Delivering us Bound to Our Foes

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

There is a post going around “right wing” (defined as to the right of Lenin) on twitter. Some of these people are people whose posts are normally thoughtful and full of insight. So I presume they’re thinking with something other than their brains — at a guess their justifiable anger — because the course they’re recommending serves no one but the left and the enemies of freedom.

The “idea” goes something like this: “If the Save Act doesn’t pass, we’re going to punish the GOP in the midterms because it’s obvious they’re a uniparty and they won’t do anything they were elected to do.”

People, I’m old. I’m tired. Sarah finds her ear trumpet, puts it to her ear, looks at the argument again, and says “Eh, sonny? Say again? You’re coming in broken and dumb as fuck.”

What? Some of you in the audience are going to pound your chests and tell me that piece of arrant stupidity above is sane or makes any sense? Bah. You’re blinded by the noise.

Fact the first: The GOP majority in the Senate is razor thin. No, truly. It’s razor thin. There isn’t much give.

Fact the second: That razor thin majority includes couple/half dozen rinos. Yes, this upsets me as much as it does you, BUT the fact is until things change on the ground, their districts ARE going to elect rinos. Still better to have them in the tent, because sometimes they’ll play.

Fact the third: Democrats are increasingly panicked, and the SAVE act panics them — justly — more than anything else, as it’s basically the end of their rule if it passes. So not, their coalition won’t splinter, except maybe by one or two.

Fact the fourth: Fillibuster allows them to stop votes on this. Yes, we could do away with the fillibuster, but I’ll remind you it kept us from going full UK under the autopen.

Fact the fifth: No, if the SAVE act doesn’t pass, it doesn’t mean all is lost. And if it did, why insist we must “vote them out” they would be, since all would be lost. We still won election since 2016, and 2020 required an extraordinary amount of effort from the left to steal. They won’t be able to muster that AGAIN.

Fact the sixth: As long as we don’t let states count votes for days, and stay on the cases that do, and blow up every instance of fraud on social media, we’ll be fine.

So — why these posts? Because they help the democrats. If you convince the GOP voters to punish them for not doing what they don’t have the votes to do, then you can bring in the full circus of Democrat rule.

Who does this benefit? The dying democrat party.

What do they intend to do? Well, look to Virginia and to what they’ve said. They’re talking camps and executions for those of us who are vocal.

Yes, in a normally functioning Republic you can punish one side by voting for the other. We’re no longer and haven’t been, really, for my entire time as an American (It’s just more open now.) In the republic as it is right now, if you vote to punish the GOP you’re voting for a passel of lunatics that outright proclaim themselves “socialists” or “Communists” and whose first priority is the destruction of our country.

Worse, you’d be doing this to punish the GOP for not doing something they simply don’t have the numbers to do.

As I said “Coming in broken and dumb as fuck.”

UNLESS YOUR INTENT IS TO HAND US BOUND TO OUR FOES.

It’s not? Then start examining the “oh, I’m so mad” posts that come across your timeline.

In the current state of the republic, there is nothing for it but to buckle down for the long run. Yeah, if we have to continue voting GOP they’ll get above their station. Which is why we must get over rough ground as fast as possible.

For right now, weld your ticket to “Straight vote GOP” and be ready to thwart fraud from the left.

Because the only chance our great country has is not to let the lunatics touch the levers of power for at least 12 years. And meanwhile, yes, work at replacing the RINOS and work as hard as you can at changing the culture.

And refuse to commit suicide by voting for the other side.

Because stupidity is a capital crime. It always is.

198 thoughts on “Delivering us Bound to Our Foes”

    3. One of the race-hustlers near the end of the Clinton Years was telling his followers to boycott the upcoming election.

      Best idea I’d heard that whole year!

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      1. That was so destructive to Donk efforts, the Partei now prosecutes even satirical “Donks vote Wednesday” or “boycott Donks” aimed at Donks.

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  4. If “teaching a lesson” is the objective, then teach the RINOs by flipping some Senate seats to make them irrelevant.

    The only reason they matter is that thin majority. Make them not matter.

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      1. The problem is those states are so close and so good at cemetary polling places that the RINO in the seat now is the only grade of R who could possibly win there. Primarying them with better Rs would just mean the D pretending to be moderate wins.

        But other seats in other states are seeing major demographic changes, so the existing D seat warmer is vulnerable. A couple of seats flipped would make the RINOs irrelevant. There are a few that are really vulnerable along these lines, and efforts there would yield better than revenge primarying on the squishes.

        Revenge is a dish best served with whipped cream, and whipped cream goes great with “your squishiness has become irrelevant”.

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      2. Which is the biggest part of this. There are many squishy Republicans in office due to vote fraud.

        There’s a case I found compelling that Thune is among them.

        Does anybody think Murkowski won her seat as a write in candidate in the general election legitimately?

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        1. Hey, when your ‘tism is nepotism, that should get you things undeserved too, right?

          I mean, that’s why Governor Hair Product has been imposed on California.

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      3. Speaking of which, guess what just happened to Dan Crenshaw (according to a post now up on Instapundit)?

        I don’t know anything about his opponent, though.

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  5. FM like Sarah is right! The trolls urging Republicans to “punish” the RINOs by voting the Democrats in, should be beyond transparent for thinking individuals. I’m having a problem getting the third candidate for Senate in Texas to receive more than a just, but… from people who haven’t interacted with him.

    We all have difficult rows to hoe. Sometimes you only have a sea shell with which to do it.

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    1. I say again (and again, and again) that a Third is vanishingly unlikely to do anything at all, other than siphon votes from its ideologically-nearest opponent. Perot got us Clinton. (Full disclosure: I got suckered into that one too.) Sarvis (the Big-L Libertarian) in Virginia got them Gubberner McAuliffe (aka “McAwful”) in 2014.

      No Thirds!

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        1. And for an example from the other direction: the CommiePartyUSA did NOT field a candidate for President in 2008.

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      2. “siphon votes from its ideologically-nearest opponent. Perot got us Clinton. (Full disclosure: I got suckered into that one too.)“

        –

        Also, guilty. Would like to say that if I, and other Oregonians at that time, had not been suckered, Oregon might have gone Republican … I’m kidding. The fix was in even back then.

        Haven’t been suckered since.

        The only way to stop the fix, is requiring ID to vote. Manual delivery of ballots, signing of a voter book, which has to match what is on the envelope. Inked finger. Public counting at the location where ballots are delivered (i.e. no boxing and moving ballots somewhere else).

