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I've been reading that headline a about as long as the the one that says "fusion power is 20 years away". Both are coming eventually. But if Isreal really thought they were 6 months away they would bomb the shit out of the Iranian nuclear facilities and set them back a few years, again.

Most of the rest of the middle east has gotten over their irrational hatred of Isreal. They're not going to be best buddies anytime soon, but they recognize that the animosity isn't doing anyone any favors. Egypt and the Saudis would be perfectly happy to take a "live and let live"...

Probably not too many generals in combat units. So, where are the Houthis and Hamas getting their funding ? They are both directly controlled from Tehran.

They are literally bragging about shooting missiles at US warships. And this started when they fired missiles at US flagged merchant vessels. So, do we just ignore that ? Sound like a great idea. No, our problem is that we aren't aggressive enough in our responses. Biden was all...

When you bomb Houthi missile sites and kill Iranian generals, I think they're more than just customers.

90% of the terrorist organizations in the middle east are essentially irregular arms of the Iranian military. That's why Trump basically said that he's holding Iran responsible for what the Houthis do. It's not like they're making their own missiles. And when Iran gets all indignant about...

Now *this* sounds like an insurrection... https://www.dailywire.com/news/doge-standoff-how-the-publicly-funded-u-s-institute-of-peace-defied-the-white-house?topStoryPosition=undefined

No, but i want to live in one where the due process to deport him takes less than 6 hours.

Our deficit is about 900 billion right now. So if they cut $900 billion, that just gets is to break even. That's like getting your household budget down to where you aren't charging more to your credit card each month than you are paying off. And right now we're paying even more than that as...

Trump is likely to switch his support and will be more favorable to Ukraine in any negotiations. You forget that neither Zelensky nor Putin are in charge here. They are both already all in on this war. Neither of them have the ability to escalate anything any further, short of Russia going...

How long do you think Trump will put up with that ? Right now Trump is pissed at Zelensky for his shenanigans, and that is very much to Putin's advantage. But if Trump decides that Putin is yanking his chain as you suggest, then I think that will go very badly for Putin.

Estimates are that the houthies shenanigans are responsible for about 0.3% global inflation because they are increasing the cost of so much shipping. That's averaged over all products anywhere, not just what sails by them. So, it *does* affect you.

Yes, because firing ballistic missiles at US capital ships is always a good idea. Imagine the shit storm if they actually hit one and killed some sailors.

Someone needs to send this video to the current leaders of Iran to remind them what FAFO looks like with a strong American president in office.

I think everyone is in favor of a peace agreement now. What they disagree about are what terms would be acceptable.

Yea, I think it's likely that Europe would fully re-arm and they would conquer Russia if that fight happened. But I think we don't want them speaking German in Moscow any more than we want them speaking Russian in Berlin and Paris. And we really *really* don't want the Chinese to come in after...

Because, if Russia conquered Europe, they would take a decade to consolidate and then would start looking at us. And then we would need to deal with a Russia that had all fo Europe's resources too. You're thinking is "let them have Georgia, why do we want to deal with it". Then "let them...

Their track record shows that trying to let them deal with their own mess just makes the mess bigger. We'll eventually get dragged into it anyway, it'll just be a bigger shit show when we do.

Where do you guys get this "billionaires getting tax cuts thing from ? You do understand that income != wealth, right ? You can be a billionaire and still have zero income. Income taxes are essentially a middle class thing. The poor care about money. The middle class care about income...

Wait till you see what your 2025 tax bill is going to be. I really suspect he is going to kick some of these savings back to the American people. He needs to use most of it to counter the deficit, but I am pretty sure he is going to put some back directly into your hands.

Wow, ours wasn't even close to that before the solar. And we're electric everything. We get there now between the payments on the solar and the electric bill, but that's also covering all our transportation too.

Diesel has a much better shelf life too.

You should only tax things that you want to reduce. You should not want income to be reduced for anyone.

The problem is that there is a layer of management between this administration, and the people who actually arrest and charge criminals. That whole layer of management probably all need to be arrested and charged themselves before things can be fixed. What they need is a new, built from...

A mental disorder almost a prerequisite for being a Dem these days. If they did have testing it would be "you come back sane, you're not allowed in the party".

I'm not sure "shutting down government spending" is the threat to Trump and Musk that Schumer thinks it is. Imagine he goes through with it, and they just use it as an excuse to supercharge DOGE.