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25th his ass

Chafin seems really shopworn.

Dave Dombrowski was my speed. I think Scott Harris might be the superior GM if we can keep him though.

He was really reading the Mack Bolan book Double Crossfire and musing about the effectiveness of the Fairbairn Sykes dagger vs. the Gerber Mk1.

Be cool if this worked.

He was a bow-tie wearer, was he not. That's a choice. You can either be a novelist of antebellum romance or a male stripper if you affect that look.

Yes, the only thing keeping mad King Donald in check are the Nukes that would be launched from a submarine we helped them build.

Luigi’d

How is trump not facing 25th amendment for this…the rubber stamp GOP of course.

plus France and UK have already given nuclear guarantees to Canada under NATO article 5.

"Regime press" That rings pretty damn hollow these days.

Ditto. Most interesting part is that in the "trial" of Beria scene you can see a lot of very slavic looking faces in that melee. I think they brought in people who had actually experienced the horrors first hand to add to the gravity of that.

Reading Jung Chang and Jon Halliday's very interesting Mao biography for the past few months. Boy, that Mao guy was a bastard. Hitler obviously front and center was evil and there are 4-5 Holocaust movies every Oscar season to tell us how. Stalin's evil has only really ever been captured in a few pieces of media. Death of Stalin is so very good. But Mao...that guy...the paranoia, the emperor has no clothes aspects, the hangers on being worse and more venal, its just a lot. He killed more than both Stalin and Hitler so there is that.

and still speaking of them Just Jack: "Congress doesn't have time to negotiate a bipartisan budget to run the government. They do have time to investigate anything bugging their oligarch overlords. www.yahoo.com/news/johnson..." — Bluesky

speaking of the asshole

Actually...this particular matter would be a very good thesis for historiography. Hmmm.

Its really amazing how he was ever employed by a University.

very curious if the intel video cards are worth it. Need someone to take on Nvidia

The cautionary tale here is that the Left had the House and Senate in 1974 and the author of that piece Bradford Snell (talk about a name that was on the nose) was a staffer for the Congressional committee trying to break up monopolies. He was a GM hater for a variety of reasons. Not saying if those reasons were valid or not. Not having a majority anywhere in the US Government makes the opposition pretty damn weak. Not having any the media report on what is happening in a straight way is weaker. GM surviving its bankruptcy in the 2000s probably had that guy rolling in his grave(not sure if he's alive or not). This article takes on the thesis that the multi-nationals were as blamable as Snell and the other New Left types thought. https://undsoc.org/2021/05/31/forced-labor-and-multinational-corporations/ Let me state that the conditions on the ground are very different because in this case the monopoly is dominated by a person in Musk who has extra-Constitutional access and control of multiple US Government agencies and the executive branch and who is manipulating ongoing US foreign policy to punish allies (e.g., Poland). The closest parallel to the WWII era might have been Henry Ford who was an anti-Semite but during WWII was nothing but patriotic and supplied several B-24s, Jeeps, M4 tanks, etc. Actually, Ford empowered and on drugs might have been very similar but even he didn't control as much monopolistic power as Musk does.

https://nypost.com/2025/03/12/us-news/government-shutdown-likely-friday-night-after-schumer-says-senate-dems-will-block-gop-funding-bill/ Oh...ok

The V Corp Headquarters in Frankfurt was in the IG Farben building. It had a dumbwaiter elevator that i was shocked hadn't killed anyone.

So, watched the movie Anthropoid tonight. Its about the Czech resistance movement's assassination of Reinhard Heydrich. Very moving. Hard not to see the reprisals the Nazis implemented and compare to the Trump crew and see very little difference in outlook. Bongino or Patel or Hegseth seem like they could order that sort of thing without compunction.

All those companies were put back on a working basis by the US and Allies after the war. VW for example was resurrected by a British Army major who needed the locals to have jobs so he got the factory going.

The US Army Air Force and Royal Air Force dropped all those facilities to zero value.