It does raise the question of how precisely Iran got their hands on 3 Tb of data. That's not exactly a small amount of data. How does Iran get an operative access to secure networks in Israel long enough to get 3 Tb of data out without getting caught? There are logs of everything. The kind of data we're being hinted at isn't the kind you'd leave on an internet-connected machine. You'd air gap it. Someone was in deep, for a long time, and is likely still there and still trusted.
The other thing is the content. Anyone who knows anything about computers knows that text files are small. Even .pdfs aren't terribly large files. You could have entire libraries of books in 3 Tb. This isn't just text. This is high-res images and video that takes up that much space.
So who has the capability to get that deep in the system to get access to that quantity of information and not get caught? Double agents?
So instead of forcing Democrats to own that history, look at it, and reckon with it, you'd happily help them destroy the evidence so they can rebrand themselves as the saviors of black people instead of as their former slavers and oppressors under Jim Crow?
Not too bright.
The Civil War was one hell of a violent trauma on our nation. 2 million men fought on the Union side. 600,000 Americans died (both sides). Healing that wound was a long, ugly process with generations of resentment. Those statues and the various military bases, schools, and other honoraria to Confederate historical figures are a part of that story. It's not a perfect story. A massive change in way of live was imposed by force upon a people. It has an ugly history, because healing trauma like a civil war and re-establishing a common identity is never easy. Hell, we still struggle with that where we still to this day have people who refuse to identify themselves as American, but insist on separating themselves as African-Americans, Africa first.
But this is our history. This is part of our story as a people. We don't get to just paper it over and ignore it because now it's "politically incorrect" and the Democrat party feels like it needs new branding because it is ashamed of its past.
I fully support a democratic process here. The people in those communities need to choose, in a proper referendum. Maybe it is time for that past to be confined to a museum. Maybe these items should be returned so people don't forget who they are and where they came from. Maybe we need to preserve this history so we don't repeat the mistakes of the past. Only those people themselves can choose that. It can't be imposed externally by a bunch of reprobate criminals in an orgy of vandalism and rioting.
[Translate: Commie to English] "affordable housing" -> "government-controlled and poorly-maintained housing"
Anytime you ever hear Lefties call something "affordable," it means "afforded" with someone else's money and in which you get no ownership or say regarding the condition of the housing or its upkeep, let alone your neighbors and their predilection to criminal activity. No one wants to live in Section 8 housing for a reason.
So, he's a political opportunist hoping to grab power if he can get his buddies to topple the mullahs for him. He'll be a good little puppet. He promises.
I've seen the color revolution playbook before. If Pahlavi had domestic support, he'd have used it.
The only regime change that will ever work is regime change that comes from the Iranian people directly. It can't be imposed upon them by a foreign power. If we decapitate their government and create a power vacuum, what is most likely to happen is tribalism, a fractured society, in-fighting, civil war, and many years of instability - like in Libya. Even if we try and install some puppet, that never works if the people don't want to live that way. We tried that in Iraq. The guy was corrupt and replaced. We tried it in Afghanistan. The guy was corrupt and replaced - in that case by the same Taliban we had just deposed. It has to be organic. The people themselves have to want something different or it'll fail.
I oppose Neocon adventurism. It's not our damn right to social engineer other countries, and we've rarely if ever successfully done it.
I guarantee what the UK are flying is a lot newer and in better repair than whatever NK is flying. 1950s-era Soviet castaways != modern air force.
1950s-era Soviet throw-aways != F-35s, F-22s, upgraded 4th gen fighters, B-2s, B-1s, B-52, etc.
GD paytriot "content creators." 8 minute video. 1 minute of it is totally extraneous garbage before he even starts the content he advertised. He broke my rule about wasting my time as an audience member. Maybe someone else has more patience, but I'm tired of having my attention milked for ad revenue.
Hard to say. A couple of people could be. Miss Lindsey's an obvious thought, as is Hillary, but I think clearly she's been moved off the board. Michael "Michelle" Robinson plays the role from time to time as well.
The ambiguity is intentional, and symbols sometimes have more than one meaning.
I watch stuff like this and there are times I wish these feds would be allowed to take the gloves off and administer some pre-trial justice the way old school cops would occasionally. It is crystal clear which side has better men, better training, better physical fitness, better equipment. These police always engage with restraint, whether we realize it or not.
These provocateurs have no idea what they're messing with. It's like a drunk tough guy at a bar picking a fight with a UFC fighter. These people have no idea how lucky they are when the fighter's boys step in and separate the two before things get physical. But just once, you sort of hope to see one of these idiots make a mistake and get exactly what he bargained for.
I want to see the lion actually catch one of the hyenas.
If you search about this on various news outlets, reports are actively claiming the opposite. We're still in an information war. Iran is saying it's not asking for a deal. It wants to fight. Israel's claiming it already won (Breitbart is basically an Israel-First mouthpiece).
Give this one more time, IMO. If there's a deal, Trump will tell us when it's done. Otherwise, let them work the back channels while the missiles fly on the TV screens.
What a stereotypical and offensive comment! I'd like to speak to the moderator immediately please.
Clarity is only necessary if there's "confusion" because you did something controversial, intolerable, or grossly offensive and are now facing public outcry for it. If you were getting public support for it, there'd be no need to "clarify," but because your attention-seeking stunt didn't go well for you, you're "clarifying" instead of apologizing because you're not actually sorry, nor do you have any regret over anything but hurting the party and the cause.
"Let me be clear" = "Sorry, not sorry, but I still have to say the words."
