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I agree. But I think the verdict is in. It is working out badly for Iran. The question is, how bad? This helps explain Trump's reaction when Putin invaded Ukraine. Trump said, "This is genius". At the time he was still in the dog house for his Jubilant Patriotic Cop Beating at the Capitol. So he got a lot of push back. I think we now know "genius" and "savvy" meant something like, "Gosh. I wish I could do that." And now Trump has. So this is a different version of Ukraine. I'm sure Putin and Trump both feel they have a long list of grievances, which we have all heard about. But now the idea of restraint is completely gone. The strong will just pick on the weak. That is the new world order. Putin started it. Trump said, "Me too!" I know my best case scenario. It goes something like this. Which is wishful thinking, but at least conceivably plausible. America is repulsed and rejects MAGA and America First in 2026 and 2028. I am likely to vote for Gavin Newsom. There are downsides of a California liberal. But I think in 2028 I want a proven leader who has high approval in California (like Reagan did back in the day) and has governed one of the biggest, open, and forward looking economies in the world. And is bending over backwards to show he wants to cooperate with the world, not fight it. In a wishful thinking scenario if we wait a few years it is conceivable Iranian reformers could again gain the upper hand, like they have before. Unlikely, but not out of the question. If the timing works right and there is a different US President with a very different agenda, like who isn't itching to start wars, that could potentially lead to better outcomes for two exhausted countries. One can hope.

And I'd agree with @Moses on several of those. VietNam was infamously disastrous for both VietNam and the US. It was definitely a war of aggression. Add to that the unproven theory that JFK wanting to get out of VietNam got him assassinated by the US military industrial complex/Texas oil hawks/etc. Iraq was also infamously disastrous and a war of aggression that ended badly for America and the world. How quickly we forget. I opposed Gulf War I (Bush 41, not Bush 43) at the time. That said, in retrospect it is a model of how to do war, if we choose to do it. Kuwait was invaded. That is a fact. Just like Putin invaded Ukraine. The Powell Doctrine famously limited the military objectives to limited ones, which the US achieved and then left. The verdict is out on Trump's War Of The Week. Venezuela seemingly achieved its limited objectives without opening a bloodbath. In part because Trump did not try regime change. What he is doing now in Iran is a whole different matter. My guess is it only gets worse for him. Whatever rises from the ashes will probably be worse. With much more reason to hate and kill Jews and Americans. I remember a discussion with a Republican friend in the run up to Iraq. Like most Democrats, I strongly opposed Bush 43's Iraq War. A Republican friend of mine supported the idea, but argued Bush 43 would "fuck up" by putting boots on the ground. He was sure right about that. I asked him what he thought the US should do if it didn't want to put boots on the ground. He said, "That's easy. Blow the shit out of them." I asked, "What if what rises from the ashes is even worse?" He said, "That's easy. Blow the shit out of them again." A true American, I guess. Now we'll see how well that works for America.

Moscow gloats over potential oil price spike from Iran war

Of course, Donald Trump himself says his Iran claims are nonsense. Just months ago we destroyed all their nukes, he said. Or not. 🤔 At least Trump is consistent. Nothing he says is ever true, or involves a long term strategy.

Which raises another point. This is the standard the US just set for Putin and others to follow: DROP A BOMB ON THEM. KILL THEM ALL. HE IS EVIL. DROP A BOMB ON THEM. KILL THEM BOTH. SHE IS EVIL. DROP A BOMB ON THEM. KILL THEM ALL. HE IS EVIL. DROP A BOMB ON THEM. KILL THEM ALL. HE IS EVIL. I personally have no problem with the idea that Khamenei launched terror and horror all over the world for decades. I have no problem with the fact that if we choose to blow the fuck out of lots of people and things in Iran, because we can, or because Bibi The Genocide Jew asks us nicely, Khamenei should be at the very top of the list. And I get it. If his daughter and 14 month old granddaughter gotta be blown up too, that is just how The Shining City On The Hill rolls. Fuck with us, and we'll take out your whole fucking family. I'm guessing it's possible some other country might decide Zelensky, or Sheinbaum, or Trudeau, or Trump is evil. Zelensky in particular should be nervous. I'm pretty sure Putin can figure out how to blow him up. I sure hope this is the America all Americans want to be. Because, like it or not, this is who we now are. There ain't no going back. Khamenei's granddaughter urges international community to cut ties with Iran - video "This regime is not faithful to any of its religious principles and does not know any rules except force and holding power," said Farideh Moradkhani, a well-known human rights activist, in the video That's the one who was not blown up by Israel. Kudos to her for speaking out for years, despite being the repeated victim of repression. Still, I'm not sure her intent was to bomb a 14 month girl she's related to. Again, I have no problem with the idea that Khamenei is an asshole and he deserved to die, if we want to go to war with Iran. Did we actually want to go to war with Iran, though? And does anybody want to explain how killing one asshole ends a regime like this? As far as I can tell, unless we want a boots on the ground slaughter like in Iraq, it may actually get worse for Iranians now. The history of US (and other nation's) interventions like this is it usually opens a bloodbath.

