Jump to content

956 Worldwide

Full Members
  • Posts

    9321
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    24

Everything posted by 956 Worldwide

  1. Along with ballistic missiles for Houthis, Iran is also funding protests here in the United States.
  2. I think that there’s a long history of terror organizations and governments mobilizing all of their assets and infrastructure in the service of attacking others, and then claiming that any potential response to their own aggression is unjustified. The Houthis unloaded Iranian ballistic missiles and fired them at THE FUCKING U.S. EMBASSY in a country over 1,000 miles away, killing civilians. In response, Israel bombed the cranes and docks so that there wouldn’t be more Iranian ballistic missiles unloaded there. You are comparing that to the Tulsa massacre? That’s pure “anti-Zionist” brain rot. The Houthis are not fighting for civil rights and the cranes and port facilities they use to unload ballistic missiles are not segregated Black neighborhoods.
  3. The Houthis (who are not a party to Palestine), launched Iran-made ballistic missiles into Israel. Those missiles are delivered by sea to the port that got bombed. They won’t be Israel’s response was exactly proportional and relevant to what the Houthis did and will make it operational more difficult for the Houthis to get more ballistic missiles.
  4. Kamala absolutely needs to run as “Kopmala” and pair up with an astronaut and this thing will be over.
  5. None of us can ever know for sure that he didn’t.
  6. I think it’s a grave mistake to project the roughly 5k people in DC on a Wednesday at 2PM with an important demographic to reach or convince. The whole issue is a loser either way and Kamala needs to tap dance as much as she can and try to shove it to the bottom of the conversation. There’s no way it wins you the election but it might lose it; and the chances of losing it are stronger if you appeal too much to people on the streets. Kelly is an astronaut. Just pick him and have him wear his mission patch to debate JD.
  7. lol, so much butthurt for the poor Houthi fuel storage facilities.
  8. I see now we’ve moved on to feeling bad for the Houthis for getting their shit pushed in after fucking around and finding out.
  9. Actually the first former flag officer who went over to SecDef I can think of is Mattis. I think highly of him but Trump chose him because he wanted someone nicknamed “Mad Dog” in the cabinet. I also really like Austin. It’s still not the greatest precedent and we need to get away from it, there are lots of reasons to find people far removed from inter and intra-service politics.
  10. It’s been a minute but for decades and decades we didn’t put former flag officers in charge of DoD and arguably got better results. Running the whole show is not like running an army. His experience spending vast sums of money is probably more useful for the top civilian job. Transportation has a huge budget and it’s likely best benefit is that you stay out of political fights, but DHS and AG and Treasury are by far more prestige, powe ministries.
  11. SecDef, AG, Treasury, and DHS are all more impactful than transport. He needs to handle guns or money. I don’t think SecState is a good stepping stone for the presidency.
  12. Used F-15 Baz strike jets. Israel was as a pioneer in showing how the F-15 could be used in an air to ground strike role. Gorgeous plane.
  13. That is because if you are an undecided in this election, you are an actual moron.
  14. I’m thinking back to PPV Summer Slams and Wrestlemanias and trying to wonder how we got to a place as a country where Hulk Hogan’s endorsement for POTUS is valuable but only after becoming racist. How the fuck did we land on the stupidest fascism ever?
  15. It’s looking more and more like this dude just decided to shoot a president and picked the closest one. We are spending way more critical and political thought talking about it than he did. Also LOL at blaming the DEI secret service or women with guns or whatever instead of the fact that this fucking dude had an easier time getting a carbine than a drink at a bar.
  16. Dorothy Thompson’s essay “who goes Nazi” has been referenced here a lot. Hello, JD Vance.
  17. Vance is dangerous in a unique way, not because he helps in the polls but because he is the distillation of undisciplined populist Trumpism into high-proof American authoritarianism. He has literally been groomed by our worst elites for this role; to cover unadulterated elite autocracy with a veneer of angry white American resentment. He reliably and readily sides with all of our nations’ worst enemies and wants to form common cause with them. He is devoid of any moral compass, and his prior criticism of Trump was only at a moment when he and his groomers believed Trump’s indiscipline served as a hindrance rather than a vehicle to further their own crystalline authoritarianism. He is young and he is being anointed as the successor to refine and develop DJT’s cult of personality into rigid and systematic juche for the next generations.
  18. Stocking institutions with sycophant hacks who will make knowingly awful decisions that they know are illegal and may be overturned is part of the wannabe autocrat’s handbook worldwide. In fact, the more grossly terrible and ring-kissing the decision, the better, because it continues to butter up people to accept that all levels of institutions and governments are theaters for the endless political warfare that are a hallmark of the authoritarian’s rule. Aileen Cannon has done her job, the only one she was ever meant to do. It was unclear whether she’d be called on, but she was.
  19. It’s gonna end up being just the stupidest hodgepodge of junk with no-coherence and we will pore over it hoping to find something out rather than accepting that we are awash in guns and nearly all the killing is because we can’t keep them away from angry men whose brains have not fully developed. From gang violence to school shootings to this, we have a problem because young men have guns.
  20. The head of the USSS worked for them almost 30 years and was hired away from being chief of security for a multinational corporation with income greater than many nations’ GDP. Aside from having a vagina, what is “DEI” about her?
  21. This is absolutely where I am. There were fuckups and we also live in a country where there is no barrier to a 20 year old misfit laying his hands on a carbine and some 5.56. It’s extremely easy and frictionless to get into violent extremism.
  22. Probably so, they likely had been told that the access and security there was covered by state or local and when they noticed it they were trying to figure WTF was going on.
  23. This is likely to boil down to a weak link in the USSS-local law enforcement chain and the failure likely being local. USSS isn’t postured to handle all the security and access control. The advance team almost certainly identified this building and roof and then handed off access and monitoring to local LE. The counter-snipers are going to stay focused on areas farther away, where local LE is NOT able or tasked to provide complete cover because they can’t and because that kind of sniper expertise doesn’t exist. Derpy local LE does a shit job on the wrong day and this is what happens. There will be a review and I bet that USSS alters what it allows local LE to do.
  24. Yeah, asking for the return of a spear offers up some extremely Lacedaemonian possibilities along the lines of Persians demanding earth and water.
Ă—
Ă—
  • Create New...