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The Morning Report — 3/2/26

Good morning kids. Well March certainly does come in like a Lion, in this case it's the Lion of Judah! I am referring of course to President Trump's massive decapitation strike against the Iranian Muallahocracy. Supreme leader Khomeini is confirmed dead and crucially there are reports that at least 48 key Iranian officials have also been vaporized in the joint American and Israeli operations.

Thirty-six hours after the United States military launched strikes against the regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran, President Donald Trump issued a video update Sunday on Operation Epic Fury from his Mar-a-Lago residence. . . The president characterized Operation Epic Fury as “one of the largest, most complex, most overwhelming military offensives the world has ever seen.” The allied militaries struck “hundreds of targets in Iran, including Revolutionary Guard facilities, Iranian air defense systems,” and “nine ships plus their naval base, all in a matter of literally minutes.”
. . . The president also defended the joint strikes, declaring the U.S. was “undertaking a massive operation, not merely to ensure security for our own time and place, but for our children and their children.” “This is the duty and burden of a free people,” he reflected. “These actions are right, and they are necessary to ensure Americans will never have to face a radical, bloodthirsty terrorist regime, armed with nuclear weapons.”
“For almost 50 years, these wicked extremists have been attacking the United States while chanting the slogan ‘Death to America’ or ‘Death to Israel’ or both. They are the world’s number one state sponsor of terror,” Trump added. “These intolerable threats will not continue any longer.” (RELATED: ‘I Have Agreed’: Trump Says Iran’s New Leaders Want To Talk') . . “Combat operations continue in full force and will continue until all of our objectives are achieved,” he stated.
Turning to the remaining authorities in Iran, Trump urged “the Revolutionary Guards, the Iranian military police, to lay down your arms and receive full immunity or face certain death. It will be certain death, it won’t be pretty.”
The president then made another appeal to the Iranian people, urging regime change.

Well, there's the rub my friends. Who will be the new leaders and what kind of government and society will emerge once the dust settles and the rubble of the old regime is cleared away? Over the last few weeks, I have had many links that show the Persian people are absolutely against any kind of return to an Islamic theocracy. Of course, it's the IRGC and security services that will call the shots, literally and figuratively unless they either surrender or are eradicated. I fear the President is correct in that "it won't be pretty."

So far we have at least three American servicemen dead and a number of others reported wounded along with a number of Israeli citizens killed in missile strikes. God bless all of them, and protect those on the front lines and the innocents who are behind the lines.

The political fallout here at home is predictable. The Fifth columnist Democrat Left and their media puppets are with the terrorists in Tehran. Lest we forget it was they who inflicted the Iranian regime on us 47 years ago when Jimmy Carter abandoned the Shah and the Iranian people to their fate and unleashed a half-century of global Islamic terrorism on the world with many Americans murdered and maimed as a result, as Iran sought to acquire nuclear weapons to bring about Armageddon as the precursor to the Shiite Islamic conquest of the world.

We also have the isolationist crowd bleating out that Trump betrayed MAGA by starting a new war. Well, that remains to be seen depending upon how long this goes on and if, God-forbid American boots arrive on the ground in Iran. Special forces/operations notwithstanding, I cannot imagine the 3rd ID, the Marines or the 82nd and/or 101st Airborne coming ashore as it did in the Gulf Wars. That would be madness. So can Air power alone achieve Trump's aims of regime change and Iranian liberation? Well, in his words, we'll just have to wait and see.

Meanwhile, with our attention overseas, this happened here at home:

The gunman behind Austin’s possible terror-related mass shooting entered the US and cemented his legal immigration status under Democrat administrations — despite a growing criminal record.
Senegalese national Ndiaga Diagne, 53, arrived in America on March 13, 2000, on a B-2 tourist visa during the Clinton administration, a source familiar with his immigration history told The Post on Sunday.
Diagne — who killed two people and wounded 14 more during his rampage outside a Texas bar early Sunday — then became a lawful permanent resident on an IR-6 visa in June 2006 when he married a US citizen, the source said. He had already racked up at least one arrest before that, for illegal vending in June 2001 in New York City, law-enforcement sources said. He then went on to lodge a string of other arrests in the Big Apple between 2008 and 2016 — but that didn’t stop him becoming a naturalized US citizen on April 5, 2013 — around the start of former President Barack Obama’s second term, sources said. Those three arrests are sealed, sources said.
Diagne also was arrested in Texas at some point on undisclosed charges, sources said.
He was a known emotional disturbed person in both states, too, sources said. Diagne then applied for asylum in 2016, though the outcome or stated purpose of that application was not immediately clear.
The serial offender opened fire outside Buford’s Backyard Beer Garden near the University of Texas-Austin Campus early Sunday, killing two bar patrons and wounding 14 others before he was shot and killed by police.
He was wearing a “Property of Allah” hoodie at the time of the rampage and had a Quran in his car, sources familiar with the investigation told The Post. The FBI is investigating whether he was motivated by the US-Israel-led campaign against Iran — sources said he was wearing an undershirt emblazoned with the Iranian flag or other Iran-related imagery.

With all of that I say, GIVE 'EM HELL John Fetterman!!!

And a Happy Purim to my Jewish friends and all of you who cherish freedom!!!!

Have a great day!

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As reported by Breitbart Texas, at least three people have been killed and 14 injured after shots rang out at a popular Sixth Street bar in the Texas capital city of Austin early Sunday morning. According to authorities, the shooter was killed by police officers who responded to the location of the shooting within a minute of the first emergency call.
FBI on Austin Mass Shooting: Evidence Indicates ‘Potential Nexus to Terrorism’ — Koran Found in Shooters Car
The was wearing a sweatshirt that reads “Property of Allah.” …federal law enforcement sources described him a a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Senegal.
Austin Shooter Naturalized Under Obama in 2013, Wore “Property of Allah” Sweatshirt
The gunman behind Austin’s possible terror-related mass shooting entered the US and cemented his legal immigration status under Democrat administrations — despite a growing criminal record.
Austin mass shooter Ndiaga Diagne entered US during Clinton admin., became citizen under Obama — despite string of busts

AMERICA & ISRAEL STRIKE IRAN!

“Last night, all over Iran, the voices of the Iranian people could be heard cheering and celebrating in the streets when his death was announced,” Trump said in the six-minute recorded address. “The entire military command is gone as well. And many of them want to surrender into saving their lives. They want immunity. They’re calling by the thousands.”
‘The Duty And Burden Of A Free People’: Trump Delivers First Update On Operation Epic Fury
Iran’s regime used to brag America was helpless.
“America Can’t Do a Damn Thing Against Us”
A massive military action is decapitating the current Iranian regime, but Iran must still deal with what comes after.
The outlook for Iran after the war: collapse or transition?
What began as a theocracy could harden into an overt military dictatorship.
Iran Stands At A Crossroads. What Comes Next Could Change Everything.
“They want to talk, and I have agreed to talk, so I will be talking to them,” Trump told The Atlantic in a phone call from Mar-a-Lago. “They should have done it sooner. They should have given what was very practical and easy to do sooner. They waited too long.”
‘I Have Agreed’: Trump Says Iran’s New Leaders ‘Want To Talk’
Roger Kimball: Forty-seven years after the mullahs seized power, the countdown ended in fire, and Trump wagered that decisive force—not talk—would finally clear the path to Iran’s liberation.
Operation Epic Fury and the Fall of the Mullahs
With brilliant intelligence and close U.S. and Israeli cooperation and coordination, Operation Epic Fury is systematically dismantling the terrorist regime of Iran’s ayatollahs.
Iran: Scalpel and Hammer
Robert Spencer: Will Iran’s Islamic regime survive?
Khamenei is Dead
The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said that it had killed at least 40 “key” Iranian military commanders, including the chief of staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, Abdolrahim Mousavi. According to the IDF, the former Major General was eliminated within a minute of the strike on Ayatollah Khamenei’s compound, the Times of Israel reported.
Trump Confirms 48 Iranian Leaders Have Been Killed in U.S.-Israeli Strikes
The monstrous mullahs' final hour?
An Islamic Tyranny Hanging by a Thread
President Donald Trump announced the United States military launched Operation Epic Fury in a video posted on Truth Social early Saturday morning. United States Central Command (CENTCOM) reported the casualty figures as of 9:30 a.m. EST Sunday.
US CENTCOM Announces Three Service Members Killed In Action, Several Others Injured As Operation Epic Fury Continues
President Trump concluded with another appeal to the Iranian people to rise up against the Islamic regime: “I once again urge the Revolutionary Guard, the Iranian military, and the Police to lay down your arms and receive full immunity or face certain death. It will be certain death. won’t be pretty. I call upon all Iranian patriots who yearn for freedom to seize this moment, to be brave, be bold, be heroic, and take back your country. America is with you. I made a promise to you, and I fulfilled that promise. The rest will be up to you, but we will be there to help.”
Trump Says ‘There Will Likely Be More’ U.S. Casualties – ‘That’s The Way It Is.’
“Iran will not be damaged with foreign bombs,” Ahmadinejad in 2012.
Iran’s Ex-President Ahmadinejad, Who Wanted to ‘Wipe Israel Off the Map,’ Killed in IDF Strike
“Most of those killed in Beit Shemesh attack were in public bomb shelter.”
Iranian Ballistic Missile Attacks Kill 3 U.S. Servicemen and 9 Israeli Civilians
Democrat talking point, not reality
‘Unnecessary War of Choice’? Absolutely Not
Here is where isolationism collapses.
US Interests and a Far-Off Use of Force
The BadeSaba Calendar app, utilizing its extensive reach inside Iran, helps users track daily prayer times and religious observances, the Wall Street Journal reported. It has logged more than 5 million downloads on the Google Play Store alone, giving operators access to a vast domestic audience.
Israel Reportedly Co-opted Major Iranian Prayer App To Encourage Millions Of Defections, Resistance
This evening, Jews around the world will celebrate Purim, one of the narrowest escapes and greatest triumphs in biblical history. Around 2,500 years ago, Esther and her uncle Mordecai thwarted Haman’s scheme to convince King Ahasuerus to slaughter all the captive Jews in Persia. The skill with which these heroes staved off destruction has heartened Jews and haunted their enemies ever since. One person who will not join the Purim festivities is the modern Haman, Ali Khamenei. Along with several of his top subordinates, the supreme leader of Iran died Saturday morning in the first minutes of a ferocious Israeli-American onslaught. Like Haman, Khamenei made fundamental strategic mistakes that cost him dearly. Iran’s fate will depend on if his successors learn from his errors.
Khamenei, Haman, and a Purim for the Ages

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“These Democrats, with rare exception…feel their job in life is to resist and oppose Donald Trump in every way, almost no matter what he does.”
Likely Democrat 2028 Candidates Unified in Opposition to Trump Iran Strikes
“Imagine if people just listened to the conventional wisdom, that they could have possibly have acquired a bomb if we weren’t bombed back in June. So, yes, there is a threat. It’s not imminent that it could happen right now. But it’s one that I think is entirely appropriate to deal with it,” Fetterman told CNN host Dana Bash. “And that’s why I support it. So, again, people keep— describe that it was a legal war. Now read the War Powers Act. And, now, that has not been violated at this point what happened yesterday.”
Sen Fetterman Says Trump’s Iran Strike Was ‘Entirely Appropriate’ Response To Longstanding Threat
She added that the Iranian regime’s fall will reverberate around the world, not only altering the Middle East, but also impacting Ukraine and China.
‘Wake Up’: Iranian Democrat Blasts Her Own Party’s Iran Strike Backlash
Hours later, former Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene — previously a staunch Trump ally and MAGA standard-bearer — posted a nearly-700-word reaction to X in which she said the president’s Operation Epic Fury “feels like the worst betrayal.” (says the poster child of betrayal - jjs)
‘Not What We Thought MAGA Was Supposed To Be’: America First Skeptics Blast Iran Strikes
CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
No matter the situation, the left has an uncanny affinity for those who hate America, the Constitution, liberty, and the rule of law.
The left’s compass always points to the perpetrator
“To say that it’s racist to own property is an insult to every single immigrant who ever came here.”
NYC Landlords Blast Mamdani Official Who Calls Property Ownership ‘Weapon Of White Supremacy’
Several suspects, including Don Lemon, have been charged with federal offenses related to civil rights violations.
30 Now Charged by DOJ in Don Lemon Church Storming Case.
The President must deploy regular troops or a federalized national guard to suppress anarchy in the streets when state officials refuse to do so.
After Minneapolis: The Constitutional Reckoning

"DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST/GLOBALIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
More than 30 arrests for charges of rape, malicious wounding, assault, firing a weapon
Muslim Illegal Alien w/30 Arrests Stabs Woman to Death in Virginia
Why it must end.
The Catholic Catechism and Muslim Immigration to the United States
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
Trump’s housing plan rewards builders and protects buyers; Democrats’ proposal punishes investment, raising costs and blocking Americans from the dream of homeownership.
Democrats Want To Derail Trump’s Housing Reform
Congressional Democrats smack their lips at the possibility of hitting billionaires with punitive taxes.
Think Dems’ ‘Tax The Rich’ Policies Will Make America Better Off? Just Take A Look At California
California’s wealthy boomers are staying put as young families head for the exits, fleeing the anti-growth politics that make the state increasingly unaffordable.
The Golden State Is Turning Grey
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Will retailers stop selling clothes with the message, "Property of Allah"?
Muslim Migrant in “Property of Allah” Shirt Kills 3 in Texas Bar

OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
Normalize Jew-hate - and decay follows.
How Anti-Israel Democrats are Radicalizing the Party
SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
‘I hope they put Jack Smith behind bars for this!’ said Mark Davis, one of many conservative victims of the special counsel and ‘Arctic Frost’
Dems Silent After New Revelations About Jack Smith’s Spying Ops On Political Enemies

FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
On tape, he acknowledged that his producer had texted him not to focus on that aspect of the scene. “They don’t want us to focus on this.”
Two Rare Moments of Honesty in Media Coverage of Iran
“The DHS agents who callously abandoned Nurul Amin Shah Alam must be investigated for criminally negligent homicide, at minimum.”
Another Media Hoax: Border Patrol Blamed for Unrelated Death

* * * * *
According to President Trump, federal agencies will have a six-month phase-out period to cease the use of Anthropic’s AI tools.
Trump Orders Federal Govt to Ditch Anthropic’s AI Tools.
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
This means around €100 billion more must be funneled into public coffers via the bond market. But how long can such a process sustain itself like a perpetuum mobile?
Will the Bond Market Wreck Europe?
Loeffler said, “Working family tax cuts…it’s an estimated 4 to 6 trillion dollars in tax savings for workers and for our industry.”
Exclusive — SBA Admin Kelly Loeffler: Trump Saving Workers 4 to 6 Trillion in Taxes, Leading to Small Biz Manufacturing Boom
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
According to research by Vanderbilt University economist Panka Bencsik and Wellesley College Professor Tyler Giles, counties that narrowly elect Republican prosecutors experience a significantly lower death rate among young men. In fact, when a Republican prosecutor narrowly beats a Democrat, the all-cause mortality among men aged 20 to 29 falls by 6.6 percent. . .
Study: Voting Republican Saves Lives
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
Fortunately, Dr. Willie Soon has recently released a captivating 12-minute video with Gorilla Science that gives viewers a basic understanding of the Sun’s influence on the climate. Dr. Soon is an Independent Scientist at the Center for Environmental Research and Earth Sciences, who specializes in studying solar and stellar activity as it relates to the Earth’s climate.
Dr. Willie Soon Reveals the Real Driver of Climate Change in New Video
How America outsourced the materials of modern power—and what it will take to get them back
The Rare-Earth Reckoning
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
Time to ban American higher education from accepting Qatari funding.
Qatari Textbooks Praise Jihad, Whitewash Hitler
Cartoon depicts Jew-hating abusers as victims and abused students as a greedy oppressors
Staff and Faculty Group at Columbia University Publish Cartoon Directing Intersectional Hate Toward Their Own Students
Lipscomb Academy officials vehemently deny claims that the private school’s leadership has injected DEI into the Church of Christ school.
Parents, Staff Claim Expensive Nashville Christian Prep School Has Gone ‘Woke’
College education worked, for a while. But now it seems that only a few jobs need a college education.
Stop Government from Making Bets on the Future
THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH
Amid sharp criticism from outside lawmakers, Senate GOP leadership are hardly phased, and taking the bill at their own pace.
Trump, Fellow Republicans Take Shots At Mitch McConnell Over SAVE Act Stall

L'AFFAIRE EPSTEIN
The committee continues to seek clarity on the Clintons’ connections to Jeffrey Epstein, with questions about transparency and accountability remaining central to the investigation.
Bill Clinton Insists He ‘Did Nothing Wrong’ With Epstein, Admits Trump Not Involved in Scandal.
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY
As the republic hangs in the balance, all the GOP-led Senate seems to be able to accomplish is dressing up dogs in funny costumes.
This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: The Senate Goes To The Dogs
Suddenly Democrats are turning to Jesus — but not to follow Him.
The Gospel According to Hillary
POLITICS
Even if her candidacy failed, supporters of Ocasio-Cortez said that she would likely highlight issues they care most about, like universal health care, adding that she could even use it to potentially run for U.S. Senator in New York after Democrat Minority Leader Chuck Schumer retires or even challenge him in a primary.
Report: Hard-Left Democrats Push for Titty-Caca Ocasio-Cortez to Run for President in 2028
California governor sharpens claws in early primary states while plugging book about his favorite subject
Greasing Palmetto: Newsom Slut-Shames Harris, Previews Inevitable WH Run in South Carolina
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
“All I can say is President Trump finished the job that President Reagan failed to do,” he said. “I’m a big admirer of Ronald Reagan, but I’m here to tell you that Donald Trump, in my opinion, is the gold standard for Republicans, maybe any president, when it comes to foreign policy. Maduro, everybody talked about him. Well, Donald Trump has got him in jail. Cuba is next. They are going to fall. This communist dictatorship in Cuba, their days are numbered.”
Graham: ‘Cuba Is Next’
Increasingly, countries that were once U.S. allies are aligning themselves with America’s enemies.
Is It ‘America Alone’ In The Fight To Save The West From China And Islam?
America alone carries the torch of Western civilization, tasked with defending the principles that Europe has long abandoned.
Marco Rubio and America Alone
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
“We cannot and will not send our most capable officers, senior officers, into graduate programs that undermine the very values they have sworn to uphold.”
Pete Hegseth Announces War Department Cutting Academic Ties With More Elite Universities
In 2026, American strength is measured not only in factories reopened, but in firewalls hardened—because economic security and cybersecurity are now one and the same.
The Digital State of the Union: America’s Networks Are National Infrastructure
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
Makary said, “Now, there’s over a thousand chemicals that appear in our food supply that are banned in other countries because we’ve had a regulation…which allows companies to self-declare chemicals as safe without really showing anything.”
Exclusive — FDA Commissioner Marty Makary: ‘1000’ Unnatural Chemicals in Foods Likely Behind Uptick in G.I. Cancers
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Thad McCotter: As an AI “actress” makes her debut, Hollywood’s stars warn that the battle between profit and human connection may decide the future of film.
AI Killed the Hollywood Star (Part Two): ‘Tilly-ing’ the Soil or Salting Actors’ Fields?
“Unlike with other possible filters, on this question we have hard data. . . Star Trek’s creators took a shortcut to bring about this Fermi Paradox-breaking event.. . .Religious humans appear to be the only future available.”
Only Religion Can Deliver a ‘Star Trek’ Future
Christian Toto: Alonzo Bodden Brings TDS to Swanky Pittsburgh Club
Alonzo Bodden Brings TDS to Swanky Pittsburgh Club
A Better Life dramatizes the consequences of “suicidal empathy.”
Lionel Shriver’s Splendidly Paced Immigration Satire

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Posted by: J.J. Sefton at 07:37 AM

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1 Happy Monday

Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at March 02, 2026 07:37 AM (gbOdA)

2 I'm told Rubio is mow the emperor of Iran. Probably false, but that's what I heard.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 02, 2026 07:38 AM (UxJD/)

3 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 02, 2026 07:38 AM (jtM2q)

4 Thank you, JJ!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 02, 2026 07:38 AM (iMotb)

5 Good morning, everyone!

Posted by: NR Pax at March 02, 2026 07:38 AM (OPGS/)

6 The real tragedy here is the Iranian Soccer team is going to miss out on the World Cup.

Posted by: fd - I forgive you for the mistakes at March 02, 2026 07:40 AM (vFG9F)

7 6 The real tragedy here is the Iranian Soccer team is going to miss out on the World Cup.
Posted by: fd - I forgive you for the mistakes at March 02, 2026 07:40 AM (vFG9F)

We can give them Megan Rapinoe as a consolation prize . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 02, 2026 07:41 AM (x0n13)

8 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

No baby yet... D-day +9, Mrs. is feeling ok but we are both concerned as to why new girl doesn't want to make an appearance.

