it's what they need their base to believe
13.03.2026 07:51
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it's what they need their base to believe
I feel like the administration is at that part in an action flick where the bad guy is gloating thinking he is invincible, and only then it is revealed that he's suffered a fatal blow.
looks like we traded generations of healthcare for 4 days worth of missiles
Clippy saying "Looks like you started an illegal war with Iran without any plan what to do, blew up the Supreme Leader, his daughter, son-in-law, grandson, and a daughter-in-law, the wife of the new Supreme Leader, his son, and now they've closed the Strait of Hormuz and you don't know how to get out of this. Need some help?"
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Force majeure: What is it and why have some Gulf countries invoked it?
Force majeure: What is it and why have some Gulf countries invoked it? https://aje.news/6fq1ue
Oh, is it rerun week on Star Trek: The Next Generation? Well you're going to watch it anyway, you punk bitch, and you're gonna watch Cops after it as well.
What pluto TV needs is a few channels that combine episodes from all of their other channels in a regular weekly schedule, so that by constraining my kids to only those channels, I can recreate for them the experience of my formative television years.
Granted that it is only Oman's FM saying this out loud at present, but it is clearly a goal of the Iranian response to make every Gulf state reconsider its commitment to being part of the US security regime.
teens these days just won't follow the rules
"The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly he can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don't what the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud." — National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, 8 Sep 2002
As a thought experiment imagine if we went to war without considering the most blindingly obvious complications.
first of all, what the hell is this talking about?
second of all, you're missing something in your api calls because the replies and parents are not loading correctly
they can have Trump tied to one naval escort ship and Netanyahu tied to another
he seems shook
what the fuck is going on here
you don't say
just Ukraine sir?
I wonder how well they understand that they can survive the bombings for longer than Trump's already fleeting popularity can run last before turning into near universal revile as the wrong numbers go up
I in no way support the tyrannical rulers of Iran, but there is something almost poetic about how Trump is clearly stymied by their response to his bluster being "So bring it, bitch."
Step one: I punch a tiger!! Directly in the nose!! Ahahaha
Step two: ???!!!????!!
On some level I’m not sure my mind can quite grasp the raw stupidity of conducting a massive decapitation strike against Iran with no day two plan whatsoever, and then immediately finding yourself in a worldwide energy crisis with no off-ramp because you didn’t expect Iran to react
Here’s why MAGA is attacking our movement:
There’s a new war in the Middle East.
There’s a cost of living crisis.
There’s a secret pedophile ring.
They're hoping Americans care more about culture wars than actual wars. More about pronouns than prices.
We're not falling for it.
i feel like if i was tasked with not starting a war and bringing back US manufacturing jobs, i could have done a better job than this
it's infuriating.
it's easy to think 'well if they're agreeing with Fuentes then they were always bigots', but we have to acknowledge that a lot of people are politically adrift, and just dumb, and we ought not be giving demagogues opportunities to appear to hold a moral high ground
get their asses
The newest MAGA superstar Jake Lang has just been exposed as yet another child predator with leaked texts showing him trying to groom someone he thought was 15 years old
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2gK...
At the same time, there's little value in playing the No-True-Scotsman game.
We should be as clear and objective as we can about what segments of the population we're talking about.
It's unwarranted to interpret the response 'folks routinely listening to Owens and Fuentes and thinking of flipping their registration to Republican aren't progressive even if they like Mamdani and are registered as Democrat' as 'nobody on the left is antisemitic'.
I think the concern here is that routinely listening to Nick Fuentes and Candace Owen exposed one to a lot more than anti-zionism.
Who do you suppose those two would identify as the elites "purposefully keeping the general population under their control"?
Voters are not monads who can only form their opinions from first principles.
But yes, everyone is free to disregard anyone else's opinions, to their credit or to their peril.
In the interest of fairness I'm letting you know that I'm going to be disregarding yours via the mute feature.
