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I read the Breitbart article. What a joke! It's even more cruel and untruthful than you are. The right wingers claim Hegseth's goal is "depoliticizing" the military. Is that what we call it these days when you bash Gays and women? What a cruel joke. How about this? Let's go back to Gay conversion therapy and call it "depoliticizing" LGBTQ politics. Which screwed up the true purpose of marriage with all those radicals who demanded same sex marriage. Let's go back to national abortion bans and call it "depoliticizing" sex. Which screwed up the true purpose of marriage, which was sexually harassing women and cheating on your current wife by having sex with your next one. There's always a minority of self-loathing Gay men like you who will support a Gay bashing alcoholic womanizer who is incompetent. The right wing's loyalty push for 100 % fealty to Trump and his Gay-bashhing alcoholic incompetent womanizer is already beginning to form the backlash that will grow as the extremism continues. Only about 2 in 10 Americans approve of Hegseth’s nomination Right wing generals approve of Hegseth, but the American people don't. Geez. Wonder which side Trump will pick?

Russia to prepare for war with NATO That's a quaint headline, isn't it? At least part of it is blustering. Putin is no doubt letting Europe and the US know he will be a hard negotiator on Ukraine. I'm not holding my breath for anything other than a fragile ceasefire. And he also may be signaling that he really isn't bosom buddies with Trump, after all. Who knew? 😉 But I take it to also be implicit confirmation of two things. Both of which are very bad news for Genocide World and Genocide Man. First, NATO is stronger and more unified than it has been in a long time. All thanks to Genocide Man. Biden was, in effect, President NATO. He was the right guy at the right time to bring in countries like Sweden and Finland. And now Trump is set up perfectly to walk in the room and say, "I love you, but you need to pay the fuck up." It is unintentional good cop/bad cop. But it is for sure not in Putin's interests. Second, Genocide Man needs a permanent enemy to rationalize his stagnating economy and dying nation. So if there's not a hot war with Ukraine, he needs a Cold War with NATO. He knows a hot war with NATO would turn Moscow into dust. And Master Xi will castrate his tired old genocidal pit bull before he could even start such a war. But it gives Genocide Man a reason to keep his warped war economy going. He sure needs one. That's what Putin has done for Russia lately. He had a great first decade from 2000 to 2010, during which Russia unquestionably recovered as he played footsie with the West. But even if we stipulate that there are certain economic benefits to an economy based on processing Russians - especially minorities - into meat, it's hardly great news for anyone in Genocide World. Let alone the Russian families of all the men turned into meat by Genocide Man. As that website shows, when measured by per capita GDP in US dollars, the average US household clocks in at about $51,000 a year. Poor Vlad! Median Household Income in Russia (2010 - 2021, Purchasing Power Parity in Current International Dollars) The alternative chart in that link, which I can't post as a JPG, is more accurate since it is based on PPP. Russia in 2022 was at $27, 634, up about 0.8 % from 2021. Things are way cheaper in Russia than in Los Angeles or NYC. But that number is down from $43,635 (in PPP) for the average Russian in 2010. Genocide Man has been running on fumes, and genocide, for a long time now. By comparison, the US is at $65,658 (again, in PPP) in 2021, compared to $58,757 in 2015. America is leaving Russia in the dust. And Genocide Man can't do much about it, without literally turning Moscow into dust. Regardless of his threats, and mass slaughter of innocent and helpless women and children. Russia today is a corrupt, weak, piece of shit country compared to the Soviet Union, which also collapsed of its decay. Good news is at least someone will do well, until the country collapses again. Wonder who?

