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re: Austin cops that took down the shooter are being referred to a grand jury

Posted by prplhze2000 on 3/3/26 at 1:38 pm to Ag Zwin

Most shoots go to a grand jury. A formality more than anything.

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re: They were for Attacking Iran Before they were Against it

Posted by prplhze2000 on 3/3/26 at 11:35 am to OccamsStubble

242 Marines
Tortured Buckley to death.
Embassy bombing
Killed over 600 of our troops in Iraq
Refuses to give up quest for nukes.

Plenty of reasons to use our hardware.

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re: Thom Thillis goes berserk at Noem

Posted by prplhze2000 on 3/3/26 at 11:33 am to cajuntiger1010

A lot of people who are not cucks are thinking she is a disaster. Unfortunately, Trump can't fire her just now because that would give the Dems ammunition.

If he can't fire her, then he needs to send Lendowski packing as I suspect he is causing most of the problems at DHS.

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re: They were for Attacking Iran Before they were Against it

Posted by prplhze2000 on 3/3/26 at 11:11 am to OccamsStubble

They didn't pay attention to Trump.

Trump has said since before he was a candidate that Iran could not be allowed to get nukes and we should use any means to stop them.

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re: Smoked My First Brisket

Posted by prplhze2000 on 3/3/26 at 10:44 am to Bert Macklin FBI

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re: They were for Attacking Iran Before they were Against it

Posted by prplhze2000 on 3/3/26 at 10:34 am to lurking

Yup.

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They were for Attacking Iran Before they were Against it

Posted by prplhze2000 on 3/3/26 at 10:15 am

Erickson stood up for Trump on the Iran war and pointed out some inconsistencies I think the Poli Board will find amusing.

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“President Obama says a nuclear Iran is unacceptable. The real and credible threat of force is probably the last hope of persuading the Iranian regime to back down. So: Isn't it time for the president to ask Congress for an Authorization for Use of Military Force against Iran's nuclear program?” Kristol wrote in 2012 in the now-defunct Weekly Standard, calling on Congress to authorize the use of force against Iran.

Kristol also oversaw the Weekly Standard publication of a 5,000+ word piece in defense of attacking Iran written by Reuel Marc Gerecht of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and Ray Takeyh of the Council on Foreign Relations. The piece, like Kristol’s, is sadly no longer online. Of all places, Media Matters has a snippet of Kristol’s piece.

Kristol, a man who long fought for the American government to overthrow Iran, is now blasting the effort to do so because Donald Trump is in charge of it. He and Iranian stooge Trita Parsi are on the same side.

“We don’t expect the Obama administration to request an Authorization for Use of Military Force. But Congress can act without such a request. By doing so, it would serve the nation’s interest, and, indeed, the administration’s, if the administration means what it says,” Kristol once wrote in defense of overthrowing Iran. Now, he claims the effort makes America unsafe.

It’s not just Kristol who advocated for the overthrow of Iran, now bitter that Trump is the one doing it.

“...will at some point be forced to take military action, unless [the Obama administration] undergo[es] an epiphany and reverse[s] course. War is a horrid prospect, as is the potential for massive loss of life -- but not as horrid as that of a nuclear-armed Iran,” wrote Jen Rubin in 2010. Rubin is now advancing the notion that Iran was no imminent threat.

Max Boot once compared Iran to North Korea and opposed Barack Obama’s Iran Deal. Boot long favored a much more robust and aggressive response to the Iranian mullahs. Now, Boot insists this war with Iran is unnecessary.

It’s just fascinating to watch the long-time Iran hawks get their heart’s desire, but because it is Donald Trump doing it, they are miserable. This reminds me of Rubin and the American Embassy in Israel. She long maintained that it should be moved to Jerusalem and blasted repeated Republican betrayals to move it. Once Trump moved the embassy, Rubin blasted Trump for doing so, claiming it could destabilize the region.

Compare these Iran Hawks with another person who is genuinely, not performatively, opposed to Donald Trump.

He points out how George Will, a long time critic of Trump, supports the Iran War:

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Yesterday, that noted Trump critic with a long and consistent record of criticism, George Will, wrote,

[i]The U.S. action for regime change in Iran is not sufficient to produce regional tranquility. It is, however, a necessity for beginning to reestablish a precondition for a more peaceable world: the credibility of U.S. deterrence.

