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I just heard that Larry Fink came out in public recently and said something to the effect of, “Please don’t bomb my Data Centers because I need them to control vital industries and make the money to pay for them.”
That’s hilarious!
It’s like a mugger in a dark alley asking his victim, “Please don’t disarm me while I’m in the process of robbing you at gunpoint or shooting you dead if you try to resist or obstruct the crime.”
As for the data centers themselves I say Bomb Away! We’ve got more than enough of them already and have all of the so-called Artificial Intelligence that we could ever possibly need, and then some.
We don’t need robots. We need a decent life with enough food to eat and electricity to keep the lights on. We don’t need to spend 100 billion dollars per head to send humans to Mars! What possible thing could a human being on Mars produce to justify send him to Mars (on a multi-trillion dollar mission, for which each mars-o-nut would have a productive lifespan of a very few years before becoming a net liability cost/benefit wise)
Here’s an idea: Send Fink and Elon to Mars.
Now that the world is teetering on the brink of nuclear war, and it’s likely that Israel will be the first to launch its nukes, it might benefit us somewhat to answer the question of where did they get their atomic bombs in th first place.
Better to answer that important question late than never, I am forced to suppose.
My guess is that Zionist elements within both countries conspired to bribe, blackmail, and criminally enlist the various military, scientific, intelligence, political and financial institutions of the United States to GIVE them those nuclear weapons by means of extremely convoluted skullduggery, and keep all of the dirty details of that skullduggery secret and legally immunized against opposition or exposure by BOTH camps (Israeli and Anglo/American based) to this very day.
The Zionist Faction that just “Primaried” Massie out of the Congress shot themselves in the head by demonstrating beyond all shadow of doubt that the Zionist State of Israel does, indeed, run the United States Empire. Had they chosen almost anyone other than Thomas Massie they might have gotten away with it, too, but they didn’t.
They just gave one of their most dangerous adversaries an enormously powerful weapon to use against them, and Thomas Massie knows how to use that weapon to greatest effect. He was already quite good at it, and now he has the ammunition to do it even better.
Making one’s enemy stronger is such a dumb move that I just gotta say that the ZioNazi Empire is just too stupid to live much longer.
Here’s one just for the fun of showing to our local die-hard Capitalist Patriots how steadfastly patriotic our Government and Corporations ACTUALLY are (at least for the last century or so), and their longstanding romantic attachment to the Nazis.
Anybody in an executive position ( which if you think small enough would mean “anybody at all”) who willfully chooses to NOT HEAR AND NOT KNOW a piece of true information that is mission critical to the success of their own operations, is a fool (to be sure), but they are something far worse than a mere fool to everyone counting on the “success” of the operation effected.
He is a TRAITOR. He is knowingly and purposefully acting in direct and detrimental opposition to the interests of the people he has sworn allegiance to.
The Trump and Israel situation springs immediately to mind. What do you think, is there a War Crime level of genocide being illegally executed against the Palestinians in Gaza by the United States of America and Israel? Yes or no? Well, what would Trump say to that question? Do you think he has been told and has accepted the true information regarding that genocide?
So, he has awarely and purposefully chosen to not know a true fact that he knows to be a true fact in order to help Israel at everyone else’ expense, and despite the fact that he has sworn an oath before God to the people who put him in office that he would NEVER betray them.
That’s straight up treason, and the punishment for treason is typically not a few years in prison and a harsh fine. They usually hang them.
They execute them for the good reason that such a traitor can never be trusted for anything every again and can be depended upon to attempt to repeat the crime if there is any humanly possible way to do so, ever. Not safe to keep alive, even in a prison cell. The pages of History are chock full of successful traitors and revolutionaries who spent a few years in the slammer prior to their big day on the world stage. It’s way safer to just kill ’em.
I don’t mean anything in particular about all of this. Just sayin’.
There is a red-flag identifier for persons who are loyal only to themselves. And it is almost impossible to hide that salient feature completely. It is the manifested necessity for them to never expend energy on anything that doesn’t provide them with a profit that justifies the expense. In other words, they are very very selfish, and often quite skilled at hiding how selfish they really are and how brilliantly camouflaged.
