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The No-Explanation War The Trump Administration has decided that it need not make a case for military action. In the current media environment, that approach makes a disturbing kind of sense.

Why hasn’t the Trump Administration bothered to justify its war in Iran? “If you never have to explain yourself, you can’t really ever be wrong,” @jaycaspiankang writes. www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...

Push from Saudis, Israel helped move Trump to attack Iran President Trump launched a wide-ranging attack on Iran after weeks-long lobbying by an unusual pair of U.S. allies in the Middle East: Israel and Saudi Arabia.

According to WaPo, Saudi Crown Prince MBS, who has invested in excess of $3 bn in Trump family businesses, made multiple private phone calls to Trump over the past month advocating a US attack on Iran, despite his public support for a diplomatic solution. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

He's the master of his craft. We're proud of him in Atlanta!

Great line!

Wonderful!

It discourages all understanding

Pentagon removes senior official from Joint Staff post, sources say U.S. Vice Admiral Fred Kacher only took the post in December.

Trump has dismissed Vice Admiral Fred Kacher, deputy director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, for issuing warnings to him about what might go wrong in a new war against Iran, Reuters report. www.reuters.com/world/us/pen...

The monetization of everything

The leading Medicare fraudster in Florida history is, of course, the state's senior GOP senator, Rick Scott. His entire fortune was amassed that way.

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Re: what we were discussing about US vs EU stocks

Lowest IQ of the feculent cabal

Doubting he was invited.

Don't congratulate John Roberts or the Supreme Court.

Congratulate Rick Woldenberg, the Chicago-area leader of Learning Resources, an educadtional toy company that had the courage to sue the president of the United States to save his family business.

As well as everyone else who stepped up.

Wonderful news!

🤣🤣 Good one!!

Aww 🥰 sharing is caring 💞

The Kobeissi Letter: US job openings are now at recession levels:
US job openings dropped -386,000 in December, to 6.5 million, the lowest since September 2020. Over the last 2 months, job openings have declined -907,000, the biggest 2-month drop since March 2023.

7,500-year-old deer skull headdress discovered in Germany indicates hunter-gatherers shared sacred items and ideas with region's first farmers The discovery of a deer skull headdress and tools made from antlers at the site of a New Stone Age farming village suggests that hunter-gathers were sharing ideas with the newcomers.

It's still kind of a mystery how hunter-gatherers and Europe's first farmers dealt with each other. But in this instance, the discovery of a 7,500-year-old deer skull headdress and tools made from antlers suggests that the hunter-gatherers were sharing ideas and technologies with farmers. 🏺🧪🦌

Wow!

Oldham County GOP cuts the mic on Thomas Massie.

“I am a congressman. I don’t work for the Speaker of the House, I work for you.”

Whatever you think of Massie, this moment explains why his own party despises him.

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Great cartoon!

Very interesting.

Fascinating! Thanks for taking time to write and post!

Archaeologists find evidence of Hannibal's war elephants in Spain A small bone discovered in southern Spain may represent the first direct archaeological evidence of the war elephants used by Hannibal Barca during the Punic Wars. - HeritageDaily - Archaeology News

A carpal bone from the right forefoot of an elephant at the site of Colina de los Quemados, identified with the Iberian oppidum of Corduba,has yielded a radiocarbon dating between the 4th and 3rd centuries BCE.
The find’s context is intimately linked to the events of the Second Punic War in Hispania

No wonder the orange toddler is unhinged once again.

The Obamas are competent, classy, loving, Harvard and Princeton graduates, loved by many, not on the Epstein files, got the Nobel Peace Prize, and gave us a steady economy to boot.

Repost this if you agree they are AMAZING and an inspiration!

Uggi!