This stupid fucking meme has got body shape exactly backwards. Half the fuckin population had just spent the better part of a decade being extra malnourished in the 40s while today even pogs get addicted to lifting and creatine

Jesus Christ!

Fetterman is basically a reactionary now: there is no real effort to explain why Mullin - a buffoon who spent the week insisting we are not at war with Iran - is qualified. Trump nominated Mullin, and that’s good enough for him.

More and more convinced Trump took all the wrong lessons from Venezuela and thats what is driving Iran.

Hopefully that one ending in particular.

Destroying the Iranian state with the IRGC still around as a substantial armed actor in whatever hollowed out husk remains would generate levels of instability that will inevitably drag in the forces of most of Iran's neighbours long after the Americans and Israelis have declared victory and left

Bremer arrived in country on approximately Day 60 of the Iraq war in 2003, and as of Day 5, there was no intention of establishing a CPA and Bremer was still skiing or whatever he was up to before the job.

The mood definitely shifted a bit from “they have no idea what they’re doing“ to ”fuck, shit they have no idea what they’re doing“

This discussion is worthwhile, but lost in the chaos is the fact that Tehran is literally running dry and, if a single one of the dams that supply the city is damaged, 7M people may die of thirst leaving a squabble over who runs the graveyard.

It honestly feels somewhat surreal and.... I don't want to use the term 'wrong,' but for the last few decades these things have followed a clear pattern, the media celebrates the bombings, yet this time, it feels like the media all just skipped forward several weeks and are already weary.

Knives have been out of Noem since the ICE shootings in Minnesota, however I cannot help but think the other major factor here is the knowledge that with the war in Iran and the increased risked to the US the GOP feels compelled to have a competent Director of Homeland Security

An interesting thing to consider is if the State Department has downgraded its state capacity to the point that it is no longer able to identify contact and coordinate any sort of emergency assistance for Americans abroad.

For all his fuckups, he has a remarkable instinct for using access reporting culture to get reporters to be his servile catspaws. Access reporting delenda est.

If they were planning ground deployments of significant size they'd be impossible to hide.

He's gonna send in Some Guys eventually in an overly ambitious and poorly planned operation and then Some Shit will happen.

My two cents: I cannot recall ever seeing this much open doubt, this soon, for a war.

People don't like hearing the truth, they prefer simple lies that they find comforting, the reality of the situation is that everything bad in the world isn't the fault of Gen Z, it's the fault of my haters.

I cannot stress enough that another power - Russia - has been attempting to 'war crimes its way to victory' for *four years* now against a country less than a quarter of its size or economy and failing. Applying violence with greater ruthlessness and fewer scruples is not the easy road to victory.

The thing about reinventing a business is you do that with a small agile startup, not by merging together two giant companies with a commitment strategies already in motion, and loading yourself up with debt.

Wait, hold up, someone is named Law Roach?

The difference between 2016 Trump and 2026 Trump is the people that surround him. Instead of guys working around Trump and trying to sand off the rough edges you got people totally committed to helping enable Trump's worst impulses. None of this shit is new, Trump demanded we "take the oil" in 15

It's kind of hard to imagine any strategic goal that can be achieved by murdering the entire political elite of a large country, including retired and opposition figures. There will be no state left to negotiate with. Unless complete anarchy is the goal.

Very few ideas have been as utterly discredited by the last few years as the idea that it’s actually good to tear down an imperfectly observed, aspirational ideological facade and ‘be honest’

If Khamenei is dead - and presumably has been dead potentially all day, the fact that the Iranian military has been continuing to launch strikes (and is reportedly launching more as I type this) should give anyone thinking otherwise pause about how likely his death is to lead to regime collapse.

Trump is telling the Iranian people to rise up against their government while also simultaneously signaling that he might just abandon them in a couple of days, depending on his mood. #Strategery

For those of you like me in a dark place right now. I do think it’s worth noting that this is NYTs op ed board reaction, as opposed to one of “neutral” support

I just gotta say I hate these people so fucking much.

Surrender but also rebel and also there isn’t actually anyone to which to surrender or any organized resistance to work with… so I guess the plan here is a bunch of roving death squads killing people at random to defend themselves from themselves,

If this is airstrikes only, who are they supposed to surrender to, and who are the 'forces of liberation'?

As an aside, Melania Trump will be presiding over Monday’s security council meeting, no doubt to offer us her learned legal perspective on Iranian civilian casualties. She couldn’t actually do worse than Mike Waltz, who made no effort to justify Maduro’s abduction under international law last month

caveat of it's all dependent on what grandpa's cottage cheese brain decides on any given day, this is a good read of what will likely happen if things play out on the current path there's no more viable ToV here than there was with the Houthis

do people understand there is no ground invasion on the table like we aren't getting "bogged down" in anything because there's nothing to be stuck in but also all the regime has to do to not be changed is......continue existing while various things around the country are incoherently bombed

The respect shown to the American people and government by announcing an illegal war by social media video at 2:40 am on Saturday wearing a white trash campaign baseball cap.

In Trump 1 this is the sort of situation that would have been quietly ignored by his staff. In Trump 2 the relevant staff member is even more of a belligerent idiot.

Yeah I think the GOP isn't doing this because they don't want to. If this went to affect (it wouldn't - there is no way to enforce any of this) you'd almost certainly tilt voter registration to whoever was more fired up to vote. And that's uh, not the GOP.

My sense is that this isn't true. A lot of the cheap cuts are fairly expensive too since they're often sold as giant chunks of 2-5 pounds. The cost of liver is comparable to chicken breast. Things like beef tongue are 8 bucks a pound.

fundamentally I think it is good to be able to hold all of these ideas simultaneously: - what the bad guys are doing is bad - they are going to do enormous damage - they are not infallible supergeniuses whose every move turns out perfectly as planned

For whatever reason my posts arent really showing, I click on them and it says posts not found. Wonder what is going on.

I do like how this is one of those instances where watching the entire clip makes it even worse, because he is clearly trying to tell it like a joke, but then ruins whatever good will there was by restating the punchline twice while stuttering.

A lot of people going on about elite impunity or some shit love to turn their favs into small little birthday boys themselves.

Hard to overstate how obvious this all was

Far to early nap to getting woken up at 11 pm and being unable to get back to sleep pipeline is a treacherous thing. Usually get up very early in the AM so it's not too terrible.

This all sort of tracks for an indie because of all the issues to pick minimum wage is likely utterly ridiculous in this context (US politics) since it's so low especially at the federal level that in most cases it has no effect in how much entry level worker's actual minimum

So am I crazy for assuming they're going to start bombing Iran during the SOTU speech. Feels like Trump has just been aching one up Obama doing the correspondence dinner while the Bin Laden raid was ongoing.

Sometimes you realize something and it just hits hard. "Sorry for Party Rocking" came out almost 15 years ago.

Just going to point out that Elon Musk was the one begging to go to Epstein's island, controls what was once considered to be an incredibly influential media platform... and has been known to pay people to vote (www.bbc.com/news/article...). So, hmmm... And he's pointing at some vague "others"?

So two things: 1: Not really surprising but still a bit shocking that he's posting on race everyday 2: Not really surprising but still a bit shocking that he looks like this now.

Today’s Bsky vibe

Wait.... was this why Trump sent the hospital ship? .... does he think the ship can teleport there in an instant?

Two day timeout seems fair tbh. You dont want to explicitly encourage punching dudes out, you know? As school administrators.