Following up on my own post from a month ago. It appears that Neocons expected Iran to collapse within 3 days, America would swoop in and take control of their oil production handing its profit stream to insiders, and we'd declare victory and forget the whole thing within a few news cycles.

What actually happened: Iran proved capable of hitting back HARD, exhausting the American MIC's business model of extremely expensive crony-built weapons systems using cheap but extremely effective mass produced weapons systems, drove Americans out of dozens of our regional military bases probably forever, and has kept the mighty US Navy hundreds of miles back despite us "Wiping out their entire air force and navy in the first few hours of the conflict."

Trump actually asked for, and got wisely denied, the nuclear launch codes.

US Oil companies and their cronies and investors profit as countries around the world have tankers en route thousands of miles toward our terminals. Countries like Canada and Australia are in extreme panic as their reserves are so low as to result in massive cutbacks on a time scale of weeks from now.

Israel is using America's attack on Iran as cover to annex Southern Lebanon. Picture is an IDF soldier, paid for right down to the civilian home door breaching tool by US Taxpayers, smashing the face of a Jesus statue at a Christian church that has existed for over 1000 years.

Where do you stand on the Charlie Kirk case at this point? Many consider it the highest profile political assassination since JFK.

Personally, I don't buy the Official Narrative at all. I don't see a strong case for Tyler Robinson as the assassin, or that it was actually him on that roof.

I DO believe he got recruited as a patsy, and was supposed to get gunned down in a firefight then quietly forgotten about within a few days' news cycle like the alleged Butler, PA Trump shooter. But, Tyler hosed that eventuality by turning himself in with the assistance of a family cop friend.

A seemingly innocuous motion by the defense in court, proved that the longstanding Official Narrative that he arrived at the police station around 9:30-10pm, was false; he was in custody around 6:30pm. The Prosecution is withholding MASSIVE amounts of evidence they hold, that is supposed to get routinely provided to the Defense team during the Discovery process.

I also believe, that he may have been killed by an explosive planted in his mic transmitter, that this was supposed to simulate a chest shot, that this did not go as planned and resulted in a neck wound ABSOLUTELY INCOMPATIBLE with a 30.06 bullet strike.

High FPS footage from multiple angles, when slowed down, shows Charlie's shirt expanding, and gas/vapor puffing out of it... BEFORE the wound on his neck appears! NOBODY who watches this readily available video, can give an explanation of how a bullet entering the neck causes what video evidence shows actually happening.

Strangely, even the experienced hunters and firearms enthusiasts I've discussed this with, blow off all inquiry with, "Bullets do strange things sometimes..." The very people who were ready to launch the next Kristalnacht against "The Violent Left" within an hour of the assassination news breaking... their Justice Boners go limp and they suddenly could not care less, when asked to look closely at forensic evidence and confront questions about what their own firsthand shooting experience shows a 30.06 round would do after entering a 3" cross section of neck flesh.

Another update on my long-time Friend.

He moved into Hospice yesterday, on the one year anniversary of his Wife's sudden death. He called me the day before and told me he was going there and didn't want any questions asked.

He is having trouble swallowing, and in turn isn't eating much. His Step-Daughter had a heart-to-heart with him about it because she noted a rapid decline over the prior week. She is involved in the Medical Field and familiar with the signs and she may have pulled some strings to line up Hospice in short order.

She told him that it was either go now and be in a good place, or take a chance and end up being in Emergency Care while on a wait list. Wisely, he set aside his normally obstinate thinking and chose the first option.

I am waiting to hear back from his Step-Daughter on what kind of timeline they are expecting as we want to book a flight to go see him before it's too late. His 69th Birthday is in early June and is not expected to live until then.

It's been a shitty few years for him, to say the least.

Some of it was a direct result of him willfully choosing to not deal with the realities of life surrounding him (Happy Wife, Happy Life and it's not worth the fight) and the Cancers took away his ability to work, not just for income, on his own passion projects in his dream shop. Most of that was either sold for less than what it was worth, given away or hauled to the dump.

During one dump run, I told him to go stand at the front of my truck and not look because I knew just how painful it would be to see so many parts that he had carefully scavenged from wreckers being tossed into the pit. I felt the pang of loss as I did it.

That was about the time he stopped Chemo. Looking back, it seems obvious he no longer felt had the will to keep going and just wanted to have a clear head on the way out.

I can only hope they keep him comfortable up to his last moments and I get to see him one last time.