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Grim Chieftain

(1,791 posts)
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 12:17 PM 5 hrs ago

Just heard on MS NOW -

"Trump has declared a full and complete victory in Iran". Oh, for the love of God, pull this delusional, babbling idiot out of the White House and send him to a hospital for the criminally insane.

This HAS to stop!!!!

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Just heard on MS NOW - (Original Post) Grim Chieftain 5 hrs ago OP
This will make great campaign commercials Johonny 5 hrs ago #1
I'll drop him off. Heading that way. Nt BootinUp 5 hrs ago #2
Well, of course he did! Who couldn't see that coming? Ocelot II 5 hrs ago #3
Iran closed Hormuz again. gab13by13 5 hrs ago #4
Can you explain implications if an order? moonscape 4 hrs ago #33
If it was an order & they followed it, Hegseth/Trump take the rap Attilatheblond 2 hrs ago #45
So a request isn't also a war crime? moonscape 2 hrs ago #47
Grfaz! artemisia1 5 hrs ago #5
Gröfaz! Brother Buzz 2 hrs ago #42
Waiting for him to scroll Bush's MISSION ACCOMPLISHED banner across the WH. n/t flvegan 5 hrs ago #6
'Quagmire Accomplished' nt GenThePerservering 5 hrs ago #7
"Gigitty'" Ray Bruns 4 hrs ago #14
Payoff to Military Contractors Accomplished Attilatheblond 4 hrs ago #32
Hegseth made it sound like a victory bigger than the end of WWII in his press conference. Vinca 5 hrs ago #8
Wonder if Hegseth was drunk again, or still. Grim Chieftain 5 hrs ago #9
Still... 2naSalit 4 hrs ago #17
Excellent. Finally, there is time enough at last to address domestic needs. usonian 5 hrs ago #10
Burgess Meredith in one of the all time classic Twilight Zone episodes. Permanut 4 hrs ago #19
"...all the time I wanted..." calimary 4 hrs ago #31
What else do you expect him to say? maxsolomon 5 hrs ago #11
The mid-term elections have to end him. Moostache 4 hrs ago #21
LOL, right. maxsolomon 4 hrs ago #25
Butner, North Carolina has a room for him. The Wizard 5 hrs ago #12
So what- he claimed complete victory in November 2020 malaise 5 hrs ago #13
Just let him believe it! Start working on fossil fuel liberation immediately! 1WorldHope 4 hrs ago #15
win·ning /ˈwiniNG/ adjective 1. gaining, resulting in, or relating to victory in a contest or competition. twodogsbarking 4 hrs ago #16
Oh good fucking god. This was not a victory and he is completely out of his fucking mind. Initech 4 hrs ago #18
Agree to the max Grim Chieftain 4 hrs ago #24
Already a picture is out LiberalArkie 4 hrs ago #20
Seems to be a pattern Grim Chieftain 4 hrs ago #22
It is a pattern that all the wars started by the U.S. were started by Republican Presidents LiberalArkie 3 hrs ago #34
The Big Lie MLWR 4 hrs ago #23
Trump: "I can finally rest and watch the sun rise on a grateful universe" C_U_L8R 4 hrs ago #26
Again? SergeStorms 4 hrs ago #27
A Win modrepub 4 hrs ago #28
All other nations, hear this: swong19104 4 hrs ago #29
Let him think that if it's the only way we get out of this mess Figarosmom 4 hrs ago #30
Leave him there until the next crisis he fabricated. Justice matters. 3 hrs ago #36
So no need for the 200 billion extra war funding? senseandsensibility 3 hrs ago #35
The Iranians OWNED your azzz Trump. Plain and simple......... Bengus81 3 hrs ago #37
Kick. N/T Upthevibe 3 hrs ago #38
But his kind being elected to office will never stop, so long as there are uninfomred unserious uneducated voters ffr 3 hrs ago #39
America is better off if Trump believes this and gets the hell out of IRan. But he took a bad situation, and Bluetus 3 hrs ago #40
When gas prices and everything else remain high Hassler 3 hrs ago #41
Great. Now send everyone home Renew Deal 2 hrs ago #43
This demented idiot...after tweeting repulsive crap over the weekend.. BarbD 2 hrs ago #44
If Trump doesn't qualify for the 25th, no one ever will. Grim Chieftain 2 hrs ago #46
Until pictures come out of Iran destroying US and US alliance assets? MerryBlooms 2 hrs ago #48
it is a full and complete victory for trump rampartd 1 hr ago #49

Johonny

(26,253 posts)
1. This will make great campaign commercials
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 12:19 PM
5 hrs ago

Come November when gas still sits at record highs.

gab13by13

(32,410 posts)
4. Iran closed Hormuz again.
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 12:23 PM
5 hrs ago

USA USA

CENTCOM refused Kegsbreath requests to bomb civilian infrastructure in Iran, the only thing left for Krasnov to do was surrender or explain why the military was refusing to obey Kegsbreath's requests, they weren't orders (he was protecting himself) they were requests.

Attilatheblond

(8,958 posts)
45. If it was an order & they followed it, Hegseth/Trump take the rap
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 03:22 PM
2 hrs ago

If it was a 'request' and they granted it, THEY would be the war criminals.

Even after Hegseth purged most of the really smart ones, there are still brains among the remaining brass; probably smart enough not to let him see how smart and honorable they are lest they be purged earlier too.

artemisia1

(1,886 posts)
5. Grfaz!
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 12:23 PM
5 hrs ago
Gröfaz is a derogatory German acronym for Größter Feldherr aller Zeiten ("Greatest Field Commander of All Time&quot , used during World War II to mock Adolf Hitler and his megalomania. Coined around 1943, it satirized Nazi propaganda and the party's love for abbreviations.

