Gromnir

had to take a civility oath as part o' yearly professional responsibilities... and dues. the oath is a new requirement for existing members. previous to 2026, only new applicants had to take the oath once it became a requirement in 2014, so we were exempt. “As... (stuff,) I will strive to conduct myself at all times with dignity, courtesy, and integrity.” that could be a problem. kidding, when acting in our professional capacity, am always showing courtesy and maintaining integrity. literal quit our best paying gig 'cause o' moral concerns even when a strict application o' ethics rules did not require. ... after some honest self reflection, "dignity" mighta' been an issue. lucky am retired. HA! Good Fun!

yes you are. gosh, that's ez. the rest o' your response is just more o' your lies. will wait for new ones as revisiting your reflexive blixing is offering diminishing returns, but... you didn't bother to read, eh? it were an "or" option. again proving how obtuse you are. am agreeing it is a best approach to ignore zor, but until am seeing you tone down the reflexive and habitual fibbing, am gonna call it out when we see it. no doubt won't be a long wait. HA! Good Fun! ps fixed a curious edit faux pas

his health concerns no doubt take precedence. avoiding the aggravation is the path o' wisdom. and even w/o him positing, am certain he would recognize how trump 2.0 has been a nightmare for personal liberties, truth and human decency, but do you believe he would budge from his contention that biden was just as bad and kamala might have been worse? we would be shocked if he had given a fraction o' an inch on the they are all bad bit. the ostrich impersonation survived january six, trump being found liable for digital rape, criminal fraud conviction for his business and trump refusing to return nuclear secrets to the national archives, yes? that said, am genuine hopeful @Guard Dog is enjoying improved health... and wisconsin's -10 C temperatures as well as the ice fishing paradise that is lake winnebago in january. late edit: if @Pidesco wants for us to take a serious stab at summoning guard dog, am offering the following HA! Good Fun!

am surprised to admit the recent french troll efforts is clever and amusing and previous posted macron sporting the bidenesque aviator glasses deserves a bit o' a penalty, but am giving 'em a B+. HA! Good Fun!

you are being obtuse. your conceit is that the listed quotes, sans context o' how they were used in stories (and purposeful failing to reveal that the stories were in fact ambivalent and equivocal regarding pahlavi influence... naughty,) revealed some kinda self-evident gestalt conclusion that the west were embiggening pahlavi. voicing your conclusion is not meaningful context... but this tragic rear-guard defense is sophistry... again. *chuckle* your after the fact ledes silliness were an effort to grant context to rando quotes by mere fact the unlinked and unattributed quotes were ledes. you spent multiple posts on that tangential idiocy to try and invent and invest context. am still trying to figure out how you thought (hook + essential facts) = (summary opinions,) but such was always irrelevant. 'course you not getting it, and purposeful deflecting is your mo. spent how many days plagued by you after the israeli attack o' iran 'cause you were doing strawman... you just couldn't accept that Gromnir were critical o' israel's excuses for attacking and so you ignored and lied about our arguments to further your anti-israel position... which were kinda insane as, again, Gromnir were criticizing the israeli rationale for attacking iran. just another example o' how what is said by Gromnir don't matter as you deflect, indulge in the sophistry, and flat out lie when confronted with inconvenient facts. is your modus operandi. compulsive. you just can't help self. we posted the position o' a harvard economist who claimed that if russia didn't take drastic measures, they were facing a currency collapse. economically, russia is a gas station with an army, so contrary to zor positions, sanctions can be devastating... which has always been part o' the problem. nobody wants a russian collapse, and pre 2021, nobody wanted russia desperate enough to do something zor thought were unthinkable, such as invading ukraine. is a difficult balancing effort when dealing with such a vulnerable economy. and you still don't get that it ain't about being wrong. many people were wrong about ukraine. what you did were impugn the character o' people involved in reporting about ukraine in spite o' a paucity o' evidence or support. cops in sheboygan and uvalde is no different than the journalists you smeared before the russian invasion. you arrived at a conclusion o' moral turpitude, and then stuck with it and lied about it even when evidence did become available. blix calling bush a liar was never true; you made it up. when you were final confronted with evidence o' blix stating bush were truthful about wmds, you doubled-down and pointed out that blix were a diplomat, functional calling blix the liar. am having been personal wrong many times. example: we thought trump were a smaller problem than many imagined in 2016. we pointed out that pretty much everything he were claiming he would do would require Congressional support he were unlikely to ever manage. we would like to go back to 2015 and give our self a good smack for our naivety. we did not foresee the scope o' trump danger... but we didn't suggest that those who saw trump as a transcendental threat were attacking trump for malicious reasons. so what? it ain't being wrong which is the problem. your reflexive character smears before it is possible to make a reasonable and informed conclusions is problematic. your routine misstating o' history, sources and facts is problematic. your lies is problematic. see, this is what you do. find where we said we had put you on ignore. "you are pathological. took a while for the locals to come around to the idea that attacking the character o' individuals before relevant facts has had been established all too often makes the accuser look like a fool in hindsight. that sorta behaviour happens less around these parts than it once did. am hopeful these continued exercises have a similar positive effect. most o' us take factual claims made by fellow posters at face value, 'cause who could be bothered to check every link and source, but zor is so utter incapable o' intellectual honesty that it is good practice to search every source and verify every quote... or just ignore you." you are the one clown am not gonna ignore anytime soon. even expressed our admitted wishful thinking that others begin verifying yourr source and fact checking when dealing with zor. why would we ignore you when you have provided us with multiple opportunities respond to and illuminate your misrepresentations since only the middle o' last year, and that is with us being in absentia for weeks and even a month at a time. we offered advice on how boardies should deal with you. ignore is indeed best, at least until you stop lying reflexive. converse, check all your claimed sources and experts. doveryay, no proveryay bad advice when dealing with zor. don't trust.

