War! Good God, Y’all!

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– June 22, 2025Posted in: "The OC"

(Title credit goes to The Temptations, though the familiar version of the song was popularized by Edwin Starr in 1970)

It’s been easy to miss if you haven’t been attending to media, but we are at war with Iran, which has closed the Strait of Hormuz.

You laugh at President Trump for his limping “parade” and this is what you get.

I have to leave for a day-long meetings, so Vern will have to complete this, if he wishes.

(We cannot yet provide an image of Benjamin Netanyahu roasting in Hell, but we’re working on it.)

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Vern: Is this appropriate for the moment, Greg? Can we use it as featured image?

From today’s “The Fucking News” (Jonathan Larsen):

Pres. Donald Trump last night became the third consecutive Republican president to engage in military conflict with a country that starts with the letters IRA, the second in a row to justify it with the letters WMD, and the first to admit openly that any intelligence justifying it is MIA.

The U.S. Air Force sent seven B-2 stealth bombers last night into the airspace of a country that had not attacked the U.S. and dropped 14 bombs never used in combat before, along with 30 cruise missiles fired by Navy submarines, targeting three Iranian sites that U.S. intelligence has determined were dedicated to the creation of nuclear fuel for generating electrical power.

You’d have to look pretty hard in today’s reporting to figure out whether anyone was killed, because that’s not super-high on any media priority lists. Salon, to its credit, noted that Iranian media reported no casualties. (Reportedly, the facilities had been evacuated “a long time ago,” which you’d think the U.S. would have known and which would’ve made it impossible for Iran to be making any progress on its alleged, denied bombs.)

A range of official estimates say there’s been no radioactive contamination at any of the three sites, which would be weird if they were really all destroyed and were really brimming with weapons-grade nuclear fuel. It’s almost as if…nah…

Another issue relegated to media sidebars is the fact that Trump just crimed again, issuing unlawful orders violating the Constitution and international law and probably four or six treaties I don’t even know about. What did the reasonable, rational center have to say about this radical, criminal act? Not a whole lot!… more here https://thefuckingnews.substack.com/p/trump-bombs-iran-constitution-international

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