I was down at the State Capitol yesterday morning for the Gun Owners Lobby Day.
While there, I ran into a bunch of legislator friends, including former Representative, now Senator Eric Lucero.
Who told me this story, which I’m pleased to pass on to all of you now.
Anyone get the impression Senator Mitchell was a “Meteorologist” at a failing small-market TV station before becoming part of the DFL machine?
Maybe Steve Carell studied her before doing “Anchorman?”
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If rAT Emery were female…
Well, that was enlightening.
Sooooooooo, does that mean we can exclude all “history” of the area that predates statehood from Minnesota history books?
Case in point, should all mention of Dred Scott’s time in Minnesota be removed “Minnesota” history books?
And would someone with access please update the state’s wikipedia page to remove all text prior to the words: May 11, 1858 in the section title History?
Why am I not shocked by the arrogance and ignorance of people elected to government in a state dominated by a group called “Education Minnesota”?
While watching that wretched gint spew her moronic, rAt level response, I was reminded that Elon Musk shit-canned 75% of the TwitR staff, and it’s still running fine.
There is a lesson to be learned there and applied when we re-form a new government after the dust settles.
Guam will tip over if we station too many troops on one side of the island.
As a degree owner in Atmospheric Science and a practicing meteorologist I have to say… WHAT THE FOK? This creep needs a tarring and feathering for being such an ijiot.
Oh, this might explain it:
From today’s Powerline Daily Chart:</a
But what if what was once a cheap shot or a personal insult has actually been found to bear scientific correlation between the individuals who hold progressive ideologies and an increased risk of mental illness? That’s exactly what Pew Research has found — and all politics aside, the shocking diagnosis of over 50% of liberal women with some form of mental health medical diagnosis is a public health concern that no one seems to be discussing, let alone taking seriously.
Interesting comment by the esteemed TV reporter, considering that Michael Mann’s notorious hockey stick graph purported to show temperatures of the atmosphere from before there were states or nations anywhere on earth.
Kooks on both sides of the aisle….
“Taylor Greene suggested that the 2018 California wildfires may not have been due to climate change leaving vegetation drier and more combustible. No, instead she advanced the theory that, drum roll please, some kind of “space laser” had lit things on fire.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2021/01/30/did-rep-marjorie-taylor-greene-blame-a-space-laser-for-wildfires-heres-the-response/
That’s pretty funny, rAT. Except she didn’t say ‘space laser’, and she didn’t say ‘Jews’ or ‘Jewish’. It was a nutty idea, but not nutty enough to seem nutty to leftist nuts; so they just made some shit up and the 80IQ crowd ran with it. And you*still* haven’t got a clue 2 years after the joke got stale.
This is another “Trump said to inject bleach” story concocted by nitwits, to amuse nitwits that was taken literally by nitwits.
But your gal there in the MN legislature, rAT, said what Berg attributed to her; verbatim. We don’t need to extrapolate to make mentally ill leftists sound nutty.
Y’all are a free side show, 24/7.
Even more pathetic than usual, Emery. comparing what a MN state senator said, during a hearing, with some speculation MTG made four and a half years ago, on a facebook page, about who was profiting from Cali’s governor saying he would not hold PG&E responsible for wildfires.
Comment smarter next time, please.
BN
speaking of the 80IQ problem
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These ladies need more range days.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1619006615327510528
That’s why Mrs. Nzimande fields a Mossberg Shockwave, UMMP.
So, Pedo Joe and his merry band of Uniparty nitwits are going to send 31 Abram tanks to that other organized crime family.
Lol. 😂
I didn’t know much about the M1, so I did some digging.
The A2 version of the M1 is every bit as sophisticated as an F22 fighter jet, with the added feature of having thousands more moving parts. It also has a far shorter MTBF than a fighter jet.
Like fighter jets, the M1 requires a dedicated crew of maintenance techs; 12 to be exact. And discounting the time it takes to learn to fly, operating an M1 is just as technically challenging as flying a jet fighter.
The M1 has a jet turbine engine. Although it was built to meet the same basic requirements as the Leopard II, it is no faster than the Leopard, but it costs x2 more and uses 90% more fuel when driven at a constant speed.
Also, because it has a jet turbine engine, the M1 has a massive heat signature, and the manual warns that snow can clog the intake.
