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Throw traumatic brain injuries on top of fetal alcohol syndrome. Starting to make more sense why they are all fucking idiots.

Their is no way Jarvanka's kids aren't ecstatic that they won't have to spend time around Trump anymore soon. Thanks to Jarvanka's crooked Middle East deals, they are not dependent on Trump's largess. The kids are already going to inherit plenty of blood money without having to put up with grandpa's shit.

An awful lot of stuff thing that normally operate on a Geologic time scale (takes a long time) are now happening on a decade, or less, time scale.

Mark Meadows has actually dug for dinosaurs and then purchased the land they were on. He later sold the land to Answers in Genesis without disclosing the sale. In spite of this personal experience, he believes the earth is 6,000 years old and that dinosaurs co-existed with humans. https://www.salon.com/2020/12/27/mark-meadows-has-skeletons-in-the-closet--dinosaur-skeletons-to-be-precise/ Just some context for the following statement. Even that fucking moron knows Trump lost, the election wasn't stolen, and cooperating with the investigations is the only way to keep his stupid ass out of the prison sentence he so richly deserves. Which brings to mind the question, just how fucking stupid do you have to be to actually believe the election was stolen and that Trump won? Apparently stupider than Mark Meadows, which is a very low bar.

I wish I could rep this twice. Fantastic post and this should be the response every time they try to air that bullshit. How they're created has got nothing to do with it. Also, Newsom should wear gator skin boots when he destroys DeSantis. He won't need lifts inside them like DeSantis is using.

It should be crystal clear to everyone by now that Putin is bluffing and is full of shit on every threat he issues. Red Line, Red Line, Red Line, Red Line, Red Line All crossed. Whenever the West crosses one of Putin's ridiculous red lines, he folds, because he is bluffing and has nothing he can respond with that doesn't guarantee his own death, of which he is terrified. To everyone's detriment, the West has fallen for Putin's bluffs for decades. It's time to stop and recognize that Putin is in a weak position and he doesn't have any strength to act out with, or he'd have used it already. Short of NATO invading Russia, which isn't going to happen, Putin is not going to use nukes. He's not going to do shit. He can't, or he already would have. Even setting aside the fact that he doesn't seem to have tight control over his military and they're likely disobey an order to launch nukes, nukes guarantee a sizable western military response, possibly Article 5 depending on fallout. They also mean being cut off from everyone, including India and China for the foreseeable future. Either way, that's the end of Putin in power and likely ends with him getting something along the lines of a bayonet enema like Gaddafi. If the West provides Ukraine with the rest of what they need to win, Putin is going to fuck off back across the border, declare victory and try to rebuild what's left of his powerbase. Dictators and bullies only respect strength and they incessantly attack perceived weakness. Lets give Ukraine what they need to throw the Russians back to the pre-2014 borders. It also sets the perfect tone for China on Taiwan. FAFO.

It's not just tax breaks for NM. Albuquerque is a 12 hour drive from LA/Burbank, so they can still use the same equipment houses in CA and have anything they need in NM the next morning. Lighting techs, sound techs, cameras, all the other people/stuff they use can be there the next morning. Shuttling equipment and crews in and out is really easy. It's a looooong fucking drive to get any of that shit to San Marcos, which means you'll have to have that stuff on site, or close. That means building out a huge supporting industry that currently doesn't exist. New Mexico also has just about every geography/ecosystem that exists in the US, aside from beach/swamps, within a 4 hour drive of Albuquerque.

It's too hot in Austin. You can only kill people by throwing them in the lake.

Anyone who isn't blocked by an HOA/leasing office should get a window AC unit, or a portable. Even if they disallow window units, most of them allow portables. This isn't going to relent for a while still and it's worth a few hundred bucks not to be miserable when you're trying to sleep. Long term, mine saves money by not having to cool the rest of the house off as much. If it helps anyone, here's the Wirecutter reviews. https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-air-conditioner/ And here are the consumer reports for each BTU category. Portables are the last one.

Is that a croquet mallet? What's she going to do, knock over all the Deep States' wickets?

Not publicly confirmed, but Giuliani, Eastman, Sydney Powell and Jeffery Clark are pretty obvious. The allegations can be paired with specific actions that happened publicly. The other 2, especially #6, the political consultant, are less clear. There's lots of options for #6 and I hope we get some of those options indicted as well.

Just like Putin and his red lines, it's all a never-ending bluff. This is the line in the sand. [DOJ steps over] No, this one is the line in the sand. [DOJ steps over] Ok, well, this one is the line in the sand. [DOJ steps over] Now this is the line in the sand [DOJ steps over] How about, this one is the line in the sand?

Big strong man with tears in his eyes and a dog straight out of central casting.

Seems there might be an Xodus soon.

His clothes will have less wrinkles.

That's even more obnoxious than I'd previously seen. It turns into a giant strobe light. That could easily trigger a seizure in someone with photosensitive epilepsy.

Russia has committed so many atrocities, the abduction of 700,000 children kind of gets lost in the shuffle. It's a number that is very difficult to fathom. Take a full DKR and multiply it times 7. That's how many kids have been stolen and abused. 7 full DKRs worth. 700,000 kids kidnapped and without our aid, it would be MUCH worse. One out of every 10 kids in the entire country of Ukraine kidnapped. A huge number of Ukrainian children are currently being stolen and abused, yet some Americans still take the Russian side. Few things in this world boil down to actual Good versus Evil. This is one of them. There is only one acceptable response. Give Ukraine what they need to win this war.

Great point. If people really want to share something from there, screen shot it and paste it into Surly instead. The only thing giving them traffic at this point is Ukraine and people laughing at Musk crashing Twitter.

The MALD missile can mimic radar signatures for just about anything and has been in use since 2009. It's a 14-year old weapon we're willing to let Ukraine use and reveal capabilities to the Russians/Chinese. That strongly suggests the military has something much better in the works that we don't know about. Occam's razor says most of these sightings are our new tech. It's not breaking the laws of physics, but it is giving the appearance that it is.

I've mentioned before that the Shahed delta wing design is really inefficient and produces a lot of unnecessary drag due to the triangle shape, but is good at pitch (nose up/down), which is beneficial for accurately descending to hit a target. This Ukrainian design has the same pitch strengths (that's a main reason for the front wings), but is much more efficient with less drag. Both sets of wings are high aspect ratio, much longer along the wingspan than they are wide. That produces a higher percentage of lift, relative to drag across the wing. Less drag = more range. There's also less to hit with anti-aircraft weapons than a delta wing. TL/DR This is a good design. The Ukrainians are smart motherfuckers.

Anyone on the fence about whether the GQP is coming for birth control need only to Google/Duck, Duck, Go it. There are shit tons of results. AG candidates, Senators, Supreme Court Justices, House Representatives. This is just a few of many from a very quick perusal. Supreme Court https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/24/contraception-supreme-court-clarence-thomas-griswold/ US Senator https://www.newsweek.com/blackburn-says-scotus-ruling-protect-birth-control-couples-unsound-1690259 US House https://www.huffpost.com/entry/house-republicans-voted-against-birth-control-protections_n_62d84d4be4b03dbb9913f86d US Senators https://www.axios.com/2022/07/27/birth-control-bill-senate

We should nationalize Space X and Starlink. It's crystal clear at this point that Elon owning them is a national security threat.