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F-that Who warned Iran so they could transport the uranium out before the strikes?

Trumpf never worries about the legality of anything he does. He’s the most illegal president ever!

Go ahead and say the “quiet part” out loud - we have a complete incompetent leading our national security, which plays into #1 and #3 and not in a good way.

He phucked us good… his fefes were really hurt on his birthday. 🙄

Man Merrick Garland… how does he live with himself?

Our Intelligence community said they aren't a threat and they don't have and we're not working towards one either. I think that is accurate because it goes against Trump's assertions and he always lies about everything. Doesn't matter if it is big or small it is always a lie.

Thank you, for providing us with reminders to follow the constitution & laws of the USA. This government doesn’t seem to follow.

The U.S. has cried wolf the last 30 years about nukes in Iraq & Iran 👉🏻all BS. Now the little boy in the White House is screaming wolf. Who to believe, who to believe🤔

Good grief.. Armageddon. 🙄 Maybe he really is the man of lawlessness. I'm glad my first TV memories were of Mighty Mouse and Sargent Preston of the Yukon.. Meaning, I'm old and have already lived most of my life in the best times of the best country on earth... at least then, it was.

Where did Trump get the intelligence? From fellow criminal Netanyahu? Just sickening.

Who went before congress in freakin 2002 and promised that there was ‘no doubt at all’ that Saddam was close to a bomb. Why anybody would believe him now is beyond me

For the 1st time in US or western history a CONVICTED FELON President has engaged in an ACT of WAR!It's beyond pathetic how low the USA under the Trump MAGA RINO Facist party has sunk.Now we know why Trump said he & Kim Yong Un fell in love.Herr Trump & Herr Miller should be tried for TREASON.

Arguably an act of WAR, eh? When's he bombing Greenland, Canada & seizing the Panama Canal?You are a citizen of the United States of Fascist War Mongers & may y'all rot in hell.

Oh, but he can tell an elephant from a camel.

Agree

I was just thinking the same thing that it's impossible to know the wisdom of this gamble, but add into that my grandsons are of age to be drafted! 😓

It's so apparently clear that Trump must be removed from office

And it will never happen

Doesn’t military leadership bear some responsibility here? How could they not know it was an illegal order?

if Iran retaliates and American soldiers die I guarantee the GOP will blame Biden over it. i imagine Trump thinks this is a one and done thing like killing of Qasem Soleimani, but he was in Iraq, this was an attack on Iran itself. Trump has no idea what he is doing but hopefully US military does

Guess that Peace Prize just went out the window.

Irans proxies could retaliate against our troops in the region as this is very destabilizing

Donnie took care of that, we have no intelligence and neither does he. ZERO

Trumps already sending US Economy to a recession by Feb 26 before the bombing. Hes going to crash the economy worse than Bush 2007. Trump never returned the Nuclear top secret docs he was charged with & maybe Putin has it and gave to Iran & N Korea. Putin-Trumps Lose Lips Sinks Ships type of guy.

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Arguably illegal? I don’t see how there is any argument - it was blatantly illegal, going against the constitution and Trump must be impeached. No ifs, no buts.

If surrendering to the Taliban is any indicator, this is probably not going to go well until the next election.

Don't C/P your Twitter shit. Delete that account.

But congress wont do anything but support the king

Congress were supposed to make the decision.

Yup. Johnson supposedly has already come out in support of him. So…

What's terrifying is that if Iran's Ayatollah declares war on US... and there are any radicalized people on US soil... They going to be able to put on a mask, carry a weaponm abduct people and what not... Because that behavior is ok'd by Federal Gov, no questions asked.

I thought he had 60 days to take action before going to Congress to ask for authority for actual war.

Time to rally - EVERY CITY HALL SUNDAY 6/22 “NO MORE WAR”

The thing that gets me is the willingness up and down the chain of command to do it.

trump was duped

I know. More bloodshed.

The news about the ice raids, his low ratings and anger at the economy is why he did this as distraction from his ill fated destructive administration. He needed this to improve his ratings after the June 14th disaster birthday. It will only make people angrier now.