It's interesting that Trump today sort of congratulated Erdogan as the key actor in getting Assad out of Syria. I take that as an opening overture in Trump wanting to be the guy who finally brings peace to the Middle East. Arguably, we now have an alignment that is at least as good as Clinton, Barak, and Arafat at the end of Clinton's Presidency. The problem back then was Arafat wasn't willing to go along. In part because he thought the Hamas types would just kill him if he made peace. And look what Arafat got for his efforts! Now the problem is war criminal Netanyahu. But you can make a good argument that if you put four strong men in a room - Trump, war criminal Bibi, MBS, and Erdogan - at least in theory they might be able to come up with something that Palestinians will have to live with. It would be shades of Nixon being the only guy who could open China. Or Reagan making a deal with the Soviet Union. Stranger things have happened. Two of which I just named. It's also a bit surprising that, while the Arab Street pretty much trusts no nation, and despises the US, Turkey is trusted as much or slightly more than Iran. My guess is that Trump will be about as successful at Middle East peace as he was with improving relations with Krazy Kim or Xi. Like with those two, he can't change war criminal Bibi's fundamental views or interests. Nor can Trump change the views or interests of the roughly half of Israel that backs the war criminal coalition that empowers Bibi. But Trump will give it a try. Meanwhile, here's the flip side of the argument: Trump's pro-Israel cabinet picks upset Muslims who voted for him Ya think? This is the part of the 2024 election that is incomprehensible to me. I can get how a young Latino who likes watching the Nelk Boys rip on woke behavior, and is pissed about his rent, votes for Trump. And I can get how Muslims are pissed at Biden for acquiescing while 50,000 Palestinians were wiped out, courtesy of US weapons. But electing Trump seems like voting for genocide. It's surprising that any Muslim who voted for Trump is the least bit surprised. Call me cynical, but Trump would be content to let Bibi wipe out 500,000 Palestinians if he thought he could get away with it. At least Trump is smart enough to know he can't. Whether it was ever stated or not, the obvious incentive to a war criminal like Bibi was to kill as many Palestinians as he could while Biden was POTUS. Let Trump at least make noises about peace. So we'll see. This will be one of the less predictable and more interesting parts of Trump's Presidency to watch. But my guess is that, just like with Krazy Kim, the idea of strong man politics is going to let us down. And in 2028 it will be part of why America is ready to move on to something else. And why the next four years will be particularly tragic for Palestinians and Kurds.

Well, Sis. You have always been more principled than me. It always had to be at least 8 inches. I was the unprincipled whore who would settle for anything. 😉

MBS has already made Jared Kushner rich. So we agree. This is a reason it actually could happen. If Trump and his family will get more money, he is on it. Politics Jared Kushner defends his equity firm getting $2 billion from Saudis after he left White House Quite honestly, I could give a shit. If the price of saving tens of thousands (or more) Palestinian women and children is that Jared gets super rich, who cares? If Israelis get peace, despite having a war criminal leader who has built his career inflaming war, good for them. The problem is that war criminal Bibi The Baby Killer can not survive without his war criminal coalition. He can have either peace, or power. I don't think it's hard to guess which one a war criminal will choose. But I'll consult with Genocide Man and see what he thinks.

LOL. Picky bitch. We agree. I'll repeat what I said. I think the "Genocide Joe" label contributed to Biden's defeat. There's been a massive change in how young Democrats looks at Israel. And not just Democrats. Independents have shifted a lot, too. It makes sense. Without going into any level of complexity at all - which is impossible if we are talking about Israel - there was a moment when Clinton and Barak were the peacemakers, and Arafat was the guy who said no. There is almost no version of alternative reality where Palestinians would not have been better off, had Arafat taken the deal. But that is so 20th century. Young voters can read about THAT Israel in the history books. Biden will no longer be around to tell warm and fuzzy stories about Golda Meir. So now what we have is a war criminal, period. And I am not referring to Genocide Man. And Trump, whose son-in-law is making a fortune thanks to Saudi Arabia. So I would not dare to make a prediction on this one. Fareed Zakaria just had a good program that pointed out how strong militarily Bibi's Israel is at the moment. And how much risk there is of "hubris" setting a trap for failure. Much like when "should have been a war criminal" George W. Bush decided to fib about WMD and invaded Iraq. Oops! I'd be happy just dumping actual war criminals Putin and Netanyahu and shoulda been war criminal George W. Bush in Gaza to fend for themselves. But if I had to bet, we'll get a lot more genocide in Gaza. And maybe even the West Bank. We'll see.

The murder rate spiked in 2020 thanks to Trump, and America was flooded with guns. It's really not clear to me why Harris did not prosecute Trump's ass on that. It was clear in Fall 2024, and even more clear in retrospect, that Trump was going to own inflation and immigration. Harris could have blunted that more by talking a lot about crime, I think. There is this thing about misinformation, of course. I'm pretty sure Team Trump did a good job micro-targeting misinformation (cities are out of control!) through social media. But the way you fight it is by fighting it. The reason lies become truth is that people don't fight it. There is a good story to tell about the Biden Administration and crime. I don't know why Harris wasn't on that more. FBI Data Confirms Drop in Most Crimes in 2023, Especially Murders

Look who's talking. The International Criminal Court issues an arrest warrant for Putin Genocide Man and Bibi The Baby Killer are the two genocidal monsters in the room. Trump winning makes things easier for me. Because I don't have to feel conflicted about what Biden is doing in Israel anymore. It is on Trump now. And, in theory, maybe he can talk war criminal Bibi The Baby Killer out of being a war criminal. More likely, Bibi The Baby Killer will outlast him until he dies. And, given the way Israeli politics and demographics are going, we'll get something worse after the war criminal. Meanwhile, at some point the Russian Federation will collapse. It's a little surprising no one is talking about how Israel contributed to Biden's loss. It is obvious that millions of 2020 Biden voters simply did not vote. Maybe it was about rent and mortgage rates being too high. But the "Genocide Joe" label did not help. And some 2020 Biden voters, like Muslim Americans in Michigan, voted for Trump out of anger at Biden. So the lesson for Democrats is simple. We can have "Genocide Joe" if we want. But it is probably a reason millions of Democrats won't bother to vote. We'll see how that plays out in 2028. But for now, I'm all for Trump trying to make peace in the region. Who are you to talk about peace, after Genocide Man launched an uninvited slaughter in Ukraine?