Fielding an M1 Abraham tank requires a huge investment in support infrastructure. Each one requires a specialized truck just to get them to the battlefield, and you have to have huge fuel depots to keep them moving. It takes months or years to become proficient in it’s use and maintenance.
To think handing over a handful of these monsters to the Uke’s is going to be anything but an embarrassing disaster requires some serious denial.
…unless it’s not going into the field under Uke hands. Think about that, lads.
Not sure I am completely up to date on this, Blade, but I’ve read that the Ukrainian M1’s are practically vapor ware, will be delivered at some undetermined date, we really wanted the Ukrainians to get German Leopards, but the German’s wouldn’t agree to this unless the US promised Abrahams.
Feels like the US and English-speaking media tried to (unsuccessfully) pressure Germany into unilaterally sending tanks. Scholz resisted and now we have both the US and Germany sending tanks. Seems like a win for Germany (not singled out) and Ukraine (more tanks).
If Russia wins this war, the consequences for Germany and the West will be far more dangerous and costly. It will be back to the old Soviet lines, only with a leader that feels emboldened and is far more dangerous than the last few Soviet leaders. Ukrainians do the bleeding so that the rest of Europe doesn’t have to do it. All they ask for are the tools to finish the job.
UMMP, from what I’ve read, the Leopards are far superior tanks. They’re fast, cheap(er) and carry more ammo than the M1.
They have 1500hp diesel engines that any diesel mechanic will recognize and pack just as much punch.
Why we don’t send our engineers to German schools, I’ll never understand. But yeah, I’m all for the Germans taking the consequences of taking the Russian mob on….they have experience.
“Seems like a win for Germany (not singled out) and Ukraine (more tanks).”
Atta boy, rAT! Shout out with your dick out!
LMAO.
Another shortcoming of the. M1 that the designers never foresaw, is the cramped quarters force the crew to exit every morning to combat-dilate their front holes leaving them exposed to small arms fire.
War is hell in the current year.
So the Russian spin on this has been quite entertaining if you watch the Russian media or the paid Putin propagandists and sympathizers you get two narratives. One being that there are so few of these tanks that it doesn’t make a difference the other being massive anger that the West is prolonging the war.
Reality is, is that numerically speaking Britain has sent 14 Challenger 2’s Germany so far a similar number of Leopards same with Poland and the US about 30 Abrams. That will probably increase but in the grand scheme of things so far that doesn’t sound like a lot.
However, when you consider the combat records of Challenger/Abrams and Leopard 2 a different picture emerges. No Challenger 2 was never lost to enemy fire in Iraq — during an ambush a Challenger 2 took 14 RPG hits and a MILAN anti-tank missile hit. It survived it protected its crew and the only damage was its gun sight knocked out of action. Challenger also has the longest confirmed tank on tank kill recorded on an Iraqi Russian made tank during the Gulf War.
Reality is most Western tanks have far stronger armor than that of the most commonly used Russian tanks (T72/T80..) They have superior gun sights and target acquisition capabilities so they can shoot at Russian tanks before the Russian tanks even know they are there. That and the main shells they fire during tank on tank combat the SABOT shell is devastating against Russian tanks.
A SABOT shell is a depleted Uranium metal dart that flies at 4000 mph it hits an enemy tank punches through armor like a hot knife through butter. It then fragments and basically turns the enemy crew into a human soup it will also detonate any explosive shells onboard that tank exploding the tank from within and then punch out the other side.
So the Russian tank crews are soon going to be facing tanks that can shoot further than them while moving unlike their tanks that usually have to be stationary. Those Western tanks are better armored with Dorchester/Cobham armor so they can take more punishment and they have more firepower.
So if you’re wondering why the Russian government and its paid propagandists are going through so many different narratives every 5 minutes there’s your answer. It’s hilarious they go from begging for peace and blaming the West for the war still going on…. To saying they will defeat Ukraine and these tanks won’t make a difference…. To threatening to destroy these tanks and saying that the West is stopping Ukraine from rolling over and letting us stamp on their heads how dare they we want peace….. In the same way Nazi Germany wanted peace if only those evil opponents would stop getting in our way we’d have peace…… If you want to see what Russian peace looks like — look at Bucha….
