So....It WASN'T a Highly Successful Mission

All they did was speed up Iran’s nuclear capabilities

How many bumps did he do before this presser? My God, he was speeding!

Liars trying to cover up their lies often speak rapidly and nonsensically.

He sounds like he just got pulled over by a cop for a DUI and is trying to answer the question, "Where are you coming from?" without saying he's coming from Hooters.

Looks like Petey converted from liquor to coke to feed his addiction.

It got Trump's little 🍄 still watching Petey yell at reporters. But Trump also doesn't like incompetence (which is ironic, since he is the most incompetent person on earth).

I would deplete my life savings to pay an actual journalist to interrupt this simp and ask if he'd be willing to take a drug test right now...

Does this bitch only have the one suit?

R8 It's the MAGA uniform.

Don’t you know that the press hates the President so much that they are trying to undermine our great military??? Hegseth should realize that charming reporters is more effective than castigating them. The General did better, giving them something positive to write about.

It’s not unpatriotic to report on the actual effectiveness of the attack on limiting Iran’s nuclear capability, but it’s not the job of reporters to wave the flag & cheer anyway.

“The most complex successful military operation ever accomplished by the US!” (Except for maybe, say, D Day?)

I brought peace to the Middle East, something no one has EVER done. Now where is my Nobel Peace Prize?

I thought Jared already solved the Middle East??

He read twelve books!!

It's like a fucking lunatic asylum.

R10 Oh, poor, poor orange felon. The press doesn't love him.

No, the press is just doing its job, which is trying to get the facts. Not an easy job when you're facing an administration that does nothing but hide behind a wall of constant bullshit.

All they did was speed up Hegseth's dependency on "stimulants."

In just one day the President goes from being love-bombed at the NATO conference.

Hey Pete, I've got a great connection. I'll give you his pager number.

For the orange felon:

blather blather blather hippity hippity bump

Lock this motherfucker up

The UN said it was successful.

R23 "Successful" and "obliterated" are two very different things, dear.

Yes, you can say the mission was "successful" in that it may have delayed the progress Iran is making on building nuclear weapons and that it made them back down from Israel for the time being. But you can't say their nuclear capabilities were "obliterated" or "decimated" when there's zero evidence to support those claims.

No! Say it isn’t so!

This administration full of unqualified, uneducated grifters LIED?

The humanity!

Hasn't every sitting US president since Carter bombed these same Iranian nuclear facilities?

[quote]Now where is my Nobel Peace Prize?

We're keeping it safe for Zelenskyy.

No way, R26. Why do you thing McCain had such a hard on for it? “Bomb, bomb, bomb. Bomb, bomb Iran”?

Watching from afar at that 'Presser" Hegseth was demeaning to all those gathered. He must be sh*t to work with under pressure? He seems nasty.

[quote]Hegseth was demeaning to all those gathered...He seems nasty.

I think he's nearly tremendous.

It was a highly successful mission. It stuns me at the way you loose-pussy bitches just fool yourself by pulling an "anything-Trump-does-is-evil" wool over your eyes over everything that happens in this administration. Be objective for once. It really supports the belief that the most hate-fueled, stubborn, and non-dialogic people are liberals.

"Decimated," Pete? You sure that's the word you want to use to describe the bombing's effect?

R30, thanks for your insight DJT…..’nearly’ huh ? More🤡🤮 maybe?

I can't wait for Trump's man-crush on Hegseth to fade. Crushes usually fade, right? Familiarity breeds contempt and all that jazz. This Hegseth lush has no other reason for being in the role he's in other than his "manliness" and "attractiveness" are stoking the secret libidinal fires of Trump's deranged, subconscious, homoerotic longing to emulate (or fuck) the guy.

Old kegstand needs a whisky, stat!

It was indeed a successful mission.

NYTimes:

"Centrifuges at Fordo ‘No Longer Operational,’ U.N. Nuclear Watchdog Says The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said there was “no escaping significant physical damage” after a U.S. strike on the Iranian facility."

In the short run, successful. In the long run, who knows. Maybe the Iranians moved most of their uranium. The big mystery is why no one bombed the trucks leaving the nuclear facility. Those pictures were shown everywhere.

R36 is assuring us that we can believe everything reported in the NYT, especially if that info comes from an organization that has a deep stake in playing along with the despots in charge of the U.S., and the military who is also very trustworthy as those people have never lied, omitted the truth, or distorted information ever at all.

Oh, honey.

R38 The International Atomic Energy Agency has a deep stake in playing along with the despots in charge of the U.S.?

Never heard that one before. Explain and give us some examples please.

Mission accomplished! Just like with those WMDs in Iraq!

[quote]is assuring us that we can believe everything reported in the NYT

The NYTimes did not accurately report what Rafael Grossi, the head of the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog, said on French radio?

What did they do, misquote him? Make things up?

Explain.

