The Old Hack

The crowd seemed pretty dispirited too if that video I just left in the Politics thread is any indication.

Speaking of balloons. Trump's triumphalistic parade just went down like a lead balloon. In fact, maybe a better word would be 'fiascolistic.' Sparse crowds, lack of enthusiasm, poorly disciplined marching -- not laying that one at the feet of the hapless soldiers, they weren't even trained for it -- though some of it might have been malicious compliance. I hope it was. A viral clip from the fiascorade: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1R5q7hbv7qI

I thought cope cages were what Putin apologists live in.

One of the channels I follow regularly suggested this was likely the case. Covering everything with a fine teeth comb is extremely resource intensive. This train thing is even worse because bases could at least hypothetically be set up with a defense grid that would make it harder for drone attacks to penetrate. (Something better than covering the wings of the planes with old tires anyway.) A train on the other hand is harder to create a tight defence for. Speaking of the tires, some friends of mine got into an argument about what kinds of tires would do best. They seemed divided between Goodyear and Firestone. I was not convinced that the brand would have made much of a difference.

Presumably he believes he can just mow them down.

I thought Nut was one of your goddesses? https://egyptianmuseum.org/deities-nut

...I do not even know where to BEGIN with Hegseth. He is utterly unfit for his position in every possible way. During any other administration having ONE security breach of the kind he has had would have been career ending. He has so far had two that we know of. He is deeply unserious and should never even have been considered for the job. Then again they put RFK in charge of health services, so what do I know.

Good God! I am glad you weren't hurt.

I would say another big part was named Robert McNamara. I don't know, he might have been a good businessman. But a military genius he wasn't. What possessed the man to draft mentally retarded young men and thrust them into a war they were incapable of understanding, much less fighting?

I am sure that won't matter much. I mean, who needs to be able to see what you and the enemy are doing? Anyway if it is that bad, I am sure they can find a PE-8 in storage somewhere to use as a substitute until they can build a new one. To be fair, the Russians don't really have much in the way of credibility left anyway. I am sure that is not causing any morale issues.

Seems like Putin just had a bad day. An Ukrainian surprise drone attack just smashed a lot of Russian strategic bombing planes, reducing their strategic bombing capacity by 25% or possibly as much as 33%. It seems they have also destroyed the Russian equivalent of an AWACS. An AWACS is cheap, fast and easy to replace, right?

On the plus side, the demented orange howler baboon has just earned himself a new nickname. TACO. Trump Always Chickens Out.

In deflagrante delicto, so to speak?

Heracleia, getting drunk like you wouldn't believe. I still feel twinges from the blinding hangover I woke up with three days later.

So, at the end of last week the deranged orange howler baboon threw a hissy fit because Greenland made a thirty year deal with a French company for mining rights to some of the minerals that he wanted. A deal he could have had just by asking politely for it at any point before he started talking about his hostile takeover of Greenland. As a result of said hissy fit, he announced a fifty percent tariff on all of EU starting June 1st. The EU responded by saying that unless he returned to his original deadline of July 9th, there would be no further trade talks. He immediately folded and cancelled his sudden tariff change. That man is absolutely the weakest, pettiest, most cowardly and incompetent bungling imbecile to ever disgrace the Oval Office. And that is before mentioning his ham-handed disregard of the Constitution and the rights of the People of the United States. I fear for all my friends and family there, not to mention all LGBTQI* people in the US.