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Originally posted by CPD SIG:

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https://www.newsmax.com/world/...dkt_nbr=010102dvykfp
....citing four sources with knowledge of the discussions.

....
Here’s my problem with the media-

SHUT THE FUCK UP!
Seriously, for the love of all that is good:
SHUT
THE
FUCK
UP
....
[rant off]

While I don't disagree, I'd like to see these "four sources" tried for treason.

It's Official: Iranian Regime Names Khamenei’s Son as New Leader
What'd the over/under on "days on earth?"

https://www.theepochtimes.com/...L3SVOSQyNnJkW6ItA%3D

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Originally posted by downtownv:
It's Official: Iranian Regime Names Khamenei’s Son as New Leader
What'd the over/under on "days on earth?"

I wonder what his options were? Accept this promotion to ayatollah, or...

get beheaded at sunrise.


Accept this promotion to ayatollah, or...

Go swimming in the Strait of Hormuz in a chum swimsuit.



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Originally posted by downtownv:
What'd the over/under on "days on earth?"

Days? You're an optimist.

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Originally posted by downtownv:
It's Official: Iranian Regime Names Khamenei’s Son as New Leader

The Pentagon and United States Military would like to thank Iran for assisting with target identification.

Judging by all the op-eds and various other articles, everyone in the UK and beyond is demanding Kier Stammer's resignation.
https://x.com/mdubowitz/status...iran-enters-week-two

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Originally posted by CPD SIG:...
Here’s my problem with the media-
(all the shit you said...)
SHUT THE FUCK UP! ...
Fuck the media
[rant off]

All of this..

"My nigga!"

It is my studied opinion that the Democratic Party has surrendered to far Leftist ideology.
The effort to undermine Trump by acting in words and deeds against our military is tantamount to treason! The last I checked, the penalty for high crimes and misdemeanors is death.

I say no more!

Beijing Afraid Iran Strikes Will Spur Uprising in China, Insiders Say
CCP officials are scrambling to ensure loyalty and ideological alignment amid Iran strikes, a former Chinese official said.
The U.S.-led Iran strikes and death of the Iranian leader have rattled Beijing. Authorities are worrying about a chain reaction that could threaten the Chinese regime’s own stability, multiple sources told The Epoch Times on condition of anonymity.
In the days since the launch of Operation Epic Fury, top Chinese officials from the Politburo, the political power center in China, have called multiple secret meetings over the situation in Iran, according to one source with knowledge of the discussions.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/...age&ea_med=section-1

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Originally posted by captain127:

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Originally posted by sigmonkey:
Yes, it do.

The BUFF doesn't owe us a nickel.

This bird has earned its keep and paid us back many fold.

As I understand it, there are plans in place for modernization programs that will keep the 52 in active inventory until the design is near 100 years old.

I think they recently had their engines upgraded with Rolls Royce.

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Originally posted by sigmonkey:
The current number of B-52s in service (about 75), will be about 90 years old in 2050,

They must be made of aircraft grade aluminum.

Lots of pieces and parts replaced and upgraded over time. Some of them did recently have a huge overhaul and modernization, becoming the J variant, and receiving engines that are used in Gulfstream G550 and G650 business jets. Trump should fly in one of these to the next global warming conference!

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Originally posted by RichardC:

They must be made of aircraft grade aluminum.

It lasts a long time.

https://www.newsmax.com/politi...dkt_nbr=010502rgz7rn

Trump: Oil Spike Small Price for World Peace

President Donald Trump said Sunday that higher oil prices are a "very small price" for Americans to pay for world safety and peace.

Trump made the remarks in a post on Truth Social after oil prices surged above $100 per barrel for the first time in more than 3 1/2 years.

The surge comes as Trump escalates military action against Iran, fueling concerns about possible disruptions to Middle East energy production and vital shipping lanes.

"Short term oil prices, which will drop rapidly when the destruction of the Iran nuclear threat is over, is a very small price to pay for U.S.A., and World, Safety and Peace. ONLY FOOLS WOULD THINK DIFFERENTLY!" Trump wrote.

In an exclusive interview with Reuters last week, Trump said he was not worried about rising gasoline prices tied to the widening conflict with Iran, emphasizing that national security remains his top priority.

"I don't have any concern about it," Trump said when asked about higher prices at the pump.

"They'll drop very rapidly when this is over, and if they rise, they rise, but this is far more important than having gasoline prices go up a little bit."

Trump previously acknowledged that instability in the region has pushed crude prices higher amid fears of supply disruptions.

"As soon as this ends, those prices are going to drop, I believe, lower than even before," Trump said.

Oil prices have climbed in recent days as Israel's conflict with Iran intensifies and Trump's Operation Epic Fury targets Tehran's nuclear program, heightening fears of disruptions to key Middle East shipping lanes and energy supplies.

The price swings have also contributed to broader market volatility as investors monitor developments in the region.

Trump said the recent increase in oil prices is tied to uncertainty surrounding the conflict but expressed confidence that stability will return.

"It's about stability," Trump said. "Once we have stability, you're going to see a big difference."

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Originally posted by RichardC:

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Originally posted by sigmonkey:
The current number of B-52s in service (about 75), will be about 90 years old in 2050,

They must be made of aircraft grade aluminum.

“aircraft grade aluminum“ is right up there with “as seen on TV”.

“A war of choice,” is the phrase the media has seized upon to describe the war in Iran — a war the Republicans won’t call a “war” because of the constitutional implications.

What the press does not understand is that we really have no choice in the matter. Some of you and much of the press may reject the idea of heaven and hell, but the apocalypse is central to the mission of the Iranian government.

