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    Vincent van Gogh Memory of the Garden at Etten (Ladies of Arles) 1888 • Gulf Oil Production Could Stop In Weeks – Putin (RT) • Iran Reportedly Starts
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle March 11 2026]

    #234228
    Topcat
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    It was a delicious day when Putin told Modi that because India had betrayed another BRICS member by going to Zionaziland and licking Bibi butthole and signing deals that Russia would still sell oil to India to bail it out of No Oil from the Persian Gulf.

    BUT Modi would have to pay $5 a barrel HIGHER than Brent,
    thus effectively clawing back all the previous savings that India had accumulated from the earlier below the going rate for oil.

    Modi, like Erdoğan is a duplicitous two faced liar, cowardly cockroach, and all all around world class Kunt.

    Hindus like Jews always hate to pay full retail for anything much less $5 per barrel more than the going rate.

    Some of Modi’s top backers are Zionazi ass kissers. Feeling the burn, feeling the butthurt….

    The Russians are India’s only lifeline in the present situation in the Gulf.

    Nice that Putin finally showed a little teeth.

    #234229
    Topcat
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    According to the New York Post
    , a prison guard assigned to Jeffrey Epstein reportedly Googled him minutes before he was found dead and made a $5,000 cash deposit days earlier.

    Tova Noel was one of the two Metropolitan Correctional Center workers accused of falsifying records to say they checked on Epstein throughout the night before his Aug. 10, 2019, suicide.

    The guards were fired but criminal charges against both were later dropped.

    Nothing to see here, move along…..

    Say, “Cheese”

    “Put this garbage in a Burn Bag”

    #234230
    Topcat
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    #234231
    Topcat
    Participant

    CBS News sources confirmed that over the eleven-day course of Operation Epic Fury, the U.S. lost ELEVEN General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper drones.

    At roughly $30 million apiece, the losses likely cost taxpayers more than $330 million.

    Trumpturd will just PRINT moar money to cover the Clusterfuck.

    Profiles in Courage

    #234232
    Topcat
    Participant

    Tel Avi Weather Report:

    Sunny, mild chances of missiles

    #234233
    Topcat
    Participant

    Bottom of the barrel

    Iranian missiles hitting Tel Avi last night with NO INTERCEPTORS

    https://x.com/i/status/2031581412491411896

    https://x.com/i/status/2031520064621437428

    #234234
    Topcat
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    #234235
    Topcat
    Participant

    #234237
    WES
    Participant

    Israel:

    So, a rather quiet night in Israel as only 3 missiles landed?

    The rest of the missiles were censored?

    #234238
    WES
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    London::

    So Dr. D was right, Trump is waging war against London!

    Of course,Trump hasn’t forgotten who tried to assinate him either.

    #234239
    WES
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    Ending The War:

    Of course,Trump needs to give Iran more time to flatten Israel before ending the war.

    ,But maybe, Trump is already seeing a split between Iran’s Artesh/Iranian people and the IRGC?

    #234240
    Topcat
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    During the 12 day ‘war’ all the pundits and experts were peeing their panties when the Iranians dropped the number of launches only to increase the accuracy and payload.

    Same deal now but they won’t stop at 12 days.

    The Minimum 1-ton warheads are being warmed up.

    Trumpturd & Ah’..merica launched its biggest war in twenty years on the advice of two real estate guys and a former Fox News host.

    “Today, one of the real estate guys got thrown under the bus. Trump told reporters the war was based on what Jared Kushner told him – that “Iran was about to attack “us, all of the Middle East and us”

    .Nobody in any intelligence agency ever assessed this. No military body claimed it. It was real estate due diligence applied to geopolitics, and the closing costs are measured in children.”

    This will end in Defeat

    The small stuff is over. Everything inbound from this point carries the weight of a small sedan.

    353 Hezbollah rocket alerts in a single barrage. Jerusalem, Haifa, Netanya.

    Oh thats gotta hurt….

    “The IDF tried to enter Khiam again and failed again – two more Merkavas destroyed, one burning. Hezbollah ambushed the evacuation team that came to collect the soldiers from the last failed attempt.”

    #234241
    Topcat
    Participant

    Zionaziland playing it’s “A” Game

    Zippy the Pinhead

    #234242
    Topcat
    Participant

    No Exit

    Same day the Wall Street Journal reports Trump’s people begging for an exit ramp.

    Same day the S&P rallied to within 2.5% of its all-time high.

    The market heard “exit”. Iran said “no exit”. The market chose to believe the Trumpturd real estate guys.

    Again.

    #234243
    Topcat
    Participant

    The ‘Market” is more than just Oil

    Trumpturd will need more than Bullshit to bring the next world food crop to harvest

    One third of the world’s fertilizer trade transits the Strait of Hormuz.

