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romad1

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  1. When I didn't see a Boebert headline I worried she won her primary. That is not until June apparently. She's got time to work the voters.
  2. Haley should endorse Biden.
  3. Well, America loves the Holocaust, hates women, wants children to die and Putin to kill anyone who isn't an American.
  4. Elon will pay off his own fines or Trump's fines?
  5. Trump will change his tune on EVs just you watch him. Elon is so broken in the head/
  6. breaking for Biden you mean.
  7. They had plenty to do when they got there. The combined bomber offensive oil and transportation campaigns were determinative in the defeat of Germany on the ground and in the air.
  8. MMA sensibilities and WWE storylines and meatheads like Joe Rogan do not make for good public policy planning.
  9. I am all for this. Happy warrior is the way to go.
  10. I am not actually proposing their deaths. I am thinking that the center that loves democracy does need to start thinking in Civil War terms. Its happened before. They are the people that love violence. We should expect more.
  11. The idea that the center and center-left are expected to restrain themself in the face of threats of violence. I am not going to be sent to the gas chamber because of Clarence Thomas's desire to get free recreational vehicles from his rich friends who want his vote to be a lock for their interests.
  12. If Clarence Thomas doesn't recuse for things that his wife is involved in, the entire game is deeply deeply corrupted and illegitimate. If it is illegitimate, there is cause for violence per the January 6 rules.
  13. Biden better get Seal Team 6 ready to kill the Supreme Court.
  14. More backstory to the song. Woodie Guthrie's song like a lot of other left/center-left passion at the time was devoted to a second front in Europe. Stalingrad had only just occurred, and Germany was by no means defeated. When she sings "good people what are we waiting on?" she means the second front. The only way a second front could succeed was if the allies had achieved air superiority over the battlefield. The only way to do that was Operation Pointblank which was the bombing campaign brought to Germany to defeat the Luftwaffe in battle. That was going extremely badly in 1943 and would not finally gain successes without the introduction of the P51 escort fighter in late 1943, which allowed the USAAF to mount "Big Week" in February 1944 which achieved the knockout blow against the Luftwaffe necessary to give planners confidence to launch the Normandy invasion. This was a technical accomplishment as much as a feat of will. It took extraordinary will to continue to get into those bombers and go up against the Luftwaffe with losses like this. In the eyes of Crosley and Rosenthal and all the characters already shot down who are on their way to the Stalags we see how much that will test their wills.
  15. Masters of the Air really hit its stride with the "Tear the Fascists Down" song The back story is Crosley is at Oxford after a mission in which almost the entire unit was shot down. The other guy in the scenes depicted is pilot Robert Rosenthal who is at an 8th Air Force "Flak House" whose purpose was to rehabilitate crews that had been through extreme PTSD situations. Rosenthal saved his badly damaged aircraft by a feat of incredible skill and was the only aircraft to return from the 100th. Rosenthal is notable for going on to work the Nurenburg trials.
  16. It made my skin crawl to ask for a Republican ballot this morning. Nikki...you don't deserve this but you are the vessel of my vestigial Republican party self.
  17. Riffing here but... "We decided that 4 0.0 WAR pitchers over 9 innings was just as good as a single 4 WAR pitcher for 9 innings. Also, we are very drunk and some of the 0.0 WAR pitchers we force to pay us a part of their salary so we don't send them to the gulag. Whereas Justin Verlander's wife makes us think of our mothers and we cry."
  18. Sanctions or **** as a tank? “We chose not to use Justin Verlander in this playoff game because he was too expensive “
  19. When did Medvedev go woke?
  20. Hard to actually predict how attractive Trump will be when Biden's money cannon gets fired at him. Trump will get the usual free publicity but it won't compare.
  21. every round that hits the Bismarck eventually helps sink it
  22. I guess Leonard Leo got his money's worth
  23. Trump’s White House Was ‘Awash in Speed’ — and Xanax (yahoo.com) consider the source but it reads a lot like the biographies people wrote about the final days in Hitler's bunker
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