Priorities

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87 thoughts on “Priorities

  1. Emery
    Among so many other things you present yourself as an expert on the ethics of abortion so it should not be difficult for you to answer this question…
    At what point in your mother’s pregnancy with you would it have become unacceptable for her to abort you?

    As a bonus question where can I find the text in the Constitution that supports this claim you made:
    “The Constitution before amendment said Clarence Thomas should be counted as 3/5ths of a person.”

  2. Hey Dunning-Kruger what do you think about Putin pulling out of the nuclear arms treaty? Is Biden forcing this war to continue worth risking WW3? And us possibly getting nuked along with Europe (but let’s be honest Europe is overdue for another war, 70-80 years is too long for peace). Are you willing to risk nuclear war to protect a corrupt 3rd world country that has a corrupt idiot as their leader while our corrupt idiot pedo leader continues to profit from that 10% he got?

  3. Pig, I admire your persistence and perspective dude but you know hes never going to respond. Hes a idiot pretending to be a expert. Quit wasting your time and just mock and insult him like the rest of us.

  4. Prompt “In the style of Mr. Rogers, write a story about rAT Emery moving into the neighborhood and causing problems with his pathological lying, and Dunning Kruger disease.”

    ChatGPT is at capacity right now
    Get notified when we’re back
    Explain the status of ChatGPT as a mouse:
    Squeak squeak! Sorry, ChatGPT is very popular right now. Please try again later! Squeak squeak!

    🤣

  5. POD
    yes I’m counting on emery not responding.
    As long as he refuses to answer I have a ready made hammer to hit him with over and over. Why you ask, so that it remains clear to all the readers of these threads what a mountebank emery is. My goal is to so devalue his presence as a poster that he is instantly recognized, by even the casual reader, as a malevolent propagandist and his postings given the consideration that propaganda deserves.

  6. POD, the next play Putin will make will be an underground nuke test…then an above ground test.

    He was never going to lose in Ukraine, but now NATO has turned a regional conflict between 2 organized crime bosses into an existential threat to the survival of the Russian Federation.

    Putin is not going to back down to the assembled clown show pitching their tent on his border. He’s clearly saying “Fuck around and find out.“

    Meanwhile, Pedo Joe’s Sec of Defense is ordering the Army to conduct front hole dilation drills.

    I hope there will be enough materials left in the ashes for my kids to rebuild civilization.

  7. POD, my take is that withdrawing from the arms treaty only makes a difference if Russia is actually able to make new nukes and delivery systems. Given that even the Wagner Group is complaining that they aren’t getting enough ammunition, and given that many of Russia’s top planes didn’t fly last May Day, I think that’s certainly a debateable proposition.

    I also think that the country that couldn’t put decent tires on their transport trucks last year, and didn’t fly their top planes for May Day celebrations, might have reasons NOT to expose the fact that the money that should have been spent maintaining their arsenal got spent on functionaries’ dachas and Swiss bank accounts instead. If you do a nuclear test that goes “piff”, everybody with a seismometer laughs at you.

    And there is no existential threat to Russia here. NATO is not going to risk another Afghanistan by invading Russia itself. Worst that happens is a few provinces take advantage of Russian weakness to declare independence, and best that happens is Putin gets fed into an industrial meat grinder after getting a good dose of polonium in his borscht.

  8. Pig I never considered that good point.

    Blade,, good points all. Our only hope is that either Putin really is sick with blood cancer and will d I e soon or someone in his inner circle will minecraft him before he goes nuclear.

    And BB all true again what concerns me most is that China is probably going to invade Taiwan in the coming months/years and we wouldn’t be able to do anything about it, but then you have to wonder if Chinas military is a paper dragon like Russias was exposed as a paper bear.

    Thanks for putting me in my place guys I’m still new to this compared to the rest of you (I’m 36) so this is good for me.

