Jung Thug
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I also heard they were building a Death Star
Spencer Hakimian@SpencerHakimian
🚨BREAKING: JD VANCE SAYS IRAN WAS ABOUT TO USE NUCLEAR SUICIDE VESTS IN SUPERMARKETS
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@psydoc1970 @barnes_law @VDHanson Given VDH's abysmal prognostication, I think you are right about all of VDH's wisdom likely residing in a single toe.
Like a very wise man said "If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?"
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@barnes_law @VDHanson Your hubris is showing. VDH is a treasure and has more wisdom in his pinky toe than you have in your entire brain.
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Reminder: @VDHanson has been wrong about every war ever fought in the modern era.
Victor Davis Hanson@VDHanson
Joe Kent honorably served the United States during his 11 deployments to combat zones in the Middle East. Now, however, he has betrayed President Trump, the man who helped him have a political career as the director of the National Counterterrorism Center after two failed congressional campaigns, explains Victor Davis Hanson on today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.” youtu.be/E_4oRG9rlIo?si…
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@barnes_law JD shows a stunning lack of technical knowledge. There aren't nuclear suicide vests. They would be superheavy, would not look like vests, and wouldn't be strapped to a person. It's ain't C-4 and ball bearings. This isn't the Mandalorian.
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The nuclear suicide vest is the #IranWar wrapped around Vance's political future. If troops go in, that will be pulling the string on that vest for his future.
The Bulwark@BulwarkOnline
Vance suggests Iran could have used nuclear suicide vests: “You talk about people who walk into a crowded supermarket and have a vest on, and they blow up the vest and a couple of people get killed, and that's a terrible tragedy. What happens when what's on the vest is not something that can kill a couple of people, but can kill many, many tens of thousands of people?”
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@BenjaminiteMD @BobMurphyEcon @scotthortonshow @martyrmade You all are insane. Russia has crushed the Ukrainian army. If you believe the 30-KIA for Ukraine then you probably believe that Ukraine is something other than a project of the CIA-MI6-Mossad. They aren't.
The Azov do fight hard, though. It's in their blood :)
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@BobMurphyEcon @scotthortonshow @martyrmade Aren't two of these folks the ones who predicted and were describing a rapid Russian victory in Ukraine?
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My man @martyrmade said this on our show on March 6, based on his own sources inside the military, and kooks on here said he didn't know what he was talking about.
Yeah well, no, yall were wrong and Darryl is vindicated again.
Luke Gromen@LukeGromen
“Many of the 13 military bases in the region used by American troops are all but uninhabitable, with the ones in Kuwait, which is next door to Iran, suffering perhaps the most damage.” -NYT just now First MSM admission I’ve seen of this fact
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@YannisAndris I guess it's perspective. You want Putin to prosecute the war like he's Trump or Netanyahu but Putin wants good relations with China and China wouldn't stand for that. And reality check: only Jesus and Lazarus were a better resurrection story than Putin and Russia. Let him cook.
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Putin is:
- Pathologically risk-averse (yes, despite Crimea and SMO)
- Naively Europhile
- Obsessed with a grand deal with the US that is structurally impossible without a decisive Russian victory
- A believer of Russia-Ukraine unconditional brotherhood
Hence, Russia can't win.
Anna@provemewrong411
Unfortunately, due to Putin’s inability to finish what he started driven by his constant fear of escalation, NATO will soon be striking Moscow directly… All the red lines have been crossed, yet Kiev and zelensky remain intact. Why?
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@nickgillespie Too much money is a problem. Only a crisis will cause California to stop spending itself to death. And those billionaires are terrible humans. Fuck them, we should support the tax if only to get them out. They are the fake tits of the body politic.
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Why are billionaires fleeing California? Last year, the founders of Google (Sergey Brin and Larry Page), Steven Spielberg, Peter Thiel, Travis Kalanick, Mark Zuckerberg, and Dan Hankey moved their principal residences elsewhere.
