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Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Robert Reich: The dangerous myth of running America like a corporation

Reign of The Felon Von Shitzenpantz:

John D. Cundle: ♫ Tariff Town, USA! ♬

Founders Sing: ♫ This is the Resistance ♬:

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship

Binders Full Of Deplorables:

John Oliver: Juvenile justice

Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.

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  2. 2

    @1 She’ll have to be fired or given a different job. Her “guru-dev”, Chris Butler, wants her there close to the seat of power.

  3. 3

    2)Probably will be, but thought if being cut out of meetings in a crisis, surprised she hasn’t quit.

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    Wonder if there will be a mass-reflagging of foreign ships if this act manages to pass the Senate and is signed by the President?

    https://www.bairdmaritime.com/shipping/us-house-of-representatives-passes-bipartisan-american-cargo-for-american-ships-act

    I have seen some call it Jones Act on steroids. It would take years to build enough domestic-built ships to make it happen. Matson has built up a good niche with their China-Long Beach Express service (CLX), but using their newest Jones-Act compliant vessels on it, allows those vessels to be re-deployed if CLX traffic drops, or the route has to be terminated. Horizon thought of a similar service, but bought foreign ships and flew them under the US Flag. The service failed, their Jones-Act fleet got older, and Matson now owns the Tacoma-Anchorage run.

  5. 5

    If Gabbard wears out her MAGA welcome, she can seek asylum in Russia. I’m sure Putin will give her a new job. After all, she already works for him.

  6. 6

    5)Probably has a lot to sell to Putin if that happens.

    Also, by the way, are B-2 movements supposed to secret? Planespotters on Twitter have been mentioning heavy activity out of Whiteman over the past three hours?

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    With Spaceballs sequel coming, Tim Russ will be back(hope they comb the desert, so he can say they still haven’t found shit), but they got to have the Assholes back to.

    Still, unfortunately they won’t have Barf back, nobody can replace John Candy. Probably going to have to replace Dot too.

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    @6 You know he’ll do it. He’s itching to do it. Trump has always wanted his own war, though like cowardly bullies in general, he was thinking of attacking a small and defenseless country (Panama or Greenland) — until this opportunity came along. Iran, of course, is more formidable, so you see him hesitating. But you know what’s going on inside the head of the very unstable moron. He can’t help himself.

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    If Hamas loses its monopoly on food distribution in Gaza, very soon there will be no more Hamas.

    Hamas-loving “journalists” at NBC know this, and therefore parrot whatever Hamas tells them.

    Hen Mazzig
    @HenMazzig

    WATCH: NBC clarifies days later that the people they claimed were killed at a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation food distribution site in Gaza were actually killed at a United Nations food distribution site.

    Media are repeating verbatim bogus Hamas claims that people are getting killed seeking aid. These claims are clear examples of Hamas propaganda meant to discredit the GHF, the new source of aid being delivered directly to Gazan civilians.

    Hamas relies on its income from hoarding and selling aid to innocent people. It’s their lifeline. That’s exactly why the US has funded an alternative.

    Mainstream media must stop reporting Hamas propaganda as fact. The future of Gaza and the safety of its citizens depends on it.

    11:04 AM · Jun 20, 2025

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    @ 6

    Fox is reporting that six B-2s are en route to Guam.

    I mention Fox because other sources don’t have it. Search CNN for Whiteman and B-2, and you get White Lotus.

    For those who think that Congress must approve a strike against Iran, here’s a little news item about someone in the last administration – you know it wasn’t Joe Biden – approving B-2 strikes against Yemen last Fall:

    BARKSDALE AIR FORCE BASE, La. —
    On Oct. 16, B-2 Spirit long-range bombers from Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, conducted precision strikes against five hardened underground weapons storage locations in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen.
    …
    Every B-2 mission is a total force mission, and the air strike conducted on October 16 was no exception. The 509th Bomb Wing, 131st BW, and the J-GSOC played a significant role during the strikes.

    We wouldn’t be going to war against Iran. We’d merely be excavating a hole in a mountainside for Israel. And hey, we’d have DOCTOR Jill Biden’s blessing, because if she could bunker-bust in Yemen, DJT47 sure as hell can do it in Iran.

    Just watch.

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    very soon there will be no more Hamas.

    lmao.. tell that to young survivors of Israel’s genocide after burying their dead family members who fill Hamas’ ranks as soon as they’re emptied..

    The “final solution” to the Gaza problem has always been ethnic cleansing.. For this:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PslOp883rfI

    dumbfuck is thirsty for a condo there to ogle the belly dancers.

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    Not clear on why the B-2 can carry two bunker-busters if its payload is in the 40k# range and the bombs are 30k# each.

    Its payload capacity of more than 40,000 pounds allows the aircraft to carry a diverse array of conventional and nuclear weapons. The bomber’s internal weapons bays are specifically designed to maintain stealth characteristics while accommodating large ordnance loads, which could include two GBU-57A/B MOP (Massive Ordnance Penetrator), a 30,000-pound precision-guided “bunker buster” bomb.

    But I’m willing to be shown.

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    excavating a hole in a mountainside for Israel.

    To shoot American missiles from American aircraft into the hole..

    Winning!

    lmao… if Hamas and the Houthis could cobble together homemade missiles to throw at Israel.. and even hit some targets

    Just think what 92 million Iranians could do. One day they could even attempt evening the score with Israel’s poodle – the U.S.

    lmao.. dumbfuck is Israel’s chihuahua.

  17. 17

    Say, who’s up for some good news this weekend?

    If current trends hold through the 2030 census, states that voted for Vice President Kamala Harris will lose around a dozen House seats — and Electoral College votes — to states that voted for President-elect Donald Trump. The Democratic path to 270 Electoral College votes, the minimum needed to win the presidency, will get much narrower.
    …
    The Brennan Center, which is left-leaning, projects Democratic states in 2024 would lose 12 seats in the next census. The right-leaning American Redistricting Project forecasts a similar blue-to-red shift but pegged the loss at 11 seats, not 12.

    Exit question: What if current trends accelerate?

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    @ 16

    lmao… if Hamas and the Houthis could cobble together homemade missiles to throw at Israel.. and even hit some targets

    Welfare Queen YLB, which is funnier?

    • Hamas hides in residential areas and in hospitals to fire those missiles

    or

    • Hamas targets (to the extent it can, of course) residential areas in Israel

    Which civilian deaths do you most celebrate, Welfare Queen YLB? And is there a minimum civilian death toll before you laugh your ass off?

    There are many reasons I refer to Welfare Queen YLB as HA’s Unserious Twat.

    “lmao” at dead civilians is right up there near the top of the list.

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    @ 17

    No GOP strongholds are projected to lose seats. Florida and Texas are projected to pick up four seats each. Arizona, Idaho, North Carolina and Utah are forecasted to each gain one.

    No worries, libbies. Between now and 2030 one of you is bound to blow a huge hole in that southern border wall, enabling the entry of millions of illegals into the country, and that will turn Texas really, really blue, amirite?

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    It will be years before the Democrat party recovers from the disaster that was the DNC’s choice of Boxcheck Momala.

    If the projected map for the next decade were used in 2024, Trump’s electoral college margin would have been even larger. He would have won the Electoral College 322-216 instead of 312-226.

    If the DNC pulls that boxchecking stunt again in the next decade, the Democrat party might not recover until the decade after that.

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    House Republicans Take Aim at Red-State Economies
    “The Biden administration, reasonably enough, concluded that it was high time to revitalize these regions with industrial policy.
    In response, Republican voters elected a president and Congress who are on the verge of shipping all these factories and jobs back to China, if not just destroying them outright, to make budget headroom for tax cuts for the rich. In effect, these voters responded to the most comprehensive attempt to provide concrete benefits to them since the New Deal by loading an economic shotgun and pointing it directly at themselves.”
    Red voters “You have to understand. I don’t want to keep hurting myself but one of the tenants of my religion is Democrats are the Devil and the government was acting like immigrants, minorities, the LGBTQ, and independent women were equal to me. I have no choice but keep voting for republicans. “

  23. 23

    Which civilian deaths do you most celebrate

    It’s obvious which ones you do..

    How about start with 1500.. oops I mean 1200 or so Israelis who died even though Israel knew what Hamas was up to a fucking YEAR in advance and FAILED to “defend the border” with Gaza.

    Nothing could make you more happy. Small price to pay if it meant AT LEAST 60k people with funny last names dying in an open air prison..

