As is Iran’s theocracy. So it’s opposing visions of doomsday.
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Wow, this is how I found out. He’s really speedrunning World War III.
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I would point out that he’s not attacking Ecuador itself so much, as attacking “organized crime groups” in Ecuador in coordination with the Ecuadorean government.
Sorta scattergun, when you’re already involved in a major war in the Middle East, but at least not likely to turn into a major international flashpoint.
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I just heard the Homeland Security news.
Yes, there’s
no face like Noem. . .
no face like Noem. . .
no face like Noem . . .
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Given the tendency of this administration to replace the bad with worse, we may soon look back fondly at the relative sanity of the Noem era.
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LIkely. Here’s the guy who’s replacing Noem.
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With oil hovering above $100 a barrel for much of Monday and Middle Eastern allies fearing a further tumble into regional conflict, Trump appeared in Doral, Florida with the mission of calming global markets and reassuring skittish allies that he has a clear vision for how to end the largest US intervention in the Middle East since the Iraq war.
If there is one, it was not delivered in this press conference.
In a 35-minute appearance, the US president eschewed the specifics to hammer home how thoroughly the US has destroyed Iran’s military and to bolster suspicions that there has been little planning for what comes next.
This would appear to be a tacit admission that Trump’s objective was to simply “bomb Iran”, and that he really doesn’t have any clear objective beyond that.
We are getting into Underpant Gnomes territory:
Bomb Iran 
??? profit!
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More Epstein files released. These were held back by the Trump justice department for a time.
Read page 13.
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I can’t. I’m too distracted by the fact that oil is now raining from the skies in Tehran.
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Did that guy get kicked in the head by a horse right before he started asking questions?
Sorry, I inadvertently posted the wrong video there. I’ve corrected it.
Here is the one you are referring to which, yes, does raise the possibility of equine induced brain trauma. The way he pronounces “Bluesky” is pathognomonic.
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We can now announce Trump’s War on Cattle:
The U.S. Said It Helped Bomb a Drug Camp. It Was a Dairy Farm.
The Times visited a village where the United States and Ecuador said they destroyed an armed group’s training camp. Residents said it was actually a dairy farm.
Are chickens next?
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Are the chickens the next target, or the next President?
One of those would be a considerable improvement.
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Both?
It’s going to be some time before your currently model gets replaced, whether by election, impeachment or 25th Amendment, so there’s plenty of time for him to declare a few more wars first – he could work his way through most farmyard animals.
Though I would point out that, as the C in TACO stands for “Chickens” you arguably already have one as president – albeit one whose ego tends to drag him into positions he then needs to chicken out of.
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I wonder whether people should bait him with the phrase TACO. Aside from casting aspersions on a wonderful food from a wonderful people, it might cause Trump not to chicken out one of these times, and that would be even worse.
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I think many would prefer him not to make threats, that he isn’t sure that he is willing to follow through on, in the first place. This would mean however that he (or his advisors) would need to think through the consequences of these threats. This would have the positive effect of reducing market uncertainty (this uncertainty has a negative impact on growth), and the extent to which financial markets bounce about like pinball machines (though it seems likely that some of Trump’s associates are making money off that volatility).
Can anyone confirm the last date that any news story mentioned the Board of Peace?
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Today, 3:08 am
Speaking of which:
Donald Trump will ‘unleash hell’ if Iran doesn’t make peace deal, White House says
US President Donald Trump is ready to “unleash hell” on Iran if Tehran does not accept a deal to end the war in the Middle East, the White House warned on Wednesday.
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