A nadir of post-1945 U.S. power — and its precondition, confidence — was the 1975 departure of the last helicopter from the U.S. Embassy roof in Saigon. A second low point was reached when Barack Obama drew, in 2012, and then ignored a red line (concerning Syrian chemical weapons). A third was in 2021 when Joe Biden produced a chaotic exitfrom Afghanistan.

Today, Vladimir Putin is watching Venezuela, Iran (a source of some of Putin’s drones) and soon, perhaps, Cuba, join Syria as vanished clients. The swiftness of their downfall illustrates the hollowness of Russia’s claim to be a formidable global actor.

Today’s world, where the velocity of information and the capability of weaponry annihilate distances and compress time, resembles an Alexander Calder mobile: a disturbance here translates into disturbance over there. In one of history’s stranger caroms, Oct. 7 led to regime change at Harvard and other universities, and forced a U.S. reckoning with antisemitism’s infection of both extremities of the political spectrum.

There are people on both sides who suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome. Some can abide no criticism of Trump and will justify, rationalize, or excuse anything he does. Then there are those like Kristol, Rubin, Boot, etc., who are willing to abandon their long held ideas and ideals because they hate Trump so much, they’d rather be miserable than support him carrying out their heart’s desires.

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re: iPhone and Edge: Does this site lock up routinely for you when using these?

Posted by prplhze2000 on 3/3/26 at 6:47 am to LemmyLives

Used to happen on my MacBook

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re: How soon before "conservatives" call Matt Walsh a Leftist and want the DW to fire him?

Posted by prplhze2000 on 3/2/26 at 9:53 pm to LittleJerrySeinfield

John Podheretz js tearing him up on Twitter about this.

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re: Vid of Kuwaitis approaching downed US F-15 pilot, offering help

Posted by prplhze2000 on 3/2/26 at 7:53 pm to DustyDinkleman

Well, assume they are using air defense systems we sold them.

Meaning our stuff works

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re: So when does China move a 200 million man army to the Mid East?

Posted by prplhze2000 on 3/2/26 at 1:15 pm to RT1941

No idea what I"m referring to, I see.

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So when does China move a 200 million man army to the Mid East?

Posted by prplhze2000 on 3/2/26 at 10:39 am

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Call them what they are: The Enemy

Posted by prplhze2000 on 3/2/26 at 10:01 am

Erick Erickson defended Trump's actions in his newsletter today while calling out the left:

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Overnight in Austin, Texas, a naturalized American citizen opened fire at a bar, killing several people. He wore a sweatshirt declaring himself “property of Allah,” and his social media feed showed he was inspired to attack due to our engagement in Iran.

Iran’s leadership has declared “global jihad” and is calling for Arabs globally to rise and attack the United States. We may soon find out if the CIA’s fears of sleeper cells in the United States, established because of Joe Biden’s open borders program, are real.

The Democrats in the United States Congress will not, despite recent developments, fund the Department of Homeland Security. We could really use it to be fully functional right now.

Dearborn Henry Ford Community College Professor Ali Akbar Shdid declared that, “Trump made a huge mistake by killing our beloved leader, Sayid Ali Khamani. He thought that by killing him, he’s going to make the believers submit and make them hopeless. However, we’re going to continue on the path of Sayid Ali Khamani. We’re going to hold his blood, his ideology, we’re going to learn it and teach it to our children and grandchildren.” Professor Shdid is, to my knowledge, still teaching.

The progressive Women’s March spread the lie that the Americans bombed an Iranian school. It was a misfired Iranian missile. The Women’s March is marching for the Ayatollah.

An Imam in Texas is declaring a need to expand the muslim population in the United States to take over.

Students for Justice in Palestine at the University of Chicago celebrated Iran's striking an American base in Bahrain. Columbia University rushed out to claim CUAD, a group run by a friend of Zohran Mamdani and that tweeted out “Death to America” in Persian, is not actually a campus group. Then someone pointed out that Columbia University has, itself, promoted CUAD and many of Columbia’s faculty support the organization. The university is now desperately trying to clarify the situation.

