Following up on my own post from a month ago. It appears that Neocons expected Iran to collapse within 3 days, America would swoop in and take control of their oil production handing its profit stream to insiders, and we'd declare victory and forget the whole thing within a few news cycles.

What actually happened: Iran proved capable of hitting back HARD, exhausting the American MIC's business model of extremely expensive crony-built weapons systems using cheap but extremely effective mass produced weapons systems, drove Americans out of dozens of our regional military bases probably forever, and has kept the mighty US Navy hundreds of miles back despite us "Wiping out their entire air force and navy in the first few hours of the conflict."

Trump actually asked for, and got wisely denied, the nuclear launch codes.

US Oil companies and their cronies and investors profit as countries around the world have tankers en route thousands of miles toward our terminals. Countries like Canada and Australia are in extreme panic as their reserves are so low as to result in massive cutbacks on a time scale of weeks from now.

Israel is using America's attack on Iran as cover to annex Southern Lebanon. Picture is an IDF soldier, paid for right down to the civilian home door breaching tool by US Taxpayers, smashing the face of a Jesus statue at a Christian church that has existed for over 1000 years.

Where do you stand on the Charlie Kirk case at this point? Many consider it the highest profile political assassination since JFK.

Personally, I don't buy the Official Narrative at all. I don't see a strong case for Tyler Robinson as the assassin, or that it was actually him on that roof.

I DO believe he got recruited as a patsy, and was supposed to get gunned down in a firefight then quietly forgotten about within a few days' news cycle like the alleged Butler, PA Trump shooter. But, Tyler hosed that eventuality by turning himself in with the assistance of a family cop friend.

A seemingly innocuous motion by the defense in court, proved that the longstanding Official Narrative that he arrived at the police station around 9:30-10pm, was false; he was in custody around 6:30pm. The Prosecution is withholding MASSIVE amounts of evidence they hold, that is supposed to get routinely provided to the Defense team during the Discovery process.

I also believe, that he may have been killed by an explosive planted in his mic transmitter, that this was supposed to simulate a chest shot, that this did not go as planned and resulted in a neck wound ABSOLUTELY INCOMPATIBLE with a 30.06 bullet strike.

High FPS footage from multiple angles, when slowed down, shows Charlie's shirt expanding, and gas/vapor puffing out of it... BEFORE the wound on his neck appears! NOBODY who watches this readily available video, can give an explanation of how a bullet entering the neck causes what video evidence shows actually happening.

Strangely, even the experienced hunters and firearms enthusiasts I've discussed this with, blow off all inquiry with, "Bullets do strange things sometimes..." The very people who were ready to launch the next Kristalnacht against "The Violent Left" within an hour of the assassination news breaking... their Justice Boners go limp and they suddenly could not care less, when asked to look closely at forensic evidence and confront questions about what their own firsthand shooting experience shows a 30.06 round would do after entering a 3" cross section of neck flesh.

@SamuelAnders I was in my early 30s when my old boss died and, fed up working at dysfunctional companies, started my own on a shoestring. (Auto repair. ) What I had going for me was strong niche knowledge and talent, and a clientele that liked and trusted my "product. " Honestly, being the boss/owner can become all consuming of your life and time. The independence and autonomy, come at unstinting demands upon you. If you have the talent, drive, and importantly, shipping product, it can all be more rewarding than a life as a cog in someone else's machine. Being the boss, isn't all sitting back watching others do all the work while you count and bank all this fuck-you level of money rolling in. I can't offer much about the model of investors and lead time for development. Investors don't fork over money and hide, they bring demands of input on the products and development. Investors can come at a cost to your autonomy. All these caveats aside, if you have the vision and drive to make it work, it's inevitable you will forge your way in to actualizing these into a working enterprise. NGL, long days at Starfucks, is a fantasy holding pattern, nothing at all the life you have once you jump into the entrepreneur game for real.

@MentORPHEUS

turned iconic Gramophone advertisement

BMG music group or whatever!

They and Columbia House used to do that "15 CDs for 1 penny!" bait-and-switch trap back in the 1990s.

I joined one of them at 12 or 13, and received numerous CDs. When it came time to pay for the ones that weren't free, including all the "monthly selection" CDs they'd automatically send once a month if you didn't return the card declining it, the bill was pretty high.

...and my mom beat me to the mail that day.

She got me out of it easily enough by calling them and telling them I was a minor and couldn't legally sign a contract.

But she took away a lot of my CDs, which I never got back.

I don't know how she missed the "Use Your Illusion" both I and II CDs from Guns N' Roses, though. Heh.