A 'More Decisive' Response

Plus: when the city government starts covering Ozempic, Jill Biden's lies, and more...

More targets struck: The U.S. shot down four Iranian drones yesterday, as well as a launch unit, while Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it targeted the enemy base from which the strikes were fired from. Further strikes, warned the IRGC, would be greeted with a "more decisive" response.

IRGC:

🔺 Following the US military's predawn attack today using aerial projectiles on a site near Bandar Abbas Airport, the American airbase from which the attack originated was targeted at 4:50 a.m. pic.twitter.com/KCFnse3Kp4

— Press TV 🔻 (@PressTV) May 28, 2026

Iran's military "thought they were going to outwait me," President Donald Trump said in a Cabinet meeting yesterday, adding, "I don't care about the midterms." He seemed to signal he wasn't worried about how unpopular the war has been with American voters, and that he's becoming a bit obsessive about bending the Iranians to his will and/or gaining U.S. control of the Strait of Hormuz, by any means necessary.

Then again, Trump tends to be rather distractible.

Trump also warned Oman—which tends to be a friend to the U.S.—that it should not agree to share control of the Strait of Hormuz with any Persian authorities (an idea that had been on the table) and that he would bomb them if they did. "Oman will behave just like everyone else, or we'll have to blow them up," said Trump, adding, "Nobody's going to control it."

For a few days, it had looked like Trump and his counterparts in Iran were going to agree to a legitimate ceasefire, as well as a plan for control of the strait. Now, hostilities have resumed, and Trump seems rather hardheaded about his expectations for control of the shipping corridor.

Meanwhile, "the Israeli military said on Thursday that it had launched new strikes against Hezbollah targets in Tyre, a city in southern Lebanon," reports The New York Times. "The resurgence in fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed militia in Lebanon has complicated the broader peace efforts because Iran wants any deal to cover Lebanon." TL;DR: everything's falling apart again.

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Scenes from New York: 

zohran has helped me see the trump phenomenon more objectively, in that it's clear there are people who hate him no matter what and get mad when he does stuff they agree with and there are those for whom his winning is personal validation and can take or leave any policy change

— Matthew Zeitlin (@MattZeitlin) May 27, 2026

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QUICK HITS

• "The Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into E. Jean Carroll, the former magazine columnist who accused President Donald Trump of sexual assault," reports CNN. Oh boy. I want everyone to lose.
• "Many public employers started covering weight-loss medications for teachers, firefighters and police officers a few years ago when the blockbuster drugs hit the market, following the lead of big companies," reports The Wall Street Journal. "Far more employees were prescribed the drugs than expected." Now, some of these towns are being hit with massive bills for the pharmaceuticals—including Buffalo, New York, and North Attleborough, Massachusetts—and struggling to figure out how they're going to pay for it, or whether they ought to reduce the benefit.
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there's a lot of ladies i know without guys, but who want kids. and i go 'would you accept some rich guy paying u a ton of money to just have his kid as a single parent' and they're like 'idk man prob not' and im like 'waht if it was 5m' and they're all magically like 'oh yeah i…

— Aella (@Aella_Girl) May 27, 2026

• It's pretty obvious that she's lying:

Jill Biden on watching the 2024 debate.

"As I watched it, I thought, 'Oh, my God, he's having a stroke.' And it scared me to death," pic.twitter.com/jQfjMxd15C

— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) May 27, 2026

• This article, "What I Learned About Loss While Skateboarding at Costco," from The New York Times was really good, if you're like me and enjoy street design and skating and stories about mortality. I highly recommend it.

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

Further strikes, warned the IRGC, would be greeted with a "more decisive" response.

Decisive meaning lobbing missiles again at unrelated countries?

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

It was Kuwait yesterday. UAE and Saudi Arabia have already responded to their attacks.

But the narrative is Iran is winning.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

THIS TIME THEY MEAN IT!

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

They must have received their new TEMU shipment.

[mad.casual]

"more decisive" sounds a lot like "Greatest Hits Vol. II". I don't know what your previous definition of decisive was but it doesn't appear to have decided anything.

[EISTAU Gree-Vance]

Oh, you’ll find out, smart guy! They’ve been holding back up to this point……

Not clear why, but I totally believe em…..

[JFree]

You prefer they lob missiles at your house?

