greggerypeccary wrote Yesterday at 3:19pm:
SadKangaroo wrote Yesterday at 3:11pm:
greggerypeccary wrote Yesterday at 3:06pm:
Frank wrote Yesterday at 2:39pm:
The anti-Trump press is skirling about soaring gas prices and shudders in the stock market. Those shocks are painful but temporary. A nuclear-armed Iran would be a disaster and permanent. Mark Penn got it exactly right in a post on X called “War Resolve.” “In the past,” Penn noted, “casualties were the important and real limiting factor in any war.”
Today, people are worked up over a transitory increase in the price of gasoline and the most evil regime on earth is banking its survival on the West being more concerned about money than lives.
Consequently they even execute teenagers without fair trials to create fear among the population to prevent an uprising. And the global anger is over gas prices not the executions.
It will take resolve to see it through. The Iranians appear to have enough command and control left to launch desperate attacks on the region and suppress people at home. The aims of the operation have not been met until that chain is broken and the regime can no longer inflict terror on the world. And that may well take another month or so to accomplish and so the world will have to decide if it can withstand a temporary bump in gas prices to rid us of one of its most evil actors whose despicable actions are even more evident each passing day.
Hopefully we can find that resolve because the good of ridding the world of this regime, ending its terror network and ending its threats against the West far outweigh a spike at the pump that will quickly be forgotten once this is finished.https://amgreatness.com/2026/03/22/tis-but-a-flesh-wound-irans-delusional-victor... They're talking bout the Trump administration there, right?
I don't think so.
That regime will fall at the midterms, hopefully in such a majority that impeachment will be on the table, and all those members of the regime will lose their immunity and can face justice for their criminal and unconstitutional activity.
Assuming the midterms will, in fact, happen.
I think now that the mid-terms
will happen, but they'll be rigged.
MAGA has already openly admitted that they'll be using ICE officers to intimidate and deter voters in key electorates.
As far as impeachments go, it's the Democrats' duty to impeach the criminals in Trump's administration (along with Trump himself) - Bondi, Gabbard, Noem, Hegseth,
et al.Let's hope they grow some balls and actually do what they're meant to do.
That's the part that keeps getting glossed over, Republicans were prepared to move on funding the TSA with Democratic support, and Trump simply pulled the pin on it. That makes the shutdown his, entirely his, not some abstract failure of "Washington", but a deliberate act of political leverage in pursuit of a very specific outcome.
And that outcome isn't governance, it's the forced passage of the SAVE Act.
At that point the pattern becomes hard to ignore. You don't tank basic government functions unless the prize matters more than the damage, and in this case the prize is obvious, greater control over the mechanics of voting itself.
ICE already operates in a way that raises serious civil liberties concerns, that's before their deployment to polling booths.
Layer the SAVE Act over the top, and suddenly you've got a framework that can be used to scrutinise, challenge, and potentially suppress participation under the guise of "integrity".
And conveniently, all of this unfolds while Donald Trump continues to face mounting legal exposure. That's not a coincidence, it's incentive. The more control you exert over electoral processes, the more insulation you create from accountability.
So the shutdown isn't dysfunction, it's strategy. Crude, transparent, and corrosive, but strategy nonetheless.
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