'Trump always chickens out'? NOT THIS TIME..... I don't think we should use that term tonight--

[Jack Valentino]

when the decision was clearly RIGHT, for once---- to not initiate a GENOCIDE against nearly 100 million people in Iran,
many of whom OPPOSE their current government,
and instead allow diplomacy to work, for once---

To say that he 'chickened out' is to imply that he
should have acted upon his promised threats--- which would have resulted in the deaths
of millions of innocent Iranians---- including those who oppose their current regime

wiping out their electric power plants and numerous bridges, with conventional weapons
as well as water plants would have effectively mimicked the results of a nuclear attack,
without using any nukes at all-- (minus the fallout)
but created a total humanitarian disaster in Iran....
and made the country "unlivable" --- no electricity, no clean water, no refridgeration of food....

and NO PRAISE of Trump here---- all his prior words are subject to condemnation and scorn!!!
(and are deserving of such)


BUT----- I don't think he should be 'mocked' for avoiding
committing a genocide which he threatened to commit,
before somebody talked him 'off the cliff'---

wait, I mean he possibly shouldn't be mocked for 'making the correct decision'---


Whether the orange geezer should be mocked for
having said those things in the first place,
that is a different thing and 'fair game' as I am concerned,
but it is a thin red line.....

(anybody recognize my movie reference there? story of the battles over Guadalcanal!)


Pardon my post--- I was seriously worried that the demented orange geezer
would initiate actions tonight which could precipitate World War Three---
so now I hope we have a reprieve of at least two weeks---
for which I am grateful!

(That's another two weeks for some Republicans to possibly come to their senses---
although I don't necessarily have much faith in that!)

[Ms. Toad]

1. That has been true every time the term TACO jas been used.

Some of us have suggested it is counterproductive to ridicule him for finally doing the right thing.

[WizumbODaSage]

9. OK..But If He Wears A Tan Suit or Melania Turns Out

To Be a Man We Hound Him To His Grave!

[Ms. Toad]

13. Tan suit yes, Melania turns out to be a man - NO.

Ridiculing someone for being in a relationship with a trans person is trans hostile.

[fujiyamasan]

12. Do you really think he's doing the "right" thing by manipulating markets

Or issuing constant threats in the first place?

He should be ridiculed for absolutely everything. I agree that it’s good he didn’t go through with “threatening to wipe out a civilization”. That’s a no brainer. Commiting genocide isn’t a good thing and no is saying he should have gone through with it.

That’s also completely besides the point. The reality is no one believes he’ll follow through with anything anyways. He did this exactly one year ago, and then backtracked once he saw how the markets reacted. This makes this country completely untrustworthy.

As his defense secretary has said, no quarter.

Fuck him. He never does the right thing. How about not issuing threats of genocide in the first place? Is the bar that low now?

[pat_k]

2. The THREATS are WAR CRIMES too

Measures of intimidation or terrorism against the civilian population are prohibited, including acts or threats of violence, the primary purpose of which is to spread terror among the civilian population.

See LymphocyteLover's post HERE

It bears repeating:
Acts or THREATS

Department of Defense Law of War Manual (pages 189-190, left panel thumbnails 217-218)

§ 5.5.2 Essentially Negative Duties to Respect Civilians and to Refrain From Directing Military Operations Against Them. In general, military operations must not be directed against enemy civilians. In particular:

• Civilians must not be made the object of attack;

• Military objectives may not be attacked when the expected incidental loss of civilian life, injury to civilians, and damage to civilian objects would be excessive in relation to the concrete and direct military advantage expected to be gained;

• Civilians must not be used as shields or as hostages;

• Measures of intimidation or terrorism against the civilian population are prohibited, including acts or threats of violence, the primary purpose of which is to spread terror among the civilian population.

Keep in mind that Trump's threats communicated in his tweets are themselves war crimes.

— Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) 2026-04-07T13:00:03.889Z

[Jack Valentino]

4. I'm not a lawyer, so I won't dispute your supposition....

but I like the arguments you presented!

[stopdiggin]

3. quite apart from the fact that taunting the psychopath

was probably never terribly clever in the first place.
(regardless the particular scenario - or self gratification involved)

[1WorldHope]

5. He should be removed from office for making the statement.

Among the thousand other reasons that came before. He must be confined as soon as possible and removed from office. My god this has gone too far for too long!

[Jack Valentino]

6. YES, he SHOULD HAVE been removed from office LONG ago, but too many Republicans

and self-proclaimed 'christians' have been WORSHIPPING THEIR ANTICHRIST
for far too long !!!!!!

[HesNotHere]

7. He put himself into a lose/lose situation with his ludicrous, reckless threats

Ok, so maybe there was a magical chance that he would scare Iranians into full capitulation with his bluffs, but otherwise, he either war crimes or runs. He deserves absolute ridicule because he alone started this thing and made it like a gameshow with his tweets, while pumping/dumping the market repeatedly.

[WizumbODaSage]

11. He Also Met His Match. Messianic Islamists Who

Kill 7000 Protestors Aren't Gonna Go All Wobbly When the Loudmouth from Queens Waves a Stick At Em! Too bad the first days bombing was so successful. Maybe it would have been better if the Mullahs had been kidnapped en masse, locked in a secret bunker with 24 hour blaring recordings of Barney Frank, Pete Buttigieg, AOC, Elizabeth Warren, and Bernie Sanders for six months then we could have run 'em as Democrats in the midterms!

[Justice matters.]

8. Not sure the late-night comedians will do that...

Just watched Jimmy Kimmel expose the orange war criminal and kid rapist with a big taco joke.

[LeftInTX]

10. I don't think he was planning to follow through with this.

I think much of this was a "save face" deal which had been going on for several days under the veil of these threats.

[DallasNE]

14. When I Read That B-52's Had Left The UK I Smelled A Rat

I expected that the B-2's would be the primary bombers used and took that as the first clue that it was TACO time. All TACO time means to me is that Trump ran another bluff, and everybody now knows this is how Trump operates, so the tactic is meaningless - look at the Iran response.