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Shit Golem is just such a compromised stupid fuck that he'll just say anything that comes into his mind and believe anything that he is told as long as they say Trump is a bad boy while they're saying it.
I guaranty you. If we ever lose the war against Iran, every goddamned person living here is going to know about it. HARD.
The fact that Over $151 Million dollars here in America had enough free time and money on their hands to go see The Odyssey this weekend leads me to believe that the reports saying we lost the war to Iran have been greatly overblown.
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Quote:What is the connection between movie ticket sales and the Strait of Hormuz being closed by Iran?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I guaranty you. If we ever lose the war against Iran, every goddamned person living here is going to know about it. HARD.
The fact that Over $151 Million dollars here in America had enough free time and money on their hands to go see The Odyssey this weekend leads me to believe that the reports saying we lost the war to Iran have been greatly overblown.
Eventually, Hollywood will make a movie about Trump's Iran fiasco. Trumptards won't go to that movie because it makes Trump look like an old fool. How dare Hollywood mistreat the greatest President in history?
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Trump Is Caught in the Trap He Set
The war in Iran has dealt a serious blow to the idea that the president can slip out of any bind easily.
By David A. Graham | July 20, 2026, 6:39 PM ET
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2026/07/trump-is-caught-in-ira
n-war/688006/
The war in Iran has dealt a serious blow to the idea that Trump can slip out of any bind easily. Over the past three days, three American service members died in that conflict: two in Jordan, where Iranian missiles struck a military base, and a third in Iraq, killed by debris during the intentional destruction of an Iranian drone. The official American death toll in the Iran war now sits at 17.
That number is low—still less, for example, than the toll from the 1983 invasion of Grenada—although the military appears to have been keeping quiet just how many troops have been injured. As my colleague Tom Nichols wrote over the weekend, the president’s limp attempt at consolation (“It’s a very sad thing,” he said) is especially dismaying because “Trump has offered no comprehensive explanation about why his administration is ordering U.S. military personnel to put their lives on the line.”
And the death toll may begin to rise, because Trump appears to be on the verge of being drawn into a larger war. As the defense analyst Brynn Tannehill wrote in The Atlantic last week, the president faces only bad choices. The United States could effectively cede control of the Strait of Hormuz to Iran, accepting a fee system that breaks global precedent and centuries of American policy and granting a hostile power the opportunity to close an important shipping lane at any future moment. Or the White House could embark on a major ground war, because fighting over the past few months has shown the limitations of relying on air power. That would be politically hazardous, likely lead to more American deaths, and suck the U.S. into a long-running presence in the region, and it might still fail. Meanwhile, the conflict threatens to grow even larger as Iran’s Houthi allies in Yemen threaten to close some traffic to the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, which connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean.
Deciding what to do is hard when you don’t know what you want. Trump has vacillated over whether the point of the war is to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons and whether the war has already achieved that. He’s offered different answers about whether one goal is regime change, and whether that has been achieved. He has suggested that the purpose is to keep the Strait of Hormuz open, even though it was open before the war and even though that may no longer be manageable. The administration has also struggled to explain to skeptical members of Congress why it needs more war funding.
In short, Trump’s misadventure in Iran is a story of hubris. The president didn’t bother to plan or consider the dangers before he started a war, and now it has spiraled to a point where even he seems unable to find a way to wriggle out of a jam. For the first time in a very long time—to some extent, the first time in his life—Trump appears to be facing the consequences of his actions.
These circumstances might give Trump’s critics and opponents a chance to feel some delicious schadenfreude if the results of the blunder were not so terrible. The costs are measured not only in the blood of American service members but also in the deaths of Iranian civilians and of merchant mariners trying to sail through the Persian Gulf, in the damage to the global economy, and in the erosion of American alliances and a long-standing global order. Being confronted with a snare that he can’t escape must be unpleasant for Trump, but people around the globe will face misery because of it.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:Quote:What is the connection between movie ticket sales and the Strait of Hormuz being closed by Iran?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I guaranty you. If we ever lose the war against Iran, every goddamned person living here is going to know about it. HARD.
The fact that Over $151 Million dollars here in America had enough free time and money on their hands to go see The Odyssey this weekend leads me to believe that the reports saying we lost the war to Iran have been greatly overblown.
Shut the fuck up, retard.
If Trump "Lost" against Iran, that means that Iran defeated America.
Iran objectively did no such thing.
You're a fucking idiot and cultist.
America hates you.
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Has Trump achieved any of his objectives?
I don't know. What ARE his objectives?
The USA will keep striking Iran until it runs out of missiles. My guess is that will happen before Iran runs out of missiles. By then, I imagine all of our regional bases and friendly airstrips will be decimated
And altho Iran's infrastructure and civilian population will take a huge hit, the Gulf Monarchies depend almost fully on desalination and oil/ gas exports, and Israel isn't in much better shape.
This is a pure war of attrition. It looks like we and our regional "allies" will collapse before Iran does, and Iran will still be on control of the Straits of Hormuz.
The only factor holding Iran back from destroying oil and gas production in the region is that they can't make any $ unless oil and gas continue to flow thru the strait. So my guess is that Iran will focus on military assets, desalination plants, power generation, bridges, and financial centers and data centers.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Has Trump achieved any of his objectives?
I don't know. What ARE his objectives?
The USA will keep striking Iran until it runs out of missiles. My guess is that will happen before Iran runs out of missiles. By then, I imagine all of our regional bases and friendly airstrips will be decimated
That's one hell of a prediction. I applaud the balls on ya to even make it.
