Althouse: Sunrise.

June 16, 2026

Sunrise.

Talk about whatever you want in the comments.

124 comments:

tcrosse said...: Is that Tiny Meade standing by the dock of the lake?; 6/16/26, 6:13 PM
Not an oldster. said...: We got the ladies page of news today.
It's like no5hing important is happening in the world...

Or maybe, maybe Mr meade and his bride are embarrassed that they helped cheerlead us into another middle east war so Israel could safely kill women and children as they clear the land of the wrong kind of people to grow their religious state...

Yeah, I'd be covering The View and fluffy news too if I had a poor track record like yours. So, settling in for another night of sports ball games with yer sweetie on the couch, prof? Lol.; 6/16/26, 6:24 PM
Leland said...: Three is stunning.; 6/16/26, 6:42 PM
lonejustice said...: No Scotland, no party!
Steve Clarke's Tartan Army!; 6/16/26, 6:47 PM
Ann Althouse said...: “ Is that Tiny Meade standing by the dock of the lake?”

Yes, you win the prize for discovering the tiny Meade of the day.; 6/16/26, 6:52 PM
Original Mike said...: I want a Tiny Meade for my garden.; 6/16/26, 7:06 PM
Achilles said...: “If they don’t do any of these things, we don’t give them anything. They don’t receive anything. Their nuclear program is still destroyed. Their military is still destroyed. Their missile program and industrial base is still destroyed. We fundamentally have transformed the Middle East. Whether they comply or not, this is just icing on the cake, assuming they do all the right things,” Vance said.

It is going to be fun to watch the retards and traitors try to paint this as anything other than complete and total victory for the United States.; 6/16/26, 7:06 PM
rehajm said...: I’m not there but the office is having a ton of fun with the tartan army…but they drank all the beer..,; 6/16/26, 7:14 PM
rehajm said...: …but not the Bud Light. They don’t touch the Bud Light…; 6/16/26, 7:15 PM
Bob Boyd said...: Wow!; 6/16/26, 7:21 PM
Original Mike said...: "They don’t touch the Bud Light…"

There are a lot of us who won't.; 6/16/26, 7:26 PM
Iman said...: #3 for the win!

Ole and Lena were out for a drive, with Ole behind the steering wheel. Ole felt a bit of sudden affection for his wife, so he placed his hand on Lena's lap.

Lena said, "Oh, Ole, you can go up further than that!"

So he drove all the way to Fargo.; 6/16/26, 7:27 PM
narciso said...: https://x.com/VaughnEGolden/status/2066963807440621890; 6/16/26, 7:30 PM
narciso said...: No 3; 6/16/26, 7:30 PM
Breezy said...: Where did all that red come from? It’s akin to a bomb in the series! Mother Nature is into magic shows I guess.; 6/16/26, 7:30 PM
narciso said...: https://justthenews.com/government/congress/oversight-committee-probes-pay-play-concerns-anti-trump-lawyers-nonprofit; 6/16/26, 7:33 PM
narciso said...: Nature is wondrous; 6/16/26, 7:33 PM
Iman said...: While they were there in Fargo, things got hot and heavy, as they will. In the midst of the passion, Lena cried out "Oh, Ole, I want you to do it to me where it stinks!"

So he fired up da car again and took her down to Cando.; 6/16/26, 7:36 PM
narciso said...: https://youtu.be/anmT_Qj6LEk?is=TAQLUESwp49UwBPr; 6/16/26, 7:41 PM
narciso said...: https://x.com/barstoolsports/status/2066942719272911283?s=20; 6/16/26, 7:52 PM
Achilles said...: British Royalty bring back the practice of Prima Nocta.; 6/16/26, 7:54 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: A $300 billion investment fund for Iran and the knowledge they can close the Strait any time they want.

Trump's MOU is a hollow reversion to the exact JCPOA framework Trump spent eight years trashing. The upcoming 60-day talks aim for the same 3.67% enrichment caps and IAEA inspections originally negotiated in 2015.

