Winners
J.D. Vance - Masterful performance. Would love it if all politicians sounded as knowledgeable and polished as he did Tuesday.
Tim Walz - Sure his performance was meh, failing to win over men with any type of believable male behavior, but he looked so scared during it that he sparked the sympathy drive in women.
Iran - They hit back and got a lot of missiles through including apparent hits on IDF air bases. It’s another climb up the escalation ladder. Brace for impact though.
Losers
Debate Mods - Can we replace them with the random town hall format? That was a more fun format.
Hezbollah - Leadership destroyed in a short span of time, but this is the business they have chosen.
Non-liberals - You do realize 1/2 the country is fine with the Kamala/Walz combination as nominal leaders of the nation? You do realize their politician crop is going to deteriorate?
Israel - Air defense looked bad this week and that was with some US assistance. Takes time to replenish from April’s attack and now this. They have big decisions to make and a depleted defense stockpile.
Links
The Economist demands change in the Ukraine war.
IM1776 goes to Springfield. Good deep dive here.
The potential scientific fraud here has hurt research in an immeasurable way.
Was it sabotage that affected the construction of an aircraft carrier?
The immigration story is truly after every Western nation.
The next link points out the decline in the US military, and it is hard to see a way to turn it around fast.
Latest from Mearsheimer.
Rufo doing great work on how DEI is throughout our government. Commissars for all!
Meet the honor roll student and college undergraduate who can't read.
For the ruralite/urbanite argument, a podcast on the future of small rural towns.
The Ivy League students who don't read books and increasingly, can't.
The red squirrels of Scotland battled and won against the invasive grey squirrels. Metaphor alert.
Iran; I have to tell you- the escalation ladder 🪜 is 💩
Utter Nonsense.
Dreamed up by a lunatic Cold War scientist who clearly had never been in a school fistfight, or more likely never punched back.
40 steps on that ladder, in real life there aren’t even 4.
Limited war or cabinet wars required limits be respected by both sides. The other side didn’t and now neither does Israel.
As the stated purpose of all hostile forces against Israel is the destruction of Israel and their deeds match their actions, Israel has stopped playing.
Israel believes these 2 conditions that the author and readers probably don’t, and I believe these 2 conditions as well;
1) HAMAS is long a creature of Iran, as Iran has been their only support and logistics for a decade (except for the United States and its allies in Europe) that means Iran knew and certainly would have had to bless the 10/7 raids. What wasn’t expected was the Palestinian’s gotta Palestinian and they would live stream rape, murder, sadism to an extent that would sicken every one. This is the day Iran found out what everyone else already knew- that you can’t buy Palestinians- “you can’t even rent them “ as a State Department alumni told me. Hizb started the rocket attacks the next day, October 8th, so what escalation? Other than “war” the fantasy bourgeoisie game. This is reality, not a fantasy role playing game.
No one real cares BTW about the impact on oil futures… soon, neither will you.
2) Israel believes and as a American Veteran I believe (totally goy BTW) that the State Department actively seeks their betrayal into at best some sort of Botswana with tech arrangement run by the Obama-Biden Foggy Bottom long lost Prodigal Son- Iran. Remember we had the Iran account as balance for decades with the Shah, we through MIT were making Iran a nuclear power from 1972 forward, we started courting the Ayatollah as soon as he landed in Tehran. That’s one of the reasons Carter ate 💩 over the hostages his last year in office. The problem of course being the Iranians know so well DC can’t be trusted, nor is any fantasy of Israel being a Dhimmi Tech Botswana possible either.
This is insane and delusional, but that’s DC.
So Israel isn’t playing limited warfare farce, the escalation ladder was burnt down October 7th, and Iran … can’t beat Israel unless Israel beats itself.
Israel is quietly reasserting sovereignty because it knows well DC and the Democratic Party are in dissolution due to them staging a color revolution against themselves to get Trump. DC isn’t a player in the Mideast now…
… you see this Dearies is actually our SUEZ …
Love the pic!!! Says a thousand words!! LoL