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orangecrush

(28,282 posts)
Tue Jun 17, 2025, 01:00 PM Jun 2025

MAJOR BREAKING - SOMETHING VERY VERY BAD IS HAPPENING

Bad developments re Israel Iran.


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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-leave-g7-summit-canada-early-israel-iran-middle-east-conflict-rcna213392


"President Trump on Tuesday called for Iran’s “unconditional surrender,” cited the possibility of killing Iran’s supreme leader and referred to Israel’s war efforts with the word “we” — all apparent suggestions that the United States could enter the war against Iran."

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/17/world/israel-iran-trump

"Trump leans toward Iran strikes after Huckabee’s divine exhortation"

"In the message to Trump, Huckabee described the president as “the most consequential President in a century – maybe ever” and asserted that “only ONE voice matters. HIS voice.” He wrote, “God spared you in Butler, PA... You did not seek this moment. This moment sought YOU!”

https://www.jpost.com/international/article-858071
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MAJOR BREAKING - SOMETHING VERY VERY BAD IS HAPPENING (Original Post) orangecrush Jun 2025 OP
These days something really bad is always happening. Ocelot II Jun 2025 #1
You mean this? OldBaldy1701E Jun 2025 #61
Nothing but Greg_In_SF Jun 2025 #2
We'll find out orangecrush Jun 2025 #3
You know we're livin in hell when "news breaks" on an extended 14 minute video (bringing in CA$H CLICK$) usonian Jun 2025 #4
We'll see orangecrush Jun 2025 #6
Absolutely nothing personal. I just hate clickbait culture. usonian Jun 2025 #19
Thank you! orangecrush Jun 2025 #22
If you click "more" this takes you to the transcript. jeffreyi Jun 2025 #43
I tried to get a transcript of Senator Padilla's speech this morning. No luck usonian Jun 2025 #57
Yes! Exactly! MineralMan Jun 2025 #35
Totally agree vapor2 Jun 2025 #56
"MAJOR BREAKING"?? Major clickbait maybe awesomerwb1 Jun 2025 #5
C Ya orangecrush Jun 2025 #9
MAJOR INCREDIBLE BREAKING NEWS!!! BYE! awesomerwb1 Jun 2025 #25
Pretty much Prairie Gates Jun 2025 #23
Nope. GB_RN Jun 2025 #50
Holy Dr. Strangelove! no_hypocrisy Jun 2025 #7
Netanyahu actually told Iran orangecrush Jun 2025 #11
Has TACO time replaced sabre rattling? bucolic_frolic Jun 2025 #8
He thinks he is the orange messiah orangecrush Jun 2025 #13
The Dominionists and Evangelicals slightlv Jun 2025 #64
Actually I_UndergroundPanther Jun 2025 #75
I'm very worried about a disastrous war, but can you summarize? mvd Jun 2025 #10
Netanyahu telling Iran the "time is here" orangecrush Jun 2025 #15
Thanks mvd Jun 2025 #17
Also this orangecrush Jun 2025 #20
Huckabee almost sounds like he's hoping trump will appoint him to something big. calimary Jun 2025 #47
Highly likely. orangecrush Jun 2025 #48
Since you've "summarized" for several requesters already, why not just do it in the OP? erronis Jun 2025 #37
Another meaningless, alarmist post title... Jirel Jun 2025 #12
Glad you felt the need to post on my thread orangecrush Jun 2025 #16
It is a kick, afterall. Small favors, I guess. ❤️ littlemissmartypants Jun 2025 #33
Some scary 💩 with our unstable leader, I'm afraid Deuxcents Jun 2025 #14
This guy referenced the AUMF, but I believe it was repealed. Renew Deal Jun 2025 #18
"Also, this guy's barber should be replaced." LudwigPastorius Jun 2025 #26
Nailed It DET Jun 2025 #71
Trump risks WW3 to stay out of jail. Kid Berwyn Jun 2025 #21
I think he's 100% serious orangecrush Jun 2025 #24
What's in it for him (Trump)? benpollard Jun 2025 #27
