Debt Rattle June 23 2026
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El Greco Dormition of the Mother of God 1565-1566 • War On Iran: Trump: “It Really Probably Is Unconditional Surrender” (MoA) • Israelis Are Livid Ove
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle June 23 2026]“Iran Just Humiliated the U.S.” — Phoenix Capital.
Yeah I noticed that bc everyone here in America thinks we won and every ship in our Navy is still floating.
Fascination culture-wide with humiliation. I cannot comprehend it. It means nothing, it pays no rent, has no effects. It’s an internal emotional state that most of the time isn’t even appropriate response for those experiencing it. So it’s a narcissistic control mechanism? That’s why they focus on it? Every single person is panicked. All 8 Billion people are humiliated. 24 hours a day. Just read the headlines: it must be true!
Should anyone ever humiliate me, I’d conclude they need to be shot and removed at least twice as much, with cold, calculating plotting that puts great joy in my tiny heart, which may be why I’ve never had an abuser.
Did learn something about Iran here though: We are paying Iran billions! (Of their own money. So they don’t collapse into famine, etc). What does that mean?
A: It means they are being re-added to the Swift System. And? …And anything in the Swift System is visible, and it can’t leave. And? And if $5B suddenly goes missing and appears in Pakistan we can start asking questions if they just bought a nuclear bomb. Right?
And so that is also Obama. In reverse. Obama REMOVED them from the Swift System, so that all their financial moves would become IN-Visible to us. We, our intel agencies, would be blind. Oh. Then he have them pallets of cash outside the Swift System to use for naughty bits just to make sure they could start a nuclear bomb unseen. Oh.
I know this is counter-intuitive. But it’s pretty simple.
To “Control” them — or really it’s just making them a normal part of the family, the community of nations – they need to be IN the Swift System. It’s a false threat: we have more control over them in than out. This is the same with Crypto: sure, great, they use BTC to extort ships, but BTC is the most trackable asset on earth. You can track every wallet from a cave. Then they move to Monero. Yeah, well same thing and Monero isn’t that large, we’re talking billions a pop here, that makes ripples. So Iran has BTC, has Monero, then what?
Then $5B magically appears in Pakistan again, as the Crypto is converted to cash to be spent. Back into the “Swift” System. There’s a blank spot in the middle, (maybe) but without supernatural effort, it’s visible again. Then we ask the same questions of our international family. I can hide a purchase on Amazon with it because nobody’s looking – maybe. But that has my home address. But you can’t hide sums this large, even a Million, from a U.S. Treasury Secretary who is looking for you.
Why should they? Iran gets back into Swift, becomes normal, buys our wheat and the people don’t starve. Why would they NEED to be invisible? No one else is. Yes, only and specifically to make a nuclear bomb. To do something 200 other nations would not approve of, and move to prevent if it were visible. And this was done on purpose.
Well – now we can just UN-do it and Iran can be like Kuwait, Jordan, Turkey…And why not? ‘Coz NeoCons don’t like it? That’s all the reason to do it more.
“Iran Oil Exports Through Hormuz Hit Wartime High
Normal. Like this.
“Iran is going to be the dominant power, not Israel in the future”
Sounds good and appropriate. No problem. Iran is a large smart country of 90M, and Israel is a very small one.
The plan here was to have a belligerent Iran on a leash so it could bully and destroy all others: UAE, Saudi, and be co-dependent on Israel, each causing war for the other. So there is your checklist of practical problems: Iran needs to be a normal country without causing the death of all neighbors. People claim Iran is the Good Guys. So this won’t be a problem for them to do and prove, right?
Therefore there’s no problem for Iran to be the dominant power there, and not Israel. …I mean the only way we lose by that is if Iran is evil, and you promise me they’re not. So: another big win, right? So what you’re telling me is this is another reason to thank Donald Trump.
“Oil executives met with him and let him know we are teetering on the brink of a collapse and …”
And then Iran coincidentally surrendered? And we got everything? I’m not sure how the two are related? Is Iran working for our oil executives? Explain your logic here.
“Iran’s entire military structure evolved in response to isolation, sanctions, encirclement and repeated threats of “regime change.”