previous to strange new worlds, which we saw less than a month ago, the most recent trek property am having watched were a bit o' discovery. based on most feedback we received from trek fans we know in rl, we saw no need to end our sabbatical. will give prodigy a chance. HA! Good Fun!

ok, am knowing this is trivial, but am nevertheless gonna point out that even as a guy who grew up as a white sox fan, the first thing we think o' when we recall wgn in the 80s and 90s is that they carried cubs games... am s'posing MASH reruns is what we recall second from that time period... and then yeah, bozo. ds:9 is our favorite trek series for the same reasons which annoy @Amentep, although we did recent watch strange new worlds season 1 for the first time and we enjoyed it. HA! Good Fun!

Trump aides declared 16 DHS shootings since July justified before probes completed None of the officers from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Border Patrol or Homeland Security Investigations has faced criminal charges in any of the shootings, nor has the administration announced any internal disciplinary measures against them. “Historically, federal cases are investigated thoroughly up front,” said Christopher Parente, who previously served as an assistant U.S. attorney in Chicago and Miami and is representing a woman shot by Border Patrol in Chicago. “Here, they are charging people first and asking questions later. There’s such pressure from the administration to charge right away and make headlines so they can put out false press releases.” ... am suspecting that part o' the goal is to undermine american faith in law enforcement and the legal process. more than a few people in the trump administration has been investigated and trump were convicted. when the trump people are gone from the executive branch, how many americans is gonna trust the fbi to be fair and impartial? you can't trust them. party affiliation, education level, skin color, tax bracket and a host o' other thems exist who americans current don't trust the legal system to investigate, much less prosecute fair. the current administration looks hellbent on complete destroying any faith in our legal and investigative institutions. has been a noticeable recent trend that juries asked to weigh preponderance of the evidence and beyond a reasonable doubt standards are increasing likely to embrace conspiracy theory. gen z jurors in particular is less likely to see anything wrong with indulging fringe beliefs 'pon which to base their ultimate decision on the most hairbrained possibilities. 'course lack o' faith in law enforcement undermining the justice system is not a new problem (anybody recall oj? not trusting la cops in the early to mid 90s was hardly unreasonable) but rare have we seen a coordinated effort from the government to create the suspicion, and the issue is becoming more widespread than at any time since Gromnir were born... which is a long time remote. HA! Good Fun!

