Adam

Ep. 6222 - @joekent16jan19 on How Israel Drove Trump Towards an Unnecessary War with Iran - 3/19/26

@VladTheInflator Face kicking a child is not a redeemable act.

We don't have to live like this....

Since Ben Shapiro's eyebrows grow with every new middle eastern war I predict he will look something like this

@BobMurphyEcon @disclosetv HEADLINE: Hegseth asks for more dollars than they're are atoms in the observable universe!

@disclosetv if you write out all the 0s you don’t need “billions”

NOW - Hegseth confirms the Pentagon is seeking about $200,000,000,000 billion for the Iran War: "It takes money to kill bad guys."

@Zacbunchanumbrs @YearOfTheKraken There is zero evidence that Iran was pursuing nuclear weapons and the former Ayatollah had a fatwa against making them. You're either ignorant or a liar.

Still very clearly the US and Israel. Iran's attacks on neighboring countries turned the entire region against them in a way their own leadership has shown they did not anticipate and don't understand, even expressing regret that nations they attacked didn't back them. They do not have the capacity to destroy the region's oil capacity, they have likely completely spent their ability to do anything beyond keeping the strait closed. And all of this happened because they took the deeply irrational step of committing suicide rather than jsut not demanding the ability to continue trying to make nukes. There is nothing rational about any of Iran's actions and they are easily the textbook refutation of rational state actors.

Many people wouldn't have liked it when I called Iran a rational actor. But consider their actions so far. -Did not close Strait of Hormuz until there was an existential threat to their country -Did not attack critical energy infrastructure until theirs was targeted -They have once again threatened that they will destroy the regional energy infrastructure if theirs is attacked, prompting Trump to announce no more of Iran's will be targeted -They have demonstrated the capability to destroy the entire energy infrastructure of the Gulf and yet, they are holding themselves back. Compare this with Israel and USA's actions so far: -Decapitation strike against Iran while negotiations were progressing well (Oman confirmed this) and a ceasefire was in place. -Targeted Iran's energy infrastructure knowing fully well that there will be retaliation. -Initiated a war they have no means of winning without plunging the entire world into an apocalypse. Which side is the rational actor here?

@fancy_disgrace @MartyBad @SandyofCthulhu Per capita

@MartyBad @SandyofCthulhu Feel free to educate yourself. I'll give you a headstart, 34 custodial sentences given for words said or typed in the UK per year. Jail term averaging a few months. Now, find the US figures yourself it'll be illuminating I promise.

During the first Gulf War, a British co-worker at MicroProse Software mocked Americans because we had freedom of speech. He said, "In Britain, when we are dealing with a sensitive government issue, we bring all the reporters into a room and tell them exactly what is going on, then tell them that they are all under the Official Secrets Act and they can't post a single thing about what we just said or any reference to it. You Yanks have to try to hide everything from your reporters, because you can't just jail them if they write the wrong thing." He was so proud.

@LizzyStarrrdust @RealUnsweetDee I literally cannot imagine music. It's only the lyrics

@RealUnsweetDee I asked my ex about this and he said yes but there's just no words it's the music.

Do people with no internal monologue still get songs stuck in their head?

I actually think this is a big part of the gender transition epidemic. Being a man is hard. It is thankless. It requires working very hard for very little in return other than the satisfaction you get for a job well done. Being treated like a girl with the strength of a man and no danger of pregnancy is comparatively extremely easy.

@mattvanswol As sad as thst was I still laughed at the part about having to do “manly chores”. Maybe that is why some are fluid and keep changing back and forth? Just to get out of certain chores. Glad he is thriving now that he is homeschooled though.

