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re: Trump going in dry on Harvard

Posted by Leopold on 5/22/25 at 2:53 pm
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We need to break the back of the academy. Harvard and the rest of the elite schools need to be sued into oblivion.


By all means.

Can’t wait to sue’’em with lawyers who graduated from Tennessee Tech.

BTW, is Yale exempt because Vance went there?

re: Trump going in dry on Harvard

Posted by Leopold on 5/22/25 at 2:47 pm
Oh yeah, that’s gonna work
It is agreed across the American political landscape that China is our biggest political rival. That isn't the issue.

The issue is what to do about them.

What to do about a possible dangerous but dying adversary that may find the need to lash out in either a last-ditch attempt at power or perhaps just a way to distract its own citizenry from their problems.

What to do about a country that large parts of your economy are attached to, even if we aren't dependent on them as a whole. No, we don't need China, but when you have a company like Apple who has stupidly bet the house on their supply chain and still has almost endless amounts of cash lying around, then there's going to be political issues when dealing with China.

What to do with China's frenemy, Russia, who's invasion into the Ukraine not only plays into China's plans as a way to disrupt an American led-world order but also as a way to better understand the bet they make when the go for Taiwan.

What to do about with our allies when there's currently a massive disagreement over priorities with some of them openly talking to China because of the change in direction with the new administration.

So only a few outliers believe that China is not our primary geopolitical rival. We just need to come up with an overall strategy on how to deal with them.

America’s Enemies Need To Learn

Posted by Leopold on 5/16/25 at 11:30 am
Russia, China,North Korea, Iran and anyone else who wants to start a fight in an American lead world order needs to be taught the consequences of their actions.

Russia picked a fight in Ukraine to take on American leadership without having to fight America directly. They couldn’t take us on straight up so they tried to take over the Ukraine and then go up against NATO, but the Ukraine wasn’t going along with that plan and now there’s a massive war going on that’s killing millions and screwing over people all around the world.

Russia and its murderous midget leader need to go back home crying for their mother and we need China, Iran and the lot to see it . We need them to know beyond a shadow of a doubt that if they attempt to maneuver on our leadership and start stupid wars in an attempt to undermine American dominance they get their throats cut after their severed balls are placed in their hands. We need to send a message, otherwise China and the rest of them start getting ideas.

Kick Russia and Vlad’s teeth out make damn sure the others see it.

No fool would agree to the terms Putin has demanded, which go far beyond territorial.

Russia’s insistence on 80k man military, no peacekeeping troops, and other ways to neuter Ukraine’:are clear signs that Russia plans to continue their war against Ukraine long term, so that makes their terms non-starters.

We need to put more pressure on Putin, that is the only way to bring this to a close . Ukraine has offered to buy weapons from us, we should be selling them everything they want and dumping old weapons on them for not only our own strategic interest but financial gain as well.

That is the fastest way to bring this war to a close.
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Really? US General NATO Commander says different


Yeah, saw that. Cavoli's great, isn't he?

But building up and replacing trained, military-age soldiers with older, untrained conscripts they are just going to run at machine guns at 1200+ per day isn't going to adequately replace soldiers, even half as many, who know their job and are capable of working across branches and job assignments, or provide competent on-the-ground managers that you can build an actual team around.

Replacing Soviet artillery rounds with North Korean, or tanks built in the past 30 years with tanks build 50 or 60 (or 70) years ago, or Russian-built missiles with Iranian built missiles, isn't going to make things any better.

I think Cavoli would agree with me on this. Of course, Cavoli's job is to worry about things like this, and it's clear that he's thinking about it, so it's not like it's a small thing that the Russians continue to expand when they are already in a major war, but any thoughts that things are going to get better for the Russians any time soon is wrong - I'd bet a full paycheck on that.

Of course, if you disagree, we an put a wager on it. It will probably take a few years to get an answer, but such is life.....


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You see that same type of post in the OT Ukraine Bros thread. They will never admit even after the NYT article said in detail NATO funded with hundreds of Billions of dollars Equipment,Planning, Surveillance,Weapons Systems, Artillery, Fire Control. With all that support Ukraine should have been in Crimea at the end of 2023


No, I've stated that we have absolutely - and smartly - given the Ukrainians billions of dollars of aid leading up to this war. Here, I'll help you:

Leopold says that The United States, under the guidance of both the Trump and the Biden administrations, gave billions of dollars of aid before this war began.

But even with that that aid the Russians had an incredible advantage over the Ukranians:



Russia Dwarfs Ukrainian Military Resources

Our aid hasn't changed that given the sheer numbers of equipment the Russians had before the war, especially since so much of their current military power and, thusly, strategy is built around the size of their population over Ukraine. Our aid doesn't give the Ukrainians any more citizens to draw from, while Russia uses theirs as cannon fodder.

The Russians had an exponentially greater military going into this war. Their greed, stupidity, and laziness has neutralized that.
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What the hell are we doing here people?

