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Happy St. Patrick's Day from JD Vance, Marco Rubio, and Rosie O'Donnell from Ireland! 🍀🧈😋

He picked Chuck Norris. Mistake.

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Rest in peace, Chuck Norris. May God comfort your family. 🙏✝️💪🇺🇸 The only man who would call 911 and get his own voicemail. 💪

They say Chuck Norris passed away… but no one’s brave enough to tell him.

Chuck Norris didn’t fear death, death feared him. When it whispered “It’s time,” Chuck roundhouse-kicked it across the cosmos and said, “Fine. I’ll go… but only to keep the Devil in check.” Jesus met him at the gates, smiled, and accepted the legend with a fist bump. Now the sign reads: “Trespassers will be roundhouse-kicked. C.N. (Accepted by Jesus).” Chuck didn’t die. Jesus accepted the legend… and Heaven leveled up. -GothKing

Things just got interesting. Rest in peace Chuck Norris. How would you respond?

//The Wire//2300Z March 19, 2026// //ROUTINE// //BLUF: WAR IN MIDDLE EAST CONTINUES TO ESCALATE DAILY, AS IRANIAN TARGETING INCREASES IN SCOPE AND EFFECTIVENESS. GCC STATES VOICE GROWING CONCERNS REGARDING ATTACKS ON OIL AND GAS INFRASTRUCTURE. PENTAGON REQUESTS $200 BILLION BUDGET INCREASE TO CONTINUE WAR.// -----BEGIN TEARLINE----- -International Events- Middle East: Iranian targeting efforts have continued to become more effective over the past few days. Drone and missile attacks have been increasing since the war began, with strikes being reported at most US military installations around the region daily. Oil infrastructure has also been targeted in GCC states that have been allowing American forces to launch HIMARS missiles at Iran. Iran: Within the mainland, satellite imagery from yesterday confirmed that Israeli/American forces struck a target at the Iranian Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant. Imagery provided by Airbus indicates at least one impact crater roughly 350 meters from the Bushehr 1 Reactor. Shortly after the attack, Kuwaiti state media broadcast an announcement from the Kuwaiti National Guard stating that radiation levels after the strike were reported to be normal. The Qataris made similar announcements of normal radiation readings this afternoon. Israel: Within Israel, Iranian targeting remains constant as well, with drone and missile attacks being reported regularly throughout the nation. Yesterday Ben Gurion Airport was hit, with several aircraft burning on the tarmac. The port of Haifa has been hit continually since the war began, and over the past few days more footage has made it to social media depicting the damage, as another substantial missile strike took place last night. Analyst Comment: Continuing long-standing national defense policy, it is nearly impossible to determine where strikes are happening within Israel, as this information is tightly controlled by the Israeli government. Livestreaming cameras and traffic cams have been destroyed by the military throughout most of the country, so the intelligence gap of how bad things are in Tel Aviv is quite substantial at this point. Saudi Arabia: Last night, an Iranian strike was reported at the Samarra Oil Refinery complex in Yanbu, on the Red Sea coast. This strike resulted in unknown damage, but the fires started by the strike were detected via satellite. -HomeFront- Delaware - Yesterday evening President Trump attended the dignified transfer of the airmen killed in the crash of the KC-135 in western Iraq. No media was allowed to cover the event, with the White House photographer only providing a few images of the transfer. Analyst Comment: This is not the first time that media have been blocked from such an event; Dick Cheney instituted this as a blanket policy in 1991, and this became more heavily enforced starting in approximately 2003-2009, during the height of the GWOT. It is unclear as to if the White House will be re-instituting this policy, or if this was a one-time ban. Washington D.C. - This morning the Pentagon requested the approval of a $200 billion defense package to supplement the War Department's budget, for the continuation of the war in the Middle East. Analyst Comment: For perspective on how much money this is, as of right now, the United States taxpayer has sent a grand total of $175 billion in military aid to Ukraine, since the start of that war in 2022. As a result, the Pentagon casually requesting a check from the taxpayer greater than that which has been spent to date in Ukraine is going to be a hard pill to swallow. -----END TEARLINE----- Analyst Comments: The strike on the oil refinery in Saudi Arabia is not like the others, and this specific refinery was probably targeted for two reasons. For one, this is the facility that is the end-of-the-line for the Saudi East-West Pipeline that is helping to alleviate some of the constraint on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. The Iranians have proven that they have the ability to not just impact the primary means of oil transport in the Persian Gulf, but also the secondary backup measures that involve the pipeline bypassing the Strait of Hormuz. The second reason that this specific attack was carried out is due to an American base being quietly set up just a few miles to the north last year. While the effectiveness of this strike will be debated, something is still on fire at this facility as of this morning, which is not the gas flaring that is normally witnessed at refineries. Additionally, with the exception of the strikes on Israel, this is the longest range attack conducted so far during this conflict. This is yet another indicator that the Iranians are not only able to survive, but carry out increasingly more complicated and difficult targeting efforts. Similarly, Qatari officials have voiced outrage at the continuation of the war, stating that roughly 17% of their entire natural gas production capability has been completely destroyed, and that even if the war stops right now, it will take a minimum of three to five years to return to baseline capacity. Saad ​al-Kaabi, the CEO of QatarEnergy stated that $20 billion worth of damage has been done to their array of units, which originally cost about $26 billion to build in the first place. This morning, statements by the United States have not exactly alleviated concerns, as President Trump responded to the recent targeting efforts at the South Pars Natural Gas Facility. In his post on social media, he claimed that Israel acted unilaterally "out of anger" in striking this facility, and that if Iran attempts to respond to this attack, the United States will blow up the entire South Pars gas field. Analyst: S2A1 Research: publish.obsidian.md/s2underground Disclaimer: No LLMs were used in the writing of this report. //END REPORT//

