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Fair enough I read that as a direct response to me. I don’t get the lefty wackos who are pro abortion but anti death penalty either. And just for the sake of stirring the pot: Pro life but pro death penalty is also kinda a funny one because its a value system that assumes all life is a sacred gift from god but then I guess if you do enough bad stuff the courts can just have you killed

Didn’t see the abortion pivot coming but regardless my objection isn’t moral. He should absolutely be executed. My objection is strategic. The way in which we’re choosing to execute is a strategic L because it him gives him exactly the infamy and PR and high profile martyrdom Islamic extremists are after

Absolutely agreed on the timeline. The appeals process taking years or decades is a total foul. But high profile mass shooters/terrorists know they’re gonna get caught and ultimately executed. They’re looking for infamy which is exactly what this gives them. This is exactly the reason a number of news outlets I respect have stopped naming shooters. The coverage is exactly what drives motivation for more of this stuff. A big publicity stunt execution and political food fight about it only elevates the profile of a dude that should be completely forgotten.

Think this goes here: https://www.reuters.com/world/us-livestream-army-execution-fort-hood-shooter-pentagon-official-says-2026-10-08/ In a sane world this would be done quietly so we remember the victims and never speak this dudes name again. Instead we get the quintessential Trump/Hegseth routine where we turn it into a gross PR media circus and give this guy 10,000x the publicity he deserves. Idk or maybe not wanting to watch a live-streamed execution is just my low-T talking

You know.. you're not wrong I need a longer memory. Although I'd argue it's not worked more times than it has. Also our acquisitions process is exponentially more f*ed today than it was at the time they were building F-4s, but that's more of an indictment of all programs not just joint ones

Very well could be and idk if they’re related or not

Trump also said they "were looking to do big damage" and they "had been under joint surveillance by U.S. and British authorities for a long time." Except from what's been reported it looks like suspicious activity was noticed and called in by some random local farmer and then turned out just to be fuel thieves?? Also you don't just up and move 12x bones in 24 hours without max effort of everyone involved. I'm sure they were jumping through their assholes to make that happen. Seems like some potential new threat caught them by surprise or we're not being told everything about the original dudes. But who knows. At this point this is the kind of scattershot messaging retardation we've come to expect from this admin. At least it's a win for the crews though, now they get to be at home with their families to watch the 69th round of [negotiations -> oh wait nevermind we're threatening obliteration again -> nevermind back to negotiations] rather than flying once a month and watching paint dry at a forward operating location

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2026/10/04/us-b1-bombers-uk-base-security-concerns/92095345007/ 👀 12/12 jets evac'd short notice.. guess there was still something concerning going on

Surely having one company make similar combat aircraft for the sister services will boost efficiency right.. right??

TWZF-35 Canopy And Weapons-Bay Door Loss To China: Separatin...What we know and don’t know, and the potential security impacts, regarding the real possibility China has major F-35 components in its possession. What we know and don’t know, and the potential securiConspiracy angle: this is INDOPACOM’s desperate cry for attention in the hopes they get their patriots and thaads back

Babylon bee proving yet again they have the capacity to be actually pretty funny as long as it doesn’t involve criticism of Israel

I was tracking with you till this part.. who gets to decide if someone is integrating enough? What’s the standard there? Is the Chinese family who doesn’t speak a word of English running a Michelin starred dim sum restaurant in San Francisco Chinatown integrated enough? Is the Hasidic Jewish community integrated enough? The Amish? Or does this standard only apply to very liberal leaning portions of the upper midwestern muslim community

the issues are quite clear but if you really need me to spell it out for you; -I believe that tariffs without corresponding domestic manufacturing initiatives are self sabotage. -I believe that we are engaging in a Middle Eastern intervention for Israel that is not in the American interest. -I believe that our military intervention for Israel has achieved none of its stated goals. -I believe that support for this war has dropped to historically low levels because of the incoherent messaging and strategy from this administration. -I believe that Americans feel betrayed by Trump based upon the fact that he ran on no new wars, and then immediately launched a new war. -the president is promising money for votes -Republicans refuse to condemn any of this.

I commend you on your consistency but they’re really not the same thing. One is a real policy prescription, albeit misguided, to address a problem in the country. It also stems from the genuine belief that ‘healthcare is a human right’ (FWIW I disagree.. it’s a commodity/service,) but it’s pretty obviously different from a naked buying-votes scheme. Literally just offering money if they win is cartoonish levels of anti-american villainy. I’m not worried because 99.9% of what Trump says is complete and utter bullshit that will never materialize, but it’s funny that other than you it’s crickets in here. We both know if a dem proposed anything like this the thread would light up like the 4th of July.