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        1. 100% all the way through. I might add using that inked finger to put a fingerprint next to the signature.

          For best-of-both-worlds counting, how about “bubble-test” ballots fed thru a scanner straight into a locked box guarded by half-a-dozen Marines with orders that No BS Shall Happen? Instant electronic availability (maybe embargoed inside the scanner until the westernmost polls close) plus hardcopy.

          Ain’t anywhere near enough media time devoted to voting security. Or energy independence.

          Elections and Electricity, Mr. President! Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter!

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          1. “100% all the way through. I might add using that inked finger to put a fingerprint next to the signature.“

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            Thought about that. But do we want our fingerprints on file when we register to vote?

            Me? Already have my fingerprints on file, physical (worked USFS, so federal employee, even as a seasonal, fingerprints on file), and electronic (recent CCL). So, meh. But general population?

            So, my answer is “not really”. OTOH fingerprint does not have to on file anywhere other than the actual voting register list. Only to be used there if there is a challenge at a precinct.

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            1. Fingerprints don’t vary so much from print to print, so purple-haired election volunteers can’t decide that the Repub-looking voter’s signature is “questionable” and send them to the “provisional” scanner.

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              1. If nothing else, ID + in-person signature + envelope signature (*Oregon) + fingerprint + purple finger, might make the usual suspect work harder at cheating, increasing probability of getting caught, prosecuted and locked up.

                (*) Idea of “can mail out the ballots, then manually take completed ballots to voting location to complete the list before turning in ballot”. Those with deferrals (military, medical**, students, etc.) can mail them in; required to be there by voting day.

                (**) Must be conscious and competent.

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      3. I feel the obligation to defend Perot here.

        At the time, I thought he was a nut. And I didn’t react well to his presentation that was lifted straight from the book “How to Lie With Statistics” (seriously, buy that book). So when he briefly dropped out, and then came back a week later with a story of the FBI threatening his family, I was smug as hell.

        But the thing to remember, is that when he dropped out, he was running away with the contest. And that revelations since have caused me to believe that the FBI did protect the Deep State by threatening his family.

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  8. To give the counterargument its minimal due, I think it comes down to which side of the “Can we still vote our way out of this?” divide one lands on.

    Where do I come down? Basically: “I doubt we can, but ‘a decent respect to the opinions of mankind’ demands we try so long as trying makes even a lick of sense.” Inchoate maybe, but it’s where I am….

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    2. Also see “why the U.S. kept negotiating with The Regime in Tehran” during the force buildup. Yes, a part of that was waiting for the “all the eggs in one basket” event to happen. But part of it was also to do just that sort of ‘due diligence’ (and I do think it was genuine) on, do they want to give up The Bomb, after all?

      ~90 million Iranians are very glad now that those negotiations “failed.”

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      2. I think part of the reason for Trump’s negotiations was to reassure the Iranian people that he had not forgotten them, and the promise that he had just made to them would not be ignored. It took time to gather the needed forces together, and Trump wanted people to know that at the very least, he hadn’t dropped Iran and moved on the moment the protests were out of the news.

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        1. I’d bet DJT said “what if we hit them now” and the military said, “Sir, we can go tonight, and here’s what we can do from a standing start, but here is what we can do with a couple weeks to move assets and coordinate planning with the IDF,” so he sent his negotiating team to talk while they moved in the jets and loaded the kitchen sink into C-17s for a couple weeks.

          There’s plenty of kinetic effects available for delivery anywhere on the planet within a unit of cruise missile flight time, but just plinking like that is basically what got us 9/11. The “make all our enemies into Puerto Rico” overcorrection got us the occupation wars, but pretending they are not there is wrong too. Just killing the government that is insisting on being our enemy, declaring victory, and going home is a working theory middle ground we need to see tried.

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          1. Call it The Samadh Doctrine.

            They made a pile of their trophies

            High as a tall man’s chin,

            Head upon head distorted,

            Set in a sightless grin,

            Anger and pain and terror

            Stamped on the smoke-scorched skin.

            12

            Subadar Prag Tewarri

            Put the head of the Boh

            On the top of the mound of triumph,

            The head of his son below—

            With the sword and the peacock-banner

            That the world might behold and know.

            13

            Thus the samadh was perfect,

            Thus was the lesson plain

            Of the wrath of the First Shikaris–

            The price of a white man slain;

            And the men of the First Shikaris

            Went back into camp again.

            14

            Then a silence came to the river,

            A hush fell over the shore,

            And Bohs that were brave departed,

            And Sniders squibbed no more;

            For the Burmans said

            That a white man’s head

            Must be paid for with heads five-score.

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            2. It’s paying a debt owed to an ally one’s predecessors abandoned to a horrid fate. The Iranian people deserve the chance of a life without insane mullah cultists lording over them.

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        2. I think there was a domestic motive. Keeping up the “nice doggie” act until a big enough rock was ready to hand was intended to give him a justification to Congress if they called him on the War Powers Act. “Look, I tried to negotiate, I kept it up even though everyone knew they were shining us on, but they just wouldn’t cooperate. What was I supposed to do?”

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      3. Those were the odds in any event, and there’s certainly no harm in arranging matters that works for one’s benefit regardless of how it comes out.

        I give the administration good marks for keeping their eye on the ball and knowing what they want to accomplish…so far, at least.

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    1. That’s what it comes down to. Yes, the Republicans are unreliable, and many of them will stab us in the back. But we’re in a binary-choice situation here.

      Unreliable and infuriating as the Republicans are, they are one of only two political parties that can possibly win. The other is a political party that will stab you in the front, stab you in the back, then spit in your eye while you’re bleeding and tell you everything they just did to you is your fault — and if you vote for them, they’ll be correct about whose fault it is, because they TOLD you who they were, over and over again, but you were dumb enough to hand them power anyway.

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      1. Yup the Republicans can be stupid and wonky and downright frustrating. But in general they don’t want to outlaw me for my religion or beliefs, or turn me into a serf/prole so they can be liege lords. So yes I will continue to vote for the folks that don’t want to kill or enslave me and mine and my friends. When presented with a large bug and a small bug I shall always choose the smaller in order to favor the lesser of two weevils.

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    2. This. Reminiscent of the Thirdies/Big-L Libertarians whining that “The lesser of two evils is still evil!” — which I can NOT read without hearing the line delivered with a fruity, fronted /s/, followed by “…so there!”