Posted by: Inogame at March 02, 2026 07:42 AM (53oGX)

9 I fully support the Iran mission. My only frustration is the sense that we cannot bring to bear the same total ruthless commitment to the domestic infiltration of Islam.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 02, 2026 07:43 AM (fZiTB)

10
Happy to see that all the good news hasn't taken J.J.'s edge off.

Posted by: Auspex at March 02, 2026 07:43 AM (Y8DZL)

11 "The FBI is investigating whether he was motivated by the US-Israel-led campaign against Iran — sources said he was wearing an undershirt emblazoned with the Iranian flag or other Iran-related imagery."

You can't blame gangbangers shooting up a party on Nike just because they were wearing Nike T-shirts.

Posted by: The Media at March 02, 2026 07:44 AM (vFG9F)

12 So is Ndiaga Diagne going to be a devoutly religious man who loves his mother or is the media going to make him an unperson?

Posted by: NR Pax at March 02, 2026 07:44 AM (OPGS/)

13 One of the most pathetic and disgusting things about the Mighty Muslim Warriors (both shitty and sunny) is that they put out all this big brave talk about being Great Brave Warriors, but as soon as anyone fights back, they start crying to mommy about “he’s being mean to me!” or “he’s not playing by my rules!”

This is War, asshole, and you started it. At least do us the courtesy of not being such whiny sniveling little shits about it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 02, 2026 07:44 AM (etYFQ)

14 Javid Shah. The man has a plan and the millions of people in the streets want him.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 02, 2026 07:44 AM (+nEug)

15 I see Ahmadinejad got his too

I think he was the ringleader in 79.

Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at March 02, 2026 07:44 AM (gbOdA)

16 8 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

No baby yet... D-day +9, Mrs. is feeling ok but we are both concerned as to why new girl doesn't want to make an appearance.
Posted by: Inogame at March 02, 2026 07:42 AM (53oGX)

Very surprised there wasn't an inducement at +7...I'd insist on one at D+14...or if mom-to-be feels even a twinge off/different...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 02, 2026 07:45 AM (tOcjL)

17 The ham & eggers in Texas still haven't discovered a motive for the brutal shootings in Austin.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 02, 2026 07:45 AM (gVUi7)

18 Ackmydinnerjacket got ACK'd.

Posted by: XTC at March 02, 2026 07:46 AM (wa/yD)

19 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 02, 2026 07:46 AM (ExV1e)

20 Newsom radiates smarm as he takes a seat next to Jaime Harrison, the former South Carolina congressman. Harrison parlayed a failed campaign against Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) in 2020—raising more than $100 million only to lose by 10 points—into the role of DNC chairman, where he oversaw the party's crushing defeat in 2024 after standing by Joe Biden until the very end. He hosts a podcast now.
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paragraphs as excellent as this one are rare jewels.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 02, 2026 07:47 AM (Ast+i)

21 The Assembly of Experts — the 88 57-member body responsible for selecting the next Supreme Leader — now faces a vacuum unprecedented in the Islamic Republic’s history.

fixed it

Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at March 02, 2026 07:47 AM (gbOdA)

22 Kuwait accidentally shot down 3 of our F15s...pilots ejected and are stable...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 02, 2026 07:47 AM (tOcjL)

23 “These Democrats, with rare exception…feel their job in life is to resist and oppose Donald Trump in every way, almost no matter what he does.”

In fairness, even if it was President JEB! doing it, they would have been just as strong in resisting. If it had been Harris, they would be fawning over her being a Stronk Wamen making a tough decision.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 02, 2026 07:47 AM (OPGS/)

24 Now we're going to "talk"? There is no talking with Islam.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 02, 2026 07:48 AM (fZiTB)

25 17 The ham & eggers in Texas still haven't discovered a motive for the brutal shootings in Austin.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

"We may never know the reason."

Posted by: NR Pax at March 02, 2026 07:48 AM (OPGS/)

26 15 I see Ahmadinejad got his too

I think he was the ringleader in 79.
Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at March 02, 2026 07:44 AM (gbOdA)

Yes, the story is in the links.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 02, 2026 07:49 AM (x0n13)

27 E's not dead, e's just resting.

Posted by: Indignant Iranian Falafel Shopkeeper at March 02, 2026 07:49 AM (45aa2)

28 Oh, and do we have a betting pool on when we find out that Ndiaga was on the FBI's radar? I'm thinking Wednesday morning.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 02, 2026 07:49 AM (OPGS/)

29 The ham & eggers in Texas still haven't discovered a motive for the brutal shootings in Austin.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 02, 2026 07:45 AM (gVUi7)

IIRC, the FBI agent in charge said that it looked like it was terrorism related immediately after it happened.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 02, 2026 07:49 AM (ExV1e)

30 During Purim, Israeli Air Force F35s will be known as "The F35 Grogger". Make some noise at the mention of Khamenei's name.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 02, 2026 07:50 AM (gm9Sb)

31 Happy Texas Independence Day!

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 02, 2026 07:50 AM (fYhK6)

32 The emergency protests being held today, February 28, 2026, launched within hours of this morning’s US-Israel strikes on Iran are organized by: the ANSWER Coalition, the People’s Forum, CodePink, the Palestinian Youth Movement, American Muslims for Palestine, the National Iranian American Council, and 50501. Every core Singham-funded organization is on that list.

Code Pink was in on the attempt to bomb the RNC at the Austin Convention in 2000.
They are terrorist.

Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at March 02, 2026 07:51 AM (gbOdA)

33 When a government has ceased to protect the lives, liberty and property of the people, from whom its legitimate powers are derived, and for the advancement of whose happiness it was instituted, and so far from being a guarantee for the enjoyment of those inestimable and inalienable rights, becomes an instrument in the hands of evil rulers for their oppression.

When the Federal Republican Constitution of their country, which they have sworn to support, no longer has a substantial existence, and the whole nature of their government has been forcibly changed, without their consent, from a restricted federative republic, composed of sovereign states, to a consolidated central military despotism, in which every interest is disregarded but that of the army and the priesthood, both the eternal enemies of civil liberty, the everready minions of power, and the usual instruments of tyrants.

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 02, 2026 07:51 AM (fYhK6)

34 Good morning dear horde and happy birthday JJ

This evening's hamentashen selections include apricot-cranberry and orange-cherry.

!חג פורים שמח

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 02, 2026 07:51 AM (RIvkX)

35 I'm always amazed when Fetterman's lump pops up and makes more sense than the rest of the democratic party combined. I know he's a lefty on 90% of topics, but when the lump makes sense, he's a breath of fresh air...

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 02, 2026 07:52 AM (xT8gx)

36 So is Ndiaga Diagne going to be a devoutly religious man who loves his mother or is the media going to make him an unperson?

Nenge? Nenge Mboko? It is me, Lionel Joseph! Yah, mon, I was Director of Cultural Activities at the Haile Selassie Pavilion.

Posted by: Louis Winthrope III at March 02, 2026 07:52 AM (TmfuF)

37 When, long after the spirit of the constitution has departed, moderation is at length so far lost by those in power, that even the semblance of freedom is removed, and the forms themselves of the constitution discontinued, and so far from their petitions and remonstrances being regarded, the agents who bear them are thrown into dungeons, and mercenary armies sent forth to force a new government upon them at the point of the bayonet.

When, in consequence of such acts of malfeasance and abdication on the part of the government, anarchy prevails, and civil society is dissolved into its original elements. In such a crisis, the first law of nature, the right of self-preservation, the inherent and inalienable rights of the people to appeal to first principles, and take their political affairs into their own hands in extreme cases, enjoins it as a right towards themselves, and a sacred obligation to their posterity, to abolish such government, and create another in its stead, calculated to rescue them from impending dangers, and to secure their future welfare and happiness.

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 02, 2026 07:52 AM (fYhK6)

38 Nations, as well as individuals, are amenable for their acts to the public opinion of mankind. A statement of a part of our grievances is therefore submitted to an impartial world, in justification of the hazardous but unavoidable step now taken, of severing our political connection with the Mexican people, and assuming an independent attitude among the nations of the earth.

The Mexican government, by its colonization laws, invited and induced the Anglo-American population of Texas to colonize its wilderness under the pledged faith of a written constitution, that they should continue to enjoy that constitutional liberty and republican government to which they had been habituated in the land of their birth, the United States of America.

In this expectation they have been cruelly disappointed, inasmuch as the Mexican nation has acquiesced in the late changes made in the government by General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, who having overturned the constitution of his country, now offers us the cruel alternative, either to abandon our homes, acquired by so many privations, or submit to the most intolerable of all tyranny, the combined despotism of the sword and the priesthood.

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 02, 2026 07:52 AM (fYhK6)

39 It has sacrificed our welfare to the state of Coahuila, by which our interests have been continually depressed through a jealous and partial course of legislation, carried on at a far distant seat of government, by a hostile majority, in an unknown tongue, and this too, notwithstanding we have petitioned in the humblest terms for the establishment of a separate state government, and have, in accordance with the provisions of the national constitution, presented to the general Congress a republican constitution, which was, without just cause, contemptuously rejected.

It incarcerated in a dungeon, for a long time, one of our citizens, for no other cause but a zealous endeavor to procure the acceptance of our constitution, and the establishment of a state government.

It has failed and refused to secure, on a firm basis, the right of trial by jury, that palladium of civil liberty, and only safe guarantee for the life, liberty, and property of the citizen.

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 02, 2026 07:53 AM (fYhK6)

40 ‘Not What We Thought MAGA Was Supposed To Be’: America First Skeptics Blast Iran Strikes

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How ironic. Cinderblock-head Margorie Taylor Greene turned out to not be the MAGA we though she was supposed to be.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 02, 2026 07:53 AM (qBdHI)

41 SanFranpsycho, I know it's a little early but Chag Purim Sameach.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 02, 2026 07:54 AM (+nEug)

42 It has failed to establish any public system of education, although possessed of almost boundless resources, (the public domain,) and although it is an axiom in political science, that unless a people are educated and enlightened, it is idle to expect the continuance of civil liberty, or the capacity for self government.

It has suffered the military commandants, stationed among us, to exercise arbitrary acts of oppression and tyrrany, thus trampling upon the most sacred rights of the citizens, and rendering the military superior to the civil power.

It has dissolved, by force of arms, the state Congress of Coahuila and Texas, and obliged our representatives to fly for their lives from the seat of government, thus depriving us of the fundamental political right of representation.

It has demanded the surrender of a number of our citizens, and ordered military detachments to seize and carry them into the Interior for trial, in contempt of the civil authorities, and in defiance of the laws and the constitution.

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 02, 2026 07:54 AM (fYhK6)

43 Report: Hard-Left Democrats Push for Titty-Caca Ocasio-Cortez to Run for President in 2028
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Kos, infamous DailyKos, said today he'd "kill to have AOC run".

Why? Because while he hates Trump, he loves Trump's no-holds-barred style of governing and he thinks AOC will be similar. The left, as Kos sees it, should be done with all this "Constitutional Republic" shit, and be full-on authoritarians: thrown political enemies in prison or kill them, control the economy, dictate to the judiciary, and enrich your friends. You know, "like drumpf".

That's how he sees it.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 02, 2026 07:54 AM (e/QAl)

44 35 With a little bit of 2A education, Fettermen would be a cut above most RINOs.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 02, 2026 07:54 AM (gm9Sb)

45 Ahmadinejad’s home targeted

I hope it was by a Lion of Judah

Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at March 02, 2026 07:55 AM (gbOdA)

46 Was watching Goldie's stream yesterday and she put up this illustration she found online - sadly I don't know where - in which the top pane was Cyrus liberating the Jews from Babylon and the bottom panel was the IDF liberating the Iranians from the mullahs.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 02, 2026 07:55 AM (ExV1e)

47 I'm always amazed when Fetterman's lump pops up and makes more sense than the rest of the democratic party combined. I know he's a lefty on 90% of topics, but when the lump makes sense, he's a breath of fresh air...

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Too bad he can't clear the cataracts from his eyes on the rest of the Democrat Party's miserable, America Last platform.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 02, 2026 07:55 AM (qBdHI)

48 Can somebody get "Cow Demon" his own blog, please.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 02, 2026 07:56 AM (+lGm2)

49 Kuwait "mistakenly"'shoots down 3 American
jets

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at March 02, 2026 07:56 AM (3sSZK)

50 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at March 02, 2026 07:56 AM (2Ez/1)

51 Yes, please. Push, shove and beg AOC to run for Prrsident in 2028.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 02, 2026 07:56 AM (+nEug)

52 Can somebody get "Cow Demon" his own blog, please.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 02, 2026 07:56 AM (+lGm2)

There can be only one.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 02, 2026 07:57 AM (dK+Kv)

53 Who will be the new leaders and what kind of government and society will emerge once the dust settles and the rubble of the old regime is cleared away?"

Across the interwebz there are a number of handwringers, all "what wiillll we do?"

My response - not my monkeys, not my circus. The peoples of the ME can do as they wish with their new freedoms.

Posted by: man at March 02, 2026 07:57 AM (XuXeR)

54 “America Can’t Do a Damn Thing Against Us”

Because they bought our politicians.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 02, 2026 07:57 AM (ExV1e)

55 Oh well, I was being a little overexuberant in commemorating March 2. My apologies to all to take offense,

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 02, 2026 07:57 AM (fYhK6)

56 Baby's up!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 02, 2026 07:57 AM (iMotb)

57 Thx JJ, hope you and Mrs JJ are well.

Beep - starring Mitch McConnell as Christopher Pike

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 02, 2026 07:57 AM (HYqoK)

58 Kos, infamous DailyKos, said today he'd "kill to have AOC run".

Why? Because while he hates Trump, he loves Trump's no-holds-barred style of governing and he thinks AOC will be similar. The left, as Kos sees it, should be done with all this "Constitutional Republic" shit, and be full-on authoritarians: thrown political enemies in prison or kill them, control the economy, dictate to the judiciary, and enrich your friends. You know, "like drumpf".

That's how he sees it.
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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Um, ok. Someone who has accomplished nothing in private life and nothing other than getting really rich in public office while doing nothing is prime presidential timber.

Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 07:58 AM (E4rtv)

59 “These Democrats, with rare exception…feel their job in life is to resist and oppose Donald Trump in every way, almost no matter what he does.”

ALMOST no matter what he does? I cannot name one instance in Trump's time in office when democrats have not ferociously opposed him. It's not political, it's pathological.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 02, 2026 07:58 AM (fZiTB)

60 All these fools worrying about what comes next in Iran - whatever it is, it won’t be as bad as what was. This is like Germany 1945, we’re already at the worst case scenario. If it turns into another mad maxistan well that’s too bad but still not as bad as what they were. (And I think there’s reason to hope for better)

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 02, 2026 07:58 AM (etYFQ)

61 58 Um, ok. Someone who has accomplished nothing in private life and nothing other than getting really rich in public office while doing nothing is prime presidential timber.
Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 07:58 AM (E4rtv)

They figure it will be easy to get her to agree to mass executions of anyone who won't get with the program.

Posted by: XTC at March 02, 2026 08:00 AM (wa/yD)

62 Who will be the new leaders and what kind of government and society will emerge once the dust settles and the rubble of the old regime is cleared away?

That's a big concern of mine. The genuinely reform minded folks are going to have to get rid of the morality police and the various thugs that have thrived in Iran. And by "get rid of" I mean "make them achieve room temperature."

Posted by: NR Pax at March 02, 2026 08:00 AM (OPGS/)

63 The story of Purim is told in the Book of Esther, where Queen Esther, a Jewish Persian, saves her people from a plot by Haman, Prime Minister to King Ahasuerus of Persia. Haman becomes enraged when Mordecai, Esther's cousin, refuses to bow to him and plots to annihilate all the Jews. Esther reveals her Jewish identity to the king and pleads for her people's safety. The king grants her request, leading to Haman's downfall and the Jews' victory over their enemies. Purim is celebrated annually to commemorate this deliverance with feasting, dressing in costume, and reading the Book of Esther.

Purim is also called the Feast of Lots because Haman through lots to determine the day on which he and his followers chose to conduct the slaughter.

Hamentashen are fruit tarts made in the shape of the 3-corner hat worn by Haman.

Hashem plays no role in the Purim story, the Jews of Persia had to save themselves.

Fortunately in modern times we can thank President Trump for liberation this time.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 02, 2026 08:00 AM (RIvkX)

64 Loss of those F15s, while serious, was not tragic in that the crews punched out OK. An incident like that was probably inevitable. Air Traffic control in the area of operations has to be absolutely wild. Busiest place on (above) Earth has to be aboard an AWACS.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 02, 2026 08:00 AM (gm9Sb)

65 I saw photos from NYC showing the usual cattle-call protesters holding up their ridiculous "Hands Off Iran" signs. The worn-out slogan, like all their others, are hilariously lame and predictable. Such fools.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 02, 2026 08:00 AM (qBdHI)

66 The story of Haman being hoisted by his own petard has always been so satisfying....

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 02, 2026 08:00 AM (xT8gx)

67 “These Democrats, with rare exception…feel their job in life is to resist and oppose Donald Trump in every way, almost no matter what he does.”

Why can't Trump come out declaring his love for oxygen, sweet beautiful oxygen, and the act of inhaling and exhaling?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 02, 2026 08:00 AM (iMotb)

68 A Pox on the UN and EU.
They let a piddling little pirate state control oil for almost the last 50 years.
Fuck them all and may the freeze to death on a cool winter day and roast in hell all summer.

Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at March 02, 2026 08:00 AM (gbOdA)

69 *threw lots

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 02, 2026 08:00 AM (RIvkX)

70 This is like Germany 1945, we’re already at the worst case scenario. If it turns into another mad maxistan well that’s too bad but still not as bad as what they were

"It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule"

Posted by: man at March 02, 2026 08:00 AM (XuXeR)

71 Jeffries and Tillis can have their war powers act for a sammich.

Posted by: M. Gaga at March 02, 2026 08:01 AM (KiBMU)

72 I can't believe Trump got us a year's membership in the "El Presidente of the Month" Club for Christmas.

It really is the gift that is giving all year long.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 02, 2026 08:01 AM (HXT0k)

73 Welcome to the Diversity is Our Strength rally Mr Ndiaga. Hey what's with the weapon, bang, bang, diversity is our ...thud

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 02, 2026 08:01 AM (HYqoK)

74 Over the weekend B-2 bombers made a run at Iranian targets. As before, they flew nonstop from their base here in the US and back. However they did not deploy MOAB's or any sort of "exotic" weaponry. Instead they dropped 2000lb bombs on suspected Iranian ballistic missile launch sites.

4x planes. IIRC 18 bombs each. That's a lot of sploody stuff.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 02, 2026 08:02 AM (jtM2q)

75 Hamentashen are fruit tarts made in the shape of the 3-corner hat worn by Haman.

Can I substitute a Chick fil A sausage biscuit?

Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at March 02, 2026 08:02 AM (gbOdA)

76 If Trump was a scientist and on the brink of curing cancer the democrats would be in his lab breaking test tubes.

Posted by: Get out of my fucking shot at March 02, 2026 08:02 AM (jZ3ZM)

77 Hours later, former Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene — previously a staunch Trump ally and MAGA standard-bearer — posted a nearly-700-word reaction to X in which she said the president’s Operation Epic Fury “feels like the worst betrayal.”

If you search for America's longest war, it comes back with Afghanistan - at 19 years and 10 months. But Iran has been in a declared war with the US for 47 years. That our national 'leadership' couldn't be bothered to notice that the Iranians seemed serious about it does not change that fact.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 02, 2026 08:03 AM (ExV1e)

78 22 Kuwait accidentally shot down 3 of our F15s...pilots ejected and are stable...
Posted by: Nova Local at March 02, 2026 07:47 AM (tOcjL)

Friendly fire is always tragic and it happens in every war sadly- thank heaven the pilots survived.
Especially easy to do now when air defense systems are automated.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 02, 2026 08:03 AM (etYFQ)

79 53 Who will be the new leaders and what kind of government and society will emerge once the dust settles and the rubble of the old regime is cleared away?"

Across the interwebz there are a number of handwringers, all "what wiillll we do?"

My response - not my monkeys, not my circus. The peoples of the ME can do as they wish with their new freedoms.
Posted by: man
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It's an op as the phrase is being used repetitively on X. No plan, no plan, no plan, etc.

Basically ignoring the fact that the batshit crazy mullahs wanted to blow up the world to bring out the hidden iman and believed this fairy tale. And were killing Americans for the last 47 years, inciting terrorism killing thousands world wide, and now killing their own people at an astounding rate that simply disagree with their government.

An Iran with no navy, no missiles, no military bases, no aircraft, no nuclear facilities, and no industrial plants making drones or missiles under any leadership is unlikely to cause problems for its neighbors nor buy off politicians in the West.

Let the Iranian people decide what comes next after mullahs.

Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 08:04 AM (E4rtv)

80 Ever since AOC came on the scene, she's made me extremely nervous as she's always struck me as a true believer who'd be happy to have her political opponents line up on a wall to be shot.... it's the crazy eyes that make me think she'd have been comfortable in the Khmer Rouge.... maybe I'm wrong and she's just a grifting political opportunist, but my instincts say she's nutso

Fortunately, at least at this point in time I don't think she'd have a prayer of getting elected president. No nationwide appeal... but she could probably knock off Chucky Schumer and get in the senate.

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 02, 2026 08:04 AM (xT8gx)

81 Sec of War Pete Hegseth speaking

Posted by: redridinghood at March 02, 2026 08:05 AM (NpAcC)

82 Thanks for info on Pilots, Nova

Posted by: Jonah at March 02, 2026 08:05 AM (YCxFk)

83 74 Over the weekend B-2 bombers made a run at Iranian targets. As before, they flew nonstop from their base here in the US and back. However they did not deploy MOAB's or any sort of "exotic" weaponry. Instead they dropped 2000lb bombs on suspected Iranian ballistic missile launch sites.

4x planes. IIRC 18 bombs each. That's a lot of sploody stuff.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Yep. I think the airspace over Iran is about ready for A-10's to shoot up the IRGC wholesale.

Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 08:05 AM (E4rtv)

84 SanFranpsycho, I know it's a little early but Chag Purim Sameach.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 02, 2026 07:54 AM (+nEug)
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Thank you dear this celebration will be extra meaningful.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 02, 2026 08:05 AM (RIvkX)

85 If Trump was a scientist and on the brink of curing cancer the democrats would be in his lab breaking test tubes.
Posted by: Get out of my fucking shot at March 02, 2026 08:02 AM (jZ3ZM)

Hands Off My Tumor!

Posted by: Karen Muddlumps, democrat scold and busybody at March 02, 2026 08:06 AM (TmfuF)

86 A.
“This is a dangerous and unnecessary gamble with American lives that also jeopardizes stability in the region and our standing in the world,”

B.
“It stems from weakness masquerading as strength,” . “He lied to you. So reckless is the only way to describe this.”

C.
“The American people are once again dragged into a war they did not want by a president who does not care about the long-term consequences of his actions. This war is unlawful. It is unnecessary. And it will be catastrophic,”

Anyone want to take a shot at the players?

Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at March 02, 2026 08:06 AM (gbOdA)

87 Ooops, with video on X

Baba Banaras™
@RealBababanaras
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3h
BREAKING: Iran’s drone carrier IRIS Shahid Bagheri has reportedly been hit by U.S. forces and is currently sinking in the Persian Gulf, another major blow to the Islamic regime of Iran.

Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 08:06 AM (E4rtv)

88 X has been a sewer of people like Green who are rushing to tell everyone taking down the terrorists running Iran is not what MAGA is all about and Trump is finished. I had no idea that these were the people designated to define and protect the values of the MAGA movement but I do appreciate them outing themselves so I never have to pretend to take them seriously again. Chief among them is the gay Nazi grifter Fuentes who has announced he is voting for the Democrats in 2026 just as he did in 2024.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 02, 2026 08:06 AM (viF8m)

89
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 02, 2026 08:06 AM (tljrc)

90 Yep. I think the airspace over Iran is about ready for A-10's to shoot up the IRGC wholesale.
Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 08:05 AM (E4rtv)

There is a version of the A10 that drops bombs that can be guided by F35.

Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at March 02, 2026 08:07 AM (gbOdA)

91 "Yep. I think the airspace over Iran is about ready for A-10's to shoot up the IRGC wholesale."

Military genius that he is, Maryland Governor Wes Moore just got rid of the Maryland Air National Guard A-10 squadron at Martin State Airport.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 02, 2026 08:07 AM (iMotb)

92 80 Ever since AOC came on the scene, she's made me extremely nervous as she's always struck me as a true believer who'd be happy to have her political opponents line up on a wall to be shot.... it's the crazy eyes that make me think she'd have been comfortable in the Khmer Rouge.... maybe I'm wrong and she's just a grifting political opportunist, but my instincts say she's nutso

Fortunately, at least at this point in time I don't think she'd have a prayer of getting elected president. No nationwide appeal... but she could probably knock off Chucky Schumer and get in the senate.
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 02, 2026 08:04 AM (xT8gx)

She strikes me more as someone that the swamp creatures behind the scenes keep blowing smoke up her ass, making her feel like she's important and enlightened, so that they will be able to steer her in any direction they want if they can push her into the highest seat of power.

Posted by: XTC at March 02, 2026 08:07 AM (wa/yD)

93 Tillis is retiring , and voted against Hesgeth. All he does now, is pad his resume for a lobbying job

Posted by: Jonah at March 02, 2026 08:07 AM (YCxFk)

94 75 Can I substitute a Chick fil A sausage biscuit?
Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar

Given that Chick-Fil-A is The Lord's Chosen Chicken, I think it's allowable to use food from there.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 02, 2026 08:08 AM (OPGS/)

95 93 Tillis is retiring , and voted against Hesgeth. All he does now, is pad his resume for a lobbying job
Posted by: Jonah at March 02, 2026 08:07 AM (YCxFk)

And we know for which side....

Posted by: It's me donna at March 02, 2026 08:08 AM (a7sNn)

96 "and is currently sinking in the Persian Gulf"

I wonder what test depth is for that thing.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 02, 2026 08:08 AM (iMotb)

97 Fortunately, at least at this point in time I don't think she'd have a prayer of getting elected president. No nationwide appeal... but she could probably knock off Chucky Schumer and get in the senate.

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And she probably will become senator, although hopefully not. She comes across to me as a highly emotional teenager. She looks like it. She acts like it. Maybe the Bernie Bro types and other deep blue radicals would not hesitate to latch onto her candidacy, but she's got bunny burner, hysterical female written all over her. Plus, she's a stone cold dope. She proved that days ago in Munich.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 02, 2026 08:08 AM (qBdHI)

98 AOC's performance in Munich was so awful, that even Progressive Dems have backed off on her

Posted by: Jonah at March 02, 2026 08:09 AM (YCxFk)

99 Is It ‘America Alone’...

Pretty much always has been. We're the crusaders. Other countries don't notice until the evil is at their door and their rulers are being threatened by it, if then.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 02, 2026 08:09 AM (ExV1e)

100 96 "and is currently sinking in the Persian Gulf"

I wonder what test depth is for that thing.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 02, 2026 08:08 AM (iMotb)

I hear the Iranian Naval Fleet Pres Trump Fishing Reef will be very good in about 5 years.

Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at March 02, 2026 08:09 AM (gbOdA)

101 It's interesting watching the world react to this attack . Our overwhelming strength when properly applied is unmatched by the rest of the world combined. I think the rest of the world is actually just figuring this out . The Chinese with their badly constructed military hardware have got to be thinking twice about any Taiwan assault. Of course they're commies so they will choose poorly

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 02, 2026 08:10 AM (HYqoK)

102 Can I substitute a Chick fil A sausage biscuit?
Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at March 02, 2026 08:02 AM (gbOdA)
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I insist you do!

But Mrs. F.'s cherry-chocolate hamentashen is only once-a-year.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 02, 2026 08:10 AM (RIvkX)

103 I wonder what test depth is for that thing.

*looks at bathtub right over there*

'bout that.

Posted by: man at March 02, 2026 08:10 AM (XuXeR)

104 Saw a satellite photo this morning of one of the Iranian naval bases near the Straits of Hormuz. Several buildings were clearly burning, and 3 decent sized naval vessels were still at their docks, but clearly under water.
So much is going on that only a fraction is being reported.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 02, 2026 08:11 AM (etYFQ)

105 Exclusive — FDA Commissioner Marty Makary: ‘1000’ Unnatural Chemicals in Foods Likely Behind Uptick in G.I. Cancers

Saw a video yesterday where some politician had kept a loaf of Aldi bread in his office for 2.5 years. Not stale, no mold. He pointed out that this isn't natural.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 02, 2026 08:11 AM (ExV1e)

106 So much is going on that only a fraction is being reported."

This. X 10,000. It's going to be some time before "reality" gets a viewing...

Posted by: man at March 02, 2026 08:11 AM (XuXeR)

107 The slimiest creatures on the planet at republican senators: Tillis, Murkowski, McConnell... the list goes on and on.... slimy, pathetic, weasely little creatures. They're like a bunch of little Grima Wormtongues....

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 02, 2026 08:12 AM (xT8gx)

108 Posted by: Tom Servo
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2000 sorties this weekend and likely to be another 1000 or so today. Turkey shoot.

Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 08:12 AM (E4rtv)

109 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 02, 2026 08:12 AM (u82oZ)

110 It's an op as the phrase is being used repetitively on X. No plan, no plan, no plan, etc.

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Literally the same poo they flung in early stage pandemic: "Trump has no plan for COVID!"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 02, 2026 08:12 AM (RIvkX)

111 One of five U.S. service members to be listed as “seriously wounded” during major combat operations against Iran has died, U.S. Central Command officials announced.

RIP, hero.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 02, 2026 08:12 AM (NpAcC)

112 In one month we have lost more Americans to crazed Trans shooters than we have to the entire Iranian military in open warfare.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 02, 2026 08:12 AM (iMotb)

113 The Chinese with their badly constructed military hardware have got to be thinking twice about any Taiwan assault. Of course they're commies so they will choose poorly
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 02, 2026 08:10 AM (HYqoK)

I thought I was generally aware of our capabilities, and even I am surprised.
I think the Chinese and Russians are watching this and saying “daaaaammmmnnnn!!!”

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 02, 2026 08:12 AM (etYFQ)

114 ‘I hope they put Jack Smith behind bars for this!’ said Mark Davis, one of many conservative victims of the special counsel and ‘Arctic Frost’
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The illegally-appointed Jack Smith is incredible power-mad criminal. Read the link for the litany; he ought to be headed to prison, for sure.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 02, 2026 08:13 AM (8vUlE)

115 They're like a bunch of little Grima Wormtongues....
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
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Nailed it in your post.

Howya doing. Hope all is okay with you.

Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 08:13 AM (E4rtv)

116 109 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of ~~killjoy leftists~~Mahommedan Terrorist everywhere.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 02, 2026 08:12 AM (u82oZ)

fixed it

Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at March 02, 2026 08:13 AM (gbOdA)

117 Fortunately, at least at this point in time I don't think she'd have a prayer of getting elected president. No nationwide appeal... but she could probably knock off Chucky Schumer and get in the senate.
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 02, 2026 08:04 AM (xT8gx)

She has a prayer. Depends on a few phenomena. Who will be Republican nominee? A throwback to GOP establishment or a populist? After Trump, the GOPe will be fighting tooth and nail to reclaim the party. Can Vance truly embrace MAGA.2? Will he face populist opposition who can win over MAGA but cannot build a national coalition? And of course AOC could completely rebrand herself, i.e., lie through her teeth about who she is (with media's help). The way the country's national intelligence is collapsing, no way to predict.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 02, 2026 08:13 AM (fZiTB)

118 The illegally-appointed Jack Smith is incredible power-mad criminal. Read the link for the litany; he ought to be headed to prison, for sure.
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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Garland and the judges that signed off on his warrants need to be charged as well.

Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 08:13 AM (E4rtv)

119 Basically ignoring the fact that the batshit crazy mullahs wanted to blow up the world to bring out the hidden iman and believed this fairy tale. And were killing Americans for the last 47 years, inciting terrorism killing thousands world wide, and now killing their own people at an astounding rate that simply disagree with their government.
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Why are fighting Israel's war??

Posted by: Tucker Carlson at March 02, 2026 08:14 AM (RIvkX)

120 No baby yet... D-day +9, Mrs. is feeling ok but we are both concerned as to why new girl doesn't want to make an appearance.
Posted by: Inogame at March 02, 2026 07:42 AM (53oGX)

Both of my chirruns had to be evicted. They've turned out normal-ish.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 02, 2026 08:14 AM (ExV1e)

121 The Chinese with their badly constructed military hardware have got to be thinking twice about any Taiwan assault. Of course they're commies so they will choose poorly
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 02, 2026 08:10 AM (HYqoK)

And all the Russian shit failed in Venezuela.

Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at March 02, 2026 08:14 AM (gbOdA)

122 The slimiest creatures on the planet at republican senators: Tillis, Murkowski, McConnell... the list goes on and on.... slimy, pathetic, weasely little creatures. They're like a bunch of little Grima Wormtongues....
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 02, 2026 08:12 AM (xT8gx)
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Thune, their leader, is a worm too.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 02, 2026 08:14 AM (8vUlE)

123 America and Israel

Posted by: Ben Had at March 02, 2026 08:14 AM (+nEug)

124
She strikes me more as someone that the swamp creatures behind the scenes keep blowing smoke up her ass, making her feel like she's important and enlightened, so that they will be able to steer her in any direction they want if they can push her into the highest seat of power.
Posted by: XTC at March 02, 2026 08:07 AM (wa/yD)

Yup, ever since Chunk Hunger got her on the casting couch, she's been had some part of a Leftist up her ass.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 02, 2026 08:14 AM (BI5O2)

125 "Saw a video yesterday where some politician had kept a loaf of Aldi bread in his office for 2.5 years. Not stale, no mold. He pointed out that this isn't natural.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 02, 2026 08:11 AM (ExV1e) "

I have seen this myself - not 2 1/2 years, but 6 months or so.
- why I bake my own these days

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 02, 2026 08:14 AM (MIIRH)

126 Garland and the judges that signed off on his warrants need to be charged as well.
Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 08:13 AM (E4rtv)
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Please lord, make it so.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 02, 2026 08:15 AM (8vUlE)

127 Nailed it in your post.

Howya doing. Hope all is okay with you.
Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 08:13 AM (E4rtv)

Always great to hear from you, Whig. I am doing well, now, thank you. Just gonna make a few changes!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 02, 2026 08:15 AM (xT8gx)

128 Has the press started asking about the exit strategy yet?

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 02, 2026 08:15 AM (i0Hi3)

129 Garland and the judges that signed off on his warrants need to be charged as well.
Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 08:13 AM (E4rtv)

We now know FBI wiretapped Susie Wiles.
What other phone records did Uncle Joe authorize?

Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at March 02, 2026 08:16 AM (gbOdA)

130 Kuwait accidentally shot down 3 of our F15s...pilots ejected and are stable...
Posted by: Nova Local at March 02, 2026 07:47 AM (tOcjL)

Accidentally.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 02, 2026 08:16 AM (ExV1e)

131 Of course they're commies so they will choose poorly
Posted by: Smell the Glove

But, all their military leaders have to be thinking do I want to risk what happened to the Iranian generals and admirals. Having their troops butchered is one thing, but most of those unblooded generals balk at personal suffering and loss.

Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 08:16 AM (E4rtv)

132 saw a funny Purim-themed meme over by Sarah Hoyt -
Hamantashen in the shape of B-1s and B-52s

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 02, 2026 08:17 AM (MIIRH)

133 I haven't checked the news since Saturday. Are the IRGC and Basijis slaughtering civilians, or laying low?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 02, 2026 08:17 AM (BI5O2)

134 Now we're going to "talk"? There is no talking with Islam.
Posted by: Ordinary American at March 02, 2026 07:48 AM (fZiTB)

I suspect that what they're hoping for is and end to the bombing during the talks. Trump didn't indicated that this is gonna happen.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 02, 2026 08:17 AM (ExV1e)

135 Most of X is bots.

Posted by: It hasn't changed at March 02, 2026 08:17 AM (2Ez/1)

136 Always great to hear from you, Whig. I am doing well, now, thank you. Just gonna make a few changes!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
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Great. Just don't let the Horde vote on what changes to make to your life--you would get suggestions like marry a stripper, spend all your money on blow and hookers, buy $100 per quart bourbon, and more.

Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 08:17 AM (E4rtv)

137 Today Is American Citizenship Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 02, 2026 08:18 AM (NpAcC)

138 A. Former vice president and midnight toker E. Harris
B. Benny door to door Rhodes magazine sub. seller
C.Thom the thumb Tillis

Posted by: kingsman at March 02, 2026 08:18 AM (ehY6c)

139 125 "Saw a video yesterday where some politician had kept a loaf of Aldi bread in his office for 2.5 years. Not stale, no mold. He pointed out that this isn't natural.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 02, 2026 08:11 AM (ExV1e) "

My father would run these little experiments for our edification and amusement when we were growing up. He was way ahead of his time.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 02, 2026 08:19 AM (fZiTB)

140 Kos, infamous DailyKos, said today he'd "kill to have AOC run".

He and Susan Rice are really looking forward for their final solution, aren't they?