He's not actually president. ... littlemissmartypants Jun 2025 #41
Distraction orangecrush Jun 2025 #49
I'm afraid so. AloeVera Jun 2025 #29
We're definitely next, AloeVera. littlemissmartypants Jun 2025 #42
A little sarcasm? AloeVera Jun 2025 #68
I'm deadly serious. littlemissmartypants Jun 2025 #70
Oh, sorry! AloeVera Jun 2025 #77
I'm glad you like the list. ❤️ littlemissmartypants Jun 2025 #79
Hucksterbee needs to stfu. n/t area51 Jun 2025 #28
Agree orangecrush Jun 2025 #30
He sounds like MorbidButterflyTat Jun 2025 #53
So, who is the guy in the video? Does he have a name? MineralMan Jun 2025 #31
Huckabee's divine exhortation. Yeah that sounds right. Last person who had his ear right? Insanity. n/t Evolve Dammit Jun 2025 #32
You can bet... littlemissmartypants Jun 2025 #44
Probably an exception made. Evolve Dammit Jun 2025 #76
Meidas Touch reports... StarryNite Jun 2025 #34
Huckabee is one of the supporters of Israel only because Scripture tells him Israel must exist for the Second coming. surfered Jun 2025 #36
Sacrilege! He doesn't recognize Trump's Second Coming to office?? Ping Tung Jun 2025 #38
Oh, yes - he does care what happens to the Jews after xians take over. And it ain't nice. erronis Jun 2025 #39
I doubt his motives MorbidButterflyTat Jun 2025 #55
Post removed Post removed Jun 2025 #40
That's all we need, having a religious zealot encourage a meglomaniac to believe he's on a divine mission from God. patphil Jun 2025 #45
Some holy ass kissing orangecrush Jun 2025 #52
Huckster struggling to remain relevant, Trump has no control over what comes out of his mouth - he just wants to sound NoMoreRepugs Jun 2025 #46
Trump was right. He said if I voted for Kamala Harris there would be WWIII and here we are. Ray Bruns Jun 2025 #51
We call it Tuesday. NT Happy Hoosier Jun 2025 #54
Rec for a Raul Julia fan! Beastly Boy Jun 2025 #80
I did not look at the video, but just saying, i expect EVERY decision from these two leaders will bluestarone Jun 2025 #58
Huckabee is full of pride and bullshit. Trump doesn't know shit about the Bible, and neither does Huckabee know ancianita Jun 2025 #59
Isn't Huckabee one of those nuts that think there has to be a nuclear war in the mideast dflprincess Jun 2025 #63
Could be. But I couldn't care less. Jesus himself said we'll know when He returns. ancianita Jun 2025 #65
Whether you believe it or not isn't the issue dflprincess Jun 2025 #67
True. ancianita Jun 2025 #72
Except that 65 million Iranians, most of ... Whiskeytide Jun 2025 #73
Do you know for a fact that 65 millions who chose their Ayatollah are not willing to die as martyrs according to their ancianita Jun 2025 #74
I'm not a biblical scholar, nor do I have seminary or ... Whiskeytide Jun 2025 #78
Understood. I've taught World Lit to seniors, attended seminars at the U of Chicago's Islamic Center, read ancianita Jun 2025 #82
Huckabee... GiqueCee Jun 2025 #60
"Not since Truman in 1945"... ultralite001 Jun 2025 #62
Yes that's it exactly orangecrush Jun 2025 #83
I know this is no laughing matter, but Mossfern Jun 2025 #66
... orangecrush Jun 2025 #69
Going to firmly disagree, this is a broken clock moment Amishman Jun 2025 #81
Killing leaders of countries is not only illegal, it tends to rally the populace against... LudwigPastorius Jun 2025 #84
The Felon may indeed become "the most consequential president" Martin Eden Jun 2025 #85

usonian

(23,517 posts)
4. You know we're livin in hell when "news breaks" on an extended 14 minute video (bringing in CA$H CLICK$)
Tue Jun 17, 2025, 01:05 PM
Jun 2025

that we have to waste our allotment of time on earth slogging through

INSTEAD OF TEXT.