Yes. Okay, be productive, how do you solve it then? Trust is rightfully broken, Iran is (was) fully-armed. And hates Saudi Arabia. So if you just drop the reins and run away, Iran takes over everything in the region because they’re in a mobilized mindset where only attacking and expansion will feel like security to them. See the problem?
I’m not saying Iran’s plan isn’t logical and appropriate, or we don’t intentionally misinterpret it. Get beyond that, and how is it solved for a generation?
“If one commander is martyred, another immediately assumes responsibility. The objective is simple: ensure that the military never stops functioning.”
Genius that they are constructed identically to every other military on earth. Very special. However, this is also wrong: If you kill Patton, Montgomery and Eisenhower, Gomer Pyle is not their replacement. It’s completely untrue that their talent roster is infinite. If it were, no war or military action would ever succeed. We know from 5,000 years of war that killing generals and sinking ships work really really well, actually. Don’t yank my crank that the laws of Reality have suddenly halted.
I’ll ask the same each day: they are replaced when we killed 400 of them. How many of our generals did they kill to stop us? A: ZERO.
So if I say “there’s been a terrible accident at the packing plant and you’re the general manager now” you know how to run that place, have all the relationships, knowledge, familiar with all the paperwork requests? No. Not a little, not at all. You know your job as a Sergeant and that takes long enough to learn, not the process of General as well, which is why they’re 40-50yo bc it takes that long. Stop with the nonsense. Even 5 year olds know this.
“Its mountainous terrain provides natural defensive barriers. Vast distances complicate any ground invasion.”
Repeated endlessly. And when we have no desire nor even the slightest need to invade? What then? This same process and facts complicate them defending the coast should we land there…which we’re not. They’re bunkered up, in the mountains and unable to move. Unless these are very special ONE-WAY mountains. And they are resistant to WHITE PEOPLE, while Arabs can walk on them freely. C’mon.
“Most importantly, the Strait of Hormuz gives it leverage over one of the world’s most important energy chokepoints.”
Clearly not since you need “Bullets” to “Leverage” it. Again, they are not in the mountains, hidden and far away, BUT ALSO in the Gulf, out in the open, waiting to hit ships. Those are opposite armies and tasks. Everyone has now routed away from the Gulf in addition to us bottling them up in there until their wells collapse. This is no leverage at all. They used the nuclear option to the fullest possible and nothing happened. Squib. So we know have the “Leverage” of “Provably nothing happened.”
That “Geography” does not fight wars. You have to strap on a gun and go out there in person and DO something. Iran cannot.
On UK willing to do A N Y T H I N G to start a nuclear WWIII,
Stormshadow Hits Vorenzh” Military Summary.
“Totally INSANE: Ukraine and Britain attacked CRIMEA and struck a FerryBoat with Civilians on BOARD”
Anything to start a nuclear exchange. That’s what UK is willing to do to/for us. If the PM is to be arrested for a quarter-million rapes, he’ll blow up the planet to ashes instead. …Most predictable ever.
“Donald Trump wants to stop the war.
Is he trustworthy?
Absolutely not.”Well that’s true enough but it’s the #Opposite of what everyone’s been saying the 10 years til now. That he had no plan and wanted war. Also like all people he has goals. If Peace is aligned with his goals, he can be trusted with it. Same as every other nation over all time.
Boy I’m sure glad no Muslim was ever tricky in the marketplace and the Indians never pulled any scams! They’re not American you see, so they are perfectly moral peoples. Only Europe ever dun wrong.
“the winner of this peace is certainly Iran. Firstly, because the regime comes out alive”
What are you even talking about? Iran won because “It exists”? WTF kind of war did you think we were going to run there? The regime is intact and unchanged because we killed hundreds of IRGC members, such that it is now co-equal and the Civilian Government can get the upper hand again? You may as well say the 3rd Reich won because even one German General was left alive. That’s not how anyone has ever accounted these things before 2026 you know. You made that up just now.
“Israelis Are Livid Over Trump Ending War, Overwhelmingly Believe Iran Won: Poll”
Yes, because they wanted us to genocide Iran for them. Awwww, so sad! Idgaf what they think or want. Why would I? But Tucker and Fox News sure cares more than anything, don’t they? “Israel First!” Tucker says. You must consult with Israel on all issues, big and small. My whiplash is showing.