again, am not sure if you are as obtuse as you pretend, and lord knows it ain't Gromnir who tried to reinvent definitions of ledes, and summaries as some kinda bizarre defense o' the notion that western media is conspiring to embiggen pahlavi.... which is "eerily similar" to your ukraine blunder, blaming journalists for their accurate reporting o' pentagon info... pentagon info which a few more folks shoulda taken serious in hindsight, eh? your pahlavi relevance list o' quotes were from stories which were equivocal and ambivalent about pahlavi's impact. you were misrepresenting... lying or too lazy to have read the articles. pointing out your error in misrepresenting articles with a no-context list o' quotes is hardly picking nits. converse, responding with inaccurate ledes and summary definitions were laughable and looks positive hypocritical given your current criticisms. you talking out your kiester ain't our concern... it's the willful deceit. you invent expert opinions and sources outta the ether, and when caught in the act, you claim nit picks. when you is caught misrepresenting the quotes, as you did with your recent mindless search engine efforts, and with the timeframe for iran to achieve breakout, and dementia diagnosis (although that were a strawman bit o' nonsense, so it highlights two o' your auto-fails,) and on and on and on, you deflect with nonsense about ledes definitions and then claim is Gromnir who is indulging sophistry? *chuckle* zor has managed to turn Blix into a verb. regardless, this has been a hoot. am waiting for your next attempt to lie your way outta lazy. HA! Good Fun!

keep in mind that the feds is playing fast and loose with the numbers just by using %. if we were informed that ice activity in residential neighborhoods had increased 13x since trump 2.0 began, you likely wouldn't be shocked. am not sure what the actual increase is, but is gonna be significant, yes? if ice activity has multiplied by a factor o' 13, then one would expect assaults to increase by at least the same amount... ignoring the fact the ice guys is now receiving half the training they did previous and am expecting the % o' rookie ice officers is now much higher than years past. https://x.com/KaivanShroff/status/2016024233160147376 also, Jury acquits LA County ICE protester of assaulting a federal officer Brayan Ramos-Brito was accused of assaulting a federal agent during a protest outside the Homeland Security Investigations building in Paramount. Initially, federal authorities charged him with a felony but reduced it to misdemeanor assault of a federal officer. During the two-day trial, U.S. Border Patrol Sector Chief Gregory Bovino testified that he witnessed Ramos-Brito strike the agent with an open palm. Multiple videos showing Ramos-Brito were displayed during the trial, one of which showed a Border Patrol officer shoving Ramos-Brito during the June 7 protest. The other videos did not clearly show Ramos-Brito striking the agent. ... as a few people is aware, Gromnir ain't an all cops are bad honk. how many times have we identified that the cop job is not what many people believe it to be? cops ain't required to selfless sacrifice life and limb in protection o' ordinary citizens, and their pay and education means it is unfair to expect 'em to be superheroes in navy blue uniforms. that said, am also aware that most law enforcement am having been around is extreme loose with their definitions o' assault. any person who bumps or touches law enforcement is gonna be written up in the report as having possible committed assault, and then it is up to the prosecutor to charge or not. and DOJ vowed to punish those who disrupt Trump’s immigration crackdown. Dozens of cases have crumbled The federal agent described her wounds as “boo-boos.” Nevertheless, the Department of Justice aggressively pursued the alleged perpetrator. They jailed Sidney Lori Reid on a charge of felony assault, accusing her of injuring the agent during a July protest of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown in Washington, D.C. When grand jurors thrice declined to indict the 44-year-old on the felony, prosecutors tried her on a misdemeanor. Body camera footage played at trial revealed that Reid had not intentionally struck the agent. Instead, the agent had scratched her hand on a wall while assisting another agent who had shoved Reid and told her to “shut the f—- up” and “mind her own business.” It took jurors less than two hours to acquit the animal hospital worker. ... — Of the 100 people initially charged with felony assaults on federal agents, 55 saw their charges reduced to misdemeanors or dismissed outright. At least 23 pleaded guilty, most of them to reduced charges in deals with prosecutors that resulted in little or no jail time. More than 40% of the cases involved relatively minor misdemeanor charges, a figure that appears to undermine Trump’s claims that many of those accused are domestic terrorists. — All five defendants, including Reid, who went to trial so far were acquitted. — Prosecutors have successfully secured felony indictments against at least 58 people, some initially charged with misdemeanors. Those people have been accused of an assortment of assaults that include throwing rocks at federal vehicles, and punching or kicking officers. Those cases are awaiting trial. from a june 2025 post "btw, the government lies and misleads. a 413% increase in assault o' ice agents? why not say what were the assaults and how many were assaulted? notice the government didn't claim any ice agents were seriously injured yes? if a child grabs the sleeve o' an ice agent while the agent is arresting the child's parent, that counts as an assault. if a citizen husband attempts to embrace his undocumented wife while she is being arrested and he happens to touch an ice agent in the process, that is an assault. and btw, if there were a 500% increase in la ice arrests over the course o' the past week, then how much would you expect assaults on ice agents to increase over the same period if all other factors remained constant? of the 118 undocumented rounded up by ice at the time o' their press release, only five were gang members, and am gonna remind people that being a gang member is not in and of itself illegal. please note that a handful o' crimes committed by those apprehended by ice is listed, but nowhere does it mention how many people had criminal records. one? why not say the number of criminals unless it is a comical small number?" end tell us how many assaults has been successful prosecuted, 'cause at this point, nobody should believe dhs numbers. as to death threats... with what is going on, we wouldn't be surprised if there is a huge increase in threats to ice, but much like what ice calls an assault v. what a reasonable person identifies as an assault, am assuming ice is taking liberties with their tally o' death threats. seven-year-old watches as their mother is dragged away by ice and she grabs the sleeve o' an ice officer and screams, "go to hell." assault and a death threat, right? 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bsg fans are gonna need get their glass fix someplace other than the kennedy center... not that am so out o' touch we believe most bsg music aficionados is kennedy center season ticket holders. 'course the met is where you all hang, right? HA! Good Fun!

