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LOL

 

Meanwhile, in Japan …

 

This is good analysis. Dahlia Lithwick is very good covering the Supremes.

 

Anyone who didn't think we had people in UKR was willfully blind. What we don't have is our military out in the field. They've got a team attached to the embassy that's trying to keep an eye on where the materiel is going, who also do some training I'd imagine. You can bet that there are contractors there who've hired teams of ex US military guys as cadre in the field training. Some of those teams resigned from our Army when the international force was formed and went on over. Wouldn't surprise me at all if some of them re-enlisted once they were back from being out in the field.

Sorta like they detached and went in as civilians semi-clandestinely.

 

Not willing to speculate that far, but I'll put it this way: Odds are exorbitantly high that we have surreptitious non-combatant trainers in country. By "non-combatant" I mean military and civilian contractors.

Erik Prince can talk all the political mess the wants, but I guarantee you his former Blackwater is getting a slice of the pie.

 

Impeaching Clarence is pissing in the wind. There aren't the votes.

There is one solution:

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I've been slaving away in the depths of my laboratory trying to figure why the GOP is dead set on bucking popular opinion on guns and abortion.

One is hubris: They think their margin is good in certain states no matter what. But another is more sinister: They think their local and national decisions will be frozen in time when the Coup happens.

 

Anyone who thinks we just send our latest military tech and weapons with only an instruction manual, yeah. Of course we have "people" over there. The guns and abortion stuff? Maybe once enough states make a potential Republican president mathematicallly impossible - perhaps. They still have a virtual lock on holding off a cloture vote in the Senate. Seems hard to believe states like SD, Nebraska, Iowa, and Missouri once had Dem Senators not too long ago.

 

And yet....

Abortion bans raise fears inside GOP about backlash in 2024

 

At least he sought an opinion from someone smarter than himself.

Trump says he asked child about best way to evacuate US assets from Afghanistan