Emery
At what point in your mother’s pregnancy with you would it have become unacceptable for her to abort you?
pretend putin is as crazy stupid as the e guys think
pretend the new tanks enable ukraine to retake the country
what will putin do
lose gracefully
retire to his dacha
write his memoirs
or bust out the tactical nuclear weapons
and say good bye kiev
oh, did you want some too, berlin
i didn’t think so, stfu
and what will president obama’s sock puppet do then
when the radioactive dust settles, will anybody be here to ask if it worth it
Emery is off his meds again.
National Review has hired Noah Rothman. Here is Rothman explaining how US & NATO support of Ukraine is really cheap way for the US to kill Russian soldiers and destroy Russian military equipment:
“Yet from numerous perspectives, when viewed from a bang-per-buck perspective, US and Western support for Ukraine is an incredibly cost-effective investment.”
https://cepa.org/article/its-costing-peanuts-for-the-us-to-defeat-russia/
Curious as to how those Ukranians are going to get the months of training needed to operate hi-tech equipment like Abrams (or even the promised Bradley Fighting Vehicles, Stryker armored combat vehicles, and Humvees)?
From someone who served in an armored unit in Iraq:
Here is a little-known truth: if the Iraqis had had the same M1A1s that we had, or if we had been outfitted with the same T72s Iraq had, we still would have won, because ultimately, it is the man operating the tools of war that wins, not the tools themselves. Without question, the Abrams is superior in every way to any Soviet-era tank. But without proper training and maintenance, even an M1 can be defeated.
I don’t know if you will ever see those M1’s in Ukraine, jdm. It’s the Leopards that are important. This is NATO doing everything it can do to up-arm the Ukrainians before the Russians launch a Spring offensive.
My comment applies equally to Leopards as well as the English Challengers. Training and logistics are the boring necessities that no one talks about but decide battles.
I don’t know anything about a Spring Offensive but there are indications that the (long awaited) Winter Offensive has started. YMMV.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/01/ukraine-russian-army-activates-southern-front.html
The Russian Federation is fielding their T-14 tanks.
Their superiority lies not so much in their technology, although it is Impressive, but in the fact that the Russian tank crews actually know how to use them, and the Russians have the logistics in place to support them.
If this NATO gambit fails, it will be a bruising reality check for the West.
I suspect we will not hear much about NATO tanks shortly…kind of like the Javelins that have disappeared.
Everything is going according to Zelensky plan: Ukraine will fight to the last Ukranian – literally.
I’m going to open this can of worms . . .
Biden says our war aims are determined by Zelenskyy.
Zelenskyy wants Crimea and Putin tried for war crimes.
That will never happen. Putin will fight to the last man before he concedes Ukraine.
So what is plan B? One commenter here has said we pressure the Russians until Putin is assassinated or forced out in a coup.
Fine. Whatever.
Who is going to do this? Give me a name. show me the Russian shadow government that is going to replace Putin & his party.
Leopards have been freed to do what they were designed for — fight Russians in Eastern Europe. Nature is healing. 🙂
Hopefully the Russian leadership and generals are as focused on main battle tanks as the recent controversy is in the western media. Keep their eyes off their many other vulnerabilities. It’s a pretty rotten house.
The tanks are for frontline war. Victory in the Ukraine is going to be won by winning the deep war, the interruption and collapse of rear-area Russian supply and staging areas. Degrade the Russians from behind. Hit them hard in their deepest vulnerabilities.
One does not so much want “victory” as much as a simple sudden collapse of Russian fighting formations in Ukraine.
Preferably, extended range artillery projectiles and precision missiles are being provided Ukraine so that the next offensive will focus on hitting Russian supply depots and and supply routes into Ukraine and thus isolating the Russian troops. Then any tank-led frontline assault might cause the Russian army to both collapse and head in retreat back to Russia. Or surrender in place.
Ideally the Russian leadership will be caught by surprise by the collapse of their position.
^^Promotes using NATO weapons to attack inside the internationally recognized territory of Russia while using the term used by Russian propagandists “The Ukraine,” to refer to Ukraine.
It’s priceless moments of compounded idiocy like this that makes Emery’s comments so entertaining.
If the Ukrainian army manage to punch a hole through Zaporizhzhia to the sea, Putin’s going to be livid. Despite the various claims Russia has made (difficult to keep track — liberating Donbas (but attacking non-Donbas regions), de-nazification (of a country not comprised of Nazis), not wanting NATO on its border (but not caring about Finland, which has a much larger land border, being in NATO), etc), Russia’s motivation was to create a land bridge to Crimea (far easier to have multiple routes to the Black Sea Fleet than just the Kerch bridge). If Putin loses that, he’s going to be Fuhrious.