I'll just leave this here for Achilles to mull over:
“And then, very importantly, I terminated Barack Hussein Obama’s Iran nuclear deal, a disaster. Obama gave them $1.7 billion in cash. Green, green cash. Took it out of banks from Virginia, D.C. and Maryland. All the cash they had, flew it by airplanes in an attempt to buy their respect and loyalty. But it didn’t work. They laughed at our president and went on with their mission to have a nuclear bomb.” ~ Donald J Trump

One has to see the comedy in Republicans screaming for over a decade about how Obama "gave taxpayer money to Iran", when it was un-frozen Iranian money.

Only now to be desperately claiming that none of the billions Republicans are giving to Iran.... is taxpayer money.; 6/16/26, 7:55 PM
narciso said...: Yes diana krall isnt directly relevant (so what); 6/16/26, 7:57 PM
narciso said...: https://babylonbee.com/news/jd-vance-makes-contact-with-tribe-of-illiterate-feral-women; 6/16/26, 7:59 PM
Original Mike said...: Where are the Epstein Files!?!?; 6/16/26, 8:02 PM
Achilles said...: It da jooooss.; 6/16/26, 8:06 PM
narciso said...: No matter how much tripe otto and otis (lexis bumpkin) spit out; 6/16/26, 8:07 PM
Achilles said...: Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...

Only now to be desperately claiming that none of the billions Republicans are giving to Iran.... is taxpayer money.

See what I mean?

They are just stupid people.; 6/16/26, 8:07 PM
narciso said...: A deal which all the gulf states which were most affected in this war; 6/16/26, 8:09 PM
Eva Marie said...: @narciso 7:59 lol
“To think there was a lost tribe living in Manhattan all this time," said Professor Handley London, a trained anthropologist. "Absolutely incredible. And their crude society has been remarkably preserved."
At publishing time, scientists had advised anyone against interacting with the tribe, warning that they would lash out if challenged on their worldview.”; 6/16/26, 8:13 PM
narciso said...: Funny thing about the newsom familes and nazis one in particular otto bolschwing; 6/16/26, 8:13 PM
narciso said...: Funny thing about the newsom familes and nazis one in particular otto bolschwing; 6/16/26, 8:13 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: Bribing Iran was probably the least idiotic thing to do at this point.

“Pallets of cash.”

Trump’s learning curve is awfully expensive.; 6/16/26, 8:14 PM
narciso said...: https://youtu.be/PF3Hk6CR0rU?is=znEMwHvRjik8wVsW; 6/16/26, 8:15 PM
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tcrosse said...: One reads reports that the European football fans are loving what they find in the United States. But remember that these are the hoi polloi that the European elite hate as much as our native elite hate our hoi polloi.; 6/16/26, 8:17 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: Tomorrow's headlines:

'US forced to pay $300 billion in reparations as Trump Administration surrenders after defeat in war with Iran'

It's all about the framing my friend:

"We brought Iran to their knees and forced them to accept $300 billion in reparations as a condition of defeat. A GREAT deal for America"; 6/16/26, 8:17 PM
tcrosse said...: A tiny Meade would go well on my dashboard next to tiny Elvis.; 6/16/26, 8:18 PM
narciso said...: We keep receipts around here, we have very long memories of what a traitorous iranian agent robert malley wrought; 6/16/26, 8:23 PM
narciso said...: Norm eisens lawfare shop is under the microscope; 6/16/26, 8:25 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: By hiding the MOU, Trump gets a week to pre-spin as TV nets put his every word on live. Taking a leaf from the Bill Barr Mueller report playbook.

If this was actually a good deal for the US, Trump would've released it immediately. The fact that he's hiding it means he knows he's about to get some major backlash.; 6/16/26, 8:31 PM
Jersey Fled said...: “ We brought Iran to their knees and forced them to accept $300 billion in reparations as a condition of defeat. A GREAT deal for America"

Would you describe the Marshall Plan as reparations ?; 6/16/26, 8:34 PM
narciso said...: Mueller candles wont light themselves; 6/16/26, 8:42 PM
narciso said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 6/16/26, 8:42 PM
narciso said...: https://nypost.com/2026/06/16/us-news/splc-employee-who-paid-neo-nazi-lover-1-2-million-unmasked/?; 6/16/26, 8:51 PM
Christopher B said...: AofSHQ posted the SPLC lady's picture. Would have been better if mask stayed on.; 6/16/26, 9:00 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: "Would you describe the Marshall Plan as reparations?"

