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Sūrat luq'mān 31:19 And be moderate in thy pace, and lower thy voice; for the harshest of sounds without doubt is the braying of the ass.
🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump warns of total annihilation if Iran assassinates him:
"1000 Missiles are Locked and Loaded and aimed at the Islamic Republic of Iran, with thousands more to follow, should the Iranian Government act on its threat to assassinate the sitting President of the United States, in this case, ME! The U.S. Military is ready, for a one year period, to completely decimate and destroy all areas of Iran."
The announcement converts his own death into a standing deterrent.
After Israel's plot intelligence, the funeral's "We Will Kill Trump" banners, and years of Soleimani revenge vows, Trump is publicly pricing his assassination at Iran's national existence, on a one-year timer his successors would inherit.
Whatever Tehran's hardliners were weighing, the retaliation math just got written into official orders and posted for the world calculate.
Source: Truth Social / Writers: Daniel, Lucas
People voted for the Oystergruppenfuhrer but not because they want more "normal" ppl (Platner far from "normal") or that they have anything against ivy league elites. They wouldn't even mind if such elites were actually worthy of the label. People think I’m anti-elite because of my luxury beliefs idea. I’m not anti-elite, I just want our elites to be better and I expect them to be better and know they are capable of being better.
Elites are smarter in terms of raw IQ. But in terms of moral character, it’s more complicated.
If moral character can be measured (I know it can’t, but for the sake of argument) on a scale from 1-10, you can expect ordinary non-elites people to behave at a 5, and they will generally meet your expectations. At least ordinary people behave as you expect them to. For elites, you want them to behave at an 8 or a 9, and they generally behave at closer to a 5 or a 6. About the same or perhaps slightly better than the typical person. But far short of what they could be and should be. Despite all that IQ and education. If their moral character were as good as it ought to be, then voters would have no issue backing them.
Lots of talk from multiple vectors about alarming collapses in literacy and the like. For a decade or so I've been convinced that the dumbing down of America (I'm not competent to speak for western civilization as a whole) has reached a critical momentum long ago.
Each generation of stupid teachers further degraded educational quality, while innovations in communication (first radio, then TV, then the internet, and now GenAI) further atrophied most minds. Most people simply don't have the capacity to do anything but be consumed.
Like old King Canute, we cannot hold back the tides of change. But we can create little fortified islands of learning and humanity to outlast our civilization's inevitable descent into barbarity.
I don't know how long this cycle will last, whether decades or centuries, but the intellectual lights really are going out around the world.
A couple of years ago, at a private gathering I was at, a prominent Conservative strategist and few CPC staffers were sharing stories of what happened to them and their families while criticizing the government's handling of the pandemic. I asked a question: If you form government, will you do anything to hold people accountable for what happened?
The strategist replied: "Rupa, Canadians have moved on. There's no appetite to reopen this." To which I said, if you folks are still talking about it, why would you assume the average Canadian has? I know many whose lives have never recovered.
They had no real answer, just something along the lines of, you can trust us that if we're in power, we'll never do anything like this. To which, I laughed.
The Liberals have little political incentive to revisit the pandemic. But what has always puzzled me is the Conservatives' reluctance. If they genuinely believe serious mistakes were made, on lockdowns, mandates, censorship, or other policies, why has there been so little effort to pursue accountability?
Because, if not them, then who?
For years I was attacked for using a trough-projected and Pull-Forward Effect (PFE) adjusted mortality baseline instead of a simplistic linear regression. I was 'a fraud' and 'the most dishonest person on Earth...'
Well, time has proved out who was right.
...and how quiet the defamers have become in 2026.
My adjusted mortality model continues to track observed deaths with remarkable accuracy.
The linear baseline I was told was correct, by the CDC and Pharma-Paid Trolls, is now missing reality by over 6,400 deaths per week. They hide their charts now.
Science isn't decided by consensus.
It's decided by successful outcome performance under accountability. Something I have consistently done well my entire life.
@CidoHalfen@Partisangirl Well Cido she is safer there than among the Da'esh scum who enjoy murdering anyone (including Sunni) but especially Shia in their idiotic takfiri campaigns.
You are nothing more than a tool of the CIA/Mossad who will be discarded when it is convenient for them.
Go ask the Kurds