Axios is reporting that the US was taken off-guard and wasn’t told about the pager plan. Israel has a long-established pattern of making bold moves that fly in the faces of their colonial overlords and make the regional situation worse
worth noting— this gives Israel a way of learning/confirming which state officials in Syria and Lebanon are in direct communication with Hezbollah, and studying how Hezbollah logistically responds to country-wide casualties. the implications here are bigger than just burnmarks on some grunts’ asses. the entity gets a ton of intelligence out of this.
you absolutely do not have to hand it to IOF or the Mossad, but whoever cooked up this scheme has been laughing all afternoon and thinks themselves a genius
that’s exactly how I would say I found out the base’s layout if I had a spy in Fort Irwin
she’s been known to be trans for a long time, but before this week has always sidestepped accusations and questions about it. she had a Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy about her gender identity
could us anglophonoid Yakubian Snow Apes get some context here? who is this from and what is it announcing?
sorry for contributing to the conversation, next time i will just post a pic of my dick and nuts and then leave
to be fair, kissing/washing someone’s feet when they enter your home is a very ancient practice among jews. its used in stories/art as a metaphor for atonement or being humbled. it shows up in a couple different places in the Torah, as well as the christian gospels
this art isn’t meant to be sexual, its just a fantasy of one day having the colonised apologise to the settlers for being in the way of their slaughter
an Iranian ally under Iranian protection in Iran’s capital city? this is going to be a huge deal politically. Israel is daring Iran to get involved, and Iran needs to respond to this to maintain credibility
To add on to what I wrote here-- what was missing from January 6th was a unified Republican stance that violence and ‘cheating’ were justified. The people who had already made up their minds about that charged into the capitol, and the Republicans in the halls of power turned tails and shat on them as a result, proving that they were more motivated more by a loyalty to the status quo than by a chance to reshape it through force.
That lack of unity is gone in 2024. Trump is the Party, and he has proven that he is willing to cheat and kill to keep himself on top.
Pretty realistic. It’s easy to dismiss the threat of a second Trump administration as Democratic fearmongering to chase after donations and motivate voters, but the Dems have proven at every turn that they care more about decorum than about wielding power as a tool to affect the world. The right is increasingly moving in the opposite direction-- decorum doesn’t matter, winning matters. Getting what they want matters.
When Trump trashes the entire administrative ‘deep state’ that restrained him during his first administration, through Schedule F shenanigans or violence, what are the Dems going to do? A Republican administration, doesn’t even have to be Trump, can totally remove any and all tools that could be used to restrain the Administrative Branch’s power, and concentrate it all in one person. Dems would quiet down and fall into line President von Hindenburg style, instead of using what they have left to form the nexus of some kind of competing power structure. Something something we need peace to heal the nation.
One party is fascists, the other is West Wing LARP. The fascists can do a LOT of damage if all they get as pushback is Sorkinesque tweets.
people are absolutely careless on here sometimes lmfao
The major thing that separates Project 2025 from previous conservative platforms is that it ditches the entire administrative state right away, replacing the entrenched bureaucrats who make up the ‘deep state’ (not in the QAnon boogeyman sense) with a pre-selected roster of vetted conservatives who Heritage Foundation deems more loyal to Trump than to the liberal order
The administrative state can’t oppose its own deletion…unless, as you suggested, the military gets involved. If there isn’t an immediate and direct rebuke by the Armed Forces of that deep state replacement phase of the project, then Trump will probably get away with it
What can I say? interesting times await us all…
In a stunning turn of events, the Supreme Court has once again hit that sweet 6-3 split, this time on the question of whether ol Donny Trump can wriggle his way out of his biggest jam yet.
This SCOTUS ruling sets the precedent that the office of the Presidency is immune to any legal repercussions for crimes committed as part of an ‘official act’. Any president can now do whatever they want in office and face 0 consequences for it.
Remember, you have to VOTE Dem forever now, lest this weaponised office of unchecked power that the Dems have done nothing to meaningfully stop the creation of fall into the hands of a Republican. Your ability to continue VOTEing Dem while conditions deteriorate depends on it!
same as when someone calls me anything in a mean way— quiet smoldering resentment and elaborate years-long revenge plots that end in their untimely death, from natural causes as far as the coroner can tell
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it very well could be— given that the US has been urging de-escalation these past few weeks (albeit halfheartedly and ineffectively), i think any escalation is likely to be unilaterally israel
that’s not to absolve the US of guilt, of course. if they gave a shit and saw Arabs as human beings and not a political problem, they could very well put their foot down on this kind of rogue operation