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atomheartbevo

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  1. Epstein Estate releases new photos with Trump, Bannon, and Clinton https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/12/politics/epstein-photos-trump-clinton-bannon
  2. I get the parallels with WWI, but the problem for Putin is that he's running out of manpower fast - put aside that the soldiers we've seen in Ukraine seem to be getting nothing for body armor and helmets (other than what they can strip off of the dead) or it's inconsistent and that they are getting little training. As the video I posted above mentioned, he's reached the limit on paying civilians to voluntarily join up. The regional governments can't afford it, and a lot of outlying areas are pretty tapped out anyways. When that draft notice came out last week about calling up reservists, I think there was a very good reason they mentioned calling up reservists to join the National Guard - that organization exists to protect the government itself. It's not a part-time gig or anything, it's literally the guys who would be putting down demonstrations. He is going to have to mobilize young men in Moscow and St. Petersburg at some point, and that is not going to go over well. The population as a whole already knows that Ukraine was too much - we are about to hit the 4th year after the 3-day excursion to Kyiv and the people of Moscow have heard air raid sirens and outlying suburbs have lost power and heard the explosions. Going after NATO countries would be far worse.
  3. Very interesting, especially among the younger Republicans (in their 50s and under) who still plan on a career in politics past Trump - they don't want to be tainted, and when you look at the shit-storm that has been brewing, they have to be nervous - when districts start flipping, it's not a given they can be easily flipped back (and 2026 means just 4 years until redistricting). Hell, Trump is willing to let tens of millions of Americans watch their healthcare costs soar within the next two months, which is going to piss people off and get them out next November, and he still can't figure out what to do with the economy, other than offer bailouts from the tariff problem he created. And then there is 2028. It's pretty much a given the GOP will lose big next November, and you don't want to be the Presidential candidate in 2028 because you will lose and when you lose, you're out. You can be war heroes like Bob Dobbs Dole or John McCain and it won't matter. You pick a bad year to run, that's your only chance.
  4. This is so wild, given the location. More footage of the large refinery that was hit tonight.
  5. The more they attack each other, and I have a feeling we are in the very early stages of their little civil war, the less time they have stirring up the masses for Trump.
  6. They are our fucking enemies. https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/united-states-vs-dubranova-indictment-one.pdf?ref=breached.company https://www.msn.com/en-us/crime/general/us-slaps-new-charges-on-ukrainian-over-russian-cyberattacks/ar-AA1S3cpW?ocid=BingNewsSerp Muleshoe gets a shout-out: Tiny Texas City Repels Russia-Tied Hackers Eyeing Water System - Bloomberg More, if you care to read the case The U.S. has unsealed a California grand jury indictment exposing how Russian GRU hackers targeted critical infrastructure in the U.S. They hit a regional airport in Missouri, drinking water and water storage facilities in Texas, Pennsylvania and Indiana, and a meat packing facility in California. One cyber attack caused 200,000 gallons of water to overflow in Texas. Another caused 2,000 pounds of meat to spoil.
  7. Upgraded to the 7 series this year from the 5 series last year.
  8. If ICE is truly going to make a huge push in South Texas, things could get very interesting.
  9. Watching them go after Indiana Republicans, with all kinds of statements about Mike Pence's brother driving it as revenge against Trump, that the Indiana Republicans who voted against redistricting are as bad as the guy who killed Charlie Kirk, etc. They are really mad right now. Really mad. And spinning lots of conspiracy theories. And planning to primary every Indiana Republican who so much as even considered voting against redistricting.
  10. Or NewsMax. Depends on how bad she pisses Trump off with her weak showing today.
  11. She's looking very weak and the Democrats are absolutely clowning her - producing combat veterans that were deported or had a spouse deported, or immigrants who raised 3 United States Marines, and she's just sitting there with a deer-in-headlines look, at least as much as her botox allows, trying to stammer out answers and do what the Democrats want. She'll be gone within a month. Trump wants somebody who can terrorize immigrants and not look so weak in front of the cameras.
  12. So she got clowned on multiple times by the Democrats who had combat veterans either there or on Zoom. Just absolutely clowned on, and made to look extremely weak. She's going to be out of there soon. At least with Whiskey Pete's fuckups, he's distracting from the Epstein Files. She's straight up looking incompetent and weak in front of the Democrats. Trump does not like that.
  13. Meanwhile, somebody is looking to pull a Nicolae Ceaușescu Bloomberg reports Viktor Orbán is preparing for life after the April 2026 election by planning a power grab through the presidency. Facing a real challenge from Peter Magyar’s Tisza party, Orbán is exploring how to rewrite laws to turn Hungary’s ceremonial presidential role into the most powerful office in the country. Fidesz has already passed a law making it harder to remove the president, and insiders say Orbán is considering using his supermajority to push through constitutional changes before the vote. It would allow him to stay in charge, even if Fidesz loses. The playbook resembles moves seen in Turkey and Russia.
  14. Do that in Moscow
  15. @PTINS they may have hit two of those nitrate plants last night
  16. @PTINS you might find this interesting
  17. I don't think you could have done a better job of fitting the books into 3-3.5 hour movies, and sacrifices had to be made. And I'm cool with additions like the aforementioned scene with Aragorn.
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