… US Central Command: “3 US service members have been killed in action and 5 are seriously wounded as part of Operation Epic Fury. Several others sustained minor shrapnel injuries and concussions.
I spent 26 years in the U.S. Navy! I am boiling mad when I hear our supposed president say crap like…”Earlier today, CENTCOM shared the news that 3 US military service members have been killed in action. And sadly, there will likely be more before it ends. That’s the way it is. Likely be more.”
NO YOU SICK SOB! That is not “the way it is”! These soldiers would be alive today, probably happily at home with their families, if you hadn’t started this stupid war! YOU tore up the working nuclear treaty with Iran! YOU screwed over our allies! YOU LIED about Iran’s capabilities! YOU started Operation Epic FUBAR with no coherent plan and no realistic objectives, and now American Military Families are grieving the loss of their loved ones! And then you put out a poll asking citizens how many soldiers, sailors, and airmen could die in the conflict before they say Enough! Well here’s your answer you demented, incompetent, Draft Dodger…ZERO!!!
Bravo! I don’t know where you stand politically, but every single one of those who STILL support this demented criminal sack of dogshit should be saying the same thing. In exactly your words.
I'm haunted by the old question: What if we started a war but nobody came? The biggest horror of all has been to see how quickly the rich and powerful fold in the path of tyrants.
Europe’s response to the US-Israel strikes on Iran tells you everything.
They’re not silent because they don’t have opinions, they’re silent the way you go silent when someone on the street pulls out a knife and starts talking to themselves (I’m from chicago, I’ve seen this happen). You don’t engage. You cross the street. You make sure your own house is locked.
The United States has become that person, and Europe is backing away with the quiet, deliberate calm of someone who has stopped expecting the situation to resolve itself.
The strategic irony is that this accelerates exactly what Russia feared most:
a Europe that stops outsourcing its security and starts building its own.
Every reckless US move: launching a major combat operation against Iran while actively in nuclear negotiations with them, without allied consultation; is another argument for European defense autonomy. Russia bet on Western fragmentation. What it may get instead is a Europe that finally takes itself seriously, no longer anchored to an unpredictable partner.
The honest bottom line: America has spent the credibility it accumulated over 80 years in roughly 18 months. And Europe’s careful silence isn’t diplomatic caution…it’s what you sound like when you’ve stopped expecting someone to return to who they were.
🇨🇦Johan, we're all backing away from; 'America'. We're tired of being bullied by this; 'REGIME'. We have moved on to better trading partners. Ones that will not bully but accept what we have for what they have.
It has absolutely nothing to do with the American people. We like our neighbours and wish we could visit like used to before; 'dRump' was elected again in 2024.
Now they want to fingerprint us and take a mug picture of us and who knows where it ends up. Probably someone using our identity for fraud. It wouldn't surprise me at all.
No, we know what 'dRumph' is up to with this invasion on; 'IRAN'. Its called a diversion from the; 'TRUMPSTEIN, EPSTEIN, MAXWELL FILES'. If high ranking officials in Europe, are being named and resigning from their posts why isn't happening in; 'AMERICA'?
No one should be above the law. Not even the; 'Sitting President'. If they can do that to former; 'Pres. Clinton' they can do it for; 'dRumph.
We don't want to say good bye, but we don't have a choice.
You’re seeing it exactly right, and your country isn’t alone. Denmark prepared for war WITH the U.S. after Greenland threats. Europeans are building defense alternatives because American reliability became existential threat. Brain drain accelerating as talented people choose democracies that still function over oligarchic capture.
The fingerprinting/mug shots for visitors? That’s the regime treating allies like suspects while Trump properties get Saudi billions and UAE investments. Your instinct about the Epstein diversion is dead-on…UK arrests former prince within weeks of accessing files, Congress could force testimony, but DOJ says “move on to healthcare” while Trump bombs Iran.
This isn’t about American people vs the world. It’s about a captured regime using state apparatus for personal enrichment (Gulf monarchies literally purchased this Iran war through “investments”) while constitutional constraints evaporated. You’re protecting yourselves by diversifying away from unreliable partners—that’s just rational statecraft.