I hate YouTube and the culture of condensing a paragraph worth of info into 14 minutes of clicks for dicks.

usonian

(23,517 posts)
19. Absolutely nothing personal. I just hate clickbait culture.
Tue Jun 17, 2025, 01:22 PM
Jun 2025

Your posts are most appreciated!

orangecrush

(28,282 posts)
22. Thank you!
Tue Jun 17, 2025, 01:29 PM
Jun 2025




Here is some context.

Trump left G7 early, looks like he might call for US airstrikes on Iran.

"Trump leans toward Iran strikes after Huckabee’s divine exhortation"

"In the message to Trump, Huckabee described the president as “the most consequential President in a century – maybe ever” and asserted that “only ONE voice matters. HIS voice.” He wrote, “God spared you in Butler, PA... You did not seek this moment. This moment sought YOU!”

https://www.jpost.com/international/article-858071

jeffreyi

(2,511 posts)
43. If you click "more" this takes you to the transcript.
Tue Jun 17, 2025, 02:25 PM
Jun 2025

The viewer can scan it and see if there's any "there" there pretty fast.

usonian

(23,517 posts)
57. I tried to get a transcript of Senator Padilla's speech this morning. No luck
Tue Jun 17, 2025, 02:55 PM
Jun 2025

And those transcripts are unformatted.
I am sure there will be a readable transcript shortly. (from his office, I hope)

Thanks for the tip. Clickbait just drives me crazy.

Especially when I am composing a major blast!!!

Stay tuned.

slightlv

(7,438 posts)
64. The Dominionists and Evangelicals
Tue Jun 17, 2025, 03:56 PM
Jun 2025

actually believe this bullshit. And are pushing for the worst possible outcome (for everyone else). They're doing happy dances that their christ will now show up for his 2nd coming, now that the worldly lord and savior has almost started the Mideastern WWIII. Hallelujah, let the nukes fly! /sarcasm

I_UndergroundPanther

(13,327 posts)
75. Actually
Tue Jun 17, 2025, 05:44 PM
Jun 2025

They want the world to end For it to end 3/4 of the Jewish people must die according to the Bible bullshit for jayzuzz to come back. The remnant of the Jews convert to christianity in the end They are totally itching for those nukes to fly and any destruction that can be shoehorned into fitting the end times crap they will make it”fit” and “make sense” to the evilgelicals

mvd

(65,836 posts)
10. I'm very worried about a disastrous war, but can you summarize?
Tue Jun 17, 2025, 01:12 PM
Jun 2025

What is breaking? Thanks.

orangecrush

(28,282 posts)
15. Netanyahu telling Iran the "time is here"
Tue Jun 17, 2025, 01:17 PM
Jun 2025

Trump leaving G7, other indicators that US may become directly involved, that is, Trump starting war with no congressional approval whatsoever.

I'm not very good at summarizing, you would get a better indication from viewing.

I'm not pushing it, it's the choice of the reader.

orangecrush

(28,282 posts)
20. Also this
Tue Jun 17, 2025, 01:27 PM
Jun 2025


"Trump leans toward Iran strikes after Huckabee’s divine exhortation"

"In the message to Trump, Huckabee described the president as “the most consequential President in a century – maybe ever” and asserted that “only ONE voice matters. HIS voice.” He wrote, “God spared you in Butler, PA... You did not seek this moment. This moment sought YOU!”

https://www.jpost.com/international/article-858071

calimary

(89,034 posts)
47. Huckabee almost sounds like he's hoping trump will appoint him to something big.
Tue Jun 17, 2025, 02:34 PM
Jun 2025

Whoring for a big-ass important new job - would be my guess.

erronis

(22,650 posts)
37. Since you've "summarized" for several requesters already, why not just do it in the OP?
Tue Jun 17, 2025, 02:15 PM
Jun 2025

Jirel

(2,369 posts)
12. Another meaningless, alarmist post title...
Tue Jun 17, 2025, 01:13 PM
Jun 2025

… inevitably leading to some YouTube time wasteage. 100% perfect way to be ignored.

