Posted on 06/18/2025 4:46:07 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
From the looks of things, I would stand with Tulsi Gabbard over Tom Cotton. Personally I am perceiving Tom Cotton as part of the Deep State.. and someone who needs to be primaried OUT in Arkansas.
The little news-tart stinks of her CIA handlers.
Was she left out of the national security meeting in the situation room yesterday?
Too many older conservatives live in a 1989-2015 time warp. The podcasters are not a fringe as were the partisans of Ross Perot, Pat Buchanan, and Ron Paul. Their audiences exceed those of terrestrial talk radio. Lose them and the Democrats will retake the House and maybe the Senate. If the war continues into 2028, get ready for President Newsom or Harris.
Fracking rubbish!
Each of which resulted from political duplicity rather than any weakness or incompetence of our military forces.
That presents a clear view of the source of our vulnerability.
I used to read Sundance/The Last Refuge. But he was wrong in his predictions so many times. And he puts out so much verbiage every day. I don’t even bother anymore.
The video line from the pentagon to the situation room is both Sec Def and Director of national intelligence. If I am trump I am not trusting CIA or NSA any farther than I throw them, and perhaps keep them hanging in the lobby for the real discussion. With her separated from the cabal she could be a independent voice and not pro DOD can do, a separate list of downsides.
I would say from the reaction to everyone who has been briefed and was involved enough in SOP at the scale to know the status of IRAN, all the former military are in for the kill shot, end the war against the paper tiger with really big inaccurate rockets.
Knowing what IRANs proxies have done toward DOD for the past 40 years, I don’t think anyone is going to get Infront of the knockout deal. Would say a Dry Run with B2s and a navy strike packages are inbound tonight, and for reals unless they see signals the inner leadership circle of IRAN knows the gig is up and talking is about exit plans, MOAB tomorrow night.
After 3 to 5 MOABs and the most practiced event in navy planning by hitting the IRAN navy base at , there should be a pause to share the sat photos of a big bunker hold on Al Jazera, the real option is hitting the IRAQ navy at the straits of Hormoz to take them to a speedboat navy by next week. Decap strike I would not expect until a lot of calls are made by Arab proxies offering an out to Iran Army middle manager.
I would bet a lot of the Iran army leadership goes to Kish, far away from military targets and attempts to become Oman idented, but those dudes do not blend, walk like rich Iranian, or have any outside connections outside of Russia and Oman.
The house of Saudi, seeing the new world order, I would not underestimate some medal inducing for the glory raids while leadership is in family fragments.
The polls today self identifying republicans say Fry IRAN. 90 to 10 percent. Independents and Democrats Fry 85 to No Fry 15 percent.
Bibi needs to give the world press some intelligence that isn’t a cartoon. Some signals recordings of Iranians would hit the spot.
With anything looking like proof in the media, that is a 2 foot put for trump. He is working this for a few days as the DOD prepares, trump sees a day or two fishing for the Nobel prize if the Iranians decide it is time to go to the beach in Oman.
Gabbard has been a chameleon. 10 years ago she was a communist standing with Antifa and occupy fellow travelers on Indian land fighting oil pipelines.
She has been consistent in being a pseudo-Hare Krishna, not even part of actual Hare Krishna but part of an off-shoot Hare Krishna cult with a white guy guru.
Anyone who says Trump’s “juice” is gone is under estimating him.
He can smash Senators like bugs.
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She’s doing the job. The backstabbers are doing theirs. Keep kicking heads girl!
Given this sad track record, what are the odds the same mindset in the Defense and State Departments and the CIA would get us bogged down in a multiyear quagmire?
From the looks of things, I would stand with Tulsi Gabbard over Tom Cotton.
Agree. I used to like Cotton but he lost me over the last few years. Cotton’s pal was #2 at the NSC. He got relieved of his position along with Mike Waltz. I just don’t trust Cotton any longer.
I used to like Cotton but he lost me over the last few years.
He's another Trey Gowdy, and they both have weird hair.
That is a fact.
“Given this sad track record, what are the odds the same mindset in the Defense and State Departments and the CIA would get us bogged down in a multiyear quagmire?”
Patton said it best: The politicians never let us finish the wars. They always stop up before the war is truly won.
This isn’t hard. I and many other people predicted that exactly like last administration, the NeoCons would slowly kick out all of the non-war pigs over the first couple months.
First….Vivek
Next….all of Hegseths America First aides
Next….Elon
Now….Tulsi
Maybe her not being a Christian, or at least an Evangelical, is why she’s able to maintain her objectivity in matters regarding Israel. Although it should disqualify her from being President.
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