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Trump To Put His Name On Seniors' Cat Food ... -- Gary Legum
https://www.wonkette.com/p/trump-to-put-his-name-on-seniorsTrump To Put His Name On Seniors Cat Food After He Guts Medicare To Give Pete Hegseth $1.5T In Splodey Things
It's going to be a long war.
How many times in the past month has the world heard from blubbering dingo carcass Donald Trump that the United States has all but wiped out Iran's military? It has been his constant refrain almost from the moment the bombs first dropped a long five weeks ago. Iran's entire air force and navy have been "successfully knocked out." (March 3) Iran's military had been "decimated." (March 12) Just this past Wednesday, in a speech that sourly punctuated the end of many, many otherwise-enjoyable Seders, Trump told the world that Iran's "ability to launch missiles and drones is dramatically curtailed." The Pentagon estimated publicly that 90 percent of Iran's missile capacity was "degraded or destroyed," and 70 percent of its missile launchers have been "neutralized."
There is one tiny problem with all this gleeful braggadocio, which is that sources in the intelligence community went running to CNN to let the public know that those missile numbers are a bunch of bullshit. According to this new report, Iran still has about half of its missile launchers intact, along with about 50 percent of its "drone capabilities," which is another way of saying "one-way suicide drones laden with explosives that can take out an oil refinery." That amounts to thousands of drones. One source told CNN that Iran is "still very much poised to wreak absolute havoc throughout the entire region."
Hm, it sounds as if the president's promise that the US can wind down operations in two to three weeks might be -- hang on to your hats -- bullshit. Donald Trump, the kitchen contractor of presidents:
Don't tell us, tell the rapidly dissociating brain in the Oval Office, if you can slip it into one of those video mashups of Iranian stuff 'splodin that allegedly make up most of his briefings and may be giving him an overly rosy view of where things stand.
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There is one tiny problem with all this gleeful braggadocio, which is that sources in the intelligence community went running to CNN to let the public know that those missile numbers are a bunch of bullshit. According to this new report, Iran still has about half of its missile launchers intact, along with about 50 percent of its "drone capabilities," which is another way of saying "one-way suicide drones laden with explosives that can take out an oil refinery." That amounts to thousands of drones. One source told CNN that Iran is "still very much poised to wreak absolute havoc throughout the entire region."
Hm, it sounds as if the president's promise that the US can wind down operations in two to three weeks might be -- hang on to your hats -- bullshit. Donald Trump, the kitchen contractor of presidents:
"We can keep f**king them up, I don't doubt it, but you're out of your mind if you think this will be done in two weeks," the source said.
Don't tell us, tell the rapidly dissociating brain in the Oval Office, if you can slip it into one of those video mashups of Iranian stuff 'splodin that allegedly make up most of his briefings and may be giving him an overly rosy view of where things stand.
. . .