Carney rolls his eyes at US Treasury secretary, telling Trump he meant what he said at Davos Carney rolled his eyes and rejected U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s contention to Fox News that he aggressively walked back his comments at the World Economic Forum during a phone call with Trump on Monday. “To be absolutely clear, and I said this to the president, I meant what I said in Davos,” Carney said to reporters as he arrived for a Cabinet meeting in the capital, Ottawa. “Canada was the first country to understand the change in U.S. trade policy that he initiated, and we’re responding to that. ” HA! Good Fun!

some noteworthy support for your position. trump is most impacted by the bond market, and am not thinking the minneapolis situation will have too much o' a direct market influence unless protesters across the country do some kinda extended boycott/work walkout... or if a few more white US citizens get murdered? that said, this is all newish kinda territory for an old dog like ourselves, and so it is possible that if polls look bad enough (needs to include republican defections) and fox coverage becomes more critical o' the administration, trump may claim that all the violent illegal immigrant felons (not that dhs is primarily targeting violent felons,) has already been arrested and so there is no more need for ice and border patrol activities in minneapolis. declare "mission accomplished." regardless, is increasing signs via fox interviews and wsj opinion pieces which suggest that kristi noem might be the administration's sacrificial lamb... maybe. everything trump related maximizes the chaos, so am constant hedging. HA! Good Fun!