    The Strait is closed.

    Urea hit $584.50 per ton. Up 29% in eleven days. Up 52% year on year.

    I wrote on day six that planting season doesn’t wait for ceasefires. It still doesn’t. The crop that wasn’t planted doesn’t grow retroactively.

    That sentence bears repeating because nobody in Washington seems to have heard it the first time.

    #234245
    Topcat
    Participant

    BLOWHARD ALERT:

    Trump posted the threat. “If Iran does anything that stops the flow of Oil within the Strait of Hormuz, they will be hit TWENTY TIMES HARDER. Death, Fire, and Fury.”

    The IRGC responded with five words: “Not a single liter of oil”.

    Then Ali Larijani, Iran’s top security official, posted about Hormuz. In Russian. Not Persian. Not Arabic. Not English. Russian.

    Addressed to the one country that profits from every hour the strait stays closed.

    Putin doesn’t need Hormuz. He needs Hormuz to be closed.

    And Iran just wrote him a love letter in his own language.

    #234246
    kultsommer
    Participant

    What in the world they have on them all?
    It can’t be the money only.

    #234247
    Topcat
    Participant

    First Target for the 2000lb Iranian Warheads

    No Air Defense

    For symbolism purposes.

    The Zionazi Knesset

    Vaporize it

    Put a Happy Face on the missile for Good Luck

    #234248
    kultsommer
    Participant

    Yep.

    #234249
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “IRGC Says Iran, Not US, Will Determine War’s End

    What are either of you fools talking about? So long as either nation wants to attack, the war continues. Ask Russia. Wars often happen with one side not wanting it, and never end until both sides don’t.

    “Fuse on America’s Next Inflation Crisis BY Phoenix Capital Research
    This is why Trump is panicking.

    He doesn’t look like he panicking. Which he shouldn’t. He looks like he’s taking a victory lap…which he shouldn’t.

    All headlines, all actions, all thoughts in the universe must include the name Trump. Trump is God: omnipotent, omnipresent, moving in all things. So Leftists say.

    “Rand Paul Warns Of “Disastrous” Midterms For GOP If Iran War Continues

    That is correct. If Voter ID passes tho, the war won’t matter, and they know it.

    “CNN Does Propaganda For ‘ISIS-Inspired’ Gracie Mansion Attackers, Then Deletes Tweet

    Two children and “Austere scholars” brutally arrested by NY police, accused of merely building and throwing pipe bomb.

    Yeah, actually if you look the POLICE ARE RIGHT THERE. Probably 24/7 in front of the Mayor. They walk up, say “Howya Gerorge? Howya Frank?” then THROW THE BOMB. What. The actual. I mean, good thing! Otherwise NY police wouldn’t have cracked the case, but….

    “Trump Threatens ‘Unprecedented Military Consequences’ As Iran Reportedly Starts Mining The Strait Of Hormuz

    Well finally they’re DOING something. “Stopping things” takes more than “I thought/said we could do it.” However, now they need to get those boats into that area. I expect at the moment it’s still words as they have no Navy and we can see what boats appear there. That is, Plan = “We SAID we mined the straits to make you scared when really we had one boat there for 30 minutes.” It could work. Now we would prove a negative that there are NO mines. Still bulls—t tho.

    Okay, all things are happening, and no one cares about the truth, but the top reason we’re both right about the Straits is, maps show no boats there. True. Because ships all shut off their transponders and are already passing through, i.e. it’s not Closed. True. So both. After they transit, they turn it back on and so you need to X-Y compare a list of who moved, not a satellite map. We can know the Straits are also not “Normal”, at 100%. True.

    Lloyd’s appears to have caved and is insuring. But I wouldn’t trust them, they will stall, delay, do every other sabotage. At the same time, apparently Trump’s insurance isn’t running yet; like fine you say so, where is the office and paperwork to apply?

    “Trump Willing To Kill New Ayatollah If He Doesn’t Cede To US Demands

    Wait: so the “Austere scholar” of the old Ayatollah was a billionaire? And the new Ayatollah isn’t religious at all and never has been, do I hear that right? Uhhhh…So much for him being the Shi’ite Pope. The IRGC just installed the nearest Borgia.

    Alright, that’s your choice guys, but your pants are showing. Working on confirming this with more. Hey if he was a billionaire – like Zelensky is as well – who did his banking?

    “How Iran can CRIPPLE the West in One Move” Prof Jiang Xueqin  YT

    Asian Guy, An. Yup, the entire rest of the world is blackmailed and completely helpless, subservient to Iran. We are all subjects of the Ayatollah, and Iran is sending out applications for passports as they run the world now. Thanks Jiang. I had no idea after beating ALL of Europe and ALL of the Pacific at the same time, we’d be helpless to one small nation that in the space age we can nuke from orbit.

