Travis is talking about the attacks on Abqaiq and Khurais in 2019. You know, not that long ago.
Earlier I said I was sure military officers told Trump and Hegseth the current situation would happen but maybe I am being too charitable.
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Finally: If you're considering replying with something like "This isn't incompetence, they meant to do this, you're a special kind of stupid" please just don't.
They can court-martial military officers for incompetence. Can we try civilian officials for this?
Trying it would take a Democratic administration with more steel than history suggests they can muster, unfortunately.
I am 100% positive knowledgable people - military officers, intel, econ and political analysts - told them this would happen. _I_ could have told them this would happen.
And they went ahead anyway.
I am naive enough to be surprised by that.
Idiot plot
He excels at that.
This post brought to you by me seeing a news report of an event far away, not knowing where that is, and being able to find out almost immediately
When I was a kid my uncle gave me a box full of paper maps he’d collected from thirty-odd years of National Geographic magazines. I loved them. Pored over them endlessly.
If I’d known Google Earth and similar was on its way within my lifetime I’d have flipped.
Malacca, which has huge potential for bottleneck and economic damage (but maybe not quite in Hormuz’s league)
FWIW “warfighter” is not a new term. It’s been used in the (US) defense world since at least the late 1990s. I always assumed it’s because it’s way shorter than soldier/sailor/airman/marine/coastie (and now add “/guardian”) , but maybe it’s also to distinguish front liners from admin folks?
… Can I come over?
The better AI image generation gets - and it’s getting better all the time - the more of us will slip up occasionally. The only way forward is to be gracious when someone makes a mistake, because that’s going to be all of us sooner or later.
Deleted! Not sure why, but possible it was inaccurate somehow.
Anyway. They’re still spending our health care to kill thousands in Iran.
The devil: I know you want your daughter to be able to go to the doctor, but instead let me offer you depriving people of desperately needed water.
Lindsey Graham: That’s a good deal, you should take it
Me: I-
Graham: He’ll take it
I’m happy to trade them both for blowing the shit out of some Iranian port facilities though. I mean, life is so much better.
I don’t know where we are going to get the money for insurance for my kid in November, I’ll be honest
My rough done-in-my-head-while-at-the-gym math is this would have bought health insurance for 10, maybe 15,000 people
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I think I heard most of them overflying my house in Pennsylvania last night.
Narrator voice: Dear viewer, it was not... No, I can't do this anymore. [sound of studio headphones hitting a table] [Voice slightly more distant] Nope, I'm done. Screw the contract. [door slams] [dead air]
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You, an observant and savvy person: Hey Clark, haven't you frequently griped that pointing out hypocrisy is useless?
Me: Quiet, you
Me: Explain to me why we are bombing Iran
Them: They're a theocracy. You can tell because their priests are also their government officials
Also them:
I know there are plenty of queer friendly organized religions, for a long list of reasons that wasn’t going to happen
Bog standard scientific materialism in my engineering education started it, but deciding we wanted to raise our kids to be queer friendly sealed the deal (good thing too, based on how they’re going)
Me: Why are there a bunch of kids yelling and carrying on at this time of night? [figures it’s nothing good, goes into alert mode]
Me, 20 seconds later: Canada geese. A flock of Canada geese.
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