And if you listened to him, he was over it within a week. He must be vewy tied.
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Well, at least the quoted intelligence sources are being relatively honest about it, instead of Hegseth and Trump’s claim that the Iranian military has been “obliterated.”
Someone posted a YoutTube clip here recently with a retired Army intelligence officer who did damage assessment in the Iraq war. He said targets like SCUD missile fabs were listed as destroyed from satellite photos, but when he was later on the ground doing assessments, they wee hitting empty buildings. The parts and equipment had been moved long before.
When the intel is shaky, damage assessment can be politically motivated and completely misleading. I’m a little surprised they’re admitting that only a third of the missile arsenal has been destroyed, and not a higher number.
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A thought-provoking column (and comments). Free link:
Opinion
Lydia Polgreen
It’s Not Trump. It’s America.
March 26, 2026
The piece concludes:
That line made me realize the folly of my own oscillation: Both views — Trump as aberration or Trump as history’s fulfillment — had America as the protagonist of its own story, with the world as a stage. I needed a wider frame, an honest engagement with history and a willingness to admit that America is, like any other nation, just one place in the world.
America does not know how to exist in a world it does not control. Since its inception, America has assured itself it was simply too big, too far away and too richly endowed to suffer any serious consequences for its actions. But there will be no escaping the cataclysm in Iran. In its wake, there is a chance to recognize our place in an interconnected world and see ourselves clearly. The way out of the cycle of failure and betrayal is to shed our illusions, once and for all.
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Apparently, he did not believe whoever told him that attacking Iran would not be a repeat of Venezuela. Trump thought his gut was smarter than the experts and here we are. He has already spent 10s of billions of dollars, upended the world’s economy but he’s bored and wants to move on. The lunacy continues.
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This was explained pretty well by Arthur C. Clarke decades ago.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
What needs to be explained is that “sufficiently advanced” is relative to the observers frame of reference. I think the discrepancies of knowledge and comprehension makes much of contemporary technology in our society seem like magic to large swaths of the population. This is also a leading a horse to water problem. How many members of the “Hostile to Science” crowd have had the opportunity to learn about the science and chose not to?
So while the anti-science position of the Trump admin is worrisome, it’s not surprising. What is kind of surprising is that within that same administration and population is an absolute glee to fund massive science projects whose intent is to manipulate and control opinion. You can understand and support the science and still ask “Will this be good for us?” Apparently not in that population, you have to reject the science they don’t like, and meekly accept the science they do like. Once again it seems to be a function of the frame of reference.
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Almost half is sexist.
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Quick search shows this is legit. Probably the Proud Bois practicing for a false flag event.
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I can’t believe that. It’s entirely predictable that “low IQ people” would out smart the President who has declared himself to be the smartest ever.
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looks a lot like the couch in my living room
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Still, Frazer seems to have a good reputation within the office, something I’ve independently heard as well.
I heard the same thing about Gorsuch, so…
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“Canadians live in the world. Americans only live in America” - Anon. Canadian
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The school they hit was on an obsolete target list. It seems the Iranians repurpose buildings like everybody else. Proof positive that they didn’t update their targeting plans before starting their bombing campaign.
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And they would go after vaccines, the greatest invention of humanity. And that has shocked me, the fact that science is under attack, not because its conclusions are necessarily politically inconvenient but because it is a way of telling the truth. That has been the most disorienting and frightening aspect of all of this.
TeamDonnie™ – content to preside over deteriorating wreckage, as long as they have the largest share and the mostest protections.
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Resentful and mediocrities is the key part there. Accepting that you’re not super special finds most of us eventually, it’s the special people who believe their mediocrity is better than other peoples who complain about having to compete.
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Anthropic’s ‘disagreement’ is being described in first amendment terms. Since this was first reported, however, my reaction has been different. Anthropic’s Claude and other AI platforms are developing technologies. If I were Anthropic or any other AI vendor I would be concerned that Claude is not sufficiently advanced to be reliable in delivering ‘fully autonomous lethal weapons or the mass surveillance of Americans’, and therefore would want to contractually restrict its use for those purposes. There is an objection that relates to liability for misuse and resulting reputational damage both to the US government and to Anthropic from failures in those applications.
ETA: Then there’s the question of how qualified the DOGE bros writing the targetting/surveillance algorithms would be. Not scary at all.
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Cuba !!..
Or donnie proclaims himself president of Venezuela
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