Damn. Their headquarters is literally less than twenty minutes from me. Always thought they were shady fucks despite being “Best Place To Work in Cincinnati” year after year - you hear tons of horror stories out of TQL if you live here.
Hegseth sent a couple thousand Marines to the Med, and he apparently thinks a ground invasion is at least ONE plan on the table. I do truly think Hegseth thinks that it’s just like Iraq in a video game, where it’s all flat, featureless desert.
Or, more likely, Hegseth doesn’t care about the lives lost, and thinks that we can just throw bodies and missiles at Iran to cow then into submission. That seems in line with his stupid “warrior ethos” shit.
Engineering too. A huge chunk of my company’s design engineering staff are H-1B because you can get away with paying a lot less.
I however, give you Genesis 1:28: ‘And God blessed them, and God said unto them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.”’
Combine this with the Revelation, wherein Jesus shall return and build the perfect Kingdom of Heaven on Earth, and you can see where a lot of more apocalyptic, “what does it matter” Christianity comes from really easily.
Nah, that’s a little too savvy for Trump directly. We can infer, from stories given to us, that he literally just sold secrets over the dinner table at Mar-A-Lago in his first term.
This is my thought. The admin (not Trump because I don’t think he can plan more than five minutes ahead right now) is either going to launch a false-flag, or deploy a nuke. Maybe both, so we can say “look, we SAID Iran had nukes!”
The FBI director is a podcaster, the HHS secretary is…whatever RFK Jr did before (the word “failson” comes to mind).
Yeah, their sales team is incredibly fucked over from their only significant revenue being various AI farms.
Not long. We’re already burning $1-2B per day on Iran, most of that being highly expensive and hard to replace munitions and fuel. Eventually the people we can borrow money from will stop lending (we’re already borrowing billions a month to keep things afloat as is).
Oh that’s easy. Turns out everyone on the board is now a landlord for like 100 properties each, they’re all simply ADMINISTERED through the corporation, for which each board member pays a modest fee.
Behind the Bastards also did a great series on it
We have nukes. Trump is desperate for ANYTHING to make his mark. Being the first president since Truman to deploy one would be something I could see him doing.
Plus all the shock absorption for the lense. And the avionics if you don’t plan to just have this thing drop film into a predetermined area (like the old Keyhole sats or the U-2).
No, it already does. Facial-ID stuff already throws hundreds of false positives.
No no, Lindsey Graham was pretty clear that this is a war for oil. You can extract oil from a fallout zone, you just need a large amount of workers who you don’t care about. Wonder where they might find those.
Again, this is standard wealth transfer to corporate America. All that cash goes into these senator’s pockets via the MIC.
I keep telling people these aren’t distractions. Iran might’ve started that way, but Venezuela, Mexico, now Cuba, and probably anywhere else in the Caribbean or South America that doesn’t play ball with the regime - these are wars of expansion. Trump wants more things he can point to and say “I did that” and doing colonialism by proxy like we did with Venezuela already looks easy, and it generates your name in the news an awful lot. Never mind that all the companies and expats and their kids are still sore about being forced off the island at gunpoint by the revolution, and the CIA is definitely STILL wanting payback for the Bay of Pigs.
Legitimately nothing. I think this is MS looking for use cases, because they have sunk all their capacity into AI. They cannot detangle themselves from their AI, and they’re trying to course correct into SOMETHING that might be profitable and pull them out of their death spiral.
No no, she’s busy making sure that the Air Force Academy is like, super Christian-fascist.