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

What an odd thing to say.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Not really. I've actually been meaning to test out my homemade Pewter Dome defense system.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Multiple dem run states have now introduced an unconstitutional bill of attainder to tax recipients of compensation for lawfare under Biden at 100%. Let's see if reason or Chicago retards complain.

Wisconsin Senate Minority Leader Dianne Hesselbein (D-Middleton) responded to the fund Wednesday by introducing the “No Taxpayer Dollars for Insurrectionists Act” which would apply a 100% state income tax on any money Wisconsinites receive through the fund. She said the fund was the “height of corruption.”

https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2026/05/27/ex-trump-attorney-troupis-seeks-3-2-million-from-anti-weaponization-fund/

[Neutral not Neutered]

Hum, gonna be a hard time finding folks convicted of insurrection.

All the "trespassers" who were abused, they are okay with those folks being compensated which is what the fund is for.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

The bill doesnt limit it to those guilty of insurrection as that charge was never legally leveled. It is anyone receiving compensation from the fund.

Minnesota, California, and California have all introduced similar bills to tax.

[Spiritus Mundi]

Minnesota, California, and California have all introduced similar bills to tax.

Checks out.

[Social Justice is neither]

At what point do you just declare these states to be in open rebellion and act accordingly?

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Minnesota has the most stones. They also introduced a bill to tax 100% any recovery of HHS fraud despite it being federal dollars.

[Murray Rothtard]

you are correct. this law sounds like total bullshit.

almost on the level of bullshit required to create the fund in the first place.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Yes. We know your anger at compensating victims of democrat government abuse. You've made this clear.

No matter how abusive. Such as the millions of dollars the defendants have spent protecting themselves of the abuses.

You applaud process as the punishment against conservatives. Yet rage when used against democrats even if said democrats abuses their offices like Comey.

Did you even fucking read the example feom the article??

[Murray Rothtard]

"We know your anger at compensating victims of democrat government abuse. "
nope. i've explained this a million times. you just can't read. my problem is with Trump using a unilateral and illegal process that all of us agree is terrible when done by Democrats.

"You applaud process as the punishment against conservatives."
never happened. another of your fantasies about what i believe that is completely separated form everything i have ever said.

"Did you even fucking read the example feom the article??"
yes. unlike you, i am capable of both reading and comprehension.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

you just can't read. my problem is with Trump using a unilateral and illegal process that all of us agree is terrible when done by Democrats.

Always said after the fact by democrats pretending to be libertarians. Called a shrikism. And will be ignored the next time democrats do it again.

That is my problem with you. You literally dismissed it again just yesterday with the Atlanta example.

You have yet to criticize the payouts to BLM and antifa despite it being linked here many times.

Are you even aware that payout settlements are part of the judicial process?

Are you now against liability lawsuits against state/police for compensation? Bet you are not. You'll find a way to remain consistently inconsistent.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

So if you read it, does he deserve compensation? Yes or no?

Do you think he will get compensation in a liberal judiciary like Minnesota who is still going after him? Yes or no.

Now if your combination is Yes then no, then youre admitting in reality you dont want him to be compensated retard.

So please, work your way through the rationality here.

And it is ironic you dont want the political branch of trump to be able to decide these things but have no fucking issue with the political left wing courts who have no fucking accountability deciding these things.

Again. You're a useful retard of the left.

[mad.casual]

“No Taxpayer Dollars for Insurrectionists Act” which would apply a 100% state income tax on any money Wisconsinites receive through the fund.

Well, at least it's not a tariff.

[Fist of Etiquette]

"I don't care about the midterms."

That much is obvious, which I suppose makes him the most dangerous president to ever live.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Yet all the prediction markets say the not caring is actually working.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

The only thing worse than literally Hitler is literally Hitler that doesn’t care about midterms.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Worse is the next real Hitler in 2028, likely JD.

[Neutral not Neutered]

He'll be the Hanta King in no time.

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

"I don't care about the midterms."

OMG! He won’t leave the White House when his term is up!

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

I see how you sarc'd there.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

The initiative, called the Farmworker Housing Component of the Low-Income Weatherization Program, is part of California’s sprawling, multibillion-dollar “cap-and-trade” system, which taxes carbon producers and redistributes approximately $3 billion per year to energy programs and left-wing social causes — all under the banner of fighting “climate change.”
...
California’s Department of Community Services and Development selected La Cooperativa Campesina de California, a nonprofit that serves farmworkers, to administer the program. La Cooperativa, in turn, has partnered with a for-profit, “minority owned” company, MAROMA Energy Services, to help run the program. Contractors do the work of installing solar panels and other appliances.

