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LilElf70

(956 posts)
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 07:49 PM Jun 24

Just heard on CNN

Last edited Tue Jun 24, 2025, 10:58 PM - Edit history (1)

Trump just wasted millions of our tax dollars on Iran. He initially reported total obliteration. Yeah right. I questioned it at the time. Now it's being reported that all Trump did was slow them up a few months, which makes him a liar again. All that tax payer money for NOTHING!!!!! WTF!!!! Gee, the new narcissistic idiot in charge of the military must be a total moron. Let's see what our failed resident says now?

Not to mention how unconstitutional this was? Maybe if he would have gone the normal route thru Congress, they would have caught his error? And what about the future threats on the country and it's citizens.

More info.....
https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/breaking-us-strikes-on-iran-did-not-destroy-iran-nuclear-sites-us-intel-assessment-reportedly-finds/

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chouchou

(2,070 posts)
1. ....and even made the USA look more foolish plus pissed off our friends and enemies.
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 08:08 PM
Jun 24

Good Job Dick-face.

LilElf70

(956 posts)
4. An ex head of security said
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 08:28 PM
Jun 24

his department would NEVER use that word. NEVER!!!!....

Why am I not surprised by this? Trump thinks he's a king. Can say or do whatever he wants. It's all about getting attention. Throwing the "F" word around the networks today, sure was childish for a resident, wasn't it? I can't believe what I'm witnessing.

Resistance1

(133 posts)
11. The carnival barker only uses superlatives
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 09:33 PM
Jun 24

Like any other conman. "This is the best. It's absolutely amazing". "Never in the history of mankind has anyone ever done anything like this before!" For Mr. "Hammered at Midnight" to kiss Trump's ass with "it was a bold and brilliant plan devised by the president", puts the failure right where it belongs, squarely at the feet of the Liar in Chief.

Hugin

(36,393 posts)
5. "My gut tells me, I could obliterate a taco right now."
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 08:32 PM
Jun 24

I may as well make it part of my vocabulary.

Dr. T

(281 posts)
8. Flashback
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 08:47 PM
Jun 24

to George W standing on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier, wearing a codpiece, declaring "mission accomplished" in Iraq.

Sadly, that image has been etched into my retinas. I can't un-see it.

Attilatheblond

(6,507 posts)
12. Don't forget, they had to turn that 'bird farm' around so cameras wouldn't show they were barely off the coast
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 09:33 PM
Jun 24

Had to make it look like W did some real flyin and wasn't just holding up that crew's reunion with their families.

BurnDoubt

(737 posts)
7. To be fair...
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 08:46 PM
Jun 24

He DID share the plan with Republicans... and... Putin.
Credit where credit is due.
Dog Fucker!

ancianita

(40,843 posts)
13. WIRED: Donald Trump and Sean Hannity Set Off a Wave of Disinformation After Iran Bombing
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 09:47 PM
Jun 24
https://www.wired.com/story/donald-trump-sean-hannity-disinformation-iran-bombing/


"...a senior Iranian official told Reuters that most of the highly enriched uranium at the Fordow facility had been moved before the bombing, while the director of the International Atomic Energy Agency told The New York Times that the highly enriched uranium previously stored at the Isfahan facility had been moved before it was targeted by US strikes.

Trump’s early declarations of success on Truth Social set the tone, though—and appear to have inspired others. Fox News host Sean Hannity, among the loudest proponents for bombing Iran in recent weeks, posted the same phrase the account Trump screenshotted did—”Fordow is gone”—on his Instagram account, alongside a video of a massive explosion. (After WIRED published this story, Hannity appeared to have deleted the post.)

The video, however, does not show Fordow and is instead of a December 2024 Israeli strike on a missile base in Tartous, Syria. Hannity’s post, which remains on the platform, had been viewed more than 5 million times as of Monday morning.That same video and other obviously fake videos have been shared widely on platforms like X, Facebook, and TikTok, with accounts also claiming they show explosions at Fordow. In some cases, users on X asking Grok to verify the footage have been told by X’s AI-powered chatbot that the footage is real—even though it is not.

Despite the pushback from his own military, Trump has continued to claim that the Fordow facility had been destroyed. “Obliteration is the accurate term,” Trump wrote on Sunday evening in a Truth Social post.

Trump’s effort to frame the bombing as a decisive end to Iran’s nuclear ambitions, while heavily disputed by arms control experts, was picked up by supporters who claimed the bombing raid had effectively ended any potential conflict...."

LilElf70

(956 posts)
14. It's all about the show.....
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 10:16 PM
Jun 24

I have to keep telling myself.... narcissistic game show host.

D_Master81

(2,111 posts)
15. When he used the phrase
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 10:19 PM
Jun 24

When he tweeted the phrase “totally obliterated” I thought it seemed like someone trying to convince people. If it was successful you could just say that, “our mission to destroy their facilities was successful”. Someone saying “they were totally obliterated” is someone talking like a juvenile.

patphil

(8,038 posts)
18. How many millions of dollars did that bombing mission cost? Did it do anything more than surface damage?
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 10:52 PM
Jun 24
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2025/06/22/iran-nuclear-strikes-30000-pound-bunker-busters/84306936007/

As per the article:

Seven B-2 bombers flew the 14 bombs to Iran from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, but more than 125 aircraft were involved in the mission, according to Caine.

Iranian bunkers also use a new, Ultra High Performance Concrete that may be able to survive even these immense bombs. I'm having trouble finding a free site that describes this material, but it's apparent from what I have read that those facilities can probably survive the bombing attack we engaged in.

Dark n Stormy Knight

(10,401 posts)
20. Give a man a hammer...
Wed Jun 25, 2025, 04:54 PM
Wednesday

They were itching to use their shiny, expensive war tools. MAGAts (fiscal responsibility hawks 🤣 are thrilled with this shit.

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