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Holy shit, is this Billy Zane’s magnum opus? Waltzing with Brando is an upcoming American biographicaldrama film directed by Bill Fishmanand starring Billy Zane as Marlon Brando, alongside Jon Heder, Richard Dreyfuss, Camille Razat, Alaina Huffman, Tia Carrere, and James Jagger. The film is written and directed by Bill Fishman and adapted from the memoir Waltzing with Brando: Planning a Paradise in Tahiti by Bernard Judge. The film is set primarily from 1969 and 1974, during which Marlon Brando was preparing to star in The Godfather and Last Tango in Pariswhilst making plans with Bernard Judge to create a paradise getaway on Tahiti

Yeah, I'm gaining steadily on Threads and Blue Sky. Mastodon is kind of a wash for me - it had a lot of potential, but it's more intimidating for new users who can't figure out what server to go with. I wish the Facebook management would drop their opposition to Threads having DMs and instead forcing people to Instagram, because a lot of us using Threads rarely use Instagram. If you want to offer an alternative to twitter, better have most of its functionality.

Yeah, in a contest between Thiel and Leon, Leon is going down. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if Thiel pushes through an executive order or legislation that gets rid of the EV tax break as well as the carbon credit stuff (which Tesla relies on for a huge chunk of its profits). If he got rid of the tax break and the carbon credit stuff, would Tesla even survive?

I don't mean to derail, but came across this little talk about the cultural difference between Russia and the West. From about a year ago:

I’d like to know how Leon believes that Trump ditching the EV credit is going to help Tesla sales.

One of the YouTube/Google Play free channels is called the "Family Affair Channel" constantly running a show called, you guessed it, Frank Stallone, Family Affair. I'll save you the trouble: There are no attractive step-mothers or step-daughters. There are no broken dishwashers or clothes dryers or deep and narrow kitchen cabinets to get stuck in. It's just a cheesy/sappy 1960s sitcom with Brian Keith having to suddenly adopt his nieces and nephews.

Yeah, it feels like it's coming. We've already had some skirmishes and shit-talking. If you are independent-minded and have any bit of power in the Caucuses, you gotta be looking at the North Korean troops being brought in and wondering how many more Russian casualties are needed before you move. I wondered if the noise the Chechens were making about raising a bunch of units for Ukraine was really about them wanting to just raise some new units in general. They have enough troops deployed to Ukraine to make all the Tik Tok videos they want.

The funny thing is, we use 155mm because of decisions the French made in the 1870s and when we entered WWI we apparently used a lot of French arty and decided we didn't want to retool our ammo infrastructure after the war and stayed with it. Meanwhile, Russia's 152mm is 6 inches, which is the British Imperial Standard and then America's standard God's True Measurement standard.

Why would she stop? She made a lot of connections through the TRP and made quite a few trips to D.C. That’s not the actions of somebody who is hanging it up after a city council seat.

That would have to go through Congress, and even with the pro-Putin contingent, it won't happen. Not even with a dozen Maria Butinas working their way through that group. At least he's too weak to fuck with any NATO countries militarily and appears to be stretched too thin to even take Georgia. As @InkaUtexas said, it'll be interesting to see what happens if the Caucuses blow up. There have to be some folks tracking Russia's worsening military and economic problems.

Done. You all better campaign like crazy for her when she lays out her campaign strategy next year.

And he and his brother are illegal immigrants.

I don’t think Europe will stop. They have ramped up too much and they know they can’t back down to Putin, and they also know he won’t attack them. I’m not even sure Russia could rein in Belarus if it broke away. If they agreed to stop attacking Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in return for Ukraine doing the same, then I’d say they have some huge problems. Putin liked going after their infrastructure,

It could get ugly, but it's 2024 and Russia is relying on North Korean cannon fodder who are picking up internet porn addictions (and who are probably not the best and brightest in North Korea's armed forces - they maybe "undesirables" that Lil Kim wants gone). Things are going pretty poorly for Russia on the manpower front and thanks to demographic changes since the 80s, fewer and fewer men are reaching conscription-age every year (if you believe Zeihan, that's why Putin launched it in 2022 - he couldn't wait any longer due to declining demographics). I believe that if Putin thought he could start drafting more men out of Moscow/St. Petersburg/etc., without starting riots or causing more economic problems, he would have already done it. Moscow/St. Pete's areas accounts for over 20% of Russia's population. They can hold Crimea/Donbass for the time being (until Ukraine drops then Kerch bridge), but if they truly backed off on attacking Ukraine's energy infrastructure because Ukraine was hurting them as bad or worse, that means Ukraine always has that card to play, and Ukraine has some homegrown stuff coming online over the coming months/year. And NATO has been ramping up their armaments production and arguably preparing for the possibility that the US would withdraw from the world's stage and being a superpower.

