Not ironic enough. He's saying it's open and closed at the same time. Iran can't close it, we closed it!

Four cruise ships that were trapped there formed into convoy and made a run for it successfully.

An Iranian ship named Touska has allegedly tried to run the US blockade and was disabled and captured by an American destroyer. That needs more confirmation, right now it's just social chatter.

Probably because

#21 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-04-18 12:32 PM | Reply | Flag:

That was a joke. It was in Time magazine.

Largest total losses per airframe from this are Predators. The -B big ones. They were used in a way you're supposed to use drones, expendably, to draw out remaining air defenses, at a cost of a mere $35 million each. ...

No sign of Predator C in the conflict.

Not last time, the only time ones been shot down.

The last time one was shotdown, it was 2019 and Trump was president, and it was over Iran. It was hit by an S-300 or something similar. I don't remember it making the news.

How is a drone worth twice as much as a Growler?

#15 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-04-17 07:52 PM | Reply | Flag:

Low production rate, extremely expensive sensor packages, and it's a big ass aircraft. 130' wing span. Even a modernized U-2 is worth around $400,000,000.

The most gullible, conspiracy driven voting segment is starting to believe in a conspiracy theory?

Inconceivable.

Buy the J-20! Just don't ask what happened to Yang Wei.

Over Zoom.

"How does this museum benefit society?" - boaz

#6 | Posted by qcp at 2026-04-14 08:42 AM | Reply | Flag:

First president in US history to call up America's most prominent historians, and then lecture them on how he should be documented.

Extremely conservative men 35-45 now have almost 4x as many children as extremely liberal men.

#1 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-04-13 02:33 PM | Reply

Idiocracy was a documentary.

The irony hits so hard. The Autism Causes Vaccines crowd are the ones causing autism with their old man ----.

It's borderline ethno-supremacist thinking lol.

As if the Al Qassam brigades are incompetent and can't pull off a battalion scale raid. The Jews killed all the Jews!

Only IDF could have done this:

#80 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-04-13 11:06 PM | Reply

Blown up a car? The company sized Hamas unit that hit the music festival fought a Merkava and killed the crew with mostly RPG fire.

They didn't bury the cars. They're a wall.

And a chinese flagged ship already broke the "blockade". www.nbcnews.com

He's an idiot.

#8 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-04-14 06:59 AM | Reply

* with UAE gas. I don't believe we're blockading the UAE, but there's really no telling with this admin anymore.

Way more than than on the opening day.

Also to destroy hundreds of cars so extensively it's charred remains everybody from them all catching on fire, you need a squadron of gunships to pull that off. They don't carry that much ammo and 20mm/25mm doesn't set everything on fire.

The hundreds of burned out Israeli cars full of Israeli charred remains were not destroyed by Hamas.

#62 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-04-13 06:14 PM | Reply | Flag:

There were not hundreds of Israeli cars full of charred remains caused by anybody. Cars were damaged as part of the general fighting over time. They turned them into an art wall memorial. They're not smashed by 20mm cannons and missiles. Just regular bullets.

Given time this will end up in the military history nerd books as one of the Top 10 Surprise Attacks or something along those lines.
#51 | Posted by sitzkrieg
No it won't.
It didn't achieve any military objectives whatsoever.

#67 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-04-13 06:26 PM | Reply

Their military objective was to snatch Israeli hostages, stash them in their tunnel network, and kill as many people as they could. What part didn't they do?

The Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006 was bipartisan.
In 2008 businesses slashed marketing budgets, causing a junk mail revenue collapse. That money went online. At the same time, it hit critical mass for email replacing letters, online banking replacing paper statements, apple and google email services widely adopted, and the rise of digital doc signing which killed first-class mail.
The Postal Service Reform Act of 2022 was bipartisan.

Say it with me. Structural decline through digital replacement and consumer behavior changes.

You still have to put them somewhere useful, you have to deploy large ones, you can only do a few at a time because you're down to glorified speedboats, and the middle of the channel is one of the most heavily observed places on earth.

I'd be a lot more worried about anti-ship missiles hiding in the mountains behind Hormuz.

Or.. maybe you're right, maybe the ethnic supremacist arguments are true. The Israelis are invincible. The Palestinians are completely incompetent and unable to make a surprise attack against god's chosen.

So we're now at the point where the IDF forces we're sleeping on the job?

#45 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-04-13 10:54 AM | Reply | Flag:

No more than they were caught sleeping in '73, or the Italians at Taranto, or Romans at Lake Trasimene, or Egypt in '67, the Royal Navy being trounced by the Dutch at Medway.

Given time this will end up in the military history nerd books as one of the Top 10 Surprise Attacks or something along those lines.

And the batteries in the iron dome were dead that day.

#46 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-04-13 10:55 AM | Reply | Flag:

lol, Iron Dome vs a paramotorist. Now that would be insane to see. Iron Dome covers about an 8x8 mile grid. Gaza wall alone is 25 miles or so on 1 side. You'd have to pull them out of your populated areas where they provide point defense and forward deploy them against an attack you've definitely never seen before and the system isn't designed to deal with.

Because a para glider flies at the speed of smell.

#41 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-04-13 10:36 AM | Reply | Flag:

Powered Paraglider. They can do 40mph-50mph. Push the speed bar. The world record is 90mph or so.

Hamas used trucks, motorcycles, boats, bulldozers, and PPGs, breaking out in at least 10 locations.

If you get caught sleeping the Al-Qassam Brigades will blow right threw your wall.

Yeah of course, staff were trying to hide under bars and snack stands.

This raider group had trucks. The best reconstructions of what happened there is that Hamas didn't know there was a music festival. They saw people and attacked per their orders. Many Israelis fled into bomb shelters. Those turned into death traps. The Hamas group battled a Merkava IV that turned up and a cop who was given a carbine by the tank crew, and two IDF veterans that had showed up to party. They then formed a convoy and went back to Gaza down Rt 232 in pickup trucks and motorcycles. A gunship saw the convoy and did not engage it. It's the most "successful" part of the Hamas raid.