- Primary Day – Texas
- WAR in IRAN Day 3
- BREAKING: The Ayatollah’s Regime
- Finally Friday
- Tight Race for CA Governor
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BREAKING: The Ayatollah’s Regime
115 responses to “BREAKING: The Ayatollah’s Regime”
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Jerusalem Post headline: Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei cut off from contact, no certainty on fate, Israeli sources say
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More: Iran’s Defense Minister Amir Nasirzadeh and Revolutionary Guards commander Mohammed Pakpour are believed to have been killed in Israeli attacks, two sources familiar with Israel’s military operations and one regional source said.
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AI doesn’t see much damage in Israel.
AI Overview
Based on reports from February 28, 2026, following retaliatory strikes by Iran, damage within Israel has been described as localized rather than widespread, with
no major casualties reported so far.
Key details regarding the damage in Israel:
- Impact Sites: Iranian missiles or falling debris from interceptions resulted in impacts in northern Israel and around Jerusalem and Beit Shemesh.
- Structural Damage: A nine-story building in northern Israel was hit by debris, causing structural damage. Images showed damage to residential buildings, including shattered windows and debris.
- Casualties: No deaths have been reported, though one man in northern Israel sustained minor injuries from shrapnel. Some individuals were injured while seeking shelter.
- Defense Performance: Israel’s multi-layered defense systems (including Iron Dome, David’s Sling, and Arrow) successfully intercepted the majority of incoming fire.
- Scale of Attack: Reports indicate this was a smaller, more targeted barrage compared to previous conflicts, with roughly 30-35 ballistic missiles launched at Israel in this initial wave.
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“Canada supports the United States acting to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and to prevent its regime from further threatening international peace and security.”
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US District judge Leyhtum Geaux has just ordered the Trump administration to return all military assets to their bases, and prepare himself to face charges of crimes against humanity. Judge Geaux has also ordered that Trump will pay for damages in Iran, including the replacement of all missiles Iran has fired in its defense.
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My bones were right. Something big was going to happen this weekend.
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Breaking: Trump installs new Ayatollah. Same as old one but supports a Trump Tower in Tehran.
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Just added a news update from Homer to the thread.
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Paul still didn’t answer jason’s question about Hillary sowing mistrust in elections.
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The betting markets think the Ayatollah is toast.
https://polymarket.com/event/khamenei-out-as-supreme-leader-of-iran-by-march-31
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“Hillary Clinton dismissed Donald Trump as an “illegitimate president” and suggested that “he knows” that he stole the 2016 presidential election in a CBS interview”
I guess that answers Paul’s question of who is sowing mistrust in elections.
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Just In: A spokesperson for Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs tells the BBC that he is not in a position to confirm whether Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been eliminated or notLikeLike
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Jason likes to misquote.
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Paul hardest hit:
GUILTY: A Los Angeles federal jury just returned guilty verdicts against two defendants for stalking an ICE deportation officer.
Cynthia Raygoza, 38, of Riverside, and Ashleigh Brown, 38, of Aurora, Colorado, were found guilty today of stalking.
On August 28, 2025, Raygoza and Brown followed the victim from a federal building in downtown Los Angeles to his home.
The defendants livestreamed their pursuit on their Instagram accounts, provided directions as they followed the victim home, and encouraged viewers to share the livestream.
Upon arriving at the victim’s residence, the defendants shouted to bystanders while livestreaming that their “neighbor is ICE,” “la migra lives here,” and “ICE lives on your street and you should know.” They also shouted racial slurs at the victim’s wife. The victim’s children witnessed the incident.
Raygoza and Brown each face up to five years in federal prison at their June 8 sentencing hearing.”
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Well, one American tradition still holds: When Bill Clinton has to give testimony, we bomb somebody.
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Wow, So, Tina thinks the Iran war is Trump distracting us from Epstein.
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The only people who seem to be worried about Epstein are Democrats and Prince Andrew.
So who is distracting from what?
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Not a confidence builder.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi responded with five words: “still alive as far as I know.”
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You would think if he is alive they would want to advertise that.
On the other hand, they might fear they could track any message from him.
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Has Paul told us yet that if there was ANYTHING incriminating about Trump in the Epstein Files the Biden DOJ would not have leaked it since they had the files for 4 years?
Brainwashed imbecile.
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I was going to answer each of Paul’s questions from yesterday, but jason beat me to it and no doubt did a better job. But here was going to be my reply:
“So what do you call someone who attacks our elections?”