Emery
Still the failed expert you have not answered this question…
At what point in your mother’s pregnancy with you would it have become unacceptable for her to abort you?
This is exactly what Ukraine military has bern doing with Kreminna/Svatove offensive. With the loss of these two towns — Russian military would lose two important supply corridors and the third one (the last) would come into an easy range of HIMARS.
A sufficient number of UAVs (Switchblade -300, Phantom Ghost, Switchblade-600 etc.) and HIMARS will cause constant daily attrition of Russian vehicles (the real Achilles weak point) and attrition of soldiers.
If I was Bikebubba, I would be very, very nervous about agreeing with frequently wrong, never in doubt armchair general Emery.
I listened to a podcast with Dan Crenshaw today.
Crenshaw said it was “highly unlikely” that Putin would use a nuke.
Okay, then! Let’s rock!
For all you other arm chair generals out there pushing the modern, up to date “domino theory,” has Russia ever attacked a NATO country? Cuz it seems to me that your whole argument depends on “If Putin has success in Ukraine, he will attack a NATO country.” I mean, maybe he will, maybe he won’t, but what empirical evidence do you have that this is true?
Lesson one of Russia-Ukraine is that the Ukrainians refer to the name of their country as Ukraine. It means something like “frontier” or “marches” in Old Slavonic. Russians call it “The Ukraine” as a way to mark it as division of Russian territory.
Frequently wrong, never in doubt Emery refers to Ukraine as “The Ukraine.”
Prolly a Putin stooge.
Crenshaw is a real nitwit.
ukraine war map from yesterday
https://edition.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-1-28-23/index.html
hasn’t changed much since a year ago
russia took what it wanted
the war is over
ukraine lost
admit it
Funny that other countries can develop technologically advanced tactical weapons systems that work well, are efficient and less expensive that U.S. weapons. But then, our government has never been too concerned about costs of anything. Payoffs to the hawks like Lizzy Cheney, have to be made.
On another related note, a friend of mine that has spent significant time over in the sandbox and is still connected into the military, told me that Putin has been making back door purchases of a lot of the hardware that Pedo Pete left in Afghanistan, from the Taliban. Let’s go Brandon!
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History proves that wars have a tendency to escalate out of control. By the end, the costs exceed the participants’ wildest dreams at the beginning. People know this and yet they cheer on every escalation. Wild to watch this play out in real time.
https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/1619780454026215424?s=20&t=JWBB4oSjNinBOcV8Zf6YfA
Regarding the turbine on the Abrams, that was actually not an engineering decision, as the GM/standard diesel design won at first, but generals who wanted to simply fuel everything with JP-8 overrode the committee and chose the turbine. Count me as also nervous about the difficulties of maintenance, though the notion that it’s as complicated as an F-22, as Swiftee claims, is nonsense.
And am I embarrassed at agreeing with Emery on this? Not nearly as embarrassed as I’d be if I was agreeing with the FSB horse manure Swiftee appears to be eating every day. Let us be reminded that he was saying that as Russia withdrew from northern Ukraine, those troops would quickly be redeployed to the east and capture all of Donbas. Reality; just the opposite, as they’ve lost Kharkiv and portions of Luhansk, and the lines in Donetsk are about the same as they were a year ago.
My appraisal at this point is that, as evidenced by the fact that all of the Ukrainian leaders are still alive, Ukraine has largely solved the puzzle of the FSB, which had been calling a lot of shots there previously. Claims that corruption would result in Stingers and Javelins going en masse have not been borne out, and the world now knows that you can’t believe anything coming out of Russian media.
The war here is not over Donetsk, but rather over whether Putin will die in office, or whether he will die in prison. May that day be soon!
Putin delenda est
In reality, wars are rarely won by a great military campaign or final offensive, they are usually a matter of attrition, and are won by outlasting the enemy. There are a few different options here:
• Outproducing the enemy: that’s the US in WW2, which produced enough aircraft, ships etc to arm not only itself but all the allies including the Soviets. The US produced more than all axis countries combined.
• Outlasting the enemy economically until they go bankrupt. This is how Russia lost in 1917.