    And after starving them out, hopefully (in your silly mind) they pick up and leave so pants shitter and its son in law can build ocean front properties for you and those like you to leer and molder over their lost youth.

    Yawwn.. silly chihuahua..

  24. 24

    @11 that’s quite the claim and a nice white wash.

    What difference does it make if the media got the location or the party distributing the aid wrong if regardless Israelis were killing them there?

  25. 25

    I lmao here at HA only at trolls jerking themselves off over krap they swallow at Xitter, redstate and other fever swamps.

    Sue me.. it’s just entertainment.

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    If Israel’s priority is setting the Iranian nuclear energy program back.. (Tulsi believes there’s NO weapons program.) Then, ok maybe this war will set it back a decade at best.

    If regime change is the goal, that will fail. Between war and a civil uprising against the regime you have to kill like 9 million people.

    That’s as futile as defeating the Vietcong, the North Koreans or the Taliban.

    Yeah lmao @ troll fantasies..

  28. 28

    The skirt wearing dude of Loudoun County, VA has to be old enough to pledge dumfuck’s frat if it hasn’t already.

    It’s a shoo in. As long as it wears pants… or not..

  29. 29

    It just keeps getting better for them. The latest video from Los Angeles getting worldwide attention to armed mast unidentified men chased down an LA resident and tackle him after they establish that he is an American born citizen they ask him “why did you run”

    The answer is simple you guys had guns.

  30. 30

    Say, who’s up for some good news this weekend?

    I unplugged my carbon monoxide detector because the noise it was making was so loud it was giving me headaches and making me sleepy.

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    @ 26

    If regime change is the goal, that will fail. Between war and a civil uprising against the regime you have to kill like 9 million people.

    Is that how many Obama killed when he effected regime change in Libya, Welfare Queen YLB? What I’m reading is that DJT47 is slowing things down so that an entity can step in when the ayatollah falls. Don’t want that to happen too quickly.

    Look around you, and you’ll find that regime changes have occurred much more quickly than you will want to admit, girlfriend.

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    This pundit I follow posits that Centcom is owned by Israel:

    https://youtube.com/shorts/AYEgfeh2C48?si=dfC25Ns62yba_5_d

    Intriguing.. Now this guy used to be a conservative or libertarian leaning person in his younger days. Has evolved a bit since then. The following details his break up with Israel.

    https://youtu.be/8ZHR_rHpEeU?si=gx1X5J6eczJpWhK6

    Still says he’s a two state solution guy.. To me that’s a pipe dream, but sigh so is a single secular state or “open society” that means self determination for all ethnic groups involved.. Whatever happens, it’s most likely it will end badly.

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    Is that how many Obama killed when he effected regime change in Libya..

    Yawwnn. So weak.. Obama attacked Libyan military assets that could be used to effect a massacre of civilians which of course meant if not checked a hugle flotilla of Libyans making their way to Europe.

    Libya is 7 million people not 92 million in Iran, last I looked 20 percent of them devoutly religious that supports the regime. It is a theocracy. A regime change project is just more “crusaders” effecting yet another plunder of Muslim lands.

    If that shit happened here, don’t you think an American Christian Theocracy’s supporters would fight to the end? Magatry is enough of a proto-type.

    Gaddaffi was religious as Saddam was religious. Window dressing abound repression and kleptocracy. He wore out his welcome with his people decades previously.

    Nice try.

  36. 36

    In today’s mass-unemployment news,

    Health care has been a job market bright spot, but Trump’s budget bill looms over the industry

    Proposed cuts to health insurance programs in the budget bill could put hundreds of thousands of health care jobs at risk.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/health-care-job-market-bright-spot-trumps-budget-bill-looms-industry-rcna214078

    Doc doesn’t need to worry, because he’s already out to pasture. But since he voted for this, let’s keep reminding him if he still had to work, he’d be driving a Volkswagen, not an F-250.

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    Lost in all the posts…

    What happens when a whole bunch of young families move
    to Colorado and jobs in the early 2000s.

    Why has Nevada become reliably blue?

    More local, why has Snoqualmie and North Bend moved just in the last decade from reliably Republican to deep Democrat?

    Demographics aren’t what Dumbfuck thinks.

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    Spokesman acknowledges Vance referred to Sen. Padilla by the imprisoned terrorist’s name:

    “He must have mixed up two people who have broken the law,” Taylor Van Kirk, a spokesperson for Vance told reporters on Friday.

    https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5361883-vance-padilla-california-democrats-backlash/

    Van Kirk knows damn well who Jose Padilla is. So does Vance. It was deliberate. And now they’re piling on the insults by calling the senator a “law breaker.” Would they like to specify what law Sen. Padilla has broken? This is the depth to which the fake hillbilly from Silicon Valley has descended. And, by the way, he himself is doing “political theater.”

    https://thehill.com/homenews/5362153-la-mayor-rails-against-insulting-vance-visit-a-photo-op/

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    37)Snoqualmie Valley going Blue, don’t believe it. Although if true, the judge that re-drew the lines last year did the Republicans a favor, putting the Snoqualmie Valley in the same district as Kittitas/Chelan counties. Although it could make that district competitive, before last year it was either two Republicans facing off, or unopposed.

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    @12 “We wouldn’t be going to war against Iran.”

    If bombing another country isn’t an act of war, as the dumbfuck doctor claims, then Pearl Harbor wasn’t an act of war either.

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    @15 “I’m willing to be shown.”

    … the GBU-57 comes in several variants and BLU-127 weights. … The B-2 Spirit strategic bomber is the only in-service U.S. aircraft that can carry the heavy, 20.5 feet (6.2 m)-long weapon. …

    In July 2007, Northrop Grumman received a $200 million contract to refit the USAF’s B-2s. The modifications enabled the B-2 to carry two 14-ton MOPs, ample for the GBU-57. …

    But here’s the rub:

    It is unclear whether the GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) can reliably destroy Iran’s nuclear sites at Fordow and the most recent halls at Natanz, which are thought to lie more than 80 m (260 ft) underground; the original Natanz enrichment plant sits roughly 20 m (66 ft) below the surface.

    The MOP is reportedly able to penetrate about 60 m (200 ft) of earth or 18 m (59 ft) of reinforced concrete with a compressive strength of 5,000 psi (34 MPa). Iranian domestic research has produced concrete exceeding 30,000 psi (210 MPa), a level that could sharply reduce the bomb’s effective penetration depth. Complicating matters further are the weapon’s guidance accuracy in a GPS-jamming environment and the possibility of deflection or yaw caused by advanced bunker-shell construction techniques.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GBU-57A/B_MOP

    So, is Trump going to commit an act of war against Iran, with all that entails, to carry out a mission that might not work?

    That’s the wrong question to ask. The right question is, will Trump do anything Netanyahu asks him to, regardless of how it impacts U.S. interests, or makes any sense?

    We’re about to find out.

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    The USAF’s Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) has been years in development. Iran has had years to prepare for it. But maybe it could finally destroy the WW2 sub pens to prevent Germany from using them in a U.S. war against NATO.

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    @19 Just a friendly reminder here that Biden won Arizona and didn’t lose North Carolina by much.

  46. 46

    @19 Just a friendly reminder here that Biden won Arizona and didn’t lose North Carolina by much.

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    @ 33

    This pundit I follow posits that Centcom is owned by Israel:

    Small wonder HA’s resident dumb twat Welfare Queen YLB believes the Rothschild family controls the weather.

  51. 51

    @21 “Demographic trends certainly favor Vance’s re-election in 2032, don’t they?”

    This possibly might have happened if Republicans hadn’t enraged the entire country and Vance hadn’t turned into a total piece of shit.

  52. 52

    @26 “Then, ok maybe this war will set it back a decade at best.”

    Unless Iran simply buys nukes from North Korea.

  53. 53

    @ 45

    Just a friendly reminder here that Biden won Arizona and didn’t lose North Carolina by much.

    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit thinks that voters in Arizona and NC didn’t watch what Biden did or, more to the point, didn’t do.

    Arizona: Biden did not secure the border. He did just the opposite.

    NC: Biden did not do anything to help North Carolinians in Asheville after the massive flooding.

    Those voters will remember Biden’s inadequacy for a long, long time.

    Just a friendly reminder, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.

  54. 54

    @53 Just a friendly reminder that Biden isn’t running in 2028 and when North Carolina continued to seek FEMA assistance the Trump administration told them to go fuck themselves.