The tragedy: Americans who still believe in rule of law, democratic principles, international cooperation are trapped watching their government become what allies flee from. We don’t want you to go either. But we understand why you must.
Too many Americans' thinking is insular. They believe that things will go back to "normal" after the eventual regime change in Washington. They won't. Former friends and allies may continue making deals if it is in their interest. But the trust is gone, as is the goodwill. People don't forget betrayals.
Unfortunately, you're right. The Democrats (or even those RepubliCRAPS who aren't loyal to the Dump) can do all they can (government & otherwise) and try their hardest to "get things back to the way they were," but no matter how much 'fixing" is done, it will never be good like it was. Trump the Dump Deranged Psycho A**h*** has totally ruined EVERYTHING for us Americans--and actually, out allies (if they still are, that is), too..
I understand that Iran was supplying weaponry to Russia. If this is so, most likely Iran will stop that and keep their weapons for their own conflict. Good news for Ukraine if this is so.
I think/hope you are right that Europe, Canada, Mexico, Korea and all our former allies are quietly moving away. No need to get and shout about what you will do, just quietly do it. I think one quiet aspect of what is going on is the brain drain away from America...again, no big reports or news stories, just once in a while you will see a short story about highly educated folks leaving the US including doctors and nurses. They just do it quietly, no fanfare. But the impact on the US long term will be devastating. They will not come back.
Sadly, the UK is allowing the US to use its bases for this operation. This may help explain the strike in Cyprus and more may be coming. Starmer is the dumbest of the European leaders. Wish the Epstein saga would take him out.
The strikes in Cyprus weren’t retaliation for UK support…Cyprus hosts British sovereign bases but Iran struck there because it’s the nearest Western military infrastructure to Iranian territory.
Iran’s hitting everything within missile range: six Arab countries (Bahrain, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Jordan) plus US/UK bases across the region.
Starmer’s involvement is despicable, yes, Labour abandoning any pretense of independent foreign policy. He’s following the pattern: when Trump demands support, compliant governments provide it regardless of strategic sense or public opposition. France, Germany staying quieter mean they’re just more cautious about visible association with illegal regime change.
Bone Spurs: “The lives of American heroes may be lost, and we may have casualties - that often happens in war.”
They're heroes when you need them and losers when they're maimed and killed. When will MAGA wake up to who this evil, sick man is? A liar, a fraud, a chickenhawk, a cheapskate, a con man, a crook, a very low IQ individual further disabled by dementia, and a convicted sexual predator.
And I'm fucking tired of being owned by Netanyahu. We send them eighteen billion dollars a year while we cut benefits here. Just seriously fuck them. Netanyahu's son is living large in Florida. Send him home.
It's too bad the republiCRAPS didn't have Dump by those, too. They could end this if they were strong enough. Just imagine if they came to their senses and joined the Democrats in deposing this SOB.
They all know it in magatville, they are just too afraid to stand up to him because they will lose their super PAC money and his endorsement. Look what happened to Liz Chaney when she had the guts to stand up against him. These people are lifetime politicians and they know where their next pay check and bribe money comes from.
Lindsey Graham is a sick FUCK for saying what he said. He should go over and serve if this is such a noble cause. These Republicans aren’t sending their kids over there to get killed. And Trump should go tell the families of the 3 military members who were just killed “that’s the way it is”. Not sure that would go over well. What a soulless, uncaring, broken human being he is.
Graham has been a sick puppy for longer than I care to remember. Unfortunately, I do remember him going completely berserk during the Kavanaugh hearings when Kavanaugh was accused of sexual assault.
what the hell happened to him anyhow?Someone must have paid him well to turn tail I'm guessing or has some major dirt on him. He can go anytime. I hope he's up for election and loses bigly!
Your last story has been one that has driven me crazy for months! If that singer girlfriend is making money in her work she should have to pay for a security detail. The American people shouldn’t have to pay for her to make money!! Kashmir Patel is just one of all of this regime that is causing Waste, Fraud and Abuse of our tax dollars.
