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atomheartbevo

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  1. Yeah, about tariffs and the next six weeks: Me thinks that those tariffs will not last long, and talking about trying to hurt Europe for supporting Ukraine, well Europe is our biggest trading partner. We need their markets. We rely on imports from Canada and Mexico, and we also export a lot to both. It is a fucked up situation we find ourselves in economically, no doubt, but we can’t hammer Europe like that, and I suspect we won’t last long just with Canada and Mexico. And we run the real risk of billions of Euros and pounds being diverted from American defense companies to European companies. I said earlier that nature abhors a vacuum, and I think we and Europe are going our own ways and they will fill that vacuum, at least over Ukraine. Maybe even what Immamac said about about Europe not giving a fuck what we do - we need their markets arguably more than they need ours (especially if we fuck round with Mexico and Canada). And if you’re a European, why wouldn’t you decide now is a good time to go your own way? You don’t get many chances to usurp the sole superpower on the global stage, while helping to ensure that the number two military in Russia is wrecked.
  2. A cousin and her husband are based out of D.C. and work for the same company (well she is on maternity leave). Her hubby was a big fan of Musk and of a certain political persuasion, and they were happy last November. Last year, according to their stupid fucking yearly newsletter they send out to family members at the end of December, he got a promotion, they had a baby, their oldest was identified as gifted and talented and they bought a fairly fancy house back in August. She bragged about how it could be their forever home and had posted several photos in the newsletter. Just barely two months ago. A few hours ago, she posted on FB asking if anybody in the Dallas area had any leads for “well-paying” tech writing jobs (her job) or “network consultants” (his job) and that she was homesick and had convinced hubby to consider a move to Dallas. Now it’s possible that with the birth of her youngest, she is homesick (they’ve been out there since the mid-2000s). But they also both work for Booz Allen Hamilton.
  3. He always thinks he’s the smartest guy in the room, so it’s possible he thinks he will destroy Stewart, and his followers will tell him that he will.
  4. They don’t have the luxury of a choice. Plus, we created a power vacuum yesterday. Nature abhors a vacuum, so somebody will step in and fill it. Maybe/probably France and the UK. Poland may toss their hat in the ring. And from here on out, they may want to drive everything through the EU rather than NATO rather than risk plans being leaked to Russia. They have a very large military industrial complex. They’ve been slowly ramping up, but it’s been happening, and the South Korean stuff in Poland should take off this year.
  5. They went out of their way to be lore accurate.
  6. NSFW as all get out. It was his audition for Bond.
  7. I think it’s a matter of when, not if, another European country or two joins the nuclear club. If I’m Poland, I’m building some nukes.
  8. Colin Firth should get his chance at Bond.
  9. And ironically the fix music is from Andor
  10. A few days ago, I was talking to some parents of one of my kid’s classmates, and mentioned that the apartment complex they are in trends towards older residents. They said once a year or so somebody leaves in a body bag, with the wife joking “yeah it’s full of old people” and all three of us chuckled. And then she says “I bet we’re the only people there under the age of 50”.
  11. I think a lot of that was hitting the three year anniversary earlier this week combined with some changes in aid. That thread is an amazing time capsule for how events played out in Feb/March of 2022. We went from Russias rolling into Ukraine in their BTRs and BMPs in February of 2022 to *checks notes* rolling in on golf carts and using fucking donkeys to move supplies. I got to where I stopped posting that stuff after having posted a lot of it unless it’s entertaining, because it’s way too desensitizing. I thought shitty VHS copies of Faces and Traces of Death was bad as a young lad.
  12. He doesn’t have the guts to fly into space on his own rockets. Meanwhile Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson have both flown on their own spacecraft.
  13. Don’t forget the Silk Road brain trust was pardoned.
  14. He and his brother are on a plane headed to Florida.
  15. Yeah but he loses a drumstick and effortlessly replaces it while still drumming, which will be awesome to see on an IMAX screen.
  16. No, it’s about the 2012 aggie football season.
  17. Or we are truly on the backside of Russian military culmination, and the fuel shortages are hitting, and the vehicle shortages (witness the introduction of donkeys) and manpower are as well. And there's a chance that some Russians were pulled back to deal with Kursk. Putin probably needs Kursk to be clear of Ukrainians if any lines are frozen.
  18. <russian> holy shit comrades, this food just walked 20km straight to us, while carrying our supplies, looks like meat is on the table tonight! <russian> Still can't believe that young me worried about these idiots. Are they even the 2nd best army in Russia? We sure the Norks aren't better?
  19. Interesting. The flu tends to really fuck up the olds. Some of those fuckers were of the "Ivermection is my COVID vaccine" variety, but they'd still get the flu shot. Glad an Ivy League trained lawyer makes vaccine decisions. It'll work out just swell.
  20. I was vaccinated, boosted, whatever, when my first kid was born. My wife was before she even got pregnant. This will probably get taken down by the Bear Cub Killer, but most women wanting to have kids were told to get the MMR vaccine, so that the babies would have a little protection against rubella and measles. Vaccine Recommendations Before, During, and After Pregnancy | Pregnancy & Vaccines | CDC
  21. Which means there’s dozens or cases in Rockwell, but I have a solution.
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