  9. ⬆️ Putin launches an unprovoked illegal invasion, and Russia is the injured party? What a joke! Perfect example of the criminal blaming the victim. Ukraine are the Nazis? After Russia invaded Ukraine? It’s enough to almost embarrass Peking.

  10. where did any of us say that DK? Were pointing out how bad ha shape his army/government/nukes are in. I’m pretty sure (I hope) that no one here likes or is rooting for Putin tour reading comprehension is just that of a 3td grader. And I mean no insult to 3rd graders by that.

  11. “Hey Dunning-Kruger what do you think about Putin pulling out of the nuclear arms treaty? “

    Apparently you haven’t read Putin’s comments in his state-of-the-nation address where he announced RU would freeze its participation in the New Start agreement.

  12. Emery
    if its not too much trouble perhaps you could tear yourself away from the Joy of War for a moment I have a question for you
    Among so many other things you present yourself as an expert on the ethics of abortion so it should not be difficult for you to answer this question…
    At what point in your mother’s pregnancy with you would it have become unacceptable for her to abort you?

    As a bonus question where can I find the text in the Constitution that supports this claim you made:
    “The Constitution before amendment said Clarence Thomas should be counted as 3/5ths of a person.”

  13. ⬆️ How’s your commitment to the pro-life movement with regards to fundraising for crisis pregnancy and adoption services coming along? Keep us posted on how your efforts are proceeding…

  14. @POD here are the Cliff Notes

    Putin’s speech….
    1/ We are winning
    2/ Ukrainians are Nazi’s
    3/ Ukrainians kill their own civilians, not us.
    4/ The bad West is giving Ukrainians weapons to defend themselves against me.
    5/ We are bringing peace and prosperity to Ukraine.
    6/ Biden is a Nazi
    7/ Don’t make me angry or I’ll do ‘something’
    8/ Ukraine started this war… oops…. special military operation.
    9/ I don’t trust anybody
    10/ I am so fantastic even Tucker Carlson and most of the Republican MAGA’s like me.

  15. Emery I’ll let you know as soon as you answer this:

    Among so many other things you present yourself as an expert on the ethics of abortion so it should not be difficult for you to answer this question…
    At what point in your mother’s pregnancy with you would it have become unacceptable for her to abort you?

    As a bonus question where can I find the text in the Constitution that supports this claim you made:
    “The Constitution before amendment said Clarence Thomas should be counted as 3/5ths of a person.”

  16. POD, regarding China, my take is that China is starting to realize that an invasion of Taiwan would not benefit from unchallenged air and sea superiority that the Allies had for Normandy, Anzio, North Africa, and the island hopping campaign in the Pacific. To make things worse, Taiwan is mostly rice paddies on the China side (flood them and watch China’s army learn to swim) and mountains on the far side. And we thought Pointe du Hoc was bad; they’re looking at hundreds of thousands of casualties on the first day, really.

    Defenders would take a lot of casualties as well, but the stalwart resistance of Ukraine is showing Taiwan that theirs is not a lost cause.

  17. Comrade Swift wrote: …”the next play Putin will make will be an underground nuke test…then an above ground test.”

    The thing about nuclear weapons is that the threat of them has great value, while the use of them has zero value. Which is why they have not been used since WWII.

  18. BB, intelligent points all, but you are assuming China is a rational actor and Xi has some pushback. I dont think either is the case especially with the population crunch coming because of their idiotic, malthusian, one child policy.

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  20. Bikebubble winged it: “To make things worse, Taiwan is mostly rice paddies on the China side…”

    Hahahaha! you massive dolt! All the largest cities are on the China side. You could have taken 30 seconds to check google Earth, but no, in usual Mr. Bubble fashion, you just pulled some bullshit out of your shorts.

    jfc, Mr. Bubble…at least give it the same effort a child puts into opening a candy bar.

  21. Also, Mr. Bubble, Taipei is only 120 miles from the Chinese mainland.

    That’s perfect distance for a medium range missile…you know, like the ones we used to have, before we sent them off to defend buttsex, child trafficking, money laundering and clandestine bio labs in Ukraine.