The short answer: Because the Golden State is taxing and regulating the hell out of them. Later this year, Californians may vote on a one-time billionaire's tax that will grab 5 percent of the wealth of anyone in that rarified crowd. In its current form, the proposed initiative will retroactively cover people living in the state in 2026.
Gov. Gavin Newsom is against the plan, fwiw.
Here's a snippet of a live @reason Roundtable held at Reason Weekend in Palos Verde a week-plus ago.
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@Vaporisor @provemewrong411 Not original. Not interesting. Wrong about everything, but in doubt about nothing. I present "Vaporisor" but with tired old NAFO bullshit:
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@DJZ3 @provemewrong411 If Putin wanted peace, there would not be war and he would not be demanding land
Putin doesn't want peace. He wants conquest.
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The fact that Russia, with all its might, is still seeking a diplomatic solution to this Donbass debacle is beyond embarrassing. Like, what does Russia have to lose? Are they afraid of being cut off from the Western world, or are they afraid of another 30,000 sanctions? Or perhaps they fear that their people and athletes will continue to be discriminated against and banned from absolutely everything?
Putin might have a strategy, but entering the fifth year of conflict against ukraine while being a military and nuclear superpower…is frankly embarrassing….
I’m saying all of this as Putins biggest supporter! I loved him way before it was cool to do so…
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@ThomasSowell That's the vibe I got when she appeared on Broadway. Nothing lights the signal fire quite like a musical.
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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson: "I would say the state of our democracy [keeps me up at night]. I am really very interested in getting people to focus and to invest and to pay attention to what is happening in our country and in our government."
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@peterdaou The easy, consistent position is that bombing civilians is wrong, a war crime, and unacceptable, full stop. Harris and Biden were key Ukraine enablers and it's the same war. Same MI6-Mossad-CIA horror show.
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Furthermore, Harris repeatedly signaled she'd do exactly what Trump is doing.
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It LITERALLY happened when she was in office.
Governor Newsom Press Office@GovPressOffice
NONE OF THIS WOULD BE HAPPENING IF SHE WAS IN OFFICE
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@peterboghossian @nfergus If you aren't a reader. If you read the book, you'd realize the movie was supposed to be about Rocky, not the jerk-off professor.
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@Quinctilus @Ayoelesho @HussainShafiei The Streisand effect is so great. Every bounty raises his profile. I just wish more would just listen to him and tell us what he is wrong about. Because when you listen, you realize that we aren’t just losing the war, we can’t win. More importantly, we shouldn’t.
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@Ayoelesho @HussainShafiei That is a crime in the US, and unless renounced, he is a US born American. If anyone has information that leads to the arrest of the perpetrator of the bounty, I will pay 100k.
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He is 59 years old.
Born in Richmond, Virginia, but chose Iran. That alone tells you everything about the kind of man he is.
He has the rare ability to dissect Western narratives in real time, be it live on CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera, Sky News, and dismantle them calmly, in perfect English, often better than the hosts themselves.
Recently, he appeared on live TV and left a host completely speechless after naming the “Epstein class” as the elite pulling strings over governments and media.
Just days later, a verified account on X posted a $1 million bounty on his head, demanding he be captured alive. His response?
He kept talking. Kept showing up. Didn’t miss a single interview.
His PhD thesis was a direct intellectual challenge to Edward Said’s work on Orientalism. Written at the University of Birmingham. Pure scholarship.
He volunteered to fight in the Iran-Iraq war as a young man. Survived two chemical weapons attacks. Then went back to university and became a professor.
He is one of the founders of the Institute for North American and European Studies at the University of Tehran. Built academic bridges while the West was burning them.
He has appeared on nearly every major global news network as a voice that inserts truth into the entire conversation. He has done so much for those of us tired of one-sided Western narratives dominating the airwaves.
