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  • #236880
    D Benton Smith
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    Well this is interesting! Apparently that story had legs after all.

    [Please pardon the AI graphics/voiceover. It’s the overarching story that counts] https://youtu.be/eLn9n9xoP8U?si=mfzG6et3ZH-M8EZH

    #236881
    tboc
    Participant

    So remember, when you’re feeling very small and insecure
    How amazingly unlikely is your birth
    And pray that there’s intelligent life somewhere up in space
    ‘Cause there’s bugger-all down here on Earth! – from The Galaxy Song

    i marvel that so few see how exquisite a gift is breath.

    #236882
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    The only way that Trump avoids prison or execution for High Treason is if he passes away from some other cause first. Very instructive and enlightening to watch the process in progress.

    #236883
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @tboc

    how exquisite a gift is breath.

    I think that is poetry of the very highest order. Right up there with the greats.

    #236884
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @tboc
    According to an AI deep dive the line is not from any known poem before you wrote it, so you are the man. Congratulations.

    #236885
    zerosum
    Participant

    Modern Warfare
    Shock and Awe attack against Ukrainian targets using drones and missiles

    #236886
    kultsommer
    Participant

    Let’s God sort out what’s real or not.

    #236887
    kultsommer
    Participant

    Let God….

    #236888
    Topcat
    Participant

    #236889
    Topcat
    Participant

    Hunt the Bankers and MIC Maggots down and terminate them with EXTREME PREJUDICE

    Wink Wink

    They all have names an actual addresses in the real world.

    #236890
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    IRGC sank an ISRAELI vessel and Wiped Out US Navy’s Secret Residence with 18 Naval Officers inside

    #236891
    Topcat
    Participant

    Trumpturd wants to order US troops to seize some shitty little island(s) in the Persian Gulf.

    Iranians are waiting there to slaughter them.

    They have a million+ man army with revenge on their minds.

    THIS DAY IN HISTORY – U.S. troops land on Okinawa – 1945

    On April 1, 1945, after suffering the loss of 116 planes and damage to three aircraft carriers, 50,000 U.S. combat troops, under the command of Lieutenant General Simon B. Buckner Jr., land on the southwest coast of the Japanese island of Okinawa, 350 miles south of Kyushu, the southern main island of Japan. Determined to seize Okinawa as a base of operations for the army ground and air forces for a later assault on mainland Japan, more than 1,300 ships converged on the island, finally putting ashore 50,000 combat troops.

    The Americans quickly seized two airfields and advanced inland to cut the island’s waist. They battled nearly 120,000 Japanese army, militia and labor troops under the command of Lieutenant General Mitsuru Ushijima.

    The Japanese surprised the American forces with a change in strategy, drawing them into the mainland rather than confronting them at the water’s edge.

    While Americans landed without loss of men, they would suffer more than 50,000 casualties, including more than 12,000 deaths.

    As the Japanese staged a desperate defense of the island, a defense that included waves of kamikaze (“divine wind”) air attacks. Eventually, these suicide raids proved counterproductive, as the Japanese finally ran out of planes and resolve, with some 4,000 finally surrendering. Japanese casualties numbered some 117,000.

    Leading from the Front unlike the Chicken Shit US military officers we have today under Trumpturd

    Lieutenant General Buckner, son of a Civil War general, was among the casualties, killed by enemy artillery fire just three days before the Japanese surrender.

    Japanese General Ushijima committed ritual suicide upon defeat of his forces.

    #236892
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Trump Threatens US NATO Exit; Russia Winning Donbas Victory Warns US Kiev Of Harder Terms; Ground Op

    #236893
    zerosum
    Participant

    USA Shock and Awe Attacks

    War On Iran: The Best Choice Is To Retreat – More Likely Though Is Escalation

    War On Iran: The Best Choice Is To Retreat – More Likely Though Is Escalation
    U.S. President Donald Trump will give a live speech tonight at 9:00pm ET.

    He might announce that:

    the U.S. will retreat from the War on Iran he had launched or
    that U.S. troops have started to invade Iranian territory.
    No. 1 seems unlikely as AIPAC, hawkish Republicans and Zionist Democrats are all against a U.S. retreat.
    No. 2 seems irrational as any invasion of Iranian territory is destined to end in defeat.

    The U.S. has deployed additional A-10 ground fighter airplanes to the Gulf. Deploying these points to a ground operation, probably to seize some islands.

    Meanwhile the severity of the global energy crisis the war has caused is starting to get recognize.

    Ambrose Evans-Pritchard of the Telgraph is warning (archived) of the even bigger oil shock we need to expect if things escalate from here:

    The world has lost over a tenth of its daily oil supply, along with critical volumes of jet fuel, diesel and refined petroleum products. Now prepare for loss of the next tenth, hitting just as all the short-term fixes are exhausted.

    The pro-Iranian Houthis in Yemen have finally joined the Gulf war, opening a second front in the Red Sea and endangering a further 6pc of global oil supply.

    David Fyfe, the chief economist at Argus Media, says prices will reach traumatic levels if the Red Sea now comes under fire and remains closed for weeks.

    “You can pick any arbitrary number – $200[/bbl], or anything you want – the risk is that we’ll see huge demand destruction, inflation going through the roof and global growth shuddering to a halt. It is a horrible thought,” says Fyfe, who used to run the oil division at the International Energy Agency.

    Every corner of the globe will be hit by Apr 20 or thereabouts. Regional prices will converge via arbitrage and there will then be a planetary oil crisis with very few places left to hide.

    The horror this means for us average people – including mass starvation in the global South – seems hard to imagine but will soon become real.

