@RosvoglouReport It certainly makes Rattler expendable for the right price.
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Robert
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Robert
@REF451
Free speech and free people. Puppies. TANSTAAFL. New Orleans Saints & National Champion LSU Tigers. Pronouns: Fuck/That. Did I mention puppies?
Joined Aralık 2016
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Best case - Zach Wilson gives you okay QB depth
Worst case - I got nothing lol
Does this mean anther QB move is coming (maybe Rattler?) That's the only question I got right now.
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@BuckSexton Not all the white men are bad guys. But all the bad guys are white men.
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Picking up a lot of medical jargon from watching The Pitt on HBO,
also learning that all drug addicts and violent criminals are white
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@neontaster Oh come on. He created good characters with rich backgrounds. If he can write a good story, why the hell not?
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How we feeling if Mansoor Delane is the pick at 8?
Sean FazendeFOX8@SeanFazendeFOX8
Saints general manager Mickey Loomis chats with LSU CB Mansoor Delane at LSU Pro Day (video by @TheJeffTakeWVUE )
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BREAKING: Democrat Sen. Cory Booker claims the SAVE America Act would “shrink the voting rolls by 5 or 10%.”
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Iran has established four main demands from the U.S. in any negotiations -Reuters
- guarantees against future military action
- compensation for wartime losses
- formal control of the Strait of Hormuz
- No limitations to its ballistic missile program
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Robert retweeted
Christopher Hitchens: ”In 1786, when the United States was barely a country, it was having its sailors taken as slaves by the Barbary states, the states of the Ottoman Empire and North Africa. Tripoli, shores of Tripoli. Ships stopped, its crews carried off into slavery. We estimate 1.5 million European and American slaves taken between 1750 and 1815.
Jefferson and Adams went to their ambassador in London and said, why do you do this to us? The United States has never had a quarrel with the Muslim world of any kind. We weren't in the crusades. We weren't at war with Spain. Why do you do this to our people and our ships? Why do you plunder and enslave our people? The ambassador said very plainly, Mr. Abdul Rahman said, because the Quran gives us permission to do so, because you are infidels, and that's our answer. Jefferson said, well, in that case, I will send a navy which will crush your state, which he did.
Islamic fundamentalism is not created by American democracy. It's a lie to say so. It's a masochistic lie, and it excuses those who are the real criminals, and blames us for the attacks made upon us.”
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@kadinjanisch He’s good when he’s healthy AND motivated. Unfortunately, that’s a max of three games a year.
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Perfect Saturday bike trip with my wife
30km along the river, train home, total cost = €3.50
In America this would require driving 3 hours, $25 parking, and a tip to a homeless guy to not touch your car
I love living in Europe
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@moneyspread @MySportsUpdate Maybe to sell popcorn in the stands. Not for anything on the field, tho
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The #Lions have signed former New Orleans Saints 1st-round DE Payton Turner to a contract.
He was in Dallas last season but did not play.
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Iranian President: Every time we met with the Supreme Leader, he would emphasize that nuclear weapons are religiously forbidden.
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Robert retweeted
This IMHO is the most important post of the month. Read it, reread it, then take notes.
RULES OF ENGAGEMENT
RULES OF ENGAGEMENT
RULES OF ENGAGEMENT
Why was @secwar able to hermetically seal the southern border, eliminate crime in DC, arrest Maduro, and sink the entire Iranian Navy with a fraction of the casualties that “experts” claimed it would cost?
Because he did not include allies and academics.
Why is this critically important?
Because in previous wars they all handcuffed our warfighters with ROEs. Bookcases in the Pentagon and CENTCOM overflowing with them.
Going in with the element of surprise and shackling our forces to just one ROE, American rule of law, gave our side an overwhelming advantage.
But…
We just experienced the biggest war I’ve seen since I joined this app in 2007 and I’m not talking about Iran. It wasn’t a kinetic war. It was a war over academia and European control of ROEs.
@CynicalPublius and @DataRepublican got absolutely hammered but held their ground.
@RadioFreeTom and the other talking heads had enormous power over how the minds of admirals and generals are formed.
They had enormous influence via think tanks and meetings with allies over what’s acceptable in war and what isn’t.
And they were able to throttle opinion via displays of outrage on TV and articles in the Atlantic.
To use a maritime analogy, those ocean racing speedboats have two captain’s chairs. One is the helm and the other is the throttles.
The helmsman can only steer port or starboard, but the throttleman has forward and reverse on both the port and starboard propellers.
Guess which job is most important?
Pull too far ahead of the enemy and they pull back speed. Fall behind and they push full ahead.
Too often they push full ahead just as the boat is descending into the trough of a wave.
