US Leaders imagining their landing in Iran
Reality show may be quite different though
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I’m not sure if you were arguing alongside me or against me, but I’ve edited my original statement for clarity. For my part, I adhere to the Blackstone theory of justice that “It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.” I feel the argument for voter ID should also be ratio-based - if, by preventing one illegal vote, a law prevents one or more legal votes, then I believe it’s a bad law. Given the evidence of the amount of illegal voting we’ve seen - not speculation, hearsay, and insinuation, but evidence - it’s clear that any law that provides almost any further barrier to legal voting will disenfranchise more American citizens than it will stop illegal votes and is therefore bad policy.
To wit: the conservative Heritage Foundation, of Project 2025 infamy, claims to have proof of 1,620 cases of voter fraud - Since 1982 - of which fewer than a hundred were illegal votes cast by non-citizens. There have been over a billion ballots cast in federal elections alone in that time frame. Which means one of two things:
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Either voter fraud of all kinds is statistically a non-issue - the entire national sum of all fraudulent cases of over thirty combined years wouldn’t change a county commissioner election in most places! - Or,
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Even with the full and downright aggressive support of the entire federal government for many years now, the people trying their hardest every day to prove these millions of claimed cases of fraud are breathtakingly incompetent.
I suppose the answer could be both…
Regardless, when I asked “where does your priority lie,” the unspoken insinuation was that “if you’re willing to block millions of your fellow citizens from voting to hopefully stop the amount of illegal alien voter fraud that’s been proven, you’re a bad person and you should feel bad.”
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“It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.”
I feel the same way about food assistance.
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According to the Global Peace Index 2024: https://www.economicsandpeace.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/GPI-2024-web.pdf
USA is ranked #132 (down 2 places)
Just ahead of Iran, ranked #133 (up 10 places)
I wonder how the ranking will be in the 2026 Index?
Indeed. This is the guiding principle upon which American criminal justice (by way of England, probably the Magna Carta) is based.
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“We don’t need no f*cking allies, we have the strongest, biggest and best military in the world”:
Trump ratchets up attacks on NATO, says U.S. no longer needs alliance
President Donald Trump suggested the U.S. might move away from its commitment to defend NATO allies, criticizing them for not supporting the war in Iran.
Source: https://wapo.st/3O8Lat7
Maybe somebody should explain to him what NATO IS an how it functions:
- It is a “mutual defence alliance” where each member carry their own military expenses and pay their share of NATO’s “operating budget”, as agreed by all parties.
- Article 5 of the treaty say that every member is obliged to come to the assistance if any member is attacked (Not when a member is the attacker)
PS: The only member who have activated Article 5 is USA (after 9/11).
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Article 5
The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self-defence recognised by Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area.
Any such armed attack and all measures taken as a result thereof shall immediately be reported to the Security Council. Such measures shall be terminated when the Security Council has taken the measures necessary to restore and maintain international peace and security .
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The US needs a General like von Choltitz who will refuse to follow the orders of a madman.
You mean like General Millie? He’s heading for GITMO and the gallows. Watch this space. You’ll learn soon enough.
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Agree. WW2 ended over 80 years ago. Russia has been there next door as a threat for that entire time. So no excuses about ‘we didn’t realize there was a need for self protection ‘, no excuses about ‘we haven’t had enough time to build up our forces’.
It’s time we take this liability off our balance sheet.
I’m not saying we can’t be friends…just saying I don’t want to be treaty bound to do so. Ex: one wayward Russian missile happens to land in Poland and now we’re obligated to go fight Russia heads up? Yeah, I’ll pass on that.
Perhaps all the energy spent complaining about how the US does things (from de-arming Iran to the Jones Act and all topics in-between) can be redirected to providing for their own defense? A true win-win.
In other news, perhaps new allies can be found:
I am very sorry to read it and can only convey my words of sympathy . But it seems to me that the desease of madness has reached not only your local but rather world/wide pandemic proportions.
Looks like world war is inevitable after which the next one if any will be with large bones and clubs. Pity that average Joe can do nothing about it .
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Here is how it REALLY happens:
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On a more serious note:
Invoking faith in wartime, Pete Hegseth breaks norms and worries critics
The defense secretary is upending decades-old norms, and current and former leaders say his proselytizing violates the Constitution and undermines troop cohesion.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has put his faith at the center of his work at the Pentagon. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)
Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/03/29/pege-hegseth-christianity/
No wonder that the people in the county of Trøndelag, where the Hegseth name originate and his Great-Great-Grandfather came from were proud in the beginning:
Trump’s new man has an unknown story from this farm in Stjørdal.
Source: Nyheter - bladet.no
Even though he claims to be 96.4% Norwegian and “Trønder”, the locals are no long proud of having “one of theirs” as “Trump’s man”.
Here from better times. (25. Jan. 2025):
Now we have our first Trøndelag native to the top of the US. Defense Minister Pete Hegseth is Norwegian on both sides of the family, and 96% Norwegian according to “MyHeritage”. A very Trøndelag percentage. His great-great-grandfather emigrated from Stjørdal in Trøndelag. In fact, from the same farm that Center Party politician Ivar Vigdenes comes from. But since he is controversial for the establishment, this will probably be passed over in silence here at home.
Source: https://x.com/MlleMalin/status/1883050615133126904
PS: I suspect this is an AI picture. 
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Quisling’s reincarnation and another symbol of America’s decline into darkness.
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