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atomheartbevo

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  1. Yes, and you know what? A shitload of them have separated or want to when their time is up because they hate this shit, but most have their hands tied and have to bide their time until they finish their obligation and can separate, and they have to keep their noses clean and not publicly criticize any of the operations at the border, else they draw the anger of the higher-ups who don't want Abbott and Co. pissed. None of them signed up to do this shit - if they wanted to do this full-time, they would have joined Border Patrol/ICE, and they'd be paid a lot more (especially when they are putting in 60-80 hour weeks). People tend to forget that those NG troops that get ordered to the border are having to leave school or jobs (which are usually better paying) and they are having to leave their homes to live in some shitty hotel room or fuck-off field tent barracks. None of the college students (and college students make up a lot of NG members) are happy that they are putting their studies on hold because Abbott is desperately seeking Trump's attention. Those who had to leave decent jobs are sweating that those same jobs will still be there when they get back. Not to mention that if you have been in the NG for a while and you've been employed by the same company for a number of years and have done multiple deployments, after 5 years of cumulative leave for various deployments, your employer does not have to retain your job (and even if you're under the 5 year cap, there's all kinds of ways that employers can screw you over and still comply with the law). I've done the NG thing, and granted it was in the 90s, and so it was quite different in some ways (I never fathomed being deployed overseas multiple times, etc.), but it was made up of a shitload of people who had a lot of solid reasons to join the NG and not the active-duty military, none of which were to sit down on the border for long periods of time. And I live not too far from Camp Mabry, and my kids are friends with kids whose parents are at Camp Mabry in some capacity, and we have neighbors there, etc., and I've heard a lot of horror stories, and I'm not talking about the suicides/depression but people being stretched thin, having to work shit-tastic hours, etc. It's not a good look for the NG in general for a lot of younger folks who are looking at the NG, but fortunately for Abbott, a lot of NG soldiers have to stick it out either because they are trying to reach a certain number of years, or for college benefits, or any other number of reasons that have nothing to do with Abbott's desire to draw attention to Texas. 5 years from now, most of these people will have had the chance to separate or retire or go active duty, and you'll see a lot different NG.
  2. The ones that are AI, ask them if they are an AI. On the 5 I've asked, 4 hung up.
  3. Can't spell incest without SEC.
  4. Should name it after A.P. Hill, the Confederate general who was described as "always emotional ... so high strung before battle that he had an increasing tendency to become unwell when the fighting was about to commence" because it perfectly encapsulates who they are. Plus, he had gonorrhea.
  5. Iran issues new threat to US -- This is not the time Iran, we have leadership looking for a distraction.
  6. At least Midland and Tyler are is very publicly telling everybody how racist they are. Edit: Tyler is not to be lumped in with Midland.
  7. Well, it ultimately gave the Brits Churchill as Prime Minister - Chamberlain could not have managed the war half as well as Churchill did.
  8. People might start being a little more careful about their guns if they were held responsible when a family member who should not have access to a firearm, has access to their’s.
  9. Cheaper than you think, since the CGI is usually not even close to being done while they are shooting. Filming people against a green screen, it's easy to change certain elements on the fly without having to reshoot scenes, or you can bring them in for an afternoon of greenscreen fliming and insert them into whatever new scene was written. But it's not good from a production stand point if they are dealing with large sets.
  10. Pretty well actually.
  11. Like he will deploy troops to *checks notes* such areas as Alabama, Arizona, and Bakersfield, California.
  12. Nah, I have a feeling this is about prevent large protests in D.C. in the future. He can talk about crime, talk about the homeless, but I'm guessing he will do something that will get a lot of people marching on D.C., and this is his way of making sure that doesn't happen. Yes, it could be a distraction from the Epstein stuff, but I doubt it. This has been coming. L.A. was a trial run to see what court challenges might arise.
  13. We told Grok to stop being so damned woke!
  14. There's a decent 45-minute or so documentary that covers McFarlane pretty well on YouTube that...I won't say softens the edges, but you understand the image of him that's been built up among fans and among those in the industry. Dude was swimming his ass off upstream from the beginning, and I give him credit for achieving what he did, and while I never stood in line for his autograph, I've seen him be very nice to his fans, and it seemed genuine.
  15. Dean Cain joining the ranks of Steven Segal Dean Cain a 'loser' for joining ICE: John Leguizamo
  16. If Ukraine can keep up a steady pressure on their oil & gas infrastructure, Russia will have to do a lot more in terms of anti-air They have limited anti-air as it is (and limited abilities to replace it), and at some point, while they will never move anti-air stuff from around Moscow, it seems like they will have to shuffle it from elsewhere, creating new targets for Ukraine. I'm sure somebody in the OSINT community is tracking all the refineries and has a decent grasp on how bad Russia has been hurt. Airfields and oil & gas would seem to be Russia's priority now in terms of protection. Wish they would pump some drones/missiles into Putin's Sochi palace.
  17. I want you to think about what you just typed
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