These organizations have heavily advertised the program to California’s nearly 900,000 agricultural workers, half to three-quarters of whom are illegal immigrants.
...
In its official documentation, California’s Department of Community Services and Development acknowledges that non-citizens are eligible for the program and that they even accept identification from foreign governments

https://nypost.com/2026/05/26/opinion/californias-latest-benefit-to-illegal-immigrants-solar-panels/?utm_campaign=nypost_opinion&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

Giving tax money to left-wing causes > giving money to people politically persecuted.

— Reason

[mad.casual]

taxes carbon producers and redistributes approximately $3 billion per year to energy programs and left-wing social causes — all under the banner of fighting “climate change.”

Just. Really. Popular.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Now, hostilities have resumed, and Trump seems rather hardheaded about his expectations for control of the shipping corridor.

I think we can all agree, one way or the other, the strait cannot be allowed to be shutdown. Seems like the message I've been getting for a while here, anyway.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

As part of that case, 14 current and former Minneapolis police officers signed sworn declarations saying they believe Blackwell perjured herself while testifying during Chauvin’s trial — a fact that Alpha News attorney Chris Madel drew attention to on social media Wednesday. A total of 33 officers signed declarations saying the restraint Chauvin used during the George Floyd incident was trained by the Minneapolis Police Department.

https://alphanews.org/14-officers-signed-sworn-declarations-saying-new-minneapolis-chief-committed-perjury-during-chauvin-trial/

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Only 164B in fraud identified so far based on Biden era policies that ramped up medicaid and HHS fraud.

https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/05/27/jd-vance-breaks-down-224-billion-in-fraud-n4953294

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

That won’t solve the deficit so who cares?

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Fair.

[Spiritus Mundi]

And nothing happened....

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Again. Fair...

[Fist of Etiquette]

TL;DR: everything's falling apart again.

Not sure it's been intact for the past forty years.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

AMERICA WAS NEVER GREAT!

[mad.casual]

The falling apart along the San Andreas fault line doesn't go too far enough.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Democrats keep put doing themselves. Leading dem candidates volunteered with Al Queda.

https://jewishinsider.com/2026/05/adam-hamawy-benevolence-international-foundation-bosnia-al-qaida/

[Spiritus Mundi]

Reminder the Islamist running NYC was out celebarating Eid yesterday. Less than 25 years after Islamic terrorist attacks on the city, the Dems let the Islamists have it. You can't hate them enough.

*Side note, look forward to Mamdani's participation in June's pride month celebrations*

[Fist of Etiquette]

zohran has helped me see the trump phenomenon more objectively, in that it's clear there are people who hate him no matter what and get mad when he does stuff they agree with...

Someone discovering Trump is a 90's democrat, and Madmani is a... I don't know what policies capitalists are onboard with.

[mad.casual]

the trump phenomenon more objectively, in that it's clear there are people who hate him no matter what and get mad when he does stuff they agree with...

Don't say Derangement Syndrome.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Family who assaulted TPUSA reporter, or TPUSA YouTuber going by Reason style guide, has now recieved emergency restraining orders. Have asked leftist judge to ban reporter from thr county and ICE facility. Leftist judge grants initial application despite clear video of family assaulting the reporter.

https://thepostmillennial.com/minneapolis-family-charged-in-brutal-assault-on-savanah-hernandez-granted-restraining-orders-against-tpusa-reporter-claim-to-be-victims

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

Harmeet could do the coolest thing right now…

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

She already did.

https://www.fox9.com/news/tpusa-reporter-savanah-hernandez-attack-2-indicted-federal-charges

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

No even cooler. Go after the judge for deprivation of rights.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Good point. Probably not a real judge though, likely an administrative judge.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Guardian says the US must stop deporting illegals because deportation causes carbon pollution.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/26/us-immigration-flights-emissions

[Medulla Oblongata]

They complain if you put them on trains...

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

So back to my original idea of trebuchets?

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

Make them walk.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt10374610/

[Spiritus Mundi]

Send them to the fertilizer factory.

[Social Justice is neither]

Is Soylent Green an option?