Somebody should pull Patel's coat and tell him she's only his girlfriend because of the perks he's lavishing on her—perks that he could never provide but for his unearned and undeserved position in a tyrannical govt.
She's NOT making money, she's a "singer" like Lara Trump is a "singer" no talent and not enough brains to recognise that. Patel must have been one of those guys that couldn't get a date in HS and is finally finally getting laid.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Fox: “If we lose anybody in this operation, they will die a noble death because they will have sacrificed their lives to make us safer here at home.”
So Lady G…how much time have you spent in the military (outside of a few one night stands with servicemen you picked up in a South Carolina bar)? As a retired military officer I will tell you point blank that people who wax poetic about a serviceman’s “Noble Death” have NEVER willingly put themselves anywhere near harm’s way! Shut the “F” Up about things you will never know anything about!
Oh, my. I learned that poem in school over 50 years ago, and it has stuck with me ever since. I hear it in my mind especially whenever the US goes to war. Thank you for quoting from it.
You should report also on the civilian casualties inflicted on Iran. Drop Site has reported on both a girl's school and a gym, neither of which had any obvious proximity to legitimate military targets, and in both of which cases the casualties were particularly vulnerable civilians:
Beyond the heartbreaking human cost, this is political stupidity, because what Iranian learning about this would have any trust to place in a US brokered regime change?
It isn't too difficult to figure out what is behind the attack on Iran. It was led by two aging men--one a convicted felon who fears prosecution if he is no longer the leader of his country and one whose criminal trial has been suspended while Isreal is at war. Both need the drama of a war to forestall consequences of their own apparent criminality if conflict ends. . And little girls in a school in Iran are dead because of it.
Add to that, Netanyahu has perfected the art of kissing Donnie's ass. He is so far up there that when trump yawns you can see his little face peeking out.
Ro Khanna: "I believe this is a betrayal of a decent chunk of the MAGA base.” Any rational person would think so, but the MAGA base won't care as long as they think this somehow furthers the agenda of "owning the libs" or "Iran is where WOKE goes to die."
But will they really lay it at his feet? My bet is they’ll find someone (perhaps a certain resident of Delaware) to blame. He is them. Except for the wealth and power.
I spent 26 years in the U.S. Navy! I am boiling mad when I hear our supposed president say crap like…”Earlier today, CENTCOM shared the news that 3 US military service members have been killed in action. And sadly, there will likely be more before it ends. That’s the way it is. Likely be more.”
NO YOU SICK SOB! That is not “the way it is”! These soldiers would be alive today, probably happily at home with their families, if you hadn’t started this stupid war! YOU tore up the working nuclear treaty with Iran! YOU screwed over our allies! YOU LIED about Iran’s capabilities! YOU started Operation Epic FUBAR with no coherent plan and no realistic objectives, and now American Military Families are grieving the loss of their loved ones! And then you put out a poll asking citizens how many soldiers, sailors, and airmen could die in the conflict before they say Enough! Well here’s your answer you demented, incompetent, Draft Dodger…ZERO!!!
Bravo! I don’t know where you stand politically, but every single one of those who STILL support this demented criminal sack of dogshit should be saying the same thing. In exactly your words.
I'm haunted by the old question: What if we started a war but nobody came? The biggest horror of all has been to see how quickly the rich and powerful fold in the path of tyrants.
Epic Fubar - 🎯
Thank you for your service. And your wise words. They have much deeper meaning from from someone who has served.
Europe’s response to the US-Israel strikes on Iran tells you everything.
They’re not silent because they don’t have opinions, they’re silent the way you go silent when someone on the street pulls out a knife and starts talking to themselves (I’m from chicago, I’ve seen this happen). You don’t engage. You cross the street. You make sure your own house is locked.
The United States has become that person, and Europe is backing away with the quiet, deliberate calm of someone who has stopped expecting the situation to resolve itself.
