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atomheartbevo

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  1. Keep dropping those community notes about where he's from, keep reporting him, etc. My guess is Elmo removes the feature in a few days.
  2. The Witkoff recording leak is drawing a large amount of attention, especially given that Rubio and others would probably like to see him fall. A lot of attention, and none of it good. Trump is trying to distract/delay/whatever by sending him off to Moscow, but that was the wrong thing to do.
  3. She sounds like she understands how Congress works, almost like she's.....competent.
  4. More from Bloomberg And the envoy thing is happening
  5. I think it depends on where you are at and the chartering organization. Girls have already made up nearly half (and growing) of the claimed number of Mormon kids who were pulled out in 2020, and COVID had a larger impact overall than them leaving. We know of a lot of Mormon, err LDS outside of Utah who stayed in Scouting so for all of the LDS threats, I'm not sure they were able to pull out as many as they claimed they were as well. Now I have seen it here in Austin - one of the nearby packs and troops was chartered through a conservative church and they made it clear girls were not welcome back when it was opened up to girls (we were looking for a Cub Scout pack with girls as well and they made it clear girls had no place there). Whether they've changed that stance or not, I don't know since we never hear of those units, other than when they have kids transfer to our units. It's been 7-8 years since it started happening (LBGTQ stuff and girls being added) so I'd imagine that those parents for which it was an issue have either bailed on scouting or made their peace and stuck it out (and are on their way to aging out anyways). Same. Being Austin, we will obviously trend more a certain way, but we have plenty of dads who are Good Ole Boys and you're not sure where they stand, and that's good that they keep political things out of it. Same (and I'm in the same leadership boat as you). And those times when politics have come up, it was less about a certain party, and more about a certain policy that affected us directly (earlier this year there was a lot of discussion about DOGE and getting rid of national parks). I will say this though, with the older kids, just by virtue of the merit badges involved with making Eagle Scout (and many in our troop aspire to that), those kids are a lot more engaged in terms of knowing what the politicians are doing that helps or hurts them, and how the political processes work, and they are pretty vocal about things. They watched DOGE and the White House trying to fuck up our National Park system, and today some of them have been discussing Whisky Pete's threats on a group discussion (they have plans for the National Jamboree). Republicans ain't helping themselves with a lot of kids coming out of Scouting.
  6. Yeah, we are in an odd situation because there are a lot less girl troops in our area, but they are gaining fast and new ones are coming online this year (and the switch-up to allow co-ed/family troops will change/improve that even more), and as a merit badge counselor, I've seen them work harder to make Eagle than the boys. Some of that maybe due to some of the girls coming into it later and so they are on a time crunch, but the majority show up prepared for whatever they are working on, and some of the boys, you have to drag it out of them. My son is that way - it's like "come on kid, it's right there in the book you are holding, at least show me that you are serious about it." We work with a couple of troops (as merit badge counselor) and our son is in a troop and our daughter is in Cub Scouts, and all of them appear to be growing fairly well (COVID really messed things up and we lost troops and packs in the area from them not pulling in young kids during that time), and the ones with girls appear to be growing very well. It seems like the girls in both Cubs and in the troop we work with are a lot more outdoor-focused than the local Girl Scout troops.
  7. That sounds just like me except my Mr. Bill was Benny Hill.
  8. A master sergeant or chief petty officer would have recognized that the photo was taken in a mirror as well. But not Major Whisky Pete.
  9. And that he hates the GOP
  10. https://x.com/RepDonBacon/status/1993446393076498714 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-25/witkoff-discusses-ukraine-plans-with-key-putin-aide-transcript
  11. I can’t wait to tell my MAGA relatives that Tucker wants them to know how evil Netanyahu and Israel is.
  12. Satellite images released by TG channel Dnipro Official show the result of the last night’s operation against the Beriev Aviation and Scientific Complex Facility. These are results: - one experimental A-60 flying laboratory, a carrier of laser weapons was destroyed - one Russian heavy military transport type Il-76 aircraft was destroyed - The factory also suffered significant damage, particularly the final assembly shop - In addition to the aircraft and the shop, a S-400 air defense position was hit, the consequences are difficult to determine from the satellite
  13. https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/russia-weighs-how-prop-up-russian-railways-which-is-51-billion-debt-sources-2025-11-25/
  14. It will really piss off OPEC and OPEC+ or whatever the expanded group is.
  15. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-25/witkoff-advised-russia-on-how-to-pitch-ukraine-plan-to-trump?embedded-checkout=true
  16. Those things that our manservants consume or cook with or something. Don’t know, my grandparents are dead so I can’t ask them.
  17. Think about making a retired, decorated career naval officer, who flew combat and who also flew into space, go through a uniform inspection after calling him back to active duty, all because the Secretary of Defense is a fucking idiot who didn’t understand that he was looking at a photo taken in a mirror. Think about how fucking petty that is, and then things start to make sense.
  18. I don’t think Russia will accept anything pitched by the EU and Ukraine. The EU’s plan had some things designed to deliberately piss off Moscow like NATO membership. Ukraine has been increasing production of certain systems and I’m wondering if we are seeing the results or if Russian AD really is dropping off.
  19. He has to lash out at anybody that he perceives as slighting him and he constantly needs “wins”. And everybody under him is constantly jockeying for his attention. Comey and Leticia were losses for him so he needs a win and attacking Kelly and trying to humiliate him is a “win”.
  20. Probably people who were moving and needed to store stuff temporarily.
  21. Department of Defense (Major Hegseth) wants to cut all ties to Scouting because we added girls 7 years ago. https://www.npr.org/2025/11/25/nx-s1-5615164/pentagon-scouting-hegseth-cut-ties He doesn’t even realize that the older boys and girls meet separately. Adding girls was a huge boost for our Cub Scout pack, and has gotten my wife and I far more involved in scouting than we would normally be. It was already becoming a pain in the ass to camp at Camp Mabry so I guess we will be finished there. They were fun and close campouts but oh well. Trying to hurt the National Jamboree next year was a dick move that’s going to backfire on them.
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