Meanwhile…

𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐚 𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐍 𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 “𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐚 𝐧𝐨-𝐧𝐨, 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮!”

Once, I told a colleague that taking out Saddam Husain was justified whether or not there were WMD. But then he asked me to consider whether we made the world safer by doing that. History has shown the answer is "no". Same here. There will dangerous repercussions that we cannot predict. Stupid move.

i dunno, Hussein was uniquely malevolent. he slaughtered Kurds, invaded Kuwait, invaded Iran. our mistake was in trying to remake Iraq, had we simply told Iraq military they can still rule provided they turn over Hussein early on 99% of bad things would never have happened.

Uniquely malevolent, indeed. And that is exactly how he kept the MidEast stable -- they all 'respected'(feared) SH bc they knew he was a horrendous madman

The invasions of Iran and Kuwait hardly kept Mideast stable. It is like saying Putin keeps Europe stable. Not saying we should have invaded just that his elimination on its own was good

I disagree. The region is more volatile since SH was removed.

Not true at all. 9/11 happened because US forces were stationed in Saudi Arabia, which provoked OBL to do the attack. Had there been no Saddam there would have been no 9/11, no Kuwait, Iran, he was a cancer on ME. In any event he is dead now so counterfactuals are meaningless

Trump has alienated our allies, they no longer share information.

Trump needs to be removed and impeached! He violated the War Powers Resolution of 1973! The bombing of Iran was a declaration of war because Iran is a sovereign nation! The President can only bomb without Congress if WE were attacked, and we were not! He needs to be removed immediately

That’s short term stuff, Trump’s legacy for our future overseas will be covert and unexpected bombings, hostage or killing of US civilians, the long term damage is yet to be known, not just in the ME., but in places like Indonesia, Pakistan etc.

No semantics he tweeted its a war.

A few days ago I predicted Taco Donald would drop bombs then run away. He kicks hornets nests then retreats. It’s what bullies do.

It will give him permission in his mind to attack Greenland, and Panama, and Canada....

So, is it an impeachable offense?

Illegal? Buddy that ship sailed a long time ago.

Did he run by Congress tho?

Didn’t hear anything about Congress voting to declare war.

Thanks for speaking up, George! Leadership isn’t doing so, are they. (No, not a question).

What are our "normal" allies saying? What does the rest of NATO say? As the public, we can't believe our own intelligence community because they have been neutered and replaced with loyalists more focused on politics than safety.

. Trump is rattled; feelings hurt from his parade and protests against him. He is angry and lashing out. Iran is a scapegoat.

Oh please we know exactly how. this is going to go. Trump is full on King of the US and the Republican party has been the party of Putin they are no longer a US party.

Committing war crimes

No.2, No.2, No.2.

The announcement was like watching the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

Good thing US actions in the Middle East NEVER produce any blowback, like never ever. I dare you to name one. 🙃

Does he or any of them know anything about International Lae?

Rhetorical question?

Well, his own director of intelligence said Iran wasn't building a bomb a few months ago... WMD pt. deux.

Then she changed her mind because she got put into the irrelevancy corner

At least Bush had an intelligent, if lying, advisers. This is being run by a moron, a Russian, and a drunk.

Rest to sure, there will be retaliation

The Houthis already threatened to kill individual Americans in Middle East as retaliation. That’s just for starters.

#SendBarron

Well observed

Most importantly, it’s not legal

Also, Trump doesn’t trust the Intelligence Community.

This take is an application of pseudo intellectualism masking the obvious. That’s the problem with punditry like this. It ignores the obvious in an attempt to appear to be informed and measured. In no universe does us attacking Iran now make sense. Trump doesn’t make decisions based on intel.

While this is happening, let's not forget the terrible overreach by ICE and trump's military march into our cities. #donaldtrump is violating the whole BILL of Citizen Rights.

Literally EVERYTHING is projection with trump... EVERYTHING!

This will not be the end, he opened the pandora box and now every American is in danger.