Obama’s deal was quite different from Trump’s. The JCPOA was a highly detailed, technical agreement with clear implementation mechanisms and oversight. Trump’s version, by comparison, sounds like it was pieced together over WhatsApp messages.; 6/16/26, 9:08 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: In fairness, it’s impressive how far and how long a man of his age can bend over and take this. Some staying power.; 6/16/26, 9:10 PM
Not an oldster. said...: He calls his penis tiny meade and errbody wants one?

O...............k; 6/16/26, 9:21 PM
imTay said...: Tom Cotton wants to permanently give Israel access to all US intelligence, including our intelligence about other allies, including targeting information globally, including our most closely held secrets.

This is the country that brought us Jonathon Pollard who handed US secrets to Israel, who then gave them to the Soviets. This is the country that transferred F-16 tech to China that showed up in its J-10 fighter.; 6/16/26, 9:28 PM
imTay said...: Listen to Trump on Israel He is beginning to see the light. It is genocide and the world is sick of it.; 6/16/26, 9:31 PM
Eva Marie said...: Obama went back in time and inplemented the Marshall Plan? Damn he was good.; 6/16/26, 9:32 PM
Eva Marie said...: Was Michelle a woman or a man then?; 6/16/26, 9:33 PM
Eva Marie said...: The Dancing Queen in Fenway Park
https://x.com/theloftusparty/status/2066758989535195322/video/1?s=46; 6/16/26, 9:45 PM
Achilles said...: Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...

"Would you describe the Marshall Plan as reparations?"

Obama’s deal was quite different from Trump’s. The JCPOA was a highly detailed, technical agreement with clear implementation mechanisms and oversight. Trump’s version, by comparison, sounds like it was pieced together over WhatsApp messages.

It is fun to watch you melt down and keep trying to hump that football.; 6/16/26, 9:48 PM
Mark said...: How's Pizzagate, Achilles?
You fled that thread.; 6/16/26, 9:49 PM
Eva Marie said...: Someone went into a liquor store in Boston and bought 2 bottles of water and 20 Scotts booed. lol; 6/16/26, 9:57 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: The overreach of Israel is astonishing. Today, if you read the Israeli press, it's as if America and Trump are enemies of the state. It's crazy to see that even after America backed their wars, even went to war for Israel -- twice, it's still not enough.

That comes alongside an increasingly strident Israel, which openly manipulates American politics -- both directly and indirectly through lobby groups. It should never have been an issue in the Kentucky primary. It is so egregious that it is making Tucker Carlson look like he has the more defensible position.

It makes one wonder about the Israeli response to that original Hamas attack, which was well telegraphed ahead of time, including formal warnings from the IDF's intelligence services. The question Israelis should be asking is whether their Bibi deliberately ignored the warnings, believing that a Hamas action would just be one more minor incursion, easily repelled. If so, it was a catastrophic misjudgment and one that he should be held accountable for.; 6/16/26, 10:10 PM
Quayle said...: I’ve got two words to say to everyone tonight: fire ants.
Man those suckers are nasty.; 6/16/26, 10:12 PM
Eva Marie said...: “The question Israelis should be asking is whether their Bibi deliberately ignored the warnings, believing that a Hamas action would just be one more minor incursion, easily repelled. If so, it was a catastrophic misjudgment and one that he should be held accountable for.”
Who in the world would have believed how evil, barbaric, and vicious Hamas would be?; 6/16/26, 10:15 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: When losing a war is actually a win. ~ Achilles

Trump promised an unconditional surrender in Iran -- he delivered on that promise.

How many truckloads to a pallet?; 6/16/26, 10:17 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: "Who in the world would have believed how evil, barbaric, and vicious Hamas would be?"

Netanyahu pursued a policy of allowing and indirectly supporting Hamas rule in Gaza as a way to undermine the Palestinian Authority and block progress toward a Palestinian state. This was a deliberate "divide and rule" strategy, widely reported and criticized in Israel, especially after October 7, 2023.