Calla Walsh tweeted out, “The only real justice for Imam Khamenei and for all the martyrs will be the total and complete dismantling of the US and ‘Israel.’” Ms. Walsh is a former aide to Senator Elizabeth Warren.

Manolo de Los Santos, executive director of the far-left People’s Forum, is declaring the United States a “rogue state” and wants an anti-imperialist struggle.

Cliff Connolly, a leader of the Democratic Socialists of America, declared on social media that, “the duty of every US socialist is to make sure it ends in our government’s defeat. May God protect the people of Iran, and may God damn the Trump regime.” Jesse Brown, a City Councilman in Indianapolis, Indiana, after the attack started, replied, “Amen.”

The Democratic Socialists of America have been connecting with the Chinese Communist Party to take pro-China positions against American “imperialism.” This tracks with the positions of both a city councilman in Indianapolis and the Mayor of New York City.

Over the past seventy-two hours, Iran has attacked more countries in the Middle East than Israel has in fifty years. Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, and Syria have all been attacked. French and British positions have been attacked despite both countries not assisting the United States. They are assisting now.

The United States and Israel have an ever-growing list of kills in Iran. The Ayatollah is dead. No, not Khamani. We killed that Ayatollah and have already killed his successor in office.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps is melting down, with some no longer following orders. Israelis hacked Iran’s television broadcasts to transmit messages to the Iranian people, many of whom have taken to the streets to overthrow the regime.

Three American soldiers died in Kuwait, and the American press rushed out to suggest this would break up MAGA. Iranians rushed to post statements of thanks for the soldiers’ lives and condolences to their families.

In January, the American Left marched for the despots of Venezuela.

In February, the American Left marched for Canadian hockey players.

In March, the American Left is marching for the despots of Iran.

The people who claim they want “no kings” really seem like what they really oppose is America itself.

Here, white progressives and Islamic agitators are calling for the destruction of Israel and the United States. In the streets of Tehran, the Iranian people are waving American and Israeli flags, cheering on Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu.

Evil is on the march in the streets of the United States as righteous justice rains down on Iran. Days like this, watching these progressive antics, they should be thankful Donald Trump is no Pinchoet and, besides, all the helicopters are in the Middle East right now.

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re: Variety: HBO Max and Paramount+ to Combine Into One Streaming Platform

Posted by prplhze2000 on 3/2/26 at 9:53 am to sorantable

I have both subscriptions, wonder what that means.

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re: Telegraph Reporting That VP Vance Is Not A Fan Of Our Decision To Go To War With Iran

Posted by prplhze2000 on 3/2/26 at 9:48 am to LuckyTiger

I am not surprised at all.

As I wrote earlier, Vance is shell shocked and traumatized by Bush's forever wars as is Gabbard. I like them both but it's time to say what it is. They could be considered casualties of Bush.

It's the same attitude you saw out of politicians after Vietnam. Better yet, its the same attitude of the British and French after World War I as their fear of another Great War drove them to appease Nazi Germany.

If Vance is allowed to carry out his wishes, the world will be a much more dangerous place.

And never forget he is tight with Tucker Carlson and refuses to criticize his views.

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re: Telegraph Reporting That VP Vance Is Not A Fan Of Our Decision To Go To War With Iran

Posted by prplhze2000 on 3/2/26 at 7:00 am to BOHICAMAN

Conservative paper

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re: The Iranians Cannot Overthrow the Regime Without Weapons

Posted by prplhze2000 on 3/2/26 at 6:49 am to IMSA_Fan

Germans

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re: Telegraph Reporting That VP Vance Is Not A Fan Of Our Decision To Go To War With Iran

Posted by prplhze2000 on 3/2/26 at 6:11 am to LuckyTiger

It's true.

He is totally shell shocked and is isolationist

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re: Free Press: How girls are being taught to hate men

Posted by prplhze2000 on 3/1/26 at 10:34 pm to Bigdawgb

Brett Cooper has a pretty good podcast

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PSA: Stay Strapped Up Out There

Posted by prplhze2000 on 3/1/26 at 7:48 pm

You need to stay strapped up out there. Iranian terrorist might hit anywhere in this country. Police can't always be there. The only thing that might be stopping or slowing down a terrorist is you and your weapon.

So be prepared.

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