How war with Iran helps young men who voted for Trump: How tariffs help young men who voted for Trump: In January 2026, Trump told young Iranians who want democracy, "Help is on the way." In January 2026, the Iranian regime slaughtered anywhere from 3,000 to 30,000 Iranian protesters. In February 2026, Trump is telling Iranians to go protest again to change the regime, which he campaigned against in 2024. How is this likely to end? Should young Iranians or Americans trust Trump to not change his mind an hour from now? After all, his temperament is calm and he is always a man of his word. 🤪 End of Euphoria Michael T. Flynn LTG USA (RET) Trump's former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn is hardly a leftist. And his analysis is pretty consistent with what other more moderate talking heads like Ian Bremmer are saying. No one can predict where this leads. Which is actually a big problem. But there is no reason to think Iran's regime will just fold. I personally agree with Flynn and Bremmer and others that the scenario above is both the most likely and the most desirable outcome. Inherent in it is some kind of Venezuela-like deal. Meaning after the bombing stops Trump's "America First" US and Bibi The Genocide Jew's Israel will at least tolerate the Iranian regime (with a new head, but still the same snake) in return for certain concessions. This outcome of course is not consistent with Trump's dangerous and basically dishonest call for more young Iranians to go get slaughtered so the regime will magically go away. Even though America and Israel won't put boots on the ground. The fact that Trump is publicly calling for regime change strongly suggests there is no secret deal in place with the Iranian regime, like there obviously was in Venezuela. Mostly what the President of Iran is saying is we hate Americans and Israelis, and plan to kill more of you. Peace is at hand! Good luck with those gas prices, and truck prices, and protests, youngsters! And let's look on the bright side. The Trump family will get some awesome business deals with autocratic governments out of this!

You gotta hand it to Bibi The Baby Killer, though. He's expanding his franchise from slaughtering tens of thousands of Palestinian women and girls to now slaughtering Iranian girls. Including Khamenei's 14 month old granddaughter. Woo hoo! That takes a level of strategic thinking Trump simply lacks. Even for The Genocide Jew, this is quite an accomplishment. The sad question is how many Israeli Jews get killed next time? 1000 dead Jews? 10,000 dead Jews? 100,000 dead Jews? Anyone who has read what I think of as the Old Testament knows that "an eye for an eye" is as old as the Bible. So anyone who thinks the Palestinians and IRGC won't be planning the next mass slaughter of Jews - whether it takes a week or a month or years - has not read The Bible. This is Trump's legacy. But at least Americans get higher gas prices out of the deal with Bibi The Genocide Jew. That's a big win. Israeli organizations conclude Israel committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza

Kill @Barknaway! Kill! Remember. You are good and loyal and true. Israel strikes two schools in Iran, killing more than 100 people State media says Israeli attack on girls’ school in the city of Minab in the south of the country kills dozens. Good job, @Barknaway! You are a good pup! You are good and loyal and true! We need more Tik Toks @Barknaway! Right away! Now! Kill! Post Tik Toks! Kill! Post Tik Toks! I want at least 1000 Tik Toks today. Post Tik Toks and kill. All day! Post! Kill! Post! Kill! This is your moment, @Barknaway. DO NOT FAIL. DO NOT BE A PUSSY. DO NOT MAKE YOUR MOTHER ASHAMED! It is a good thing you can not speak or think, @Barknaway. Because you would want to rip Mamdani's throat open. I know. I know. He is Muslim slime. He is not a TRUE American. But we do not kill Muslim slime like him in America. Only in Iran. Or Iraq. Or Afghanistan. Or Libya. Pretty much wherever Muslims live, okay? You can bite Mamdami, though. Bite any Democrat or Independent you want. And even half the Republicans that do not support Trump on this. And for sure any socialist. They are NOT true Americans. And they need to learn a lesson.