    So if Iran has “One Weird Trick Local Housewives Love” when do they plan to use it? Wouldn’t now be the time? Or is that BECAUSE it was extortion all along?

    Again, London set up Israel on one side, we know. But after a while, that wasn’t self-funding and self-limiting. So they had to set up ANOTHER nation, a counterweight, of the same power and control that too: you control Israel with Iran and Iran with Israel. Then you feed false information to both about how evil the other one is and keep this war going, but low-level. 50, 80 years everyone is killed, the whole region is destroyed. If you come in to try to fix it, and even one additional person is killed, you’re the bad guy. We can ONLY allow 20k/year to die in a festering burn. We can’t lose 21k and cure it.

    Translation: the cancer can never be cut out because operations are dangerous, and sitting around letting it grow is safe. Right?

    Same here, losing 90k to opioids is sad, but not adequate number of deaths to take seriously. If only it were a million a year, we could justify sending out federal agents and closing the border. Someone might get hurt! …But we said we promised we’d take action back when it was 5k, 10k, 20k…and we didn’t. What makes you think a million, 2 million, 5 million would be any more motivating? Juan will still be sad on national news. Goode and Pretti people might still be killed.

    A: There is NO threshold for action. You must never, never Act.

    ““It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt

    We all criticize and refuse to act while 90k people are killed here – minimum. We all want the wars to continue when 20k Muslims are killed there. Because if we cause one additional death, we’re evil. So all of history says, which is why we never landed on the beaches at Normandy: someone might break an ankle with that!

    So long as you do NOTHING you are safe. So long as you criticize and don’t get involved, your position is perfect. So long as millions die by your cowardice and not by your actions, they are not really dead, and are walking around. So long as I ignore it, it doesn’t exist.

    ““When this conflict is over, I think it will end badly for us, and Iran will survive.” -Douglas Macgregor

    MacGregor has decided the goal of the Administration is to make Iran CEASE TO EXIST? Can he point to a speech or paper where the Executive has said that? Iran is going to EXIST sir, stop making stuff up. Germany is still there last I checked. France was defeated, still there. Hanoi is not occupying us.

    He might as well say we’re attacking Mars for all the sense his assumptions make. He’s discussing other, fictional planets all day, not the one here on Earth.

    I run into this hourly. Here’s a long-form, University expert on Anti-Air. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nMjMz8yL_kk Good, right?
    Opening words: “I hate America which is a cancer on the universe, and no American Anti-air shot down any missile ever.” Uhhh…??? I’m not an expert on these things – actually I’m a moron who is only “literate” and reads news articles written at a 6th grade level – but I’m very sure THAT’S not true. …And I’m out here for years telling everyone how suck our Patriot and HIMARS are, but they hit SOMETHING, sir, or nations wouldn’t buy them.

    No. That’s not even my point. He THEN goes on to explain how it’s super-deadly that the major radar stations were taken out because then they can’t pass the targeting to the Patriot systems. Uhhhhh…??? To NOT be hit by the Anti-air batteries you say have a 1% hit rate to begin with? If they don’t work to begin with, then the gain or loss of a radar station doesn’t matter, does it? Completely immaterial. No Work = No Work. Don’t work the first day, work no worse the second, in fact if you blew up every Patriot it would make no difference at all. In fact, if ANY of that is true, then Iran has been unrestrained and hit anything they wanted all week, all month, at will. Man! They must SUCK! There was nothing at all — ZERO — in their way the whole time and yet couldn’t hit Haifa for like 4 days? Yup! The U.S. and their whole arsenal doesn’t exist according to “Experts”. And Nima (the interviewer)

    Yet we know that’s not true. Like all “Experts” he’s capable of every calculation and abstract equation except comparing his model to the real world. In the vaguest, loosest way. Like seat-of the-pants, ballpark, are-we-orders-of-magnitude reality. So he’s the planet’s biggest idiot. Like something out of Buster Keaton, Still putting widgets on the assembly line without noticing no widgets coming off.

    I know NOTHING, sir, but I know YOUR OWN THOUGHTS ARE INTERNALLY INCONSISTENT. I don’t need to know anything else. The Patriots ARE shooting down a ton of stuff, because a lot of stuff wasn’t arriving. We know those mega-radars mattered because the number of hits went up sharply after they were removed. But all your fancy thought contradicts itself. This is me, a non-expert barely literate, hiding under a bridge 5,000 miles away and I can tell you these things. But you can’t? Ted Postol? Col. MacGregor?

