JGOpinion

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JGOpinion

JGOpinion

@JimGammon2

Designer, free thinker, American, conservative leaning libertarian

New Jersey, USA Katılım Nisan 2022
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@IranIntl_En Anyone who thinks Iran can be reasoned with: 1. Doesn't realize that Iran never changed their goal of the entire planet converting to Shia Islam, submit, or die. 2. Is a Shia Muslim. 3. Thinks liberals can control radical Muslims with rhetoric. 4. Is stupid. (99% of them.)
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A large explosion followed an attack in Bushehr in southern Iran on Saturday, footage obtained by Iran International shows. The site was described as a factory and industrial complex involved in producing naval weapons.
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John Ʌ Konrad V@johnkonrad·
This IMHO is the most important post of the month. Read it, reread it, then take notes. RULES OF ENGAGEMENT RULES OF ENGAGEMENT RULES OF ENGAGEMENT Why was @secwar able to hermetically seal the southern border, eliminate crime in DC, arrest Maduro, and sink the entire Iranian Navy with a fraction of the casualties that “experts” claimed it would cost? Because he did not include allies and academics. Why is this critically important? Because in previous wars they all handcuffed our warfighters with ROEs. Bookcases in the Pentagon and CENTCOM overflowing with them. Going in with the element of surprise and shackling our forces to just one ROE, American rule of law, gave our side an overwhelming advantage. But… We just experienced the biggest war I’ve seen since I joined this app in 2007 and I’m not talking about Iran. It wasn’t a kinetic war. It was a war over academia and European control of ROEs. @CynicalPublius and @DataRepublican got absolutely hammered but held their ground. @RadioFreeTom and the other talking heads had enormous power over how the minds of admirals and generals are formed. They had enormous influence via think tanks and meetings with allies over what’s acceptable in war and what isn’t. And they were able to throttle opinion via displays of outrage on TV and articles in the Atlantic. To use a maritime analogy, those ocean racing speedboats have two captain’s chairs. One is the helm and the other is the throttles. The helmsman can only steer port or starboard, but the throttleman has forward and reverse on both the port and starboard propellers. Guess which job is most important? Pull too far ahead of the enemy and they pull back speed. Fall behind and they push full ahead. Too often they push full ahead just as the boat is descending into the trough of a wave. In our military the commander in chief decides the race time and location. The combatant commander steers the course. The media, allies, and the think tank “experts” are the throttle. And they are absolutely losing their minds because Trump has removed them from the throttles. This not only sucks away their power but their lucrative speaking engagements and book deals. Nobody is going to pay big bucks to hear a washed-up Naval War College professor speak. They will pay the throttleman. So Tom and friends are losing their minds and going on MSNBC and CNN to tell you all about how terrible this war is going. What they are really saying is: this is a disaster because I was not consulted. Put me back on the throttles. Except it isn’t a disaster. Go read those think tank and war college reports. How many deaths did they predict in a war against Iran? Not one predicted this few casualties in week three, or this many military targets destroyed. Tom and friends are telling you this war is a disaster, but by their own metrics it’s a stunning success. Ask yourself why that is.
Cynical Publius@CynicalPublius

