially, Russia will now be bypassed for a huge amount of trade that no longer has anything to do with Russia before it reaches Europe. That is a ton of money and jobs for Russia, and makes much of being a non-economic superpower, backwater more of a reality. Estimates are that Russia has lost at least 40% of its refining capability. I believe it’s likely slightly more than that, because damage to so many refineries on such a regular basis has to have completely consumed much of its spare parts, and while Russia still retained some some expertise in repairing them, one would think those specialist have to go from refractory to refinery rather than have competent people in each and everyone.
  2. watching the various Ukraine news centered YouTube channels last night I did watch one that claimed that Gerasimov was told by Putin he had until mid November to make significant gains or he was out. This apparently is an explanation for the latest push where they are throwing more meat than ever before at the problem without regard to logistics or trip deaths - even by Russian standards. I guess if I reflect on it, the delivery capabilities of Russia to supply food, water, fuel, ammunition, etc. to its troops is far more degraded than it ever was. As soon as the subzero temperature comes and stays, I think Ukraine will be able to keep far more of its soldiers fed and alive in those conditions than Russia. I hope excellent thermal optics have been flooded into Ukraine, and if it hasn’t, it should, as I think a winter offensive in the current situation would be difficult for Russia to defend. I guess the question remains the same: will Russia collapse before its slow, costly, incremental gains in Ukraine become problematic for Ukraine?
  3. Peeps… this is a quick five minute cruise of what the Russian newspapers are saying about the military and financial going on in Russia. I was actually surprised at the level of negative reporting on some of it. I had not seen this personā€˜s channel before, but I’m going to add it to my daily viewing because it saves a bunch of time (love Inside Russia, but Konstantin is ponderous) and covers more topics than Julia Davis and her excellent Russian Media Monitor.
  4. What is this…dignity…of which you speak? I am unfamiliar with this.
  5. When they reach the station, she demanded to be taking to the ā€œcomfortable part of the jailā€ …because she was ā€œnot a criminalā€. Possible Speaker of the House.?
  6. You had me until ā€œdecisiveā€. Disillusionment at the economy and affordability when coupled with crypt keeper Biden until, ā€œWait - the replacement is a colored womanā€ was decisive.
  7. Because of a political commentary, I’m not putting that in flight disrupting assholes. Her voice alone is enough to send people into a mental state requiring seppuku - but I was oddly mesmerized by this Exhibit A of why our world has failed. This entitled Karen has checked all the boxes: 1) board’s plane after being refused boarding 2) tells officers she should not have to leave plane 3) advises officers that she ā€œdoesn’t care about the other passengersā€, but her rights when told they will have to deplane the passengers to arrest her 4) demands that the officers collect her luggage 5) continually refuses to follow any orders and constantly interrupts officers 6) shrieks and cries in between intermittent temper tantrums 7) curses and MFs the police - while then saying that she voted for Trump and the police so they should not be happening to her 8 ) explains that she makes more in a day than they make in a week 9) despite missing that extremely complicated concept that you can’t be denied boarding for being drunk - and then force yourself into your first class seat - she advises that she is ā€œhighly educatedā€ 10) when the cops finally arrived at the station, she pronounces that she does not ā€œfeel comfortable with the officers who took her there, taking her into the stationā€ 11) cries and wails at the unfairness of her demands, not being instantly adhered to 12) and while it took a while, she finally places the blame on the black lady on the plane and announces she is a victim of racism. 13) obligatory demand for officer badge numbers because she’s going to sue the motherfuckers and the department for the horrible way they treated her I guess this is when MAGA meets Flight interrupting assholes. i’m not quite sure why this interests me so much, but I think of her case as a distillation of every single social and personality failing you could cram into one entitled white Karen bitch.
  8. I was about to post a Case McCoy pic until I had a rare and momentary firing of a common sense synapse.
  9. Honestly, I’ve never seen any data on this, but I unfortunately have this cynical idea that the chuckleheads who don’t pay attention are still not paying attention and have never paid attention. certainly a few more people followed the ACA standoff every time they mentioned it. Monthly premiums going up hundreds of dollars will make them pay attention, so I think it will be the bill in the mail instead of the media that will provide the information that matter matters.
