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Trump's assault on CDC already getting results! Bird flu? What bird flu? They are simply going to pretend this isn't happening. I guess the plan is to just tell people like @Orlando Buffalo Hillary did it. Old Orlando is probably nodding knowingly think he figured that was the case

Frig. I'm usually sharp as a tack and not afraid to say it. My bad there. I cannot imagine voting dem in the future, but completely agree and vote for the party that hurts me less. It's hard for me imagine now, but this was my thought process Trump v Hillary: Everyone knew Trump, and we can move past his one-time darling status with political figures in the dem party. The simple fact was that my wife and I used to watch The Apprentice with my oldest son (he was quite young), understanding the reality TV aspect and fictionalized portions of the show. It was just about enjoying the show, but we did talk a lot about situational awareness, handling difficult situations, work place politics etc. When the run up to choosing nominees was ongoing, I was nauseous thinking about Jeb Bush, or another Clinton in the WH, and not really thinking Trump at all. I called one of my liberal buddies and said..."You know, I might just vote for Biden if he throws his hat in the ring...". I recall where I was when Trump rode the elevator down and announced and thought "Holy Cr8p, what on earth is happening here?". To look back and think I thought THAT was crazy when looking at what's happened since...wow.

I have to admit none of this makes much sense to me. I don't think anyone cares much about Obama or Hillary at this point. Nobody posting here is sitting around with baited breath hanging on every word out of Trump's mouth. I certainly am not. My overall view of Trump is I'm willing to tolerate him because the alternative is much worse. If anything, he's lost the audience with his comments on the Epstein "files" rather than everyone adjusting their views to reconcile with his statements. Few to none buys his explanation. And you definitely lost me with the argument about abuse from elites. That is clearly a construct of the political left. The entire victim narrative is at the core of almost every progressive/liberal/far left belief. Its at the core of every argument, such as immigration enforcement with the "hating brown people" routine or with taxes and making the rich "pay their fair share". The system praying on the weak while the libs control most of the system. The progressive mind thinks of themselves as championing the downtrodden of the world while in reality its a big self-serving hustle. A big paradox and contradiction. At least up until January 2025 when they lost much of their power and watched helplessly as their apparatus and mechanisms of control were dismantled. Given all that they've committed to violent rhetoric and violent actions. A review of Epstein's history of sexual misconduct associated with minors and young women with a convictions and guilty pleas followed by slap on the wrist type sentencing and his documented associations with a lot of wealthy, powerful, celebrity types, and others complete with photo ops with young women made to do who knows what, puts out a lot of smoke that suggests there's a fire there. Most speculation centered around some intelligence community including the CIA, Mossad, MI6 running a blackmail operation.

In fairness to CoffeeforClosers, he didn't (in that post) accuse anyone of pedophilia. Here's the point to this Epstein business. For years MAGA has floated these wild conspiracy theories it used to brainwash a significant part of the populous and, more importantly, to demonize a significant part of the populous. The Epstein issue, and perhaps the Obama birther dreck, were at the center of the whole operation. Epstein arguably transcends birtherism, though. Epstein, at its core, is about elites abusing the vulnerable. My take on MAGA is that it sees itself not as those children, but as somewhat similar vulnerables who have been abused in different ways by the same elites. Whether there's validity to that is debatable. (Nobody sat there and made a lot of those people not study in school, not go to work, not eat green vegetables, and not put down the bottle, etc.). Now, in covering up this sore that festered for years and years, Trump is more easily associated with those elites. (I get that he's always been one of them, but that's besides the point.) The binders, according to MAGA, exist. The list, according to MAGA, exists. And yet the information won't be made public because, apparently after all these years, Trump discovered that it was written by Obama, Hillary, etc. Trump has been absurd for a long time, but this might be the most asinine thing he's done and the most ridiculous lie that he has told. I enjoy watching MAGA get twisted in knots figuring out how to reconcile this sort of "original sin" lie. I also hope it shatters his support. Not that I disagree with people who want a fair shot at life, and who feel like the middle class has been strip mined for decades. But so the solution to their problems isn't this dictatorial, ill-prepared, nasty doddering old fool who doesn't actually have the interests of anyone other than his own at heart.