“Trump Turns on Netanyahu and the Zionists. “Belittles Bibi” – Dispatches JD Vance to face the anger and resentment of the Israel First crowd.”
Slowly working the case to break us free of AIPAC. But everyone is very mad and sad at this! They want AIPAC and Empire! Or Trump would be their hero, right?
“Trump’s approval numbers are dismal. “Trump was 21 points underwater in a Fox News poll”
And that’s why he won 114 of 114 endorsements, because everyone hates him. I don’t understand, since Hillary had the greatest polls and Kamala was up by 10, a shoe-in, certain win!
““They are the junior partner. We’re the senior partner.”
This remark and others outraged the Zionists even more.”Prettymuch says it all there. Never stop talking, guys. I want to learn more about how you think the Jews are the master race and Israel is above all nations.
“Iran theatrically walked out over Trump’s threats and Hormuz stayed shut to everyone but Iranian and Chinese hulls.
I mean, except for the 100 the US Navy escorted through. They don’t count. When is a ship not a ship? A: Whenever “I Make S—t Up” in my head.
Also this is not the point, the MoU isn’t going to be signed in this form. That’s blather. What ACTUALLY happened? Iran opens the straits, the world gets oil. THAT actually happened. And what then? The IRGC STILL tried to close it. Ah. So we all see now. The IRGC is entirely breakaway opposition to “Iran” and defies the Government. That is, they’re a terrorist network unrelated to Iran. What else? Lloyd’s of London demonstrates THEY are the only one closing the strait. By holding all world shipping companies hostage. No joke.
It’s now proven Iran never had that power, but London does. Hmmmm. But companies only RESPOND to facts because you have to sell it in a boardroom. Now all pipelines are built around Hormuz that should have been built 50 years ago. Odd. And now all world shipping can figure out how to get away from Lloyds…and note they don’t trust the United States to insure them? Is our credit weak or something? We can’t print money I guess? (according to Verufakis) You think we’re not good for a million bucks, the price of an average house in California? Yeah, no. China too? How about Russia? Incapable of running an actuary spreadsheet there? No. It’s network effect, they need to build all these and go around Lloyds all at once.
“I am not alleging a crime. I am describing an architecture.”
Yeah, me too.“.This is the settlement the American people are mistaking for a surrender. It is not a surrender. It is an acquisition. The men who wrote it were never trying to defeat Iran. They were trying to onboard it — onto the corridors, onto the Accords, onto the architecture that turns the entire region into a single integrated grid administered by private capital and legitimized by normalization.”
Exactly as I said about returning into the SWIFT system. And the American people don’t actually think we lost, they think we won. Only idiot pundits who haven’t been right in 20 years are saying that, plus liberals so deranged they’re carving out chunks of the reflecting pool and being arrested.
Yes. And as above, this is how you NORMALIZE an armed Iran to be good with neighbors like Saudi and not dominate them, which they otherwise can. No peace if we just trade the U.S. or Israel as a genocidal maniac for Iran being the genocidal maniac, what’s the difference?
“Trump signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Iran in Versailles. That palace has seen a lot of defeats.”
Soooo….therefore equal number of victories? This is like commenters on trading saying there were all sellers, no buyers. No: there is exactly ONE buyer for every seller, and vice versa. Jesus Christ.
So which side was the loser? Well one of the Navies is sunk and one of the Air Forces is eradicated, but I’ll let you decide, I’m sick of saying it.
“Alex Krainer, Is healthcare a human right?”
A: Only if you believe in human slavery. That “Right” has to be provided with someone’s talent, material, and time. That’s not free, which by definition Rights are. Now can you say it is a Public Good that should be provided out of the Treasury? Sure if you want. But that’s not a Right. That’s like the Army: you should definitely have one and everybody does, but it’s not a “Right” to have one. We’ve forgotten definitions, thoughts, and don’t know what words mean. This fact is what makes “Rights” different from other government functions, and not voluntary but Inalienable. He’s not American, no surprise he doesn’t know that. 80% of Americans may no longer know either.
Glad this guy was fixed up. Sounds super-expensive, who paid the bill? Russian citizens did? Why should they? I have a universal human Right, so I’m going to fly to China and make them give me bypass surgery, then fly home. Why not? It’s my Right. Saves me $100k and I can take that vacation to Monaco.