RE: The Way of War of Our Enemies In every hot war the United States has become involved in since the Korean War, we have enjoyed absolute tactical and operational dominance over our enemies. We win every tactical engagement, overwhelmingly. Operationally we can and do dominate any theater of our choosing. No one—and I mean NO ONE—can stand toe to toe with the US military. This has been true for decades. We’ve talked before about the elements of national power—the “DIME” (Diplomacy, Informational, Military, Economic). Our military power is unsurpassed. We are masters of diplomacy. We have the world’s strongest economy. So how do we lose? The INFORMATIONAL component. Our military opponents, from Ho Chi Minh to Osama bin Ladin, knew that the only way to defeat the USA is to demoralize the American populace such that it demands withdrawal and throws the then current Commander-in-Chief out of office. The ONLY way to defeat America militarily is to convince the American people that a war is unwinnable. The slow dribble of IED deaths in OIF was not actually targeting soldiers and Marines—it was targeting YOU, the American people. And CNN eagerly complied with death counts running across the bottom of the screen. The Tet Offensive? It was a decisive US victory that could have ended the Vietnam War in our favor. But Walter Cronkite instead declared the war lost, protests erupted nationwide, and the war was lost. The Highway of Death in Kuwait? We could have taken out Saddam Hussein in 1991 and never needed to go back in 2003, but international media made the attack on retreating Iraqis look “too cruel,” so we halted just short of the finish line. The strategic imperative of every one of America’s military enemies is to break the will of the American people with skewed information, propaganda, and extreme emphasis on America’s minor losses amidst overwhelming military victory. But the Ho Chi Minhs and Osama bin Ladins can’t do that by themselves. They need willing partners in the American media and government. And for Operation Epic Fury, boy oh boy do the Iranian mullahs have an over abundance of American morale killers to draw from in order to defeat America through the informational instrument of national power. Tucker Carlson. Senator Mark Kelly and the rest of the Seditious Six. CNN. ABC. NBC. CBS. NYT, WaPo. Pakistani bot armies on social media. X “influencers” like Cerno, Candace, MartyrMade and Ian Carroll. Every idiot claiming we are fighting “Israel’s war." There is an entire Army of American politicians and media figures who are willingly fighting Iran’s informational war on its behalf (and in some cases, at its behest). America is DECISIVELY WINNING the war on Iran in every measurable respect. Yet there are so many influential Americans who are desperately determined to make you believe otherwise. In days of old in non-US countries, such people would have been strung up for treason. Thankfully it’s 2026 and we have a First Amendment, so no one fear being treated in such a medieval manner. But we can still ostracize and ridicule such people and sources for the irreparable harm they are wreaking upon the USA as they do the bidding (intentionally or unintentionally) of Theo-fascist mullahs who are determined to set off a nuclear bomb so that the Twelfth Imam will arise from a well in Qom and precipitate the global apocalypse. We all need to choose sides. Are you with America, or are you with theologic-inspired, deliberate Armageddon? And anyone who chooses the latter needs to be the target of mockery, derision and clearly-stated facts disproving their lies. And if YOU are an American Patriot, you can fight that informational war on America’s behalf, right now, right here on social media, right there in your own living room. Your voice matters, and your voice is actually a part of the war. FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT.

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@guypbenson Avon was never colonized, and Shakespeare is not Hitler.
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@johnfgately @Heminator @PioneerBoston Political Math 101 1. Estimate tax income assuming an activity won't change. 2. Pass the tax. 3. Commit spending the expected income from the tax. 4. More tax = less activity. 5. Less activity means less tax income. 6. Blame shortfall on budget on Trump.
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JohnFGately@johnfgately·
OUCH Massachusetts lost $4.18B in adjusted gross income in 2023, the first full year of the "millionaire's tax" new data show. Chart by @PioneerBoston issued with warning "persistence and scale of these losses signal structural competitiveness challenges" for MA #mapoli
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Open Source Intel@Osint613·
IRGC Quds Force Commander Ismail Qaani (agent Qaani): “The resistance front will continue fighting the enemies of Islam and humanity more strongly and effectively than before, and we will soon witness the humiliating defeat of criminal America and Israel.”
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@amanpour Christina, you only think you understand the common person.
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Christiane Amanpour
Christiane Amanpour@amanpour·
“We are manufacturing a whole new generation of terrorists in the Middle East,” former U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel tells me, saying the Trump administration's conduct of its war in Iran appears to him unprecedented.
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@PattyMurray The average voter doesn't need to commit election fraud. It takes a person with less than average ethics and no moral compass.
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Senator Patty Murray
Senator Patty Murray@PattyMurray·
The average person is more likely to be struck by lightning than they are to commit voter fraud. Seriously. That's a real stat. I'm voting NO on the SAVE America Act.
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Joey Jones@Johnny_Joey·
For those of you not familiar. The A-10 Warthog is the ugliest, most absurdly beautiful killing machine to ever take flight. A flying chunk of titanium molded around a gatlin gun style cannon; the equally absurd 30mm GAU-8. It commands the adoration of troops on the ground as the sound of its unmistakable mating call the “brrrrrrp” overhead means several enemy fighters have been neutralized. It flies low and slow delivering death more intimately than any other fighter jet could fathom. Cloaked in armor, it’s rumored to be able to take damage to 70% of its airframe and still land with ease. It doesn’t need a long or even paved runway. The uppity nerds running the Air Force have decided to “phase them out” this year… yet here they are continuing to “get some”. I personally think that @USMC should take the them over… they fit perfectly in our “take old shit and make it great” culture.
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Chairman of the JCS Gen. Dan Caine: "The A-10 Warthog is now in the fight across the southern flank and is hunting and killing fast attack watercraft in the Straits of Hormuz."

