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@89th said in Some interesting primaries today:

Didn't Puff Diddy tell you to Vote or Die? He is someone who should be trusted.

There are no entertainment world celebrities running in the primaries, which is why I'm not voting.

I’m letting democracy take its course without my input.

We tried lampredotto in Florence. Nothing too special tbh. But there’s a sandwich vendor in the central market who’s got some very special sandwiches. No tripe in them.

People who come in 8th have plenty of time to plan their next daring routine while they’re not attending a White House ceremony.

I never hear this framed as American imperialism in the Middle East, with Israel as the America proxy, but that’s how I see it. Neither side for or against ever frames it that way. The against people are happier to claim that America is under an Israeli spell, while the for people understandably couch it in nobility and self defense.

@jon-nyc said in The Iran War (was Nuclear Program) thread:

You don’t need to care what he thinks but to understand my post you need to know that he’s a big maga influencer, and he’s calling out other maga folk on their hypocrisy and sycophancy.

Pundit class Trump supporters who question this are nearly the norm rather than the exception. This is more of a time for you to reflect on how wrong you’ve always been to call it a cult. Less of a time for empty dunks. Your only real target are the politicians who would lose their careers if they didn’t toe the line. But in this case, they’re probably mostly war hawks at heart anyway and claiming to be against all foreign entanglements was where they were dishonest.

I heard MTG on Megyn Kelly yesterday and man is MTG pissed. Almost as if she had legit principles all along.

I wonder what is the point of not seating the secret service next to him. Unless she's been guarding him for several years and he didn't remember her.

@Axtremus said in Market after NVDA:

@Horace said in Market after NVDA:

Surprisingly, silver is way down and has stayed down.

Silver has ran up a lot in the recent past; maybe this is just a technical correction.

A random walk correction that people backfit hocus pocus "technical" rationale to? Yes could be.

He wants to get into the heads of tailgating busybodies.

BRK down 5%. The overall market had a very short-lived dip this morning over the iran stuff, but indexes are green now. Surprisingly, silver is way down and has stayed down.

The bigger patties at mcdonalds are awful. Too much mass to demonstrate how tasteless and dry they are.

The term is "plus-sized". "Anchor" is quite insulting.

@jon-nyc said in The Iran War (was Nuclear Program) thread:

Yes, because while the next democratic administration will likely have a longer attention span, at the end of the day Israel will always have a lot more skin in the game. They can’t afford to cut bait if things get messy.

If you get a Kamala or a Newsom you can count on the pro-israel stance to continue, but you might be avoiding discussing what happens when an anti-Israel POTUS occurs. It's obviously realistic within the next few elections.

I don't see why it's unrealistic for Tucker types or Dave Smith types to vote for an economic populist anti-Zionist Democrat.

@jon-nyc said in The Iran War (was Nuclear Program) thread:

The above questions make me happy Israel is closely involved. I trust them to be more focused on this in the medium and long term than Trump and his appointees.

And presumably you trust them to be more focused than the next Dem administration.

@jon-nyc said in The Iran War (was Nuclear Program) thread:

Matt asks some reasonable questions.

Seems likely that whatever rushes in to fill the vacuum will be at least a little better than what was there. Obviously the new leaders will be living under a credible death threat from Israel and the USA, which I guess will motivate them to some extent.

@jon-nyc said in The Iran War (was Nuclear Program) thread:

First US casualties reported.

That's officially over the threshold of US casualties that most of the opposition are willing to allow, including on the right. Glenn Greenwald and Tucker among them.

My biggest issue with those sorts of arguments is how unaligned they are with people who actually join the military. Imagine joining the army under the moral condition that no foreign entanglement will be worth it if a single member of the armed forces loses their life over it. Nobody joins with that assumption, and I just bet that most people who join aren't exactly dreading the prospect of seeing some dangerous action. It's so cheap to impose the attitudes of the mothers of the armed forces members onto the whole culture. And you know those guys aren't actually opposed to the wars on that basis. It's just rhetorically convenient.

@LuFins-Dad said in The Iran War (was Nuclear Program) thread:

@Horace said in The Iran War (was Nuclear Program) thread:

@jon-nyc said in The Iran Nuclear Program thread:

@AndyD said in The Iran Nuclear Program thread:

it's long overdue given the last 50 years of this dreadful Iranian regime conducting its war against westernised infidels.

It's interesting to think how long he's been in power. I think Iran has had 4 leaders in 100+ years. I don't know of another country with that track record.

Like the Steelers, only more successful.

Pittsburgh has 6 World Championships and the most wins in the league since the 70’s… How many wins has Iran had since the 70s?

I'm disappointed in 89th's post as well. I don't think the Steelers deserve that much hate.

Also a desk for naughty kids.

@Axtremus said in Who’s watching the SOTU speech tonight?:

Not five of the nine Supreme Court justices: “Justices Samuel Alito., Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson were not present.”

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/supreme-court-justices-skip-trump-state-of-union-tariff-ruling

No indication in the story that any of that is out of the ordinary.