Posted by: Auspex at March 02, 2026 08:19 AM (Y8DZL)

141 The emergency protests being held today...

Emergency protests. This people are beyond parody.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 02, 2026 08:19 AM (ExV1e)

142 Happy Texas Independence Day
to all the Texas Horde and the Texans at heart!
190 years- hoping for many more

https://tinyurl.com/2t3yvw7k

Posted by: sal at March 02, 2026 08:19 AM (f+FmA)

143 Chief among them is the gay Nazi grifter Fuentes who has announced he is voting for the Democrats in 2026 just as he did in 2024.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 02, 2026 08:06 AM (viF8m)

Nutseees are the craaaziest peepal!

Posted by: Boswell at March 02, 2026 08:19 AM (j10i6)

144 "Just don't let the Horde vote on what changes to make to your life--you would get suggestions like marry a stripper, spend all your money on blow and hookers, buy $100 per quart bourbon, and more."

Fine....just fine.

Ignore our advice then.

Just go ahead and waste it on dumb stuff instead.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 02, 2026 08:19 AM (iMotb)

145 I guess it's old news?
US Marines had to defend the embassy in Karachi from a mob that attempted to storm it.
Unsure how many pakis dead - 10, 20?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 02, 2026 08:19 AM (7fEFu)

146
We now know FBI wiretapped Susie Wiles.
What other phone records did Uncle Joe authorize?
Posted by: rhennigantx

I think it goes well beyond Wiles. They were surveiling, like Obama did, the entire GOP party just like in 2015-16. The common denominator is the FBI serving as the Democrat's Secret Police and the Democrat judges rubber stamping outrageous warrants.

Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 08:19 AM (E4rtv)

147 Yes, Chinese and Russian military planners have got to be watching U.S. military action so far this year and busily shredding all prior capability estimates.

Let them fear the United States.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 02, 2026 08:20 AM (RIvkX)

148 98 AOC's performance in Munich was so awful, that even Progressive Dems have backed off on her
Posted by: Jonah at March 02, 2026 08:09 AM (YCxFk)

What was that old saw they always pulled out on Romney that he didn't know the capitol of Latvia or something. It was like the worst showing evah by a candidate.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 02, 2026 08:20 AM (i0Hi3)

149 Forty-eight Iranian leaders this time. Wasn't it 30 or 40 back in June? There must be an endless supply.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at March 02, 2026 08:20 AM (MZ+PY)

150 Given the state of our media, I expect them to be pleasuring themselves over American troops getting killed in Iran. They will frame it that Trump is the only President in recorded history that ever had this happen.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 02, 2026 08:20 AM (OPGS/)

151 117 She has a prayer. Depends on a few phenomena. Who will be Republican nominee? A throwback to GOP establishment or a populist? After Trump, the GOPe will be fighting tooth and nail to reclaim the party. Can Vance truly embrace MAGA.2? Will he face populist opposition who can win over MAGA but cannot build a national coalition? And of course AOC could completely rebrand herself, i.e., lie through her teeth about who she is (with media's help). The way the country's national intelligence is collapsing, no way to predict.
Posted by: Ordinary American at March 02, 2026 08:13 AM (fZiTB)

Don't forget the number of people who will STILL vote "HISTORIC FIRST!!!" regardless of any policy positions.

Posted by: XTC at March 02, 2026 08:20 AM (wa/yD)

152 Beware The Ides Of March.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 02, 2026 08:20 AM (XV/Pl)

153
Public office holders and candidates should probably all be drug tested; the geriatric medications must be off the charts.

Posted by: Auspex at March 02, 2026 08:21 AM (Y8DZL)

154 145 I guess it's old news?
US Marines had to defend the embassy in Karachi from a mob that attempted to storm it.
Unsure how many pakis dead - 10, 20?
Posted by: vmom
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Heard ten or so as the mob dragged some of the wounded away. From what I heard, the Marines were putting headshots into the protesters although some claim it might be the Pakis that did that.

No hostage crisis or Benghazi there. And kudos to the Marine guards.

Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 08:21 AM (E4rtv)

155 The Iranian apologists on X are now falling back on this:

"The US is quickly running out of those expensive, rare anti-missile and anti-drone munitions.
They lack the manufacturing capacity to replace them quickly.
Iran has 30 kajillion missiles, and they can make 30 kajillion every day--soon the US won't be able to shoot them all down and they will start getting through."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 02, 2026 08:21 AM (HXT0k)

156 "There must be an endless supply."

Stupidity....there is an infinite supply.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 02, 2026 08:22 AM (iMotb)

157 We are going to analyze what worked well, and fix the stuff the media is too stupid to notice.

Our military will become even more lethal.

The Chinese military leaders being advanced beyond their knowledge base should be a force of reason to the political leadership. Xi purged all their best generals that said don't invade. Xi is like Stalin and the purges of Red Army. Xi is working for world peace, and making Taiwanese defenses more effective. Good job, Xi.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 02, 2026 08:22 AM (u82oZ)

158 Hookers and blow... Hmmm, that could be a way to go (adopting thinker's pose)...

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 02, 2026 08:22 AM (xT8gx)

159 88 Chief among them is the gay Nazi grifter Fuentes who has announced he is voting for the Democrats in 2026 just as he did in 2024.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 02, 2026 08:06 AM (viF8m)

His fanboys have been whining about "Why are you siding with Jews over White People???" all weekend.

The irony is that a large amount of Fuentes' fanboys are, much like him, gay brown dudes pretending to be white.

Posted by: XTC at March 02, 2026 08:23 AM (wa/yD)

160 Perhaps one lesson to be learned is to not buy your weapons systems from TEMU.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 02, 2026 08:23 AM (iMotb)

161 whig

Very scary video of the attack on the consulate. Hope the Marines have plenty of ammo.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 02, 2026 08:23 AM (u82oZ)

162 143 Chief among them is the gay Nazi grifter Fuentes who has announced he is voting for the Democrats in 2026 just as he did in 2024.
Posted by: JackStraw
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Just like the NTers from 2016-2024, these new low rent grifters just won't leave the GOP and join the Dems nor will they shut up.

Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 08:24 AM (E4rtv)

163 Think Dems’ ‘Tax The Rich’ Policies Will Make America Better Off? Just Take A Look At California

PS Your Are Rich

Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at March 02, 2026 08:24 AM (gbOdA)

164 144 "Just don't let the Horde vote on what changes to make to your life--you would get suggestions like marry a stripper, spend all your money on blow and hookers, buy $100 per quart bourbon, and more."

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

So we have a sound platform heading into the midterms!

Posted by: Auspex at March 02, 2026 08:24 AM (Y8DZL)

165 @131 Whig, that is also very interesting. The US is going against hundreds of years of tradition saying you don't go after the political and military leaders. That stemmed from the days of Kings and Queens. Take out the leaders , as much as possible leave the rank and file alone.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 02, 2026 08:24 AM (HYqoK)

166 suspect that what they're hoping for is and end to the bombing during the talks. Trump didn't indicated that this is gonna happen.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 02, 2026 08:17 AM (ExV1e)

I love the part where Trump said “sure, I’d still love to talk, but most of the people we were talking to are dead now. They should have started talking earlier.”

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 02, 2026 08:24 AM (etYFQ)

167 Mornin’, All. Happy Monday.

Posted by: Bulg at March 02, 2026 08:25 AM (77rzZ)

168 Ahmadinjad is dust. Awesome.

I'll always remember the Andy Samberg SNL video welcoming him to New York:

https://tinyurl.com/2mez7h96

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 02, 2026 08:25 AM (1a16r)

169 Gallows are a prominent feature of the Purim story. We have plenty of good carpenters here also.

Posted by: And Hemp at March 02, 2026 08:25 AM (oftw2)

170 Chief among them is the gay Nazi grifter Fuentes who has announced he is voting for the Democrats in 2026 just as he did in 2024.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 02, 2026 08:06 AM (viF8m)

What is the love of the makeup boys? They are kind of gross.

Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at March 02, 2026 08:25 AM (gbOdA)

171 Iran strikes UK base.. Upcoming on Tousi

Posted by: Ben Had at March 02, 2026 08:25 AM (+nEug)

172 Just like the NTers from 2016-2024, these new low rent grifters just won't leave the GOP and join the Dems nor will they shut up.
Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 08:24 AM (E4rtv)

They still imagine they have clout as long as the agitate. Once they have joined the borg, there would be no reason for the Tides foundation to send them money.

They are most useful while they are turning their coat.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 02, 2026 08:26 AM (bss/y)

173 "The US is going against hundreds of years of tradition saying you don't go after the political and military leaders. That stemmed from the days of Kings and Queens. Take out the leaders , as much as possible leave the rank and file alone."

Wasn't that a tactic that we used in the Revolutionary War?

Aim for the Generals!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 02, 2026 08:26 AM (iMotb)

174 161 whig

Very scary video of the attack on the consulate. Hope the Marines have plenty of ammo.
Posted by: NaCly Dog
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You have to be willing to shoot to kill on mobs with no remorse. Otherwise bad things happen quickly like Benghazi. Course, it also helps that this mob were Shia in a Sunni country that despises the Shia. Karachi really is a pesthole.

Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 08:26 AM (E4rtv)

175 I just hope we don't completely destroy Iran. I want us to find the financial records that show where all that oil money was going.

"Who's this Chatsworth Osborne, Jr?"

Posted by: Wally at March 02, 2026 08:26 AM (pduCL)

176 My wife and I watched Stan & Ollie yesterday. Highly recommended.

Posted by: Bulg at March 02, 2026 08:27 AM (77rzZ)

177 168 Ahmadinjad is dust. Awesome.

I remember when David Horowitz spoke at Columbia University the same week and noted that he needed a dozen security guards and Ackmadinnerjacket was welcomed with open arms.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 02, 2026 08:27 AM (fZiTB)

178 Killing kings doesn't start wars, it ends them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvaBYOaMG8Y

Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at March 02, 2026 08:27 AM (gbOdA)

179 173 "The US is going against hundreds of years of tradition saying you don't go after the political and military leaders. That stemmed from the days of Kings and Queens. Take out the leaders , as much as possible leave the rank and file alone."

Wasn't that a tactic that we used in the Revolutionary War?

Aim for the Generals!
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice
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Yep. We were considered uncouth for that but it was effective. The object of wars is to win. If you plan to lose, best not to fight in the first place.

Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 08:28 AM (E4rtv)

180 love and peace people

off to work

Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at March 02, 2026 08:28 AM (gbOdA)

181 Reminder that tomorrow is Primary Day here in NC. All Patriotic Carolinians should vote early, often and MAGA.

All Dems vote Wednesday.

Posted by: Mega Ultra MAGA Man. at March 02, 2026 08:28 AM (oftw2)

182 Always great to hear from you, Whig. I am doing well, now, thank you. Just gonna make a few changes!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
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Great. Just don't let the Horde vote on what changes to make to your life--you would get suggestions like marry a stripper, spend all your money on blow and hookers, buy $100 per quart bourbon, and more.
Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 08:17 AM (E4rtv)
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I was nodding along, right up until the $100 bourbon.

Totally unnecessary to go that high.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 02, 2026 08:28 AM (vHKB5)

183 The US is going against hundreds of years of tradition saying you don't go after the political and military leaders. That stemmed from the days of Kings and Queens. Take out the leaders , as much as possible leave the rank and file alone.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 02, 2026 08:24 AM (HYqoK)
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The Islamic Republic is a revolutionary state. A small cadre lead an instrument of oppression against a large majority of the populace. Cut the head and the whole snake dies.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 02, 2026 08:29 AM (RIvkX)

184 Big mistake at this point IMO to suspend military action to "talk." Finish it.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 02, 2026 08:29 AM (fZiTB)

185 I suppose there is no ham in Hamantashen.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 02, 2026 08:29 AM (qFwJc)

186 "The US is going against hundreds of years of tradition saying you don't go after the political and military leaders"

Barbarians.

Posted by: A. Dolf at March 02, 2026 08:29 AM (vFG9F)

187 Up till AOC imploded in Europe I thought she had a good chance of taking out Schumer in 28. I live in NYS and the old line Dems are losing their supporters who are dying out or moving away. The young leftists are taking over and don't care about rational thought. However even they had to hear AOC and say "wtf".

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 02, 2026 08:30 AM (HYqoK)

188 The rest of it I'll probably waste.

Posted by: Just the punchline at March 02, 2026 08:30 AM (2Ez/1)

189 161 Very scary video of the attack on the consulate. Hope the Marines have plenty of ammo.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

They do. And I'm sure they are being told that their higher ups do not want to turn it in at the end of the day.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 02, 2026 08:30 AM (OPGS/)

190 Joan of Arc got in trouble with the French nobility because she ordered her troops to kill English knights/nobility.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 02, 2026 08:30 AM (qFwJc)

191 "Big mistake at this point IMO to suspend military action to "talk." Finish it."

The Donald is able to multi-task.

Make War-War, while making Talk-Talk.

Keeps their minds focused, it does.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 02, 2026 08:30 AM (iMotb)

192 Happy Texas Independence Day
to all the Texas Horde and the Texans at heart!
190 years- hoping for many more

https://tinyurl.com/2t3yvw7k
Posted by: sal at March 02, 2026 08:19 AM (f+FmA)
******
Celebrating our Independence Day from Mexico with a margarita.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 02, 2026 08:30 AM (NpAcC)

193 whig

Every Navy person that had Port of Call Karachi on their bingo card hated that port with a bright passion.

I never went, as I was offshore in the Oman Sea most of my IO times.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 02, 2026 08:31 AM (u82oZ)

194 Yep. We were considered uncouth for that but it was effective. The object of wars is to win. If you plan to lose, best not to fight in the first place.
Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 08:28 AM (E4rtv)

I think this still goes back to... well commies getting involved in the war making process. They LOVE the idea of Nomenklatura. Whereas we look at the idea of the Named Ones and scoff as how ridiculous that they believe they are the only ones who really matter- they really believe it. So, if you want to make peace, you can't kill the rival's leaders because then who will negotiate with you? Some filthy know nothing hick?

It is a terminally retarded way of looking at things.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 02, 2026 08:31 AM (bss/y)

195 I suppose there is no ham in Hamantashen.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 02, 2026 08:29 AM (qFwJc)
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I am willing to open negotiations.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 02, 2026 08:31 AM (RIvkX)

196
165 @131 Whig, that is also very interesting. The US is going against hundreds of years of tradition saying you don't go after the political and military leaders.”

Imagine how quickly WW2 would have ended if we could have killed Hitler, all of his staff, and all of his generals in the first 24 hours of that war.

We just didn’t have the capability before. Wretchard wrote an interesting piece on X about how in this new phase of war, the leaders and the generals will die first, not last. (Unless they’re willing to be line Sinwar and live like a rat in tunnels from now on)
And if a country doesn’t have the ability to do this to its enemies, they has better not play the game.

One thing that hasn’t been talked about - I think the US is kind of embarrased, the Iranians are ashamed - the Iranian Parliament was in session, all the parliamentarians present when the building was bombed in the initial wave. They’re all dead, too.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 02, 2026 08:32 AM (etYFQ)

197 They still imagine they have clout as long as the agitate. Once they have joined the borg, there would be no reason for the Tides foundation to send them money.

They are most useful while they are turning their coat.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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Well Nick got caught on livestream watching gay pron and supposedly there is a video floating around showing Nick polishing Destiny's diseased knob. mASSIE is being revealed taking megabucks (55k plus) from Muzzy family that also finances the Squad and other lefties and getting an award from a Soros-Koch organization from a Iranian regime supporter and head of their lobbying arm NIAD here. MTG made a bundle in merely 5 years while blowing up her family and apparently adopting that vile POS Milo (who is all about spouting Muzzie prayers and praising Candace Ovens) as her social media guru. Etc.

Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 08:32 AM (E4rtv)

198 Who will be the new leaders and what kind of government and society will emerge once the dust settles and the rubble of the old regime is cleared away?

Newest head replacement never made it out of HR before getting smoked.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 02, 2026 08:32 AM (rR3v+)

199 @163 yup we did that in our revolution and the British were put out, "not sporting, chaps". We didn't do that too much since

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 02, 2026 08:32 AM (HYqoK)

200 "Big mistake at this point IMO to suspend military action to "talk." Finish it."

No Hudna For You!

Posted by: Hudna Nazi at March 02, 2026 08:33 AM (Q+gd/)

201 We just didn’t have the capability before. Wretchard wrote an interesting piece on X about how in this new phase of war, the leaders and the generals will die first, not last. (Unless they’re willing to be line Sinwar and live like a rat in tunnels from now on)
And if a country doesn’t have the ability to do this to its enemies, they has better not play the game.

One thing that hasn’t been talked about - I think the US is kind of embarrased, the Iranians are ashamed - the Iranian Parliament was in session, all the parliamentarians present when the building was bombed in the initial wave. They’re all dead, too.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Dunno about the Parliament but I think your point is correct. And also why oligarchs best fear what is coming if they try to implode societies. They won't be spared.

Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 08:33 AM (E4rtv)

202 Love all of the Lord of the Rings reference today

Posted by: Jonah at March 02, 2026 08:34 AM (YCxFk)

203 "Every Navy person that had Port of Call Karachi on their bingo card hated that port with a bright passion."

We hit Karachi for a liberty port after several weeks at sea during an IO cruise.

By the second night, the Crew asked the Commanding Officer to terminate the liberty port visit, and return to sea.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 02, 2026 08:34 AM (iMotb)

204 Happy Texas Independence Day!
Posted by: Cow Demon at March 02, 2026 07:50 AM (fYhK6)

190 years and still kicking.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 02, 2026 08:34 AM (ExV1e)

205 If Massie manages to win again in 2026, Time for GOP just to kick him out of the Caucus. Let him run as a Dem or Indy in the Future

Posted by: Jonah at March 02, 2026 08:35 AM (YCxFk)

206 Chief among them is the gay Nazi grifter Fuentes who has announced he is voting for the Democrats in 2026 just as he did in 2024.
Posted by: JackStraw
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Just like the NTers from 2016-2024, these new low rent grifters just won't leave the GOP and join the Dems nor will they shut up.
Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 08:24 AM (E4rtv)
*******
Their mission is to fracture the Republican Party so that we don't vote.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 02, 2026 08:35 AM (NpAcC)

207 199 @163 yup we did that in our revolution and the British were put out, "not sporting, chaps". We didn't do that too much since
Posted by: Smell the Glove

There were plans to do just that by North and South in the Civil War. And arguably, the Booth assassination was a zombie attack when Booth's cell could not pull off the attack during the war. Lincoln avoided an earlier attempt too before he was inaugurated going through Baltimore in the middle of the night guarded by Pinkertons.

Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 08:35 AM (E4rtv)

208 Greasing Palmetto: Newsom Slut-Shames Harris, Previews Inevitable WH Run in South Carolina

-
Kamala's Indian name is Spread Eagle.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at March 02, 2026 08:35 AM (FXNzP)

209 I saw something on X about Khamenei's successor having already been terminated. But there's been no confirmation so shucks.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at March 02, 2026 08:35 AM (JvUA2)

210 >>The US is going against hundreds of years of tradition saying you don't go after the political and military leaders.

