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Dahobbs

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  1. So you wrote a check to Citi, and someone besides Citi cashed it? Or you just mean someone got a hold of your check book and has been writing fraudulent checks? Do you have images of the fraudulent checks?
  2. I eat meats that were fed plants. Does that count?
  3. Yeah, it happens pretty often. Now, those are still a very small percentage of the non-competes/non-solicitation clauses that are technically breached, but the threat of it isn't something that should be ignored.
  4. it is retroactive except if you're in senior management.
  5. Funnily enough, these use the same Chinese robot as the Russian gun dog from a few months back.
  6. These are some short trial days. I hate that as an attorney.
  7. Again, you haven't been paying attention. We give Ukraine old equipment. That equipment has some value, even if depreciated, so that largely makes up the direct assistance column. When we do that, we create gaps in our inventory/capabilities that need to be replenished with new equipment. That is the DIB/MIC stuff. It is also a pre-requisite to the direct aid since the military doesn't want to lose something without some promise of it being replaced. The forgivable loans are the things that House leadership came up with to make the bill more palatable. They are, as stated, loans given to Ukraine that may or may not be forgiven in the future. Ukraine can use those loans to buy stuff from us (or maybe others, I haven't looked to see if there are limitations on their use). So, of the $60 billion for Ukraine, at least $39 billion is either going directly to Ukraine or enabling or ability to send resources to Ukraine. And, really, that number is higher since the $21 billion for European operations also enables our ability to provide Ukraine with equipment and intelligence. Again, where is the pork?
  8. That makes some sense. I was just going off of what was said in the prior post. That said, the reporting on this has been fairly confusing. There was a juror that asked to speak with the court after the jury had been selected. My understanding at the time was that juror was not dismissed. However, subsequent reporting seems to suggest the juror was in fact dismissed. Typically, once a jury is selected, you wouldn't renumber them if one leaves. The alternate just takes their place. However, maybe the reporting on juror dismissal had to do with a different event, which is why all of this is confused. I'll have to try and track down the actual timeline to get clarity here.
  9. Uh, I read that the opposite way. A judge asking for testimony under oath in connection with a sanction hearing is rarely a good sign for the person being sanctioned. It isn't a free out. It is an opportunity for Trump to dig himself a deeper hole. And, at least in my experience, when the judge asks for this, the judge is going to be asking some questions as well. This isn't a one shot free of cross examination. No way in hell I'd like Trump on the stand if I were his attorney.
  10. I didn't realize Juror #2 had been dismissed. That was the Truth Social/X user.
  11. China has the next best stealth aircraft after the US and its allies. I would not underestimate that portion of their military.
  12. Because he would have helped Russia. Hell, we would probably have participated in the invasion.
  13. "I haven't been openly rooting for Russia" isn't the strong rebuttal that you think it is.
  14. Umm, actually, it isn't. We don't have any definitive evidence what happened to his body. Most likely it ended up at the bottom of the ocean and consumed by sea life. But, it could also have floated to shore and been eaten by cannibals. Again, you're making a mountain out of a very modest embellishment of his family's history. Of the list of top offenses by a sitting President, I'd wager it rates slightly above eating fancy mustard, slightly below wearing a tan suit, and at least 100,000,000 spots below almost every single thing Donald Trump did or said as President.
  15. Good god you're such a moron. Shot down vs crashed during WW2 in such a minor fucking detail and hardly the point of the story. It matters in not the slightest. Everything else was demonstrably correct. At the very worst, we are dealing with a slight bit of exaggeration in a family story from 80 years ago. Again, Biden was fucking 2 when it happened. In your mind, that makes the guy that thinks vaccines are evil the better candidate.
  16. What is the specific detail of his recounting of this story that you think qualifies as anything above a very minor gaffe? What standard are you looking for here? The remember every specific detail about family history from 80 years ago standard? Seriously, you think that is important? Fucking non-sense and you know it. I love how you're happy to drag on about minor details like this, but never post about Trump's actually important errors. Nothing about the country's or world's security is affected by Biden's recollection of ancient family history. It most certainly is affected by a treasonous President conspiring with a foreign adversary to our detriment. Get fucked.
  17. You're a fucking idiot. He was two when his uncle died. He is relaying a family story. His uncle was apparently involved, either as a pilot or other crew member, with recon flights for the army. His plane did crash off the coast of New Guinea. The body was never found. There were in fact cannibals in New Guinea. Nothing about his story is wildly inaccurate. Nothing about it is crazy. Yes, he doesn't have specific evidence that his uncle's body was eaten by cannibals. But seriously, go vote for RFK.
  18. If I ask @fattyflattie about his relatives from 80 years ago, I'm quite certain he will not get the details 100% historically correct. But that would not be a sign that @fattyflattie is mentally infirm. Essentially no one would pass the test you're apparently asking of Biden. This is stupid. And you fucking know it.
  19. I'm trying to understand why specific details about a relative from 80 fucking years ago could ever be a major gaffe. I know my grandfather served during WW2. My understanding is that he was a medic. But I haven't checked his service records or anything, I just have stories from family. And my grandfather actually came back from the war to share his stories. I'm sure not everything is accurate, and it really isn't important that it be 100% accurate. Biden is relaying family history when the family member in question was never available to provide the story directly. And Biden was just fucking 2 when his uncle died. Things he got wrong: (1) He got the date his uncle joined wrong, which frankly just seems like a mouth moving faster than brain moment since he just switched D-Day and December 7th. (2) Maybe the exact role his uncle served, although the phrase "flew single-engine planes, reconnaissance flights over New Guinea" doesn't imply he was the pilot on that particular flight or really necessarily a pilot at all. He did serve in the Army air forces, so if he wasn't a pilot, he may have been another crew member on reconnaissance flights. (3) "Shot down" - wrong based on army records (although those aren't always known to be 100% accurate). Everything else seems to be correct. The plane went down off the coast of New Guinea. New Guinea is an area known to have cannibals. What exactly do you think qualifies as anything above a "a slight miss" here? If this is a gaffe, what is quoting Robert E. Lee as saying "Never Fight Uphill, Me Boys"? or thinking airports existed during the revolutionary war?
  20. I personally have no issue with @sheeeit voting for RFK. Go for it.
  21. USPS is one of the most efficient organizations ever to exist. The continued war against it by the GOP is ridiculous.
  22. See below USPS delivered 116 billion pieces of mail in 2023. UPS delivered 5.7 billion packages in 2023. Fedex did about 3 billion. Even if you're just limiting yourself to packages, USPS still delivered 7.2 billion in 2022.
  23. I thought this was a joke. I was wrong.
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