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Handsome Ralph posted:Manchin not running for relection next year. That's probably not good for Dems. poo poo. Bored As Fuck fucked around with this message at 21:28 on Nov 9, 2023 |
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Bored As gently caress posted:That's probably not good for Dems. poo poo. I didn't see a single poll where he was within shooting distance, so dude was toast. Only question remains if he would run for president and who knows where the heck that would turn out. Dude almost went into Donnie's cabinet and he's anti-abortion.
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Nov 9, 2023 21:32
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Bored As gently caress posted:That's probably not good for Dems. poo poo. Eh, Dems weren't likely to hold his seat even if he buckled down and still ran for relection. Right now, this is where we're at https://twitter.com/Taniel/status/1722703414243565759 I think it's likely the Dems retake the house and lose or end up with a 50/50 Senate. Who knows though.
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Nov 9, 2023 21:36
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gently caress me what a nightmare
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Nov 9, 2023 21:41
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facialimpediment posted:I didn't see a single poll where he was within shooting distance, so dude was toast. I'm from WV (even met Manchin a couple times) and this extremely checks out. Manchin's goal for decades has been to be the second coming of Robert C. Byrd. If he's not running, it's because he knows he's going to lose.
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Nov 9, 2023 21:50
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:FINALLY!!!! Looks good, guessing jet fighters show up in second to last episode.
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Nov 9, 2023 23:04
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The hagiography of Manchin is going to be revolting
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Nov 9, 2023 23:06
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Hoo boy I hope so, I'd love to see a 262 doing its thing
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Nov 9, 2023 23:06
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:Hoo boy I hope so, I'd love to see a 262 doing its thing a 262 going fast in a straight line? cuz thats pretty much all they could do
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Nov 9, 2023 23:14
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There's a couple replica Me-262s running around out there
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Nov 9, 2023 23:15
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ded posted:a 262 going fast in a straight line? cuz thats pretty much all they could do Yes, but if you could line it up straight on a bomber, you had four 30mm cannons to shoot at it. You just had a very brief firing window!
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Nov 9, 2023 23:20
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MrMojok posted:Yes, but if you could line it up straight on a bomber, you had four 30mm cannons to shoot at it. the ideal approach was a head on so they had an extremely short firing window. when it worked it was very effective tho and the allies had zero ways to combat it.
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Nov 9, 2023 23:21
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MrMojok posted:Yes, but if you could line it up straight on a bomber, you had four 30mm cannons to shoot at it. That would certainly make a hell of a mess
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Nov 9, 2023 23:23
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ded posted:the ideal approach was a head on so they had an extremely short firing window. when it worked it was very effective tho and the allies had zero ways to combat it. Aside from wait until it was done and follow it back to the airfield. The T-stoff fuel also dissolved a nazi pilot (this dumb bastard: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_P%F6hs)
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Nov 9, 2023 23:31
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I thought t-stoff was the 163?
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Nov 9, 2023 23:32
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Yeah wrong Messerschmitt. Me-262 was a turbojet, no T-stoff.
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Nov 9, 2023 23:33
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lol I clicked through somewhere on the 262 page and ended on the 163 Komet page 
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Nov 9, 2023 23:34
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The Komet owns too, it's such a whackjob solution to high-flying bombers
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Nov 9, 2023 23:36
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:The Komet owns too, it's such a whackjob solution to high-flying bombers There’s one at the Udvar-Hazy air/space museum annex. It’s loving tiny.
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Nov 9, 2023 23:40
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Icon Of Sin posted:There’s one at the Udvar-Hazy air/space museum annex. It’s loving tiny. Yes, it also possesses a palpable hunger to dissolve nazis. Wonder what acceleration felt like in that thing.
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Nov 9, 2023 23:59
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Icon Of Sin posted:Aside from wait until it was done and follow it back to the airfield. yeh. yeager got some 262 action doing that.
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Nov 10, 2023 00:14
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Icon Of Sin posted:Aside from wait until it was done and follow it back to the airfield. The T-stoff fuel also dissolved a nazi pilot (this dumb bastard: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Pöhs) This was really the key to dealing with so many German wonder-weapons. Oh, they killed 10 of our things? Replaced tomorrow. Just follow it until it's vulnerable and/or breaks down and then it's another nigh-irreplaceable enemy asset gone.
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Nov 10, 2023 01:10
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Discussion Quorum posted:This was really the key to dealing with so many German wonder-weapons. the crews were even more irreplaceable, but with fascism being a macho death cult that cost was of course ignored.