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  11. S&P 500 now unchanged on the day. OIl at just over $70, Dollar firm, Gold fading. The market is pricing business as usual. If Trump can pull this off, and I think he can, the whole world changes, international and domestic. So then, who’s the enemy at home, China, always China. Somehow, the links of these people to China have to be exposed whether it be money or kompromat, I’m convinced that’s 80% of the issue. Then all that’s left is the margin of fraud, which is correlated, but not identical.

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  12. Erik Erickson is royally ticked at the left for their support of the Ayatollahs. So much so he quipped they should be glad Trump isn’t a Pinochet, and besdes, all the helicopters are in use….

    When this guy starts thinking about one-way helicopter rides….

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      1. Yes and no. He’s still upset that voters have “decided character no longer matters,” by voting for an adulterer. But his general thing now is, “If I don’t like what Trump is doing, I”ll tell you so and why. If I do like it, I’ll tell you so and why.” And he’s gotten 1000% disgusted with the Left/progressive Democrats.

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        1. OK, then. Haven’t seen much of Erickson’s content online since he left Red State, and I gave up on talk radio after Rush Limbaugh found a more elevated studio.

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  13. Do we want the SAVE Act? Yes. Do we need the SAVE Act? No. What will matter more is stopping the money going to the D party from fraud, the (more) friendly eyes on the vote software, and the Justice Dept actually being willing to take on the fraudsters. But, we’ll see.

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    1. If it passed, I’m sure TPTB infesting Oregon’s government would try to fight it tooth and nail, but honest elections could make an impressive (and favorable!) change for us.

      There’s a petition for an initiative to ban vote[fraud] by mail, but any vote on it would be via mail, alas. Since it got shoved into the state constitution in the ’90s, Republicans (RINO or actually decent) have been rare in statewide offices. We’re not as bad off as Washington and California, but bad ideas from the other Left Coast states tend to come our way.

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  15. Unfortunately, I’m not sure whether the SAVE Act is constitutional. But I would like to see the high court get a crack at it. Even if it’s unconstitutional, a ruling along those lines should shut down further Democratic shenanigans like the voting bill they were talking about early in Biden’s term.

    On another note, arguing we should teach the Republicans a lesson by letting the Dems win the mid-terms sounds like the argument advanced in 2008 that we should punish the Republicans by letting Obama win.

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    2. The Reader looks forward to how the plain language of the Constitution gets twisted by the courts in this case. The Reader added the bold.

      Section 4: Elections

      The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.

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      1. Although the Reader notes with some trepidation that there is no such language in the 12th Amendment with regard to the election of electors for the Electoral College.

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        1. Nope. Electors are appointed by the party or parties (NE and Maine). Sometimes by the state as a reward to people who have done public service [although that seems counterproductive. “Thank you for all your hard work. Now you have to come to the capital and vote!”]

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          1. That’s correct. We currently vote for slates of electors, not directly for the president. The Reader’s point was while the body of the Constitution clearly allows Congress to regulate elections for the House and Senate, there is no such language addressing the control of elections for slates of electors for the Electoral College.

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            1. So put the constraints on House and Senate elections. It just happens that there are ALWAYS House and Senate Elections when we vote for a president/Slate of electors so the constraints will be applied and you just happen to have to show them as its the same election and ballot. This looks like something worth making explicit in an amendment (and make the restrictions required all the way down to assistant dog catcher) but those fights are for another day…

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  16. Found out some interesting background on Sanae Takaichi, the Japanese PM.

    As a kid, before her broadcasting career, she attended Kobe University, which required a six hour commute from her family home in Nara. Why? Because her parents refused to pay tuition if she took up her scholarships to universities in Tokyo (Keio and Waseda), since she was a girl and they worried.

    You might think this was her dad the auto parts manufacture guy, but her mom was a policewoman and I bet she was the one lowering the boom.

    She ended up getting an internship in DC with Pat Schroeder, of all people, where she was respected. But she came back home and went into broadcasting, with politics on the side until later in life.

    In 2004, she married an LDP parliament member, Taku Yamamoto, after being introduced by an associate, and he supposedly proposed right away. (Not totally surprising, in a society that still has arranged marriage.) He offered the fact that he was a trained chef as an inducement.

    She took his last name and raised his kids… and then they divorced in 2017, announcing that it was over unreconcilable political differences. She went back to her maiden name.

    And then… they remarried in 2021, and he changed his name to Taku Takaichi! And apparently everything is going fine, but he was now going to be focused on supporting her political career and leaving his behind.

    Sadly, in 2025, he got a stroke. Japanese society is very iffy about visible disability, and apparently he doesn’t get photographed or make appearances with her, AFAIK. However, she does a lot of his daily care herself. Her husband was against insurance, so that makes it interesting. She also has to do the cooking now.

    She has stated that she prioritizes her husband’s care, rather than trying to make work and life balance 50-50… and that’s the person that Japan voted for. Apparently they trust her to be able to make it work.

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  17. I agree, it would be idiotic to support the Ds because the Rs couldn’t get a bill passed. Anyone pushing such an idea is not on our side at all. The left is going all out to regain power and I do fear the damage they might be able to cause if they gain traction in congress. But giving in to stupidity isn’t going to prevent that, being proactive wherever you can to oppose them and trying to ensure elections are monitored and not letting them get away with counting until they win is going to be vital.

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  18. There are so very many folks asking the Republicans top fight among themselves. Almost like that is the only way the Donkuloids survive 2026 and 2028.

    I am quite willing to hold my nose and vote Republican, to avoid winding up holding my head in my arms under the Donkuloids.

    If you vote Democrat over MAGA or even squishy RINO in 2026, kindly go Eff yourself with a copy of the Communist Manifesto. Since you intend to do that to us, you first.

    If you withhold your republican vote in 2026 because the RINOids are imperfect MAGA, please ignite the copy of the Communist Manifesto before inserting that suppository. Since you intend to do that to us, you first.

    Not what you meant? Think hard.

    Not plying nice anymore. Anyone who votes Donku-Auntiefool-ComBlockhead, or refrains from voting against them, is declaring eff America and eff the Constitution. You first, toots.

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      2. Yeah. Several of the (R) primary choices are “hold nose, read on, and decide.” Not a Cornyn fan, have doubts about Paxton, have questions about the others, but sheesh, the (D) options are so … out there.

