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Everything posted by chasfh
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Really, dark money is the only way Republicans can win, given how morally, ethically and even intellectually bankrupt their platform has been of late.
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I know you've seen enough and want to start the bombing now. I'm not there just yet. But if radiation starts seeping across Europe, I could be talked into it.
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Too good for him. He should be forced to resign immediately.
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That's because Josh Hawley Backs the Blue™! Well, not the Capitol Blue, of course ...
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I think we may have discussed this before, but do we think once any biological, chemical, or radiological effect wafts over into a NATO country from this war, that would be the bright red line Russia crosses that gets us involved on a shooting basis?
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If there is a ray of optimism I am taking from all of this, it's that the actions of Autocrat #1 might horrify those right-wingers whose red hats are less well-dyed and steer them back toward the middle, even if it's back to Bush-style adventurism or Reagan-style let-them-eat-cakeism. The crazies we will always have with us—it's just a matter of whether they make up 10% of the population, or 40% of the population. Hopefully the Ukraine misadventure will leave that number way closer to 10.
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He still might ... 😢
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No, they're not. Mine are.
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Maybe Putin was hoping China would take that Russia role to his Syria role. My thinking is evolving on all this. Max Boot had said on Maher last Friday that Putin didn't have to invade under Trump because he had that fifth column in the White House doing his bidding to undermine the West, after which Putin could just roll in firing nary a shot (in his estimation, anyway). Sounds like a reasonable assumption. Now I'm hypothesizing that the specific reason Putin didn't invade with Trump in office is that he was waiting for Trump to pull US out of NATO first. If Putin had gone in while we were still technically in NATO, and European countries started getting involved, we would have been obligated under treaty to work with them on it. With US out, Europe would have been on their own, US would have sat on the sidelines with our President lipping off about the genius of Putin and the stupidity of Europe, and Putin could have used a Trump-divided West to do what he wanted in and with Ukraine. Additionally, that could have opened the door to China to aid Russia on an overt basis, again with US sitting on the sidelines, and would have created this bi-polar world of Russia/China/the autocrat world versus Europe/the democratic world, with US technically being isolationist (which would have had the practical effect of supporting Russia's move). That's a scary world because Russia and China, together with other despotic dictatorship satellites in support (Turkey, Philippines, Nicaragua, nuclear North Korea, maybe even nuclear India?), might well be at least as strong as the non-US West. All this might be the #1 reason Russia worked so hard to get Trump elected, and then to get him re-elected: Putin needed US out of NATO so we would stand down while he went into his neighbor states unmolested by US. As it turns out, though, Biden is president instead. So why did Putin send Russia into Ukraine anyway, even with US still in NATO? This, I think, is Putin's big miscalculation: he believed the MAGA line he himself propagated, that Biden is feeble, even mentally incapacitated, and weak, and that the West is in disarray. Putin thought he could still waltz into Ukraine and do what he wanted, and that Biden and the West would be too weak and chaotic and powerless to stop him. Putin was wrong. Biden has proved himself the strong and capable leader of the allied coalition to support Ukraine in the fight against Russian invasion. As a result of Putin's fuckup, Russia is getting their clocked cleaned militarily in Ukraine, and the West acted in united fashion to crater Putin's economy out from under him and turn Russia into a legitimate pariah state. Not that he cares about that yet, since he is insulated from a lot of that pain still. But the legs are weakening out from under him, and it can't sustain like this indefinitely. It's gonna break, and then we'll have to be there to help contain the mess.
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I don't think bots have mommies.
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It is spring here in the city and cold weather does hang on past Memorial Day, so ... yeah, a nice jacket would be a good choice. 😁
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Your posts aren’t truthful, mine are truthful.
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Stopped Clock Alert: You’re right in one respect, Bunker: Biden’s words have already led to disaster—the Russian misadventure disaster in Ukraine. Biden checkmated Putin by outing Putin’s tactics before he used them, or could use them. If Biden had kept quiet, Russia would have gotten away with false flag attacks and the like, after which there would have been worldwide debate about their veracity, perhaps with China publicly taking Russia’s side on the question, which would have created a huge polar divide and complicated the situation perhaps even beyond resolution. But because Biden told us upfront what to expect, no person in the world who values their own reputation will profess even the whiff of a belief in Putin’s line that Ukraine is run by neo-Nazis who are bombing their own cities and killing their own civilians so they can unfairly blame the Russians for it. Because of Biden, the world knows the truth. Do you, Bunker? “Way to go, Brandon, way to go! 👏 👏 “
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Lol bunker throwing shit against our walls.
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I understand the choice isn’t binary, but along the continuum to full upgrade would be feckless, venal Lukashenko type swooping in to plunder what’s left and keep the Russian people in an agitated state of impoverishment, even after giving the world what we want and stopping the war, at least in the short term while they plot another attack in the future. This could be a post-Putin outcome as well.
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Low hangingest of fruit.
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And even this doesn't necessarily mean Putin would be replaced by a pro-Westerner.
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I don’t think the ground troops would directly reject the order by Putin to wage chemical warfare, but to what I believe is romad’s point, if they’re so inept at the ground war, what makes us think these same people could successfully wage a chemical campaign?
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Top 5s also change with time. Emaline by Ben Folds is in my current top 5. I hadn't even heard the song two years ago. Two years from now it'll be gone, replaced by something else.
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Well, not for nothing, he is the most dangerous free man walking around America today. So, yeah, there’s that.
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Q: What’s the surest way to get people to not care about your post? A: Tell them in the first sentence, “I know you all don’t care about this, but …”
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I flipped a coin between “Sweet Child o’ Mine” and “We Built This City” … 😅
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Did he say her name is a mouthful and ask if there’s a regular nickname he can use instead? Did he ask whether she has a lot of brothers and sisters? Did he say her hair is soooo pretty? Did he ask how she could afford to go to college? Did he brag that he went to a soul food restaurant once and it was surprisingly OK? And did he end up saying, “I was only trying to be nice, I didn’t mean anything by it”?
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Ooh ooh ooh—let me guess the other four! Don’t Stop Believin’ Bohemian Rhapsody Heart of Rock and Roll We Built this City How close am I? 😉
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Have you seen the new Frontline about Nancy Pelosi? The first few minutes, about January 6—talk about chilling. That part of Trumpsim isn’t going to die for a long time.