Lexx Posted Tuesday at 10:51 PM Posted Tuesday at 10:51 PM They should just lie and say that the hit was good and all is fine now. Else Trump gets the idea to send out another bombing run. "only when you no-life you can exist forever, because what does not live cannot die."
uuuhhii Posted Tuesday at 11:24 PM Posted Tuesday at 11:24 PM road are melting while usa deny the existence of global warming just remember no matter what happen at middle east most of humanity are doomed anyway
Gromnir Posted Tuesday at 11:25 PM Posted Tuesday at 11:25 PM (edited) the only positive we see from trump's predictable premature declaration that the iran sites were, “completely and totally obliterated,” is that trump never admits he were wrong; he always doubles down. now that trump has declared mission accomplished, how does he justify additional strikes w/o being confronted by the same people who triggered him with TACO and two weeks? update: predictable double-down. so now what happens when there is increasing evidence that, "one of the most successful military strikes in history," failed to achieve the complete and total obliteration described? future bombing by the US or israel undermines trump's narrative, but the whole justification for the President authorizing an attack requires an imminent threat to the US and if the situation today is little different than before midnight hammer... if only trump had taken our usual advice to be patient and wait for reliable info before making claims which could result in humiliation. on the other hand, ~70% o' trump voters believe everything trump says, even when trump contradicts himself. HA! Good Fun! Edited Wednesday at 04:44 AM by Gromnir "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) "Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019)
rjshae Posted Wednesday at 04:39 AM Posted Wednesday at 04:39 AM 8 hours ago, Malcador said: https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/24/politics/intel-assessment-us-strikes-iran-nuclear-sites "The analysis of the damage to the sites and the impact of the strikes on Iran’s nuclear ambitions is ongoing, and could change as more intelligence becomes available. But the early findings are at odds with President Donald Trump’s repeated claims that the strikes “completely and totally obliterated” Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth also said on Sunday that Iran’s nuclear ambitions “have been obliterated.” " Another 4th dimensional chess move, no doubt. "It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats."
BruceVC Posted Wednesday at 06:27 AM Posted Wednesday at 06:27 AM 1 hour ago, rjshae said: Another 4th dimensional chess move, no doubt. It still surprises me that we take seriously these types of Trump SM comments We know he often says things on Truth that are just his ramblings or personal opinions and its often exaggerated or untrue The truth is the 3 sites were struck by the US " bunker bombs " but we dont know the full extent of the damage I doubt they were obliterated but damage was done and also this was the first time the US used these bombs in a war Here is the type of link I would reference around this but I wouldnt be concerned about anything Trump says on Truth unless its confirmed https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg9r4q99g4o "Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss” John Milton "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” - George Bernard Shaw "What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead" - Nelson Mandela
Elerond Posted Wednesday at 12:24 PM Posted Wednesday at 12:24 PM https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iran-parliament-approves-bill-suspend-cooperation-with-un-nuclear-watchdog-2025-06-25/ Iran is kicking IAEA out from Iran and speeding up their "peaceful nuclear programme" 1
rjshae Posted Wednesday at 01:10 PM Posted Wednesday at 01:10 PM 6 hours ago, BruceVC said: The truth is the 3 sites were struck by the US " bunker bombs " but we dont know the full extent of the damage I doubt they were obliterated but damage was done and also this was the first time the US used these bombs in a war Here is the type of link I would reference around this but I wouldnt be concerned about anything Trump says on Truth unless its confirmed https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg9r4q99g4o It's entirely possible that the sites were engineered with these deep penetrating weapons in mind, and we don't know the engineering that went into their interiors. Yes, DJT says a lot of foolish things. If it weren't so serious, he'd be entertaining. Like a class clown looking for attention. "It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats."
