Thursday morning #headlines recap
Iran hits US Gulf bases in coordinated waves; US casualties reported. Targets include bases, logistics depots, radars, drones, and patriot installations.
Strait of Hormuz effectively shut — zero tankers Wednesday. IRGC: as long as US forces remain, "not a drop of oil and gas will be exported from the region”. Thankfully we’ve got our strategic reserves and our own oil drilling to fall back on, right? RIGHT??!!?!
Trump weighs major escalation: options under review include seizing Iranian islands near Hormuz, bombing a fortified nuclear-linked tunnel complex at Pickaxe Mountain, and expanding airstrikes to energy sites, per WSJ. Strikes to "expand next week" after Iran declared no plans for talks. This has Dementia Joe vibes to it. Trump has gone mad.
Vance drew a line: "We're not going to send ground troops for regime change”. Honestly at this point I’d feel more comfortable if he were president.
US ran strikes in two waves — 6am ET, then a second at 3pm ET — hitting Greater Tunb island's coastal-defense and cruise-missile magazines, plus civilian sites: the vicinity of a children's hospital in Ahvaz, a mineral-water plant, and grain/flour warehouses in Khuzestan. Iran's government spokesman put civilian deaths above 30. Hitting near a children’s hospital and killing civilians - the US really is jewish.
Iran claims Kushner/Witkoff market-manipulation profits. Tehran told Vance the pair were "abusing" negotiation access for financial gain, estimating ~$9B in profits and asking for half. To the surprise of exactly nobody on this site.
Massive protests reported across Ukrainian cities after Minister of Defense Fedorov was sacked; combat commanders resigning and "refusing to fight”. Star drone commander Pavlo Yelizarov resigned in protest, calling the sacking "evil”. Looks like the jig might be up for the diminutive coke-snorting jew.
Credit cards could not be used at convenience stores and other merchants across Japan for hours on Thursday following a system outage that also affected some transportation companies' credit card-linked electronic money apps. Cashless society is a very bad idea, particularly in cases of natural disasters.
Editor’s note: I’m addressing some of the voter fraud stories today because they’re funny. Don’t worry, nothing ever happens rule is still in place.
WH getting pushback from Big 3 TV nets over carrying Thurs primetime address live bc AOC/Dems claiming Trump's just gonna rehash "baseless conspiracy theories" 2020 election rigged/stolen even tho Trump promises "really big news" flanked by both CIA/FBI chiefs bringing receipts. I don’t know what is more lol-worthy, the thought that the big 3 networks still matter or the fact that something would be done about voter fraud.
Gateway Pundit (aka Gaping Pundit) is reporting that Wray and Krebs knew the (checks notes) IRANIANS breached the US election system in 2020. OK, so let’s break it down: first, this is at least a switch from blaming CHYNA and RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA (although I’m sure Trump will mention them both in his address); second, we’re admitting the so-called “most powerful nation on earth” could have its elections hacked by a bunch of sand-niggers; and third, was there any nation on the planet that wasn’t hacking into our voting machines??!?!? The absolute fakery and gayety of it all is truly a sight to behold.
Rep. Keith Self seeks to bar federal agencies from using Flock data without a warrant. Warrants. OH. MY. SIDES.
State Bank of India opening branches in Texas to make remittances back to the homeland easier. The vultures are hollowing out the carcass.
Google Gemini says harvested neonatal foreskins can be worth hundreds of thousands, even millions of dollars. Gemini better cool it with the anti-semitisms.
Prominent author Jay Dyer exposes a massive historical coverup. He confirms the Rothschild banking empire intentionally funded the Bolshevik Revolution, secretly wiring millions to Lenin specifically to destroy Russian Christians. Noteworthy only because it’s appearing in normie space, but some version of this is old news here.
Trump steps in, overrules Markwayne Mullin and DHS, tells ICE to get back to doing traffic stops. Lefties keep getting my hopes up that ICE is wantonly killing illegals.
We’re wrapping up the recap with some Uncle Ruckus memes. Have a good day, everyone…
>t. Seneca
Seneca was one of the wealthiest, greediest, most degenerate men to ever live. He was a corrupt, scheming embezzler and usurer who corrupted Nero, cynically deployed Stoicism to frame his accusers as lacking detachment and his victims as not needing the money in the first place, and his squeezing of the Britons with forced loans was one of the causes of Boudica's uprising.
"Nor was this the only instance in which his conduct was seen to be diametrically opposed to the teachings of his philosophy. For while denouncing tyranny, he was making himself the teacher of a tyrant; while inveighing against the associates of the powerful, he did not hold aloof from the palace itself; and though he had nothing good to say of flatterers, he himself had constantly fawned upon Messalina and the freedmen of Claudius, to such an extent, in fact, as actually to send them from the island of his exile a book containing their praises — a book that he afterwards suppressed out of shame. Though finding fault with the rich, he acquired a fortune of 300,000,000 sesterces and though he censured the extravagances of others, he had 500 tables of citrus wood with legs of ivory, all identically alike, and he served banquets on them. In stating thus much I have also made clear what naturally went with it — the licentiousness in which he indulged at the very time that he contracted a most brilliant marriage, and the delight that he took in boys past their prime, a practice which he also taught Nero to follow." — Cassius Dio, "Roman History", Vol. VIII, Book LXI
"While this sort of child's play was going on in Rome, a terrible disaster occurred in Britain. Two cities were sacked, eighty thousand of the Romans and of their allies perished, and the island was lost to Rome. Moreover, all this ruin was brought upon the Romans by a woman, a fact which in itself caused them the greatest shame. ... An excuse for the war was found in the confiscation of the sums of money that Claudius had given to the foremost Britons; for these sums, as Decianus Catus, the procurator of the island, maintained, were to be paid back. This was one reason for the uprising; another was found in the fact that Seneca, in the hope of receiving a good rate of interest, had lent to the islanders 40,000,000 sesterces that they did not want, and had afterwards called in this loan all at once and had resorted to severe measures in exacting it. But the person who was chiefly instrumental in rousing the natives and persuading them to fight the Romans, the person who was thought worthy to be their leader and who p85 directed the conduct of the entire war, was Buduica, a Briton woman of the royal family and possessed of greater intelligence than often belongs to women." — Cassius Dio, "Roman History", Vol. VIII, Book LXII
There's more, of course, but that'll do.
RT: https://poa.st/objects/78fea450-18fb-436e-8ea8-800227494d96
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