A Bad Poster posted:

Road asphalt is actually pretty soft, in the grand scheme of things. It's not designed for 60 ton tracked vehicles, it's designed for cars and trucks, and even then they screw it up after a relatively short time.

FAUXTON posted:

the new trump tank is just that pile of poo poo from the abu hajaar video

Saint Celestine posted:

Wrong. USS Texas was also at D-Day and is still afloat.

orange juche posted:

just gonna relink it because tactical rolling loving kills me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jPTrS-7d14

orange juche posted:

just gonna relink it because tactical rolling loving kills me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jPTrS-7d14

Lake of Methane posted:

Wingnut Ninja posted:

July 2019 Events: Tank you for your cervix

orange juche posted:

just gonna relink it because tactical rolling loving kills me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jPTrS-7d14

Hot Karl Marx posted:

Couldnt see anything confirming this but:

https://twitter.com/smotus/status/1146461895047569408

facialimpediment posted:

Hahahahahahaha this loving judge is angry.

Stravag posted:

Is he ever not? Didnt he beat Obama's time golfing in all 8 years in his first?

quote:

Not long after becoming president, Trump invited Woods, Dustin Johnson (the No. 1 player in the world at the time), and longtime Tour pro and Fox golf analyst Brad Faxon to play.

They set up a bet: Faxon and Trump against Woods and Johnson. But because Woods and Johnson are so preposterously long off the tee, they decided Faxon and Trump could tee off the middle tees. Trump would get a stroke subtracted on the eight hardest holes; everybody else would play scratch. Off they went.

“On this one hole, Donald hits his second and fats it into the water,” Faxon remembers. “But he quickly says to me, ‘Hey, throw me another ball; they weren’t looking.’ So I do. But he fats that one into the water, too. So he drives up and drops where he should’ve dropped the first time and hits it on the green.”

Meanwhile, on the other side of the fairway, Woods, being Woods, has hit his approach to a foot from the hole for a kick-in birdie. Everybody’s on the green now, with Trump about 20 feet from the hole, and getting a stroke. Trump said, “So, where does everybody stand here?”

FAXON: “Well, Tiger just made a three. What’s that [putt] for, Mr. President?”

TRUMP: “Four for a three.”

Faxon had to laugh because Trump was actually putting for a seven, but he was claiming it was for a four, which would’ve worked out to a three with his free stroke on the hole.

“How great is that?” Faxon recalled. “Four for a three! But he missed it anyway. It was really fun to play with him. He rakes [picks up] every putt [as if it’s conceded], but you kind of want him to. You’ve heard so much about it, it’s almost like you want to witness it so you can tell the stories.”

quote:

“Afterwards,” Tirico remembers, “Trump’s caddy came up to me and said, ‘You know that shot you hit on the par 5? It was about 10 feet from the hole. Trump threw it into the bunker. I watched him do it.’”

Jaguars! posted:

Old news now, I guess, but playing golf with Donnie can be a slightly unorthodox experience:


https://www.golf.com/news/features/2019/04/02/how-why-president-trump-cheats-golf-playing-tiger-woods/

Milo and POTUS posted:

Might makes right is their mindset

quote:

“I played with him once,” says Bryan Marsal, longtime Winged Foot member and chair of the coming 2020 Men’s U.S. Open. “It was a Saturday morning game. We go to the first tee and he couldn’t have been nicer. But then he said, ‘You see those two guys? They cheat. See me? I cheat. And I expect you to cheat because we’re going to beat those two guys today.’… So, yes, it’s true, he’s going to cheat you. But I think Donald, in his heart of hearts, believes that you’re gonna cheat him, too. So if it’s the same, if everybody’s cheating, he doesn’t see it as really cheating.”

Milo and POTUS posted:

That's somehow more horrifying than what I said

facialimpediment posted:

There's a whole book on it, from Rick Reilly.

Article: https://www.vox.com/2019/5/10/18524172/donald-trump-commander-in-cheat-rick-reilly
Book: https://www.amazon.com/Commander-Ch...ps%2C151&sr=8-1

The best way to think of it: he didn't get enough hugs as a child, so everyone else successful must be loving him. Therefore, it's his life goal to gently caress them first, because they're going to gently caress him if he doesn't. That's what he does in golf, it's what he does in life, and it's what he does in politics. He just automatically assumes that all of the garbage things he does on a daily basis is already done or being done by his opposition.

Hug your loving kids.

Milo and POTUS posted:

Overplayed their hands. A few more visits to the VA and nobody would have suspected a thing

McNally posted:

... what?

Lake of Methane posted:

facialimpediment posted:

There's a whole book on it, from Rick Reilly.

Article: https://www.vox.com/2019/5/10/18524172/donald-trump-commander-in-cheat-rick-reilly
Book: https://www.amazon.com/Commander-Ch...ps%2C151&sr=8-1

The best way to think of it: he didn't get enough hugs as a child, so everyone else successful must be loving him. Therefore, it's his life goal to gently caress them first, because they're going to gently caress him if he doesn't. That's what he does in golf, it's what he does in life, and it's what he does in politics. He just automatically assumes that all of the garbage things he does on a daily basis is already done or being done by his opposition.

