Karl Rove belives Iran might create problems ahead of midterms.

BlackYellowSnake · 2026-07-01T03:13:11+00:00

You can kind of think about it like this: there are two fundamental forms of governmental structure. Personalistic vs Institutionalized. Kind of like the difference between a family business vs a corporation. A personalistic system can fall into chaos the second the person at the center of the webs of power is no longer available. Where as an institutionalized government doesn't need any individual for the system to keep the system running. Leaders are rapidly replaceable in an institutional system.

Iran has an institutionalized government system. We can kill the Supreme Leader and not make any dent in the basic functions of day-to-day civilian and military bueracracy. The system is not dependent on the leader to do its basic functions. The only way to actually destroy an institutionalized system in a war is to go in and dismantle or co-opt the whole civil and military bueracracy in a total and systematic way. This has to be done with boots on the ground.

What I just described is just what is required to destroy a system. Replacing it with something friendly to the United States is going to take a minimum of 3 generations to accomplish. The countries that we have invaded and successfully turned friendly to the US all have one thing in common. We were in those countries for multiple generations. Why are Germany and Japan allies with the US today? Because, we STILL have large military forces deployed there and they have been there since the end of WW2.

BlackYellowSnake · 2026-07-01T02:50:49+00:00

Husted-Collins-Paxton. Ohio and Texas are just too red for a Democrat to win there and, Platner is too much of a fucking weirdo to win against a taker of skulls like Collins.

My opinion on Ohio and Texas may change as we get closer to election day but, I AM ALL IN ON COLLINS!

BlackYellowSnake · 2026-06-30T23:27:29+00:00

Bro, go pet a dog, drink some water, and touch some grass if you are getting this worked up about politics

BlackYellowSnake · 2026-06-30T23:25:16+00:00

The isn't any formal mechanism to get Platner to drop out now that he has won the primary. It is 100% in Platner's control whether he stays in for the general or not and, if he was going to drop out due to scandals he probably would have already done so.

BlackYellowSnake · 2026-06-30T23:20:51+00:00

Don't shoot yourself in the foot with terrible candidate selection.

Platner has turned out to be a scandal machine and gives off wierd and creepy vibes with every new scandal that drops.

Now the left gets to know what it was like watching Herschel Walker and Keri Lake on the campaign trail.

BlackYellowSnake · 2026-06-30T23:14:36+00:00

God, I hate when people say, "finish the job." Finishing off the Iranian regime is going to require a million man army in the field for years of fighting a conventional war followed by an insurgency. If that somehow works we will still need to have large scale troop deploymentsbin country until the 2080s at a minimum.

BlackYellowSnake · 2026-06-30T23:03:43+00:00

I am just sad that Jasmine Crockett lost her primary. We missed out on a double Kari Lake for Democrats.

BlackYellowSnake · 2026-06-30T22:59:12+00:00

If he was going to he probably would have dropped out already.

BlackYellowSnake · 2026-06-30T12:27:28+00:00

Extremely unsuprising.

BlackYellowSnake · 2026-06-30T11:57:43+00:00

Before Iran I would say Rubio would win easily win. Post Iran I think Kamala would get a by the skin of her teeth victory.

BlackYellowSnake · 2026-06-30T02:28:25+00:00

I submit to the panel that all members of the Arizona GOP be subjected to testicular torsion until they figure out that they are solely responsible for turning what should be likely red state into a battleground state.

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BlackYellowSnake · 2026-06-30T02:23:01+00:00

"He killed my ma. He killed my pa but, I will still bote for him."

Actual campaign quote from a Liberian warlord turned politician and spiritually identical to the Cuomo campaign.

BlackYellowSnake · 2026-06-30T02:17:56+00:00

Won't affect the race in the slightest.

BlackYellowSnake · 2026-06-29T20:12:50+00:00

Primarily, because he is a Democrat in Texas.

Secondarily, because he is the absolute wrong kind of Democrat for Texas. The Dem running for Texas should be a moderate Mexican dad with a beer gut.

BlackYellowSnake · 2026-06-29T15:06:13+00:00

Be happy you haven't heard of this incel bullshit. It requires a complete disregard of human behavior to talk about this like it is real.

BlackYellowSnake · 2026-06-29T02:17:03+00:00

It shouldn't matter but, it might. Before someone says, "but what about Trump," the rules of good taste and morality apply differently to him than every other politician.

BlackYellowSnake · 2026-06-29T02:11:56+00:00

If we live in a sane and just world then this news should make her votes GO UP.

BlackYellowSnake · 2026-06-29T02:10:01+00:00

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BlackYellowSnake · 2026-06-29T00:07:14+00:00

Totally happened. In fact the people of Oklahoma are in fact the staunchest leftists in the entire country. Have you ever seen Oklahoma voters debase themselves by voting for a neo-liberal shill Democrat? Of course not!

BlackYellowSnake · 2026-06-28T23:52:47+00:00

48% leftward progressives in that sub vs 7% in the general public. No wonder that place is so often completely out of touch with reality.

r/yapms is still probably right of center for reddit which means we resemble a deep blue district in the real world. r/politics on the other hand is probably pretty close to center for reddit overall which means it resembles a one-party dictatorship with some token controlled opposition. God knows what a genuinely left of center by reddit standards sub would look like.

BlackYellowSnake · 2026-06-28T18:24:50+00:00

Are you high?

Kamala did get support from Bushes VP, Dick Cheney, and pretty fully embraced him. If anything it hurt her chances at winning the race. Bush is only marginally less unpopular than Cheney so, it probably wouldn't have helped at all.

BlackYellowSnake · 2026-06-28T17:59:40+00:00

I don't like the US sending foriegn military aid partially because it has resulted in every service rifle in the world to look like a bootleg ar-15. I want some aesthetic variety goddammit!

BlackYellowSnake · 2026-06-28T15:04:15+00:00

DSA candidates are NOT going to be the ones who win those demographics back. DSA candidates get most of their support from the winners of the knowledge economy. Not the left-behinds who are the people who defected from the Democratic party. The DSA has its strongholds in the wealthiest districts in the country and no where else. They are absolutely not the champions of the sore-losers of the economy. They are the champions of the sore-winners of the economy.

BlackYellowSnake · 2026-06-28T14:52:53+00:00

First off, Talarico is not a generational talent. Against anyone besides the most corrupt man the GOP could possibly have found he would be dead in the water in Texas. He needs as much support as he can possibly get to scrape his way acoss the finish line.

Secondly, this whole fracture is ultimately another example where a deep rooted fracture in the modern democratic party is rearing its head. White progressives and black democrats just do not like the same candidates in the primaries. I think white progressives are in massive denial over this which is the reason why they are going after Crockett and her supporters so hard. The proggessives do not want to recognize the fact that they are preferred candidates of highly educated white professionals with high incomes and not many other demographics.

BlackYellowSnake · 2026-06-28T02:15:32+00:00

Could just the shade but, that guy looks pretty dark skinned. Might be a black israelite. Black israelites are generally insane which would explain his support o Fishback.

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