Tulsi Gabbard left no doubt when she testified to Congress about Iran’s nuclear program earlier this year.
The country was not building a nuclear weapon, the national intelligence director told lawmakers, and its supreme leader had not reauthorized the dormant program even though it had enriched uranium to higher levels.
But Donald Trump dismissed the assessment of U.S. spy agencies during an overnight flight back to Washington as he cut short his trip to the Group of Seven summit to focus on the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran.
“I don’t care what she said,” Trump told reporters. In his view, Iran was “very close” to having a nuclear bomb.
He’s an idiot who has never been able to distinguish between his fantasies and reality
He’s spent a lifetime making shit up, and never being held to account for it
He’s a child, and what’s worse, he has dementia.
He also lies as easily as he breathes. Truth means nothing to him. He sees being honest as a weakness
Just the person to entrust the most powerful military of the world with.
“But what choice do we have? Entrust the military to a lady? We’ll take the dementia-addled toddler instead”
Don’t forget that under the orange paint, he’s white
Didn’t matter. Look at the three elections that Trump ran, and his performance against the candidate with a penis vs. the ones without one.
The American electorate will vote for a Black penis-haver (particularly if he is a baller) over any vagina-haver right now. They still won’t say “I’m a sexist pig” in the exit polls, though, so we get reasons like “She didn’t explain her policies enough” or “She wasnt authentic enough” instead.
Maybe I’m just being hopeful, but I don’t think the vagina thing is as big of an influence as it seems. First, we only have a sample size of two.
One of them, Clinton, was just an objectively awful person. She wasn’t popular with anyone, including women.
The second, Harris, had an abbreviated campaign caused by Biden’s unwillingness to step down. She also wasn’t built up in preparation fora campaign during her VP term. On top of that, she was very unexciting policy-wise. Basically status quo when everybody is clamoring for progress.
Contrast that with Obama, who ran on “hope and change” and got people excited for actual progress. Which he didn’t deliver, but that’s another story.
Hillary Clinton was the most qualified Presidential candidate you’ve had since Eisenhower.
I don’t flatly disagree, but I think to call Hillary or Kamala as “electable” as Obama is a hard sell. He was a better public speaker than any president in my lifetime and he played things off well. Kamala was certainly more likable than Hillary, but she didn’t have as much sauce as the sauce king at least before he was usurped by the sauce god Mamdani.
Why do women win Governor elections, then?
Because not every state is full of misogyny
That is not so clear-cut https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/11/01/17-states-havent-had-a-female-us-senator-and-18-havent-had-a-woman-governor/ I’d have to go see if there is any correlation between these and Kamala/Hillary’s results, but I’m not expecting it to be strong.
(Oh, and of course, I didn’t check if any of these elections were woman vs woman, where it would not serve as an indicator of misogyny to elect a woman)
My point is that even women can win elections in deep red states, particularly if they follow “conservative” values close enough. But then again president has the whole commander-in-chief aura…ok…
People can accept woman as the little boss, but not the big boss. Not yet anyway.
The idea that the only reason she lost is because of being a woman is incredibly stupid.
I don’t agree. Take the same political stances and ethos, but have it come from Keith Harris (or even Kailash or Kenan Harris) instead, and he is seen as decisive and likeable.
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Yeah? Well my pop tart fell on the floor this morning. I think I’ll sit out 2028.
He is. She is a Russian asset.
Who’s “she” here? I’ll assume in good faith that this is a typo
… Tulsi Gabbard
why tf would a fascist dictator give a rat’s ass about “reasons” to plunge multiple countries into war? he wants war, that’s what’s going to happen
Tbh this is not specific to trump. Gulf wars happened the same way.
the difference is bush 1 & 2 made an effort to convince everyone their bullshit wars were justified. diaper fascist is literally saying “don’t care”
the thing that’ll shock me is if we’re NOT at war within a month
edit: it took less than a fucking week…
Not really it was all theatrical in un but everybody knew and called them out. https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/French_address_on_Iraq_at_the_UN_Security_Council
not sure what you’re trying to argue. that maybe we won’t go to war?
i didn’t say no one called them out, just that they made an effort to justify the wars.
the wars still happened, didn’t they. despite being “called out”
people have been “calling out” trump for decades. we still have trump. people are “calling out” this war too.
My point is this is not specific to trump. I don’t like him but this is typical American military complex which we have seen in the past. History repeats itself.
Destabilizing Iran has been a major part of the US vision to reshape the middle east in it’s own favor, in order to retain hegemonic control and move the theater to China
It’s also been Israel’s goal since the 1990s, and Israel is an fundamental to US foreign policy in the region
The truth doesn’t really matter. Israel will get their war, and the US will lumber into it behind them.
What’s crazy to me is apparently the US has become so polarized, so used to division that pointing out Israel is acting like bloodthirsty psychos is somehow supporting Iran, or Hamas before that. It’s like their whole culture has evaporated any nuance at all. Only diametrically opposed good and evil battling forever. Professional wrestling stories with Heels and Faces divided by clear black lines.
It is the only thing conservatives/fascists have left.
And shitlibs.
Liberals aren’t even in charge of anything at the moment but you really out here trying to get this “shitlib” thing you made up to stick.