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        1. The issues with Paxton seem to be of two types, financial and personal.

          The problem is that the financial ones reek of the kinds of inflated lawfare we saw against Trump, and the personal ones? If having an untroubled relationship was a deal breaker, I couldn’t support Trump either.

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  20. Vote like your Liberty, your Country, and the Constitution depend upon it.

    Because, they do.

    …

    C’mon peeps. If a skinny (then) arthritic geek like -me- can sign up for the firkken -Infantry-, you can frikken hold your nose and vote. Thanks for my service? Prove it! Vote to save my Country!

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    2. As exemplified by the Doc Holiday meme that’s turning up. Iran’s been a fomenter of chaos in general on the world stage for decades, and has shown particular malice towards the US.

      And now they want to deescalate…

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  22. Off Topic

    I’ve been seeing “click-bait” headlines about teens needing to register for the draft “because of the current attack on Iran”.

    What is really annoying is that eighteen-year-olds have been required to register for several years now.

    But it would take an act of Congress for them to be actually Drafted into the Military.

    All the more reason to Hate The News Media! 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

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    1. Since at least 1980. I joined the Army National Guard that spring at the age of 17, went to Basic Training that summer. Turned 18 in the fall, and was told I needed to register for the draft. Asked why, since Uncle Sam already had me for six years at least. Was told it didn’t matter, rules is rules.

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      1. Registration for the draft was restarted in July 1980, I turned 18 that September and was among the first tranche to have to register. I was a little put out that we didn’t get a draft card since the drinking age in NY was 18 back in those more civilized days and the additional ID would have been useful since my paper NY drivers licence was already worn.

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      2. Indeed Summer of 1980 for the return of the draft registration. And it was critical if you were in college and got the lower rate NDL (National Direct Loans originally National DEFENSE Loans for Science and engineering in the 50’s and early 60’s) as they would require you to provide your registration number in the fall of 1980. Oh, and I needed it again when I started working for Raytheon in 2005, as that little number was needed for the SF-86 form used to apply for a clearance. Not having one was a reason for the denial of clearance. Did they start to require women to register? It was men only (even with the ERA being considered) when I registered and certainly only men were required to provide their registration number on the SF-86.

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    2. Much longer than that. Part of my beloved’s jobs in the Reserve was being your friendly neighborhood draft officer. He had to go to the Newark public high schools to tell the 18-year-olds to register. And we left NJ in 1994.

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      1. Nod.

        I wasn’t sure how long ago it started, but I knew that it wasn’t something New.

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  23. Nit that’s worth picking: There’s a difference between “If the GOP does X, voters should walk away.” and “If the GOP does X, voters will walk away.” They’re both flawed, but for different reasons. The former is a Veruca Salt, “I want it now!” hardline stance with all the negatives you state. We’ve had plenty of those for confirming Trump’s appointees, balancing the budget, making arrests, etc., not to mention the current wave of “right-wing” podcasters trying to dictate Trump’s own foreign policy to him.

    The latter is blackpill-adjacent catastrophism, where the current fight is so pivotal that losing it will spell disaster. Scott Presler, for all of his virtues, is prone to this. It’s a tempting stance for anyone deeply involved in politics, but it’s usually wrong. The world keeps spinning, few defeats are absolute, and the normies don’t care as much as you do. It’s also terrible for morale: If we lose this “pivotal” battle, what’s the point in fighting the next one?

    If you’re talking about the post I think you are, it falls into the latter category. A warning, not a threat. Which, now that I think about it, is why it didn’t set off any alarm bells for me. The poster isn’t a habitual blackpill, so I took it as a one-off.

    Like I said, just a nit. But the psychological motivations and moral failings of the two stances are distinct, and they’re worth chewing on for anyone who hasn’t yet.

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  24. Re: The Filibuster – I don’t want the filibuster eliminated, I want it returned to its original form. No more, ‘I don’t like this bill so I’m going to file notice and dare you pinheads to muster 60 votes to get it clotured to the floor’. No. If you object that much to a bill, you need to get some skin in the game ala Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. You, and your allies if any, need to be willing to stand on the floor, voice a raspy whisper and your eyes red rimmed from lack of sleep over the last 48 hours, your legs barely able to support your body weight even with the support of leaning on your desk. Now *that* is a filibuster.

    One might object that such a procedure might bring Congressional business to a standstill. My response would be, “And?”. 😁

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    1. As I said on X when this first became an issue:

      “The talking filibuster is basically an adult version of “I’ll hold my breath until I turn blue” with a dollop of civil disobedience: this one Senator is so committed to his stand that he’s willing to delay until he physically collapses, so maybe we should take another look and see if he has a point. The zombie filibuster has none of that, it’s just obstructionism.”

      On the other hand, as Sarah said in the OP, it’s the only thing that saved us from President Autopen.

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  25. There’s fools, damned fools, and traitors wearing the skin of friends. Call me fool all you like, but never ever a democrat. Carve it on my tombstone: “I ain’t voting Democrat, I’m dead you dumb fvcks!”

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  26. I have a FB friend who has always been conservative, but has apparently gone off on the Condoleezza Rice/Tucker Carlson racket.

    She thinks Ericka Kirk had her husband killed, etc. (One of the stories she shared apparently thought that since Ericka didn’t have her story rehearsed about what happened the days before the assassination and told contradictory ones, that proves she was obviously guilty, etc.)

    I’m shaking my head, and put her on a 30 day suspension. The latest bit she’s come up with was that since the media is covering the Iranian women celebrating, the story must not be true, just like the covid vaccine stories.

    I hadn’t noticed her slant until the Kirk assassination.

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    2. Candace had the chance to be the disruptive voice of the conservative black woman, but threw it all away on ever more looney-toons conspiracy-mongering.

      To the point that in twenty years if her kids say, “yeah, Mom mostly kept it together in public, but she was on some serious medication the whole time,” I won’t be surprised in the least.

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      1. Or who knows, maybe it’s just an example of “whom gods destroy they first make audience-captured”.

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    3. Just remember –

      Voting for a Democrat to show up the Republicans means voting for someone who will save the UN from bankruptcy. Is *that* what you want!?

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  27. The Reader thinks we all need to be posting this periodically over the next several months.

    If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for, but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against. In case of doubt, vote against.

    Robert A. Heinlein

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      2. And California. Can’t say I was particularly prescient about voting against the high-speed rail, though, because though “past performance does not predict future results,” it’s not quite the same if political behavior is consistently on the fraud and delay schedule.

