Not-So-OK Boomer
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@Rand_Simberg
Classical Liberal, Partly Paleo, No Solicitors. I write stuff.
“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.
So you agree that the US is manufacturing a new generation of terrorists. Not to mention, it's not Iran that is getting hit hard enough to kill millions... it's the poorest countries, Africa, Myanmar, some of South America. Lack of fuel and fertilizer is more lethal than bombs.
I suspect our entire almost 40 trillion dollar national debt is due to fraud. I actually suspect the amount stolen from us is way higher. We are being robbed blind and absolutely nothing is done about it
I spoke with @janetonthemoney on @SIRIUSXM 132 about Iran: “The Iranians are using Muhammad Ali’s Rope-a-Dope strategy. In 1974, Ali absorbed the hits until Foreman was exhausted, then he delivered the knockout. This is what Iran is doing by depleting US-Israeli firepower.”
3 weeks into the war and Trump is lifting sanctions on Iran and Russia and enraged Gulf, European and Asian allies. Real strategic genius at work.
NEWS: NASA is planning a bigger @SpaceX Moon mission role using Starship, in a massive blow to Boeing. With the new proposal, Boeing's SLS would no longer be used to boost Orion close to the moon. Instead, Starship and Orion would dock in Earth orbit, giving Starship the pivotal role of propelling the capsule to the moon’s orbit, before taking astronauts down to the surface. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
🚨 Breaking: The new head of Basij who replaced the previous head of Basij who was eliminated yesterday, was eliminated today
Sorry, no money left for schools in America, we needed it all to bomb schools in Iran.
Hear me out: we don't retire the A-10, and instead triple production.
“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.
If every American voter, without a passport, decided to get a passport, as their primary form of ID, it would take 5 years to fill the requests. But Republicans want this to be in effect before the midterms. They know this, of course, so it’s obvious voter suppression.
I want to see the military open the Strait of Hormuz as quickly and painlessly as possible. I want to see the Iranian regime collapse and replaced by a democracy. But I can't blind myself to reality. This is not how our democracy should go to war. Trump is not the right man to lead our nation into battle. People I respect applaud Trump for his courage in taking on Iran. But I don’t see courage. I see recklessness. I see thoughtlessness. I see a man who plunged a nation into a conflict without fully comprehending the risks. I see a man full of hubris after achieving success in much more limited military engagements. And he’s now counting on two of the world’s most competent militaries to essentially bail him out. nytimes.com/2026/03/19/opi…
If you want to know exactly how it lies about real journalists when they threaten it with too much truth (by "it" I mean "the science") here is a vivid case study.