It reflects a cynical realpolitik approach common in the conflict, where both sides have exploited divisions. The strategy contributed to Palestinian fragmentation but ultimately strengthened Hamas's military capabilities at a huge cost.; 6/16/26, 10:23 PM
hanuman_prodigious_leaper said...: While Likud follow division policy Labor follow collaboration corruption with PLO; 6/16/26, 10:28 PM
Eva Marie said...: “Netanyahu pursued a policy of allowing and indirectly supporting Hamas rule in Gaza as a way to undermine the Palestinian Authority and block progress toward a Palestinian state. This was a deliberate "divide and rule" strategy, widely reported and criticized in Israel, especially after October 7, 2023.”
True or not true, I don’t care. Oct 7 was 100% the fault of the ugly human beings who raped, murdered, and kidnapped their neighbors at a scale no one would have ever believed until it happened. Responsibility lies with them and no one else.; 6/16/26, 10:34 PM
Old and slow said...: "Not the Bud Light" When I was living in Dublin, I was out at the pub with some workmates and these beautiful girls came around offering us free pints of Coors Light. We all took them with gratitude, but then they came back and asked if we might consider buying them in the future. To a man, everyone said "no not a chance".; 6/16/26, 10:35 PM
Achilles said...: I didn't flee that thread. You just cant read or can't figure out how to get back to it.

Pizzagate is absolutely true

Yes men did use napkins and they did make orders using pizza terminology to order children. A convicted pedophile owned the Pizza restaurant.

You are just a stupid person. I will know if you actually watch the video or not.; 6/16/26, 10:44 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Wow!; 6/16/26, 10:44 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: No 2 tops for me.; 6/16/26, 10:46 PM
Achilles said...: Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...

When losing a war is actually a win. ~ Achilles

Trump promised an unconditional surrender in Iran -- he delivered on that promise.

How many truckloads to a pallet?

Zero retard. We are going to give exactly zero dollars to Iran.

The question is how much money we will let other countries or our businesses invest there.

Contingent on Iranians behaving.

You don't even know who in Iran would resist the deal or who we would give the money to. Only fucking idiots like you think there is an Iranian Regime actually in charge of anything right now.; 6/16/26, 10:46 PM
Original Mike said...: "Obama’s deal was quite different from Trump’s. The JCPOA was a highly detailed, technical agreement with clear implementation mechanisms and oversight. "

That sunset in 10 to 15 years.; 6/16/26, 11:02 PM
Lazarus said...: Today is World Crocodile Day. National Alligator Day was last month.

It's also Watergate Day, when we celebrate another year of Nixon looking better than he did the year before.; 6/16/26, 11:20 PM
NKP said...: All pix outstanding! Number two flirts with perfection. Seriously, number two flirts with perfection🤩. If there are enough pixels, blow that mother up and glorify an entire wall of an important building.

Maybe open a gallery of your work.
THE SUN ALWAYS RISES
The many morning moods of Mendota; 6/16/26, 11:51 PM
NKP said...: Sorry I stuttered 🫢; 6/16/26, 11:54 PM
Eva Marie said...: Yes, they are outstanding and they remind me to look at my own sunrises and sunsets.; 6/17/26, 12:07 AM
Iman said...: Sven and OIe are sitting in a side-by-side two-seater outhouse, doing their business.

Ole finishes up, and as he's standing, a quarter falls out of his pocket down into the pit.

He looks down, gets out his wallet, and throws a $20 bill down into the muck.

Sven is stunned! "What did you do that for?" he asks.

Ole replies, "You don't think I'm going down there just for a quarter, do ya?"; 6/17/26, 12:26 AM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: Trump's life has been defined by exuberant failure. He seems to not be letting up. Most of Trump’s base accepts whatever he does on faith. If he wants to bomb Iran into the Stone Age, so be it. If he instead promises billions in unfrozen assets and even more in future investments, that’s also fine.