Just imagine the implications and consequences. https://youtu.be/SRQTnUExlA8?si=B6h3zmOPvNZcDRrP
In exposing and protesting the myriad horrible crimes attributed to Jews please stop even using the word Jew except to extol its virtues. Use the word Zionist instead, because that’s what they are. A Zionist is merely a FAKE Jew. They say they’re Jews but they really aren’t, and I say that with great specificity of the word that they really are not. They really are the exact opposite.
Don’t get overly hung up on the language and words. Pay attention to the difference in existential characteristics such as true and false or good and bad. Bad is Bad and good is good no matter what word you choose to represent them.
Jesus (who self admittedly was an actual Jew) had the same problem with them. When He called them out as FAKES they killed Him. Which was their undoing. It is what causes their fall. They’re fakes. Imitations. It’s been said that nothing succeeds like success. Well, the same goes for failure.
Being FAKERS is what causes them to fall, and by killing Jesus for the crime of calling them out as fakers who only pretended to be loyal to God when in fact they were not loyal to anyone other than themselves they set the ball rolling toward that inevitable conclusion. The truth is coming out.
Norway, a country with just over 5 million people, manages the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund — worth nearly $2 trillion. This translates to around $340,000 for every citizen, making it one of the richest countries per capita.
The fund was built from oil revenues, but… pic.twitter.com/agPuKMrlBG
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) May 17, 2026
Don’t forget to also pump up those noble Norwegians and piously place them atop the pedestal of Virtue Incarnate for having performed so well in WW2. Norway was the finest bastion of jack booted killers and thieves in the entirety of Nazidom.
And still are.
The Jews were a BIG deal in pre-war Norway. They owned all the cool stuff like factories and banks. You might even say (with some accuracy) Jews owned a controlling interest in the whole operation (ditto for all of Europe). The Nazi’s STOLE ALL OF IT, and either expelled or murdered any Jews who either resisted or who failed to see what was happening and run away.
It’s completely understandable why they would want it back. Which they have now fully accomplished. Norway is ZIONIST now, and all of that stolen stuff is now back in possession of the creeps who owned it before the big war (WW2). It took a lot of money and clever infiltration and blackmail to pull it off, but it is now done.
I shudder to think where that two trillion dollar slush fund they manage came from, or goes to now.
Just search out the widest deepest pools of blood. That’s where.
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon on Iran:
They’ve been raping, killing and murdering for 47 years. The Western world allowed proxy wars.
We learned a lesson — we should have gone years ago at the head of the snake. pic.twitter.com/wqjJP6egzo
— Clash Report (@clashreport) May 16, 2026
I can scarcely believe that you would trot out a despicable piece of shit like Jamie fucking Diamond to extoll of the alleged sins of Iran “raping, killing and murdering” [the redundant language is Jamie’s, not mine] over the past 47 years, when it was ZIONIST Jamie fucking Diamond and his ZIONIST pals in the transnational ZIONIST Military Industrial Complex who were doing 99% of the raping and murdering (and much worse) in Iran over the past 80 years.
Give me a break Ilargi! Are you literally brain damaged?
ZIONIST Jamie fucking Diamond is a monster of the worst kind, playing a CEO role in the lying, cheating, stealing and killing of tens of millions of innocent men. women and children throughout his entire adult life, and you damned well know it.
What gives, Raul? This kind of shit goes far beyond merely letting evil have its say. Promoting Jamie Diamond to any platform except the gallows is a capital offense of the soul.
The basic finance model is to acquire stuff (by buying it with money) when the stuff is cheap, and then selling the stuff off (for money) when the stuff is expensive. It’s pretty much fail-safe for as long as money has value and stuff exists. You’ll “make money” every time you do it, so the more often you do it then the faster you get rich.
The richer you get then the more likely you are to get the idea that “making money” sure beats working, and that it’s okay to do it because, lets face it, you really are so much better than the people you’re stealing from.
