Trump says he bombed Iran

[andy06shake]

Report coming in that Israel has had its last water desalination plant destroyed.

[Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpBBu3IzYmg]

Is this fella not AI-generated?

Something looks off(could just be me).

[putnam6]

Truth Outspoke is a very low-credibility YouTube channel that specializes in sensational, unverified breaking-news style videos about the ongoing 2026 Iran-Israel war. It lacks any established journalistic standards, transparent sourcing, or track record of accuracy.

youtube.com

[putnam6]

Is this what liberation looks like

https://x.com/mhdksafa/status/2038335958299345061?s=20

[Image: https://i.imgur.com/IZ8ZZHF.jpeg]

Well, yeah, in the dark, this is exactly how liberation looks.... think about the rats in the tunnels as the lights flicker off and on.

[DBCowboy]

Apparently, Trump may have as low as a 7% approval rating when it comes to boots on the ground...

https://www.aol.com/news/most-americans-...07818.html

So we conduct war based on social media likes"?

smdh

The populace has gotten dumber than I thought.

[Creaky]

Not this old bollox again?

Biden was senile, Harris was rubbish, but now is now.

Your Bone Spurs draft dodger is now POTUS and he is clearly a vindictive senile fool surrounded by sycophants who won't stand up to his BS.

Now is now but I wonder, would it play out any different no matter who was in the chair
I thought Trump was better for the US (ok, got it wrong maybe, if you want), but wouldn’t Kamala have done the same thing had she got in
The new Israeli canal to compete with the Suez has to go through the Straight of Hormuz, they have to clear Iran from control. 
Also was told Israel told Trump they would nuke Iran if he didn’t help, is that true
Anyway, looking like a poor outcome for everyone

[CriticalStinker]

So we conduct war based on social media likes"?

smdh

The populace has gotten dumber than I thought.

If we relied on the popular opinion of the American people I don’t think this war would have happened.

So no, we don’t. We don’t really follow the older rules for waging war either. Basically now the executive branch decides and Congress makes sure they don’t have to attach their names so they can run for reelection.

[andy06shake]

So we conduct war based on social media likes"?

smdh

The populace has gotten dumber than I thought.

 
Don't know about social media likes.

But if you wish to pretend Trump does not care about ratings, go right ahead...

[EXETER]

So we conduct war based on social media likes"?

No.  That was a Reuters/Ipsos poll. 

From their website:  "Reuters conducts public opinion polls in partnership with Ipsos  using online, probability-based panels to survey thousands of U.S. adults. They use address-based sampling to select participants, ensuring a representative sample that is weighted against Census data for demographics like age, race, and income."

On social media, the individuals select themselves to make their views known.  In a scientifically designed poll like the one being reported, the pollsters preselect the individuals to answer questions that the pollsters devise (so that everyone is responding to the same questions) and they make sure that the poll is large enough to have a statistically significant accuracy (usually to within a couple of percent) and they make sure that the sample accurately represents the demographics of the nation as a whole, and not just one particular special interest group.  

And if you are planning a new major war that is quite likely to be as long and expensive as the Iraq War, it's probably a good idea to have the legislators who are going to vote for it and the taxpayers who are going to pay for it, on board.

[DBCowboy]

If we relied on the popular opinion of the American people I don’t think this war would have happened.

So no, we don’t. We don’t really follow the older rules for waging war either. Basically now the executive branch decides and Congress makes sure they don’t have to attach their names so they can run for reelection.

If we relied on popular opinion, we'd still be British.

[CriticalStinker]

If we relied on popular opinion, we'd still be British.

And if we didn’t have wars in the Middle East there would be many trillions less in debt and many thousands of young Americans still alive.

The world is imperfect, humanity much less so.