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Mr. Nice! posted:Over 500k acres burned and the fires are still raging. What do you call half a million acres of Texas on fire? A good start. 
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CBJSprague24 posted:All I have to add to Michigan chat is there was an Arab-American woman who looked to be in her twenties interviewed on ABC last night and was asked that, if it came down to it, if she would vote for Trump over Biden over Gaza/Israel and her response was something to the effect of short-term inconvenience for long-term gain. Yeah, I saw the same thing. I think anyone who thinks accelerationism is "better" needs to get their heads checked. Dumb as gently caress idiots like her are what's gonna get us another 4 years of Trump, which will irreparably harm the country and most people, including her. It's worse than shooting yourself in the foot, it's like hacking off your own legs.
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Feb 28, 2024 18:14
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Mr. Nice! posted:Over 500k acres burned and the fires are still raging. It's those damned wind turbines, fanning the flames.
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Feb 28, 2024 18:19
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SMEGMA_MAIL posted:Wendy’s is imho the worst fast food anyway though who is willing to pay those prices anyway and how do I get them help Mods!?
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ASAPI posted:I saw something last night on the local news about this. They are reporting 0% containment last I heard. I'm not even sure they have the manpower/equipment available to contain something like this. There’s not a lot you can do with an out of control fire and 50+ mph winds. They had to evacuate BWXT Pantex.
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Feb 28, 2024 18:28
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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:What do you call half a million acres of Texas on fire? 
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Bored As gently caress posted:Yeah, I saw the same thing. I think anyone who thinks accelerationism is "better" needs to get their heads checked. Dumb as gently caress idiots like her are what's gonna get us another 4 years of Trump, which will irreparably harm the country and most people, including her. It's worse than shooting yourself in the foot, it's like hacking off your own legs. I do not think Arab-Americans watching a man declare his support over and over again for the massacre of their cousins (sometimes literally) choosing to not vote for him are that unreasonable, and I think you don’t really have a place to be self-righteous toward them about it when your position is “well the other guy might also do genocide plus more other bad things too.”
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rip turtleman https://twitter.com/AP/status/1762891228205424976?t=DKsPLmGelCZBy20X23-K5A&s=19 new leader will likely be more trumpy and somehow even more of a lovely human than mcconnell
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Basticle posted:Mods!? I will never surrender. Arby’s is the superior nationwide option.
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facialimpediment posted:rip turtleman God drat it you said RIP and I got my hopes up for ol' Mitch popping his clogs.
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Feb 28, 2024 18:39
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Lemniscate Blue posted:God drat it you said RIP and I got my hopes up for ol' Mitch popping his clogs. He not even resigning from the Senate. Lame.
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Mr. Nice! posted:Over 500k acres burned and the fires are still raging. wow, everything IS bigger in Texas
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Flikken posted:He not even resigning from the Senate. Lame. fair, but having him probably have less power than loving tommy tuberville is its own special form of death
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facialimpediment posted:fair, but having him probably have less power than loving tommy tuberville is its own special form of death He's still going to be a senior committee member on any committee he's on and if the R's take back the Senate he will probably end up President Pro Temp.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:God drat it you said RIP and I got my hopes up for ol' Mitch popping his clogs. Same. Was supremely disappointed.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:God drat it you said RIP and I got my hopes up for ol' Mitch popping his clogs. Empty quote
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SMEGMA_MAIL posted:I will never surrender. Arby’s is the superior nationwide option. I have learnt today that there's more than a few goons that do not value their butthole.
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facialimpediment posted:rip turtleman Don't edge me like this not caring here posted:I have learnt today that there's more than a few goons that do not value their butthole. I have the weakest stomach especially for someone who eats the amount of full spiced Asian and Hispanic food but I do have an iron keister. Wendy's delenda eset
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not caring here posted:I have learnt today that there's more than a few goons that do not value their butthole. Years of getting hosed by the green weenie will do that to you.
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Trump likely doesn't actually have the money to pay his judgements. Womp womp.
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CommieGIR posted:Trump likely doesn't actually have the money to pay his judgements. Womp womp. But he’s a billionaire!!
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CommieGIR posted:Trump likely doesn't actually have the money to pay his judgements. Womp womp. Serious Trouble (Barro/Popehat) were speculating last week that Donnie really has lovely capital-raising (initially typoed as crapital-raising) options right now. Dude has a shitload of money tied up in owning like 33% of office buildings that ain't worth poo poo anymore. So not only can he not sell the buildings outright (he's a minority owner), he's likely upside-down on the holdings due to post-covid office vacancies. Not a whole lot of rich fucks buying office space at the moment! And his Truth Social poo poo is still ~6 months from him being able to cash out. And the "it's worth $4B!!!!11!" takes are likely just trump leaks. Bond companies probably aren't going to take meme stock savings bond coupons as legitimate collateral. Really will get weird if he can't get a judgment stay delaying the collections. Edit: lol he only offered a $100m bond https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/28/nyregion/trump-bond-civil-fraud.html?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytimes facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 19:14 on Feb 28, 2024 |
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Feb 28, 2024 19:08
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The interesting part about the Texas fires is the number of utility trucks I saw hauling rear end out of town today. I’m in SC.