Eventually it is highly likely that with the continuation of that profiteering attitude the money maker will observe that there are just too damned many useless and annoying people around to suit their taste, and at that point they start getting rid of them, and they use money making to do it.
@JohnDay
Which view is more realistic?
Which view applies to elites in power?
What perspective might apply to elites out of power?
How badly will it all break before it is worth trying to rebuild?
I’ve lived a good life. I still have projects, and I hope to be of use to kids and grandkids, but I can’t be of any real use to our “owners”, my “betters”.
They may get rid of me, but I’m watching for it…I’ve got a pretty actively vivid imagination but even with the pedal to the metal I can’t imagine our masters taking enough interest in my doin’s to bother with getting rid of me (except as just another name on the unwritten casualties list of collateral damage.)
Since that’s the case I figure that I can do the most beneficially disruptive (to their nefarious plans) thing that I can possibly imagine.
It’s the same thing you’re doing, I’m pretty sure, which is to dig up as much truth that I can get my hands on and then telling everybody else about them, as best I can.
Iran (or a consortium of dependable partners operating within the guardrails of a REAL treaty) SHALL control the Strait of Hormuz for the very good reason that they are the only ones materially capable of the task. Every time somebody else decides to control the Strait they blow up and blockade other people’s ships, and if NO ONE keeps the peace then free-lance pirates will rampage up and down both sides of the entire waterway.
If one reserves for oneself the final and decisive say and decision about what the other guy’s rights are, then one does not actually believe in the other guy having any rights at all, except perhaps the “might makes right” law of the jungle …. and not even that, actually, if one secretly reserves for themself the decision of whether the jungle itself has the right to exist if it pleases us to decide otherwise and just OWN whatever we choose.
That stance is a sort of free will on steroids, kind of like the one that got Satan into so much trouble.
@JohnDay
The system does not require any of its participants to act corruptly. It requires them only to act in their own clear, documented, mutually reinforcing interests.
But of course to “act in their own clear, documented, mutually reinforcing interests” when they have been hired, paid, granted authority and have promised to act in the interests of the civilian population who granted them that power (and cash payment) based on that contract to serve the best interests of that civilian population, then that IS corruption, de facto.
@DBS
Re: “ People have been fighting over this real estate for AT LEAST 10,000 years, so I’m not very surprised that Netanyahu and the rest of the ZioNazis are fighting over it now.”I think this is Zionist propaganda. It is partially true, but very misleading. For most of the last 2000 years the people living in the Holy Land lived in peace.
If you re-read what I wrote in comment #240780 you will find that your first reading missed the main points of what I actually wrote. 20th Century “Zionists” are late comers to the game, but their older brethren and predecessors (since 9,500 BC, to be exact) have been have been up to their ears in archeologically provenly violent contest for those lands for as far back as we are able to see, and the virtually incessant violent clashes didn’t start anywhere even remotely close to 1948 (or even 1917 when the British Empire put a violent end to the 2000 year long peace that had reigned there for centuries under the Ottoman Turks…. with a few mostly peaceful interludes for the Turks to slaughter a few million Armenians and Kurds who were unfortunately in the wrong place (their HOMES) at the wrong time (when the Ottoman’s wanted the real estate).
In point of fact the only times that there has been prolonged peace , was when somebody’s hegemonic EMPIRE owned it so decisively that no one within 500 miles of Jerusalem had the military power strong enough to evict the current owners.
Just skim the Old Testament. It’s literally full of folks smiting each other over land disputes, conquest and attempted genocide, and it didn’t start or end with them either (Abraham, Noah or David, etc.) Those birds were late comers, predated by a LONG line of would-be landlords going back through Babylon, Assyria, the Hittites, whoever built Gobekli Tepi in the late Stone Age. Natufians, more than likely, or some other nameless equivalent following the last Ice Age (the Younger Dryas period was roughly 14,000 years ago. ). Like I said, More than 10,000 years. 12,500 years, to be as exact as we’re able to reasonably determine with currently state-of-the-art methodology.
