29 minutes ago, boganJoe said:

here's more propaganda, the kind you love.

https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/approval/trump-obama-bush-second-term

Then no problem! 😁

https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/approval/donald-trump/approval-rating

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On 3/12/2026 at 12:57 PM, boganJoe said:

Why did Biden insist on high gas prices? There was no war choking off 20% of global oil supply thru Hormuz?

Under Biden, us petroleum production increased sharply. So how exactly did he insist on higher prices?

1 hour ago, Alan Zweibel said:

Under Biden, us petroleum production increased sharply. So how exactly did he insist on higher prices?

Did you expect some coherence in Illisdean's posts? 😀

On 3/12/2026 at 5:09 AM, Terrance8812 said:

It has reached that familiar moment where there is nothing meaningful left to bomb from the air, yet the treacherous regime is still firmly in place. We have seen this same plot play out many times before. Even though the first two or three levels of leadership have been killed, there are still plenty of hardliners waiting in the wings ready to step straight into those roles.

Trump now has two options. Either send in ground forces to try to destroy Iran's large military and hunt down whatever underground stores of rockets, missiles, drones and enriched uranium that remains, which would be massively costly, or do what he usually does, lie and declare total victory.

Expect the second option.

He will soon announce that all the key targets were destroyed, the Supreme Leader and his entire cabinet are dead, and the mission was a great success. But only half of that is true, with the untrue part being the more important piece of it. Then the US will quietly back out while pretending the job is finished.

Meanwhile the regime is still there, the 440 kilos of enriched uranium is still missing, and Iran will slowly rebuild whatever was damaged.

The bigger problem is that the war has already started choking the global economy. The Strait of Hormuz being effectively shut down is a deal breaker. Ships are too nervous to pass through while the fighting continues. Meanwhile oil has surged, inflation is climbing, US government debt keeps rising by a billion a day, and markets are wobbling.

That kind of economic pressure is exactly the sort of thing that usually triggers a classic Trump TACO moment.

So expect a very overblown victory speech from Trump very soon, followed by a very quick exit from a war that achieved little more than a temporary setback. Let’s face it, he has no choice but to chicken out... again.

I don’t think he can taco.the Iranians aren’t going to let him,he’s lit the fuse on this fiasco that’s going to be getting Americans killed for decades.

Just watching numerous videos on X from the Quds day demo happening in Tehran now and multiple regime officials surrounded by the crowds are showing unrelenting resistence to the invasion even when being bombed nearby. They are gagging for a ground invasion - the balls on these guys can be seen from space. Meanwhile there has been a leak of a drone video of an IDF tank commander machine guuning crowds of Palestinians clamouring for food last year. Probably the sickest war video I've ever seen by smiling IDF tank officer. These are easy to seek out go and see for yourselves. Trump hasn't a clue of what he has stumbled into - but then he always was an idiot wafted into the portals of power on the back of MAGidiots and Zionists mowing their regional lawns under the tutelage of the evil Netanhayu. The biggest terrorists in the middel east are US/Israel - the primary source of instability inm the rgion.

BTW went to a party the other night with a retired oilman who woked in Iran in the 70s. He said that the temperatures at time were belwo zero and the Iranian workers lived in tents and went on strike when one died of hypothermia. They got a bonus and they double tented from then on and said they were some of the hardest but nicest people he had met in a lifetime of exploration.

Here is one of these videos https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15642169/Explosions-rock-Dubai-Iranian-drone-strikes-causes-buildings-shake-citys-financial-centre-Live-update.html

13 hours ago, beautifulthailand99 said:

Meanwhile there has been a leak of a drone video of an IDF tank commander machine guuning crowds of Palestinians clamouring for food last year. Probably the sickest war video I've ever seen by smiling IDF tank officer.

This statement is factually not true, and there is no verified video footage that matches this description. There is also no record of a leaked drone video last year showing a "smiling" IDF tank commander machine-gunning a crowd of people clamoring for food.

On 3/12/2026 at 2:42 PM, candide said:

Lol! Biden did not cause global oil prices increase! 🤣

Are you sure? Perhaps there was a blueprint, a concept of a plan even, on The Laptop?

Perhaps the tenacious bulldog like James Comer could hang his jacket on the back of his chair and resume his investigations? Once things quieten down on the blowing civilians to kingdom come front, it may provide a welcome (and considerably cheaper) distraction from one or two of the ongoing scandals!

5 hours ago, Terrance8812 said:

This statement is factually not true, and there is no verified video footage that matches this description. There is also no record of a leaked drone video last year showing a "smiling" IDF tank commander machine-gunning a crowd of people clamoring for food.

As it would be taken down as an unapproved source and in the interests of transparency here is screenshot. Grok doesn't doubt it's veracity but it's a good guess.