Yikes
tHiNg yOu mAdE uP
God vs Satan doesn’t leave room for nuance.
First, weaken the commercial aviation in your country. Second, start calling everything terrorism. Third, start yet another war in the middle east.
Your guy is desperately looking for another 911.
I’m expecting a false-flag attack here soon to give him an excuse to officially pull the US into it
Or maybe a real attack from the guillotine squad. It’d amount to the same thing.
Tronald would likely abuse the fuck Out of it to do more “emergency measures”. We’ve seen this in Germany in the 30s with the Ermächtigungsgesetz after the Reichstag burned.
*9/11
That’s fine. Iraq didn’t have WMDs either. They just need a lie to sell it to the public.
What’s the context for this photo?
Colin Powell lies to congress about “facts” and “evidence” of WMDs in Iraq that led to a 20 year war
The UN. This picture was when he lied to the UN about WMDs in Iraq.
My bad, he lied so much it’s hard to keep it straight
Quick, dust off the “weapons of mass destruction” propaganda.
Came here to say the exact same thing.
It doesn’t matter if it is true or not (not just this topic) but if you repeat the lie enough and gaslight the public it becomes true, and if it doesn’t so what, what are you going to do about it.
NOTHING that is what they are counting on.
Keep up the protests, the No Kings protest was huge even if MSM is downplaying it.
In [Trump’s] view, Iran was “very close” to having a nuclear bomb.
Those are clearly Netanyahu’s words in his mouth. Netanyahu has been loudly and confidently saying that at regular intervals since 2012. Iran is always weeks away.
At the same time Isreal is like the only country that probably has nukes yet refuses to acknowledge it.
Imagine Iran did a “preventive strike” against Israel because they might have nuclear bombs.
They’re pretty open about it
Since the 90’s
They’ve been saying “any day now” for twenty-some years
You mean 2002?
1995 actually
Are we now choosing to believe what Tulsi says because it fits the narrative?
If Trump doesn’t believe her, then even from his demented perspective she shouldn’t have the job. So which is it Donald? Does she ah, merit her position of authority and influence, or does she not?
Wmd
We have done this dance before last time it cost me my 20s my sanity and most importantly a huge amount for friends I loved like brothers who died before and are still killing then selfs…
So we are gonna do the Iraq WMD lie again huh?
This season’s twist is that the Intelligence community is claiming that there is no weapons. Unless the Intelligence community is doing reverse psychological on us.
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The CIA reported no wmds before the invasion of Iraq too
People still believe Iraq had WMDs to this day.
I still have people telling me it wasn’t Bush’s fault, the intelligence was bad
Well, they’re half right, but not in the sense they mean…
Of course there are ZERO valid reasons to go to war in the ME.
I wouldn’t tryst Gabbard on this either since she’s very likely a Russian agent and Iran is a partner to their war efforts.
Reported as “misinformation” by someone blissfully unaware of Gabbard’s history:
On the bright side, though, if Russia is actively covering for Iran and Trump is aligning against that, then Putin might finally decide Trump has outlived his usefulness as an asset and send Trump some of his special tea…
Russia only cared slightly, Trump blocked Russian sanctions already passed by Congress and stepped in to stop Ukrainian attacks on Russian oil and Russia will not burn such an asset for a minor partner catching this kind of heat (or any partner, since they “don’t have the cards” as Trump would say if he wasn’t a complete pushover for Putin)
This whole thing still has me scratching my head.
Such a large portion of the West gets a raging boner about coming to Israel’s aide. I get it from the strange doomsday cult belief where something about Israel at war triggers the rapture or some shit. But I don’t really believe that’s what the western world leaders actually believe.
Trump has his own reality, and only a divine entity understands what’s going on in the space between his ears.
Ignoring Trump and the doomsday cult thing, the other things I can think of:
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US and Europe want an established western sympathizing military power in the middle-east. Some sort of remnant of the Cold war.
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US and Europe want a military western sympathizing military power with close proximity to the Suez Canal and red Sea, as well as the Mediterranean.
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The “Sampson Option” that Israel has is completely legitimate and Israel is ready to obliterate everyone if they don’t get their way.
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There’s some economic or strategic value the West won’t acknowledge.
Even with all that, attack Iran? Iran is not remotely similar to Iraq. Iran will put up much more of a fight. It also won’t be a “forever war” like fascists dream about.
Because the fatwa declares: “Israel has a right to defend itself”. Denying it is haram, and infidels must be punished.
At a certain point, it stops being about enforcing the fatwa, and becomes about defending your right to declare fatwas.
Using Islamic terminology to describe the driving force of a Christian nationalist coming to the aid of Jewish Zionists to fight an Islamic Hegemony has my head hurting in new ways.
It’s really not that complicated. Trump is a bully and loves piling on to prove he’s the alpha male. But he’s also a coward (like many bullies) and is afraid to wade into something that will spiral out of control. So he’s trying to subjugate the government of Iran using threats so he can get the satisfaction of the former without the risk of the latter.
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Trump has always shown us he doesn’t need intelligence.
We have irrefutable proof, that we can’t show you, that Iran is stoning babies in the incubators with yellow cake.