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atomheartbevo

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  1. No way RFK Jr ate McDonalds. They do try and cook their food.
  2. They are losing the ability to raise money through exports (they need that cash), they are having problems getting imported high-end stuff (outside of Iran which that will have to slow down at some point, Iran can’t accept that many IOUs), they are having to bail out large industries (railroad), they are having to import artillery shells which is crazy given that the manufacturing is not close to that of a cruise missile, they are losing air defenses faster than they can make them, their power grid is starting to feel the effects. And they just burned through 180,000 men over a few months for a town of formerly 60,000 people. That is something they are unequipped to do again, so not the best use of men, And they can’t just print a shitload of money to try and keep the lights on or the manufacturing going, at least not for the long term. Are they at the point the Germans were in the fall of 1944? Hard to say, but they are well on the way there. Ukraine doesn’t have to devastate Moscow directly, they just have to make it unlivable for the poors and middle-class by way of fuel and electricity shortages,
  3. We had a chill Thanksgiving, probably because we had our “political” discussions over the last few weeks. One, my anti-vaccine in-law started to say some bullshit at our nephew’s party whenever it came up that he had had some vaccines at his yearly checkup the week before. My wife shut her down with “you don’t have kids, you’ve never had to make life-or-death decisions for kids, and you’re never going to have kids, so you keep on deciding not to give your non-existent kids vaccines and leave those of us with kids alone!” The other, a boomer relative started to go on with some MAGA talking points about drugs and illegals in a conversation last weekend that featured neither of those, and I point blank asked him why we needed to invade Venezuela and why didn’t Trump release all of the Epstein files last spring, why do we need an act of Congress to get a chance at them, and why Trump is protecting pedophiles. So yeah, it didn’t come up today. I was a dick, but I figured better to get it out last weekend. I would hope more people would push back against relatives. And both my wife and I never brought up party affiliation or anything close to it, she was sticking to the fact that her relative never had to make such decisions so she has no history from which to pull from, and I made the boomer’s conversation all about Trump (he knows I was a Republican until the early 2000s).
  4. And a Subaru owner. The entire meal will be taken up by a conversation touting the benefits of CrossFit and owning a Subaru and political discussions will not be able to happen.
  5. People are making fun of him, and when people make fun of Trump’s choices, he thinks they are making fun of him (they are) so Kash is out within a few months. Not sure who Trump will replace him with. Maybe add to Duffy’s duties.
  6. Penthouse Letters, 1992 Collection, Volume I Probably Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, but The Hobbit would be right there in the mix.
  7. Seems busier than normal. Crazy how you can see where Russia has no air defense. Those hits on those aircraft from a few days ago were precise as hell, and probably will make Russia move some aircraft a little more to the rear.
  8. POKROVSK: Russia once again claims complete control of the city. UKR reports ~50% still under control. Cumulative Russian losses since the main offensive toward Pokrovsk began in earnest in July–August 2024 are staggering. Western and Ukrainian estimates place total Russian casualties (killed, wounded, missing) in the Pokrovsk axis alone at approximately 110,000 men, with well over 18,000 confirmed killed in the last two months of fighting. Hundreds of Russian tanks, armored vehicles, artillery pieces and thousands of drones have also been destroyed, making Pokrovsk the single most expensive operation for Russia since the start of the full-scale invasion.
  9. Interesting timing Ukraine may have hit one of Kadryov’s units. In Chechnya.
  10. Patriot doing what it was designed to do.
  11. Don Bacon is considering it as well.
  12. Are we talking about The William Howard Taft?
  13. re-election. Also, he promised again not to go for world domination or genocide.
  14. Yesterday. People are claiming 30% of the Navy's combat ships are deployed in the Caribbean. I find that hard to believe.
  15. I've bitched in this very thread, and they have toned it down a bit, but they really need to move the religious stuff to optional in terms of Cub Scout advancements. In our pack and troops (and a previous pack I was involved with), we have basically made it one of those things the kids do at home. We don't keep it out of the official language we use at our meetings obviously. Unfortunately, it would probably get shot down for now at the national level, but I have a nephew and niece that would be in scouts right now if it was there (and we tell their parents that our pack doesn't put it in your face, but the language and it being a requirement still turns them off), and I've known others who were turned off by it. I've seen several packs and troops that were majority non-Christian/Jewish, so hopefully leadership will address it at some point. There are a lot of parents that are looking for alternatives to sports and getting the kids out of the house and away from screens.
  16. A friend who is a higher-up at one of the Texas councils pointed to this being a sign that those types are on their way out: Combined Troop Pilot | Scouting America It's a third option (boys troop, girls troop, combined troop). The idea of a combined boys and girls troop is something that those types would have opposed. It doesn't touch the current single-sex troops. On a side note, I do think a lot more LDSers stayed within scouting than people realize, but we are picking up a lot of non-Christian scouts in a lot of packs/troops as well. I can't tell you if scouting as a whole is growing, but the pack and troops I'm involved with are. If I were starting a new troop, it's an option I would consider, especially if said new troop was partnered up with a pack (new or existing) that had both boys and girls).
  17. Some of my best friends I've met in the past 10 years were other scout parents, and I've watched both of my kids grow through it.
  18. Odds that Elmo has had one of his bots customized to look like the ones in Ex Machina?
  19. They are going to fuck over Texans to cover any losses. This state is just so fucking stupid.
  20. It really is elevating Kelly’s profile, and Hegseth and Trump can either do the smart thing and let it die down, or play right into the trap of making Kelly look even better than he is.
  21. “Ukraine is the only country fulfilling NATO’s destiny and we owe them everything.” Hell yes Kasparov. Well said. And Witkoff is just making real estate deals.
  22. Memes are about to get a lot more weird At least the incels won’t be breeding because you know Elon will be adding breasts to his bots.
  23. Helicopter door gunners getting their due and probably the most intense thing they’ll do.
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