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6 minutes ago, FirstTimeCaller said:
That said, I do think the border is an issue and needs to be addressed. It's one area where I think Biden is lacking and Republicans have a legit gripe.
To what extent though? It's not like there's nothing going on down there, action-wise. Hell on my way back from the ranch last week, I got stopped twice by USBP (feds) on Pinto Canyon Road because they "hadn't seen my car before and this is a highly trafficked area". Talked dove and hiking snacks for a few mins while his partners ran my stuff and looked through all my windows, and away I went.
If we want fewer migrants coming into our country, perhaps we should try to make other parts of the world less shitty? That was Perry's big idea in the early aughts before the GOP went full racist and fascist. And the US has dirty hands when it comes to Central American governance
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5 minutes ago, workswithseed said:
It's like Texans, especially on the border have been dealing with it for years. Why should our border czar not see the work she's not doing? What, she only gone to El Paso once? Also, you want to be sanctuary city/state so bad, why don't you deal with the trickling of immigrants? What a bunch of NIMBYs. Take some responsibility for what you're policies bring in. This isn't cruel, it is relieving the small border town that you don't have the infrastructure to deal with year after year.
Can you be more specific about what we should take responsibility for? Does your renewed posting in CR have anything to do with the white angst over no longer being the majority in Texas? Please edumacate us on how to take some responsibility for what our are (lol) policies bringing in.
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It's always fun to update Jesus's parables and apply them to the right:
In reply Jesus said: "A man was going from Guatamala, fleeing a drug cartel that wanted to kill him and seize his daughters as sex slaves, when he found himself on the brink of starvation, having crossed a desert, a river, and another desert with limited supplies and no money. He went to a prosperity gospel preacher for help, but they had just had the carpets cleaned so the preacher refused him shelter. He went to the Christian governor for help, but the governor shipped him to Martha's Vineyard with no support or direction so he could own the libs. But a pinko, commie libtard saw him and took pity on him. He clothed him, and fed him, and sheltered him. He brought him to an immigration lawyer and said 'Look after him. When I return, I will reimburse you for any extra expense you may have.'
“Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell victim to drug cartels and gangs?”
The expert in the law replied, “The bleeding heart, pinko commie libtard who had mercy on him.”
Jesus told him, “Go and do likewise.”
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It's always fun to update Jesus's parables and apply them to the right:
In reply Jesus said: "A man was going from Guatamala, fleeing a drug cartel that wanted to kill him and seize his daughters as sex slaves, when he found himself on the brink of starvation, having crossed a desert, a river, and another desert with limited supplies and no money. He went to a prosperity gospel preacher for help, but they had just had the carpets cleaned so the preacher refused him shelter. He went to the Christian governor for help, but the governor shipped him to Martha's Vineyard with no support or direction so he could own the libs. But a pinko, commie libtard saw him and took pity on him. He clothed him, and fed him, and sheltered him. He brought him to an immigration lawyer and said 'Look after him. When I return, I will reimburse you for any extra expense you may have.'
“Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell victim to drug cartels and gangs?”
The expert in the law replied, “The bleeding heart, pinko commie libtard who had mercy on him.”
Jesus told him, “Go and do likewise.”
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3 minutes ago, SmokeyTheBear said:
In an existential crisis created thru Russian gaslighting, corruption, and meddling in elections? We wouldn't want that would we?
Aided and abetted through Paul Manafort??? Never heard of that happening before
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Irregardlessly of how unpossible it may seem, Rick Scott did indeed preside over the largest medicare fraud in US history
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4 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:
Rick Scott presided over the largest medicare fraud in US history?
Rick Scott presided over the largest medicare fraud in US history.
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On 9/13/2022 at 7:27 AM, MagicSoccerSpray said:
Condescension acknowledged. I know it's used by the populists, but I just meant it as the gears of the machine. "Deep" because it's less followed than the surface politicians. The term existed far before it was co-opted by populists on both sides, any moron knows that. No nefarious conspiracy. No Q.
Yeah yeah and the swastika is just a tibetan good luck charm, ok buddy
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10 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:
I dunno, maybe I'm just a dumb grocery shopper but when I see higher meat prices for beef and chicken at the grocery store I don't look at the Oval Office, I look at the weather and the corporate producers. Drought for months, bird flu, packer consolidation, those have an effect on prices that seems much more immediate.