BruceVC Posted Wednesday at 02:18 PM Posted Wednesday at 02:18 PM 1 hour ago, Elerond said: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iran-parliament-approves-bill-suspend-cooperation-with-un-nuclear-watchdog-2025-06-25/ Iran is kicking IAEA out from Iran and speeding up their "peaceful nuclear programme" And thats a huge mistake for Iran because now we have no way of monitoring Irans Uranium enrichment Another Israeli\US airstrike or military campaign is almost guaranteed 1 "Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss” John Milton "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” - George Bernard Shaw "What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead" - Nelson Mandela
BruceVC Posted Wednesday at 02:29 PM Posted Wednesday at 02:29 PM 1 hour ago, rjshae said: Yes, DJT says a lot of foolish things. If it weren't so serious, he'd be entertaining. Like a class clown looking for attention. But heres what I genuinely dont understand and maybe you answer it Trump was always erratic, inconsistent and cavalier with the truth and he has become worse in his old age and his adoption of SM Truth has just exacerbated that behavior So why is there so much attention from the global media around what he says on Truth? Its never been a good way to understand what he really means but now his Truth comments get discussed and quoted on an almost daily basis and many people respond to it as if its US policy when often its just his ramblings In South Africa we literally have these "serious " media discussions around what Trump said on Truth Is it just about drama or embarrassment or do you think people are not able discern the difference between Trumps SM rants and what is a realistic policy discussion? If I was a MAGA strategist and I had Trumps confidence I would tell him to immediately stop using Truth for any updates and go back to traditional WH updates and press conferences His Truth usage is becoming a meme and a joke "Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss” John Milton "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” - George Bernard Shaw "What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead" - Nelson Mandela
rjshae Posted Wednesday at 04:03 PM Posted Wednesday at 04:03 PM 1 hour ago, BruceVC said: But heres what I genuinely dont understand and maybe you answer it Trump was always erratic, inconsistent and cavalier with the truth and he has become worse in his old age and his adoption of SM Truth has just exacerbated that behavior So why is there so much attention from the global media around what he says on Truth? Its never been a good way to understand what he really means but now his Truth comments get discussed and quoted on an almost daily basis and many people respond to it as if its US policy when often its just his ramblings In South Africa we literally have these "serious " media discussions around what Trump said on Truth Is it just about drama or embarrassment or do you think people are not able discern the difference between Trumps SM rants and what is a realistic policy discussion? If I was a MAGA strategist and I had Trumps confidence I would tell him to immediately stop using Truth for any updates and go back to traditional WH updates and press conferences His Truth usage is becoming a meme and a joke To quote Mad Magazine, "What, me worry?" His mental health issues drive him to get attention, which he gains through persistent outrageous behavior. At this point I think it's a mistake to expect more logical, less foolish thinking; that just isn't in his mental state. 1 "It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats."
ShadySands Posted Wednesday at 04:52 PM Posted Wednesday at 04:52 PM 2 hours ago, BruceVC said: So why is there so much attention from the global media around what he says on Truth? That should be fairly easy to understand. He posts policy, updates, and actionable items there along with his usual slop so people have to pay attention. 3 1 Free games updated 3/4/21
Gromnir Posted Wednesday at 05:11 PM Posted Wednesday at 05:11 PM (edited) the people who selective edit trump and convince themselves that the President is less corrupt, vain, greedy and petty than his actions reveal him to be never ceases to amaze us. first term, when trump announced that he were gonna fire comey 'cause o' the russia investigation, people were shocked. when the President announced that the g-7 would be held at one of his golf resorts, people laughed, until they realized he were serious. "slow the testing down," were trump's demand and his solution for reducing the USA's high covid numbers, which were a manifest insane position to take, right? ... right? oh, and muslim ban? were literal hundreds o' such in the first term. during trump's campaign for 2.0, he announced a whole lotta illegal, immoral and seeming impossible. we learned that the bestest word in the dictionary is tariffs and that as future President he would tariff anybody with whom we had a trade deficit, in spite o' the fact near every economist observed that such a plan were not only nonsensical but trump's method o' dealing with trade deficits amounted top a kinda self immolation for the US. mass deportations? 'course it were ludicrous that 20 million undocumented, a number vast inflated and implausible, not only were impractical to deport, but that any significant effort to do so would gut punch numerous industries, so of course what trump really meant was he were gonna deport criminal undocumented aliens. doge would get rid o' so much waste fraud and abuse that concerns about the big beautiful bill debt would be a non factor... oh, and please reflect on january f'ing 6, for those who keep trying to memory hole that one. we gotta once again show receipts? how many here and elsewhere shrugged off trump suggestions that he would contest the election months before the election took place 'cause even trump knew he couldn't get away with that. honest, what about the past ten years of trump social media, interviews and campaign stumps has convinced people that it is safe to ignore the insane, stoopid and overt illegal plans trump announces? HA! Good Fun! Edited Wednesday at 05:12 PM by Gromnir "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) "Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019)
Amentep Posted Wednesday at 07:07 PM Posted Wednesday at 07:07 PM Old thread: I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man
Zoraptor Posted Thursday at 12:42 AM Posted Thursday at 12:42 AM 12 hours ago, Elerond said: Iran is kicking IAEA out from Iran and speeding up their "peaceful nuclear programme" Iran's parliament voted for it. As noted in the article, that is not the end of the matter and it does not amount to kicking the IAEA out, yet. To illustrate, their parliament also voted to shut the Straits of Hormuz four days ago, which didn't happen.
