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Trump's Second Term

Poor Marj feels betrayed.
Okay. The rant shows plenty well that she's delusional about which party to support to reach her stated goals, either way.

I am FIGHTING for them to have a future where they can afford to buy a home, afford insurance, invest for retirement, enjoy life, retain their God given freedoms, afford to raise a family under their Christian faith, not be in debt, safety and security, AND NOT HAVE OUR OWN TAX PAYER FUNDED GOVERNMENT DESTROY IT ALL.

The Republican Party seems to be quite intent upon destroying all of that for the American people in general. Not for the already extremely rich, perhaps, but the chances that her kids will be among those very few is rather slim.
 
He coined this term? I've heard this term my entire life. Next thing you know Trump will have written Moby Dick and the theory of General Relativity. They were both bigly.
Hardly the first term that he invented long, long after it entered normal circulation.
 
He coined this term? I've heard this term my entire life. Next thing you know Trump will have written Moby Dick and the theory of General Relativity. They were both bigly.
Of course he did write Moby Dick, I often recall this passage (courtesy of Gemini Pro 2.5):

They're all talking about this whale, Moby Dick, a very NASTY whale, some are saying the nastiest. And you have this captain, Sleepy Ahab, a TOTAL DISASTER, who couldn't get the job done. He was obsessed! SAD! He spent all his time and money chasing this whale, a real loser's game. Believe me, if I were the captain, it would have been a much different story. I would have built a TREMENDOUS boat, the BEST boat, with gold-plated harpoons, the best harpoons. We would have found that whale in one day, maybe less. And we wouldn't have fought it. I would have negotiated a GREAT deal, a beautiful deal, the likes of which the world has NEVER seen. The FAKE NEWS media says he was a white whale, but he probably wasn't even white. It's a DISGRACE what they did to that whale's reputation!
 
The British tend to think that the resistance on the British and Canadian beaches was more ineffective because of the decision to use tanks in the first wave.
Lol. That's because there was hardly any resistance on Sword and Juno. BTW, my father was involved in the Omaha Beach landing. The LST he was on was severely damaged.
My grand father was a British liaison with Eisenhower, and would say both were true. He was always clear that only the bravery and determination of US forces resulted in Omaha landings being a success, but that they should have listened to British advice and have tanks and 'funnies' to support infantry. (His job was to hand over Ultra which was British eyes only and had to go directly for him to Eisenhower and not via junior US staff officers.)
 
My grand father was a British liaison with Eisenhower, and would say both were true. He was always clear that only the bravery and determination of US forces resulted in Omaha landings being a success, but that they should have listened to British advice and have tanks and 'funnies' to support infantry. (His job was to hand over Ultra which was British eyes only and had to go directly for him to Eisenhower and not via junior US staff officers.)
Maybe. But there were LSTs bringing in tanks during the first wave on the Omaha Beach including specialized amphibious Shermans and some of Hobart's funnies. Pretty much every tank in that first wave was swamped by rough seas or destroyed by the German batteries. Obviously, things went wrong for the Americans on that beach. My father never talked about it other to say it was the worst day of his life as well as to say it was that Destoyer that saved his life. He was in the Navy and was forced to swim ashore when the LST he was on was hit. He never saw a single enemy soldier. Only the havoc they created.
 
Iran shoots back at US Bases

Looks like it's on like Donkey Kong. I for one am stoked that we have leadership that shows the moral clarity, courage, patience and steady hand to guide us through these troubled times.

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Well, I heard some predictions that Iran might need to launch some attacks to show their people that they can do tough stuff and then ask for a ceasefire. It seems that may have happened.
 
I used to have a manager who's family had fled Iran, she referred to herself as Persian.
People from Iran are a little cagey about saying they're from Iran. I don't blame them. Some may prefer to be called Persian. I'm thrilled anytime I run into someone who might be from Iran because I always want to hear their stories. But I know it's probably rude to say, "What's your nationality?" Or, "Where did you come from?"
EDIT: I can't see things on Twitter. I had asked you for some search terms so I could look up background but I think I can figure it out.

One of my hobbies is posting ephemera on r/conservative to give context or correct errors of fact. One such post was "Massie is so pro-mass immigration he doesn't even believe in E-Verify!" I pointed out that Republicans in farm states killed an immigration bill in 2018 because it would have made E-Verify mandatory. I think I deleted the part where I said, does this mean Iowa Republicans are in favor of mass immigration? Partly because I knew the answer. States have adopted E-Verify laws but Iowa is not one of them.

In the "Grapes of Wrath," Steinbeck talks about California growers leafleting the middle of the country, talking about the great employment opportunities in California. They wanted to flood the labor market so they could pay less, offer crappy conditions etc. I think there might also have been some race-bating pitting Mexicans against Okies. I don't know this for sure but some of my Okie relatives look down on people of Mexican descent. It's possible this is STILL the source of some generational animus against Mexicans or Mexican-Americans.
 
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Well, I heard some predictions that Iran might need to launch some attacks to show their people that they can do tough stuff and then ask for a ceasefire. It seems that may have happened.
I don't mind letting them save face. A little bit.

So: This may make me sound like a conspiracy nut but I think it's possible that certain factions in Iran knew exactly what was going to happen. On a quick search I can't find any evidence of casualties due to U.S. strikes. Am I missing something?
 
I don't mind letting them save face. A little bit.

So: This may make me sound like a conspiracy nut but I think it's possible that certain factions in Iran knew exactly what was going to happen. On a quick search I can't find any evidence of casualties due to U.S. strikes. Am I missing something?
Maybe they will say they inflicted heavy casualties on the Great Satan which now wants peace. Look, Donald Trump is saying the war is over and “God Bless Iran” 🇮🇷. He said that!!!

Then they will ask not to be blown to smithereens.
 
I have no illusions about Iran and the Ayatollah. But I don't think they were building a bomb. Just like I didn't believe that Iraq was. These are many of the same experts. I'll say one thing about Bush. He built a consensus of US allies before he launched his war on Iraq.

But America no longer has its allies. And they are not with us. Trump just turned the US into a pariah.

Reminds me of Monty Python.
Re: This post and the one that said he acted like a king. Yes he did. It's problematic. But IF we are not being fed a bunch of malarkey, these airstrikes won't turn the US into a pariah. It could go there very quickly, but for right now ... I bet there are a lot of people (and nations) who are relieved at the way this apparently went. It was very strategic.

If they weren't making a bomb, why did they want the world to think they were?

And sure, Bush built a consensus, (although didn't a lot of countries opt out?) but it was a consensus for a TERRIBLE plan.

BTW: If you bomb a place with a bunch of nuclear material onsite - did we just make Iran radioactive?
 

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