  55. 55

    Answer to @ 15: [Not clear on why the B-2 can carry two bunker-busters if its payload is in the 40k# range and the bombs are 30k# each.]

    is that the planes took off from Missouri not fully fueled. They refueled early in the flight to Guam. The weight not carried in fuel permits the heavier bomb payload.

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    It is unclear whether the GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) can reliably destroy Iran’s nuclear sites at Fordow and the most recent halls at Natanz,

    That’s why they carry two.

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    I unplugged my carbon monoxide detector because the noise it was making was so loud it was giving me headaches and making me sleepy.

    Definitely the way to go!

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    Unless Iran simply buys nukes from North Korea.

    According to Tulsi Gabbard, Iran doesn’t want them.

    But after pants shitter fills its pea brain with enough shit from Faux Snooze and then gives Michael Kurilla and Israel free reign to shit the bed..

    Anything can come from that.

  62. 62

    So Tulsi and Whiskey Pete have been excluded from meetings on Iran?

    In favor of Kurilla and Dan Caine?

    Oh yeah, there’s the standard denials. Yet another chapter in the pants shitter shit show..

  63. 63

    Biden did not do anything to help North Carolinians in Asheville after the massive flooding.

    Yet another fucking lie from dumbfuck:

    Wednesday, October 9, 2024..

    Today, Governor Roy Cooper held a briefing with FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell to provide updates on North Carolina’s unprecedented response to Hurricane Helene.

    FEMA Assistance

    More than $60 million in FEMA Individual Assistance funds have been paid so far to Western NC disaster survivors and more than 134,000 people have registered for Individual Assistance. Approximately 2,600 people are now housed in hotels through FEMA’s Transitional Sheltering Assistance. Federal partners have delivered approximately 9.78 million liters of water and approximately 7.7 million meals in North Carolina to support both responders and people living in the affected communities.

    More than 900 FEMA staff are in the state to help with the western North Carolina relief effort. In addition to search and rescue and providing commodities, they are meeting with disaster survivors in shelters and neighborhoods to provide rapid access to relief resources. They can be identified by their FEMA logo apparel and federal government identification.

    https://governor.nc.gov/news/press-releases/2024/10/09/unprecedented-response-hurricane-helene-continues-state-local-and-federal-resources-work-help-those

    Relief efforts at all levels were well under way by Oct 9. Why does teh kreepee dumbfuck lie so fucking much?

  65. 65

    The 2026 Nissan Leaf delivers over 300 miles per charge and can go from 10% to 80% in 35 minutes via DC fast charging. $35,000.

    Even if Tesla ever manages to live down the shit reputation Elmo earned for them, by the time they do the market will have moved on without them. EV consumers are just not going to sit around waiting for the shame and humiliation to pass. And Tesla’s quality control struggles, multiple recalls, and terrible consumer experience will make it impossible for them to win back consumers they lose in the meantime.

    #TeslaTakedown has already worked

  68. 68

    @ 65

    The 2026 Nissan Leaf delivers over 300 miles per charge and can go from 10% to 80% in 35 minutes via DC fast charging. $35,000.

    FWD only. Nissan WILL NOT – and this is important – offer a version of the LEAF with AWD. AWD subtracts a little more than 20 miles of range for the EV I leased vs. the FWD option, although I’m getting better range than advertised – about 20 miles/charge better. One-pedal driving is awesome and I am certain is why I do so well with the battery. Did I mention that the Nissan LEAF doesn’t have that?

    303/charge is an estimate by Nissan, not something they’ve actually demonstrated. Also not yet released by Nissan: The price of the vehicle. QoS McHillbilly pulled it out of his ass.

    303 is for bare-bones. You want wheel upgrades to something you’re not embarrassed to have in your driveway, other features that most people want, and you’re at 259 miles.

    Oh, and if you are going to charge at a Level 2 charger, you’ll need an adapter.

    If you care little about quality and only want a shitty ride that you can’t trust when it’s wet or snowy, follow QoS McHillbilly’s advice and get a Nissan LEAF.

    Otherwise, spend another five grand and get the Chevy Equinox. Or just about anything else with AWD.

    [I like everything about my leased Honda Prologue except the turning radius, the feeling of having no idea where the front bumper is when pulling into a tight parking space, and pretty shitty GM-level carpeting. The Prologue is a re-badged Chevy Blazer EV.]

  69. 69

    QoS McHillbilly hates Tesla so much that he wants you to kill yourself and your family by going with a cheap-shit FWD vehicle that is really, really heavy. It’s so heavy that the guard rail won’t stop you from pitching over the side of the mountain when you slide out during a little bit of rain.

    Maybe QoS McHillbilly lives in eastern OR, where it doesn’t rain so much.

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    When a republican goes down in the polls this badly, they start a war to distract the low info voters.
    Its the Bebi strategy, I can’t be questioned, I’m a WAR time president!

  71. 71

    70

    Yes, bombing Iran was a supreme mistake. The Iranians will extract revenge, probably on some place the US would never expect.

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    Wonder how long before MTG deletes a tweet opposing the strike she made tonight? She’s getting roasted by his supporters.

  74. 74

    yawwwn.. nothin’ like a little war to lift a wannabe dictator’s spirits after a shitty birthday parade.

    hey, that’s why whiskey pete was excluded from discussions – the shit show parade.

    lmao.. they’re babbling about “finish the job, mr. preznit”..

    we’ll see how many bombing runs it takes.

    Israel commands them.. Israel’s poodle obeys.

  75. 75

    @55 Makes sense, and makes the weight numbers work. Simple solution to complicated problem.

    A related question is why does the plane have to carry two bombs? Well, because one bomb won’t work. It takes more than one bomb to penetrate deeply enough. It might take several bombs, each digging deeper, to get the blast effect deep enough to damage the facility.

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    @58 The White House is denying that a tactical nuke is under consideration or being discussed.

    It would be an incredibly stupid move. It would invite Russia to use tac nukes in Ukraine. And the fallout would extend to future conflicts.

    That said, Trump is capable of incredibly stupid moves, and his White House is capable of lying about what they’re doing.

  78. 78

    Over in R Conservative.
    Moving the goalpost on themselves.
    “Not impressed. He campaigned on no more foreign wars.”
    “When did congress vote to go to war with Iran?”
    “Blow them up from above but we better not send troops in.”
    “100% agree. No boots on the ground please. We didn’t vote Trump in to send troops into war.”
    “I’m not going to lie, I don’t like it. I’m in the military, a handful of years left till retirement, and this doesn’t sit very well. I’m hoping for the best, but I’m not getting warm fuzzies from it at all.”

  79. 79

    The White House says 3 nuclear sites were attacked, and DoD says each was hit with 2 bombs, so that indicates 3 planes and 6 bombs were used in the operation. Trump claims Fordow was “destroyed,” but I don’t see how he can know that, and Iran only acknowledges it was hit. (Source: BBC News)

  81. 81

    @78 Trump just lost the Proud Boys. He’ll need to recruit another militia if he intends to overstay his term of office by force of private arms.

    Turns out, there’s a line the Proud Boys say they won’t cross for President Donald Trump. The extremist group said on social media this week that it wouldn’t be able to support the president if the U.S. were to become involved in the conflict between Israel and Iran.

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/proud-boys-trump-iran_n_6855b06fe4b06f37ceed2f44

  83. 83

    Depriving Iran of nuclear weapons is a good thing in and of itself. It’s the unintended consequences we have to worry about. It’s unlikely Iran will take this lying down. When they’ve invested billions of dollars in nuke facilities, and we blow them up, they will get even somehow.

  85. 85

    @84 It would if Iran attacks Persian Gulf shipping or closes the strait, but Iran may want to keep Hormuz open because it sells oil to China, and Tehran has other options. In any case, Trump could draw from the SPR, and the U.S. isn’t as dependent on Middle East oil as it once was.

  86. 86

    The felon wants September 11 part two, so he can declare martial law and suspend elections. Have a great day, America.

  87. 87

    Conservative backpedals! Get your conservative backpedals here! We’ve got ’em all:
    – “We only had to do this because [last Democrat president] left us in this mess!”
    – “This is all we have to do, now we’ll get peace without a full conflict”
    – “Oh so you’re fine with that regime existing and threatening the world?”
    – “If it came to this just imagine how bad it would have been under [Democrat]!”
    And many more!
    Some of these expire at the next backpedal, but some are truly evergreen! Get yours now before you’re on the wrong side of history!

