Tulsi Gabbard left no doubt when she testified to Congress about Iran’s nuclear program earlier this year.
The country was not building a nuclear weapon, the national intelligence director told lawmakers, and its supreme leader had not reauthorized the dormant program even though it had enriched uranium to higher levels.
But Donald Trump dismissed the assessment of U.S. spy agencies during an overnight flight back to Washington as he cut short his trip to the Group of Seven summit to focus on the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran.
“I don’t care what she said,” Trump told reporters. In his view, Iran was “very close” to having a nuclear bomb.
Tulsi has no home and has continually played herself. Congratulations.
Right from the Cheney playbook.
The moron just wants the war to hide his shenaningans at home. Sole reason. Everyone should know by now that he automatically denies any and every thing that runs contrary to his own personal narrative.
wasn’t YET building?
I mean… Why do you even get the uranium enriched to such high levels if you don’t plan to make use of it?
So that a reason can be given to not enrich further.
We have done this dance before last time it cost me my 20s my sanity and most importantly a huge amount for friends I loved like brothers who died before and are still killing then selfs…
So we are gonna do the Iraq WMD lie again huh?
People still believe Iraq had WMDs to this day.
This season’s twist is that the Intelligence community is claiming that there is no weapons. Unless the Intelligence community is doing reverse psychological on us.
I still have people telling me it wasn’t Bush’s fault, the intelligence was bad
Well, they’re half right, but not in the sense they mean…
The truth doesn’t really matter. Israel will get their war, and the US will lumber into it behind them.
What’s crazy to me is apparently the US has become so polarized, so used to division that pointing out Israel is acting like bloodthirsty psychos is somehow supporting Iran, or Hamas before that. It’s like their whole culture has evaporated any nuance at all. Only diametrically opposed good and evil battling forever. Professional wrestling stories with Heels and Faces divided by clear black lines.
It is the only thing conservatives/fascists have left.
God vs Satan doesn’t leave room for nuance.
Quick, dust off the “weapons of mass destruction” propaganda.
Came here to say the exact same thing.
It doesn’t matter if it is true or not (not just this topic) but if you repeat the lie enough and gaslight the public it becomes true, and if it doesn’t so what, what are you going to do about it.
NOTHING that is what they are counting on.
Keep up the protests, the No Kings protest was huge even if MSM is downplaying it.
First, weaken the commercial aviation in your country. Second, start calling everything terrorism. Third, start yet another war in the middle east.
Your guy is desperately looking for another 911.
I’m expecting a false-flag attack here soon to give him an excuse to officially pull the US into it
Or maybe a real attack from the guillotine squad. It’d amount to the same thing.
That’s fine. Iraq didn’t have WMDs either. They just need a lie to sell it to the public.
What’s the context for this photo?
Colin Powell lies to congress about “facts” and “evidence” of WMDs in Iraq that led to a 20 year war
In [Trump’s] view, Iran was “very close” to having a nuclear bomb.
Those are clearly Netanyahu’s words in his mouth. Netanyahu has been loudly and confidently saying that at regular intervals since 2012. Iran is always weeks away.
You mean 2002?
Since the 90’s
They’ve been saying “any day now” for twenty-some years
At the same time Isreal is like the only country that probably has nukes yet refuses to acknowledge it.
They’re pretty open about it
Did Netanyahu get his hands on the pee tapes?
They can probably use Epstein’s tapes.
I’m sure mossad has kompromat on everone in the administration.
They have all of Epstein’s recordings.
He’s an idiot who has never been able to distinguish between his fantasies and reality
He’s spent a lifetime making shit up, and never being held to account for it
He’s a child, and what’s worse, he has dementia.
He also lies as easily as he breathes. Truth means nothing to him. He sees being honest as a weakness
Just the person to entrust the most powerful military of the world with.
“But what choice do we have? Entrust the military to a lady? We’ll take the dementia-addled toddler instead”
Don’t forget that under the orange paint, he’s white
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Didn’t matter. Look at the three elections that Trump ran, and his performance against the candidate with a penis vs. the ones without one.
The American electorate will vote for a Black penis-haver (particularly if he is a baller) over any vagina-haver right now. They still won’t say “I’m a sexist pig” in the exit polls, though, so we get reasons like “She didn’t explain her policies enough” or “She wasnt authentic enough” instead.
I don’t flatly disagree, but I think to call Hillary or Kamala as “electable” as Obama is a hard sell. He was a better public speaker than any president in my lifetime and he played things off well. Kamala was certainly more likable than Hillary, but she didn’t have as much sauce as the sauce king at least before he was usurped by the sauce god Mamdani.
Why do women win Governor elections, then?
People can accept woman as the little boss, but not the big boss. Not yet anyway.
Because not every state is full of misogyny
That is not so clear-cut https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/11/01/17-states-havent-had-a-female-us-senator-and-18-havent-had-a-woman-governor/ I’d have to go see if there is any correlation between these and Kamala/Hillary’s results, but I’m not expecting it to be strong.
(Oh, and of course, I didn’t check if any of these elections were woman vs woman, where it would not serve as an indicator of misogyny to elect a woman)
My point is that even women can win elections in deep red states, particularly if they follow “conservative” values close enough. But then again president has the whole commander-in-chief aura…ok…
Maybe I’m just being hopeful, but I don’t think the vagina thing is as big of an influence as it seems. First, we only have a sample size of two.
One of them, Clinton, was just an objectively awful person. She wasn’t popular with anyone, including women.
The second, Harris, had an abbreviated campaign caused by Biden’s unwillingness to step down. She also wasn’t built up in preparation fora campaign during her VP term. On top of that, she was very unexciting policy-wise. Basically status quo when everybody is clamoring for progress.
Contrast that with Obama, who ran on “hope and change” and got people excited for actual progress. Which he didn’t deliver, but that’s another story.
Yeah? Well my pop tart fell on the floor this morning. I think I’ll sit out 2028.
He is. She is a Russian asset.
Why that damn bullet had to hit the firefighter instead?
I’m so fucking tired.
why tf would a fascist dictator give a rat’s ass about “reasons” to plunge multiple countries into war? he wants war, that’s what’s going to happen
Tbh this is not specific to trump. Gulf wars happened the same way.
the difference is bush 1 & 2 made an effort to convince everyone their bullshit wars were justified. diaper fascist is literally saying “don’t care”
the thing that’ll shock me is if we’re NOT at war within a month
Not really it was all theatrical in un but everybody knew and called them out. https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/French_address_on_Iraq_at_the_UN_Security_Council
not sure what you’re trying to argue. that maybe we won’t go to war?
i didn’t say no one called them out, just that they made an effort to justify the wars.
the wars still happened, didn’t they. despite being “called out”
people have been “calling out” trump for decades. we still have trump. people are “calling out” this war too.
My point is this is not specific to trump. I don’t like him but this is typical American military complex which we have seen in the past. History repeats itself.
Destabilizing Iran has been a major part of the US vision to reshape the middle east in it’s own favor, in order to retain hegemonic control and move the theater to China
It’s also been Israel’s goal since the 1990s, and Israel is an fundamental to US foreign policy in the region