New poll reveals majority of voters oppose US strike on Iran, say Trump has gone too far abroad National polls show broad voter resistance to military action abroad and rising support for a less active role in global issues. Trump's message to Democrats: Fuck you. I'm King. Pay higher prices. Trump's message to Independents: Fuck you. I'm King. Pay higher prices. Only half of Republicans support the piece of shit's warmongering. They want him to do what he promised. Lower prices. Kiss that idea goodbye, MAGA. It's just how it rolls, you poor MAGA dopes. Trump thrives on war. Trump thrives on division. Trump is destroying America and everything it stands for. Sadly, he can't send ICE out to just put a bullet in Massie's head. Bummer! But he can send out LaCivita to slit Massie's throat politically. Who cares what the fuck even Republicans think? Fuck you, peasants. Pay higher prices. TRUMP IS KING. Thomas Massie is not good and loyal and true like you, @Barknaway! Marjorie Taylor Greene is not good and loyal and true like you, @Barknaway! Almost half of Republicans are not good and loyal and true like you, @Barknaway! Bark! Bite! Kill!

I give Trump credit for this. He has figured out how to unify the Left and the Right. Massie got one thing wrong. Americans will be the first to pay higher prices. Trump is a threat to peace. Trump is a threat to democracy. Republicans need to be blown to shit in the midterms. Die, Republicans, die. Even the very best Republican moderates need to die at the polls. This is war as far as I am concerned. They are supporting a piece of shit President who wants to be a King and is doing exactly the opposite of what he was elected BY THEM to do.

Senators urge ceasefire in Pentagon’s fight with Anthropic It's kind of remarkable that two Republican and two Democratic Senators, including a former Senate leader and hawk like Mitch McConnell, are publicly begging Trump and Hegseth to stop being such fucking assholes. It's also both happy and funny that people in China and South Korea tend to like AI. They tend to view it as another technology that has lifted them from poverty and malnutrition and built a prosperous working class. At least so far. What did America get wrong? What a stain on America! What a worthless stupid piece of shit this POTUS is. All Trump cares about is his ego and his Trump War Of The Week. This week Iran? Next week Cuba? Maybe shoot some more harmless Americans in the head? Or at least spy on them illegally? Hell, at least we should let Trump make some more fake AI videos telling Canadians they are pieces of shit, okay? Trump is a threat to America and the world. The sad thing about this is the billionaire investors behind AI, like Marc Andreesen, will be perfectly happy to watch it take middle class white collar jobs away so they can make more money on their investment. It is happening right now. Today Block laid off half its work force thanks to AI. And it's stock price soared. Block lays off nearly half its staff because of AI. Its CEO said most companies will do the same But at least some of the more humanistic people in Silicon Valley, like at Anthropic, don't want war. They don't want to make it easy for Trump to do more illegal shit. Ha ha. Like Trump could give a shit. Humanistic fools! Who gives a shit about Trump's working class supporters? Ha ha. I just worry Trump will turn @Barknaway into Trump Steaks. That would be awful! So the handwriting is already on the wall. All the worst parts of AI that are emerging - higher electric bills, lost middle class jobs, better warmongering - will be rightfully laid at the feet of piece of shit Trump and his cocksucker JD Vance. The rage and sadness are growing and growing. Every time I feel rage I donate to a close call pro-union and pro-worker Democratic candidate running for Senate like Sherrod Brown in Ohio or Jon Ossoff in Georgia. Trump. Hegseth. Vance. What worthless un-American pieces of shit! What stains on America! Billionaire Trump and his Silicon Valley Peter Thiel Hillbilly Boy JD Vance are for the working class? What a fucking sad joke!

I have one piece of bad news. Jeff Bezos did not have to suck up to Trump and Melania for billions in tax cuts and policy favors to make this movie. I know. It sucks. But the movie is awesome. And the premiere was to die for! Bark! Bite! Kill an Iranian or Canadian!

