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atomheartbevo

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  1. Say what you want about Trump, but he knows how to rally his base and get them out. It's why he had that little TV show for 14 fucking years, among other things - he knows how to play to people and how to use the limelight and loved the spotlight like nobody else in the last 40 years. Vance knows how to play to...Silicon Valley. He was way too uncomfortable when the spotlight was on him. They want more money.
  2. I wouldn't bet money against MTG and Boebert. @RDCanecutter has already regaled us with tales of what would happen in a bar fight with those two.
  3. @immamac Can we get a thread title change to war on oil and Venezuela or something?
  4. Yeah, Rubio is young and knows Vance will be tainted by Trump in 2028 and will lose. Although if this little war with Venezuela is the cluster fuck we are expecting, Rubio is going to be fully tainted as well.
  5. Yeah, I wanted to go up from 2x16 to 2x32 because of some stuff my son is doing and I'm fucked. We've got a small form factor PC, so only 2 memory slots. Just going to upgrade the CPU from a Ryzen 3700x to a Ryzen 7 5700 and video card from an RTX 2060 to something newer. CPU upgrade is not much but will reduce some stuttering we get in certain games/apps (all 8 cores are on one chip on the 5700 versus 2 chips on the 3700x, and played around on a friend's 5700 and it was smoother) and even bumping up just 3 generations on the video will help tremendously. I can also repurpose the old CPU and video to a second PC we are building for my daughter.
  6. And by the way, for those who are curious about whether it's real or not (because you don't want to visit his social media site), Rubio was retweeting this:
  7. At least the racists aren't hiding it anymore and we can see them have their shit plastered all over the internet.
  8. What part of it? I didn't see that, but only skimmed it, and will read it later.
  9. Headline photo for the VF article
  10. One of the writers or somebody associated with the film wouldn't confirm or deny if it's set within the Close Encounters of the Third Kind universe.
  11. At least he has a unique name and that and his face are plastered on the internet for future employers, dates, etc. to find.
  12. She's in it for herself. She knows she was being recorded. Trump's cabinet members aren't really denying she said what she said because it's true and/or they know she was recorded. If this is some 4D chess bullshit, I don't see how it helps him since these interviews were over a long period of time, and they couldn't time VF's release of the article with anything the administration is doing.
  13. I don't think this is related to Venezuela, but reading his social media, you really can't tell. And we are putting a blockade of sorts "around" Venezuela.
  14. I notice that none of them are really denying what she said, and even her post says things were taken out of context. And we know they have tapes (I doubt VF pushes all of that out there unless they had tapes). Next day or two will be interesting.
  15. At least we stopped pretending it was about drugs and are openly stating it's about oil. Not sure what land they stole, or should I say "Land" but yeah...
  16. Yeah, it gets into the whole discussion about the fact that if we don't, China will happily fill that void, and what will be the economic and other repercussions for that. I'm oversimplifying, but when you look at the British up through the 1940s, and then our filling that void during and after WWII, both the Brits and us were not doing it solely out of some benevolent act of goodness or to prevent future wars (although that was a huge driver obviously for the US after 1945, and we used it to accumulate a lot of forward bases overseas). However, a huge driver of it was to make sure that the markets and resources in other parts of the world were open to our commercial interests. Even when you factor in the Soviets during the Cold War and discuss the political/ideological implications, at the end of the day, you could argue that having a massive Navy (and Air Force) was driven mostly by financial reasoning. We could dress it up and say it was Communism vs Democracy or whatever terms you wanted to use, but we knew that where the Soviets exerted their power, that those were markets and resources that American companies would be locked out of. And arguably that economic access helped pay for our massive military. The same holds true now, only with the Chinese. In that aspect, Ukraine and our tariff situation are catalysts - where we pull back, China quietly moves in - they've even made overtures to Europe in terms of the economic aspect. But that's more for a thread on China. Us pulling back as the arsenal of democracy over the last 4 years is going to be a huge issue going forward - countries will pivot away from us and to Europe and South Korea for their defense needs. Both of those could be threads in the business/finance forum.
  17. I feel like there are recordings of her interviews. I always love how they say he's done more in 11 months than any President in 8 years. I feel like FDR probably accomplished more in the 8 years leading up to his death, but that's just me.
  18. The negotiations are just a fucking scam by the Russians to play other countries.
  19. Sky News reports that Britain, at the "Ramstein" format meeting, announced the allocation of a large air defence aid package to Ukraine worth nearly €685 million. British Defence Secretary John Healey said that Kyiv will receive air defence systems, missiles, and automated turrets for shooting down drones. Ukraine war latest: Zelenskyy addresses diplomats in The Hague - as Kremlin responds to latest peace talks | World News | Sky News
  20. I'm enjoying the pivot into antisemitism that so many on the right are going through. I'm sure that will play well in Florida.
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