Again, this question is downstream of the fact that this war is entirely illegal under both US domestic & international law. Even if you think it is a good idea, or justified because “Iran is Very Bad & did ______,” you should still be very disturbed that a Mad King can just do this stuff now.
Who was that dipshit on Fox who told everyone there was no danger & to stop being pussies & drive their ships right through the straight?
Sharp point about this from @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social over at The Bad Place. I'd add that MAGA "civilizational emergency" types like the unrest. It's a zone to perform what they imagine are acts of heroism, like rappelling into an apartment building with an AR and arresting a few 5 year olds.
Russia enters Viktor Orban's election campaign, providing consultants who will flood social media with messages designed, ironically, to frame Orbán, a Russia puppet, as "the only candidate who can keep Hungary sovereign"
From @financialtimes.com
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Reminder that the Pentagon press corps is a bunch of online ideological cronies like Laura Loomer and Matt Gaetz. Now, they won't even allow neutral photographers.
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Just like 2020 when Trump downplayed over 100 service members with traumatic brain injuries as “headaches”, and downplaying covid deaths, Trump is never honest with the American people about this if he thinks it makes him look bad. Because Trump is all about Trump. www.cbsnews.com/news/strike-...
The fragile insecure flower is crying again.
NEW: The Iranian drone strike that killed 6 U.S. troops in Kuwait at the start of the war was far more devastating than previously disclosed.
Dozens suffered traumatic brain injuries, burns, and shrapnel wounds. At least one required an amputation. More than 30 remain hospitalized. (CBS News)
Beginning to think that right wing defenses of free speech and opposition to cancel culture might not have been completely sincere
"after they published photos — which have broad reach because they are licensed by publications globally — members of Hegseth’s staff told colleagues that they did not like the way that the secretary looked."
Pete Hegseth gutted Pentagon oversight, calling the rules of war "stupid." He slashed the Middle East casualty team from 10 experts to one.
Then came the Minab strike: 170 girls and 14 teachers dead.
The Pentagon’s "inability to confirm" its role is the outcome Hegseth engineered.
He’s a monster and, in the Caribbean and the Middle East, a murderer and a war criminal. But he’ll be damned if he can’t make press photographers ensure he looks pretty. Hair gel is more important to Hegseth than the troops or the law.
Kids... don't idolize.
Apart from the moral repugnance, this is so revealing of how ignorant conservatives are about poverty. Poor people have to think about money ALL THE TIME. They worry constantly about what everything costs, how to substitute one purchase for another, what bill can be put off until payday, etc.
“Officers at U.S. Central Command created the target coordinates for the strike using outdated data provided by the Defense Intelligence Agency, people briefed on the investigation said.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...
"Outdated data from the DIA" 🙄 -- yet another example of "a sufficient level of incompetence is indistinguishable from malice."
"We fired everybody competent at the DIA because we just don't GAF" is reckless endangerment of the WORLD.
But when they send Vance to try to destroy the welfare state in Minnesota, they do call that a “war.”
Receipts:
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He hangs out at maralago...
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I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.
I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.
1/ Here's what I can share:
Roger Marshall owns two homes (one a 300-acre ranch) and has an estimated net worth of 9 million dollars. How many sacrifices is he going to make?
One thing I hope that comes out of this unplanned, illegal, unconstitutional, incompetent war is that we finally set aside childish things & the lie that we can't afford whatever we want as a country & start having serious conversations about what we <want> to afford.
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This is asinine - those taxes are used by states for transportation projects - not just big highways but also transit systems.
It does nothing to address the core issue - that this f'ed up maladministration just cashed a multi-thousand dollar check against each and every current/future citizen.
Patriotism!
Get your Patriotism here!
Patriotism!
Step right up lads!
Don't ask what the country you pay your taxes to can do for you, my boys!
Ask what you can do for ur politicians!
You want people to think you're some kind of freedom hating commie!
Dress up when u gas up & take 1 for the donald!
Russian oil now selling at a premium! Great job everyone!
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our media LOVES war
they LOVE explosions and fighter jets and flak jackets and The Troops
and we are a couple of days into this conflict and already they are starting to lose the narrative except in the most hardcore propaganda shows (Hannity et al)
it took years for Iraq to fall apart, not days
"Freedom isn't Free" being used for high gas prices rather than the lives of fallen soldiers is 100% grade-A MAGA.