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@BoSnerdley There is no need to lie about Hochul, she proves she is an idiot.
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@guypbenson Experts? Is that people who used to be pertinent and are now ex-perts
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@gregorykennedy Democracy ends when 51% of the people vote to take away the property of the other 49%.
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Gregory Kennedy
Gregory Kennedy@gregorykennedy·
I didn’t believe it until I saw the video. The governor of NY is begging rich people to move back to fund her social programs. So, like, I guess there are consequences to over taxation after all?
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@johnkonrad One hell of an airplane. But fighter pilots see it as a crappy assignment. Killing 5 tanks doesn't make you an ace.
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@BreitbartNews @wynton_hall The main concern is hunter drones designed to attack any human sized heat signature. Released in quantity in an urban environment they would be a serious terror weapon.
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Breitbart News@BreitbartNews·
.@Wynton_Hall notes in "Code Red" that AI warfare is not an exclusive game that only the world’s superpowers can afford to play. The first confirmed example of autonomous weapons hunting down and killing human targets, without direct human control, apparently occurred in 2020 in Libya, using equipment manufactured by a Turkish defense firm. Therefore, it will be far more difficult to keep the AI genie bottled than it was to restrain the proliferation of nuclear bombs.
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Wall Street Mav
Wall Street Mav@WallStreetMav·
"Nobody that's gone down to Florida is coming back. People that went to Florida, went to Texas. They're not coming back. "We just want you back so you can fund our far left policies in the state. Won't happen." "I'm eligible for estate tax. My kids will hate me if I don't move to Florida. They're not only punishing the billionaires and the millionaires, they want to reduce the estate tax from $7 million down to $750,000." "Everybody's house in New York is worth $750,000. So they want to punish everybody. It just doesn't work. They don't realize it. I should come back so I could feed the migrants?"
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Wall Street Mav@WallStreetMav·
“California has 40 million people in it… if you take away 200 guys, the billionaires, if you take them out of the equation, we lose 47 % of our revenue. Many of those billionaires have moved already or are in the process of moving. 47% of California tax revenue… gone.
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@EYakoby @AriFleischer There is only one reason to generate so much high purity uranium, bombs. Since there is zero threat of invasion to Iran, that means weapons of aggression. No, the US and Israel have no interest in invading. Bombing their evil plans, yes.
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Eyal Yakoby@EYakoby·
Joe Kent: “There is zero evidence that Iran was trying to build a nuclear weapon, Netanyahu is warmongering.” The Deputy Speaker of the Iranian Parliament: “We tried to develop nuclear weapons, but couldn't keep it secret.”
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@CollinRugg Using present day liberal logic, all we need to do it tax cigarettes at $35 trillion a pack. We only need to sell one pack to eliminate all of our national debt. Simple solution!
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Collin Rugg@CollinRugg·
Just two years after telling rich Republicans to jump on a bus and head to Florida, NY Gov Kathy Hochul begs rich taxpayers who are in Florida to come back to New York so they can pay more taxes. Hochul says she needs "high net worth" people to cut her checks to fund New York's social programs. "I need people who are high net worth to support the generous social programs that we wanna have in our state right now." "...Cut me the checks... The first step should be to go down to Palm Beach and see who you can bring back home, because our tax base has been eroded."
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