OK but can it second-guess its conclusions, scrap the entire project, crash out, wallow in existential doubt, and start again from the beginning with an almost imperceptibly different thesis?
CNN, it's not that we're all in the tank for the President & blindly support anything he does. It's that your unrelenting partisan bias & displays of TDS have caused us to dismiss implausible claims like this out of hand.
If, by low cost, you mean Iran losing its Supreme Leader & his successor & dozens of top officials, its Navy, Air Force, Air defense capabilities & most of its missile launch & communications infrastructure, and its proxy support from Hezbollah, then - yes - it's low cost.
He said he was sorry and promised not to do it again.
Huh. Well, would you look at that.
A clarification has been added to the story. But CNN said earlier that it “stands by” the reporting … ok, but which version?
The two brothers were Hezbollah terrorists. The story should be that the U.S. allowed a foreigner from a Hezbollah family to enter the country and eventually be naturalized, and he launched a terrorist attack against a synagogue.
Since 1979, there has never been a professional military and/or IC discussion, review, table-top exercise, planning session, research project, targeting review, maritime conference, or any mention of war with Iran in a professional setting that didn't include a comprehensive examination and acknowledgment of the war's impact on the Strait of Hormuz and the military options available to prevent, counter or ultimately defeat Iran's attempts to close it.
CNN should consider the agenda of any former military "expert" of any rank or position who would even suggest otherwise. It's beyond ridicule - tens of thousands of living, breathing human beings who have been involved in such planning and research would tell you the exact opposite of what CNN is reporting.
Apparently they were unable to find one.
Stop, I'm already all in.
Even if there was a respiratory virus that was much more deadly than flu,
they spread long distance through aerosols,
the peaks come at predictable times of year unaltered by human behaviour,
injected vaccines cannot prevent them
there'd be nothing you could do about it.
You can see their game a mile away. Some Dem Senator who attended the meeting passed this along to stenographers CNN-- almost surely taking a comment out of context. The notion that US military planners didn't contemplate Iran closing down the strait isn't credible.
Sent to the Middle East by our nation to fight Islamic terrorism.
Killed by an Islamic terrorist our nation chose to import.
How many more decent American citizens will be forced to pay this bounty?
Austin shooter: 'Naturalized' U.S. citizen from Senegal.
NYC bombers: Children of 'naturalized' U.S. citizens from Turkey and Afghanistan.
Old Dominion shooter: 'Naturalized' U.S. citizen from Sierra Leone.
Michigan synagogue attacker: 'Legal immigrant' from Lebanon.
PLEASE NOTE: The San Francisco Police Department is NOT a participant in the JTTF.
In Virginia, Commonwealth Attorneys are subject to a recall if a petition is signed by registered voters equal to 10% of the total vote in the last election. For Fatehi that would mean 5,593 signatures. Norfolk has 134K registered voters. Worth a try?
It's an entirely new rulebook. They used to just downplay Islamic terror, but just as they did with Charlie Kirk, they now spring into action and immediatly blame the act on the right.
They mention Nick Fuentes, an online influencer, and ignore institutionalized antisemitism on the left, in Congress (The Squad), candidates with nazi tattoos, in Academia, and in their own media circles.
It's a complete alternate reality they are crafting.
Complexity is everywhere.
Yet people pretend to be able to predict complex systems.
Among the worst of Fauci's flaws was his utter refusal to deal honestly with anything that countered his "COVID=Black Plague" narrative. Can anyone recall him addressing seriously COVID's flu-like IFR, the sharp decline in hospital activity/occupancy, the higher infection rates among the vaxxed, or the ineffectiveness of lockdowns, mask & vaxx mandates? His tactic of uniformly ignoring, dismissing or denigrating any contrarians or contrary facts was a disastrous trait in a public health leader tasked with addressing a potential crisis.
Even prior to 2022, especially with panicked 2020 response, we have yet to elucidate how much harm came from the virus itself versus terrible human response (isolation, restricted hospital access etc)... for everyone including the elderly
https://x.com/i/status/1748120873662398576
Fauci’s math and integrity were way off. Fauci was purposely using the COVID CFR as a scare tactic. Even age-specified, the IFR for COVID and seasonal flu are similar.
