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On 7/8/2025 at 8:19 PM, Roundybout said:
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/08/politics/hegseth-did-not-inform-white-house-ukraine-weapons-pause
In any other administration this would be career-ending, but alas Kegsbreath has a long leash.
If he (and Congress) manage to sort out the catastrophe that is our naval shipbuilding infrastructure, he might actually be worth a *****.
In the meantime, I'm going to go to my boss and change their policies on my own accord, without telling them and see how that turns out.
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No ***** Newt.
Iran couldn't have cared less about a Ceasefire. Now they do. It's like somebody killed off their proxies, smashed their military and assassinated a bunch of the generals. Funny how that worked.
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On 6/23/2025 at 12:27 PM, Gary Marangi said:
I like this one
That's AC Milan kit with the Pats logo glued on it. Very low effort.
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On 6/7/2025 at 5:23 PM, sherpa said:
Just a feeling, but a strong one.
I think this past week was the beginning of the end for Putin.
Highly publicized destruction of a significant amount of his strategic air assets, which the Russian people saw.
Underwater droning an important bridge.
Oil revenue greatly decreased.
27% inflation.
600,000 or so dead or significantly injured while in the years of this war they hold an area about the size of LA County in Ukraine.
The same as 89. The economy will bring him down, and once started, it may happen quickly.
Just my view, but the economic and military momentum and vector is horrible for them.
Interesting point. But it begs a question. Is continued war required to keep Russia on this vector? If it is, you've made an argument that this "pointless slaughter" isn't pointless from an America First POV.
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39 minutes ago, Homelander said:
Ron's been reading my posts.
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5 hours ago, AlBUNDY4TDS said:
It's an ongoing negotiation, but who needs facts?
"Our final deal is done, save final approval with President Xi and Me".
" The USA and China have reached and agreement..."
Those are some pretty terrible misspellings of "Ongoing Negotiation".
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23 minutes ago, leh-nerd skin-erd said:
I think you're right on this, though there is something to be said for a parade celebrating national pride. It might mean nothing to you, but will to some. As Fergie points out on the other hand, a few millions on a debt the size we're dealing with, it's a drop in the proverbial bucket.
What a gesture it would be if the President, or Elon Musk, took a rounding error on their net worths and paid for the parade themselves?
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16 hours ago, boyst said:
Eric Moulds. He is maybe top 40 of all time WR's. Bills fans like him but in his era he was absolutely dominant without premier QB play.
He is 5 yards, 1 TD away from 10k and 50 TD's.
Moulds and Aaron Schobel would have been 1st Team AP multiple times if they'd played for any other drought era contender.
Had he not played on some horrendous Defenses, Schobel would have been a 120+ sack guy and an HOF'er. Talk about a no drama professional.
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1 hour ago, sherpa said:
There's a lot going on.
Here's the thing. Air Forces and drone swarms are great and all.
However to sustain this war, Ukraine and Russia are operating conscription based recruiting regimes, feeding recruits into training programs with 4-12 week training cycles. They're sustaining the equivalent of 1-2 battalions per week KIA/WIA/MIA. Of course their are exceptions, like Azov or the VDV.
How do the USMC or Army operate in an environment like this using the All-Volunteer model where every infantry recruit gets 16 weeks of just Basic. Nevermind specialist schools or AIT? How do you execute doctrine if your maneuver battalions depend on peacetime trained specialists, but are losing a squad or a platoon a day just sitting on the contact line?
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59 minutes ago, sherpa said:
By the way, this has been discussed for years, but nobody did anything about it.
Hey now! Someone did!
There's pictures floating around the Internet of completely enclosed and armored hangars. Complete with armored doors! But the captions are all in Mandarin...
On 6/3/2025 at 5:42 PM, Coffeesforclosers said:Initial OSINT analysis says Ukraine destroyed or damaged 15 Russian strategic bombers, AWACS and heavy cargo lifters.
So we're a bit of a ways from the 41 claimed in public, but still quite the coup.
The tally is up to 22.
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1 hour ago, thenorthremembers said:
The only people I see saying Russia in winning the war are Putin and the Moscow Times. They are losing a greater percentage of their military than Ukraine. That said, Putin doesnt care about causalities. He knows he has more money and unlimited access to it. The idea that anyone "wins" a war is a little misleading in the first place. The bottom line is Russia is just waiting for Ukraine's will to bend. The only way this war is ending is if China backs off in its support of Russia.
Oddly enough, if any single power is responsible for Russia staying in the fight, it's North Korea.
Russia's vaunted industrial mobilization has lagged quite a bit. The Norks supply 30-50% of ALL of Russia's small arms and artillery ammunition is OSINT is to be believed.
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Initial OSINT analysis says Ukraine destroyed or damaged 15 Russian strategic bombers, AWACS and heavy cargo lifters.
So we're a bit of a ways from the 41 claimed in public, but still quite the coup.
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On 6/1/2025 at 8:25 PM, Orlando Buffalo said:
Did not go onto detail but just read that Ukraine hit Russia today and they are suppose to have peace talks tomorrow. If this is so that he can go into the meeting and state to Putin he can hit back hard therefore peace is needed I am ok with this, but if it is to simply extend the war I am beyond pissed that we are funding any of it.
