oh, Arthur Hertzberg told me that in Japan in the 1980s and 1990s he used to get asked - usually late at night - about the Elders of Zion and how the Japanese could get membership moderately often.

"Hoppers" sounds like a slur for a frog

that sound you hear is the deafening laughter of trans people

who ordered the hit, ryan day?

the plan, such as it is, appears to be “bomb a country of 90 million people that is already facing a water crisis into a failed state, walk away and declare victory” this is a monstrous nightmare regardless of whether or not it “works”

Yes! Yes!! Yes!!!

Eisenhower presidency really is one of the all time historiographic Houdinis

man don't google this guy called Mossadegh

yep, also we aren't going to like the consequences of turning iran into a failed state down the line

We talked about the thrust of the Trump quote on potential leaders being removed for the episode of the podcast recorded tonight and I know it sounds funny but the implications it holds for the civilian population in Iran are incredibly dire and it’s hard to laugh at it for that reason.

what bothers me about Chuck Schumer and the Middle East is that he is regularly disloyal to the party to Israel's benefit, including his attempt to torpedo the JCPOA and inviting Netanyahu to stump against Biden during the 2024 election

i don't think any of these guys are pro-platner (maybe leonid, no idea)?

we’ve strayed so far from god’s light

there is no metric by which this is true. even 2028 primary polling (which is meaningless in general but seems like a fair yardstick here) doesn’t have him on top. just a brazen attempt to impose him on us by the rich and the commentariat.

tired: platner is another fetterman wired: platner is another tulsi inspired: platner is another cynthia mckinney

“boy i really just hope platner isn’t another fetterman” (monkey’s paw curls)

utterly unhinged desktop setup here

almost everybody rightly mad at polymarket thought martha stewart did nothing wrong in 2004 send skeet

this is rage bait, folks, you can get this shit at, like, wal-mart

“i was arguing with elias isquith of the nyt and stephen bush of the ft and then diedrich bader shows up” is simply not a sentence tiktok or insta will ever produce

One reason why I *think* where I land is “I wouldn’t use either neoconservatism or imperialism to describe this, at least not yet”, is that these isms’ main utility is helping us to understand what comes next. And I don’t think that either really does.

i mean, we’ll see on the “can’t do shit” front, but folks are getting mad at this post thinking it’s rah-rah rather than just analysis

You fools in the media ivory towers don’t realize that in the critical election year, when Donald trump triumphantly campaigns to the country about how he helped kill the supreme leader of Iran, a man with the blood of countless Americans on his hands, American voters will shower our president with…

oh okay

I don’t even really think this is fair. Iraq was heavily debated publicly, and there was a plan. It was a stupid and delusional plan based on unrealistic assumptions, but it was known publicly and voted on by Congress. There was no public debate or Congressional authorization in this instance.

okay, deleting this because he apparently meant michigan rather than miami. we regret the error

It's genuinely wild how much better her and Tlaib are than all of Congress

Looks like they shouldn’t have opened up all those craft breweries and wood fired pizza places.

i already called my shot on ossoff a few months ago but i’ll go for a stretch pick: spanberger as veep. woke 2 comes out of the south, led by a jewish guy and a cia operative. it would drive the online right maximally insane and is in keeping with this show’s lazy writers room

The 20K is in Navy hulls (the 075/076 LHDs and 071 LPDs, also all the LSTs/etc), civ shipping probably plausibly bumps that upwards of ~75K total, but the civ shipping is gnarly because even the RoRos designed for at sea ops don't support disembarkation of AAVs as quickly as grey hulls w/a well deck

I saw a comment the said we aren’t “angry enough.” But all we are is angry. Our veins circulate it like acid. It cracks our sternums. It poisons and paralyzes us. We hiss and spit at each other, all impotent, helpless rage. We don’t need more anger. We need more direction.

the war is unpopular but it's also illegal but it also doesn't serve any purpose but it also undermines diplomacy but it also is set to produce the opposite outcome as intended but it also already has hundreds dead and threatens more but it also will not make anything better for anyone but it also

they gotta find somebody named Khumeni

fuck, they already got another one

trump did this because he was frustrated listening to career staff having to explain repeatedly that khamenei and khomeini are not the same guy

imagining the syriana scene with the guys in the boat but they're going up the intracoastal and blowing up trump's putting green

I’m voting for the candidate who promises to imprison everyone who makes money insider trading on war.

“surely no one would ever try to assassinate OUR heads of state just because we assassinated THEIR heads of state,” they think, thus perpetuating one of the great repeating fallacies of world history

in case anyone ever needed confirmation that it's not about building a democratic Iran, it's about collapsing Iran and turning it into a land of rubble that can be bombed every six months

remember this? oh, the laughs we had together @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social

An NSC career staffer patiently explaining to Trump for a third time why he can't just appoint Mamdani

BREAKING: Iranian state TV has confirmed that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in Israeli and US air strikes today. A tearful host on state TV's channel one announced the news live on air.

hassan rouhani can still be supreme leader if mike pence has the courage to do what's right (i'm sorry)

sis i don't know how to tell you this but soldiers do be fuckin

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