No. You are programmed to want to suck anti-Homo Hegseth's cock. That's pretty much it. You are an idolizing fan boy for a Gay bashing womanizing alcoholic who is clearly incompetent. You would happily suck his cock any day of the week, and idolize his anti-Homo behavior, while he and Trump take back a generation of gains. Like Gays in the military. That is exactly the kind of unprincipled, weak, self-loathing Gay man you are.

Which is why Musk and Trump need billionaire tax cuts, for sure. 😡 I'm with the Democratic economic populists in Congress on this, like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. In retrospect, it really might have been better if one of them won in 2020. How they would have dealt with Joe Manchin, and whether America would have reacted even more negatively than it did to Biden over post-COVID global inflation, is a question we will never know. But my point is that AMLO in Mexico beat the incumbent curse. His successor, a Jewish woman, won in a landslide in a supposedly macho Latino culture. And he did it by repeating and rinsing the same message and actions every single fucking day: "I am with the working class, and not with the rich. In other words, I am with the working class, and not with the rich. In other words, I am with the working class, and not with the rich." inflation is Mexico was just as bad. So what? In my alternative America, had Warren been President she would have worked as well or better with Joe Manchin. And she might have gotten a majority to actually hold corporations in check, raise taxes on the rich, and help the working class. Instead we had a predictable reaction against inflation - which Trump himself says is why he won. And now we have Trump and Musk. Ugh! They can not help but say the following for the next two years: We, Trump and Musk, are the rich, and we are for the rich. We, Trump and Musk, are the rich, and we are for the rich. We, Trump and Musk, are the rich, and we are for the rich. Tax cuts for fat cats, please! And, yes, Trump is literally fat. So Sanders and Warren and others have already signaled that instead of just opposing everything, they will demand that Trump and Vance follow through on their pro-worker rhetoric. Like, first, stop attacking unions. Second, no more tax cuts for billionaires. (Ha ha. We know tax cuts are coming for sure to GOP fat cat donors.) Third, actually help working class Latino families. The Catholics in Trump’s administration could take GOP in whole new direction When Biden did a version of that, poverty was cut in half among Latino children. For one year. Had Biden and Harris fought like hell for that, like AMLO did for similar things in Mexico (which is full of Latino men, it turns out) things might have been different. It's already clear Trump will blow up the deficit by trillions with tax cuts to fat cat donors, regardless of what he says. So Democrats will be smart to use the opportunity to define and push for a pro-work and pro-working class family agenda that goes beyond tax cuts for Trump and Musk. And the corporations who raised prices to make record profits.

Will you apologize now to John Fetterman and all of us for being a hateful bigot? Or is autism your excuse for lobbing hate around? Go see Bobby Kennedy about it. https://www.facebook.com/JohnFettermanPA/posts/if-being-cruel-to-trans-children-is-part-of-your-ideological-wheelhouse-i-am-not/2901687046765902/

Yup. You've been a hateful bigot for far too long. If you wanna be self-loathing, that is your business. Or problem. But it gets boring to hear you defend a Gay-bashing alcoholic who sexually harasses women and is "castrated" by the board of the non-profit he mismanaged. It also gets boring to hear you defend a failed cruel old asshole who flooded the US with fentanyl and death by failing to control the borders. Your weak pussy man Tom Homan was so awful he preferred to have his name withdrawn as permanent director of ICE to having to actually explain his incompetence to Republicans like Susan Collins and Joni Ernst in confirmation hearings. What a man! Why do you celebrate incompetence, cruelty, and Gay bashing?

In other words, our hateful and self-loathing bigot @EmmetKruelty does not consider the following things appropriate to discuss, let alone oppose: SEXUAL HARASSMENT HOMOPHOBIA OPPOSING GAYS IN THE MILITARY OPPOSING WOMEN IN THE MILITARY ALCOHOLISM INCOMPETENCE @EmmetKruelty is so far into his autism or hate or bigotry or whatever that he doesn't even seem to recognize that incompetence in managing small non-profits and alcoholism are not how you run the most powerful military in the world. This is not about having a competent military. This is an ideological loyalty campaign to say everyone should lick Trump's ass and do whatever he wants. If @EmmetKruelty is so self-loathing he longs to be mercy fucked by a drunk womanizing Gay basher, that is his business. But anti-Homo Hegseth is an alcoholic incompetent mess.

