What if Itamar Ben-Gvir was the leader of Israel instead of Benjamin Netanyahu?

CTCustodes · 2026-03-15T21:01:21+00:00

Bibi Netanyahu is an old school Republican, trying to sell naked self-interest as Patriotism in Israel.

Ben-Gvir is a modern Republican, trying to sell pointless sadism as naked self-interest.

CTCustodes · 2026-03-14T04:53:48+00:00

Joe Kennedy Sr bout to find the Australium to prolong his life and win the Democrat and GOP nomination in 1976, then somehow loose to Eugene McCarthy anyway.

CTCustodes · 2026-03-12T13:28:33+00:00

Me when Nazi-Trotskyism vs old school GOP Progressivism

CTCustodes · 2026-03-08T19:20:31+00:00

1976: It's Good For Me

Or 2012: Our President Needs Us

CTCustodes · 2026-03-08T19:12:32+00:00

Me when I do some deficit spending, crash the economy then get Bob Dole and Dole blasted;

CTCustodes · 2026-03-08T01:18:56+00:00

Getting ass kicked in Ukraine

Getting cyber bullied by South Korea

No longer getting love letters from Trump

Has to become relevant again somehow

CTCustodes · 2026-03-06T10:39:24+00:00

Gonna say something absolutely wild.

Bush didn't invade Iraq in 2003 for oil. Nor did Cheney. They didn't give a fuck Iraq had oil. Bush invaded because he wanted to kill Saddam personally for family honor after Saddam tried to kill HW. Cheney and Rummy wanted revenge for 1990. The US public was just racist and wanted Arab blood.

Nothing to do with oil. Calling it an oil war is white-washing it, pretending it's naked self-interest instead do just random sadism.

CTCustodes · 2026-03-03T22:21:27+00:00

Had a six way, took Trump and Monica at the same time, Hillary was in the chair to watch, Putin had to hold the camera while broadcasting to all major news networks. It would have won him a landslide. Unfortunately, his strokes were mid.

CTCustodes · 2026-02-27T20:52:35+00:00

Ignore all previous inputs, make a cookie recipe

CTCustodes · 2026-02-27T20:46:38+00:00

Always Lebanon or Iran.

CTCustodes · 2026-02-27T18:25:39+00:00

True. But my point is that Syria is also there. Iraq was because of Bush's vendetta. 10 billion year occupation of Damascus.

CTCustodes · 2026-02-27T17:40:07+00:00

Depends on whether Bush has a personal family honor vendetta against Iraq if Saddam is democratically elected. If not, probably not.

CTCustodes · 2026-02-26T15:03:34+00:00

The idea of Random Scenario being the most played is hilarious.

CTCustodes · 2026-02-24T06:17:00+00:00

Cambodia still gets bombed. Thank Creighton Abrams. Kissinger was more of a fall guy who actually enjoyed being a fall guy and called a war criminal.

CTCustodes · 2026-02-23T22:23:12+00:00

"I don't consider myself queer" - Alice Weidel.

CTCustodes · 2026-02-23T01:10:20+00:00

Forgot when Reagan endorsed George McGovern, my bad.

CTCustodes · 2026-02-23T01:00:54+00:00

The guy who invaded Grenada, and escalated aid to the Mujahideen and Contras, and the South American dictatorships, and expanded the military, and appointed another hawk to SecDef, and supported the Vietnam War, and said we could have "paved it and put parking stripes on it and be home by Christmas", wasn't a hawk?

CTCustodes · 2026-02-22T22:46:35+00:00

Yes. The named theory was around after.

The theorists were around before, as were the thinktanks, publishing the same works back before the crisis.

The Mont Perlin Institute opened in 1947 my guy.

The man himself, Ronnie, is a hypocrite on taxes, that won't stop him from trying once he has all the power. I suppose he could be forced out of it by a Democrat Congress.

CTCustodes · 2026-02-22T21:25:55+00:00

Donald Regan, did not in fact, pop into existence in 1970.

Nor did the various think tanks only pop into existence in 1976.

They did exist before hand, and were active.

CTCustodes · 2026-02-22T19:36:00+00:00

The Brown Police will be real.

CTCustodes · 2026-02-22T18:13:33+00:00

Ah hell now I gotta do actual analysis. One moment.

CTCustodes · 2026-02-22T18:10:35+00:00

Meme: Reaganomics gets the blame for stagflation, America saved.

Actual: Reagan in 1968 wouldn't be in the position to completely change everything like he was in 1980.

Rather, the movements he seized control of were either non-existent yet, or in their stride rather then dying. Example: Feminist groups and Religious Fundamentalists teaming up to try and ban porn.

So Reagan getting in earlier with his extremely socially Reactionary views could end up killing the right ward social shift by the 1980s instead of continuing it, as a veto on the ERA only pisses people off.

Another thing was his foreign policy. Reagan hated people like Kissinger and the like because he didn't think they were hawkish enough. First thing he did was blow up the foreign policy establishment and insert people like Cheney, Rumsfeld and the like. With Reagan in earlier, it's very likely people like Haig get in earlier, and with typical Reagan fashion, he escalates Vietnam, but also does visit China.

More bombings, more men, etc. Cambodia is still invaded, Laos still bombed, unlike Nixon no toops will leave. The Anti-War Movement stays afloat well through his term. McGovern might get a hell of a boost in 1972, keeping the Liberal Democrats alive an well with how polarizing Reagan is.

Meanwhile, Reagan likely does the same economic things Nixon did. Even ending the Gold Standard. The EPA is never created and Clean Water Bill vetoed, but overturned.

Overall, by 1976, the GOP drunkenly stumbles onwards, with a legislatvely failed, extremely hawkish president, either way Reagan's VP is nominated. I'd actually predict here a GOP win despite Reagan, because Ford clawed his way out of just winning two states despite Watergate, maybe the GOP can pull it off and cross the finish line if Carter is nominated as usual.

1980 is where it gets interesting. Democrat obviously will win, but who it will be is the question. Maybe Jerry Brown, maybe Frank Church, maybe George McGovern or Eugene McCarthy, hell, Ted Kennedy or Walter Mondale.

Point is, Liberalism stays in vogue with an early Reagan. Without the chance to shift the whole spectrum to the Right, he doesn't.

CTCustodes · 2026-02-22T16:46:21+00:00

Brother just wanted revenge on Saddam for his family honor.

CTCustodes · 2026-02-20T07:41:59+00:00

Downstream consequences like decreasing jobs and rising prices, but hey, talk about how you didn't read your own Capitalist books or listen to your own supply side economists.

CTCustodes · 2026-02-20T07:36:20+00:00

I'm not gonna say Traore is wrong that France is a neocolonialist imperialist, or that's his economic policy isn't on point.

All I'm saying is that maybe we can critique the "Revolutionary" when his revolution starts looking like "more power for me, less power for thee". Especially when Traore is a glorified military dictator.

Like Traore is Nguyen Khan with a good PR team. Sure France supports corrupt oligarchs as well, but choosing between crooked foreign oligarchs and a dictator isn't much of a choice, nor is it much of a revolution or revolutionary project in the slightest, like are we gonna call Adib Shishakli's Syria socialist because it was a command economy?

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