Thank you George. He's a dangerous fucking moron who yet again ignored our constitution and laws. We need to hound every damn Republican in office

Congress is already praising him.

FFS

1. Trump did not assess the intelligence because he doesn’t believe in intelligence and things know better than everybody else

I just don't think Iran has the muscle to retaliate. likely a Trump win.

Netanayu and Putin wear the pants in America's Whitehouse.

Wonder what Iranian Terrorists are thinking…

Can we see some reaction from the Democratic leadership now?!!

How about the “Republican” leadership? (There are no real Republicans left that I can see) They’re the ones who could make a difference.

Congress has rendered itself useless. Trump got duped by Netanyahu!

The 3rd estate is about to experience the horrors of the shadow …

Do you mean the shadow of humans in Hiroshima?

Jung talked about the horrors if the shadow - all the bad shit humans do

Tulsi Gabbard told Trump Iran was not a danger with regard to its nuclear capabilities. Trump’s ego, battling his many recent personal humiliations, decided a powerful distraction was in order - eff Tulsi!

United States ALREADY tagged as International Human Rights violators. Now, Trump has United States tagged as International War criminal, via Trump NOT seeking bombing permissions via Congress. And so far responsibility lands on Trump!! #TheHague

This is how you get a 3rd Trump term or keep the 2nd term going and going and going…

We need information yesterday! How did Congress allow this to happen? No excuses!!!

What could possibly go wrong with the Toddler in Chief in charge?

That FELON doesn’t care what the consequences are! He has a HUGE BUNKER under our White House & he’s already pushing 80 yrs old! It’s all of US who will have to deal with that IDIOTS EGOMANIAC ACTIONS!

Guess war crimes indictment coming for 🍊💩🤡 from The Hague shortly.

Please send Jack Smith back do he can be part of The Hague effort. Please.

so, not do, darn it. 🤬

Please!

How shortly?

Right. But here's what we can quickly surmise: Iran most likely is a paper tiger and can't defend itself which is why Israel went in. Trump then piled on, just because, well, he's Trump. Now, ALL OF US are in real danger. Who knows how many Shiite terror cells are lurking in American cities.

This is far from over, and will not end well. 😟

Horseshoe theory exhibit A: Extreme ends of the right-wing and the left-wing meeting in a perfect accord of “America First” — against bombing nuclear facilities (!) of an aggressive fascist theocracy.

You tear up an agreement that was working - then you couldn’t negotiate your way out of a paper bag - now you drop a bomb when your own people don’t agree with your assessment! It’s insane

Do y'all think there are any sleeper cells in America or just super radicalised people who will be letting lose in America now...?

Both.

… Enter China!? Taiwan? South China Sea? Fleet “Moved” to Persian Gulf! Russia? Iran had to “receive?” “Something?” For the drones & munitions shipped? Safety of U.S. BASES!? Project 2025 has DECIMATED what was The Preeminent GOVERNMENT!? “Homeland Security”? Good Luck!?

Dt 1.0 believed Putin rather than US national security experts. Dt 2.0 believed Netanyahu rather than US national security experts. I don't see Netanyahu defending the approximately 40,000 US troops we have in the ME on land & sea.

Not to mention right now we don't really know all the first-order consequences. Teheran Times isn't even confirming a hit.

This is what happens when the Supreme Court gives the president immunity for anything he does. He can break laws at will.

He does not have immunity for anything he does. The Supreme Court ruled that presidents have absolute immunity for acts within their core constitutional duties, presumptive immunity for official acts within the outer limits of their duties, and no immunity for unofficial acts.

It’s definitely not ideal but this is what they ruled. SMH

But does he comprehend? Probably not.

He doesn’t understand much.

Even up to the very outer perimeter of what might be considered official acts…

Totally F’ed up and vague as hell.

Only rich white make the third observation. JFC.

I can just guess, Iran will just say "You win, we will stop now " just like Hamas did. That's what all zealots do, right.

If we ever get a credible BDA and until then, just bluster GBU 57 requires a B2 and that would be max payload. How many B2 s were deployed is how many were dropped, if any www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

The American people will pay the price unfortunately while the orange child will get off with his stolen blood money.

