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[Blake Hampton]

3 minutes ago, Xerxes said:

 

 

you do know that there are only 2% of Iranians that are Arabs …

Are you an American Blake ?

 

 

Yes, I'm but a dumb American.
 

I'm still learning these things.

 

Edited June 13, 2025 by Blake Hampton

[Blake Hampton]

Also this idiot is now in charge of the IRS. Business as usual:

 

 

Edited June 13, 2025 by Blake Hampton

[Xerxes]

3 minutes ago, Blake Hampton said:

Yes, I'm but a dumb American.
 

I'm still learning these things.

 

All good.

 

To add more confusion, the Ayatollah and the president are actually of ethnic Azeris minorities .. and not majority Persians. 
 

Doesn’t mean anything, but just interesting 

[cubsfan]

2 minutes ago, Xerxes said:

All good.

 

To add more confusion, the Ayatollah and the president are actually of ethnic Azeris minorities .. and not majority Persians. 
 

Doesn’t mean anything, but just interesting 

 

What's your take on Iran - they've said they would retaliate immediately.

 

 

[Blake Hampton]

I'm going to sleep, but I have a feeling that when I wake up, it'll be clear this is turning into a serious conflict. All the reports I'm seeing make it look like Israel went in heavy.

 

I'm probably going to kick myself for not buying more oil.

 

Good night everyone.

[Xerxes]

2 minutes ago, cubsfan said:

 

What's your take on Iran - they've said they would retaliate immediately.

 

 

 

They say a lot of things, but what takes precedence is the survival of the regime. But they do need to do something proportional and a direct “state on state” .

 

Honestly though I am clueless. We have to wait for the signalling coming out of Tehran.

 

On a different note, we may have a chance to dump Occidental. 

[cubsfan]

4 minutes ago, Xerxes said:

They say a lot of things, but what takes precedence is the survival of the regime. But they do need to do something proportional and a direct “state on state” .

 

Honestly though I am clueless. We have to wait for the signalling coming out of Tehran.

 

On a different note, we may have a chance to dump Occidental. 

 

Thanks.  IDF spokesman just reported that Iran was weeks away from having 15 nuclear grade weapons.  Also said that this is the opening salvo, and to expect waves of attacks over the next few days.

 

I'm clueless too.

[whiskybravo]

2 hours ago, Parsad said:

 

Maybe not fascism, but we are well within the dictator ballpark now.  Cheers!

Dictator:

a ruler with total power over a country, typically one who has obtained control by force.

 

Autocrat:

a ruler who has absolute power.

 

We aren’t there.

 

He was elected democratically, has to pass his legislation through congress (his executive orders can be reversed by the next democratic president), and is subject to the judiciary.

 

[adesigar]

3 hours ago, cubsfan said:

 

Losers always make excuses for bad behavior.

That’s rich coming from you.

[Red Lion]

1 hour ago, Blake Hampton said:

One cost is that oil markets will likely go crazy.

 

And it sucks because I want oil to go down.

 

Seems like it could be really good for the Permian basin. Assuming whatever conflict that comes is long lived. 

[Hektor]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/12/israel-attacks-iran-tehran-explosions/
 

Israel attacks Iran, braces for retaliation

[whiskybravo]

1 hour ago, Spekulatius said:

I have never seen an autocrat who doesn’t love a pompous parade in front of him. Greetings from  Putin, Xi Jinping, KimJong have theirs, why can’t Trump? 

Hitler, Mussolini, Honecker and Stalin are cheering from the afterlives (or hell) too.

Good thing we don’t have an autocrat.

 

Italy has had a military parade every year since 1948 on June 2, Festa Della Repubblica.  France on Bastille Day.  
 

Saturday is the 250th anniversary of the army.  
Enjoy some John Philip Sousa.

[Hektor]

35 minutes ago, whiskybravo said:

We aren’t there.

+1

 

Because, the administration does abide by the court verdict.

 

Judge Blocks Trump From Deploying National Guard in L.A.

Edited June 13, 2025 by Hektor

[changegonnacome]

44 minutes ago, cubsfan said:

Iran was weeks away from having 15 nuclear grade weapons

Israel but Bibi especially have been saying Iran is weeks away from a nuclear weapon for about 15yrs now

[nwoodman]

Aljazeera is reporting that there has been a number of assassinations of key Iranian military and nuclear officials that coincided with the attacks.

