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Thinking about this a bit on a much nicer dog walk this evening after we got some rain today and regime change is a must, am I wrong? If our intel, not Israel's, but what is being reported about our Intel, that 1) they weren't looking to create nuclear weapons and even if they were, they were years away and 2) that we likely only sent them back 3-6 months, then the best thing for the current power structure in Iran to do is to bow to Trump and let him take his victory lap as he tries to claim he brought world peace. Meanwhile, they have already discussed and determined that now is the time to go full speed ahead on a weapon, right? That gives them 3 years under Trump to get it while he ignores it because ignoring it will make his base feel it's not an issue. And don't get me wrong, I was extremely hesitant of any action in Iran because of Iraq. Yes I used to have grandiose ideas of what great things could come out of Arab Spring, but I've seen the results. This just seems like such a bad spot for the world. Please someone tell me I'm wrong...I want to be wrong.

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To be honest, this was the first time I felt like he was acting 'presidentially'. Maybe I should change that to say this is the first time I felt like he was talking honestly. Don't get me wrong, I will acknowledge every point of what he did wrong that possibly could have been prevented us from getting into this predicament in the first place. But, based on his response, I do think he felt he had an understanding with Israel that if the US helped, they would stop. He's weak though and Netanyahu took advantage of us. Ultimately this all falls on his feet. This is Trump's war.

The similarities are striking. One glaring difference is that while in hindsight we were aware of differing opinions on WMDs with Sadam due to many different variables, our Intel thought he had them. Our Intel now says Iran is not even pursuing WMD's, let alone have them. And honestly the only real pushback i've seen towards Trump are from a few conservatives and the 3 or 4 folks in the house on the Dem side that don't like siding with Israel on anything. As a whole, seems like most are good with the fact that Trump is ignoring his own Intelligence because of Netanyahu's gut feeling.

I worked dial-up Internet for quite awhile and a majority portion of that was well after it's prime years. I did everything I could to automate myself out of that job or train others to take it over. I assumed I was going to get laid off eventually anyway, just like every other person I worked with (400+ folks in Ann Arbor, eventually down to 5 of us in our Southfield location). Because I was able to decrease my workload, I found myself helping other teams with their work but was still needed as there were only two of us that knew how to manage the network all the way through. Both of us are still with the company in different roles. He does a better job of taking time off now. I don't have the concerns anymore in terms of being swamped with work when I come back (team picks up the slack when I'm gone, as I do when a co-worker takes time off). Still ingrained to me that taking time off impacts other people and hate that feeling. My boss regularly yells at me when I say i'm taking a day off but jump on for a meeting that i'd prefer not to miss.

You obviously read the summarized version of the Bible. In the full story, Jesus flipped over the tables of the heretics. He was totally cool with the profiteers if they claimed they aligned with Jesus' teachings or sold prepper style products.

You are 100% spot on with Tucker. For the "why" question, I think Tucker and others similar like Bannon are somewhat principled. I'm not saying that in a good/bad way, but that they have a specific direction they want to see followed. The error in their ways though is that they think they can influence Trump, so they curry favor by supporting him, but then think they are smart enough to get him to do their bidding. Trump props them up when it works for him, and blows them off when it doesn't. Ultimately they have no additional influence on Trump than your MTG and Laura Loomer, which I'm sure behind closed doors both would scoff at being compared to them.

It really doesn't matter what MAGA has claimed, MAGA isn't based on principle, it's based on what dear leader says and does. If he decides to join the fight with Israel, the only people on his side complaining about it will be cast aside until they find a way to reconcile with dear leader by doing something else horrible.

My guess is you were just a little sensitive to anytime anyone (mostly Trump) complained about Biden's age. Prior to the debate, there was no one in the MSM complaining about Biden's age and anytime Trump brought it up, MSM was the one defending Biden. In fact the hypocritical part about Tapper has nothing to do with him not going after Trump's age, but that he, along with the network he represented, went after anyone that called out anyone that complained about Biden's age or indicated something Biden did might be because he was old.

Sounds like even with the largest bunker buster we have, they suspect it might take multiple to penetrate far enough. If Israel is using theirs, not sure if they just keep hitting the same spot over and over again, but I took it as they might send in ground troops. Either way, just another escalation on a country that I was recently told by my own country isn't pursuing a nuclear bomb.

I saw that earlier as well. Part of it makes me think Israel had good intel and others like Germany agree, part of it makes me wonder if our Intel was off that much or if Gabbard was just touting a directive from Trump when she said we had no indication Iran was working towards a nuclear weapon only a few months ago.

