2/ Maybe the lead is that the war goals DO NOT involve destroying Iran's nuclear weapons program. This is, uh...surprising...since Trump says over and over this is a key goal. But then of course we already know air strikes can't wipe out their nuclear material.

3/ Second, they confirmed "regime change" is also NOT on the list. So, they are going to spend hundreds of billions of your taxpayer dollars, get a whole bunch of Americans killed, and a hardline regime - probably a MORE anti-American hardline regime - will still be in charge.

4/ Ok, so what ARE the goals? It seems, primarily, destroying lots of missiles and boats and drone factories. But the question that stumped them: what happens when you stop bombing and they restart production? They hinted at more bombing. Which is, of course, endless war.

5/ And on the Strait of Hormuz, they had NO PLAN. I can't go into more detail about how Iran gums up the Strait, but suffice it say, right now, they don't know how to get it safely back open. Which is unforgiveable, because this part of the disaster was 100% foreseeable.

Of course no plan. They only just found out it exists.

Exactly. No one should be surprised by any of this.

He lied so much there’s nothing I would believe anything nothing ever comes out of his mouth so if he says one thing well we’re doing this for this. I don’t believe a word he says because he does nothing but lie he’s doing this. This is fun for him people don’t understanding he’s enjoying this!

I think you'll like this Tricia: "I wouldn't believe Donald Trump even if he had his tongue notarized" Ed Koch NYC Mayor 1979-1989

Think it was his archnemesis, Leonna Helmsley, but yes.

She mentioned the quote in a 1990 magazine article but I heard Koch say it in the 80s. Apparently his aide is credited with making it up and Koch made it popular 🙋🏻‍♀️

Trump and Israel war on Iran. Please stop calling it the Iran war as if they were asked to participate and they decided to lead.

Epstein Distraction War

Epstein Israel War

Not content with a forever war, he launched a "whatever" war.

This is very funny.

Please push back on this and also stop voting for Trump nominees and get your colleagues to stop proposing idiotic gas tax holidays. Please ask them to get serious.

Please challenge Chuck Schumer for the leadership position. He is totally ineffective and a huge AIPAC puppet.

If NY wants to keep him as their Senator, that's fine. But Sen. Leader....no more, please.

Yes!

Bibi and Israel started a war that they knew would have to be finished by the US and they sure as shit didn’t tell Trump what they were going to do until it was too late. They know that Trump’s days are numbered, politically and/or otherwise and it was now or never. Dems have to ditch AIPAC

Not likely. If the Dems thought that preserving their ties to AIPAC was more important than winning the election, they're not about to change now.

That’s Schumer…not all Dems

Schumer, Harris, Jeffries, almost all Dems, too numerous to list here. www.trackaipac.com

You do, if you didn't vote for Harris.

I will always vote Aipac funded candidate vs Isreal blackmailed candidate. But won't vote Aipac funded given choice.

I hate AIPAC. But they aren’t the only lobby group. And they aren’t pro Israel; they’re pro-Israeli right. Rabin hated them.

They should register as foreign lobby and be banned. They don't pay taxes to America so they don't deserve any voice in US politics.

The worst part... they are bribing US politicians with the American taxpayer's money that the US gives them - 10.4 Million taxpayers dollars A DAY, every single day of the year! Makes it really easy for foreigners to bribe US politicians with US taxpayers money! So ridiculous and so corrupt! ---

Of course they have no plan for this. And you’re right: It was foreseeable. Me, eight months ago: bsky.app/profile/jjin...

Except the US wasn’t “responding.” They attacked

Yes. This was a prediction that I made several months ago about how Iran might respond to a sustained bombing campaign, and how the US would respond to that response.

Better yet...

This is all about what “Netanyahu” wants. We’re being played. The Israelis need to be rid of Netanyahu the same way we need rid of Trump.

Bibi has the videos of Trump and EPSTEINED files

Netanyahu is also blackmailing pedophiles in Israel to stay in power. The number of wealthy pedophiles controlling world power is obviously a major part of this problem.

I wouldn’t have believed it before Trump and EPSTEINED but it’s in Clear View! Why do the Republicans not use their power to Remove TRUMP?How many are Corrupted and Under KOMPROMAT?? Trump is a Heinous Creature unfit for any purpose other than an an Inmate wearing a Complimentary ORANGE Jumpsuit!