    And I realize this is exactly what I did during Covid. I must be really frustrating, infuriating to you guys. I’ve been wondering, “Why is nobody asking me if I approve of the war, of the deaths at all, of the President’s approach to it?” Because I don’t. And it’s because, like Covid, all I hear is “Iran has landed on the Right Bank of the Potomac” and I’m too busy fighting this LUDICROUS notion, astonishingly, stupefyingly false, and the relentless, savage elation so many have at death, murder, destruction, ruin. …So long as it is the “Death to all Amerikans, the Great Satan!!” that I can never get around into the details of the war at all.

    Again, same Op: jacks your emotions, makes you run off in circles with complete gibberish nonsense, while they run the field at will. I keep backing up, backing up, “Maybe HERE we can come to a consensus, start from here as agreed reality” but nope! Like Jiang, above, if Iran doesn’t RULE THE PLANET, at will, it’s all wrong. Iran is winning! We’ve run out of Missiles!!!

    Guess what? America is still there too, Doug. America exists. How many hits did Iran make on our missile factories in Dayton, Ohio? How much of our oil is locked in because they blew our ports and refineries? Ackshully we are NOT out of missiles, because those factories exist and we haven’t even re-deployed arms from Germany yet. But Iran IS. They have warehouses, but we blow the factories or the things that move them to action. They have missiles but no launchers because we hunt them.

    I’m not even for or against this: I haven’t been able to move my argument down that many levels yet, just presenting that “War exists” and “Pe-po shoot n’ stuff.”

    The IDEA that Iran could attack and Conquer the United States, THEY are running a Military Coup and will sweep the Presidency I heard yesterday. STOP!!!!!!!!!! WHAT are you guys Smoking??? Iran is NOT going to conquer the United States! For the love of our Lord Jesus! What the literal f—k is coming out of your mouths?

    So we can just back up here, like Covid: same emotion, same Op. And Dr. Day has NOT lost his mind, same as he did NOT lose it during Covid. Although being pissed off by the actions and deaths even as I am, and there’s a lot to be pissed off about. But we can think RATIONALLY and report facts.

    So During Covid, I gave up on trying to transmit, communicate facts or my argument. I retreated to “Whatever I say may not be true, but what they’re saying is DEFINITELY false.” Like I may not know the death rate, but I can prove it’s not 6%! It’s not even 1%! …Using their own numbers. I can point out Fauci says both don’t wear a mask, wear one mask, but also wear 7 masks, AND their own NIH data showed they had no studies, no facts, no reasons AND masks didn’t work on eg schoolchildren.

    I don’t have to show I’m right, only that they’re wrong. Like Incredibly, titanically, galactically, WRONG. And why? How can you possibly BE that wrong, by 6-Sigmas all day, day after day and never adjust your compass? How except completely intentionally to kill all the people and destroy the United States?

    Same thing here. We haven’t gotten anywhere near what is TRUE in the Iran war. I can go there but why bother? But I CAN tell you MacGregor is FALSE. Postol is FALSE. Ritter is FALSE. And why?

    BECAUSE IRAN IS NOT LANDING ON THE RIGHT BANK OF THE POTOMAC, people. Almost all our CONSIDERABLE forces are still intact.

    Iran is still there because we never said it wouldn’t be. Jesus Christ, calm down. Stop just MAKING THINGS UP. Iran is not only going to be there after, they are going to remain well-armed. They are going to remain an ally of China and Russia. They are going to sell oil. Narcissist’s Special: “I just made up that if you eat carrots it means you lose and I win.” Huh? WTF is wrong with you?

    “If IRAN STILL EXISTS and isn’t occupied by a landing force of 5 million men for 80 years, Trump loses.” Huh? WTF would you say that, that doesn’t even make any sense! NOBODY has said that but you, Doug.

    All day, every day now.

    And when I make fun of you all, try to get you to respond with how Iran doesn’t seem to be Landing in Portland, (and in fact hasn’t sunk any ships) what do I get? Engagement? No, just like Covid they just double-down into quivering fear, hiding in a corner. “Iran is coming! Iran is coming! They’ve conquered out to Algeria!”

    Nothing I can say, not even such insults can break the Covid spell they’ve put on you. You just repeat the same things that Iran has toppled Brussels and is running the Capitol Building.

    NO. THEY HAVE NOT. Get a grip of yourselves men. They have done things, and we need to know those things ACCURATELY, not inaccurately, so we can make informed, intelligent decisions, same as Covid. And what you’re going to find is, if anyone runs such a powerful Op as this, which is jacking all your Amygdalas and making you run around like fools, THEY ARE LYING. Lying, like really, really, really big lie. Because the Truth would speak for itself, and you’d have no need for Ops, Emotions, or Lies, they would just “say things”. The Truth, “just says things”, quietly, plainly, humbly.