Any political party has trouble winning three in a row, so Hillary, not very popular anyway, ran into the third term blues, and then bad luck with Biden, he just aged out and inflation is a bYtch that Harris couldn't run away from In 1948 Harry Truman taught the Dems how to win in the face of inflation. A younger Biden could of won that way, but Harris didn't have the touch

Give me a break. Talk about historical whitewashing. Stop the Steal had nothing to do with widespread voter fraud and instead was borne of the fragile ego of Donald Trump. Nothing more nothing less. And before you travel too far down the “whataboutism” road, Hillary (to her credit) had a presser within days of the 2016 election and said, almost verbatim, “Donald Trump is our next president and we must accept that.” Stop the Steal was itself an attempt to steal an election. It was BS then and BS now. Instead of investigating J6 commission members, one would think that the “Stop the Steal” issue would be the subject of additional review. But it’s not. Because it’s all a lie. The Welfare Queen returns! Thanks for proving my point.

'We Came, We Saw, He Died': Democrats' Breathtaking Hypocrisy On War Powers Ed Morrissey After last night's strikes on Iran, Democrat politicians reached screeching levels of hypocrisy over Donald Trump's decision to act rather than wait for an Iranian nuclear weapon deployment. Chuck Schumer demanded action from Congress, as did Hakeem Jeffries. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez led calls for impeachment. Practically every Democrat on Capitol Hill -- with the notable exception of John Fetterman -- rushed to promote their "authoritarian" narrative about Trump. All of this venting reveals very short memories on the port side of Capitol Hill. Fourteen years ago, they couldn't get enough of presidential strikes on a nation in the very same region. Remember Hillary Clinton's chortling over the fall of Moammar Qaddafi and the role she and Barack Obama played in it? "We came, we saw, he died," she raved to Leslie Stahl after a joint US-EU bombing campaign decapitated Qaddafi's regime, and left a failed state in its wake {snip} The wisdom of that Libyan operation is not the issue here. Neither is the wisdom of last night's operation, although the Iranian nuclear-weapons program certainly has far more connection to American security than Libyan rebels did in 2011. The issue at hand is the hypocrisy of those who cheered the 2011 operation, but who now insist that such use of American military forces without Congress' approval is somehow illegal or unprecedented. https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2025/06/22/we-came-we-saw-he-died-dems-breathtaking-hypocrisy-on-war-powers-n3804046

No what's embarrassing is you guys can't quit Russia. All because you couldn't handle that Hillary lost and had to glom-onto anything to explain it. And the difference between the Afghanistan war is that was actually our war. But Biden didn't need to withdraw when he did, much less the way he did. Again if Ukraine and Europe end up being cutout of this agreement and neither of them like it, they don't have to accept it and the war can go on.

Conspiracy theory! You got that from X! It's all that you weak leftists have. Sad. You do realize that the FBI lawyer in question, Kevin Clinesmith, already has pleaded guilty to altering evidence that was submitted to a FISA court. He received a slap on the wrist, never spent a day in jail and had his license to practice law reinstated in short order. Now imagine an FBI lawyer altering evidence to facilitate spying on say Hillary Clinton or Kamala Harris. That lawyer would be buried under the prison and if and when he or she got out, would never practice law again. Maybe youll get it when you realize that its not illegal to be an orange gasbag, nor does being an abrasive narcissist preclude anyone from being POTUS. But carry on with your TDS. Also cope and seethe. It's going to be fun.

