I’m… honestly both in awe and aghast at how fucking blatant the regime is being about it. They’ve literally shut down the team that is in charge of addressing and categorizing security threats to the US originating from Iran immediately before starting a fucking war with Iran. Like… I just… what the actual fuck. I can’t even.

Between this and the documents leaked about their plans for the election, the intent couldn’t be more obvious if they put it on a fucking billboard. I hate that it comes down to such imbecilically stupid and petty US political bullshit like that, and that it’s killing so many people and fucking up so may other parts of the world… but seriously, I really think that was a massive part of their rationale here. It’s a distraction (operation Epstein fury), combined with creating an extremely obvious opening for an asymmetrical/terroristic threat that will be used as a justification for removing the electoral process. That’s the plan.

I made a rather detailed comment on this topic yesterday

I think the point being made is that the number is so absurdly large that some might think it was a darkly humorous parody/joke article

Additionally, providing a non-paywalled archive link is appreciated by many, and is easy to do.

They have a broad selection

This… kinda sounds like fair play, under the circumstances? And I’m no fan of Russia. But then again I’m no fan of the orange regime, either.

“When you lose money for individual consumers — i.e. taxpayers and citizens — people in government get very, very upset. Regulators get very, very upset,” Blankfein said.

Normally… yeah. Under this regime? I genuinely doubt they’d give a single fuck.

I’m nursing a 23 year old VW along. 1.8T 5mt Jetta; it’s still fun to drive, though I really do need to go through it when I have time and replace all the ancient rubber components. But it still runs fine. Fantastic city car too, because it’s easy to park because it’s so small, and old enough that I don’t really care if someone bumps into it a little bit.

You’ve clearly never experienced the jerky counter at Buc-ee’s.

More seriously: if you happen to be in Texas, and you’re driving somewhere, and you go by one, it’s amusing to check out. And the jerky selection is bonkers, and they make it all, so it’s super fresh and great quality. But yeah, overall, it’s a bit hilariously overblown. The cult following is a bit much.

Hey so uh, Orban, here’s a thought, you fucking shitass: maybe don’t order your people to literally kidnap Ukrainian government employees and rob them of the better part of $100M, and we wouldn’t need to have this discussion.

“Unexpectedly” lmao okay sure

Honestly, anyone who voted for orangeboi in 2024 more than deserves every single negative ramification of that election.

That’s very literally what I’m pointing out…

No, because orangeboi is just a useful idiot. The people driving this are much more committed.

Not sure, but iirc Wikipedia also very recently discovered and looked into that, and subsequently banned archive.* from being a source.

I have been a habitual user of archive.* for years now, but be warned that it was recently discovered that they were actually altering archive copies subtly in many cases.

Shutting down the department whose job it is to watch for that sort of thing in the US was such an inspired idea.

/s

Seriously: I’m… honestly both in awe and aghast at how fucking blatant the regime is being about it. They’ve literally shut down the team that is in charge of addressing and categorizing security threats to the US originating from Iran immediately before starting a fucking war with Iran. Like… I just… what the actual fuck. I can’t even.

Between this and the documents leaked about their plans for the election, the intent couldn’t be more obvious if they put it on a fucking billboard. I hate that it comes down to such imbecilically stupid and petty US political bullshit like that, and that it’s killing so many people and fucking up so may other parts of the world… but seriously, I really think that was a massive part of their rationale here. It’s a distraction (operation Epstein fury), combined with creating an extremely obvious opening for an asymmetrical/terroristic threat that will be used as a justification for removing the electoral process. That’s the plan.