Renew Deal

(84,699 posts)
18. This guy referenced the AUMF, but I believe it was repealed.
Tue Jun 17, 2025, 01:20 PM
Jun 2025

Though Trump doesn't need the AUMF to take this action based on recent history.

Also, this guy's barber should be replaced.

LudwigPastorius

(14,155 posts)
26. "Also, this guy's barber should be replaced."
Tue Jun 17, 2025, 01:36 PM
Jun 2025

He looks like Wil Wheaton costumed to play a Miami coke dealer.

Kid Berwyn

(22,890 posts)
21. Trump risks WW3 to stay out of jail.
Tue Jun 17, 2025, 01:29 PM
Jun 2025

The American people finally are starting to notice the treason.

benpollard

(261 posts)
27. What's in it for him (Trump)?
Tue Jun 17, 2025, 01:43 PM
Jun 2025

Everything is transactional for Trump. If he doesn't benefit in some way, he's not interested. He'd rather be out playing golf.

littlemissmartypants

(31,619 posts)
41. He's not actually president. ...
Tue Jun 17, 2025, 02:23 PM
Jun 2025

He's just a figure head, that his proxies let have the "credit" possibly for the illusion of lack of culpability. He has "immunity" after all.

But make no mistakes, President Psychopath loves blowing bodies to bits and wafting radiation filled atmosphere all over the planet.

It's always going to be the more destruction, the better with him and his ilk.

Welcome to the land of Robber Barons 2.0. Fasten your seat belts while you still have them.

If I didn't have my new delightful puppy dog, I'd probably just look for the nearest most isolated cliff to run my car off.

The ocean is closer, but I hate drowning and love sea life, especially turtles, too much.

AloeVera

(3,991 posts)
29. I'm afraid so.
Tue Jun 17, 2025, 01:56 PM
Jun 2025

He and Netanyahu are insane. Dr. Strangelove and his side kick. Interchangeable on any given day. Don't know who is worse but I know we are ruled by evil men including that Huckabee guy shilling on behalf of Israel for Iran's destruction and salivating to bring on Armageddon. Like the snake that he is, Huckabee knew to appeal to Trump's egomania and delusions of grandeur to get what he wanted. Be very afraid....and think about the millions in Iran now terrified, their lives turned upside down, maybe forever. Who knows if we are not next??

littlemissmartypants

(31,619 posts)
70. I'm deadly serious.
Tue Jun 17, 2025, 05:05 PM
Jun 2025

President Psychopath's plan is all encompassing.

That was actually my resting optimist post.


Characteristics of Psychopaths

1. Aggressive, callous, and cunning
2. Complete absence of conscience and empathy
3. Very adept at manipulating others
4. Willingness to engage in immoral, criminal conduct
5. Willingness to take what they want and do as they please, regardless of who is hurt or wronged
6. Deceptive ability to appear outwardly benevolent
7. Deceptive ability to behave in superficially charming ways to hide purely selfish motives
8. Willingness to use intimidation and violence to control others in order to satisfy their own needs
9. Willingness to intentionally violate the basic inherent human rights of others
10. Complete absence of any sense of guilt or remorse for the harm their actions have caused to others
11. Rationalization of their own immoral behavior
12. Will attempt to lay blame upon someone else for their own conduct
13. Denial, will deny their own wrongdoing outright
14. Utter contemptuousness toward the feelings and desires of their fellow beings
15. Pathological lying, will say anything without any concern for truth to advance their own hidden agendas
16. Ablity to feign [fake] normal human emotions and empathy
17. Distorted sense of the consequences of their actions
18. Total failure to accept any responsibility for their own socially irresponsible ways
19. Strong bellef that they will never be brought to justice for their criminal behavior

AloeVera

(3,991 posts)
77. Oh, sorry!
Tue Jun 17, 2025, 06:18 PM
Jun 2025

I should have gone with my first reading of your reply.

He's a psychopath alright. I used to think it was "just" narcissism or NPD. Maybe sociopath or ASD. Now I recognize the psycho traits. The darkest of the dark triad. It is truly, horribly frightening.

That is a good list to save. More and more traits are being revealed.

Resting optimist post...


