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Yeah, with their knockoff ARs. They’ll show the Iranians.

Hegseth is a fucking pussy, a tweener girl in an adult male body.

The Navy is increasingly concerned that the Islamic State or other terrorist groups could acquire and deploy cheap naval mines, which analysts say are available on the international black market to any group able and willing to pay. One potential nightmare scenario: A few mines in the Strait of Hormuz in the Middle East could shut down the key shipping channel for days or weeks. A fifth of the world’s oil supply moves through the narrow passage, the only route connecting the oil-rich Persian Gulf region to the open sea. Blocking it for even a few days could have a significant impact on global markets. To emphasize the concern, the mine-clearing exercise led by the U.S. this spring tested how the international community would respond if a terrorist group placed mines in Hormuz or in other strategic choke points in the region. Reporters for The Virginian-Pilot and the Investigative Reporting Program traveled to Bahrain in April to observe the exercise.

I wrote this a decade ago after traveling to Bahrain while investigating the U.S. Navy's aging minesweeping systems, which had fallen into disrepair:

"One potential nightmare scenario: A few mines in the Strait of Hormuz in the Middle East could shut down the key shipping channel for days or weeks"

This is serious MACV-grade propaganda bullshit.

This is serious MACV-grade propaganda bullshit.

Joe Biden had nothing to do with the high price of eggs in 2024, but he was blamed nonstop by the GOP, and corporate media went along with it.

Donald Trump has everything to do for the high price of gasoline in 2026, but he'll get no blame from the GOP, and corporate media will go along with it.

Video AI actress Tilly Norwood releases music video The AI-generated actress released a music video, “Take the Lead," that looks to reframe artificial intelligence as a tool being utilized by humans instead as a replacement for humans.

I'm of the opinion that everyone involved in this AI project should be (figuratively) pelted with rotten tomatoes whenever they show their greedy, vile mugs in public. Their families should disown them and their dogs should bite them.

abcnews.com/video/130962...

Not great when the only people in the free world who believe and trust Vladimir Putin’s word on critical things despite all evidence to the contrary are currently running the government of the United States.

Good thinking!

Say it’s necessary to counter the economic effects of Trump’s Stupid War in just that language. Lots of calling his war stupid and blasting him for nuking the economy.

He’ll pitch a fit and oppose it

You do know that Haiphong harbor was seeded with just a handful of live mines (and a lot of dummies) and that was enough to completely close it?

“Those things could be mines” work almost as well as ones that go ka-bang.

No tanker will run the risk of sailing into a mine, other than at gunpoint.

WHAT??!?

They didn’t know that mines exist? A technology that predates the Revolutionary War is a surprise to them?

(Or did they think that “mines” only have something to do with coal?)

I imagine that those who are owners or managers of companies that make plastic will end up in Hell, if it exists.

For within a human lifetime, they have and continue to foul the Earth, its oceans, lands, atmosphere and every living creature therein for profit.

Reason #1: because they can be claimed to the American people that they were actually looking out for them, unlike Trump?

Reason #2: because Republicans were going to think of it, eventually, so why not get the credit for it?

The old joke about the difference between the Trump Administration and the Boy Scouts being competent adult supervision comes to mind.

Taking a ship into a strait narrow enough that it’s within point-blank range for an antiship missile is not the best idea I’ve ever heard.

The days of pumping out a destroyer-escort a week from the shipyards are long gone.

I wonder if they tried to tell Trump and, since he’s dumb, he thought it had something to do with coal and dismissed it.

Hegseth, well, he’s just stupid for the reason you mentioned- no sexy kablooie to show on Fox News.

This is top-shelf-grade incompetence. Did everyone forget about the mining of the Persian Gulf during the PG war?

I can imagine someone telling Trump and him dismissing it and telling Hegseth, who is too stupid to understand the issue.

Trump rally with lots of signs calling for mass deportations.

Too late. Pepperidge Farms remembers.

Do we need any more evidence that there is a substantial undercurrent of racism and bigotry in the American body politic?

Can we hang the mofo?

(Asking for a friend.)

Gary Yeomans Honda of Daytona Beach, in case you want to find somewhere else to sell you a car.

I'll say this again: Trump operates on the Frank Burns Rule-- Everything bad that happens is God's will or somebody else's fault.

Unfortunately, we don't have a Trapper John to punch him out.

They couldn't find data for the Vietnam War?

If Trump/Netanyahu want to destroy all military production infrastructure, are they planning to bomb every machine shop and auto repair garage in the country?

FYI, trying to do that in Japan (including the Tokyo fire raids 81 years ago) didn't get them to stop. (Didn't work for Germany, either.)

Yup.

~10 years ago, Black people tried to tell y'all that this was the inevitable outcome of the detailed plan written by literal nazis in the US.

We told white folk exactly how they planned to accomplish this, and why.

And instead of listening to us, people in the US listened to literal nazis?🤦🏿‍♂️

When I had a Civic, 3rd was probably the one I had it in unless I was on the highway. There, 5th was it- 34mpg at 70-75, 41mpg if I was driving legal speeds.

The way gas prices are going, I'll be sad that I don't still have that car.

Unfortunate that so much US political media is committed to ignorance, credulity, and obsequiousness, because the response to Trump saying Iran has tomahawks should’ve been incessant questioning like “how did you let that happen?,” “did you authorize sales?,” and “who are you holding accountable?”

The FBI is not a law-enforcement agency. They are a Trumpist goon squad.

They have earned the respect accorded to KGB thugs and ICE agents.

“Just noticing”?? Were they in a coma for the last year?

They could refuse to supply water and sewer service.