They are playing an old game of politics, weird criminals & dirty laundry.

The Mob is now running the White under Trump

The update is appreciated. Thank you for sharing what you can.

This is not the Iran War. It is the Israel War in which American military is used to bomb the Iranian people. And we pay for it too.

Exactly 👇

It seems to be everybody's blind spot.

Thank you for sharing what you can. Please do NOT approve more money for this war effort. More money just enables them to blow up more countries. It’s got to stop.

I vote calling it Trump War or Epstein War. Problem with calling it Trump War means the war with Cuba will be Trump War 2.

Everything, ALL of it, swings back to the Epstein Files. ICE didn’t distract so bomb Iran. The E Files, and Zorro Ranch won’t go away so he’ll move on to Cuba. The pedophile protector will go to war and kill anyone to keep those files hidden. More than one person has a flash drive. Spill the tea.

It must be reassuring to think the world is so simple that you can ignore 75 years of geopolitics and explain everything with The Files, because then Releasing The Files would magically make all the bad things go away.

I typically would agree with this. Still, Donald Trump knows nothing of 75 years of geopolitics, nor does anyone in his administration. Less than zero. Absolutely, positively nothing. If you handed Trump an unmarked map, he couldn't find Iran on it.

And 50/50 if the map were marked

Generous odds…. I’d love to see a reporter shove a map in his face and ask him.

The best way is to put a map from a location that looks similar at a press conference.

I pretty much see all of this (arms waving broadly) as the attempt to impoverish and cripple the US for the benefit of our adversaries. Trump is all too happy to serve Putin and others who will pay him and flatter him, the future health of the US, its people and our allies be damned.

Putin has Trum firmly by the short and curlies. If anyone has another reasonable explanation, please say it out loud!

Agree with the short and curlies!

If Iran were a threat to the USA, missiles would be raining down on Mar-a-Lago right now!

Zeros plans. Also no preparation on how to evacuate Americans from the area, no foresight to refill American oil reserves beforehand. This administration is as stupid as they are evil.

Everybody assumes that the war was to distract from the Epstein files but I think that's only half the equation. The war is to help Netanyahu, who is facing an election soon. And Netanyahu was likely privy to the Epstein files. In other words, I think Trump was blackmailed into a strike.

Yes...Maxwells father was Isreali intelligence. Bibi knows all the dirt.

An illustrated summary of the briefing.

This administration has put even more of a target on Americans’ backs than before and has created generations of anti-American terrorists. When they act against us, we won’t have to ask why 😕 Regular Americans (not the Trumps or their band of criminals) will pay for stupidity this for years.

Regular Americans must make sure trump & co DO pay. Fully.

WORD!!!!!!

Never in US history has there been a more incompetent administration, individually and collectively.

I’m not sure who elected this child rapist but they were wrong.

Maybe no-one voted for trump except putin’s & musk’s bots?

They were obviously bounced into it by Israel. Rubio said as much. Believe it. They're a bunch of clowns, as we already know.

Real reasons for the war: 1. Netenyahu dictated it 2. Generates Epstein smoke 2. $Billions go ‘astray’ 3. $Billions more in arms contracts to donors 4. He’s a fucking idiot 5. So are his cronies.

On June 22, last year Trump said after the attack on three Iranian nuclear sites: “Tonight, I can report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success. Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated.” If so, why the need for this war?

Is any member of Congress going to talk about the 170 school girls or the Sailors on that submarine that were killed during to the administrations incompetence? Both are war crimes done in your name? Now they’re imminently threatening Cuba! Does ANYONE take this seriously in America??!!

Many of us. Just not enough yet.

Trump’s need for self aggrandisement beggars belief. This is a mental health issue that should disbar him from office. We in the rest of the world also have to deal with the knock on effects, enough.

I truly hate this timeline and I think I hate even more the people who continue to support these insane actions. I swore a decade ago that I would stop using the word hate but here I am having to use it again So maybe the thing I hate most is the person they're forcing me to be

Typical Trump Ready! Fire! Aim! The man is the personification of Dunning -Kruger effect

He went into this war because bibi and mbs asked him to and the hawks around him said it would make his many problems (economy / polling / Epstein) go away. Bibi probably has kompromat on him. MBS also probably has kompromat (bonesaw incident). Sad.