And I hope the the Trumpers with kids in the military are thrilled

Nope, no,no. Hard disagree. This is morally wrong, patently illegal, and we know that blowback from actions like this almost always ends badly. The 1953 coup of Mosaddegh worked out just great, right?

All intelligence purportedly said there was no justification. Netanyahu and now Trump need to stand trial for war crimes. Trump needs to be impeached immediately or at least removed under the 25th Amendment.

And yet, nothing but crickets from congress

Agreed- but Trump discarded tulsi gabbard just a day ago —- do we know ifhe even heard her pov?

She changed her sick, malleable little mind

Congress needs to act now. This does not belong in the courts since you can’t take back a bomb. Only Congress can declare war.

The distraction of all distractions. sending the whole world into chaos and despair. With fools in charge. Are republicans finally going to stand up?

trump YOU FUCKING FOOL congress YOU FUCKING IDIOTS republicans YOU FUCKING ASSHOLES You have no fucking idea what your have done. History will send you to HELL where you belong.

The second order effects are generational. We’re already 40 years in the hole.

I don’t understand when he has the house an senate he still Goes the illegal route

dealing with the US (especially, but not limited to this administration) is like confronting a toddler with a loaded handgun. People tiptoe around you. The slightest irrational provocation can get you killed (or otherwise eliminated). Who is responsible for killing hundreds of thousands of civilians

IF Kamala had done the same thing, it would be after rational and reasonable consideration, involving all pertinent intelligence, etc. See the difference?

Oh sh*t, what happened?

I'm sure you can remove "arguably" in #2.

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On on PT time and had my alarm set for #2weeks Are we sure something has happened? Dude lies all the time. I need independent confirmation with video or it didn’t happen.

Totally fair! I checked Aljazeera…keeping that tab open aje.io/819lk2

No, we're not sure. When Felon was bragging away, like there was no tomorrow, about strike on Syria, it was a staged/coordinated with Russkies nothing-dud. No amount of AI "proofs" from TrumpRegime will convince me it happened, only indep. non-media confirm or Iranian reaction.

The intelligence community has been reduced to sycophants who would never give the fuhrer bad news. I think the odds that Iran’s first retaliatory strike will be electronic are pretty high, and we’re unprepared for that now.

Very important to remember all of this stuff… When Donald Trump comes out in an hour and talks about how perfect all of the airstrikes were and what an amazing success this was.

Oh… And probably blames Obama and Biden for something.

Trump's illegal act of war. Likely killed thousands of civilians in the one populated town.

and nothing will happen regarding not speaking to congress

Mission Accomplished

Trump doesn’t do first order effects, let alone second order effects …

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The known and unknown unknowns and knowns could not be clearer, just like in 2002... small men making bad decisions. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmPR...

I don’t know what the right answer with this attack. My concern is the dismantling of cyber defense, gutting of the federal government and refocusing of our counter terrorism units at the federal level has made us weakened for what this decision will likely produce!

All by design I’m sure 😩

Iran's alles at already threatening US forces. They could be attacking US ships right now. They've routinely threatened to close shipping lanes... when we defend them, China eyes Taiwan and Ukraine loses support.

He withdrew from the JCPOA! Iran was allowed to enrich uranium up to 3.67% purity, which is not sufficient for producing nuclear weapons. This one’s on TRUMP!! 😡

He freak’n breaks things and wants praise on the other end?? Bullshit!! He’s freak’n dangerous! We need a president who can read right now!!

He was praising the teamwork between him & Bibi. Makes me wonder if they have plans for condos in Iran like they’ve plotted for in Gaza. Money & staying out of prison is all either of them cares about.

All future insights are based on access to intelligence, of which there is none. I am sure they will promise to offer it up in “two weeks”

…and which pronouncements from this administration or its intelligence agencies would you give credibility to? This is likely motivated by an Israeli Intelligence assessment, not US, and any post attack assessment by ours will be done just to make Trump look good and proclaim it a success.