MorbidButterflyTat

(4,180 posts)
53. He sounds like
Tue Jun 17, 2025, 02:37 PM
Jun 2025

a damn lunatic.

“God spared" the fugly felon in Butler, PA.????

I guess God also healed the devastating ear boo boo, too.

MineralMan

(150,611 posts)
31. So, who is the guy in the video? Does he have a name?
Tue Jun 17, 2025, 01:57 PM
Jun 2025

I don't recognize him at all. Sounds like some rando to me.

Evolve Dammit

(21,495 posts)
32. Huckabee's divine exhortation. Yeah that sounds right. Last person who had his ear right? Insanity. n/t
Tue Jun 17, 2025, 02:05 PM
Jun 2025

littlemissmartypants

(31,619 posts)
44. You can bet...
Tue Jun 17, 2025, 02:28 PM
Jun 2025

Huck's got all kinds of ulterior motives. Did his pitiful daughter ever get her FEMA money?

StarryNite

(11,972 posts)
34. Meidas Touch reports...
Tue Jun 17, 2025, 02:07 PM
Jun 2025

NEWS: Trump has requested that the National Security Council be prepared in the situation room for his return, per Fox

surfered

(11,464 posts)
36. Huckabee is one of the supporters of Israel only because Scripture tells him Israel must exist for the Second coming.
Tue Jun 17, 2025, 02:08 PM
Jun 2025

After that, he doesn’t give shit what happens to the Jews

erronis

(22,650 posts)
39. Oh, yes - he does care what happens to the Jews after xians take over. And it ain't nice.
Tue Jun 17, 2025, 02:18 PM
Jun 2025

Response to orangecrush (Original post)

patphil

(8,723 posts)
45. That's all we need, having a religious zealot encourage a meglomaniac to believe he's on a divine mission from God.
Tue Jun 17, 2025, 02:31 PM
Jun 2025

A lot of bad shit could be going down soon.
I agree that Trump may be the most consequential president in US history, but for all the wrong reasons.
And Huckabee is telling him that he is being guided by God. Next we'll be hearing more of that Trump is Jesus reincarnated BS.
My answer to that is to ask when did the Son of God go over to the dark side and align himself with Satan?
Trump is a loveless, self-absorbed, casually cruel monster.

NoMoreRepugs

(11,800 posts)
46. Huckster struggling to remain relevant, Trump has no control over what comes out of his mouth - he just wants to sound
Tue Jun 17, 2025, 02:32 PM
Jun 2025

like what he imagines a tough guy sounds like - he has ZERO ability to think strategically about what spews out. Assassinating the Shia Supreme leader puts 200million followers against 10million Israel citizens.

bluestarone

(21,140 posts)
58. I did not look at the video, but just saying, i expect EVERY decision from these two leaders will
Tue Jun 17, 2025, 03:00 PM
Jun 2025

lead to very bad for every human being in this world. NOTHING these two do will surprise me. Be ready is all i can say.

ancianita

(42,844 posts)
59. Huckabee is full of pride and bullshit. Trump doesn't know shit about the Bible, and neither does Huckabee know
Tue Jun 17, 2025, 03:02 PM
Jun 2025

God's will. This is not the time for Trump to listen to self-deceived christians.

Jesus: "See to it that you are not deceived. For many will come in my name, claiming, "I am He,' and "The time is near." Do not follow them. " Luke 21:8

dflprincess

(29,158 posts)
63. Isn't Huckabee one of those nuts that think there has to be a nuclear war in the mideast
Tue Jun 17, 2025, 03:40 PM
Jun 2025

So Jesus can make his return?

ancianita

(42,844 posts)
65. Could be. But I couldn't care less. Jesus himself said we'll know when He returns.
Tue Jun 17, 2025, 03:57 PM
Jun 2025

Even as nations rise against nations there will be no warnings or signs.
God decides, and no humans whatsoever can "bring about" any "end times," especially not some half-wit power worshipping christian advisers who don't even read their Bible.

dflprincess

(29,158 posts)
67. Whether you believe it or not isn't the issue
Tue Jun 17, 2025, 04:30 PM
Jun 2025