[Spiritus Mundi]

I'm not eatting that shit.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Where's sullum on thisnkey question??

Steve Guest
@SteveGuest
The Washington Post Style section asks the question:

"Did Trump pick the right blue for the Reflecting Pool? We asked a pool guy."

After reading through 1,221 words of TDS infused remarks, the Post finally gets to the point:

Per Swimming Pool Steve, the blue color President Trump picked is "going to very likely be a more sharp and accurate reflection versus the original gray color... What you’re going to see is a higher contrast to the light of the sky and clouds.”

In short, the Reflecting Pool color is the correct blue.

https://x.com/SteveGuest/status/2059680220685160771

[Leo Kovalensky II]

After all, the color choice for the reflecting pool was the most libertarian issue facing us in 2026.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

Whooosh!

[Moonrocks]

Did Trump pick the right blue for the Reflecting Pool? We asked a pool guy

Asking the real questions.

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

Too bad he didn’t insist on gold color.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Would still cost less than obamas disaster of an attempt that cost almost 40M.

[Spiritus Mundi]

Not a disaster. The right people got rich, which was the goal all along.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Dammit. Fair.

[Leo Kovalensky II]

Jill Biden on watching the 2024 debate.
“As I watched it, I thought, ‘Oh, my God, he’s having a stroke.’ And it scared me to death,”

And here I was thinking, "Oh, my God, he's having a stroke! SNL is going to be good this week."

[NealAppeal]

He'd been having, at minimum, a 4 year long stroke by that point.

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

Or just daily recurrent strokes. Eitherway would have to be a Guinness world record.

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

And yet she didn’t call 911.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Even Abby Phillips of CNN doesnt believe this excuse.

https://x.com/SteveGuest/status/2059836879634120896

Steve Guest
@SteveGuest
CNN’s Abby Phillip obliterates Jill Biden for her new interview about Joe Biden’s disastrous 2024 debate with Trump:

“It's the first time that we've heard her express any concern about that debate that ultimately ended Joe Biden's 2024 campaign. But that stands in stark contrast to what Jill Biden had to say just moments after the debate.”

[Neutral not Neutered]

Insurance wouldn't pay out unless...

[damikesc]

"And here I was thinking, "Oh, my God, he's having a stroke! SNL is going to be good this week.""

You thought this in 2024? It ceased being funny about 10 yrs prior.

[Leo Kovalensky II]

The only time it's ever funny any more is when they do the Presidential debates, quite honestly. Dana Carvey as Joe Biden was pretty good.

[EISTAU Gree-Vance]

“SNL is going to be good this week.”

Well sure, if SNL still (or ever) had the stones to poke fun at a dem.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Taxpayer-funded Scenes from Boston:

https://www.facebook.com/MassNOWOfficial/posts/pfbid028yBoALsTAWftSt35uPjhhgZVYY2TGFRCByD1QxcYFX6zhtYsJfGRtG9ek8Q3WAdvl

3rd Annual Trans Period Pride!

Mass NOW and @masstpc are bringing to the Boston Public Library (@bplboston) another consciousness raising conversation around transgender experiences with menstruation.
Visit the link in our bio or massnow.org/events to RSVP or sign your organization on as a co-sponsor!
This event is free to attend, and both members of the Trans community and their allies are welcome to attend.
Catered dinner and free period underwear provided to all attendees!

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

Science!

[NealAppeal]

This event is free to attend, and both members of the Trans community and their allies are welcome to attend.

Seems exclusionary for a "public" event. Are there membership IDs for those groups?

[Chuck P. (Now with less Sarc more snark)]

More like a "pubic" event, amirite?

[NealAppeal]

The poor doorman checking those IDs.

[Eeyore]

An as alternative to providing special underwear - they could just stab every attendee in the taint. It should provide an even more realistic simulation - I'm told pain is part of the experience.

[mad.casual]

"The government is good at two things. It knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and stab you in the taint and give you free period underwear!" - Harry Browne-Beaver

[EISTAU Gree-Vance]

Holy fuck, that’s hilarious. I’m telling ya, if there was a right wing psyop dedicated to making progressive dems look retarded, I don’t know how they could do any better than the trans movement.