In short, the people of the Middle East ain’t NEVER lived in peace for very long, because everybody else wants to own the place. It’s the Middle of the World, so to speak, so in addition to the people who just want to live normal lives there and be left alone to peacefully raise their families keep getting attacked and conquered by greedy bastards who want to control the while world all at once, like I outlined in comment 240780.
Thinking back to the hellishly doomed choice between Trump or Biden I am reminded of the old trick of getting people to accept a bad choice without complaint by giving them the chance to free themselves from one that is even worse. People chained to a post in the cargo hold of a sinking slave ship will typically accept a shitty seat on an overcrowded leaking lifeboat without complaint. To a man whose daily diet is hot steaming moose turd, maggoty roadkill can look like a banquet.
People have been fighting over this real estate for AT LEAST 10,000 years, so I’m not very surprised that Netanyahu and the rest of the ZioNazis are fighting over it now.
Do not be so distracted by the explosions and mass killing that you lose sight of the fact that it is the SAME real estate that all of their adversaries are fighting for AGAINST them. Takes two to Tango, ya know?
There’s a reason for the never-ending bloody contest, and it is a compelling reason.
That region of the world is the MIDDLE of the world.
If you drew a scatter chart of the best places to live, survive and perhaps even thrive in the world, and combined it with it’s twin chart of the fastest, cheapest, easiest & most efficient (i.e. “best”) trade routes between those best places, you would be looking at the greatest concentration of dots and lines smack dab in THAT region. The “middle” of the world.
This is so long term and absolutely real that it has shaped the very genome of the human species.
It is IMPOSSIBLE to control the world without controlling that region, so when that middle zone flares up yet again, for the millionth time, you can be assured, with the most incontrovertible certainty, that SOMEBODY is making a play for controlling the Whole World At Once, Entire.
If you have any bright ideas about persuading those assholes to stop doing that, please do let me know.
For starters, you’ll notice that the assholes doing it are obsessed with control, because at the end of the day they know that they will never have total control, and the desire for it has driven them crazy. Satanically crazy.
But yeah, guilty, I think Trump is better than Biden. Chastise me. Spank me.
Thinking that Trump is better than Biden is 100% equivalent to thinking that Ted Bundy was better than Jack the Ripper.
I’m just deeply relieved that Ilargi is openly confessing to deliberately seasoning and stirring the TAE Potpourri based on his own thinking (as humanly mistaken and foolish as that might be) rather than being captured by the nefarious “THEY!” (which possibility terrified us all.)
Fear not! Stand down. Relax. He’s just the same well intentioned mistaken fool that he has always been, for which we love him because we’re all just like that our own selves.
Whew.
If you really want to know what people really believe then observe what it is that they really do, because when you get right down to basic basic basics people will NEVER voluntarily do anything that they think violates their own belief of what is really good and true and what is really not good and true at all.
When that genuinely fundamental determination (that must be made) turns out to be a really close call, (For Examples: “Is money a good thing or a bad thing?”, or “Should I seek power over others as the best strategy in life?” “Does might make right, or doesn’t it?”) they hedge the bet. And they hedge it in an astonishingly creative array of various means of achieving an acceptable balance between good and bad that enables them (us) to survive (at least) either way it goes, regardless of which side winds up running the side show in this ring of this circus.
It doesn’t matter who wins the Battle of the Side Show. What matters is who owns the circus, and there’s only one identity who could possibly be that Maker, Owner, User of the whole circus.
China’s problem with the United States is the hard question of whether or not it is worth it to geopolitically KILL the United States ZionNazi Empire at this time and at this rate. It is a highly complex and nuanced question, and I am seeing that the Chinese and Russians and Persians are taking it very very seriously indeed.
It is not a matter of can they do it, as in capable? Of course they can, and of course they are (everybody knows that the East wins, just by looking at how the Scoreboard numbers are running and trending. It is a question of how hard to do it, how fast to do it, and what the price will be.
The price is pretty high at the moment. It could cost them a lot of damaged infrastructure and civilian casualties among their own population, which weakens the war mongering governments as well, so nobody actually likes to do that until their minds are so corrupted and ill that they think that depopulation is a good long-term survival goal.
I look for them to ease back on the throttle a little bit and just let the current War of Attrition do its thing.