Several years into this war that everyone knows Russia will win if left to die on the vine. We want peace, for Russia to stop the invasion and to maybe even give back some land - but here we are calling the Russian leader short and scared, while cheering on the Ukraine leader calling the Russian leader scared.



No. The Ukrainians know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the Russians are coming to take their land, shoot their men, rape their women, and kidnap and 're-educated' their own children. The horror stories coming out of Ukraine, even coming from the Russians themselves, confirm this. So, there is no way the Ukrainians are going to give up.

Combine this with the overwhelming incompetence and stupidity of the Russian military and this means this war is going on for years to come. The Russians can't do combined arms, have no NCO corps, have lost the technical and material edge the once had, have fallen behind in drone technology and tactics, and their own leadership is being taken to the woodshed by the Ukrainians. Their morale sucks, their economy sucks, their leadership sucks, and this is all just the beginning of the criticism.

So, even if every country on the planet turned their back on the Ukrainians this war is going to continue and become ever bloodier. Honestly, I'll bet anyone here an avatar bet that Russia falls out before the Ukraine, either because of a coup against Putin, or a popular uprising, or the Russian economy completely falling apart, or whatever. But Ukraine is going to outlast them.

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You don’t have to pick sides here to see that Zelensky’s behavior does not align with what he says he wants


Zelensky's, and the whole of the Ukranian people, behavior is 100% in synch with what say they want - they want the Russians out. They don't use abstract ideas and statement about 'peace,' they want the invading, raping, killing, kidnapping army that Russia is, gone.
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In this post I learned that Leopold felt that Russia had a massive material advantage over the combined forces of all of Nato going into the war.


No. You learned that Leopold knew that Russia had a massive material advantage over Ukraine going into this war.
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"If you stay on this trajectory, you're going to have less qualified people who are willing to make the extreme sacrifice to run for Congress," Johnson warned


Sacrifice?

Less Qualified?!

You're the most powerful governing body on the planet you lying frick! You're literally immune from most laws, get your name written into history, and already notorious for the abuse of power while achieving nothing. A few hundred thousand dollars, even millions, doesn't replace what you people get in return.

And have you seen the qualifications of our governing body, and their relationship to legitimate Subject Matter Experts?

You have people who have no military experience, and some with no appropriate management experience, starting, running, and losing wars.

You bring in people who have absolutely no credentials in the fields they are to oversee and who refuse to listen to individuals who have spent their lives in service of not only others but to the fields that are vital for the advancement of civilizations, thus making it ripe for corruption, incompetence, and mismanagement. Then, when the problems come, you use your pulpits to destroy the reputations of the very people who warned against your actions, all to feather your own nests.

You follow whatever flavor-of-the-month fallacy that will bump you up a couple of points no matter what the cost based ENTIRELY on what it brings you monetarily and power-wise.

Every ONE of you is replaceable, and right now I'd give all four limbs to restart Congress.

JESUS HELP ME
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Losing land to the country you're at war at doesn't exactly scream "owning" to me. You guys are delusional about Z's efficacy.


It does when Russia was supposed to win in less than three months. Russia and Putin had every possible material advantage one could imagine going into this war and yet hasn't achieved a single stated strategic goal in three years, and the single biggest reason for that has been Vladimir Zelensky. It's hard to see anyone else having so much success against the Russians, God bless'em.

Zelensky's only job - and I mean only - is to keep Ukraine independent and Vladimir Putin's only goal is to take all of the Ukraine. As such, Z has absolutely owned him.
It’s true.

Z has owned him so far.
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Sure. And parent engagement and involvement is steps 1,2 and 3. But we don’t allow 10 year olds to purchase porn. Why?


For reasons that aren't addressed by this bill.

So frick anyone who wants to outlaw my access to anything without standing up for underage kids.

That's the definition of bad parenting.
It's worth nine figures.

Any politician accepting this thing would be questioned, if not flayed alive for accepting it.
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Do you think 10-year-olds have a Constitutional right to access porn?


I think a 10-year-old gets porn not only because of their nature as a human being but also because they access it through their own situation (i.e. family/parent)

But hey, I only know from experience.....

re: Pretty crazy trivia re: Gerald Ford

Posted by Leopold on 5/12/25 at 12:22 pm
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Ford is who you would get if Pelosi and Schumer picked the president.


No, Ford is who you would get if Nixon picked the president because it was NIXON WHO PICKED HIM.

And Nixon came in as an outsider but became the ultimate institution a generation later. He and Kennedy were both outsiders, lying, cheating, and scheming their way into power.

re: Pretty crazy trivia re: Gerald Ford

Posted by Leopold on 5/12/25 at 7:17 am
Ford was a stand-up guy who was handed a couple of positions who didn't even want them, only to be turned into a scapegoat when he was forced to make decisions in order to keep the country moving forward.

Nixon and LBJ both considered him an idiot, but the reality is he wasn't the damned tin-foil hat wearing conspiracy theorist and schemer that brought about the circumstances of Watergate to begin with.

RIP, Mr. Ford, and may history look kindly on your legacy.