Ships get repositioned all over the place all the time. It's always a threat, but usually it's just a threat.
The troops getting a moral boosting meal? That comes with an announced mission or deployment. Especially since there's no holiday on Friday the 20th of February.
Trump and Hegseth tried two different things simultaneously. They tried to deem Anthropic both a hostile actor, which would cut all DoD contracts off completely, and then also tried to declare them essential and force them to ignore the safety limits set forth in the contract, which is the supply chain thing.
So yeah, the incompetence is showing as it always is.
That was Bill. There were two vaccine projects. One was going to be open source, and then the one Bill convinced the University doing the research to replace the first one with.
The thing is, the Clintons are old hands at the political game, and both received extensive training on how to avoid foreign intelligence blackmail operations, like the one Epstein was running.
So it's no stretch to say that they both probably dodged that trap, not from any moral standpoint, but because of how fucking obvious it was.
Bill borrowed the plane, but seems to have ditched Epstein.
But the real reason I don't think the two fell for the blackmail operation is Trump. If he had dirt on the Clintons, he would have released it day one.
The French didn't exactly speed run it themselves.
I'm currently listening to old episodes of the Revolutions podcast, and am midway through the French and it bares no resemblance to what's going on now. Which, when it gets to the reign of terror, might be a good thing... But that's the one part of it that I could see happening again.
A lot of the terror was fueled by a murderous little shit with a bootleg newspaper. There's a reason why lible and slander laws are so powerful in that part of Europe.
The fact that they think they don't need to hide it anymore.
That's what's new. And the consequences for everyone else are pretty fucking dire. Before, they had to pretend to be honest, and some were, if only because they feared repercussions, like a big investigation that would kill their reelection. And a federal investigation would likely mean actual jail time. It's happened before, not often, but it has happened.
The threat of a federal investigation is gone, so any hesitancy to rob the public coffers is also gone.
The only threat they needed to make was a return to general population.
I seem to remember him being attacked by another inmate. Instead of being put into protective custody he was put on suicide watch, which is its own kind of hell.
So, he changed his will to fuck over his victims, and is suddenly pulled off suicide watch.
The only two people needed to then make sure Epstein was dead would be the warden probably Epstein's own lawyer. Maybe the psychiatrist who signed off on the removal from suicide watch... But the suicide watch wasn't initially justified, so pulling Epstein off it wouldn't seem strange.
Hell, if you were a clever, high placed official in the DOJ, an example being Bill Barr, you could simply tell the warden to "put some pressure on the pedo" and then use the lawyer to deliver the real message of "kill yourself before we put you into the general population".
Then you get a dead loose end and no record of illegal activity inside the prison. Also you only have to buy off a single person who likely already has questionable morals.
Well, it did look like things were getting better. The civil rights act was a move in the right direction, and then you had diversity initiatives and you could be excused for thinking that things would actually be better. And then Reagan stepped in and started undoing all the wins, focusing first on breaking Unions and Labor rights, which hurt minority most, but eventually fucked everyone.
Brunel wasn't murdered, he committed suicide to escape consequences and as a giant fuck you to his victims. He had initially tried to hide from the cops, then tried suicide multiple times, and finally someone allowed him the opportunity to try one last time.
Brunel was an aging monster who was finally facing consequences. And again, in France. He had multiple attempts at fleeing the mortal coil, and finally got it right.
Conspiratorial thinking is fun and all, but you end up turning off your brain when you engage in it. You just admitted you know nothing of the case and then declare that he must have been murdered. Do you see the problem here?
While Bill is a rapist, neither he not Hillary are stupid.
Epstein was running an obvious blackmail operation.
The Clintons seem to have met Epstein around the time frame when Bill was being scrutinized for not keeping it in his pants.
They also seem to have actually cut ties with Epstein after his conviction.
Bill did borrow the plane in those years before the conviction. So there are still questions to be answered, but I still don't think Bill did anything on the plane.
Brunel was in a French prison and had actually attempted suicide multiple times before he got it right.
He had been released to house arrest awaiting his trial and the French cops were actually paying attention, so when he almost instantly violated the terms, he went right back to prison.
By law in France, suicide watch has a limited duration. Brunel exploited this.
In one email, dated July 2013 and written by Epstein about Gates, the late pedophile alleges the billionaire sought to conceal from his wife Melinda French Gates a sexually transmitted disease he contracted after having sex with “Russian girls.”
The email claims Gates sought antibiotics to secretly give her. It is not clear whether the email was sent to Gates, but he denied the allegation as “completely false” via a spokesperson in late January.
In his call on Tuesday, however, Gates confirmed he had extramarital relationships during his 27-year marriage with two Russian women.
“I did have affairs, one with a Russian bridge player who met me at bridge events, and one with a Russian nuclear physicist who I met through business activities,” he said.
During the call, Gates acknowledged flying on a private plane with Epstein and spending time with him in the U.S. and abroad — but insisted that he had not witnessed or participated in illegal activity.
“I did nothing illicit. I saw nothing illicit,” Gates reportedly told staff. “To be clear, I never spent any time with the victims, the women around him.”
Gates said he first met Epstein in 2011, after the financier’s Florida conviction for procuring a child for prostitution, and continued to socialize with him despite concerns raised by his then-wife.
A physicist and a Bridge player...
Sure, we believe that Bill, we just need you to answer a few more questions. Maybe some pointed questions about this and a few other subjects. Maybe even edged questions if you will.
Chris Poole, also known as moot on 4chan, personally met with Epstein just a month before launching the politics board.
Also, pizza is one of the most commonly eaten foods in America. Only really beaten out by burgers.