Trump

[jamcg]

Also just a question, is trumps military adviser the general custer from night at the museum? “We are not going to attack” as he runs in screaming

[Beany]

They just lie to suit his whims.

If they lie enough, he won't fuck them over.

It's why all of MAGA went from "No more war, we'll never get involved, he's the president of peace" to "Er, war is good actually and I've always insisted on that".

"The leader is good, the leader is great,
We surrender our will as of this date"

They're genuinely gonna need a fucking denazification-esque program in the US after this to weed the MAGA cunts out, because these people being anywhere near the corridors of power in future is a fucking liability.

But they won't, because mUh fReEdUmB

[Ascender]

So Iran are now firing missiles at a US base in Qatar?

Was lovely knowing you all.

[Rich B]

Presumably that was the expected response when you bomb someone?

[Mito Man]

Boo, Trump is being all sensible now. Thought we’d get another cool B2 mission.

[teacherboy]

Only if it turns out that Iran has always had the bomb in secret and decides to detonate it on American soil!

For a decade or more, its always been said that they are months/weeks away from being able to build a viable device...

Remember to ask, "where should I be looking instead of this distraction"

What is going on that no-one is supposed to be looking at?

[Ascender]

Did Trump not abandon some nuclear deal with Iran when he was in office first time around?

[Mito Man]

Yeah the deal was good and bad. It was effectively a 15 year pause but reduced sanctions and freed up frozen funds which Iran reinvested in their various proxies - propping up Assad, Hezbollah, Houthis, Hamas etc.
Then instead of working on nukes they just developed longer range missiles and ICBMs instead.

Also if you really want a civilian nuclear program why the fook are you tunnelling under a mountain and putting it all in a bunker…

[Mito Man]

Looks like they're getting a few more hours to lob missiles at each other and then there will be a ceasefire.

[jamcg]

Wtf

[Beany]

Remember to ask, "where should I be looking instead of this distraction"

What is going on that no-one is supposed to be looking at?

Literally everything else about his presidency, frankly

Tanking approval numbers, his 'big beatiful bill' being castigated, ongoing protests against him, losing court battles, farmers being unable to pick crops or have people work in fields because migrant workers are staying the fuck away and the locals absolutely won't do that backbreaking work for the wages they pay - so you know, basically everything.

Nothing like a good bit of war to take the 24 news cycles eyes away from piddling little things, like removing healthcare from large swathes of the populace...

[Beany]

Wtf

I thought this was a deepfake.

No, he actually said that. Someone must have promised him the big leather couch tonight....

“I certainly empathize with Americans who are exhausted after 25 years of foreign entanglements in the Middle East,” Vance said on “Meet the Press.” “I understand the concern, but the difference is that back then, we had dumb presidents, and now we have a president who actually knows how to accomplish America’s national security objectives.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/jd-van ... rcna214345

Yes, that's right Vance, you say that the PRESIDENT OF PEACE, who campaigned on, and wouldn't shut about having NO MORE WARS, knows how to conduct a war that was started over Irans nuclear weapons program, which not three months ago your Director of National Intelligence said on the record that Iran didn't have.

That's....that's certainly very...special.

I don't think Trump knows to accomplish getting toast the right level of browned without burning it.

Give it 24 hours and the cousin fuckers will be repeating him word for word, like the sheep they are.

[Sundayjumper]

Literally everything else about his presidency, frankly

Tanking approval numbers, his 'big beatiful bill' being castigated, ongoing protests against him, losing court battles, farmers being unable to pick crops or have people work in fields because migrant workers are staying the fuck away and the locals absolutely won't do that backbreaking work for the wages they pay - so you know, basically everything.

And his shambolic birthday parade* that hardly anyone turned up for. And the TACO thing REALLY got under his skin. I bet that was the final straw and he wanted to show how he's actually a very brave boy.


* typing this I was suddenly minded of the very very old joke "Q: What's the difference between the Army & the Boy Scouts ?" - "A: The army has artillery" and it is so apt. Those soldiers ambling along looked like a bunch of new recruit boy scouts.

[GG.]

Yeah the deal was good and bad. It was effectively a 15 year pause but reduced sanctions and freed up frozen funds which Iran reinvested in their various proxies - propping up Assad, Hezbollah, Houthis, Hamas etc.
Then instead of working on nukes they just developed longer range missiles and ICBMs instead.

Also if you really want a civilian nuclear program why the fook are you tunnelling under a mountain and putting it all in a bunker…

Yes, exactly. You also only need 3.67% uranium-235 purity for a nuclear reactor and they've enriched to 60%. 60% to the 90% needed for a bomb being a quicker process.

Also worth bearing in mind that this is the world's third most oil rich nation and I don't think they're gunning for nuclear power to help the world reach net zero.

[Beany]

* typing this I was suddenly minded of the very very old joke "Q: What's the difference between the Army & the Boy Scouts ?" - "A: The army has artillery" and it is so apt. Those soldiers ambling along looked like a bunch of new recruit boy scouts.

I thought we'd covered this, but it was in an insta post a couple of pages back so people might not have clicked it - soldiers know exactly how to march in step in the US army, or any army - it's quite literally drilled into them, it's where the name of the training comes from. It's to make it basically an automatic response because it's what would be expected of them if they were woken up at 3am to be told that War Were Declared - they need to be capable of forming up and moving out in a controlled manner without thinking about it.

What they did on that parade, according to basically any vet who's not a MAGA nutter, was the presentational equivalent of walking up to Trump, hawking a big loogie up, and gobbing it in his face.

[Sundayjumper]

Yes. I know It just reminded me of the joke.

[IanF]

I’m not sure the grunts are that intelligent tbh..

[dinny_g]

Iran bombs Israel because Israel is bombing Gaza

Israel retaliates and bombs Iran

US bombs Iran because he's a clown, his Big Beautiful Bill is falling apart, popularity at an all time low, his parade was a joke and he wants to seem like the strong man.

US then tells everyone to stop bombing each other - "Agrees" truce with Iran and Israel - Trump thinks he the hero

Israel bombs Iran

Trump drops the F-Bomb because... well Trump.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cwygp9d44zeo

[Mito Man]

He’s just trying to get his peace prize

[Beany]

He’s just trying to get his peace prize

Not with that kind of language, how uncouth!