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I have a feeling that something is going to go boom!
Slow Joe is droning on about a drone shot down some 2 years ago over Yemen according to Drudge – what a bummer for Joe….
May God bless President Trump and the Republican sovereigns for standing up against the evil actors of the world and their enablers which include the very unmasculine, uncourageous, self-important socialist Protectorate of Canada.
Yes, they did. For multiple reasons.
I’d like to be the proverbial “fly on the wall” in Trump’s office right now, while he has to deal with Iran, and later in the day meet with Trudeau.
Is Iran the number one sponsor of terrorism in the world or does the title still belong to Saudi Arabia? At different times,Trump has claimed each is the numero uno.
Trump understands above all else amd more than anyone else that ALL politics is rhetoric, polemics and bullshit. He uses words as weapons. He feints, ducks, says one thing one minute, a d another the next, to keep his opponents feeling insecure and uncomfortable. He uses his enemy’s tactics against them, and it is driving them nuts. Lookit, Iran is finished as a regional power. They are rapidly aging, they are bankrupt and sclerotic, their government is weak and desparately clinging to power against an increasingly restive citizenry. He has maneuvered Iran into a position where they are starting to do stupid stuff, and they sill get fecked up as a result. I suspect Saudi, Israeli, and Turkish assets are already in place. He has played blitz chess when his opponents think they are playing tournament-timed checkers.
I would laugh my ass off if MY President used his press conference with Justine to announce the target of his MOAB … that just exploded in Iran. Hopefully, on a high Mosque of some sort … or wherever the government Mullahs hang out.
Horse shit. So the Trump admin will expand wars in the Mideast at the behest of women beating Saudis and the Jewish ethnostate but fails to build a wall and protect his own country or it’s constitution. Haha please start a war with Iran so that America can learn a lesson in pain that ends globohomo once and for all.
Go check. Progressives aren’t in charge right now, so no on the war thing.
I guess you were out when the voters decided on no more invasions and elected Trump.
Limited punitive action, perhaps, more sanctions, you betcha.
It was nice of Kerry to beat the war drums for Iran and his roadmap for war.
If only we’d just let Iran get nukes; they’d be nice then.
They’re pipsqueak a-holes, looking over their shoulder at their citizens, who think they’re Muslim warriors.
Progressivism; taxation; inflation; war. Repeat when necessary.
Guy, the Iranians aren’t going to buy into Trump’s punitive actions because they know that America is reaching a boiling point. Not only that, but China and Russia also know this and they back Iran. Why do we care so much about oppressing Iran? Let them be the MidEast hegemonic power. Why don’t we just take care of our own country.
Who cares what the Iranian leadership “buys into?” Shove a red hot cruise missile up their butts for all I care.
The point is to maximize the pressure on their leadership until they boil over. The US is flying, not boiling over btw.
No invasion, but we all have an interest in open commerce, without mined international waters for instance.
We don’t need their oil or their BS anymore, but Clintonesque withdrawal and isolation invites 911s.
Very Christian of you. Did you learn that at the Alliance Church Bible camp while sipping a Starbucks?
Tranny kids, drugs and a push to accept pedos. Slow clap, conservatives. Iran isn’t wrong in calling us the Great Satan.
America may prevail, but she’ll pay dearly.
Honestly, Iran isn’t all that bad of a country and Persians have always been a civilised people. It would be painful to watch them pay for the lifestyles of overstuffed, Unaesthetic boomers.
Me, I’ll just be sitting here being the best family man taxpayer I can be, just as Jesus instructed.
Good luck with your satanic war.
Boiling point? Ohhhh … you mean the American Stock Market? Yeah, it’s been boiling over with International money fleeing their Communist and “Democratic Socialist” economies.
THE STOCK MARKET IS TGE MOST IMPORTANT GAUGE OF THE QUALITY OF MY LIFE BECAUSE ALL MUH LIFELONG INVESTMENTS AMD I WANT THAT 50 FOOT MOTORHOME
You’re not content with your current single-wide? Huh? ??? I would have expected you to be a ‘Tiny-Home’ aficionado
dud, yer stupid overflowith. Trump isn’t , and doesn’t need to, start a bodies on the ground war. And Russia like that Iran oil ain’t flowing. Russia would/will go broke if oil drops anymore. Running off at the yap is what most politics is, and also happens to be one of yer strong points
I hope you’re right but what has Orange guy done for America besides record immigrants and debt.
I will give him credit for rounding up pedos
But having said all that….. why?
Easy to say, let Iran be the Mideast hegemonic power, knowing America will take care of the problem of Iran’s hegemonic goals. Unfortunately, the western nations, outside the US, have become hothouse plants that could not survive long without US protection.
They don’t have to worry about protecting themselves, they know the US always will. This is why the Germans sell Iran anything hi tech it can get away with selling.
Iran is not allowed to participate in defence and projection? Why?
There are limits to what Trump can do without Congressional funding. Your anti-Semitism had been previously noticed.
