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Grim Chieftain

(1,793 posts)
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 12:17 PM 21 hrs ago

Just heard on MS NOW -

"Trump has declared a full and complete victory in Iran". Oh, for the love of God, pull this delusional, babbling idiot out of the White House and send him to a hospital for the criminally insane.

This HAS to stop!!!!

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Just heard on MS NOW - (Original Post) Grim Chieftain 21 hrs ago OP
This will make great campaign commercials Johonny 21 hrs ago #1
I'll drop him off. Heading that way. Nt BootinUp 21 hrs ago #2
Well, of course he did! Who couldn't see that coming? Ocelot II 21 hrs ago #3
Iran closed Hormuz again. gab13by13 21 hrs ago #4
Can you explain implications if an order? moonscape 20 hrs ago #33
If it was an order & they followed it, Hegseth/Trump take the rap Attilatheblond 18 hrs ago #45
So a request isn't also a war crime? moonscape 18 hrs ago #47
Nuremberg dispelled the idea of a "just following orders" defense VMA131Marine 2 hrs ago #62
I figured they would just try to dismantle CENTCOM Skittles 15 hrs ago #51
Grfaz! artemisia1 21 hrs ago #5
Gröfaz! Brother Buzz 18 hrs ago #42
Waiting for him to scroll Bush's MISSION ACCOMPLISHED banner across the WH. n/t flvegan 21 hrs ago #6
'Quagmire Accomplished' nt GenThePerservering 21 hrs ago #7
"Gigitty'" Ray Bruns 20 hrs ago #14
Payoff to Military Contractors Accomplished Attilatheblond 20 hrs ago #32
Hegseth made it sound like a victory bigger than the end of WWII in his press conference. Vinca 21 hrs ago #8
Wonder if Hegseth was drunk again, or still. Grim Chieftain 21 hrs ago #9
Still... 2naSalit 20 hrs ago #17
Excellent. Finally, there is time enough at last to address domestic needs. usonian 21 hrs ago #10
Burgess Meredith in one of the all time classic Twilight Zone episodes. Permanut 20 hrs ago #19
"...all the time I wanted..." calimary 20 hrs ago #31
What else do you expect him to say? maxsolomon 21 hrs ago #11
The mid-term elections have to end him. Moostache 20 hrs ago #21
LOL, right. maxsolomon 20 hrs ago #25
McConnell is the godfather of the destruction of America RVN VET71 2 hrs ago #63
Butner, North Carolina has a room for him. The Wizard 21 hrs ago #12
So what- he claimed complete victory in November 2020 malaise 21 hrs ago #13
Just let him believe it! Start working on fossil fuel liberation immediately! 1WorldHope 20 hrs ago #15
win·ning /ˈwiniNG/ adjective 1. gaining, resulting in, or relating to victory in a contest or competition. twodogsbarking 20 hrs ago #16
Oh good fucking god. This was not a victory and he is completely out of his fucking mind. Initech 20 hrs ago #18
Agree to the max Grim Chieftain 20 hrs ago #24
Already a picture is out LiberalArkie 20 hrs ago #20
Seems to be a pattern Grim Chieftain 20 hrs ago #22
It is a pattern that all the wars started by the U.S. were started by Republican Presidents LiberalArkie 20 hrs ago #34
The Big Lie MLWR 20 hrs ago #23
Trump: "I can finally rest and watch the sun rise on a grateful universe" C_U_L8R 20 hrs ago #26
Again? SergeStorms 20 hrs ago #27
A Win modrepub 20 hrs ago #28
All other nations, hear this: swong19104 20 hrs ago #29
Let him think that if it's the only way we get out of this mess Figarosmom 20 hrs ago #30
Leave him there until the next crisis he fabricated. Justice matters. 19 hrs ago #36
So no need for the 200 billion extra war funding? senseandsensibility 19 hrs ago #35
The Iranians OWNED your azzz Trump. Plain and simple......... Bengus81 19 hrs ago #37
Kick. N/T Upthevibe 19 hrs ago #38
But his kind being elected to office will never stop, so long as there are uninfomred unserious uneducated voters ffr 19 hrs ago #39
America is better off if Trump believes this and gets the hell out of IRan. But he took a bad situation, and Bluetus 19 hrs ago #40
When gas prices and everything else remain high Hassler 19 hrs ago #41
Great. Now send everyone home Renew Deal 18 hrs ago #43
This demented idiot...after tweeting repulsive crap over the weekend.. BarbD 18 hrs ago #44
If Trump doesn't qualify for the 25th, no one ever will. Grim Chieftain 18 hrs ago #46
Until pictures come out of Iran destroying US and US alliance assets? MerryBlooms 18 hrs ago #48
And testing for other drugs MustLoveBeagles 15 hrs ago #53
For sure. Let's throw Hegseth into that same ring! They're both two poisoned peas in a pod. MerryBlooms 15 hrs ago #57
Yes MustLoveBeagles 14 hrs ago #58
it is a full and complete victory for trump rampartd 17 hrs ago #49
I've been thinking lately about that Turkish prison.... lastlib 15 hrs ago #50
That was the scariest movie I've ever seen..saw it when I was young and never forgot it. Deuxcents 15 hrs ago #54
Yeah, I had a couple nightmares about it. lastlib 15 hrs ago #56
Oh It CAN'T Stop..NEXT Year's Nobel Peace Prize Campaign Begins Now! n/t ForeGoneLegsBirne 15 hrs ago #52
Is it the William J. Le Petomane memorial casino for the insane? ybbor 15 hrs ago #55
I Second that. Joinfortmill 14 hrs ago #59
Let him take his participation trophy and go home. JohnnyRingo 13 hrs ago #60
Family intervention vapor2 12 hrs ago #61
The windmills have been contained Blue Owl 37 min ago #64

