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LOL. The Rat Patrol (In Color! 1966) was set during the Western Desert Campaign, which was primarily the Brits vs Rommel, but you'd never know it from watching the show. Three Americans in a Jeep, and one token Brit.

Guess I'm an uncommon American who read "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" by William Shirer as a teen, back when TV shows like Hogan's Heroes and Rat Patrol glorified America's fight in the war without mentioning the holocaust, and minimized other nations' involvement. 😺

Sophie Scholl and the White Rose Sophie Scholl and the White Rose movement, while less known to Americans, is a powerful example of youthful resistance to the Nazi Regime.

Yes, indeed. It was illegal to criticize Hitler, even mildly. I'm waiting for Trump to get the same idea.

The consequences could be severe.

www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles...

Yes. To use an analogy I've seen elsewhere, voting is like riding public transit. You catch a bus or train, transferring as needed, that takes you closest to your destination. If you refuse to hop on because it won't take you straight to your doorstep, you'll never go anywhere.

Our military has already crossed that line. Intentionally killing non-combatants (the boat strikes) is a literal, textbook example of an illegal order.

When the military is acclimated to following illegal orders against foreign nationals, what happens when they receive domestic illegal orders?

Dropping bombs solves Iran in the same way shooting up cocaine solves personal problems. Both are temporary feel-goods that only makes things worse.

Of course it's wishful thinking! If Iran dropped bombs on Washington DC, would that trigger a mass uprising against Trump? No. It would trigger, if only temporarily, a wave of patriotism and calls to nuke Iran, silencing dissent.

Now if Iran only targets Trump properties? No clue about that.

I think we're all frustrated; you, me, my daughter and others. Even MAGA, in their own, bent way, are driven by frustration, but fell for the oldest propaganda trick of blaming the "other." The root cause is vast inequality. We can either have billionaires, or democracy--not both.

I have listened to my own daughter spout the nonsense that Dems = Repugs, and will only vote independent. So yea, it's out there.

Am I happy with Dem leadership? No. I'd rather have someone truly for the people. But I will also vote strategically, not emotionally. A 2026 indy vote helps Repugs.

Now is the time to ensure you have a passport, passport wallet card, or a certified copy of your birth certificate, AND a certified copy of your marriage certificate.

Anyone who's legally changed their name (trans, other reasons) will need a certified court order copy.

I'm sure at least some of the "left" people telling Dems to give up if they don't have the perfect candidate are, in fact, propagandists either working for a right wing billionaire or a nation state.

appears they questioned the wrong first lady.

YouTube video by Nocturnal Aviation PBS The Man Who Saved the World

Basically, we've been within a hair's breath of nuclear war not once, but on several occasions, either by happenstance, or by a single person making a fateful decision that, had it gone the other way, could have tipped the balance to nuclear annihilation.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH0m...

Not a funny. I'm 70.

1961 - A B-52 broke up over NC, dropping 2 nukes. 1 activated. A single switch prevented detonation.

10/27/62 - Vasili Arkhipov vetoed using a nuke torpedo, stopping WWIII.

11/9/79 - SAC went on full alert due to a mistake.

9/26/83 - Stanislav Petrov stopped a false alarm.

Back in the 1960s, the Minuteman missile system had an 8-digit number to be keyed in as a secret, secure launch code. Call it an early password. So what did the military use for years as the password? 00000000

Constitution101

Congress has right to: raise taxes, spend tax revenue, approve appointments, declare war, make laws

Courts have right to: decide on constitutionality & guilt

President does not have right to: steal $10+ billion, not enforce laws for friends, use DoJ as weopon against enemies

Since Trump wants his name on everything, let's give it to him.

Trump-Epstein files.

Kinsella was fired 5 hours after his appointment. We need a new time measure.

Introducing the milliscaramucci. A milliscaramucci is 1/1000 of a scaramucci, or 11 days. A milliscaramucci is 15.84 minutes. At 5 hours on the job, Kinsella lasted 18.9 milliscaramuccis.

Yes, you're quite right. I'd forgotten that bit of horrible history. IIRC, the Jewish refugees eventually ended up in concentration camps. A true failure on our part.

Germans were allowed to escape from Nazi Germany to other countries, including America, in the 1930's. I hold out hope that Americans wanting to escape an oppressive US will be welcome too.

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Triple burn!

Wow! You know that out of control ute eventually hit something--a car, a building, a person--something.

That's his "niece" same as all the other "nieces" at Mar-a-Pedo.

Here's the funniest part. NBC KNEW it was coming and they were ready. Imagine the WH warning... "Okay, we know boos are incoming. Be ready or we'll sue you for 50 gagillion dollars".

"Honey? The remote fell onto the floor at my feet. Can you get if for me? Oh, and bring me another barrel of cheese puffs and beer, okay? That'd be great."

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The chairistocracy.