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His wife could be slim, kind, the perfect wife and mother and it wouldn't matter. Look at Chris Tyson and the partner he abandoned to wear skirts. His wife was pretty, his son adorable, both ditched without hesitation to "be the real him".
Give me tophats I hate mother fuckers who take family for granted.
A good-looking wife doesn't mean a happy home life. That doesn't excuse trooning out at all, not even a little bit, but I've seen two "ideal" marriages implode where, when you scratched the surface, even though the man bore ultimate blame for cheating, there were years of a downward spiral where the woman did her part just as much to ruin the relationship. In this particular case of the ChatGPT girlfriend, it's not even porn or whores. It's just a bot saying words. Is the bot saying something his wife can't? Unlikely. If he feels like he can't open up to his wife, there's a reason for that, and it's probably not just, "he's a narcissist." Maybe it is. I've seen a marriage go bad because the man was a total narc as well. It can happen. But I don't assume.

Chicago’s massive black vote does not empower blacks; it empowers Democrats. By ensconcing the likes of Pritzker in power, it is pulling the entire state down the Democrat Death Spiral.
If people didn't like living in shitholes, they could stop electing Democrats, but the truth is, most people who live in shitholes actually like it that way.
 
I live in this "natural world" hippie. Utah is my land. The feds can fuck right off and i can do what i want with my clay.
You're not the only poster who lives or has lived west of the Rockies, it's just cringe to powerlevel about that stuff when we should all be equally amorphous niggers before the forum.
 
No city wants to become like Portland which has high housing costs despite having no high paying industries and a low population growth rate, because they did exactly what you said.

Sprawl is the only way to keep house prices down besides deportation.
We can't deport many as is. Even if you deported all the illegals here, you still have over 3 million people stuck in a box canyon essentially. We need to grow out.
 
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Late but I keep seeing people memeing on the tucker cruz interview. I saw the clip of cruz saying he got into politics 13 years ago with the intention of being the biggest defender of israel (seriously) but have yet to watch it. Are the people who say it's basically a litmus test for who's retarded actually right, or does tucker come off as retarded? I'll listen to it later.
Also this is the only one of these posts that I actually laughed at.
Cruz is retard and I believe the only reason he got as far as he got is because he will unapolegetically suck off israel, and has no allegiance or loyalty besides that.
I only saw the clips posted here but regarding the Iran question, as somehow who is gunho about going to war with Iran, this kind of basic elementary school level info should be a no brainier, specially going into an interview where you know its a hot topic. The question about the ethnic makeup is a bit of a reach on Tucker's part, but again I don't think is too out of field.

The part regarding AIPAC is hilarious as Ted drives himself into a knot trying to avoid admitting that it is a foreign lobby, even with Carson basically saying "its ok we got plenty of those nothing wrong with it".
Pretty sure you can spot the clips if you go over the thread highlights.
 
Tried searching the thread for an answer but couldn't find one. Is Isreal having issues with that Iron Dome? Seem like more and more of these rockets are making contact with Isreal. Today alone it looks like they hit a hospital and their stock exchange building.
The Iron Dome is made to stop short-range rockets and artillery shells, not ballistic missiles.
 
Serious question - why are there so many homeless in Salt Lake City? I've unfortunately visited it quite a lot, and I've always been surprised by the seemingly large number of homeless, given the hot summers and relatively cold winters.
Winter. There isn't anywhere else for them to go but the major cities when winter comes. And make no mistake. Below -20F will kill a person without shelter. On the upside, literally everywhere else here doesn't have homeless retards
 
Oklahoma Pride alliance says they've lost hundreds of thousands of dollars from corporate sponsors due to new DEI policies.

"Our LGBTQ youth don’t have a lot of affirming spaces, especially in Oklahoma. It saves lives.”

 
I saw the clip of cruz saying he got into politics 13 years ago with the intention of being the biggest defender of israel (seriously) but have yet to watch it. Are the people who say it's basically a litmus test for who's retarded actually right, or does tucker come off as retarded? I'll listen to it later.
Tucker is his typical self with someone he disagrees with, annoying and sometimes argumentative but Cruz came off extremely badly in my opinion.

He had a few lines of questioning where Ted weaseled and refused to answer or twisted to go off on long only semi-related tangents to avoid answering the question.
What does AIPAC do and do they work on behalf of the Israeli government?
Is there proof that Iran has tried to assassinate Trump twice like bibi said?
If they have why are we neot hitting them directly?

Not to mention saying that "The nation of Israel" in the Bible is that the same as "Israel" the country and its what the Bible meant and that Christians should gunt guard them because of it.

There were multiple instances I was just shaking my head, somewhat annoyed at both of them for how they were going about the conversation.
It might have also been because I despise the slimy way Cruz talks. There's something performative about it, especially with how he self-aggrandizes constantly. So, I'd say just watch it yourself. I may be biased.

It's just a bot saying words. Is the bot saying something his wife can't? Unlikely. If he feels like he can't open up to his wife, there's a reason for that
He said himself it's because he wants instant gratification, this isn't a mystery and it's not something he's denying. Just because his wife could say "you're so right, husband! That's so smart and cool and very awesome. Want to explore further how cool you are? Just let me know and we'll dive in" to everything he says like ChatGPT will doesn't mean she should, and it's not anything anyone should expect from their spouse because it's an unhealthy extreme that only offers dopamine with nothing constructive.

And I say this as someone who's a big fan of hyping up your wife or husband and complimenting them as much as you can so they're reminded frequently you actually like being around them and appreciate them.
 
About that ICE raid in Nebraska. NBC breathlessly reported how terrible it is for the owner of the meat packing plant and community. Featuring anchor babies of illegals organizing protests (sounds like a foreign fifth column fomenting sedition to me)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/omaha-immigration-workplace-raid-aftermath-rcna212931 https://archive.ph/Bifhq

Unfortunately, E-Verify is a failure but you're not allowed to dig deeper because muh discrimination. And business owners look the other way. I'm sure the social security number for Alice Johnson (age 139) passed the e-verify with flying colors. Perhaps you can enforce English proficiency on the applications....
Follow up to this raid - as predicted, 70 or so of the arrested illegal aliens were using stolen identities.
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But according to some immigration layer, they didn't break any laws...
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It's all so tiresome. I guess being here illegally gives you carte blanche to break whatever laws you want and still be considered by some a "non-criminal".
 
Military wise it would actually be easier if there were a similar victory condition. Gulf War 1 was very simple, Saddam was in Kuwait, the goal was to get him out. We destroyed his forces in Kuwait and the rest fled, mission accomplished.

Iran's military is much smaller than Saddam's was in the 90s, about half the size. They have more advanced ships and more advanced jets, but way fewer than Iraq did, and both Naval and Air force are areas where the US can literally achieve a perfect kill ratio so you don't have to die for Israel.

They have far weaker ground forces and likely less militia networks though that's hard to gauge.

There is also an experience gap, in the 90s the Iraqi military was actually quite battle hardened after wars with Iran, Israel, and others, 2025 Iranian forces haven't really done anything in notable 30 years.

The problem as usual comes from victory conditions. If there's even a neuron of thought dedicated to the idea of nation building then it's over, the muslim world has only gotten better at figuring out how to undermine any attempt at being dragged into the 12th century or beyond. If the goal is simply to fuck their ability to do damage that would be relatively easy and likely wouldn't require an invasion.

As usual, it all comes down to how nice we want to play.
Our military isn't the problem. Even wars we "lost" like Vietnam and Afghanistan only lost because of politics, not combat, even the Taliban and North Vietnam will agree.

The issue is more geopolitical
 
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