All that noise and commotion that we’re hearing from out there in the real world is called “pushback”. It occurs when, and as a result of, the recipient of a direct order from persons of higher authority choosing to not simply and silently comply and does something else instead (such as complain, protest, or actually fight back against the despised item).
Think of it as a sort of complexly reckoned and but nevertheless absolute “red line”, beyond which you simply will not go. We’ve all got them and it is our own damn business where we put them.
The point is this, the redline has been crossed and pushback is starting to take over the playing field.
You must learn to never censor and to guarantee freedom of speech with every fiber of your being, because if you ever allow censorship and the curtailment of free speech then the criminals who want to use those two weapons to steal everything that everybody else has …………. and no one can stop them without free speech and access to the important information that shapes their lives.
Once the bad guys can get away with the exercise of censorship and the silencing of dissent there is no way to stop them from using that power to perpetuate their own existence, with impunity and at your expense.
They have no intention of ever giving back to you one nickel’s worth of the value of what they stole from you.
There are many tricksy and brutal ways to accomplish such a crime, and they know them all (and use them).
You need look no further than the nearest incident of censorship and lying to see this process in action. You don’t need to dig very deep for evidence of the crimes because the censorship and lie is the best possible evidence of itself. It literally describes the crime that is being committed by describing what no one is allowed to say.
Scary. What is it exactly that I mustn’t say?
I don’t say this very often, but the following video is a “must watch” for everyone, regardless of whether they have any other interest in politics or the news, at all, whatsoever.
What Thomas Massie is accurately and fairly describing the exact true operation of the “mechanism” by which your life is shaped and controlled by the so-called “government. The mechanism is the straight-up criminal practice of controlling the nation by directing the flow of blackmail and bribery, and using that control to protect itself from being exposed or punished.
If you don’t see how dire this situation is then you need to listen to the video another couple of times, because it just plain is dire.
Rome didn’t fall in a day. It took a little time, but the fact remains that once the fall began and sailed swiftly past the red-line of irreversibility, it could thereafter be stated as fact that Rome had fallen (even if it wasn’t finished falling quite yet).
The Zio-Nazi “West” (US, UK, EU and Israel) has fallen. It’s a different game, now. A “Rear-Guard” action of hopefully orderly retreat, so to speak. How well they manage those rear-guard actions (abysmally poorly at the moment) will determine their future.
Nima platforms Ritter who presents a rant that plucks my heartstrings. You tell ’em, Scott! It’s exactly what I’ve been trying to tell ’em.
Imagine having to do all of that just to move your boat 50-75 miles. I thought we used boats to move goods because it was easier to do it that way. Sure don’t look very cheap and easy to me.
Strait of Hormuz Standoff Exposes Tehran’s Weakness (JTN)
The loser in wars of attrition (such as this one demonstrably is) always sees the adversary as weak. That false perception is the product of a lot of hard work by that adversary, both on the kinetic battlefield and in the hearts and minds of the losers, which the adversary carefully cultivates and nurtures so that the losers continue to think that they are just about to “turn things around” and stop losing.
This state of deliberately cultivated delusion continues until the aggressor (the loser) is bled dry to the point where its only recourse is to strike a deal with the “weak” winner.
The writer of the above quoted article is just a pathetic, but classic, example of those dynamics. They need to immediately do 4 things:
1) read Sun Tsu’s Art of War three times.
2) read Joel Chandler Harris’s Uncle Remus Stories, especially the one about the Tar Baby, which chronicles the strategy used by black African Slaves in their asymmetric war of attrition with the white slave holders in mid 19th century American South. Read it with the same humility and wisdom that created the stories created by slaves in their quest for freedom and respect.
3) Declare victory and sue for peace IMMEDIATELY, before you lose more stuff to that “weak” adversary who is continuing (quite successfully, I must add) to trick you into continuing to try to kidnap that “Tar Baby”.
4) Remove from any and all positions of authority those dim witted suckers whose greed, stupidity and profound corruption is being PLAYED to enter and remain the war of attrition that will bleed them absolutely dry if they don’t just quit it.@Dr_D
Trump is part of the club. He’s doing everything everybody wants. That’s why they shot him again this morning.
