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Fuck, he's going to nuke that one deep reactor site, isn't he? Just because he can.
The “big one” needs to hit Donny right in his main artery.
Can we take a moment to acknowledge how weak trump’s raised fist always looks? I mean, look at this photo. Very limp and dainty.
"Please mister truck driver can you sound the horn?"
There's a very real possibility that everything this waste of meat has done in his life was to compensate for his tiny hands and microscopic penis.
Everything he does is the Greatest, biggest like no one has ever seen, etc...
"Big beautiful bill"
There's tons of examples.
Inside his mind he really is a little bitch. This brings me confort at night.
They look like baby hands.
They have that same level of fat, and the proportions are bizarre.
They are unusually small hands now that you mention it, they look so weird
From a different article:
“We haven’t even started hitting them hard. The big wave hasn’t even happened. The big one is coming soon,” Mr. Trump said, telling CNN it was unclear who was now leading Iran.
“We don’t know who the leadership is. We don’t know who they’ll pick,” he said.
What’s your actual fucking goal? I don’t get what they intend to hit here. They’re making it actually impossible for Iran to do the thing they want.
Ultimately bullies just want to bully. They don't want anything from their target except to reflect back to them an image of their desired power.
What’s your actual fucking goal?
I'd wager that the part they aren't saying out loud has to do with a few different things:
Distraction from Epstein, which seems to be working. Iran operations now dominate the news cycle.
War offers some economic gains, at least in the short term for a few big players.
War fits into the "law and order" narrative Trump is desperately trying to milk, in a way that the DHS debacles have not done. Unprovoked attack on Iran even just as a show of force has been a conservative wet dream since at least the Bush Jr. days.
\4. Zelensky told him that Ukraine has it in their Constitution that they don't hold elections during times of war. He thinks this applies to the US Constitution.
Each day this happens it looks like they’re trying to breed more terrorists too.
They’ve now blown up a hospital apparently, on top of the elementary school.
Things were relatively quiet since ISIS/Daesh got destroyed. This is just going to make the world worse.
Daesh isn't destroyed, it's dormant. This will almost certainly cause a resurgence, they already killed two syrian soldiers in an attack today
Honestly, as much as I hate the Epstein distraction narrative, it probably did play a role because Trump is petty like that. At the same time, this distraction is much more impactful than what it's distracting from.
yeah, I hate that "EVERYTHING IS A DISTRACTION!!!!!" now.
It's fucking NOT. I'm sure they ARE trying to do some things as distractions, but most of it is just simply evil.
The annoying part is that the Epstein files would never turn many cultists. Most are fine with it or are willing to look past it. Many just reject that it exists.
Look at Gaza. They want Tehran to look like that.
He's gonna nuke them isn't he.
If he nukes Iran, it has to be over. That has to be the moment that the US military steps up and coups the crap out of Washington and hangs all the traitors. There is no coming back from that.
A nuke would be a BRIGHT RED LINE for the entire world. He absolutely cannot deploy a nuclear weapon. If he does, we need to help every other nation on the planet topple the MAGA government in every way possible. Bomb DC to rubble, and hunt down every MAGA politician and propagandist with extreme prejudice.
I have no faith the world would do shit. Particularly if the nuke is “limited” or “targeted” or “pinpoint” or whatever bullshit they want to use to justify mass murder.
"Defensive" nuclear strike.
I admire your optimism. If Trump drops a smallish nuke on a remote reactor facility, we will get grave concern at best. The world has shown its hand already. It isn't going to do shit, and nobody is coming to help us.
The world would “express great concern” and Americans would sit on their asses and do nothing.
We should be doing all that regardless.
The problem is most of us still have too much to lose
People who still think they have too much to lose haven't realized they have no future to hold onto anymore, and that it's already lost. There's higher chance of survival in the long term if we actually did all that as opposed to sitting around like cattle working hard to afford making babies for them to fuck.
I keep hearing that if he does this thing or that thing, it will be the last straw and America/the world won't stand for it. Then he does it, or something equally bad, and still nothing happens. Then people say yeah but if he does this next thing, it'll be the last straw. It's all just an excuse for why America and the world don't do something NOW! why wait?
I really hope not. But we all know he's a complete piece of shit.
One thing I learned is that no matter what my worst imagination can come up with, Trump always manages to surprise me by going beyond my wildest imagination. Of course he would toss a nuclear weapon if he thought it would help him, intimidate someone, or punish an enemy.
Could he maybe say something that means something. Thanks.
Also:
I just got off the phone with President Trump," Tapper explained. "The president said, quote, we're knocking the crap out of them. I think it's going very well. It's very powerful. They've got the greatest military in the world, and we're using it.
Err who is "they"? Logically that would mean Israel right? Did he just tell a journalist Israel has the greatest military in the world?
Insert joke about Israel owning the USA with a dog leash here
American lives are being lost in this war for Zionists, and he praises Israel’s military.
Epstein really was a Mossad agent.
Are they even pretending that there is a real reason for this or even an objective?
What does it matter? They said we went to Venezuela for the oil and nobody did anything about it. They know they can say what they want and Americans will never hold them accountable
Ah yes, the genius tactic from Sun Tzu's The Art of War - always tell everybody what you're gonna do
Sun Tzu: I must apologize for Trump. He is an idiot. We purposely trained him wrong as a joke