So Trump got his Big Beautiful Boom—no clue what the fallout will be, but rest assured, the chaos is the point. While everyone’s staring at the smoke, keep an eye on the sleight of hand: more domestic power grabs coming right up. Distraction isn’t just a byproduct—it’s the whole strategy.

omg and now trump is going to look for support from our allies, you know they ones he has disrespected for the last what, 5 months? Imagine what all has happened in such a short time, unbelievable, when no nothing unqualified goons are put into position by trump to run this country, most dangerous

With NO CONGRESSIONAL vote! It’s a shit show with kow towing congress who have enabled this ability to go above the law and strike another country, since trump is ABOVE the law.

WELL I’M PRETTY SURE THAT THERE WILL BE NO JUSTIFIABLE REASON FOUND, OTHER THAN THE JEWS THAT OWN AMERICA CONVINCED THE CLOWN TO DO IT ON THEIR BEHALF! CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY COMING UP FOR AMERICA!

Imagine Iran says the strikes totally eliminated all of their nuclear weapons program. Trump's ego would not allow him to refute that. War averted, easy peasy.

Maybe throw in a vintage F-14 Tomcat for his presidential library.

And Trump now is on the verge of declaring all-encompassing war powers- a dictator’s dream come true.

You left out a word just before “dream”: wet

Second order effects...were fucked, we will continue to be fucked for some time...and not in the good way

And nothing this administration says is real or true - so who knows

Impossible to trust anything Trump, Hesgeth, or any of the orange guy's minions tell us. We're not going to get a guided tour of the underground facility Trump targeted. They can say whatever they want.

Good George to refer to the lawlessness of Trump and his administration, but this will have a global impact. The Netherlands will be the bullseye for Iranian retaliation during next’s week NATO summit. Article 5 should not apply to US now that it has started unilateral hostilities.

So Israel will stay in a War - Conflict status and thus Bibi gets to stay in office? It has been known for years that Trump was easy to manipulate by some foreign leaders and Bibi surely used him.

To point 1…. Trump publicly said his Tulsi Gabbard was WRONG in her intelligence assessment that Iran was a nuclear threat…which makes me think that the last person of trumps ear is what he listens to

And who allowed this criminal enterprise to act with impunity? SCOTUS and their dangerous, fucked up delusional theory of a unitary executive. Any Republican lawyers want to comment on that?

My question is … what bombshell is this illegal act trying to dominate in the news cycle to coverup?

Sooo many things are gone bad for him. Poll numbers , No Kings Protests, Epstein, inflation, failure of tariffs, Republicans going against him, podcasters speaking out against him, his health crisis coming out, Musk….. what a tangled web he has spun.

He’s massively down in the polls, even on immigration. Americans usually rally around the prez when war is declared. Then their poll numbers rise. 😉

Why does evil for evil's sake have to be just for distraction? If anything, recent and current political assassinations, I guess.

The Big Fat Bill

There is enough publicly available information to say it is a near certainty that US bases in Iraq and Syria will now be attacked by Iran and its proxies. American soldiers will now pay in blood, with no guarantee of success, for something Obama achieved through diplomacy. Trump betrayed America.

If you are going for the king you better make sure you have him.

Oy.

Was Tulsi or Hegseth in the room? They weren't last week.

Would it have mattered?

Probably not, last week they weren't. Which shows who made this decision without much input. He will be the one who decided, not others. I can't believe military took the order knowing it was unconstitutional.

Me too… someone needs to be willing to say NO! Hard No!!

They were cocktailing somewhere in DC

Martial Law to follow here, or what? And who is in charge?

Sincere question: is there any intelligence remaining in those agencies? Or have all the brains left?

We still don’t have an inkling how other Arab states and terrorist groups will react to this attack.

The Hauge = War Crimes?

Alas, I suspect he will finagle a Nobel Peace Prize and die before we can drag him to The Hague for his Just Desserts.

'intelligence'? Donny?

And Congress won't do shit about it, George.

