It’s crazy how Iran deciding to start taking fees for shipping is a blockade, when the entire national business models of Singapore and Panama hinge on their ability to do exactly this.

They’ll get him eventually

harder to believe the CIA failed to assassinate him

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_assassination_attempts_on_Fidel_Castro

The 1975 Church Committee claimed eight proven CIA assassination attempts between 1960 and 1965. In 1976, President Gerald Ford issued Executive Order 11905 banning political assassinations. In 2006, Fabián Escalante, former chief of Cuba’s intelligence, stated that there had been 634 assassination schemes or attempts.

They eventually got him at age 92 with the oldest CIA trick in the book - waiting until he dies of natural causes.

It’s no more illogical than any school shooter who ends up killing themselves halfway through a spree

This guy is no less logical than the Columbine or Sandy Hook shooters

All written accounts of God are produced by humans for an audience of other humans.

In the same way that we might describe a storm cloud as “angry” or a sunny day as “cheerful”, one might apply emotional descriptors to an omnipotent divine force in order to personify an impersonal and abstract entity.

Past that, assuming you believe that a divine being is above humanity, why wouldn’t they have emotions? Emotions are a feature of sentience and God is supposed to be a super-sentient creature. If anything, it would experience these emotions more intensely and intricately than its creations. The human rage of a shout or the despair of a cry becomes the earth-splitting eruption of a volcano or the suffocating deluge of a flood.

At the same time, it is the overwhelming longing for companionship that drives a God to form life from the void of space. The intense joy in the creative act leads this fundamental superhuman force to tirelessly build an entire universe. The deep and profound pride and love which brings them among their creations clothed in their own form, willing to endure the humiliation of this avatar form in order to enlighten and elevate their divine progeny to their own level.

Absent these primal emotional urges, why would a God choose to be a God at all, and not simply languish within the darkness for eternity, content to the echoing silence of dead space?

There’s no hard evidence. But some anonymous White House staff have reported the existence of an Erika Kirk body pillow at the Naval Observatory.

The kid was told to shoot into the crowd

At the crowd behind Trump, but not at Trump? And then he got near enough to the mark that he shattered the teleprompter which was right in front of Trump? And kill a guy just off his shoulder?

Come on, dude. Is it really so hard to believe someone sincerely wanted this guy dead?

I’m more inclined to believe this was a deliberate hit job (by, say, the FBI or CIA… or OUN-B) that failed than a fake hit job that succeeded.

Well DUH.

I don’t think a school shooter trying to clip the President so his sempais at Demolition Ranch will notice him is as crazy a theory as “Trump paid a teenager to wing him in the ear so he could…” I’m not sure what exactly? Beat a punching bag like Kamala Harris by an extra point when he was already favored to win?

Like, the guy standing behind Trump did die. This “fake” assassination was using real ammo.

2024: “Trump good. Protected by God. Evil assassin must be Woke Transgender Communist.”

2026: “Trump bad. Nefarious and sinister. Assassin must have been evil trick to make us think Trump Good. But we too smart. See through trick.”

God redirected this bullet away from the great and holy warrior Trump

I always preferred this explanation better.

they knew it’s gonna pass anyway

Legislation doesn’t just pass by magic. There has to be a critical point of majority support. In this case, there wasn’t.

The final 47–52 tally disappointed advocates who had hoped to draw more GOP support.

This feels a bit like the Epstein stuff. Liberal politicians recognizing how ugly their primary bids could get and how dangerous the general could be for pro-Israeli candidates going into 2028 and have decided to hedge their bets.

Meanwhile Republicans seem dead set on making this a referendum on the US-Iran War, which their caucus largely supports.

We need a country to bribe our reps more than Israel does

It’s a circular scheme. Money we spend arming Israel goes to their weapons manufacturers. Their MIC collects a profit, which is milled back into campaign donations to US Congresscritters. Congresscritters take the money and rubber stamp more tax-dollars to Israel, to buy more weapons, to generate more profit, to bribe more of Congress.

China, you’re our only hope.

President Xi, please liberate our people.

Best time to cut ties with Israel was 20 years ago.

Second best time is now

If you believe in democracy, personal rights, and capitalism

🎼 One of these things 🎶 Is not like the other 🎶

🎼 One of these things 🎶 Is not like its brother 🎶

given how much modern ‘conservatives’ hate democracy and personal rights

“This far and no further” politics is a pox on conservatives and liberals alike. This is one of the reasons you see Gavin Newsom fucking around with TERFs in the name of fairness in college athletics. Its one of the reasons why so many people soured on Barack Obama inside his first term.

“Personal Rights” always seem to terminate at the edge of popular consensus.

teaches you to take pride in shit you’ve never done

The better outcome.

I’m more disgusted by the fuckers who go out and do the war crimes, then come home and demand everyone else say “Thank You For Your Service”.

You’d need media that wasn’t predicated on advertising revenues.

being knowledgeable

IQ has nothing to do with being knowledgeable. Shit headlines like this play into the exact same eugenics theory of humanity that gooners like RFK Jr and Peter Thiel have been pushing.

I don’t know how well that corresponds to IQ

It’s quite literally just a measurement of one’s pattern recognition speed. Has nothing to do with your politics.

Case in point, Christopher Langan, who regularly outperformed on these cognition tests, was a total nerd on trivia, and ended up becoming a forest ranger because he had a perpetual chip on his shoulder. Once his reputation blew up as someone who could ace cognitive tests, he leveraged that into becoming a right-wing grifter.

The guy is a total piece of shit who tests well. Go out to any of the Ivy League universities and you’ll find this kind of person in spades. Silicon Valley, the DC Beltway, Wall Street, Raytheon Acres, the Florida Real Estate scene - very intelligent assholes are a dime a dozen. FFS, we built our rocket labs on Nazi scientists. No shortage of right-wingers in the “High IQ” space.

I think they might have misread the title.

JFC, it took look enough.

Majority of their state legislature has been pro-Confederate practically since the end of Reconstruction.

I’m so sick of the South and their stupid grievances over starting a war with the rest of the country over slavery, and then losing.

Plenty of them are sick of the North and its stupid prohibition on owning slaves.

That said, nobody is talking about taking the fucking revanchist statues down. This is going to force them to reshuffle their accounting so they can pretend they don’t have any taxable land or income. But they’re still allowed to be public and notorious bigots from the Atlantic to the Shenandoah Mountains