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  1. I did. Was surprised, given I live in Travis County.
  2. It got folded into the Red Sea patrols (and I'm not sure if they are still doing them or not)
  3. I'm still not convinced that this isn't a matter of him deciding the French/Western nations would treat him better than the Russians, or that this wasn't some kind of ruse. I'd love to know more about the canceled meeting with Putin in Azerbaijan (I believe he flew straight from Azerbaijan to Paris). That situation was odd - I'm glossing over his past, but they had been unhappy with him in the past because his original social media startup, VK whatever, was not that responsive to the Russian government and he covered for Ukrainian protestors, but then he moved on from that after being forced out (forced to sell/ousted by the Russian government, who knows given the individuals and companies behind all the VK stuff). Then he went on to co-found Telegram and the Russian government wasn't happy that Telegram is a pain in the ass to get stuff removed. Yet, the Russian government and military were using Telegram (maybe they hated the platform but loved the encryption or platform or something). He had a shitload of money and all kinds of connections, and could have flown anywhere in the world. If things were still cool with the Russians after Azerbaijan this weekend, he could have hung out in plenty of places in Africa, plus he had UAE citizenship, and you know that if he was in deep shit, the UAE wouldn't extradite somebody like him, as well as citizenship with Saint Kitts and Nevis. The whole thing is weird as shit, regardless of what Dmitry Peskov said yesterday (and if Peskov is saying something, you kind of need to believe the opposite). The one thing about Paris and being in custody is that he doesn't have to worry about touching the wrong doorknob or drinking tea or falling out of windows. Had he went back to Dubai or Africa, the Russians could have gotten to him.
  4. Great, a bunch of people are going to hit up Google and come across this thread.
  5. Came across this, for those curious about the GMLRS video that @MillerEP posted earlier
  6. Anytime any of my relatives start up with this shit, most of the time I can tell them "if you want to fix it, then how about you lead by example and fire the guy who mows your lawn or bales your pasture that you pay cash and who barely speaks any English." MAGA as a whole has no fucking clue how much immigrants are doing for them, whether it's freeing them up from mowing lawns or farm work, or cheap produce, or cheap construction or cheap roofing or siding.
  7. The problem is that his Princeton class ring gets in the way.
  8. I would toss in that if he thought he could flood Kyiv and that there would be no substantial changes in aid to Kyiv or relations with China or others, I think Putin would have tried to do it a year or two ago. He's been in "If I can't have it, neither can you" mode for quite a while now.
  9. As the father of a daughter, I'm hoping that our girl turns out right, but the least I can do is that if she hangs with any true crazies, is I'm going to make the crazies fucking disappear in a coal pit in Oklahoma or Arkansas. No matter how old she is, I'll always be her dad.
  10. Russia blowing up the Kakhovka Dam got a decent bump in military aid (helped by Russian trying to ban the UN from helping those who were flooded), and it only killed a few dozen people. Deliberately flooding the capitol of a European country, and probably killing thousands (or more) and displacing millions would be a huge fucking deal, and here in the US would make for a great photo op to do even more for Ukraine. In Europe, it would also increase aid. And China has already been quietly backing off dealing with Russia because they are worried about sanctions hitting Chinese banks - flooding out millions of civilians would kick that up a few notches. Not that Putin wouldn't try - he's clearly living in an information bubble of sorts, but at the same time, they didn't send 20 of their best missiles at the dam, and the accuracy of Russian missiles is pretty shit, otherwise they'd be using them against targets on the battlefield to try and relieve the pressure in Kursk.
  11. So what country does Russia invade to take their refineries because it starts running low on fuel?
  12. First, we have to determine if he was arrested or if he defected/turned states evidence, because he flew to Paris on his private jet, knowing there was a warrant for his arrest. It wasn’t like some dudes sprang out of a closet and busted him. He also chose to have French and UAE citizenship after giving up his Russian citizenship (due to the Russians being unhappy with him).
  13. Or call her a cunt under his breathe. That would do wonders for independent and moderate women.
  14. “If they were a really swept up, efficient, modern army, they would have had a mobile reserve that would have attacked already.”
