{"id":27688,"date":"2026-03-04T02:11:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T07:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/?p=27688"},"modified":"2026-03-04T02:19:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T07:19:53","slug":"ask-a-silly-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/ask-a-silly-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask a silly question"},"content":{"rendered":"

The esteemed (and usually estoned and esdrunked, to swipe one of my old friend Pfouts\u2019 most memorable lines) Matt Margolis asks one of the silliest\u2014no, make that the stupidest<\/em>\u2014questions of all time.<\/p>\n

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Are Leftists Really This Stupid About Iran?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Oh, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt! To ask it is to answer it, I’m afraid. And while we’re on the subject<\/a>…<\/p>\n

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Claude is down, so I had to make use of Grok to estimate how long it will take for US and Israeli air defense systems to run out of interceptors. No precise calculation is possible, especially since the in-theater total is a subset of the entire US stock, but it appears obvious that both the USA and Israel will be effectively unable to defend against missile barrages by this time next week at the latest.<\/p>\n

…Claude is back up and here are its estimates:<\/p>\n

Estimated total:<\/strong> roughly 1,400-1,500+ projectiles launched by Iran across all theaters in ~36-48 hours, with the vast majority intercepted but a significant number \u2014 perhaps 70-100+ \u2014 making impact. At least 14 people killed outside Iran (10 in Israel, 3 in UAE, 1 in Kuwait, 1 in Bahrain) plus 4 US service members, with hundreds injured.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Pretty gosh-darn scary, I suppose\u2014provided everything carries on exactly as it has so far<\/a>, with no changes, disruptions, or unlooked-for situational shifts either great or small coming to bollix everything up. Which, as we all know very well, has never been the case, and is never going<\/em> to be, wartime or no.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the exact same thought-pattern that gullible types and\/or shitlibs have been tripped up by for many years, one of the most seductive intellectual traps there is: just because this is the way things are NOW, things will keep on just like this forever and ever, amen<\/em>. T\u2019ain\u2019t so, McGee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The esteemed (and usually estoned and esdrunked, to swipe one of my old friend Pfouts\u2019 most memorable lines) Matt Margolis asks one of the silliest\u2014no, make that the stupidest\u2014questions of all time. Are Leftists Really This Stupid About Iran? Oh, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt! To…<\/p>\n

Would you like to know more? Ask a silly question<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11,36,48,61,84,89,113,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-almost-but-not-quite","category-bah","category-damn-thats-funny","category-flotsam-andor-jetsam","category-hmmm","category-passthepopcorn","category-read-and-heed","category-the-west-and-the-rest","category-wtf","wpcat-4-id","wpcat-11-id","wpcat-36-id","wpcat-48-id","wpcat-61-id","wpcat-84-id","wpcat-89-id","wpcat-113-id","wpcat-126-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27688"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27691,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27688\/revisions\/27691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}