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  1. · Edited by obelixtim

    That was good of Trump to own up about owning the safe. If evidence of crime was found inside it, ownership and responsibility is something the prosecutor won't have to prove in court.

    Yet another example of mouthing off too much. I bet his lawyers just love him. 

     Dumb arse. 

  2. 36 minutes ago, metalslug said:

    ?? That must be the reason why there are no females, blacks, trans people or scientists that vote Republican.>.<   I'll happily agree that Trump is unintelligent, narcissistic and unpresidential. Enough faults to discount him without needing to make additional shit up. The ludicrous lefty dogma that just gets invented on the fly is hilarious.

    Any opinion on Trumps efforts to grift money off the back of the death of his ex wife and mother of 3 of his kids? 

    Lower than a snakes scrotum...

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  5. 6 hours ago, kallend said:

    The idea dates to Biblical times:

    Judges 12:2–6

    English Standard Version

    2 And Jephthah said to them, “I and my people had a great dispute with the Ammonites, and when I called you, you did not save me from their hand.

    3 And when I saw that you would not save me, I took my life in my hand and crossed over against the Ammonites, and the Lord gave them into my hand. Why then have you come up to me this day to fight against me?” 

    4 Then Jephthah gathered all the men of Gilead and fought with Ephraim. And the men of Gilead struck Ephraim, because they said, “You are fugitives of Ephraim, you Gileadites, in the midst of Ephraim and Manasseh.” 

    5 And the Gileadites captured rthe fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. And when any of the fugitives of Ephraim said, “Let me go over,” the men of Gilead said to him, “Are you an Ephraimite?” When he said, “No,” 

    6 they said to him, “Then say Shibboleth,” and he said, “Sibboleth,” for he could not pronounce it right. Then they seized him and slaughtered him at the fords of the Jordan. At that time 42,000 of the Ephraimites fell.

    Let the slaughtering begin...

  8. Why are people still engaging with this puffed up chimpanzee, who is desperately trying to come across as some sort of intellectual colossus? 

    He's a troll. 

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  10. On 5/18/2022 at 8:52 AM, yoink said:

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61484222

    And this is on (effectively) the Russian state news show. Personally I doubt it was unplanned, and it's very carefully worded. I guess we'll know if the retired colonel 'disappears' in the next couple of days.

     

     

     

     He said essentially the same thing in an article published before Russia invaded. Basically called the pro war commentators and political analysts idiots who didn't have a clue what they were talking about. You could see the female panellist here trying desperately to divert him from his message.

     I wouldn't be drinking tea or going near any windows in high rise buildings if I was him.

     Perhaps it was a way of letting Putin off the hook a little if he backs down. Claiming he was misinformed by his "experts".  Followed by the ritual purging of a few bigwigs.

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  13. Or the village idiot who was bragging with his mates at the pub:

    "Me and my two mates Joe and Dave, have decided to take up astronauting, and we're in training for our first mission".

    Barman: "Thats interesting, what's your first mission going to be?"

    VI: "We're gonna be the first humans to land on the sun"

    BM: "But its really hot up there, you'll get all burnt up". 

    VI: "We're not stupid you know, we thought of that, we're going to be landing at night".

     

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  19. 1 hour ago, JoeWeber said:

    Early rumor control has it that the FSB arrested the commander of the Black Sea fleet Vice Admiral Igor Osipov. I can only assume the charge is Sailing in the Face of Bad Weather with Ammunition Aboard. What a gong show the Russian Military is. They really aren't any better than in WWII. At Prokhorovka, during the Battle of Kursk, they simply threw so many tanks at the battle they had to win even though their losses were horrible. Hopefully their nuclear arsenal is as competent.

     First reaction is to give the Generals/Admirals the chop. Strange how they claimed the ship was on fire, but moved their other vessels further from the coast. You'd wonder how they think their own people/supporters would swallow that BS.

  20. 32 minutes ago, ryoder said:

    I saw that posted on Twitter today. It took me a bit to remember the origin:

     

    "First day on the job". I remember it from a way back. 

     It was worth stealing for the current event.

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  21. "Mayday, mayday, mayday. This is the Russian cruiser Moskva. We are sinking. WE ARE SINKING".

    "This is the Ukrainian coastguard. What are you sinking about?"

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  22. 4 hours ago, Phil1111 said:

    Following Kremlin and FSB directives Russian TV. Together with other state sponsored media. Has increased the quotes from Tucker Carlson and FOX news. In its coverage of the Ukrainian special operation.

    "Tucker Carlson has once again questioned why Americans should side with the Ukrainians over the Russian military. He asked his tens of millions of viewers on Monday night: “Why is it disloyal to side with Russia but loyal to side with Ukraine?” His response? That “they’re both foreign countries that don’t care anything about the United States. He also suggested that US support for Ukraine is established entirely upon “massive lobbying campaigns by Ukrainian politicians and American defence contractors” and not on shared democratic values."

    Yet his love by the US, GOP right continues. He has had special programs in which he has labeled the seizures of Russian oligarchs assets. Unjustified and unreasonable.

    Its unknown when his all expense paid trip to visit President Putin in Russia will take place. Its also unknown if President Putin will award Carlson with the Hero of the Russian Federation Medal. Which for foreigners automatically entities them to Russian citizenship.

    The man with one of the most punchable faces in America. Along with Stone, Miller, and DT himself...

  25. · Edited by obelixtim

    7 hours ago, metalslug said:

    There are aspects of the ongoing conflict that have me mildly puzzled;  Zelensky has recently said that Russia's terms of negotiation are now sounding 'more realistic' and include terms such as;

    Ukraine must remain outside of NATO forever. Crimea must be recognised as Russian. Eastern provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk must be independent.

    These terms are not much different from the practical reality of 3 weeks ago before the fighting started. Sweden and Finland seem to be doing OK (outside of NATO) and both Germany and France have indicated in the past that they will oppose Ukrainian membership, so NATO membership was always unlikely for Ukraine anyway. The other two terms are not fantastic for Ukraine, but to resist them prolongs the conflict arguably longer than it needs to. With those terms accepted Putin can get his 'win' without decimating more of Ukraine. Unless Ukraine truly believes it can win this war alone, then these terms merit consideration. Furthermore, a future less autocratic Russian leader may well revoke the NATO condition in future decades. Few things are 'forever'.

    Zelensky keeps repeating his request for a NATO no-fly zone and I expect it has been repeatedly explained to Ukraine why NATO will not agree to it. Most of the civilian and urban damage has come from land-based artillery strikes, significantly more than from the air, therefore the limited benefit of a no-fly zone is even weaker now relative to the risk of WW3. While I empathise with Zelensky's desperation, the repeated calls seem illogical at this point.

    Poland has called on NATO for a 'peace-keeping' mission to Ukraine at a time when there is no peace to keep and should surely be aware that such forces are only relevant before or after a war.

    Would I be alone to think that some of the political positions (taken by these respective leaders) above are a bit odd ?

    It sounds like the citizens of the two eastern provinces, although Russian speaking, have decided that they hate the Russians for what they have done and want to remain Ukrainians. The Crimea was annexed illegally, and is really part of Ukraine. I can't see Zelensky acceding  to Vlads demands about those places, especially if the Ukrainians succeed in pushing the Russians back into Russia. Vlads position weakens by the day, and it sounds like he might have a bit of internal strife coming his way as the sanctions really bite. 

    There is no way in hell Zelensky will agree to disarm, The Russians have already proved that they can't be trusted, and they never will be again after this.