Nobody voted for “regime change for Iran” or “free Iran” apart from a few snaky Washington DC insiders and people with Iranian family members.
The war is costing a billion dollars a day. Given the source is the Pentagon, which has famously lost tens of trillions of dollars in the past, the figure is likely double.
There’s this idea that “best known knowledge” is government statistics and figures but the best known knowledge is that government “is asshole” and when the ringmasters have a vested interest in cooking the books, the books matter less. Yet the majority of people charge ahead, perfectly satisfied with whatever meager disclosure has taken place on the part of the government. I guess to not do so would be enter “conspiratorial” territory, a view I don’t particularly share because I have another alternative: to think in principles.
Follow the money is the oldest rule in politics, I was so brilliantly reminded by my friend and firebrand Michelle Malkin through her masterful book Open Borders Inc. (currently on sale for a mindblowing $6 – that’s Clinton Era pricing right there).
Money moves incentives, whales move money, therefore whales move incentives. I go back and forth on the libertarian view that increases in government spending beget entropy when so obviously there is a will manifest in what the US Federal government is currently perpetrating on most of the civilized and uncivilized world. There’s a well-ordered symphony to all the chaos.
Unlike a lot of people given over to “conspiratorial” thinking, I grant there are immediate, personal solutions you can engage to slowly reverse the tide: Bitcoin (& Monero), peaceful parenting, UPB, and self-knowledge.
You have to pound the solutions into the dirt like a tent stake or people tend to drift off, become unmoored, and too loose in their thinking. Then they try to pull you into that. I won’t be drawn into that like I once was. Formerly I needed the adulation but these days, I’m full up like a big chonker.
The Iranian brass seem to want to come to terms. The American-Israeli coalition carries the bigger stick.
Once the money’s been stolen (from future generations), all fire breathing about the war devolves to what serves who’s personal interests. On Telegram I like to play with this equation by repeatedly calling for variations of Tehran to be regime changed if I can get India nuked as part of the deal.
A lot of people’s programming tells them I’m behaving nihilistically but not really, just finding my legs after being not up to snuff for a few years. There is a lot of thought that goes into these quips. I play the quips close to people’s programming but there’s always a thought going on in the background. I’m not sure anyone notices or appreciates it much but it’s fun to me and that’s the way to keep me engaged: keep it fun.
AI gives strange gifts.
Iranian shitbag mullahs, lay down your arms. Our Mexican-American fighter pilots armed with top Israeli spec are too much for you.
I have no love for the mullahs. I have no love for the banking system Iran will be put on. Please don’t make me choose. I have no stake in this. I want gas back under $3 a gallon where it was before Operation AIPAC Fury began. I don’t know anyone from Iran because I grew up in Oregon cattle country (PETA is taking over the state, by the way).
There is the specter this will be the first war since WWII where there is significant punishment for those who speak out. The harder the speak out, the worse the banking sanctions. The longer the war goes, the less face that can be saved for our GOP overlords.
By speaking out for Trump and America’s interests in the first place, not only was my social media career completely kneecapped, resulting in well north of $1million in lost business potential, now if I can’t speak out I don’t get to eat zee bugs? No, thanks. I’ll just sit this one out. Remember, I do other stuff now, too. I can help mend relationships, salvage bad parenting, vet potential mates, increase job performance (good at this one), or help overcome bad personal habits. Did a lot of studying and have had a lot of practicum in order pull that off.
Hit me up at stevefranssen@protonmail.com if you’re interested.
The People are not in charge. I wonder to myself if I am beginning to regret going for Trump in 2016 and 2020 given how I absolutely do not regret holding out in 2024. It was an odd stance because it was less about how Trump would be weaponized, which was obvious to see, and more about the lack of Americanness of the politics – which to my discredit I did not well convey. I wasn’t in a forthcoming mood. That’s changing.
There’s a lot more to be said here but other duties call. Thank you for making it this far. It’s you deep readers who I admire the most. And for the donos, I’ve been mulling over some subscriber only content here on Substack, so stay tuned!
Kebab, sir?
