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Add to the price four F-15E Strike Eagles at $400 million, a dozen KC-135s and KC-46 Pegasus aerial refuelers at $960 million, 24 MQ-9 Reaper drones costing over $30 million each for $720 million, one as yet unrecovered MQ-4C Triton with onboard tech we DO NOT want Iran or China to have at $200 million, two E-3 Sentry AWACS aircraft at $500 million each or $1 billion. Then there are the 17 US and joint forces airbases Iran pummeled rendering a currently unreleased exact number of "uninhabitable." The billions of dollars worth of radar systems Iran destroyed in the first couple days. As of March 12, the Pentagon reported 13 dead US service members. In almost two months, that number hasn't risen beyond, coincidentally, the number matching: "On August 26, 2021, a lone ISIS-K suicide bomber detonated a device at the Abbey Gate of Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, killing 13 U.S. service members." 399 wounded US service member as of April 14. All the other death and destruction across the Middle East since Feb. 28? Trump did that. And the Strait of Hormuz that wasn't closed before Trump bumbled his way into something beyond his comprehension, is now under Iranian control with tankers and cargo ships sailing past our blockade because they're sailing within 12 mile protected coastal waters. And then there's the Caspian Sea. Direct landlocked port to port maritime shipping between Russia and Iran. No blockade there! But wait! There's more in that price! We now have THREE carrier strike groups and more US warships with what's left of our ordinance arriving over the ceasefire. Funny coincidence, China is sending warships to keep an eye on that 90% of oil it buys from Iran. Just a friendly reminder to the US to not interfere with Chinese - Iranian oil trade. And still, Iran rubs the threat of multiple nuclear weapons in Trump's face. Something they never did before actually because the old man leadership Trump wiped out has been replaced by young hardline IRGC leaders who have an ally in the new Ayatollah, if he's really alive, because we killed his entire family and anyone he cared about. Small price, huh?🤣🙄😑

@Yuchenj_UW A small price to pay to make sure Iran doesn't nuke us

Gas is now $6.799/gallon in the Bay Area and SF. It cost me $133 to fill up my car. 🫠

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@thereal_truther FINISH 😱 HIM!!! mortalkombat.fandom.com/wiki/Mortal_Ko…

The defense rests, your Honor.

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Ad hominem or catchy ad veritatem?

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More of the GOP and Trump admins fight to capture our information spaces and turn them into political propaganda and disinformation outlets.

Isn't trashing the lethality of our service members with lethality the enemy's job?🤨 Where was SecDrnk Kegsbreath to defend MY bodily autonomy when the Navy pulled all of my wisdom teeth during Marine Corps boot camp?

@SimnickRuss @BulwarkOnline @MarkHertling When conservatives abandoned an understanding of "mitigation."

@BulwarkOnline @MarkHertling This is the dumbest thing to get worked up over. It's a flu vaccine. I haven't had one in 25 years. What else haven't I had in 25 years? The flu. When did Democrats abandon "my body, my choice?"

"This is an extremely dangerous policy...The military has a long history of understanding what preventive maintenance and health within a formation means from a readiness perspective." @MarkHertling on why the new military vaccine policy is a direct threat to military readiness.

@TTemple46526836 @nfergus @bariweiss Is she, now? You don't say? Well, I'm sure she makes you very happy. Please remember to send me a wedding invite!

@Spookybacon @nfergus @bariweiss That is an ultra pretty democrat......and you know it.