I'll keep reiterating a point BMan made two-ish years ago.
The war will continue so long as one side thinks it can win outright or thinks that any kind of fighting is better than the most likely peace deal.
The game we're playing right now is the diplomatic equivalent of Rumsfeld, Cheney and Bush telling the military to get this whole Iraqi insurgency sideshow wrapped up so we can move on to what's really important.
Which is why the war goes on and on and every day we look more foolish and weak.
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Pro Russian mil blogger Rybar would like to remind us that Russia no longer has the capacity to manufacture the types of bombers that were attacked/damaged/destroyed in this operation.
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Great, now he and Vivek can start a club for ex-Whiz Kids.
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5 minutes ago, ndirish1978 said:
Last week the conversation was "if Bosa has a monster year we're not going to be able to re-sign him cause he's going to get a monster contract so I'm glad we drafted Landon Jackson too" and now it's "yeah pretty sure his career is over." Gotta respect the immediate woe.
It's like a Game Day Thread.
If you read two pages of griping about Soft Zone! We're up by 10.
Fire McDermott! We're up by 7.
If you see 13 seconds references and Beane flak, the score is tied.
Fire McBean, Soft Zone and 13 Seconds all at the same time? We're down by a score to a worse team before the half.
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14 minutes ago, Westside said:
Leftists didn’t care about the deficit when we were giving billions of dollars to ILLEGAL immigrants. Only when Americans are the recipient of tax cuts do the leftists lose their minds.
Yeah, we can point fingers all day. In fact that's what our elites are counting on us to do.
The fact of the matter is the deficits keep on exploding, regardless of who is in office.
There are no adults left to put in the room.
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29 minutes ago, B-Man said:
Ah, Bummer.
Ukrainian GRU is usually much more efficient at this sort of thing.
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4 hours ago, stevestojan said:
One thing that confuses me about the current defense of Trumps tactics are those that state he’s doing exactly what he said he would. Curious as to the thoughts of those that are defending Trump by saying “this is what he promised,” “we knew what we were getting,” etc. How do you respond to this? Understanding many of these videos are often edited heavily this one is truly clips of the man himself and his “promises.”
Does this upset you? Do you just consider this another example of him just “being Donald the blowhard?” Do you think folks less knowledgeable and less economically stable than most here thought he would actually do the things he said in this video? Or they “knew” he would do the opposite and for some reason voted for him anyway?
(standard disclaimer that I think Biden was top 3-4 worst presidents of all time).
Im truly not trolling. I would love to get some conversation going with folks I respect on the other side of the isle like @B-Man and @JDHillFan, (and others).
Let’s see if we can be civil. Was this just a case of a politician being a politician and making promises to get votes? My concern is that his promises and his actual actions are polar opposites. Do you think this “temporary pain” is truly going to help folks financial situations “eventually” and how long will that take?
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHcAf9UOc6i/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
I ignore Donald's rhetoric (he's a professional salesman and pitch artist after all). I look at his actions.
His words are populist, transformative and unconventional.
His actions/policies are fairly similar to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. He's looked into Putin's eyes and seen his soul. He's for supply side economics. He thinks deficits don't matter. He makes a stink about DEI/Affirmative Action/Political Correctness. And so on, and so on.
All the tariff shenanigans are just the virtue-signaling and grandstanding. W would have executed the same things quietly via smoky backrooms using the Bretton Woods architecture. But then he wouldn't have gotten as much credit or burnished his personal brand.
He has successfully repackaged and sold the Country Club GOP's agenda, because JEB! and his ilk were too hooked on West Wing re-runs, and because Donald's part of the Country Club.
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Replace the onside kick with a round of bare knuckle boxing.
The first team to draw blood or get a knockdown/KO gets possession.
Don King some how ends up with 25% of the ticket receipts.
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We're living in W's third term.
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8 hours ago, Orlando Buffalo said:
I accept your first statement but we disagree on how to support them. As for Trump being a problem you act like the Russians have upped there attacks or something since Trump took over. The worst behavior was during Biden including the start of the war, pretending Trump started this problem or is making it worse is dumb.
Of course.
But Trump said he'd fix the problem really fast and easily. He's been at it for four months and so far all we have is a trade deal with one of the most corrupt countries on the planet, so I'm told.
And of course we have to get this done for humanitarian reasons you know? But at 5k dead per week, apparently there's no rush? And after pledging to stop the hopeless slaughter, our big threat is to walk away from the conflict...which is a benefit to Russia and does not stop the killing...
So exactly the level of bungling, aimless, strategically bankrupt diplomacy we've been practicing since 9/11 so far. But hey, maybe time will prove me wrong.
I know we're preparing for the great war against China and we're all hard headed realists. So obviously there's no benefit to China's greatest ally feeding itself into a wood chipper. What we actually have to do is try and bribe Russia out of China's orbit with a combination of Ukrainian land and American trade! And what could possibly go wrong funneling investment and land to a corrupt petro-state with terminal demographics and a hatred of the West?
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The NFLPA Is Becoming A Sham Organization
in The Stadium Wall
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Sounds like they're going through the same cycle of decline as the UAW. Once leadership sees themselves as partners with management, you're toast.