I wonder if in 60 days when they have to make a formal decision, they just punt and call it ‘not a war.’ I’m sure we’ll have boots on the ground by then, so it’ll be blatantly false but the media will cover for them somehow.

Drove past Glen Canyon dam the other day. Everything in the area has high water due to early snow melt, and yet powell lake and glen canyon are noticeably low. Gonna be bad year for anyone downstream.

I don’t disagree with what you’re saying, I just believe this administration has become so unhinged that that sort of logic no longer matters. I think he wants to drop a nuke. I also think that as he continues to lose it, the more depraved members of his admin as well as other countries are finally able to push him over the edge and there aren’t any generals left to stop him from escalating until it gets to that point. That was his last chance to get a peace prize and afterwards he specifically said he no longer felt constrained to peace. The ultimate narcissistic injury response.

Are they though? For someone as callous as Trump, wouldn’t letting a few missiles through help bolster the case for more destruction from the US? It’s not like Iran can hit the US mainland, and if they manage to get a major hit on either Israel or a military base, it gives justification for escalation. They’ve also managed to pull countries like the UK in as a result of being targeted in the response attack. The only real threat to the mainland would be terrorism, which again, he is depraved enough to want.

In a normal world, losing defensive capabilities would absolutely matter when planning a war, but in bizarro world ‘more people will probably die, but we got a good deal.’

I’ve seen this reported several times now, and it feels like it’s a misdirection, although I can’t figure out what the reason would be. In terms of US bombing campaigns, this really hasn’t been that large so far and this came up on day 1. Improper planning aside, we have more munitions than that.

They keep pointing out that it’s Interceptor missiles we’re short on, and mostly due to that one big day after Oct 7, but that was 18 months ago. Even so, there is a huge stockpile of offensive munitions.

I wonder if this is some sort of ploy to push for going harder from the get go because ‘we have to finish this before we rub out of defensive capabilities.’ Also lays the groundwork for why we had to drop a nuke or some other large scale bomb since everyone has been hearing that we’re low on other munitions.

Saw this on bluesky the other day and it’s been rolling around my brain ever since:

On the one hand, the US Presidency is fundamentally broken.

On the other hand, the US Congress is fundamentally broken.

On the third hand, the US Supreme Court is fundamentally broken.

Our entire system of governance needs to be updated for the 21st century, but with current leadership I can only see that as creating more harm for the citizenry.

That whole album is fantastic; RIP Jason Molina.

Don’t care what that bedbug Bret Stephens has to say about anything.

Chuck Schumer is certainly going to be on the wrong side of this war.

Gabe Kidd rolls up, ‘hey Darby, need a ride? I got room in the bag.’

Out of all the corporations, Costco is probably the only one I’d have any faith in making it right for their customers.

Oops, that’s who I meant to say. Tried to search her name off of memory, saw lady frost pop up on the autofill and thought that must be it

Yeah, even when she first came out with them, my first thought was oh, I guess Penelope is hurt again

I don’t know much about Lady Frost Lena Kross, but they should just have her and Bayne start tagging. Idk if it’s just bad luck or how she takes bumps, but Ford just cannot stay healthy.

The FTC: ‘very legal and very cool!’

Wouldn’t be the least bit surprised to find out Elon still does the ‘yeah baby yeah!’

How about using some of that climate fund money? Far more relevant than a basketball stadium.

Wonder if we’ll still get James Cameron coming out against consolidation. If we had a functioning FTC neither deal would be approved.

No wonder Ford had to scale back their EVs, they weren’t properly advertising the shrimp cocktail bar frunk!

Elijah Wood and Daniel Radcliffe, could each do a couple for subtle differences of clones and could make camera tricks easier. Both are good enough and odd enough to make it work.

The Private Eye by Brian K Vaughn used that as a premise (set in 2076) for a comic run about a decade ago.