It's Game, set, and match! for your hate and ridicule of transgender children. Will you apologize now to John Fetterman and all of us for being a hateful bigot? Or is autism your excuse for lobbing hate around? Go see Bobby Kennedy about it. https://www.facebook.com/JohnFettermanPA/posts/if-being-cruel-to-trans-children-is-part-of-your-ideological-wheelhouse-i-am-not/2901687046765902/

Interesting article about Saudi Arabia and the 30,000 foot political view of the region. It reinforces the idea that what happened in Syria will likely help rather than hinder Saudi/Israel/US alignment. ‘China on Steroids’: A Saudi Path to a Peaceful, Modern Middle East After a violent and reckless start, the crown prince is transforming his kingdom on the Gulf. The logic is compelling: fuck war. Let's build a regional economic juggernaut that is prosperous, peaceful, and stable. Why not? One problem is solved. MBS has figured out that, at the very least, you just can't chop up anyone who is even a minor voice of dissent. Putin is better at this. He just arranges for them to get a bullet in their head, with no fingerprints on the gun. The real problem now is my least favorite Genocide Jew, war criminal Bibi The Baby Killer. He has been patiently outwitting US Presidents seeking to cut a peace deal since Bill Clinton in the 90's. Trump and Bibi The Baby Killer may share the same pollster. But they don't share the same interests. War criminal Bibi can't stay in power without his war crimes coalition. If we throw John Mearsheimer's views in, we can debate whether the Israeli war criminal coalition is for ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, or simply for genocide of Palestinians. Whatever it is, it ain't peace and it ain't democracy. This would all work if war criminal Bibi could convince most Israelis, and most democracies, that democracy is bad and genocide is good. Just annex the whole thing, keep the majority of Palestinians from voting, and kill the ones that speak up. They could even argue it is what MBS does. Why not let Israel be just like Saudi Arabia? It's no fun there anymore, since they got rid of public executions and replaced them with cinemas. Why not have public executions of Palestinians in Israel? It is a dark and sick vision. And it is certainly not the basis of a peace deal Trump will push. We all know how successful he was convinving Krazy Kim to stop being Krazy. So I just don't hold up much hope that Trump will get war criminal Bibi and his war crimes coalition to stop being who they are. Nor will Ireland. Anyone who opposes war criminal and genocide Jew Bibi The Baby Killer is now "anti-Israel". I'm glad Bibi is calling the question. The new framework is you can either be for israel, or against genocide. You can't be both. Go ahead, Bibi. Make the world choose. You are making MBS look like the pussycat.

I'm wondering if @EmmetKruelty has autism? To state the obvious, @EmmetKruelty likes to spend hours, and hours, and hours, and hours, and hours, and hours, and hours, and hours, and hours, and hours, and hours, and hours, and hours of his useless time posting repetitive rants idolizing Trump and gay bashers like his bf wannabe Pete Hegseth. The rants are at best rigid and one-sided propaganda, and at worst just a pack of lies. I stopped reading most of them. He comes to a diverse Gay website based out of Asia and trashes Gays, lesbians, Blacks, Latinos, Asians, and especially transgender kids. I'm thinking he might have autism. And I am thinking Bobby Kennedy, our soon to be HHS director, might be the cure. Kennedy, like anti-Homo Hegseth, has a reputation for womanizing. He's also boorish, like Hegseth. And like Trump, of course. All three live in their own fact-free world. These are the kinds of guys @EmmetKruelty seems to be attracted to. And Kennedy has a well known and almost universally respected medical knowledge of things like vaccines and autism. I'm rooting for @EmmetKruelty and anti-Homo Hegseth to tie the knot, privately. It might give our self-loathing veteran something better to do, or fill his mouth and hands with, so he doesn't need to rant uselessly so much here. But Bobby Kennedy might be a great Plan B. Three more women say Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cheated on Cheryl Hines with them

