US threaten Iran with pre-emptive strike

god can this shit just fuckin stop

Pompous white dudes getting lots of air time tonight

Can we fire them at Iran?

Fuck everything about this.

Ok finally a decent commentator: Cal Perry reporting from Doha (on Chris Hayes a few minutes ago)

But yeah fuck everything about this

This sucks.

It’s not the law that you have to watch tv

Iran is saying that if there is no retaliation from America for these latest attacks then they will stop attacking. But if America attacks then their response will be crushing and wide spread. #iran #soleimani #war

— Ali Arouzi (@aliarouzi) January 8, 2020

On the plus side, Trump is a coward, so maybe he will back down. On the other hand, Trump is an ignorant asshole, so probably he won't.

Not everyone on TV sucks. Some better, more meaningfully critical voices on Hayes now

Trump has an opportunity to walk away and claim to have killed "America's greatest enemy" or whatever with no loss of American lives. It could be a huge PR coup for him, most likely, and we would all hate to see that, but it's the "best" outcome we can hope for at this point.

"Iran is saying"

who is saying?

Hayes is often the only atoll of sanity on MSNBC.

Reminder that as this crisis escalates, we have no Director of National Intelligence, no Dep Dir, no Homeland Security Secretary, no Dep Sec, no head of CBP or ICE, no State Dept Under Sec of Arms Control, no Asst Sec for Europe, and no Navy Sec.

— Garrett M. Graff (@vermontgmg) January 8, 2020

“atoll “... nice. I will borrow that

Venmo me the residuals.

btw I’d like to start learning Farsi. Anyone here know some good resources for this?

twitter

everyone is an expert on everything there, it's amazing

Trump has an opportunity to walk away and claim to have killed "America's greatest enemy" or whatever with no loss of American lives. It could be a huge PR coup for him, most likely, and we would all hate to see that, but it's the "best" outcome we can hope for at this point.

― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Tuesday, January 7, 2020 7:04 PM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i hope that he, as a coward who loves praise, lives up to this

I've rarely seen Rachel Maddow this PISSED.

Is that a songbird from courtly Persian poetry?

Xxxp

Maddow's drunk?

okay, "ANGRY".

Conference of the twits iirc.

2xp

They got Farsi on Duolingo.

i hope that he, as a coward who loves praise, lives up to this

It would be maddeningly difficult for a Dem opponent to counter without seeming like a pussy who's not willing to make the GUTSY moves to keep America safe, too.

phew - good sign

Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham says a minute ago that POTUS will NOT address nation tonight. https://t.co/yGsOwXziTu

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) January 8, 2020

I’ll start there , then xp

lol i'm gonna stop paying attention to this fucking thread xp

He will address the nation at 5 am from the toilet instead

I am absolutely checked out, outside of trying to attend an anti-war march tomorrow, but allow me to give you: the trump hotels in iraq

If something happens to the Trump hotels in Iraq then she should resign.

— Ryan Patrick Casey (@realryancasey) January 8, 2020

It’s like.

Even the “good” TV journalists are working under a model where the whole objective is to make you anxious to the point of nausea so you’ll leave the TV on. What can it profit you to watch people not know what’s going to happen when you can find out tomorrow what has happened

Richard Engel is saying that it’s likely the attacks haven’t resulted in as much damage as originally feared. maybe the US won’t respond

if you're reading replies to fox and friends tweets then it's time to log out, sorry mh it's just the truth

Idk if people are just nostalgic bc of Good Night and Good Luck or Frost/Nixon or something, the only thing cable news has ever been good for was Anderson Cooper playing with a magic pie chart

The postponement of the address to the nation opens a window for Ivanka to change the course of world history

lol, i got "dude come on" twice in 10 minutes, time for me to log off twitter for the night

I'm watching Unsolved Mysteries on Amazon, y'all should do the same.

btw if any of you ever want me to log off ilx for the night, those are my trigger words. you must not type anything else

xp

it does have perhaps the greatest theme song of all time...it's tempting!

Remembering that for later. Go touch your dog, Karl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwAG-DnWhiY

I started studying Farsi already , so please do not disturb

just watched The Blood of a Poet and started Amarcord

I would say chances are very slim Trump doesn't retaliate.

well with the talk of the damage/casualties it does suddenly seem rather plausible that he would just lie his ass off about how ineffectual their missiles were and then do some other kind of bullshit

90% sure the “trump hotels in Iraq” tweet was meant as parody by the tweeter and I appreciated it

if not, still appreciate