Trump’s Foolish Folly: Israel showed him a shiny target. He didn’t ask what else was in it. Now: $120 oil. A closed strait. 7 dead Americans. 150 dead children. Gulf allies bombed. 36% approval in week 1. The consequences are irreversible. The damage will continue to accumulate. tinyurl.com/sjm7ky9r

This is an Israeli-American War of aggression against Iran, it is not the Iran War. You can call it Bibi's War or Trump War or whatever but Iran is a victim of our aggression.

Senator, while I obviously wouldn’t want you to disclose any info that would actually put service members in danger, if the administration is falsely classifying info to protect itself politically, the Speech and Debate Clause is pretty much absolute protection for you on the floor of Congress.

I know this administration doesn’t respect the Constitution, but they’re not yet able to jail Senators without any sort of charges, and grand juries repeatedly rejected the charges against Senators Kelly and Slotkin. The law still offers some protection. You may want to use it at some point.

So we could have saved our killed and wounded military and saved our country BILLIONS of dollars by not starting this war?

Always.

Wow! Please impeach, convict, and remove the president.

trump was played by Netanyahu. He’s being used, and he’s destroying America, Iran, and any thought of allies in the Middle East or the rest of the world. Not to mention all the lives lost and the money wasted.

So, the war is a distraction from his dismal poll numbers and the Epstein files. Shocked.

So they devised a script that they thought would make good television but had no understanding of how that script would play out in the real world.

They think everyone is as stupid as MAGAs.

So, his plan on Iran is exactly the same as his healthcare plan?

“I obviously can't disclose classified info…” Actually, you can. There are certainly consequences for doing do, but there’s no law of physics saying you can’t.

Thank you for communicating with the American people. I wish more politicians would follow your example.

Meanwhile, your colleagues are busy trying to save Trump and the Republicans from themselves bsky.app/profile/pale...

As long as you and your colleagues continue to violate the Constitution for donald's benefit, you are responsible for everything donald and his goons do. Your hands are awash in the blood of donald's victims, Chris.

God help us all!

Thanks for confirming what most on the outside are seeing. bsky.app/profile/astr...

Yes. A clown show, as always.

THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY IS A COMPLETE FAILURE

I'm beginning to suspect the 'plan' is to disrupt/own Iranian #oil with the goal of making the EU's life harder or destabilising it. Especially viewed in conjunction with the far right support they're putting into the #EU. They see it as an emergent superpower and they don't want to share.

Thanks, Senator. We have no leadership at the top. We appreciate the congressman and senators who are stepping out now.

How do you make it through a two-hour briefing like that without turning into ?

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH

Thank you for sharing what you can Senator Murphy.

And as usual who pays ou who paid ? Children, who have never ask for something... just need to play, to laugh, and to grow up in security with their parent's love and attention... Trump & Netanyahu are murderers...

They’re children playing a video game they don’t live in reality

Reminds me of Covid days where he lied to the public about the severity of the virus and it’s spreading. He ran for president to beat the lawsuits against him. He doesn’t care about us. From Michigan.

Sat photos ain't looking good for US radar emplacenents. Unless these sites are unmanned, we aren't getting true casualty figures are we?

Like a solar cycle, the US is gonna spend another 20 years is the desert, paying with blood and accomplishing jack shit and burning a whole lot of money.

Just wondering what you’re planning on doing about this.

You absolutely can disclose classified information; walk over to the Senate floor.

Can someone hurry up and make him a NoBall Anti Peace Prize so he can go back to his rocking chair and watch reruns of Fox News.

Okay, so here’s the plan. The pushback is you then say, “What the hell is wrong with you?” Okay? Okay.

Here's what I can share: there is ZERO constitutional/legal/moral/strategic justification for Trump's unprovoked military attack or for the war crimes the US and Israeli militaries are committing on a daily basis.

I think it was on a BBC podcast, they put out the idea they think it was started to get Bibi re-elected since he comes back up in October and he his not very popular.

Your conviction to tackling what the hell is going on right now is so commendable 👏👏👏 It gives so many of us hope