I know. What is the world coming to? We need anti-Homo Hegseth and his obedient and pliant submissive self-loathing boy toy @EmmetKruelty to protect us. Even if we don't want to be protected. I did come up with a pretty good idea, reading one of @EmmetKruelty's feminist pro-Gay posts idolizing his anti-Gay action figure. Here's what @EmmetKruelty said: So here's what's important about that: 1) Joni Ernst is a Republican cunt. She needs to shut the fuck up. 2) Female victims of sexual harassment have no right to question sexual harassers who are alcoholic and incompetent. 3) Impeached felon President Trump "won" by 46.1 % of the vote in 2016, lost by 46.8 % of the vote in 2020, and won by 49.9 % of the vote in 2024. That means the vast majority of people back Trump, and everybody else needs to shut the fuck up. Joni Ernst won her Senate seat in Iowa by 52.1 % in 2014 and 51.7 % in 2020. That means the majority of people think she is a cunt, and she needs to shut the fuck up and be loyal to Trump. Now, it could be worse. Ernst is a Republican White woman. If she were Cackles, or any other smelly Black woman, this would be unbearable. Oh, and @EmmetKruelty can't stand the Asian transgender types. They're not male action figures like anti-Homo Hegseth. So I was thinking maybe we get Joni to STFU by offering her a special role: being the maid of honor when anti-Homo Hegseth and @EmmetKruelty tie the knot! Granted, Hegseth is married to the woman he fucked when he was married to his second wife. So he can't really marry @EmmetKruelty. But @EmmetKruelty is used to self-loathing. So he won't mind being barely tolerated by the anti-Gay Republicans he idolilzes. And anti-Homo Hegseth will always have a chest to cum on and a drink poured for him. Without any nasty rumors or pregnancy tests. It's a match made in heaven!

I'm completely ignorant about what's going on in Syria. But this makes sense. What was pretty clear in Afghanistan is that the Taliban cut all kinds of deals with tribal leaders, as well as the supposedly weak and corrupt Afghan security forces,in advance. The basic idea that seemed to work was, "Why wipe each other out, when the US is leaving, anyway?" n terms of the US media, they actually did a decent job for a long time of pointing out that while lots of Afghan citizens - like women- wanted the US to stay, the government and security forces were corrupt. And the whole picture was always on the brink of disaster to one degree or another. Which is why Biden was drilling Obama to pull the plug as far back as 2009. Before the surge that generals like Petraeus advised that killed lots of American soldiers and Afghans. Trump essentially signed the death contract for the Afghan government when he made that deal with the Taliban. It gave the Taliban plenty of time to cut deals and organize a mostly bloodless takeover. The difference in Syria is there's no appearance that something similar took place. The rebel forces were able to pull themselves together to attack Assad. But Russia was not part of that, at least based on what we know now. It was very clear that Trump wanted to get out of Afghanistan. And presumably expected the withdrawal would occur at the beginning of his second term in 2021. There is no evidence or reporting that Putin was looking for a way out of Syria. Quite the opposite. He got pushed out, like it or not, because his military was weak and spent and focused on Ukraine. So whatever he thinks he has won in Ukraine, he now has a big collateral loss in Syria and the region. First, in case it was not clear, you quoted me from the end of a paragraph about Ukraine, not Syria. So I am not sure what people who will be hanged on poles in Damascus has to do with Genocide Man's mass slaughter of civilians in Ukraine. It sounds like we agree about Syria. At best, there will be relatively minor carnage for targeted groups. Including Gays, of course. At worst, it will be a jihadist bloodbath like ISIS. Like a decade ago, one factor will be whether it gets bad enough to cause a mass exodus. Assuming people can get out. But this time Europe will be much less welcoming. Which is another factor that may lead to some restraint. If you were referring to Ukraine, and not Syria, what is your media telling you? Because the polls of Ukrainians are incredibly clear. And it is awful news for Genocide Man and Genocide World. For a long time, like most of the time since the Cold War ended, Ukraine was split politically between favoring Russia and favoring the US and Europe. And a lot of that was based on all the cultural and historical and linguistic bonds Putin wrote about in his treatise. The war has changed that. Ukrainians hate Russians, and do not want to be a part of Genocide World. If they make a peace deal, it will only be based on pragmatic constraints given that Trump is now in charge. But even if Harris had won, I am sure they feel exhausted, and now realize that a complete victory - like getting all the seized territory back - is impossible for now. But Ukraine will despise Russia probably for at least as long as any living Ukrainian is alive. There is just no getting around that. There is no getting around the fact that they will wait for Russia to weaken. Just like Poland and all those Iron Curtain nations waited for the Soviet Union to stagnate and die. One can make a great argument that what happened in Ukraine can all be blamed on the CIA, or NATO, or some combination of horrible Western forces or institutions. Putin of course made that argument in his treatise. Great. That's what the polls say most Russians believe, right? So that's fine to believe. But then you also have to believe that Putin is desperate, or stupid, or both. Because he took the bait. He started a war that changed everything. And now he has a country full of people right next door that hate him, and can't wait for the Russian Federation to collapse. And he also has a collapse in Syria. This is a different version of what happened to the Soviet Union. It is death by inches, not one big climactic end. Some kind of deal on Ukraine will be brokered, probably, which will at best be a ceasefire. There will be an economic reprieve for Russia. But what Syria makes a little more clear is that Genocide World is much more fragile than the Soviet Union. And it won't be a surprise to anyone if at some point it collapses. For the US there is good news. For sure from the perspective of most Trump voters. The US is freed up to focus on other things. Mostly domestic. But the coup for the US would be if Trump can somehow pull off the kind of grand peace deal in the Middle East he at least thinks he can. And which our cheerleading sycophant @EmmetKruelty surely thinks Trump will get finished in his first week. I ain't holding my breath. Trump 1.0 failed to achieve peace with Iran, or North Korea, or China, or Putin for that matter. He just talked a lot from 2017 to 2020. But what Biden did in Ukraine - pinning Putin down - and what the rebels did in Syria - weakening Iran - probably helps Trump and US interests in the Middle East. I think where you and I would partly agree is that war criminal Bibi Netanyahu is every but as genocidal as Putin. So good luck to Trump getting the war criminal to agree to something other than ethnic cleansing or genocide in Gaza and the West Bank. Mostly what seems to be falling into place is not World War III, but Cold War II. Cold War I was actually a pretty good time that ended well for most of the world. Except the Soviet Union, of course. Your media is not telling you that, is it?