In the art of truth-telling and intellectual courage, Professor Marandi is a role model to our generation. 💯
Video credit: Unmute Humanity
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Seyed Mohammad Marandi@s_m_marandi
Millions of Iranians are in the streets every night across the country, defying missiles from evil US and Zionist pilots. They await the complete destruction of all vital infrastructure in the regimes that facilitated the slaughter of Iranian children. youtu.be/zLNYidorCos?is…
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@Mackeroonis @robertwrighter @academic_la They’ve demonstrated an amazing ability to bomb civilians. I think our military can defeat any civilian population with enough time and enough resolve.
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@DJZ3 @robertwrighter @academic_la The carriers have been there for weeks and have launched an armada of planes comparable to a nation’s entire air force.
Calling them ‘not useful’ might be something of an understatement.
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A likely story. The fact that Iran hit and put the number one carrier out of commission is an incredible achievement. Another reason this war has been a humiliating catastrophe.
Kerry Burgess@KerryBurgess
The USS Gerald R. Ford is now out of commission for at least 12-14 months due to that fire caused by a fluff buildup in a tumble dryer....
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Trump, Netanyahu and Putin: plunging the world into barbarism, oligarchy and authoritarianism.
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@DJZ3 @robertwrighter @academic_la It’s not a gunboat.
There is no need to be at range for cannons.
A carrier is most useful against an enemy whose main threat is missiles.
The ship moves, unlike planes parked on a fixed airstrip that will eventually be hit.
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@witte_sergei need troops to evacuate the bases. There's going to be a need for security.
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Potentially involved:
- 3rd Infantry Division
- 82nd Airborne Division
- 101st Airborne Division
- 7th Infantry Division
- 62nd Airlift Wing
TheIntelFrog@TheIntelFrog
A significant movement is underway from US Army, Navy and Air Force bases in CONUS to the Middle East comprised of at least 35 C-17 flights since March 12th, with 11 more flights on the way. Origins: 12-Hunter Army Air Field/Fort Stewart, GA 8-Unknown 7-JB Lewis-McChord, WA 6-Pope Army Air Field/Fort Bragg, NC 4-Campbell Army Airfield/Fort Campbell, KY 4-Gray Army Airfield/JB Lewis-McChord, WA 4-Naval Air Station Oceana, VA 1-MacDill AFB, FL 1-JB McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, NJ Destinations: 17-Ovda Air Base, Israel 13-King Faisal Air Base, Jordan 4-King Hussein Int'l Airport, Jordan
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@chrissomebody @robertwrighter @academic_la Aircraft have range. If you're an extra 1000 km of flying, that's just burnt fuel. And you may have heard the bad news about our planes being shot down.
Logistics win wars and a ship is a fool to fight a fort.
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@DJZ3 @robertwrighter @academic_la carriers don't need to get near the shoreline. that's what the aircraft are for.
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@briebriejoy If Bernie could go back to the anti-war, anti-imperialist, anti-neocon, then I will hold my nose and enthusiastically support whatever domestic legislation comes with that. Government food stores are better than Armageddon (which you would think would be a winning message :)).
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"Dems would've been better" is the liberal version of "does Israel have a right to exist".
Both are questions are intended to obscure the moral/political responsibility of those in power.
Did Democrats have an obligation to put forward an anti-genocide candidate when it became clear failing to do so would cost them votes? Did Democrats have an obligation to hold a primary given polls showing Biden's unpopularity two years prior to the election? Yes.
The but-for cause of Dems losing is not a Lebanese-American raising valid concerns about the nature of the imperial duopoly. Dems are the ones who chose Trump over Palestine. But I guess it's easier to blame Peter Daou.
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@anon526327 @robertwrighter @academic_la what about 700 kilometers away? Almost like they want to be out of missile range. And the war is over for us. We don't have an next move other than declaring victory or getting our ass handed to us in battle.
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@DJZ3 @robertwrighter @academic_la If the carriers are near the shoreline you are using them wrong or the war is over.
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@robertwrighter @academic_la The fact is is that the carriers aren’t useful. Even the ones we have there are unwilling to get anywhere near the shoreline.
Warfare has changed
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@academic_la If Iran had actually hit the carrier, wouldn't they have claimed as much? And they made no such claim, right?
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