I’ve seen plenty of data points to suggest the IDF is running America and this is one of them

Out of curiosity, how do you mean?

The correct way to fire her would be out of a cannon.

Unfortunately, there’s a correct way to remove Kristi Noem from office and this ain’t it.

Why is he getting involved?

I hate to defend a chud Senator, but it kinda looks like the marine has his hand trapped in the door and Sheehy’s trying to get him loose before the cops do further harm. Really hard to say from the shakey camera angle. But it looks like the security goons were going to happily tear his arm straight off if someone hadn’t stepped in.

There is no reason for a civilian to help in this situation.

To help the cops? No. To help the marine? There absolutely was.

We killed a whole lot of school girls in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq as well. Didn’t get the same kind of coverage, because the executive branch (and the public) were more disciplined in messaging.

But I think a lot of warfare is, at the end of the day, a libidinal need to “mow the grass” as the genocidal IDF leadership put it. Kill your enemies. Kill their families. Kill their kids. Depopulate territory of opposition.

Do I think dropping big explosives from the air works toward that end? Absolutely.

Why would the Democratic Party operate like that when it risks allowing a Bernie-style candidate to go all the way to the general?

They’re going to crowd the field with slop candidates, like Tulsi Gabbard and Liz Warren and Beto were in '20, then consolidate the rest of the field around whatever neolib shithead demonstrates a significant popular appeal. The roadmap was laid out in '76 and repeated in every open primary since then.

Keeping populists like Jesse Jackson and Paul Wellstone and Bernie Sanders out of the top ticket slot is absolutely a feature, not a bug.

no way this skinny CEO eats that shit

I think “Super Size Me” touched on this. Calories in the burger aren’t as impactful as calories in the fries and drink.

Why is this allowed?

It’s a private company operating under a contract that affords representatives ability to deny you payment for care on conditions that favor the company.

Why would it not be allowed?

Damn. Maybe next time bring your gun

You think dropping big explosives from the air is the only form of warfare? How did that work out for you in Vietnam?

Killed a whole lot of people

Iran loves to issue empty threats.

They’ve been crippled. Their ability to project artillery outside their borders is receding with every passing day. As soon as the US/Israel offer them a seat at the bargaining table, they’ll come rushing back just like they have every other time the US/Israel has pushed their shit in.

If you love getting rug-pulled, go ahead and root for Iran.

If you want to cheer for the team with the kind of blood-lust necessary to obliterate a civilization, you’d be better off cheering for the US and Israel.

You’re going to trigger so many libs with this link.

My motto: Rhetorically cocks gun

ICE Officer: Actually cocks gun

:-/

So many keyboard commandos. Vanishingly few actual leftist militants.

Reminds me of the old (apocryphal) story of Stalin, FDR, and Churchill debating what to do with the Nazi officers’ corps after their defeat.

"The German General Staff, [Stalin] said, must be liquidated. The whole force of Hitler’s mighty armies depended upon about 50,000 officers and technicians. If these were rounded up and shot at the end of the war, German military strength would be extirpated.” When Churchill angrily declared he would be no party to such mass retribution, the President quipped that he would act as mediator, and suggested the compromise of shooting only 49,000. In heat, Churchill left the room. Stalin himself fetched him back, assuring him it was all a jest.

The tendency to treat enemy soldiers as honorable adversaries while foreign civilians are resources to be exploited or speed bumps to be flattened is extremely fascist.

What separates Hitler and Hegseth isn’t their army’s treatment of survivors of a military operation, but their view of their targets as military or civilian. Hegseth knows he’s targeting civilians and treats them just like a German military commander would treat other civilians.

Fetterman is the modern day Brutus

Brutus stabbed Ceaser in the back. And our American Ceaser seems about as safe from Fetterman as anyone.

Brutus was also an elegant public speaker and a famously good lay

Exactly what Israel did in Gaza.

Bomb the schools. Bomb the hospitals. Bomb the sewage treatment plants. Bakeries are next.

“Wow, are you going to give further details?”

“Then we might have to actually do something, so… no. But hey, elections are coming up! Maybe we can form a committee to look into it in the next ten to sixteen months if we win.”

Hey, friendly reminder that this bitch voted for Marco Rubio right along with everyone else in the Senate.

Slaps

2001

I believe we didn’t invade Iraq until 2003.

Although, curiously enough, Iran helped us do it.

Doubly ironic, given that Bush Sr was so instrumental in beefing up the Iraqi military ten years before the '91 invasion… for the purpose of invading its neighbors. (https://archive.is/HwX3A)

What is it about hardline reactionary Islamic governments getting baited by American neoconservatives to spin around, show us their backs, and point to the spot a knife would sink in most deeply?

we should not be wasting money

Every time I hear someone complain about how much money this is costing, I picture that bloody backpack from the girl’s school we bombed.

The American value of human life must be net-negative at this point.