In our military the commander in chief decides the race time and location. The combatant commander steers the course. The media, allies, and the think tank “experts” are the throttle.
And they are absolutely losing their minds because Trump has removed them from the throttles.
This not only sucks away their power but their lucrative speaking engagements and book deals.
Nobody is going to pay big bucks to hear a washed-up Naval War College professor speak. They will pay the throttleman.
So Tom and friends are losing their minds and going on MSNBC and CNN to tell you all about how terrible this war is going.
What they are really saying is: this is a disaster because I was not consulted. Put me back on the throttles.
Except it isn’t a disaster. Go read those think tank and war college reports. How many deaths did they predict in a war against Iran?
Not one predicted this few casualties in week three, or this many military targets destroyed.
Tom and friends are telling you this war is a disaster, but by their own metrics it’s a stunning success.
Ask yourself why that is.
Cynical Publius@CynicalPublius
RE: The Way of War of Our Enemies In every hot war the United States has become involved in since the Korean War, we have enjoyed absolute tactical and operational dominance over our enemies. We win every tactical engagement, overwhelmingly. Operationally we can and do dominate any theater of our choosing. No one—and I mean NO ONE—can stand toe to toe with the US military. This has been true for decades. We’ve talked before about the elements of national power—the “DIME” (Diplomacy, Informational, Military, Economic). Our military power is unsurpassed. We are masters of diplomacy. We have the world’s strongest economy. So how do we lose? The INFORMATIONAL component. Our military opponents, from Ho Chi Minh to Osama bin Ladin, knew that the only way to defeat the USA is to demoralize the American populace such that it demands withdrawal and throws the then current Commander-in-Chief out of office. The ONLY way to defeat America militarily is to convince the American people that a war is unwinnable. The slow dribble of IED deaths in OIF was not actually targeting soldiers and Marines—it was targeting YOU, the American people. And CNN eagerly complied with death counts running across the bottom of the screen. The Tet Offensive? It was a decisive US victory that could have ended the Vietnam War in our favor. But Walter Cronkite instead declared the war lost, protests erupted nationwide, and the war was lost. The Highway of Death in Kuwait? We could have taken out Saddam Hussein in 1991 and never needed to go back in 2003, but international media made the attack on retreating Iraqis look “too cruel,” so we halted just short of the finish line. The strategic imperative of every one of America’s military enemies is to break the will of the American people with skewed information, propaganda, and extreme emphasis on America’s minor losses amidst overwhelming military victory. But the Ho Chi Minhs and Osama bin Ladins can’t do that by themselves. They need willing partners in the American media and government. And for Operation Epic Fury, boy oh boy do the Iranian mullahs have an over abundance of American morale killers to draw from in order to defeat America through the informational instrument of national power. Tucker Carlson. Senator Mark Kelly and the rest of the Seditious Six. CNN. ABC. NBC. CBS. NYT, WaPo. Pakistani bot armies on social media. X “influencers” like Cerno, Candace, MartyrMade and Ian Carroll. Every idiot claiming we are fighting “Israel’s war." There is an entire Army of American politicians and media figures who are willingly fighting Iran’s informational war on its behalf (and in some cases, at its behest). America is DECISIVELY WINNING the war on Iran in every measurable respect. Yet there are so many influential Americans who are desperately determined to make you believe otherwise. In days of old in non-US countries, such people would have been strung up for treason. Thankfully it’s 2026 and we have a First Amendment, so no one fear being treated in such a medieval manner. But we can still ostracize and ridicule such people and sources for the irreparable harm they are wreaking upon the USA as they do the bidding (intentionally or unintentionally) of Theo-fascist mullahs who are determined to set off a nuclear bomb so that the Twelfth Imam will arise from a well in Qom and precipitate the global apocalypse. We all need to choose sides. Are you with America, or are you with theologic-inspired, deliberate Armageddon? And anyone who chooses the latter needs to be the target of mockery, derision and clearly-stated facts disproving their lies. And if YOU are an American Patriot, you can fight that informational war on America’s behalf, right now, right here on social media, right there in your own living room. Your voice matters, and your voice is actually a part of the war. FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT.
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Robert retweeted
Dear Europe, I know you feel outrage. I have talked to many of you on the phone.
I know politicians and media on both sides of the Atlantic are furious. I attended a conference with mostly Europeans. The worry and frustration was palpable.
I get it too. You are dependent on Middle East oil and aluminum and fertilizer and shipping and LNG. Dubai is a vital travel hub for you. Vital.
But don’t worry. Trump will lose the midterms and Congress will flip and side with you.
Or maybe not…
I live in the bluest town in the bluest state, where protests are practically a seasonal sport. I drove over eight hours across New England this week past the usual corners where outrage normally lives.
