Wittecisms

Law enforcement looks a lot like soldiers at war…

There have been some very bad developments today.

Our assumption is that our military budget/technologies automatically mean we win. Again, no thought to agency of other states. There’s no way Iran has a plan. There’s no way Iraq won’t see us as liberators. A ridiculous pattern we adhere to. Call it a win, we lose.
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Love this album.

Media today refer to bush and Iraq as if they at least had a plan. Maybe more so than trump but they still went into war with a belief they could dictate the outcome. Their reasoning was based on lies and their objectives were constantly shifting. No different than trump today. It’s the same plan.

I got shingles at 47. Wanted the vaccine but current recommendation is 50+. It sucks. I still have pangs on my right side where shingles can manifest and attack the nerves…demand the shot even if not 50 yet.

I would also add that it’s not just shipping, but production that is shutting down. Qatar shut down natural gas. Aluminum production going off line…10% of world aluminum comes from the Middle East…plastics, precious metals, etc.. & just cuz trump decides to declare victory doesn’t mean this war ends

I’m sure the American Firsters will love this (not!)…not that it matters much as it’s a sure sign things are escalating quickly and we’re careening toward a global conflagration. Neocons are gonna neocon. Good luck everybody.

Rest in power, Rev. Jackson.

I defer to The Naked Gun to explain the strike zone. It’s up to Enrico Pallazzo to call balls and strikes.

Iran War: We Follow The Money (To Mar-A-Lago) How the Mar-A-Lago Gang is Cashing In On The Iran War

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This Is Why They Hate Us The same question we had 25 years ago is asked again, and the answer is the same.

Why would we, as a nation care about 165 Iranian schoolgirls when we turned away from the carnage of our own school children who have died due to guns and gun culture in this country?
This, despairingly, is who we are.
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What about Mike Johnson’s “misguided religion?”

Please tell me there is someone explaining to trump et al. the difference between Sunni and Shia. They are thinking of arming the Kurds, who are Sunni to fight and overthrow a majority Shiite nation??? What could go wrong?

I’ve been hearing McCartney singing “I’ve got a feeling, a feeling based on facts—oh yeah…” stuck in my head. Maybe Leaving on a Sex Plane will replace it.

Mark Wayne Mullin!?! The idiocy continues.

Why Rustin? Why Now? The shadow of the dysfunctional New Left is so long that it’s sometimes hard to see the light beyond it.

"Further, it’s obvious that the private sector has no interest in sinking billions of dollars into ensuring that working people have a decent wage, cheap electricity, tidy schools with well-paid teachers, safe neighborhoods with helpful police, and charming parks with public pools." ~ Dino Guastella

Love that this also means we were arming a country we were at war with in 1980s. Did Ollie know?

I love how they were planning for evacuating Americans but only “updated” the voice message today…

They can. The bigger issue is to paint this chaos as a sign that dem strongholds can’t run legitimate elections. Setting the narrative for November and cancelling votes. Notice it’s only Dallas county that this is happening…due to Paxton interfering as AG.

Yes, because the Kurds have never been abandoned by a US president before. I don’t think they’ll be jumping at the chance to be the vanguard of trump’s illegal war.

Crenshaw out, sure, okay, but Toth is even crazier and more right wing…

And yet the UK is able to evacuate their people? Methinks Rubio is full of shit. (He’s a slippery snake in the grass. Beware)

Yeah, last night Tony closed (was switching over to watch wheel and jeopardy) with Iran and US war goes back 50 years…putting the context of blame on Iran without any acknowledgment of the previous 80 years of 20th century colonialism/intervention in the region…just dumb.

U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints.

One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

Rubio’s “Proactively act defensively”is right up there with Rumsfeld “known knowns…” nonsense.

Same

MSNow is such garbage. They definitely got the memo that this is a just and proper war cuz the people they’re bringing on are beating war drums and talking up our aggression as a good thing. Our news media sucks. Reminds me how Donahue was fired from MSNBC for criticizing the Iraq war. Get in line!

And killed young girls at school…

This. No need to be afraid. This evil is ephemeral. The mice, the bunnies, they will all be okay.