Johonny

(26,256 posts)
1. This will make great campaign commercials
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 12:19 PM
21 hrs ago

Come November when gas still sits at record highs.

gab13by13

(32,421 posts)
4. Iran closed Hormuz again.
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 12:23 PM
21 hrs ago

USA USA

CENTCOM refused Kegsbreath requests to bomb civilian infrastructure in Iran, the only thing left for Krasnov to do was surrender or explain why the military was refusing to obey Kegsbreath's requests, they weren't orders (he was protecting himself) they were requests.

Attilatheblond

(8,958 posts)
45. If it was an order & they followed it, Hegseth/Trump take the rap
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 03:22 PM
18 hrs ago

If it was a 'request' and they granted it, THEY would be the war criminals.

Even after Hegseth purged most of the really smart ones, there are still brains among the remaining brass; probably smart enough not to let him see how smart and honorable they are lest they be purged earlier too.

VMA131Marine

(5,279 posts)
62. Nuremberg dispelled the idea of a "just following orders" defense
Thu Apr 9, 2026, 07:29 AM
2 hrs ago

If you commit war crimes, “just following orders” doesn’t protect you from prosecution and conviction.

artemisia1

(1,887 posts)
5. Grfaz!
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 12:23 PM
21 hrs ago
Gröfaz is a derogatory German acronym for Größter Feldherr aller Zeiten ("Greatest Field Commander of All Time&quot , used during World War II to mock Adolf Hitler and his megalomania. Coined around 1943, it satirized Nazi propaganda and the party's love for abbreviations.

Attilatheblond

(8,958 posts)
32. Payoff to Military Contractors Accomplished
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 01:40 PM
20 hrs ago

'Thanks for all the campaign donations, boys! Here's some big checks written on the backs of US taxpayers and dead Iranian children.'

Vinca

(54,049 posts)
8. Hegseth made it sound like a victory bigger than the end of WWII in his press conference.
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 12:27 PM
21 hrs ago

It's a cease fire that has already been broken! Not a victory by any stretch of the imagination. If anything, Iran got itself a bonus with their control of the Strait of Hormuz and the ability to charge ships to traverse it.

calimary

(90,165 posts)
31. "...all the time I wanted..."
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 01:35 PM
20 hrs ago

One of the scariest things I ever saw. I was very young when that episode first ran. But I still remember what a jolt it was. I’d never thought about anything like that until I saw that episode. Still troubling. The worst lesson in the world to have to learn: when YOU are the only one left after a global cataclysm.

maxsolomon

(38,812 posts)
11. What else do you expect him to say?
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 12:31 PM
21 hrs ago

Iranian State Media is saying the same thing on their end, no doubt.

We live in hell. 33 months to go. Persevere.

Moostache

(11,201 posts)
21. The mid-term elections have to end him.
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 01:19 PM
20 hrs ago

Senate, House, completely toxic lame-duck status, and Impeachment that should draw enough GOP votes to convict and forever make him ineligible for ANY office ever again.

Honestly, that SHOULD have happened in January 2021 already and we would never have had the last 16 months of lunacy and chaos... Thanks Mitch!

maxsolomon

(38,812 posts)
25. LOL, right.
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 01:25 PM
20 hrs ago

Impeachment 3.0 would end the same way as 1.0 & 2.0. You won't get 67 Senators to convict.

MFer is there until Jan 20, 2029. The GOP is accomplishing its goals of destroying the Federal Govt. They won't abandon him now.

RVN VET71

(3,197 posts)
63. McConnell is the godfather of the destruction of America
Thu Apr 9, 2026, 07:50 AM
2 hrs ago

Please, Clio, don't let the survivors forget his name and his face.

twodogsbarking

(18,867 posts)
16. win·ning /ˈwiniNG/ adjective 1. gaining, resulting in, or relating to victory in a contest or competition.
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 01:06 PM
20 hrs ago

Someone tell him the defintion. Lexicography for Dummies.