    The Chinese have lots of those kinds of missiles, Mr. Bubble. they can just sit back and bomb the shit out of all the major population centers on Taiwan and not even have to get their feet wet.

    You give Admiral Levine a run for his money in the nitwit military planning and assessment department.

  22. Being silly with ChatGPT is fun. I told it to write a story about a laser printer and cheese sauce.

    And it did.

    I told it to write a story about Kevin Bacon and Charlie Chaplin

    And it did. And that story also included a laser printer and cheese sauce.

    It read a lot like Emery has recently.

  23. No, if China attacks Taiwan it will because autocrat Xi has grown impatient with a Taiwanese population that overwhelmingly (94%) do not want unification with China either now or later, despite massive cyberattacks meant to disrupt infrastructure, steal or destroy data, influence public opinion, intimidate, and otherwise bully Taiwan into accepting unification. Not to mention the regular military threats.

    Taiwan is democratic and wants to stay that way. Their economy is prosperous, and their standard of living and personal freedom is much greater than mainland Chinese. They want to keep what they have. The example of Hong Kong was further confirmation that unification would be a disaster for Taiwan.

    The US stands by its long-standing policy of supporting only a peaceful change to Taiwan’s status, in accordance with the will of the people of Taiwan and opposing coercive measures to change its status. This policy is supported by most countries in the Indo-Pacific, the EU, UK, and most other countries in the world that have weighed in on the issue.

  24. Yes, Kremlin Tom, the big cities are generally on the NW side, along with the rice paddies I mentioned. So I’m guessing that you would then direct their invasion directly to the H*** of urban warfare instead of letting them stage their forces elsewhere before trying to take the cities? Interesting strategy, to put it mildly.

    Regarding mid range missiles, so I guess you’d encourage Beijing to commit a ton of war crimes like your heroes in Russia have? One might figure that the Chinese might like to conquer something worth having, not mountains of rubble and citizens that will gladly kill them because of what Beijing did to their kids and parents, but evidently Kremlin Tom is going to set them straight.

    Really, Kremlin Tom, you seem to be the greatest military strategist since Rennenkampf and Samsonov broadcast their battle plans in straight AM.

  25. jfc…the stupid flows from you like a fountain, Bikebubble.

    Almost all the rice grown in Taiwan is grown on the East coast; it’s where all the tours go, too. There’s historical reasons for this, but in modern times the biggest reason is that because there are no large cities over there, there is no pollution (the Chinese just dump chemical shit into the ocean).

    I used to travel to the Pacific rim several times a year while working in the semiconductor industry, been to Taiwan a dozen times. I also have a colleague who married a Chinese girl and settled down there. the wife and I were there visiting them in 2013.

    Just give up, Bikebubble. You’re already neck deep in your own stupidity.

  26. POD, once you come to realization that bb is just another troll stick on stupid you will have much more time on your hands for more intellectual pursuits.

  27. Nuclear weapons are not conventional explosives. Some TNT or C4 has been laying around for a few decades and is now past its expiry date. It degrades into inert material or a highly unstable chemical explosive.
    Nuke materials are different. Their behavior is not chemical. Chemical explosives are chains of molecules that react with other chains of molecules called oxidizers, and the potential of reaction changes over time as they age.
    Nuclear munitions are different. They aren’t based on molecular chemistry. They are based on the internal structure of the atom, and that is timeless — you can’t tell the difference between a neutron that is i second old and a neutron that is 1 billion years old. You can’t assume that it gets less potent with age. It doesn’t erode.
    The US spends millions of dollars a year managing its supply of “fissile material.” There was a bit of a scandal a few years ago when one of the facilities that looks after old nuclear war heads (in TX, I believe) had examined a particularly nasty bit of fissile material, found that it had developed a crack, and had used duct tape — duct tape! — to keep it together. The duct tape fix could have led to a meltdown. Incredibly high level of radiation does weird things. It makes electrons pile up on one end of a harmless looking uranium rod.
    The idea that Russia’s 6,000+ nukes have decayed and become inert because of poor maintenance is absurd.
    Have you ever heard of a US nuclear test that has failed?