  15. Flooding Kyiv would be something that would probably cause the US to ditch all restrictions. And probably cause a lot more weapons to flow to Ukraine (they should already be flowing). As for Moscow, the Ukrainians have sent a couple of drone raids their way. They are absolutely mapping out their air defenses and helping to expend their air defenses. They did this in Crimea a few times - send in strikes to map things out and/or wear down their air defenses and then hit some major target.
  16. Hey @PTINS how long is that thing gonna burn? Seems like all of the fuel should have burned already.
  17. And now Debbie Downer. Rather than using missiles against Ukrainian forces currently occupying Russia, gonna go after civilians instead and continue pissing off Ukrainian soldiers.
  18. This is some Uday and Qusay Hussein-level shit. Kadyrov's son Adam received a new award - Kadyrov's order. This was reported by head of Chechnya government. Last year, 16-year-old Adam received at least nine awards, including the title of Hero of Chechnya. Adam Kadyrov is now the curator of Vladimir Putin's Russian University of Special Forces, and he also heads Ramzan Kadyrov's security department.
  19. Speaking of Bible stuff.. https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/christians-kamala-can-pull-evangelical-voters-away-donald-trump-rcna167561 How I’ve been convincing Christians they don’t have to vote Republican Democrats need to embrace the idea that evangelicals, and especially white male evangelicals, are worth winning and can be won. By Doug Pagitt, executive director of Vote Common Good During the last month, Christians for Kamala joined the ranks of groups supporting Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota. In so doing, they stand beside groups as wide-ranging as Comics for Kamala and Deadheads for Kamala. Because Harris has shown she will include us all in her vision for the United States and bring together what has been torn apart, all of these groups have seized upon the newfound enthusiasm among the electorate since President Joe Biden dropped out of the race in July and endorsed Harris. A religious coalition such as this entering the chat is an important step in the right direction, and, if built upon, could help sway enough movable religious voters in critical battleground states such as Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. What’s more, it could mean breaking the stronghold that MAGA forces have on many of our country’s evangelical voters. Thanks in part to the cooperation of so many self-identified Christian voters, the MAGA movement has seized control of the Republican Party and helped lead our country down a dark, democracy-threatening path. Central to our work at Vote Common Good, I spend a lot of my time traveling the country speaking to voters, particularly evangelical and Catholic voters who are hardwired into voting Republican, working to get them to break out of those patterns. What I’ve learned is that most don’t want or need their elected leader to be like them, but they really do want their leader to like them. It wasn’t clear that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton liked evangelical and Catholic men when she ran for president in 2016, and it remains largely unclear to many of these voters in 2024 if Kamala Harris does. Trump, on the other hand, probably doesn’t like them, but he put his arms around these voters in a transactional exchange, and he promised and in some cases delivered them power. But on the trail in 2020, 2022 and this year, I’ve gleaned the reason many evangelical and Christian voters ultimately leave Trump: his obvious lack of kindness. A poll that my organization Vote Common Good commissioned in 2020 showed that in swing states, Trump’s lack of kindness was driving evangelical and Catholic voters away in large enough numbers to potentially affect the outcome of the election. Voters typically realize that the way they vote reflects on them. And those religious voters who defected from Trump didn’t like the way his unkindness reflected on them, whether it be putting migrant children in cages, the way he treats women, the way he treats the press, the way he treats nearly everyone who left his administration and the way he treats democracy itself. Many of these voters know that’s not the behavior they want their children to emulate. The Harris campaign clearly knows it has an opportunity here. The choice of Tim Walz as vice presidential nominee is in no small part evidence of that. But it isn’t nearly enough. Democrats more broadly need to embrace the idea that evangelicals, and especially white male evangelicals, are worth winning and can be won without the party compromising its values. What it’s going to take is a concerted, grassroots effort to reach these voters, listen to them and bring them along on a journey to help them understand it’s OK for them to let concern for the common good, and not allegiance to a political party, determine how they vote. We need to tell them that what Democrats are pushing for lines up with the values evangelicals hold dear — making the world better and bringing people together. Those policies include commonsense gun reform to keep kids safe, engaging solutions at the border and lowering the cost of child care. Many Christians are heartbroken at the idea that they have to choose between a faith that’s meaningful to them and a political identity that has been wedded to it. They don’t know what to do, and we need to help them separate those two identities. --- More at the link above.
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