This time? Nothing.
Left, right, center. I’m hearing almost no one talk about this war. MAGA doesn’t even care.
Ask someone and you’ll get the expected talking points. But in coffee shops, kitchens, real life? Silence.
Hard truth: most Americans just don’t care.
And since the weather warmed, not a single keffiyeh in sight.
So when Trump says you need to go protect the ships and airports that are vital to YOU, I think he means it.
Because the vast majority of Americans don’t care.
And it’s not that we want to see you spin into an energy and food shortage. It’s that even the most TDS-inflicted liberal American is getting tired of your BS.
Hating Trump is one thing. Almost half of America is OK with that. But your anti-American vitriol and arrogance and weakness is exhausting.
Nobody likes a needy person who is angry and thinks they are better than you. It’s literally the worst combination in a person.
And you might not want to admit it, but you are needy. You need us to reopen Hormuz. You need our banks and our markets. You need a lot.
“We will not participate in this war” is fine. Nobody is asking you to bomb civilians. What’s weak is you won’t surge defensive missiles and planes to protect European-owned ships and property.
When exactly did defense make you a participant?
Defense of innocent life and property isn’t a “war crime.” And you DO own the majority of ships getting attacked.
Ships that you are unwilling to defend maybe because you outsource the labor to Indonesia, the Philippines, and Ukraine.
You are the wealthy lords who abandoned the mansion but told the help to stick around and defend it.
So you might want to send a few warships and missile defense units to protect YOUR property.
Or at least leave them at anchor and send the innocent crews home.
You want us to defend the Strait because we started this mess?
That’s reasonable. Problem is the reaction from most of America to your demands is:
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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@Devon_Eriksen_ @crescendogames9 I grew up a hard SF fan, disliking fantasy. Despite a million recommendations to read LOTR I was in my 40s before I attempted it.
When I got to Tom Bombadil I nearly tossed the novel aside. To me, it read like an L. Frank Baum Oz book.
Glad I stuck it out. But it was close.
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The problem with Bombadil isn't that he's good, it's that he's poorly written.
Tolkien told a great story. But that doesn't mean he could make no mistakes, ever. We need to remember that his talent as a storyteller was not coupled to experience as a novelist.
So he made a few mistakes, of the type that even great novelists make, early in their careers. Bombadil was chief among those mistakes.
Had he gone on to write thirty more novels, the later ones would have been more polished, and not made such errors. And no one would be shy about saying, yeah, he had a glitch or two in his early work.
But Tolkien's mission wasn't to be a career novelist and tell lots of different stories. It was to share one particular world that he had in his head. So we have to expect a rough patch or two, improperly sanded down, on his execution of what he had to say.
There's no need to make of Bombadil a hill to die on, as if admitting he doesn't quite work would invalidate everything Tolkien did. Because it doesn't.
Allow Tolkien to be a talented human being, instead of a cartoon archetype of an infallible master.
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The guy who arguably made H.P. Lovecraft great can't conceive of a good that is beyond human concerns and simply exists.
So, sorta a flip of the eldritch horrors of Lovecraft.
Interesting.
Sandy Petersen 🪔@SandyofCthulhu
Tom Bombadil bothers me so much that I’m on the verge of admitting he’s a great literary construct because he’s got such a hold on my mind.
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@rawsalerts And just WTF would they actually DO in the event of a nuclear emergency? Issue a strongly worded letter?
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🚨#BREAKING: The World Health Organization is preparing for a potential nuclear emergency if the conflict involving Iran continues to escalate.
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This Iran war is escalating in a very dangerous way.
Need cool heads to prevail.
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I am a Democrat. I served in the Clinton administration. I did not vote for Donald Trump and am highly unlikely to support him or his acolytes in the future. I also have serious disagreements with many of the Trump administration’s domestic and foreign policies.
But it is profoundly disturbing that a growing segment of the far left appears to be almost rooting for Hamas, Hezbollah, the Iranian regime, and other forces fundamentally opposed to the United States and our allies. This seems to reflects a corrosive strain of anti-Americanism, dressed up in postcolonial theory, that risks blinding us to the moral realities of our world and the nature of our adversaries.
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@datboywolf Sign him to a 1-day contract so he can come home to the Dome, lead the Whodat cheer, get a standing ovation and retire a Saint.
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Thats the thing about Corners. They typically hit a wall harder than RBs. Unless they can move to safety they are typically cooked once they lose some speed and agility
John Butler@Saintjohnbutler
Should the Saints make Marshon Lattimore a team-friendly contract offer to see if they can bring back some of that magic or should they avoid him because of the ACL injury?
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