Manufacturing consent
Gabbard Falls in Line, Claims Iran Close to Nukes
America’s top intel chief appeared to walk back her stance on Iran’s nuclear program after being criticized by President Donald Trump

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U.S. Spy Agencies Assess Iran Remains Undecided on Building a Bomb (yesterday)
U.S. intelligence officials said Iran was likely to pivot toward producing a nuclear weapon if the U.S. attacked a main uranium enrichment site, or if Israel killed its supreme leader.

Brookings Institution Fink Tank analysis paper from 2009.

The Pro-Israel U.S. General Quietly Influencing Trump On Iran
Gen. Erik Kurilla “had better information about what (Israel was) up to ... than anyone else in our government,” a former U.S. official told HuffPost.

18% with anencephaly

Groundhog Day

It's like a grand reunion

Lindsey is radiant! Appease or die!

This, from 2007, was bound to resurface for the new generation. Other than the hubristic timeline...

Pepsi or Coke?

We've seen this film before with this other Republican President guy. Whatsisname?

I suppose next we can look for a false-flag (blaming Iran) terrorist incident that kills a number of Americans. This will justify American intervention and legitimize making any protests against the regime government look "anti-American". What goes around comes around. Also, the price of oil will skyrocket. Enjoy, MAGgats.

I.e. another proxy war/coalition of the extremely willing. An orientalist sequel with "the anti-war President."

The fork-tongued mobster and his attack dog

Pretty damn obvious that the NRA and all those guns and all those flags were NEVER actually about defending anyone from tyranny.

These militia types, they tell you they are the spiritual inheritors of the 3%, the Minutemen, who once rose up against a king.

But they're really the Loyalists, those miserable bastards who embrace absolutism and who would turn their guns on their neighbors and who only became patriots AFTER the revolution was over.

~Jim Wright