I went to The Guardian to get a news update and found this in the live update section. He awarded some medals of honor and blabbed a bit:
Trump says the country grieves for the four US serviceman who were killed in action, and thanks US service people.
He also briefly segues into a ramble about how much he loves the gold drapes in the East Room and his wife’s feelings about his White House ballroom renovations.
How much speculation is even necessary? The US has had a Keynsian war economy since 1942, and without some conflict somewhere to keep it all going, the country is fucked. Really, what does the US even manufacture besides weapons, and unless they're used, there's no rationale to keep producing them.
What This Is Really About: Last week the public learned that Trump's DOJ is withholding documents from the Epstein Files production that accuse Trump of sexually AND physically assaulting a child. Where have those headlines gone?
Exactly. And when DOJ finishes "reviewing" the documents and releases them this week, they will drop like the proverbial stone, because WAR WAR WAR WAR WAR. Shall I go on? I think you take my point.
Puzzling. Apparently the Obama agreement was based on the assumption that limiting Iran's capability to develop nuclear tech and eventually acquire nuclear weaponry was a real possibility, and helping the regime improve its standing in the international "community" was desirable, with minimal regard for its retrograde ideology (mass public hangings being just the most visible manifestation of its love for corporal punishment) and unspeakably repressive, medieval domestic policies. Now we get this: "Iran is still very far from getting to weapons-grade enrichment, though, and wouldn’t even need to domestically enrich it anyway, since they could just buy it from Pakistan, Russia or China." So, one wonders, what, exactly, is the point? Most critics of the present approach, including last year's strikes, scoff at suggestions that Iran represented a real threat of becoming a nuclear power, even as they fault Trump for pulling out of the Obama deal (not saying that was a good move, but still). And here we get the dubious idea that "if they really wanted" they could just pick up some weapons-grade fissile material on the open market and get on with the bomb building but they're such a lot of flower-sniffing peaceniks that they'd never seriously consider the possibility. Apparently, we are expected to believe, everything would be copacetic if the world just let the Ayatollahs rule unfettered, continue their toxic regional outreach, both financial and military, and the collective "West," not to mention Israel, would have no reason to lose any sleep over the matter. It's not to justify the present actions or anticipate a favorable outcome but there truly appear to be no good -and much less easy- ways to approach this particular predicament.
Dammit. Is this a sequel to Operation Midnight Hammer? Is it in the same universe? How are we supposed to follow canon if the names are all over the place?
I said that yesterday. Also that they left themselves open to it--and probably slip up and say Epstein Fury themselves accidentally--is practically the definition of a Freudian slip. 🤓
The radical fright-wing Republicans say, "Iran killed thousands of Americans with IEDs! That justifies WAR"
First of all, that was 20 years ago, and Trump did NOTHING about it the first time he was in office.
Second of all, that was in Iraq.
Third of all, the reason it was in Iraq was because we invaded Iraq. Iran helped the Iraqis fight back.
Fourth of all, there is this from U. S. Army Gen. John P. Abizaid, who said in a report to the Senate Armed Services Committee LAST YEAR: The general said improvised explosive device components manufactured in Iran have made their way into Iraq, but there's no provable connection that the Iranian government is directly providing bomb components to terrorists in Iraq.
"I can't tell you whether or not that happened with the orders of the Iranian government," Abizaid said in response to a senator's question. "But I can tell you that terrorists in northeastern Iraq used the Iranian northwestern border to move back and forth across the border."
I've been trying to minimize my grumpiness by not actively listening to the morons who started this. However, I'm a little curious how they're rationalizing it. In the last two wars Republicans started they made up all shorts shit and threw it against the media to see what stuck. As near as I can tell, they're just going with "because we can". Is that about right?
Operation EPIC FURRIES.
https://oursaferschools.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Otakuthon_2014_14850728278-400x600.jpg
Why has Trump been speaking to MSM journos all night and day? Trying to mold the story, but new excuses to different journalists?
I went to The Guardian to get a news update and found this in the live update section. He awarded some medals of honor and blabbed a bit:
Trump says the country grieves for the four US serviceman who were killed in action, and thanks US service people.
He also briefly segues into a ramble about how much he loves the gold drapes in the East Room and his wife’s feelings about his White House ballroom renovations.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/mar/02/democrats-to-force-vote-in-congress-to-limit-trumps-war-powers-against-iran-us-politics-live#top-of-blog
How much speculation is even necessary? The US has had a Keynsian war economy since 1942, and without some conflict somewhere to keep it all going, the country is fucked. Really, what does the US even manufacture besides weapons, and unless they're used, there's no rationale to keep producing them.
Israel is still trying to “pacify” Gaza. How long do you suppose it will take them/us pacify Iran?
So, war is now a meme? Awesome! What a great thing to trivialize.
Musta plugged that into the AI Generator and Operation Incompetence was overruled for Epic Fury.
What This Is Really About: Last week the public learned that Trump's DOJ is withholding documents from the Epstein Files production that accuse Trump of sexually AND physically assaulting a child. Where have those headlines gone?
Exactly. And when DOJ finishes "reviewing" the documents and releases them this week, they will drop like the proverbial stone, because WAR WAR WAR WAR WAR. Shall I go on? I think you take my point.
Puzzling. Apparently the Obama agreement was based on the assumption that limiting Iran's capability to develop nuclear tech and eventually acquire nuclear weaponry was a real possibility, and helping the regime improve its standing in the international "community" was desirable, with minimal regard for its retrograde ideology (mass public hangings being just the most visible manifestation of its love for corporal punishment) and unspeakably repressive, medieval domestic policies. Now we get this: "Iran is still very far from getting to weapons-grade enrichment, though, and wouldn’t even need to domestically enrich it anyway, since they could just buy it from Pakistan, Russia or China." So, one wonders, what, exactly, is the point? Most critics of the present approach, including last year's strikes, scoff at suggestions that Iran represented a real threat of becoming a nuclear power, even as they fault Trump for pulling out of the Obama deal (not saying that was a good move, but still). And here we get the dubious idea that "if they really wanted" they could just pick up some weapons-grade fissile material on the open market and get on with the bomb building but they're such a lot of flower-sniffing peaceniks that they'd never seriously consider the possibility. Apparently, we are expected to believe, everything would be copacetic if the world just let the Ayatollahs rule unfettered, continue their toxic regional outreach, both financial and military, and the collective "West," not to mention Israel, would have no reason to lose any sleep over the matter. It's not to justify the present actions or anticipate a favorable outcome but there truly appear to be no good -and much less easy- ways to approach this particular predicament.
Epic Fury is the name of my band when I was in 8th grade.
Dammit. Is this a sequel to Operation Midnight Hammer? Is it in the same universe? How are we supposed to follow canon if the names are all over the place?
Epstein, Epstein, Epstein.........
Epstein fury...........
Anything to distract attention away from this perverts raping of 12 year olds.......
Is Epstein all that important? Really, did people not always know the overly rich are perverts?
‘@NotBarackHusseinObama will attack Iran, in order to not get impeached and imprisoned for violating every child … and every law … within reach.
OMFG. He's giving an update on Epic Furry.
Soon to become OPEC Fury.
Props to Gene Nuse and their post below. The REAL name of this war is:
Operation Epstein Fury.
I said that yesterday. Also that they left themselves open to it--and probably slip up and say Epstein Fury themselves accidentally--is practically the definition of a Freudian slip. 🤓
The radical fright-wing Republicans say, "Iran killed thousands of Americans with IEDs! That justifies WAR"
First of all, that was 20 years ago, and Trump did NOTHING about it the first time he was in office.
Second of all, that was in Iraq.
Third of all, the reason it was in Iraq was because we invaded Iraq. Iran helped the Iraqis fight back.
Fourth of all, there is this from U. S. Army Gen. John P. Abizaid, who said in a report to the Senate Armed Services Committee LAST YEAR: The general said improvised explosive device components manufactured in Iran have made their way into Iraq, but there's no provable connection that the Iranian government is directly providing bomb components to terrorists in Iraq.
"I can't tell you whether or not that happened with the orders of the Iranian government," Abizaid said in response to a senator's question. "But I can tell you that terrorists in northeastern Iraq used the Iranian northwestern border to move back and forth across the border."
Regarding possible Iranian government meddling in Iraq, Abizaid said: "We need to look very, very, clearly and effectively with our own intelligence networks to determine how this flow (of IEDs into Iraq) is moving and who has authorized it, if anybody." https://www.dvidshub.net/news/539242/ied-components-moving-across-iraq-iran-border-general-says
Fifth of all, there is this from a 2024 United Nations report. I'm just going to post the link but it's only a short, one-page pdf containing a resolution from Iran that terrorists getting IEDs is bad and they are against terrorists getting IEDs: https://docs-library.unoda.org/General_Assembly_First_Committee_-Seventy-Ninth_session_(2024)/77-64-Iran-EN.pdf
Finally, radical fright-wing Republicans cannot name one American killed by Iranians or by Iranian hardware anywhere else since the Gulf War.
I've been trying to minimize my grumpiness by not actively listening to the morons who started this. However, I'm a little curious how they're rationalizing it. In the last two wars Republicans started they made up all shorts shit and threw it against the media to see what stuck. As near as I can tell, they're just going with "because we can". Is that about right?
The explanation has shifted again and again. They have no idea.
But #SendBarron Is trending!