Molly might know more about this. Hmmmm….,

[EISTAU Gree-Vance]

Seriously, fucking “menstrual equity”? Really? No fucking way this is real. Lol.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Hey Liz, have you figured out yet that the IRGC launches attacks anytime they get close to a deal? Does this remind you of other Islamic regimes in the past, like Bin Laden? You mention Oman but seem to be ignoring the countries tied to the Abraham Accords all condemning Iran. Even Somaliland is getting in on the hemming in of Iran. The IRGC is desperate. And trump is right thst Iran is relying on western media and democrats to wait it out, the north Korea strategy to nuclearization.

Even the chzecks are joining in.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/us-ally-pledges-support-trumps-push-break-irans-grip-hormuz-we-ready-contribute

The IRGC is desperate but you and democrats keep falling for thsi desperation as a reason to give the IRGC what they want.

Its very similar to reasons stance of we must vote for Biden to stop the left from rioting. How well does that style of policy work out?

[Leo Kovalensky II]

The IRGC is desperate but you and democrats keep falling for thsi desperation as a reason to give the IRGC what they want.

Who knew that all the IRGC wanted was a mention in Hit & Run (or whatever this thing is called now)!

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Youre not an intelligent person at all are you Leo.

We get it. Your maddow loving/corporate media narrative repeating ass also cant formulate basic intelligent thoughts.

In fact your reply here is not responsive to my post at all. Because youre literally a desperate retard lashing out.

[Leo Kovalensky II]

You were looking for a serious conversation in the morning links? As much as you post here, I thought you understood how this worked.

[Leo Kovalensky II]

By the way, if you wanted a serious conversation you can go back to the post yesterday where you falsely claimed that Reason never mentioned "sue and settle" under Obama and answer to the links that prove otherwise.

[Quicktown Brix]

have you figured out yet that the IRGC launches attacks anytime they get close to a deal?

I guess they read Art of the Deal.

But seriously, your claim here is that Iran is defeated, yet they sabotage war ending deals, particularly this last deal which was going to be such a capitulation that NeoCons and Israel were blasting Trump over it?

[Leo Kovalensky II]

To be fair, Trump's claim is that Iran is totally obliterated and defeated and he needs $200B more to defeat them.

Jesse is just following in his idle's footsteps (pun intended).

[Neutral not Neutered]

Leo, if you lived 150 miles to the next gas station or point of any type of civilization in death valley and I removed your gasoline, you're not dead yet but are definitely defeated and soon will be if you don't agree with my terms. Which after you do, I will open the door to the air conditioned bus and provide water and food for the remainder of your journey.

Refuse, okay I have plenty of time, but yours is running short.

IRGC started throwing rocks at the bus that is their only lifeline...They hate the idea of having to work with Saudi and UAE, they want to rule or will kill them if they can't.

[Leo Kovalensky II]

Joke's on you, pal. I drive a diesel.

Also, in your analogy is the $200B needed for the bus, the AC, or the fuel to get me 150 miles? I mean I know that prices are way up, but $200B is a lot of money to pour into a regime that is completely defeated.

[Neutral not Neutered]

QB. Any time agreements between regional countries are made that Iran is not included or have excluded themselves from they have attacked. Oct 7th a great example of course.

They are the pariah and they refuse to work with anyone to continue to be.

IRGC expects 100% capitulation by any and all people and act like 3 year olds having temper tantrums but instead of throwing a stuffed animal they have deadly weapons. And as soon as they are confronted for their self-imposed evil they grab the closest child or woman to hide behind and then shoot their weapons.

Yes you see terrorists being terrorists trying to stop the progress of peace and the further isolation of their self-imposed hate for they know their time is short.

[Quicktown Brix]

OK. You've made this argument logically consistent, however it relies on the assumption that the IRGC leaders are illogical...but maybe they are.

You've given me something to think about. Thanks.

[Quicktown Brix]

I'm interested in fleshing out your case here.

So how do you explain their restraint with the previous 12 day war attacks and the fact the the US broke the ceasefire first? I agree Iran is a pariah and supports terrorism, but they had been relatively docile and agreeable prior to this war.

[Chuck P. (Now with less Sarc more snark)]

"they had been relatively docile and agreeable"

JFC, QB! On what planet is murdering 30,000 citizens "relatively docile and agreeable?" By that measure, Hamas and Hezbollah are "friendly, if diagreeable" neighbors.

You are meandering into disingenuous twat territory again.