Since this is E X A C T L Y as Seymour Hersh predicted a couple of days ago, his additional reporting should get even greater attention. He says that the goal is regime change, not just stopping the nuke program and US/Israel are arguing over "moderate cleric" vs "puppet" replacement.

👆 plus if the goal was to prevent Iran from having a nuclear weapon that's only been delayed. Iran has already admitted it moved it's stockpile. It was reported before #WeakManTrump bombed Iran that the US had lost track of the material. The Yahoo in Israel conned "#ConmanTrump" to bomb Iran

they will NEVER IMPEACH THE BASTARD.

Time to rejoin the International Criminal Court, U.S.ofA. …

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Long term effects

Most likely, Israel fails to exist. Russia/China launch a joint strike.

And trump doesn’t know, and won’t know, since he doesn’t read the daily briefs.

Intelligence + Trump = oxymoron.

All carried out by a man I would not trust to make a decision on which sun screen to use.

Israel had already done a lot of damage setting the Iran nuclear abilities back by months if not years. So why now? Trump is unstable and a liar. In his tweet he said a payload of bombs was dropped. Now is the time for Peace. He’s trying to be both arsonist and firefighter. Embarrassing

The difference is, Trump's used to battering children and women who could not fight back. Now he's picked a fight with crazed religious men who will fight back with guerilla tactics

Wag the dog, from election deniers, J6 deniers, and the purveyors of disinformation.

I watched the emergency meeting of the UN Security Council today. There was a whole lot of condemning of US actions, declarations that they were not involved and had nothing to do with the attacks and pleas for diplomacy. Isreal was happy, though. So... win?

Oil prices will be higher Monday, that's certain.

He’ll love that. Now he can claim emergency to drill fucking everywhere

Trump violated the US Constitution by bombing Iran without congressional authorization. Trump now is pretty much ignoring the Constitution all the time.

Right. Just who will tell him no?

It sure won’t be the Gullibles Of Putin to say no. They’re so busy brown nosing that they haven’t looked up in 6 months.

He hasn’t paid attention to it when he’s been in office…the first time and now. Trump doesn’t want rules, law or order to get in his way.

I’m sure congress will be dismayed and send a strongly worded letter…..

We will never know for sure what the intelligence agencies have. He’ll make sure their assessments support his actions

He is going to get us all unalived!

How will anyone ever have accurate intelligence? There is no integrity/reliability in the information now. That's what happens when everyone is lying all the time about everything and is out to serve only his/her own selfish interests.

It is pretty easy to assess the wisdom, or lack thereof, of announcing it via TruthSocial post though.

Only took him 5 months to get us in a war…

I hope we don’t have to stock up on potassium iodide.

It will be a very bad sign if Iran invites nuclear experts to inspect the sites that were hit, they will do that if these strikes caused environmental damage.

Intelligence? Who wants to share intelligence with Russian assets in America other than the Israelis that got us in this war?

Hello @democrats.org …. Has he crossed the line yet?

Ummmm NOPE! There is absolutely no ‘wisdom’ in this impulsive and cowardly act that makes every single American less safe and fundamentally makes it more likely that rogue states will be more determined to pursue nuclear weapons. It also further reduces international trust in USA at a terrible time

It’s war! Glorious war! Now MAGA can go to the desert to fight and die for their glorious leader! Have fun, morons!

Make Russian Oil and LP Gas Great Again

If you liked the Gaza genocide just watch what happens here.

I think Bibi just conned the con man into turning Iran into an oozing nuke dead zone for a few thousand years.

We demand an unconditional surrender before declaring war. Now we immediately declare victory. I hope this turns out better than his parade and the GOPs previous ME wars

..burt this s how he makes up for his birthday parade being a dud.

Tulsi "I ❤️ Putin and Assad" Gabbard said Iran wasn't near to building a nuke.

But as stupid as this is don’t let it totally distract from Gaza, from the disastrous GOP budget bill ?BBB), or from ice raids on immigrants, or from military troops in our streets. Trump wants America so overwhelmed that we give up paying attention. DO NOT DO THAT!