The aggressor sues for peace because the world won’t carry carry the cost of this excursion, The weaker nation has kept the aggressor at bay for three and a half months. The would be hegemon is shown not to be invulnerable.
Rationalize and call it any thing you wish, the same smell of napalm is in the morning air.On a similar note – Killing has been so successful of late what is needed is for the US to kick the scale of murder up a notch and kill more people. Thal’ll fix it.
The Trump aligned press if REALLY counting on the ignorance of the US population concerning the true course of money (US forign policy) since the successful adventure in Korea. That and as a whole the population is more depraved than thought. Looking straight into you face and eyes Dr. D
after a moments thought Kissingers famous quip about friends was really about Israel.
as Rodney Crowell wrote – Don’t Get Me Startedi used to listen to mark levin in the car, just to see how nutso the world can be.
this website has become the mark levin of whatever you call this.
so,
i’m done.
i’m wasting too much time scrolling through the nonsense to get to the comments.
i’m going to miss the commenters, but i’m done.
take care, my friends – don’t let the bed bugs bite.
to quote a murderous thug, “SO SAD”.
maybe it was the seinfeld thing that pushed me over the edge. referencing such a jerk is too much
adios
@Dr.D. Thanks for reading. If you go to the link, Krainer does not say that health-care is a “right” at all, because he doesnot want to have another open fight.
He thoughtfully opens the case of what might be a good way to go about assuring some of another public-good for the public in an efficient way. Right now public funds are diverted to private profit while providing worse and worse medical care.
That Russia took care of this visiting SEAL-vet with a blood clot in his brain, who the VA wouldn’t CT-scan is shameful, of course.Last night (still daylight here, it was) I posted Days Getting Shorter https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/days-getting-shorter
It started like this. (Kunstler picked-up on the Patrick Wood piece, too.)
We had a garden and first-birthday party in Yoakum Saturday, with pleasant company, good food and lots of leftover-containers, kids and dogs that all did fine.
Thanks to readers who attended (You know who you are).
We did not figure out what is about to change in our world, but it sure looks big, and looks like it might keep changing for a long time, too.Most of what I read asserts that the US just lost a war with Iran. Some are also shocked indignant that the US “betrayed its major-ally, Israel” a little over a week ago, by declining to expend scarce US air defense missiles against Iranian missiles attacking Israel in retaliation for the ceasefire violation of bombing Lebanese civilians.
I have long wondered how long the US would persist in supporting the “only democracy in the Mideast” and it’s genocides in the quest for “greater Israel” which are directed by their god. There are indications that Gulf monarchies have been negotiating quietly with Iran, and are willing to do business with Iran if the Israeli threat against them might somehow go away, especially if the US won’t threaten them on Israel’s behalf.
New narratives are that Trump is really, really exasperated with Netanyahu this time and threatening to let Israel go-it-alone, while JD Vance says loudly that the US is the dominant-partner and Israel has to follow-orders, which Trump also said recently.
To me it looks as though Israeli politicians are being goaded to be more bellicose, blame Netanyahu for being too soft on Iran and “terrorists”, tell-off Trump and just blow up Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria and maybe Turkey on their own. Though I doubt that Netanyahu has been actually alive since early March. This also appears to offer a plausible political off-ramp for his AI stand-in.
We will have to see if Iran can re-enter the broad world of trade without sanctions, helped by the $300 billion investment-fund of Gulf neighbors, from which they apparently all intend to profit together. That does imply the ending of the militarily adversarial relationship between Israel and Iran. Will that leave a national-identity for Israel if it comes to pass? What might such an identity be?Gilbert Doctorow, Yesterday’s front-page editorial in Le Figaro on the Memorandum of Understanding
Note the trenchant realism in their analysis, though the logic of the last sentence is not persuasive. And they avoid stating the obvious: that the Memorandum reflects the relative positions of the signatories as winner (Iran) and loser (USA) in both rounds of this war, in 2025 and 2026...
