Comments on: Open thread 6/11/2026 https://thenewneo.com/2026/06/11/open-thread-6-11-2026/ A blog about political change, among other things Fri, 12 Jun 2026 05:29:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2026/06/11/open-thread-6-11-2026/#comment-2854457 Fri, 12 Jun 2026 05:29:44 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=149827#comment-2854457 The war is DEAD!
Long live the WAR!!

“…Turkey urges Syrian President not to join Israel in weakening Hezbollah”—
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/428515

“…Israel accusing Lebanese Army chief General Rudolf Haikal of cooperating with Hezbollah, preventing implementation of Lebanese government decisions.”—
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/428506

“Iranian-backed terror network linked to fatal shooting of Toronto police officer”—
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/428518

+ Pair of Boni:

“Trump: Khamenei has approved our deal”—
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/428511

“Iran denies agreeing to deal, says US accepted their proposals”—
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/428508

And of course!
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/428510

]]> By: huxley https://thenewneo.com/2026/06/11/open-thread-6-11-2026/#comment-2854454 Fri, 12 Jun 2026 04:55:04 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=149827#comment-2854454 Now there’s a guy [Philip K. Dick] who was a moderately prolific writer and achieved some success as a writer, but having read some of his stuff it seemed clear to me that he wanted offers from Hollywood. They never did, until “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep” got made into Blade Runner (1982).

TommyJay:

Moderately prolific? I believe we can give PKD full boat on prolific. I’m sure you were just being judicious, but he wrote 45 novels and 121 short stories.

He was an old-school genre writer, who cranked it out for sheer survival. He used amphetamines liberally to sustain his productivity and died of a stroke, not surprisingly, at the age of 53.

Sure, Hollywood butchered “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sleep?” for “Blade Runner.” Word is that the screenwriters read about 25% of it, threw it out, then wrote what they wanted to.

Dick was still thrilled by the Ridley’ Scott’s cinematic vision of “Blade Runner” and rightly so. By then Dick’s life had stabilized (for Dick) and a solid Hollywood income would have given him security that he had never known before.

It’s sad that he and we didn’t get to see that future.

]]> By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2026/06/11/open-thread-6-11-2026/#comment-2854452 Fri, 12 Jun 2026 04:34:24 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=149827#comment-2854452 Schlichter’s post was good analysis.
I hope that he is right about Trump and Netanyahu running a “good cop, bad cop” schtick against Iran and its Leftist cheerleaders, where Donald complains and Bibi does what he thinks is needed anyway, with no consequential negative pushback from the US.
The bottom line is that nobody really knows what is going on with the Wizard behind the WH curtain.

Victor Davis Hanson covers the domestic waterfront with his essay today.
https://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2026/06/11/stop-destroying-civilization-n2677610

]]> By: huxley https://thenewneo.com/2026/06/11/open-thread-6-11-2026/#comment-2854448 Fri, 12 Jun 2026 03:39:34 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=149827#comment-2854448 Well, maybe Trump’s maneuverings will confuse the Iranians into surrendering.

I still have enough faith in Trump to believe there is some method to his madness. But from here on I’m not paying much attention to what he says about Iran.

I’d rather not hear about another deal Real Soon Now, as Jerry Pournelle used to say.

Deeds not words.

]]> By: sdferr https://thenewneo.com/2026/06/11/open-thread-6-11-2026/#comment-2854421 Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:21:42 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=149827#comment-2854421 Checking X, neo, and seeing the Netanyahu consultation on the “MoU” (Israel is out, no surprise), and with the rest of the “reporting” on the subject, I’ve got a sneaking suspicion that our general confusion is going to be getting all the more intense over the nexr couple of months. What a gloriously funny time to be alive it is.

]]> By: neo https://thenewneo.com/2026/06/11/open-thread-6-11-2026/#comment-2854416 Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:35:47 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=149827#comment-2854416 sdferr:

Yes, the whiplash is confusing and doesn’t engender trust.

]]> By: Selfy https://thenewneo.com/2026/06/11/open-thread-6-11-2026/#comment-2854411 Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:44:17 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=149827#comment-2854411 Putative Space Aliens are de facto Illegal Aliens.

]]> By: Lee Also https://thenewneo.com/2026/06/11/open-thread-6-11-2026/#comment-2854409 Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:02:27 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=149827#comment-2854409 It’s challenging to beat the living snot out of Islamists until they give up because they aren’t afraid of dying. Actually, I think for the more fanatical ones, dying is a perk of war. The up side in Iran is that there are a LOT of people who are not fanatical Islamists, and who are tired of living under a fanatical Islamist regime.

]]> By: sdferr https://thenewneo.com/2026/06/11/open-thread-6-11-2026/#comment-2854408 Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:44:43 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=149827#comment-2854408 Man, I gotta say, the whipsawing Pres. Trump conducts on an hour by hour basis with Iran is an amazing — albeit not precisely beautiful! Ha! — thing. I’ve never seen anything remotely like it I can recall. Certainly not with these sorts of geopolitical ramifications at hand. In its own way, it’s kinda hilarious.

]]> By: Kate https://thenewneo.com/2026/06/11/open-thread-6-11-2026/#comment-2854407 Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:33:38 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=149827#comment-2854407 As far as tolerating the Islamic invasion and disarming the natives, there appears to be not much difference between the Republic and Northern Ireland. What’s left to them is burning things down, which seems to be underway.

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