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re: Congo agrees to take 3rd country deportees from US, Reuters says

Posted by LakeCharles on 4/5/26 at 7:36 pm to TigerAxeOK

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Put a Thompson gun in their hands and tell them to spend 24 months helping defend them from Congolese rebels to earn their citizenship. Win/win.

FIFY

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re: Are you excited for bridge and power plant day?

Posted by LakeCharles on 4/5/26 at 7:31 pm to T1gerNate

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I’m frickin done. Anyone who doesn’t believe me can read my post history and kind pro-Trump posts. I’m done with Trump’s retarded arse. He doesn’t need our votes anymore but I’m going to do everything I can to be sure no one in this administration ever gets elected again.

So, where did he touch you? Why don't you let things play out before you get all bent over what you think is going on. Keep in mind, Trump was impeached twice, had his home raided, had the NSA and FBI make shite up about him, years and years of lawfare, and now members of the opposing party are publicly threatening his children. If you think this shite is going to slide while he has the power to do something about it, you are fricking nuts. All of his life, Trump has had the reputation of being a good and decent man. A good and decent man that always gets even when someone fricks him over, and no one has been fricked over like Trump in the last 10 years.

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re: The result of not passing the SAVE ACT.

Posted by LakeCharles on 4/5/26 at 5:18 pm to UtahCajun

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I will leave for greener pastures.

Where, exactly would that be? Poland? Russia? Bulgaria?

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re: What if Japan had come out on top in WW2

Posted by LakeCharles on 4/5/26 at 5:14 pm to lake chuck fan

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The Japanese were a brutally cruel culture. We can't even imagine...

Before my wife came here from China, I hung out with a bunch of Chinese visiting scholars that attended the university near me and had several as room mates after my divorce. If I remember correctly, the have a remembrance day on 11/11 I had read about Nanjing in WWII before, but they post some photos from the time on WeChat. I will never forget the photo of the woman that had been raped, her hips broken and she is sitting on the ground with her legs twisted behind her and her belly has been cut open with her guts spilled. She was still alive, just sitting there waiting for death. We should have used more nukes.

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re: Are you excited for bridge and power plant day?

Posted by LakeCharles on 4/5/26 at 2:01 pm to Powerman

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You have some cartoonish view of the world to think we're just going to force this to happen

Dude. He has a tool box. The biggest and best tool box if the entire world. I named one of the tools he has, the biggest tool. Negotiations are a tool. Tariffs are a tool. Embargoes are a tool. F35s are a tool. Arming the citizens of Iran are a tool. Somewhere between now (where you do nothing but bitch about the use of the current tools) and the biggest tool, he will get what he wants. Work = force X time. Work is what Trump has as his goal. Force and time WILL = Work in the end, but they are both generally controlled by the Iranian government. Both will increase until Work is achieved. I would ask if you were stupid, but having read your posts for a decade, I already know.

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re: Are you excited for bridge and power plant day?

Posted by LakeCharles on 4/5/26 at 12:35 pm to Powerman

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If he has to resort to that extreme it means he creates a massive humanitarian crisis and we still get 0 benefit from it.

If Iran is not there, it would open the strait, wouldn't it? I said he had the ability, not the desire to level Iran. Somewhere between where we are now, and lowering the elevation of Iran, he gets what he wants. Maybe unconditional surrender and documents showing Iran's participation in the stealing of the 2020 election?

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re: Are you excited for bridge and power plant day?

Posted by LakeCharles on 4/5/26 at 12:13 pm to Powerman

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nd here is the problem Trump faces...he doesn't seem to have the ability to force it open military and he sucks way more than you think at making deals...which is why he is resorting to blowing things up because he even knows he is a shite deal maker.

Stupidest post ever. Even for you. Militarily, he has the ability to reduce the mean elevation of the entire country by a yard (that's 1 meter for communists like you). He WILL get what he wants. It's just a matter of time and how much punishment Iran is willing to take before relenting.

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re: Are you excited for bridge and power plant day?

Posted by LakeCharles on 4/5/26 at 11:30 am to Lsut81

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If you're happy spending an extra few hundred dollars a month plus 200B+ in your tax dollars going to support whatever the frick we are doing over there, then kudos to you.

Right now what we are doing is just fighting through the best drones and missiles that pallets of cash can buy. Hopefully, this will end before we would have to come up against the equipment that we used to OWN that was left in the next failed state over.

A hundred years ago, the fricks you people elected would have been hung for treason. You should be proud.

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re: Tucker - Trump's speech announced the end of the global American empire.

Posted by LakeCharles on 4/3/26 at 12:09 pm to Flats

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- I have zero faith that, even if Iran goes completely into the shitter, we won't repeat the same actions in another 20 years. Especially if we have a cult of personality leading the charge.

frick. If we only could have rallied around desantis, this would not be a problem. Right?

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re: F-15 reportedly shot down in western Iran

Posted by LakeCharles on 4/3/26 at 11:27 am to RolltidePA

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You don't seem to understand the definition of air superiority. Air superiority is simply a favorable position. Air supremacy means you can conduct operations without interference.