I think the axiom of politics for the US, when anything like "Islam" or "jihad" are involved, is simple: Be careful what you wish for. The people we helped to beat the Soviet Union in Afghanistan attacked us on 9/11. The "good guys" in the Arab Spring lost, mostly quickly and pathetically. And we ended up with much worse, as @Pete1111 already pointed out. Let's not even talk about W.in Iraq and Hillary in Libya. Again, I'm with Trump (and probably Putin) on this one. Just stay the fuck out. No good will come of it. This is an interesting article that reaches the same conclusion as @Moses's AI homework: What Syria’s triumphant rebels learned from Al Qaeda’s striking failures Al Queada's gig never made sense to me. That article above describes it in a way that seems particularly insane: that these jihadist rebels somehow had to defeat the West before they could take down their lackey surrogates running Islamic countries. And the chances of that were????? The version I've usually read made a bit more sense. The idea was that by attacking America, bin-Laden could stir up an anti-American, pro-jihad sentiment on the Arab street in places like Saudi Arabia that could be used to topple the regime. Still didn't make a whole lot of sense. And still never happened. The thing I have always wondered, in some alternative reality, is what would have happened if the US never invaded Iraq under W., but did occupy Egypt in some way during the Arab Spring, under Obama, in order to support the democracy movement there? It would be different going in, armed, after a country had their own popular revolution. Which is not what happened in either Afghanistan, or Iraq. Arguably, if there is any Islamic country that could have worked in, Egypt might have been the place. Ukraine gave us a taste of what might have happened. The US did support a democratically elected leader. We are on the side of the people, overwhelmingly. But it basically led to a draw. In Egypt, since there was no Russia behind a counter-revolution, maybe it would have ended up in a solid victory for democratic institutions. We don't have to worry about that now. The issue now is: how bad will it get? Every article now suggests that Americans (and Russians, and Europeans) have less to worry about in the short term, but possibly more to worry about in the future. The switch to fighting national wars based on extremist ideas, rather than global jihad, is practical in nature. Syria will encourage more of that, based on the idea that a more limited goal (taking over a country is never a modest idea) is more winnable. But if that does happen in a number of countries, at some point it becomes a much bigger terrorist threat than Afghanistan was. There is a story I have told a lot about a former conservative client, Epigonos, over at Daddy's old site. The essence of the story is that he and I completely disagreed about the Iraq War. But it took both of us all of 15 minutes to understand why it would eventually fail. And we were both right. My main point was that the idea was awful, and like every other US quagmire it would backfire. Most Americans would now agree with me. Epigonos supported the basic idea, but argued that W. would fuck it up by putting boots on the ground. He argued we should just bomb the living fuck out of Iraq. How lovely! So I asked what happens if we bomb the fuck out of it, and what rises out of the ashes is worse than what we bombed the fuck out of? He said, I think verbatim, "That's simple. Then we go bomb the fuck out of it again." In effect, we did that. We bombed the fuck out of it, and then got ISIS. And then we did have to go back and bomb the fuck out of it again. It was and still is one big tragic mess. That said, after decades of Forever Wars, it actually sounds like a pragmatic, if brutal, idea. And Trump is the kind of bad ass to send the message, unilaterally. Although Harris would have done it just as well, after working closely with NATO and a lot of democratic leaders in Europe and Asia. Leave us the fuck alone, and we'll leave you alone. Fuck with us, or any of our allies (if it were Harris saying it) and we will bomb the fuck out of you. As many times as it takes. The US does have the receipts (or bloodbaths, if you prefer) for being credible about that.

