Remember the 9/11 Commission's conclusion, that 9/11 happened because of three 'failures of imagination?'
I seriously wonder if anyone in the administration has the imagination to accept what we're up against. I can't state it any more plainly than this: Iran is run by delusional people who actually believe (and that's the key- they're not just saying it for emotional effect) that their God is commanding them to destroy the world.
This delusion has two effects: first, there is no middle ground, no ability to negotiate with people who believe something like this. They will not stop until they destroy the world. Everything they do is done with that complete motivation in mind.
Second, their total and complete belief in what their God is commanding them to do has also deluded them into an absolute belief that their God won't let them fail.
That level of fanaticism can't be negotiated with. They will never come to the point where they sit back and say, "Hey, we're constantly getting the shit kicked out of us. Maybe, just maybe, we're wrong about what Allah wants us to do."
The only thing we can do to end this war, IMHO, is to remove this insane regime. That should be the goal. Anything less than that will simply lead us nowhere. We need to take out the IRGC, who are driving the military attacks, and then either destroy the Shi'a leadership or send them into permanent exile.
@joshrogin Josh. How much real world experience do you have in this space vs sitting your fat ass in front of your MacBook?
Just asking questions here….
@ScottJenningsKY Did he say anything back? I'm guessing not, but it was nice of you to fillibuster his life support corpse for 20 minutes. Come on man!
Fascinating.
Mitch McConnell is apparently well enough to spend 20 minutes discussing global geopolitics, but somehow not well enough to record a 30-second video reassuring the people of Kentucky, and the world, that he’s okay.
Also, his office of roughly 40 staff members still can’t provide a meaningful update?
Nothing about why Elaine Chao traveled to China to meet with senior CCP officials just three days after he was hospitalized?
And we’re all just supposed to accept this at face value?
None of this inspires confidence. If anything, this post raises more questions than it answers.
🚨 BREAKING: Democrat Rep. Ro Khanna has WITHDRAWN his endorsement of Graham Platner following credible allegations of rape
Somehow, EVERYBODY but Ro was able to see this coming.
This comes mere weeks after Ro publicly announced he “BELIEVES” Graham, despite the countless accusations.
Both of them are losers in very different ways.
@spencerpratt Not merely “ok”.
Anyone who doesn’t love America is a traitor and beneath contempt.
Those who don’t love America, those who are disloyal should be exiled immediately.
@sigsauerinc When you stop supporting the psycho Shawn Ryan Show, maybe you're worth considering. Insane that you push your products via that conspiracy trash program that highlights gun grabbers like Newsome and Khanna.
McConaughey’s entire formula is to use White, Southern, right-wing-coded aesthetics to deliver Obama-style liberal sermons. It is unbelievably subversive, I am vomit.
Like Obama, he does not attack his opponent as politically wrong, but as morally wrong.
In the speech below, just like Obama’s 2004 DNC speech, he posits that the “good” American still believes in progress. Still believes that America is an idea; still believes in "being a good person", equality, mixed-race pluralism, and an unfinished “more perfect union” that we can all build together if we just keep the faith.
The “bad” American, for both Obama and McConaughey, is someone who has abandoned that faith (the MAGA-type reactionary white American.)
Maybe if you're RETARDED. Shawn Ryan is an OP. Shawn Ryan claims to be angry about pedo's, yet he allows Hunter Biden to blather for hours and hours without any questions on his alleged underage girl issues from the laptop? Shawn Ryan is the most obvious OP ever. Wake up RETARDS!