Believe it or not, he’s not stridently political like I am and doesn’t normally discuss politics with me over the phone. We talk a lot more about the respective states of the Bills (yay!) and Sabres (ugh!). Having said that, I can tell you that my dad remains a long-time two-state solution guy and only very recently began to acknowledge the genocide in Gaza (sometime around April of this year). He was especially close to his Jewish maternal grandfather, which I personally believe has compromised his ability to rationally assess the present situation. I’ve been a one-stater (a.k.a. an advocate for the peaceful dissolution of a Jewish supremacist ethnostate) for the past two years, as you know, and have called out the genocide and the far-right Greater Israel project since they bombed the first Gazan hospital (November 2023?). Now…let’s get to your pop quiz… << pulls out red pen >> << shakes head disapprovingly >> For starters, Leh-nerd, it is not a good strategy to question the writing “efficiency” of your quiz grader. What could be more “efficient” than a simple one-question math quiz to assess the health of a multi-year forum friendship?? Looking over your answer, you clearly did not take the quiz very seriously… Ugh, let’s just get to the answer key… KAY’S OFFICIAL POP QUIZ ANSWER KEY: STEP 1: Note the Cauchy red herring! Your clue that mathematical mischief is afoot! Why the heck would you need to integrate over the complex number plane, Leh-nerd?? This is a first-grade math problem, dude. STEP 2: Note the extraneous sartorial information provided. I would NEVER be caught in public wearing a frumpy Hillary Clinton warmonger pantsuit. A mathematical possibility of precisely 0%. You’re supposed to know that about me, Leh-nerd…the quiz raison d’etre… STEP 3: 2 * 4.5 = 2 * (9/2) = 9 blazer dresses. Put away your Boomery slide rule/abacus/sundial, Leh-nerd, and focus. STEP 4: 9 / 1.8 = 9 / (9/5) = 5 skirt suits. OH MY GOD, Leh-nerd. I’m not asking you to solve a Millennium Prize Problem, bruh. Stop whining… STEP 5: 9 + 5 + 2 = 16 distinct formal business outfits. 16 > 10. Take off your socks, Leh-nerd, if you need help counting higher than 10. STEP 6: 16 / 5 = 3.2 weeks (also acceptable answer: a truncation to 3 weeks). QED,L. Quod. Effin.’ Demonstrandum. Leh-nerd. Hmmm…but your remark about my complexion was surprisingly on point! How astute! Very light colors DO work well with the grossly pale white hue that I maintain for almost the entire year. Also acceptable color alternative: anything red to match the natural facial blush from the summer heat. Wow! You passed, Leh-nerd! Who knew that a lifetime of totally fu*king around in math class chasing floozies would somehow pay off for you in the biggest test of your life?? Our forum friendship is saved! Yay! << steps forward to hug Leh-nerd >> << trips over discarded pile of 4 frumpy Hillary Clinton warmonger pantsuits >> << extended arms create a punching motion that strikes Leh-nerd in the face >> << Leh-nerd too unconscious to consciously note the situational irony >> EDIT: Spelling mistake: “assess,” not “access.”

I'll take three useful idiots who don't deserve a nanosecond of my attention for $500 Alex. You've chosen to ignore content by Joe Ferguson forever. Options You've chosen to ignore content by Homelander. Options Unread replies You've chosen to ignore content by nedboy7. Options 🎯 Bill Clinton had 8 years of highly classified audio recordings of his presidency in his sock drawer—and kept his diaries of military secrets. Hillary setup an illegal and unsecured home server of highly classified emails, including Benghazi, to hide her Clinton Foundation foreign-corruption schemes. James Comey brought home classified materials to share with a reporter. Joe Biden had six stashes of stolen classified records going back to his Senate days, moved several times, accessible by his Chinese agent, likely used by Hunter for foreign corruption, and shared with Biden’s ghostwriter to publish in a book. And Biden mass-imported terrorists, gang members, robbers, kidnappers, pedophiles, rapists, and murderers. But Democrats pretend they now care about national security.

We need them to say it. And their political future which is already done anyway, may never ever recover. Their only logical solution - I’m probably sure most of them no longer understand - is that American troops are going to be needed and we’re going to have to go to war with Russia. Or maybe they think they just cancel Russia by not letting them play international hockey tournaments. Democrats are so furious today because their lunacy, failed Ukraine policies since Obama were ALL exposed yesterday. All they can do is falsely claim “MAGA just loves Putin.” Idiots - ignoring all the ignorance going back to Obama’s reset button, Hillary meddling in Ukraine, and Biden letting this unravel in 2022 while we hid from the flu. Russia saw what pansies we’d become.