Average B.O. commentary:

The communism v capitalism/left v right pissing match isn’t gonna matter much longer when the debt bubble bursts and our currency is so devalued no one can afford anything under either system. vote 3rd party there’s never been a better time

Classic wOkE LeFt move taking a trump post seriously. Bro when are you gonna learn this is just the way he rolls! The sitting president posting AI slop completely divorced from reality that he also contradicts less than 24 hours later is just him being his big boisterous self. This is normal and it's not a problem. I mean.. I don't love it, but like.. don't we have bigger problems to worry about?! Getting worked up about stuff like this is such a leftist snowflake move. Now lets get back to a serious conversation and examine my unfalsifiable counterfactual that Kamala would have been worse

Well in this case I think it goes a bit further than just a miscalculated gamble on the timeline/public support. The admin literally ran on not doing any more of these things because they knew exactly where public sentiment was for more middle eastern interventions. And then after winning they bait&switched the whole country. Only once it turned into an unpopular shitshow did we start hearing the line: “aCtUaLLy, we’ve been at war with Iran for 47 years.” Oh really? Sweet thanks, then why the fuck weren’t you saying that on the campaign trail?

All good points. And I agree with your napkin math. Would need an absolutely massive amount of Schlitz to effect the desired regime change outcome at this point. And on the Putin/Trump comparison , I totally agree except that Putin probably has more public support for the massive mobilizations because the threat of nato on the doorstep of Russia is at least a bit more of a real threat to everyday Russians than Iran nuking NYC or whatever the war hawks want you to believe was imminent about this for us. Still my biggest frustration with this war is that you and I can sit here and do napkin math that was pretty obvious to anyone with half a brain, but this war was pitched as a “quick in and out, 20 minute adventure.” Which means those pitching it are either: A) literally so stupid they never deserve to be listened to again on matters of military and foreign policy or (more likely) B) desired/foresaw the “managed instability” outcome and deliberately lied about how feasible this was to rope us into a war that would inevitably trend in that direction.

Great article. I think the most insightful part is where he talks about the conditions that lead to a “managed instability” situation: I think another condition that can lead to this state of “managed instability” is an arrogant superpower who thinks it will be a quick intervention but the country they attack perceives it as an existential threat to their existence. At that point you have the more powerful country in the conflict half assing it and the less powerful country whole assing it, which creates semi-parity and leads to battlefield/strategic stagnation. The obvious follow up question to that is who led these superpowers to believe these would be quick and easy interventions, and what their motives might be. As for the CNN ‘Iran losing control of the strait argument.’ I find it utterly unconvincing. So we’ve had some ships transit an Omani route under full emcon get through. Sweet. That’s hardly a return to normal and honestly it’s a tacit admission that Iran still absolutely has the ability to threaten normal ops through the waterway. Which was the whole point all along. No one ever said Iran controlled the strait. All they have to do is hold traffic in there at risk enough to cause disruptions that they can use for leverage. It’s not gonna be long before they figure out a kill chain for ships that aren’t squawking and are a few miles further away.. if they haven’t already.. and then we’re back to square one. All the while we’re now committed to an enduring naval presence in the strait to hopefully claw our way back to something that (maybe) resembles the original status quo.

Anybody have a CNN subscription (lol) so we can have access to the full article and can see the actual argument here? I’d love to hear some good news but forgive me if I’m wary of war predictions from both viperman and 18-year CNN editors who happen to be Jewish seminary grads

Here's a fun one.. congrats to @ViperMan Again.. just asking the robot. Also I genuinely hope this all turns around and in 6 months you guys are chat gpt-roasting me for being the alarmist goofball, I so badly want reality to not suck this much

In the spirit of honest debrief and as this quick intervention enters its sixth month, I thought it would be fun to make a little report card courtesy of our AI overlords. Prompts are included in the screenshots for full transparency. If you don't like it.. sorry.. I just asked the robot (chat gpt-5) the questions

The border thing is a pretty big oversimplification, because ultimately any modern dem admin being in power signals to would-be illegal immigrants that enforcement will be lax. This is a nationwide problem with the democrats and it creates incentives both here and overseas. I don't think a VP can just magically undo that even if they wanted to (she didn't want to) but saying simply that Kamala screwed the border up isn't seeing the whole picture. She didn't make it any better but the responsibility for the problem lies with far more people than just her. As a side note, It was also Biden's weakest issue that was going to be most difficult to solve so, like many presidents do, he put the VP on it to attempt to shift accountability. Kinda like Trump sending poor JD out to pitch the dogshit MOU. But I'm not here to argue about border policy specifics. The dems all suck on the border.. that isn't at all unique to Kamala. My point is that the loons gaining power now are identical to Kamala on border policy (or lack thereof) while being way more extreme on foreign and economic policy.

Not to say I told you so but in the last 24 hours while you guys were laying down sick burns on me about how I just don’t understand Kamala’s degree of progressiveness.. precisely what I said we’d see more of just happened in the Michigan dem senate primary. The fully anti-Israel / DSA adjacent / Islamist candidate just beat out the establishment, AIPAC-backed, Israel first, sitting congresswoman and absolute ghoul, Haley Stevens. So yes, like I said the backlash is here and I hope you guys are emotionally ready to deal with it because more is coming. The wave of radical leftist loons that are about to capitalize on Trump’s historic buffoonery are gonna make a Kamala look like a neocon by comparison