Slow trains here in the US generally don’t go over 50, and the rails in a lot of the network don’t support over 30MPH. Additionally, rail traffic gets prioritized to freight, because we don’t actually do PST (Precision Scheduled Timetables), so you might be waiting for hours on a stopped train so a freight train 10 miles up can unload.

Cuomo also basically threatened everyone in the final debate with “vote for me or Trump will invade NYC”, like he was gonna do that either way buddy.

Sorry, the guy above you forgot to capitalize American Evangelical, which is rapidly becoming its own denomination. Evangelical churches are all rapidly having to change tack to more and more extreme messaging just to keep congregants, because large portions of the faith want us to go back to Cotton Mather’s fire and brimstone God. Evangelical influencers are largely driving this through social media, which feeds back into a loop that wants you to get more and more extreme.

American Evangelicalism isn’t about God, Christ, or anything other that justifying hatred towards nonwhites, LGBT people, and anyone to the left of George W Bush. The Bible is convenient window dressing.

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Pretty much this. It’ll get appealed all the way to the SC, where Thomas will write a decision saying “actually all funding is at the President’s sole discretion” and that’ll be it.

Basically, yes. I’m sure there’s a not-insignificant amount of them who are directly or indirectly linked to white supremacy globally, and don’t want to get caught up when someone says “hey didn’t you help with a bombing campaign” because these fucks roll right the fuck over on each other when push comes to shove.

Yeah, the run up for ICE is too slow, and they’re not coming out of the pipe willing to kill people. Blackwater and the various other mercenaries in the US (don’t care what hairs you wanna split, they’re mercenaries) absolutely are willing to massacre whoever so long as their paycheck cashes.

That being said, South America in general has contended with CIA interference for decades. It’s not unreasonable to think they’ve grown wise to their playbook.

This. They’re all being replaced by CBP because Trump is upset ICE isn’t just smoking people in the street for looking brown.

He’s also wanting Venezuela to declare war first.

And a president who wants to shoot those protestors, and a federal police, answerable to no one, who can definitely do it. I’m giving it a year before we see at least one protest met with overwhelming lethal force.

Blueprints aren’t needed if the project is going to be a boondoggle to swindle more cash out of investors. Just keep adding stuff, just keep claiming you NEED to add more stuff, and eventually you wind up with The Big Dig.

He’s also wanting to use the construction as a smokescreen to expand the Fuhrerbunker Presidential bunker.

This is HIGHLY untrue. A lot of these kids get pushed into football by culture, by economics. They get thrown in by HS coaches who tell them it’s the only way they’ll afford college. NFL has also done a FANTASTIC job of walling up research on CTE and TBI as a result of regular play - it’s literally only been in the last decade or so that shit’s started to come out, and even then, nobody focuses on it because it doesn’t print papers.

A lot of these players see it as the only way to escape the poverty trap, and comments like this are disgusting. Sure “they think they’re better”, why not, when LITERALLY THE ENTIRE BUBBLE AROUND THEM TELLS THEM TO. They do it for “fame and fortune”, yeah, because if you were young and usually poor to middle class at best and saw a way into the upper echelons of society by playing a game you’re good at, YOU WOULD DO IT TOO.

Fuck off with this victim blaming nonsense.

Won’t be for long.

Cue boondoggle contract bidding, as per usual.

We already started a war in Guatemala in the 50s that’s still going on sort of.

This. It’s not “journalistic integrity”, the way Hegseth has worded things, this prevents outlets from spinning or telling half the story. It’s literally back to WWII press - here is the story from the War Department, you may print this and nothing else, with no editorializing.

I’ve seen comparisons to the Black Tom incident in WWI, where the Germans sabotaged an explosives factory in the US that was making shells for the English war effort. Interested to see if Russian sabotage jumped from just Europe.

Our company orders a lot of stuff from overseas manufacturers because it’s highly specialized precision equipment. One department is currently locked in a nightmare with customs wanting not just manufacturing sources for each component of this equipment, but they want raw-material sources for each component as well. So not just “where was this manufactured”, but “where was the steel for this poured”.

It’s been a month of chasing down these things for every single component, down to individual screws, bolts, and pins.