am arguing with a five-year old. and it's understandable you didn't ask for cites to the 60 links, 'cause we didn't quote 'em (duh) and 'cause the population we produced is not gonna be fixed but necessarily changes by the minute as new stories is written. we did link to the singular pahlavi stories which we found in our initial search. would be pointless to cite all sixty non-relevant stories, but if you do an iran + protest search and achieve better results, results that do not undermine your ridiculous pahlavi embiggening contention, we would like to see such. if pahlavi is murdered tomorrow, maybe that happens, but it didn't happen for the past near two weeks, even when tv stations were shut down in his name and he held a news conference... though am suspecting you did such a search and realize the truth o' what am claiming. we already pointed out that a message board don't have same rigorous standards, but the sources for your quote list undermined your conclusion rather than supporting it. grammarly, your link for the complete tangential and irrelevant issue o' ledes, explains why it is essential to link and attribute quotes, and that reasoning applies just as much here as it does to a primary school class assignment or a journal article. rando quotes, unattributed and unlinked, is not particular persuasive, but in zor's greasy fingers, they is downright fraudulent. so why not tell us about western media efforts to embiggen pahlavi. invent more lies to cover the old ones and hope for some new deflection to avoid your original blunder o' posting, sans links and attributions, rando quotes from stories which when read undermine your position that western media were seeking to embiggen pahlavi. ... we used to think you werean ordinary board troll who spoke outta ignorance. took us a while to realize you are pathological deceptive. heck, you even make up nonsense about how ledes is "summary opinions?" why? it's taken time, but with each one o' these ridiculous confrontations, am suspecting more people realize just how frequent you invent positions from experts who actual said the opposite, or purposeful misrepresent quoted material or story conclusions. each o' the last half dozen conflicts has revealed your penchant for fibbery on a wide range o' subject matter. you are pathological. took a while for the locals to come around to the idea that attacking the character o' individuals before relevant facts has had been established all too often makes the accuser look like a fool in hindsight. that sorta behaviour happens less around these parts than it once did. am hopeful these continued exercises have a similar positive effect. most o' us take factual claims made by fellow posters at face value, 'cause who could be bothered to check every link and source, but zor is so utter incapable o' intellectual honesty that it is good practice to search every source and verify every quote... or just ignore you. HA! Good Fun!

trump's brand is what is important. he can never admit weakness or failure, so every loss is transformed into a kinda win. literal day two o' the administration were gaslighting about inaugural crowd size. why would somebody double-down about a lie? triple-down? quadruple-down? Gromnir laughed, and we weren't alone in our laughter. nobody would buy trump's transparent deceptions, right? doesn't matter. never admit mistake. never surrender. fight, fight, fight. if the media points out facts, call it fake news or ridicule reporters for focusing on incidental issues when there is an immigration crisis to deal with. trump fighting and being outraged is what his base wants from him. beyond all reason, they see him as a warrior who never surrenders, so 'course every capitulation is magical transformed into an unparalleled 4d chess win, and now there is an entire media and political ecosystem which supports trump's gaslighting efforts. am admitting we gross underestimated trump in 2016... no, that ain't quite right. we overestimated everybody else. we thought more republican politicians would resist. we thought americans were less bigoted and angry than they are. we thought democrats were less o' a keystone cops sh!t show. etc. we saw trump for what he was and the dangers he presented since the day he did his muslim ban bit and the crowd cheered. however, without an intervening war or an economic collapse, we had expected more o' everybody else. edit: we ordinary watch markets when they have a guest who is intriguing, but we were interested 'bout the reaction to carney's davos speech. HA! Good Fun!

nope. wow, that were ez. + your opinion that the western media were seeking to embiggen pahlavi. is not meaningful context. also, grammerly explained why links and attributions is essential. your sources were most certainly not clear and given how you simple search-engine slap-jerked a rando list o' quotes sans attribution into your post (a fact we only learned afterwards,) you sure as heck didn't build trust with your audience. the fact that people could go and look up each individual quote source does not in any way diminish the need to link and attribute. why does students, doctors and lawyers need ever attribute quotes when search engines make it possible to look up and verify sources? message board posts didn't require the same academic rigor, but you are the joker who linked Grammarly. in any event, the rational for attributions is the same here as is for one o' hurlshot's students... is particular noteworthy 'cause as shown numerous times now, anybody who went through the actual effort to read your not linked and not attributed articles would realize your offerings did not embiggen pahlavi. is unlikely anybody but Gromnir would go through the effort to read each unlinked article, which am guessing is precise why you did not link or attribute. oh and the more we write, the more opportunities there are for you to show ignorance or deceit. as already noted, your lazy search-engine population admission were enlightening and will be remembered. your misunderstanding o' strawman were amusing to us. zor not realizing that 'course doing a targeted search for pahlavi is gonna necessarily result in a link population where pahlavi is disproportional relevant. duh. your bizarre lede and summary tangent revealed unbelievable ignorance and yet you did double down at every opportunity; am still baffled by your comical effort to conflate "essential facts" and "summary opinions." etc. you are a bottomless well o' ignorance and deception, each new lie and deception you provide us is indeed pathetic entertainment, but entertaining even so. and so we come to the final zor deflection? as noted from us continuing to link relevant western stories about pahlavi, Gromnir at least makes an effort to argue your original point o' contention, which you has abandoned in favor o' sophistry, deception and your ordinary practical admission o' ultimate failure where you try and transform your lack o' meaningful response as equating some kinda juvenile owned meme. congrats on staying true to form and repeating the cycle. HA! Good Fun!