    So why is MacGregor doing this? It’s transparently false, a falsehood you can see from orbit. WHY would he do that?

    Douglas Macgregor warns that if nuclear weapons are used in Iran, it will be done by Benjamin Netanyahu”

    Well that’s probably true but for several reasons: 1) We already know Israel has nukes and it’s already pretty confirmed they want to use them. …Against a nation 500 miles and several nations away. Like why not bomb Vanuatu? 2) If Iran had nukes they would already say so and probably used them. 3) It would blow all Iran’s strategy to use them. Making them the long-term criminals in the area.

    Yes, but. Fine, But, what’s going on? Those hand-wavy facts don’t explain the details. “Iran” has a Fatwa against it, same as we have a Constitution against it. The IRGC dgaf what “Iran” says and builds any bomb they want, just like our CIA doesn’t care about our Constitution. That is, stop being a cartoon: “Iran” is not one monolith, just as “Americans” in Wyoming and Rhode Island are different factions. The Army Cavalry is not the NSA. They are different.

    Okay, but the IRGC…is not “Iran”. They don’t work for or care about the Iranian people just as our CIA doesn’t. Who DO they work for? Themselves of course, but if they are so evil as to betray all their own citizens and nation, no other neighbors would trust them. They’re like a Drug Cartel. Why ask? We already know the CIA, MI6, Mossad, and say Pablo Escobar are all on the same “Team”. The IRGC is on that “Team”, sit at the same table. ALL against their own People. So do we want MI6 to help them smuggle in Nuclear material to build a dirty bomb and hand it to who is essentially Pablo Escobar? No we do not.

    Try again: we are NOT in India, removing THEIR nuclear weapons. Why not? Because like North Korea they are nation states and we consider they can be trusted with them. We need them not to be with “Rogue” actors. Who decides what “Rogue” is? I’m sorry but there is no alternative but “Whoever owns an army”. That’s it. WE own an army, Europe does not. China and Russia cannot project their armies. That leaves us.

    So again, China and Russia seem very actively to have stepped down, didn’t warn, aren’t supplying and their air defense magically failed. Yeah: they don’t want a rogue IRGC to own a nuke either. They want Iran’s civilian government to be trusted and normal too, just like we do.

    Note on that — London has opened a major war against Xi inside China. They are using the attention and expense of the Gulf Oil to unseat an anti-British asset and re-capture China under colonial control. Xi has trouble, stay tuned. CCP is low-level Civil War right now.

    “BOOM! SCOTT BESSENT: Trump Is Waging ECONOMIC WAR on BRITISH-CONTROLLED CENTRAL BANKS

    Bessant seems to have set up the world’s largest Bear trap in silver and it’s sprung, silver delivery month is March.

    He seems to have created the world’s largest Bull trap right after in Oil, and THAT trap is sprung. This was a larger daily candle than even when oil was $130 > Negative. Bessant can read all of London’s Option trades in real time. He knows exactly where the market is. He just goes up to the trigger point and hits it, then calls Trump on the phone to do a press release and reverse it. They can do this every day for 3 more years. Insure this, fools.

    “Oil prices collapse below $84/barrel, now down over -30% since last night’s highs.”

    But…but…we’z all gonna die???? I wanted everyone to die!! I wanted inflation, and hunger and horror…and now we’re …Not? Going to get that? So! Mad! At Orange Man!! HATE low oil prices! How dare he???

    This is MOST of London’s business model: Insider trading with infinity leverage (rehypothication with no collateral) the INFO of inside trading comes from Lloyd’s: what is shipped, where and how. The MONEY to trade comes from Pablo Escobar and Venezuela. Arms shipments from the IRGC. All are being shut off at the same time.

    “Porsche profit plummets by 98 percent”

    They won! No profits = No Capitalists. They are now a worker’s paradise. No cars = No CO2. Europe is now a certified Utopia, they achieved everything they ever wanted. No? There’s no pleasing some people! When you’re a malcontent, a “Resentful”, everything is bad. Up is bad, Down is bad, Hot is bad, Cold is bad. You’re all bad, gimme money.

    “A fresh Tuesday CNN report says that Iran has already begun laying mines “ -CNN

    Aw s—t, that was CNN??? Well then it’s False! You had me going there for a minute! Man, sometimes these things still get through on me… “And we have no reports of them doing so…”

    So they can’t lay any mines OR shut the Strait, so Lloyd’s just shuts it anyway. CNN just reports it anyway. They have two weapons: Inflation and Blarney. And I’m all out of Inflation.

    ““They want economic pain, they’re hoping for a terrorist attack, and they pretty much want things to fall apart so the voters will blame Trump.”

