Pierre

If you like my posts about politics, you will be disappointed by my sports posts. If you like my sports posts you will be disappointed by my political posts.

[Pierre @pierrebgood]

@karlykingsley The bots and idiots have found this, so let me make this simple. I’ve blocked 10,000 bots and idiots and the only thing keeping me on this app is the opportunity to block 10,000 more.

[Pierre @pierrebgood]

@msjmcglynn @adamscochran No, it makes anyone with a brain incredulous.

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

Oh you used a low grade commercial pool sealant paint, on coarse shallow granite, flooded with algae water, and pounded it with the incorrect chemicals to try and deal with the algae?

Yeah no shit the pool is going to disintegrate.

Trump's symbolic trash swamp.

[Jake Tapper 🦅 @jaketapper]

NYT: A major flu outbreak has sickened nearly 160 troops at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas weeks after Defense Secretary Hegseth announced that U.S. troops would no longer be required to be vaccinated for the flu, defense officials said.

https://t.co/fFIt8Mhyzg

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

New footage confirms that an errant Russian surface to air missile was responsible for the tank roof toss at the Moscow Oil Refinery this morning.

[Joe Gould @reporterjoe]

Scooplet: Republicans quietly killed Sen. Elizabeth Warren's amendment to bar DOD from investing in companies tied to President Donald Trump, his Cabinet and their families.

It failed in a party-line vote last week during SASC’s closed-door NDAA markup

https://t.co/vf2IPxZEWq

[Pierre @pierrebgood]

@NotWoofers I thought turret tossing was my favorite form of the Russian incompetent engineer Olympics, but I was wrong.

[T. L. Miller @Tlmiller20]

@RotoPat A country of 300mm people. More Nobel prize winners than anywhere in the world. The best universities on the planet. And we have elected the absolute dumbest people amongst us to lead.

[Winter @PunkyBrewstuh]

@interiorpress47 I can no longer tell which US accounts are parody and which are real. Not even kidding.

[John Ridge @WeaponScientist]

Vance is truly the American Medvedev

[Analytica Camillus @AnalyticaCamil1]

Not only was Iran’s nuclear program not destroyed, pretty much all of their HEU was transferred to a tunnel complex at Isfahan that we simply declined to airstrike.

This isn’t “new news”, the team over at the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has shared satellite imagery of Iran’s personnel moving this HEU from Fordow to Isfahan ‘last year’, which they shared before the war was in full swing this year.

The Isfahan storage complex isn’t Fordow either, it doesn’t have a bunch of poop-chutes that USAF can drop smart bombs into, it is a storage complex. Seizing or neutralizing that HEU ‘requires’ deploying ground troops.

Seeing as the Isfahan complex is right down the street from one of the IRGC and Iranian military’s largest complexes in Iran (with space for at least a corps worth of guys — read, 20k to 30k troops); is a relatively short distance south of Tehran (and the two divisions based there, one of which is an armored division — so another 10k to 20k guys); in addition to the on site security force and a police battalion based like 3 blocks away from the Isfahan complex (another 1500 guys); and that the immediate area is bristling with anti-air assets (that’s why we lost an F-15, and the CSAR helicopter sent to fetch the pilots was all shot to hell)… seizing Isfahan would’ve required dropping in a division’s worth of troops smack-dab into the middle of Iran.

Anyone who didn’t bother reckoning with all of the above, but still wanted to “take out Iran’s nuclear program” is just deeply unserious.

[Pierre @pierrebgood]

@mikenelson586 MAGA really aren’t the book reading type.

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

Moody’s estimates the Iran war has already cost taxpayers $132 billion. Long-term estimates suggest it will ultimately cost as much as $1 trillion.

Either way, that would have been more than enough to expand ACA subsidies for 22 million Americans—but Trump says the country is broke anytime we suggest doing something that might actually improve your life.

[Strategic Trends @StrategicTrends]

The small solace is his legacy. This will be taught at all staff and war colleges, all grad schools that pertain to national security/military affairs as THE case study in how to not conduct negotiations, strategic messaging, and campaigns.

[Akela Lacy @akela_lacy]

NEW: Cops chased the wrong guy. They followed him and intentionally crashed into his car twice, causing it to flip and catch fire. They fired 27 shots and then waited outside as Navy veteran John Andrew Jenuwine bled out and died. https://t.co/hUae8JSSdy

[Legal Eagle 🦅 @AllThingsCivil]

@RadioFreeTom Is it really a pivot?

All Hegseth ever does is blame others for his failures

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

I guess the pivot now is to blame our allies for a war we started and lost

[John McCormack @McCormackJohn]

Sanctions relief that is illegal under U.S. law

[Always the Jake @JacobsFieldRBW]

No Giants players have ever *once* written a Bible verse on their hats

Pride night rolls around and 3 Giants players write Bible verses on hats for the first times in their careers—hats that they *didn’t even have to wear*

It’s hate. Accept the social consequences for it, loser

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

Most of the targets U.S. and Israel struck during the Iran war were military targets.

So the MOU’s $300B reconstruction clause is to reconstruct what again?

[AG @AGHamilton29]

Vance spent the last 2 days running around repeatedly claiming that the regime wouldn’t get sanction relief if they continued to sponsor terror proxies (despite that being nowhere in the MoU text).

All while the regime publicly says they will use the money from the deal in the same exact way they’ve always used it.