shame is dead... and vance is justifiable becoming the daily hypocrisy punching bag. recall, vance were a never-trumper a few years past, so there is loads o' vance comments where he did a 180... but it doesn't matter since he had a road to damascus moment on trump and saw the light any issue where you may frame as us v. them removes reason and accountability from the equation. HA! Good Fun!

*chuckle* how many posts did you make going on and on about your search engine efforts (methodology. HA!) and the inherent definition o' ledes as providing the context for your list o' quotes? now, somehow an earlier and unreferenced post which is offering no more insight than providing a restatement o' your embiggen conclusions, is s'posed to enlighten a reader about the specific context o' the quotes you did not link or attribute? the context o' how those specific quotes were actual used in the story is limited to: the previous post in no way resurrects the moldering corpse o' your original ignorant, deceptive and lazy list o' quotes proof. regardless, it is difficult to take you serious about your sophistry complaint given just how deep down the rabbit hole am having been chasing you. again, we showed that many o' the quotes you shared in your rando list were from stories, stories you purposeful did not attribute nor link, that when read did not embiggen but were instead equivocal and ambivalent regarding pahlavi's influence. we had previous posted more than a half dozen western stories, linked and attributed, that expressed similar suspicion regarding pahlavi relevance. pahlavi, in spite o' a news conference and iranian tv being hacked and shut down in his name, is getting hardly any meaningful attention from western media, and as already shown, the attention he is getting is not overwhelming positive but is ambivalent at best. is it possible to find overwhelming positive stories about pahlavi? you ain't provided any, but we would be shocked if it were not true. of course there is gonna be somebody cheering for pahlavi and making him seem more relevant than he is. duh. 'course it wouldn't much matter if you did find such 'cause Gromnir has provided a whole bunch o' not positive western stories from prominent western sources, the existence o' which knee-caps considerable your generalization that western media as a whole is attempting to embiggen pahalavi. for funsies, from a today search specific for pahlavi, two returns from the first ten (none o' which is less than 2 days old btw, so...) "While some Iranians perceived Pahlavi as an opposition leader, others considered him an opportunistic figure with monarchical designs and a mixed track record." (a paragraph 3 lede) the concluding opinions and summary portion o' the article For the last 15 years, Pahlavi has intensified his efforts to unify the political opposition and gain greater exposure, culminating in him emerging as a central figure in the latest protests. Yet there remain questions about whether he is viable as an opposition leader or is simply an opportunist. His message about a democratic future for Iran has been largely consistent. However, his father’s repressive and imperial legacy, combined with his own royal pedigree and American and Israeli proximity, prevent him from finding favor with Iranians who oppose monarchy and prioritize sovereignty. Now, the prospect of Iranians across the country rallying around Pahlavi remains as much of an open question as whether they will succeed in creating the conditions for his return by toppling the regime. also, Reza Pahlavi says Iran is undergoing a revolution again, the summary and concluding opinions is equivocal at best. The man who would be king Diplomats fear the collapse of another Middle Eastern state. Democrats aspire to a constitutional assembly and wonder why they should trade one supreme leader for another. “Death to the satemgar (tyrant)," goes another chant in Tehran, “whether Pahlavi or the rahbar (leader)." Mr Pahlavi wants a perch above others, not a place beside them, says an academic who tried but failed to include him in a coalition. In our interview Mr Pahlavi emphasises that Iran’s fate is in the hands of Iranians: “Iran’s destiny is not sealed by what any other country does... Our fighting will not stop." From afar, he sounds confident that this is a revolution. But what his role will be remains unclear. already posted npr article remains a top ten return after weeks Who is Reza Pahlavi, the exiled crown prince encouraging demonstrations across Iran? summary and concluding opinions? A leader for a future Iran? Pahlavi's efforts to position himself