Investment grade copium. You don't "pop a bubble" by trying to publicly harass the Fed into lowering rates.
I don't think they should target US bases. GCC military installations or economic infrastructure makes more sense, specifically petroleum or shipping related infrastructure. Yemen doesn't have any equivalent infrastructure to a refinery that could be hit in relatilation, and it would increase the price of oil at the time when Trump's approval rating is already starting to slip into the negatives due in part to continuing issues with affordability. Shipping specifically cripples the GCC treats economy and also hurts the shipping land bridge to Israel.
And yeah, I don't think Iran is going to do anything, which is why I said the Resistance at this point is just Ansar Allah and Gaza (I guess maybe the Iraqi militias, too).
I expect this will probably still be controversial since the last time I voiced this here, but I don't see how the Resistance (which is what, just Ansar Allah and Gaza at this point?) can change the calculus of this war without making the GCC comprador states pay a price for letting the US launch attacks from their territories.
It's a slight mistranslation, I think. I believe it's it's technically "I have a dick in ass, and you have a dick in ass, but there's nuance", the nuance essentially being that one of them is doing the fucking and one them is being fucked.
Neither the mee article I read nor the guardian article says this.
Yes, it does, in the very part of the article I initially quoted:
Khalil worked for years on the British government’s flagship grant programme that brings foreign students to study at UK universities, as well as in a support role for which he helped to inform and shape British foreign policy on Syria through his knowledge and Arabic skills.
Should I condemn a doctors(locals in most cases) who worked on that program because usaid is an arm of imperialism, that would be ridiculous.
I don't know, are the doctors helping the UK determine how to conduct it's "foreign policy" in a one of their proxy wars?
Democrats "fold", pass the GOP continuing resolution which gives Trump more power to do what he wants with funding regardless of where it was supposed to go.
Schumer of course won't be removed, because this was all show.
That opinion of Erdogan is pretty depressing, honestly. MBS above Khamenei? When was this taken?
Khalil being unjustly locked up and persecuted in the US doesn't absolve him of collaborating with a fascist state looking to conduct an imperialist war against the country that gave him refuge. The only wrecker behavior is from "leftists" who thinks that sort of activity is OK. His work on "foreign policy" is called out explicitly as separate from his work on the scholarship program. No one made him take that job. Do you think he needed British security clearance to tell Embassy staff about customs?
GOP discovers that Medicaid is the primary thing that pays for nursing homes and rural health in the US:
https://www.tarapalmeri.com/p/fear-and-loathing-in-the-west-wing
I'm not sure to the extent that this is an actual fight or if it's kayfabe and they are making Elon the sin-eater.
I never used the word "malice", I implied he had views that we would consider ideologically inconsistent.
Waller added that the British government was entirely dependent on non-British nationals working at embassies worldwide to provide the language skills and local knowledge needed to operate. Khalil worked for years on the British government’s flagship grant programme that brings foreign students to study at UK universities, as well as in a support role for which he helped to inform and shape British foreign policy on Syria through his knowledge and Arabic skills.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/13/mahmoud-khalil-columbia-british-government-work
What sort of "foreign policy on Syria" do you think he was working on at the UK Embassy in Beirut, where the British government runs pretty much all of its Syria operations out of?
Agreed. It's tough because that went all the way to the top. Haniyeh came out in support of the opposition during the Arab Spring, whereas I believe Sinwar was much more pro-Assad, or at least more willing to listen to Iran and Hezbollah. The group grew out of the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Sunni/Salafist brianworms about Shia/Alawites run deep and can be hard to stamp out.
I mean I think that guy with the black jacket and black hat at the bottom left also has gun in his right hand lol.
But also, this Neo Nazi was apparently pretty well known and hated around Odessa.
Option 4) He is a liberal who is Pro-Palestinian, anti-Assad, as a lot of Palestinian refugees in Syria (and Hamas members, for that matter, which he clearly isn't) are, which is how he came to work for the UK Embassy in Beirut doing anti-Assad stuff.
Supposedly the man who assassinated that Ukrainian neo-nazi turned himself in to police.
https://x.com/Alex_Oloyede2/status/1900557278882758886
https://xcancel.com/Alex_Oloyede2/status/1900557278882758886
Video of that Ukranian Neo-Nazi getting double tapped
https://x.com/PhantomRE66/status/1900491218410213613
https://xcancel.com/PhantomRE66/status/1900491218410213613
DHS raided Columbia dorms yesterday:
These people are fucking delusional lol
Where are our greatest posters when we need them most?
Coulda had a bad binch
My only hope is for a Democrat with enough of a spine to black bag this guy in 4 years and send him to Guantanamo.