As a guy spent a good a good chunk of my days working with Afghan allies after the fall, I can tell you, the real son of a bitch of it all…
After excoriating Biden, holding hearings, placing blame…
Turns out no one, not the press, not republicans on the hill, actually gave that much of a fuck.
You can go back and compare how 🇦🇫 was covered, & it’s simply not remotely the same right now, even though the failure & incompetence is orders of magnitude beyond even the worst caricature of Biden’s policies:
Again:
It is interesting to me* how this total military, geopolitical, & economic omnishambles is not being covered in the press with remotely the same fierce EPIC DISASTROUS FAILURE urgency that Joe Biden’s not 100% surgically clean withdrawal from 🇦🇫 was covered 🤔
[*It is not remotely interesting to me]
We're so dedicated to the norm of "even handed" coverage of the parties that media outlets have to create a version of Trump that doesn't exist in reality to uphold the norm, because directly quoting him makes him look like a lunatic.
Ossoff: "The president appears increasingly to have lost touch with reality. That is deeply concerning when you have a a cabinet much more concerned with winning his favor than giving good advice & the nation now plunged into war. It speaks to the necessity of winning these midterms in a landslide."
Again: if you didn’t like Fetterman then or now, fair enough, but he ran to Biden’s left when it was popular, against Lamb (who Biden called a stepson) and Kenyatta, who is Black and gay. And in the general he ran against Oz, who is like every surgeon joke you’ve ever heard.
A lot of good politicians—Casey, Brown—liked Fetterman and were ready to do business with him. Whatever his faults all along, he’s different since the stroke. People often are. If you don’t like Platner, do it for the cards on the table rather than lazy analysis.
“Right now it looks like the UAE is spending something like twenty-eight dollars in defense for every dollar Iran spends on offense.”
Full Piece: bit.ly/3P1z8BY
girl are you the Straight of Hormuz because I see a lot of men greatly overestimating their chances of getting their ship into your channel
Exactly 5 years and 11 months day ago, “did you windex the groceries before you brought them in?”
In South Burlington, Vermont, protesters are being tear-gassed by ICE and local police as they attempt to prevent a kidnapping.
I love the idea that *this* US government, which has been nabbing landscapers and five year olds knows where Iranian sleeper cells are but just hasn’t gotten around to doing anything about it yet.
Fetterman doesn’t even give a shit about the kids in Iran. Let that in for a second.
Trump endorsed GOP candidate Brandon Herrera tonight.
Here is Brandon recreating the assassination of MLK and then shooting the target dummy at close range.
He then chuckled and said, “This is so fucking wrong.”
I really don't give a shit, and it's quite possible that it's all coincidental, and I'm certainly not the first to point out this issue, but Gemini at least thinks there's a good chance my article was bounced through an LLM here.
C'mon, bro.
What I hear just before I'm sent to the camps:
I really just do not understand how this could be possible
i am being absolutely serious here: CENTCOM had one job and it was literally to prepare for an Iran contingency
I spent 45 minutes trying and failing to convince a full bird Colonel with multiple Afghanistan and Iraq deployments that Afghanistan is not an Arabic speaking country. I was helped in this discussion (to no avail) by two Afghan interpreters who were more polite than I was.
Jim Cramer suggests on CNBC that Trump could “bomb Tehran into the Stone Age” until Iran reopens the strait, citing U.S. bombings of North Vietnam in the 1970s. Carl Quintanilla points out to him that Hanoi won that war.
If you thought China was selling a lot of batteries and solar panels before, you’re going to love what happens next.
Nasdaq is changing its rules to "entice" the SpaceX IPO to its exchange, which will fast-track the stock's inclusion in index funds... this effectively dumps Elon Musk's unprofitable garbage on vulnerable passive investors, and ensures new retirement accounts have to buy in.
Trust the process.
Stop being rational
the specifics are impossible to see but we may already be in a situation where the practical solutions for re-opening take 3-4 weeks, and oil production will take 1-2 months to come back
The power broker in this will end up being China.
Again.
You fucking nob America. You dreadful, clumsy fucking nob.
“Uh but it’s a pyrrhic victory because Iran is blown up”
My dude. You realise Iran was struggling with internal strife, isolated & under pressure to cooperate by all its official & unofficial allies?
America & Israel handed it a new agenda. They done fucked up.