• Outlasting the enemy in terms of casualties. The US didn’t lose outright in Vietnam, we lost because after over a decade of war and more than 55,000 dead and three times that seriously wounded, we decided to pull out. On the other side the Vietcong lost many times that amount, but it didn’t matter to them.
Russia’s military production is currently limited, but Putin has the option to fully mobilize for a decade long conflict if he wants.
Russians underestimate how much stronger and wealthier the West is. We can, with no real problems, increase our defense spending sufficiently to provide Ukraine with what it needs, without taking a significant hit to our economy.
Despite all that’s been done so far, for example, Americans still spend more on pet care than on support for Ukraine.
All these dire Russian predictions of economic ruin are going to end up like Woolly’s predictions of blackouts and Europeans freezing to death this winter. Not only did that not happen, but European economies grew, albeit slowly, and they have more gas in storage than they did before winter.
This war was decided when Ukraine decided to fight back. Ukrainians were a very important part of the Soviet army in WW2. Also — the T34 was designed in Kharkiv and not in Moscow.
Army plans ‘dramatic’ ammo production boost as Ukraine drains stocks
https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/2022/12/05/army-plans-dramatic-ammo-production-boost-as-ukraine-drains-stocks/
The war here is not over Donetsk, but rather over whether Putin will die in office, or whether he will die in prison.
And who will replace Putin?
Are we supposed to keep our fingers crossed?
My main argument with neocons is their “underwear gnomes” ideas about warfare. “We fight the war, we win the war, problem solved!”
Going back to the inspiration for this thread, the response of the DFL representatives to questions about warming after the great ice ages shows exactly what kind of view of science they have. It is not that they would think for themselves and ask “given that we know the world warmed many times before there were Suburbans, how do we explain that?”, but rather “we are going to appeal to consensus in lieu of thinking through the evidence for ourselves.”. So when that is challenged, they appeal to the power structures they know.
Regarding “who will replace Putin?”, the other reality of the matter is that this war is becoming a war for the survival of the FSB, not just Putina. As Russian citizens discover how badly the FSB has colored their world, including the deaths of over a hundred thousand of their young men and the release of thousands of criminals back into their society, I am guessing that a LOT of Russians are going to demand that the files of the FSB be opened in the same way that Germany opened the files of the Stasi.
It’s not a gimme that it will happen, but in a manner of speaking this war is one for the freedom of not just Ukraine, but also Russia, Belarus, Moldova, Georgia, and more. May Vladimir Putin find his Lake Como moment soon, and with him the heads of the FSB.
Russia admits Vladimir Putin pardoning convicts so they can join Wagner in Ukraine
https://www.businessinsider.com/putin-pardons-russia-convicts-fight-ukraine-kremlin-admits-2023-1
That’s 50,000 empty prison spaces which the judiciary will need to fill up to provide new recruits.
Cannot help to think about the late Senator John McCain who described it as ‘a gas station operated by the mafia, masquerading as a country’. Who needs a more apt description to define how this criminal gang in the Kremlin is operating? Unlike Al Capone, these criminals will not be charged with tax evasion charges.
This three-part BBC series follows the ten year path to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and explores whether it might have been diverted by western powers.
Putin vs the West
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0dlz7tz/putin-vs-the-west-series-1-1-my-backyard
Russia is a country that has, if anything, failed to deal with the its historical psychological baggage, You had centuries of serfdom stretching far further into the modern era than in any European country. You then have a very bloody civil war followed by many purges. You have two world wars — the latter of which was more catastrophic for Russia in terms of loss than any WW2 nation bar perhaps Germany. Throw in more purges, dictatorship, 40 years of a Cold War where everyone was taught to blame the West. This country then loses that Cold War. It is a country with enough intergenerational trauma to fill an ocean yet has adapted terrible coping strategies; alcoholism for most of the men.
Yes Putin and his elites are horrendous and no doubt if everyone had been been luckier, Russia might have enjoyed a couple of different personalities at the top and a greater civil society might have been formed.
Sadly I do not think the top is not where the rot stops. The country needs to really go through a process of remembrance and reconciliation with the terrible facts of its history — affecting pretty much every Russian family.
I look forward to watching the documentary — I wonder when and if there was an inflection point where it could have gone the other way (Putin’s decision to take a third term springs to mind).
^^Still thinks of Russia as a failed Western nation.
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