Attilatheblond

(8,958 posts)
32. Payoff to Military Contractors Accomplished
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 01:40 PM
4 hrs ago

'Thanks for all the campaign donations, boys! Here's some big checks written on the backs of US taxpayers and dead Iranian children.'

Vinca

(54,047 posts)
8. Hegseth made it sound like a victory bigger than the end of WWII in his press conference.
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 12:27 PM
5 hrs ago

It's a cease fire that has already been broken! Not a victory by any stretch of the imagination. If anything, Iran got itself a bonus with their control of the Strait of Hormuz and the ability to charge ships to traverse it.

calimary

(90,162 posts)
31. "...all the time I wanted..."
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 01:35 PM
4 hrs ago

One of the scariest things I ever saw. I was very young when that episode first ran. But I still remember what a jolt it was. I’d never thought about anything like that until I saw that episode. Still troubling. The worst lesson in the world to have to learn: when YOU are the only one left after a global cataclysm.

maxsolomon

(38,808 posts)
11. What else do you expect him to say?
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 12:31 PM
5 hrs ago

Iranian State Media is saying the same thing on their end, no doubt.

We live in hell. 33 months to go. Persevere.

Moostache

(11,201 posts)
21. The mid-term elections have to end him.
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 01:19 PM
4 hrs ago

Senate, House, completely toxic lame-duck status, and Impeachment that should draw enough GOP votes to convict and forever make him ineligible for ANY office ever again.

Honestly, that SHOULD have happened in January 2021 already and we would never have had the last 16 months of lunacy and chaos... Thanks Mitch!

maxsolomon

(38,808 posts)
25. LOL, right.
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 01:25 PM
4 hrs ago

Impeachment 3.0 would end the same way as 1.0 & 2.0. You won't get 67 Senators to convict.

MFer is there until Jan 20, 2029. The GOP is accomplishing its goals of destroying the Federal Govt. They won't abandon him now.

twodogsbarking

(18,861 posts)
16. win·ning /ˈwiniNG/ adjective 1. gaining, resulting in, or relating to victory in a contest or competition.
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 01:06 PM
4 hrs ago

Someone tell him the defintion. Lexicography for Dummies.

Initech

(108,856 posts)
18. Oh good fucking god. This was not a victory and he is completely out of his fucking mind.
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 01:11 PM
4 hrs ago

Fuck all the way off Trump!

MLWR

(1,038 posts)
23. The Big Lie
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 01:22 PM
4 hrs ago

1) Make sure the lie is so big that no one would believe it was made up.
2) Repeat it often enough so that it becomes the truth.
"The big lie is the name of a propaganda technique, originally coined by Adolf Hitler in Mein Kampf, who says “The great masses of the people… will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one,” and denotes where a known falsehood is stated and repeated and treated as if it is self-evidently true," From: https://www.populismstudies.org/Vocabulary/big-lie/#:~:text=The%20big%20lie%20is%20the,the%20people%E2%80%A6%20will%20more%20easily

modrepub

(4,121 posts)
28. A Win
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 01:30 PM
4 hrs ago

For his bank account. He’s probably come up with a way to split the tolls for travel through the gulf with Iran.

Heard toll will be $1/barrel payable in crypto for easier embezzlement. What a f—-king joke.

swong19104

(628 posts)
29. All other nations, hear this:
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 01:30 PM
4 hrs ago

When negotiating with Trump. One stipulation that must be included and cannot be omitted is the requirement that Trump announce that he lost in the deal. Doesn’t matter whether he won or not. He has to publicly state that’s he lost. Or no deal.

Figarosmom

(12,156 posts)
30. Let him think that if it's the only way we get out of this mess
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 01:33 PM
4 hrs ago

NO ONE BELIEVES IT ANYWAY. But let the deranged creep believe it.

Justice matters.

(9,830 posts)
36. Leave him there until the next crisis he fabricated.
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 02:04 PM
3 hrs ago

It's called Markets Crash (Depression for short), or Insolvency.

ffr

(23,408 posts)
39. But his kind being elected to office will never stop, so long as there are uninfomred unserious uneducated voters
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 02:41 PM
3 hrs ago

Sad, but true. The reality is there will be one-issue voters and the like who will never vote for democrats. The only way for democrats to appeal to this voting block is for democrats to run as republicans, take that stupid party over, destroy it once and for all, wait until all of the unserious voters die of old age, then for those elected republican democrats can change party affiliation back to democrat once sanity has been restored to how people vote.

Bluetus

(2,887 posts)
40. America is better off if Trump believes this and gets the hell out of IRan. But he took a bad situation, and
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 02:44 PM
3 hrs ago

made it much worse. The first step is to neutralize Trump and the war powers act is probably the best way to do that. But then we have some major work to do, even to begin repairing the damage that Trump caused in the past 30 days. This needs to be at the core of our messaging for the November elections. The overriding message should be:

"The Republicans cannot govern. They cannot control their guy, and they are making matters exponentially worse every day. You need to elect a Democratic Senate and House now. We cannot wait until 2029 to start repairing all the Trump damage."

BarbD

(1,455 posts)
44. This demented idiot...after tweeting repulsive crap over the weekend..
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 03:19 PM
2 hrs ago

then terrorizing all of us over the threat of using nuclear weapons on Iran is totally unbalanced, I beg the Republicans to invoke the 25th amendment.

MerryBlooms

(12,286 posts)
48. Until pictures come out of Iran destroying US and US alliance assets?
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 03:55 PM
2 hrs ago

Someone needs to put a breathalyzer on their president before he speaks.

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