    There is pressure on Trump to “do something” about this. The best he could do to lower the consequences of an energy crisis is to retreat from the Middle East.

    But to give up control over a major sea lane, one through which much of the blood of the global economy is flowing, means to give up on the U.S. status as a super power and global hegemon. It would be a huge step, a necessary one in the long term, but one that is likely to only be taken after years of war and, like in Vietnam, a deeply punishing defeat.

    Posted by b on April 1, 2026 at 15:19 UTC |

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    I’m sure Trump knows …
    Confirmed presence of a Russian nuclear submarine near the Strait of Hormuz. Moscow has officially deployed six submarines, including two nuclear ones, near the Strait of Hormuz for a discreet mission to protect Iranian infrastructure, according to reports.

    Their primary role is to prevent the United States and Israel from freely entering the strait or approaching the Iranian coast. This deployment sends a strong political message to the West, signaling that any major escalation against Iran could directly involve Russia.

    https://x.com/GBX_Press/status/2039268388120481990

    Posted by: unimperator | Apr 1 2026 17:10 utc
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    #236894
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    #236895
    kultsommer
    Participant

    Could not see any extra kair lock.
    So good to go.

    #236896

    I was going to post something, but I couldn’t because it sounded like AI wrote it.
    BEWARE reading too much AI! It creeps into your brain- it has a “hyper-natural” way of “speaking” that is infectious. I am seeing it more and more.
    And now I’ve caught it!!! ; )

    Here goes Artemis2. On April Fool’s Day. Hello, van Allen belts!

    #236897
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    #236898
    DarkMatter
    Participant

    I appreciate the many videos posted here even though I sometimes don’t trust their content
    Since I don’t have time to watch them all I
    1) Click on the arrow at lower right in the video and copy the URL
    2) Open https://notegpt.io/youtube-video-summarizer
    3) Paste in the URL and press Enter
    This provides a useful summary and if it looks interesting I can then watch the entire video
    I thought others might like this

    #236899
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    #236900
    Celticbiker
    Participant

    If you are American, look around at your town, a good look, the people there that shoud’nt be there. The garbage, fucked up roads, the overpriced schools shoving nonsense into the heads of your kids, the degradation and lack of trust. You’re in a jew run prison camp, controlled by $, backed by 0. Killing people 5000 miles away, in your name, on your dime. Are you OK with that? I’m not.

    #236901
    zerosum
    Participant

    Massive Strike: 700 Drones in Just 24 Hours
    Ultimatum: Now or Never
    Military Summary For 2026.04.1

    #236902
    tboc
    Participant

    dbs,
    Boss does good work.

    #236903
    tboc
    Participant

    kultsommer,
    Let go….

    #236904
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Douglas Macgregor: Iran War Destroyed NATO, Gulf States, Israel & U.S. Empire

    #236905
    kultsommer
    Participant

    Also they qualified for World Cup. Unlike chifuts.
    Nice.

    #236906
    Doc Robinson
    Participant

    Hypersonic missiles developed and made in Japan are now deployed there –

    Japan Deploys New Hypersonic, Anti-ship Missile

    Tokyo’s first batch of long-range strike missiles capable of reaching ground and maritime targets at extended ranges have been operationally fielded, according to Japan’s defense ministry.

    The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) announced Monday the deployment of the Type 25 series of missiles. While the missiles share the same designation, their variants are split through surface-to-ship (SSM) and hypervelocity gliding projectile (HGP) classifications.

    Capable of striking targets over 1,000 kilometers away, basing the Type 25 series anti-ship missiles at the service’s Kengun Western Army base in Kyushu enables Japanese forces to hit maritime targets across the country’s southwestern region, the East China Sea and mainland China. The SSM variant is derived from the domestically-made Type 12. While the hypersonic variant is deployed at the JGSDF’s Fuji base, the service has practiced deploying the system via air and maritime means. Future variants of the Type 25-HGP plan to extend the hypersonic’s range to between 2,000 and 3,000 kilometers.

    https://news.usni.org/2026/04/01/japan-deploys-new-hypersonic-anti-ship-missiles

    #236907
    those darned kids
    Participant

    he said fucking nothing.

    here, here is something more enlightening:

    #236908
    zerosum
    Participant

    Iran said,
    The straight is only closed to enemies.

    Trump said to NATO, If you want oil, GO GET IT.
    (Cough, cough, become enemies of Iran)

    #236909
    those darned kids
    Participant

    they mistook her cellphone for a pager..

    “Israeli forces shot and killed an 82-year-old Palestinian woman in Beit Lahia: Palestinian writer Mosab Abu Toha told the story on Monday of his 82-year-old neighbor, Yousra al-Ashqar, who Israel forces shot and wounded in Beit Lahia on March 23. Al-Ashqar died days later following surgery. Abu Toha described her as a decades-long fixture in their neighborhood, where she ran a small shop with her husband.”

    #236910
    Maxwell Quest
    Participant

    It appears that The Donald has lost his mind. What a disappointment!

    The next impeachment won’t be just another bogus political witch hunt, but will have real teeth behind it. This ain’t no party! This ain’t no disco! This ain’t no foolin’ around!

    #236911
    John Day
    Participant

    Quoth DBS:
    “The only way that Trump avoids prison or execution for High Treason is if he passes away from some other cause first. Very instructive and enlightening to watch the process in progress.”

    He may ultimately qualify for the “Joe Biden” defense, being incompetent to stand trial.

    #236912
    WES
    Participant

    Moar War!

    I haven’t heard what Trump said, but gold fell $100 tonight says “Moar War!

    Ending War talk was just a head fake to manipulate markets.

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