Which is it? Wait: was it TWICE this morning?
Oh, golly gee whiskers! 4 different back-to-back absurdly incompetent assassination attempts that our vaunted Secret Services didn’t even see coming (at all) or handle effectively when they occurred surely do prove to any reasonably intelligent person that the ZioNazi Cabal just hates Trump all to pieces and is just obsessed with really seriously killing him. I’m certainly convinced that Trump is Captain Wonderful who care about the lives of innocent people everywhere, that’s for sure. Because your sarcastic flippancy just proves it beyond doubt. Forget about the body count and half trillion dollars just spent on yet again failed war of choice
Erika Kirk Brilliantly Dismantles White House Correspondents’ Hypocrisy (Salgado)
And in addition to being so brilliant she should also be made the head of TPUSA because that’s what Charlie wanted just before she offed him (with a little help from Mossad & CIA). Now she and the other Evangelical “Christians can get back to work killing Muslims for Christ just like the ZioNazi’s in Tel Aviv and Washington intended.
What the hell is wrong with you Ilargi? Why are you dragging this kind of Psy-Op grade ZioNazi propaganda onto your forum? Do you think we lack talking points or something? Erika Kirk and the people pushing her up into positions of authority and power are pure poison. Don’t you see that?
@TAE_Summary
* O beautiful for specious lies
That pamper knaves for gainIf you keep writing zingers like that you’re going to give @ThoseDarnKids a run for the money as Poet Laureate of the Automatic Earth.
DBS: You know my position. America never intended to. O B V I O U S L Y.
I said for weeks, “THERE ARE NO SOLDIERS THERE”. Ergo, OBVIOUSLY no invasion. And there is none, AND no soldiers yet AND no discussion of any, so OBVIOUSLY America never had the faintest interest in conquering Iran.
So the whole rest of your position depends on telepathic projection into the minds of leaders who took NO ACTIONS and said NO WORDS that they would do this.
Wow. Three whoppers in just the first line. That’s gotta be some kind of record.
Taking them up one at a time:
1) No, I don’t know your position except by inference because you never state it clearly. You consistently side-step making straightforward unambiguous statements about your position. The inference that I draw from that is that you are ashamed of it, as well you should be.Your position is that it is okay for America to murder whomever it needs to as the price of retaining its own Imperial hegemony, and thereby secure American’s “precious freedoms” and other perks because if we don’t rape others first then they’re just going to rape us second. It’s a “do unto others before they do unto you” sort of stance and I understand why you don’t want to just say it out loud. It’s what they call in the Public Relations biz a “bad look”.
2) [“America never intended to”]. Oh yes it did. Big time. To the tune of a few hundreds of billions of dollars in direct expenses (missiles and naval fleets ain’t cheap) and tens of thousands of innocent civilians murdered in cold blood. Count them, Doc. They’re called corpses, which is especially despicable when the corpses are in the form of dead women and children. What do you call that amount of invested effort, a “head fake” or something?
What America intended was to wreak the place and then install Reza Pahlavi (eldest son of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, the last monarch of Iran, deposed in the 1979 Islamic Revolution) as a willing and well paid puppet …. just like it did in 1954 when it deposed the democratically elected government and installed the monarchic Shah. It didn’t take any American boots on the ground back then and it wasn’t expected to need them this time either.
It just didn’t go exactly to plan this time because ZioNazi America is run by a bunch of fucking idiots who think like you do.
3) OBVIOUSLY? (“OBVIOUSLY America never had the faintest interest in conquering Iran.”) I am just flabbergasted at the height, width, depth and density of how obviously WRONG your statement is. If it’s so damned “obvious” then what the literal fuck is the war even about in the first place?