  88. 88

    Metro’s weekend dieselizations of trolley routes are an aerial version of Call Before You Dig. Good thing Metro buys Diesel on contract. If prices spiked, perhaps Metro should cancel them until further notice and have only the 49 and 70 under dieselization for the interim. Deactivation is a $1000 fee in advance, plus crew costs after it’s done.

    https://kingcounty.gov/en/dept/metro/about/contractor-resources/transit-system-impacts

    The 70 is on long term dieselization while the route is being converted to RapidRide standards. The 49 is on long term dieselization due to 520 Lid construction. Although with the battery upgrade, a diversion over I-5 is doable. It was just under off wire range limits last time they did it.

  89. 89

    Sounds good, will see how this works in practice on the fares. I know some ST Express coaches are equipped with the necessary transponders. Perhaps Metro should add the 25 cent fare increase I have been expecting ever since Sound Transit caved to Snohomish County riders on LINK. (I would like Metro and LINK fares to be the same). For those who had been advocating fare-free, the bus paying tolls would degrade service.

    https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/06/19/toll-exemption-for-buses-crossing-two-wa-bridges-will-end-this-fall/

  90. 90

    See? All I had to do was dangle the dirty pictures of the future President Poopy Pants diddling underage girls on the Lolita Express..

    And then.. I had him in my pocket.

    Of course he was going to ignore that Hawaiian Science of Identity twit.

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    @ 75

    It might take several bombs, each digging deeper, to get the blast effect deep enough to damage the facility.

    Well, it’s a good thing, then, that we’ve got extras.

  93. 93

    @92 For the militarily illiterate, it’s not how many you have, but how many you use. The question now is, were two bombs enough?

  95. 95

    @ 94

    Fwiw, Iran claims they evacuated the sites a while ago, anticipating they’d be hit.

    FWIW, I recall no one using this as a reason not to hit the sites. Not IAEA or the UN, neither of which wanted the sites destroyed.

    If the argument is, hey, we can just spend the next 20 years building another fortified site deep within a mountain and then put the equipment back in and restart, a reasonable response would be:

    • We’ll take the 20 years, for now.
    • Khamenei won’t survive the next several weeks.
    • Saying the equipment was moved is not the same as saying the facility was not completely destroyed.
    • The next time they are needed our bunker buster bombs will weigh 60k# each. You’re gonna need a bigger mountain.

  96. 96

    @ 91

    Amid the growing debate over the constitutionality of Trump bombing Iran without congressional approval …

    There was no real debate when Biden bombed Yemen without congressional approval, and there won’t be any real debate once the dust settles and the only people still upset are Bernie and Tlaib. Oh, and Massie and Paul.

  98. 98

    @95 “The next time they are needed our bunker buster bombs will weigh 60k# each. You’re gonna need a bigger mountain.”

    First, we’re gonna need a bigger plane.

  99. 99

    @96

    Focusing on objectives and ignoring constitutional and legal restraints is a hallmark of this administration. Oh, and condemning judges who apply the laws, too.

    There are only two types of governments that operate without restraint: Dictatorship and absolute monarchies.

    Which are you, a fascist or a royalist?

  100. 100

    @ 99

    Focusing on objectives and ignoring constitutional and legal restraints is a hallmark of this administration. Oh, and condemning judges who apply the laws, too.

    This applies even moreso to the last administration. After all, who can forget Schumer’s threats to two of the SCOTUS justices:

    I want to tell you, Gorsuch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price.”

    This goes back quite a bit in our nation’s history, but a substantial acceleration occurred in the President Pen & Phone era of the last decade.

  101. 101

    Some additional color on yesterday’s fireworks festivities:

    Three B-2 aircraft dropped six bunker buster bombs on the primary site, Fordow.

    The other sites, Natanz and Isfahan, were hit with 30 Tomahawk missiles fired from submarines some 400 miles away.

  102. 102

    Gonna be some liberal tears today.

    If we’re gonna impeach DJT47 for bombing Iran, can we still impeach Biden for bombing Yemen? ’cause AOC wants to know about blowback.

  103. 103

    How to identify Nazis

    1. Say “Fuck all these Nazis.”

    2. Wait for someone to object, saying something like “It’s bad to call someone a Nazi just because you disagree with them”.

    3. You found the Nazi.

  104. 104

    From weekend always wrong wing blather host Whiskey Pete:

    “This mission was not, has not been about regime change” but rather about addressing the threats posed by Iran’s nuclear program, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/22/israel-iran-live-updates-us-trump/

    A “threat” that Tulsi said wasn’t a thing.. yawwnn.. Tulsi won’t resign. She will have to be fired or kicked to some other job. Her cult leader, Chris Butler, alone makes the call.

    Dang, first Bob Menendez gets sent up for mere graft instead of “fucking child whores” and now no Iranian regime change is in the cards. Israel of course, may have more orders for their orange pants shitting poodle in the offing.

    A lifetime of disappointments for Israel’s chihuahua, the kreepee dumbfuck of widbee.. yawwn..

  105. 105

    can we still impeach Biden…

    lmao.. Sure..

    “He’s running.. oh shit.. he can’t, the repukes ‘impeached’ him.. ok….

    she’s running..”

  106. 106

    Q: “Do you think there is a possibility that Iran, North Korea, and other forces, such as China, will join forces and retaliate?”

    Whiskey Pete: “That’s Biden’s fault.”

  107. 107

    Just in case America forgot (and because of course we did), after conjuring up what turned out to be a completely fake case for “weapons of mass destruction’ (nukes) in Iraq, Republicans then turned to “it’s a completely abnormal, outlier, “criminal” state” to justify their last Forever War.

  108. 108

    Because it is the duty of corporate media to strip Republicans of agency and responsibility following their many fuckups, and because we live in times when voters are all too distracted, I thought we needed reminding that every stupid, irrational, fucked up thing Republicans do is a cinematic franchise going into triple digits.

    https://ifunny.co/picture/there-s-an-old-saying-in-schelling-i-know-it-vC3dgNfpA

    Maybe they really just can’t help themselves.
    It’s probably time we did it for them.

  109. 109

    During last night’s press briefing Whiskey Pete admitted that the planning for the U.S. attack on Iran began right after the inauguration.

    He did not appear to be drunk when he said it.

  110. 110

    From Rick Wilson:

    A construct of every major dictatorship, secret military forces such as the Nazis’ SS and Russia’s KGB have always been a lynchpin in the descent into autocracy. Let’s face it, we do not need Seal Team 6 — or as these agents are called “Meal Team 6” — to tackle grandmothers and high school students. These losers are just living out their favorite video games and do not comprehend that power goes both ways. If they are going to continue this abuse of power, then it’s the public’s responsibility to call 911 and report masked men on the street. With great power comes great responsibility, and these douchebags “serve” all of us.

    lmao.. “meal team 6”, add to that teh douchebag of widbee – arm chair warrior in the rear with “the gear” – a vibrating dildo.

  111. 111

    110,
    With proof now that these government agents are not only covering their faces and identifying insignia to conceal their identity, but also employing stolen license plates to disguise themselves, I’m pretty confident many of these agents and their supervisors can be indicated for violating 18 U.S.C. Sec 241, which has a five year statue of limitations that, because it is a conspiracy offense, tolls with every subsequent act to maintain the conspiracy.

    I really don’t think the $45,000 bonus will be enough to pay for that kind of defense.

  112. 112

    Hey, it was OK with (most) Democrats when we bombed the shit out of Libya in order to depose Qaddafi:

    Nancy Pelosi
    @SpeakerPelosi

    I commend POTUS for his leadership-Qaddafi’s horrific brutality against his own people will not be tolerated & must stop. #Libya

    1:18 PM · Mar 18, 2011

  113. 113

    And if he had said “our boys and girls” it would have been misogynism to the NYT.

    Benjamin Domenech
    @bdomenech

    NYT highlights a deeper threat than nuclear weapons: sexism.

    6:08 AM · Jun 22, 2025

    I’m surprised that HA’s Unserious Twat didn’t share this before I found it. One of her Karen blogs must be all over it.

  115. 115

    There’s a single Democrat with the stones to agree.

    Bill Ackman
    @BillAckman

    In eight days, the United States and Israel eliminated Iran’s nuclear capabilities with minimal civilian casualties. One of the greatest military achievements ever.

    7:58 PM · Jun 21, 2025

    You already know which one he is.

  116. 116

    Speaking @ 115 of highly visible Democrats, I bet if it was Fetterman who pushed his way into that presser Noem was beginning she would have stopped what she was doing to at least acknowledge his presence.

    Padilla’s a nobody. Until 10 days ago he was a nobody even in California.

