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Sort of the MAGA approach. Instead MAGA just lies about the bad stuff. "Eating the cats and dogs!" "Millions of criminals!" "Market crash!"

We’ll see if they can lay mines and sink a couple of tankers using surface mussels. And I don’t doubt for a second that we knew of the Israelis’ move on Iran in advance.

I don’t disagree with the point. But it actually undercuts the timing of the Trump actions. Once the horse is out of the barn (through the Israeli attack), why wait off you’re going to bomb? All the delay did was give Iran time and space to empty valuables from Fordow, like the enriched uranium that we appear to have missed. The next thing the Putin machine is going to do is help Iran close Hormuz. Maybe even furnish the weaponry to try to sink a USN carrier. In the near term the price of Russian crude exports increases. And, in the long term, it’s a chip for them to play to help get Ukraine’s benefactors to back off.

Somebody should have put the kibosh on the McVeigh and Nichols families, apparently. Hoax. You hate the USA. That’s why you’re such a lousy teacher. Probably a secret Chinese agent, you are.

Objectively I thought it was terrible. The focus was on Israel. Mr. secular "Prince of Peace" bombed an adversary for the benefit of Israel, not as part of his "America First" approach. And the "We love you God" line was just abhorrent. Invoking God while starting a war and deporting people who look like God's son is simply wrong. Exactly. Everyone who does business with this guy eventually gets burned.

"We love you, God." Meanwhile, masked men are persecuting brown migrants. Of which Jesus was one. You can't make this stuff up. Yeah, sure. You knew about the bin Laden raid in advance. Give me a break.

Don't forget the tweet about Obama starting a war because of his "poor negotiation skills." There's also that one. It certainly is an act of war.

Nobody said it was true. But it is something that it fairly easily verifiable. Trump also said that the strike was a success. The guy lies more than Baghdad Bob, and you seem to believe him. So let's see what happens.

Not true. Action is limited to disputed areas. Also, Israel has not been invaded by a state actor since the early 70s, at which point I acknowledge that it considered using a nuke.

If you think we're bombing the Saudis when they try to get their hands on one I have a bridge to sell you. By your logic, too, we should incinerate Dimona next. Then they better get it. Now.

And what does it prove if we don't have those sleeper cells? That all of the hand wringing about the border was BS? Or that Trump really effed up when he didn't build the big beautiful wall (which MAGA conveniently seems to have forgotten)?

Interesting thought there. Drudge has a reference to Iran indicating that the enriched uranium was moved in advance of the site and that there is no leak. I wonder whether we can determine the success (or lack thereof) of the strike by determining whether there is a radiation spike in the area of the bombings. If there is no spike, does it mean that either that the facility is intact, or that the uranium was moved in advance? Both options are problems, but especially the second one, because then we're going to have to find out where the eff that uranium is at before it becomes a dirty bomb. The bet here is that if it was moved, it's in Pakistan.

And yet Trump befriended the North Koreans. And we have thousands of nukes. They're principally defensive weapons. We'll see in the days and weeks ahead whether bombing the Iranians was the right call. A lot turns on Hormuz.

Agreed. 100%. We coordinated with the Israelis. Let's see if the Iranians are still capable of mining the strait now.

That bill is bad. This situation could get really bad. All eyes now turn to Hormuz. If that thing is mined tonight and tankers can't get through . . . . there are going to be big economic problems at home. Probably trash it since they probably would be moving that thing into play at this point if they actually had it. And, I'll add, if that intel did exist, maybe we shouldn't have diddled after Israel started this thing and taken it out ASAFP instead of waiting to hit the three nuke sites. So your point about intel re: a nuke supporting this action at this time doesn't wash.