Kings Canyon. Jun 2024

No GLP1s for actors in multi season shows!

Send him to negotiate

🚨 today this happened 👇

Let me explain what just happened 👇 5 minutes before the President announced a halt to attacks on Iran… someone placed a $1.5 BILLION bet on stocks going up and dumped $192 million in oil. 5 minutes… These trades were 4 to 6 times larger than anything else in the entire market. Whoever did this wasn’t guessing. You don’t risk $1.5 billion on a hunch. There was zero public indication this announcement was coming. No leaks. No press. Nothing. The only people who knew were in the room when the decision was made. Someone in that room picked up a phone. And within minutes they made more money than most Americans will earn in a thousand lifetimes. In a single trade. On a war that cost you $4+ a gallon gas and $16 billion in tax dollars. American citizens funded this war. Politicians are profiting from it. This is not the first time. Every major announcement from this administration has had massive suspicious trades right before it dropped. Tariff reversals. Policy shifts. War decisions. This is the most blatant insider trading operation in the history of American politics. It’s not even close. And it’s happening over and over in broad daylight. You would go to federal prison for trading on a tip from your cousin. These people are front running war decisions with billion dollar bets and nobody will ever ask a single question. Nobody will be investigated. Nobody will be charged. By tomorrow this will be buried under the next satisfying headline. Just like last time. And the time before that. The game is rigged. And they’re not even trying to hide it anymore…

🇺🇸🇨🇳 ¥2,700,000,000,000 has been wiped out from the Chinese stock market today.

Hasan’s $690.00 button down shirt, alone, can feed a family of 4 in Cuba, for about a year.

Christopher Hitchens: ”In 1786, when the United States was barely a country, it was having its sailors taken as slaves by the Barbary states, the states of the Ottoman Empire and North Africa. Tripoli, shores of Tripoli. Ships stopped, its crews carried off into slavery. We estimate 1.5 million European and American slaves taken between 1750 and 1815. Jefferson and Adams went to their ambassador in London and said, why do you do this to us? The United States has never had a quarrel with the Muslim world of any kind. We weren't in the crusades. We weren't at war with Spain. Why do you do this to our people and our ships? Why do you plunder and enslave our people? The ambassador said very plainly, Mr. Abdul Rahman said, because the Quran gives us permission to do so, because you are infidels, and that's our answer. Jefferson said, well, in that case, I will send a navy which will crush your state, which he did. Islamic fundamentalism is not created by American democracy. It's a lie to say so. It's a masochistic lie, and it excuses those who are the real criminals, and blames us for the attacks made upon us.”

Huh. Fully operational IRBMs. I guess President Trump and U.S. defense officials had access to information regarding Iran's missile capabilities that was not available to leftwing tankies, New Right dipshits, and journalists.

The IRGC can definitely hit the UK with a missile that can hit Diego Garcia, the distance is the same, and if it hadn’t been for the efforts of the United States and Israel, all of Europe would have been under a permanent jihadi nuclear cloud, since just as they were lying about the missile range, they were lying about building the nukes to put on the end of those missiles: nukes to destroy London, Paris, and Madrid, and bring about the Armageddon they are religiously bound to crave. No need to thank Israel and the United States for literally saving the world, but history will know what they did, and how the childish leaders of Europe stood on the sidelines and whined as the adults saved them from their own stupidity.

That oil is now worth over $15 billion. Trump is already offering Iran compensation three weeks into the war. American importers are now welcome to buy that oil according to the general license. This is the most bizarre conflict the region has seen yet.

Iran executes 19-year-old champion wrestler Saleh Mohammadi, two others in horrific public hangings trib.al/E63jG1q

Israel-myopic obsessives seem to have missed that the Gulf Arab states, especially Mohammad Bin Salman, also reportedly lobbied Trump to bomb Iran, and are now urging him to go all the way with regime change. Learning this might upset the weird cartoon world they've constructed

BREAKING: UK, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Japan issue a joint statement expressing their “readiness to contribute to appropriate efforts” to ensure safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz, while welcoming countries undertaking preparations, coordinating strategic petroleum reserve (SPR) releases, and exploring ways to boost output.

If the war keeps taking out murderous Iranian political and security leadership I am concerned that there will no longer be suitable candidates to lead the UN Human Rights Council.