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Mr. Nice! posted:But he’s a billionaire!! Real post - Technically, he probably is if you count his property holdings. But nearly all of that is massively inflated and worthless holdings. So yeah. He's not. He'll likely have to fire sale his property if he has to end up paying out his judgements.
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Video from the wildfires: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzHQ8TX19-E
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CommieGIR posted:Real post - Technically, he probably is if you count his property holdings. Also extremely illiquid.
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CommieGIR posted:Real post - Technically, he probably is if you count his property holdings. Hes in a catch 22 in which he has very illiquid holdings, has testified under oath he has cash, has to maintain that he is very rich and liquid due to his current loans and maintain access to cheap money, but probably needs to show some hardship or reason he required a stay.
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lightpole posted:Hes in a catch 22 in which he has very illiquid holdings, has testified under oath he has cash, has to maintain that he is very rich and liquid due to his current loans and maintain access to cheap money, but probably needs to show some hardship or reason he required a stay. Would you say his mouth has written checks that his rear end can't cash?
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psydude posted:Also extremely illiquid. He has the best lawyers, who say he can only post a bond for $100M in court, but go on TV and say: https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1760006117835276563?t=OeiaVCw5dYlHeP5EbzxCTQ&s=19
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facialimpediment posted:He has the best lawyers, who say he can only post a bond for $100M in court, but go on TV and say: Good lord hahahaha
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SMEGMA_MAIL posted:I will never surrender. Arby’s is the superior nationwide option. I live in one of the largest cities in the country and I can't remember the last time I saw an Arby's. Apparently the nearest one is 4 miles from my house but not in an area where I ever go. Coasterphreak posted:The interesting part about the Texas fires is the number of utility trucks I saw hauling rear end out of town today. Possible explanation - the panhandle and West Texas are a source of a significant amount of wind power in Texas. And it's February, and the weather is more akin to a typical April. If we have a repeat of last summer (oh god please no) the power demand is going to be astronomical and the state will be a tinderbox.
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Coasterphreak posted:The interesting part about the Texas fires is the number of utility trucks I saw hauling rear end out of town today. Are you sure it's not just a nasty storm somewhere else? Utility cooperation is pretty important for fixing stuff after disasters, but they're not exactly... firefighters.
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Appeals court isn't loving around apparently:Three Olives posted:https://twitter.com/molcranenewman/status/1762917559714591091
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That Works posted:Would you say his mouth has written checks that his rear end can't cash? Someone in another Trump thread said that a lot of his loans are personal loans, and they have clauses in them saying he must maintain X amount of liquid capital or the loan gets called in immediately since a lot of people have stopped trusting him to be good for loans. In the current situation with a court monitor running his business for him and telling him to go gently caress himself every time he tries his usual shady bullshit, the lies he's been telling for decades to paper over not having that money are getting blown out of the water and the monitor is reporting actual facts which his entire empire is deathly allergic to. I haven't seen the documentation evidence for that so I'm crossing my fingers it's true and his house of cards is going to collapse on itself with every domino falling in to three other dominos in a domino wave of finding out.
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:So like a toddler holding their breath until they (don't) get what they want? There is no credible threat here, because not voting for Biden is voting for Trump. "Expressing unhappiness" is not a meaningful political action if there isn't an alternative voting path, and our first past the post system ensures there isn't. The infinite hubris of Democrats on display here cannot fail it can only be failed
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poo poo if I was Trump right now I'd be liquidating so hard it'd mean stripping the copper wire out of the walls and running for Russia. Miserable fucker gonna be homeless.
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not caring here posted:poo poo if I was Trump right now I'd be liquidating so hard it'd mean stripping the copper wire out of the walls and running for Russia. Miserable fucker gonna be homeless. He'll live off the GOPs dime until he either wins or loses the election.
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Proud Christian Mom posted:The infinite hubris of Democrats on display here cannot fail it can only be failed idgi the youth are being told things are cool and good even though their lives are like, totally not cool and good, why are they not happy
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hypnophant posted:i shared my view and i'm asking for yours in good faith. the vet forum isn't cspam - you're allowed to offer a more nuanced take here Back in the 80's I asked my parents why Israel and Palestine were fighting. They said "because the leaders get money and power if they keep fighting, so they'll never stop, they will still be fighting 1000 years from now". How much of that has changed in four decades? It seems to me that Hamas's leaders and Israel's leaders both 100% wanted this outcome, and so did a lot of citizens. Why else are they still holding hostages? So like, what is the US supposed to do differently? Shut down the bomb factory? Hamas wants those bombs dropped to generate more recruitment material at the expense of innocent people. It's almost like this is some kinda vicious circle that no one is gonna learn anything from. Full disclosure, I unironically picked Kingdom of Conscience in Disco Elysium because that makes perfect sense to me.
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Zero VGS posted:How much of that has changed in four decades? It seems to me that Hamas's leaders and Israel's leaders both 100% wanted this outcome, and so did a lot of citizens. Why else are they still holding hostages? So like, what is the US supposed to do differently? Shut down the bomb factory? Hamas wants those bombs dropped to generate more recruitment material at the expense of innocent people. If Israel wants more bombs to do more genocide, and Hamas wants more bombs dropped to generate more recruitment, then it seems indeed the simplest solution is to simply stop providing bombs E: I am aware this is a gross simplification, but at the same time, maybe it isn't
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