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  28. So how did that work out for the UK last election?

    They withheld their votes from the useless Conservatives, and ended up under the rule of woke Commie Islamo-Facists, who started cancelling elections they fear they might lose.

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  29. Yes let’s all chop off our noses to spite our face. I am sorry but humanity is corrupt, always has been, always will be, so you vote for the least amount of corruption. All you can do, no one is perfect, not even the Donald, last guy who was perfect, look what they did to him. The Democrats , Nancy Pelosi in particular created the Martyr Donald with her bullshit impeachments, Biden piled on. They don’t even see that they are the ones who created him. Not all they can do is have their bots and phony conservatives try and break up the republican base, especially the Trumpres. But were not one base, we are the people, the whole people, that’s what the Rinos are finding out and it terrifies them as much as the hard core left.

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  30. Just saw a clip of that POS Schiff-head claiming that the Iranian theocratic dictatorship was “not an imminent threat” to America.

    Yo, dipshit, waiting until the threat is imminent would be stuck-on-stupid. You don’t put off treating cancer until you’re at death’s door. We should wait until our enemies drop a nuke on a major American city before we do something about them?

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  31. How will history judge us, we little people? Or rather, how will those whose opinions we respect judge us? To this day I still remember my grandfathers and what they taught me. I wasn’t a good student then, of real world lessons. Had to get many things beat into my brain through repeated failures. Too easy to trust. Too arrogant and willfully stubborn. Inexperience and lack of prudence caused many a sad day I still regret.

    But this latest bumfuzzle? This sad little tantrum from adults what by rights ought to know much better by now? Use your heads for something other than a hat rack, ye shameful marks! Who benefits? No, seriously WHO BENEFITS?

    Of course it’s not us, we striving few. The ones that wake up early and stay late, worked multiple jobs just to keep body and soul connected with that one fraying thread, and made do with crackers and water just to keep on. The ones that have too much deja poo, seen this sh!t before. The ones who actually stayed awake in history class and took note of all the many, many failures what could have been avoided all too easily if folks just for one: showed up and for two: with half a brain.

    Himself knows we’re all fools at some time or other. But seriously, it takes effort to be this by heaven dumb. Disagree? By all that is shiny and good YES! But do it proper like. Get your arses in gear and argue it out before going whole hog into “the stupid party’s being dumb, let’s vote in the evil party to show them what’s what!”

    Fie. Get bent, ye who would sell off your freedoms for a silver farthing and a faint promise of a different kind of evil. Disagree with your elected idiot? Tell them, by heaven! Tell all your friends and their opponent in the primary. Poke that scab and keep harping on it until, hopefully, you get enough following that argument to force a change. There’s ways what actually work.

    Those ways are not stabbing the ass that being a murthering idiot, Yes, the stupid party is freaking dumb. We can work with dumb, so long as they follow our will- and we’re not being utter morons, too!

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    1. If someone misunderstand GOP leadership perception variations, they misunderstand what GOPpies would learn from X or y action. This leads to misunderstanding ‘teaching them a lession’, or ‘punishing them’.

      This is obviously a higher priority time for information warfare by foreign and domestic adversaries, but there is also the effect of ‘Trump voters’ having the latest additions fairly recently. ‘Trump voters’ are an extremely disparate group, and do not have common means of understanding or internal negotiation. (Not beyond the truly bare minimums associated with American culture.)

      Anyway, no one truly knows whether or not a range of talking points would be effective propaganda, because many have not been tried much on the current combo. Hard to do good solid experiments.

      Also means that it is a good time to stop collecting if it is not your job, or not something you have actions depending on, and even people who need to be dialed in would also profit from detox periods.

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  35. As a Brit, I would say this a complex issue in general (but not now).

    I am the sort of boring person who became conservative at age 7.

    I voted Tory (Conservative) in every election until 2024. Then I didn’t.

    Why didn’t I? To punish the Tories for letting us all down for 14 years. For failing to deliver on their manifesto commitments. For being Blue Labour (confusingly the significance of blue and red are swapped in British politics, mainly because red is the colour of communism).

    So we got Two Tier Keir. Of course I didn’t vote Labour, I voted Reform. But my decision, and the decision of millions like me, was enough to enable the election of the most pusillanimous, the most two-faced, the most slimy, the most anti-British, Prime Minister of modern times.

    He won the election, or rather Labour did, with less than 34% of the vote. That’s the result of a First Past The Post system with fractured voting patterns.

    I’m still not sure if we did the right thing. But we sure as heck punished the Tories. And they are learning/have learnt.

    But you are not in that position. Not at all. You have an elected president who is at the height of his powers and does the right thing most of the time. He needs the support of Congress and that means voting Republican like your life depends on it ( as it might, given current threats by the Democrats).

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    1. The reason why the Republicans are represented by Red and the Democrats are represented by Blue here in the US is quite literally “Red = Communism”. They try not to be so blatant here in the US about the leftist party being a bunch of commies, so when the media powers that be that finally decided to establish a particular color for each party (in 2000, I think), they picked Blue for the Democrats so that Americans wouldn’t knee-jerk link them to the Communists.

      But before that, it was whichever the particular station preferred. I still remember seeing an electoral map of the US for the 1984 presidential election with 49 blue states representing the states that Reagan won, and 1 red state representing the only state that Mondale won.

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      3. I believe the length of the Bush vs. Gore struggle imbedded it in the lingo. It was accident it went that way.

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    2. I follow British podcasts like Triggernometry and the New Culture Forum constellation. I’m not entirely sure the Tories are learning anything at all except how to cross their hearts and hope to die when they promise they really, really, really, NO REALLY, mean it when they say they will Do Something about immigration this time.

      Yeah.

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  36. The bottom line is if they don’t pass the Save act, it won’t matter whether the right shows up to the polls or not, the Democrat vote manufacturing industry will be in full swing and they’ll cheat their way into majorities in the House and Senate. We’ll have counties in every state where more votes are cast than there are people on voter rolls, where the same address will have hundred of votes cast, where tallies of thousands of votes will be “certified” with no chain of custody, no supporting documentation and no paper trails…all the same tricks they used last time, but turned up to 11.

    After that, there will never again be a possibility of fixing the voting system, and in the next Presidential election, whatever brain-dead commie the dems run will win a “landslide victory” with the highest vote total ever recorded. Even higher than Joe Biden’s record vote total.