Another tradition that should have ended long ago. I'm sure leaders around the world noticed that Trump has now gone directly at the head of the snake twice, in Venezuela and Iran, and it is figuring into their planning.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 02, 2026 08:35 AM (viF8m)

211 I am still a bit baffled by the "Iran seems to be targeting mostly civilian infrastructure" crap out of the various media stories posted on the webz.. like this is some shocking revelation.
Of course they are going to target civilian centers, is the only retaliatory option the regime has. Their army isn't worth a shit in a fight, and The IRGC's entire military model is geared towards repressing internal threats to the regime. This is why they are getting the shit kicked out of them in such a humiliating fashion. As the regime is neutered, and all of their toys are broken, I suspect we'll see a more.. conciliatory tone from whoever is still among the living in the regime.

Posted by: General Turgidson at March 02, 2026 08:36 AM (koFAO)

212 Wasn't that a tactic that we used in the Revolutionary War?

Aim for the Generals!
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice
___________

Definitely in the War of 1812. Ross was killed by sharpshooters before Baltimore. He was only a colonel, but in charge. And Packenham and Gibbs at New Orleans.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at March 02, 2026 08:36 AM (XvL8K)

213
I would think that Xi and Putin would be close to a 9 on the 1-10 Paranoid scale, all this shit has to be pushing them to 11.

Posted by: Auspex at March 02, 2026 08:37 AM (Y8DZL)

214 Their mission is to fracture the Republican Party so that we don't vote.
Posted by: redridinghood

Mebbe but I just don't see that they have much appeal beyond the fever swamps of X. Lists are already circulating now on who to block, mute, etc. of the fake Right influencers. And if the war comes to a fast clear win for Trump and Israel, all of a sudden they look foolish after burning their bridges.

Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 08:37 AM (E4rtv)

215 Just don't let the Horde vote on what changes to make to your life--you would get suggestions like marry a stripper, spend all your money on blow and hookers, buy $100 per quart bourbon, "

Left out the "drive to Vegas " part...

Posted by: man at March 02, 2026 08:37 AM (XuXeR)

216 Also, I plan to make a lot of money off of weak-kneed sisters in the market today.

If anyone would like to sell their assets because they are afraid the U.S. is destroying its enemies, please call me for a generous offer.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 02, 2026 08:37 AM (RIvkX)

217 whig

You just need to charge Senator Massie with treason and a host of IRS / cash flow violations for the cunning to get the word. For a time.

Plan it out so as one case is fixed, the next one starts. Drain the legal funds, and ID the bad lawyers.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 02, 2026 08:38 AM (u82oZ)

218 Another tradition that should have ended long ago. I'm sure leaders around the world noticed that Trump has now gone directly at the head of the snake twice, in Venezuela and Iran, and it is figuring into their planning.

Posted by: JackStraw

Well, the Iranians were stupid enough to try to put the hit on Trump too among their many assaults on the US.

Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 08:38 AM (E4rtv)

219 But also remember, commies are fine with assassination of leaders- as long as they see you as their enemy. If you are into their wide classification of sub human, then they can kill you without penalty.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 02, 2026 08:38 AM (bss/y)

220 Love all of the Lord of the Rings reference today"

*takes bow*

Posted by: man at March 02, 2026 08:38 AM (XuXeR)

221 Happy Monday!

Was pleased to see that under Trump, the angry mob in Pakistan was not allowed to overthrow one of our consulates. That pushback saved an untold number of lives, as it would have been repeated in other countries had it been not repelled so aggressively.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 02, 2026 08:39 AM (tj6OY)

222 In fact, when a Republican prosecutor narrowly beats a Democrat, the all-cause mortality among men aged 20 to 29 falls by 6.6 percent. . .
____

Old and busted: Save the children
New hotness: Free the murderers

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 02, 2026 08:39 AM (Dv3i1)

223 217 whig

You just need to charge Senator Massie with treason and a host of IRS / cash flow violations for the cunning to get the word. For a time.

Plan it out so as one case is fixed, the next one starts. Drain the legal funds, and ID the bad lawyers.
Posted by: NaCly Dog
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I think mASSIE will flip parties if he loses his primary just to try to throw the House to the Dems for the remainder. Watching the timing on the special elections that will probably thwart that approach.

Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 08:39 AM (E4rtv)

224 "If you are into their wide classification of sub human, then they can kill you without penalty."

They don't try to kill you because you are a Nazi.

They call you a Nazi so that they may kill you.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 02, 2026 08:40 AM (iMotb)

225 215 Left out the "drive to Vegas " part...
Posted by: man

Nah. Laughlin. Less crowded than Vegas.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 02, 2026 08:41 AM (OPGS/)

226 I saw photos from NYC showing the usual cattle-call protesters holding up their ridiculous "Hands Off Iran" signs. The worn-out slogan, like all their others, are hilariously lame and predictable. Such fools.
Posted by: Lady in Black at March 02, 2026 08:00 AM (qBdHI)

People who would have attended a "No Kings" rally protesting in support of a regime where the rulership would have passed from father to son and which is despised by a majority of the population. Sounds about right.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 02, 2026 08:41 AM (ExV1e)

227 Back in the Bush years the GOPe argued you can't just remove the leadership of enemy regimes. Not only would it not work it was a war crime or something.

No, you had to send an army to occupy your enemy and get thousands of your soldiers and their soldiers killed.

Trump doesn't hold to this idea at all obviously...if this works it should like to George Bush apologizing to the nation...but it won't...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 02, 2026 08:42 AM (sKqQm)

228 No one gets elected to the Majlis without being approved first by the regime. They are part and parcel of it and meant to give the fascists a facade to hide behind.

I shed not a tear for so-called parliamentarians who are as guilty as the rest. They too would have been hanged at Nuremberg.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 02, 2026 08:42 AM (RIvkX)

229 It's also, National Banana Cream Pie Day and National Egg McMuffin Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 02, 2026 08:42 AM (NpAcC)

230 Austin (keep Austin Weird) Police responded appropriately to the allahite and killed him.
Viva Texas

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 02, 2026 08:42 AM (/LXUT)

231 193 whig

Every Navy person that had Port of Call Karachi on their bingo card hated that port with a bright passion.

I never went, as I was offshore in the Oman Sea most of my IO times.
Posted by: NaCly Dog
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Well, the Iranians were stupid enough to even hit Oman with their drones. Only countries left around them to their west that haven't been hit is Turkey and mebbe Lebanon. I think their chain of command has totally broken down and the Iranians hinted as much claiming that lower level units were running their own shows as planned.

Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 08:42 AM (E4rtv)

232 Tom Servo, the parliament was locked in that building by the Mullahs and told they could not leave.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 02, 2026 08:43 AM (+nEug)

233 It really is amazing how 50 years of foreign policy has been nothing but lies to prop up endless numbers of diplomats whose sole job was to continue the lies.

Including our military.

Many reports on X how several countries have entire departments that are nothing but travel and hospitality concierge services (including rub-n-tug) for the Americans who attend all these conferences.
Openly feting while all secretly despising.

But they're fed like foix gras ducks that "America is our greatest ally!"
Which they dutifully regurgitate upon the American public.
While planning their next all-expense paid luxury vacation to the upcoming security conference.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 02, 2026 08:43 AM (HXT0k)

234 Here is a fun post from PM Modi of India,

Narendra Modi
@narendramodi
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33m
Discussed the evolving situation in West Asia with Crown Prince and PM of Saudi Arabia, HRH Prince Mohammed bin Salman. India condemns the recent attacks on Saudi Arabia in violation of its sovereignty and territorial integrity. We agreed that earliest restoration of regional peace and stability is of utmost importance. I thanked him for looking after the well-being of the Indian community in these difficult times.

Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 08:43 AM (E4rtv)

235 >>>>The US is going against hundreds of years of tradition saying you don't go after the political and military leaders.

Are we certain Iran hasn't attempted to take out our leaders?

Posted by: Lizzy at March 02, 2026 08:44 AM (tj6OY)

236 So Kuwait shot down three of our planes ? Accidently or on purpose ?

Posted by: It's me donna at March 02, 2026 08:44 AM (a7sNn)

237 But they're fed like foix gras ducks that "America is our greatest ally!"
Which they dutifully regurgitate upon the American public.
While planning their next all-expense paid luxury vacation to the upcoming security conference.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
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I read a post on that on X yesterday.

Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 08:44 AM (E4rtv)

238 "the parliament was locked in that building by the Mullahs and told they could not leave."

Sux being them....too!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 02, 2026 08:44 AM (iMotb)

239 FWIW, there were plenty of assassination attempts on Hitler, He had close calls, but survived them all until Hitler killed Hitler.

The inner thoughts in the US and the UK corridors of power was to keep Hitler alive, because he made the war shorter due to many elementary errors in strategy, resource allotment, and tactics. He did not allow more talented people the ability to fix the many problems.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 02, 2026 08:45 AM (u82oZ)

240 Are we certain Iran hasn't attempted to take out our leaders?
Posted by: Lizzy
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Iran did on Trump and threatened to do so right after Soleiman got smoked in the first term.

Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 08:45 AM (E4rtv)

241 The Islamic Republic is a revolutionary state. A small cadre lead an instrument of oppression against a large majority of the populace. Cut the head and the whole snake dies.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Yes. And it will be the large minorities that supported the regime, whether because they were like-minded on the joys of islamic fundamentalism or simply for tribal reasons that could cause trouble for future leaders of Iran.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 02, 2026 08:45 AM (Dv3i1)

242 Newly appointed interim Supreme Leader Ayatollah Arafi has reportedly been killed in an airstrike, just hours after taking the role.

Posted by: SMOD at March 02, 2026 08:45 AM (RHGPo)

243
213
I would think that Xi and Putin would be close to a 9 on the 1-10 Paranoid scale, all this shit has to be pushing them to 11.
Posted by: Auspex at March 02, 2026 08:37 AM (Y8DZL)

The Cuban leadership must really be shitting bricks right now.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 02, 2026 08:45 AM (etYFQ)

244 242 Newly appointed interim Supreme Leader Ayatollah Arafi has reportedly been killed in an airstrike, just hours after taking the role.
Posted by: SMOD at March 02, 2026 08:45 AM (RHGPo)

LOL.... Probably shouldn't do that but LOL

Posted by: It's me donna at March 02, 2026 08:46 AM (a7sNn)

245 >>It's also, National Banana Cream Pie Day and National Egg McMuffin Day.

Eh, may sit this one out. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at March 02, 2026 08:46 AM (tj6OY)

246 Are we certain Iran hasn't attempted to take out our leaders?

I saw a claim Trump said something like, "We got the Iranian leaders before they got me"

If he has intel that Iran was behind either of the two assassination attempts on his life I hope he'll release that

Posted by: 18-1 at March 02, 2026 08:47 AM (sKqQm)

247 "Newly appointed interim Supreme Leader Ayatollah Arafi has reportedly been killed in an airstrike, just hours after taking the role."

So he went from interim to Lifetime Supreme Leader?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 02, 2026 08:47 AM (iMotb)

248 >>>I shed not a tear for so-called parliamentarians who are as guilty as the rest. They too would have been hanged at Nuremberg.
Posted by: San Franpsycho
--

In the ideal set by our forefathers, swift justice.
Boasberg has no place at DoW.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 02, 2026 08:47 AM (/LXUT)

249 The US is going against hundreds of years of tradition saying you don't go after the political and military leaders.

I will mock anyone who dares to say something like that in my hearing.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 02, 2026 08:47 AM (OPGS/)

250 Pas d'ennemis à gauche

Posted by: Oglebay at March 02, 2026 08:47 AM (GPa4z)

251 My about to be 14 year old grandson, who thanks to me is pretty based, sent me a text yesterday saying “Trump is collecting dictators like Thanos colllects infinity stones.”

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 02, 2026 08:47 AM (etYFQ)

252 My biggest regret is that these missions came too late for me. Trump has freed two countries full of smoking hot women and I'm too old to take advantage of it.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 02, 2026 08:47 AM (viF8m)

253 {{{Ben Had}}}
🎼 ♭ 5/4 ♫♫ ♫♫ Good morning! ♬♬ ♩ ♪

Today is a good day. Glad the USAF pilots got out of their F-15s.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 02, 2026 08:48 AM (u82oZ)

254 >>Iran did on Trump and threatened to do so right after Soleiman got smoked in the first term.

So Trump's action is not unprecedented.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 02, 2026 08:48 AM (tj6OY)

255 The Telegraph newspaper somehow wrangled a quick phone interview with PDJT yesterday, as he arrived back in DC. He took the opportunity to express how "disappointed" he was in Kier Starmer's initial decision not to allow the US to use Diego Garcia to stage bombers.

"It's probably never happened before, between our two countries", he said, "very disappointing".

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 02, 2026 08:48 AM (IqDX2)

256 > Are we certain Iran hasn't attempted to take out our leaders?
Posted by: Lizzy
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I'd probably be more concerned with the Democrats and an attempted assassination on Trump and/or Hegseth.

Or any other Republican of note.

Our CIA hasn't been reigned in sufficiently... and likely never will, judging by some of the analysis done over the weekend by Internet sleuths looking into the VA governor's ties to the agency.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 02, 2026 08:48 AM (jtM2q)

257 BREAKING: Iran’s drone carrier IRIS Shahid Bagheri has reportedly been hit by U.S. forces and is currently sinking in the Persian Gulf, another major blow to the Islamic regime of Iran.
Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 08:06 AM (E4rtv)

Revenge for the Lincoln (which hasn't been hit by anything).

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 02, 2026 08:48 AM (ExV1e)

258 Thanks for the link to "Catholic Catechism and Muslim Immigration to the US".

Well written explanation for why no Muslim (now practicing or previously practicing) should be allowed to immigrate to the US.

Basic tenet of Muslim faith is conquering and ruling all others and lying is allowed to this end. It is incompatible with US values.

Also addresses how immigrants are supposed to be grateful to host country and live by the values of host country.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at March 02, 2026 08:48 AM (RkOfE)

259 LOL.... Probably shouldn't do that but LOL
Posted by: It's me donna at March 02, 2026 08:46 AM (a7sNn)

He should have asked about the retirement plan before taking the job.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 02, 2026 08:49 AM (etYFQ)

260 JackStraw

Widows. Less overall trauma than divorcees. And they come with experience.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 02, 2026 08:49 AM (u82oZ)

261 Yeah, Lizzy is right: Iran tried to kill Trump. Turnabout is definitely fair play.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 02, 2026 08:49 AM (IqDX2)

262 > Iranians hinted as much claiming that lower level units were running their own shows as planned.
.....
Breaking down under pressure, and fracturing into factional warlords is a feature, not a bug, according to some regime flunky with mere hours of life in him..

Posted by: General Turgidson at March 02, 2026 08:49 AM (koFAO)

263 205 If Massie manages to win again in 2026, Time for GOP just to kick him out of the Caucus. Let him run as a Dem or Indy in the Future
Posted by: Jonah

Pictures were posted of people shooting big holes in mASSIE campaign signs. Don't think his prancing around with X statements while a war is going on will help in Kentucky either.

You can be a Walter Jones and survive (he was a GOP member opposing Bush's actions) because a) he was former military, and b) he wasn't a prancing goofball doing it. He voted GOP for all other things. Rand has also gotten away with much of his opposition because his votes for GOP are there when needed and he makes his statement and moves on.

mASSIE has got it in his head that he is much more important than his mere district and that naturally sitting with a far leftist squad member at an SOTU and putting out insults to Trump and others will play well in his district. It won't I think.

Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 08:50 AM (E4rtv)

264 Apparently, the Kuwaitis shot down a F-15 by accident

Posted by: SMOD at March 02, 2026 08:50 AM (RHGPo)

265 I think it goes well beyond Wiles. They were surveiling, like Obama did, the entire GOP party just like in 2015-16. The common denominator is the FBI serving as the Democrat's Secret Police and the Democrat judges rubber stamping outrageous warrants.
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This is why Judge BonerBurger is desperate in his mad quest to hold Trump in contempt.
Because he was one of the key judges they relied upon to sign those warrants.
And they were so outrageous--even on the face, let alone what they hid--that he is scrambling for insurance.
Which he thinks is media cover of "Trump is only arresting judge Boesberg in retaliation!!!"

PS:
Consider that both Roberts and Bonerburger went to the same over-seas judicial "conference."
And view in the frame that Trump accused SCOTUS of being beholden to foreign interests.
Add in my above, how these conferences are merely bribes from foreign countries ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 02, 2026 08:50 AM (HXT0k)

266 I'm better off with dogs, Salty. They get me.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 02, 2026 08:50 AM (viF8m)

267 Newly appointed interim Supreme Leader Ayatollah Arafi has reportedly been killed in an airstrike, just hours after taking the role.
Posted by: SMOD at March 02, 2026 08:45 AM (RHGPo)
=========================
Next!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 02, 2026 08:50 AM (IqDX2)

268 X has been a sewer of people like Green who are rushing to tell everyone taking down the terrorists running Iran is not what MAGA is all about and Trump is finished.

Razorfist pointed out that Trump ran on making sure Iran didn't get a bomb in 2015. Sad to say but he'd probably have left the mullahs in place if only they'd given up their nuclear ambition.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 02, 2026 08:51 AM (ExV1e)

269 So why would feminists be upset about beautiful Persian women shedding their slavery rags?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at March 02, 2026 08:51 AM (JvUA2)

270 General Turgidson

This decentralization precludes proven tactics like Time on Top. They are much less effective.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 02, 2026 08:51 AM (u82oZ)

271 Has anyone seen comments on the Iran action from John Kerry or Wendy whatshername, the two who spearheaded Obama's Iran deal?

I'm wondering if John Kerry's daughter lost any family over the weekend. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at March 02, 2026 08:52 AM (tj6OY)

272 257 BREAKING: Iran’s drone carrier IRIS Shahid Bagheri has reportedly been hit by U.S. forces and is currently sinking in the Persian Gulf, another major blow to the Islamic regime of Iran.
Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 08:06 AM (E4rtv)

I am glad to see that just because that ship was so pathetic - they took an old cargo ship, put a plywood flat top on it and called it a carrier.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 02, 2026 08:52 AM (etYFQ)

273 JackStraw

Dogs =/= grateful Islamic women. But I see your point.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 02, 2026 08:53 AM (u82oZ)

274 LOL.... Probably shouldn't do that but LOL
Posted by: It's me donna at March 02, 2026 08:46 AM (a7sNn)

He should have asked about the retirement plan before taking the job.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 02, 2026 08:49 AM (etYFQ)
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The severance package is a killer! (literally)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 02, 2026 08:53 AM (ESVrU)

275 How big is a 'Drone Carrier'?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 02, 2026 08:53 AM (bss/y)

276 Bill Clinton Insists He ‘Did Nothing Wrong’ With Epstein, Admits Trump Not Involved in Scandal.
_____

I did nothing wrong with that man, Epstein.