It's having people who do believe that end times crap running things that is concerning.

ancianita

(42,844 posts)
72. True.
Tue Jun 17, 2025, 05:17 PM
Jun 2025

If one believes there is a loving God (and at least 3.66 billion do) reading 2,000 year old scripture as the Word of that God does matter, however. IF what's concerning is having people who do believe end times crap running things, then the only people who will get hurt will be the people who follow the people running things. The large majority of the U.S. will witness a lot of ugliness, refuse to fear or go along with it and, when their common decency decides, they'll do what it takes to rid themselves of this poison. How that unfolds we don't know yet, it might or might not be all that dramatic, and it might take the next year or two, but you can be sure the People of sanity and decency outnumber those "running things." They just showed themselves on Saturday, and they who showed up have millions more who are in their corner and we'll have to trust them to act in the interests of liberty and justice for all. Reality doesn't have an audience; it's neither episodic nor a movie. So even as narratives get spread as "news," what matters is that humans -- Americans -- act on each other's behalf and not as puppets of fearmongers and mammon/power worshippers.

Whiskeytide

(4,628 posts)
73. Except that 65 million Iranians, most of ...
Tue Jun 17, 2025, 05:29 PM
Jun 2025

… whom are not terrorists, might be dead. Along with most of the Jews in Israel. That’s the problem with putting End Timers in power. They may not be able to actually bring about the end times biblically. But they can cause a lot of damage trying to do so.

I get what you’re saying, and you’re technically right. But whether they read their bibles or not is beside the point when they have access to the button.

ancianita

(42,844 posts)
74. Do you know for a fact that 65 millions who chose their Ayatollah are not willing to die as martyrs according to their
Tue Jun 17, 2025, 05:36 PM
Jun 2025

belief system? There will be wars and rumors of wars, yes, but those who believe end times crap cannot bring on the apocalypse even as they do cause a lot of human damage. Those who follow warmongers will suffer and probably die, yes. That is what happens when human depravity destroys in the name of some god.
And we've known for a long time that everything the felon touches dies. He's the kiss of death, but his access to the death button is pretty complicated and hard to get military permissions for, and our US military and most humans in and outside America know this.

Whiskeytide

(4,628 posts)
78. I'm not a biblical scholar, nor do I have seminary or ...
Tue Jun 17, 2025, 06:30 PM
Jun 2025

… madrasa training. So I can’t comment on what the islamic or any other religion might be willing to anoint with the concept of a martyr.

But I would prefer that millions of deaths not be attributed to my nation’s agency. That is abhorrent to me. And the issue of whether they can or cannot accomplish their stated goal of bringing about the apocalypse, or whether or not they have correctly interpreted the Bible, is irrelevant.

ancianita

(42,844 posts)
82. Understood. I've taught World Lit to seniors, attended seminars at the U of Chicago's Islamic Center, read
Tue Jun 17, 2025, 07:44 PM
Jun 2025

the officially approved Q'uran sold in the West, and can tell you that they do believe in martyrdom in the name of their Allah.

Whether you think they have some stated goal and whether or not you think it's relevant isn't really up to any of us anyway.

Totally get that we don't want to be the agents of Iranians' deaths. Or of Israelis' deaths. And we won't be. It's not our war. Yes, Israel is our ally, and we will support it, because we and the British helped establish Israel before it declared itself a nation state in 1948. The British Empire made several things happen before WWII and the Holocaust:

-- The Balfour Declaration (1917) was a statement by the British government that expressed support for the establishment of a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine. It was their millennial home for thousands of years before the US and Europe ever existed.
-- The British Mandate for Palestine: Following the Treaty of Sèvres, the League of Nations granted control of Palestine to the British, with the goal of implementing the Balfour Declaration.
-- After the Allies won WWII, the UN Partition Plan (Resolution 181) passed in 1947 by the United Nations General Assembly, recommended the partition of Palestine into two independent states, one Arab and one Jewish, with Jerusalem under international administration.
This plan was accepted by the Jewish leadership, but rejected by Arab states.
-- Then, the British Mandate ended on May 14, 1948, leading to the Israeli Declaration of Independence (in Tel Aviv) as a nation state, and the subsequent 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

Whether you think it's relevant or not, there's no biblical basis for these RW apocalypse yearnings, either, because the Bible -- which I've read, studied at university level, and taught in Sunday school in two different denominations -- says no such thing.
This narrative that these self deceived christians tell themselves is just the latest iteration of a couple hundred times that christian hotheads have proclaimed "end times." No one at the International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem thinks this, either. It's all bullshit.