Tries to stop WWIII = jumps into bed (in Hillary's world.) The problem is your delusional world view is held together by virtue signals, where through the power of headlines repeated ad nauseum you think you can defeat the world's largest nuclear power. Back to reality, Trump has been saying for ten years that European needs to pony up for its own defense. Look what he's motivated them to do. Starmer said today that in another two or three years the UK might actually meet the NATO requirement for defense spending! Yet Europe still pays Russia more for natural gas than they have funded Ukraine's war effort. Meanwhile a Dane with TDS told the EU that that Europe should go to war with the US and make the Euro the world's reserve currency. Talk about liberal delusion at work!

Trump’s Poll Numbers Rise, Resistance 2.0 Flops Democrats and the corporate media continue to attack the President and his party, but no one is listening. by David Catron May 25, 2025 or a sense of how desperate the opponents of President Trump have become, consider the rallying cry issued by Hillary Clinton to her fellow travelers last Friday: “I want you to talk to two people — friends, neighbors, cookout attendees — about why Trump’s proposed budget would be a disaster for American kids.” Now, imagine yourself sitting down to enjoy a hotdog and a beer in the warm spring weather only to be accosted by your progressive brother-in-law who insists on boring the bejabbers out of you with a rote recitation of talking points thoughtfully provided by HRC. It’s difficult to imagine a better strategy for chasing more “normies” away from the Democratic Party, which is already hemorrhaging voters by the millions. That Clinton actually thinks sending pushy progressives out to harass their friends and neighbors is a useful tactic for killing the “Big Beautiful Bill Act” is indicative of how clueless she and the rest of the Democrats are about how dramatically the political landscape has changed during the last decade. {snip} And that trend will very likely continue as long as the Democrats keep picking the wrong side of 80-20 issues. As long as they support crazy stuff such as biological males competing in women’s sports, their support among working class voters of all races will shrink. That means they will continue to lose. Intelligent Democrats, an ever shrinking minority, understand that working class voters outnumber “highly educated” voters 2 to 1. The fabled diploma divide has been wildly exaggerated by the corporate media and many degrees handed out by “good schools” are participation trophies. The people who actually produce things know the Democrats have abandoned them. And the resistance? Working class voters know it is an exercise in pseudo-intellectual onanism, though most would use different words to describe it, especially when applied to that loudmouthed brother-in-law. https://spectator.org/trumps-poll-numbers-rise-resistance-2-0-flops/

The spirit of the Constitution is such that the legislative branch limits the unilateral power of the executive branch to start wars. It is emphasized in the War Powers Clause and later reinforced in the 1973 War Powers Resolution. BOTH political sides repeatedly ignoring this Constitutional intention since WW2 has dangerously emboldened American imperialism. The hyperbolic Canada remark was an obvious reductio ad absurdum meant to point out MAGA hypocrisy. Perhaps it would have been more persuasive for me to just substitute Canada with Iran. If senile Joe Biden had suddenly bombed Iran in the same manner as Trump, we all know exactly how MAGA would have responded. No one in my family would follow me to Scandinavia, bruh... I’m going to stay in the United States, I’m going to vote for Zohran today, and I’m going to vote for AOC as President in 2028. Deal with it. According to Papa Adamski: 2 to 3 years with a concerted effort. His assessment is based on the public IAEA reports after JCPOA but before Israel and the U.S. started bombing Iran. According to him, the above-ground activity needed for properly building nuclear weapons would have been far too conspicuous to evade the IAEA to the level that Bibi and Trump claim happened. He emphasized the plutonium processing much more so than the uranium enrichment and the missile deployment technology. Any additional sci/tech questions for Papa Adamski? I’d be happy to ask him! Regarding pantsuits: oh you dare lots, indeed! POP QUIZ TIME FOR LEH-NERD SKIN-ERD: The ratio of Kay’s blazer dresses to chic pantsuits is known to be 4.5, and the ratio of Kay’s blazer dresses to skirt suits is 1.8. Kay owns 2 chic pantsuits. If Kay is suddenly gifted 4 frumpy Hillary Clinton-esque pantsuits, how many weeks can Kay now go wearing a unique formal business outfit? You may or may not need to recall Cauchy’s Integral Theorem for this: the line integral over a closed contour C for w(z)*dz = 0. If you get this question correct, I will press a gold star sticker onto your forehead. If not, you will see gold star stickers circling above your forehead (i.e., I shall punch you in the face, bruh). High-stakes pressure elevates cognitive performance, Leh-nerd…

