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"Honey, someone's breaking in, call 811". --- "Don't you mean 911 ?" "No, 811, I'm going to need to dig a hole...."

Ukraine wouldn't have to go the super resource intensive uranium route that Iran does. They have the type of research reactors that can produce weapons grade plutonium right now. Iran has not (and will not) be allowed to build them. Commercial power reactors generally can't produce weapons...

The census only counts residents. People who are just in the US temporarily, like tourists aren't counted. So it makes perfect sense not to count people who are about to be deported....

All of that stuff is local. No such thing as "friendly" or "unfriendly" states, just counties. You're better off in a friendly county in NY than an unfriendly one in TX or FL. And that's how you know you don't have a real justice system. When it matters more who is prosecuting than it does...

What we need is to drastically reduce their jurisdiction. Federal law enforcement's jurisdiction should be *only* government employees and foreign threats. They should be going after corrupt state and federal actors, and things like international terrorism. Any crimes committed by private...

It's because of the secrecy. By their nature, those agencies need to operate in secret. That makes proper oversight *very* difficult. And then the claims of "national security" are more often used to cover up embarrassment, corruption, or incompetence than they are actual national secrets...

Can't be residents if they're not legal. Tourists don't get counted in the census.

For low ranking enlisted, they're probably right about the risk. I've known plenty of those guys, and they'll get in trouble with basically anything. Officers at least should have a sidearm as part of their uniform IMHO. Higher rank enlisted should probably be allowed to carry personal...

We need an intelligence agency. We do not need that one. It's beyond reform. Needs to be burned to the ground and a brand new one built from scratch. Maybe some low level agents can be retained, but nobody in management higher than a 1st level supervisor.

Yes. They may occasionally do some good work in America's best interests, but it's absolutely overshadowed by the danger they present to America.

I feel like there's a lot of redundancy in that name. "NY City department of education" is basically just 3 different ways of saying "corrupt". Might as well have called it the cheating corrupt grifters. Or just "corruption corruption corruption".

Ukraine made most of the nuclear weapons for the Soviet union. And your attitude that Russia is the rightful successor is the problem. They may have accepted (and been granted by the other states) certain economic obligations and and assets, but that doesn't make them the legal successor...

Ukraine has sufficient technical and industrial ability, they could probably develop their own nuclear weapons pretty quickly. Since basically everyone else has pulled out of the Budapest memorandum, and Ukraine *was* a nuclear power when the non-proliferation treaty was signed (and they...

Honestly, arresting the janitor would make these the most productive congressional hearings this century.

Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time.

It was a major mistake for the federal government to sell any land in DC to anyone. I am strongly against the use of eminent domain, but if there was ever a case for it, it's those DC neighborhoods.

And Russia has been warned over and over than their imperialist activities against their neighbors are unacceptable to the west. So if Europe or NATO really get involved, then they have nobody to blame but themselves.

There should be no residential neighborhoods in DC at all. The only people living there should be federal employees. It's meant to be a federal district for government only that's independent of any state, not a really tiny state.

We have Hollywood to blame for the "nuclear war will make the world uninhabitable" fallacy. It doesn't. The trick with radiation is that if it's intense, then it's short lived, and if it's long duration, then it's not very intense. A full scale nuclear exchange would undoubtedly result in...

Put it on PPV.

And almost all of that territory is now post Soviet Russia. But, it's the almost that we're discussing. You know, Mongolia used to cover a ton of what is today Russia. How many years warning do they need to give before they just get to take it back ?

You mean if China was doing exactly what they're doing now in Canada and half the college campuses in the US ? You think we'd invade Mexico ? Now, I can see us pulling some CIA backdoor bay of pigs bullshit, but what Russia has done is the equivalent of sending in a full on USMC amphibious...

I doubt the Trump order actually changed any operational details of any SSBNs. I expect it just made some public that are normally highly classified. It's the equivalent of the guy pulling back his suit jacked to show his CCW. So, some more detail. While we have 18 Ohios currently...

This isnt the 19th century. With enough fuck around Russia could cease to exist in short order. A single Ohio class SSBN could reduce the entire population of Russia to less than a million people in about 20 minutes. Trump ordered 2 of them to head up there last week. We have 18 of them...