Ooooh conservative excuses. Excuses bought and paid for
The Boomers are hopeless. They won’t have to pay the consequences of any of this. Just let them grill in peace.
https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/141604554855825408
There’s always a tweet yeah, but this is a particularly good one.
Obama did start a war with Iran. By way of airliners full of money and crappy deals Obama put Iran on a collision course with the USA
Sure bud.
There is your problem! You should try a little less bud.
I agree. Bud is awful beer.
No, President Trump is mistaken.
Unless he changes Iran into All-glass-istan nothing he can do will fix the situation there. It will just
be a waste of time, money and American lives.
Iran having all that Nuclear material and losing containment…Nuke themselves and they would not get any Virgins for being that stupid… We could help the ME cleanup the radioactive Accident.. Lots of Space then open for Palestinians…..
gee….wonder what would have happened if they blew holes in two Russian ships…and shot down a Russian drone
…no one would be debating it now…it would already be over
Then Russia would push south and realize a century-old dream of having unfettered access to warm water ports.
If I may, make that two plus centuries. Catherine II was already pushing south for all season ports. All her successors including the leadership of Soviet era had similar designs.
Is it only me or who else thinks this issue was created by Mr. Kerry?
In the past little while I have heard that the upcoming war with Iran is ‘Trump’s War!’ And the US electorate is not ready for another middle east war!
Thus, the Dems can blame any conflict on the President and get back into power before next November (2020). They can holler and scream, they can finally impeach and all will be well! The world will be back spinning on it’s real axis.
Why the Hell else would Kerry be in Iran a few months back.
Nothing would make me happier than to read that our “17 Spy Agencies” all found irrefutable evidence that John F. Kerry committed treasonous acts against the USA … and was hanged until dead in a publicly televised event on prime time TV.
Iran is beyond stupid right now with their intimidation tactics. All of their attacks on oil tankers and now U.S. military equipment is being put into a ledger where there’s already a target the U.S. wants to take out but they just need enough justification. Like Han Solo says “Keep it up fuzzball”. At some point the fur will fly at 4am and at 6am when the smoke clears the U.S. will just say Iran had it coming and something very dear to their ambitions will have gone poof.
I don’t expect President Trump will be loading up pallets full of cash in the form of Danegeld to buy quietude like the Obama-Nation™. For starters nobody is dead, so a targeted asset will likely get slated to ‘send a message’. ie proportional response, tit for tat, to let the Iranian regime know that their pugnacious ways come with a cost. In short, open international waters are not up for negotiation.
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If Trump is smart, he’ll occupy them from the front with threats, innuendo and bluster, maybe the odd little incursion, while working on some plan to remove the mullahs with Iranian help. That way he doesn’t have a war to hang around his neck and the locals willl be very grateful.
Trump is not smart. Far from it. One especially annoying thing about him is his repeated use of phrases and words plus comments that show what a shallow empty headed buffoon-like creature he is. Such as “It’s probably nothing”, “We’ll see what happens”, “Yuge” , “tremendous”, “You’ll find out”, “You’ll see”, “Zero….”, “Winning”, “A lot of money”, “Fake news…”, “Incredible ….”, “Great….”, “Fire and fury”, “loser…”, “Believe me…”. How can anybody listen to him and not shake one’s head in dismay. I am disappointed that so many on SDA worship and praise him. Give your collective heads a shake. FFS!!
Not shaking my head here.
Trump is a billionaire and doesn’t take a salary. He is the job creator President. His speeches are eloquent, it is highly doubtful that he spoke his American slang to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth.
So, tell us what do you think of Justin Trudeau, then?
Give your head a shake, Canucklehead or would like some assistance?
I fear it is way too late to help you and your Ilk when it comes to President Trump. Hatred rules, eh. Always and forever.
well NB, I’d say his IQ is near or at about 150 SBS, and yer’s???????????????????????????????????
@Nancy:
I regard Trudeau with equal disdain.
what a master of phrasiology. ‘you’ll find out’.
so many options.
not mapping it all out like BROADCASTING dates of withdrawal *years ahead* a la dubya, clinton, obomba.
is he the one came up with “fire and fury”? that one seems to have worked well so far.
Hey Dude, allow replies, or maybe turn off your word salad machine?
Thanks for pointing out my retardness. Apologies. I didn’t even know replies are an option… wait how do you turn them on?
I’m such a boomer
Whatever happened to “Don’t Feed the Troll?”
Trump’s tweet is perfect. There is no threat, veiled or otherwise. War? Trump said nothing about war. Punishment? He didn’t even say he would punish them. Just that they made a very bad mistake. Leave it up to the imagination of the rulers in Iran as to what might happen next. Economic sanctions, surgical strike, you name it, anything and everything could be on the table. They’re going to be in a frenzy trying to figure out their next move.
Trump could have a seizure and tweet out a paragraph of random characters and you’d still find a way to explain what a genius move it is.
