Be that as it may, Hegseth is not one of the drunks who would have helped us toward victory.

That fucking drunk wouldn’t have lasted two seconds on D-Day.

True.

That’s really the only material difference between Donald and the presidents who came before him: a lack of shame and subtlety. The way he operates is not fundamentally different in any meaningful way apart from presentation and the sheer will to get his own way.

It’s nice to see a handful of Dems trying to do something on Iran.

I just remember the Slotkins and Schumers of the world back in March just tossing their hands in the air and saying some variant of: “We’re in it. Now we have to support the troops.” (Meaning, approve all funding requests and send WMD’s.)

I don’t think it will matter though. Both ruling parties love war and the money it makes them. We’ll still be dealing with Iran decades from now, long after our esteemed president has fallen asleep in a meeting for the last time.

Same thing happened with Iraq.

We were told it would be a quick win, a month at most, and wouldn’t cost more than a billion dollars.

L—O—L

Both Democrats and Republicans support this war, if not in word than in deed, and I fully expect it to last for years.

Indeed. I’m so glad I never had kids.

Our species is the worst.

For the same reason that American Christians would beat a gay person to death and then argue the gay panic defense in court.

They’ve been raised to believe that these made-up rules for their imaginary friend are a more important consideration than the reality right in front of them.

This would be ideal.

This is my take too.

It’s not that America and Europe can’t compete. It’s that they’ve got their fat asses propped up on piles of misbegotten cash and are too fucking lazy and greedy to make a good product.

In other news, Israel seems to think the rest of the world can’t access the Internet and literally watch them celebrating rapists and turning them into national heroes.

It’s not like Israel can wring their hands here.

They’re openly celebrating the rape and encouraging it. Someday, when all this is over, we’re going to read books about the horrors they allowed their soldiers to perpetrate, Abu Ghraib-style.

This is starting to become a movement: countries going with Non-US tech or converting from it, and that’s probably for the best, given the general lack of ethics and insatiable greed of US-based tech companies and the people who lead them.

And this shit, dear friends, is why we’re going to be stuck in this Iran shit for the next 20 years.

If we’re lucky.

We’re just waiting for the inevitable point when the US launches a ground invasion or drops a nuke.

Honestly, same.

Could have been a great event, especially here in KC where we’ve had events with a million-plus people go off with less than ten arrests multiple times in recent memory.

But the billionaires, the fascists, and the bureaucrats have ruined it like they do with every fucking thing. I hope it fails spectacularly.

Can’t get blood from a stone.

Right?!

And, to think, this morning I was reading headlines about how close the US and Iran were to a deal to end the war.

Also I appreciate that the AP took a quote from Capt. Hawkins but did not ask him if he realizes how absurd what he just said actually is.

Really, really sick of this flippy floppy shit.

Cool.

Now maybe get this gung ho about purging the child rapists in your church, Leo.

Yup, Israel is obviously a terrorist regime, but maintaining the outward appearance of victimhood and ‘just defending themselves’ is imperative.