    As worldwide EVERYONE wants the U.S. to fail, the war to expand, and everyone to die. So they can Hate America and Blame Orange Man. They HATE Peace now, he’s got them in such a twist. All innocents must die.

    This is what happens downstream of giving in to HATE. Don’t hate! Simple. It doesn’t work well, is NOT the side of the Angels. Your accuracy is less, not more. Your goals do not become Love at home when it is Hate abroad: the Hate just poisons your own well. Don’t do that. Please.

    “You want to force the Pentagon to adopt your morals and worldview?
    • Anthropic Sues Pentagon Over Supply-Chain Risk Designation (ET)

    Sure. It’s the planned reverse-takeover of government by corporations. A lot of it is already accomplished like with Amazon.

    “secretly subjected hundreds of innocent Americans to privacy-invading tactics and essentially treated the man twice elected president as a national security threat for most of the first nine years of his political career,

    As we said from DAY ONE of the Patriot Act, and even years before. The POINT is to wiretap and blackmail Congress, you idiots. Read a book. So 20 years later, Surprise! The FBI/CIA are running things and can get you “Six Ways to Sunday” Schumer said on TV. That is: WE HAVE NO DEMOCRACY. Intel agencies ALWAYS do this. Always. Whitest of all White Swans. It’s a cast-iron guarantee. Did not a guy named “Edgar” warn you?

    “In summary, Smith was first and foremost viewed as a political theorist, and his economic theories were closely tied to his views on the natural liberties of humanity”

    This was true of everyone. There was no “Economics” that existed at the time. They were all mashed into “Philosophy” or politics (which was just “History”) and not specialized as they are now; not underwater basket weaving, but Left-Handed, LESBIAN Underwater Basket weaving. We don’t talk to those Right-handy’s. Now that they’re so specialized, Anti-Air defense experts do NOT talk to, eg. soldiers. That’s outside his zone.

    “• Republicans Prefer War To The US Constitution And Truth (Paul Craig Roberts)

    Maybe. But they are 80% ahead of the Democrats on this issue. They still THINK you should declare, and only they still believe there is any Constitution at all. I understand the 30/60 day loophole for the President, that’s why we built it this way, Parliaments act too slowly. However the minute you build a one-off loophole (asylum) they immediately drive all the world’s trucks through it. It’s up to Congress and the People to restrain its misuse and for 100 years they haven’t. If you’re not going to do your job, I can’t help you. That’s a minimum. That’s not the President’s job: that’s YOUR job. Congress.

    What is PCR saying here? Congress is abdicating their duty to the President because they don’t want to be responsible. Acting might mean you make a mistake, and we can’t have that. Being lazy and complaining is the side of the Angels. How familiar. If anything bad happens, I can point like a baboon.

    “New York’s Jews are MORE THAN FIVE TIMES LIKELY to be victims of hate crimes in Mayor Mamdani’s city”

    Yes, they installed Mamdani to create a Jewish-Palestinian war here. Let it fester and topple America. That’s the whole POINT of immigration. But we can’t NOT have that war: to remove them would be mean and somebody might get hurt. Better to have 56 attacks a month instead. 56, then 156, then 1,056…now is never a good time to act.

    “Elon Musk just activated the final piece of the most ambitious vertical integration in the history of capitalism.”

    Wow. If so we need to bomb him with some freedom. I don’t need to know any details, just those words, if true, are enough.

    “Optimus walking. Handling objects. Folding laundry. Factory lines loading. Scale planned. That’s a different trajectory. AGI gets a Tesla body.

    Great. Well I have to say, this is my version of “Hell on Earth” so thanks for that , bud.

    Pedo Picture: Day 9,125 no one has shown me the page where Trump was complicit. Please forward that to me today, I’m sure you’ll have no trouble since it’s everywhere. Go ahead: you get to do a victory lap on me, right? Show me how wrong I am? That’s what I’m here for.

    Riker’s Guard. I mean, yes but you DO know they will kill her and everyone she’s ever met if she doesn’t take the bribe, right? And again, anyone above dogcatcher. Prison Guard > Dogcatcher, so she can do whatever she wants, to anyone, and never be charged.

    “Trumpturd will just PRINT moar money to cover the Clusterfuck.(Reapers)

    Great then we agree it doesn’t matter if they’re lost, so why did you bring it up? Did you know things get broken in war? If anything is broken in war, or anybody dies, we have to stop immediately. Queensbury Rulz.

    We can only 1) Shoot all our allies 2) Betray our country 3) Lose. Those are the options the narcissist put before you. You may not: Reform. Grow Strong. Prosper. Heads I win, Tails you lose is the only game allowed.

