Lord Ratner

Do both... Pretty sure an Only"Fans" account that just posts gratuitous close up photos of C-130 engines covered in leaking oil and hydraulic fluid would make you a millionaire overnight just from @M2's secret combat pornography budget

Isn't it statistically curious how 99% of the people who identify as queer are unfuckable?

With support like that, how can the Iranians lose?

Civil war is not an issue, because "we" (we the people) are not going to cut entitlements, like I said. The "we" that wants to cut the budget to something sustainable is such a small demographic that we have no path to electoral victory. As such, there will be no cuts, as we see with this bill. When my prophesized Great War happens, there will also be no civil war because suddenly "we the people" will be entirely interested in cuts as the government bombards us day in and day out with propaganda imploring us to buy war bonds and pinch every penny possible to protect our fighting boys and girls overseas. I'm not disagreeing with you per se; if somehow there was a way to pry the entitlements away from the entitled, there would certainly be violent social unrest. But the mechanism to take those entitlements away is the exact same mechanism that is protecting the entitlements in the first place. People voted for the politicians who ran on campaigns of leaving entitlements untouched.

Because an increase on business taxes will devastate the stock market, and the boomers didn't build normal retirements like responsible adults, they have everything in the market and are relying on it to go up forever. And everyone in Congress makes their millions in the markets, and all the biggest lobbyists are directly tied to the markets, and now the pension funds are all over invested in the market and (even worse) private equity, and... you get the idea. We've decided that "the market" = "the economy" when that's not remotely true, and because of it we now make devastating fiscal decisions (and monetary decisions soon) that are excused because, hey the S&P is at an all time high so it must be pretty good, right? We will cut spending and entitlements only when we have no choice, and not a moment sooner. Most likely it will be while tens of thousands of our kids are dying overseas fighting the Chinese, or Russians, or who the hell knows who it will be. When mothers see a car with a white top drive by, and breathe a guilty sigh of relief when it stops at their neighbor's house instead of their own, or when the local radio stations list the names of the newest forever heroes as we drive to work, then suddenly there will be a renewed desire to funnel our tax dollars away from able-bodied deadbeats and wannabe-immortal senior citizens...

Considering they didn't even take on the assault weapons ban case, I highly doubt the SCOTUS will be dealing any blows to the NFA soon.

Jesus that's a good looking gun. Is there a barrel extension on that?

How else do you define a "symbolic" attack? That's *exactly* what this was, which is exactly what professor numb nuts was calling for. An off ramp.

Fortunately the president doesn't share your views on international relations. Symbolic acts are just a reality of asymmetric warfare. Pearl clutching when someone discusses it openly only makes the dialog dumber AMD less valuable.

Look the guy is obviously a Islamist hack, but it doesn't sound like he wants dead Americans. He literally said "symbolic strike," as in we all know the political and diplomatic realities necessitate some sort of response, so I hope it's symbolic as opposed to meaningful, which would force the US to escalate. Overblown.

Lol. No. Maybe North Korea thinks about it. Maybe. Nobody else with nukes is giving them to Iran

Exactly. I expect a big part of the strategy has been "allowing" the political class in Iran to survive specifically so they can choose their own lives over retaliation. But they can't not make threats. That's not how international politics work. They are going to saber rattle, the real question is will they follow through. We'll know soon.

Buddy, the idea that peace is attained and maintained through abstention from kinetic acts is the most childish view of the world one could possibly have. Peace has never, and will never come from peaceful actions. It always and forever will be the product of extreme violence. And even then, it relies on the good guys (a rare phenomenon in human history) to want peace as the product of their ruthless and thorough dissemination of death. If Trump follows these bombings with the Marines storming the beaches of Iran, I will agree with your shallow suggestion. Until then, just give it a rest with this utopian bullshit, please. Whining like a baby about Trump putting targets on your buddies' backs is especially hilarious when the people he just fucked up had actual targets on the backs of your friends. Or have we become so weak and pathetic that we forget who our actual enemies are, the ones who have been killing us for years?

She wasn't great. An Air Force 7 at best. But I'm sure the pics are in an OSI file somewhere if you want to try and FOIA them 😂🤣