as a leader for a future Iran have prompted sometimes heated debates inside and outside the country. And while protesters have shouted in support of the shah in some protests, it is not clear whether that is support for Pahlavi himself or a desire to return to a time before the 1979 Islamic Revolution. His public support of Israel has prompted significant criticism in the past from ordinary Iranians and other members of opposition groups, particularly after the 12-day war launched by Israel in June 2025. He has sought to have a voice through social media videos, and Farsi-language news channels such as Iran International have highlighted his calls for protests. In press interviews, Pahlavi has repeatedly raised the idea of a constitutional monarchy, perhaps with an elected rather than a hereditary ruler, but has also stated it is up to Iranians to choose. An exiled crown prince says he can lead Iran to democracy, but Trump hasn't endorsed him concluding opinions Some opposition activists are wary of forging ties with Pahlavi due to what they say is the fanaticism of some of his followers. But other activists say there is no room for internal feuding at a moment when the regime appears so weak and adrift, and that Pahlavi has to be part of any opposition coalition. Esfandyar Batmanghelidj, head of the Bourse & Bazaar Foundation, a think tank that studies Iranian politics, said there’s no doubt Pahlavi “is the most recognized leader within the opposition.” But he said Pahlavi, who has not set foot in Iran since his family was pushed into exile in 1979, lacked a genuine political organization inside Iran “that is able to provide leadership for the protests, not just on social media, but actually at the street level.” Such an organization would ensure that the protests are disciplined and sustainable over time, Batmanghelidj said. The way that Pahlavi and other opposition activists have approached the protests “raises questions about their readiness to really lead a political movement.” He drew a comparison to Maria Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader who despite years of experience mobilizing resistance to authoritarian rule could not secure President Trump’s support. “If Machado, with her deep organizing experience, couldn’t win the trust of the Trump administration, how can Pahlavi?” etc. perhaps you are dragging this bit o' zor intransigence and deceit out for so long 'cause you are hopeful a day will come when pahlavi sudden does gain relevance in western sources? maybe is not true today or yesterday, but the ever optimistic zor is waiting for his pure and beautiful tomorrow? ok, no source you has provided says such. slip in "opinions" don't make it so. also, you didn't even provide such context that you were taking ledes or summaries. all you did were post the list after saying you did a search... + now we are s'posed to believe your previous posts, which functional is a restatement o' your conclusion that the west is embiggening pahlavi, provides meaningful context to your unattributed and unlinked list o' quotes. we didn't have any idea where in the story those quotes came from or what the stories actual said about pahlavi. your context was, again, 'cause clear you need repetition for this to sink in... followed by a list o' otherwise random quotes that you conclude is revealing the western effort to embiggen pahlavi. you take it as self evident that that 'cause those quotes were provided by search engine efforts and that you personal read 'em as positive depictions o' pahlavi, that they reveal a generalized effort by the western media to embiggen pahlavi... in spite o' the fact same kinda quotes exist in non western media, that pahlavi is yet again nowhere to be seen in the first sixty western media returns for iran + protests, recognizing that numerous western media sources is clear suspicious o' pahlavi's relevance in spite o' the fact that some iranians is calling out his name, and... whatever, you never did show support for the contention that western media is providing pahlavi, other than a list o' out of context quotes from rando stories you failed to link and attribute. could keep going on, but you are just gonna clown yourself. do it s'more. 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the point is to trigger the libs. if you comment, then they laugh at you being owned. maga exists because trump gave people an outlet for their outrage and grievance. maga doesn't need grocery prices lowered or reasonable health care anywhere near as much as they want their neighbor's cow to die and for libs to be owned. HA! Good Fun!