R to @tlowdon: See Jay Bhattacharya'a Santa Clara County seroprevalence study in early April 2020 and John Ionnaidis's research around the same time that showed COVID IFR was probably about like that of the seasonal flu. See the Princess Cruise liner outcomes which showed the same. See the hospital occupancy stats that showed a sharp decline in ER Visits and inpatient & ICU occupancy starting in March of 2020 and remaining below pre COVID levels for the next 3 years.
6 years ago, Fauci stoked fear when he told Congress COVID had a mortality rate of ~3% which could drop to ~1%, making it roughly 10X more lethal than seasonal flu (with an IFR of 0.1%). In fact, it always had an IFR about like that of the flu, but he never corrected his testimony.
The SAVE Act will disenfranchise voters, but - don't worry - only the ones that were ineligible for the franchise to begin with.
This is me
I own 36 auto repair shops, doing $50M a year in revenue
So, you’re probably thinking I have investors or trust fund.
But the reality is I don’t have either
I started 10 years ago when my brother and I bought 2 stores from a boomer.
Took all the money I made and bought another store in 2017.
Then 2 more in 2018 and every year since.
While everyone else is chasing crypto, AI, and all this “cool” shit.
I’m doing the opposite.
Just trying to buy auto repair shops from old people and run them better.
I’m not a mechanic and I’ve never fixed a car in my life.
But I got really good at building teams and betting on myself.
We’re just getting started
So, follow along for the journey.
Six years ago today, schools shut down and my kids were kicked out for what felt like forever. That day lit a fire in me and I found my voice to fight for them. Two years later, it led to this viral speech.
I will ALWAYS protect my kids. No apologies, no retreat.
I’ve written for @compactmag_ about how the EU-NATO establishment is trying to pull a Russiagate on Hungary — raising unfounded accusation of Russian interference in the upcoming election to pre-emptively delegitimise an Orbán victory.
https://www.compactmag.com/article/russiagate-redux-in-hungary/
I had people wish me dead
I had a family member tell me I belonged in a concentration camp.
Never forget what they did .
I hope casually dropping "iftaar fast" into a social media post despite knowing that most Americans won't know what that is has made you feel alienated.
Yes, you read that right: Swallowell sent multiple staff members on a trip to Colombia, rather than just mailing the kid his hearing aids...
Polar Bear seen swimming among Beluga Whales
Imagine if we still had Bagram Airfield
Turns out "The Artist in Gracie Mansion," New York City's First Lady, is a ghoul.
"I got caught deliberately misleading my audience and trying to steer blame away from the jihadist perpetrators of the attack in New York City. I wish I'd been more clever in my attempts to beguile viewers, and hope that most will never see this post on social media."
Politics is not the right mechanism for resolving psychological conflicts from your childhood. We dunk on therapy, but I would rather have all of the libs in four-times-a-week psychoanalysis than projecting their neuroses onto all of society via their “activism.”
so, just to be clear:
on a topic with north of 80% support in a country where you'd struggle to get 70% to agree that "water is wet" you cannot get the votes for the SAVE act?
1. thune is a joke
3. the GOP is an unserious political party and
3. congress is irretrievably corrupt
Clearly, Democrats are no longer trying to hide their desire to have illegal aliens vote in elections. They're brazen about it, in fact. We're at the "Yes, non-citizens vote and it's a good thing they do!" phase of the cycle.
Q: “Do you support getting the Save America Act passed to protect elections?”
Murkowski: “Not as drafted, no. In a rural state like Alaska, it’s going to disenfranchise a majority. I support citizenship voting and ID, but I want it to be implementable.”
What an odd thing to say.
Here is the math on the SAVE Act:
Gallup polling shows that more than 4 out of 5 Americans support requiring valid ID and proof of citizenship to vote.
Yet a 53-member GOP Senate majority can't even bring its own bill up for a vote.
Why?
Four establishment Republicans used procedural tactics to block it.
When politicians defy 80% of the country to protect the status quo, they are just as much of a problem—if not bigger—than the Democrats openly objecting to the will of the American people.
My latest for @dcexaminer below. ⬇️
This is a MUCH bigger deal than many people think. It is the destruction of a nation's history and culture by its elites, who hate it.