The Project 2025 folks have had years of getting ready for this shit. Maybe Trump doesn't push their agenda too much, but people like Paxton and Abbott here in Texas definitely will. Edit And does it matter if it's being pushed at the national or state levels if it still affects you and the people around you?

And by the way @Spankytoes just so we are all on the same page: You voted for a group of people who despise your wife and in-laws. You voted for a political party that despises you for being on Medicare/Social Security because in their eyes, you're a drain on society.

I do know a lot about you. #2 and #4 prove that you're selfish and only care about yourself. #1 and #3 prove that you are also foolish, in addition to being selfish. It shows that you don't understand the economy and that you think the bad things will only happen to other people. Thank you for proving my point.

He doesn't think it does though, and that's good enough for him. People who have a very small worldview do not understand the complexities of something like say our food production and distribution system. They would happily deport all immigrants, legal and otherwise, because all they see is freeloaders or people taking 'Merican jobs. They don't see food tripling (or worse) in price when the agricultural industry is hurting for labor. They dont't see construction costs soaring in price when the construction industry is hurting for labor. And so on and so forth. All they see is some orange savior that promises tax breaks they will ether never see, or benefit very little from (most likely way offset by the soaring cost of food, construction, services, etc.).

Stephen Miller has too much of a hard-on for immigrants that not to happen, not to mention Trump has been pushing it for too long. And there will be fuckery at the state level the likes of which we haven't seen. Paxton will be actively going after women who try to leave for an abortion. China might go after Taiwan, because he loves Xi and because he believes that Xi would never do it, up until Xi does it, and then he won't realize the geopolitical and financial ramifications of doing nothing. With that said, China still doesn't quite have the forces/infrastructure it needs to do a massive invasion over 100 miles of open water. Europe will be fine - as I said, Putin is about tapped out on manpower and doesn't have the infrastructure (both localized/wheeled and strategic - railway/naval/air). Shit, he doesn't even have the infrastructure to take Kyiv or Odesa or retake Kherson at this point. It would take him years to build up the transportation that he needs to go into another country, and NATO has been building up since the 2022 invasion and NATO armament production has ramped up considerably since 2022. Plus NATO has about 630 million people without the US, and Russia is a country of 140 million (maybe a lot less, lot of speculation that their public demographic numbers don't make sense). Trump might be unpredictable if Putin was able to invade NATO, because the world and the Democrats would mock Trump for being weak and he fucking loathes being called weak and he wants the world's media to say Bigly things about himself.

It does. I was hoping she would win. I have not paid attention to her opponent(s) but what were they running against her in terms of negatives?

You're not a moron, you're just selfish. If Trump wins, you will take delight in every story about him deporting somebody who was here legally (and unless your 100% Native American, you most likely had relatives who came here in not-so-legal ways). You will take delight in Republicans going after the LBGTQ folks, including members of this very forum. You will take delight in the Trump administration fucking over poor people, fucking up Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid. You will take delight in states prosecuting residents who go to other states for abortions, and in states restricting birth control, and nation-wide bans on abortion, porn, birth control, etc. in general. Because none of that affects you.

No they just needed to find somebody who tells the Republican faithful that nothing is their fault, that it's always somebody else's fault.

While I do think Trump would happily give Putin Ukraine and Georgia if elected (he's said he would), the only good news is that Putin is pretty tapped out on manpower (going with North Koreans who didn't know the internet had porn) and Russia is not even the best army in Ukraine and in Kursk. They don't have the infrastructure (both wheeled vehicles and naval/railway) to really move troops into any NATO country (not even the Baltics), and they'd basically be running a community college football team up against a top tier NFL team. Their second invasion of Ukraine in February of 2022 was spotted and properly assessed well before they rolled troops in, and given how lacking they are in manpower and vehicles (and naval vessels), any attempt to build up will be even more apparent these days. Moldova is too difficult for Putin to get any large numbers of troops into without getting shot down or sunk by Ukraine (or else he would have dumped a ton of troops in there by now and used it as a second front against Ukraine). He also runs the risk of Ukraine helping Moldova clear out any Russian troops if Ukraine gets nervous. Also, keep in mind that most of Russia's best-trained and best-equipped troops have long since ended up in garbage bags sent back to Russia. That's what they tried to take Kyiv with (the infamous airport). Untrained/inexperienced airborne troops don't do well in enemy territory.

All of the stations seem to either ahead or well behind the one or two constantly being quoted here.