I have no idea where you're getting your information from, but all I'll say is that if we're $39 Trillion in debt and at least half of that debt is military spending, and we're actually running out of missiles like they're OLD WOOD trees being cut down to extinction while we're growing new shit pine trying to replace them, then I guess we deserve what we get.
The entire concept that we would ever possibly run out of weapons before Iran does sounds like pure fantasy to me.
I could be wrong now... But I don't think so.
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Trump, expertise, the Iran war, and the unitary executive
Eric Kramer | July 21, 2026 10:54 am
https://angrybearblog.com/2026/07/trump-expertise-the-iran-war-and-the
-unitary-executive
Trump’s inability to evaluate expert advice and incorporate it into his thinking will undoubtedly play a large role when histories of the Iran war are written.
Trump evidently ignored warnings from experts within the government that Iran would respond to an attack by closing the Strait of Hormuz.
Once the Strait was closed, Trump had a reasonably clear (I think) menu of bad options to choose from:
1) walk away and declare victory,
2) maintain sanctions on Iran and prevent Iranian sales of oil and hope that financial pain eventually brings Iran back to the negotiating table in a somewhat weakened position,
3) lower-level military escalation to bring Iran back to the negotiating table in a weakened position (what we have seen the past few days), and
4) various forms of more serious military escalation (Kharg Island, nuclear sites, civilian infrastructure, etc.).
For several weeks leading up to and following the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) it looked like Trump was choosing door number 1. But in the end he couldn’t stomach the deal his own negotiators had reached. He would have been much better off if he had the foresight to realize this before he opened the Strait to Iranian oil exports and allowed Iran to strengthen its finances.
Menzie Chinn sums it up:
Personally, I do not think the US side is operating with a rational agent (else the MoU wouldn’t have been signed as is, and Iran would not have been allowed to replenish funds by exporting billions of dollars with oil). A rational agent (who probably wouldn’t have struck Iran with such lack of planning in the first place) would have accepted sunk costs, and dropped demands for concessions that clearly the US has no leverage to acquire.
Trump illustrates in a way that a million dry academic warnings never could show how dangerously unconstrained the American presidency is. Yet at the same time this world-historic idiot is abusing presidential power in ways that are incredibly damaging to our future and unspeakably cruel to so many, the galaxy-brained justices on our Supreme Court have decided that presidents should have even fewer restraints on their power.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:100%, not 50%.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
but all I'll say is that if we're $39 Trillion in debt and at least half of that debt is military spending
Al Overview
Cumulative United States national defense spending from 1946 through 2026 exceeds $ 27 trillion in nominal dollars, which equates to over $40 trillion when adjusted for modern inflation. This covers the post-WWII demobilization, the Cold War, the Korean and Vietnam wars, the post-9/11 conflicts, and modern defense Operations.
The breakdown of this historic spending trajectory reveals several defining periods:
• The Cold War & Early Conflicts (1946-1989): Sustained military commitments during the Korean War and Vietnam War kept defense spending averaging near 10% of the U.S. GDP. Cumulative spending during this era approached $4 trillion in nominal value.
• Post-9/11 Operations (2001-2026): Military operations in Afghanistan, Iraq, and broader War on Terror engagements have accounted for more than $18 trillion.
• Recent Years: National defense budgets have scaled up to counter renewed great power competition and rearmament pushes, with the total federal defense budget standing at approximately $1.46 trillion as of 2026.
To explore historical and current allocations in more detail, track exact yearly figures on the US Government Spending historical database or check annual funding profiles through USASpending.gov https://www.usaspending.gov/
If you are interested in a deeper breakdown, please let me know:
Would you like the data broken down by specific presidential administrations?
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China did NOT declare a War on Terror, and it did fine without that $18 trillion in wasted defense spending (unless you think the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars were money well spent, but then you'd think the $trillions about to be spent on the Iran War will be well spent).
As a matter of fact, China spends less than half as much on defense as the US does.
China’s Military in 10 Charts
https://www.csis.org/analysis/chinas-military-10-charts
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Originally posted by second:Quote:100%, not 50%.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
but all I'll say is that if we're $39 Trillion in debt and at least half of that debt is military spending
That's not even true by the sheer virtue that we are now paying more every year in interest on our debt than military spending.
You have a very simple, one-track mind, and it is one of the reasons you've had so much difficulty having any conversation about anything at all with anybody in your life.
Dealing with you is a chore for everyone unfortunate enough to have met you that has to deal with you on a regular basis.
You are a burden. You are burdensome.
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Quote:The US does NOT pay more interest on debt than military spending.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
That's not even true by the sheer virtue that we are now paying more every year in interest on our debt than military spending.
You have a very simple, one-track mind, and it is one of the reasons you've had so much difficulty having any conversation about anything at all with anybody in your life.
$1.4 trillion for defense
$883.4 billion for interest
If you cannot get that simple fact right, 6ixStringJoker, you cannot get anything right:
National Defense
A Budget Function
FY 2026 obligated amount
$1.4 trillion
Data as of May 30, 2026
Net Interest
A Budget Function
FY 2026 obligated amount
$883.4 billion
Data as of May 30, 2026
https://www.usaspending.gov/explorer/budget_function
If Veterans Benefits and Services are included with defense, Defense spending is even more out of whack:
FY 2026 obligated amount
$299.5 billion
Data as of May 30, 2026
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