    #234250
    kultsommer
    Participant

    Video visuals inflict equal pain.

    #234251
    kultsommer
    Participant

    Dr D with his massive dump blocking my sun.

    #234252
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    C’mon you guys, cut @DrD a little well earned slack. Every day, day in and day out, oft times several times per day, he laboriously produces a long list if statements of fact, fiction and opinion that you are free to read (or not) at your leisure and free of charge.

    Any time that you can’t come up with something to contribute on your own to the daily content of this fine forum all you need to do is pop up to his feature-length stream of commentary and within moments you will find something to disagree with and use as the foundation for lambasting him for one thing, or another, or several.

    And he rarely complains when you do so. That’s called grace under fire, which is a rare virtue in itself. (I sure don’t have it !)

    That service has got to be worth something. Otherwise you would have to go find things to complain about on your own. Think of the work he saves you.

    Besides, most of the time he gets stuff just right, or a lot of the time anyway. Well okay, some of the time, once in a while.

    #234253
    kultsommer
    Participant

    Even without wars, the country still have to face this.
    Not all-the-way fan of Brooks, but here he’s right.
    Correlates to “my” – “country where everybody does his/her own thing”.

    #234254
    zerosum
    Participant

    HUMANITARIAN CRISIS

    OIL SHORTAGE
    Around 14 million barrel per day and 80% of that went to the Asian and Pacific nations.

    PROBLEM:
    How to adjust to shortages in everything.

    Restoring production could take weeks or even months.
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    “Missile and drone strikes have been carried out against all U.S. bases surrounding Iran.”

    According to neutral estimates, more than 1,000 American service members have been killed (Iran reports much higher numbers, while Trump speaks of only a handful, which seems laughable given the scale of the Iranian strikes). “Iran has chosen a very effective tactic: striking not only military targets in Israel, which is gradually turning into something resembling Gaza, but above all the hubs and energy centers of the Arab Gulf states on which the global economy depends. Combined with the blocking of the Strait of Hormuz, this has already led to enormous losses for the global market. Moreover, the situation will worsen with each day of Iranian resistance.

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    #234255
    kultsommer
    Participant

    Again, even without wars …..
    “Free range chicken” compared to “caged” in socialist countries.
    Harvest time via “Great taking”.

    #234256
    those darned kids
    Participant

    “C’mon you guys, cut @DrD a little well earned slack.”

    hahahahahahaha, i had a nice ¡¡¡ZWAPPER!!! ready to post before you wrote that, but i didn’t because i thought it better to aim at the silver towers instead.

    #234257
    those darned kids
    Participant

    two weeks to flatten the curve

    #234259

    Lockstep.

    #234260
    BlueSkye
    Participant

    “Dr D with his massive dump blocking my sun.”

    He may not be completely right, but I am confident that you are mostly completely wrong.

    #234261
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Short term pain, long term gain, terminally insane.

    #234262
    kultsommer
    Participant

    He may not be completely right, but I am confident that you are mostly completely wrong.

    Case sample?

    #234270
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    I’m gonna let you all in on a little secret. In fact not just one, or even two but three big little secrets.

    The three most successful ways to lie. Truthful people (and there must be some, somewhere) need to know these because, who knows?, they might come in handy some day.

    Okay, trick #3. “He who frames the argument, contains it. Getting people to argue about whether or not one thing caused some other thing has just successfully hidden, from all who take the bait, the thing that preceded all of it, and caused it to be that way in the first place.
    Example: Jews are the worst humans of all time and are to blame for all of our problems, or maybe not.
    Why it works: Once you get people arguing about the truth or falsity of that then it is practically guaranteed that no one will delve earlier to ask how did these horrible people get that horrible in the first place (or not, as the case may or may not be). Hiding that question is the lie.

    Trick #2, even more effective, but much harder to pull off. “If everyone just doesn’t talk about it, for whatever reason whatsoever, or lack thereof, then the effect is the same as if “it” doesn’t even exist. Disappearance of the acknowledgment of “its” existence is the lie.

    Trick #1 is by FAR the most effective way to lie, but it’s really hard to do because it requires almost total control of both actions and information of every kind. “The Removal, by any and all means possible , of the evidence of “it” ever having existed in the first place.” The reduction of a real thing to nothing is the lie. Reality is. To think, suggest or present otherwise is the lie.

    Application of all three techniques simultaneously works almost every time….. but only for a time.

    Once the used kitty litter starts leaking out of the bag all Hell breaks loose.

    #234271
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://x.com/Marwa__Osman/status/2031569003798302794

    Marwa Osman || مروة عثمان

    Iran is making history.

