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  1. Would be a shame if people encouraged their older relatives to believe this was an alien ship.
  2. They are indeed. Slovakia erupted in protests against Prime Minister Robert Fico and his pro-Russian policies. With slogans like "We’ve had enough of Fico," "We want change", and "Resign", tens of thousands of Slovaks took to the streets across the country. The mass rallies took place yesterday, on the anniversary of the Velvet Revolution, which ended communism in the country. Recently, Fico’s government abolished this holiday, greatly angering the public.
  3. The monitoring group Crimean Wind reports that two NATO aircraft are conducting reconnaissance over the Black Sea. According to the flight-tracking portal Flightradar, a Turkish Navy ATR 72-600 TMPA maritime patrol aircraft with the callsign MARTI31 took off from the Izmit airfield and is now conducting reconnaissance in the southern part of the Black Sea. A French Air and Space Force Beech King Air 350ER/ALSR electronic intelligence and surveillance aircraft is also continuing its mission, having already operated near Crimea and Novorossiysk.
  4. Senate to move on Trump-backed Russia sanctions, Graham says - Live Updates - POLITICO Russia's Oil Exports Fall and Prices Slump to Hit Moscow’s War Chest - Bloomberg
  5. Trump not ruling out ground forces in Venezuela.
  6. Somebody said it's over 2,000 KM
  7. Looks like the Cars/Planes characters are still alive and kicking in 2025. Going to have to show my son, his favorite movie in his younger years varied between Cars and Planes: Fire and Rescue.
  8. Are the theories about Epstein really that crazy any more?
  9. Dude went to the Ricardo Montalbán school of ab workouts.
  10. I don't have time to write a manifesto several paragraphs, but I've had this thought percolating in my head for a while: Prior to Trump and the MAGA politicians (those who were elected in 2016 or after) there was a bit of order in how things worked - seniority mattered. You had to put in the work and eventually you would get a turn at bigger and better opportunities. That could be a favored committee appointment in the House or Senate, or moving up from state legislatures to the House of Representatives, or taking a cabinet position, etc. It could even mean getting a chance at the White House - George H.W. Bush put in his time. Bob Dole put in his. John McCain put in his. Newt Gingrich, and so on, and so forth (even if they didn't make it out of the primaries). George W. Bush kind of jumped ahead in the line, going from governor to President with such a short career, but you could also view his election as a continuation of his dad's administration, and he was Governor of Texas. And then along comes Donald Trump and MAGA. Trump was a long-time Democrat and didn't do shit in the past to deserve to jump to the front of the line other than have money and name recognition and say bad things out loud. Trump has a whole lot of people jump on his bandwagon. If you're an old-school Republican in Congress, toiling away for years in shitty committees, and putting in your time and then you watch all of these MAGA politicians like Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, etc. come in with no background, no hard work, and they get committee assignments you wanted or get attention or campaign donations that you feel should have went your way, and you get these White House staffers who are telling you what to do, even though just a few years before they were still in college. You have Elon Musk and his DOGE bullshit wrecking things for your constituents and they are blaming you for his and Trump's fuckups. You see all of these people in Trump's orbit who had not spent years and years of shaking hands at county fairs, going out to eat with campaign contributors that you loathe, cutting ribbons at the grand opening of a Piggly Wiggly in Bumfuck, Georgia, etc. and these people are jumping ahead of you in line. You're camped out in line for Whitesnake or Hall & Oates tickets for 12 hours and then 10 minutes before the tickets go on sale, these motherfuckers walk right past you and go to the head of the line and get the best seats in the house. And these people will destroy you at the drop of a hat if they think you are not loyal enough to them and Trump, even though nobody knew who the fuck they were 8 years ago. They don't give a fuck about you spending 12 years (or 20) in Congress working up to a committee assignment you coveted - they are going to give it out to whoever the Yankee Democrat-turned-Republican favors. It has to really piss you off, especially when you realize that some of your political ambitions may not come to pass because the MAGA politicians have jumped ahead of you in line. Especially when you watch some of your longtime colleagues be shoved out of the House or Senate because they aren't loyal enough to the Yankee Democrat-turned-Republican.
  11. Are we taking bets on votes?
  12. Ehh if it didn't matter, Trump wouldn't be melting down, wouldn't have been pressuring Republicans, wouldn't publicly announce that he wants Republicans that want the files released to lose their primaries, complete with calling them RINOs/traitors. I've got one of the pizzagate/Qanon nutsos in my family (she had last voted for Obama in 2008 before Trump in 2016). She bailed on Trump over a few things and didn't vote in 2024, but "Epstein didn't kill himself" was a part of the equation (he didn't fulfill the fantasies Q promised them). Earlier this year with Trump pretending there were no files, that sealed the deal, although she didn't even bother voting last November. She helps run one of the larger Qanon conspiracy sites (although she does not like the term "Qanon" because it's not "accurate" and is touchy about it) and I keep tabs on a it a bit out of morbid curiosity, and they are not pleased with everything happened. Some of them really believed Trump would release the files. But let's say only 10-20% really care about the Epstein files, Maxwell being pardoned, etc. After the elections earlier this month, can Trumpland afford those people staying home next year? And it's easy to research these types in your family in some states, to see what their voting patterns were prior to Trump. I can see how several of my relatives voted in Texas (or at least get an idea), as well as Oklahoma. If they were voting sporadically prior to Trump, and then he pulls this shit, and he's not on the ballot next year, it's not a good look for Republicans.
  13. feel like the Air Force could simulate that so that he believed it.
  14. Trump wants to pardon Maxwelll. This is not what they signed up for. He can say it’s all Dems but he’s talking about pardoning a child sex trafficker They want those files. These are the pizzagate morons that were dumb enough to think Tom Hanks and Oprah Winfrey were draining juices from kids to stay young. They want everything
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