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chainsaw

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  1. just like their slave catching and lynching namesake
  2. He sure loves "88"
  3. There were sources other than Trump and Witkoff indicating that the deal was close. There's no point in speculating whose intelligence is greater than the other's because the fact remains that if a smoking gun ever existed we'd have seen it. The American people deserve more than a chart from a DC think thank.
  4. GWB has had them on the "axis of evil" for over 20 years. By now, there is absolutely no chance Bibi has intelligence better than what we would have. To the contrary, Bibi was butthurt about Obama's peace deal that allowed inspections and that every unbiased observer agreed was being complied with, so I would trust our own intel over theirs. When Trump tore up the deal, which happened I believe around the same time John "war in Iran is my wet dream" Bolton was still in his cabinet we would have had even more of an incentive to keep the closest tabs on Iran's progress. To my mind, if either country had smoking gun evidence that Iran were on the "1 yard line" like that tweet says, it already would have been published and shouted from the rooftops. And before they could get to the 1 yard line that also means they had entered the red zone months ago, which if that had been true there never would have been so much diplomatic progress with Witkoff. So either our intelligence community had been asleep at the wheel for months across two administrations or maybe just maybe this is another Bush-style exaggeration.
  5. It's not really an opinion. It's a fact. They can't have a nuclear bomb and are not in a position to get one even if they wanted to. They aren't on the 1 yard line, so we don't have to intervene. If they were even in the red zone, we would have already known about it and wouldn't need to trust the word of people who have an interest in dragging us into another forever war.
  6. Yeah yeah TACO is very funny but for the sake of our troops and the safety of Americans abroad let's not mock Trump if he makes a good decision after "very strongly looking into" a horrible decision.
  7. He wanted to feel strong after the dear leader parade was a bust. He doesn't feel like there's enough support from his base, which is the only reason I think he didn't act on his impulse to use the military in order to feel strong. He's got a lot of Huckabees in his ear, though. I think deep down he's afraid because he knows a fox news weekend host absolutely cannot handle actual responsibility.
  8. We are the only ones who have ever used nukes on civilians.
  9. Except it's not just Tulsi.
  10. Iran's on the 1 yard line? If that were true why would Tulsi and everyone else in the global intelligence community have hidden that fact?
  11. Our journalists fucking suck. They are terrified of being shut out so they suck up to and carry water for their sources.
  12. I think this just shows how low the bar has gotten in the US. These are basic questions that any journalist should be asking. Take a look at what's standard in the UK for a taste of what we're missing. I chalk this up more to Ted letting his guard down because he went in expecting culture war softballs.
  13. I should have been clearer. Domestically people were less skeptical after Colin Powell said "trust me bro"
  14. There is a zero percent chance Israel won't come scurrying under our skirts when "the fall out" happens. In for a penny, in for a pound. We straight up cannot afford this. Iran is a paper tiger because it still wants to avoid a military conflict with the US? Let's give it more than one week to judge this. People felt like we prevailed when Saddam was captured, people felt much differently when we had to spend a decade "nation building." This is a large, hostile, mountainous territory with an enormous population. We lost the war in Iraq, and not only does the strength of that opponent pales in comparison to the strength of Iran, but also the justification for the Iraq invasion while still incredibly weak at the very least was based on a consensus belief that they had WMDs. Yes, it was built on a lie, but it was a commonly held belief at the time. There is no consensus that Iran is "weeks away" from building nukes, not even within Trump's cabinet. More to your point, all this would do is incentivize everyone else to get nukes. "This is what happens if you don't have nukes."
  15. You mean to tell me they're lying? The jackbooted thugs would actually resort to deception?
  16. Cruz was a deciding vote on Kavanaugh, who voted to overturn Roe, for what that's worth.
  17. It's debatable which of them has done more evil, and both sides have compelling cases to be made. I hate them both for different reasons. On this occasion, I will allow myself the indulgence of seeing sniveling Ted getting pantsed, even if I know Tucker Carlson's motivations are suspect and he should never be considered an ally.
  18. Right wingers are easy to radicalize and they radicalize far more often than their counterparts on the left
  19. I actually don't know anything about this case, but good for her.
  20. translation: this is hard and boring and he doesn't feel like thinking about it anymore
  21. If it really was Iran's fault, are you admitting that all the civilian deaths in Gaza were war crimes?
  22. Good PSA for taking the meds
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