— Feature, Musings —06.22.2025 08:40 AM
— Feature, Musings —06.22.2025 08:40 AM
I said to someone yesterday that why are they making such a big deal about moving B2s to Guam when flying east from the east coast of the USA to Iran is almost as close.
Also got a chuckle of T’s “thank you for your attention to this matter” like it was a note to his concrete suppler at one of his towers. If the whole thing is going to go for a shit, might as well have a laugh on the way out.
Music was great. Sea Lemon very shoe gaze ish. Cynical was released on an EP by her a couple of months before the album and it’s great too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5aV0DIQK8U
Ecca Vandal very good too but we have been over that(the Go-Gos vibe)!
If anyone wants a basic understanding of why the US attacked Iran, find Rubio’s interview on Face The Nation.
Martin,
Donald Rumsfeld famously stated: “There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say, we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don’t know we don’t know.”
Warren,
Your gut is kicking in 1000% about the pending aftermath.
Warren,
Cowardly terrorist regimes always care far more about self-preservation than nuking Israel or anyone else. Iran is no exception. The mullahs will do whatever it takes to hold on to power, as already amply demonstrated in Iran itself. That remains their ultimate priority.
John,
A profile in courage, like so many other people.
Warren,
Why this is insane: the CIA, DIA, NSA, DHS, FBI, CBP and other agencies have to be right 100% of the time. The terrorists only have to get it right once.
Warren,
Regime change = 0% chance. Next.
That’s the problem, isn’t it? This has been a total outlaw regime since 1979. Many young people today do not realize this.
That sent me down a memory hole. Our UW student newspaper at the time was pro Iranian revolution(among other things). I was too busy just trying to get by to pay much attention but their coverage led to a fight over its very existence but try to pick a side:
https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ca.firstwave/spart-cpc-campus.htm
“In a fit of anti-communism, the Student Federation shut down a campus newspaper – the Trotskyist League demands that it be reopened immediately, with the reinstatement of the fired staffers.”
Warren,
Most people have no clue about nuclear geopolitics: we were most at risk for a nuclear war when India developed the bomb, thanks to the Canadian CANDU. Fortunately, that did not happen. Once Pakistan got the bomb, that restored nuclear parity and ironically was a confidence-building measure in that region. Translation: enhanced security on both sides. We could have done the same with Iran by giving Saudi Arabia the bomb. But Trump was too stupid to do that. So now, we have to live or die with what we got.
Warren,
Medvedev is full of shit. Russia will never do that. Putin already has enough problems.
Carney called for de-escalation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErS9HCh8GfE
Carney, becoming tiresome and irrelevant.
Meanwhile, folks continue to struggle
Douglas,
Let’s see if the polls start to reflect that. My impression, for whatever it’s worth, is that he’s still in honeymoon phase but for how much longer?
Pierre and SaintByrneTM must be praying.
Ronald,
Abacus Data, on Wednesday:
Libs 42% (-1)
Conservatives 39% (-2)
Liberals should be up. They control the agenda.
Poilièvre, without a seat.
So far, elbows down + big talk from Team Red
No matter what happens to Pierre, the Tory support is NOT going to drop. The NDP will come home once the civil service gets their comeuppance. And a few of the elbows up morons will leave the Liberals when they see a budget.
Martin,
I’m half in agreement with your comment: Yes, CPC support is solid when isolated from other factors. However, as support for the leader continues to plummet in successive polls, the only conclusion one can come to is that shrinking support for Pierre will inevitably shrink support for the party in general. Pierre has to quickly turn his personal numbers around. It’s my contention that he has little to no chance of doing that in the coming months. Translation: less support for the CPC in the Carney surprise election, which likely comes this fall. Can you say Liberal majority?
It’s also glaringly obvious by now that the NDPThreeTM have decided not to crossover despite their reservations about their interim leader. That makes an early election far more probable than it otherwise would have been.
Warren,
First Nations need to go to court, but consultation will never be interpreted, even at its largest, as a pro forma veto power. So, they need to make deals, as many of their fellow nations have already done. And then there’s the battle between hereditary chiefs and elected ones. It won’t be pretty, to say the very least.
I have questions about the Dem nominee for the mayor of NY.
I know we are not supposed to read Taibbi according to the Doc because he got a couple of things wrong(and took responsibility for!) but his takes are hilarious. This one on the shitshow now going on in NY:
“If the concept only has to hold up long enough to get a college student laid, socialism works. You only land in the big lol once you take the step New York just has, into reality. The part no one mentions at campus parties is that the replacement for markets in socialism is not just human authority, but dumb authority. Yes, prices can be oppressive, but try swapping out organic pricing for committees of sociology majors and AOC types deciding how much they think shoes or ice cream or a house should cost. Assuming Mamdani wins, this is going to be a hilarious surprise to voters eager for city-run stores and the fantastic services we’ve been told, apparently falsely, need to cost something.”
https://www.racket.news/p/socialism-wins-its-american-normandy?r=2ibht&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
Martin,
I have questions, too, but he’s still better than a Cuomo comeback.
Ronald, bone up on the guy. Anyone else would have been better:
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/16/new-york-city-mayoral-contender-israel-condemning-holocaust-00353123
More hilarious stuff:
“I obviously have my own issues with Mamdami, exacerbated by overexposure to the upscale pseudo-intellectual progressive types who most ardently worship him. Still, Democrats decrying him for embracing “defund the police” or state-funded gender-affirmation treatment or “re-examining” ICE or any of a dozen other goofy things should hop in their DeLoreans and fly back in time nine months or so, when they backed a candidate for president who espoused all those things. There’s no need to beat up Kamala Harris anew, as fate has battered her enough already, but it’s comical watching Philip Bump and others wringing hands about “liberal excesses” when for years they wrapped arms all the way around far nuttier ideas than state grocery stores.”
https://x.com/mtaibbi/status/1938706845687783659