After floating an extravagant list of war goals, Trump has settled on one: reopening the Strait of Hormuz. MAGA will try, however difficult it may be to swallow, to present the reopened waterway as a great triumph, even though the strait was never closed before the conflict began. They will likewise shrug off the unfreezing of up to $24 billion in Iranian assets as unremarkable. Woe to anyone who dares compare it to the $1.7 billion in cash Barack Obama sent to Iran as part of the 2015 nuclear deal settlement. “That’s not going to happen with Trump,” he had promised at the outset of his latest Middle East excursion.; 6/17/26, 1:39 AM
Eva Marie said...: “Trump's life has been defined by exuberant failure.”
I wish I could be even half the failure President Trump is.; 6/17/26, 1:44 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Following up on yesterday’s race theme. Check out Language Jones video on his and fellow higher Ed luminaries work on Black English. I was fascinated by their use of twitter as data to be mined. This kind of wealth of data was just not available before. https://youtu.be/wYJjqF1hGjI?is=LZkqtsRrGNzWgwjm; 6/17/26, 2:40 AM
wendybar said...: Way back when, when Trump was beloved by Progressives who now hate him and call him Hitler. Still funny, after all these years!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JoJ2HnMt6Q; 6/17/26, 2:55 AM
wendybar said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 6/17/26, 3:02 AM
wendybar said...: I find Ben Bankas to be the funniest comedian out there today...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dukGnPrnDsQ; 6/17/26, 3:16 AM
john mosby said...: NKP: “ blow that mother up and glorify an entire wall of an important building.”

Yes, like the old Scandecor photo wallpaper kits! I was fascinated by those as a kid. Seems like it would be easier than ever to do with today’s technology. CC, JSM; 6/17/26, 3:38 AM
Not an oldster. said...: Try Taylor Tomlinson, wendy...; 6/17/26, 4:06 AM
Mark said...: Achilles, that video is remarkably vapid.
If you think its some brilliant slam dunk, you are an idiot.

Keep beating your dead conspiracy horse.
No one else here believes you on this either.; 6/17/26, 4:28 AM
Leland said...: Sure seems to be a lot of people against the war with Iran now afraid it might end.; 6/17/26, 5:33 AM
Breezy said...: It’s reasonable to be skeptical of the MOU, particularly as it relates to potential funding based on Iran’s performance as a normal state. Who knows how the government will reconstitute itself? Hopefully all the bombing has reset their thinking and will force them to focus on the Persian population for a good while. There’s something like 92 million people there that need a functioning economy. If they do that, financial assistance from their neighbors would be justified. If they don’t do that, they will just invite more chaos from the US and others.

The main problem is they are maniacal and terroristic. It’s what they know and believe in. We’ll just have to see how much mayhem is required to dislodge that thinking. Egos are hard to put down.; 6/17/26, 5:35 AM
rehajm said...: Sure seems to be a lot of people against the war with Iran now afraid it might end.

I noticed that, too…; 6/17/26, 5:39 AM
Leland said...: I’m sure the media is happy to have so much going on, such as FIFA, potential peace in Middle East, Freedom 250, and book deals. Then they don’t have to cover New York rioters burning school buses and beating visitors in the street. They also can avoid talking about the UK Gang Rape report or the 12,000 arrests for social media posts the government didn’t like.; 6/17/26, 5:43 AM
rehajm said...: where do they house all the social media prisoners?; 6/17/26, 5:47 AM
Humperdink said...: The contractors who built the Obama Center for Promoting Racism, Socialism, Communism, and Transgenderism have not been paid. What a shock.

https://legalinsurrection.com/2026/06/report-obama-center-contractors-owed-millions-for-hideous-new-center/; 6/17/26, 5:53 AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: A rando commenter on someone else’s blog mind you, because he doesn’t have the ability to create his own blog or website or X account, points his chubby Cheeto stained finger at a man who has been elected president at least twice and is married to a brilliant supermodel. And this lazy threadjack has the bright idea to call Trump a “loser.”

This puts me in mind of the old “point a finger at me” bromide. Really it’s another sign pointing to the death of irony. Even more pitiful than babyface Rosie who at least had a career before giving into TDS.; 6/17/26, 6:02 AM
Achilles said...: Mark said...

