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Some of that “soft power” USAID was buying with our tax dollars…...

Obama to the contractors:

Because the make-up sex is amazing. ;)

I doubt we would have seen this result under a Harris/Waltz administration. It boggles the mind that any sane person would protect these people. https://www.theblaze.com/news/marco-rubio-pedo-pardon-walz

At the risk of sounding callous, I don’t particularly care. I don’t think there’s evidence that they were lovers but I live in California and hold the Pelosi family in particular disdain. Assuming that the attacker was simply a nutcase, I can’t lose much sleep when elite members of the...

While I hesitate to involve myself in you and Brent’s back and forth, I do feel it’s a little inaccurate to call what Brent is saying “punching down.” Paul Pelosi is wealthier than anyone on this forum and is married to one of the most powerful politicians in the United States in addition to...

Tim Waltz keeps making me glad we kept him away from the WH. https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/dhs-attacks-minnesota-gov-tim-walz-over-criminal-sexual-conduct-pardon/ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/us/politics/minnesota-pardon-sexual-abuser.html

Now they’ve gone to far! ;)

Indeed, I’m trying to figure out what height someone had to have hit their head from to dismiss what these terrorists did as just playing with fireworks when an ICE agent was shot with an AR-15. Personally I’d have liked to see them all swing.

An administration W in the Supreme Court yesterday. https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/25/politics/takeaways-supreme-court-hands-trump-massive-wins-on-immigration-agenda

I’m not sure that any of that contradicts what I said. My first sentence clearly stated, “While some of it was intentional, the vast majority of the death from old world disease was accidental.” The Americas had already been largely depopulated by 1763 and much of that happened without direct...

While some of it was intentional, the vast majority of the death from old world disease was accidental. The diseases introduced spread so rapidly along native trade and travel routes that something like 80-90% of the native population was gone within less than 200 years. White settlers often...

You misunderstood his post. Initially the Covid vaccination was being touted as reducing transmission by the infected, then as more data came out the CDC changed their reasoning for recommending the vaccine. Rather then being recommended to protect others, it was reccomended solely to protect...

Perfectly reasonable.

In curious about your first one. Nothing wrong with it but I just wondered why have the bolt open over simply clearing it?

I like a firearm in my hunting photos. It connects that firearm to that hunt/animal. When my kids inherit my guns they can look back and know what I used them on. A way to think of it might be adding context to the photo. A place, a time, an event, the tools used in it, the people involved...

Hey now, it works for the tigers. ;)

“Joseph Stalin was one of the most powerful men in modern history. A peasant with almost no education and by all accounts stupid as a sack of hammers. Yet there he was controlling half the world. Only proves that even a dumbass bonehead moron in the right place at the right time can do a whole...

Not political per se but an interesting overview of the current AK rifle used by Russian soldiers in Ukraine. In fact this particular rifle was said to be picked up from a Ukrainian battlefield.

I’m guessing it helps. Trump made gains with Hispanic voters in 2024. There are a lot of socially conservative Hispanic voters and I think many are feeling left behind by the current democrat trajectory. However, to what degree it helps I couldn’t guess.

Middle is European-African-Middle Eastern campaign medal with a battle star. Schulz saw action in Northern Europe. The display had a German helmet he had brought home. My maternal grandfather has one without a star. He was an air corps radio operator in Europe.

Funnily enough, I was in Santa Rosa a week ago and visited the Charles Schultz museum. I must have missed that exhibit. :D On a somewhat related note, Schultz was a veteran. Bronze star recipient. I never knew that but then he didn’t brag about it. Go figure. The Baccarat lead-crystal Snoopy...

PhD, manufacturing expert, master LEO, war hero. At this point I’m surprised he’s not an astronaut. Maybe that will be the next revelation. ;)

Texas should always take it seriously. I’m sure there was a time when California was western, cowboy country, considered a safe bet. Just look at Arizona.

Ugh. You know I don’t even get surprised by this kind of stuff anymore...

This big environmental risks here are power outages due to wildfire or potential rolling outages in the summer (in part due to California closing nuclear plants and its resistance to peaker plants). For that I have a dual fuel inverter generator for running the fridge and chest freezer...

I have a friend in Philadelphia who often describes the buying habits of people there when a big storm rolls through; toilet paper and bread. :D Unfortunately, handling bad weather poorly seems to be the human condition.

Something like this? San Diegans can’t handle driving in rain, I can’t imagine the carnage if it ever snowed. ;)

What’s a winter?

To be fair, the US hasn’t had a military veteran as president since George W. Bush and we haven’t had a combat veteran since George H. W. Bush. Joe Biden got five student draft deferments. I think the bone spur thing gets bandied about a lot, as if there hasn’t been a dearth of quality veteran...

Ghoulish...

I think a lot of us would like that but the reality is that he’s always been an unconventional candidate and his style of shooting from the hip on social media has seemingly served him well. In spite of voting for him three times, I never thought he would win a first term, let alone come back...

It’s a tricky question. I suppose we won’t know until it’s happened and when it’s over. I think it would largely depend on which side won as well. If the government wins, the uprising will have been illegal, if the uprising wins, then it was justified. Ideally, simply having the second...

As Livingthedream said, to allow the citizenry to potentially overthrow a corrupt or tyrannical government. You seem to be suggesting we have reached that point without wanting to actually say it. I don't know why you’d be coy. Unless of course you’re suggesting a more personal application of...

Kicking someone in the testicles and making a joke about it are not the same thing. Words are not assault. And insult being a criminal offense, no matter who it is directed towards is preposterously antithetical to the principle of freedom of speech.

I know Germans aren’t famed for their sense of humor but I don’t see how you could interpret a comedian saying something about punching a trans “woman” in the balls as anything other than a joke. On the other hand, Germany is a country where one can be arrested for insulting a politician so the...