Going to all that effort for no reason whatsoever is even nuttier than doing it to conquer people just to steal their stuff and enslave them. Are you saying that Trump & Bibi thought that killing was just a good way to kill some time?4) Your closing statement that the, “whole rest of your position depends on telepathic projection into the minds of leaders who took NO ACTIONS and said NO WORDS that they would do this” makes me fervently wish that I could telepathically project, into whatever it is that you use as your mind, the awareness that threatening words were said, and that horribly and lethally destructive actions were done. If you don’t know that then you are indeed well and truly insane.
The unprecedented (literally) quantity of bullshit, propaganda, censorship and obfuscation is not aimed at us little folk. We don’t matter and they don’t care. It’s aimed at MARKETS, and of course at the people who manipulate the money flowing into and out of those markets.
Money matters. It really does. They don’t just fight wars FOR it. They fight wars WITH it.
But at the end of the day it doesn’t matter as much as THINGS and real estate (i.e. REAL stuff).
We need to be careful to not get the two mixed up too badly, nor with the INFORMATION and the BELIEFS that are used to do so.
Does anyone seriously believe that if “America” (and I use ironic quote marks to signify the difficulty in defining what that word even means any more) could militarily defeat Iran that it would hesitate for even a minute in doing so?
So why ain’t they doing so?
Hint: It can’t. RIM’s delusional optimism based on ZioNazi Imperial propaganda nothwithstanding.
The propaganda doesn’t match the reality, (‘on the ground’ so to speak) of it’s neutralized scaredy-cat naval fleet, virtually abandoned and empty forward attack-bases, depletion of ammunition and radars of all types, and the fact that Iran still controls the all-important Strait of Hormuz (which it can continue to control regardless of any real or imagined financial woes).
Ah, well. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, of which there are a myriad.
No one can say the same about factual reality, however, of which there is just one, and which we’re all in whether we like it or not.
Let’s see what that small but important part of the world looks like in a couple of months. Will it Iran belong to the 75 year old Zionist state of Israel and the 250 year old Zionist State of America, or will it still belong to the Persians who’ve caslled it their own for 2,500 years?
Anyone want to place a bet? RIM? Anyone?
DBS: So your position is Iran is selling as much oil as ever, and their financial situation is unchanged?
Nope.
My position is that the America should leave Iran alone, and stop behaving like an agent of Satan himself gleefully destroying both nations at once by the same actions, while serving no purpose other than greed, malice and death.
I won’t be dragged into an ostensibly rational discussion of what is the most logically expeditious way of administering psychopathy. It would be like discussing the best way of hanging a child for failure to pay sheep tax.
• Sen. John Kennedy Sums Up the Iranian Regime’s Current Predicament
I find it terrifying that Senator Kennedy ( and Ilargi, too, apparently) seem to sincerely believe that Iran isn’t selling any oil, and is therefore not making any money and is therefore going to go broke and be forced to shut down (and destroy) their oil fields, and is therefore totally trapped in America’s death grip, and is therefore going to capitulate any minute now because their only other option is no choice at all.
Give me an F-ing break. Please let me wake from this living nightmare of being led by so-called “elites” who cannot do grade school ‘rithmetic.
And on TOP of the inability to do addition, subtraction, multiplication and long division is the equally scary fact that the “framing” of the math problem is itself a ginormous LIE. Iran is still pumping, storing, shipping and selling oil. To believe otherwise is pretty stupid because the fact that they are doing so being fully displayed on every public and private information channel in the world outside of the beltway.
Washington, DC City Limits has become the walls around the lunatic asylum. So, by Trump’s rules, that we should take away their nukes because, hey, we can’t let lunatics have nuclear weapons, right?
So every chicken (and most other birds) can do what the the most advanced combination of AI, robotics and engineering CANNOT do. Do you suppose that such a skill accidentally “evolved” in a random Universe? If so, then what are the odds? (and introduce me to your bookie, please)
What does that tell us if we take take @ThoseDarnedKids advice and take note of that fact?
Well, for one thing, it tells us that hidden within the gob-smacking mystery of how the chicken even does such a thing there exists an even greater mystery, and perhaps one of the biggest mysteries of all.
If you can solve it then you are well on your way (and maybe have even arrived) to solving the question of Life, The Universe, and Everything. It is a rabbit hole of the deepest depth.