[Leo Kovalensky II]

On what planet is murdering 30,000 citizens "relatively docile and agreeable?" By that measure, Hamas and Hezbollah are "friendly, if diagreeable" neighbors.

By that measure Palestine should build a statue of Netanyahu

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Funny how he called 20k gazans dead a genocide.

[Quicktown Brix]

I mean internationally. (Because that's what's relevant to our discussion of striking out to sabotage near a deal.)

[But SkyNet is a Private Company]

You mean internationally, where they fund the Houthis, Hezbollah, Hamas, and sell drones to Putin and oil to the Norks and ChiComs ?

Totally docile. I guess this makes you an AGENT OF RUSSIA.

[Quicktown Brix]

If you want to move the goal post to funding (while ignoring that the US and Israel also funded some of those and other terrorist groups), then, yes, that's a Middle East problem, not a North America problem.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Qb supports the capitulation and never a response to Iranian choices in what they do.

He even does his best to even deny 5 decades of continuous Iranian funded terrorism.

[Quicktown Brix]

Qb supports the capitulation and never a response to Iranian choices in what they do.

Mostly correct.

He even does his best to even deny 5 decades of continuous Iranian funded terrorism.

I've said nothing remotely close to this.

[Leo Kovalensky II]

It doesn't matter what you say, QB. Jesse has told us he cares more about arguing against what you don't say.

Since you haven't denounced eating babies to my knowledge, you must be for it.

[See.More]

But seriously, your claim here is that Iran is defeated, yet they sabotage war ending deals . . .

You use "they" referring to Iran, but it is the IRGC, not Iran, that is the saboteur.

Iran’s leadership operates as a hybrid theocracy where unelected religious authorities and the military hold ultimate power, eclipsing the elected "secular" or republican branches. Significant internal divisions exist within this power structure.

[Quicktown Brix]

I use "they" to refer to the people that control Iran, which is the IRGC.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Correct. As has been pointed out to qb multiple times.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Most secure elections ever!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/california-lawmaker-flags-alleged-double-ballots-as-gavin-newsom-tightens-election-rules/ar-AA24f8bl

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

They promise to secure illegal votes.

[Leo Kovalensky II]

Justice Department Opens Probe Into Trump Accuser E. Jean Carroll
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/justice-department-opens-probe-into-trump-accuser-e-jean-carroll-16b5e7e8

Hasn't she been probed enough already?

[Moonrocks]

Considering the fantasies she has, no.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Not shocked you believe Carrol. Who cant provide a year. Has evidence from a dress that was made a decade after her claims abd refuses testing. Is literally insane. Whose story sounds like a literal law and order episode. Who called rape sexy. Whose claim is actually less believable than Balsey Ford.

Good work leftist Leo.

[Leo Kovalensky II]

What about my post gave you any indication as to my opinion of this issue? Was it the juvenile "probe" joke or... wait... that was the entirety of my post.

[Murray Rothtard]

Jesse can't read or think.

He just types out whatever rant he feels like at the moment and pretends that you are the libtard he wanted to yell at anyways.

He somehow still thinks you are a leftist. it's amazing.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Lol. Poor retarded leftists. Where did Leo deny what she said or claimed retard?

Is this another "I was only pretending to be retarded" defense from you and leo?

His entire "joke" is predicated on her being assaulted dumbass.

Leo is a useful idiot of the left just like you are. Not sure how you two dont get that. Everything you do or write is in defense of the left. You dont ever criticize them. You even defend reactions against leftist abuses. See above.

[Leo Kovalensky II]

I made a literal, juvenile joke with the double entendre of "probe." You are apparently the only one that missed it and interpreting it as some broad statement about this case. That's not enough, though, you have to resort to completely making up strawmen like you're Frank Baum.

Somewhere in your warped mind I must support everything that I don't completely denounce to your satisfaction?

Seek help.

[Leo Kovalensky II]

It's always easy to win an argument when one is arguing with the voices in one's head.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

The entire story Leo and Chicago retard seem to be supporting.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/598604/carroll-v-trump-the-rape-case-that-started-at-a-resistance-party/?itm_source=parsely-api

Useful idiots both.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

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E. Jean Carroll says she had to trick the jury by making herself look fuckable... she goes on to say that she is glad it worked...

