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Two buttons meme, two panels. Top panel: two red buttons, one saying "support Trump", the other "support the troops". There's a white-gloved hand hovering over the buttons Bottom panel: a man in a red shirt and white gloves sweating

One of the reasons for the law is to make every interaction with cops (and the State, in general) far more fraught, if not dangerous, for a trans person due to misidentification issues.

direct access to the pulse of the nation, this one.

"I've never been on one side or the other" = "I know identifying as MAGA is not cool these days so I'll just say I'm neutral"

"We have a virtually unlimited supply of the things I called the CEOs of some of the largest companies in the planet to complain they're not making enough of."

But, seriously, that's a cute drone. I want one, minus the explosive it likely has.

okay, wait.

mad as a mamma wasp? is he mixing his metaphors?

USA: Checkmate, fools!

Iran: what? No, it's not. You've only taken most of my pawns and a rook. You're nowhere near a check, let along a checkmate.

USA: well, it'll be checkmate eventually. You lose!

Iran: What.

USA: I'm out of here, loser!

Iran: I'm still attacking oil tankers.

"no no no, you have to threaten a mushroom cloud *before* you attack"

Also, the UAE literally constructed infrastructure at great expense across that area so oil tankers could avoid the Gulf completely... and Iran literally just attacked it.

The Pentagon recently signed a contract to increase Patriot interceptor production to 1000 per year. Meanwhile, the US and the Gulf states have likely already burned through twice that number in less than a week.

So... a forever war?

The American political class is utterly delusional, adrift in a dream of normality, unable to process the actual reality of events on the ground, where the US just launched a completely unprovoked war against a massive country, murdered its leadership, and demanded its conversion to a vassal state.

They already tried to bribe him by funding the Board of Peace, so they're unlikely to fall for that again.

Can confirm, Tajín is fucking awesome.

Venezuela produces a different type of oil! It's a harder oil to refine which most refineries simply can't process.

You can't just swap Middle Eastern oil for Venezuelan oil. The vast majority of refineries will have to be closed down and retrofitted, even if Venezuela was producing enough to make up the difference (it's not and likely never will).

Oil is up nearly 60% from the beginning of the year.

Old enough to remember (because it was on Tuesday) when people were saying it would take weeks of war for oil to hit $100.

Trump’s declaration that he expects UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER from Iran does not seem to be calming markets

Gee, it would be great if we had a comprehensive alternative energy program that could insulate Americans from shocks in the fossil fuel market.

I assume we are also moving amphibious landing forces to the region, too, because you can't just send airborne troops behind enemy lines and expect them to survive for too long.

Iran is being extremely strategic with its targeting. They've spent years/decades planning exactly what they would do if the regime was attacked, and they're executing those plans.

They don't need widespread destruction, they just need to freak out the insurers and financiers that underpin it all.

This is not accurate. In fact, no country required its submarines to rescue survivors, due to the risk of surfacing and/or limited space to keep prisoners in the very small, cramped subs. What they were expected to do was not attack survivors in the water.

Uh oh, we got a "whopping" in the headline, folks!

Strangling 20% of the world's supply of hydrocarbons by initiating a completely unnecessary war does nothing to make it more expensive, of course.

The Venezuelan VP had already consolidated a lot of state power behind her. She just needed help pushing out Maduro.

The Venezuelan operation was clearly a palace coup whose organizers managed to con the Trump regime into doing the violent part.

To be clear, I'm talking about the imaginary threat of cartels sending drones into the USA, no the imaginary threat of Iran attacking us with a nuke in two weeks.

We have to prioritize an imaginary threat, Faine.