Edited June 13, 2025 by nwoodman

[Gregmal]

Seems obvious to me that Trumps negotiation with Iran was basically a “take the deal or we ll let Israel kill the nuclear ops” situation. Of course now Trump can say he has nothing to do with it. 

[cubsfan]

5 minutes ago, Gregmal said:

Seems obvious to me that Trumps negotiation with Iran was basically a “take the deal or we ll let Israel kill the nuclear ops” situation. Of course now Trump can say he has nothing to do with it. 

 

Yup, the last thing we want is to get dragged into this fight.

[DooDiligence]

5 hours ago, dwy000 said:

Literally the first words out of his mouth were "I'm senator Alex Padilla"  and he didnt bumrush anyone.  Are we watching the same video??  Does Newsmax alter these?

 

Not only that, he's a ranking member of the judiciary sub-committee on immigration, citizenship and border safety so yeah, she knows who he is. Probably went home and killed a puppy to celebrate.

[DooDiligence]

Six months ago we didn't have to pay a 55% tax on imports from China. NTM all the other price increases.

 

Worst deal maker ever. TBF though, he's great at screwing over lenders, vendors and contractors.

 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/06/09/donald-trump-unpaid-bills-republican-president-laswuits/85297274/

 

https://theweek.com/articles/783976/brief-history-trumps-smalltime-swindles

 

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/06/09/donald-trumps-trail-of-unpaid-bills/85685206/

 

https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/columnists/mike-kelly/2020/01/24/donald-trump-still-owes-money-to-contractors-who-built-taj-mahal-atlantic-city/4547037002/

 

Judge Orders Trump to Pay $300K for Stiffing Paint Company on Golf Resort Renovation

 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/contractor-lawsuit-trump-never-settled-bill-old-post-office-dc-hotel/

 

https://theweek.com/speedreads/629132/usa-today-investigation-reveals-donald-trump-extensive-history-not-paying-workers

 

There's not enough space or time to outline all the businesses this guy has hurt, and the list gets longer every day. Meanwhile, he loots his way to crypto fortunes.

Edited June 13, 2025 by DooDiligence

[changegonnacome]

9 minutes ago, cubsfan said:

Yup, the last thing we want is to get dragged into this fight

there’s simply no question the US will be dragged in….Israel is completely dependent on the US security umbrella to defend against Iranian missle attacks like those last October 

[cubsfan]

2 minutes ago, changegonnacome said:

there’s simply no question the US will be dragged in….Israel is completely dependent on the US security umbrella to defend against Iranian missle attacks like those last October 

 

Yes, I understand that Israel get viewed as a US proxy. So supplying weapons as we do in Ukraine is one thing. 

 

If our bases get attacked - then, unfortunately, it all changes.

 

I have no clue what will happen.

[Lazarus]

32 minutes ago, changegonnacome said:

Israel but Bibi especially have been saying Iran is weeks away from a nuclear weapon for about 15yrs now

 

Even longer: 

 

 

 

 

[changegonnacome]

2 minutes ago, cubsfan said:

Yes, I understand that Israel get viewed as a US proxy

The US is hand in glove with Israel….proxy doesn’t do the relationship justice….51st state might be a more apt description….if/when Iran retaliates (as per last Oct)…the US will be chiefly responsible for defending Israel….lots of PR nonsense out there about the Iron dome…what last October showed is the true iron dome is really a deeply elaborate and expensively resourced US military assets in the region. 

[Paarslaars]

This will be inflationary... No rate cuts this year I guess.

[Parsad]

8 hours ago, whiskybravo said:

 

Dictator:

a ruler with total power over a country, typically one who has obtained control by force.

 

Autocrat:

a ruler who has absolute power.

 

We aren’t there.

 

He was elected democratically, has to pass his legislation through congress (his executive orders can be reversed by the next democratic president), and is subject to the judiciary.

 

 

Depends on your source.  As I said, we are in the "ballpark".  Cheers!

 

dictatorship, form of government in which one person or a small group possesses absolute power without effective constitutional limitations.

 

https://www.britannica.com/topic/dictatorship