Half-retarded Tim Miller is overtaken with emotion as he can't imagine how that must get Carroll's "feminist juices flowing."

https://x.com/lamps_apple/status/2059816998918381569

[damikesc]

Ewwww

[Moonrocks]

The resurgence in fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed militia in Lebanon

The fighting would have had to have stopped for it to resurge.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Cmon man. It is always the US/israel fault no matter how consistent attacks are from Islamic groups. Dont you western media?

See the hundreds of rocket attacks by Gaza during times of cease fire. Only the response can be criticized.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into E. Jean Carroll, the former magazine columnist who accused President Donald Trump of sexual assault...

Ha, heads will explode if they can't use that stick on Trump anymore.

[Fist of Etiquette]

"Far more employees were prescribed the drugs than expected." Now, some of these towns are being hit with massive bills for the pharmaceuticals...

Trump's in office again. You're free now to add a NO FATTIES requirement in your help wanted ads.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Many public employers started covering weight-loss medications for teachers, firefighters and police officers...

Putting donut shops out of business.

[mad.casual]

I must say, the Nazi Germany where the Brits or the French Underground disrupts Ozempic lines and the SS and Panzer divisions gradually get fatter and slower until dying of heart attacks is much less... existentially heroic.

First they came for the communists and I remained silent because I lived up 4 flights of stairs.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Your papers [wheeze].

[Fist of Etiquette]

Jill Biden on watching the 2024 debate.

"As I watched it, I thought, 'Oh, my God, he's having a stroke.' And it scared me to death..."

You'd think a doctor would know better than to keep her husband in a high stress job after that.

[Fist of Etiquette]

She was, of course, thinking the drugs they pumped him full of might have caused a stroke.

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

"Oman will behave just like everyone else, or we'll have to blow them up,"

The peace president has spoken.

[Leo Kovalensky II]

He can't keep ending wars if he doesn't start more. He has a Nobel Prize to think about!

[Jefferson Paul]

And when he fails to end the war, he can go back to saying it's not a war.

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

It's pretty obvious that she's lying:

Probably, unless his dementia meds came with a "may cause a stroke" warning.

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

I want everyone to lose.

Including the taxpayers?

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

They always lose.

[Medulla Oblongata]

A tale of two ballot initiatives...wonder if the Oregon one will be scrutinized to reject 15% of the signatures so that it comes up 532 short. Maine Sec. State declared that 12,542 signatures on the petitions were invalid.

Radical Initiative to Ban Hunting and Fishing in Oregon Is One Step Closer to Making the Ballot

https://www.outdoorlife.com/conservation/initiative-petition-28-oregon-surpasses-signature-threshold/

Secretary of State blocks transgender sports initiative from Maine ballot after signature review

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/secretary-state-blocks-transgender-sports-140655205.html

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Always amazes me they can reject 20% of signatures on ballot petitions but have under 1% rejection rate for election ballots.

[damikesc]

That's (D)ifferent.

[Medulla Oblongata]

They don't check the signatures on ballots.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Importing violent rampagers...

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/knifeman-unleashes-stabbing-rampage-busy-37215375

Switzerland stabbing as knifeman shouts 'Allahu Akbar' on rampage and teacher shields children

Police have locked down Winterthur train station in Switzerland after a knifeman went on a rampage, stabbing four people according to eyewitnesses

[EISTAU Gree-Vance]

Yeah, but that’s not a REAL culture war on mass transit. Not using mass transit at all is the real culture war provocation.

I learned that here.

[Rick James]

Now, some of these towns are being hit with massive bills for the pharmaceuticals—including Buffalo, New York, and North Attleborough, Massachusetts—and struggling to figure out how they're going to pay for it, or whether they ought to reduce the benefit.

Think of the drugs like you think of immigration, then you won't mind the public bill...

[Rick James]

there's a lot of ladies i know without guys, but who want kids. and i go 'would you accept some rich guy paying u a ton of money to just have his kid as a single parent' and they're like 'idk man prob not' and im like 'waht if it was 5m' and they're all magically like 'oh yeah i would do it'

so i made a directory for this, but i am trying to find ladies who would actually like to list themselves with their moonshot baby-funding goal. if u know anybody who wouldn't mind making a profile pls let me know, i wanna publicize the directory but need enough seeded ladies first

*looks at tweeter*

*sigh*

[mad.casual]

+1

The whole thing is nuts. If she started a "Pay an OF girl to punch a feminist in the cooch." list I'd think the turnabout was too blatant, maybe.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

https://x.com/TuckerCarlson/status/2059790599461490805

Tuq'er Carlson

@Tuq'rCarlson
At some point every Holocaust museum will be forced to include an exhibit on what’s happening in Gaza right now. It’s only a matter of time. Dr. Nick Maynard of Oxford University medical school has been a witness to the genocide.

