Shonn W.

Complaining about free media is like eating from a dumpster then being indignant that you got sick. Pay for good journalism (with good editors) and you will be surprised at level expertise and reliability.

Empires have fallen before, but I'm not sure I've ever seen one jump off a cliff.

[reading a book in first person] i dont remember doing any of this

‘We can’t invest in America because we’re fighting wars’ is literally the opposite of what he ran on. Biggest scam in modern political history, hands down.

April fools doesn’t hit the same living in a misinformation epidemic

“I don’t like museums or libraries, so my presidential library will actually be a hotel in Miami” is the kind of thing that wouldn’t work in fiction. No one would believe a character this dumb and bad.

Getting the Strait closed because of the war you launched and then telling other countries they are gonna have to figure out how to open it is like buying a casino, bankrupting it, then putting it on the other board members to lend you the money to pay back the bank.

The baseball gods exist and they are spiteful

I’m guessing the military maybe didn’t want people to know that 😂

I literally briefed this morning on the strip clubs on Bragg Blvd in Fayetteville are a real indicator of troop movements ... and here we are.

An increasingly likely scenario for ground troops is that Trump will seek to take three Iranian islands in the Persian Gulf claimed by the UAE - Abu Musa, and the Greater and Lesser Tunbs. Both pro-Israeli voices in the US and prominent Emirati accounts have been pushing this idea publicly for the past 10 days. Several motivations and objectives may lie behind this potential move: 1. Abu Musa in particular is a strategic island, situated in the middle of the Straits. But it may no longer be critical given the manner in which Iran controls the Straits - via missiles. It would have been 20 years ago if the Straits had been blocked solely through mines. So controlling it will likely not be the silver bullet Trump is hoping for. 2. Is the idea to trade the control of these islands for the opening of the Straits? Assuming that such a trade is even possible, it would depend on the cost of not seizing the island, but keeping it. The US Navy has kept itself 3,000km away from Iran to avoid being hit by Iranian missiles. Abu Musa is only 70km from the Iranian shorelines - the Tunbs are even closer. Iran would rain down missiles and drones, likely killing a large number of US troops. As a result, Iran would likely not have to trade the island. The US would simply abandon it because keeping it is too costly. 3. However, going for the islands does carry some messaging and political benefits. The GCC states have been split by the war, with Oman and Qatar striking their separate deals with Iran. But the GCC has a unified position on the three islands in support of the UAE. Making the war about the islands may be motivated by an attempt to push Oman and Qatar in support of the US/Israeli war, but under the false rubric that it is now about "liberating" the islands. 4. This would then also add a new political messaging. Given the UAE's likely endorsement and participation in the attempt to take/retain the islands, this would be an attempt to reframe the war from one that an isolated America and Israel are fighting alone, to one in which there is a US-Israel-Arab alliance against Iran. However, while that political messaging and reframing may succeed, it does not translate into a recipe for actually winning the war. That problem will not only remain unresolved, but it will become even more challenging based on Point 2 above. In sum, it appears that an increasingly desperate Trump is lowering his ambition. Instead of winning the war, he hopes to expand the number of stakeholders. And by that, spread out the blame for this debacle.

blue check account arguing with a grok answer they didn't like (artist's depiction)

Just 10 Tomahawks given to Ukraine out of these 850 would have been enough to destroy Russia's shahed factory in Yelabuga, and now Russia is sending them to Iran to murder Americans.

Aaron Judge dropping bombs on an ambulance like his name is Benjamin Netanyahu

Spitballing top 5 beers 1. Free beer 2. First beer of the weekend 3. AM airport beer 4. Campfire beer 5. Shower beer Taking input. Never afraid of constructive criticism.

Awful time to be alive but truly an amazing time to be a hater

Do you ever think about how the largest creature to ever exist is making music in the ocean rn

I knew it

The amazing thing about Trump is he’s both the emperor with no clothes and the little kid who blurts that the emperor has no clothes at the same time.

He went on Google Earth and found a mysterious site in a canyon! He flew 40 hours and ‘hiked’ deep into the canyons to find Petra Jordan’s most popular tourism site. (I’m not joking, this is what the video says)