Progressives in the press and the Christian who never darkens the door of the church may not care much for religious world views, but the Iranian theocracy is premised on bringing about the return of the Mahdi. To do so, the Iranians must destroy Israel. The whole of the regime has existed to do that, and the deceased Ayatollah decided to pursue nuclear weapons because, in his words, Israel is a “one bomb country.”

The former Spanish Prime Minister told the tale of going to Tehran to visit Ayatollah Khamenei. Attempting to make small talk as the Ayatollah made himself a cup of tea, the Prime Minister asked him what he woke up in the morning thinking about. “The destruction of Israel,” was Khamenei’s reply.

With or without nuclear weapons, Iran was on the verge of having such a massive arsenal of weapons, our deterrent abilities would be no match. They were on the verge of being able to overwhelm the Iron Dome and Patriot missile batteries stationed around the Middle East. Iran may or may not have been able to make nuclear weapons within months, but in a few months, it could fill missiles with uranium and render Israel uninhabitable.

Iran has been at war with the United States for 49 years. We have simply chosen not to fight back. We chose not to fight, but the fight was going to have to be fought.

The naive experts who have gotten so much wrong about Iran and the West, many of them on Iran’s payroll and paid to be dismissive of the theological beliefs of the theocracy, have insisted that diplomacy could work. But diplomacy cannot work on a regime predicated on bringing about the apocalypse. Only the secularists who scoff at the miraculous could truly believe diplomacy was the answer. Most, however, believed diplomacy really would not work. They just wanted Iran to get nukes, knowing they’d be unstoppable at that point. They did not think Iran would use them. They presumed we would just not attack a nuclear nation. It would be deterrence in their minds. They convinced themselves the worldview of the Ayatollah could be reasoned with.

Over the weekend in New York, Islamist protestors threw an improvised explosive device at a crowd of people protesting public Islamic prayer in New York. Both groups were outside Gracie Mansion. Police arrested Emir Balat and Ibrahim Nikk Kayumi at the scene.

Most news outlets failed to mention Balat and Kayumi were Islamic counter-protestors. The Mayor of New York, notably, condemned as racist the protestors protesting Islamic prayer. He chose not to condemn the jihadists.

The press is like the British government, desperately afraid of meeting the fate of the Charlie Hebdo editors. In Britain, the government is so afraid of Muslims, who make up less than ten percent of the population, that they’ll reorder society to avoid offending Islam because the other +90% of the population will neither cut off their heads nor rape their children.

These secular politicians and journalists cannot fathom that when the Ayatollah wakes up in the morning, his first thought is the destruction of Israel, and he really means its physical destruction.

To the extent we are in a “war of choice,” it is a choice to either live or watch our ally, and perhaps our own cities, turn into radioactive wastelands. It is telling that our American press corps and the Democratic Party seem to be rooting for Iran. They treat Trump and his backers as fundamentalist zealots and the Iranians as just old men with beards who hate America. They’re rather ally with the America haters who surely don’t mean what they say than with the Jesus Freaks and the man with the lifestyle of a newsroom CEO elected President.

NBC News was fine with Matt Lauer until too much pressure was brought to bear. They just can’t stomach Trump. CNN is fine with Jeffrey Toobin’s masturbation. They just don’t like Christian conservatives. They’d rather report from inside Iran with Iran’s permission than maybe take the threat of Iran seriously.

The New York Times did a deep dive into Congressman Dan Goldman’s wife’s pro-Israel social media. The same paper downplayed Mayor Mamdani’s wife celebrating the October 7th massacre, including liking social media posts celebrating the raping of women and children in Israel. The Congressman’s wife’s views can be imputed to the congressman. The Mayor’s wife, however, is a private person who just whispers her anti-semitism into the ear of the man laying in bed next to her at might. Not that the Mayor needs someone to make him hate Jews. Melania Trump, wearing a jacket, became a news story. Rama Duwaji, Mr. Mamdani’s wife, liking social media posts celebrating the murder of Jews is a nothingburger that the New York Times characterizes as “lik[ing] Instagram posts that supported the Palestinian cause”. “Palestinian cause” is doing a lot of work.

One of the posts Duwaji reportedly liked featured images of Palestinians breaching Israeli defenses and described the attack as a form of resistance to “apartheid.”

Another showed people on a captured IDF vehicle with messaging about opposing occupation and oppression. Both posts were shared on the same day Hamas carried out its assault on Israel.



The moral of the story in all of this is that if Orange Man Bad, all those opposed to him must be good, including Iranian terror masters. The press and Democrats will side with the mullahs to hurt Trump.

And Democrats are still refusing to fund the Department of Homeland Security.

Also, they are now attacking Trump for gas prices and not filling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Remember, Chuck Schumer bragged about blocking Trump from refilling the SPR, which was subsequently emptied by Biden to help Kamala Harris’s election bid.


https://ewerickson.substack.co...rue&utm_medium=email

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posted March 09, 2026 05:34 AM Hide Post
Lots of pieces and parts replaced and upgraded over time. Some of them did recently have a huge overhaul and modernization, becoming the J variant, and receiving engines that are used in Gulfstream G550 and G650 business jets. Trump should fly in one of these to the next global warming conference!

Is that like the "old-timers" that claimed they had used the same axe their whole life - and had replaced the axe-head and handle only about three or four times. (I guess that does make it the "same" axe, sorta....

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Iran names Mojtaba Khamenei to succeed his father as supreme leader.

Dead man walking.

Link

^^^
Or as Toby Keith sang it:

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Hey Uncle Sam, put your name at the top of his list
And the Statue of Liberty started shakin' her fist
And the eagle will fly man, it's gonna be hell
When you hear mother freedom start ringin' her bell
And it feels like the whole wide world is raining down on you
Oh, brought to you courtesy of the red white and blue