Will Stancil

there are like 50 people in the country who want the UK to get involved in the Iran War, one of them is Kemi Badenoch, one of them is Nigel Farage, and the other 48 are newspaper columnists

A Reductress post features a photo of Kristi Noem with the headline, “Kristi Noem Put Down for Being Too Hard to Train”

Screaming

Markwayne Mullin never served in US military, but often speaks as if he did www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

I will say that there’s been an uptick in apparent ICE vehicles in Minneapolis recently although still not much indication they’re getting out of the cars

According to my ICE sources there are listings for Minnesota being posted internally, but whether that represents a new influx or some rotating of roles is unclear to me

It really is a testament to both how absolutely addled his brain is and how thoroughly his admin is hiding negative information from him that he thinks doing some bombings means that he automatically controls a country and can run it as he sees fit

Point/Counterpoint This War Will Shut Off 20% of the Global Petroleum Supply for A Month and Send the Economy into a Stagflationary Tailspin vs. No It Won’t Published: March 26, 2003

U.S. elites treat everything Trump does with an air of unseriousness, because he is a ridiculous flimflam man. But applying that lens to the Iran war seems deeply inapt. Reminiscent in some ways of the lens many of those same elites applied to COVID from Nov 2019 - Jan 2020. An over-there problem.

The problem Trump has with Americans dying is that it would eventually cause political blowback. It's just another cost to factor in. But he knows an awful lot of us would have to die before it meaningfully changed anything, so he's not too worried about it.

At the risk of repeating myself, they don't actually care about Americans any more than Iranians, they don't think of us as people they have an obligation to. We're just chaff to be ground up as they scheme to get richer and seize power and kill their enemies. Like peasants to tsars.

Trump Says 'I Guess' Americans Should Worry About Iran Retaliating on U.S. Soil: 'Like I Said, Some People Will Die' In an interview with 'Time,' President Donald Trump acknowledged the possibility that Iran retaliates with attacks on U.S. soil, saying, 'We think about it all the time. We plan for it'

Trump Says 'I Guess' Americans Should Worry About Iran Retaliating on U.S. Soil: 'Like I Said, Some People Will Die'

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And we keep killing people we claim we're negotiating with! It makes any possible attempt to negotiate look like we're just buying time to reload/resupply/redeploy in preparation for the next attack. Whoever participates in this round of negotiations is the target of the next decapitation strikes!

It also seems clear from this that Trump sees Iran as a success that’s being wrapped up, presumably because the Ayatollah is dead and in his mind they’re defeated, and also probably because his people are lying to him. He wants to continue his winning streak of blowing up random governments

“Congratulating ourselves for being tough enough to knock something down, and shortly thereafter finding ourselves totally incompetent to build its replacement” is the theme of Trump’s second administration, whether it’s the White House, federal government, Middle East, or global economy

these are the guys whose solution to every problem is one of three things:
-blustery lies about how they solved it
-massive escalatory force to frighten or kill the people responsible
-run away

and now they’ve created the most complex problem they’ve ever faced, and all three would make it worse

they’ve created a scenario where further destruction actually makes the situation far less resolvable while mostly failing to secure the one thing that needs to be secured; in other words they have to actually build and negotiate their way out of a crisis. but they have *ZERO* capacity for that

at least if Iran exists in some functional way you can theoretically reopen the gulf through some kind of settled resolution, but if you annihilate the government there’s just no way to make that passage safe at all. you have to rebuild a state to restore the flow of trade. Can these guys do that?

like even if Trump wanted to just walk away and leave the region to burn it seems like he’s created a scenario where the two options are a cohesive enemy state that can strangle the global economy or a collapsed collection of militants that can strangle the world economy, WHICH IS ACTUALLY WORSE

There is literally no available off-ramp from this shit, we've fucked it up so badly. There is no end game that isn't disaster.

people seem to think we can simply walk away and leave the region to burn because the shipping stuff is a big yawn and how much could it REALLY matter

peepeepoopoo @DeepDishEnjoyer FOR THE LAST TIME HE CAN'T TACO EVEN IF HE WANTED TO THE REGION IS NOW FILLED WITH ESSENTIALLY INDEPENDENT WARLORDS WHO HAVE MISSLES AND DRONES AND THE HATE ALL THE ARAB NATIONS SURROUNDING THEM 3:41 PM · Mar 5, 2026 · 250 Views https://x.com/deepdishenjoyer/status/2029658607659192732

nobody seems to fucking get this!!!! "the enemy gets a vote" but moreover trump/israel deliberately killed all the people at the top controlling the enemy, which does not destroy the enemy but in fact turns them into a dozen new, smaller enemies!! I feel like i'm going fucking insane

will no one rid me of this turbulent pedophile?

He needs to be physically removed from office

one thing that’s a little bit of a tell is how the most psychotic harassment accounts on this site are mostly hardcore Platner defenders

"Americans vote based on gas prices" is wildly overblown. There is basically no empirical support for it, it just sounds savvy to pundits. What Americans vote on is NARRATIVES about things like gas prices. Just don't somehow let high gas prices become a narrative about your own massive failure!

I know how Israel can make some huge inroads among otherwise hostile cohorts of liberal women

all the manosphere influencers rushing to dubai opens up a unique opportunity not totally unlike a khomenei strategy meeting with the top leadership

first missed grain shipment that dude is a GONER

look what I really want to know is, what are the odds I live to see Ian Miles Cheong literally eaten by his servants

I guess the other question is, like, can dubai keep being dubai, if it's in a siege scenario? "how long until people literally starve" is a different question than "how long until wealthy people flee and existing political tensions are exacerbated"