  28. JPA, I’ve been gone awhile, I hadnt realized he turned into a troll? He always used to contribute well to the conservative, guess the dynamics of SiTD have changed

  29. POD, the dynamics are the same.

    It’s just that some of our older Conservative™️ commentators are suffering severe cognitive dissonance now that the truth of just how Machiavellian our federal government really is has become to obvious to ignore.

    For instance, I’ve been telling y’all that the police are not your friends for more than 10 years…back then, that made me a radical. Today, it makes me prescient. Neither is true; I’m just not afraid to see the truth and speak it.

    It’s a lifetime of lies, laid out end to end, as far as the eye can see…they just can’t process it, and the machinations they go through to maintain the fantasy is both hilarious and disturbing.

  30. For reference, people usually don’t site their cities a mountain range away from their food source, which is what you’d have to have if rice was being produced in the east of Taiwan but being exported to the cities on the Straits of Taiwan side. There may be terraced paddies on the east side of Taiwan, and you’ll see some in a river valley there, but the historic food source for Taipei and other cities on the “China” side is the paddies which are easily viewed on Google Satellite view. The paddies that would make any invasion on that side make Omaha Beach and Iwo Jima look like a walk in the park. And on the other side, you’d be basically invading Switzerland–it’s quite mountainous and advantageous for defenders.

    Kremlin Tom, as usual, doesn’t know from Shinola on this, along with pretty much every other topic.

  31. Let’s review a few of the times the US intervened to install or prop up criminals, shall we?

    We supported Saddam Hussein; Manual Noriega; orchestrated the coup in Syria that installed Husni al-Za’im; in Uzbekistan, our boy was Islam Karimov, who boiled his enemies alive. In Sudan, we staged a coup that installed Samuel Doe, who proceeded to genocide his own people.

    Of course we also supported the Taliban in exactly the same way we’re propping Zelensky and his mob up.

    There’s plenty more, but you get the idea. None of these guys posed a threat to the US, and we didn’t gain a damn thing by putting them in power.

    Haven’t learned a damn thing, have we?

  32. For reference, Samuel Doe was Liberian, not Sudanese, and it’s only “alleged” that the CIA had a hand either there or in Syria. Saddam Hussein was a bulwark against Iran, and Noriega was a key player in the region for us. We can point at the evil some of these men did, but in the cases of Doe and Za’im, the connection to U.S. action is tenuous, and in the case of others, would you rather have had these men be working for the Soviets?

    Oh, wait, I guess Kremlin Tom probably would have liked that, wouldn’t he? But speaking of never having learned anything, there you go.

    And regarding Ukraine, where Russians steal billions and leave their country with greatly impaired defenses, the recent Ukrainian arrests are for thousands to maybe millions. So far from being a criminal like Putin, it looks like Zelenskyy has significantly solved the interference of the FSB.

  33. In the style of elmer fudd, describe the effect drinking the cool aid had on Bikebubble…

    “ Well, hewwo there, it seems wike Bikebubble may have had a widdle too much of the Kool-Aid. He became a widdle bit wike a wabbit hole, you know, a wittle bit disoriented and confused. Wabbit holes can be quite confusing places, and sometimes they can make you lose your sense of wight and wrong. Poor Bikebubble may have become convinced of something that wasn’t weally true or good for him, but he couldn’t see it because he was in too deep, wike a wabbit hole that goes on and on. It’s important to keep a cwear head and stay focused on the wealities of the world, especially in today’s cwazy times. Be vewy, vewy careful when you drink the Kool-Aid, or you might end up in the wabbit hole too!”

    LMMFAO!

    Game changer!

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