The strategic irony is that this accelerates exactly what Russia feared most:
a Europe that stops outsourcing its security and starts building its own.
Every reckless US move: launching a major combat operation against Iran while actively in nuclear negotiations with them, without allied consultation; is another argument for European defense autonomy. Russia bet on Western fragmentation. What it may get instead is a Europe that finally takes itself seriously, no longer anchored to an unpredictable partner.
The honest bottom line: America has spent the credibility it accumulated over 80 years in roughly 18 months. And Europe’s careful silence isn’t diplomatic caution…it’s what you sound like when you’ve stopped expecting someone to return to who they were.
🇨🇦Johan, we're all backing away from; 'America'. We're tired of being bullied by this; 'REGIME'. We have moved on to better trading partners. Ones that will not bully but accept what we have for what they have.
It has absolutely nothing to do with the American people. We like our neighbours and wish we could visit like used to before; 'dRump' was elected again in 2024.
Now they want to fingerprint us and take a mug picture of us and who knows where it ends up. Probably someone using our identity for fraud. It wouldn't surprise me at all.
No, we know what 'dRumph' is up to with this invasion on; 'IRAN'. Its called a diversion from the; 'TRUMPSTEIN, EPSTEIN, MAXWELL FILES'. If high ranking officials in Europe, are being named and resigning from their posts why isn't happening in; 'AMERICA'?
No one should be above the law. Not even the; 'Sitting President'. If they can do that to former; 'Pres. Clinton' they can do it for; 'dRumph.
We don't want to say good bye, but we don't have a choice.
You’re seeing it exactly right, and your country isn’t alone. Denmark prepared for war WITH the U.S. after Greenland threats. Europeans are building defense alternatives because American reliability became existential threat. Brain drain accelerating as talented people choose democracies that still function over oligarchic capture.
The fingerprinting/mug shots for visitors? That’s the regime treating allies like suspects while Trump properties get Saudi billions and UAE investments. Your instinct about the Epstein diversion is dead-on…UK arrests former prince within weeks of accessing files, Congress could force testimony, but DOJ says “move on to healthcare” while Trump bombs Iran.
This isn’t about American people vs the world. It’s about a captured regime using state apparatus for personal enrichment (Gulf monarchies literally purchased this Iran war through “investments”) while constitutional constraints evaporated. You’re protecting yourselves by diversifying away from unreliable partners—that’s just rational statecraft.
The tragedy: Americans who still believe in rule of law, democratic principles, international cooperation are trapped watching their government become what allies flee from. We don’t want you to go either. But we understand why you must.
And those of us Americans who get, get you, too. It's ok.
Elbows Up Canada! 🇨🇦
Europe isn't stupid enough to make themselves 'targets' by supporting a nebulous conflict rationale.
Yeah, exactly
Too many Americans' thinking is insular. They believe that things will go back to "normal" after the eventual regime change in Washington. They won't. Former friends and allies may continue making deals if it is in their interest. But the trust is gone, as is the goodwill. People don't forget betrayals.
Unfortunately, you're right. The Democrats (or even those RepubliCRAPS who aren't loyal to the Dump) can do all they can (government & otherwise) and try their hardest to "get things back to the way they were," but no matter how much 'fixing" is done, it will never be good like it was. Trump the Dump Deranged Psycho A**h*** has totally ruined EVERYTHING for us Americans--and actually, out allies (if they still are, that is), too..
I understand that Iran was supplying weaponry to Russia. If this is so, most likely Iran will stop that and keep their weapons for their own conflict. Good news for Ukraine if this is so.
Who can blame them?
I think/hope you are right that Europe, Canada, Mexico, Korea and all our former allies are quietly moving away. No need to get and shout about what you will do, just quietly do it. I think one quiet aspect of what is going on is the brain drain away from America...again, no big reports or news stories, just once in a while you will see a short story about highly educated folks leaving the US including doctors and nurses. They just do it quietly, no fanfare. But the impact on the US long term will be devastating. They will not come back.
