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 2/28/26:

  The war has come.   For several days now, I've been paying very close attention to this possibility.  I reached a conclusion with this post right here with this post.

  I figured either we were ready for this or we weren't.  I made my guess that we probably were about as ready as we were ever going to be.

  The outcome will largely be determined by how well this preparation was planned and executed.

  Some are calling it regime change.   If it is that, the ground troops will have to be provided by the people of Iran themselves.  If this was misjudged by the brass in charge of the government now, the outcome is not likely to be favorable.

  My misgivings are in that direction.  All too often, the US is called upon to do for other people what they should be doing for themselves.  In the meantime, we are slipping up in our own obligations toward ourselves.  We cannot be the saviors for the world.

  Fear the worse, hope for the best.  Seems like I've seen that somewhere before. Life goes on until it doesn't.

  Regimes fall, empires fall, civilizations disappear.  Nothing is forever.

2/26/26:

 Fantasy or the real deal? You decide!

For those who love deterrence through superior firepower, you're going to love this...

The bad guys will retreat back into their caves...

Affordability? The left doesn't care about this issue either. They CAUSED the problem.

Mortgage rates are falling. This is a big deal.

Here's another one one the issue of affordability--beef prices.

The left would like to destroy beef because of so-called climate change. Why would anyone believe that the left actually gives a rat's ass about beef prices?  To them, the higher the beef prices are, the better.  Afterwards, they could push fake meat and bugs to eat instead of beef.

The fruits of a faulty ideology

 

  Once upon a time, I got into a fierce argument about the difference between communists and fascists.  My position was that there wasn't much difference between the two.  The argument was about that very thing-- that communists and fascists are opposites is a fallacy, in my opinion.

  Ideology can make you stupid. As true today as always.

  The guy in the embedded tweet has a Nazi tatoo, but also claimed to be a communist.  The conventional thinking is that he cannot possibly be a communist if he has a Nazi tatoo.

  Nonsense. Hitler said that the best Nazis were former commies. There's really not much difference at all between the two ideologies. This is a myth.

Quote: "From this day forward you will never see a headline in the political press referring to Graham Platner, the candidate in question, as a communist, though that’s how he described himself as recently as 2020. " https://t.co/IoDIguv8bz

— Brit Hume (@brithume) February 26, 2026

Jugging: A new name for an old practice. Crime didn't pay this time.

 

  Forewarned is forearmed. Learn about this latest trick up the sleeve of the criminal class, who the commies love so much.

  For his trouble, as his intended victim was literally forearmed, the baddie was shot in the mouth.  But he won't die.  At least, not yet.

  Well done!

  By the way, I know Houston, having lived there for most of my life. This part of town ain't exactly high-rent, know what I mean, Vern?

Link

EV boondoggle

 

A lot has been written about EVs on this page. I don't think I ever favored things such as carbon credits, nor any subsidies for EVs.

In theory, an electric car can be more efficient than an internal combustion engine.

As of this time, no such vehicle has been demonstrated. At least, not to my knowledge.

EV Boondoggle

Commies don't care about pedophilia.

 

Libs outraged over Epstein but just a few years ago they tried normalizing pedophilia.

  Why would this surprise anyone? Why would it ever be in doubt?

  These are the same people who parade perverts in front of kids in schools.

  Plus, you've got a Supreme Court justice who couldn't say what a woman is.

  The left pushed same-sex "marriage" too. Remember???

  Pedophilia is just the next thing in the list, so they really don't give a flip. The outrage is fake.

  By the way, the article mentions that the evidence pointed to was deleted off the internet.  If it weren't for things like the Wayback Machine, or any other capturing device that may exist, you'll never find that evidence.  That's because they'll wipe away the evidence.  Just like Hillary Clinton bleach bitted the evidence against her.

  Liars and frauds, all down the line.  How can anybody be fooled?  How is that even possible?  No one should be fooled, but many will be.

Iran situation

 

  What the heck is going on with Iran, and this imminent war?   Unless hostilities start while I write this, nothing has happened yet.

  If you look about the web, you get all kinds of opinions.  I'm getting the idea here that they don't know any more than anybody else does.  If Trump plays his cards closely enough, only he knows what he will ultimately do.  Everybody else is just guessing.

 So it isn't a matter of speculation here.  I haven't got any idea what he will or won't do.

  What I CAN do is to state what I'd like to see.

  I voted for him on the basis of America First.  So what do we get out of this war, should one occur?

  Well, we might do away with a terrorist sponsoring state.  But you don't need two aircraft carriers for that when you got thousands of nukes and the means to deliver them.

  I wouldn't mind if he sent in the nukes and did away with this country once and for all.

  But nobody has done that, and it wouldn't go down very well.  However, if Iran sank both of our carriers with the help of Chinese tech; that could provide the rationale for exactly that response.  But I wouldn't threaten it.  It would be implied. It is always implied, and that's why Iran wants their own nukes.

  If the USA was ever going to do something like this, it would've been done decades ago.

  Ain't gonna happen.

  If you cannot get that done, and you end up losing two carriers, then what good does it do?

  The same goes with everything else.  In the end, if you do an existential move with a regime that has nukes, it will mean a nuclear exchange.  Who wins that one? NOBODY.

  Unless he gets an idea that nobody else has thought of, and can almost certainly achieve it; I'd say he does nothing at all.  He will hear about it nonstop, of course. But it would only be acknowledging reality.  It's why we cannot do anything about Ukraine.  If we keep pushing that, it will lead to an existential situation for SOMEBODY on the losing side.  Then the nukes could fly.

  China's involvement here has brought this thing into the existential realm.  Now  the question is this:  What benefit can be gained from such a situation?

  I hope he decides against the military move, and withdraws from military and diplomatic entanglements.  Our problems are right here.  It's what I've been saying all along.

  Trump's enemies will attack him no matter what he does, or doesn't do.  There's really nothing for him here.  Unless he can achieve an quick and bloodless coup in Iran.  This bloodless victory is not something I would count on.