Let me walk you through the events of the war so far: 1. The United States and Israel tried regime change; it didn’t work. Or rather, they got regime change—Iran became an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps–led military dictatorship. That was not an improvement. 2. The U.S. won an overwhelming military victory with air and naval power and scarcely a boot on the ground. But it destroyed less of Iran’s missile- and drone-launching capabilities than at first appeared. 3. Then there was a hostage crisis. Iran took both the Gulfies and the Strait of Hormuz hostage. The result was a massive economic shock for the world that required a rapid resolution. 4. The choice was between 1) military escalation (boots on the ground or strikes on Iranian infrastructure), and 2) a diplomatic deal. Trump chose 2. 5. In Islamabad, the U.S proposed big economic concessions in return for some kind of change in the status of Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile, as well as the reopening of the strait. Contrary to the president’s social media feed, the Iranians did not accept. 6. In any case, the devil of any deal will be in the details, not the Truth headline. (When the small print finally comes out, every former Obama and Biden official will be ready to tell The New York Times that it’s worse than the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.) 7. Meanwhile, the Iranians have survived regime change and discovered that closing the strait is just as powerful a lever in economic warfare as they had always hoped. It’s not, despite the Russian quip, an “economic nuke,” because unlike a nuclear weapon you can use it. 8. Where we go from here is fairly predictable. I would be surprised if Trump now deploys ground forces. There will be more negotiation, so Islamabad, here we come. There may have to be more bombing, if the Iranians dust down the North Vietnamese playbook of stringing the U.S. negotiators along. And the final compromise will take longer to be agreed upon than Mr. Market currently believes. The consensus in prediction markets is this will be over by the end of May, but remember: It took Henry Kissinger more than four months to get the 1973–1974 oil embargo lifted.

@TTemple46526836 @nfergus @bariweiss Is you're girlfriend ok with you sharing her picture online? No judgement. She's very... pretty. I'm sure you three make a great couple.

@Spookybacon @nfergus @bariweiss

Trump has betrayed an endless line local heros who dared risk torture and death to help us prosecute our global wars. I get the Mango Mousilini not getting it... But Vance and Hegseth? Why aren't they speaking out? They worked with civilian locals. Especially Hegseth who coordinated directly with city and village leaders. Complete moral collapse. 🤬

Listen carefully. YOU. ARE. NOT. DONALD. TRUMP. He doesn't know you exist and if he did, he wouldn't care. You'd smile more if you just cared about making something of yourself instead of twisting yourself into an orange MAGAnon pretzel, spending your life justifying a grade school bombing, pedo-perv., forever foreign oil war necon politician. NOTE: The Fat Lady won't be singing. She died in one of Trump's civilian infrastructure bombings.

@nfergus @bariweiss Every President since Carter has bitched about Iran......Zero did shit, except for a couple that sent billions of $. The fat lady hasn't sung yet!

Caine is the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of staff. He has no command authority over the military. His is an advisory role only. Advisor to the president, SecDef, and security councils. U.S. Presidents have sole authority to order a nuclear strike with no legal requirement to consult advisors or congress. The job of the Secretary of Defense is to verify the president's order and pass it on to the military for execution but the SecDef doesn't have power to veto the order. The SecDef can refuse to pass the order on to the military for execution. Good luck with Kegsbreath in charge. The Vice President and cabinet can invoke the 25th Amendment. While I distain Vance, he's been groomed to succeed Trump by big $$$. He likely would try the 25th.

Air Force General Dan Caine blocked Darth Donald from using nuclear codes Saturday night, invoking article 92 of the UCMJ. He tried. He tried to nuke Iran.

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Multiple oil spills in the Persian Gulf become visible from space following strikes on Iranian and regional oil facilities and vessels, with experts warning of a growing environmental risk, CNN reported on Tuesday. Satellite imagery reviewed by CNN shows extensive oil pollution, including a spill spanning more than five miles near Iran’s Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz. Another image shows oil contamination near Lavan Island following what Iranian state media described as a strike on an oil facility close to the island’s coast earlier this month.

Well played, Gentlemen! Doug Wilson deserves no quarter.

Ahoy, ye frigate sailin scallywags! Heave to for inspection of yer rum stores by SECDRNK Pirate Pete Kegsbreath!!! Hand over yer RUM else Davy Jones himself gives ye ship an crew No Quarter!

Watching, hearing about Trump's posts with regards to his war with Iran inspired this parody of "Fool on the Hill" by the Beatles. #DV1 #DemVoice1 #LiveBlue

That's it. Kegsbreath has to be a foreign agent with a mission to destroy America.