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Gatorubet

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  1. I recently saw an interesting documentary about the battle of Britain and the chain home radar network that allowed Britain to barely eke out a win in the battle with Goering. It seems that the top German radar scientist flew over Britain’s newly erected radar towers in the Graf Zeppelin right before war started. Because of the urgency for radar and the lack of prior research, Britain chose some of the simplest tech imaginable, powering the radar system with the countries power grid and synchronizing the radar system. When the Luftwaffe Zeppelin experts and their then-sophisticated radar detection instruments looked at it, they concluded that the sounds they picked up were sparks from the country’s grid - and far too primitive to be a radar network. It seems their own work on radar was so far advanced than Britain’s that they worked on entirely different frequencies, giving entirely different sounds to look for. Germany completely discounted Britain having a working radar detection system that allowed fighter command to stay at their bases instead of flying patrols - allowing them to converge on incoming bombers when they received the hundred miles away warning from radar. Without winning the Battle of Britain, Germany’s invasion of Britain under operation Sea Lion might have been a thing once Germany’s Luftwaffe gained air superiority over the channel. Without great Britain as a staging area, there would’ve been no D-Day landings in June 44 Germany left to its own devices and no American intervention would have very likely wound up controlling the world. Thank God for Pearl Harbor and Germany declaring war on us. Both of those assholes being foes made sleepy pacifist America invent the atomic bomb.
  2. Yeah, I pretty much agree with Inka on this. I thought Russia would create a puppet government who had to contend with years of gorilla attacks and civil disobedience that made Afghanistan look like an easy time and an economic bargain. The bright light in this darkness is Trump‘s going all in with Putin in such a non-sophisticated way insulting way. I’m sure it is in Europe’s normal best interest to defer/along with the US. Had Trump half heartedly pretended to support Ukraine while fucking up every chance to help Ukraine over the long-term, Trump could’ve prevented the Baltic and Nordic states joining with Poland to go their own way and protect their countries from a Russian takeover of Ukraine. Now that they know they are on their own they will likely wind up being a bigger threat to Russia than if they were agreeing to be on the sidelines letting America take the lead. It is terrible for America that we lose our international influence and respect, but it may coalesce Ukraine’s neighbors and the France, Britain Germany triad to fill the power vacuum and help them more over the long run. Or I could be smoking a bowl of Copium.
  3. MAGA is known for being hungry and choosing to eat the chickens instead of the eggs.
  4. I can’t watch Meet the Press on Sunday without throwing shit at the TV when the host refuses to confront the lies and bullshit from the GOP and insist on both siding everything. Anybody with a stronger stomach on here watch today - and can you tell us if/how much DOGE shittery was the subject?
  5. Whoooo…. look who listened to teacher instead of drawing fighter planes attacking each other on their paper
  6. Edit: Damn it Judge!! I did not scroll down
  7. I think I enjoy Derka’s Derka-ing more than Motown‘s Derka-ing
  8. I disagree slightly.. They do not feel betrayed because Trump isn’t focusing on who and what they hate. They feel betrayed because Trump and Elmo‘s actions include a category of white conservative Christians being harmed. They have empathy if you hurt white conservative Christians in other states. They are capable of holding the GOP responsible for that. They will NOT hold GOP responsible if they were doing this to the blacks and the Browns and the gays and the Muslims, you are correct. The single most important thing is bad stuff not happening to them and people like them. That is why 200 years of racism and slavery and Jim Crow needs to be ignored and covered up, but God dammit, we can’t have any minority preferences! They don’t only hate minority preferences because it goes to minorities - they hate it because it hinders their baby (with all the extra advantages) from going to any college or job she desires - especially if you let some colored person who’s not as good as their baby ahead of her. True “injustice” after all is in not letting them have their way - all of the time - on everything. The GOP is currently violating that Holy of Holies.
  9. Shush. if you don’t tell them to sell now - at any price - to recover some equity - then how am I going to enjoy them all living in a van down by the river with a hand painted sign “Will BJ for Ramen and Spam?”
  10. Well, let me end your guessing and uncertainty Ms. Traylay, Tralaw, Trayloo… You’re fucked. Your kid is fucked. The other parents are fucked. The kids of the other parents are fucked. You did this. Glad to be of service.
