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It's the best medical comedy since M*A*S*H, which is appropriate because it's also the best at giving you whiplash moving from comedy to tragedy since M*A*S*H.

Right? There are *lots* of really dumb guys in the Senate.

Seriously, though, what I've seen from Mullin is much more amoral and violent than stupid. We'll see.

Honestly he should (won't) consider that it could go badly enough to actually hurt his in Republican primaries going forward.

But it's also entirely possible that Trump has not actually talked to Mullin about this and is just ranting.

If he's confirmed (if) it will reduce the Senate majority by one until Oklahoma replaces him. Anyone know the process there?

Mullin would be a fool to give up a Senate sinecure in Oklahoma he could keep for the rest of his life to take a job in this White House where he will, at best, be an unpopular high-profile secretary doing a difficult job with, in ten months, a very hostile Congress. If he lasts that long.

It's extremely fun to tell those sorts of people that I'm a Universalist and don't believe anyone's going to hell, regardless of their activities here on Earth.

I mean I fully expect both. But how autonomous are those naval drones? They can't lurk for weeks or months without input can they?

Or air deployed. I mean they can't realistically just fly their regular aircraft out there but I am sure some creative Iranian engineers are working out to make drones that fly at low altitude then land and submerge.

You're probably right. Still unconscionable.

But this is not gonna help in the general, like at ALL, except maybe in saving a little money for the general.

Getting no opponent on the primary ballot? Yeah, probably. Very very hard to organize a write-in, and who's gonna want to be the Republican candidate this year, even in Montana?

For that sweet sweet Montana seat, I am willing to get pretty funky.

Fascinating! I mean, real ugly, too, but it also suggests weakness.

Which serves to further lock them out of power, because they're deranged.

It's certainly a rump party there.

Statewide they've done the same thing the Oregon party did- internally self-radicalized because none of them have to do any actual governing. That means the job is just angry posturing, and the more deranged, the better.

They aren't competitive in many races, but there's a solid third of the state that absolutely has the power to shut Dems out of the top two if the Dems fracture the field badly enough.

Pleasantly relieved that Crockett conceded and endorsed- was a little worried she wouldn't.

I'm sure some of the stans will take that as simultaneously a willing betrayal on her part and also that she's the victim of some CIA/Mossad op.

UPDATE (Texas):

GOP Primary: 1,316,431 / 56% = 2,350,770
Dem Primary: 1,454,396 /60% = 2,424,885

I'm seeing virtually no degradation 70k miles into mine.

Here's hoping the soup turns out!

But, to wind this up, bc OMG I HAD NO IDEA WHAT TIME IT IS 😬 & I have to finish getting ready for the Seder (!!!)—that's why a foreign country waging a genocidal war & protests agst that war on our college campuses are so entwined.

HAG SAMEACH TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE I HAVE TO GO CHECK THE SOUP.
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Suddenly feeling very lucky to be born January 3, 1988. Didn't realize I dodged a bullet until now.

Wait, that's not quite right. First WTC bombing was 1993. Was that blowback from supporting the Mujahideen? Or is that blowback from supporting Israel? It's difficult to determine which blowback is which.

Twenty years after the Americans started supporting the Mujahideen in Afghanistan, they still hadn't experienced any blowback.

gonna be honest, chat: it's looking to me like we're blowing Khamenei's head smoove off shortly after market close friday

hopefully i'm wrong on this one, but like. you don't drop a few dozen f-22s in israel unless you're planning It (last time we did was 4days before the june '25 strikes)

What does "easily canalized" mean in this contract?

You do absolutely need water to go with it, unlike Gu, but you should be hydrating anyway.

I had a college roommate, nationally ranked cross-country skier. Ate 10k-12k calories a day when in training. He swore by King-size Snickers for training runs.

I think there's too much civil society and strength in institutions in Iran for that to happen, but damn, if you bomb the institutions for long enough, you might be able to reduce the society back to warring strongmen.

Certainly, though we (not implying you) need to remember that a loss for that regime does not in any fashion mean a victory for us, for the Iranian people, or for whoever does take control next. Unless it just becomes a failed state like Somalia or Haiti.