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What do you think they're doing now?
Drinking themselves to death?
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If Hungary attacks Ukraine and Ukraine responds. Will Hungary try to invoke Article 5?
No. Hungary will be the aggressor.
re: Pat McAfee covered the tab at Club E11EVEN for the Men's Hockey Team
Posted by TBoy on 2/25/26 at 4:37 pm to Bobby OG Johnson
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The bill was $150,000
Damn. Those cats go harder than folks in Ville Platte!
re: The tide has turned - Galvez statue on horse being reinstalled on Canal Street
Posted by TBoy on 2/25/26 at 4:05 pm to ReauxlTide222
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I have wondered about statues that weren’t timely or very relevant. I can’t get all that worked up about those.
For me, I differentiate based upon whether the statue has a particular tie to the place. Taking statues down because someone who lived before 1865 was a slave owner is ridiculous. Everyone of means before 1865 was a slave owner. But if the statue was erected with the express purpose of making a white supremacy statement, with no particular tie to the place, I have a hard time concluding that the white supremacy statement should endure forever because someone paid to put it up on a monument in public.
If I pay to put up a public statue of a toilet with the inscription "Trump is a moron," does that have to stay on public display forever because it becomes "history" after I have died of old age? Of course not. The same can be said for a marble column that says "white supremacy." Why does that get permanent display?
The white supremacy monuments aren't "history" that we have to protect and display forever. They were confrontational statements when they were made that were designed to intimidate black citizens. There is nothing to preserve and venerate there. Those can be rotated out of public display.
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Named “Tee Boi's Swinger Trailer Park,” the catchy motto is: “Bring your house and share your spouse.”
Why are you posting my picture? Still mad about me and your spouse?
re: The tide has turned - Galvez statue on horse being reinstalled on Canal Street
Posted by TBoy on 2/25/26 at 3:48 pm to ReauxlTide222
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What statues should they have taken down?
I could see why folks would want the Battle at Liberty Place monument or have it moved to a museum or somewhere where they didn't have to look at it. It had a prominent inscription that "recognized white supremacy in the South and gave us our state." I had no problem with them removing that.
I also didn't care whether they took Lee down at Tivoli Circle. Lee had no particular tie to New Orleans and his statute was erected well after the civil war to promote the "Lost Cause" narrative and proclaim white supremacy. While I don't live in New Orleans anymore, returning that to Tivoli Circle didn't offend me.
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And the most deserving of any of the Confederate generals to have a statue in New Orleans/LA.
Exactly. He was tied to the place in a unique and powerful way. Should never have been taken down. Neither should Lafayette have taken Gen. Mouton down.
Drink in the morning and get into a fight before noon. Then you have the rest of the day to recover for tomorrow morning.
That's a boring statute.
The one they should absolutely put back up is the P.T. Beauregard statute that was at the gate of City Park by the NOMA. That was a beautiful statue.
The one they should absolutely put back up is the P.T. Beauregard statute that was at the gate of City Park by the NOMA. That was a beautiful statue.
re: Why Do People Assume No Boots On The Ground in Iran?
Posted by TBoy on 2/25/26 at 8:59 am to Boodis Man
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How are you going to force regime change with nobody on the ground to enforce it?
While none of us know for sure, there is the suggestion that the Iranian people will take the country back from the religious fundamentalists if the military power structure is weakened enough.
Of course that is a big maybe.
While we hear loudly the voices that want the current regime removed, the regime itself is staffed by and supported by millions of supporters. Otherwise it would not exist.
But it would be a huge miscalculation to send US troops to patrol the streets of Iran. There is no suggestion that the Administration plans on doing that.
Castro and Hitler would commonly speak for two hours or more too.
Trump needs an actual speech writer.
Trump needs an actual speech writer.
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So what are the chances that b2s are already en route and the bombs will be dropping live during the state of the union?
That would be very dramatic.
State of the Union is for pomp, politics and hype. It really isn't the place for announcement of military action. He may mention the plight of the Iranians and maybe even claim that Iran is in the late stage of developing a nuclear weapon. That will help with support when something does go down.
The SOTU is at 8 pm central, which is 6:00 a.m. in Iran. Any strike tonight would likely have started several hours earlier.
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Trump may declare war on Iran this evening during his State of the Union address to Congress
That would be a disaster if it would happen.
Won't happen.
Let’s take a brief inventory of the Trump dictator shakedown demands:
$10 Billion demand to be transferred to Trump directly from the IRS;
$5 Billion demand to be transferred directly to Trump from JP Morgan;
$230 Million demand to be transferred directly to Trump by DOJ for investigation in Florida;
$15 Billion demand to be transferred directly to Trump by the New York Times;
$5 Billion demand to be transferred directly to Trump by the BBC.
And that is before the voluntary payouts from middle eastern governments and organizations and crypto scams.
And this is cheered?
$10 Billion demand to be transferred to Trump directly from the IRS;
$5 Billion demand to be transferred directly to Trump from JP Morgan;
$230 Million demand to be transferred directly to Trump by DOJ for investigation in Florida;
$15 Billion demand to be transferred directly to Trump by the New York Times;
$5 Billion demand to be transferred directly to Trump by the BBC.
And that is before the voluntary payouts from middle eastern governments and organizations and crypto scams.
And this is cheered?
Trump is demanding to be bribed again. How many mob shakedowns has Trump done?
re: Who here would support Trump getting another term ...
Posted by TBoy on 2/23/26 at 1:54 pm to theballguy
Steal or no steal, Trump is limited to two terms. Besides, he will be like 100 years old by then.
re: Update: Situation in Iran thread
Posted by TBoy on 2/23/26 at 12:28 pm to BayouBengal51
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The official assessed that any U.S. strike would likely include off ramps for the Ayatollah regime, allowing Tehran a path to stand down rather than face total collapse.
Where would they all go? Brazil? Liberia? Montana?
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Read the rest of the thread tsoy where I explain how I think this fits into a modern interpretation before you comment please
Dude, just stop with the “Monroe doctrine.” It is not whatever you imagine it to be. You can’t change it now that Monroe is no longer president. Call it something new, fine. But we can’t just redefine historical things.
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This cannot be allowed so close to our country if we want to take the Monroe doctrine seriously in a modern form
What on Earth do you think the Monroe doctrine actually is?
re: Obamacare failure
Posted by TBoy on 2/23/26 at 6:13 am to RobertFootball
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My health insurance before Obamacare was $180 a month and I had better coverage than what I’m paying $853 a month for now.
You are comparing your health insurance premium almost 20 years ago to today? Wow.
The rate of increase before 2010 was already high.
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