  11. “Paid off another claim against Baron with the best non-disclosure clause ever”
  12. This is true of both people who say that….and people who say that as a euphemism.
  13. To that end, Social Security benefits ending sooner is something that a huge number of older voters will care about. I have a little doubt that politically something will be done to support Social Security under any party’s administration. That issue transcends party politics and will galvanize old people not able to meet their bills if Elon and the GOP go full-on stupid ideology and misplaced traitorous loyalty over politics. My initial reaction is always to assume no one could be that stupid, and then I remember it is Donald Trump. The other thing to remember is that MAGA voters honestly never believe something bad will happen to themselves. That is problematic. That is why innOhio they can focus on transgender junior high student athletes in bum fuck Oklahoma. That mindset is derived in part because they have no inkling that their lives could take a disastrous downturn from Trump’s policies. In other words, if you have a straight issue showdown between getting Social Security and transgender issues, old people would knit and gift transgender people sweaters if it meant keeping their Medicare and Social Security. Selfish self interest and an absence of empathy is what got us here, and that same selfish self-interest might work to help the Democrats with older voters - and fired voters - and losing your house because you can’t make a house note voters - and pissing off all of those relatives who have to take in various generations of family members who can’t make it now. Hating on gay and trans people is a luxury these people have enjoyed - that is, so long as their far, far, far more important self-interests are not being negatively impacted. TL;DR This crap just might get some traction from older Trump voters.
  14. Americans have traditionally wanted to fight the king and the kings representatives. I have an ancestor who was captured during the revolutionary war when the British took Fort Washington. The prisoners were sent to rot and die in ships called “Hulks” (if you remember, great expectations that is where the Australian benefactor was housed when he escaped) - all the British Navy ships who had lost their usefulness in the military, but could be used to house prisoners - where disease and malnutrition killed 70% of them. My ancestors survived, and immediately upon being released when colonial troops seized the hulks, he signed up with the continental infantry so that he could go kill as many redcoats as possible. I guess we’ll see if Thomas Jefferson’s quote about watering the tree of liberty was accurate or naïve and we have lost that DNA. I have another ancestor who was a ring leader in Shay’s rebellion. And I have a mother who in the 1940s hid the Japanese mother of one of her classmates in her apartment for several months so she would not be sent to a relocation camp. I hope that enough of us still feel that way.
  15. Sent to your parent’s probate attorney…
  16. There is obviously a point where Democrats need to do a good job explaining the alternatives and why they were lied to, but for right now there is a wave of bad shit heading for MAGA. For now, we hold.
  17. Weird Ani. Some of your post got cut off.
  18. Reagan taught them that the government was the enemy. The fact that they never knew the 24-7 massive benefits their government provided them is a secret about to be revealed to them. i’m actually happy that an army of Karen’s are about to be demanding to “see the manager of the government stuff”
  19. Weirdly, there is an actual chance that they will blame it on their elected GOP candidates and officials not named Trump. Why? Because when things start sliding into the giant shit abyss we are headed for, the only sure thing besides death and taxes is that Trump will be blaming it on everyone but himself - and if the Democrats are no longer in charge of the house, the Senate or the oval office, it will be a harder sell to blame it on Biden. Sure, there will always be mouth breathers to carry his water and blame it on the dems. But as we have seen, they will turn on anyone in the GOP that Trump tells him is an enemy. And we know who Trump has no problem turning on anyone in the GOP if it gives him the slightest advantage. That is what so stupid about going all-in on their shitty policies from day one. As dumb as America is, they can figure out that last month under Biden I had $6 dollar insulin and today under Trump it’s $80. The much smarter play would have been to slow roll the dismantling of the government and preserve their ability to blame bad things on Democrats. But Trump had to replace everyone in government with toadies and Myrmidons within two years to be able to more successfully engineer his real goal- to end elections.
  20. So - you are blaming maintenance?
  21. they have also chosen cruelty - so long as it is cruelty to others. That is why I hope the pain is astronomical. To them. And their loved ones. And their neighbors. Because that will be the only thing that might keep us away from the dark vision of our country that the GOP is trying to create into reality. I’m old, and my parents were depression era kids. People who suffered in the depression and we’re not able to afford food and clothes and shelter knew in the most personal way the value of progressive policies. They knew we should have some form of healthcare for free, they knew we should have some sort of minimum poverty, preventing retirement plan like Social Security. They knew labor unions were important to make sure people had a living wage. 100 years later, people have forgotten all of those hard lessons learned. So apparently we have to learn them again.
  22. I assume this makes investing in hookers and blow somewhat more problematic? That’s why it’s hard to beat the tried and true dependability of the good old .003 APY Christmas Club account.
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