It completely tears away their claim they destroyed all air defence and the military.

A couple of days before, they were crowing about having total air superiority, that allows them to fly deep into Iranian territory to find targets. A day or two later, the Iranians shot down this plane, and then one of the rescue planes as well.

The Iranians obviously sandbagged them, and waited until they showed up to cause trouble. Oldest trick in the book, and Hegseth fell for it like a fucking Cub Scout.

You always lose a few from friendly fire. You’re gonna get that.

Thank you for your sacrifice.

You get food stamps, and start driving Uber, lyft, or door dash, and start picking up gigs here and there. You start selling stuff, work some side hustle, go back to college, etc. Eventually you downsize, and start pulling money out of your 401K. Then it’s a race until Social Security, and you can get a little breathing room. Until your spouse dies, and you lose their SS, and can no longer afford your downsized lifestyle in your old age.

This isn’t new, it’s a very common scenario for people who get cut in their 50s. They often never get another real job again. Think about it, when was the last time your company hired a new 50-something person, who wasn’t an executive?

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Of course.

Sounds like something to have shutdown over, cut off military spending for a few months. I’m all for it.

Blame the Democrats? Damn Skippy. You can have a little money when you start behaving yourselves, and clean up your mess.

“Looks like RAM is back on the menu, boys!”

“Just Say No” would work if the Liberals would just stop saying Yes.

Nope, back up, time for clarification. Rick Scott was NOT governor when he did his record-setting Medicare fraud. That came much earlier, in the 90s, when he was CEO of a Florida hospital chain. They committed the biggest case of Medicare fraud in history, and when he was deposed, he pled the Fifth something like 175 times.

Somehow they managed to convince the court to blame the corporation for the crime, and the corporation was punished with a massive fine, the largest in Medicare history, which still stand, as far as I know.

For his part, Rick Scott walked away with a sizeable fine, but he got to keep most of his stolen fortune. He was fired from his company, but he found that his particular skills set was transferrable to conservative politics.

So technically, it was the company for which he was responsible for all day to day operations, including profitability, that was convicted of the crime, but not the person who actually did it?

I still always refer to him as Convicted Criminal Senator Rick Scott. He really really hates that, and whines about it all the time. But he just whines all the time anyway, so who cares?

As for being elected, remember that Florida’s elections have been fully rigged for several election cycles. They allow a few Dems to hold Congressional seats because they have to. In the past few years, DeSatan has been removing duly elected Democrats from any positions they have, and replacing them with his own hand-picked people. He’s done it to a couple of prosecutors, a sheriff, a police captain, and he’s gone after a few others who have so far managed to evade him.

That’s literally every state, and that’s because cities are where the people are, and people vote, not land. For instance, the only reason Georgia has Democratic senators is because of Atlanta.

Usually, the cities in a state have a LOT more people than all the rural regions combined, so that’s where the votes are concentrated. Simple as that.

Nah, in this case, you just spool out all the rope they need to hang themselves. They’ll take care of it for you.

Save the mob attack to prevent the upcoming massacre.

Been there, done that.

I want to vote for her for President.

Aldi bought Winn Dixie, and they are just rolling out the first conversions. Future Aldi’s are going to resemble the classic supermarket.

Most days I eat a sandwich for lunch. About once a week, I’ll have soup. Occasionally, I’ll have both, but it’s very rare. Other than the classic grilled cheese with tomato soup, I don’t tend to want both. I like soup, or a sandwich. Both is too much food. Even when I have only a sandwich, it’s almost only a half.

There was a time when I would have gulped them both down, but I was also 350 pounds, too. Now I’ve dropped 100, with maybe 50 more to go, and I’ve totally changed the way I eat. Instead of seeing a hearty lunch of both, I immediately think of which thing can go in the fridge for tomorrow’s lunch.

I’ll go for ribeye first, but I prefer a porterhouse. An old employer used to take visiting VIPs to a nearby restaurant that had a veal porterhouse that was the best steak I’ve ever eaten. It was big and the most expensive thing on the menu, and I’d feel guilty ordering it on my own, but my boss would MAKE me order it, just to show the visitor how beautiful it was, so I was forced to take that bullet every time. That was a great job.

Of course there was mixing, nations didn’t grow in total isolation, but that’s still a lot different from starting with an essentially empty land mass, and filling it with people from all over the world. Obviously, you are going to have a much more varied mix of people that an area that has been primarily homogenous for millennia, with the occasional outside invasion every 100 years of so.

Somehow, somewhere along the line, someone got their wires crossed, and the lesson they took from the Holocaust was to Pay It Forward.