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@MikeM2014 Yep 🤣

You seem to know what's up. 🇺🇸🫡 x.com/i/status/20330…

@honeymay_MAGA Japan is our closest ally now. You know this, right? 😅

@MikeM2014 Thanks Mike 🇺🇸🦅🫡❤️

@zendra020 Np. Lol glad u liked. Irish butter is good for you too. 🧈😋

@MikeM2014 Good one Mike! Sorry I’m just now seeing this!

Happy St. Patrick's Day from JD Vance, Marco Rubio, and Rosie O'Donnell from Ireland! 🍀🧈😋

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//The Wire//1800Z March 18, 2026// //ROUTINE// //BLUF: PRESIDENT TRUMP SUSPENDS THE JONES ACT AS PETROLEUM INDUSTRY FEELS EFFECTS OF WAR IN IRAN. CONFLICT IN MIDDLE EAST CONTINUES AS ISRAELI FORCES INCREASE TARGETING EFFORTS IN LEBANON.// -----BEGIN TEARLINE----- -International Events- Persian Gulf: The war continues as before, with multiple attacks on American military bases occurring overnight. The American Embassy in Baghdad has been persistently targeted over the past few days, with one drone strike being reported last night, which resulted in unknown damage. Other coalition positions were struck as well, with Australia reporting successful Iranian targeting efforts at Al Minhad Airbase in the UAE. No casualties were reported by the Australians regarding this attack. Within Iran, Israel/American forces struck the South Pars Natural Gas Facility, one of the largest LNG facilities in the world. Analyst Comment: Following this strike, several GCC states have condemned the action, as destroying infrastructure like this is a major escalation that indicates the nature of the war is more unrestricted, but also because the gas fields serviced by this facility are decently close to the Qatari's own gas fields. Lebanon: The war has intensified over the past few days as Hezbollah and Israeli forces have continued fighting along the main axis of advance in the east. Throughout Lebanon (to include downtown Beirut) the Israeli bombing campaign continues, with Hezbollah forces remaining effective in targeting Tel Aviv with guided rockets and cruise missiles. -HomeFront- New Mexico: Yesterday afternoon a shooting was reported at Holloman Air Force Base, which resulted in one individual being killed and one other wounded at the base shopette. No other details have been provided on this shooting, and the investigation continues. -----END TEARLINE----- Analyst Comments: In Washington, several items of note have been ongoing in the political realm, while attention has been focused on Iran. As one might expect, kicking off a war in the Middle East was expected to (and did) have secondary and tertiary effects. One of the immediate effects of this war has been found in the Petroleum, Oil, and Lubricant (POL) industry, which has experienced wildly fluctuating markets since the war began. This morning the average national gas price rose to $3.84 per gallon, which prompted the White House to implement their previously discussed tactic of suspending the Jones Act as an emergency means to bring prices down in the short term. For context, the Jones Act was implemented shortly after WW1 as a national security measure, to mandate that all goods that transit between American ports, must be transported using American ships with American crews. The general idea being that in the event of war, the maritime trade industry would need to remain effective...it wouldn't be super great for war to break out, and all of the merchant ships that keep the American economy afloat, were to sail back home. The American economy could be crippled without a shot being fired, solely by private companies in the US being allowed to use cheap foreign labor that is not loyal to the United States. In 1920 when the law was passed, the thought process was that companies might take advantage of the freedoms that America provides, to the legitimate detriment of national security. As a result, the Jones Act was a law intended to (somewhat begrudgingly) meddle in the free market, with the purpose of not allowing domestic American companies to rely on logistical infrastructure that isn't American and thus would be a vulnerability in war. As of this morning President Trump suspended this law in it's entirety for the next 60 days, with the White House's logic being that removing regulations will make shipping costs go down, as the free market of ships could carry cargo, and thus save some costs somewhere down the line, which could be passed on to consumers. The effectiveness of this tactic will be proven in due time; most maritime agencies don't think it will do much, as it's unlikely for costs to be passed on to consumers for one, and secondly this is really just a last-ditch measure to throw any potential theoretical solution out, so as to find a way to drop gas prices by even just a few cents, which the White House is desperate to do at this point. Either way, this Jones Act waiver is in place for the next 60 days. Going out on a limb just a bit, 60 day waivers are not usually issued for wars that are supposed to be over within a "few weeks", so this somewhat boilerplate policy decision may be an inadvertent indicator for how long this war is planned to last. Analyst: S2A1 Research: publish.obsidian.md/s2underground Disclaimer: No LLMs were used in the writing of this report. //END REPORT//

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Scene swap - Cardboard Ayatollah edition.

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@The_Guv James Gandolfini still rocks. 😅

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