Sadly, the UK is allowing the US to use its bases for this operation. This may help explain the strike in Cyprus and more may be coming. Starmer is the dumbest of the European leaders. Wish the Epstein saga would take him out.
The strikes in Cyprus weren’t retaliation for UK support…Cyprus hosts British sovereign bases but Iran struck there because it’s the nearest Western military infrastructure to Iranian territory.
Iran’s hitting everything within missile range: six Arab countries (Bahrain, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Jordan) plus US/UK bases across the region.
Starmer’s involvement is despicable, yes, Labour abandoning any pretense of independent foreign policy. He’s following the pattern: when Trump demands support, compliant governments provide it regardless of strategic sense or public opposition. France, Germany staying quieter mean they’re just more cautious about visible association with illegal regime change.
Release the rest of the EPSTEIN FILES.
EPSTEIN files yes.
WAR NO....
VOTE BLUE 💙 IN THE MID-TERMS.
IMPEACH TRUMP AND HIS ADMINISTRATION.
What Ray said!
Bone Spurs: “The lives of American heroes may be lost, and we may have casualties - that often happens in war.”
They're heroes when you need them and losers when they're maimed and killed. When will MAGA wake up to who this evil, sick man is? A liar, a fraud, a chickenhawk, a cheapskate, a con man, a crook, a very low IQ individual further disabled by dementia, and a convicted sexual predator.
And I'm fucking tired of being owned by Netanyahu. We send them eighteen billion dollars a year while we cut benefits here. Just seriously fuck them. Netanyahu's son is living large in Florida. Send him home.
Wanna bet he has dirt on Donnie from the Epstein files?
A B S O L U T E L Y.
Exactly. Two weeks ago I said that Netanyahu has Trump by the gonads and Trump will do whatever Netanyahu tells him to do.
It's too bad the republiCRAPS didn't have Dump by those, too. They could end this if they were strong enough. Just imagine if they came to their senses and joined the Democrats in deposing this SOB.
Those fuckers love what he’s doing.
Yes. They just prove over and over again how stupid and incompetent, and most of all, HATEFUL they are.
They all know it in magatville, they are just too afraid to stand up to him because they will lose their super PAC money and his endorsement. Look what happened to Liz Chaney when she had the guts to stand up against him. These people are lifetime politicians and they know where their next pay check and bribe money comes from.
Not in the least bit impressed with that argument. No excuse. Greedy seditionists.
That's how I see it too. THE LAW: 18 U.S. Code § 2384 – SEDITIOUS CONSPIRACY
If two or more persons in any State or Territory,
or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States,
- conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States,
- or to levy war against them,
- or to oppose by force the authority thereof,
- or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States,
- or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof,
they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.
They won’t. They will always blame someone else. Sorry to be so negative. Actually, i think it’s realistic.
Lindsey Graham is a sick FUCK for saying what he said. He should go over and serve if this is such a noble cause. These Republicans aren’t sending their kids over there to get killed. And Trump should go tell the families of the 3 military members who were just killed “that’s the way it is”. Not sure that would go over well. What a soulless, uncaring, broken human being he is.
graham cracker would shit his gay little panties the first time an Iranian missile blew up anywhere near him!!!
Graham has been a sick puppy for longer than I care to remember. Unfortunately, I do remember him going completely berserk during the Kavanaugh hearings when Kavanaugh was accused of sexual assault.
Yeah, I remember that. The spit was flying out of his snarling mouth.
I would add Fetterman to that sick FUCK list too.
what the hell happened to him anyhow?Someone must have paid him well to turn tail I'm guessing or has some major dirt on him. He can go anytime. I hope he's up for election and loses bigly!
I am hoping he gets voted out in November
He is in office till 2028
I thought he was running again in November
Your last story has been one that has driven me crazy for months! If that singer girlfriend is making money in her work she should have to pay for a security detail. The American people shouldn’t have to pay for her to make money!! Kashmir Patel is just one of all of this regime that is causing Waste, Fraud and Abuse of our tax dollars.
