soonergrunt

Trump won't live long enough to see any of this. Not that he'd understand it if he did.

He could have been saved with a $5.00 bottle of amoxicillin.

There are millions of Iranians around Tehran, and the water supply can't support them, and there's no way to fix that. So millions of refugees moving from one warlord domain to the next, looking for a safe home--
Millions of desperate people, many of them highly educated, all pissed off at us.

A failed state, with all those toys sitting around that devolves into warlordism is APPROACHING the worst case scenario.
And then you add in however much enriched Uranium (I've heard estimates of 20 to 40 kg from 40% to 75%) and now you're in the neighborhood of worst case scenario.

Quoting Jeet Heer: It's the lowest of low bars but Trump is doing more to rein in Israel than Biden ever did. This should spark introspection among Democrats, but it won't.

@jeetheer.bsky.social
This aged well.
You were wrong then and even more wrong now. This should spark introspection in you, but it won't.

Oh, apparently I blocked him here. I know I blocked him at the other place because he's an intractible asshole who preaches about subjects in which he has little experience, practical or otherwise, like American politics.

He's a Senator. He won't accept anything beneath a Cabinet Secretary.
Yeah, I could see them giving him DHS.

I don't suppose Jeet is on here to be asked about this?

Romney was paying something on the order of $11K/day for personal security by the time he left office.

You think he'll just retire? Why not? He's got a pension.
I was thinking they'd give him a make-work job to keep him from being a PIA.

I'm guessing this Toth guy makes Crenshaw look like FDR.

I'm not Texan so I don't have a dog in this fight (yet) but I'd have happily donated to Talarico. I did donate in the past to Crockett, including this campaign, and I'll do so again for her next run at whatever she goes after.

Can't keep a good man down!
Or me, either, for that matter!

Disintegration of the Iranian state objectively means someone, probably the US, NEEDS to go in and secure the HEU or work with the remnants of the IRGC to do so.

Neither are ideal scenarios.

Gasoline is up 30 cents/gallon to $2.99

A soldier in an unpopular war -- People you'd have thought could help you to end the war and save your soldiers saying the most vile shit to you imaginable, equaled only by the vile shit war supporters say when they find out you went but don't support it for whatever reason.
My life since 2003.

A soldier in an unpopular war -- People you'd have thought could help you to end the war and save your soldiers saying the most vile shit to you imaginable, equaled only by the vile shit war supporters say when they find out you went but don't support it for whatever reason.
My life since 2003.

what happened?

People you'd have thought could help you to end the war and save your soldiers saying the most vile shit to you imaginable, equaled only by the vile shit war supporters say when they find out you went but don't support it for whatever reason.
Welcome to my life since 2003.

that's if he even bothers to keep showing up, which isn't guaranteed.
If he loses his primary, there's nothing they can give him. Maybe kick Bondi or Patel to the curb and put him their place?

what's in it for the Kurds?

The troops involved don't know what success looks like because the CinC doesn't know what he wants to achieve.

That, or any other variation on "both parties are the same" is an insta-block.

A good way to demonstrate your unserious nature is arguing that “Kamala would be doing this too.”

"but I’ve never been a religiously zealous TV host."
Neither has Trump been religiously... Anything.

thankfully the US has learnt the lessons of the 1980s Tanker war and kept significant naval minesweeping capabili- oh

But thankfully the US has kept good relations with its european allies who all have very valuable minesweeping capabilities and who are willing to he- oh

🚨 The bodies of 140 people killed in the strike on Minab Girls’ School have been identified so far, with 25 more awaiting identification, Mizan News reports. ➤ At least 110 students were killed, and have been identified, including 66 boys and 54 girls. ➤ All 26 female teachers at the school were killed. ➤ 4 parents of students are also among the dead. Minab is a city in southern Iran, in Hormozgan province near the Strait of Hormuz. The strike is the deadliest single incidents reported in the current U.S.–Israeli bombing campaign.

خبرگزاری میزان @MizanNewsAgency Translated from Persian Images of the child martyrs of Shajareh Tayyibeh Elementary School #Minab

🚨 The bodies of 140 people killed in the strike on Minab Girls’ School have been identified so far, with 25 more awaiting ID, Mizan News reports.

➤ At least 110 students were killed, and have been identified, including 66 boys and 54 girls.
➤ All 26 female teachers at the school were killed.
➤ 4...

My kingdom for an edit function (more did SHOULD BE 'more food')

Lots and lots of troops doing logistics and security, and lots and lots of diesel (JP8 fuel), which means more people for transport and security, which means more water needed, which means more sources, equipment, and fuel...
None of that accounts for the other logistics--did, fuel, ammo and so on.