But then what grievances would you have to post thinly veiled partisan talking points about in a business board thread?
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Hoo boy that thread is something else
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6 minutes ago, Poe It Up said:
I placed 3rd in the spelling bee in 2nd grade, so I know I’m very smart. But still, I overstepped the line there. I felt a little ganged up on there and swung wildly. Apologies.
Well yeah, it's easy to feel ganged up on when you're talking making jokes about shit while there's yet another school shooting going on.
I was WB on I-10 and saw a shitload of cop cars going east towards downtown, now I know.... God bless Texas!
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6 hours ago, StassneyHorn said:https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/10/us/politics/ukraine-military-intelligence.html
WASHINGTON — Senior Ukrainian officials stepped up intelligence sharing with their American counterparts over the summer as they began to plan the counteroffensive that allowed them to make dramatic gains in the northeast in recent days, a shift that allowed the United States to provide better and more relevant information about Russian weaknesses, according to American officials.
Throughout the war, the United States has provided Ukraine with information on command posts, ammunition depots and other key nodes in the Russian military lines. Such real-time intelligence has allowed the Ukrainians — who U.S. officials acknowledge have played the decisive role in planning and execution — to target Russian forces, kill senior generals and force ammunition supplies to be moved farther from the Russian front lines.
But earlier on, American intelligence officials said they often had a better understanding of Russia’s military plans than of Ukraine’s. Concerned that sharing their operational plans could highlight weaknesses and discourage continued American support, the Ukrainians were closely guarding their operational plans even as American intelligence was gathering precise details on what the Kremlin was ordering and Russian commanders were planning.
But as Ukraine laid its plans to strike back against the Russians, senior leaders in Kyiv decided that sharing more information with the United States would help secure more assistance, American officials said.
Senior U.S. officials declined to say how much details from the counteroffensive plan Ukraine had shared and how much advice the United States had offered. But one official said Americans had “constantly” discussed with Kyiv ways that Ukraine could blunt the Russian advance in the country’s east.
The gains in the northeast, including the recapture of Izium, a key railway hub, were the most important advances Ukraine has made so far, senior American officials said.
It is not yet clear how much broad strategic importance those gains will have, but there are signs that the current offensive could be the early stages of a drive that could push back the Russian front line significantly, military experts and former intelligence officials said.
“I have thought for several months that Ukraine was going to push Russia back to the 23 February lines by the end of the year,” said retired Lt. Gen. Frederick B. Hodges, a former top U.S. Army commander in Europe, referring to the eve of the Russian invasion. “I watch the Russian logistics, and it just looked to me that they cannot sustain this. Their morale and discipline and all their manpower issues — it’s just not sustainable for them to do what they were trying to do.”
General Hodges said the recent success indicated that Ukraine’s efforts to retake land in the south and east could unfold more quickly than he had previously assessed, even setting the stage for an attempt to retake Crimea next year. Other experts agreed that the tide might be turning for Ukraine.
“The Ukrainian military’s counteroffensive is moving faster and taking terrain even faster than expected,” said Mick Mulroy, a former Pentagon official and C.I.A. officer. “Now is the time for the Ukrainian army to exploit every opportunity they have to degrade and destroy the Russian capacity to fight.”
Current and former U.S. officials praised the sophistication of the Ukrainian preparations for the counteroffensive. The decision by Ukraine to tout its counteroffensive in the south before striking in the northeast is a standard technique for misdirection used by the American Special Operations troops, who have been training the Ukrainians since the annexation of Crimea in 2014.
“These guys have been trained for eight years by Special Ops,” said Evelyn Farkas, the top Pentagon official for Ukraine and Russia in the Obama administration. “They’ve been taught about irregular warfare. They’ve been taught by our intelligence operators about deception and psychological operations.”
Even though messaging around the push in the south may have been something of a feint, officials say that strike also has importance. Even small gains in the south will make it far more difficult for Russian forces to capture the port city of Odesa, a wartime goal of President Vladimir V. Putin.
Nevertheless, current U.S. officials were reserved on Saturday, saying it was too early to determine whether the Ukrainian military could keep up its drive.
The offensive will strain the Ukrainians, who have suffered from shortages in supply, particularly artillery rounds. Their army, too, has taken tough casualties. Going on the offensive is harder and more difficult to maintain than a defense. Some American officials believe the more successful Ukraine is in the next few days, the more Russia will look for ways to strike back.