I’d think from a moral perspective, most people would agree his actions were very, very bad. I certainly do. Dipping into whataboutism for just a second, Joe Biden acknowledged groping multiple women, Kamala Harris believed he was guilty of doing so, and Harris subsequently partnered with Bill Clinton and his enabling wife, Hillary—all of whom were involved in all sorts of behavior most sensible people would acknowledge raised question of immoral behavior that wound earn a “WOW”.

The Democrats' Anti-Electoral College Scheme May Be Imploding by Matt Margolis The liberal dream of circumventing the Electoral College might be crumbling faster than anyone expected. Maine, one of the 17 states that joined the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, is now poised to become the first state to exit the agreement—and it's sending shockwaves through the left-wing coalition that thought they'd found a clever workaround to the Constitution. Just last year, Maine opted to join the compact, which would award all participating states' electoral votes to whoever wins the national popular vote. But now the state is having serious second thoughts. The Maine House passed a bipartisan bill on Tuesday to withdraw from the compact, and it's headed to the state Senate. Let’s be honest—this reversal is no coincidence. The National Popular Vote compact has always had a partisan flavor, pushed hardest by Democrats who’ve long been frustrated by Electoral College outcomes they don’t like. The 2000 election was clearly a factor, and Trump’s 2016 victory over Hillary Clinton only supercharged the movement. Liberal states such as California and New York signed on, bringing the total to 209 electoral votes—still 61 short of the 270 needed to activate the compact. Heading into 2024, there were growing whispers that Trump might once again win the presidency without the popular vote, and it’s easy to imagine how that would have reignited the left’s push to ditch the Electoral College altogether. But thankfully, we’ll never have to find out—because Trump crushed Kamala Harris in both the Electoral College and the national popular vote. But Maine's experience perfectly illustrates why the compact was always a bad idea. The state joined when Democrats figured Trump could never win the popular vote again. But Trump's decisive popular vote victory in 2024 changed everything. Had the compact been in effect with current members, Trump would have carried a whopping 520 electoral votes, instead of the 312 he actually won. The irony is delicious. Democrats pushed this compact because they thought it would permanently benefit their party’s candidates. https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/05/24/is-this-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-national-popular-vote-compact-n4940119

Well what that old fella Wartski with his wisdom & personal experience says just about sums it all up doesn't it ? As for what Hillary & Walz said - Morons unite - Wonder twit powers connect !!!

Shocker! Syria Now Becoming Genocidal Hellhole David Strom Remember way back when all the "right" people were insisting that Syria's al Qaeda terrorist "president," who displaced Bashar al-Assad, had reformed from his al Qaeda ways and was going to lead his newly liberated country into an era of multicultural peace, love and understanding? Yeah, you remember last week as well as I do. Ah, the halcyon days when the good people who find Israel icky could look to a new hero and hope for a brighter future! Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa was the new sheriff in town, and Syria would now be a safe and prosperous country run by a man the transnational elite was happy to take selfies with again. Western leaders and intellectuals flocked to praise al-Sharaa and embrace him as the future of the Middle East or some similar nonsense. He was a REFORMED al Qaeda/ISIS/Nihilist and now wears a SUIT! The hosts of Britain's most popular political podcast--former Tory MP Rory Stewart and his sidekick Alastair Campbell made a pilgrimage to be seen with him. Only the dream has predictably turned into a nightmare, as any sane person could have predicted. Syria is devolving into genocidal violence. As I feared, this was the Libya trajectory. The West identifies a truly awful dictator and targets him for elimination. He is allied with the wrong people and is a violent authoritarian. Objectively speaking, the world would be a better place if he were gone. Except...his replacements are much, much worse. Libya--Hillary Clinton's playground of death--went from being ruled by a dictator to becoming a failed state with slave markets and vastly worse poverty and terror than under Qaddafi. Hillary Clinton created a slave market in North Africa, and is proud of the achievement. Want to see what is happening in Syria? Let me warn you, the images are beyond disturbing. If you don't have the stomach for it please, please do not click the videos. If you don't need to see the proof with your own eyes, the summary is this: genocidal violence. And don't buy the line some of the media are selling: this is not Assad regime fighters holding out or striking back. These are the Syrian rebels executing people for their religious differences. Christians are being massacred. Muslims from different sects. There is casual torture, rape, ritual humiliation. It is an ***** of violence. Bodies are everywhere, and the terrorists are having a really great time of it. https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/03/08/shocker-syria-now-becoming-genocidal-hellhole-n3800562