But one thing is historically true: Israel deserves to exist in its millennial homeland and has been fighting off those who would destroy it from the days of the Roman Empire to the days of Islamic-Arab state attacks in the 20th Century.

GiqueCee

(3,400 posts)
60. Huckabee...
Tue Jun 17, 2025, 03:05 PM
Jun 2025

... that overweight worm, should slither back into the cesspool that spawned him. Sanctimonious über-christians wrap themselves in the blood-soaked cloak of faux religiosity to justify spewing such witless, fawning drivel in hopes of gaining favor with, hands down and going away, the WORST president to which this nation has ever been subjected.
But there is no reasoning with the room-temperature IQs to whom that message is directed. I mean, shit! Most of those people believe the Earth is flat and only 6,000 years old, and they're so dirt stupid that they couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were on the heel! Which is why Trumpleforeskin so loves the poorly educated; talk tough, and give 'em someone they can look down on, and they'll believe anything you tell 'em. There's a blithering idiot born every minute.

ultralite001

(2,364 posts)
62. "Not since Truman in 1945"...
Tue Jun 17, 2025, 03:38 PM
Jun 2025

WTF???!!!



From the Truman Library:

After President Roosevelt died on April 12th, 1945, it became Harry Truman’s job to decide how to end the war. He learned of the Manhattan Project, the secret scientific effort to create an atomic bomb, upon becoming president.

After a successful test of the weapon, Truman issued the Potsdam Declaration demanding unconditional surrender of the Japanese government, warning of “prompt + utter destruction.”

Eleven days later, on August 6, 1945, having received no reply from the Japanese government, an American bomber, the Enola Gay, left Tinian Island en route to Japan. In the belly of the bomber was “Little Boy,” an atomic bomb. At 8:15 am Hiroshima time, “Little Boy” was dropped, resulting in approximately 80,000 deaths in just the first few minutes. Thousands died later from radiation sickness.

On August 9, 1945, another bomber was en route to Japan, heading for Nagasaki with “Fat Man,” another atomic bomb. After the first minute of dropping “Fat Man,” 39,000 men, women + children were killed + 25,000 more were injured.

Both cities were leveled from the bombs + this, in turn, forced Japan to surrender to the United States. The war was finally over.


Is this Krasnov's playbook??? When will he declare war??? Will he think an Executive Order will suffice???

Mossfern

(4,625 posts)
66. I know this is no laughing matter, but
Tue Jun 17, 2025, 04:11 PM
Jun 2025

This comes to mind when I hear Trump telling Iran to surrender.




I just picture him with a long nose with a wart, a floppy pointed hat riding a decrepit broomstick.
Someone needs to make an AI image of this.

on edit: Anyone have a bucket of water handy?

Amishman

(5,916 posts)
81. Going to firmly disagree, this is a broken clock moment
Tue Jun 17, 2025, 07:12 PM
Jun 2025

Iran is being depleted and defanged.

Politically they are in disarray.

Time to push them over, hopefully we get a better government in Tehran and an independent Kurdistan.

This is a golden opportunity.

LudwigPastorius

(14,155 posts)
84. Killing leaders of countries is not only illegal, it tends to rally the populace against...
Tue Jun 17, 2025, 09:46 PM
Jun 2025

those doing the killing.

Remember Cheney's "we will be greeted as liberators"? That's just the most recent example off of the top of my head

Martin Eden

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85. The Felon may indeed become "the most consequential president"
Wed Jun 18, 2025, 06:34 AM
Jun 2025

Unless we stop him from ending the great American experiment in democracy.

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