It's not really a matter of professionalism in this case, as our technology is so woefully mismatched. Iran has decent equipment, but nothing any level of professionalism will close the gap with US technology on.
I don't mean to imply they're helpless, but we don't even have to put pilots over their airspace if we don't want to. They simply do not have the tools to fight us in our battle space unless we take the bait and put troops on the ground.
Iran won't "for sure" anything.
Everything is speculation. This is very different than us targeting the general on Iranian territory. He was off the reservation conspiring with seditious elements in a foreign country, and was not an official diplomatic guest of the recognized Iraqi government.
Iran is going to feel pressured to do something but they're also shaken by the fact that POTUS acted so decisively.
Smart money says Iran will do the minimum necessary to save face without risking their navy or nuclear program.
That said, smart money often loses when betting on isolated dicatatorships lacking the consent of the governed, especially in a part of the world that only respects force.
I maintain that the US can take Iran apart militarily and economically without ever stepping foot on their territory. Iran knows this. Their ONLY military options to pull us into assymetric war are increased terrorism, piracy, or (god forbid) marching into Iraq or another neighbor.
So much pearl-clutching.
Iran literally has no military option that doesn't cost them a lot more than it does us. We have no compelling reason to put boots on the ground inside their borders.
Invade Iraq? Lose your nuclear program, navy, and industry in airstrikes. Blockade the straits of Hormuz? See above. Sink a US ship? See above.
While I largely agree, I do think this guy being in physically on our embassy grounds during a hostile incursion onto US soil (which the embassy is) warranted this response.
I have no interest in war with Iran or extending our stay in Iraq, but the alternative here was to tell every other country in the world that our embassies are low-risk targets.
It's a slippery slope...
For example, I am all for maximum liberty, understanding the rights of others end where mine begin.
In short, I'm uncomfortable telling somebody else what they can and cannot do to themselves, with a huge caveat: I should also not bear the burden of your poor decision-making.
So, say we wave a magic wand and poof emergency rooms no longer have to treat overdoses. What about my child who gets roflstomped by a driver on bath salts, or a private plane crashes into my home because the pilot took a hit of LSD?
Prohibition doesn't work. As you said above, this will just create a black market. I think a partial answer is tort and entitlement reform. Let Darwin do his thing.
That pushes the responsibility to the end user with no social safety net if they do dumb shit.
That remedy ceases to suffice, however, when the ingested substance is behavior-altering. There is no recourse for a family torn apart because a member was killed by a substance abuser's choice.
Here's one: https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/237846790/
Right now, I think most Americans are sick of the circus.
I don't know that the cost of a fuck you is worth fatiguing the public futher and demonstrating Republicans will be just as childish as the Democrats when granted power.
Don't get me wrong, I'd love to make a statement or get some payback, but I do believe that the Democrats will look back at these past few years with regret before it's over.
She was on Fox this AM doing the full Blasey Ford little-girl voice and trying to look all choked up.
I don't presume to know what somebody who has lost a spouse is feeling, but I do question how distraught one really is when they're up this early in the morning to appear on "opposition news" to talk about it.
Cryptic stuff like this gets folks excited, but if she knows something about a crime and has evidence of it, she should come forward instead of blueballing the peanut gallery. I'd like to think she has, but if she was talking to law enforcement the first thing they'd tell her is to keep her mouth shut or risk damaging the investigation.
Trap poll also...True patriots support Trump because Trump puts America First. They would stop supporting him if he became a despot, tyrant, or shit on the Constitution...None of which has had even a ghost of a fart of evidence in this shampeachment charade.
The question baits the voter into "support him 'no matter what.'"
That feeds a lefty narrative, not ours.
Without the Constitutional authority to do so, he should not.
I'd personally like to be able to hold on to Trump as long as he continues to deliver for the American people, but that's not how our government works.
Suspending elections is historically what dictators do, and while I wish there were a remedy for the time lost by the president having to focus on these shams, there's no mechanism that I'm aware of where we can put time back on the clock.
The Democrats' only success at the end of the day will have been slowing/delaying some of the good Trump could have done for the country if he wasn't fighting the swamp every step of the way.
Think Fred Thompson in Hunt for Red October: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=Emdzsz_XvfA&feature=emb_logo
The "entertainment industry" is openly fantasizing about culling conservatives.
We can laugh it off all day, or boycott I guess.
But look at the situation we find ourselves in: Many of us depend on Amazon for access to commodities that are hard to obtain elsewhere. Amazon Prime is a purely economic decision for many people; particularly rural dwellers for whom a trip into the city to shop at specialized retailers is expensive and taxing.
So, we grimace, keep our Amazon memberships and pretend that our retailer's entertainment division isn't effectively writing the justification narrative the people opposed to us politically will use to justify whatever measures are used against us.
Amazon has become the modern "company store." This is what anti-trust was intended to protect the citizens from.
The left hates us. This show is being produced because Amazon thinks there's an appetite for snuff porn against conservatives, and I can't imagine the concept wasn't focus-tested. We ignore the threat indoctrination of this nature represents at our own peril.
All I can say is it's a public forum and you have to have a thick skin to put yourself out there, even in a group of (mostly) like-minded folks.
Most internet forum users are pretty jaded and our community is under attack a lot. The most insidious vector for that that activity is the concern troll or a person who embeds in the community and causes mayhem by focusing argument on areas where pedes don't all align ideologically.
I'm not saying that's what has happened here, but it may explain why people rush to judgment.
Curiouser and curiouser...
One of my first posts on the new site several days ago was how we were so focused on Eric Ciaramella that ICIG Atkinson was flying below the radar:
https://thedonald.win/p/uzJDd/x/c/12xigq
ICIG is the one point where this whole Schiff Sham comes together. I will be watching these developments with great interest.
From what I've seen, we've been super agile at deporting the trolls and cleaning up any content that would be actionable.
A report without a violation of the terms of use policy should not be actionable.
The ToS for GoDaddy is pretty broad, but they did revoke hosting for "The Daily Stormer" for "inciting violence."
While defending a neo-Nazi site is impossible on principle, it does sort of set the benchmark as to where GoDaddy begins to creatively interpret their rules. Details about the post in question that "incited violence" can be found here:
The post was repugnant, but did not appear to be inciting violence per se.
I found another article where Reddit pressure had caused GoDaddy to relinquish their support for online censorship bills here:
So I guess what I'm saying is that I don't think GoDaddy has any reasonable cause to boot this domain, but I wouldn't have thought Reddit had any reasonable cause to quarantine or ban r/The_Donald either, and we see from the above articles that GoDaddy has interpreted their ToS creatively when it was expedient in the past, and that they have folded under pressure from organized Reddit campaigns.
TL;DR - Plan for the worst, hope for the best. :)
Clearly, we saw in tech companies the C-level meetings after the elections where executives were consoling their liberal workforces and lamenting the stupidity of the American voter.
They exhorted their employees to find ways to ensure that something like Trump's election never happens again.
I happen to work in a blue coastal state. While I agree with politics ideally remaining personal, it just won't happen here.
It's possible. The mullahs fear a domestic uprising most of all, I think.
The question is ultimately if they choose to try to prove their strength by lashing out, or by lashing in. The latter is probably the safer bet.