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Media vibes are now battlefields

Pictures of burning oil tankers running nonstop on CNN, oil up sharply. Huge tactical success for Iran’s apparent “okay let’s stop being cagey and just make a bunch of stuff go boom in front of cameras” plan

Oh look what it is. The exact same goddamn thing for the 8th time.

Doubly this.

US hegemony depends on the ability to underwrite the security of its allies. Job number one of this underwriting is to avoid insolvency. Israel is a bad debtor who should have been dropped long time ago. Failure to do so is pushing US closer to insolvency.

Still shaking my head over the dumbass Foreign Affairs article that suggests dropping S Korea as an ally because it may embroil US into an unnecessary war. WE ARE HAVING AN UNNECESSARY WAR RIGHT NOW BECAUSE OF A SUPPOSED ALLY WHO'S WORTHLESS YOU FUCKING MORON

The Department of 𝖣̶𝖾̶𝖿̶𝖾̶𝗇̶𝗌̶𝖾̶ War two weeks after choosing to start the US’s most intense armed conflict in decades:

Under no circumstances should Dems provide money for the Iran War. It becomes a ratified war approval. They should not game out being tough on Iran in ads or whatever. Do the right and Constitutional thing.

This war is being censored to hell and back. We don’t really have a fucking clue what’s happening.

The Iranian drone attack in Kuwait that killed U.S. service members was more severe than previously known. Dozens were injured with brain trauma, shrapnel wounds and burns, with over 30 still hospitalized, including about 25 at Landstuhl in Germany. -CBS News

Libs getting the Papacy and the Mainline in the national divorce, along with football and Budweiser.

a sign that says here detel on it Alt: A bunch of Space Marines running back and forth frantically in front of a flashing alert that reads HERESY DETECTED! From context it's apparently inside a human brain

The entire world when a mainline Protestant says a mainline take with Scriptural basis and the spiciness of stale preground black pepper:

Why are the politics of the bag area so cursed?

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The breathless assertions in the aftermath of Trump's election back in Dec 2024 of RFK Jr and Tulsi's somehow being 2028 nominees to a new cowed Dem Party are even more laughable now than they were then.

Much easier to think that it's a combination of CIA/ Rothschild/ Lockheed Martin/Blackrock/ Mossad/ MI6/ various unnamed business interests.

I've heard so many theories on what the goal, or objectives is for this war, and no one is willing to even countenance that there is no plan, they are way in over the heads, and we're just stuck with the consequences of their ineptitude.

Ive said it before, contemplating that the people who are nominally in charge are just plain stupid is more frightening a thought gor people than some shadowy organization that controls everything.

I think about this chart sometimes.

happened in Trump 1, too. There were guardrails to minimize things like civilian casualties from drone strikes - how well they worked is a different convo, but they existed - and he scrapped them,

but No DiFfErEnCe BeTwEeN the ParTies

The single most American thing you can do is come to America with a burning desire to live in the land of your dream of freedom, crossing jungles and rivers and mountains and deserts because of your unshakable belief that a better life awaits through the golden door. That’s the core ethos.

The idea that America isn’t for everyone who wants to be an American is something that makes my blood boil. Posting a photo of yourself as a Congressman smiling next to these words is wicked. It’s antithetical to the concept of America.

Hey CENTCOM you’ve been planning for this for decades, you wanna dust off that OPLAN for Hormuz now buddy?

CENTCOM:

Tucker Carlson, Quincy Institute, Candace Owens, and millions of others just experienced the completion of this seven year plan

If I did not wish to be sent to Iraq I would simply not volunteer for the United States Marine Corps and seek a combat MOS in the Year of Our Lord Two Thousands and Four but I guess lying and pinning your bad decisions on Susan Collins works too

this conflict is stupid, wrong, and infuriating

If there is an upside here at all it’s that there is no possible thing you can wish on the “anti-war” movement that’s worse than the absurd Dadaist hell of their own making that they’ve trapped themselves in

This is why the odds of the [Make a Desert and Call It] Peace Candidate loosing a nuclear weapon against Iran are higher than anyone is currently comfortable admitting

The Big Beautiful Blackpill is that it was the neoconservative warmongers holding back the worst of Trump during his first regime, and his new cabinet of anti-war populists have cut him loose for reasons of [Judge_Holden_Ultimate_Trade.txt]

It’s really cool that it was, and largely still is, possible to make a career as a well-spoken lefty out of deliberately misunderstanding the extreme right