Who do you negotiate with if the entire regime is removed? You have to install a new one so you have someone with legitimate authority to make deals. Does America want to play the role of the puppeteer yet again installing some figurehead who has no broad public support or leadership skills and hoping to hell the public accept him? We've done that over and over and over and every time it leads to a disaster. Iraq, Afghanistan, Egypt, Ukraine... just the latest hits
Regime change is something the Iranians have to do for themselves. The right of a people to determine their own governance and their own future can't be usurped by a foreign country. We used to understand that.
I do not support Israel just going around assassinating any foreign leader they don't like and can't dominate and control. Since Oct 7th, 2023, Israel has killed over 100 high-ranking Iranians. They're systematically dismantling Iran's entire government and leadership - or at least trying to - with straight up terrorist tactics. This is a crime and an act of war. Iran would be justified in dropping a missile right on the Knesset after this latest stunt Netanyahu (or whatever his real name is) just pulled.
If anyone's going to take out Khomeni, it has to be an Iranian with enough public support to peacefully transfer power.
First thoughts:
- I heard this the first time. Tulsi Gabbard is a woman of honor and I believe her to be truthful here. There was no reason to lie at this point, no current talking points or crisis to protect. She's being honest. There's no bomb.
- The public needs a reminder of it.
- Israel knows this. We share intel with Mossad on this matter. Netanyahu attacked anyway. Why? Israel needs for the war for domestic political reasons. Netanyahu's on his way to jail for the rest of his life. He's delaying that by starting wars. The Israeli people need to know this.
- POTUS knows there is no bomb, yet he cheered Israel's attack on bullshit premises anyway. Why? Negotiating tool. Trump understands that sometimes you run into hardliners who just won't make a deal because of old hatreds, lack of vision, ideology, or whatever. You have to go around them, above their heads, or through them. Israel chose to send bombs through them. Now they're gone and Trump thinks we can get a deal now. This is stupid. The attack itself will increase hostility to a deal. Mafia tactics and terrorism don't help.
This attack was incredibly stupid. Trump should have immediately and harshly condemned Israel for the attack on false premises. He's not because he's preserving the illusion that the US will always back Israel. He believes he is doing this to prevent another Holocaust and to preserve a homeland for the Jews. In reality, his silence is doing more to jeopardize that homeland than to protect it. The Muslim world is on a knife's edge to crush these people right now, and honestly, I understand their perspective. America First means getting tf out of this conflict. Diplomacy only. Peace only. No weapons. No troops. No money. No "support."
Stop the damn fighting and failing that, stop our involvement in it.
Raskin vs Nick Sorter. Got 15 seconds into this thing with the idiot screaming moron yelling at the racist POS Congresscritter and the only conclusion I could draw was that these people deserve each other and not a second more of my time. F them both.
The Mexicans should understand this. The last time the US military had to go down there, the cut a swath through the country straight to Mexico City and rapidly forced a surrender. That's how we got all that land in the first place. They gave it to us in order to make peace. It was seen as too difficult for them to settle and not worth the effort of subduing the natives to do it. They gave this "worthless" land to us to get us to go away. Then they sold us more of it later to complete Arizona.
If we have to go down there, they don't have any more useless land to buy us off with. We'll have to settle for something they'll definitely miss.
FAFO rules apply.
She's a reporter. She knows exactly where the outrage is. Elsewhere.
Nothing here is news. Nothing here is out of the ordinary. That's why no one covers it. The Religion of Peace is peacefully slaughtering anyone who won't submit and convert. That's normal and expected. Christians are "turning the other cheek" and being victimized. Again, this is normal and expected behavior. Nothing new here.
The particular slaughter going on here has been going on for a very long time. The last time we paid any attention to it was when Boko Haram invaded an all-girls Christian school, took nearly 200 girls hostage, forced them to convert, and any that didn't convert were raped and killed. The others were forced into marriage and then raped in accordance with Sharia law, as the Prophet Mohammad did, and with Allah's blessing. Months and years went by and no one ever heard any more about it because this was normal and expected behavior from the Religion of Peace. And as long as it was happening "over there," no one gave any fox.
The fox I have left to give about Africans slaughtering Africans are very few. I'm reserving them for S. Africa right now, mainly because the communists there are so virulent and violent. I've not seen that in my lifetime, only read about it in books. Nigeria is grossly overpopulated and dumping some of its absolute worst into my country and my family's ancestral homeland. I have much more fox to give regarding removing all of those people back to Nigeria than I do about what happens in Nigeria. That's their country, their business, and they can sort it out.
That's true, but we're not to that point yet. We're at the stage where we're in control. We control the federal government. The bad people are dealt with by police. That changes if the bad people engage you directly in which case, self defense principles apply. In those cases, you take steps to defend yourself and yours. Otherwise, let the police do their jobs and don't complicate matters by being a civilian they have to sort out and protect while trying to get the bad guys using a crowd as cover.
Let the police do their job. Be a good man and look after your family, friends, and neighbors. We're a long, long way from a totalitarian state.
Color revolution.
And replace them with who? This is the tricky part. Trump got to figure this out in his first term. They have a deep bench. Get rid of one snake, only to find another one takes his place.
Because they didn't commit any provable crimes. They're scientists who made shitty recommendations for a litany of reasons. Just get new people in there who know are properly trained and appropriately skeptical. The current batch was a rubber stamp on new vaccine products, mostly. They were more selective with anything for tropical diseases, but anything in the US, they basically toed the Pharma line and fast tracked recommendations for the entire population to get it (because: $$$)
For what? Making recommendations based on their misunderstanding of the evidence?
Venceremos (Castro-trained)
Do you think you can just shut down a production line right now without developing supply chains to source an alternative product? And which alternative product should be used? You have to market test that in test kitchens until you find a suitable option that customers like and are willing to buy. Change in a multi-billion dollar international industry isn't made simply because you declare it to be necessary.
It's very easy to so "no" to something. It's very much harder to find something to say "yes" to instead.