and to every earnest dork who tries to say "the American people want to get back to normal" in 2027-2029, you can honestly and ethically say "I think the American people want Content, dawg" and keep asking for impeachments and truth commissions and new Pecora commissions, etc.
It would be cool if prominent figures and journalists aggressively called out right wing propagandists instead of routinely leaving the task to late night comedians and satirists
thinking about the rumor that the only reason Mojtaba's mother made it to the hospital (albeit to die 2 days later from wounds) is because he personally performed CPR on her
i think jamelle bouie is where i got this point from (though its obviously not unique to him): trump doesnt escape consequences so much as the institutions designed to impose consequences refuse to penalize him. this is absolutely not the same thing. hes not magic, people are just lazy and stupid.
Just unreal. We are about to endure a COVID-level economic disruption with no end in sight.
The drum that really need to get beaten is that the single biggest blocking point for Iran breaking out was that the supreme leader was sincerely religiously opposed to nuclear weapons, which is why we, very smartly (/s) blew him up
Not just this, his kid who replaced him has the exact opposite view
The old man didnβt want nukes, Jr absolutely does (and now has a damn good argument for building them). Absolute idiocy
Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms
"Carrot often struck people as simple. And he was.
Where people went wrong was thinking that simple meant the same thing as stupid."
a-fucking-men.
they wonβt, but i will, prepare to say your goodbyes to the gavel, you bastards
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Incompetent fascist fuckery finding out.
Maximalist demands, surprise war, assassination of religious supreme leader, & stated goals of regime change & unconditional surrender by USA along with USA/Israeli bombing choicesβ¦
β¦does not encourage iranian restraint.
EXACTLY the opposite.
Yes.
ICE agents don't get to carve out a First Amendment exception for themselves.
The thing you never stop hearing about the Dem elite β that their messaging on certain issues was captured by a noisy sliver of the population who donβt talk like normal people β is all thatβs happening to the entirety of elite gop, admin and otherwise β comms and policymakers
Per the Bible, Jesus specifically identified himself with the poor, the people others turn away (and he suggested you likely go to hell if u do that), and those in prisons
The intensity of the conservative religious response to Talarico is interesting, partly because, again, his theology isn't really new.
It *is* unusual for a white, Southern male mainliner to make his liberal Christianity so central to his campaign that his *slogan is a Bible reference,* butβ¦
today:
- UAE is apparently out of / heavily rationing interceptors
- one container ship and two oil tankers hit in the gulf west of hormuz
excellent gambit, sir,
Donβt forget that the port of Oman is just on fire
get used to it, buddy, this is what you (figuratively, idk about this specific farmer) voted for
TWO??
This is my nightmare scenario. They are oil tankers. Every single one is a Valdez-level eco disaster waiting to happen, and now they're at risk of getting blown the fuck up.
Oh, and look, here's that class action suit! That anyone with half a brain would have seen coming! From, like, a million miles away!
Just because you work in tech doesn't mean you're smart.
it really is unfortunately this simple - we elected the stupidest narcissists absolutely convinced that they could just go and "assert warfighter dominance" or whatever, those pussy liberals didn't wanna FIGHT!!!, and are just now shocked that the enemy gets a vote too
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Logging off.
Had to drink this evening to cope with mining the fucking strait of hormuz. I cannot believe I am going to lose my job because of this orange piece of shit.
Fuck everyone who vote for him for fucking ever.
The other reason that I think Iran does not currently want an agreement is that Mojtaba watched his dad, mom, wife, sister, and at least one child die in front of him in the initial airstrikes.
The dude (already more radical than his father) does not want a peace deal, he wants revenge.
Boy I sure am glad we don't have a bunch of military bases in the Persian Gulf that rely on ships traveling through the Strait of Hormuz for resupply.
the last ship to be a sunk by a mine in the north sea was Marmara in... 1960... 15 years after the end of hostilities
Fun to sit here in my break room, watching literally dozens of trucks drive by on the regular, and wonder how many of them will still have jobs in a month. Myself very much included.
USCENTCOMβs entire reason for existence for the last forty years has been to prevent exactly THIS ONE THING from happening
and yet
Iran has begun laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz, the worldβs most important energy chokepoint that carries about one-fifth of all crude oil, according to two people familiar with US intelligence reporting on the issue.
