| second: Trump is oscillating by the hour between Armageddon and insouciance, musing out loud that he may just wash his hands of the war and leave the Strait of Hormuz closed – a revenge of sorts against Asia and Europe for refusing to join his capricious “excursion”. But if he does that, the Iranian regime will not return to the status quo ante. Iranian hardliners have tasted victory – by surviving – and will press their advantage, imposing a permanent toll fee on tanker traffic and acquiring enormous political leverage over the Gulf. It would be the worst strategic reverse for the US since the Vietnam War and a field day for the Russo-Chinese axis. Trump says America “doesn’t need” the Strait of Hormuz. Who put that idea in his head? The US imports eight million barrels a day (b/d), either refined products or heavy crude to balance its refineries. [go to link] |
| 6ixStringJack: That sentence was your takeaway, huh? That's the level of stupidity I have to deal with here everyday. |
| second: "6ixStringJack: I found the whole thing pretty funny." They are rich so they must be the best: President Donald Trump has named 13 people to his panel of science advisers — and all but one is a leading technology executive. The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) now includes at least nine billionaires. The corporate chiefs have a combined wealth in excess of US$900 billion. The sole academic researcher is John Martinis, who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics last year. From Scientific American: [go to link] |
6ixStringJack: I found the whole thing pretty funny. Noem's just a magnet for bad press, and I don't imagine she'd be much of a joy to be around IRL. Her husband is the Asshole of the Week right now for sure, but I'd bet if you were a fly on the wall in that house for the last 20 years she had a lot to do with whatever the hell is happening there. I think there's a very good chance she is and has been physically and emotionally abusive. I think at the end of the day, she actually is one of those Trumptards that have nobody but themselves to blame for all the bat shit that happens to them. And she's probably toast now. I don't think hot pants and kissy faces on her husband are sending the right message at a time you have SCOTUS making rulings on transgenderism.  |
| 6ixStringJack: The articles I've read don't exactly make it clear how he was exposed. Was it just some angry lefty on bluesky that found this and immediately outed him, or were the Noem family being blackmailed for any period of time? If that is the case, why did they put the pictures out there? What didn't she do that she was supposed to do? Or was this guy so careless that literally everybody had these pictures and somebody was eventually going to expose him whether it was the blackmailers or not. |
| 6ixStringJack: I doubt she was devastated and she knew it was going on. You don't just up and decide one day to put on huge fake tits and hot pants and blow kissy faces to the webcam. She's had to have caught him quite a few times and probably beats the shit out of him on a regular basis, and as I've said in the thread I think she absolutely has been cheating on him because he's broken and he stopped being able to have normal sex a long time ago. They absolutely should be investigating any potential blackmail, and she should be stripped of any remaining duty and security clearance she has until it is concluded. |
| 6ixStringJack: Yeah. I already wrote about that here: [go to link] |
| second: Kristi Noem 'Devastated' by Report About Crossdressing Husband: 'The Family Was Blindsided by This'. National security experts raise red flags.
Security analysts told The Daily Mail that if the alleged online activity is true, it could have made Kristi Noem vulnerable to blackmail during her time as Homeland Security Secretary. Former CIA officer Marc Polymeropoulos warned, “If a media organization can find this out, you can assume with a high degree of confidence that a hostile intelligence service knows this as well.” Experts note that undisclosed personal conduct by those close to high-ranking officials can create coercion risks. [go to link] |
| THG:
"The People Trump Pardoned are on a Crime Spree!" |
| second: Before Trump’s war:
1) Iran didn't control the Strait Of Hormuz, now it does
2) Iran oil was sanctioned, now it's not
3) Iran was not building a nuke, now it will
4) US bases in the Gulf were assets, now liabilities
5) Inflation was declining, now increasing
Definitely winning!
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6ixStringJack: P.S., it's "You're MAGA and You're beaten". Almost got it right this time.  |
| 6ixStringJack: You're so full of shit, Theodore. I'll be laughing at you on election night. |
| THG: Years, years you've followed me and other posters from thread to thread spewing stupid, hateful, misogynist, racist comments from a supremacist's perspective. Most of those posters tired of you and have since moved on; but their, my and your posts remain.
Your MAGA and you're beaten. |
| 6ixStringJack: Your news is fake news. There's no reason to have a discussion with people like you. Life is too short to waste it on the time wasters. |
| 6ixStringJack: I haven't lost anything. |
| 6ixStringJack: I haven't lost anything. |
| THG: Naw, you just lost. I have thread after thread on different topics of which I would post updates according to what was being reported. And sure as shit, you would show up after every post in every thread, mostly to insult me and call everything fake news. You're backing off because your boy Trump is stealing from you and the rest of MAGA. Anything you had he is taking from you. He has made chumps out of all of you. |
| 6ixStringJack: That's not true at all. I'm just done with your day to day bullshit that means nothing in the end. There might be one important issue to talk about every month, but you guys make a big deal about a dozen or two things every single day. I've got better things to do than waste my time on either of you. November is a long way away. I'm not arguing about things like polls half a year from the election to somebody who doesn't even understand how different elections are going to look going forward. We'll just see what happens 6 months from now. |
| THG: Bullshit Gilligan. Everything you've been posting has been shown to be not only wrong, but also stupid. Pick anything Trump is involved in and try to sell it as not stupid and criminal. |
| 6ixStringJack: Nah, Ted. Just bored of arguing with you two chucklefucks is all. How's it feel posting into the void? You get yourself a BlueSky account yet? |