Josh H

That’s more than half the annual budget of the National Science Foundation.

i only mention this because of a few replies i see written as if the problem is the trump admin being too lazy or incompetent to bother coming up with a good plan: there is no possible good plan. "don't provoke iran into closing the strait" is the plan, if you're past that you're fucked

if you just say it and don't think about it, Persians are the Sicilians of the middle east

I for one immediately made “ayatollah john wick” jokes

welcome to bluesky, here is your copy of the communist manifesto and a complete world baseball classic schedule for some reason

I do feel like a lot of people even outside of that class don’t know that The Art of War was basically written as A Guide For How to War Good For Especially Stupid Toddlers

Every fourth sentence feels like Sun Tzu was biting back a “, you fucking dipshits” as an addendum

Detroit

US watching a movie where a vigilante’s entire family is wiped out: “Oh yeah, time for fucking vengeance, this dude will never stop. Get them!”

US watching Iran pick a Supreme Leader who just had his entire family wiped out: “This guy is plainly going to be reasonable and fold.”

Montana basketball player Money Williams

Broke: dollar bills

Woke:

Screenshot from the article saying: “Thomas Florsheim Jr, the CEO of Florsheim’s parent company, said he was not aware of Trump’s preferences and declined to comment further.”

Hilarious that the owner isn’t even pretending to be excited about the publicity.

I did not actually throw up but I am struggling to hold my stomach after taking both ubrelvy AND imitrex, so pray for me

Minesweeper but it's the Strait of Hormuz. Source: sweepthestrait.com

None of them can talk coherently about strategy or goals but they are completely in sync in all their macho posturing because that is all they’re really focused on. Everything else is just whatever limply offered fiction is convenient to them at the time.

they thought Venezuela meant they were invincible and could do whatever they wanted and don’t understand that different countries are different and have agency and might not go along with your plans

in the stripped club. straight up "jorking it". and by "it", haha, well. let's justr say. My peanits

The 2023 time stamp on this canon post is incredible. This is a 2014 weird twitter post. It’s like discovering the living coelacanth

FILED TO: yeah, no shit

That this war with Iran is unpopular in a way never before recorded in American history has seen remarkably little attention from the press

this is also my ongoing frustration. you can not run for office on "democracy is under threat" and then lose and go "oh well, nice game everyone"

they put us in a constant state of hypervigilance & terror begging for our last $5 to save the country and then they do the joint softball game.

COLLINS: I want to remember something you said last summer

*plays Marshall a clip of him saying "I think it will take years for Iran to restart their nuclear program"*

SEN. MARSHALL: Look, I was wrong. I believe we obliterated those nuclear facilities, but now they're restarting programs elsewhere

me after discovering I’m having a migraine after waking up from a nap

a consistent theme in the liveposting is Qatar being like, wtf hornets stop stinging me it’s not my fault the school bully (who I pretend hasn’t hurt my feelings with his jokes) punted your nest oww wtf

I legitimately believe the world would be less ballistic if 17yo kids had portrayals in media of other teenagers falling into a relationship organically and having a super awkward hookup, Fight me, Jackie Goforth, and we’ll learn how long you were a virgin for

I say this as someone who was 19 and engaging with proto-redpill content in 2007, who realized nearly 20 years later that he was accidentally dodging getting laid the entire time. Autism, sure. But either way, the youth need shapes of things to emulate, and that starts with juvie lit

half the reason we have incels is because kids got dumped into the real world at age 19 with zero archetypes and social scripts for how your first hookup is supposed to work. they get mad at what hard knocks with gender roles 50 years out of date look like and react as you might expect

waiting for Iran to demand impeachment and nuremberg trials

devising a new social media platform where you get three energy to spend every turn, posts can attack or defend, and the goal of the platform is slightly more obviously about defeating other commenters than here

No win scenario

All the planning involved some combination of "those assholes fired first" and "The World Has Decided It Is Time To End The Iranian Threat," both involve a level of ally+partner integration that is absolutely not the case here

There was literally no plan for "YOLO Iran war w/Bibi"

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.

I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.

1/ Here's what I can share:

that’s the magic of rag-tag, folks