The mystery surrounds of the very concept of what we call “Frame Of Reference”, which rests of the incontrovertible fact that nothing can be described or explained EXCEPT by “framing” the description or explanation in reference to something else, to which the same “frame of reference” rule applies.
If you solve it be sure to let Einstein know because the implicit problem of infinite ‘self-referentialness’ seems to have no bottom or finality to it no matter how far up or down that spiral you go.
Trying to solve the first part of that problem resulted in Einstein’s discovery of Relativity vis a vis the speed of light, but the second part of the problem (i.e. relative to what, specifically?) stumped him completely til the day he died.
One wag even said of it that when you take the first step on that road you are on your way to God.
I’m not smart enough to disagree, so maybe that joker was right.
I couldn’t help but notice that several of the other newsy bullet-points at the top of today’s TAE were examples of the same puzzling conundrum. The hovering drone in the car at 50 mph, in particular is an excellent illustration of “frame of reference” problem, and don’t forget that the car is on a spinning planet which orbits the sun moving through a revolving galaxy, etc. So, the problem seems to have put a bee under RIM’s bonnet, too.
Be sure to drop me a note if any of you old codgers solve it.
I hope commenters haven’t left because they’re crushed America hasn’t been destroyed.
This is the flip side of emotional elation that Iran would rule the world.
I don’t believe that you mean what you say.
I believe that you mean the opposite of what you say.
Which is another way of saying that you’re being deliberately disingenuous (nice way of saying that you’re lying on purpose, but I’m trying to be nicer than my usual self, and like I said, it’s a strain.)
C’mon Doc. Iran did not attack America. It was exactly the other way around. Iran did not pulverize America’s school girls, bridges, Capital City, oil fields and nuclear energy facilities. It was America who did that to them. In a sneak attack that included the despicably dishonorable duplicity of luring their peace negotiators into a trap baited with good will… and murdered them in cold blood.
So excuse me (not) if the “America” that YOU speak of isn’t the same America that I belong to.
I’m sick of it! I am literally outraged by it. I am also sick of the way you habitually use tricksy double-negatives and other practically indecipherable language ploys to dress up the lie that the “America” which you speak of is by some rhetorical magic somehow not the rapacious, bloody, Epsteinian monster that the rest of the world is being forced to deal with violently.
Fake Americans are as bad or worse than fake Jews.
I have no problem with your open defense of the Empire, because when stated openly those defenses are easily rebutted, but I have a real problem with your double speak. Don’t call it “America” when what you really mean is a cruel, bloody and perverted EMPIRE that makes Rome seem pacifist in comparison.
Stand up and fight like a man. If you think America should make the world grovel at its feet and sacrifice it’s children, sovereignty and lives to us because we are just naturally superior to all other forms of human life, then just say so and make your case.
If I am being too harsh and pugnacious (and perhaps I am) then I will apologize after you have proven me wrong. Meanwhile, let’s clear the air.
YES, I want America to just be a normal country again. FUCK the Empire.
@charles
I did come to a conclusion. It is my own. I apologize if it doesn’t support your narrative. Any storage at all probably had to be ready before today. All logistics. The dig. The pipeline. You cant just damn off a ravine miles from the nearest pipeline. We are talking 1.6 million barrels a day. That’s a lot of stuff. Get it started just now. In a war.
Do some work. Bring in some information, analysis, opposition. Be nice. Inspection is not disagreement.
I’ll try to be nice, but I hope everyone appreciates how much of a strain that it puts on my system.
I think that the armies of specialized petroleum industry engineers (with that special brand of OCD that all engineers seem to have, as a breed) have long ago worked out in excruciating detail every single possible alternative solution to storage issues that could ever possibly be needed under any and all circumstances, and are implementing whichever of those solutions seem most appropriate to them and the team that they work with and work for.
My main point was that the scary prediction by the aggressors in this war of choice was just propaganda and not to be taken seriously because it was just more nonsense meant to distract from the core issue, which was that the aggressors want to steal whatever they can get their hands on (oil being one of those things) and that the Iranians are not going to let them get away with it this time.
