@AdamLehrerSP He’s lost all credibility for me. He completely misrepresented the statements made by one of Epstein’s victims, saying intercourse was consensual at one point, but leaves out the part when she said the exact opposite on the stand in front a grand jury. Dude is a hack.
@vanessasaidhey@Friended4Ever@mysteriouskat While the statement itself could seem benign, the context in which Ana used it, combined with her rhetoric over the past year, I can certainly see how an argument can be made that she used it maliciously.
@OccupyLF The stadium hate is so gay. Yes, globe life’s exterior is horrid. The interior is dynamic and it has all the amenities you can ask for. If I want to pay top dollar for a seat I would 100% choose globe life over minute maide.
So I am back in the United States. I was in Mexico this past week but for obvious reasons did not want to post publicly about it.
One thing I will note is that a lot of the social media panic early in the week did not translate to reality on the ground in Mexico for American tourists. There was a clear effort to reassure tourists with a lot of military personnel. And even in Puerto Vallarta, I was told that the cartel was very careful about avoiding tourists during their retaliation.
I asked several people why they thought the cartel was so wary of harming Americans given American intel clearly played a role in taking out El Mencho and had several people directly say some version of "they are afraid of Trump".
I have plenty of disagreements with Trump on domestic and foreign policy, but there is no doubt for me that the perception of Trump as someone who is willing to use force and a little crazy has the affect of helping keep Americans safer abroad. Even from relatively violent actors.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has arrested a former U.S. Air Force pilot, Maj. Gerald Brown, in Jeffersonville, IN for providing training to members of the Chinese Air Force. Former Maj. Brown retired in 1996 following a 24 year career flying multiple platforms. He most recently was a contract simulator instructor for multiple contractors on the A-10 and F-35 platforms before going to China in December 2023 to begin training the Chinese pilots.
There is simply no way to make this argument without conceding that Hamas is responsible for every dead Gazan, which is of course a position that Mehdi has explicitly and relentlessly argued against for over two years.
The hypocrisy is astounding.
Imagine you’re on some NCAA Division II team and your bus rolls into fucking Bridgeport, Connecticut, on a bitter cold February night and then out comes Manute Bol to swat your weak Division II shit all over the gym all night long. That had to be fun.