Sam Ferguson

This is such a wild thing to be babbling about to the press while you're prosecuting a war with no exit plan, no clear goals, that's costing the U.S. taxpayer some ~$1B a day and costing hundreds and hundreds of lives.

(Addendum: Obviously, I think the play here is to keep the war going through the mid-terms, for reasons ranging from the comparatively mundane "wag the dog" scenario, to more sinister plans around tinkering with the election in the name of national security.)

Either way, it's going to continue costing us ~$1,000,000,000 a day (or more) and continue killing and injuring both Iranian civilians and American service members. (4/4)

This war is likely to last until: 1) He exits office, one way or another; or 2) Something even worse comes along and he thinks the public is sufficiently distracted for him to move the goalposts on Iran and claim victory. (3/4)

Does he even know what "unconditional surrender" means? We're basically never getting that, even if the Iranian regime is down to two mullahs in a pup tent. (2/4)

Trump demands Iran's 'unconditional surrender,' complicating diplomatic paths U.S. President Donald Trump demanded Iran's "unconditional surrender" on Friday, a dramatic escalation one week into the war he launched alongside Israelthat could make it more difficult to negotiate ...

Not only did this sentient bag of cat piss order up a war with no plan on how to end it, he and Secretary of War Rufus T. Dipshit are regularly demolishing any possible off-ramps with their ridiculous faux-tough-guy rhetoric. (1/4)

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This is another in a very long series of heartbreaking examples that in all wars — the just and unjust alike — innocent civilians suffer worse than anyone else. (6/6)

A shockingly small number of people in the Congress, or in the Cabinet, could stop all of this tomorrow. Every day this continues is a choice they've made to let it continue, and we must hold them accountable for that choice. (5/6)

We must be told who gave the order. We must be told on what intelligence they acted. If targets in this campaign are being chosen with the help of AI tools, the people who gave the authorization to do so must be held accountable as though they'd intentionally targeted this school. (4/6)

We chose this. And now dozens of school girls are dead, along with hundreds of their countrymen, for absolutely no reason. The strike that took their lives, even if it turns out to have been a tragic accident, was conducted in the service of no greater plan, no moral cause, no just outcome. (3/6)

But this isn't a necessary war, and it's certainly not a legitimate one. Our leadership chose to start a war against a country that wasn't an imminent threat to us. They use the brutal nature of that country's government as a blanket to cover their own sins, but that blanket is threadbare. (2/6)

Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

Even if the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran were necessary and morally or legally legitimate, this would be a horrifying mistake worthy of rapid investigation and absolute transparency, and a dark stain on America's soul. (1/6)

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YouTube video by BBC News Trump tells Iran to surrender claiming its airforce and navy are "gone" | BBC News

"Mr. Trump has never said who he would like to be the next leader of Iran..." Listen, if that motherfucker can name three Iranians in total I'd be shocked beyond belief. Stop pretending like he's a regular President who learns things.

youtu.be/BDQqoMwUNOI?...

I absolutely think that'll happen, but candidly I don't think anyone making the decisions is smart enough to have thought it out that far. Maybe Miller, I guess.

Oh. He 'guesses' there might be terrorist attacks on U.S. soil. Good thing he's appointed a roster of stable geniuses to run the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security, and the Director of the FBI.

Which just prompted the usual quick Wikipedia check, followed by muttering "Huh, Dan Quayle's not dead?" to myself.

I used to have a cubicle next to Dan Quayle's sister-in-law.

Translation: "We're going to smash the shit out of their homes, and then when they dare to ask us for so much as a sleeping bag, a sandwich, or a Band-Aid, we're going to tell them to go fuck themselves."

We, uh. We all have TVs, dude.

I'm not sure if you've seen the multiple polls here in the last few days, Secretary Dipshit. But I can promise you that where this war is concerned, there is very much a shortage of American will.

Now, is some of that because he has a ridiculous hillbilly name? Yes. And I can say that, because I'm part hillbilly. But mostly it's because he's a catastrophically stupid, circularly sycophantic, performatively brutish assclown. (3/3)

That said, we simply must not — and I cannot stress this enough, especially to the mouldering bags of puss in the U.S. Senate — allow Markwayne Mullin to become her successor. It's simply not an acceptable outcome here. (2/3)

Trump fires Kristi Noem as homeland security secretary The president said he would tap Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin to replace her.

It's nice that she won't be directing operations at the Department of Fatherland Security anymore, but "cushy made-up diplomatic gig" is a far cry from the more appropriate "rotting in a prison cell until she perishes". Still, I'll take it. (1/3)

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No Nobel Prize, but I hear FIFA is gonna give me something next month.

I may be on drugs*, but I think the MacBook Neo is adorable as fuck and I'm kind of bummed that I don't even remotely need one.

( * — Minor medical procedure today, currently enjoying a warm opium bath for the first time in a long time.)

US Senate vote fails to rein in Trump war powers on Iran The measure, passed largely along party lines, would halt US military action until approved by Congress.

The legislative branch of the U.S. government is speed-running its own vestigialization.

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Weird. I can't find anything in the War Powers Resolution that carves out an exception for the President's gut feeling.

Jesse Singal: “I don’t understand why all these experts with degrees keep disagreeing with me. So demoralizing. What could the explanation be??”

(And not that it should matter...but just like the vast majority of people detained in this performative immigration crackdown, this man was not a violent criminal. He had a pending asylum hearing when ICE kidnapped him in Boston last September and threw him in a gulag in Arizona.) (2/2)