That would be beyond a genius move, that would be a full blown covfefe move. You may not understand, but the President and a select few would know exactly what he meant;)
preciseamundo. anyone NOT believing there are full time staff in the Pentagon keeping a list of targets in n korea, the counterattack plans update, the communication links tested and hardened regularly, the overall strategy periodically discussed, et friggin CETERA knows nothing about modern warfare. or should I say, modern fire and fury.
God Bless President Trump, God Bless the American military and God Bless the American taxpayers that pay for this.
Andrew, when I was a service tech, and I ran into an idiot (almost always lefties) like you, I new what the production problem was without ever looking at the production machinery
You are truly weapons grade stupid
The fight is not against the Iranian people. The people want the mullah’s out.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-secular-republic-of-iran-1515111062
As for today’s mullah rule of Iran, the seeds were sown in 1953 when the U.S & British overthrew the secular regime of Mosaddeq.
How is it that after these nation building exercises, the Islamists make new inroads and come back ever stronger?
In case readers missed it, some discrepancies in the tanker story.
https://nationalpost.com/news/world/flying-objects-attacked-and-damaged-japanese-tanker-travelling-through-gulf-of-oman
Is John Kerry still advising the Iranians?
Why would the US give a damn about Iran cutting off oil?
Wouldn’t China be the big looser?
No, because China Japan India would then bid up non Gulf oil supplies, perhaps leading to global recession. Remember the US has 600+ million barrels sitting in salt domes in Louisiana, enough to make up for months of Saudi output. Of course, if they close the Strait, all the supposedly peace loving Euro trash will be braying for war, to be fought by the US to restore their oil supplies.
I’m thinking Eastern Canada would be the big loser. Arab oil supply all bunged up. What a shame. Poor Quontariec!
Boo frickin’ hoo. Where O where would those A-holes get their oil?
The west (Alberta mostly) supplies 40% of Kaybeque’s needs, still. A proper time to declare a UDI and leave if ME crude supplies are impacted.
What! Anti Quebec? The PQ .gov have already announced lately, that they want to replace oil with electricity and refuse to allow western crude to cross the province in new pipelines to foreign markets. Give ’em what they want. Kanaduh is done! Get with the times.
Time to cut off BC too, as they announced recently that they want to go all electric in Vancouver. Not sure if they consulted with the rest of the province on that idea. Give em what they want. Leave Kanaduh and run pipelines to Valdez, Alaska. It’s shorter by a week to Asia from anywhere else on the west coast of North America. They could use our oil and gas.
Think Big FFS!
Ottawa is 3500 km east and staring at their navels, while picking out lint taxing you to death. They could not find Alberta on a map, or Valdez, Alaska either. Safe to say most Albertans in Edmonton couldn’t either, with pipelines connecting to Fort McMurray Rachel and her fire bugs can. Vancouver….well it’s too rainy, or sumpthin. The ones in Tronna couldn’t find North Bay, let alone Thunder Bay. A “horizon” west of the Ont/MB border would skeer them to death, for lack of glass and steel buildings.
Westerners need to grow up, cut the umbilical chord and get on with their futures, not central or eastern Kanaduh’s version.
I expect that Trump will be coming up with an Israeli form of response and give Iran a bloody nose they won’t soon forget.
A real bonus would be if the US response would trigger an upset in Iran and send the Mullahs where Allah went.
I am not entirely convinced these events are exactly what they are said to be, one needs to consider who benefits and who loses from any actions that lead to hostilities against Iran. The only reason I am somewhat willing to believe the US military version is that Iran’s leadership openly profess belief in apocalyptic end time theologies that might overcome any reasonable oversight of their conduct, since on the face of it, attacking ships while hosting an important visitor to their country (Abe of Japan) makes no sense.
If I have doubts about such entities as the US military or the State Department, that is not automatically distrust in Donald Trump, he has to take these reports on faith himself, and in past cases he has chosen not to have faith in intelligence presented to him.
We of course may never know what’s really going on. If it leads to a heating up of the situation, then that will create new circumstances and people will forget all about the original situation. But be honest, what can you really trust with so many anti-Trump people embedded in many areas of the government, even in the military which I don’t imagine is as anti-Trump as the State Department but is it 100% supportive? I doubt it.
The timing makes one wonder what is really going on over there. There must be many Democrats who would like nothing more than a messy war in the Middle East. It would reduce the Donald’s chances of re-election and they could inherit it, thus removing the need to start it themselves as they like to do.
Peter, well said.
Who’s pulling Iran’s string on all this? Who’s biatch are they? Don’t think China isn’t behind this? Given that The Deep State are all anti trump, they wouldn’t try to trip him up on a useless “war”, would they?
Targeting a US asset is something different than a third rank one as has been done lately, to try and draw the US (Trump) into rash action, is the aim here. That drone can be replaced, no US lives lost, so let Iran push the limits on starting some action in the Gulf, with anyone. I don’t think they have a death wish. At least not for themselves.
Ramping up the hardware is good optics, as is that last minute stand down. They’re “testing”. Just keep the newbies away from the firing buttons, thank you.