caribou v.

whatever. anyways. basically living in compression socks again while using my space legs religiously. pounding fish and brown rice all the time.

I wish I could kick my caffeine habit but... haha as if.

rode Antelope Road omw home for the first time since... Jesus... 2020? I love that route. from a scrawny 12 year old to a skinny-fat 39 year old... just chasing and keeping up with traffic the entire way.

US floating plans to invade/occupy southern Iran to defend the strait. It's... well it's insane because it would be another forever war involving 200,000+ troops.

I sincerely don't see Trump admin going forward with it, but again: they've fucked up SO SO SO SO SO SO BAD and, if they continue to be committed to US Hegemeny, are stuck with ZERO other options.

It's impressive the goals ever-changing in all of this. It's to end the Iranian regime!!!! oh no wait it's to end their nuclear program!!!! oh wait no it's to destroy their missile capabilities!!!! oh wait no it's to destroy their drone capabilities!!! oh wait no it's to REOPEN THE STRAIT!!!!

Watching the idiot's address the other night. 2016 election under Obama where Trump won, no cheating involved. 2020 election under Trump where Biden won, Trump admin CHEATED for Biden....???? 2026 under Biden where Trump won, no cheating involved.

Like... what the fuck are you even yapping about? The best part is where "everyone who hates Trump is China."

Whole thing was rambling bullshit to drum up support for the SAVE Act before midterms. TLDR: voter ID required making it hard to vote. Republicans hesitant to pass it because they think it'll actually hurt them. There's discussion if it'll be rolled out evenly or if the Trump admin will be able to enforce it ONLY in blue districts.

Trump admin is pushing it because the midterms are going to be a fucking blowout for Republicans they are so fucked.

38:15 to ~43:30 Jeremy is just cooking his ass and showing how pathetically hypocritical / Israeli-subservient even the seemingly most anti-Israeli representatives are.

For fuck's sake Khanna is mincing words still even with Israeli's harassment/imprisonment of him and likely contemplated killing him only last week.

I don't want to shred Khanna too hard, but this is a perfect example of the Democrats+DNC's PR handling of Israeli's genocide. They are all doing these talking points now:

It's Netanyahu who is bad, not Israel.

We have to continue to fund Israel in order to protect Israeli civilians.

you know, all this stuff that goes on behind the scenes is they say to the Iranians — and I get this from Iranian sources — “Just give Trump this. You know, just toss him this chip, and everything is going to be OK.” And the Iranians are saying, “No, we’re not going to do that.” Quite to the contrary, the Iranians have shown that they are willing to face the prospect of Trump reescalating this to a dramatic degree, because they believe that they won this war on a tactical level and that they don’t need to concede anything to Donald Trump.

imagine any, and i mean AAANNNYYYYYY, other country doing this.

so like LOTR movies. the cave troll put up a bigger fight than THE FUCKING WITCH-KING.

Daughters' War book (phenomenal btw). Galva is this badass world class trained swordsman, but she got wrecked by a random goblin sailor?

Rewatching Wheel of Time TV show. We have the Aes Sedai. They're the most badass magic-wielders in all the land. Egwene, Nynaeve, and Elayne are the most powerful seen in over 1,000 years... They're getting wrecked regularly by piss and shit nobodies?????

Dune part 2 movie. Why is Paul Atreides (who can see the fucking future) being challenged by the bald Harkonnen at the end?

i've said it more times than i can count. Iran won the war. They are dead set on setting up a tolling system through the strait. US hegemony planners "can't" allow it. This doesn't end anytime soon.

Iran knows they won, knows they can demand WHATEVER THEY WANT during negotiations, and are telling the US to get fucked.

so long as the US continues to demand hegemony terms as if they won the war (they didn't) they are stuck and have zero options.

oil, fertilizer, aluminum, and helium global shortages almost everywhere. oil+fertilizer shortages mean the costs to survive (True Living Cost) going to continue to get inflated while corporations profit maximize along same.

prima facie proof of this given that while brent crude prices fell diesel/gasoline stayed the same. Newsom and Trump both know what the oil companies are doing and wrote "strongly worded" tweets about it with nothing more. fucking losers.

i am not sure why the US doesn't just make Iran a GCC participant and negotiate sanction relief for them while forcing them to sell oil in US Dollars. This seems to be the easy out and both US+Iran wins.

as if i'm listening to this old man's girl voice for 10 hours.

cannot turn this shit off fast enough and just read the .epub

US wanted tickets sold/reserved to third-party resellers. US got it.

US wanted quarters to shovel more adverts down people's throats. US got it. It's the new norm in the sport now.

US's best player got a red card and suspended for 1 game. US doesn't like it. Suspension overturned.

US denying VISAs to refs. US's treatment of the Iranian team. Who knows how much referee decisions are being influenced by FIFA+USA, clearly some are.

FIFA and Trump both wildly corrupt and just birds of feather together in this.

Also, Trump is trying to overturn birthright citizenship while simultaneously pulling strings to ensure a birthright citizen gets to play. Trump literally doesn't believe in fuck all.