Trump and Hegseth are such completely stupid womanizing alcoholic idiot pieces of shit. It's bad enough that they run America and the so-called "War Department." It's bad enough that Trump promised and failed to lower prices. And promised and failed to be given an undeserved Penis Prize. And now Trump seems to want a Trump War Of The Week with Iran. Stupid dangerous piece of shit! Now these dangerous morons want to threaten the entire human race. What total pieces of shit. What a stain on America. ‘Incoherent’: Hegseth’s Anthropic ultimatum confounds AI policymakers Tech lawyers and AI policymakers warn that the Pentagon’s plans to compel Anthropic to abandon its ethical red lines are contradictory and could chill partnerships between the government and Silicon Valley. AI is a very complicated subject. My one sentence summary of the last century is that, at our best, America funds lots of research through the Defense Department that creates Cool Good Stuff like the internet and GPS. And many other technological breakthroughs that have in fact helped progress and the human race. And even with Scary Lethal Things like nuclear weapons we have all managed to cooperate and play by ethical rules. These rules arguably prevent wars and keep the world safe. Enter King Trump and his loyal alcoholic yapping servant Hegseth, who plays by King Trump rules. Don't be jealous, @Barknaway. You are just a dumb but loyal and true dog. Bark! Bite! Kill! It makes no sense that we start with a new technology that is gaining a worse and worse reputation by the day. And Hegseth is now saying give it to us and let us do whatever the fuck we want, and make our own rules. Let us spy at will on Americans and kidnap global leaders. Oh, and by the way everyone working on the science says publicly that the potential threats to the human race are so great that they make nukes look like child's play. These pieces of shit Trump and Hegseth are literally a threat to the human race. Meanwhile lying piece of shit Trump invents imaginary deals with unnamed AI leaders that will keep the price of electricity down. Even though high electric bills thanks to data centers that suck up enormous amounts of power to make Elon Musk richer are the only great thing many Americans know about AI. And to add insult to injury, moron liar Trump's White House releases a fake AI video of an American hockey player insulting Canada. What a divisive hateful dangerous lying piece of shit Trump is. What a stain on America. These idiots are literally a danger to peace. And a danger to the human race. ‘It's clearly fake': Olympic hockey star disavows AI-generated White House video "It's not my voice, not my lips moving," he said. Raping lying warmongering piece of shit Trump!

I'll add a second level to the sadness. During Trump 1.0, I had to be careful what I said around friends and family who supported Trump. I didn't worry much about what I said around family members who think like me. That Trump is America's piece of shit. In fact, two of my brothers I'm closest to are definitely more moderate than me. One is what I call a Bloomberg Democrat, another is a McCain Republican. They would both go into rants about how much they despised Trump. One, the Republican, got kicked off his rural neighbor's lawn just for saying he'd be voting for Biden in 2020. I thought it was funny. I was no longer the crazy left winger. In Trump 2.0, that has all changed. And it is because of the sadness and disbelief. Most of my family is Democratic. And mostly they feel, how could we have elected this piece of shit again? And why waste energy talking about it? It sucks, but he won. I find that sad. The whole fucking thing is sad. And it is sad that talking about it with the people I love the most just creates a bad vibe. The good news is there are plenty of people who are really angry and willing to act. Kicking ICE out of Minneapolis, which basically did tell the cruel bully to go fuck himself, is a recent example. That's powerful. Every time some leader or nation anywhere in the world tells Trump to go fuck himself, or tells America it is out of line, I am happy. And in the long run there is some good that will come out of that, I think. Nobody deserves to be a bully. In the end the sadness is even more powerful than the rage. Sadness and rage are two sides of the same coin. As soon as they have the opportunity to sweep this piece of shit out of the way, and his legacy, people who are sad will. They may not want to go protest in the street. But they will vote, and we'll cleanse the Trump shit stain away as best we can.

Yeah. Well they probably come from some shit hole like Canada. 😁

Much higher prices and illegal tariffs Bullets in heads from cruel hooded ICE sheriffs Long standing allies all tied up with strings These are a few of my Trumpiest things Brown-colored workers who all are deported. Billionaire donors whose money is courted. Tax cuts that fly with the Musk on their wings These are a few of my Trumpiest things Girls in white dresses with underage pussies Democracies I attack run by wussies Spontaneous rants when I don't get my way Slowly dismantling the rights of The Gays When I start wars And prices soar And I'm feeling sad I simply remember that I am a King And then I don't feel so bad.

