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atomheartbevo

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  1. Always thought he as an Irishman from Wisconsin, didn’t realize he was an Italian from New Jersey.
  2. The Man responds. When I was 22 years old, I commissioned as an Ensign in the United States Navy and swore an oath to the Constitution. I upheld that oath through flight school, multiple deployments on the USS Midway, 39 combat missions in Operation Desert Storm, test pilot school, four space shuttle flights at NASA, and every day since I retired – which I did after my wife Gabby was shot in the head while serving her constituents. In combat, I had a missile blow up next to my jet and flew through anti-aircraft fire to drop bombs on enemy targets. At NASA, I launched on a rocket, commanded the space shuttle, and was part of the recovery mission that brought home the bodies of my astronaut classmates who died on Columbia. I did all of this in service to this country that I love and has given me so much. Secretary Hegseth’s tweet is the first I heard of this. I also saw the President’s posts saying I should be arrested, hanged, and put to death. If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies who care more about their own power than protecting the Constitution.
  3. It is a mystery. One of the great “what ifs”. Imagine if there was somebody of his stature still around now, with his forces.
  4. “You know, giant strapping young men come up to me and they say “President Trump, why do they call you President, they should call you Warlord of America” and you know, they have tears in their eyes when they say it. And they tell me there is a warlord on Mars and I tell them “no, Leon has a lot of ideas, but he hasn’t gotten there yet.””
  5. I do not think it will go the way hedgehog thinks it will go and it will elevate Mark Kelly’s status even higher. Ole Petey knows nothing will happen, he’s just trying to scare other vets into shutting up. This administration is falling apart and lashing out at everybody and everything. It has no discipline, no guardrails. It’s going to Thelma and Louise itself off of a cliff. Trump has lost control of Congress, his lawyers fuck up simple things like the Texas redistricting case, and they can’t even prosecute his enemies because he can’t get anybody appointed who will do his dirty work.
  6. I think the Texas bar exam requires you to be at least 18 years old.
  7. They can always get a new coach. Russians on the other hand are screwed. When things go south, they are really going to go south.
  8. What if I told you that Carter cared more about other planets… And even had a family there
  9. Are we gonna bomb somebody today? CNN: Breaking news… this is big, we have learned that the justice department's case against former FBI director Jim Comey and the New York attorney general have both been dismissed
  10. Hell, Trump got Dick Cheney to vote for Kamala Harris.
  11. What’s the Dem equivalent of Trump losing Nick Fuentes, Laura Loomer, and Marjorie Taylor Greene?
  12. I didn’t know we were buddies in real life.
  13. https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/aviation-news/us-issues-security-notam-for-venezuelan-airspace/ Apparently 8 airlines have canceled flights into Venezuela.
  14. My problem with it is that there always has to be a supporting cast of sorts, and even a situation where members of that supporting cast are at the same level - one could make the case for Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, etc.
  15. Sources: Art Briles to coach at Division II Eastern New Mexico - ESPN
  16. The EU's peace plan, written knowing that Russia will not agree to it.
  17. Couldn't have been improved on but definitely would have liked to have binged it the first time, or at least 3 episodes at a time. Washington was definitely the real deal. He dealt with that mutiny, and he could have created a dictatorship of sorts, but he didn't. Like that one historian said, I'm not a fan of the Great Man theory, but I feel like Washington is one of a select few that could fall into that category. I don't think anybody else could have done what he did. Gates obviously blew it. Benedict Arnold proved that some things cannot be defeated.
  18. Holy shit, the Russian should have kept still and not fired, he might not have been spotted. And that drone operator's favorite scene in any movie?
  19. So one of the open-source intel folks has tried to lay out what they think happened with this peace plan (and remember, Witkoff was not qualified to do this stuff from the beginning) --------------------------------------- It appears that somebody instructed Marco Rubio to go along with the story unfolding and it looks to me that this resulted from the following chain of events. I will lay it out here: Everything points to the direction that Witkoff and Kirill Dmitriev were hammering out this 28 point surrender paper, without informing the US Secretary of State or the Ukrainian government. It contains primarily Russian wishes and unrealistic Russian demands, but Witkoff basically took them over in the list. Kirill was then leaking this Russian wishlist to Axios, well-knowing what it is. Witkoff basically confirmed. The intent followed two objectives. First, maximalist wishlist of the Russians should be engraved cognitively in media sphere for everyone before any pushback occurred. Two, it should test the US government how it would react to the backlash which will inevitably follow. Rubio unaware of the contents of the talks was then confronted by a bipartisan group of US Senators and gave them his answer, which at this moment was truthful. The senators then went public quoting Rubio: “It is not our recommendation, it is not our peace plan.” At this point the US officials in the Trump administration must have started to realize that something is going wrong. As intended the leak totally blind-sided them. They completely lost control of the situation, but grudgingly decided to go along with it. Rubio was then compelled to go public and claim that it was indeed the plan, while watering down that it yet was just the Russian side, with some previous input from Ukrainian side. This is my assumption based on facts I see so far. This whole episode reveals that the current US negotiating team is completely out of its depth and that people involved in this "negotiation“ are absolute amateurs to say the least. Ukraine is well advised to push back hard and not leave any doubts that this surrender paper is dead in the water by countering it with a new peace proposal.
  20. That power plant outside of Moscow, they really fucked it up. Also, I feel confident that the power plant was catching plenty of strays from Russian "air defenses", given that the dumb motherfuckers were continuing to fire on the drones as they went into the plant. That was a lot of ammo fired in the direction of that plant. It's possible the "friendly fire" overshot the plant, but that was dumb as hell.
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