That moment when you realize it's getting close to a decade since we had to worry that Hillary might be POTUS.

Darth Vader was a pimp.  He never could've out-fought Santino.  But I didn't know until this day that it was Barzini all along.20260221
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□ [“Armed Intruder Shot Dead After Breaching Mar-a-Lago Security Perimeter"]

He was in his 20s, I've seen several different ages listed.  Trump was in DC and unlike Nancy Pelosi, when he's not home there's still security making sure no one breaks in.  So far he's a lone wolf, or "was" anyway, I think his family had reported him missing a few days ago.

I assume he's mentally ill and we don't have any details but the obvious impression is that he's an insane leftist who was following orders to go kill Trump.  Those who would do something like this have a very low chance of success but it's not 0%.  The left must just assume they have enough people to keep trying and eventually someone will succeed.

Yet they never realize this is the wrong way to go.  At some point they have to realize this isn't working but how long does that take?  I'm not sure even Trump supporters can take another three years of this.  Or even one year and the left is so obviously convinced they'll win big time in November.  By all rights they should be wrong about that but I'm going to need to see some actual wins before I stop believing that will happen.

I should add though that some of my negativity is just my personality but a lot of it probably has to do with the leftist gaslighting.  Most of us see the world continuing to spin as normal.  Unfortunately the left and their pet media insists on pushing the opposite on us every chance they get.  It leaves us with no certainty in an upcoming victory for our side even as it deludes leftists into seeing nothing else for their side.  This is why I keep saying Trump needs some undeniable wins that can't just be ignored.

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□ [“Iran’s Ayatollah is Quietly Preparing for His Own Assassination With Detailed Succession Plans"]

No reason to trust this report and I'm not sure Iran has any official rules for succession.  Not that they'd break out into civil war if the ayatollah dies from "suddenly" but under current circumstances, it's not like everything is confirmed.  Khamenei is only the second ayatollah Iran has had since 1979.  There's just not much precedent.

Just a glimpse at the history of Persia indicates that it's a lot deeper than I'm ready to tackle.  It looks like a ongoing series of kingdoms or empires, periodically conquered by someone else but otherwise just a large chunk of southwestern Asia that all stayed unified.  It's obviously too complicated for me to understand but I was curious about how close the state religion was to the government.  In modern times, the ayatollah is the state leader but he's not really a chief executive.  As a religious tyranny, whatever checks and balances there are would be vastly different from anything we would understand.

So given Persian history, the long-running control by Islam, the modern state, the Revolutionary Guard and the tension of being at war with the great satan, just how reliable is the 86-year old ayatollah for picking who will replace him if something happens?  The POTUS and the British throne have a long list of potential successors and what order they come in.  The Catholic Church has its cardinals who do have to fight it out.

Meanwhile Trump is supposedly ready for war, although his latest deadline for Iran to give up is now 10-15 days away.  There's a big troop build-up in the region but it's not clear how much of that is for Iran and how much is for anyplace else that might need it.  We'll see what happens in the next week or so but the ayatollah won't be there at the end.  He's not going to be Maduro's cellmate.

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□ [“AOC Appears to Hold Back Tears on Camera, Blames Trump and Critics for Her Foreign Policy Disasters"]

Not that interested in her gaffes last week but the reaction to it is amusing.  And now her response is like those psycho chicks on youtube raging about how worthless men are and why can't they find one?  Her voice is bad, like she's not sober.  She makes no effort to clarify any of her gaffes, she just goes straight to attacking Trump.  And that's all she has to say.

She's also missing what the people at the Munich Security Conference thought of her.  She had no reason to be there in the first place but she clearly thinks she'll be POTUS and wants to act like she deserves it.  But she failed completely and these people saw it.  These people deal with a lot of puppets and there was nothing special about her but that's the best she has to offer.  At least those who want her to be their puppet saw an option, nobody else had the slightest interest and she doesn't even realize this.

Not clear who she's doing this for.  She won't convince anybody and you'd think her supporters would stick with her without hearing this, assuming they even listened.  Or have a clue about her gaffes last week.  I just get the impression that Democrats are operating in some collective of bureaucrats, media and leftist icons and only pretending that they need to appeal to actual people.  But that mask is coming off as we can see with "the squad."

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□ [“Berkeley Professor Gets Rid of Finals, Assigns Editing Of 'LGBTQ+' Wikipedia Pages Instead"]

The internet tells me that a class at Berkeley is a little under a thousand dollars for resident tuition, over three thousand dollars for out-of-state.  That is a lot of money to pay to edit a Wikipedia page.  People are capable of doing that without going to college.  I get that no one taking this class has the slightest clue it's a rip-off but they aren't paying for it out of their own pocket.

They must have parents, even if they aren't paying for this they should be horrified at the waste.  Time and money devoted to focusing on propaganda and editing a fricking wikipedia page.  There's nothing you can take from this out into the real world, at most it's a shield to keep you from dealing with the real world.  And every employee from the university chancellor on down has to approve of this.

It just seems overwhelming, how can such an enormous brainwashing scam ever be shut down?  Is there any way to do that without just exterminating everyone who took part in this?  If it hasn't extended into every single part of society, it's not for lack of trying or funding.  There's just no way to co-exist with people who see nothing wrong with this.  Very depressing but at least it meets all the requirements of being *woke.*

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