Achilles, that video is remarkably vapid.
If you think its some brilliant slam dunk, you are an idiot.

Keep beating your dead conspiracy horse.
No one else here believes you on this either.

LOL you didn't even watch you are a retard who sucks up whatever your masters tell you to.; 6/17/26, 6:06 AM
Achilles said...: Remember Mark for years claimed Trump was a Pedophile and that Trump was in the Epstein files based on absolutely nothing and he still claims Trump and Epstein are connected.

But when presented with over 20 minutes of police file details, names, and indictments from people who have been investigating for decades he refuses to believe that a pedo owned a pizza store and helped powerful people in DC procure children.

Mark is a stupid dishonest piece of shit.; 6/17/26, 6:10 AM
rcommal said...: Bud Light was a sponsor of the UFC extravaganza last Sunday. I thought that was some sort of redemption?

I don't drink beer, and on the rare occasions that I have in the distant past, it certainly wasn't a light one (more stout or porter, an occasional wheat on very hot days). So it really doesn't affect me. Just trying to keep track.

(I'm a really bad activist--actually, not one at all. No boycotts, no rallies, no demonstrations, no whatever, online or off. Not my cup of tea. I do 100% support the rights of others to do all of that, as long as they don't trash where they're demonstrating or go after individuals in a threatening fashion, including online.)

Regards,

Lori (reader_iam); 6/17/26, 6:14 AM
Big Mike said...: Over at Legal Insurrection I see that a federal judge has upheld former Wisconsin judge Hannah Dugan’s conviction. Even in Wisconsin a judicial robe is not a get-out-of-jail free card. Good.; 6/17/26, 6:18 AM
Mark said...: Achilles, you claim I said things I never did.
Perhaps the other Mark commenter said something, your reading comprehension must be low given your reliance on videos.

Go back to that prior thread and answer Meade's questions you lying sack of shit.; 6/17/26, 6:20 AM
Rustygrommet said...: "Obama’s deal was quite different from Trump’s. The JCPOA was a highly detailed, technical agreement with clear implementation mechanisms and oversight. "

And the mullahs wiped their asses with it the moment after it was signed. Obama not only gave them the keys to the corvette and the liquor cabinet, but the saphire card as well. Not one inspector ever got close to the Iranian nuclear material.
The mullahs only understand a gun to the head. Trump has a gun to their head.
Is this really the material your CCP masters give you to write? I'd be insulted.; 6/17/26, 6:23 AM
Leland said...: where do they house all the social media prisoners?

Via Google AI (which is why no other link or citation): HM Prison Service suggests they house them as ordinary prisoners in the general population of prisoners.; 6/17/26, 6:25 AM
rehajm said...: …they had prison capacity to accommodate fifteen thousand bad tweeters?; 6/17/26, 6:32 AM
tim maguire said...: Achilles said...It is going to be fun to watch the retards and traitors try to paint this as anything other than complete and total victory for the United States.

“Retard” is a valuable word that people like you are going to ruin through careless overuse. The first and most obvious problem is that, without regime change, we will be right back where we are now in 10-15 years.

Another problem: everybody, including you, knows that some portion of this fund is going to support terrorism.

Third, we have within our grasp the ability to transform the middle east for generations by ending its most prominent Islamic theocracy and bringing Iran back into the fold of civilized nations, a building block for ending all state support for Islamic radicalism, and we are letting that opportunity slip away.; 6/17/26, 6:34 AM
Bob Boyd said...: Third, we have within our grasp the ability to transform the middle east for generations by ending its most prominent Islamic theocracy and bringing Iran back into the fold of civilized nations, a building block for ending all state support for Islamic radicalism, and we are letting that opportunity slip away.

But how do we do that? Where do go from here, in your opinion?; 6/17/26, 6:54 AM
Leland said...: …they had prison capacity to accommodate fifteen thousand bad tweeters?

