Historical footnote: the name of the country, Iran, is older than "Persia," which was a Greek exonym. So it should be Iran AKA Persia rather than "nee," even though the original name was changed back in recent times.
I check social media multiple times a day to see whether Trump has nuclear bombed Iran yet. I fully expect he will once the reviews of his SOTU speech are in.
My dad invaded Iran. Back in 1944. He was on an island off the shore assembling planes for our allies, the commie Russians. On a leave, he and a buddy sailed up to Terrahn and poked their head in the impersonal palace, saw the Peacock Throne and everything, because they were GIs. They could do anything. Then he came back and assembled more planes. Later he climbed the Pyramids. Was going to scratch his name in the stones, but there wasn't any room left from all the other people who had scratched their names there.
Although there are groups of indigenous people in the Amazon who have been there for 15,000 years, and their civilization today might be the same as it was 15,000 years ago, so🤷♂️.
Won't be watching, but it should be an interesting SOTU tonight:
"State of the Union addresses are always multi-layered events: a chance for a president to speak to the base, take a victory lap, acknowledge helpful supporters, and set the foundation for the year ahead. Tonight’s version promises all of that plus tension-filled additional layers.
The speech comes as part of the federal government is shut down, with Department of Homeland Security funding paused while Democrats on Capitol Hill demand changes to the way immigration agents behave.
It also comes a day after President Donald Trump said in a social media post that the Supreme Court only deserved to be written with lower-case letters because it ruled against him on a major tariff case. The justices traditionally have front-of-the-chamber seats for the speech.
And it comes after the Trump administration tried to prosecute a US senator — and investigate other members of Congress — for what they said in a video.
“He wants me to be sitting in prison right now. So I’m going to be sitting there as one of the senators from Arizona, as a representative of Arizona, to show him I’m not in prison,” Sen. Mark Kelly (D) told reporters.
Indications are that Trump plans to steamroll the assembled lawmakers, dignitaries and the prime-time TV audience with a list of accomplishments in hopes of resetting a national mood that has curdled before the midterm elections.
Some members of Congress will be trying to draw attention to issues they care about through their choices of guests in the gallery. Iowa lawmakers invited the families of National Guard soldiers killed in Syria, Rep. Pete Stauber (R-Minn.) is bringing the YouTuber who made claims about day care center fraud. Several Democrats said their guests will be sex-trafficking victims chosen to draw attention to the Jeffrey Epstein files. And Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar (D) said she invited a man who was wrongfully detained by agents who refused to check his identification" (Bloomberg)
I'm going to see the surgeon now to see if the upcoming procedure will keep me out of a wheelchair!
Historical footnote: the name of the country, Iran, is older than "Persia," which was a Greek exonym. So it should be Iran AKA Persia rather than "nee," even though the original name was changed back in recent times.
They're gonna have to do some plumbing work before tackling Iran. https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/blocked-toilets-sewage-clogged-pipelines-homesick-depressed-and-angry-personnel-aboard-what-s-happening-on-uss-gerald-r-ford/ar-AA1WYAM2
Not surprised. After all, he is the head of the Bored of Peace.
I check social media multiple times a day to see whether Trump has nuclear bombed Iran yet. I fully expect he will once the reviews of his SOTU speech are in.
That map is so 1950s avant garde
My dad invaded Iran. Back in 1944. He was on an island off the shore assembling planes for our allies, the commie Russians. On a leave, he and a buddy sailed up to Terrahn and poked their head in the impersonal palace, saw the Peacock Throne and everything, because they were GIs. They could do anything. Then he came back and assembled more planes. Later he climbed the Pyramids. Was going to scratch his name in the stones, but there wasn't any room left from all the other people who had scratched their names there.
I thought China was the oldest continuous civilization...
You are correct, methinks.
Although there are groups of indigenous people in the Amazon who have been there for 15,000 years, and their civilization today might be the same as it was 15,000 years ago, so🤷♂️.
So, despite the root word, “civilization” does not need cities?
Yeah, I’m being pedantic again.
US dropped the MOAB (Mother of all Bombs, only $170K) and it accomplished about as much as a flea fart would.
The MOAB isn’t what the B2s dropped. The MOAB isn’t designed to penetrate mountains.
Oops.
I confused the the GBU-43/B MOAB with the GBU-57A/B MOP.
My bad!
I don’t understand. Their nukes were “ bombed into oblivion “
Plus Jared fixed all this!
It needs some fine tuning with a military invasion.
He got a better offer
Yeah, this will go well.
https://media.tenor.com/E9jEptyDKzIAAAAM/yosemite-woah.gif
hilarious.
"...that perks up his prunes"
The closest he's got to prunes are raisins, they're that small
Maybe currants.
Still, it's nice phrasing...
It must be true that Israel has the rape tapes. Why do this now? I thought we were invading Cuba?
More invasions! We need more wars that President of Peace can stop to win his prize!
The only winners are the military hardware death merchants and the Iranian Theocracy.
Nothing motivates a population to resist more than a foreign invader leveling a metropolis and creating a legion of MARTYRS.
And nothing radicalizes extremists worldwide like a Christian nationalist crusader campaign to brutalize an Islamic regime.
Hunter S Thompson saw it all and made the prediction about the War of Religions.
HST checked out before he had to see it actually happen.
Jaques Derrida said that you don’t invent an apocalypse without trying to make it happen.
Ask any Iraqi about fighting Iran. And sanitized aerial bombing won't do diddly.
But yeah,
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Remember that I predicted a long time ago that President Obama will attack Iran because of his inability to negotiate properly-not skilled!
Rule #1 of Trumpodynamics:
For every tweet there is an equal and opposite tweet.
Rule #2:
Cheetolini thrives on chaos.
He should just declare Mission Achomlished and move on to the next thing.
Because the next thing is always the Epstein files.
Won't be watching, but it should be an interesting SOTU tonight:
"State of the Union addresses are always multi-layered events: a chance for a president to speak to the base, take a victory lap, acknowledge helpful supporters, and set the foundation for the year ahead. Tonight’s version promises all of that plus tension-filled additional layers.
The speech comes as part of the federal government is shut down, with Department of Homeland Security funding paused while Democrats on Capitol Hill demand changes to the way immigration agents behave.
It also comes a day after President Donald Trump said in a social media post that the Supreme Court only deserved to be written with lower-case letters because it ruled against him on a major tariff case. The justices traditionally have front-of-the-chamber seats for the speech.
And it comes after the Trump administration tried to prosecute a US senator — and investigate other members of Congress — for what they said in a video.
“He wants me to be sitting in prison right now. So I’m going to be sitting there as one of the senators from Arizona, as a representative of Arizona, to show him I’m not in prison,” Sen. Mark Kelly (D) told reporters.
Indications are that Trump plans to steamroll the assembled lawmakers, dignitaries and the prime-time TV audience with a list of accomplishments in hopes of resetting a national mood that has curdled before the midterm elections.
Some members of Congress will be trying to draw attention to issues they care about through their choices of guests in the gallery. Iowa lawmakers invited the families of National Guard soldiers killed in Syria, Rep. Pete Stauber (R-Minn.) is bringing the YouTuber who made claims about day care center fraud. Several Democrats said their guests will be sex-trafficking victims chosen to draw attention to the Jeffrey Epstein files. And Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar (D) said she invited a man who was wrongfully detained by agents who refused to check his identification" (Bloomberg)
I'm going to see the surgeon now to see if the upcoming procedure will keep me out of a wheelchair!
Rep. Betty McCollum (MN) has invited the son & daughter of the late Melissa and Mark Hortman.
Good luck!