Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?

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Thursday, March 5, 2026 10:08 PM

Trump Erupts in Wild Panic as Texas Senate Race Rattles GOP

Texas Senator John Cornyn and Attorney General Ken Paxton both fell short of 50 percent. They’re advancing to a runoff. Trump exploded on Truth Social over this. He said the GOP primary “MUST STOP NOW” — all caps, you know, when he’s angry he uses all caps. He added that Republicans have to totally focus on beating Democrat Talarico.

Then Trump said: “I will be making my endorsement soon, and will be asking the candidate that I don’t endorse to immediately DROP OUT OF THE RACE!...We must win in November!”

Clearly, Trump sees this primary as a threat to GOP chances of holding the seat. Reports suggest Trump will endorse Cornyn even though Paxton is the MAGA die-hard and has the support of Steve Bannon.

Here you have Trump essentially saying, I’m going to pick the nominee and the other candidate’s going to drop out before we even get to a runoff.

It is completely Trump’s party. He’s dictating the terms, he’s dictating the candidates, and he’s dictating the message. And frankly, that’s all toxic for Republicans and to Democrats’ benefit.

More at https://newrepublic.com/article/207399/transcript-trump-erupts-wild-pa
nic-tex-senate-race-rattles-gop

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Thursday, March 5, 2026 10:26 PM

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In the meantime, fuckwits...

Sen. Cruz Introduces Constitutional Amendment to Cement Supreme Court at Nine Justices

https://www.cruz.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sen-cruz-introduce
s-constitutional-amendment-to-cement-supreme-court-at-nine-justices


Yeah. Let's do that.

No court packing for the cheating Democratic Party on the extremely unlikely chance any living human being on the planet lives long enough to ever seen them in power again.



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During the Civil War, the slaveowners on the Supreme Court blocked Lincoln. What did he do about them? Execute them? That would have been quicker. Instead, something Lincoln thought better. But remember, Lincoln's charity toward evil got him killed in the end:

• Opposition: Chief Justice Roger Taney (a Southerner) and other Southern justices challenged Lincoln's wartime powers, favoring states' rights and slavery.

• The Prize Cases (1863): In a 5-4 vote, the Court upheld the legality of Lincoln's blockade of Southern ports, with the majority including some justices who had previously opposed him, as well as new appointees.

• Court Packing: To secure a friendly court, Lincoln appointed three new justices and, with Congress, expanded the Court, shifting the balance of power away from the Southern bloc.

• Ignoring Rulings: When the Court challenged him, such as in Merryman, Lincoln often ignored the rulings to maintain federal authority, believing them to be Obstructing his duty to save the Union.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Thursday, March 5, 2026 10:44 PM

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Democrats love to murder their opponents. You've tried and failed to kill Trump 6 times.

Keep being evil, loser.



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Friday, March 6, 2026 12:00 AM

Thanks to Trump, there is a Dangerous Munitions Mismatch Between America and Iran

By Brynn Tannehill | March 4, 2026

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/us-iran-war-air-strikes/6862
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The American air campaign against Iran would seem to be a tactical and an operational success. The United States has struck 1,700 targets in Iran and apparently suffered only six fatalities. The Iranian leadership has been disrupted and dozens of senior figures killed, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

But a price must be paid for these short-term successes, and it makes the bigger, strategic picture far less clear. The United States, Israel, and their Gulf allies are using up scarce and costly munitions at an astounding rate. These losses can’t be replenished nearly quickly enough to avoid possible global repercussions, as far more formidable adversaries than Iran—Russia and China—assess the war-fighting capacity that America holds in reserve. If they conclude that the West has burned through too many interceptors to defend itself, Russia might pursue aggressive action against NATO, or China could move against Taiwan.

Two kinds of missiles are in hot demand on the battlefield. Interceptors, such as Patriot missiles, are designed to shoot down other missiles and drones. Offensive weapons, such as Tomahawk cruise missiles, are meant to destroy targets on the ground. Both are in short supply, but the situation with interceptors is particularly dire.

The American interceptors in greatest demand are Terminal High Altitude Area Defense missiles, which are best for defense against short- and medium-range ballistic missiles, and Patriots, which are somewhat less expensive and more numerous than THAADs. Last summer, during the 12-day war, the U.S. expended roughly a quarter of its THAAD missiles in defending Israel from the Iranian barrage. Each THAAD missile costs more than $12.8 million, and American defense contractors produce only 96 a year. The Trump administration has allocated funds to increase their production to 400 a year, but this could take up to seven years. That the U.S. will use up in just the next few weeks more than a third of the THAADs that it has stockpiled over the past year is entirely imaginable.

The situation with Patriots is somewhat similar. In 2023, the United States was making approximately 370 Patriot missiles a year. Production of these fell short of demand for many years, and then the demand spiked with Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The U.S. ramped up manufacturing: Approximately 500 Patriots were produced in 2024, and roughly 650 a year are expected by 2027. Each missile costs approximately $5 million. But even with the increase in production, according to The Guardian, the United States estimated last year that it had only 25 percent of the Patriots that the Pentagon’s planning required.

Iranian missiles and drones, by contrast, are cheaper and quite numerous. Israeli sources estimate that Iran began the current conflict with approximately 2,500 ballistic missiles on hand and may be producing “hundreds” more each month, with a goal of increasing the production rate to something close to 1,000. The New York Times estimates output at “dozens” a month, but even this lower-end estimate outstrips current U.S. THAAD production by a significant margin. By one expert’s estimate, each Iranian ballistic missile costs about $1 million to $2 million to produce. Consider that in many cases, two or three Patriots are needed to down a single one of them.

Together with Russia, meanwhile, Iran has been producing Shahed-136 so-called suicide drones at a rate of about 5,000 to 6,000 a month, mostly for Russia’s use in Ukraine, at a cost as low as $50,000 a copy. These are the majority of the munitions that Iran has launched against the United States and its allies in recent days. They serve to saturate air defenses and drain supplies of interceptor munitions.

Thus, the U.S. is expending scarce resources to destroy targets that cost less and take l