I'm certainly no fan of Jake Tapper, but MSM has been very critical of Trump and his health. Once Biden was not in the race, Trump's age became a source of attack by the MSM's too. They knew they couldn't attack that unless it was vaguely pointed out that both Trump and Biden were old. He wrote a book about Biden, he should be allowed to discuss that on the merits without a 'but Trump!' response.

Yup, and if I were a betting man, I'd put my money on them getting it. That said, yesterday Israel made it clear they didn't need our bunker buster, so I almost wonder if they will send in a small ground unit since they have control of the air already.

Quote me in error? I’m in the mountains right now so Internet has been sketchy, not sure if there is something there or if it’s actually blank.

If only Padilla had the decency to act better, like MTG and public hand job girl.

Guys, I protested in Denver today! And by protested, I was in a really nice bus to go to an event at Meow Wolf (weird but kind of neat) and we drove through a protest with a car next to us that had a Mexican flag...hence I was part of the 'caravan'. Luckily for me and everyone on the bus and the entire city of Denver, 4 motorcycle cops had everything under control and we just continued on our way to the event. That said, they had busses going back and forth and as we went to leave to head back to the hotel the bus apparently got caught up in the continued protest and we ended up having to take a rickshaw back to the hotel. Props to the gents at Great Plains Telecommunications that allowed me to tag along with them. At 11pm local, there were still a couple of hundred folks walking through the streets in Denver, peacefully from what I could see.

I'm in Denver for a conference and just got back to my hotel room and the first news station I saw was FoxNews. I put it on and they were showing live coverage of police and national guard trying to push a crowd back and arresting those that resisted. Then they go to another guy that has 'breaking' news. His report: "Oh my, just out of nowhere we have this caravan of vehicles that just came out of nowhere (cars in one direction slowly moving, in the one time I went to LA I had several times that I was apparently in a caravan myself as traffic just stopped all the time). Sorry i digress, back to the news report.... "most of these cars have flags and they aren't US flags, they are Mexican and other country flags, it's just crazy! I don't know why we're not seeing a police presence to address this"

I have two responses for this and I'm not sure which one is more appropriate. 1) Tell me you don't know about Ro Khanna without saying you don't know anything about Ro Khanna or 2) This goes back to MB complaining about Tlaib. He represents Silicon Valley, it simply makes sense that he's going to be more empathetic to issues that tech companies face, which employs the people he represents. If Dem politicians can't represent their constituents if those constituents happen to do something the DNC claims to dislike, then stop even bother running Dem candidates to represent Silicon Valley, or anything rural, or anything down south, or any area that has large businesses, especially if they are financial or pharmaceutical, or don't employ union jobs, or employ union jobs but also have CEO's that make a fat paycheck, or..... on and on.

Credit to my buddy that texted me last night with "Taylor's song on this break up is going to be epic."

See, if you go back far enough, the root of the problem is always elite democrats wanting more for themselves. 😉

I still would like to see them improve in some areas, but your point is legitimate.

I'm not saying Trump isn't in the Epstein files, I'm just saying the level of involvement he had is probably what has already been reported. I believe the same for quite a few others tied to him like Clinton and Gates. More salacious stuff came out on Prince Andrew. Ultimately I suspect Epstein was what I would guess most pedophiles are like, scared that someone will find out. Thus he liked to stay around powerful people in the hopes that would help him, but unless he saw a real opportunity, like he did with Prince Andrew, he didn't let people know his other side. Maybe he dropped some hints when you look back on it, but that's about it, IMO.

My best guess is we already know 99% of the Epstein stuff and there really isn't anything further being hidden that would hurt Trump or anyone else. 1) If Biden had dirt on Trump, how could he not release it? 2) Look at Trumpers in power that would be responsible for Epstein files. Patel, Bongino, Bondi, etc have come out and said there is nothing there. These are folks that truly believed their was something being hidden, but once they get the files they try to 'dump' everything that was released already like it was a big deal and hoped that would satisfy the people they brainwashed. 3) Elon is a drug addicted hot head, he would have tweeted the evidence today if he had it. All that said, it is kind of fun to say 'Epstein did not kill himself'. I wouldn't be shocked if I was wrong though.

Elon is out there claiming the Epstein files haven't been fully released due to Trump's involvement now. I have stuff to do tonight, but I just want to get some popcorn and watch this.

Tasty? possibly, but unlikely. Elon already supplanted his own 'deep state' in multiple agencies through his work with DOGE. He'll end up getting whatever he wants and everyone around Trump will lie to him saying that they hurt Elon 'very badly' to get Trump to move on from yelling at Elon. That said, I am all for an all out Elon vs Trump civil war.