  117. 117

    POS liberal from Walla Walla FAs a Florida sheriff, sheriff is there for the FO part of the experience.

    nbc6

    4w
    In a moment caught on video, the Volusia County sheriff confronted a man who allegedly sent him death threats from across the country once he was brought to Florida to face justice.⁠
    ⁠
    #florida #sheriff #justice #caughtoncamera

    Pretty sure it’s Steve. All pot belly, no legs.

  118. 118

    Wasn’t it kewl when Obama had a billion dollars in cash, loaded on pallets, shipped to Iran?

  119. 119

    Now we’re up to 7 B-2 bombers dropping 14 MOPs, if the BBC’s information is correct.

    The lead B-2 then dropped two GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrators (MOPs) – also known as “bunker buster” bombs – on the nuclear site at Fordo. Caine said a total of 14 MOPs were dropped on two target areas.

    All three Iranian nuclear infrastructure targets were hit between 18:40 Eastern time (23:40 BST) and 19:05 Eastern time (00:05 BST), Caine said.

    The bombers then exited Iranian airspace and begun their return to the US.

    “Iran’s fighters did not fly, and it appears that Iran’s surface-to-air missile systems did not see us,” Caine said.

    Iran is helpless.

  120. 120

    You already know which one he is.

    The one who has received the most AIPAC money would be my guess.

    They are banned from entering Thomas Massey’s offices.

  121. 121

    Goddamn protesters have created another huge, massive backup on I75 just outside Albany, GA. Hundreds of motorists in both directions are fuming with frustration over silly twats blocking the interstate.

    Fuck ’em. Run ’em all down.

    Oh wait. Oops. Sorry. My bad.

    It’s CBP stopping and searching every vehicle. That’s entirely different. That’s good.

  122. 122

    I see teh kreepshit has arrived to stink the place out.

    Got a b-day to celebrate today.

    No time. Maybe tomorrow.

  123. 123

    Barack, 2012:

    “I think that the Israeli government recognizes that, as president of the United States, I don’t bluff. I also don’t, as a matter of sound policy, go around advertising exactly what our intentions are. But I think both the Iranian and the Israeli governments recognize that, when the United States says it is unacceptable for Iran to have a nuclear weapon, we mean what we say.”

    Thirteen years later, we proved it.

  124. 124

    The time Republicans took us into another of their Forever Wars just so they could repair the tattered professional reputation of an alcoholic.

  125. 125

    When military action is not war:

    George W. Bush, 2003: “We’re not occupying Iraq. We’re liberating it.”

    Barack Obama, 2013: “This is not a war on terror. It’s a campaign against specific networks like al-Qaeda.”

    Bill Clinton, 1999: “This is not a war. It’s a humanitarian intervention.”

    Benjamin Netanyahu, 2014: “We’re not fighting the Palestinian people. We’re fighting Hamas.”

    Ronald Reagan, 1980s: “We’re not waging war against Nicaragua. We’re supporting freedom fighters.”

    And now it’s JD Vance saying we’re at war with Iran’s nuke program but not with Iran.

  126. 126

    @ 125

    Somehow “We came, we saw, he died.” dismissal of what the US caused to happen in Libya under Barack and #CrookedHillary does not fit with the other claims.

    Which is why it is very good that #CrookedHillary did not become president.

    Hey, but there’s still 2028 for #CrookedHillary.

  127. 127

    I had been reliably informed that Trump Always Chickens Out.

    So, about last night…

  128. 128

    Speaking of chickening out, remember Barack and Syria?

    When the military was RTG with a response and had moved everything into place, needing only the order Barack was unable to give?

    Barack gave Russia the green light to annex Crimea with that chickenshit bit o’ cowardice.

  129. 129

    “We moved everything beforehand.” is Iran’s version Pee Wee Herman’s “I meant to do that.”

    Aimen Dean
    @AimenDean

    Debunking the “We Evacuated Everything” Narrative:

    As expected, following the strikes, the Iranian propaganda machine has kicked into gear, claiming – rather predictably – that the targeted nuclear facilities, such as Fordow and Natanz, had been emptied in advance. Let’s address that.

    1. Real-Time Monitoring by the IAEA:
    Both Fordow and Natanz are under partial surveillance by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). While Iran has restricted access in recent years, many of the monitoring systems – especially CCTV cameras – were active in the past and still provided some insight until at least early 2023. In several cases, the IAEA retained knowledge of infrastructure layouts and could remotely detect large-scale activity, especially if dismantling or evacuation were attempted.

    2. The Myth of Rapid Evacuation:
    This isn’t a warehouse full of sacks of potatoes. We’re talking about highly specialized, sensitive equipment, thousands of IR-1 and advanced IR-2m and IR-6 centrifuges. For context:
    •Natanz had an estimated 15,000–20,000 centrifuges at peak capacity. Even after the JCPOA, thousands remained in use or storage.
    •Fordow, while smaller, housed over 1,000 advanced centrifuges, some enriching uranium up to 60% purity in recent years.

    These are not items that can be boxed up and trucked out overnight. Dismantling a single cascade (a chain of 164 centrifuges) safely requires days of work, if not longer. Multiply that by hundreds of cascades, and you quickly realize this isn’t a quick getaway.

    Additionally, centrifuges are connected to high-pressure uranium hexafluoride gas (UF6) lines. Improper disassembly can lead to contamination, equipment damage, or worse, leaks of radioactive gas. Such evacuations would require weeks of preparation under controlled conditions.

    3. Eyes in the Sky and on the Ground:
    Let’s not forget that the U.S. and Israel have had persistent, layered surveillance over these sites for years, satellites, high-altitude drones, SIGINT, HUMINT. Every inch of ground around Fordow and Natanz has been watched for telltale signs of activity. The idea that Iran stealthily evacuated multiple facilities without being detected is simply ludicrous.

    4. Propaganda to Salvage Prestige:
    This entire narrative is damage control, plain and simple. The regime knows its core scientific and strategic assets were hit. They can’t admit it, so they spin: “We were too smart for them. Nothing of value was lost.” But it’s hollow bravado, masking what is in reality a colossal strategic failure – yet another one – in a long line of catastrophic blunders by a leadership that has brought nothing but ruin to a once-proud civilization.

    6:43 PM · Jun 21, 2025

    Let me add something to #3: If – and it’s a big If – Iran moved its shit ahead of time, what are the odds that Mossad doesn’t know exactly where it went?

    Funny, isn’t it, that no one claimed before last night’s strike that Iran had moved its shit. You would think that numerous talking heads would have used that line to pound into liberal ears the futility of striking a totes empty mountainside site.

    Instead those talking heads are still claiming that what Tulsi said in March still applies to late June and that the IAEA assessment had no influence on her current thinking. Keep fuckin’ that chicken.

  130. 130

    Liberals must now admit that it’s not just the DOGE guy in this administration who showed Big Balls.

  131. 131

    A month from now libbies will be claiming that last night’s strike was wrong because gas prices went up a quarter per gallon for the next two weeks before coming back down.

  132. 132

    Gas prices will climb so high that the Dumbfuck Rabbit family will be forced to cancel its planned summer vacation trip to Hotel Nexus in the Northgate area.

  133. 133

    Since, in order to rehabilitate Whiskey Pete, Republicans have put us into a war with one of the top sponsors of global terrorism, perhaps we ought to get to know the guy they have placed in charge of counterterrorism:
    https://www.statesman.com/story/news/state/2025/06/06/donald-trump-dhs-terror-prevention-thomas-fugate-gardener-landscaper-heb-austin-texas/84066632007/

    A gig worker on Rover who bagged groceries and mowed lawns, who has proudly perfected the late John Belushi’s cocked eyebrow.

    He can also perform a very credible imitation of a zit.

  134. 134

    I’ll take Tweets That Did Not Age Well for $500, Alex:

    David Frum
    @davidfrum

    “Two weeks” is what Trump says when he’s backing away from a commitment he did not mean, whether sanctions on Russia – a healthcare plan – or an infrastructure bill.

    9:44 AM · Jun 21, 2025

    ·

  135. 135

    Just for fun, imagine what you libbies would be saying this morning had it been President Harris who authorized last night’s strike.

    Just for fun.

    Which of you would be first to compare her to Eisenhower or Patton?

  136. 136

    There would be plaudits for Kamala Harris – America’s Wartime President.

    Instead she’s the joke that won’t stop telling itself.

  137. 137

    See what is achievable, libbies, when you strip DEI out of the military?