  10. We should thank him. The optics that were blurred by the eight Democratic Senators folding just regained a bit of focus - the GOP is still taking away your healthcare. And the senile man baby says he’s gonna give everyone money and they can pay for their healthcare with that because we don’t need insurance companies. (Cletus, somewhere: ā€œDang, I’m purty healthy since I’ve been eaten the horse paste, so I’m gonna buy a bigger boat for the Trump parade!ā€)
  11. Ouch. in my karmic evolution from dung beetle to lawyer, I must’ve been decent in my last life, because a month before the last major hurricane state farm allowed me to obtain a 2% deductible instead of the usual 6% deductible if I switched to their auto insurance in addition to homeowners. That saved me 45K. Granted, I had to sue the bastards in federal court, and it took two years to get my money.
  12. this late September article contained one nugget that I stashed away. Putting aside the constant drone attacks, I know nothing about oil and gas production, and wonder if one of the resident oil barons could tell me how often scheduled maintenance occurs, and the consequences of not doing scheduled maintenance over time. Is it monthly maintenance, quarterly maintenance, yearly maintenance - or a combination of that depending on which component and how important it is? When will we start seeing booms just because they decided not to do maintenance?
  13. Has your insurance company started giving you the stink eye yet? Once upon a Time Louisiana would allow an insurer to cancel you if you made three claims in five years.
  14. I will wake up tomorrow in New Orleans and it will be 38°
  15. This bothers me reading it. Am I missing out on untold wealth by not forming a religion like L Ron Hubbard did? As head of the church, I should designate myself - ā€œTHE PRIME MEMBERā€
  16. looks like you inadvertently used an extra S there, Mac
  17. Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter disagrees.
  18. What is fantastic about this, is just imagine all of those political advisors to all of those GOP Senators and Congressmen and women (and those politicians who tuned in to see their orange God in action) seeing the entire stadium booing him. They comprise a sub-class of mammals with no spines. They have pinned their political fortunes and their hope of financial security through grifting and continued electability on a shithead who is being booed by the stadium, within 24 hours of his administration filing appeals so they can avoid paying the poorest among us who need food, and veterans who need care. Sure, some will be true believers and such sociopathic sadists that they won’t know or care, but most of them are cowardly spineless politicians, whose only moral compass is what will get me elected next time. Those are the ones who probably begin to realize that Neandertoe Marge is on to something. When they looked at Atlanta and saw counties going from +24 Trump to +4 Democrat, there was a lot of fluid flowing into depends. This cannot have made them feel better.
  19. This goes to my point and briskets’ point. They are too stupid to figure things out until they are literally homeless on a soup kitchen line. The rational kind people of America will never be free from the cruelty and hatred of MAGA until they figure out things. Giving them food and money convinces them that they are right and there are no consequences for their beliefs. There needs to be consequences to break that mindset. Can you imagine what a wonderful secular world it would be if all those idiots were actually raptured? Kindness, compassion, and empathy levels would quadruple overnight.
  20. i’m sure that it wasn’t good for Ukraine. I’m also sure that I’m not gonna take Russian state media’s word for it. We shall see. Hey Britain - those additional storm shadows you promised would be good about right now.
  21. Again, we need a mechanism so we can like individual post multiple times. Once a week, once a month, something like that.
  22. What a great play call that Vandy was in OT
  23. For the world sake, I don’t wanna have America become a Nazi Germany with nukes. I want to stop us from turning into that more than anything. You know, a country built on white supremacy and hatred, using the government to politically prosecute political enemies, disabling free elections, and using our military domestically and internationally to fuck over everyone who doesn’t agree with us. The only way I can see is not turning into that is a massive shift in the many people who seem to be heading that way with no problem. I don’t want a child to starve. But as someone said, the poor will always be with us. I’ve stated my case, and I’m sticking with it, but I can certainly understand why people don’t agree with me. Because you don’t know how truly fucking hard it was to get me to agree with me.
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