A Democrat. Over and over. I vividly recall when I was a young adult just getting started, in Wisconsin. Election day morning, we got up to discover that in the night, Democrats had slashed all the tires of the GOP GOTV vans in the Milwaukee area. Right then I knew what we were up against.
“Who tries to delegitimize our elections? “
Democrats. Hillary in 2016 as jason noted.
“Who f*cks with our elections?”
DEMOCRATS. Over and over and over. Ballot harvesting, more votes counted in urban precincts than there were registered voters, the stuff found in Georgia from 2020. The slashed tires I mentioned above…could go on and on.
“Who lies about our elections?”
DEMOCRATS!
“Who sows distrust in our elections?”
DEMOCRATS!
“Who incites violence & chaos…?”
DEMOCRATS incite violence so much that a leftist shot up Steve Scalise and nearly killed him. A leftist nearly killed Trump. Another tried and didn’t get the shot off. A leftist couldn’t defeat Kirk in an honest and friendly debate, so he assassinated him.
“Who threatens to use the military to keep people from participating in our elections?”
NOBODY, but DEMOCRATS have used intimidation tactics like the Black Panthers that stood outside polling places threatening people.
“Who tries to nationalize/take over our elections?”
NOBODY, though Democrats would love to take over elections through lack of any voter id, and mailing ballots out in such quantity that anyone can pick them up and fill them out and stuff unguarded drop boxes with them.
“Who refuses to accept the results of our elections?”
Hillary Clinton in 2016.
“Who commits crimes trying to overthrow our elections?”
DEMOCRATS! Ballot harvesting, and all the fraud and corruption like Al Franken’s theft of a senate seat.
“What do you call someone who does all of that? Our enemy. America’s enemy.”
AGREED! Democrats are our enemy, America’s enemy.
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I thought Homer looks good in a GI helmet.
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Was t memorial service for a former fellow WV DEGATE, John Overington. You can read his obituary in Brown Funeral home website in Martinsburg Wv.
if you click on comments on his memory wall at the website you can read my long message about John Overington
His widow thanked me for the nice tribute.
we will be going soon to Sheperdstown to meet friends for late lunch at the Bavarian Inn.
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Centcom: no American casualties, damage to facilities minimal.
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“no American casualties” — Dem congressional members hardest hit.
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Trump is making peace. The left tries to make peace only by sitting in a corner with their eyes closed, sucking their thumbs, hoping that when they open their eyes evil people will have changed their ways.
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Iranian missile strikes lobby of Fairmont Hotel in Dubai.
4 people injured in parking lot.
High military value target there…
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They are reporting the deaths of the ayatollahs son in law and daughter in law,
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I was worried because the explosions at the US Naval Base in Bahrain looked big.
But luckily no US military personnel were affected.
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I would imagine a midday strike might have caught the Iranians with their pants down.
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I have a clear theory why the Biden DOJ didn’t release the files.
- Nothing against Trump
- A lot against Summers, Clinton, Gates and other Dems
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Bibi update soon..
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Another US District judge, M. T. Void, has blocked Saudi Arabia from backing Israel and Trump, fearing the dangers of how this might look to Americans who might find out about it.
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OpenSourceZone
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BREAKING: Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been eliminated Per i24News/Channel 12
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@OpenSourceZone
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Iran’s Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Seyed Abbas Salehi: “Khamenei won’t speak as planned today” x.com/opensourcezone…
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Jerusalem Post: “The body of Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader since 1989, was reportedly found under the rubble in Tehran. His death marks a major turning point for the Islamic Republic’s leadership.”
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Iran killing civilians in Arab countries, not a good way to influence public opinion.
Big residential tower in Bahrain struck.
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MAJOR BREAKING: Ayatollah Khamenei, the brutal, longtime Supreme Leader of Iran, has been KlLLED during Trump’s operation in Iran, per multiple reports Israeli officials tell the Times of Israel that Khamenei’s body was found in the rubble, and Netanyahu has seen videos of the body, per N12 news. Awaiting confirmation from the US government.
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The Ayatollah is finding out right now that the Great Satan isn’t who he thought it was.
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BTW, DW were those district judges posts spoofs?
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The video of that hotel in Bahrain looks pretty bad. Very likely at least a hundred killed.
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Uh, yes, pronounce their names…lol But that’s the point. These judges are hard to parody. Really hard.
