US threaten Iran with pre-emptive strike

"Bases destroyed! All good!"

Trump's been offered an out. I do wonder if a handful of hits, hurting a few Iraqi airmen but (reportedly) no US service members at an Iraqi airbase, will sate anger of Iranian leadership or public.

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

if not, still appreciate

― babu frik fan account (mh), Tuesday, January 7, 2020 7:45 PM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

oh lol yeah sorry mh, the world is so screwy i no longer know a joke when i see one

I hate reading his tweets but that doesn't sound too ominous

So far, so good!

what the ever loving fuck

someone should have explained to Trump that he was targeting the most beautiful Iranian general, maybe then he’d understand the level of loss and the stakes

Everyone is dunking on a tweet that says

“#BREAKING: Iranian missile attack resulted in casualties among Iraqis only — Pentagon”

as if the tweet were directly from the pentagon. Seriously, I must log off

was that the spectator index one? afaik that account should be banned, because no one has figured out who posts that shit or who runs the site, it’s pure professional-looking bullshit that has absolutely no bio or info on who they are

No, it was some Israeli journalist

excited to see how many casualties = 'so far, so good!'

Go touch your dog, Karl

otm

My dog is currently howling an upbeat version of the christian classic “he touched me”

No sweat, dudes: Amy Klobuchar is giving a statement.

hotdish aunt?

she's going over there with a fork

Hotdish is served with a spoon

swore it was a comb

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/07/middleeast/plane-crash-iran-intl-hnk/index.html

seems bad

A Boeing 737 plane carrying 180 passengers and crew crashed shortly after takeoff...

This is the same model of plane that has been widely grounded after two horrible crashes shortly after takeoff about a year ago and Boeing has suspended production bcz it hasn't been certified as safe to fly even after months of trying to fix it.

iirc those were just the MAX planes, not all boeing 737s

still seems bad

boeing 737: america's most formidable killing machine

still actually bad, though sure I'm overcooking it vav the current hostilities

If there were systematic problems with the 737-800 of the sort that the Max has there’d be a lot more crashes, there’s many thousands of 737s in service.

right. it is not the same model.

The connection of Ukraine (their plane) and Iran is going to blow some tiny conspiratorial minds.

Also an minor earthquake near the nuclear enrichment facility. No evidence that either of these events have any connection with current events but the most feverish of minds are bubbling.

Among the plane’s passengers were 82 Iranians, 63 Canadians, 11 Ukrainians (two passengers and nine crew), 10 Swedish people, four people from Afghanistan, three from Germany and three from the United Kingdom.

(agreed it's not likely it's to do w/ this in any way, but thought I'd share since it was mentioned)

hmmm makes u think

Just a few years ago, CNN was praising Qassem #Soleimani for being the driving force behind the defeat of ISIS.

Today they call him a “terrorist” and expect you to believe them. pic.twitter.com/dfzlMktYdj

— Sarah Abdallah (@sahouraxo) January 7, 2020

good thing we stopped that imminent attack on americans, right guys?

Turns out even when you kill the Mastermind someone else can come up with the idea to fire rockets at stuff

https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2020/01/07/neither-washington-nor-tehran/

"Liberal" MSNBC guest Gen. McCaffery: "Our only good response at this point is an overwhelming dominance of air and naval power that can be employed against the Iranian homeland" pic.twitter.com/SMDZ9SRm2n

— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) January 8, 2020

If this is the same Gen. McCaffrey who ordered the “turkey shoot” massacre of retreating Iraqi troops at the close of the Gulf War then I’m not surprised.

Still...

This is the kind of person that gets a hard-on looking at Picasso’s Guernica

sorry folks, the ratings are in. in terms of the general internet's reaction to the bombings last night, we all received a score of F-. We're all going to die now. not because of iran, but because of our bad score

if you dig into the splits you can see that ILX actually performed quite well, receiving a median B+ rating from the panel, with most deductions related to me whining about twitter and sanpaku inciting panic under the guise of certainty about the near future. but ILX did much better than most other sectors of the internet. regardless, because of the total score, we are all going to die now

fuckface to address nation in a few minutes

i've been on record about this for some time tbf xp

he can't come to the podium right now, has to flush 15 times

BREAKING: The Pentagon has deployed a small team of emotional support golden retrievers to patrol the building this morning. God Bless America.

— Meghann Myers (@Meghann_MT) January 8, 2020

*distant eagle cry*

whatever Trump says, I'm sure the gist will be "I'm a great leader who has done a brilliant job".

I tried watching his statement but he is spacing his words out so weirdly and sounds out of breath, gist before I switched off is that they’re not pursuing further action at this time?

yes, sounds like no escalation at this time. good news.

fuckin phew

'Last week we eliminated the world’s top terrorist'

If you say so, Donny.

he's not wrong but whatever

god he is so zonked out

this bullshit fucking talking point that we "gave" them money is so untrue and pathetic

how is it untrue? bc we "owed" it to them? we still "gave" it to them.