My name is Sue. How do you do? Now you gonna die! Oh sh*t, I'm in the wrong place, aren't I? Sorry, my bad.

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□ [“Trump Extends Ceasefire with Iran"]

His statement says this is from a request by Pakistan.  Iran's government is a shambles so they need time to make a genuine peace proposal.  The ceasefire will last until they make that proposal.

This could go either way.  The Iranian government doesn't want peace and is perfectly willing to hold out as long as possible, which is easier if the US military isn't wasting them all day every day.  Trump does want a deal, so he looks weak for not getting one.  He also doesn't want to send in troops but that really is a crucial part of winning a war.  Without that, Trump will soon be gone and the mullahs can get back to what they were doing, at least in theory.

But this doesn't account for the problems the Iranian government is having.  Trump's not dropping the blockade so there's still a lot fewer supplies coming in.  A few days ago, he even said there was no pressure to make a deal, if that was better than a bad deal like Obama made.  So in that sense, he's fine keeping Iran on a holding pattern.  But that does have to end soon.

We can't account for the mullahs, the IRCB or the Iranian people.  The military always makes plans to invade every country so they had fifty years of analysis on Iran to go through preparing for this attack.  I'm sure that was all taken into account but we have no way to know how right or wrong they were.  That's why the Venezuela attack was so awesome, it was over almost before we knew about it.  And Trump is over halfway to the point where Congress needs to approve anything he does with Iran.

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□ [“Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FA) Resigns Over $5 Million FEMA Funds Scandal"]

The third member of Congress to resign this month.  It's the sort of thing you'd expect more will follow but there's a legitimate question about who would replace them.  If twenty or forty are forced to leave and their replacements are appointed by governors or whoever, then there'd be a chunk of Congress with no concerns about winning the voters.  That's not a good place to be in.

McCormick's public statement didn't call everybody "racist," that's a surprise.  She does call it a witch hunt and she's the one being persecuted for routing FEMA disaster funds to her family businesses and her 2021 campaign.  The ethics committee has already voted against her, even leftists like AOC said they'd vote to kick her out if it came to that.

We really do need a better look at what's going on.  But that said, it's clear that at least some in Congress and the executive branch are going after politicians and bureaucrats for both illicit financial and sexual gains.  Neither side is becoming well-known, especially with nothing to outrage the public, 'oh no!  They're doing that!!!'  It's a good thing in that it helps the investigations continue quietly but it also means we getting no sense of progress.  They could end tomorrow and we wouldn't notice.

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□ [“Pope Leo Changes Tack on Immigration — Surprise Message to Africans Looking to Migrate"]

Sounds like his handlers have told him he needs to back up a bit.  He's getting ready for an African tour but needs to stay away from where all the Christians are being slaughtered.  It might offend Muslims if he says anything about that so he needs to make up for that by saying *maybe* it might be better for people to stay where they are and make things better instead of invading other countries.  Anybody who would think he believes this has already fallen for the leftist nonsense and everyone else is working out how to protect themselves.

The Catholic Church is the oldest organization on the planet - unless you count the hereditary Japanese monarchy - so there's really no clue how long it would take them to collapse.  But the last two popes are doing everything they can to make it happen, whether they acknowledge this or not.  Catholics worldwide could say 'this is not my pope' and that would probably work but how far down the line would it go and what would the result be?

I am not a fan of organized religion but not in the sense that I expect to outlive it.  But I do think believers should take a massive retreat from these institutions.  Small groups, whether or not they're connected to each other, and focus on the religion itself and not all the financial aspects that comes along with it.  Believers can get by without these mortal institutions, no matter how big they are.  But the institutions cannot get by without the believers.  Or if they can, they need the taxpayers.  Time to make them suddenly have no one to fall back on in times like these.

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□ [“DOT Secretary Sean Duffy to End New York's Right to Issue Commercial Drivers Licenses"]

Interesting although I'm not sure anybody can foresee all the consequences we're looking at.  53% of New York commercial driver's licenses are issued to foreigners.  Nor sure those are all specifically for truck drivers or if they include taxis and pizza delivery.  Duffy's statement does specify that they're "foreign" so it's not clear if they're all illegal immigrants or not.  Maybe he said something more specific elsewhere but he also says that this is against DOT regulations so whatever the specifics, I assume he knows what he's talking about here.

New York was given four months to fix things, they refused to obey so he announces that he'll remove their ability to issue CDLs.  Out of curiosity, is there a reason he needs to publicly announce this?  He probably has to tell the state DOT but could do that in an email.  Then when they refuse to obey, there's still the email and they'll have to admit they received it.  'We told you this would happen four months ago and you ignored it.'

No idea how New York will respond to this.  They will probably sue the DOT for defying DOT regulations but that won't end well.  The DOT is already using this as an excuse to cut $73 million in transportation funding so if the state wasn't in enough debt yet, this will help them get further.  They'll also have to handle all the truck drivers they support breaking the law.  That's another bad precedent they're setting here.

And what if they panic, realize they were totally wrong and will try to fix things now, what are they supposed to do?  This would be harmful to logistics and not limited just to New York.  It would probably be the worst there but this would apply to anywhere these truckers are authorized to go.  This could be a huge mess because suddenly there's a lot of empty trucks that no one is authorized to use.  Maybe the federal government or other state can send in people to handle it but that won't be cheap.  Replacement New York drivers wouldn't be cheap either, meaning prices would quickly rise.  That's what I mean about the effects we can't predict right now.

But otherwise I'm fine with this.  Cutting off illegals is always a plus, then there's giving the leftist governments a lesson on how supply and logistics actually work.  This is something everybody should learn, especially the elites.  Let them suddenly have to work to maintain all their expected daily requirements and get hit with blame for poor people having to go without.

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