He is a lying child raping piece of shit. Useless. A shit stain on America. He promised to lower prices. He is raising them with tariffs. The SCOTUS members he appoints say, "No." He ignores them and sticks it to his own farmer and working class supporters, who he is destroying. What a piece of shit. What a liar. He rapes and rapes and rapes for power and ego and money. These people who trusted him and he destroyed will not bother to go vote for the piece of shit this Fall. He promised to keep us out of foreign wars. He publicly pissed on Ukraine and betrayed them and NATO and said, "Fuck democracy." And now the lying war mongering piece of shit wants to start a Trump War in Greenland and a Trump War in Venezuela and a Trump War in Iran. Not for freedom in Ukraine and democracy in Venezuela. For his own ego and oil and money. This lying raping piece of shit betrays everything he promised to his voters and everything America stands for. Piece of shit. Piece of shit. Piece of shit. What Does ‘America First’ Mean in Iran? His own working class base realizes the piece of shit they trusted and put in power is out of control and not doing what he promised. This author was polite not to mention how many farmers Trump is driving into bankruptcy and how his tariffs have raised prices for his base. His own base is weary of the piece of shit they elected. Why am I not surprised? Bark, loyal and true puppy, bark!

Tristamente no. Soy Gay.

Thanks, Liza. You cheered me up.

Hermana, I am worried about @Barknaway. A high-stakes State of the Union just got harder for Trump The president heads to the Hill for a primetime address to Congress on Tuesday amid a torrent of negative news. Let's face some ugly facts, Sis. @Barknaway is good and loyal and true. He thinks Trump is the best Master ever. So he may run into the Oval Office and jump on Trump's lap expecting to be petted and given a treat. And in a fit of rage Trump might kick @Barknaway. Or even turn him into Trump Steaks. It would be very sad. You and I know Trump is a lying raping insanely stupid un-American piece of shit. But @Barknaway does not understand these things. He's just a lovably stupid dog. Then again, I had an idea. Perhaps we could attach a note around @Barknaway's neck that says the following: YOUR INCREASINGLY SMALL BAND OF SUPPORTERS WANT LOWER PRICES, NOT WAR WITH IRAN. YOU LYING RAPING STUPID LAW BREAKING PIECE OF SHIT. Now, granted, this is risky. If Mark Carney or some leader of a shit hole EU country were to walk into the Oval and say that, Trump would have @Barknaway rip their throat open. But maybe if we have @Barknaway be the messenger, the message will actually get through????? Or is Trump really that stupid and venal???????

We're saying the same thing. It would actually be nice if Trump just spent his time on vanity projects. Just line people up to give him awards and honors and compliments all day long until he got tired and went to bed. As opposed to giving him lots of time to figure out how to get mad and break things. Especially big and old and important things. Like democracy. And global alliances that have worked pretty well. And built a shared framework for security and progress for all, at their best.

Supreme Court strikes down Trump’s tariffs It’s a rare loss for the president from a conservative-led court and a major rebuke of his economic program. Even a conservative SCOTUS handpicked in many cases by Trump's right wing sycophants recognize he is a law-breaking stupid PIECE OF SHIT leader.

So now I am dropping my attempt to mimic and mock Trump Think, which apparently worked. It's actually even worse than you think. Gambia with nukes is bad enough. This is more like Gambia with AI. Superintelligence. Or at least the appearance of it. Musk talks openly and proudly about how his robots, that he makes and profits from, will take over the jobs of doctors, teachers, lawyers. People who spent their lives getting educated to do something they love. They say this will create a world in which everything is free. Which I suppose is good. Since it is a world in which everyone is fired. How appropriate. This is what Donald Trump is good at. They don't mention that investors are putting billions in capital into this. They don't mention that there are already countless examples, in the US and across the world, about how communities and countries are being exploited. Their land, their water, their resources, their cheap labor are needed now to create this supposedly "free" future. Electric rates soar. People can't get jobs. And this is all for the good of the egotistical and greedy few. We've all seen it play out. Musk thinks he can use Trump to get what he wants. Trump thinks he can use Musk to get what he wants. It is all about ego and greed. Ego and greed, Ego and greed. Except they are playing with toys that can destroy the world. And racing to make those toys even more dangerous. They are like bad children in a sandbox. Except it is scarier than that. So right now is a very good time to look at the US as a piece of shit country with a piece of shit leader. I'm glad the rest of the world is telling America to go fuck itself. The one good thing I can say about Donald J. Trump is that he is not George W. Bush. Bush squandered the prestige of America on a war that backfired in countless ways. And that the US and Iraq and the world are still paying the price for. Happily, thanks to Bush's failures, Trump at least won't try that again. Yet. Probably, hopefully, even under Trump fewer bad things can happen. Precisely because most people on the planet see him for what he is. A greedy. stupid, egotistical clown.