    Air Force enlistment about to go through the roof.

  138. 138

    @ 132

    How fortunate in the salvage of Dumbfuck Rabbit family summer vacation plans that just down the street from the Dumbfuck Rabbit shithole is a row of hotels that have hourly rates.

  139. 139

    Just for fun, imagine what you libbies would be saying this morning had it been President Harris who authorized last night’s strike.

    We’d all be debating whether or not Fetterman would vote to convict in the impeachment trial.

  140. 140

    @101 “fireworks festivities” is how the dumbfuck troll describes the Pearl Harbor the U.S. committed against Iran. Meanwhile, Jaydee says, “The U.S. is not at war with Iran.” That’s a fancy legal argument coming from a Yale Law grad, but I doubt they see it this way in Tehran.

  141. 141

    @104 “Israel of course, may have more orders for their orange pants shitting poodle in the offing.”

    For sure, and you can bet money on it. Trump is Netanyahu’s poodle, and “America First” is now “Israel first.” Or, put another way,

    TRUMP: “We’re all Israelis now, whether you want to be or not.”

  142. 142

    Jaydee made a tactical mistake by saying we’re not at war with Iran, because that means Trump can’t impose wartime restrictions on free speech, and make it a crime to criticize Israel (although he thinks it already is).

  143. 143

    @125 “Benjamin Netanyahu, 2014: “We’re not fighting the Palestinian people. We’re fighting Hamas.”

    Netanyahu, 2023-2025: “We’re not fighting the Palestinian people, we’re fighting Hamas, and the 40K or so noncombatant civilian casualties including women and children, and the deliberately targeted aid workers and journalists, are just collateral damage.”

    Sure, Jan. But Doctor Dumbfuck revels in all this death, every bit of it, because he loves violence and is bloodthirsty to the core. He proves it every day with his posts on HA.

  144. 144

    Tesla is now operating robotaxis in Austin.

    Ride anywhere for $4.20.

    If Tesla operated something like that in our area the Dumbfuck Rabbit family might even be able to vacation in Lynnwood.

  145. 145

    @ 140

    … the Pearl Harbor the U.S. committed against Iran.

    Well, we did sink their mountainside a little.

    Ahoy, matey!

  146. 146

    @110 Masked men in civilian clothing, not wearing badges or insignia of any kind, grabbing people on the streets is deeply problematic.

    If one of the grabbed people is a law-abiding, permit-carrying citizen who has no reason to believe law enforcement is interested in him, and the people grabbing him (a) have no arrest warrant, (b) don’t even know who he is, (c) don’t identify themselves as law enforcement, (d) he asks who they are, and they don’t answer, and then (e) he shoots them …

    … if I’m on the jury, I’ll acquit him. And, given our laws, any rational jury would be obligated to do so.

    I think ICE should alter their practices before something like this happens, which would be bad for everyone involved.

  147. 147

    Having already pushed its Austin launch date by more than two weeks, revised the launch to “invite-only” customers (Tesla employees and paid “influencers”), restricted the service to a tiny geo-fenced area, and confessing that the tech was incapable of operating safely without remote human supervision, Tesla was unable to make its new autonomous launch scheduled for today.

    #TeslaTakedown has already worked

  148. 148

    @114 What did they do with the other five GBU-57s? Drop them on Khamenei’s tent and camels?

  149. 149

    @115 Ackman is wrong. There’s no such thing as “eliminating” a country’s ability to build nuclear bombs short of replacing the regime that wants to build the bombs with one that doesn’t; and as of this morning, Iran’s regime hasn’t been replaced and there are no publicly announced plans to replace it.

    The first essential requirement for building a nuclear bomb is knowing how to do it, and once a country possesses that knowledge, you can’t unlearn them.

    As for raw materials, anyone with brains who’s been threatened with military attack on their production facilities is going to squirrel their enriched uranium offset in small containers that can easily be dispersed and hidden away.

    Assuming, as has been reported, Iran already has enough enriched uranium to build 10 bombs, and were smart enough not to store it at the target sites, all they need now to build them is some tools and an empty garage.

  151. 151

    @116 “Padilla’s a nobody. Until 10 days ago he was a nobody even in California.”

    Ten days later, you’re still an even lesser nobody in Freeland, Washington. Every Californian, and most Americans, know who Padilla is. Even Mary Kay doesn’t know you on sight, because you haven’t come out of the barn in the last 15 years.

  153. 153

    @118 “Wasn’t it kewl when Obama had a billion dollars in cash, loaded on pallets, shipped to Iran?”

    It was Iranian money deposited in American banks. I know, I know, you’d much rather steal it. But that wouldn’t be good for the U.S. banking system, would it, because then nobody would deposit their money in our banks.

    The money was frozen assets that were unfrozen in exchange for Iran agreeing not to build a nuclear bomb. Trump undid that deal in his first term; and in his campaign for his current term, promised to bring Iran to heel with a phone call.

    Turns out it took more than a phone call, it took an act of war, with consequences yet to be felt in the U.S., although it seems quite likely they will be felt, among other places, at gas pumps. You remember Trump’s promise to lower gas prices, right? Right? Here’s Trump’s plan to keep gas prices from rising:

    U.S. calls on China to prevent Iran from closing Strait of Hormuz and disrupting global oil flows

  154. 154

    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit @ 146 treats @ 110 Welfare Queen YLB’s interpretation of Rick Wilson’s hysterics as gospel.

    And then wonders why Rick Wilson’s advice resulted in President Trump. Again.

  155. 155

    @127 “I had been reliably informed that Trump Always Chickens Out.”

    You’re assuming Trump made the decision, and isn’t merely a puppet dancing on Netanyahu’s strings.

  156. 156

    @ 151

    Ten days later, you’re still an even lesser nobody…

    Yabbut I’m not claiming a cabinet secretary facing numerous video camera lights should be able to recognize me from a distance when I’m fighting with security over on the side of the room some 40-50 feet away, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.

    And, I’m a nobody who doesn’t have to call customer support to determine whether there’s room below my credit card’s credit limit to fill the tank with 10 gallons, or only 5, unlike you and the Missus Dumbfuck Rabbit.

  157. 157

    A Democrat Nazi lets the swastika drop:

    Jamie Metzl
    @JamieMetzl

    I served on the National Security Council under President Clinton. I was Joe Biden’s Deputy Staff Director of the Senate foreign Relations Committee. I voted for Kamala Harris and have been a vocal critic of many dangerous and undemocratic actions taken by President Trump.

    But I’m not a blind tribalist and am perfectly comfortable praising President Trump for bold and courageous actions in support of America’s core national interests, as he took last night.

    Iran has been at war with the United States for 46 years. Its regime has murdered thousands of American citizens. Its slogan “death to America“ was not window dressing but core ideology. It was racing toward a nuclear weapon with every intention of using it to threaten America, our allies, and the Middle East region as a whole.

    No actions like this come without risks, and I imagine the story will get more complicated over time, but that’s why these types of decisions are complicated.

    Although I believe electing Kamala Harris would have been better for our democracy, society, and economy, as well as for helping the most vulnerable people in the United States and around the world, I also believe VP Harris would not have had the courage or fortitude to take such an essential step as the president took last night.

    6:02 AM · Jun 22, 2025

    Know which Democrat would have had the courage?

    Hillary Rodham Clinton would have had the courage. In 2008, in 2016, and today.
    ·

  158. 158

    @129 Let’s assume the GBU-57s got the centrifuges. That leaves Iran only with enough enriched uranium for 10 bombs. Blowing that up would leak radiation. How much leaked radiation has been detected at the bombed sites? Surely we know, and Israel knows, too.

  159. 159

    149,
    Up until this moment, the modern approach to nuclear non-proliferation has been one that emphasized cooperation around the restriction and containment of weapons grade isotopes. That’s because other than the fuel, there is nothing anyone can do at this point to prohibit any other nation from building a practical nuclear or even thermonuclear weapon capable of significant devastation. It’s not a secret.

    Just as in 2001, when the consensus of global expert opinion was that Iraq had no active program for WMD development, the presumption today is that somehow Israel and Fat Hitler have magic information nobody else knows about. But here’s the thing, IF Iran does not currently have access to enough weapons grade isotope to fuel a credible weapons program (as seems very likely given our history in this regard), following these attacks by first Israel, and now the United States, it’s quite inevitable that in the very near future they will. And that has nothing to do with bunkers or bunker bombs.

