Does anyone else find it unsettling that we are at war with
a nation whose best chance of success is some sort of asymmetric warfare (e.g., terrorism) and that the group who has the day to day job of protecting us from that (TSA) is not getting paid?
I find it more unsettling...
by domer.mq 
, Tuesday, March 17, 2026, 16:20 (15 days ago) @ Grantland
That the GOP won't agree to funding DHS with an ICE carve out.
And that the FBI has clearly lost all sense of their counter terrorism mission
And that the chief counter intel guy just quit because of the war with Iran.
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Don't sleep on the fact we have a President worthy of an All
by Joe I , Wednesday, March 18, 2026, 09:27 (15 days ago) @ domer.mq
Time award for personal corruption and self-absorption.
I’m truly shocked that a bunch of losers
too afraid to admit to the president that he guessed their shoe sizes wrong and too incompetent to find the same shoes in the proper size were also too afraid to tell the genius whose for profit university went bankrupt that hope was a poor strategy when it came to the closing of Hormuz. It’s almost like his handling of COVID-19 might imply a lack of judgment and foresight that also might portend that he’d fail to plan for other crisis and hope his extraordinary luck would bail him out once again.
"We're almost out of stuff to bomb"
or whatever dumb-fuck comment he made last week (out of the literally one thousand dumb-fuck comments he's made since he stuck his dick into this particular hornet's nest) really crystallized for me how egregiously out of his element Donnie is in an asymmetric war. Makes me think about having the Woody Harrelson conversation with Josh Brolin in the border hospital, trying to explain the nature of Anton Chigurh. "You don't understand".
After the aggressive action Trump took against them, killing their leader and many others, what reason would those pulling the strings in Iran today *ever* have to reopen Hormuz while he's still in power? Knowing full well that the man is a habitual liar who cannot be trusted in negotiation, and that oil and gasoline prices are one of the precious few levers that anyone has to pull against him? The Strait will quite possibly become his own 'American hostages' downfall, from an entire lifetime ago.
Put a different way
If a much larger man is repeatedly punching you in the head but you have a grip on his balls… do you let go or squeeze tighter? Donnie forgot this was a street fight.
What’s particularly breathtaking is that both US and Iran
by Joe I , Wednesday, March 18, 2026, 12:13 (14 days ago) @ atxND
military have been war gaming this potential conflict for decades now. Nothing of this impasse is the least bit surprising to anyone with even a little bit of interest.
All of the above.
by NDinVA , Yorktown, VA, Wednesday, March 18, 2026, 08:32 (15 days ago) @ domer.mq
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