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BREAKING: The US strikes on Iran MOVED UP to early last night to catch IRAN OFF GUARD — mere hours after President Trump landed in Florida “They wanted to catch senior leaders off guard. Saturday morning, during Ramadan, also Shabbat during the day. That’s when Israel took the opportunity, dropped 30 bombs on the compound. The US simultaneously struck military targets.” The US ALONE carried out nearly 900 strikes in 12 hours: “An incredibly high number.” “The strike had to be moved up based on intelligence, this so-called ‘target of opportunity.’ A deliberate decision accelerated the timeline, for the DAYTIME, which is extremely unusual.”
Best in the world
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I think Trump was dancing at 1030 pm est at MAL. Said he had to go back to work. There was some kind of event happening at MAL. Trump just returned from Texas.
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Breaking mostly obese white woman are protesting now
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HHR News correspondent in Tel Aviv reports seeing another barrage of missiles in the south Tel Aviv area. Heard explosions, but not sure if anything hit.
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Thomas Massie, along with his new BFF RoKhanna, want to force a congressional vote on the war with Iran. I’m finding these ultra conservatives, like Massie and MTG, bitterness toward Trump and his policies to be weird and unproductive in their contrariness.
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Reza Pahlavi (shah of Iran) confirms death of the ayatollah,
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Trump will easily win another term now.
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”The National Council of Resistance of Iran, an anti-Iranian regime group, announced on Saturday a “provisional government to transfer sovereignty” to the Iranian people and establish a Democratic Republic after the United States and Israel launched strikes against the regime.
The organization also publicly outlined a ten-point plan for the country’s future after the U.S. and Israeli military operation launched on Saturday.
“In these difficult circumstances, I call on all of you, especially the courageous youth of our country, to care for civilians and the general public, particularly children and the elderly. Protect them and help one another. Now is the time for solidarity,” said Maryam Rajavi, president-elect of the NCRI.
“Our strength lies in the unity and cohesion of our people against the religious dictatorship and the remnants of monarchical fascism that seek to steal the democratic revolution. At this critical moment, I call upon our compatriots and all forces of Iran’s democratic revolution to remain vigilant and prepared,” she added.
The ten-point plan includes “freedom of speech, freedom of political parties, freedom of assembly, freedom of the press and the internet” as well as the “dissolution and disbanding of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the terrorist Qods Force, plainclothes groups, the unpopular Bassij, the Ministry of Intelligence, Council of the Cultural Revolution, and all suppressive patrols and institutions in cities, villages, schools, universities, offices, and factories.”
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DW,
How much will a Spanberger cost you?
Answer: It will cost you a lot more after you elect her.
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The couple we had lunch with today…I have known them since college days…my wife has known them even longer thru 4-H camps in her county when they were all junior and senior high school age. You and I would call them normal people.
They have a granddaughter that several years ago (5 or 10 years ago) has declared she is a male. Changed her name to a boy’s name. Moved to the west coast…
NOW, they have another granddaughter (12 years old) who has decided she is trans. The girl had a big dilemma because she cannot decide what male name to choose to require everyone to call her. (or call “him” [who is really a her]).
Twelve years old. Even though born a female, she is SURE she is a male.
And people worry about an outbreak of the flu…
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In my circles (church, family and community), I have known quite a few young people who are trans. However, almost all of them are females who have decided they are male or non-binary. My own daughter being one of them.
I have wondered if one small factor is the particular challenges that society puts on young women. And they feel that life would be easier as a male.
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Paul,
I would say society today makes it much easier to be a female than a male.
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Females are a protected minority class (even though they are actually the majority) for things such as hiring, or getting into the military or being a police officer or fireman since there are lesser requirements for physical strength to qualify.
Concerning abortion, the female is the one who makes the decision whether to end her pregnancy–not the guy who provided the sperm.
Females are more likely to be believed if they make charges of sexual harassment (whether the accusations are true or not).
Females are better at multi-tasking than are men.
Women are far more likely to get custody of the kids in divorce cases. And until recent years, it was the divorced woman who also got the monthly alimony check
Most guys are less likely to hit a woman than to hit a man (if both equally were offenders of the person who might slug one of them).
Women exhibit more compassion than do men, on average.
Women tend to have higher grades in school than do men. (and one could make the argument women are smarter).
Women on average are better than men in reading and being verbal and women enjoy reading and read more than men do
More women are graduating from college today than are men.
The life expectancy for women is longer–in part because women do a better job of taking care of themselves.
Women tend to view themselves more positively than do men and rate themselves more happy and content with their lot than do men.
Women consistently rank higher than men is conscientiousness, openness, extroversion, agreeableness.
Women can use their looks, their womanly wiles, or whatever to gain more opportunities from men than the other way around.
