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Trump-Zelenskyy feud escalates as Republicans demand envoy’s removal
Zelenskyy’s visit to Pennsylvania weapons factory upsets speaker as Trump continues attacks on Ukrainian president
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@f800gecko @SearingTruth @Free_Press Yes, well, always bear in mind how dumb the average person is, and bear in mind that half the population is even dumber than that. (thank you George Carlin, and many others, and the brutal truth of simple arithmetic. Hahaha.)

However, you do bring up an interesting thing that only applies in the United States today. It also applied in Germany in the 1920s and 30s. USians are brought up to think they are special. I'm old and remember this well from my childhood. "You're really smart. You can grow up to be President someday." BULLSHIT!

300 million to one chance of becoming president. Nobody in their right mind ought to say this to a child. But it was said to me more than once. It's insane to say this to a child. But perfectly normal in the USA.

Living here in West Virginia, I can say that a lot of people here feel they are entitled to be rich and powerful because they were born in the USA. To them, that's what it means to be born in the USA. And, of course, all of them are disappointed, disillusioned, and ANGRY. This anger is what powers MAGA. "I ought to be rich and powerful. I'm not, so it's someone's fault. Someone has messed with the "USA Game" and screwed me out of being rich. Being rich is my RIGHT as an American". This is what they believe. And I'm not surprised, given the crock of shit I was fed since childhood.

@Free_Press Welp, maybe we should authorize Ukraine to use our weapons to balance the scales. Have we given them Mavericks? An F-16 armed with Mavericks missiles can take out a nuclear power plant. A Maverick can penetrate the containment dome. It's been done before. And I know the guy who designed the warhead. ;-)

Here's 3 pounds of molten copper coming at you at 30,000 feet per second (not a typo). As Data said, "Assimilate this." (Largest shaped charge ever designed)

But the dome is six foot thick concrete, reinforced with 3-inch thick rebar! Yes. Yes it is. Or, well, it was.

@SearingTruth @Free_Press True. But throughout history there have been psychopaths who wish to dominate others at any cost. Some of them have powerful charisma and are able to motivate masses of people to do their bidding. They don't care about the human species, they care about personal pleasure and aggrandizement.

This is the problem that keeps cropping up. Most people want to just live their lives, raise their children, avoid problems. But there are the Genghis Khans, Alexander the Greats, Adolf Hitlers -- single, rare, special individuals, that have other plans and have the innate skills to make them happen, at the cost of millions of lives that they don't care about.

This is the problem.

"In Ukraine, not only all thermal power plants were destroyed, but also almost all hydroelectric power plants"
- President Zelensky at UN General Assembly

More from the Ukrainian President's statements:

Millions of people may be left without heat in winter.

Russian Federation is preparing attacks on our nuclear reactors to disconnect them from the energy supply system.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO

"Surge Threat: There is a danger of catastrophic and unsurvivable storm surge for Apalachee Bay. Storm surge may begin to arrive as early as late Wednesday night ahead of the winds. This forecast, if realized, is a nightmare surge scenario for Apalachee Bay. Please, please, please take any evacuation orders seriously!"

(h/t @_L1vY_ )
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The fact that this question is being asked At ALL is a clue that something is seriously wrong here. Nobody should be asking this question about someone who was executed in the USA. And this is just one of the reasons the death penalty is a bad idea.

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@Free_Press More saber rattling. Hahaha.

Dear Mr. Putin, so proud of Russia's "glorious" history (I assume). Do you really want to go down in history as the man who turned Mother Russia into an uninhabitable sea of radioactive molten sand? Never to exist again. Really?

@Free_Press Well, yes. Russia has been run like a Mafia for over 100 years. That's just a fact.

@NunavutBirder I'm so envious I have no words for it. I hope you enjoy it as much as I would.

“May God have mercy on us all.”

—@joyannreid, on Marcellus Williams, an innocent man whom the state of Missouri executed tonight

Missouri Governor Michael Parson—you and the five fascists on the U.S. Supreme Court have blood on your hands

#MarcellusWilliams

When the very elderly become bedridden, their already fragile skin is prone to bedsores, even with the utmost attention to frequently turning their bodies to alleviate pressure. They must have other people clean and feed them.

I say this in recognition of the now heroic will to live long enough to cast his one, last vote for Kamala Harris, not to “score” some centennial goal.

That is the character of Jimmy Carter.

#USpol #HarrisWalz2024

@RickiTarr

... the child's father is in construction and his mother is a genius

@DemocracyMattersALot I think what they're really afraid of, and should be afraid of, is the regime in Russia collapsing suddenly and the truth about GOP / Russian collaboration falling into the FBI's hands.

@HopelessDemigod Fewer Asians? Hmm. Has he looked at the authors of science and engineering papers in this country for the past 25 years as I have? It's rare to find a European surname. Let that sink in.

@heidilifeldman Very nice. In fact, it's wicked good. Cuts through to what's really going on.

Had a discussion here in pure red West Virginia with an older woman who's a fan of Trump. She also respects me highly. I laid out fact, after fact, after fact. In the end, "Well, I'm never voting for a woman for president."

Tetris turned 40 in 2024.

Feel free to boost this if you are older than Tetris.

#Tetris #RetroGaming #OldGamer #VideoGames #Tetris40

--Hola papi !
--Hola campeón tanto tiempo!!, como esta tu esposa y los guilas?
--bien bien por dicha...eh papí vieras que descubri un nido de zompopas detras de la casa... usted sabe como puedo hacer para que se vayan?
--pues... que te dire... yo creo que primero te vas y tu familia que ellas!!

Durante tres días, los científicos bombearon 10 toneladas de cemento a un hormiguero abandonado. Después de semanas de excavación, se revela la intrincada e impresionante estructura de la colonia.

The morality police in Afghanistan are starting to come after men now, requiring long beards, mosque attendance, imposing clothing standards, and banning looking at women. Suddenly some guys are wondering why they didn't say something when the fanatical religious leadership was busy crushing womens' rights. "First they came for the ..."

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