Most likely true. But, if we are just having girl talk, I always get this vibe that @EmmetKruelty is just a bitter old queen. In today's woke world, even military veterans can be bitter old queens. And speaking of military veterans ..................... I think this whole crush vibe between @EmmetKruelty and anti-Homo Hegseth stems back to the other Pete. Who was far more handsome and articulate than this one. I mean, think about it. Pete Hegseth comes off as crude, overly macho, untrustworthy, a boor. @EmmetKruelty comes off as precise, consistently honest, textured and cultured, almost obnoxiously subtle and sophisticated. Other than him being self-loathing, I can't think of a single negative thing to say about @EmmetKruelty. Basically, I think Chasten fucked it all up. Back in the day, @EmmetKruelty might have met a shy but sweet Mayor Pete, and transformed into @EmmetKuddly instead. But clearly it is too late. The love birds have children, who look............................ you know. Black. Or Latino. Or some weird unhealthy mix. Smelly? Maybe Gay or lesbian? I certainly hope not transgender. All of that would simply be a bridge too far for @EmmetKruelty, who prefers womanizing White males. Better to fester in his cruel fantasies. And hope that maybe an alcoholic Straight Gay basher like anti-Homo Hegseth will find him in a moment of drunken need.

Now, that is an interesting one. I'll get to a question, but first several comments. This one really came out of the blue. And it is during this period when there is daily drama about Trump, and I have been traveling a lot with family. So it sort of all slipped under my radar. And I don't feel I have a clue. So the AI briefing seemed accurate, and helpful. Mostly it seems like this has huge potential to be "out of the frying pan, into the fire" for Syrians and Kurds. That said, there's a reason millions of Syrians fled under Assad, as @unicorn has noted in several posts. In the few articles I have read, Saudi Arabia, Israel and Turkey are the perceived regional winners, and Iran the perceived regional loser. To the degree that is true, on the level of a global geopolitical chess board, this actually may end up being a stabilizing force. Your own AI summary suggests that HTS is every but as fanatical, but wants to steer clear of global jihad and instead focus on "Syrian issues". If true, that is perhaps good news for everyone but Syrians and Kurds. The US is a winner is at least once sense, maybe. While Afghanistan did not turn out as planned, and in retrospect Biden was right to advise Obama to get out a decade earlier, the US at the very least sent this message: "Fuck with us, and you are dead or homeless. Or fish food at the bottom of an ocean." That could be one good reason why jihadists in Syria think it might be best not to fuck with the US. At least for now. The same would go for Russia and Putin, which might be why they won't mess with Russian bases. Which leads to my question: just how bad is this for Russia? Because in the few articles I have read, Putin and Russia (along with Iran) are named as the big losers. And Assad did end up in Russia. How could Putin let this happen? Is the perhaps obvious answer that Russian military forces were so focused on Ukraine that Putin simply had to lose in Syria? Which, if true, was no doubt part of the rebels' strategy. It is an interesting and unexpected outcome of standing up to Putin. The Ukraine war has certainly not helped the Ukrainians (or Russians) live and prosper. But it has helped them survive, and remain sovereign. It has not hurt the US in any measurable way to help Ukraine. I'd argue it helped the US, only in that it strengthened NATO. And it gave us at least neutral moral credibility. Meaning instead of invading Iraq for all kinds of bullshit reasons, and creating chaos in the region, this time we were actually helping a democracy that asked for our help to defend themselves. It's also consistent with my belief that the Russian Federation is well on its way to collapse, just like the Soviet Union did. The Soviet Union was of course way more powerful than Putin and his Genocide World. But he obviously can't keep it together. Meanwhile, US support for Ukraine is a blip on the US financial radar. And Trump will make Europe pay more of the bill. This actually is one of the better parts of Trump winning. It now seems clear that neither side in Ukraine can win a decisive victory - for now. I do think time is on the side of Ukraine. Just like time was on the side of the much weaker armies in Afghanistan, who defeated both the Soviet Union and the US. So Ukraine will be a cold cease fire, while Russia is allowed to fester. And Syria will NOT be another military adventure for either the US or Russia, hopefully. The rest of the world will probably appreciate that. The likely losers will be Syrians and Kurds, who will get slaughtered in jihadist and nationalist military campaigns. But after two decades of drama and failed invasions, no one is looking for a new Forever War.