    Some republicans don’t want to win. They don’t want to actually have to do the hard work of making things happen. They much prefer to be the two old muppets in the balcony heckling everyone else.

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      1. Yea, all the recent elections have thoroughly proven that we’ve won against them.

        And strangely, I don’t find swearing and barking vague ineffectual orders at me all that convincing, so you’ll have to forgive me if I respectfully disagree.

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        1. Did I swear at you? I did not. I defined your pragraph as bullshit, which it is.
          Did I bark orders? No. I enjoined you to stop wallowing in defeatism and join in defeating the left.
          Passing the save act is a stretch goal. It’s hard when our majority is slim. So it probably won’t pass.
          IF you want to throw a fit and claim it’s all lost I can’t stop you. But I can ask you to stop doing the work of the enemy.
          Thank you kindly. Go suck your thumb in the corner, which is your level of reasoning.

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          1. Seriously?

            Where and when I was raised “bullshit” is a swear word. To be clear, I’m not offended by swear words, I spent 21 years in the Navy being sworn at by the best…the point is that I don’t find it to be a compelling argument to sway me to your opinion.

            “Bark Orders” – “enjoined you”; “tomato” – “tomahto”.

            And this part is directed at all the replies:

            Do you really find demeaning and insulting people to be an effective method of convincing them that your position is the correct one?

            Spoiler alert: it’s not.

            And I’m the one who needs to “lighten up”? That’s funny right there, I don’t care who you are.

            Tell me that we need a full court press against every RINO in the Senate to get the SAVE act passed and I’m with you 100%.

            Trying to feed me the fantasy that if we leave the democrat vote manufacturing industry intact, all we have to do to win the midterms is convince the tiny number of Republicans who would even consider casting a “revenge” vote for a democrat to change their mind.

            Hey…if you really want to convince them, maybe call them a name or something. Surely that’ll do it amirite?

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            1. Oh, for the love of Bob! “Respect my authoritah” is NOT going to work.
              And I didn’t tell you to lighten up. I told you to stop being an idiot.
              “Bullshit” was what you spewed, not you. I did not swear at you.
              And there’s quite a difference between barking orders and enjoining.
              Look, go sit in the corner and suck your thumb. It’s your intellectual level.
              The adults are TALKING.

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            2. Oh dear.

              Are you getting the respect you deserve instead of what you demand? How terrible.

              Do surrender quietly if you believe everything is hopeless and we shouldn’t bother. I mean, you’re being the title of this blog posting, but hey it’s your choice.

              May your chains chafe to the bone.

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            3. Curt, you haven’t been around here. Trust me, you haven’t even been touched.

              Now, you have exactly two choices: grow a thicker skin, or ooze back to wherever you slithered out of.

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              1. No worries, I’m not a regular reader, I was brought here by a link; I was expecting a thoughtful, conservative leaning discussion, but I obviously disrupted your well maintained echo chamber. My apologies. I’ll leave you to your self-congratulating circle jerk.

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                1. No worries, I’m not a regular reader, I was brought here by a link; I was expecting a thoughtful, conservative leaning discussion, but I obviously disrupted your well maintained echo chamber.

                  :laughs:

                  Hey, cupcake, your meltdown on contact with a culture that didn’t genuflect when you tried to throw your weight around is not an ‘echo chamber’.

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  37. OT but my beloved and I are now sick. I have trouble believing it’s Con Crud, simply because it came on so fast. He has it worse, which is worrisome. Prayers welcome.

    Whatever it is involves fever and a nasty cough in his case, intermittent cough and aches for me. *Sigh.*

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    2. Yeah, I got something sinus-ey at the Con. At first I thought it was allergies. But allergies don’t give me a fever, which I have.

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  38. “If the Save Act doesn’t pass, we’re going to punish the GOP in the midterms…”

    This is such an obvious scam it makes me laugh. It’s a two-party system, you can’t “punish the GOP in the midterms”, all you can do is embolden your enemies.

    What you can do is PRIMARY the GOP and make sure the useless RINOs all get the heave-ho. And it’s funny that I never see anybody mentioning this. It’s like a secret or something.

    Which tells me all I need to know about the Pakistanis pretending to be American Republicans, chanting “D3@TH TO AMERICA!!!” as they type out “we’re going to punish the GOP” and then spellcheck it.

    There are some things so stupid that when you see them in the wild it is safe to assume that’s enemy action.

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  39. Don’t just vote the top offices on the ballot, vote for every office on the ballot, and choose the GOP, Free Staters (here in NH), or if necessary, the Independents (if they really are), and totally eschew anything that smacks of the Democrat Party.

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    1. Bobtheregistered fool said

      “Sources allege” that Kamala Harris would have been Iran’s first female Supreme Leader.

      Dang too bad they didn’t get to finish the vote, then Israel would have solved that problem for us… (in Minecraft of course).

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  41. I wonder what fragmentation ordinance would do to all those little speed boats they have. Now you can’t use them against people but you can use them against things like fiberglass boat hulls. Just wondering…

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    1. Improved Conventional Munitions (ICM) or “I cant miss” for short

      Artillery or other projectiles that scatter submunitions. ICM/DPICM is a tube fired cluster bomb.

      One can have anti-personnel, anti-armor, or mixed effect “Dual-Purpose ICM”.

      The artillery round, bomb, or missile warhead fragments into a bunch of baseball to softball sized submunitions, which then explode either on contact or at a suitable airburst altitude. You get a beaten zone of shredding effect. Or, one can have them as landmines, scattered in front of an assault force as a really, really unpleasant day on the road.

      All of the submunitions are supposed to have backup time-delay detonators to cook off and explode any that fail the primary task.

      They are…. highly effective. One MLRS rocket launcher volleying its 12 rockets can wipe out a square kilometer of area. “only -you- can prevent grid squares…”. The A-10 “Warthog” can drop the Rockeye anti-armor cluster bomb, (or rather a crapload of them) to shred a company of tanks or other armored vehicles in one pass. If the treadherads bunch up, a pair of ambitious A-10 pilots can scrag most of a battalion in one pass, then “brrrt” gun any escapees in the return pass.

      Of -course- the opposition wants them banned. They make massive armor attack doctrine a suicide cult. Also, countries with poor quality control have a very hard time making ICM that work, so asymmetrical….

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  42. In 3 months I get to vote against Gruesom. For all the good it will do. My vote will be opposed by dead voters, illegal alien voters, and voters that do not even exist. Nonetheless, I will go through the motions.