"Never let a serious crisis go to waste" is straight out of the Rahm Emanuel / Hillary Clinton playbook. Mayor cut 17 million from the fire budget in spite of her hand picked fire chief telling her it was a very bad idea. But hey, she was able to give 1.3 billion to homeless drug addicts to keep them happy so it's all good.

Josh Allen is too smart to take on a job that he is unqualified for. He's one of the best in the world at his current job. Why would he change? Hegseth has never been the best in the world at anything including the job of disinformation presenter on Faux news. I can see why he wants a job he's unqualified for but not why anyone would want him. Unless the person hiring wanted a yes man... send her this article https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/contributor-can-hegseth-ever-regain-the-trust-of-the-troops/ar-AA1BNSbh That’s Hegseth’s predicament. He clearly cares about troops. He clearly made a mistake. But now he’s a part of U.S. military leadership, and the onus is on him to show integrity and accountability he's so recently demanded. If he does not handle his next steps well, then the leader who argued the loudest about removing double standards from the Pentagon will set a dangerous double standard. Because everyone knows that any “normal dude” who did what Hegseth did would face immediate consequences. In fact, Hegseth’s subordinates launched an investigation on March 21 that promised if anyone is found “responsible for an unauthorized disclosure,” then the individual “will be referred to the appropriate criminal law enforcement entity for criminal prosecution.” Hegseth himself said in 2016, discussing former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server: “Any security professional — military, government or otherwise — would be fired on the spot for this type of conduct and criminally prosecuted for being so reckless with this kind of information.” Yet the attorney general said on Thursday that there is not likely to be an investigation into the administration's breach of security protocols.

I'm not one for bring back old threads. There are some fascinating replies in the 13 year old thread though. Meanwhile: Most everyone here knows the story. This is well condensed, however. So here's the REAL story: Ambassador Stevens was sent to Benghazi to secretly retrieve US made Stinger Missiles that the State Dept had supplied to Ansar al Sharia in Libya WITHOUT Congressional oversight or permission. Sec State Hillary Clinton had brokered the Libya deal through Ambassador Stevens and a Private Arms Dealer named Marc Turi, but some of the shoulder fired Stinger Missiles ended up in Afghanistan where they were used against our own military. On July 25th, 2012, a US Chinook helicopter was downed by one of them. Not destroyed only because the idiot Taliban didn't arm the missile. The helicopter didn't explode, but it had to land and an ordnance team recovered the missile’s serial number which led back to a cache of Stinger Missiles kept in Qatar by the CIA. Obama and Hillary were in full panic mode, so Ambassador Stevens was sent to Benghazi to retrieve the rest of the Stinger Missiles. This was a "do-or-die" mission, which explains the Stand Down Orders given to multiple rescue teams during the siege of the US Embassy. It was the State Dept, NOT the CIA, that supplied the Stinger Missiles to our sworn enemies because Gen. Petraeus at CIA would not approve supplying the deadly missiles due to their potential use against commercial aircraft. So then, Obama threw Gen. Petraeus under the bus when he refused to testify in support of Obama’s phony claim of a “spontaneous uprising caused by a YouTube video that insulted Muslims.” Obama and Hillary committed TREASON! THIS is what the investigation is all about, WHY she had a Private Server, (in order to delete the digital evidence), and WHY Obama, two weeks after the attack, told the UN that the attack was the result of the YouTube video, even though everyone KNEW it was not. Furthermore, the Taliban knew that the administration had aided and abetted the enemy WITHOUT Congressional oversight or permission, so they began pressuring (blackmailing) the Obama Administration to release five Taliban generals being held at Guantanamo. Bowe Bergdahl was just a useful pawn used to cover the release of the Taliban generals. Everyone knew Bergdahl was a traitor but Obama used Bergdahl’s exchange for the five Taliban generals to cover that Obama was being coerced by the Taliban about the unauthorized Stinger Missile deal. So we have a traitor as POTUS that is not only corrupt, but compromised, as well and a Sec of State that is a serial liar, who perjured herself multiple times at the Congressional Hearings on Benghazi. Perhaps this is why no military aircraft were called upon for help in Benghazi: because the administration knew that our enemies had Stinger Missiles that, if used to down those planes, would likely be traced back to the CIA cache in Qatar and then to the State Dept’s illegitimate arms deal in Libya. .