Initech

(108,860 posts)
18. Oh good fucking god. This was not a victory and he is completely out of his fucking mind.
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 01:11 PM
20 hrs ago

Fuck all the way off Trump!

LiberalArkie

(19,840 posts)
34. It is a pattern that all the wars started by the U.S. were started by Republican Presidents
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 01:58 PM
20 hrs ago

MLWR

(1,040 posts)
23. The Big Lie
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 01:22 PM
20 hrs ago

1) Make sure the lie is so big that no one would believe it was made up.
2) Repeat it often enough so that it becomes the truth.
"The big lie is the name of a propaganda technique, originally coined by Adolf Hitler in Mein Kampf, who says “The great masses of the people… will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one,” and denotes where a known falsehood is stated and repeated and treated as if it is self-evidently true," From: https://www.populismstudies.org/Vocabulary/big-lie/#:~:text=The%20big%20lie%20is%20the,the%20people%E2%80%A6%20will%20more%20easily

modrepub

(4,122 posts)
28. A Win
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 01:30 PM
20 hrs ago

For his bank account. He’s probably come up with a way to split the tolls for travel through the gulf with Iran.

Heard toll will be $1/barrel payable in crypto for easier embezzlement. What a f—-king joke.

swong19104

(628 posts)
29. All other nations, hear this:
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 01:30 PM
20 hrs ago

When negotiating with Trump. One stipulation that must be included and cannot be omitted is the requirement that Trump announce that he lost in the deal. Doesn’t matter whether he won or not. He has to publicly state that’s he lost. Or no deal.

Figarosmom

(12,174 posts)
30. Let him think that if it's the only way we get out of this mess
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 01:33 PM
20 hrs ago

NO ONE BELIEVES IT ANYWAY. But let the deranged creep believe it.

Justice matters.

(9,834 posts)
36. Leave him there until the next crisis he fabricated.
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 02:04 PM
19 hrs ago

It's called Markets Crash (Depression for short), or Insolvency.

ffr

(23,410 posts)
39. But his kind being elected to office will never stop, so long as there are uninfomred unserious uneducated voters
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 02:41 PM
19 hrs ago

Sad, but true. The reality is there will be one-issue voters and the like who will never vote for democrats. The only way for democrats to appeal to this voting block is for democrats to run as republicans, take that stupid party over, destroy it once and for all, wait until all of the unserious voters die of old age, then for those elected republican democrats can change party affiliation back to democrat once sanity has been restored to how people vote.

Bluetus

(2,888 posts)
40. America is better off if Trump believes this and gets the hell out of IRan. But he took a bad situation, and
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 02:44 PM
19 hrs ago

made it much worse. The first step is to neutralize Trump and the war powers act is probably the best way to do that. But then we have some major work to do, even to begin repairing the damage that Trump caused in the past 30 days. This needs to be at the core of our messaging for the November elections. The overriding message should be:

"The Republicans cannot govern. They cannot control their guy, and they are making matters exponentially worse every day. You need to elect a Democratic Senate and House now. We cannot wait until 2029 to start repairing all the Trump damage."

BarbD

(1,455 posts)
44. This demented idiot...after tweeting repulsive crap over the weekend..
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 03:19 PM
18 hrs ago

then terrorizing all of us over the threat of using nuclear weapons on Iran is totally unbalanced, I beg the Republicans to invoke the 25th amendment.

MerryBlooms

(12,290 posts)
48. Until pictures come out of Iran destroying US and US alliance assets?
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 03:55 PM
18 hrs ago

Someone needs to put a breathalyzer on their president before he speaks.

MerryBlooms

(12,290 posts)
57. For sure. Let's throw Hegseth into that same ring! They're both two poisoned peas in a pod.
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 06:51 PM
15 hrs ago

lastlib

(28,336 posts)
50. I've been thinking lately about that Turkish prison....
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 06:03 PM
15 hrs ago

...in the movie Midnight Express, and what a WONDERFUL place that would be to send The Felon to! It would be perfect for him!

Deuxcents

(27,065 posts)
54. That was the scariest movie I've ever seen..saw it when I was young and never forgot it.
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 06:19 PM
15 hrs ago

lastlib

(28,336 posts)
56. Yeah, I had a couple nightmares about it.
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 06:32 PM
15 hrs ago

God, It was dark! And now I wish The Felon could experience it--first-hand, close-up.

ybbor

(1,754 posts)
55. Is it the William J. Le Petomane memorial casino for the insane?
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 06:23 PM
15 hrs ago

Because if it is, he’ll just bankrupt it!

JohnnyRingo

(20,891 posts)
60. Let him take his participation trophy and go home.
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 08:32 PM
13 hrs ago

At least we pried his finger off the trigger.
I'll feel better if the old crank goes golfing for a couple days.

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