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re: Who believes in miracles?

Posted by Jeb Busch Lite on 4/28/25 at 8:17 pm
Absolutely. We are all miracles
I’d be interested to see how he would do. As silly as it sounds, I could see him being a former Auburn head coach hurting him with a significant number of Alabama voters.

re: Pope Francis has passed.

Posted by Jeb Busch Lite on 4/21/25 at 7:08 am
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I'm not Catholic

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when they have picked a new Marxist leader.


Adds up

re: Pope Francis has passed.

Posted by Jeb Busch Lite on 4/21/25 at 7:02 am
The conclave, the gathering of cardinals who elect the Pope, must begin within 20 days of Pope Francis’s death. Only cardinals under the age of 80 will be eligible to vote, and there are 138 cardinals who meet that requirement. Of that 138, only 120 votes are taken. Of the 138 eligible cardinals, Francis appointed 110 of them

Voting will start with one ballot and then move to four daily until a candidate receives 2/3 (80 out of 120) votes. This process will take 3-5 days

re: He is Risen!

Posted by Jeb Busch Lite on 4/20/25 at 12:56 am
Happy Easter to everyone. It’s an extra special one for me as I was welcomed into full communion with the Catholic Church tonight

He is risen :cheers:

re: Does Barstool suck?

Posted by Jeb Busch Lite on 4/11/25 at 1:28 pm
A bunch of 40 year old dudes acting like they’re in a fraternity
Was a senior in college during Covid. Got furloughed from my part time job at a physical therapy clinic since I was a non-essential worker, so I decided to go work as a fry cook at a very popular bar in Starkville.

We had to wear masks—in a kitchen with no AC—In the summer—in Starkville Mississippi. Making $7.50 an hour.

After about 4 months that I finally thought to myself “what the hell am I doing?” and used savings to pay for my last 3 months of rent and fun

re: Have you ever almost died?

Posted by Jeb Busch Lite on 4/9/25 at 7:36 pm
Didn’t know it in the moment but I was almost carbon monoxide poisoned in December. Sister coming over and “smelling something” saved my life.

Atmos came over, detected a gas leak but couldn’t say from where. The only gas appliance in my house is the HVAC, so I figured I’d start there. Lifelong family friend happens to that for a living, so I had him come over and inspect it. Unit was not burning up all of the gas, so carbon monoxide was being dumped into my house via the floor vents. My friend ran his detector through my house, and was measuring 1200ppm of carbon monoxide (800ppm is considered deadly)


He called me and asked if I believed in God, I said yes, and he said, “good you better be thanking Him”. He told me the measurements and how lucky I was, and needless to say I now have a brand new HVAC unit and a carbon monoxide detector in each room of the house
Can you buy Alps in stores anywhere yet? I’ve had them before but had to order it online and wait 2 months for them to come in
There wouldn’t be anything they could do about it. Article 5 doesn’t force us to do anything
“One or the other we will get it”

*cuts his eyes to democrats knowing this will trigger them*

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There's also a serious humanitarian issue with number 1. It's easy to say let's just keep using Ukraine as a proxy to weaken Russia but hundreds of thousands of kids are dying under this option with no end in sight.


Agreed. Lost in all of these discussions is just the straight up loss of life both sides of had. It seems like the “stand with Ukraine” crowd is a lot more naive to it
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However, making the territory Russia occupies untenable, thus willing to withdraw (like Kherson) can be accomplished with said force multiplier weapons.


If it’s untenable for Russia it would be untenable for Ukraine as well. Still wouldn’t make much sense for Russia to just give it back
The obvious problem with option 1 is that it’s essentially just kicking the can down the road and delays the inevitable. Not to mention it would give DC warmongers more justification to move towards American boots on the ground if the wrong people were to gain power in 2028
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The thing is, option 1 has worked. Russia is spending more on this war than Ukraine and the west, yet Ukraine has regained most of the territory they lost at the start and have actually occupied Russia for 6+ months. We’ve given them $175 Billion on paper, but most of that was to build new factories (industrialize) so we could produce the amount of shells, and buy even more modern replacement equipment, which also helps us. Now take into account we spend $800 Billion every year on our defense, why do we do that? That’s so we can fight concurrent wars against Russia and China. For a fraction of what we spend yearly on defense, and without our troops, they’ve weakened Russia significantly which means we can then spend less on defense thus saving money. Point is, everyone here treats option 1 as a handout that we don’t benefit from, and that’s just false.


Ukraine is running out of men
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What that assurance looks like though without it being some type of security guarantees I'm not really sure.


I feel like the mineral agreement would have been a great start to that. If I was Zelenskyy I would have signed it the first chance I got. Why he not only didn’t, but decided to make the spectacle he did about it on Friday is puzzling to me
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Why can’t we just withdraw from the war? The options you listed are essentially kill Americans, spend American money or side with Russia/Trump.


We definitely could and I think we should if option 3 doesn’t work. Maybe I should have listed that as an option, but until this past Friday it seemed far fetched
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Ukraine is going to want something based on the argument of we have fought and held back the Russian army for 3 years


Not being a smart arse, but I think Ukraine getting to keep the territory it has left is more than enough. If we pull all the way out, Putin could take the whole thing if he wanted to. It would take time obviously, but would be almost imminent.

I think Trump could try to negotiate a non aggression pact and somehow arrange things to make a future Russian act of aggression on Ukraine very inefficacious to Russia, but at this point I think Z would be smart to realize that’s the best he’s going to get