🚨#BREAKING: A South Carolina mother just shared one of the most disturbing school gender transition stories I've read in a long time. Her 14-year-old son attended Beech Springs Middle School in Spartanburg SC. For OVER A YEAR, he was changing into girls' clothing at school, and changing back before his mom picked him up. It was apparently a daily operation, coordinating with another student to bring the clothes, multiple bathroom trips, and deliberate concealment from his parents every single day. Multiple staff members at school had to have seen this. You don't pull off daily clothing changes in a middle school without teachers noticing. But NOBODY called home to tell his parents. Nobody except one teacher. One teacher the previous year did her job, she noticed, she called the mom, and she followed South Carolina law H.4624, which explicitly requires school staff to notify parents when a student expresses gender identity confusion. That call is the only reason the family found out at all. They got their son into gender-related counseling over the summer of 2025. They were engaged, they were involved, they were actively trying to help their kid navigate something difficult. Then the school went silent again. The pattern continued into the next school year and nobody said a word. Fast forward to February 2026. The mom gets her son's hair cut. He cries in class. His teacher sits with him for 10 minutes while he tells her everything, that he wants long hair like a girl, that his parents won't affirm his gender identity, all of it. Again, South Carolina law H.4624 exists for exactly this moment. When a student expresses gender identity distress to a school employee, the law says the school SHALL notify the parents. But the teacher didn't call the mom. She called DSS. That same day, February 13, 2026, she filed a child protective services report against this family for "medical neglect..." Medical neglect because A) the boy allegedly coughed up blood and wasn't receiving care. B) Mental injury because the parents won't affirm a gender transition. And... I'm not even kidding C) making him do "manly chores." The mom asked her son what that meant. He said "cutting the grass." DSS showed up at their home on Valentine's Day weekend. Two days later, the family took their son and got a chest x-ray. His lungs were completely clear. He never coughed up blood. The allegation was fabricated. On February 19th, five days after the report was filed, DSS closed the case. Unfounded. No evidence of medical neglect. No evidence of mental injury. Nothing. So just to recap... A teacher had a 10-minute conversation with a 14-year-old, decided his parents' refusal to affirm a gender transition constituted child abuse, invented or wildly exaggerated a medical claim to make the report actionable, violated state law by never calling the parents, and weaponized DSS on a family over Valentine's Day weekend. And the school's response? The principal wrote back defending the teacher. Called the DSS report "appropriate based on medical neglect suspicion." The report that was closed completely unfounded in five days. The report based on a medical claim that was disproven with a chest x-ray. That report. Appropriate The principal also mentioned that staff had received "gender identity training" and that the school followed "applicable South Carolina statutes." But the H.4624 violation, the actual law that was actually broken, was never addressed. Not once. The superintendent promised a full investigation by a Chief Administrative Officer. Instead, the principal, the direct supervisor of the teacher in question, provided the only written response, and used it to defend her own employee. This school watched a student secretly change genders during the school day for over a year and chose not to tell his mother. That's not an accident. You don't miss daily clothing changes in a middle school. They saw it. They allowed it. They made a decision, collectively and repeatedly, that the parents didn't need to know. Then when that same family's values came up in a conversation, the response wasn't to pick up the phone and call mom like the law requires. The response was to report them for child abuse. The silence for a year and the DSS report aren't two separate events. They're the same event. They both reflect the same institutional decision: we know better than these parents, and we will act accordingly, whether that means hiding things from them or weaponizing the state against them. This family did everything right. They got their son counseling. They stayed engaged. They were present. They got a chest x-ray to disprove a fabricated allegation. DSS came into their home, looked at how they parent, and walked out five days later with literally nothing. But the school is STILL calling it appropriate. The mom has filed complaints with both the school and the South Carolina Department of Education. The school defended the teacher. The state has been silent for over a month. Her son is now homeschooled, by the way and she says he's thriving. The school literally weaponized the state against a family for cutting their son's hair. Let that sink in.

@bgetsbetter He isn't lying though. They are doing this for THEMSELVES. To enrichen themselves and to guarantee their own safety against the Blackmail and Assassination regime located in Tel Aviv.

Demon shit

@AlexHSant @LPNH Why do you think the goal is to "further the libertarian party"?

@LPNH A parties goal is to win. If you aren't winning how are you furthering the Libertarian party?

Fellas would you rather win or would you rather further the libertarian party?

@Frances_Coppola terror

What is the point of this?

Wow.

@corpismo @Clonazepamers "There are people who can't reject certain situations" Then it is her job to tell people that she cannot reject him. Also this is completely bullshit with absolutely no scientific backing whatsoever.