Of course, but what you really want to know is how they made room.; 6/17/26, 7:13 AM
Breezy said...: “Third, we have within our grasp the ability to transform the middle east for generations by ending its most prominent Islamic theocracy and bringing Iran back into the fold of civilized nations, a building block for ending all state support for Islamic radicalism, and we are letting that opportunity slip away.“
Not clear to me that we are letting the opportunity slip away. The current plan appears to be to encourage internal Iranian alignment to become a normal state using carrots of investments if good behavior. Seems to me to be a preferred choice over massive bombing, killing, and general destruction of a country. The IRGC was 150k strong at one point, not clear how large a team it is now. If any significant size, it’s very hard to uproot. Converting the govt to embrace normal state status is worth a shot.; 6/17/26, 7:14 AM
Achilles said...: Mark said...

Achilles, you claim I said things I never did.
Perhaps the other Mark commenter said something, your reading comprehension must be low given your reliance on videos.

Go back to that prior thread and answer Meade's questions you lying sack of shit.

I plan to make you look stupid right here.

You clearly can't deal with the fact that we are not dependent on your corporate media for information. You can't plug your ears and make it go away. We can go around you now. Everyone who wants to know knows that you are liars and scumbags.

You are probably part of NAMBLA. You are at least embarrassed that NAMBLA has a very active chapter in Washington DC.

Funny how you want to treat your bleating and caterwauling about the Epstein files as something different even though I presented infinitely more evidence than you did.; 6/17/26, 7:22 AM
Jersey Fled said...: This is the most amazing smack down of a local DA (Philadelphia’s Larry Krasner) that I have ever seen. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court cited over 100 cases of Krasner negating murder convictions by erroneously, and likely illegally claiming prosecution misconduct by his own office.

https://x.com/ewess92/status/2066998339741286520?s=61

Krasner is, of course, a Soros elected DA.; 6/17/26, 7:29 AM
tim maguire said...: Bob Boyd said...But how do we do that? Where do go from here, in your opinion?

Iran has a government in exile and an educated population with a western orientation. They are primed and ready for a constitutional monarchy similar to what a number of European nations have.; 6/17/26, 7:35 AM
tim maguire said...: Breezy said...Converting the govt to embrace normal state status is worth a shot.

Wishful thinking. There is nothing in the history of the Islamic republic to ground that hope.; 6/17/26, 7:37 AM
rcommal said...: Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana had this to say about the interim ceasefire agreement and Iran's likelihood of abiding by the terms: "Unless you were homeschooled by a day drinker, no one's confident that Iran is going to do anything."; 6/17/26, 7:47 AM
narciso said...: The rule of the ayatollahs might end up a brutal footnote like the reign of savanatola in the 15th century fiorenze; 6/17/26, 7:47 AM
rcommal said...: As someone who was a homeschooling mom for a decade but NOT as a day-drinker, I thought that was pretty funny, in a dark humor sort of way.

Regards,

Lori (reader_iam); 6/17/26, 7:48 AM
Bob Boyd said...: @ Tim Maguire

I'm with you, but how do we get there? I hate to see the IRGC legitimized by our people sitting across the table from them, but how do we get them out? 90% of Iranians want them out, but the IRGC will kill them if they come out to demonstrate.
They are even threatening Iranians in America and Europe that they are being watched and if they participate in protests or speak out against the regime their relatives in Iran will pay the price. They're literally emailing Iranians in the west, threatening their families in Iran.
These IRGC thugs are just corrupt, greedy Mafia types who will fight amongst themselves over whatever scraps come their way. At this point they just want to survive. We should keep the pressure on.
Things are pretty bad there, economically. People can only take $7 dollars out their bank accounts at a time. But until they are literally starving, the people are not going to come out and get shot.; 6/17/26, 7:54 AM
narciso said...: Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 on X: "The Whitmer fednapping informants must be so jealous. Dan Chappel, the main FBI informant who put the plan and group together, only got $60k from the feds. Much better gig over at SPLC!" / X https://share.google/5S4VyQzNQHCpig5JY; 6/17/26, 7:56 AM
Breezy said...: You’re funny, tim maguire. Does this not sound like wishful thinking to you?

“Iran has a government in exile and an educated population with a western orientation. They are primed and ready for a constitutional monarchy similar to what a number of European nations have.”