[damikesc]

Amazing how the Holocaust REDUCED the Jewish population significantly while the Jordanians in Gaza have had their population increase.

Tuq'r has been bought.

[Jefferson Paul]

When, and by whom, were these censuses taken in Gaza?

[Medulla Oblongata]

Dhimmi

[Mickey Rat]

The truth is no defense.

https://notthebee.com/article/belgian-court-rules-factually-correct-stats-about-migrant-crime-are-hate-speech-during-sentencing-for-right-wing-activist?from_social=twitter

"...from the Brussels Signal:

'Van Langenhove was found guilty on two counts under Belgium's 1981 Anti-Racism Law: Incitement to hatred or violence against a group on grounds of nationality, so-called race, skin colour, origin or ethnic descent (charge A), and dissemination of ideas based on racial superiority or racial hatred (charge C). He was acquitted on the gender-related charge (B).'

"But the question is not whether Van Langenhove is right, but whether he has the right to say it. After all, radical leftists are allowed to share their beliefs about human identity ad nauseam, but they are never thrown in jail for what they say.

'The judges wrote that 'For an act to be punishable, it is not necessary for the defendant to have openly incited others to commit specific acts of hatred or violence… It is sufficient that others are incited to adopt a general attitude of intolerance or aversion towards the targeted group of persons.''

Read that slowly. It should scare the living daylights out of anyone who cares about liberty and tyranny.

"A quote from the verdict:

'Van Langenhove is not charged with spreading false information. He is charged with presenting facts in a way that incites hatred against persons on the grounds of one or more of the protected criteria in the Anti-Racism Law.'

Van Langenhove's 2024 lecture focused on the rise of crime in Europe due to mass migration, along with the dangers of multiculturalism and the "Great Replacement."

Part of his discussion there, and in other forums, also revolved around ethnic differences related to IQ, athletic ability, and other physical features.

There is actual science behind some of this (Van Langenhove gave the example of Kenyans being the best runners), but the Western world has been paralyzed by how the Nazis abused that science to promote eugenics and genocide."

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Qb is taking notes on how it is done.

[Quicktown Brix]

You should be taking notes: A guy using actual facts to make a case instead of pathologically lying. You could learn something.

[Medulla Oblongata]

"What you say is factual, but I don't like your tone of voice...off to prison with you."

[Marshal]

It's pretty obvious that she's lying:

It should embarrass her that she's so totally out of her league, but of course because she's so completely out of her league she can't recognize that.

[Marshal]

Seems ripe for abuse if custody isn't hammered out clearly in advance:

The market can't happen because the legal system won't tolerate it. Even if someone were to agree to pay 10M the courts will support a mother suing for child support on top of that. This can only work among people who are judgement-proof, i.e. have no assets.

[mad.casual]

Not sure I feel so great about this form of "markets in everything." Seems ripe for abuse if custody isn't hammered out clearly in advance

OK, show of hands, who had Aella as ushering in The Handmaid's Tale?

Custody? Custody is only a fraction. If the billionaire says the woman has to lie in bed for 9 mos. hooked up to an IV cocktail designed by longevity mogul Brian Johnson in order to protect his investment, is that cool? What about multi-child deals?

Suddenly, "the violinist conjecture" starts to look less like an (bad) argument in favor of abortion and more like a (bad) argument in favor of enslaving women (instead of just a bad argument either way).

[MWAocdoc]

"... control the Strait of Hormuz ..."

I think I see the problem here. NO ONE should be allowed to "control the Strait of Hormuz. The Strait should be international waters, free for anyone to pass through who wants to do so. No one should be allowed to hold commercial shipping hostage or charge a ransom or any other "fee" for passage in international waters, and attacking shipping there should be considered to be piracy on the high seas and punished accordingly. Any other country that allows Iran to get away with such things should be ashamed of itself!

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

"NO ONE should be allowed to "control the Strait of Hormuz."

If frogs had wings they wouldn't bump their ass on the ground all day.