Women have a higher degree of motherly instinct than men have regarding a fatherly instinct and women are less likely to abandon their son/daughter than are men.
Women (rather than the man) will get to choose how a household is run, what is going to be on the menu for supper, how the house and furniture will be arranged, what colors the wall will be, how this and that will be done at home…
Back when I was a teenager, adult females were far more likely to NOT go to jail when pulled over for a traffic violation and police discovered they were intoxicated. Males who were drunk were more likely to spend the night in jail than were females. I DO think this female advantage had changed now due to more strict DUI laws.
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and despite possible objections about it by the courts as to not being equal, FEMALES develop and mature earlier than boys do.
Plus I think it is still true that more males than females end up in jail or prison and the % of prison population that is female is lower than % who are males.
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70 years ago, most 10 or 12 year old boys best ten or so friends were all other boys.
And most 10 year old girls’ had lots of best friends who were all other girls.
But 70 years ago, that did not then mean that every boy and every girl were trans.
Today…somehow…the fact that if you are a 10 or 12 year old boy and really like to hang out with other boys, or if you are a 120 or 12 year old girl and really like the company of other girls this is an alarm bell that you MUST be trans….
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retlaw, You make good points. I was not intending to make any argument.
I was just wondering why so many young women that I’ve known at church and in community decided they’d prefer to be male. And it ties into you experience with two grand daughters of your friends.
I also realize that it might just be my own world where there are a lot more “trans men” (females who want to be male) than “trans women”. And not be reflective of the wider world.
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In my baseball, softball and basketball coaching going back more than 20 years, I never had a player who wanted to be the other gender. There was a girl in 5th and 6th grade who played baseball because she thought it was more fun than softball and she was also better than the boys at that age. However, she played soccer and basketball with the girls. She had a full scholarship to North Carolina to play golf.
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With the fall of Iran, the only enemy of the U.S. still left are the democrats.
(stolen from Facebook)
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They haven’t fired enough people at WAPO.
Read how the WaPo is describing the Ayatollah Khamenei tonight: “With his bushy white beard and easy smile, Ayatollah Khamenei cut a more avuncular figure in public than his perpetually scowling but much more revered mentor, and he was known to be fond of Persian poetry and classic Western novels, especially Victor Hugo’s “Les Misérables.”
Reminds me of “Hitler was kind to his dog”.
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The CIA quietly tracked Supreme Leader Khamenei for months, mapping his movements with high confidence and building a detailed pattern of life.
Then came the break. Intelligence picked up a rare Saturday morning gathering of Iran’s top leadership at a central Tehran compound, with Khamenei confirmed in attendance. The window was real and it was tight. The intelligence was passed to Israel. Plans shifted. Instead of a nighttime strike under cover of darkness, the U.S. and Israel recalibrated for a daylight hit to maximize the opportunity. The compound was struck. Khamenei was killed alongside senior regime figures, including top security officials named in subsequent reporting – NYT
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BREAKING: Iran confirms that its former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was killed in yesterday’s Israeli airstrikes
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More Iranians leaders bite the dust….
Iran’s chief of army staff and defense minister were killed in an airstrike targeting a meeting of the country’s defense council, Iranian state television reported Sunday. Gen. Abdol Rahim Mousavi and Defense Minister Gen. Aziz Nasirzadeh were killed at the meeting alongside the head of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard and security adviser Ali Shamkhani.”
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BBC reports 3 American service members confirmed killed. God bless them and their families.
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I guess he never came out of the closet…
Some Iranians who knew Ayatollah Khamenei before he became supreme leader described him as a ‘closet moderate”
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Some details on the fallen.
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We hate to see any casualties, but considering the magnitude of the operation we are very lucky casualties have been so low to this point.
Iran has a lot of anti-ship missiles it can fire at US ships in the Persian Gulf, so far either they were taken out or shot down
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Arresting Maduro, killing Khamenei, obliterating Iran’s nuclear program, and ending 8 other wars around the globe were all easier than getting a Republican Senate majority to pass a bill that 95% of Republican voters approve of and 85% of Americans approve of. WHY WON’T
PASS THE SAVE AMERICA ACT!
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”Republican Congressman Tim Burchett of Tennessee appeared on NewsNation tonight and provided a reminder for all of the Democrats who are suddenly claiming that Trump can’t act on Iran without congressional approval. Burchett points out that Obama bombed eight different countries without congressional approval. Democrats think no one remembers anything. When Obama was president, he could pretty much do anything he wanted with zero pushback from his party or the media. He could do no wrong in their eyes”
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on the first day of action against Iran, Israel pilots flew 500 missions.
