Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” is supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.

… gradually, and then suddenly.

I desperately hope that, yet again, I am wrong.

Even though I know this is a bad idea, I’m off to do it anyway!

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

Bad people in a position to do bad things will do bad things because they are bad people. End of story.

Putin dreamed of ending NATO, and now it’s Finnish-ed.

If you’re looking for someone who’s young and athletic, go watch a fucking movie.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

Ron DeSantis, the grand wizard, oops, governor of FL.

When the time comes to make an endorsement, the pain of NYT editors will be palpable as they reluctantly whisper “Biden.”

A consequence of cucumbers

It’s a new day. Light all those Biden polls of young people on fire and throw away the ashes.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

We won’t go back.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

I was confident that someone would point it out and thought why not me.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

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  1. 1.

    Rey

    Better bet would be the commander and loader. Notice how they report says it was a land mine. The original report from AP said it was an IED composed of several 152mm arty shells command detonated.

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    Gregory Litchfield

    Guipo – The website is quite biased. I’ve been there several times before, and it is used as a reference by some posters over at the strategypage.com forums.

    The site is generally devoted to trashing US-made military hardware, and the M1 series of tanks are a perennial favorite for abuse, since they are so well armored, armed and mobile. The site appears to be run by Russians, who simply cannot admit that Russian combat vehicles are coffins on wheels (or tracks, whatever).

    Note that had that vehicle been a Russian-made T-72, or even the relatively new T-90, it would have been atomized by the blast. Russian MBTs keep their ammunition in a sort of “carousel” (sp?) that runs around the inside of the turret. The reason for this is that Russian tanks have autoloaders for their main guns, instead of human loaders, in order to allow the tank to be built smaller. The autoloader apparently needs to use this insane storage configuration.

    Anyway, as a result, hits that barely penetrate the turret armor nearly always become kills, as the ammunition inside the tank cooks off. The M1 series stores it’s main gun ammunition in a turret bustle, behind a set of blast doors. If it goes off the crew will almost certainly get a nasty concussion, but will life to fight another day.

    Note that the ammo storage is just one of many, many reasons why you are safer going to battle in a Bradley than you are in a Russian MBT.

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    bani ...

    iraqwar.ru was also the site caught fabricating “news reports” of the allied invasion.

    they claimed they were intercepting and decoding allied encrypted communications, and were posting tolls of like 30-40 M1’s, apaches, etc. being destroyed per week, and 100’s of allied soldiers killed.

    they presented it as if it were real news, and claimed the allies were being badly beaten and driven out of iraq.

    their lies were only stopped when cnn showed footage of american tanks rolling into baghdad and the saddam statue being pulled down.

    only then did they admit that their “reports” werent factual at all, but merely “simulations”, and that they hadnt actually intercepted any communications at all. they also claimed that all their readers knew this from the beginning, and that they had never claimed it was truthful news in the first place (more lies).

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    bani ...

    People who delight in the misfortune and suffering of others are truly evil.

    The people running the iraqwar.ru site are definitely evil mofo’s.

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    beets

    Iraqwar.ru, according to Walter J. Boynes book “Operation Iraqi Freedom” is a front, similar to Debka for the Isreali Intel community, for the Russian Intel Community. It’s slick, picking up the best of the hater propoganda….and yeah, attempts to spin the “hey soviet equipment/tactics aren’t bad…buy more!”
    BTW, where are the tracks on this tank? All missing.

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