R31 Bullshit and you know it. It was "successful" only in the objective fact that the bombs hit the intended targets. But as far as the attack "obliterating" or "decimating" Iran's nuclear capabilities, that's 100% false, and you know that, too.

For fuck's sake, we have footage of the Iranians moving their uranium OUT of the targeted areas days before the bombings because they knew the bombs were coming.

All this little mission did was give Trump and his moronic followers (you know, cretins like you) tiny little boners because you all got to pretend we're a big, bad military power in the wake of your orange felon's pathetic squeaky tank birthday parade.

[quote] “no escaping significant physical damage...”

Yeah, uh, R36, that doesn't exactly meaning the mission "obliterated" Iran's nuclear capabilities. It means just what it says - it did physical damage. The bombs broke up some concrete, but there's no evidence of a major setback in Iran being able to develop nuclear weapons.

Trump loses again. Womp womp.

R31 So highly successful. Do go on.

R34 Trump already took Drunky McDrunk to the woodshed for putting on that sad birthday parade, so Petey had to do something really super cool to get back in his boss' good graces. So bombs away it was!

I asked ChatGPT how much this cost.

Aircraft Operations A strike would likely involve stealth bombers (like B-2 Spirits), F-22s, F-35s, refueling tankers, electronic warfare aircraft, and drones. B-2 mission cost: ~$150,000/hour (operating cost). Each mission could last 30+ hours. Sorties: Analysts estimate 50–100+ aircraft could be involved. Estimated total aircraft operating costs: $100 million–$300 million (depending on mission length and scale).

Munitions Precision-guided bunker busters like the GBU-57A/B MOP (Massive Ordnance Penetrator) cost ~$3.5 million each. Smaller bombs (GBU-31 JDAM, etc.): $25,000–$50,000 each. Dozens or hundreds of bombs would likely be used. Estimated munitions cost: $20 million–$100 million

Aerial Refueling Tankers like KC-135s or KC-46s would be essential due to distance. Fueling costs are substantial. Example: a single KC-135 mission may cost $100,000+ in fuel. Refueling costs: $10 million–$30 million (very rough estimate)

Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance (ISR) Satellite imaging, UAVs (e.g., Global Hawk), and cyber-intel prep would cost millions. ISR and prep operations: $10 million–$50 million

Total Estimated Range Low-end strike (minimalist, one-off): $200–$300 million Larger multi-day operation (multi-target, suppression of air defenses): $1–$2 billion+

R46 But we don't have enough money to fund children's cancer research programs.

R44 Why does the article not mention any names? Who are these "two people briefed on preliminary intelligence assessments" ?

R48 Because the information is leaked from classified sources, darlin'. They're not gonna name names.

Not enough cancer kids to get them the really big yachts, R47. There aren’t that many cancer kids.

LOL!

It's very simple. The louder Trump gets, the more Hegseth screams in the press room and castigates journalists, the more we know that the bombs most certainly did not decimate Iran's nuclear capabilities.

We've seen this movie before. We should be familiar with the bad acting.

Even Ms. Lindsey ain't buyin' it.

To the extent that Iran’s nuclear capability wasn’t completely eliminated, it is obviously Joe Biden’s fault - and all the Democrats - and the press - and and and - Certainly not MY fault!

Hegseth even attacked the Fox Pentagon reporter, who's one of the few good reporters they have at Fox.

What I've read though is that Trump is losing confidence in Hegseth and sidelining him (Tulsi Gabbard too), which is probably why Hegseth is sounding so desperate - he knows he's not on solid ground and upping the bluster is all he knows how to do.

Little Marco is hanging back and flying under the radar, hoping that Petey gets fired first.

[quote]It really supports the belief that the most hate-fueled, stubborn, and non-dialogic people are liberals.

I don't recall Clinton, Obama or Biden ever - when on foreign soil, in the eyes of the world - calling media platforms back home 'scum', twice, because said platforms dared to question their military actions. Trump's public words as president have constantly set a new low bar for fuelling hatred.

He wonders why the press doesn't salute Turd: he's a thief, liar, cheat, fraudster, rapist, tax dodger, bully, felon, treasonist, wears orange makeup and ran for POTUS to stay out of jail (hiring Elon Musk to rig the election). And he's likely a murderer, too

Trump chose the wrong reporter to go after because Natasha Bertrand is one of the most competent journalists out here. She is really pretty brilliant. I understand why he went after her since he hates intelligent people who blow up his assertions.

The bigger the Hegseth hissyfit, the more he’s lying.

All one has to calmly say is that, first reports were incorrect and the mission was a success.

Instead, Trump and friends do all this chest-out yelling, which makes us automatically assume they’re covering it up

R61 Because, of course, they are.

R61 Pam Bondi is on the teevee right now yelling at reporters. They're all doing this to make King Dotard's 🍄 cocklet hard.

A bunch of sad, incompetent, impotent little punk ass bitches hoping to scare everyone by screaming.

Point and laugh at them.

Nuclear capabilities neither obliterated nor decimated: