Addressing the nation on Saturday evening, President Trump declared that the bombing of Iran was a "spectacular military success" and that all of Iran's key nuclear sites were "completely and totally obliterated." Trump's chest-puffing continued on his social media platform, Truth Social, where he described the strikes as "
It was all Hollywood theater. Satellite imagery shows a line of trucks at the Iranian military sites two days before the bombing, ostensibly transporting nuclear materials to another site. Then the US bombs are dropped for great drama. Iran then responds with a show of sending 14 missiles - one for each of the US bombs - toward a US military base that had been evacuated before the Iranian bombs were launched.
All a big performance. All a big drama to make Trump look powerful after shaming himself at the G7 the week before. And the corporate press ate it up.
Actually, it looks like those trucks were being used for moving dirt to reinforce areas around the tunnel openings…there is a large Cat 992- style loader in the photo. There were two large specialized trucks there a day or two earlier… that’s when the materials were probably moved.
I don't trust this administration to sweep streets. The mission will be accomplished when we get them all into the dustbin of history. Hegseth, Vance, Rubio - all will be footnotes of disgrace, shame and embarrassment in our history - unless their friends the techbros decide to rewrite it on AI.
Trump has convinced himself and the sycophants who surround him that he is a military and strategic genius, and so fierce and terrifying that the Iranians have already given up. They may agree to a ceasefire but they have not given up and they will never give in to a thug like Trump. It's only a matter of time before one or more of their surrogates commits some act of retaliation. Oh, and Trump is never going to get his coveted Nobel Peace Prize. Unlike far too many Americans and all of the corporate media, the Nobel Committee is neither afraid of nor beholding to Trump. It's more likely that they will give the prize to the next Democratic president who comes in to clean up Trump's disaster.
Tremendously wasteful amount of time, energy, money and manpower. Nothing accomplished but destruction of material, natural resources, and hopes of any peaceful resolution to the competition between nations for resources and acceptance.
Iran, unbeknownst to most of our "great MAGA" leaders has 90MM people (twice that of Iraq) and is twice the size geographically. You can't bomb away knowledge. They couldn't even possibly bomb away the nuclear enriched material. Iran has certainly by know learned, forever, that the US cannot be trusted time and time again and they will not make the mistake of trusting anything that relates to our country.... or any country "allied with our country"... ever again.
This is a problem for all the middle east and any American interests, bases, companies, and individuals doing business with the US and specifically the US homeland. The US as a country and territories have 100's of thousands of soft targets that "R", quite literally... indefensible.
Trump's bombings were quite the coup. He sure fooled them. Something like the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor which got us into WWII. We were pissed, embarrassed and stunned...I wonder how the Iranians feel? Pissed, embarrassed, and stunned?
They have Russia, and BRICS, and terrorist connections across the Globe along with likely many sleeper and non sleeping cells in many countries...yes...to include the US, Canada, and Mexico our 3 neighboring "never again" trust abused angered allies.
This will not end well.
This is what happens when you let childlike morons with the level of education of a 4th grader (by US standards) run your government and all the departments designed to protect you from all the evils of the world, so you can live a peaceful and productive life...that ship has sailed...and we are as...the SS United States...has been treated...with a disgraceful future.
Our enemies understand that Trump is an ignoramus. He has never been capable of making a reasoned decision on almost anything. Who watches a musical, play, or movie repeated times and doesn’t know the main characters? That’s Trump. He’s making poor, uninformed decisions on all fronts.
What happens if Iran decides upon a course of regime change - for the US? What do we do if they choose to take out our top leadership? We are not invincible when it comes to individual actors.
I think this could be more likely than people imagine. It didn’t get a lot of press, but Trump has been using a lot of God talk of late. What if Ali Khamenei decides that US leadership is making this into a holy war and that Trump/Vance are helping to usher in a militant Christian government? I’m sure he understands over half of Americans would be, at best, indifferent to regime change.
This is what happens when an elected leader decides to make their administration seem to be a regime. This is world-stage politics. If we decided to take out Vladimir Putin, we could do that. But the same applies the other way - Putin could strike us in such a way, by directly targeting leadership. It sounds to me like Iran has options, and they’re backed into a corner.
If true that Khamenei faces internal threat from his own country, one way for him to re-establish dominance would be to pursue regime change in America. If he were successful with that, who would stand up to him domestically?
It is also true Khamenei is in his late 80s and on his way out if not out of the decision making picture. He’s not been seen.
All roads seem to lead to Bibi. Bibi wanted this just as Bibi wanted the US to go from Afghanistan into Iraq. Hezbollah was spawned (1982) by and grew larger with Israel’s war/s in Lebanon. Bibi funneling $$ to Hamas to make a 2 state solution impossible & ignoring warnings too years to blow up in his face.
Even if the ME escapes wider consequences now, what has been done and the resulting destabilization likely planted the seeds for to be harvested down the road. As it raises Bibi’s poll numbers, it takes eyes off Gaza where the IDF is accused of firing on Gazans & using drones against them where food is provided. The IDF says Gazans came at them in a ‘threatening way.” All this and our actions will not be forgotten in the region.
Hadn't considered the holy war aspect, although he did and will appeal to that portion of his base when challenged by some Congressional Republicans as the christian nationalists just love the fact that he's out there... killing non Christians. So bizarre. And we thought that Christianity was kind of against that sort of stuff?
Actions such as these always have unintended consequences. Anyone who says they “know” what will happen as a result is more concerned with looking good now and cannot be trusted.
Ah, Pakistan. A nuclear-armed nation that Trump could decide at any minute to cripple, in service to his buddy Modi. It’s such a mystery why Pakistan would nominate Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize.
Recently things heated up on their border. DJT claimed credit for negotiations there. Who knows the truth. But obviously Pakistan sees the advantage of publicly praising Mr. I
Considering Ukraine’s experience after giving up its nuclear arsenal, it’s hard to imagine that Iran and other countries would conclude that they are safe without them. Trump is succeeding in Making Iranian Nukes Great Again.
Couldn’t even qualify the ridiculous flippant statements with real bomb damage assessments or actual evidence to back up all his verbal vomiting. Kegsbreath will say & do anything because he’s nothing more than an unqualified place holder. Complete insanity.
It was all Hollywood theater. Satellite imagery shows a line of trucks at the Iranian military sites two days before the bombing, ostensibly transporting nuclear materials to another site. Then the US bombs are dropped for great drama. Iran then responds with a show of sending 14 missiles - one for each of the US bombs - toward a US military base that had been evacuated before the Iranian bombs were launched.
All a big performance. All a big drama to make Trump look powerful after shaming himself at the G7 the week before. And the corporate press ate it up.
Theatre! Produced and directed by Donald Trump.
An expensive production for a country who can't seem to find the money for Medicaid or nutritional assistance for it's most vulnerable citizens.
Absolutely disgusting!
Actually, it looks like those trucks were being used for moving dirt to reinforce areas around the tunnel openings…there is a large Cat 992- style loader in the photo. There were two large specialized trucks there a day or two earlier… that’s when the materials were probably moved.
Time to rewatch "Wag the Dog" (1997).
Alas, not only the corporate media.
Of course they did.
What a dumbass! TACO 2 Weak declares victory. However what Donny-Dumbass forgot to mention is quite salient:
"You can't bomb knowledge,"
Knowledge, desire, and memory, all unbombable. But you can still kill a lot of people and destroy the earth trying.
Ain't that the truth?
I don't trust this administration to sweep streets. The mission will be accomplished when we get them all into the dustbin of history. Hegseth, Vance, Rubio - all will be footnotes of disgrace, shame and embarrassment in our history - unless their friends the techbros decide to rewrite it on AI.
Trump has convinced himself and the sycophants who surround him that he is a military and strategic genius, and so fierce and terrifying that the Iranians have already given up. They may agree to a ceasefire but they have not given up and they will never give in to a thug like Trump. It's only a matter of time before one or more of their surrogates commits some act of retaliation. Oh, and Trump is never going to get his coveted Nobel Peace Prize. Unlike far too many Americans and all of the corporate media, the Nobel Committee is neither afraid of nor beholding to Trump. It's more likely that they will give the prize to the next Democratic president who comes in to clean up Trump's disaster.
If I had control of a dozen 30,000 pound bombs, I'd be a fn genius too.
Q: Are Iran's nuclear capabilities "completely obliterated," or are you ignoring potentially contradictory evidence to push your chosen narrative?
Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth: Yes.
Tremendously wasteful amount of time, energy, money and manpower. Nothing accomplished but destruction of material, natural resources, and hopes of any peaceful resolution to the competition between nations for resources and acceptance.
Iran, unbeknownst to most of our "great MAGA" leaders has 90MM people (twice that of Iraq) and is twice the size geographically. You can't bomb away knowledge. They couldn't even possibly bomb away the nuclear enriched material. Iran has certainly by know learned, forever, that the US cannot be trusted time and time again and they will not make the mistake of trusting anything that relates to our country.... or any country "allied with our country"... ever again.
This is a problem for all the middle east and any American interests, bases, companies, and individuals doing business with the US and specifically the US homeland. The US as a country and territories have 100's of thousands of soft targets that "R", quite literally... indefensible.
Trump's bombings were quite the coup. He sure fooled them. Something like the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor which got us into WWII. We were pissed, embarrassed and stunned...I wonder how the Iranians feel? Pissed, embarrassed, and stunned?
They have Russia, and BRICS, and terrorist connections across the Globe along with likely many sleeper and non sleeping cells in many countries...yes...to include the US, Canada, and Mexico our 3 neighboring "never again" trust abused angered allies.