I dare say all anyone has wrt this problem is wishful thinking…; 6/17/26, 8:43 AM
narciso said...: https://x.com/Osint613/status/2067215600145834000; 6/17/26, 9:06 AM
Mark said...: Achilles, how come you are the only person here who still believes the pizzagate scam?

Please, keep doubling down.
How are those Chinese starvation riots you claimed were going to happen weeks ago?

You beclown yourself.; 6/17/26, 9:10 AM
Iman said...: Sunrise, sunset
Sunrise, sunset
Swiftly flow the days
AI has attached itself to his brain stem
Tiny EE® shoots blanks from his haze; 6/17/26, 9:37 AM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: It’s a meme stock

Almost a 10% pullback in SPCX from opening highs -- wild to see names of this size trade like penny stocks.

It’s almost like the point was to make lots of cash for a few people and then dump.; 6/17/26, 10:03 AM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: The QAnon faithful see validation in pizzagate.; 6/17/26, 10:16 AM
narciso said...: Like newsom otis cant read; 6/17/26, 10:21 AM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: Narciso and Achilles have fellow travelers...

A mind-infecting virus: the dark dreams of QAnon
https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/28467a9b-a236-4a5d-a35e-e2d581f0358e

"In November 2020, a few hours after the US presidential election had been called for Joe Biden, Virginia Thomas, wife of Clarence Thomas, justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, sent a bizarre text to Donald Trump’s chief of staff, her old friend Mark Meadows. It read: “Biden crime family & ballot fraud co-conspirators (elected officials, bureaucrats, social media censorship mongers, fake stream media reporters, etc) are being arrested & detained for ballot fraud right now & over coming days & will be living in barges off GITMO [Guantánamo Bay] to face military tribunals for sedition”.

The opening anecdote about Virginia Thomas raises disturbing questions. We now know who her husband works for. Who does she work for? Part of the challenge is that the conspiracist movement are a loose network of activists.; 6/17/26, 10:54 AM
Leland said...: Almost a 10% pullback in SPCX from opening highs

SPCX opened at 150 and is now selling at 195. Some call that a "10% pullback" because all they know how to do is lie.; 6/17/26, 12:08 PM
narciso said...: He cant count either; 6/17/26, 1:04 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: Get ready for when those lock out periods for institutional investors gradually end. A simple look at the forced demand vs available supply will tell you why the stock keeps going up. It will keep going up until the first few pre-IPO stock holders can offload their bags after unlocks.

By December 9th this thing will be have returned back to earth. A little more than 50% of the stock will potentially become free float on December 9th 2026. That will be interesting day to watch.

Students of financial engineering have to be impressed by the way the whole IPO was structured.; 6/17/26, 2:14 PM
rcommal said...: I do plan to invest SpaceX, but somewhere around the 3-6 month mark, after the IPO settles down. I don't do initial IPOs, for exactly the factors that affect initial IPOs.

This is standard operating procedure for me, who has been more of long-term investor. (There's some modification now due to being 65. My strategy going for in many ways is and will be different than it was in my 30s, 40s, and 50s, for very obvious reasons.)

I bought Tesla within the first year (once during the first 6 months post-IPO, once shortly thereafter) and held it for many years (though I am known for capturing gains to invest in other things, and I certainly used some of my accumulated gains in Tesla, for example, to fund my early retirement years). Obviously, that investment has served me well!

I did the exact same thing with Google.

Apple's initial IPO was well before my investing time, but I roughly did the same thing at the time of its reboot in the mid-late '90s, when "everyone" said the company was dead in the water, and continued to buy at schedule times through the early aughts. Again, this has served me well.

These are just a handful of examples.

There's no shame in eschewing the SpaceX stock at the initial IPO and being careful during the first few months afterward. I think a lot of investors like me don't view investments through a political lens OR an "irrationally exuberant" one, even for founders we like or admire. I think it's prudent, and, for me, it has worked out well.

I am NOT an investor advisor and I'm not credentialed. I'm just your average gal doing my own thing as best I can. But again, the strategy has worked for me.

Take from all this what you will.

Regards,

Lori (reader_iam); 6/17/26, 2:34 PM