@Clonazepamers Pues yo la entiendo. Hay personas que no pueden rechazar ciertas situaciones y si con gestos se lo dijo, me parece razonable la acusación

Lees el caso y parece un capítulo de South Park: -Hombre y mujer se conocen, duermen juntos varias veces sin más. -Un día vuelven a dormir, la besa y a ella "no le salen las palabras" por lo que el sigue. -2 días después ella lo llama, que vuelva que se dejó los auriculares, el vuelve, vuelven a dormir, vuelve a "viоlаrla". -No se aprecia fuerza ni violencia, pero como resulta que la chica tiene antecedentes psicológicos porque le cuesta mostrar sus sentimientos y tiene tendencias sumisas" pues el pavo se come las 2 viоlасiones. Será que yo soy de la vieja escuela, y cuando me dicen viоlасión imagino un hombre agazapado en un callejón con una navaja, un hombre que te duerme/da una paliza para aprovecharse o que le digas que no pero como es un simio no puede parar; pero llamar viоlасión a meter un tío en tu casa, no decir "no" en ningún momento, que no hayan signos de fuerza ni violencia y encima le dices que vuelva y lo vuelves a dejar dormir contigo... Vivimos en Black Mirror.

Since 1979, US military interventions, operations, and allied support have caused hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths (no single consensus total due to attribution challenges). Per Brown University Costs of War project (nonpartisan academic): post-9/11 wars (Afghanistan/Iraq/Syria/Yemen/Pakistan, 2001-2023+) saw >432,000 direct civilian deaths; total (direct+indirect) 4.5-4.7M+. Pre-2001 adds: Gulf War 1991 (~3k-15k direct civilians) + sanctions excess (~100k-500k, per UN/UNICEF estimates, disputed); 1980s Latin America proxies (~100k-300k total deaths, HRW/UN data); smaller ops (Panama/Grenada/Somalia/Kosovo) hundreds to low thousands. Conservative direct civilian tally: exceeds 500k. Broader impacts far higher.

@cspan @SenOssoff @DNIGabbard She is such a coward

.@SenOssoff: "Was it the assessment of the Intelligence Community that there was an 'imminent nuclear threat' posed by the Iranian regime?" @DNIGabbard: "The only person who can determine what is and is not a threat is the President—" Ossoff: "False."

@RecoveredCraft @LPNH As a New Yorker. I promise you. He sucks.

@LPNH Ive been going back and forth with this guy and he just doesnt seem (or doesnt want to) get it. Liberty Uber Alles. not party.

Fellas is it more important to get candidates on ballots or to further liberty?

@jeremykauffman I am apparently a cosmopolitan

🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 who's got me beat?

@BobMurphyEcon @RobbieTheFire "The price of sandwiches are too damn high!"

for a second I thought @RobbieTheFire was testifying to congress

@ghnynex Isee you but cannot retweet you

@esqlegaleagle @vocalcry This is why women shouldn't be allowed to vote

to be fair... in 17 days the US/Israel team have accomplished a systematic phased degradation of a threat previous US administrations allowed to grow for four decades - whose capacity to project regional power is now successfully degraded. And the methodical campaign to ensure what has been destroyed cannot be rebuilt has begun. It is an absolutely gobsmacking impressive accomplishment in just 17 days.... 💪🏾👊🏾🇺🇸

Everything is perfectly clear. Iran could not be allowed to get a nuclear weapon, which they have been months away from developing for well over a decade. Also, Trump is the only president who could have kept us out of war with Iran, as he himself repeatedly told us. So we destroyed their nuclear capabilities, which Tulsi said they didn't have, in 2025. Then we attacked them last month because Israel was going to attack them because they were months away from developing a nuclear weapon since we destroyed their nuclear capabilities, and that would lead Iran to attack American bases. Iran has never posed a threat to the United States, but we had to attack them first, not because of Israel, but because they posed an imminent threat to the United States. Fortunately, we have won the war, which was not a war but a special operation, in Iran now several times in the last two weeks. It is basically over but might not be over for some time because we already won. We also don't need anyone to help open the Strait of Hormuz, which we knew they would close, which is why we didn't prepare, and we now need allies to help open. What are you guys not understanding?