    Because a line will form to supply them with weapons grade isotopes from other nations and regimes that (justifiably) have grave suspicions and concerns about both Israel (actively engaging in genocide) and the U.S. (engaged in false diplomacy with Iran while preparing the attack). We can level Iran, fight door-to-door, and clear the place of every possible scrap of nuclear fuel (and at this point we will probably have to) and they can still produce a dirty bomb and set it off in Times Square.

    I’m very sorry to say it, but I think the totality of circumstances makes a prolonged military engagement with Iran now impossible to avoid. I think this attack will have effectively eliminated Iran’s need to independently develop weapons grade fuel and any incentive they might have to decline to do so. And if the line in the proverbial sand is no nukes in Iran, the only way the U.S. can ensure that in the near term is to go to war seeking to topple the current regime. At this point it will be perfectly rational for them to see their own survival contingent upon quickly obtaining a nuclear deterrent capability. And plenty of other nations will be happy to oblige.

  160. 160

    Knowing the capabilities of our military assets, I do feel a certain degree of confidence that Iran isn’t going to acquire enough enriched uranium to build more than 10 bombs unless Russia, North Korea, or Pakistan sells it to them.

  161. 161

    Knowing the capabilities of our military assets, I do feel a certain degree of confidence that Iran isn’t going to acquire enough enriched uranium to build more than 10 bombs unless Russia, North Korea, or Pakistan sells it to them.

    As for smuggling it into Iran via ship, plane, or overland route, a bomb core doesn’t fit in a shoebox. It requires a box of the size a soccer ball comes in.

  162. 162

    Yabbut I’m not claiming a cabinet secretary facing numerous video camera lights should be able to recognize me from a distance when I’m fighting with security over on the side of the room some 40-50 feet away,

    The Senator was invited to and escorted to the press conference by U.S. Marshalls in the company of and with the encouragement of DHS officials. They do that for random Sterno-bums with brown skin all the time. Ayyup.

  163. 163

    @137 Convince us Whiskey Pete isn’t a DEI hire. Just by your DEI standards, not ours.

  164. 164

    @156 “fighting with security”

    The security who escorted him into the room, and were perfectly fine with his presence until he wanted to ask a question?

  165. 165

    @157 “Know which Democrat would have had the courage? Hillary Rodham Clinton would have had the courage. In 2008, in 2016, and today.”

    Then you should have voted for her, right? Why didn’t you?

    Know this: I’m against Iran having a bomb, and for stopping them from having a bomb. But doing it with diplomacy is vastly more preferable to bombing another country, and since Trump is no good at diplomacy, bombing is all that’s left.

    Even so, going this route is very questionable, absent evidence that Iran was building a bomb or was about to. Rather, this act of war against a foreign country is solely a result of Israel deciding to preemptively attack Iran at this time, and Trump being Netanyahu’s willing water boy.

    With a different person in the White House, whether Hillary, Harris, Biden, or even a different Republican, it’s debatable whether this act of war, fraught as it is with risks of a much wider war and reinvigorated terrorism against Americans, would ever have been necessary at all.

    There are reasons why other presidents didn’t do this.

    But when dumbfucks elect a dumbfuck, rash acts with unpredictable consequences are what you get. The one thing we know for sure from historical experience is that it’s easier to get into wars than to get out of them. And knowing Trump’s incapability, it’ll fall to some other president to get us out of whatever mess he just created.

  167. 167

    @159 “I’m very sorry to say it, but I think the totality of circumstances makes a prolonged military engagement with Iran now impossible to avoid.”

    In the world wars, Germany fought two-front wars against Russia and the western allies, and lost both times. Trump, who doesn’t study history (or anything else), proposes to fight a four-front war against Iran, Greenland and NATO, Panama, and Canada. I wonder how that will work out with a drunk in charge of our military and a grocery bagger in charge of our counterterrorism?

  168. 168

    Its slogan “death to America“ was not window dressing but core ideology.

    “Jews will not replace Us”

    That too isn’t window dressing. Marching in the streets calling for White power – that too not window dressing.

    Once again Bob twists and turns reality.

  169. 169

    Its slogan “death to America“ was not window dressing but core ideology.

    “Jews will not replace Us”

    That too isn’t window dressing. Marching in the streets calling for White power – that too not window dressing.

    Once again Bob twists and turns reality.

  170. 170

    The anti-war guy who ran on that has now lied to the American uneducated and has gotten us into WWIII.

    I hope they’re happy with dead sons and daughters.

  171. 171

    @166 Well, that didn’t take long.

    A “number of countries” are ready to supply Iran with nuclear warheads following American strikes on nuclear facilities early on Sunday, Russian ex-president Dmitriy Medvedev claimed on social media.

    (Quoted from your link)

  172. 172

    Just in:

    Iran approves closure of Strait of Hormuz, a vital oil and gas route

    Iran’s parliament approved a measure June 22 endorsing the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a major oil transportation route, following U.S. airstrikes in Iran.

    https://www.aol.com/iran-government-moves-block-major-170314774.html

    The U.S., of course, will force it back open. But it will take active combat with Iranian forces to do so. We are now at war.

    And that simpleton Jaydee thought this would be as easy as dropping a few bombs and flying home.

  173. 173

    The source, a guy named “Metzl”

    Let us all bow to Metzl.

    I guess now everything Metzl believes Bob would agree.

  174. 174

    WWIII

    Obviously much different from the Iraq war.

    This will be WWIII

    Thanks to fascist Nazis

    Just like tariffs. Americans will just have to accept some pain, or they could have been smarter and not vote for a fraud fake President

  176. 176

    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, if anything has the ability to cause an erection in your garbage can of a body, it’s this four-minute video:

    DOD Rapid Response
    @DODResponse

    Chairman Caine just laid out the PERFECT execution of Operation MIDNIGHT HAMMER.

    5:48 AM · Jun 22, 2025

    Even the nutjobs at MSNBC are astonished at how well this went. Kind of the opposite of what Jimmy Carter accomplished when he sent military assets into Iran.

  177. 177

    @ 172

    We are now at war.

    No, there’s a board of sage, grizzled Iranian hardliners who make the decision.

    While Iranian state media reported that the parliament had agreed to endorse blocking the strait, the decision ultimately belongs to Iran’s Supreme National Security Council.

    All the parliamentary vote did was send the decision to those dudes, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.

    You are a particularly incurious form of stupid, aren’t you?

  178. 178

    Why can’t they? It’s because they are cowards, Dan.

    Nearly all of them.

    dan turrentine
    @danturrentine

    It was too depressing to write this last night, after we got off air, so I went to bed. But, it needs to be said by more Democrats: this was not an impeachable offense, and Trump did not need congressional approval for one precision attack under the circumstances, just as Obama did not when striking Bin Laden. Why can’t our Party just say it’s great we achieved the objective and destroyed Iran’s nuclear sites, god bless the soldiers who carried this out and made it home safely, god bless our country, military, allies, and we look forward to a full intel briefing. 🇺🇸. If one must then assert Congressional authority at the moment, add that any escalation will require congressional approval. And if you must, express concern for where this may go and what might come next.

    But, for so many in my Party to knee jerk with unhinged calls for impeachment – and sadly omit in their statement support for Iran not having nuclear weapons, which has been a principle of our Party for 40 years -is truly TDS.

    2:55 AM · Jun 22, 2025
    ·

  179. 179

    Barack sent Iran a billion US dollars, in cash, on pallets.

    Donald sent Iran 14 bunker busters, in B-2s, on target.

  180. 180

    Not TDS to hold an individual who ran on anti-war / peace broker campaign accountable for starting and fueling the fire of what will be WWIII.

    In a bar, bartender said the media now will twist this into dumpy starting WWIII.

    Well I haven’t watch tv in 15 years, not an ounce of it. And I said weeks ago this will be WWIII, I don’t need the media to tell me it, nor do I need to play politics with this. It’s what it is WWIII.

  181. 181

    @176 “Even the nutjobs at MSNBC are astonished at how well this went.”

    I don’t see that on MSNBC, but I do see this:

    Trump just took a massive gamble to try to end Iran’s nuclear threat

    This is bad. Trump is taking the bet that sending in the U.S. Air Force with “bunker buster” bombs will once and for all end Iran’s nuclear threat. But anticipating U.S. military capabilities is very different from dealing with what the volatile leaders of Iran or Israel will choose next. …

    While world leaders agree that Iran is a hostile regime and that, in Netanyahu’s words, “we can’t have the world’s most dangerous regime have the world’s most dangerous weapons,” the ongoing military escalation and retaliation were not the only path toward security and stability in the Middle East. Diplomacy worked before. …

    So yes, you should be worried — because cooler heads are not prevailing. …

    https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/us-attacked-3-iranian-nuclear-sites-trump-says-truth-social-rcna213400

    It’s what comes after, dumbfuck. It’s like casual sex with strangers; it feels good in the moment, but can give you STDs and lead to 18 years of paying child support.