rjshae Posted Thursday at 01:21 AM Posted Thursday at 01:21 AM New York city just implemented a ranked choice voting system. Hurray! Meanwhile, via ranked choice, the Democratic party appears to have selected their NY mayoral candidate: Zohran Mamdani, beating out Andrew Cuomo. Mamdani's a muslim socialist Indian American. The MAGA party is freaking out. This ought to be "interesting". "It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats."
Gromnir Posted Thursday at 02:22 AM Posted Thursday at 02:22 AM (edited) 5 hours ago, rjshae said: New York city just implemented a ranked choice voting system. Hurray! Meanwhile, via ranked choice, the Democratic party appears to have selected their NY mayoral candidate: Zohran Mamdani, beating out Andrew Cuomo. Mamdani's a muslim socialist Indian American. The democratic party is freaking out. This ought to be "interesting". fixed maga politicians is positively giddy that the democrat clown car operation is likely gonna make a thirty-three year old with extreme limited policy making experience, who seeming wants to throw money at every problem in a city where they already waste too much money and who is okie dokie with globalize the intafada, one o' the more visible democrats in the country. mayor of nyc is so not a learn-on-the-job office. and maga has been holding up bernie sanders as an extinction level threat to scare independents and moderates on both side of the aisle to instead choose republican candidates? mamdami is the politician maga has been praying to baphomet to send 'em... although gozer the gozerian might be the more appropriate dark god given we are talking 'bout nyc. there were other democrat candidates, but democrat leadership somehow let this become a binary mamdani v. cuomo situation as you accurate observe. As Donors Work Against Mamdani, Top Democrats Stop Short of Backing Him the democrat establishment coulda' gotten behind zellnor myrie or brad lander (and brad lander is also a progressive, but his policy positions are far more realistic and he had a much better chance o' being a successful progressive mayor,) but instead they went with andrew cuomo? the accused sex offender who had to take his limo five blocks to vote in the primary? maga politicians is loving this, and their wet dreams has democrats doing similar in places where the margins is six points or less instead of +50 democrat. edit: the thing to keep in mind when attempting to translate trump's gibberish is that he is a deeply stupid person. HA! Good Fun! Edited Thursday at 06:45 AM by Gromnir "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) "Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019)
BruceVC Posted Thursday at 08:34 AM Posted Thursday at 08:34 AM https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj4en8djwyko @Elerond Some good news because we both support and recognize the significance of NATO This is not a " Trump win " for me, spending more money on NATO is just the right thing to do for all members "Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss” John Milton "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” - George Bernard Shaw "What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead" - Nelson Mandela
Gorth Posted Thursday at 08:44 AM Posted Thursday at 08:44 AM On 6/25/2025 at 8:27 AM, BruceVC said: I doubt they were obliterated but damage was done and also this was the first time the US used these bombs in a war War? What war? It’s a US “special military operation” 2 “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein
HoonDing Posted Thursday at 10:10 AM Posted Thursday at 10:10 AM I bet every female staffer is required to call Drümp "daddy" 1 The ending of the words is ALMSIVI.