Hug your loving kids.

quote:

An appeals court on Wednesday upheld a freeze on Pentagon money to build a border wall with Mexico, casting doubt on President Donald Trump's ability to make good on a signature campaign promise before the 2020 election.

A divided three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco agreed with a lower court ruling that prevented the government from tapping Defense Department counterdrug money to build high-priority sections of wall in Arizona, California and New Mexico.

The decision is a setback for Trump's ambitious plans. He ended a 35-day government shutdown in February after Congress gave him far less than he wanted. He then declared a national emergency that the White House said would free billions of dollars from the Pentagon.

The case may still be considered, but the administration cannot build during the legal challenge.

"As for the public interest, we conclude that it is best served by respecting the Constitution's assignment of the power of the purse to Congress, and by deferring to Congress's understanding of the public interest as reflected in its repeated denial of more funding for border barrier construction," wrote Judges Michelle Friedland, a Barack Obama appointee, and Richard Clifton, a George W. Bush appointee.

A freeze imposed by U.S. District Judge Haywood Gilliam Jr. of Oakland in May prevented work on two Pentagon-funded wall contracts — one spanning 46 miles in New Mexico and another covering 5 miles in Yuma, Arizona.

While the order applied only to those first-in-line projects, Gilliam made clear that he felt the American Civil Liberties Union was likely to prevail in their argument that Trump ignored Congress’ wishes by diverting Defense Department money.

Gilliam went a step further Friday by ruling definitively that the administration couldn’t use Pentagon counterdrug money for the two projects covered in his May order or to replace 63 miles in the Border Patrol’s Tucson, Arizona, sector and 15 miles in its El Centro, California, sector.

The administration immediately appealed.

N. Randy Smith, a George W. Bush appointee, strongly disagreed with the appeals court ruling, saying it misread constitutional separation of powers.

"The majority here takes an uncharted and risky approach — turning every question of whether an executive officer exceeded a statutory grant of power into a constitutional issue," he wrote in his dissent. "This approach is in contradiction to the most fundamental concepts of judicial review."

The Justice Department didn't immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday. Its attorneys argued that the freeze on Pentagon funds showed a "fundamental misunderstanding of the federal appropriations process."

The ACLU, which represented the Sierra Club and Southern Border Communities Coalition, applauded the decision.

"For the sake of our democracy and border communities, it's time the president come to terms with the fact that America rejected his xenophobic wall — and move on," said ACLU attorney Dror Ladin.

At stake is billions of dollars that would allow Trump to make progress on a major 2016 campaign promise heading into his race for a second term.

Trump declared a national emergency after losing a fight with the Democratic-led House that led to the 35-day shutdown. Congress agreed to spend nearly $1.4 billion on barriers in Texas' Rio Grande Valley, the busiest corridor for illegal crossings, which was well below the $5.7 billion the president requested.

Trump grudgingly accepted the money but declared the emergency to siphon cash from other government accounts, finding up to $8.1 billion for wall construction. The money includes $3.6 billion from military construction funds, $2.5 billion from Defense Department counterdrug activities and $600 million from the Treasury Department's asset forfeiture fund.

Acting Defense Secretary Mark Esper has yet to approve transferring the military construction funds. The Treasury Department funds have so far survived legal challenges.

The president's adversaries say the emergency declaration was an illegal attempt to ignore Congress.

The administration said the U.S. needed emergency protection to fight drug smuggling. Its arguments did not mention illegal immigration or unprecedented numbers of Central American families seeking asylum at the U.S. border , which have dominated public attention in recent months.

The administration has awarded $2.8 billion in contracts for barriers covering 247 miles, with all but 17 miles of that to replace existing barriers not expand coverage. It is preparing for a flurry of construction that the president is already celebrating at campaign-style rallies.

Trump inherited barriers spanning 654 miles, or about one-third of the border with Mexico. Of the miles covered under Trump-awarded contracts, more than half is with Pentagon money.

The Army Corps of Engineers recently announced several large Pentagon-funded contacts.

SLSCO Ltd. of Galveston, Texas, won a $789 million award to replace the New Mexico barrier. Southwest Valley Constructors of Albuquerque, New Mexico, won a $646 million award for the work in Tucson. Barnard Construction Co. of Bozeman, Montana, won a $141.8 million contract to replace barrier in Yuma and El Centro.

Waroduce posted:

Theres a 27 year old nurses assistant in the sauna at a 24 hour fitness I'm in who is going to bootcamp in August to be a combat medic. His husband is 23 and very proud of him.

Arc Light posted:

She's got a keen eye. Not too many people realize that Bradleys aren't really tanks.

bengy81 posted:

o7

I wonder if dependa problems extend to gay couples too?

Brute Squad posted:

it's a troop carrier, general.

florida lan posted:

Why couldn't it serve as a scout?