Posted by: Bill Clinton at March 02, 2026 08:54 AM (Dv3i1)

277 Headless snake Iran has done this in the last 24 hours,
In last 24 hrs Iran Has Attacked 🤯

1) Israel
2) USA
3) UAE
4) Saudi Arabia
5) Qutar
6) Kuwait
7) Jordan

Iraq
9) Bahrain
10) Oman
11) Syria
12) Cyprus
13) France
14) Italy
15) UK

Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 08:54 AM (E4rtv)

278 277 Headless snake Iran has done this in the last 24 hours,
In last 24 hrs Iran Has Attacked 🤯

1) Israel
2) USA
3) UAE
4) Saudi Arabia
5) Qutar
6) Kuwait
7) Jordan
Iraq
9) Bahrain
10) Oman
11) Syria
12) Cyprus
13) France
14) Italy
15) UK
Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 08:54 AM (E4rtv)

Way to make friends

Posted by: It's me donna at March 02, 2026 08:54 AM (a7sNn)

279 264 Apparently, the Kuwaitis shot down a F-15 by accident
Posted by: SMOD at March 02, 2026 08:50 AM (RHGPo)

Since the USS Gettysburg shot down an F-18 last year, I can see how it happens. Glad the pilots made it out safely.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 02, 2026 08:55 AM (etYFQ)

280 My about to be 14 year old grandson, who thanks to me is pretty based, sent me a text yesterday saying “Trump is collecting dictators like Thanos colllects infinity stones.”
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 02, 2026 08:47 AM (etYFQ)
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You must be so proud.

When I was 14 I was a fvcking idiot campaigning for Jimmy Carter.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 02, 2026 08:55 AM (RIvkX)

281
That it took nearly fifty years before the mad mullahs got served only demonstrates how feckless and useless our country's diplomatic corps has been over that same period of time.

"Muh rice bowl" has been shown to be their highest priority as they much preferred to talk, talk, talk rather than act to solve the problems. Turn all of them out onto the streets -- learn to code!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 02, 2026 08:55 AM (xG4kz)

282 SMOD

Three F-15s. Pilots got out and are being checked for injuries.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 02, 2026 08:55 AM (u82oZ)

283 Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh

Spain's leftist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez just BANNED the United States from using its military bases to launch strikes against Iran

US aircraft have reportedly LEFT bases in Spain

THIS is an "ally?!" What a freaking disgrace.

President Trump recently TORCHED Spain's leadership: "Virtually all NATO allies increased their defense spending to 5%, everyone expect Spain. They want a FREE RIDE, I GUESS."

What is going on with Spain?

Posted by: redridinghood at March 02, 2026 08:55 AM (NpAcC)

284 Ouch. Ted Cruz just said that Tucker Carlson's foreign policy is identical to Kamala Harris'.

I'd say that'll leave a mark, but honestly, will it?

Posted by: Dr. T at March 02, 2026 08:55 AM (lHPJf)

285 It looks like the Chagos deal is dead, so that is good news. The bad news is that now Queer Starmer is trying to give away Gibraltar.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 02, 2026 08:56 AM (0U5gm)

286
When I was 14 I was a fvcking idiot campaigning for Jimmy Carter.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 02, 2026 08:55 AM (RIvkX)

I was old enough to vote for him... And I did... Slinks away in shame...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 02, 2026 08:56 AM (a7sNn)

287 269 So why would feminists be upset about beautiful Persian women shedding their slavery rags?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA

Because Trump. That pretty much answers it.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 02, 2026 08:56 AM (OPGS/)

288 It's an op as the phrase is being used repetitively on X. No plan, no plan, no plan, etc.

=====

Literally the same poo they flung in early stage pandemic: "Trump has no plan for COVID!"
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 02, 2026 08:12 AM (RIvkX)

We seem to be doing pretty well for not having a plan. And his plan, which he's stated publicly, is that Iranian people take control of their country and decide what to do. Without us being bogged down in another globohomo project.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 02, 2026 08:56 AM (ExV1e)

289 This is why Judge BonerBurger is desperate in his mad quest to hold Trump in contempt.
Because he was one of the key judges they relied upon to sign those warrants.
And they were so outrageous--even on the face, let alone what they hid--that he is scrambling for insurance.
Which he thinks is media cover of "Trump is only arresting judge Boesberg in retaliation!!!"

PS:
Consider that both Roberts and Bonerburger went to the same over-seas judicial "conference."
And view in the frame that Trump accused SCOTUS of being beholden to foreign interests.
Add in my above, how these conferences are merely bribes from foreign countries ....
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

Very possible. I also think NSA intercepts etc. have been given to connected people for insider trading purposes in the Biden and Obama administrations and for political surveillance on steroids for the Democrats. The FISA court judges were right in the middle of that shitshow.

Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 08:56 AM (E4rtv)

290 President Trump recently TORCHED Spain's leadership: "Virtually all NATO allies increased their defense spending to 5%, everyone expect Spain. They want a FREE RIDE, I GUESS."

What is going on with Spain?

Posted by: redridinghood

Spain narrowly elected a socialist government, and they just gave amnesty to a million illegal mohammedans to cement their power.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 02, 2026 08:57 AM (0U5gm)

291 and this is going on in Lebanon...

"Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam announced “the immediate ban of all Hezbollah security and military activities and considering them illegal,” and called on the group to surrender its arms."

wellll, if they are illegal, they can be killleded, right habibi?

Posted by: runner at March 02, 2026 08:57 AM (/M/4v)

292 Powerline's Hinderaker embedded a video appearance of his on Aussie TV, and if you look at the bit just after the 2:50 mark, you can see NYC protestors getting their Iran thing going. It's obviously very professional.

https://tinyurl.com/4kb2ndz9

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 02, 2026 08:57 AM (L7ZUk)

293
He should have asked about the retirement plan before taking the job.
Posted by: Tom Servo

"Will I have time to get my hair cut?"

BLAMMO!

"Umm, no ..."

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 02, 2026 08:58 AM (xG4kz)

294 Spain is having a re-reconquista. The crescent flag will soon be flying again over the capital.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 02, 2026 08:58 AM (0U5gm)

295 "The US is going against hundreds of years of tradition saying you don't go after the political and military leaders."

Say what?

Posted by: Zombie Muamar Qadaffi at March 02, 2026 08:58 AM (Q+gd/)

296 Literally the same poo they flung in early stage pandemic: "Trump has no plan for COVID!"
Posted by: San Franpsycho
=======
Putting out a succession plan for Iranian people in the middle of the war would be idiotic as the Iranians can still try to kill their own people with a good chance of success. You destroy the regime with unconditional surrender and then lay out the transition. Not before.

Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 08:59 AM (E4rtv)

297 US aircraft have reportedly LEFT bases in Spain

===
Should have bombed them from air. Spain is asshoe.

Posted by: runner at March 02, 2026 08:59 AM (/M/4v)

298 Read a post that said Massie has gotten over $2m in donations and over 80% are from Dems. Screw him

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 02, 2026 08:59 AM (HYqoK)

299 The stock market losses today look fairly mild right now. Oil and gold are up, but not as much as one might have thought.

Posted by: Oglebay at March 02, 2026 08:59 AM (GPa4z)

300 McDonald’s ‘biggest’ half-pound burger ever and calorie bomb is finally coming to the US

Posted by: SMOD at March 02, 2026 08:59 AM (RHGPo)

301 The US is going against hundreds of years of tradition saying you don't go after the political and military leaders.

===

So we did not try to kill Castro ?

Posted by: runner at March 02, 2026 09:00 AM (/M/4v)

302 Wake me when you hear any statements published by a Muslim leader condemning and disavowing murders committed by a dude wearing a "Property of Allah" sweatshirt.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 02, 2026 09:00 AM (RIvkX)

303 US Marines had to defend the embassy in Karachi from a mob that attempted to storm it.
Unsure how many pakis dead - 10, 20?
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 02, 2026 08:19 AM (7fEFu)

I heard something yesterday that one Marine had been killed but I never heard anything more about it so I assume (hope) it was fake news.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 02, 2026 09:00 AM (ExV1e)

304 >>@jonkarl
·
11h
>>In another phone call this evening, President Trump told me this about the death of Ayatollah Khamenei:

>>"I got him before he got me. They tried twice. Well I got him first."

>>That’s a reference to what US intelligence believes was a plot to kill Trump in 2024.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 02, 2026 09:00 AM (viF8m)

305 "Every Navy person that had Port of Call Karachi on their bingo card hated that port with a bright passion."

You could smell it coming during Sea & Anchor detail - the stench was gagging.

Posted by: Boswell at March 02, 2026 09:00 AM (j10i6)

306 Rudy Contreras signed a buttload of those FISA warrants and the abruptly retired

Posted by: Ben Had at March 02, 2026 09:00 AM (+nEug)

307 249 The US is going against hundreds of years of tradition saying you don't go after the political and military leaders.
I will mock anyone who dares to say something like that in my hearing.

Indeed. As wave after wave of terror appear over the Horizon as so many luftwaffe during the battle of britain, LIBs will continue to argue that it is impossible to know their intent even as they urge them on and literally guide them to their targets.

LIBs not only sponsor our Adversaries, they actively Defend them -- first in to the bunkers, not because they value their own lives, but rather, to displace someone else who does.

https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-LIBdOutLogic
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-3MonkeyWTC

LIB's bemoan ABSOLUTELY the loudest when their Evil is successfully opposed by a Different kind of Evil because they know their time is short.
https://tinyurl.com/EvilsAdvantageOverConscience
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-SaveDaWorldTakeTheGun

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at March 02, 2026 09:00 AM (TYJUX)

308 276 Bill Clinton Insists He ‘Did Nothing Wrong’ With Epstein, Admits Trump Not Involved in Scandal.
_____

I did nothing wrong with that man, Epstein.
Posted by: Bill Clinton at March 02, 2026 08:54 AM (Dv3i1)

Bill always makes the biggest hedges.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 02, 2026 09:00 AM (bss/y)

309 NYPost: Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s pals in the state Legislature are pushing a bill to give him the power to slap a 25% tax liability “surcharge” on Big Apple corporations.

... this ought to fix the traffic problems of the city

Posted by: SMOD at March 02, 2026 09:01 AM (RHGPo)

310 wellll, if they are illegal, they can be killleded, right habibi?
Posted by: runner

I think Israel is already enforcing Lebanese law there. Without the Iranian mullahs and their proxies around, suddenly a lot of the terrorists and violence will dry up and vanish. They have destabilized the entire Middle East for nearly 50 years and it is time for them to go meet their father, Stan, in hell.

Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 09:01 AM (E4rtv)

311 Anyone else notice, no trolls today? No black pillers, either. Funny, that.

Posted by: tubal at March 02, 2026 09:01 AM (pDt9x)

312 Forty-eight Iranian leaders this time. Wasn't it 30 or 40 back in June? There must be an endless supply.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at March 02, 2026 08:20 AM (MZ+PY)

New people fill vacancies. That'll happen until they're either all dead or they give up.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 02, 2026 09:01 AM (ExV1e)

313 What is going on with Spain?

Spain is full of non working layabouts who live with their parents well into their 40s who all want free shit, free pussy and free jamon.

Worthless asswipes.

Posted by: Zombie Francisco Franco at March 02, 2026 09:02 AM (XHLnT)

314 302 Wake me when you hear any statements published by a Muslim leader condemning and disavowing murders committed by a dude wearing a "Property of Allah" sweatshirt.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

"We may never know the killer's motivations", Austin city officials vowed.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 02, 2026 09:03 AM (Dv3i1)

315 We'll surrender when our last soldier has died.

Posted by: War Pigs at March 02, 2026 09:03 AM (vFG9F)

316 Here comes the trolls

Posted by: It's me donna at March 02, 2026 09:03 AM (a7sNn)

317 So will there be a clearance sale on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad signature Members Only jackets? Because I want one. Cheap.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 02, 2026 09:04 AM (gVUi7)

318 "No black pillers, either. Funny, that.
Posted by: tubal "

You can leave me out of this one. I made no predictions.

Posted by: Guy who always says "Nothing will happen" and is usually right at March 02, 2026 09:04 AM (vFG9F)

319 The US is going against hundreds of years of tradition saying you don't go after the political and military leaders.

"Now you tell me baka gaijin." - Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 02, 2026 09:04 AM (2GVsD)

320 So why would feminists be upset about beautiful Persian women shedding their slavery rags?

Because they all aspire to burkas. It's the ultimate defeat of the male gaze.

And then they wonder why men, or bears, or minotaurs won't approach them.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 02, 2026 09:04 AM (P9pDS)

321 Venezuela and Iran bought massive quantities of the latest, greatest Russian and Chinese military tech.
Performance?
Sub-optimal.

We reverse-engineered Iranian drones and spoofed their transmissions to make them look like "friendlies" to the Iranian air defense.

We're slapping Starlink receivers on our suicide drones, adding next-gen capability to any of our drones, that no other country can add.
Not just ground-hugging radar evasion but impossible to jam or disrupt.
We could fly a drone into Xi's palace and no one in China, except a few peasants in the hills, will ever see it.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 02, 2026 09:05 AM (HXT0k)

322 ‘Just don't let the Horde vote on what changes to make to your life--you would get suggestions like marry a stripper, spend all your money on blow and hookers, buy $100 per quart bourbon.’

Very fast, very expensive sports car that gets real shitty gas mileage.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at March 02, 2026 09:05 AM (s32T4)

323 I was old enough to vote for him... And I did... Slinks away in shame...
Posted by: It's me donna at March 02, 2026 08:56 AM (a7sNn)
==
Oh yeah? I was so dumb I did it again in 1980.

My dad was beside himself.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 02, 2026 09:05 AM (RIvkX)

324 " And you can be Ayatollah for a day !" Come on down!

Posted by: Ben Had at March 02, 2026 09:05 AM (+nEug)

325 Just because we're at war doesn't mean we should abandon civility.

Renna
@RennaW
Please, everyone, the gender neutral term is Ayatollx

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 02, 2026 09:05 AM (FXNzP)

326 Three F-15s downed by friendly fire? Apparently mistakenly shot down by Kuwaiti air defense.

Why am I not so sure it was friendly? One, maybe. But three?!

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at March 02, 2026 09:05 AM (3ImbR)

327 "What is going on with Spain?"

Time to consider pulling the fleet out of Rota?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 02, 2026 09:05 AM (iMotb)

328 Anyone else notice, no trolls today? No black pillers, either. Funny, that.
Posted by: tubal

they all died of shame ?

Posted by: runner at March 02, 2026 09:06 AM (/M/4v)

329
The US is going against hundreds of years of tradition saying you don't go after the political and military leaders.

Assassinated South Vietnamese President Diem might have something to say about that.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 02, 2026 09:06 AM (xG4kz)

330 284 Ouch. Ted Cruz just said that Tucker Carlson's foreign policy is identical to Kamala Harris'.

I'd say that'll leave a mark, but honestly, will it?
Posted by: Dr. T
=====
Yeah, I think it will as Qatarlson cannot even rely on Qatar anymore as they have broken it off with Iran. All the Gulf States got pissed off by Iran launching more drone and missiles at them than they did Israel yesterday. Cumulative demonstration of hatred and maliciousness toward Judaism and calling Trump's actions against Iran as disgusting and evil pretty much paint Tuca into a corner hard to get out from.

His brother Buckley is busy pissing off a lot of people on the Right on X as well by echoing his brother's sentiments.

Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 09:06 AM (E4rtv)

331 " And you can be Ayatollah for a day !" Come on down!
Posted by: Ben Had "

The winner gets to go on "This Is Your Life".

Posted by: fd at March 02, 2026 09:06 AM (vFG9F)

332 Three F-15s downed by friendly fire? Apparently mistakenly shot down by Kuwaiti air defense.

===

arabs....

*shakes head

Posted by: runner at March 02, 2026 09:06 AM (/M/4v)

333 328 Anyone else notice, no trolls today? No black pillers, either. Funny, that.
Posted by: tubal

they all died of shame ?
Posted by: runner
=========
Checks bounced.

Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 09:07 AM (E4rtv)

334 "What is going on with Spain?"
____

Perfect time for Kweer Starmer to give Gibraltar over to the Spanish caliphate.

Seriously, GB is run by moslims already.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 02, 2026 09:07 AM (Dv3i1)

335 Modern Warfare Sees First Drone Strike On A Commercial Data Center

"It won't be the last."

Posted by: SMOD at March 02, 2026 09:07 AM (RHGPo)

336 Newly appointed interim Supreme Leader Ayatollah Arafi has reportedly been killed in an airstrike, just hours after taking the role.
Posted by: SMOD at March 02, 2026 08:45 AM (RHGPo)

Can you imagine the next meeting?
"Hey, Ahmad - you're the next Ayatollah."
"I am not! You are!"
"No, I am not - you, Ackmed - you're next!"
"Not true, I am not! Let me outta here!"

Posted by: Boswell at March 02, 2026 09:07 AM (j10i6)

337 McDonald’s ‘biggest’ half-pound burger ever and calorie bomb is finally coming to the US
Posted by: SMOD at March 02, 2026 08:59 AM (RHGPo)

Ray Kroc is an American hero who employed and fed billions...billions!

Should have a holiday named in his honor.

Posted by: Mayor McCheese at March 02, 2026 09:07 AM (XHLnT)

338 ==
Oh yeah? I was so dumb I did it again in 1980.

My dad was beside himself.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Cue the Mother Angelica "Shame!" meme.

Posted by: Fessin' Up Is Hard To Do at March 02, 2026 09:08 AM (oftw2)

339 Dr. Willie Soon at Gorilla Science has figured out the warming effect of the Sun. I really like this guy. Thanks JJ.

Posted by: Eromero at March 02, 2026 09:08 AM (LHPAg)

340 Every Navy person that had Port of Call Karachi on their bingo card hated that port with a bright passion.

I never went, as I was offshore in the Oman Sea most of my IO times.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 02, 2026 08:31 AM (u82oZ)

My ports of call were:

Subic ▲
Yokosuka ▲
Hong Kong ▲▲
Apra Harbor (Guam) ▼
Victoria, Canada ↔

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 02, 2026 09:08 AM (ExV1e)

341 308 276 Bill Clinton Insists He ‘Did Nothing Wrong’ With Epstein, Admits Trump Not Involved in Scandal.
I did nothing wrong with that man, Epstein.
...
Bill always makes the biggest hedges.

Had he done in Mogadishu in '92 what Somalia accomplished a decade later in a week, there factually would have been no OBL, no 911, no endless wars.

Had he had enough self control to tear his eyes momentarily away from super bowl to affirm the kill order on OBL... ibid.

Had he not only instructed Albright to warn the target's gov'ts of every attack... ibid.

He did NO WRONG in his mind only, because he could convince LIBs to ignore what he factually did -- especially with Epstein...

Who's the Deplorable?

I remember Judas; that was Bill Clinton, he was the one elected President before he disgrace his office and Betrayed us All.

Palestinians elected Hamas because they promised to make the buses run on time -- Bill Clinton'06

it would be wrong to cut off contact with the terror group just because they may have killed people "in a way that we hate."-- Bill Clinton'06

I tried to represent a better America when I was president. But now I don't have to... -- Bill Clinton'06

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at March 02, 2026 09:08 AM (TqOjB)

342 For whatever reasons, the MSM certainly is downplaying the recent acts of terrorism here in the states perpetrated by Muslims enraged over the war with Iran.

"Whatever reasons."

