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[Mr. Bumble]

...and now a message from the Great Satan to the remaining murders in charge in Iran.
I am the God of hellfire and I bring you FIRE!

[Commenter_XY]

They're all looking up at the sky and shitting their pants, presently.

[not guilty]

Who will be Iran's next Supreme Leader? https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03/01/world/iran-attack-khamenei-trump#ali-khamenei-iran-leader-succession

Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHViH23jQlg

[Frank Drackman]

Rome had its “Year of the 5 Emperors”. One of the 3 Candidates the (Late) Surpreme Leader named has already assumed Room Temperature.

[Commenter_XY]

The Old Grey Hag speculating on new leadership is rich. They haven't a clue.

We have another week or two of concentrated bombing. And plenty of IGRC generals to kill.

The Iranian people will eventually choose who is to lead them.

[not guilty]

"The Iranian people will eventually choose who is to lead them."

I wouldn't bet the rent money on that. Iran last had a democratically elected leader in 1953, Mohammad Mosaddegh. He didn't fare too well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat

[Commenter_XY]

Iran is defeated. The people will eventually choose for themselves.

As I said, the IGRC generals need to be culled. That is happening. Let's give it a week. The Israelis seem quite adept and finding them, and killing them. 😉

[Frank Drackman]

I'm guessing the IGRC is like the KKK was in the 60's, with 1/2 of the members FBI/Moe-Saad Informants.

[Commenter_XY]

Getting a picture of Khamenei's dead body and sending it to Israel and America says a lot about how highly penetrated Iran actually is.

[not guilty]

"Iran is defeated. The people will eventually choose for themselves."

Like Saddam Hussein was defeated in Iraq, XY? How did that turn out for the United States after he was deposed?

The only Middle Eastern nation with a tradition of participatory democracy is Israel. Why would anyone bank on the triumph of hope over experience in Iran?

The odds of a clusterfuck are now considerable.

[Commenter_XY]

I really don't care which sheepdog assumes power in Iran, NG. As long as they don't pursue nuclear enrichment or ballistic missile production or support hamas, hezball-less and the houthis.

Otherwise, they can join Khamenei. And a bunch of his generals.

btw, where is Saddan Hussein now? Rotting away in a grave.

[Kazinski]

US sources are claiming zero casualties so far after the first 24 hours of the war.

However other sources are claiming the US killed and wounded totals over 200.

Russia Today reports:
"The US has suffered 200 casualties in Iranian retaliatory strikes on bases across the Middle East, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has claimed.

Backed by the US, Israel launched what was described as a preemptive operation against Iranian military and nuclear-related targets in the early hours of Saturday, claiming the strikes were aimed at neutralizing threats posed by the Islamic Republic in the region."

Its hard to know who to believe anymore.

https://www.rt.com/news/633217-iran-strikes-hundreds-american-soldiers/

[Frank Drackman]

Wounded is such a worthless Stat, can be anything from a minor laceration to SIRS. I trust IRGC about as much as Mullah Illhand Omar, speaking of which, will she be attending Surpreme Leaders Funeral?

[Kazinski]

Thing is I doubt the have any intelligence resources on the ground to be able make an assessment.

Plus the fact its exceedingly hard for an admistration to hide casualties from the families for any period of time.

[Commenter_XY]

Well here is the leadership scoreboard. They are all dead, and rotting.

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Defense Minister Amir/Aziz Nasirzadeh
Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) ground forces Mohammad Pakpour
Secretary of Iran's Defense Council and senior adviser to the Supreme Leader Ali Shamkhani
Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Mohammad Bagheri
Head of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) foreign intelligence unit Javad Pourhossein
Head of IRGC security unit Mohammad-Reza Bajestani
Head of IRGC counterterrorism unit Ali Kheirandish
IRGC adviser on the war with Israel Saeed Ehya Hamidi

That was day 1. Let's see what happens in a week. 😉

[Commenter_XY]

Memo to Estragon...Iran is systematically being taken apart, and is utterly defeated. As I said it was and would be. They learned nothing from last June. You didn't either, chump.

Iran is powerless to stop America. America has achieved air supremacy. Iran's leadership is dead. Iran's Navy is destroyed. Iran cannot ship oil. Iran cannot move troops. Nobody is coming to save Iran. Iran's Arab cousins despise them.

So yes, Iran lies prostate before America, like a sheep before slaughter.

Chump.

[John 4]

Holy nerd.

[Frank Drackman]

That's what happens when you don't control your border.

[not guilty]

Kash Patel is using FBI personnel to ferry around and protect his paramour. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/us/politics/kash-patel-girlfriend.html

The last previous unmarried director of the FBI had discretion enough to put his lover on the payroll, such that he didn't require an entourage. Clyde Tolson is said to have served J. Edgar Hoover in various positions.

[Frank Drackman]

Again with the J. Edgar Hoover Homosexual/Cross Dressing Bullshit, all based on the (Unsworn) account of some Fag Hag published in a book by Tony Summers (who I heard likes to fuck young boys up the ass, I've got as much evidence of that claim as he does that Hoover was a Fag) that even the New York Times said that Summers "Fact Checking" was "Inadequate" and his Sources "Fraudulent"
And even if Hoover was a Cross Dressing Fag, I thought that was OK?
He wasn't BTW.
Oh, and he never left a young woman to asphyxiate (NOT drowned, there's a difference) like Barry Ebola's Benefactor (Look it up) Edward Moore Kennedy.

Frank

[Commenter_XY]

Paywalled. Few really care what drivel the Old Grey Hag publishes.

More to the point. Putting your paramour on payroll is unethical. Why advocate that?

[not guilty]

I didn't suggest that it was a good thing, only that it is preferable to using government resources to chase poontang.

[Commenter_XY]

Is it? I don't think so. The poontang is got. It is really a matter of transport. 😉

[Frank Drackman]

1996, on way back to US after a grueling 6 month Deployment to Italy,
Our C-5 developed an Engine Ish-yew and we had to divert to Rhein-Main to RON (I'd tell you...)
Not enough room in Transient Quarters, so our CO (I'd tell you) got us Reservations at the Hilton (Air Wing goes First Class)
Picture this, line of 100 some Marines, in Uniform, when the Flight Crew of an Iran Air 747 walks up to the line next to us. Pilot, Co Pilot, Flight Engineer, and
about 10 Flight Attendants, all Female, with those cute Caps, No masks, but hair was covered, which can be a good thing, even Carnie Wilson has a cute face.
No Hijabs, and no Skin visible, but Iran Air certainly didn't take any fatties.
Normally efficient German Desk Clerks didn't like that most of the Marines didn't have Passports, so for about 20 minutes, Marines did what Marines do,
Hit on the Iranian women.
One thing I've learned, women are the same everywhere, they love Marines, I think it's the haircut.
And I'm pretty sure some (redacted) took place that night.
Not me though! (HT. B Keane)
I was married, I just hit the Bar and tried my "Rap" with Gerta, the 60-something Bartender.
OK, not exactly Fallujah 04', but it's a true "War Story"

Frank

[Hugo S. Cunningham]

(1) Has anyone been tracking the sort of Federal judges Trump47 has been nominating and getting confirmed?
(2) Trump45's judges were garden-variety conservatives from the Federalist Society: they joined other judges in rejecting Trump's attempts to overturn the 2020 election. Partly for that reason, I recall Trump47 expressing irritation last year with the Federalist Society.
(3) The bottom line: if the GOP keeps control of the Senate this year and confirms Trump47's judges for two more years, will there be a dangerously large fascist contingent ready to condone attacks on the 2028 election?