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Captainant

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  1. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/venezuela-fighter-jets-navy-ship-trump-maduro/ Two armed Venezuelan F-16 fighter jets flew over the USS Jason Dunham on Thursday, according to multiple Defense Department officials who described the action as a "show of force." The Dunham, an Aegis guided-missile destroyer, is among a flotilla of U.S. warships dispatched to the region in recent weeks that the Pentagon says have been deployed to target criminal organizations and narco-terrorism. Edit: that's a real FAFO to fuck with an Aegis DDG flying an F16, but it could be a flashpoint for other dumb shit to kick off
  2. Actual exchange from the Secretary of Health and Human Services
  3. Weird timeline were on. Project Veritas just published undercover reporting that got a current DOJ deputy chief on record saying the Maxwell moves are to keep her quiet and they're redacting Party members from the files https://www.axios.com/2025/09/04/epstein-files-ghislaine-maxwell-doj-chief More reporting here
  4. $28M in cash, plus another $20M in stock. The stock went to zero when the company went bankrupt, but it was a $48M value to Kawhi. And wouldn't you know it, Ballmer had just made a $50M "investment" in the company before the deal was signed!
  5. pretty funny, tbh. Glad I'm not visiting customers downtown today
  6. Get your COVID vaccines while you can, I'm not betting on them remaining approved by the Imperial FDA for much longer Rolling Stone: RFK Jr. Claims mRNA Vaccines Kill People in Heated Senate Hearing “I don’t know how many died,” Kennedy said, before attempting to blame the CDC. “It was so much data chaos coming out of the CDC.” Merkley seemed stunned. He asked Kennedy if he believes “the vaccine did anything to prevent additional deaths.” “I would like to see the data and talk about the data,” Kennedy replied. “The secretary of Health and Human Services doesn’t know how many Americans died from Covid, know if the vaccine helped prevent any deaths, and you are sitting as secretary of Health and Human Services?” Merkley said, before pleading: “How can you be that ignorant?”
  7. Access """journalism""" is so caustic for actually finding facts and breaking news. It's just toadying up and being their mouthpiece
  8. If you're a fascist dictator, yes you can.
  9. Hope nobody is hit by the ConocoPhillips layoffs, 25% layoffs while paying out dividends and buying back shares is a real raw deal. Bartlesville is gonna be even more of a ghost town, Price tower with its weird triangle rooms may not have much longer for this world
  10. It makes Jesus cry when people consume cannabis, DUH!
  11. There's a legal paper trail over this from the last five years too https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/41984045/ex-clippers-staffer-sues-says-was-fired-kawhi-concerns (published Oct'24) And the clippers were playing games back in 2019 with uncle Dennis https://www.nbcsports.com/nba/news/report-raptors-complained-to-league-multiple-times-about-clippers-tampering-with-kawhi-leonard But seriously - how do you punish an org that has no draft picks to take away because they traded them has no conference or league titles to vacate has an owner worth more than the league, so you can't fine him enough to matter can't even suspend their star from playing because he's already injured 3/4th of the year anyways
  12. Yeah see, usually we have checks and balances to avoid this sort of fuck up. Ya know, where the body with the power of the purse approves new taxes and expenditures? Eh idk that's just some cloak room shit I guess.
  13. Loooooolllllll, Venezuela is claiming the video trump posted of the strike was AI generated https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-accused-of-sharing-bogus-video-of-deadly-drug-boat-strike/ Jesus, the information ecosystem is impressively fucked
  14. It was pretty broadly reported during his first run, before all his supporters decided they LOVED pedophiles https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-donald-trumps-one-stop-parties-attendees-recall-cocaine-and-very-young-models/ https://www.timesofisrael.com/report-trump-hosted-cocaine-fueled-parties-with-underage-girls/ (links to supporting news found on his wikipedia page, content is copy/pasted below here) A photographer who attended some of those parties and wished to remain anonymous, said that the models were enticed to attend by being promised that “you’ll meet rich guys who will help you.” And the attraction for the men “was young girls assuming they’d get somewhere.” He claimed that the girls were as young as 15, and were “over their heads, they had no idea, and they ended up in situations,” the man told The Daily Beast, according to the report. “There were always dramas because the men threw money and drugs at them to keep them enticed. It’s based on power and dominating girls who can’t push back and can be discarded. There’s always someone to pick them back up. Nobody wants to call home and say ‘Help me.’” Trump would allegedly wander through the parties enjoying himself. “Trump was in and out. He’d wander off with a couple girls. I saw him. He was getting laid like crazy,” the photographer said. “Trump was at the heart of it. He loved the attention and in private, he was a total fucking beast.” ... Andy Lucchesi, a male model who allegedly organized the parties and a Trump supporter, told The Daily Beast that “there was cocaine around. I never saw him do that. Donald Trump does not do cocaine. He’s in control of himself.” When asked about the ages of the girls, Lucchesi told The Daily Beast that there were “a lot of girls, 14, look 24. That’s as juicy as I can get. I never asked how old they were; I just partook.” There was no response from Trump’s team to the report, the latest of a series of tawdry scandals to dog the campaign in the final stretch of the election season, including allegations of sexual assault by Trump. Trump has denied the allegations, in one case saying the accuser was not attractive enough for him.
  15. I'd rather he visit Dallas and get a taste of their Presidential hospitality
  16. I would think moreso the hiding in the bushes and hunting the children with a firearm is the bigger problem. It shows intent to harm and kill
  17. He waited for the kids to come back, and then started shooting. Charges upgraded and bury him under the fucking jail https://www.fox26houston.com/news/ding-dong-ditch-shooting-suspect-waited-children-return-charges-be-upgraded
  18. Apologies for the title that is admittedly provacative, but this is a really interesting interview with Tony Gilroy that talks about what they were thinking about while writing and making Rouge One, and Andor S1-2. Video in spoiler if you don't mind comparisons between Andor and current events from the person who wrote Andor In particular, he comments on the synchronicity that his show kept on having even though they wrote it years before filming. Specifically, Senator Padilla's arrest from the Senate floor the day after the Ghorman Massacre aired really had him wondering if members of the Administration were watching his show
  19. idiocy aside, that actually does make sense from a skills perspective. Alabama is where much of America's rocket arsenal is built, tested, and maintained. And it makes sense to spread around service branch HQ's so they're more geographically diverse and harder to target all at the same time
  20. Lordy, I imagine some of the big US equipment makers like NOV are having a real shitty time
  21. TBH we're a little behind on the Bell Riots but I figure we'll get there at this rate
  22. Glacially slow in defending rights and freedom, blitzkreig-fast when it comes to enabling a dictator
  23. It's what's being taught in MBA courses around the country, and has been for decades. Shareholders and investors are more important than anything else, and if you disagree then fuck you you're fired.
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