possible more terrible than when we first began recommending boardies read fox story comments more than five years past, the maga movement has shifted distinctly... we were 'bout to say "right," but the truth is the direction taken is unhinged. fox remains the most popular news source for the US populace. period. however, much o' maga and other trump supporters consider fox too woke. most candice owns and nick fuentes content is too extreme for fox. benny johnson and matt walsh is fact-free and controversial enough so that their being given regular gigs on fox is current impossible. and, God help us, am wondering how many young trump voters is more influenced by the tate brothers than brett baier. in 2026, fox is the relative safe space for people attempting to gauge what maga believes as 'posed to what might be gleaned from polls. even so, at least once a week, or whenever something terrible happens (daily?) we go to fox and read stories. we then scroll through the comments following those stories to see how the issues is resonating with people who follow news at the country's most popular news outlet. disquieting. npr and pbs stories is all fake news and anybody who quotes those sources is sheeple... though am suspecting sheeple is now a boomer shibboleth. anybody know what is the genz version o' sheeple? HA! Good Fun!

pants on fire "And on Pahlavi, taking the first ten search engine results for reza pahlavi (exc wikipedia/ brittanica and revapahlavi.org) over the past four days," followed by a list o' quotes. that ain't context and it is all you said. well, the underlined part is true. he is getting almost no meaningful coverage whatsoever. iran+protests yields no pahlavi returns for lede or headline from the first 120 results. even when iranian tv gots shut down by hackers who support him, or when he gave an hour long news conferences, you wouldn't know about such unless you were active already looking for pahlavi. furthermore, fact that pahlavi is the only opposition leader who has received appreciable coverage doesn't mean he is getting the "embiggen" treatment from western media. after all, pahlavi is the only opposition leader getting appreciable coverage from non-wester media as well. duh. as already observed, as with blm and hong kong, these movements don't need leaders. pahalavi gets coverage (dwindling and pathetic as 'posed to an effort to embiggen,) 'cause there aren't other options. the coverage he is getting (as evidenced in the articles you failed to link and attribute) is equivocal and ambivalent about pahlavi's real relevance to the current iranian movement, a reality you purposeful and deceitful ignored... a fact apparent if you bothered to read the articles you generated with your search. so, lazy or liar? and around we go. HA! coming from the clown who has been focused on your idiotic (and objective wrong) lede and summary definitions schtick for how many posts? serious, this is always entertaining, even if the returns diminish quick. HA! Good Fun!

that is a concern, but am gonna point out that the administration's gaslighting efforts has been so successful, they may not feel any need to rely on ai or make ai claims as a defense. https://www.facebook.com/RiseUpAndResist/videos/bash-you-said-he-wanted-to-massacre-law-enforcement-what-evidence-do-you-have-th/1532399077827566/ trump supporters watching fox, oan, news max and countless maga sites is seeing video and they is glomping onto the narrative offered by trump, steven miller, kristi noem and greg bovino. have mentioned previous how reading stories at fox doesn't provide much insight, but reading the reader comments following the stories does. us v. them. HA! Good Fun!

am gonna admit to being pleasant surprised that at least a few (admitted too few) o' the no compromise second amendment advocates has been more reasonable than our more notorious board pundits. and HA! Good Fun!

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trump's immigration efforts are becoming less popular. however, The New York Times/Siena poll 11% o' all respondents believe ICE tactics have "not gone far enough." 24% o' republican respondents believe ICE tactics have "not gone far enough." the large % o' republicans who is ok with the current situation, and the significant % who want more o' the ultraviolence is problematic. those extreme republicans vote, and they is overrepresented in primaries where candidates is chosen. edit: please recall that in trump 1.0, the administration gave up on their family separation policy because republicans were repelled by the cruelty. only 25% of americans (or less) supported the family separation policy. today, routine violations o' first amendment and civil rights don't bother most republicans anymore than did cecot, and near a quarter o' republicans is disappointed that immigration enforcement is too cautious and polite. ... we are fundamentally broken, and a mid-term loss for the republicans ain't gonna fix the problems.