The Israel Defense Force has said that air defenses continue to target and intercept Iranian missiles, following a third wave of missiles against Northern Israel.
- USA bombs Iran for 2 months
- Iran closes Hormuz creates a global energy crisis
- USA powerless to stop it
- USA responds with a blockade on top of the blockade
- ceasefire is broken and Iran continues to bomb GCC states unhindered
- Hormuz still closed, enriched uranium still under irgc control
- no end in sight and global economy on the brink of meltdown (see treasury yield action)
Yeah I agree we’re definitely underselling our ability to bomb Iran, makes complete sense
I think it’s interesting that people can’t seem to get past first level thinking here. The question about population was not meant as a way to establish moral high ground. He is simply pointing out that Ted Cruz has no clue what he is really advocating for.
“Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon”
Okay fine. Please take me through the next steps after we carpet bomb the country, killl their leaders along with civilians and radicalized another generation of Middle East men(many of whom have moved to western countries)
Please tell me the plan in terms of what comes next? How do we stabilize the country (to ensure someone worse doesn’t just come along) what does that look like? Another 20 year nation building effort with American boots on the ground? (See Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam and tell me how those worked out for us)
Or do we assume that, magically, people who we just bombed and who have their own ethic and ideological loyalties will rejoice and band together in the streets and form a new, peaceful Democratic government, with no intentions of nuculear armament, and everyone will live happily ever after?
@ZssBecker Yeah fed tax isn’t about funding anything. The point is to take money out of the system as a way to control inflation, while they run deficits to infinity
TLDR on what’s happening in ai for anyone out of the loop:
>sam altman shows up
>hello we are openai (is closed source btw) and we will be building ai
>sam: we need BILLIONS in funding!
>everyone: ok here you go sam
>sam: wait really?
>everyone: yea..? didn’t you say you need billions of dollars in funding?
>sam: billions? sorry I misspoke. I meant TRILLIONS!
>everyone: that’s a lot but ok
>sam: ai is the new industrial revolution! COMPUTE is the new OIL!
>nvidia becomes the most valuable company on earth. every single employee is a MILLIONAIRE now, including the interns
>openai keeps jacking up their prices and says “we are actually LOSING money because compute costs so much! we are bumping up the pricing for our gpt-abc123 model to $10,000 per prompt”
>some random chinese quants: we ain’t paying that much let’s just build our own model
>chinese quants literally build AGI (DeepSeek) as their side project with $70 in funding and a bag of chips, coworking out of a sweatshop
>american ai companies: these chinese guys are capping this is a ploy by the CCP to destroy the american economy!
>deepseek releases papers and benchmarks proving their model is better than openai’s
>american ai companies in total meltdown
The bubble has popped.
If you’re in ai, it’s OVER. Leave while you can! All the speculative institutional capital is going to rotate back to the only speculative technology that has stood the test of time: crypto.
I fear everyone has it wrong on treasuries. The FED has lowered rates but treasury rates are spiking. Why? I believe this is likely NOT about inflation. The era of low interest rates may be over. The markets are demanding that big government be replaced with right sized government.
Consider:
1. China, Japan and Middle East no longer consider US treasuries a safe bet. The world is being asked to choose sides and governments are reluctant to choose the side that weaponizes the dollar and the global banking system against those who don’t get in line.
2. The U.S. will desire to refinance trillions in debt at lower rates and the demand at these rates is unlikely to be there. QE25 would likely cause another (even bigger) spike in inflation. The Fed knows this and will delay on the hopes that they can con the market into lower rates to temper inflation. Good luck.
3. The 60/40 allocation has peaked. If there is an unwind as I suspect there may be, demand for gov bonds globally would plummet causing treasury rates to spike further. Global carry trades could accelerate the unwind and make things even worse. Governments (Ala Nixon) would blame traders as opposed to decades of irresponsible borrowing.
I hope I’m wrong on all of this. We need the US ponzi scheme to continue for another 25 years to stave off catastrophe. That would give us enough time for AI, robots and crypto to skyrocket productivity. But I fear the party is too close to being over.
What am I doing? Buying Bitcoin and looking for remote homesteading options.
my european mind cannot comprehend americans complaining about healthcare.
don’t they realize the so-called “free healthcare” in europe is a massive scam you pay for with your own money?
sure, you don’t have insurance premiums, but you’re hit with a 60% tax rate to fund an overburdened, inefficient system that fails at even basic care.
The “stolen land” people are simply low IQ with zero understanding of history or how the world works…
America was not stolen.
It was conquered.
The Native Americans were not skipping through a meadow when Europeans arrived…
They were savages.
Tribes constantly at war, taking resources (and land!) from each other. They raided, raped, tortured and literally scalped each other. They were then conquered themselves by a people far more advanced in every quantifiable metric. The natives didn’t even have a common written language, let alone any concept of an advanced civilization. They were living thousands of years behind the rest of the world.
America was conquered. The Natives lost. It resulted in the greatest country in human history. Happy Thanksgiving.
Happy Thanksgiving to all, including to the Radical Left Lunatics who have worked so hard to destroy our Country, but who have miserably failed, and will always fail, because their ideas and policies are so hopelessly bad that the great people of our Nation just gave a landslide victory to those who want to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! Don’t worry, our Country will soon be respected, productive, fair, and strong, and you will be, more than ever before, proud to be an American!