But the new offensive has demonstrated how the Russian forces have not been able to overcome the fundamental problems laid bare in the opening days of the conflict, American officials said.
The Russian military continues to struggle to get its secure communications to work and to solve its logistics problems. It has also not been able to ramp up its industrial base to meet the demands of the war, multiple officials said. Ukrainian air defenses still threaten Russian aircraft, hampering Moscow from using the full potential of its military.
Russia could revisit its decision not to conduct a large-scale draft to build forces for a renewed push into Ukraine. Mr. Putin could also look to use different tactics in a new phase of the war, especially if he thinks Ukraine’s morale receives a serious boost from the successful counteroffensive. Some senior Ukrainian officials believe the Russians could resort to cyberattacks targeting a broad swath of the country.
Georgii Dubynskyi, Ukraine’s deputy minister of digital transformation, predicted on Friday that in the coming months, as the weather cools, Russia would try again to attack the Ukrainian energy grid, damaging electrical transmission or shutting down pipelines.
“The next phase is, they will try to defeat our energy and financial sectors,” Mr. Dubynskyi said. “We have seen this scenario before.”
Russia attacked Ukraine’s energy grid in 2015. But this time, Ukraine expects Russia to use more targeted phishing attacks to take down parts of the energy grid or combine cyberattacks with a kinetic bombing campaign.
It's pretty crazy how much Zelensky did by standing up to trump. He sowed the seeds of his impeachment, empirically demonstrated his commitment to stopping corruption and lies, and defended democracy in his nation and ours.
We are lucky to have a man like that to work with against an old enemy
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16 minutes ago, Gengs1 said:
the orcs probably hit a few electrical poles haha
His follow-up tweet is notable:
this missile is one of their nuclear delivery missiles. If the old stock air defense thats being sent to Ukraine is able to intercept nearly all of them, then that's a biiiiiiig deal for russias nuclear deterrence
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38 minutes ago, Bullneck said:
You're right, it's a good thread!
along the lines of this metaphor - bro do you even know what climate change is? It's very possible that extremely infrequent rain is not an outlier and is just the new normal. I'm sure it'll rain again, but I'd bet it's going to be less frequent and less voluminous as we move more into the future. Yeah, we can do stuff to reduce or maybe even reverse the trend, but it'll take comprehensive and cohesive action.
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2 hours ago, Buzzrock said:
I had no idea I occupied so much space in your head. I’m flattered.
My current take is that Russia is not going to give up without using their most powerful weapons. They will end up getting the Donbas just like they got Crimea. I would prefer that happen with as little loss of life as possible and so yes, I would prefer a swift diplomatic outcome over more fighting and civilian deaths.
But this is the war that everyone seems to love, and no one seems to care that we are in a proxy war with Russia, so I think it’s unlikely. This is Viet Nam, Iraq, Afghanistan all over again. We will never learn.
any familial relation? Very similar vibes from your post. Appeasement is uh.... Not a historically successful strategy.
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This may as well be the star wars omnibus thread lol
Looks fucking awesome, and I think I saw Yaddle? But gonna be awesome to see Dooku training Qui Gonn and getting more backstory during the late Republic era
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1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:
Not ever what I said.
You, however, cannot seem to tolerate the slightest bit of due process if you're mad enough at the defendant. That is 100% accurate.
Due process isn't abusing the court system with contradictory and counterfactual filings by the defendant, or the courts issuing rulings that are wholly unsupported by law that legitimize those false filings by trumpco. You're acting like we should be taking them seriously and lower the legal system to their level and play calvinball with them, which ain't gonna end well if you like democracy
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Grab em by the face mask! If you're bama they just let you do it
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Just now, C-Man said:
Gutsy maybe but “well”? Not really. But he was hobbled pretty early.He did about as much as could be expected out of an injured backup QB
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I hope that fucking ref crew gets a lifetime of flight delays and lost baggage. A pox upon their professional career and lives
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1 minute ago, Horn80 said:
Wish #6 didn’t miss Young.
That and I wish there wasn't a hold on the corner to keep the door open for the run
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And that on the basis that our judicial system isn't in the bag for trump and whatever fedsoc says they should do. Our fucking supreme court is just straight up calvinball with it's last few major decisions.
Yeah, on paper and if we live in a sane world, then trump is fucked. You tell me if we live in a sane world.