🚨🇦🇪🇸🇦🇧🇭🇰🇼🇶🇦 It appears that the UAE is about to declare war on Iran and lead a coalition of Arab nations to overthrow the Iranian regime.

“If you’re too retarded to figure out how to go to the DMV and update your license you probably shouldn’t be voting.”

This from Paul Ehrlich will make you think "If I'm always wrong so is science, since my work is always peer-reviewed, including the POPULATION BOMB and I've gotten virtually every scientific honor." Link in reply

This really doesn't even warrant effort to actually refute, but for the sake of any genuine audience that doesn't know how to measure warfare, I'm going to demonstrate real quick how we know Iran is getting curb stomped. First, consider the image with Blue X's and Red O's. This is a map of every confirmed strike since the war started. Even without considering timing and impact, the mere quantity here is significantly in favor of the Combined Forces—the Blue X's. Second, consider the video. This is the same data, but separated by day of event from February 28 to March 15. You can visually see the decline in return fire from Iran. Since I'm limited on images, in the comments I'll share the graphs breaking down this decline in even more detail. Third, consider Iran's missile ranges and choice of targets. While their posturing is focused on the Strait of Hormuz, Saudi Arabia has shifted its oil exports to the Red Sea. This is well within range of Iran's higher-end ballistic missiles—yet, they aren't attacking it. This is because they are rationing missiles for more immediate threats; something done when someone is on the defensive with limited ability to resist. Fourth, consider the discrepancy between rhetoric and action. While Iran's posturing is focused on the Strait of Hormuz, their closure of the Strait appears to primarily be in name only. There have been no confirmed attacks on ships either in the Strait or the Gulf in six days. SIX DAYS. That's the last third of this war so far. Fifth, consider the choice of Combined Force targets. While Iran is attempting to attack critical oil infrastructure, the IDF is targeting local police and Basij stations. The Combined Forces are actually running out of military targets and are now simply shaping the country for an internal overthrow. Sixth, and probably the most obvious is to just look at the numbers and identities of losses. These are not even close. At the very least Iran has lost: 1x Supreme Leader 2x Defense Minister 1x Head of the Military Office of the Supreme Leader 1x Armed Forces Chief of Staff 1x Supreme National Security Secretary 1x IRGC Commander 1x Minister of Intelligence 1x Head of Intelligence Directorate 1x National Basij Commander These aren't just what the Combined Force reports—this is what Iran acknowledges! There is no steelman of the "Iran is winning" nonsense. Its complete and utter nonsense. You can argue, though I disagree, about economic or political ramifications, but any suggestion that Iran is actually militarily winning is absolutely retarded.

I despise Al Jazeera. But this analysis by Exeter University professor Muhanad Seloom is worth reading: • “Two weeks into Operation Epic Fury, the dominant narrative has settled into a comfortable groove: The United States and Israel stumbled into a war without a plan. Iran is retaliating across the region. Oil prices are surging, and the world is facing another Middle Eastern quagmire. US senators have called it a blunder. Cable news has tallied the crises. Commentators have warned of a long war.” • “But this narrative is wrong. Not because the costs are imaginary, but because the critics are measuring the wrong things. They are cataloguing the price of the campaign while ignoring the strategic ledger.” • “When you look at what has actually happened to Iran’s principal instruments of power – its ballistic missile arsenal, its nuclear infrastructure, its air defences, its navy and its proxy command architecture – the picture is not one of US failure. It is one of systematic, phased degradation of a threat that previous administrations allowed to grow for four decades.” • “When proxies launch retaliatory attacks across the region, this is not evidence of an expanding network; it is evidence of predelegated response authority, which is what a centralised command system activates when it anticipates its own destruction. Predelegation is a sign of desperation, not strength. It means the centre can no longer coordinate. The attacks will continue, but they will become increasingly uncoordinated, strategically incoherent and politically costly for the host states where these groups operate.” • “Seventeen days in, Iran’s supreme leader is dead, his successor is reportedly wounded and every principal instrument of Iranian power projection – missiles, nuclear infrastructure, air defences, the navy, proxy command networks – has been degraded beyond near-term recovery. The campaign’s execution has been imperfect, its public communication poor and its post-conflict planning incomplete. War is never clean. But the strategy – the actual strategy, measured in degraded capabilities rather than cable news cycles – is working.” aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/…