A number of NatSec "experts" have suggested this is going to be Iran's payback strategy going forward. And the number of Middle Eastern and Islamic sympathizers that have infiltrated the US can't be discounted.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 02, 2026 09:09 AM (jtM2q)

343 McDonald’s ‘biggest’ half-pound burger ever and calorie bomb is finally coming to the US
Posted by: SMOD

Bacon cheeseburgers to Iran!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 02, 2026 09:09 AM (FXNzP)

344 Half-pound burger, you say?

Posted by: Hamburgler at March 02, 2026 09:09 AM (oftw2)

345 337 McDonald’s ‘biggest’ half-pound burger ever and calorie bomb is finally coming to the US
Posted by: SMOD at March 02, 2026 08:59 AM (RHGPo)

Ray Kroc is an American hero who employed and fed billions...billions!

Should have a holiday named in his honor.
Posted by: Mayor McCheese at March 02, 2026 09:07 AM (XHLnT)That would be a Royale.

Posted by: Eromero at March 02, 2026 09:09 AM (LHPAg)

346 A number of NatSec "experts" have suggested this is going to be Iran's payback strategy going forward. And the number of Middle Eastern and Islamic sympathizers that have infiltrated the US can't be discounted.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

*shifty eyes*

Posted by: Biden's Open Borders at March 02, 2026 09:10 AM (Dv3i1)

347 IFF works only when it works.

Active combat ops, IFF is killed to make things harder for the bad guys. Perhaps the crews forgot to turn it back on.

Or Mode 4 broke and some people forgot to talk to other people.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 02, 2026 09:10 AM (2GVsD)

348 We'll surrender when our last soldier has died.
Posted by: War Pigs

Your terms are acceptable.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 02, 2026 09:10 AM (rR3v+)

349 Kamala's Indian name is Spread Eagle.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at March 02, 2026 08:35 AM (FXNzP)

Pecking Chicken

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 02, 2026 09:10 AM (ExV1e)

350
Buckley Qatarlson?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 02, 2026 09:10 AM (xG4kz)

351 The US is going against hundreds of years of tradition saying you don't go after the political and military leaders.

I saw a good comment on X yesterday that Trump has inverted how wars normally work: the elites make the orders and will fight to the last peasant (e.g. Ukraine). Trump's leading with killing the elites, and this makes the world's elites very scared.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 02, 2026 09:11 AM (P9pDS)

352 Fine if you want a half pound hamburger but I've got a feeling that product is not directed at me. In fact, none of McDonald's advertising is directed at me.

Posted by: fd at March 02, 2026 09:11 AM (vFG9F)

353 Hegseth speech today,
"
Visegrád 24
@visegrad24
·
30m
U.S. SecWar Pete Hegseth held a press conference on the US-Israeli strikes on Iran:

"It turns out, the regime who chanted 'death to America' and 'death to Israel' — was gifted death from America, and death from Israel."

"This is not a so-called regime change war, but the regime sure did change," said Hegseth.

"Our ambitions are not utopian, but they are realistic," Hegseth added, saying that the US mission in Iran was to "destroy Iran's missiles, navy and deny Tehran nuclear weapons".

"This is not Iraq, this is not endless war," he said.

"No stupid rules of engagement, no nation-building quagmire, no democracy-building exercise. No politically correct wars. We fight to win, and we don't waste time or lives," Hegseth told a news conference."

Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 09:11 AM (E4rtv)

354 It's a great day to be an American. My only qualm is that this amazing payback and prevention against the Islamists should have been called Operation Epic Retribution.

Posted by: CoolHandLuke at March 02, 2026 09:11 AM (0VH88)

355 see Ahmadinejad got his too

I think he was the ringleader in 79.
Posted by: rhennigantx

I thought he was dead for years! I suspected AIDS got him. Had no idea he was still alive.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at March 02, 2026 09:11 AM (2J/Lj)

356 And the number of Middle Eastern and Islamic sympathizers that have infiltrated the US can't be discounted.

Wouldn't they have struck by now? I assume the "Property of Allah" guy is pretty much all they have, but we'll see.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 02, 2026 09:11 AM (P9pDS)

357 350
Buckley Qatarlson?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot:

Heh.

Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 09:11 AM (E4rtv)

358 "We'll surrender when our last soldier has died.
Posted by: War Pigs

Your terms are acceptable.
Posted by: rickb223"

Just don't muss up our mansions, ok?

Posted by: War Pigs at March 02, 2026 09:12 AM (vFG9F)

359 Can you imagine the next meeting?
"Hey, Ahmad - you're the next Ayatollah."
"I am not! You are!"
"No, I am not - you, Ackmed - you're next!"
"Not true, I am not! Let me outta here!"

-
Quick game of Musical Chairs would solve that.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 02, 2026 09:12 AM (FXNzP)

360 No politically correct wars. We fight to win, and we don't waste time or lives,

===

awesome

Posted by: runner at March 02, 2026 09:12 AM (/M/4v)

361
Kamala's Indian name is ~~Spread Eagle~~ Overflowing Fountains.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 02, 2026 09:12 AM (xG4kz)

362 they can complain to the UN...

🤣🤣🤣

Posted by: runner at March 02, 2026 09:12 AM (/M/4v)

363 354 It's a great day to be an American. My only qualm is that this amazing payback and prevention against the Islamists should have been called Operation Epic Retribution.
Posted by: CoolHandLuke

Operation "blowing them up real good" was my pick.

Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 09:12 AM (E4rtv)

364 >>In another phone call this evening, President Trump told me this about the death of Ayatollah Khamenei:

>>"I got him before he got me. They tried twice. Well I got him first."

>>That’s a reference to what US intelligence believes was a plot to kill Trump in 2024.

Thank you!

Posted by: Lizzy at March 02, 2026 09:13 AM (tj6OY)

365 You just need to charge Senator Massie with treason and a host of IRS / cash flow violations for the cunning to get the word. For a time.

Massie is not a Senator. He's a House traitor.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 02, 2026 09:13 AM (ExV1e)

366 258 Thanks for the link to "Catholic Catechism and Muslim Immigration to the US".

Well written explanation for why no Muslim (now practicing or previously practicing) should be allowed to immigrate to the US.

Basic tenet of Muslim faith is conquering and ruling all others and lying is allowed to this end. It is incompatible with US values.

Also addresses how immigrants are supposed to be grateful to host country and live by the values of host country.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel
---

Not import - DEPORT - Your facts are correct,
They want to kill us. DEPORT them all before it's too late.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 02, 2026 09:13 AM (/LXUT)

367 "Trump's leading with killing the elites, and this makes the world's elites very scared.
Posted by: Ian S."

And that, folks, is MY President!

Posted by: fd at March 02, 2026 09:13 AM (vFG9F)

368 c'mon mods, do your thing!

Posted by: runner at March 02, 2026 09:13 AM (/M/4v)

369 The Indian word for whore is ‘kamala’

Posted by: Elric the Blade at March 02, 2026 09:13 AM (s32T4)

370 363 they can complain to the UN...

🤣🤣🤣
Posted by: runner
=======
Iran FM had some idiotic quote on X this morning claiming if the UN did nothing to help Iran, it would be the end of international organizations or some such bullshit.

Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 09:13 AM (E4rtv)

371 Anyone else notice, no trolls today? No black pillers, either. Funny, that.
Posted by: tubal

they all died of shame ?
Posted by: runner
+++
Unpossible. They don't even understand the concept.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at March 02, 2026 09:14 AM (Lo97M)

372 The US is going against hundreds of years of tradition saying you don't go after the political and military leaders.

Bullshit.

Don't want to see us? Don't be asshoe.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 02, 2026 09:14 AM (rR3v+)

373 Marc Elias on Saturday shared a screenshot of Trump’s Truth Social post about Iranian election influence efforts in 2020 and 2024 and dismissed these facts as “the next Big Lie.”

“The next Big Lie is to taking [sic] shape right in front of us,” Elias said. “Donald Trump will try to use this to assert illegal and unconstitutional powers over the 2026 elections.”

Posted by: SMOD at March 02, 2026 09:14 AM (RHGPo)

374 Where the US could fall on its face is the AWAC assets as the USAF only has 16 E-3 Sentry aircraft left.

Airframe age and lack of spares.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 02, 2026 09:14 AM (2GVsD)

375 Part of the satisfaction of having a burger is that you can fit it in your mouth and not have to change your wardrobe after the attempt.

If I need a bib and a knife, forget it.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 02, 2026 09:14 AM (gVUi7)

376 Trump probably decided to start this operation on a Friday for domestic politics. He knew a there were a number of Repubs who would be against this. He also knew Congress is too lazy to meet on a weekend. Check and mate, losers!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 02, 2026 09:14 AM (Dv3i1)

377 hmm low effort troll this morning

hey guys!

hope you all had a good weekend!

I went to the Philadelphia Flower Show and it was terrific this year. I managed to NOT spend hundreds of dollars on unusual orchid cultivars too, so win-win

Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 02, 2026 09:15 AM (j+aD2)

378 Clocking in for another day of AoSHQ. Happy new day, happy new week, and happy New Month (day 2) for all my furious compatriots. Here. We. Gooooooooo.

Posted by: mindful webworker - combat wombat at March 02, 2026 09:15 AM (6RP3T)

379 Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 02, 2026 09:08 AM (ExV1e)

Mine:

Subic
Inchon
Pohang
Hong Kong
Japan - everywhere
Okinawa
Karachi
Mombasa
Bahrain
Curaçao
Caracas
Bahamas - big island

I probably left out a bunch...

Posted by: Boswell at March 02, 2026 09:15 AM (j10i6)

380 "This is not Iraq, this is not endless war," he said.

"No stupid rules of engagement, no nation-building quagmire, no democracy-building exercise. No politically correct wars. We fight to win, and we don't waste time or lives," Hegseth told a news conference."

Finally.

Posted by: davidt at March 02, 2026 09:15 AM (Q+gd/)

381
Iran FM had some idiotic quote on X this morning claiming if the UN did nothing to help Iran, it would be the end of international organizations or some such bullshit.
Posted by: whig

Sounds good to me! Bring it!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 02, 2026 09:15 AM (xG4kz)

382 "No stupid rules of engagement, no nation-building quagmire, no democracy-building exercise. No politically correct wars. We fight to win, and we don't waste time or lives," Hegseth told a news conference."

HAWT

Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 02, 2026 09:16 AM (j+aD2)

383 "Here's the good news,” Biden told the crowd. “In America, the power still belongs to the people for now. And the way to show the power is vote, show up, and vote. And folks, when we do that, that's bad news for Donald Trump, and he knows it. That's why he's trying to pull out more and more barriers - put them up. He's trying to steal the election because he knows he can't win your vote, so he's going to do everything he can to prevent you from wanting to vote."

... the projection is great in this one

Posted by: SMOD at March 02, 2026 09:16 AM (RHGPo)

384 Still my questions remain.

How do you have a state funeral for the deceased when they are a large hamburger patty extra rare?

Also, who will be the next Ayatollah Patty Melt?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 02, 2026 09:16 AM (2GVsD)

385 Mullah diplomacy:

"NEW🔴

Iran's FM Araghchi began yelling at U.S. envoy Witkoff during talks after hearing U.S. demands.

Witkoff responded: "If you prefer, I can leave."

So much for Araghchi's claim that talks were "going very well."

-NBC"

Posted by: runner at March 02, 2026 09:17 AM (/M/4v)

386 Newly appointed interim Supreme Leader Ayatollah Arafi has reportedly been killed in an airstrike, just hours after taking the role.
Posted by: SMOD at March 02, 2026 08:45 AM (RHGPo)

Has that been confirmed or is it just people on X?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 02, 2026 09:17 AM (ExV1e)

387 Why does/did Khomeini look like cracker Fred from down the block?

Dude was the whitest old white man looking a rab
I've ever seen.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 02, 2026 09:17 AM (rR3v+)

388 Two senior Shiite religious authorities in Iran, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Nouri Hamedani and Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi, issued fatwas calling on Muslims worldwide to take revenge for the reported killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a US-Israeli attack.

Nouri Hamedani responded in writing to a request from the presidium of the Assembly of Seminary Students and Scholars in Qom, and on Sunday he said all Muslims are religiously obliged to avenge Khamenei’s death at the hands of the perpetrators.

Makarem Shirazi issued a fatwa identifying the United States and Israel as the “main perpetrators” and described retaliation as a religious duty for Muslims worldwide “until the evil of these criminals is eradicated from the world.”

Posted by: SMOD at March 02, 2026 09:17 AM (RHGPo)

389 Iran FM had some idiotic quote on X this morning claiming if the UN did nothing to help Iran, it would be the end of international organizations or some such bullshit.
Posted by: whig

Where would all the useless functionaries do to 'earn' a living? There will always be international organizations to soak up excess money. It's part of our un-healthy eco-system.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 02, 2026 09:17 AM (Dv3i1)

390 >>Iran FM had some idiotic quote on X this morning claiming if the UN did nothing to help Iran, it would be the end of international organizations or some such bullshit.

[Insert "Your terms are acceptable" meme here]

Posted by: Lizzy at March 02, 2026 09:17 AM (tj6OY)

391 I still read Vox Day sometimes, to see how far off the rails he's gone. Here are his greatest hits this morning:

"The Ayatollah "embraced martyrdom in order to inspire the Iranian people."

"It already appears that the Israeli war strategy has failed."

"The USA will be on the verge of surrender in less than two weeks."

This is your brain. This is your brain on anti-Semitism. Any questions?

Posted by: Dr. T at March 02, 2026 09:17 AM (lHPJf)

392 > And the number of Middle Eastern and Islamic sympathizers that have infiltrated the US can't be discounted.

Wouldn't they have struck by now? I assume the "Property of Allah" guy is pretty much all they have, but we'll see.
------------
The more.... "motivated" ones will take their time to prepare something other than a rage induced attack on a soft, unprepared target. Although, civilian targets (gathering places like shopping centers) would be high fatality/low risk targets.

Coordinated attacks by a handful of terrorists on civilians would have a pretty high "rate of return" on the terror scale and generate a lot of press.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 02, 2026 09:17 AM (jtM2q)

393 A reporter asked President Trump, who is gonna take over now that their supreme leader is dead

Trump's response?

I don't know, I guess the position is open. I'm creating jobs in Iran too.

Posted by: SMOD at March 02, 2026 09:17 AM (RHGPo)

394 End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
330 mosques in Texas… and an average of 2 new ones per month

https://tinyurl.com/bdzfukcw

Posted by: redridinghood at March 02, 2026 09:18 AM (NpAcC)

395 Are the Marines involved with Epic Fury? I know they've wanted retribution on Iran since 1983

Posted by: Josephistan at March 02, 2026 09:18 AM (y9ksN)

396 Buckley and Tucker. Sounds like a yuppies Golden Retrievers

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 02, 2026 09:18 AM (HYqoK)

397 Fun with geometry.

https://is.gd/e53bRo

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 02, 2026 09:18 AM (FXNzP)

398 My biggest regret is that these missions came too late for me. Trump has freed two countries full of smoking hot women and I'm too old to take advantage of it.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 02, 2026 08:47 AM (viF8m)

Trump has always had an eye for the babes.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 02, 2026 09:18 AM (ExV1e)

399 Newly appointed interim Supreme Leader Ayatollah Arafi has reportedly been killed in an airstrike, just hours after taking the role.
Posted by: SMOD

Never even got the New Hire Tour of the employee lunchroom.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 02, 2026 09:19 AM (rR3v+)

400 BREAKING: leftist crazies suicide bomb CNN headquarters..

Eh. One can dream

Posted by: melodicmetal at March 02, 2026 09:19 AM (61TgR)

401
Operation "How Do You Like It So Far?"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 02, 2026 09:19 AM (xG4kz)

402 Another one bites the dust,

BREAKING: A senior member of the Iranian regime’s Ministry of Intelligence, Sayed Yahya Hamidi, Deputy Minister of Intelligence for “Israel Affairs,” who led terrorist activities targeting Jews, Western actors has been killed in an Israeli strike in Tehran.

Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 09:19 AM (E4rtv)

403 Al-Reuters strikes again.

Just like the Wall Street Journal saying the US is trying to finish the Iran mission before munitions run out.

What is with all the negativity Moriarty?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 02, 2026 09:19 AM (2GVsD)

404 "I'm creating jobs in Iran too."

Thank you Mr President.

Posted by: fd at March 02, 2026 09:20 AM (vFG9F)

405 396 Buckley and Tucker. Sounds like a yuppies Golden Retrievers
Posted by: Smell the Glove

With rabies.

Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 09:20 AM (E4rtv)

406 I still read Vox Day sometimes, to see how far off the rails he's gone. Here are his greatest hits this morning:

"The Ayatollah "embraced martyrdom in order to inspire the Iranian people."

"It already appears that the Israeli war strategy has failed."

"The USA will be on the verge of surrender in less than two weeks."

This is your brain. This is your brain on anti-Semitism. Any questions?
Posted by: Dr. T

Dayum. What happened to Vox Day???

Posted by: rickb223 at March 02, 2026 09:21 AM (rR3v+)

407 reporter asked President Trump, who is gonna take over now that their supreme leader is dead

Trump's response?

I don't know, I guess the position is open. I'm creating jobs in Iran too.
Posted by: SMOD at March 02, 2026 09:17 AM (RHGPo)
********
lol.
We don't deserve him.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 02, 2026 09:21 AM (NpAcC)

408 Newly appointed interim Supreme Leader Ayatollah Arafi"

*gets idea*

Welcome, newly appointed interim Supreme Leader Hillary Clinton..

Posted by: man at March 02, 2026 09:21 AM (XuXeR)

409 "Newly appointed interim Supreme Leader Ayatollah Arafi has reportedly been killed in an airstrike, just hours after taking the role.
Posted by: SMOD

Never even got the New Hire Tour of the employee lunchroom.
Posted by: rickb223"

They had not even put the Post-it note with his name on it on his office door yet.

Posted by: fd at March 02, 2026 09:21 AM (vFG9F)

410 What's next for Tucker? Conquer Formosa?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 02, 2026 09:21 AM (gVUi7)

411 Jane Fonda has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in November 2014. This diagnosis has significantly impacted her life.

The best part of Alzheimer's disease is that you keep meeting "new people".

Posted by: SMOD at March 02, 2026 09:21 AM (RHGPo)

412 You're fired!

Posted by: The Donald at March 02, 2026 09:21 AM (iMotb)

413 Newly appointed interim Supreme Leader Ayatollah Arafi has reportedly been killed in an airstrike, just hours after taking the role.
Posted by: SMOD

Never even got the New Hire Tour of the employee lunchroom.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 02, 2026 09:19 AM (rR3v+)
----
On the plus side, he didn't have to suffer through mind-numbing hours of HR orientation training.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 02, 2026 09:22 AM (ESVrU)

414 My biggest regret is that these missions came too late for me. Trump has freed two countries full of smoking hot women and I'm too old to take advantage of it.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 02, 2026 08:47 AM (viF8m)

The Paolo, he stands firm in support of liberated beautiful women.

Posted by: The Paolo at March 02, 2026 09:22 AM (Q+gd/)

415 "No stupid rules of engagement, no nation-building quagmire, no democracy-building exercise. No politically correct wars. We fight to win, and we don't waste time or lives," Hegseth told a news conference."

It moved.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 02, 2026 09:22 AM (bFu5X)

416 FWIW, caveat emptor and other bushwa,

From inside Iran post on X,

With great difficulty, I had a brief call with Iran.
They say the attacks have gotten horrific; they're striking left and right. They say they're even hitting the Basij bases in the neighborhoods.
They told me to say that no one's left Tehran; we've all stayed, waiting for the prince's call-up so we can finish the job.

Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 09:22 AM (E4rtv)

417 Come on, Art Thread!

I need to get to work on this Volvo wheel bearing.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 02, 2026 09:22 AM (iMotb)

418 They had not even put the Post-it note with his name on it on his office door yet.
Posted by: fd

LOL. Nothing says "don't get comfortable" like a post it note nameplate on your door.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 02, 2026 09:23 AM (rR3v+)

419 No stupid rules of engagement, no nation-building quagmire, no democracy-building exercise. No politically correct wars. We fight to win, and we don't waste time or lives," Hegseth told a news conference."
Posted by: whig

Oh. Oh my! ***fans face***. I rather like this. And Secretary Hegseth. I rather like him too.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at March 02, 2026 09:23 AM (2J/Lj)

420 That is a disturbing idea.

Islamic HR probably has a two hour computer course on how to share a goat in the break room.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 02, 2026 09:23 AM (2GVsD)

421 I'll say this, the real reason the left keeps focus on Epstein is because the real "Epstein Island" of blackmail, bribery and coercion is these international conferences.

Which are exclusively attended by the Uniparty Loyal.

There is a reason why China sends secret minders to shadow and surveil any and all of their people who attend anything in the US:
Because they know what is really going on at these conferences.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 02, 2026 09:23 AM (HXT0k)

422 baby yet... D-day +9, Mrs. is feeling ok but we are both concerned as to why new girl doesn't want to make an appearance.
Posted by: Inogame at March 02, 2026 07:42 AM (53oGX)

Very surprised there wasn't an inducement at +7...I'd insist on one at D+14...or if mom-to-be feels even a twinge off/different...
Posted by: Nova Local at March 02, 2026 07:45 AM (tOcjL)

-----
It's hard to wait, I know! I don't want to scare you, but 3 of my 4 babies were late. I was not induced, but the main result was 3 big babies! Just remember God is in control and all will be well!

Posted by: Chillin the most at March 02, 2026 09:23 AM (Sv8TC)

423
Jane Fonda has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in November 2014. This diagnosis has significantly impacted her life

"Diagnosed" according to whom? And for over eleven years? I smell a rat.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 02, 2026 09:24 AM (xG4kz)

424 The new Ayatollah never even got to use the red Swingline stapler.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 02, 2026 09:24 AM (2GVsD)

425 Ayatollah Hossein Nouri Hamedani and Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi, issued a FatWa against the United States.
Guess who's at the top of our next list?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 02, 2026 09:24 AM (/LXUT)

426 Dear 3M, please contact me.

I have an idea for classy looking Post It Notes nameplates for office doors.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 02, 2026 09:24 AM (rR3v+)

427 Welp, the hospitals are filled again in Iran but this time it is the regime's assholes put in there instead of protesters.

"𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎
@NiohBerg
·
47m
I'm hearing that hospitals and morgues have run out of space because thousands of regime thugs have been wiped out - too many for them to contain.

This is karma for last month and for the past 47 dreadful years."

Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 09:24 AM (E4rtv)

428 The stock market losses today look fairly mild right now.

Market isn't open yet. It'll be down a bit because uncertainty and oil. Who knows how much.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 02, 2026 09:24 AM (ExV1e)

429 Hanoi Jane IS a rat.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 02, 2026 09:25 AM (2GVsD)

430 you guys probably don't know why Rita Panahi is with Sky News Australia. She is teh awesome. Yesterday, after Hamenei was koteked (my persian is getting good!), she, finished the show in Persian. Something along the lines of "Burn in hell you, you son of a bitch."

Posted by: runner at March 02, 2026 09:25 AM (/M/4v)

431 Renna
@RennaW
Please, everyone, the gender neutral term is Ayatollx
---
I think it should be two "x"

One for each of his eyes ....

Maybe: Ayatollxix

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 02, 2026 09:25 AM (HXT0k)

432 *who, not why

Posted by: runner at March 02, 2026 09:25 AM (/M/4v)

433 "Diagnosed" according to whom? And for over eleven years? I smell a rat."

Time for some Summer's Eve?

Posted by: man at March 02, 2026 09:26 AM (XuXeR)

434 Anyone else notice, no trolls today? No black pillers, either. Funny, that.
Posted by: tubal at March 02, 2026 09:01 AM (pDt9x)

Maybe they're based out of Tehran.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 02, 2026 09:26 AM (ExV1e)

435 After 50 years under cover and with their genetics, Iranian women will need our services, toot sweet!

Posted by: Advanced Electrolysis and Depilatory Services, Inc. at March 02, 2026 09:26 AM (oftw2)

436 435 Anyone else notice, no trolls today? No black pillers, either. Funny, that.
Posted by: tubal at March 02, 2026 09:01 AM (pDt9x)

Pretty sure the one with the polls is a troll

Posted by: It's me donna at March 02, 2026 09:26 AM (a7sNn)

437 This is your brain. This is your brain on anti-Semitism. Any questions?
Posted by: Dr. T at March 02, 2026 09:17 AM (lHPJf)

That's shame. Glad I never bought any of his books.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 02, 2026 09:27 AM (lFFaq)

438 >>Jane Fonda has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in November 2014. This diagnosis has significantly impacted her life

And yet she was out in the streets yesterday denouncing Trump and the US military.

Guess she's done it so often it's a reflex now?

Posted by: Lizzy at March 02, 2026 09:27 AM (tj6OY)

439 Newly appointed interim Supreme Leader Ayatollah Arafi has reportedly been killed in an airstrike, just hours after taking the role.
Posted by: SMOD

Never even got the New Hire Tour of the employee lunchroom.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 02, 2026 09:19 AM (rR3v+)
----
On the plus side, he didn't have to suffer through mind-numbing hours of HR orientation training.
...
Seems like he was desperate to avoid DEI training and opted for DIE training instead.

Posted by: SMOD at March 02, 2026 09:28 AM (RHGPo)

440 Why is there only one word in this job description? "Duck"?

Posted by: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Arafi at March 02, 2026 09:28 AM (vFG9F)

441 Morning, JJ and Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 02, 2026 09:28 AM (8zz6B)

442 ·
47m
I'm hearing that hospitals and morgues have run out of space because thousands of regime thugs have been wiped out - too many for them to contain.

This is karma for last month and for the past 47 dreadful years."
Posted by: whig
---

Imagine many Iranians with severe payback in their hearts.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 02, 2026 09:28 AM (/LXUT)

443 Whoever said there were no trolls today, maybe spoke a little prematurely. We have a troll poll tracker telling us what a preponderance of Americans believe .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 02, 2026 09:29 AM (G7WXk)

444 Guess she's done it so often it's a reflex now?

Like Kamala's gag reflex?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 02, 2026 09:29 AM (2GVsD)

445 And yet she was out in the streets yesterday denouncing Trump and the US military."

Maybe she thought it was an audition for Barbarella 2, The Stupidity...

Posted by: man at March 02, 2026 09:29 AM (XuXeR)

446
Ayatollah Hossein Nouri Hamedani and Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi, issued a FatWa against the United States.

Their pals are pointing and laughing at them as they are now nicknamed "Boom 1" and "Boom 2".

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 02, 2026 09:29 AM (xG4kz)

447 "Newly appointed interim Supreme Leader Ayatollah Arafi..."

Appointed by whom?

Posted by: davidt at March 02, 2026 09:29 AM (Q+gd/)

448 Dana Perina just called the Austin shooter "home grown terrorism."

No, Dana, your president allowed this man to stay in the US after overstaying his visa. Whatever his paperwork status was when he murdered American, that person was not "home grown" in the USA.
WTF

Posted by: Lizzy at March 02, 2026 09:29 AM (tj6OY)

449 Mondays, am I right?

https://is.gd/YpCwdR

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 02, 2026 09:30 AM (FXNzP)

450 438 >>Jane Fonda has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in November 2014. This diagnosis has significantly impacted her life

And yet she was out in the streets yesterday denouncing Trump and the US military.

Guess she's done it so often it's a reflex now?
Posted by: Lizzy
---

It's her stay out of jail card.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 02, 2026 09:30 AM (/LXUT)

451 It always amuses me that people post these polls taken by media organizations who do nothing but produce endless anti-Trump "reporting" and the polls always magically support their reporting.

I don't give a shit what a bunch of stupid people think. If I did I never would have voted for Trump and he wouldn't have won, 3 times. For the first time in nearly 50 years we are living in a world without the insane Iranian mullahs and their equally deadly terror proxies. Works for me.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 02, 2026 09:30 AM (viF8m)

452 Appointed by whom?

They got the short straw

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 02, 2026 09:30 AM (2GVsD)

453 I have an idea for classy looking Post It Notes nameplates for office doors.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 02, 2026 09:24 AM (rR3v+)

Even if he put his name on his lunch in the fridge - that shits getting eaten - poor devil.

Posted by: Boswell at March 02, 2026 09:30 AM (j10i6)

454 Madamemayhem,

This is from the speech as well,

Hegseth says the goals of the operation launched on Saturday are: “Destroy Iranian offensive missiles, destroy Iranian missile production, destroy their navy and other security infrastructure, and they will never have nuclear weapons.”

Which contrary to the stupid no plan, no plan, no plan mantra by Trump opponents, sounds like a plan to me.

Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 09:30 AM (E4rtv)

455 Posted by: Sad! at March 02, 2026 09:30 AM (EkfC9)

F' off.. I don't care about the polls

Posted by: It's me donna at March 02, 2026 09:30 AM (a7sNn)

456 Art up!

Posted by: rickb223 at March 02, 2026 09:31 AM (rR3v+)

457 oh , gees.. our arab "allies"...

"CENTCOM announced that three U.S. F-15E Strike Eagles flying in support of Operation Epic Fury went down over Kuwait due to an apparent friendly fire incident.

During active combat—that included attacks from Iranian aircraft, ballistic missiles, and drones — the U.S. Air Force fighter jets were mistakenly shot down by Kuwaiti air defenses.

All six aircrew ejected safely, have been safely recovered, and are in stable condition. Kuwait has acknowledged this incident, and we are grateful for the efforts of the Kuwaiti defense forces and their support in this ongoing operation.

The cause of the incident is under investigation. Additional information will be released as it becomes available."

USS LIBERTY!!11!!

Posted by: runner at March 02, 2026 09:31 AM (/M/4v)

458 Gas to $4 again.
But we sucked Israel's dick so all worth it.

Posted by: Sad! at March 02, 2026 09:31 AM (9aoE1)

459 Dana and others will never admit the truth. Some will not even when someone in a gray hoodie that says 'property of allah' saws their head off.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 02, 2026 09:31 AM (2GVsD)

460 Appointed by whom?"

Targeting software...

Posted by: man at March 02, 2026 09:31 AM (XuXeR)

461 I don't give a shit what a bunch of stupid people think. If I did I never would have voted for Trump and he wouldn't have won, 3 times. For the first time in nearly 50 years we are living in a world without the insane Iranian mullahs and their equally deadly terror proxies. Works for me.
Posted by: JackStraw

Reuters/Ipsos is the historically worst polling outfit that exists. So bad that even Foxnews and its leftist polling direct had to drop them for being so far off in its surveys.

Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 09:32 AM (E4rtv)

462 >>Dana and others will never admit the truth. Some will not even when someone in a gray hoodie that says 'property of allah' saws their head off.

Those darn self-radicalized lone wolves!!!!

Posted by: Lizzy at March 02, 2026 09:32 AM (tj6OY)

463 Trolls suck dicks under the railway bridge for free, illiterate and likes to use drugs and quote polls.

Sad!

Posted by: Deez Nuts at March 02, 2026 09:33 AM (E4rtv)

464 Newly appointed interim Supreme Leader Ayatollah Arafi has reportedly been killed in an airstrike, just hours after taking the role.
Posted by: SMOD

Never even got the New Hire Tour of the employee lunchroom.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 02, 2026 09:19 AM (rR3v+)
----
On the plus side, he didn't have to suffer through mind-numbing hours of HR orientation training.
...
Seems like he was desperate to avoid DEI training and opted for DIE training instead.

Posted by: SMOD at March 02, 2026 09:28 AM (RHGPo)

Shame. He was just turning his strife around.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 02, 2026 09:35 AM (dK+Kv)

465 Maybe she thought it was an audition for Barbarella 2, The Stupidity...
Posted by: man at March 02, 2026 09:29 AM (XuXeR)

She certainly displayed her finest talents in Barbarella. Possibly her her best work, ever.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 02, 2026 09:37 AM (8zz6B)

466 Come on art thread.

Where were you yesterday for the three hour book thread?

Posted by: Case at March 02, 2026 09:38 AM (Z3Kkg)

467

I'm shocked and very pleased that I have not come across any comments from John Kerry.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 02, 2026 09:38 AM (x0n13)

468 >>I'm shocked and very pleased that I have not come across any comments from John Kerry.

Think he had several friends within Iran's leadership.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 02, 2026 09:39 AM (tj6OY)

469 Posted by: SMOD at March 02, 2026 09:28 AM (RHGPo

LOL.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 02, 2026 09:40 AM (G7WXk)

470 For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. -- Matthew 22:30

... seems to cast doubt that there is sex in heaven

probably explains why a pederast would start a religion

Posted by: SMOD at March 02, 2026 09:42 AM (RHGPo)

471 Trump isn’t starting a new war. He’s ending an old one.

Posted by: Zelda at March 02, 2026 09:42 AM (kAFfD)

472 311 Anyone else notice, no trolls today? No black pillers, either. Funny, that.
Posted by: tubal at March 02, 2026 09:01 AM (pDt9x)

We're doomed.

Posted by: Reforger at March 02, 2026 09:44 AM (njT/n)

473 I hope stage 4 lasts for years for Fonda.

Posted by: Reforger at March 02, 2026 09:46 AM (njT/n)

474 Happy Texas Independence Day!
Posted by: Cow Demon at March 02, 2026 07:50 AM (fYhK6)

190 years and still kicking.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

I posted a pic of the Texas state bird at the blog I am subbing at

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 02, 2026 09:50 AM (7fEFu)

475 It's hard to wait, I know! I don't want to scare you, but 3 of my 4 babies were late. I was not induced, but the main result was 3 big babies! Just remember God is in control and all will be well!
Posted by: Chillin the most

----
Thanks for these true and kind words to the parents -in-waiting.

It's good to see your nic, you had kind words for me in the past when I lost my dog.

Praying God's blessing and favor on your life.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at March 02, 2026 09:51 AM (RkOfE)

476 Dayum. What happened to Vox Day???
Posted by: rickb223

Started believing his own press?

Posted by: NR Pax at March 02, 2026 09:52 AM (OPGS/)

477 471 Trump isn’t starting a new war. He’s ending an old one.
Posted by: Zelda at March 02, 2026 09:42 AM (kAFfD)

Big time.

We've had so many "endless wars" in recent decades, that people forget what a real war is like. You don't go into it just because you feel like it, and you don't really know how it's going to go, or how long it lasts. Did FDR say "Don't worry, this WWII thing will only last a few years?" It's absurd. Reporters asking Trump questions like that are propagandists and morons.

Posted by: MrExcitement at March 02, 2026 09:57 AM (ovdkm)

478 This can be done to Iran because it doesn't have nuclear weapons. I wish this could be done to Putin too, but every month or so he and Russia launch a media campaign saying "we have nuclear weapons and we are not afraid to use them". Oh well. For now.

Posted by: PG at March 02, 2026 10:04 AM (tFapr)

479 Macron has said the same thing about France.

Posted by: Button-Pushing-Monkey at March 02, 2026 10:06 AM (EcHpA)

480 I also feel Macron has been president for too long.

Posted by: PG at March 02, 2026 10:07 AM (tFapr)

481 Good morning, all. Thanks and Happy Purim, J.J.!

I'm generally amused by US Senator Fetterman (D-PA) and that's probably good as he's one of my state's two US Senators, and balances out some of the in-state TDS rhetoric of the Governor and some of the state's U.S. Representatives, such as Summer Lee and Mary Gay Scanlon, the latter of whom chose to attend the People's State of the Union, organized by MoveOn Civic Action and MeidasTouch, in lieu of the President's SOTU address. (Yes, the periodic, phony "decency and respect" play, less anyone look closely at any of their brands of politics. All, imho)

Yes, Fetterman spoke the truth and supported facts that Iran is a threat, and the US War Powers Act was not violated by President Trump.

The law provides a 60-to-90-day window for authorized engagement and that the president must notify Congress within 48 hours of introducing armed forces into hostilities. The administration notified the "Gang of Eight" fulfilling immediate notification requirements.

Congress holds the power to declare war, the President operates as Commander in Chief, and the War Powers Resolution of 1973 attempts to balance the roles.

Continued -

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at March 02, 2026 10:13 AM (NFX2v)

482 For much greater detail, see:

Congress dot gov -
Understanding the War Powers Resolution
CRS PRODUCT (LIBRARY OF CONGRESS)
CRS Product Type: In Focus
CRS Product Number: IF13134
Referenced Legislation: P.L.93-148; P.L.98-164
Topics: Federal Government Management & Organization; Law, Constitution & Civil Liberties
Publication Date: 12/17/2025
Author: Weed, Matthew C.
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Odd but true:
>U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Press Release: 'Philadelphia CBP officers intercept Bronze Age swords and arrowheads from the northeastern region of Iran' Fri. February 27, 2026

In small part, "The shipment initially arrived on an express delivery flight from the United Arab Emirates on Oct. 16. It was destined to an address in Jacksonville, Fla."

Ain't that some timing?

>RCP, New Poll Shows PA Voters’ Balance on ICE, Immigration, ANALYSIS, Release Date Fri, 02/27/2026
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This IS a watch State, or rather a watch Commonwealth like Virginia - PA's absolute North Star - Kentucky and Massachusetts.
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Good day 🤗

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at March 02, 2026 10:13 AM (NFX2v)

483 Nood, in case nobody mentioned it

Posted by: Button-Pushing-Monkey at March 02, 2026 10:13 AM (EcHpA)

484 Oh yes please let's hear about the POLLING from the asshat media fucks who are responsible for the scenario we are all in

You assholes don't realize you're fucking finished

Posted by: melodicmetal at March 02, 2026 10:49 AM (61TgR)

485
Perhaps the most important factor that can insure the evil Islamic regime stays toppled has yet to speak again. That factor: the numerous Iranians who hate the regime and love freedom. In the past they have protested and made their voices heard only to be brutally silenced by the regime. Now, President Trump has given them far and away the best opportunity they are ever likely to see.

But are there enough of them? Are they organized enough? Most importantly: are they MOTIVATED enough?
God, may it be so. Please let those Iranians who love freedom and hate this regime rise up and finish it off! Amen.

Posted by: Bach In Black at March 02, 2026 10:57 AM (KY9hS)

486 Even Mark Steyn, whom I usually like is wrong about Iran. I get it, Great Replacement is his hammer so that every problem is a Mass Migration nail. And he isn't wrong about graft parasites clinging to and infesting a Pentagon determined to lose Forever Wars, but how Trump handled Maduro demonstrated that it isn't how he and Hegseth roll. I've been screaming into the void for *years* that something needed to be done about Iran and that all we would need to do is facilitate toppling the IRGC. (no nation-building required as Iranians are perfectly capable of taking care of themselves) The Trump administration has been handling the situation exactly as I've said it should. So I'm sorry Mark, but you're wrong this time.

Posted by: Saber Alter at March 02, 2026 11:32 AM (6XXvd)

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