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  43. I just watched the wildest video I have ever seen. Some Iranian guy was standing in the window of his apartment building while bombs are dropping on his city, laughing his @ss off. A couple of times he wentt whoa, and laughed as bigger than average explosions went off. I can imagine his happiness, but I’m not sure that I would be so certain the bombs wouldn’t miss that I’d stand in my window filming them. Again, just wild.

    Financial markets were mixed today. they started off very shaky, but settled down as the day went on. S&P 500 was down a bit, which is the continuation of a previous trend, oil up a fair bit to $75 but anything lower than $100 is fine, and it’d have to get north of $150 to be a problem, bonds were flat, gold was flat, dollar up. It’s almost as though the financial markets don’t see much of a problem. That could change in an instant, but so far it’s a whole lot of nothing. There was a strange print after hours for oil where the last trade was $65. That’s probably a blip, unless of course an Iran has capitulated and the market knows it but the news hasn’t hit the wires. Possible, but I suspect it’s just a blip,

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    1. And of course Trump just flipped off the UK insurance racket which has refused to insure anything traveling through Hormuz. I can see the chess pieces falling into place…

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      1. I saw some interesting speculation about Lloyds on X. The person posting speculated that Lloyds gets lots of information used to determine risk factors from the real life MI6, which apparently has its headquarters just up the street. This would provide Lloyds with an otherwise unavailable amount of data from which to determine risks.

        But Five Eyes just got broken, and Trump didn’t let the UK know about the Iran attack beforehand. As a result, MI6 got caught flat-footed, and doesn’t have any useful information to provide to Lloyds. So Lloyds is still scrambling to get enough data together to run the numbers before it starts announcing rates for the Strait. And until it figures out the new rates, it won’t issue any insurance.

        Remember, though, this is just speculation that someone posted on X. I’ve no information either way whether or not it’s true.

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      2. 80+% of the oil that ships through Hormuz goes to Asia, China mostly. The USA is a net oil exporter. That fact is the single most important geo strategic event in the last 50+ years and is why, I think, that things like the Abraham accords happened. We used to have to be able to keep the straits open, and it’s better actually if they are open, but we don’t existentially need to anymore, which is why Jo Bi Den tried so hard to cut US oil production.

        Europe will have a natural gas problem and the marginal supplier for that now that Russia is, supposedly, off the table, would be us, again.

        In any case, it’s the reinsurance people who stopped, probably rightly form their point of view, and US could temporarily do reinsurance. I’d bet a fair few Greek tanker owners would turn off the transponders and have a go. IF the US starts

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        1. Reinsurance and/or escorting tankers it’ll open up quickly. Word is that Iran’s ability to do much drops daily and once it unsticks it’ll all move very quickly.

          don’t pay attention to what the press says, they are clueless. that said, this exhausts my knowledge of the situation too, though I would say that moving maritime insurance out of London is a non starter, they have the expertise and infrastructure and no one else does. Building it iwould be non-trivial.

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          1. Sal on Youtube with What’s Going On With Shipping is a specialty journalist, and talks about this stuff. He had a video up today, but I wasn’t listening to understand, and skipped.

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      3. 1, keeping Hormuz open gives Trump a reason to have a constant presence in the area, which

          2) is a constant reminder to Iran that we’re watching, which

          3) makes the rest of the world a little safer

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      4. There’s a post on X (Instapundit might have linked to it), where someone posting in Persian (auto-translated) claimed that their family lives in an alleyway, with a tiny Basiji office in the alley that shares its walls with the houses on each side. According to the poster, the “Israelis” (the poster would likely not know whether the IAF, USAF, or USN did it) dropped a bomb that was so precise that it destroyed the office without doing more to the neighboring homes than rattling the windows.

        If the story is true, and if the bombs being dropped are showing that level of accuracy 99.9% of the time, then the Iranian citizens might very well be feeling completely safe while fire, death, and destruction rain down from the skies. They *know* that they aren’t being targeted, and that the bombs are dropping right where they are supposed to go.

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        1. We have bombs that are nothing but a 300 lb chunk of concrete with fins so that they do kinetic damage without explosions, so they can take out a car parked in front of a house. We know we’ll hit.

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          1. We also have the Flying Ginsu Knife (aka AGM-114R9X). Basically a kinetic kill weapon with many sharp blades. It chops, it dices, it slices all for $19.99 (Alright likely way more than that).

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            1. Isn’t that the missile we used on General Suleimanni, or whatever his name was, that Trump killed in Iraq during Trump’s first term?

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    2. So who is the bigger coward, England or France or is there no difference any more. England should learn how to bend over and expose there bare ass, they’re already allowing the rape of their own daughters. Yo, Once Great Britain (or should I say Island France?) how’s that socialist slave collar feeling?

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      1. Sadly the people running the madhouse in the UK have become so feminized, no strike that that is offensive to females of all species. Most mom’s of any species will stand and defend their progeny. They are just yellow bellied gutless cowards who will hand their own daughters (or at least those of “lower classes”) over to abusers to protect their own asses. The disease is rampant. There is a quote from Samuel Adams that seems to apply

        If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen

        They aren’t our countrymen and haven’t been for almost 250 years but the feeling is right. At this point we need to save those who think Amelia has the right idea by letting them be refugees. Otherwise, we let what remains of Airstrip One burn to the ground. Albion had a good run of like 1500 years, but it is clear that strain of Englishman/Welshman/Scotsman has left the building.

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          1. Should add: Some even voluntarily VS voluntold, or ahead of the hangman’s noose or starvation. Some of the prior, “and” instead of “or”.

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              1. Remittance family members. Usually younger son beyond the cleric, military heir spare, or one of these two who do not want to take up the mantle, or the official heir has the required heirs. Rarely the daughter is given money to go away. More likely the daughters flee forced convents to prevent producing an heir. Widows (who is to say if a woman is a widow or unwed mother?) A lot of situations where volunteered is undisguisable from voluntold.

                I was referring to the vast sweep of Scotland after Scott’s various losses trying for independence.

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                1. Eh, those varied all over. A lot were told to go away, they would be sent an allowance as long as they stayed away — and they would settle somewhere, their landlords would know to make rent payable on the day of the remittance, and they would then live it up with fine food, liquor, gambling, and clothes for a week. Before the next remittance, they pawned their clothes and lived in poverty.

