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Godholio posted:The gently caress was a Patriot gonna do here? save the ambassador
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Godholio posted:The gently caress was a Patriot gonna do here? Shoot down the E-11 earlier when the daily RPG attack makes the Patriot crew take cover and set it to automatic?
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I ran into a pretty girl on the way home from the local dive bar. I mean, I think she was pretty, I spent most of our conversation scritching her bulldog. I hope I see her doggo again.
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Godholio posted:The gently caress was a Patriot gonna do here? In Iraq? The place where a bunch of ballistic missiles slammed down?  There is a solid argument that putting Patriot there would be a predictable reaction to the threat after the fact. And also an argument that it would expose a strategic asset to low end insurgent fire from mortars, rockets, etc. But it is true that the general scope of ballistic missiles fired at US bases in Iraq were the types of threats Patriot has been designed and refined to defeat.
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I thought Iraq and other countries were going to pay us to have missile defense systems fielded on their golf courses.
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Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Retiring, needs money): He did it, so what https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1223096533689696256 Betting it's a 50-50 vote. facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 05:16 on Jan 31, 2020 |
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Jan 31, 2020 05:08
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mlmp08 posted:In Iraq? The place where a bunch of ballistic missiles slammed down? In the context of the E-11 crash. I was trying to figure out if there was some weird notion that it was shot down and could have been protected somehow. As a general policy, of course I agree with you. I liked having them at my bases when I was over there.
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Godholio posted:In the context of the E-11 crash. I was trying to figure out if there was some weird notion that it was shot down and could have been protected somehow. As a general policy, of course I agree with you. I liked having them at my bases when I was over there. The E-11 went down over Afghanistan though. Edit: No wait duh I get what you're saying now. McNally fucked around with this message at 05:20 on Jan 31, 2020 |
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Jan 31, 2020 05:14
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facialimpediment posted:Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Retiring, needs money): He did it, so what He's going to be so off the rails during the State of the Union after BEING COMPLETELY AND TOTALLY EXONERATED MORE THAN ANY PRESIDENT IN HISTORY.
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Godholio posted:In the context of the E-11 crash. I was trying to figure out if there was some weird notion that it was shot down and could have been protected somehow. As a general policy, of course I agree with you. I liked having them at my bases when I was over there. Is there something similar to Trophy APS for aircraft or would it not work because SAMs are huge? If so then what about MANPADS?
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The current kinda-scifi-but-almost-reality idea is self defense lasers, but the short answer is you work to defeat the system guiding the missile: chaff, flares, jamming, etc. Or avoid; with MANPADS that's easier, since they're generally not going to reach out and touch someone at 30k feet. If there's a mountain they can stand on to reach that high, you avoid it.
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like i never believed there was the ghost of a chance the trial would oust trump but i didn't think the GOP argument would get to the point of "the president can do whatever they want to get elected as long as they thing their being president is in the country's best interest" like that feels like a rubicon
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Jan 31, 2020 06:03
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facialimpediment posted:Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Retiring, needs money): He did it, so what Dammit Lamar, you were a pretty decent governor. Why you got to be a little bitch forty years later?
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Patware posted:like i never believed there was the ghost of a chance the trial would oust trump but i didn't think the GOP argument would get to the point of "the president can do whatever they want to get elected as long as they thing their being president is in the country's best interest" Republican Presidents with a Republican Senate have a literal blank check to do whatever the gently caress they want. Surely nothing bad can come from that!
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Internet Wizard posted:It’s an insult to my suffering to make others suffer less The boomer in my office who recently opened a gun store played this card re: loan foregiveness this week and I told him we should ban polio vaccine because it's not fair to cripples.
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I'm happy the republicans are codifying that no law can bind the president immediately before we elect a socialist president. They're going to try to walk it back but I don't think that's going to work. We're in new territory here.
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Best Friends posted:I'm happy the republicans are codifying that no law can bind the president immediately before we elect a socialist president. They're going to try to walk it back but I don't think that's going to work. We're in new territory here. The rules will all still apply to any non-republican President. All the chudges they've appointed help them there too. I'd be willing to bet money that Democrats would go along with convicting a non-republican President for anything more than a speeding ticket too.
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Medicine is banned, doctors are banned, dentistry is banned, education is banned, but social media and religion are a-okay because they're how we got into this lovely timeline.
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Jan 31, 2020 06:25
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fknlo posted:The rules will all still apply to any non-republican President. All the chudges they've appointed help them there too. I'd be willing to bet money that Democrats would go along with convicting a non-republican President for anything more than a speeding ticket too. Yeah, this has been McConnell's long game. Pack the courts so only Republican politicians actions are legal.