Elerond Posted Thursday at 11:55 AM Posted Thursday at 11:55 AM 2 hours ago, BruceVC said: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj4en8djwyko @Elerond Some good news because we both support and recognize the significance of NATO This is not a " Trump win " for me, spending more money on NATO is just the right thing to do for all members That is just farce. Awful decision all around as it will not increase European defense, countries already have plans for creative counting how to make it on paper look like they are "spending" 5% of their GDP in defense. We could for example take Finland as example, we currently spent bit over 6 billion euros in defense, after this increase we would spent 16 billion euros in defense each year. Finland's military uses bit less than 2 billion euros to run itself (this does not include cost caused by compulsory military service, which will be left out from the increased budget). Two largest military procurements in past decade are our navy buying two corvettes with 2 billion dollars, which were ordered in 2015, and first will be delivered in 2027, so that 2 billion dollars is divided over 15 years, so about 133 millions per year. The largest purchase in past decade has been 64 F-35 with 8 billion, with 10 year delivery window, so 800 million per year. With new budget Finland can run its military and repeat both of these purchase every year and have still 2 billion to spend other things. Which is quite absurd thing to do. Only way we could actually spent that much money is to start building up massive stock of cruise missiles. But most likely we will just write all public funding for defense contractors that are selling weapons to other countries as "defense spending". Also Trump may changes his mind about Nato next week if he feels like it. 1
BruceVC Posted Thursday at 12:48 PM Posted Thursday at 12:48 PM 48 minutes ago, Elerond said: That is just farce. Awful decision all around as it will not increase European defense, countries already have plans for creative counting how to make it on paper look like they are "spending" 5% of their GDP in defense. We could for example take Finland as example, we currently spent bit over 6 billion euros in defense, after this increase we would spent 16 billion euros in defense each year. Finland's military uses bit less than 2 billion euros to run itself (this does not include cost caused by compulsory military service, which will be left out from the increased budget). Two largest military procurements in past decade are our navy buying two corvettes with 2 billion dollars, which were ordered in 2015, and first will be delivered in 2027, so that 2 billion dollars is divided over 15 years, so about 133 millions per year. The largest purchase in past decade has been 64 F-35 with 8 billion, with 10 year delivery window, so 800 million per year. With new budget Finland can run its military and repeat both of these purchase every year and have still 2 billion to spend other things. Which is quite absurd thing to do. Only way we could actually spent that much money is to start building up massive stock of cruise missiles. But most likely we will just write all public funding for defense contractors that are selling weapons to other countries as "defense spending". Also Trump may changes his mind about Nato next week if he feels like it. You have a habit of making honest, informative but depressing posts I thought my post would make you happy because its some good news around NATO future and shows a commitment from its members And Trumps gone in 4 years so this is more of a long-term " good news " story about NATO "Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss” John Milton "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” - George Bernard Shaw "What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead" - Nelson Mandela
Malcador Posted Thursday at 02:08 PM Posted Thursday at 02:08 PM Hegseth's ranting about the Iran bombing is something else. Also, calling it the most complex operation in history is peak Trump administration. 2 Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
BruceVC Posted Thursday at 02:18 PM Posted Thursday at 02:18 PM 9 minutes ago, Malcador said: Hegseth's ranting about the Iran bombing is something else. Also, calling it the most complex operation in history is peak Trump administration. " the most complex operation in history " "Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss” John Milton "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” - George Bernard Shaw "What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead" - Nelson Mandela
uuuhhii Posted Thursday at 03:14 PM Posted Thursday at 03:14 PM if eu want to protect itself they need united federal army not wasting hundred more billion on overpriced military hardware
BruceVC Posted Thursday at 04:23 PM Posted Thursday at 04:23 PM 1 hour ago, uuuhhii said: if eu want to protect itself they need united federal army not wasting hundred more billion on overpriced military hardware Meaning? Do you mean an EU army because the EU is not a federal system, its a union of different countries "Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss” John Milton "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” - George Bernard Shaw "What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead" - Nelson Mandela
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