                  Others, OTOH, found that escaping fusty customs was just what they needed and launched themselves into jobs impossible in Britain.

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                  2. As with everything. From the wastrel embarrassment to future American dynasty. Worked that way as the colonies expanded west across the continent, before and after, England was forced to go away.

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            2. Do not forget Georgia and the Carolinas started as penal colonies, (They got the idea for Australia from the colonies) they also emptied some of the Debtors Prisons into the south. They needed the Pine Tar for their ships, England was running out of trees and America was full of them.

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              1. Did not know that. Knew about Australia penal colony status. Did not know about the states. Did know about the transport of the Scotland men and entire families after Culloden and other uprisings for independence, after the American colonies were established.

                By all reports, harvesting and processing pine sap was not a safe occupation. But then harvesting trees for spar poles, wasn’t particularly safe in the through the 19th century, or even in the 20th. Safer, for degrees of safer, now.

                (If a site can have a tower fail, on side of a mountain, and have zero deaths or injuries, because of safety requirements and training, it is safer. This happened early ’90s, coast range, Oregon. I heard the report from the engineering/logging manager, and other top district managers. They were all but on their knees in prayer when the information was reported the day it happened. Never heard why it happened. None of my business.)

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            3. Indeed lots of Debtor’s prison and moderate criminals exported to the Colonies. One oddity I see is that Australia has a similar sourcing with many folks descendants of people that wore the Broad Arrow. And until recently the Aussies were tough SOB’s if they had your back you knew you were OK. I mean the unoffical anthem Waltzing Matilda is the story of a semi reformed criminal who fights back against what he perceives as a slight from the law men. And ultimately he offs himself rather than give in. All of the rest of the Anglosphere, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, UK and Ireland have started to make certain cheese eating surrender monkeys look like bastions of fortitude. Starmer is essentially begging ” Oh please Mr. Ayatollah, we didn du nuffin don’t hurt us”. Little good it will do as Mr. Ayatollah (and his successors several levels down) is taking a dirt nap.

              I feel like somehow we just missed this fate, and honestly I’m not sure how. Ancestry doesn’t really explain it fully, The Aussies and Canadians had plenty of exiles and transportees. They also had their share of the more troublesome British ancestries, Scots-Irish, Low class Cockney, and general Irish. They do have a more communitarian culture vs our strongly independent one, but they were hell on wheels in WWI and WWII, where did that persona go?

              We need to understand this because honestly there but for the grace of G*d goes the United States. Certainly the last election seems to prove that the Author Protects Children, Fools and the United States and as a nation we fulfilled two out of 3 of those conditions. And the Author has been known to let favored folk take it on the chin (see Israel and Judah and their fates, as well as 2500 years of history after that). Yes the Liberals have sold their birthrights for a rather lame bowl of pottage, but what brain cramp made them think that was a good idea? We must not choose that path, but if we can’t discern the path, avoiding it becomes much harder. And I’m not conviced we really understand that choice at truly first cause kind of level.

              Truly the US really is the last great hope at this point, a final bastion of normality. If we fail who is there to stand?

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    3. The China Show has a special one hour video up today on their YouTube channel where they talk about the effects that the war is having, and might have (depending on outcomes) on China. Worth a look.

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      1. This is very, very bad for China. Very bad, indeed. Start with prestige loss and follow through the loss of cheap oil and gas and proof to the world of American power. Things are bad there to begin with and this doesn’t help them. Economically it’s a disaster, strategically it’s a catastrophe. In particular, it greatly increases their uncertainty about attacking Taiwan since they now have even less reason to believe their weapons work and more proof that ours do.

        I keep trying to find a new obsession other than China, but it keeps dragging me back in.

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        2. It’s kind of hard to switch to a new obsession when China’s got it’s tentacles in just about *everything* these days, and is so busily pushing aggressively abroad while simultaneously just shy of collapse at home. The China Show special episode I mentioned above even points out that the founder of Code Pink is married to a (non-Chinese) tech billionaire who lives in China, and basically wants to overthrow the US form of government in favor of China.

          I knew China was helping to fund those p***y-hat wearing nut jobs, but I didn’t realize it was that out in the open!

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          1. Today’s headline is China pushing Iran to open the straits of Hormuz. If oil wasn’t a global price we should keep it closed. The US political price isn’t WTI, but rather gasoline. Keep an eye on it. $4 per gallon, US average not Cali, would be a trigger

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        3. You, strieff, nitray arbel, Francis of Ombre Oliever, and Sal are pretty much coming to that end.

          The only reason I have to think that the analysis must be funky somewhere, is so many people with partial independence coming to similar or the same conclusions. (Though, of the five, I know that three of them have some amount of reading each other, plus sources and influences in common.)

          One common factor to the analysis is that it is people who remember the cold war, and are somewhat sympathetic to the US view of that. So seeing the Temu Cold War is something that might have been possible from noise. (I don’t think we are looking at a pure noise situation. I think there is actually a signature in there, one that isn’t entirely a different thing from a cold war.)

          I have no real alternative explanation that isn’t a silly joke.

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    4. Hi Sarah

      O/T and FYI

      This would seem to add flavour to things like “Keir Starmer Takes Cowardice to New Lows” by Tim O’Brien and other similar articles

      “Oh, heard a good one on Tusi-TV. A comment asked that he translate “Kier Starmer’s” first name into {one of the native languages of Iran} Persian IIRC: Tousi got a devious smile and pointed out that it was the word for “penis” and that this caused all sorts of complications for Iranian media doing news reports ;-o Just something to keep in mind…

      When talking about him, just remember you are sayinjg something like “that dick Starmer” 😉 ”

      Iran – Bombed US Embassy in Saudi; French(!?) Defend UAE.

      Regards Ian

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    5. Looks like the first ship sinking by an American submarine in 80 years of an Iranian frigate off Sri Lanka. Hope they fly the jolly Rodger and a broom when they come home.

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    7. In related news, people complaining about the lack of trials don’t understand what’s going on.

      Julie Kelley, who’s been covering the DC Courts:

      Activist groups in DC have coached potential GJ members about how to issue no true bills in indictments sought by the Trump DOJ. This represents an active operation to sabotage criminal charges against not just elected officials but those who assaulted/impeded federal officers trying to enforce immigration laws. And the vaunted “rule of law.”

      Again, as I’ve provided examples over the years, this isn’t NEW. It is more brazen and obvious than ever before.

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