Somebody should pull Patel's coat and tell him she's only his girlfriend because of the perks he's lavishing on her—perks that he could never provide but for his unearned and undeserved position in a tyrannical govt.
Nailed it!!!
I'm right there with you Sally.
She's NOT making money, she's a "singer" like Lara Trump is a "singer" no talent and not enough brains to recognise that. Patel must have been one of those guys that couldn't get a date in HS and is finally finally getting laid.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Fox: “If we lose anybody in this operation, they will die a noble death because they will have sacrificed their lives to make us safer here at home.”
So Lady G…how much time have you spent in the military (outside of a few one night stands with servicemen you picked up in a South Carolina bar)? As a retired military officer I will tell you point blank that people who wax poetic about a serviceman’s “Noble Death” have NEVER willingly put themselves anywhere near harm’s way! Shut the “F” Up about things you will never know anything about!
Wilfred Owen got it right:
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues, –
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.
(From "Dulce et Decorum Est")
Oh, my. I learned that poem in school over 50 years ago, and it has stuck with me ever since. I hear it in my mind especially whenever the US goes to war. Thank you for quoting from it.
Huh! The noble death cry of American soldiers as they sacrifice themselves for the glory of Herr Trump ; MAGA Akbar. L.G. is one real sick MOFO.
can’t ever relax until i get my ron filipkowski succinct daily news update.
i also am obsessed with his trolling on X. he is the only reason i check my account every day and be sure to thumbs up his posts.
thank you for your great service, ron.
I love it when he trolls! 🤣 He cracks me up 🤣
Me too Joanne!
SO agree with you Steph!
Let's call it what it is...Operation Epstein Fury.
Right?! Exactly!! #operationepsteinfury
Trump and his sycophants are way out of their league, and innocent Americans are paying the price.
Regarding casualties:
You should report also on the civilian casualties inflicted on Iran. Drop Site has reported on both a girl's school and a gym, neither of which had any obvious proximity to legitimate military targets, and in both of which cases the casualties were particularly vulnerable civilians:
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/iran-minab-elementary-girls-school-bombing-schoolgirls-killed-us-israel-war
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/iran-lamerd-sports-hall-teenage-girls-killed-us-israel-war
Beyond the heartbreaking human cost, this is political stupidity, because what Iranian learning about this would have any trust to place in a US brokered regime change?
What person anywhere on the planet would have any trust in the US government after these traitors are done.
It isn't too difficult to figure out what is behind the attack on Iran. It was led by two aging men--one a convicted felon who fears prosecution if he is no longer the leader of his country and one whose criminal trial has been suspended while Isreal is at war. Both need the drama of a war to forestall consequences of their own apparent criminality if conflict ends. . And little girls in a school in Iran are dead because of it.
Can't forget the fact our tyrant is planning to steal the 2026/8 elections; he will not hesitate to use the war and chaos he causes as an excuse.
Of course you are correct. Stopping the election is part of his scheme to avoid accountability.
Add to that, Netanyahu has perfected the art of kissing Donnie's ass. He is so far up there that when trump yawns you can see his little face peeking out.
Bring our troops home! No more war!!
Release the rest of the EPSTEIN FILES.
EPSTEIN files yes.
WAR NO....
VOTE BLUE 💙 IN THE MID-TERMS.
IMPEACH TRUMP AND HIS ADMINISTRATION.
… Tucker Carlson: “Everyone knows we’re having this war because Israel wants it.”
And Israel has some Epstein dirt on Donnie Dumpster.
What critical information in this post. Thank you Meidas. It’s a must read, more than once.
Ro Khanna: "I believe this is a betrayal of a decent chunk of the MAGA base.” Any rational person would think so, but the MAGA base won't care as long as they think this somehow furthers the agenda of "owning the libs" or "Iran is where WOKE goes to die."
They might change their minds when their gas prices and utilities skyrocket and their huge health insurance premiums and closed hospitals hit them.
But will they really lay it at his feet? My bet is they’ll find someone (perhaps a certain resident of Delaware) to blame. He is them. Except for the wealth and power.