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Marshall Pritchett is out for the remainder of Spring Practice with an injury (knee?). Hopefully, he'll be ready to go by Fall Practice. Sort of thin at TE for this Spring even before Pritchett got hurt. I think Josh Cuevas and Jay Lindsay are now the only scholarship TEs left for Spring

re: So did Hitler really die during WWII?

Posted by Tupelo on 3/31/25 at 4:48 pm
I have read that the Soviets recovered Hitler's body from the burn pit outside his bunker. Stalin kept this discovery secret to screw with foreign intelligence agencies. He was buried in the Soviet Union, dug up periodically, and relocated several times over the years. There wasn't much left in the way of remains to begin with, and eventually they were totally destroyed.

Hitler was in terrible health, and probably wouldn't have lived very long after the war, anyway. He had Parkinson's like symptoms and looked like a frail old man.

re: Signal Messaging Creator

Posted by Tupelo on 3/27/25 at 3:00 pm
Quite a few, I imagine.

re: Signal Messaging Creator

Posted by Tupelo on 3/27/25 at 2:49 pm
Does this lead you to believe that our NSA shouldn't execute a meeting of the minds of the USA leadership to decide if we should bomb civilians in the poorest country in the Middle East?

No, not in the least. The Houthis are a threat to international shipping, including US shipping, and are a very worthy target. They deserved what they got and more.



Or maybe one of them snuck JG's phone number into one of Waltz's contacts?

I wouldn't rule it out. It's certainly possible.



Or maybe Waltz is just a dumbass and added JG by mistake rather than JX?

Possible, but that hasn't been proven beyond a reasonable doubt.



Or maybe Waltz wanted to embarrass Trump, and Trump allowed him to?

That's not very likely at all.



Waltz was indeed, the Counter-Intelligence lead of Dick Cheney's staff. Crazy how he landed this position and Trump is allowing his ineptness to cloud the leadership team.

It hasn't been determined how the most rabid anti-Trump journalist was added to the chat. That was quite the coincidence that of all people he was the person added.

Signal Messaging Creator

Posted by Tupelo on 3/27/25 at 9:59 am
I stumbled across something interesting on Wikipedia today. The creator of the Signal Messaging Service, and the Signal Protocol it uses, is Matthew Rosenfeld, AKA Moxie Marlinespike. He was formerly head of security at Twitter, among a bunch of other technology ventures. He's probably incredibly rich, I haven't checked his net worth. He's also a hardcore anarchist.
Someone else who's been in the news lately, Katherine Maher, CEO of NPR, was chair of the Signal Foundation prior to being at NPR.
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Investigate the hell out of this, including getting Goldberg's phone and records. Was he in on this to begin with, meaning planned? Was this a setup from the start?



Absolutely, Goldberg should receive a visit from the FBI, have his residence searched, phones seized, etc. The full colonoscopy.
Hegseth wasn't the one who added the journalist to the chat, was he? Why blame him unless you just have an ax to grind?
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Does this really do anything?


Based on a censure, couldn't she be removed from any committees she's on (not sure if she's on any)?
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Why did she do that?


Jackie was trying to get the frick out of Dodge.
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Imagine if Trump had had 10 years 2016 to 2026.


It would have probably been great, certainly better than what we ended up with. But sadly, it seems like it's easier for the bad presidents to mess stuff up than it is for the good presidents to make things better.

re: JD Vance has multiple personalities!

Posted by Tupelo on 3/15/25 at 1:32 pm
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I thought that was Ringo. But I don't know what's going on here.


Ringo and Yassir Arafat bore a striking resemblance to each other.
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A president needs 10 year terms and representatives need 5 years with term limits.


Imagine the state our country would be in after 10 years of a president like Joe Biden. We're still struggling with the fallout from eight years of Obama, and we will be for decades.
I wouldn't be surprised if Schumer isn't orchestrating his "opposition". That lets the lunatic fringe of their constituents be happy with the more radical leaders of the Democratic party. At the same time, the Democrats as a whole can avoid being blamed for a shutdown.
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If Republicans don't give in and do what the Democrats want, they won't be able to win elections and give in and do what the Democrats want.


There's a huge difference between getting as much as you can reasonably achieve done at one time, and getting virtually none of it accomplished (and then being blamed for doing nothing, then losing more seats). There's nothing RINO about that, just common sense. Sure, if you have large enough margins in the House and Senate, be more aggressive. But pushing for everything when you don't have the margins needed to pass it isn't principled, it's just a losing strategy.
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Gimme Massie over all 434 other useless frickers in the House .


Massie is an idiot. The all or nothing approach will get you just that, nothing. Supporting massive cuts to everything at once is the path to losing in the midterms, and ceding power to the Democrats. And we know how the Democrats will run things, very badly. There needs to be a steady progression to achieve what needs to be done.
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And yet people on this board get mad at him - for refusing to be Israel's bitch and demanding that Congress do its job with regard to the budget.


People get mad at him for being a dufus who undermines pragmatic attempts to establish the political power needed to carry out necessary changes. He's like a Republican version of "The Taming of the Shrew". If something isn't totally perfect he won't support it, even if this results in worse consequences happening instead.
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Elon Musk even said it to Rogan. No serious player will be stopped because they will kill him.


Elon Musk was likely referring to many of the preposterous USAID expenditures actually being CIA dark projects.
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Seems like a plastic bag and duct tape would be cheaper.

That's true, but that would result in an increase of carbon dioxide in the blood, causing the sensation of being suffocated. With nitrogen hypoxia, there isn't a panicked sense of suffocation, so it's not "cruel and unusual".
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She gets most of her income from casino royalties.


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