..Contrary to what he (Trump) tries to make them swallow, the winner of this peace is certainly Iran. Firstly, because the regime comes out alive from its tug-of-war with two nuclear powers, the ‘Big Satan’ and the ‘Little Satan.’ Forgotten are regime change and the promises of aid to the martyred Iranian people. Trump henceforth recognizes the ‘sovereignty’ of the bloody regime of the Revolutionary Guards, on whom he lifts the sanctions. And who hits the jackpot? A 300 billion dollar fund to which must be added the 100 billion of frozen assets and 60 billion dollars of oil revenues per year. Plenty to be used to rearm for the next war! Iran also keeps its hand on the Strait of Hormuz. https://gilbertdoctorow.substack.com/p/yesterdays-front-page-editorial-in Mary sends an alternative-view from Patrick Wood, Iran: The Goal Was Always Economic Reintegration, Not Containment
Now, the part that should hold the attention of every American watching this, and is being missed by nearly all of them: Jared Kushner is a private citizen. He represents no agency. He took no oath for this work. He is the President’s son-in-law, operating as a civilian proxy, and he runs an investment firm — Affinity Partners — whose capital comes overwhelmingly from Gulf sovereign wealth. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar are the funders of that firm. They are also the states being asked to fund the Iran development fund. The man who designed the mechanism to rebuild Iran is paid by the governments that will pay for the rebuilding.
I am not alleging a crime. I am describing an architecture. The negotiation of a sovereign settlement with Iran was placed in the hands of a private financier whose investors are the very Gulf states whose capital the settlement mobilizes. That is not a conflict of interest in the narrow legal sense. It is the structure itself. Statecraft has been handed to a fund manager, and the fund manager’s clients are the beneficiaries of the statecraft. This is what the privatization of foreign policy looks like when you stop using the polite words for it...
..This is the settlement the American people are mistaking for a surrender. It is not a surrender. It is an acquisition. The men who wrote it were never trying to defeat Iran. They were trying to onboard it — onto the corridors, onto the Accords, onto the architecture that turns the entire region into a single integrated grid administered by private capital and legitimized by normalization. https://patrickwood.substack.com/p/iran-the-goal-was-always-economic?r=na1qg&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true@ThoseDarnedKids
I’m at a loss for words. Please don’t go. Don’t leave me alone with these guys. I beg of you.
Now obviously I’m talking with a bit of tongue-in-cheek stylish attitude, but on a perfectly frank and serious note, I would say much the same thing. You and a small handful of others literally ARE The Automatic Earth forum. If you go then you leave nothing behind because in a weird self-fulfilling-prophecy sort of way, without you and that handful then TAE is, quite literally, nothing at all. Poof! Gone.
@TDK: You are welcome at my old blog with rarely a comment, or my Substack with some commenteers, even occasionally from here.
https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/days-getting-shorter
https://www.johndayblog.com/2026/06/days-getting-shorter.html@TDK:
Truth seeking means digging through garbage.
When you find it, your satisfaction will make your efforts worthwhile.Apropos of nothing…
Little Murders: Alfred’s monologue re: reading the mail
I was looking for his other kitchen monologue, re: (paraphrase) “…seek to destroy a thing, you should be comfortable with the fact that thing will no longer exist…” But the above clip is pretty good.
@ThoseDarnedKids
I’m at a loss for words. Please don’t go. Don’t leave me alone with these guys. I beg of you.Hahaha! Ditto!
Life has taught me that nothing lasts forever, so one must learn to “let go” when the time comes. And each of us instinctively knows when that time arrives. But if you start to feel like someone is tugging at your shirt sleeve, holding you back, it will be me, DBS, and the many others at TAE who enjoy your presence here.
The 30-year-old male zoo visitor who tossed a UK toddler into a crocodile enclosure was released on bail. The authorities are refusing to disclose the identity of the assailant to avoid anti-immigration protests. https://michaelwalshwriter.com/2026/06/21/released-the-man-who-tossed-toddler-to-the-crocodiles-is-freed/
tdk
i’m wasting too much time scrolling through the nonsense to get to the comments.
dayum, you finally fucking figured it out….
TAE is a zionist shill site and raul is a scumbag pos zionist assclown glorifying trumps wars, hypocrisy, and idiocracy “leader of the free world” bs, Pssst rimjob went full retard behaving like the worst of the covid libtards- rim job giving full support for lockdowns, masks and fraudulent pcr testing…. rimjobs a fucking moron and never redacted or apologized for getting it 100% wrong.