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Nov 10, 2023 01:13
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ded posted:yeh. yeager got some 262 action doing that. That owned when he was asked what happened when he first saw a jet plane & he responded that he shot it down.
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Nov 10, 2023 01:47
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:Hoo boy I hope so, I'd love to see a 262 doing its thing I prefer to see a mazda 626 doing its thing with the oscillating ac
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Nov 10, 2023 01:49
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Icon Of Sin posted:There’s one at the Udvar-Hazy air/space museum annex. It’s loving tiny. I'm really glad I finally made the time to drive out there, it's loving wild seeing stuff like that in person. Waiting for the guided tour was absolutely worth it, along with the obligatory nerdgasm over the SR-71. What really took the cake though was staring up at a big shiny silver plane, seeing the name and going "OH gently caress" a little too loud, then having to explain the significance of the Enola Gay to my wife.
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Nov 10, 2023 02:59
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Udvar-Hazy is wild. "It's got the Dash 80, granddaddy of all modern airliners." "You mean, it's got a Dash 80?" "No, the only one. The one that Bob Hoover could have barrel rolled. They have a statue of him in front of it." 
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Nov 10, 2023 03:14
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Re: Bob Hoover, I had no idea until very recently that the famous story of the Allied POW who stole a German plane was about the grandpa with the engine-out aerobatic routine. Hell of a career that also included flying chase on Yeager's X-1 flight. (  Tex Johnston was the guy who barrel rolled the 367-80 though)
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Nov 10, 2023 04:06
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drat, I must have been thinking of the video where Bob Hoover pours a glass of water while flying a barrel roll. Mybad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9pvG_ZSnCc
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Nov 10, 2023 04:15
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facialimpediment posted:I didn't see a single poll where he was within shooting distance, so dude was toast. Only question remains if he would run for president and who knows where the heck that would turn out. Dude almost went into Donnie's cabinet and he's anti-abortion. Joe vs. Joe, coming to pay-per-view
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Discussion Quorum posted:Re: Bob Hoover, I had no idea until very recently that the famous story of the Allied POW who stole a German plane was about the grandpa with the engine-out aerobatic routine. Hell of a career that also included flying chase on Yeager's X-1 flight. My favorite part of that story is that he couldn’t steal a pristine fighter off the flight line. He had to steal the least awful looking specimen of a model of aircraft that he’d never flow before and take it off on the grass. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxIVx7MzaDg&t=1146s “‘You are the dumbest aviator that ever flew. The war’s almost over, and you idiot, you’re trying to go in an airplane, what the hell are you accomplishing?’ The answer is ‘nothing’. And so, I was not proud of it, I don’t mind telling you.” Platystemon fucked around with this message at 04:40 on Nov 10, 2023 |
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Nov 10, 2023 04:26
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https://twitter.com/andrewpdyer/status/1722707454302323195 New “SEAL about to be hung out to dry by the Woke Millennial Military a la Eddie Gallagher” red meat about to be thrown to the chuds here. It’s well past time to admit that the SOF community- especially the SEALs- has a serious problem.
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Nov 10, 2023 05:43
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ded posted:a 262 going fast in a straight line? cuz thats pretty much all they could do Don't forget "getting shot down by Yeager." efb
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Nov 10, 2023 14:07
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https://twitter.com/cnnbrk/status/1723084199844859993?t=1lea3hvS1w0Ho4tZoNKg5g&s=19 “New York City elect a mayor who isn’t a huge piece of poo poo” challenge, difficulty: impossible
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Nov 11, 2023 00:08
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Has Eric Adams lost the mandate of heaven?
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Platystemon posted:Has Eric Adams lost the mandate of heaven? He's caught America's Mayor disease.
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Nov 11, 2023 01:43
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https://twitter.com/SteakFrankhouse/status/1722994944678224097 Owned, nerd. e- https://twitter.com/tadpr0le/status/1723005127781429384 https://twitter.com/succulent_limp/status/1722998982270472624 https://twitter.com/scrumble_eggs/status/1723016285091664062 
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Nov 11, 2023 02:06
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If he hates being hated, has Elon tried not being such an awful piece of poo poo?
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Nov 11, 2023 02:24
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Platystemon posted:Has Eric Adams lost the mandate of heaven? Pretty sure Peter Stuyvesant took it with him and it's been missing ever since.
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Well, this definitely proves that the ending to Goldfinger was bullshit: https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1723146554565894349?t=byqjOc8CViGW437-wJeaUw&s=19 Click through for a picture of a window that is absolutely, positively not fully attached to the airframe: 
facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 02:48 on Nov 11, 2023 |
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