Whose opinions I would trust, you ask? Select IAEA representatives plus Congressional members of national security and intelligence committees (of all political stripes: left and right, populist and establishment). We should be following Constitution-esque protocols when dealing with imminent nuclear threats. Would you have been comfortable with a senile Joe Biden whimsically and unilaterally bombing, say, Canada over unsubstantiated rumors of imminent nuclear annihilation? Why am I still living here in the United States, you ask?? LOL…um, family and friends, career and culture, the melting pot ethos, a lifetime of cherished memories, the vast natural geographic beauty, representative democracy, the Bill of Rights, the Constitutional separation of powers, etc… What’s wrong with me using the political process to change public policy? Didn’t you try to do the same last November? You are perfectly free to consider yourself an arbiter of what’s “American” and what’s not. Go ahead and declare imperialism and trickle-down economics “American,” while declaring universal health care and nationalized land/natural resources “un-American.” Just remember that at previous points in American history, ideas like slavery and Jim Crow and miscegenation and Gilded Age capitalism and legalized misogyny and the ethnic cleansing of Native Americans were considered sclerotic American values. Yes, your post is a bit opaque to me, but I THINK I’m following: you’re telling me that there are clear standards for defining “imminent” nuclear emergencies like this one, and that you personally know of evidence existing that shows Iran crossed this “imminence” threshold? I’m honestly in no position to tell you that you are incorrect. I’m a civilian biomed device engineer who took one college elective course in intro nuclear science/engineering (random shout-out to the Lamarsh textbook…I still have it in my bookshelf!). All I can tell you, anecdotally, is that my Dad is a solid-state materials physicist and a mild-mannered political centrist. His technical nuclear background is a lot better than mine, and he has DARPA funding under his belt. We talked about this exact topic for a few minutes last night, and he seems to think that the technological likelihood of Iran being able to strike Israel (let alone the U.S.) with nuclear weapons this calendar year is absurd. I feel like we’re going around in tautological circles at this point? Absent new nuclear intelligence information that is made publicly available, let’s agree to disagree. I envisage scenarios in which we’re aligned with what the proper course of action should have been. P.S. My formal business wardrobe ratio of blazer dresses to CHIC pantsuits is officially 4.5. FOUR POINT FIVE. The implication that I might ever wear a frumpy Hillary Clinton warmonger pantsuit was completely out of line. You’re out of your element, Leh-ny, and how dare you.

In some rather big news, Florida State Representative Hillary Cassel has announced that she is SWITCHING her party affiliation from Democrat to Republican. She is now the second Democrat to swap parties ahead of the 2025 session, along with Representative Susan Valdes of Tampa.

Wow, you make some good points. It is shocking that the FBI, with at least 26 informants on site , had no idea this was going to happen. Truly they had so little clue they did not request a single extra police officer to show up to protect the Capitol. This is not to mention that the groups looking to overthrow the government were clever enough to leave all of their weapons outside of DC so they couldn't be caught on a weapons charge. Truly these politicians were facing the same kind of threat as Hillary did on that tarmac in Bosnia.