This will not end well.
This is what happens when you let childlike morons with the level of education of a 4th grader (by US standards) run your government and all the departments designed to protect you from all the evils of the world, so you can live a peaceful and productive life...that ship has sailed...and we are as...the SS United States...has been treated...with a disgraceful future.
Our enemies understand that Trump is an ignoramus. He has never been capable of making a reasoned decision on almost anything. Who watches a musical, play, or movie repeated times and doesn’t know the main characters? That’s Trump. He’s making poor, uninformed decisions on all fronts.
What happens if Iran decides upon a course of regime change - for the US? What do we do if they choose to take out our top leadership? We are not invincible when it comes to individual actors.
I think this could be more likely than people imagine. It didn’t get a lot of press, but Trump has been using a lot of God talk of late. What if Ali Khamenei decides that US leadership is making this into a holy war and that Trump/Vance are helping to usher in a militant Christian government? I’m sure he understands over half of Americans would be, at best, indifferent to regime change.
This is what happens when an elected leader decides to make their administration seem to be a regime. This is world-stage politics. If we decided to take out Vladimir Putin, we could do that. But the same applies the other way - Putin could strike us in such a way, by directly targeting leadership. It sounds to me like Iran has options, and they’re backed into a corner.
If true that Khamenei faces internal threat from his own country, one way for him to re-establish dominance would be to pursue regime change in America. If he were successful with that, who would stand up to him domestically?
It is also true Khamenei is in his late 80s and on his way out if not out of the decision making picture. He’s not been seen.
All roads seem to lead to Bibi. Bibi wanted this just as Bibi wanted the US to go from Afghanistan into Iraq. Hezbollah was spawned (1982) by and grew larger with Israel’s war/s in Lebanon. Bibi funneling $$ to Hamas to make a 2 state solution impossible & ignoring warnings too years to blow up in his face.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/
Even if the ME escapes wider consequences now, what has been done and the resulting destabilization likely planted the seeds for to be harvested down the road. As it raises Bibi’s poll numbers, it takes eyes off Gaza where the IDF is accused of firing on Gazans & using drones against them where food is provided. The IDF says Gazans came at them in a ‘threatening way.” All this and our actions will not be forgotten in the region.
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Hadn't considered the holy war aspect, although he did and will appeal to that portion of his base when challenged by some Congressional Republicans as the christian nationalists just love the fact that he's out there... killing non Christians. So bizarre. And we thought that Christianity was kind of against that sort of stuff?
"This would be a great time in the world for some man to come along that knew something."- Will Rogers, 1931.
I have faith in Whiskey Pete! Anybody who can function while so thoroughly inebriated must have a really good grasp on reality!
Those idiots need to chill. Russia and North Korea will be only too happy to help Iran drop a bomb on the United States.
Actions such as these always have unintended consequences. Anyone who says they “know” what will happen as a result is more concerned with looking good now and cannot be trusted.
Yes, the arrogance of these idiots, the cocoon of power they live in, and the surety with which they deliver their proclamations makes my skin crawl.
Thank you for clear information at a time when the billionaire/corporate media is spitting out garbage analysis.
Woke up this morning to an angry Trump, mad that Israel isn't following the script he wrote to try to get his Nobel Peace Prize.
It would be funny except we're dealing with a war instead of a TV show.
Yes. I saw him dropping the F-bomb talking to reporters. A lot of “I’m not happy…. I … I … I”
The day before he launched the bombing mission Pakistan said it recommended him for a Nobel Peace Prize.
Ah, Pakistan. A nuclear-armed nation that Trump could decide at any minute to cripple, in service to his buddy Modi. It’s such a mystery why Pakistan would nominate Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize.
Recently things heated up on their border. DJT claimed credit for negotiations there. Who knows the truth. But obviously Pakistan sees the advantage of publicly praising Mr. I
— The Pakistani government went on to say that Trump’s “leadership during the 2025 Pakistan-India crisis manifestly showcases the continuation of his legacy of pragmatic diplomacy and effective peace-building — https://time.com/7296429/pakistan-nominate-trump-nobel-peace-prize-win-india-conflict/
I’m sure the nomination for a Prize was never mentioned in the negotiations.
🤭 I would hope not but …
Considering Ukraine’s experience after giving up its nuclear arsenal, it’s hard to imagine that Iran and other countries would conclude that they are safe without them. Trump is succeeding in Making Iranian Nukes Great Again.
Couldn’t even qualify the ridiculous flippant statements with real bomb damage assessments or actual evidence to back up all his verbal vomiting. Kegsbreath will say & do anything because he’s nothing more than an unqualified place holder. Complete insanity.
You don’t reward the arsonist because he shows up with a hose.
To be VERY superficial, _rump’s picture shows his orange face and skin colored ear…the boy loves his makeup.
And,of course, a gaping mouth.