You will find that his lack of understanding about this subject extends to every other subject. Being so utterly ignorant on such a broad range of topics and then being able to create a deeply held belief based on that lack of knowledge is amazing. It's really quite an accomplishment.

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re: Arrest in special election won by Dem in Fl...

Posted by LakeCharles on 3/29/26 at 1:41 pm to beaux duke

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how easy do you think it is to correctly reprogram an encrypted key?
you watch too much csi

I think it is much easier than you think it is. You don't know enough hackers.

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re: 11x increase in shingles after shingles shot for those 65 & older.

Posted by LakeCharles on 3/29/26 at 11:10 am to HagaDaga

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I think people taking the same attitude with this as the COVID "vaccine" may regret not taking shingles seriously.

What I was saying is that without breaking the group up into covid vaccinated vs. non covid vaccinated you can not even ask for the truth in the data that was taken. Maybe it was 22% of the covid vaccinated that has shingles activation and none of the non covid vaccinated, or the other way around. The whole point of a study is to gain meaningful knowledge and to do this you either need exactly matched groups or enough data about the participants to see what secondary effects are in play, if any. I am not against the shingles vaccine, I am against poor science.

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re: 11x increase in shingles after shingles shot for those 65 & older.

Posted by LakeCharles on 3/29/26 at 9:22 am to Crimson Wraith

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11x increase in shingles after shingles shot for those 65 & older.

Since we know that the covid vaccine damages the immune system, all studies need to be broken into covid vaccinated and non-vaccinated groups to make any sense. As someone that does science for a living, I hate stupid science that does not account for known variables.

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re: Things the Republican Party does NOT do with the money we give to them...

Posted by LakeCharles on 3/28/26 at 11:11 pm to Zachary

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Zero response from them... even though they asked me if something was wrong.

It's a ploy from them to try to make you think they respect you enough to try to fix an issue that you have with them. With what I am seeing from the Senate, frick em. I try to give to individual candidates, but once through the primary, I just get winred links for donations. That's how they got my email and phone number.to spam me. I went to the RNC site and sent a message to have my email and phone number removed from their records. No reply and I still get stuff all the time. I don't know if the President or Don Jr. have actually sent me an email because I delete everything I get from "them" because it isn't them. I feel a little bad because I wanted to help in 2024 but I won't support an organization that behaves this way and (with a few exceptions) are completely useless when they are in office. I can put my money to better use - like my HMMWV needs a new power steering hose and a pine tree air freshener.

So, I will give to primary candidates if they are not incumbents. We have recently moved back to South Dakota and really look forward to supporting a non-incumbent for Senator in 2028. We, as the American people need to put a stake through the heart of the uniparty.

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re: Things the Republican Party does NOT do with the money we give to them...

Posted by LakeCharles on 3/28/26 at 8:55 pm to Zachary

Things the RNC DOES do with your money -

Endlessly spam your in box with email asking for money from an endless set of email addresses so you can't block them.

Same for text messages.

If they have money for this and clearly don't value their base enough to not piss them off, they don't need my money.

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re: AI Data centers

Posted by LakeCharles on 3/28/26 at 7:19 pm to BoKnowsAUOne

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4 million s.f is less than 100 acres.

Please stop the math stuff. It is unfair to use against a "journalist".

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re: Barksdale AFB reports on drones

Posted by LakeCharles on 3/22/26 at 7:53 pm to LSURoss

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Off the top of my head I'd say that it would be expensive to train the folks to use that type of tech.

How much does a fighter cost? 10 fighters? Remember the Russian planes taken out by drones near Ukraine? Might be wise to head off shite like that here.

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re: Trump: ‘Robert Mueller just died. Good, I’m glad he’s dead.’

Posted by LakeCharles on 3/21/26 at 8:35 pm to 4quartaBamaball

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Trump is going to have to answer for that girls school when his time comes.

And you are going to have to answer for wasting the use of BOTH the brain cells that he gifted you with.

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re: Do you consider yourself a Trump die hard?

Posted by LakeCharles on 3/21/26 at 4:52 pm to Deuces

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They cry and complain about every bad play and don’t let things work out.

Like a bunch of teenage girls.

Many of them are. Or desantis bros. That fricker broke many here. It's OK to test the water, politically. Knowing Trump's support, he should have just put his name out to see what level of support he would have for 2028, not an all out competition for something he never had a chance for. Poor judgement and support from the largest (and loudest) collection of assholes I have ever seen in one place. Good times. It will take hearing the literal voice of God say "My desire is for you to vote for desantis" for me to vote for him in the future.

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re: John Kennedy is now moving to put the SAVE America Act as RECONCILIATION, 51 votes to pass

Posted by LakeCharles on 3/19/26 at 7:12 am to Major Dutch Schaefer

My prediction - just another act in the main ring of the bread and circus, circus. "Sorry, we tried really hard". If they wanted elections that weren’t rigged, we would have elections that aren't rigged. They don't want to take a chance of being thrown off the grift train. Call me cynical, but I have seen this shite over and over and over. Whoever actually runs the world has a sense of humor, getting us to believe any of these people are worthy of their position or capable of making the decisions they pretend to make.

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