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I'm not sure what the future is, but I don't think we're a constitutional republic anymore. You can't shred the Constitution and then depend on judges, whose authority comes from that Constitution, to protect you. Maybe we end up with a right wing coup, maybe leftists pack the courts (and maybe both), but either way I'm thinking the judges gambit is irrelevant. This might be a world historical own goal by movement conservatives. They were winning the game and then they kicked over the table.
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A Bad Poster posted:Yeah, this has been McConnell's long game. Pack the courts so only Republican politicians actions are legal. I think we're only at the start of the bad poo poo. I'm not sure if Trump winning or losing will actually be worse for the country as he's not going to go quietly. https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/1223097925082873862?s=20
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fknlo posted:I think we're only at the start of the bad poo poo. I'm not sure if Trump winning or losing will actually be worse for the country as he's not going to go quietly. can you hear that the first haunting notes of nero's fiddle
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Patware posted:like i never believed there was the ghost of a chance the trial would oust trump but i didn't think the GOP argument would get to the point of "the president can do whatever they want to get elected as long as they thing their being president is in the country's best interest" In a world of constant flagrant bullshit this is just ffffffff ugh, there's that crack-ping again.
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fknlo posted:The rules will all still apply to any non-republican President. All the chudges they've appointed help them there too. I'd be willing to bet money that Democrats would go along with convicting a non-republican President for anything more than a speeding ticket too. Especially aforementioned socialist president
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Milo and POTUS posted:Especially aforementioned socialist president The minute any Democrat takes power, suddenly the deficit will be a massive, country-ending problem. The trick will be if said Democrat tells them all to pound sand and/or if enough Senate Democrats exist to sustain said pounding of sand.
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facialimpediment posted:The minute any Democrat takes power, suddenly the deficit will be a massive, country-ending problem. The trick will be if said Democrat tells them all to pound sand and/or if enough Senate Democrats exist to sustain said pounding of sand. Super looking forward to exactly this and half the country becoming surgically precise in their deafness when asked why it isn't Donald's/their fault we have that debt.
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bird food bathtub posted:Super looking forward to exactly this and half the country becoming surgically precise in their deafness when asked why it isn't Donald's/their fault we have that debt. They will blame Obama. You know this will happen.
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And/or they'll blame Hillary for it.
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facialimpediment posted:The minute any Democrat takes power, suddenly the deficit will be a massive, country-ending problem. The trick will be if said Democrat tells them all to pound sand and/or if enough Senate Democrats exist to sustain said pounding of sand. My concern is the rich will show their asses and do something to make the whole house of cards collapse
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pseudosavior posted:And/or they'll blame Hillary for it. Bern should start blaming her for everything and see if they can take it
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Milo and POTUS posted:My concern is the rich will show their asses and do something to make the whole house of cards collapse not really sure if this mess of cards on the floor qualifies as a house but who knows maybe they're flammable too
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https://twitter.com/catcontentonly/status/1223002130107260928?s=21 Not really a commentary on people here, but I overheard someone at an airport recently say “I heard coronavirus is from bats,” and his partner incredulously asked if bats even taste good with rice. People are fuckin’ weird/bad. That person also announced out pf nowhere that she liked Mayor Pete.
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mlmp08 posted:https://twitter.com/catcontentonly/status/1223002130107260928?s=21
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mlmp08 posted:https://twitter.com/catcontentonly/status/1223002130107260928?s=21 People are terrible but this is something that really highlights the power of social media as propaganda. It wouldn't have had nearly the traction it does if it weren't for those pictures of the bat soup
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The James Baldwin quote reminded me of I Am Not Your Negro, which was a fantastic film. "White people are trapped in a history that they do not understand"
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facialimpediment posted:The minute any Democrat takes power, suddenly the deficit will be a massive, country-ending problem. The trick will be if said Democrat tells them all to pound sand and/or if enough Senate Democrats exist to sustain said pounding of sand. The right's messaging ability will likely overcome this even if we do get Bernie and he tells them to go gently caress themselves. You'll have millions of chuds on mobility scooters surrounding the white house for rallies as soon as the temps in DC are above 60. The lack of an actual left leaning media apparatus is one of the things that has doomed this country.
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fknlo posted:The right's messaging ability will likely overcome this even if we do get Bernie and he tells them to go gently caress themselves. You'll have millions of chuds on mobility scooters surrounding the white house for rallies as soon as the temps in DC are above 60. The lack of an actual left leaning media apparatus is one of the things that has doomed this country. Yo can we volunteer for rubber bullet and water cannon duty as a soros super soldier?
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