  182. 182

    @176 “Even the nutjobs at MSNBC are astonished at how well this went.”

    I don’t see that on MSNBC, but I do see this:

    Trump just took a massive gamble to try to end Iran’s nuclear threat

    This is bad. Trump is taking the bet that sending in the U.S. Air Force with “bunker buster” bombs will once and for all end Iran’s nuclear threat. But anticipating U.S. military capabilities is very different from dealing with what the volatile leaders of Iran or Israel will choose next. …

    While world leaders agree that Iran is a hostile regime and that, in Netanyahu’s words, “we can’t have the world’s most dangerous regime have the world’s most dangerous weapons,” the ongoing military escalation and retaliation were not the only path toward security and stability in the Middle East. Diplomacy worked before. …

    So yes, you should be worried — because cooler heads are not prevailing. …

    https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/us-attacked-3-iranian-nuclear-sites-trump-says-truth-social-rcna213400

    It’s what comes after, dumbfuck. It’s like casual sex with strangers; it feels good in the moment, but can give you STDs and lead to 18 years of paying child support.

  184. 184

    Trump did not need congressional approval for one precision attack

    This is technically correct.

    But it’s also clear that the realities of modern, global security and how it dovetails directly into security and commercial interests and alliances renders existing laws insufficient. The logic of these circumstances is so imperative that it will be a miracle if this attack does not proceed to involve the United States in a prolonged, direct military engagement against Iran and whatever willing allies it assembles. Nor is it likely that any ally other than Israel will be available to assist the U.S. And finally a profoundly complex and vexing calculus must be faced before the United States can willingly invite Israel into any such direct conflict fighting alongside U.S. forces.

    So in the end, the overpowering risk is that the United States will have been committed to a prolonged, “boots on the ground”
    solo conflict against one of the most advanced and powerful modern militaries in the Middle East and some group of their allies fighting to defend territory while we struggle to support a supply chain extending from half a world away. And all of it may be forced upon us without any popular public support, without any legislative consent, and for the only practical purpose of rehabilitating yet another promising Republican alcoholic.

    In the days ahead the onanistic cheerleading of dupes like the Nazi Fucktard and other media trolls will combine with the pugilistic declarations of the MAGAts in the administration to wed our security policy to a “nuclear free” Iran. And as it becomes increasingly clear that this “one precision attack” was obviously incapable of ensuring that outcome, the mission creep will set in, as it always does when craven and feckless politicians play “God of War”.

    I hope we don’t end up being drawn into another prolonged conflict someplace far away with names we have yet to learn, just to prop up the “warrior” images of a draft dodger and an alcoholic. But whether we do or not, our laws should reflect the gravity of these kinds of careless and indifferent misuses of the few Americans still willing to give everything in service to our national security.

  185. 185

    In other news, a federal judge has rejected the Trump administration’s request to detain Kilmar Abrego Garcia pending his trial on human trafficking charges.

    https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/judge-denies-governments-motion-detain-kilmar-abrego-garcia/story?id=123105021

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: I care about the rule of law, not Abrego Garcia. If he broke the law, prosecute him. Give him a fair trial, and if he’s convicted, impose the appropriate sentence, whether it’s prison or something else. Then deport him and ban him from ever returning. This has never been about whether Abrego Garcia is a good guy or bad guy; it’s always been about abiding by the legal process and making sure arbitrary arrest, detention, and deportation won’t fly.

  186. 186

    @179 Barack had an agreement with Iran. Trump trashed it. That’s likely to cost us far more than a billion dollars.

    As I’ve repeatedly posted before, the money returned to Iran was Iran’s, not ours. Endlessly repeating a lie doesn’t change the facts. Obama, unlike Trump, is not a thief. To a kleptomaniac lover like Doctor Dumbfuck, that’s a fault.

  187. 187

    Barack sent Iran a billion US dollars.

    A basic lie. Barack sent Iran a billion dollars worth of their own money that had been embargoed and that they were entitled to after reaching compliance with the terms.

    And that agreement, along with Operation Olympic Games bought the United States and Israel another two decades of a nuclear free Iran at a cost of about $300 million.

    Fat Hitler just spent about the same for an overnight media cycle because he needed to distract the media from Baby Prison Buses.

  188. 188

    The felon has show us that whenever you sleep with a married woman, just FaceTime the husband as you’re getting dressed and say “now is the time for peace”

  189. 189

    @187 Doctor Dumbfuck, like all Republicans, doesn’t have an honest bone in his body and continually traffics in lies.

  190. 190

    If Fat Hitler needed to create a distraction from his secret police roundup of citizens and noncitizens alike, he certainly accomplished that. When you’re in trouble on the home front, wagging the dog is the oldest trick in the book.

  191. 191

    Bob can be all gung ho about this but I bet there are some dumpy supporters with kids turning of age that are a little afraid that their kids could be sent off to war.

    Sure Bob doesn’t have to worry.

  192. 192

    @190

    Let’s not forget a failing economy.

    But also, I think this plays into Martial Law.

    Now there’s an excuse to have the military (or police) patrol the streets of unrest and against any kind of terrorism on the homeland. Which makes for a more difficult to focus on fighting a war overseas with no help from our “allies”.

    Maybe Bulgaria will help us.

  193. 193

    Bob is simply short sighted. He can’t even see his penis.

    But now all those masculine men can go do what they thought they could do and be tough men and fight overseas

  194. 194

    @ 181

    Diplomacy worked before. …

    How so? We’ve kissed Iran’s ass for two decades and for our troubles we now have an admission that they are working toward a weapon and always have been.

    Diplomacy fucked us before.

  195. 195

    There goes Syria. Could have stabilized the region, I doubt anymore. It will become a breeding ground radicals.

  196. 196

    Diplomacy worked before. …

    How so? We’ve kissed Iran’s ass for two decades and for our troubles we now have an admission that they are working toward a weapon and always have been.

    Diplomacy fucked us before.

    Obama had deal with Iran and Dumpy tore it up.

  197. 197

    @194 “How so?”

    Iran doesn’t have a bomb, that’s how so. That’s what two decades of “ass kissing,” as you call it, got us.

    But hey, I’m not an Iran lover, and I’m definitely against third-world tinpot dictatorships having nukes.

    On the road we’re presently on, that may include us before Trump’s final four years are up.

  200. 200

    @ 199

    Oh, my! Not open-handed slaps to the shoulders and back!

    Oh, the brutality of those agents, who insist on physically controlling an illegal alien! What’s next? Zip ties?

  201. 201

    we now have an admission that they are working toward a weapon and always have been.

    No.

    You don’t.

    Not any more than you had that “Canadian girlfriend” in middle school who gave you “BJs”.
    Not any more than watching OfDumbfuck get railed by massive Navy NCOs once a month is “your chosen lifestyle”.

  203. 203

    Why does QoS McHillbilly hate Elon Musk so?

    It might be Musk’s efforts to free the Iranian people from the mullahtocracy they have suffered under for more than 45 years.

    Tehran warns Iranians: Don’t install Elon Musk’s Starlink internet
    Iran has asked the International Telecommunication Union to force SpaceX to deactivate “unauthorized devices” on its territory.

    Because the devices are banned, volunteers and foreign intelligence services have reportedly ferried kits into Iran’s Kurdish and Baloch border regions, hiding them in truck beds and fuel tanks.

    Industry analysts now estimate that about 20,000 clandestine Starlink dishes are operating inside Iran, purchased on the black market at prices topping $2,000 apiece—nearly 20 times the average monthly wage.

  204. 204

    Yeah, people say, ‘Well, you don’t know a ton about the Middle East.’ Like, that’s fine. I don’t want people I know, my friends, getting called up. I don’t want the children of my friends getting called over to die. I don’t even understand how it’s an option.

    I felt like it was supposed to be America first, like, we’re focusing on, like, ‘What are we doing to get things back into America,’ right? To like, increase like the purpose of being an American, to refill our hearts with blood and … make us feel something again here, and make us be excited about being an American.

    it feels like we are just working for Israel.

  205. 205

    @ 204

    it feels like we are just working for Israel.

    Does it feel like Israel controls the weather, too?

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