U.S. pilots flew 900 missions.
It has not been reported that ANY of those planes invading Iran to complete their missions were shot down.
THAT is an amazing tribute to U.S./Israeli technology and skill.
It appears that the American casualties were on some land base that Iran attacked with missiles. I am saddened by this news of U.S. casualties. And casualties of others in other lands outside of Iran.
Apparently Iran’s air force is useless or non-existent.
The pledge is to destroy its navy.The main thing in Iran arsenal is drones and medium range missiles they can shoot at every neighbor they have–and they apparently do not care whether it hits civilian targets or military targets. And aaalots of money to buy/build lots of weapons to give to the Hoopies and other goofball terrorist groups to cause havoc.
The (supposed) hit on a school in Iran could have been either a U.S. strike gone bad, or it could be an Iranian missile gone astray. My verdict is still out on who is to blame. I do recall the Hamas whackadoodles quickly coming forth with a story of how Israel stuck a school or hospital when further research determined it was a Hamas missile that’s went astray and killed all those people–that the Israelis.
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…rather than the Israels being at fault.
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Odd that one of the cities in the middle is is named “Islam-a-bad”.
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Most Americans support requiring a state photo ID when voting. The SAVE act goes way beyond that.
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Paul,
the only advantages I see of males wanting to be women is that they can be male swimmers ranked at 1215th or whatever and if they say they are a woman they can be #1 in women’s swimming contests.
Same with men who want to be women to play basketball against women.
Also, If you are a male and declare yourself a woman you can go into women’s locker room,s and see lots of women in various stages of undress.
Or if you are a male and do not want to take care of yourself, you can find some man with a flaw in his brain that will perhaps bond with you and take care of you as your “husband”.
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The pope has issued a stern reprimand of Trump apparently, for his acts of violence in the war to decapitate the insane whackadoodles who lead that nation and targeting other military assets, not civilians.
But I do not think the pope also issued a reprimand to the remaining Iranian whackadoodles who are firing missiles at civilians in a half dozen other countries in the middle East. Nor has the pope issued any reprimands at the Iranian whackadoodles who have unleashed 50+ years of mayhem in the middle East that has const thousands of lives.
That is why I do not capitalize the word “pope”, who is for nonviolence if it is done to take out violent whackadoodles–biut silent on violence if it is done by whackjobs.
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Seeing reports that the shooting at the TX bar was an immigrant from Senegal wearing a sweatshirt that said property of Allah?
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“80% of the people of Iran are more pro-U.S. than 80% of Democrats in the U.S.”
(stolen from facebook)
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American casualties are a sad contradiction. Brave men and women die or are horribly maimed in the service of their country AND to their families, the sacrifice is never worth it even if they are proud of the fallen.
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Does Iran want to add the UK to the fight?
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MASSIVE Iranian, Pro-USA demonstration shutting down Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles just took a moment of silence for American service members who have died and then chanted “USA! USA!” Predominant pro-Trump sentiment.
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Iranian FM Araghchi:
Our military units are currently operating independently and in isolation, following previously issued general directives.”
Translation: command and control gone.
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Most Americans support requiring a state photo ID when voting.”
And all elected Democrats oppose it.
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I guess Trump realized that that the U.S. is not an island that can ignore strategic military interests. Unfortunately, he is still committed to limiting trade outside the U.S.
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Poor Chicon, still does not believe Trump’s own words preaching protectionism and isolationism for the last 50 years.
I hope the Cult doesn’t expel him.
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3 F-15s downed by “friendly fire” in Kuwait. All crews safe.
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This guy went on a stabbing spree in the UK.
Police won’t say if he is an “immigrant”
Looks very Scottish to me.
https://x.com/bonchieredstate/status/2028455997694455827
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Hegseth
This is not regime change, but the regime did change.
This is not Iraq. We are not nation building. President spent 20 years blasting nation building.
I was there for both operations (Iraq and now Iran).
It could last 4 weeks, or shorter.
No boots on ground (as of yet)
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Here is the Austin shooter
Austin police still searching for a motive.
https://x.com/MykeWilliams48/status/2028169139219509274/photo/1
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If there are boots on the ground Tina and Chicon will be here telling us what a great idea it is and how they have advocated for this for years.
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New Thread
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Given Trump’s foreign policy initiatives, attempting to brand him an isolationist is likely the most moronic take in the history of HHR.
Chicon
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Middle East peace is likely to be credited to Trump. Somehow Bitter can only see faults. Oh, well….
Chicon
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