Which is what a cruel, pro-Genocide Jew like you would say. Here's a few of the Palestinian children war criminal Bibi The Baby Killer murdered, while he was trying hard not to kill them. Name a Democratic Senator who is not pro-Israel? If I had to name the most pro-Israel Democratic Senator, it would be Mike Johnson, the Jewish Senate Minority Leader who is in the strongest position to actually help Israel. Oh, wait. Johnson is a Christian and past kinda sorta Homo hater. I meant Chuck Schumer. Out of curiosity, I checked. There have been 39 Jewish US Senators. 31 Democrats, including my own mentor and heroic action figure, Paul Wellstone. And 8 Republicans. My heroic action figure is Paul Wellstone, who was a staunch defender of Israel, back when Barak was PM and Labor was seeking peace and Arafat was the deal breaker. Arafat was not a war criminal. But he was a stupid and weak and failed leader, who through his failures opened the door for war criminal Bibi The Baby Killer to take over. But now it is solely on Bibi The Baby that he is a chronic baby killer and war criminal. Paul was also a fervent defender of LGBTQ rights, back in the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" days. Your heroic action figure is Gay bashing Pete Hegseth. What does that tell us? You're a cruel and weak and unprincipled self-loathing Gay man. There are currently 10 Democratic Jewish Senators. There are currently 0 Republican Jewish Senators. What does that tell us? With the brief exception of Laphonza Butler, until she was replaced by Adam Schiff (another honest Jew Trump loves) my state California has continuously had at least one Jewish Democratic Senator since 1992. For most of that period we had two: DiFi and Barbara Boxer. ICC issues arrest warrants for Israeli PM Netanyahu and ex-defense minister Gallant over alleged war crimes in Gaza

I normally just focus on boring charts and graphs and polls. I am not really a gossip girl. I leave that to my divine Sister In Cock. But I am getting really curious. First there was Don Jr. and Kimberly breaking up. And Trump making her ambassador. And now, right around the same time self-loathing Gay veteran @EmmetKruelty is proudly backing a Gay basher to run the military, our alcoholic womanizing action figure stops bashing Gays and women. At least until he is confirmed. Want to hear my theory? I think our alcoholic womanizing action figure has found wifey number four. Except they don't have to go through that whole cheating/alcoholism/pregnancy test/divorce thing. @EmmetKruelty would not be the first self-loathing Gay man to be fucked by a Straight alcoholic action figure while he is drunk. It gives our drunk action figure the submissive hole he needs, since fidelity is clearly not his thing. I doubt our self-loathing Trump fan boy would even need a drink. What more could you do for MAGA than volunteer to be molested by a drunk hunk Homo hater? It's not love. But it's close. No more stories about pregnancy tests and sexual harassment. Or maybe it really is just a Gay self-loathing veteran who has nothing better to do than spend hours, and hours, and hours, and hours, and hours, and hours, and hours, and hours, and hours of his useless time promoting a Homo hater. Hegseth does a 180 on women and gays in combat If @EmmetKruelty is really lucky, maybe Pete, who is maybe anti-Homo, will even do a 69 with him. But he'd probably have to be super drunk. I can't wait to see how this one turns out.

Should Trump, or @EmmetKruelty, ever be required to tell the truth? No, not really. It's a free country. Trump can, and does, say whatever he wants. ABC and Stephanopoulos to pay Trump $15M, apologize in defamation suit settlement The network and anchor will also cover $1M of Trump legal fees. I find that incredibly amusing. And I am elated that @EmmetKruelty has no doubt shot multiple loads of Kruelty Kum over it already. Although, in fairness, there is nothing cruel about telling the truth. Poor Georgey Boy and ABC can no doubt survive the payment. And the embarrassment of referring to "sexual abuse" and "defamation" as "rape". It is of course wildly ironic, since Trump is the biggest raper of the truth around. After his self-loathing fan and submissive fan boy, @EmmetKruelty, perhaps. It does piss me off that in 2021, when they had a chance, Democrats did not ask a jury to decide whether Trump was telling the truth when he called January 6th "a day of love". And if not what the legal consequences for Trump would be. Alas, as Roy Cohn taught us, self-loathing liars can have a nice run, when they just keep lying constantly. Too bad he's not around. Then @EmmetKruelty would not have to bother looking for respect from Gay bashers like Pete Hegseth. Oh, I forgot. Roy Cohn bashed Gays, too. There is one huge upside to this ruling. Trump is now on record as someone who demands the precise truth. We'll see how well he does living by his new standard.

WHY IS @EmmetKRUELTY SO CRUEL? REAL MEN LIKE JOHN FETTERMAN KNOW NOT TO BULLY TRANSGENDER CHILDREN.