Trusting rimjob with truth seeking is the equivalent of just vote harder and everything will improve retardation…
I TOLD YOU SO…. glad you finally stop being in total denial re tae and rimbob raul.
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dbs-
Please don’t go. Don’t leave me alone with these guys. I beg of you.
wtf? how pathetic. i knew you were a retarded coward long ago, but damn you’re pathetic.
Too cowardly to face reality and be a man making your own choices. alone on the internet….oh noes….zerosum-
Truth seeking means digging through garbage.
Bullshit you fucking retard. Buddhas don’t practice nonsense…
For one- seek truth inside yourself, not at a zionist genocidal warmongering website.Chop wood, carry water. Truth has nothing to do with sifting through garbage for a dopamine hit.
maxwells questing-
But if you start to feel like someone is tugging at your shirt sleeve, holding you back, it will be me, DBS, and the many others at TAE who enjoy your presence here.
What exactly do you “enjoy” about the lies, propaganda, hypocrisy and zionist genocidal worship on display here every day at rimjobs tae? Gay?
Incredible that a few “true believers” continue to lower themselves to begging and excusing and denying the obvious garbage here at tae. Cognitive dissonance, denial of reality, cowards, fake virtue signaling “truth seekers”…
Clowntards.
Peoples minds have been broken beyond recognition. Anyone here looking for objective truth is mentally deranged delusional beyond repair, so it makes sense you can’t quit your insanity. Basically all of you still here.
Pathetic.@ TDK
Dear TDK,
Regarding “this website”
The important part is our ability to share information in the comments section.
If you don’t like what you are reading then skip to the next or don’t read anything of certain commenters or even the main site
If you are a truth seeker then you may find some comments of value here.
When some truths are found your heart may be hurt but with the new knowledge you may better plan your way forward and that may mean not looking or exposing yourself to lies and abuse but enjoy the others
I wish you well and avoiding truth may be more ignorance is bliss but if you are a truth seeker that is what you must do to be true to yourself
Here it is … The off ramp from war to peace. Will Trump take it?
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https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-concurrent-resolution/86
H.Con.Res.86 – Directing the President, pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution, to remove United States Armed Forces from hostilities with Iran.This concurrent resolution directs the President to remove U.S. Armed Forces from hostilities against Iran unless explicitly authorized by a declaration of war or a congressional authorization for use of military force against Iran.
Elements of the U.S. Armed Forces needed to defend the United States, an ally, or a partner from imminent attack are not covered by this requirement provided the President complies with a specified provision of the War Powers Resolution. (The provision generally requires the President to remove U.S. Armed Forces from hostilities no more than 60 days after the President notifies or is required to notify Congress of such involvement, unless Congress authorizes such use. For more information on the War Powers Resolution, see CRS In Focus 13134.)
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USASenate passes War Powers Resolution = Trump-order-forces-out-of-Iranian-war-theater
Call this a victory, Mr. President. Say they are following your plans and orders.
Sign it with a big smile when it gets to your desk.
Man as an Extension of Nature, Not a Techno Hybrid Simulation
https://21stcenturywire.com/2026/06/22/man-as-an-extension-of-nature-not-a-techno-hybrid-simulation/
in support of Michael Reid, Yes it seems citizenx and tdk prefer to complain than contribute. Thats censorship.
Rather than quitting TAE altogether, I suggest a 30 day vacation. It’s summertime. Get outside and get away from your computer. Take a barefoot walk in the grass. Go for a swim or a bike ride. Come back after a 30 day break and you’ll feel much better.
I skim the crazy sh*t Ilargi posts here — yes, the Pinsker piece won the prize for Delusional Post of the Day. Kunstler came in second today. I guess there was no Salgado piece today, because that is the one that usually wins hands down. For awhile the crazy posts bothered me, but now I see it as a spiritual malaise. It’s another mass formation. Ilargi is under a spell along with a big chunk of the western world. I hope the spell is lifted. But until that happens, don’t even both trying to reason them out of it. You will not add one minute to your life trying.
And then we have a visit from the internet’s model citizen, citizenx, who seems to be afflicted with Tourettes Syndrome. That or he escaped from the underworld for a few hours.
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