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Khamenei, One of Most Evil People in History, is Dead

POSTED BY: 6ixStringJack
UPDATED: Wednesday, September 2, 2026 05:42
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Sunday, March 29, 2026 1:11 AM

Just ignore his personal attacks. It's all he's got.

He's a sad, miserable little man with no life and nobody who gives a shit about him.

He's just crying about his own problems in life and projecting them onto other people. Not at all dissimilar to how Ted can't figure out why nobody likes him or wants anything to do with him after all of these years of convincing himself that he's a good, moral person who always does and says the right thing.

They're just Rage, Personified now.

Neither of them are even capable of having real conversations with human beings anymore.

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Sunday, March 29, 2026 1:25 AM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Just ignore his personal attacks. It's all he's got. ...

Not at all dissimilar to how Ted can't figure out why nobody likes him or wants anything to do with him after all of these years of convincing himself that he's a good, moral person who always does and says the right thing... Neither of them are even capable of having real conversations with human beings anymore



Jeezus, no kidding! Don't they realize how stereotyped they've become? It's medically pathological.


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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

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Sunday, March 29, 2026 1:35 AM

Well, this deserves some research but, according to one article, Saudi Arabia is managing to push 7MMb/d thru their Persian Gulf/ Hormuz alternate on the Red Sea, at Yanbu. That's compared to 15MMb/d thru Hormuz, leaving an 8MMb/d deficit.

UAE also has a port just outside of Hormuz.



MORE AT https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/hormuz-bypasses-maxed-out-saudi-east-
west-pipeline-hits-record-7-mmbd-uae-fujairah-crude


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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

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Sunday, March 29, 2026 1:35 AM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Just ignore his personal attacks. It's all he's got. ...

Not at all dissimilar to how Ted can't figure out why nobody likes him or wants anything to do with him after all of these years of convincing himself that he's a good, moral person who always does and says the right thing... Neither of them are even capable of having real conversations with human beings anymore



Jeezus, no kidding! Don't they realize how stereotyped they've become? It's medically pathological.


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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger





I've been trying to find a book that I remembered from the TV show Reading Rainbow when I was a kid, or even better, the episode where Lemar Burton introduced it (and I think it was a female's voice that narrated it).

All I remember about it were the names Paul and Paula, and they were polar bears. One of them loved their individuality and the other one wanted to live in a world where everything and everyone was the same. Something happens where all the bears are now named Paul and Paula, and the lesson is that it turns out things get pretty boring when everybody is exactly the same and nobody argues about anything anymore.


I always think of the Left like that... or at least I have for a decade or more now. They're all Pauls and Paulas, and their only purpose seems to be the desire to see everyone else become Pauls and Paulas too. They all say the exact same things everyday and behave the same no matter where they are. Somewhere along the lines they've been convinced by somebody that they are always right and they are morally superior to everyone they come in contact with, so they've been also given the idea that they can be as awful to everyone as they can muster because what they're doing is just and right and that everyone who disagrees with them is beneath them and they're getting what they deserve.

To everybody else, the Pauls and the Paulas are just bullies and assholes. If you know one of them, you know all of them.

Nobody wants anything to do with any of them.

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Sunday, March 29, 2026 7:26 PM

Trump Administration Cooked Up Gay Ayatollah Story
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-administration-cooked-gay-ay
atollah-150401515.html


Trump Says CIA Told Him Iran’s Mojtaba Khamenei is Gay
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-cia-briefing-iran-new-supreme-leader-fo
x-news-11743963

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Monday, March 30, 2026 2:52 AM

“Are you guys, like—do you feel existential anxiety about the war?” he asked his co-hosts. Schulz seemed to be feeling some. “Americans can’t fucking afford health care,” he said later. “They don’t care about what’s happening in Iran!” War hawks have been angling for years for this war, he added. With President Trump, “they found a guy stupid enough to do it.”

Schulz voted for Trump in 2024, after having him on the podcast—a move that angered a lot of liberals. But the 42-year-old comedian was never what one might call “full MAGA,” and he isn’t explicitly Republican. Instead, Schulz is representative of a not-insignificant slice of Trump’s voting base: nonideological guys who love free speech and are drawn to politicians who seem anti-establishment and, maybe more important, anti-woke.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/03/iran-war-trump-maga/68657
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Monday, March 30, 2026 3:44 AM

Rubio: U.S.-Iran War Could Last Another 2 to 4 Weeks

The White House remains committed to achieving all of its war objectives despite a lack of NATO support.

