That White House National Security Strategy document sure was useful. It said the Middle East was no longer a central theater of U.S. strategy, and Iran was not on the same strategic level as China or Russia. The U.S. would avoid American military commitments in the region, letting others lead.
This Trump tweet is a work of art and needs to be kept for posterity. It turns out that the US has destroyed 100% of Iran’s military capability. Yet, to combat a military with no capability he is left pleading with allies he has regularly insulted to save him in the Gulf.
Spent most of my career talking down the endless stream of unjustified oil market alarm.
Now I’m acutely alarmed to the point of disbelief, the oil market is still shockingly sanguine, and I feel like this guy.
If only a college professor could condescendingly yell at her that AI is useful, I bet she’d feel so much better about all this
This is indeed golden: top secret Russian #intelligence unit unmasked because everything its operator wrote in GOOGLE TRANSLATE was read by the FBI.
“It was, as a source close to the investigation later noted, even better than a wiretap because it arrived transcribed.”
theins.press/en/inv/290235
Materializing nude from a bolt of lightning in 2005 to show my younger self this image
Why is every tech ceo the villain from the Lorax
Tenk at ikke flere forsto at det åpenbart var dette uttalelsen handlet om!
Det går ikke an å hevde at A-stolpen i en personbil gjør det umulig å unngå å kjøre på myke trafikanter, og samtidig mene at de samme bilene er egnet til å kjøre i dødelig fart i områder med mange myke trafikanter (byer). Du må velge.
analysts now expect a third year of falling sales for Tesla, along with a eye-watering negative free cash flow of more than $5 billion
finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-d...
You can't make deals if everyone knows you reneg on deals.
The political culture of the contemporary GOP is indistinguishable from that of the school shooter community
The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever.
It's like Uber. Just that they don't try to break existing transportation infrastructures but your brain.
Trump, Mitch McConnell Clash In Oval Office Over Where They Are https://theonion.com/trump-mitch-mcconnell-clash-in-oval-office-over-where-they-are/
I mean, it's not actually a surprise that they think this; it's been pretty obvious for a while.
It is a surprise that they're stupid enough to say it out loud.
Gen. Grynkewich: "What I've observed over the course of studying air power in history is that any time you attack a civilian population, you usually end up finding that it just hardens their resolve."
damn i wish i gave a shit about the millionaire podcaster’s fake buyer’s remorse
So the shoegate I understand it is this:
1. Trump equals shoe size to dick size
2. Trump asks Rubio, Hegseth and the rest of the ilk about their shoe size.
3. They all yell, like 10, 11, big, huge.
4. Trump buys those for them, and they shamble around in shoes twice their size.
Murphy: "Literally in my other ear I'm listening to Ted Cruz on another network explain why this mission is so essential to destroy the nuclear program. I may have to walk over there and tell him the admin is now briefing that getting rid of the nuclear program has nothing to do with this mission."
Imagine the reaction in the US if ~175 schoolgirls had been killed by a targeted Iranian missile. (Or anyone's missile.)
This is an atrocity.
I see your TACO and raise you STAR:
Some
Things
Aren’t
Reversible
me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58
OTD in 2022 as part of Prez's address for woman's day, I denied there would be a mobilization.
And I was not lying then, you can believe my lies now about winning & wanting peace.
Her trip to Ireland was ruined by this one question?? Gee, I wonder why…
Time to discuss the realities of, "So You Want to Launch a Ground Invasion of Iran."
1. First, of course, you need ground connected to Iran. That means Iraq, Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan or Pakistan.
It feels like another tipping point is being crossed rn… back-&-forth refinery strikes, Tehran in flames. Trump demanding unconditional surrender, de facto boasting of bombing Iranian desal. US & Israel are pushing Iran to fire everything it has at the region’s weakest links. Unimaginably dangerous.
I mean one of @mikeduncan.bsky.social's big takeaways from years of writing the Revolutions pod is that the Great Man Theory of Historical Change is overrated but the Great Idiot Theory holds considerable explanatory power
Tapping the "poor areas don't vote for conservatives because they're poor, they're poor because they vote for conservatives" sign
Again, the unifying 🧵 about Trump’s foreign policy is not realism or neo-royalism. It’s the extension of sexual assault/predation/partner abuse to IR. If he thinks you’re his macho pal, he’ll respect you/your sovereignty. If not, he’ll try to violate you & humiliate you. Epstein-ism, if you like.
