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Gatorubet

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  1. just dropped in to say I’m about to quit reading the Ukraine thread because I can’t get through a page without going to Twitter platform and it’s too frustrating to visit the same thread six times before I can get to the end of the page. If the problem is aggressive Twitter embedding, maybe we could ask everybody to just post screenshots, and anyone that desperate to see the original article in X can find the particular post in the app ios18 is current theme.
  2. Nothing matters. The simulation is broken. Neandertoes Marge is complementing Nancy Pelosi on national TV. The Gators are the reigning NCAA basketball champions. Dogs are living with cats and voting across species lines.
  3. if I recall correctly, Orban is in a bad place. He chose to be Putin’s puppet within the EU and NATO, voting against Pro Ukraine initiatives whenever he could. His power base is pro Russian, and he took a pro Russian foreign policy position on many things, including where to buy his fucking oil. He naturally is addicted to that sweet sweet Ural crude/gas. The problem is, Brussels just announced it would be OK for Ukraine to destroy the pipeline from Russia bringing that to Hungary. And since he is buying Russian he is subject to Trump’s sanctions. I think his intent is to ask Trump to give Hungary dispensation from the sanctions so they can keep buying Russian oil……because that would help Hungary help Trump get his Nobel peace prize. Or some shit like that. Orban recently had the brainstorm to mark the anniversary of the year Russia brought in tanks to suppress a Hungarian independence movement. Shockingly, lots of pro western citizens took to the streets to condemn Orban and Russia and Putin - with a great vigor and large numbers I might add. Orban’s position seems to be getting more precarious. He needs to tie into western petroleum supplies and ditch Russia. But if he does that, Putin will ratchet up the pro Russia hardliners within Hungary to create all kinds of problems. I think that Orban is kind of a dead man walking. Fortunately, he’s going to see that bastion of common sense and empathy in the White House and try to get some help.
  4. What if once a quarter we were allowed to give a single post 10 likes?
  5. “Oh look! There’s a guy with one of those gun holsters that fools nobody…”
  6. I’m just guessing, but I’m guessing a “trust us, we’re the GOP…” is not gonna get it done.
  7. Not just Johnson, but Johnson’s son as well. They do sex stuff together in case one of them forgets the safe word. Like Jesus did.
  8. Not a single reference to baby beluga. Fake news.
  9. Oh, I encourage everyone to check out. Saint Claire, a relatively new restaurant in an old plantation house in Algiers about 15 minutes from the fridge quarter. I was only there once, and with my son who knew the chef, so it was a bit outside the normal dining experience because of all the delicious comped small plates. But everything was perfect.
  10. They’re cattlemen, not woke high school graduates, what with the fancy numbers ciphering and spelling and all..
  11. I was happy to see Saint Germain get a star. My youngest son was a line cook there until he moved to New York City in June to get different culinary experience. Eldest son is a manager with the Donald Link organization, and they had nice things to say about the entire restaurant group. I totally agree about Zemanick. The only problem I ever had with Gautraeau’s was the damn acoustics in the dining room. The food was pretty consistently great.
  12. Dammit seven, all those other people aren’t you. And RD here! Everybody thought RD was brain damaged. I appreciate your confidence in your doctor, but why not order a “I fuck for stem cells” T-shirt, and start calling up the MDA’s and Sloan Kettering and such and see if there’s anything else. I’m sure your doc is great, but the last thing you gotta worry about is whether your doctor is offended by you getting a second or third opinion. You seem to keep head shaking off that pitch, but it’s just as likely that you’ve investigated it to granular dust. If so, please forgive my ignorant butt. Still, you’ll never know if there is a study targeting that rare genetic condition with the side effect of increasing penis size unless you really beat the bushes. Might not be one this month. Might be one next month You are not in this alone, Buddy
  13. Bear cub tartare out front shoulda told ya…
  14. i’m not sure how many storm shadow and flamingo missiles they have, but now would be a good time to fire 75% of them at every energy producing facility Russia has. Russians don’t care how many troops die. They only care about their own needs. Let’s fuck with their needs.
  15. Alito and Justice Gorsuch going after Neal as best they can. Basically, who gives a shit - they were never gonna side with him anyway. They are dredging up conservative think tank amicus brief points that the government never adopted in any of their briefs. In sum, Katyal essentially agrees that Congress could have given specific tariff power to presidents in limited circumstances for limited periods of time. This statute was not that: no president has used it in 50 years before orange man, the statute doesn’t use the word tariffs, and under the current legislative rules, the power to Trump, if approved by Scotus, could only be taken away from Trump by a supermajority in Congress. If the Supreme Court grants Trump‘s theory of unilateral tariff power - and he’s the only one with the power, he is essentially king. Several justices have no problem with that. I know nothing about nothing, but maybe it will boil down to horse trading that allows some of the tariffs to remain while rejecting the rest. I don’t think that would be a bad idea entirely, as it would allow the narcissist baby to declare victory, and then start levying tariffs under different statutes with different language. The longer the tariff question is unsettled the more pain the country will feel. I have no problem with that, especially if the Supreme Court said you screwed up and your unconstitutional actions created this. We will have another year of uncertainty which is always bad for business. The Cleti will blame dems, but only one president and party champions this tariff insanity. Alito brings up the difficulty of refunding the tariffs already collected. That pissed me off because the fact that it would be expensive if you found something unconstitutional does not seem (to me) to be a factor in SCOTUS considering constitutionality of using a statute to steal legislative power and giving it to the executive. That makes me ragey. Katyal reminded him that the government opposed requests to enjoin the collection of fees until the constitutionality was determined. Yet another example of “this problem that I caused is a problem, so you should side with me because it’s a problem” i’ve been stopping and catnapping, and I can’t listen anymore. I’m going to bed. I don’t 100% guarantee I got the justice attribution correct. If some of you have the time to sit on the porch with a cigar and a double scotch and listen to it, I’d love to hear what you have to say. I encourage everyone to skip over my posts and read the damn transcript. Thank you chopper
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