    Three straight hours of missile fire raining down on Israel. At the same time, the Pentagon quietly confirms something it almost never admits: 141 American soldiers in the Persian Gulf wounded, many critically, and nine already dead.
    This comes just hours after Donald Trump went on television telling the world the war was basically over.
    Tehran’s answer the very next dawn? The heaviest missile barrage of the entire war.

    Not just any missiles either… the Khorramshahr, carrying a one-ton warhead.
    For thirteen days the narrative coming out of Tel Aviv and Washington was the same: Iran is running out of missiles.
    The Israeli war minister bragged about the largest air bombardment in Israel’s history.
    Marco Rubio stood in front of cameras practically announcing Iran’s surrender.

    Well… here’s what that “surrender” looks like:
    Cluster warheads spreading submunitions over ten kilometers, ripping settlers out of their sleep and driving them into bomb shelters before sunrise.
    Now think about the math here.
    A country whose air defense systems date back decades…
    going head-to-head with the most technologically advanced military machine in the Middle East, backed by the largest military empire in human history: the United States.
    A country that just lost its long-time leader.
    A country whose top nuclear scientists have been assassinated.
    A country facing a coalition that thought it could erase it within days.
    And yet after thirteen days of nonstop war… Iran is still firing. Still standing. Still unveiling weapons even American intelligence apparently didn’t know existed.

    Trump’s minions said Iran’s missiles were finished. Missiles keep falling.

    They said the missile cities were destroyed. The skies keep lighting up.

    They said the regime would collapse after assassinating Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei. Instead Iran doubles the missiles barrage, from thirty minutes to three continuous hours. To the point where even Washington is now clearly hiding the true scale of its casualties. Because if history teaches us anything, it’s that the U.S. military only tells the public what it absolutely has to.

    And Israeli war media?
    As always, the losses around strategic sites simply disappear from the narrative.

    But what fascinates me is not the weapons. It’s the psychology of resistance.

    The moment when every global power tells you the wave is too strong and you should bow your head… and instead you rise from the rubble exactly where everyone thought you had already fallen.
    That’s what Iran is doing right now.

    Every collaborate voice in the world said surrender equals survival. Lay down your weapons.
    You cannot fight THAAD or Patriots or Tomahawks or F-35s.

    And yet here we are.
    A country under siege telling the entire geopolitical order something very simple:
    If you wage total war on us, the entire region will burn with us.

    Oil routes, shipping lanes and energy security… none of it remains safe.
    That is what a civilization thousands of years old looks like when it refuses to kneel.
    You see, Iran is not a state born from colonial blueprints like its neighbours.
    It is a civilization that turned decades of sanctions into scientific infrastructure and built a deterrence network capable of striking in every direction.
    And because of that, the so-called “New Middle East” project has hit a brick wall.

    And the model Washington sells to the region? It only survives through fear.

    The “only democracy in the middle east” (where you get a 5 years sentence if you film any destruction due to Iranian or Hezbollah rockets) that once bragged it could win every war alone had to bring America in just to face Iran.
    And in doing so, it may have accidentally handed Tehran the most powerful narrative it has ever had:
    We stood alone against the combined assault of the most powerful empire on Earth… and we did not collapse. On the contrary, look at our enemy suffer.

    Iran is making history!
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    #234272
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Let’s see a show of hands. How many of you here on TAE were fully aware of all kinds of stuff regarding the Ukraine War, the Gazan genocide and the ill fated debacle of the Iran war that the United States Government and its backers are STILL refusing to publicly acknowledge?

    How could our vaunted Military/Intelligence/Propaganda machine be that stupid, ill informed and just plain wrong?

    How could YOU and I know what the President, Mossad, CIA and Pete fucking Hegseth don’t know?

    How?

    Answer me that, and you will have answered a VERY interesting question.

    #234273
    Topcat
    Participant

    One by one

    Iranian drone hitting a Omani oil storage in the Port of Salalah.

    https://x.com/i/status/2031799704317518176

    The drone very accurately, a row of six massive oil tanks, the drone sails over head then goes straight into one of the tanks massive explosion.

    I wonder how many gallons of crude went up in smoke from a $20-50K drone.

    Each tank holds approx 712,500 barrels (roughly 29.9 million gallons) per tank.

    Brent Crude today approx: $94 X 712,500 barrels = $67 million dollars GONE

    Iran only had to spend an average of $35K on the drone.

    #234274
    Topcat
    Participant

    A New Wrinkle

    Short Term Gain for Long Term PAIN

    The Strait of Hormuz will stay closed until Iran is compensated for damage caused by US and Israeli attacks, according to Iranian professor Foad Izadi.

    https://x.com/i/status/2031763695441752333

    #234275
    Topcat
    Participant

    #234276
    Topcat
    Participant

    Bragging Rights

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