By Alexandra Sharp | March 27, 2026, 5:10 PM

https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/27/rubio-g7-us-iran-war-two-four-wee
ks-nato-negotiations/?tpcc=recirc_latest062921


How Much Longer?

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told his G-7 counterparts on Friday that the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran—already nearing its one-month mark—could continue for another two to four weeks, sources told Axios. Speaking to reporters after the G-7 meeting, Rubio said that the United States is “on or ahead of schedule in ?that operation, and expect to conclude it at the appropriate time here—a matter of weeks, not months.”

Analysts suggest that extending the conflict for that length of time could have devastating consequences for the world economy, as 28 days of war have already caused unprecedented turbulence to global energy flows and worsened instability in the Middle East.

G-7 foreign ministers and their allies convened in the French countryside on Thursday for a two-day conference aimed at addressing rising geopolitical insecurity. Yet the main show did not begin until Rubio arrived on Friday, upon which he stressed that the United States remains committed to achieving all of its war objectives.

“Our mission is clear. Iran will never obtain a nuclear weapon,” Rubio wrote on X on Friday. “In my meeting with the G7 foreign ministers, I reiterated that we must meet this moment with maximum partner contributions.”

Yet such contributions may not be easy to secure. Washington’s G-7 allies remain hesitant to join U.S. military efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, where roughly one-fifth of the world’s oil normally transits. “We have taken the approach of supporting defensive action, but also we’ve taken a different approach on the offensive action that has taken place as part of this conflict,” British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said on Friday.

Such reluctance has angered U.S. President Donald Trump, who has taken out his vitriol on NATO as a whole. “We are very disappointed with NATO because NATO has done absolutely nothing,” Trump said during a cabinet meeting on Thursday. He later appeared to suggest that the United States would not come to the aid of the alliance’s members due to their own inaction regarding Hormuz. “We’re always going to be there—at least, we were,” Trump said. “I don’t know about anymore, to be honest with you.”

This has forced Rubio to walk a fine line between appeasing the White House and selling the United States’ Iran strategy to Washington’s closest allies.

Still, some common ground has been found. G-7 foreign ministers agreed to adopt a declaration on Friday calling for the “immediate cessation” of attacks on civilian population centers and infrastructure. “Nothing justifies deliberately targeting civilians during armed conflicts, nor carrying out attacks against diplomatic facilities,” French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said, adding that the declaration “also reaffirms the absolute necessity of permanently restoring free and safe navigation in the Strait of Hormuz.”

Meanwhile, it remains unclear just how close (if at all) the Iran war is to reaching a diplomatic solution. Rubio reportedly told the conference’s attendees on Friday that Washington is still communicating with Tehran via mediators but is close to holding serious negotiations. On Thursday, Trump gave Tehran another 10 days to reopen Hormuz or else face attacks on its energy infrastructure.

Rubio’s comments come amid reports that the U.S. Defense Department is considering deploying at least 10,000 additional combat troops to the Middle East in the coming days. Rubio said on Friday that the United States can achieve its aims in Iran without ground troops but that it was deploying some to the region “to give the president maximum optionality and maximum opportunity to adjust the contingencies, should they eme

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Monday, March 30, 2026 10:23 AM

Trump says his 'preference' would be to 'take the oil in Iran'

Trump told the Financial Times that while his "favorite thing" would be to take the oil, some "stupid people" would ask, "Why are you doing that?"

March 29, 2026, 10:43 PM CDT

By Kyla Guilfoil

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-says-preference-ta
ke-oil-iran-rcna265747


In an interview with NBC News early this month, Trump sidestepped answering whether he had plans to try to take Iran’s oil. “You look at Venezuela,” he said. “People have thought about it, but it’s too soon to talk about that.” While Trump was saying that, the U.S. had already taken control of the country's oil industry:

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The Trump Administration is rapidly implementing President Trump’s vision to reopen and develop Venezuela’s oil industry for the shared benefit of the American and Venezuelan people. Thanks to President Trump’s leadership, the United States has already issued several general licenses at record speed for oil and gas companies to make unprecedented investments in Venezuela’s energy infrastructure.
https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2026/02/acti
ons-to-implement-president-trumps-vision-for-venezuelan-oil


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

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Monday, March 30, 2026 7:12 PM

Trump’s Iran war is holding him hostage
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/30/trump-iran-war

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Tuesday, March 31, 2026 11:44 AM



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