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Gatorubet

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  1. Odd. Our conservative poster friends are not showing up to participate in this discussion.
  2. Meanwhile, in Pennsylvania….. ”Wait - you mean to tell me that Trump put that man he now says is crazy in charge of firing all those people maintaining the federal lake campsites that are closed - and that is why my MAGA FISHING WORMS 4 PATRIOTS shop went under!!!??? Trump says he’s like an idiot - but he bankrupted our whole county when Trump put him in charge? Now that I lost everything I own, I’ll at least be able to get Medicaid for my diabetes meds.”
  3. It is nice to see that Elmo‘s political shenanigans will not reflect poorly in any way on Tesla‘s profitability… …. Said no shareholder derivative suit attorney ever.
  4. I think this makes sense. And in a way, given that Ukraine took a year and a half to set up with the plan before implementing it, Russia could take a year to prepare an enormous fuck you to Ukraine and refer to that timeframe if and when it occurs. And actually, I expected the Russian Talking Heads to be more aggressively threatening everyone with death than what they are saying on TV. Instead of agreeing that a large part of the third leg of theirnuclear delivery triad arsenal was destroyed, they focused on giving the message that Russia has all these secret wonder weapons that will destroy an NATO in the near future. That sounds a hell of a lot like Adolf’s promises to the German people late in the war.
  5. this brings back unpleasant memories from the high school era - when I had a weekend job mopping dirty floors at an RV site
  6. in this depressing world, you can always use a laugh. Here, we learned that the west will find out that Russia has the best military armaments in the world, weapons that are extremely powerful that the west doesn’t even know exist yet. And while Russia used to have quantity of items, now Russia has the best quality of weapons. He announced that NATO has a plan to attack Russia in five years. But if we do, I can only assume that there will be more tactical golf carts facing the Polish armored columns than we could’ve dreamed. What I get out of that is that Putin is preparing his country for the long-term war economy, and letting his fellow country even know that there will be an economic depression while Russia prepares to defend itself in five years. Trying to prevent blowback from continuing its current policy of transforming Russia into a war economy, with all of the deprivations that will entail for the serfs? I guess telling Ivan that he will be attacked in five years is the spoonful of sugar that helps the rotten potato go down for the next several years.
  7. He appears to have forgotten the Nordic countries and their shameful manipulation of the worldwide Herring market.
  8. Yeah, but give him two weeks…
  9. Like our robust electrical grids could go down so easily….
  10. And then the countess I was with Bent over with a kiss And put a jeweled hand on my knee I knew I’d lost the light And I was movin’ through the night Runnin’ from the grand ennui
  11. Well, who needs radios when you have élan!
  12. man, I hope you are right. if that is the worst that they do in response, that makes Putin looks weak. Like our response to Pearl Harbor being the US Navy sinking some Japanese subs and calling it a day. I’m not so sure you can humiliate Putin and Russia so deeply and get off so easily.
  13. You know that Russia is going to respond in a dramatic way to the drone attacks to its nuclear bombers. Because it’s Russia, it will likely be aimed at civilians. I have a very bad feeling about Russia’s response. And yet it seems like we are at some sort of pivotal point where the orange man may get mad enough at Putin keeping him from his Nobel prize that he gives Ukraine toys that can fuck Russia up more efficiently. If Putin kills a ton of Ukrainian civilians in some horrific attack, Putin has to weigh the public relations debacle having the possibility to push Trump into a pro Ukrainian position…. because TACO always has his eye on public opinion polls. What will happen? I fall off the fence thinking that Putin doesn’t give a shit about what the world thinks and is soon going to send a whole lot of Ukrainian civilians to their graves
  14. And France actually had better tanks than the German Mark IIIs that rolled through the narrow roads in Belgium. What France did NOT have is a tank doctrine that gathered tanks into a modern armored division. The French thought of tanks simply as infantry support - and spread them throughout their forces - which prevented the ability to assemble a large French armored force in numbers sufficient to repel the German blitzkrieg.
  15. “Submitted for your approval…. Imagine a time in place where the stupidest man with the smallest vocabulary demonstrated every day that he was the stupidest man…. Now imagine that many people looking at the stupidest man thought that he was smart and well educated…..look around you - now! - at your neighbor who is seemingly normal looking. Is he really? You may just have entered - The MAGA Zone!”
  16. Just one. You had to walk up the hill to get to school - but coming home was easy peezy. Except the day I got my brand new Schwinn bike that was a bit too big for me and on the way home the hill was steep enough that whatever the hell I weighed was not enough to bring the bike to a stop, so my runaway bike actually did not stop at the end of the street - but went through - and across - the street into a neighboring ball field. Fortunately, while there was traffic coming in both directions I was untouched going through the intersection. To be fair to long-ago prosecutors, I did come pretty close to dying that day. Shit, a few years later when I was on safety patrol in Kansas during a blizzard the school let us stand out in the zero degree /high winds with my whistle and my buddy’s stop sign on a wooden pole. by the time it dawned on them that maybe they should bring us back in we all had frostbite on our faces. In a whole lot of ways, the good old days were moronic. Everything is a balance, and the pendulum has swung too far the other side. Letting us run around unsupervised during the summer from morning to when it got dark put me in several circumstances that could’ve been serious injury or fatality producing. I fortunately missed that experience, but it was probably the golden age of pedophilia because nobody was watching the kids. Now, of course, the kids have all been taken and they are gone.
  17. Damn. My parents and all of my friends parents were criminals and we did not even know it. At seven I would walk to - and back from - elementary school every day by myself. This includes the days when it was snowing in Iowa. Granted, it was only about a 10 minute walk.
  18. A solution to bananaless living?
  19. Just a bit of the old Peruvian marching powder in the WC, eh, wat? Know what I mean? Wink, wink, nudge, nudge….say no more….
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