Iran Destroys Rare US Spy Plane, Maersk Slaps on Emergency Surcharge, Russia Bans Gasoline Exports

I had the misfortune to drive past the local protest area yesterday. Forgot all about the big doings.

  1. I was shocked at the magnitude of people attending and bringing signs. Lots of cars honking in support. Traffic both ways slowed to a crawl. So I had time to reflect.
  2. I agreed with the vast majority of sentiments expressed by the signs. Particularly the ones about ending the war and the Epstein class.
  3. Although I agree with the protesters on many issues, I felt myself getting angrier and angrier. Because both sides miss the point.

Each team gets in another part of the oligarchs’ plan when they can. While the other team galvanizes the opposition to come out swinging and vote in their side next time. Back and forth we go, but other than some crumbs that are usually and quietly clawed back, the direction is clear. We’re just the pawns.

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Israel is getting getting hammered by Iran. So much for Iran running out of missiles. The target map over Israel shows nothing but red dots. The population is pretty much sheltered. Danny Haiphong speculates that Iran may begin to target Israel’s nuclear capabilities. Wouldn’t that be a turn of events?

My frustration exactly.

And even if the system collapses it will just be “Orange Man Bad - Elect Kamala.”

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Had to look it up for my own curiosity. Carlin was born in May of 1936. Wish he was still with us now.

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Once RFK came onboard the Trump team, I broke my streak of not voting and enthusiastically supported Trump. These two issues combined with “America First/no interventionist wars.” Were the exact 3 reasons why.

Now I think the CIA must have one of RFKs grandkids captive in a basement somewhere. There’s no conceivable reason why he’d promote glyphosate otherwise.

And the illegals have become “problem/reaction/solution”. Biden floods the country, people react by electing Trump, Trump pitches ID laws (digital?) and sends ICE on warrantless raids in unmarked vehicles and facemasks because it seems that’s the only way deportation can happen?

What happens when the blue team sweeps the midterms? Impeachment bread and circus?

We’re not getting a political solution to this.

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Even the new F-35s are being delivered without radars because of gallium, making them useless for anything but training.

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His speech further supports this deranged thinking. :clown_face: :woman_facepalming:

https://x.com/MarcNixon24/status/2038298362571899137?s=20

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This speech is just stunning! During the 1980s one of my uncles worked for the W.German govt and for his assignment, lived and worked in East Berlin. I visited there on many occasions. Even a lefty like me understood the complete disaster of government ownership. And East Germany was the jewel in the crown of the Soviet Bloc. Yikes! If that was as good as it got, I’d hate to have seen the worst. Poor Canada. Ironically, same uncle was assigned to Ottawa in the late 1950s/early 1960s.

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With the level of sheer stupidity on display today, he could do a concert everyday and he would have fresh material each time.

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“…using the unmatched power of public ownership…”
Uh huh. Receipts please.

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From Larry Johnson’s website

“A Baron of Lies Turns the World Upside Down—and Loses”

Excerpt: Donald Trump is not only endangering the world with his megalomania and greed, but will likely go down in history as a baron of lies. What is the real situation, given that the Western media actually believe Trump’s nonsense?

The fact that this propaganda cannot be true is also evident from the fact that the claims are becoming increasingly fantastical—even the famous Baron Münchhausen would blush.

Big Lies

Negotiations that Don’t Exist and Criminal Insider Trading

On March 22, President Trump gave the Iranians 48 hours to open the Strait of Hormuz, warning that otherwise the US would destroy Iran’s power plants.

https://sonar21.com/a-baron-of-lies-turns-the-world-upside-down-and-loses/

The costs of this war are absolutely staggering

The are rough construction costs, not replacement cost

radar system - 1.1B
3 additional radar systems - 900M
850 Tomahawks - 1B
AWACS - 700M
F35 - 100M
(3?) KC135 - 100M
2400 thaad and patriot missiles - 240M
2 EC130H - 250M
Physical damage to multiple bases - ???

This isn’t touching fuel and deployment costs. Replacement costs are likely to be a minimum 150% and higher… if you could even replace them. F35s are currently being delivered without radar systems, because the critical component, is unobtanioum at any price.

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Half a trillion or half a billion?

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If the US wanted to stop Iranian oil shipments, all they have to do is interdict Iranian tankers after they exit the gulf … but the dont want to do that, they NEED that Iranian oil on the market to keep a lid on prices …its truly clown world

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Maskirovka

Yes thats the problem with all revolutions - they REPLACE the government instead of REDUCING it.

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Yes, during COVID I often heard people say ‘Im afraid this will end in violence’ … I replied ‘I’m afraid it wont..’

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Half a billion my bad

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