Yes, they threatened to execute the land grab for 30 years, then finally did it. That doesn't make it any less of a land grab. I understand *why* they wanted Ukraine. The land they have invaded is actually very valuable, unlike most of Russia that's just a frozen shithole. Eventually NATO is...

Ukraine would have called quits anytime in the last 3 years if Russia allowed them to. This whole thing is entirely Russia's idea. You can't unilaterally end a war without unconditional surrender. That's not happening.

By that logic you could say Russia will lose because they will quit too. Unless you set some specific victory condition, "who won" is just a semantic argument.

NATO wanted to court those countries to *join*. You know what the difference is, right ? It's like the difference between sex and rape. It all comes down to consent. You are saying "NATO was trying to wine and dine the girl Putin had had his eye on, so he clubbed her over the head and...

Well, what else do you call letting them invade and conquer 3 1/2 neighboring countries.

What does that mean, giving up what ? You think Russia is going to annex all of Ukraine ? The territory they occupy now ? More ? Less ?

It's not even power for power's sake. It's straight up greed. They siphon off money from western aid, the accept money from Iran to stir up trouble, and they live high on the hog off the money in Qatar. They're basically your garden variety organized crime bosses, they're just selling the...

So, why the fuck did he invade ? He's ridiculously outclassed by NATO, who are right on his doorstep. Nothing he could have hoped to do in Ukraine could have changed that. None of that rhetoric passes even a basic sanity check. No, the only reasonable explanation for the invasion was a...

What does "winning" look like for Russia in your estimation?

The government should have *no* secrets outside the DOJ, DOD and the intelligence agencies. Every thing they do should be published in real time on the web for any concerned citizen or group to comb through. No exemptions, not for "personnel matters", not for anything. And with the technology...

Hamas leadership has only one real mission, and that is exploiting the Palestinian people for their own personal advancement. Their 2 primary tools for this are selling them out as propaganda tools and cannon fodder for Iran, and causing as much suffering among them as they can to pander to the...

Russia has about 4300 warheads, but some of those are tactical and not strategic, and aren’t suitable for the sort of strike we are discussing. And even the warheads that *are* a strategic type, they do not have delivery mechanisms for all of them. Most are sitting stockpiled, not mounted in a...

If we really believed Putin is going to start a nuclear war over losing some material in Ukraine, then the only answer is to eliminate his entire nuclear arsenal immediately. We'd lose a few cities, but that is the least damage that's possible in that circumstance. So, if you really believe...

Trump wants the international respect ending that war woild garner. His ego is legendary, but in many ways justified. That would certainly be a major feather in his cap. His MO is negotiating deals. He has both carrots and sticks he can use to bring Zelensky to the table, for Putin, it's...

Repeat after me. "Russia is not a superpower". Would Poland be justified invading Belarus because they want a "buffer zone" against Russia ? If not, then why would Russia be justified in invading Ukraine ? Bottom line, NATO will not accept Russia in their border in Ukraine, and unlike...

If he keeps going he may find out. Do you think NATO will be OK with Russians on *their* doorstep ? The difference is that NATO expands by getting countries to beg to be allowed to join. Russia invades and keeps killing people until they are in control. They are not the same.

We suggested that a highly irregular election that was won by a small margin in a couple of swing states was stolen and they lost their shit. But, when they lost a normal election decided by a wide margin and they lost every swing state, it must be stolen.

Then almost nobody is.

Wouldn't matter if he was doused with 1 gallon or 5. Much less than a gallon would soak into his clothes, the rest would form a puddle on the floor that I presume he would very quickly exit.

A 5 gallon pail could be a container of gasoline. It can also be dumped on someone very quickly. Especially if you had a lid on it for transport, then loosened it before actually going into the office.

You would be surprised how much evil good people will participate in if they are given the right excuses and illusions of authority.

Destruction of evidence charges should be forthcoming. Should be. Along with a litany of related charges, from conspiracy related ones to those about perverting the course of justice.

I honestly believe that most of the people working in those agencies are good people with honest intentions. But the way the systems are compartmentalized they are designed for a small number of malevolent actors to keep the whole thing running. Just like the Nazi death machine. It took tens...

Maybe not everyone at the bureau is part of the deep state ? Someone doesn't have the balls to go full whistle blower, but does have enough to preserve the evidence for later ?

That is absolutely fucking huge.