Is this really the rallying cry the Repubs want to coalesce around?

[Mac1958]

Trump gave them far more when he eased sanctions on oil transfers

And Iran doesn’t look to be collapsing any time soon

All they have to do is survive this, and they win.

Don't be surprised to see some of our former friends making deals with them.

Meanwhile, our standing & credibility in the world are only continuing to decay.

 

[berg80]

Meanwhile, our standing & credibility in the world are only continuing to decay.

Because trump is ushering in our decline with haste.

America Is Officially an Empire in Decline​

The American-Israeli attack on Iran was more than a bad idea; it has turned into a watershed in the decline of the American empire. Some might prefer the word “hegemony” to describe the world order the United States leads, since its flag does not generally fly over the lands it protects or exploits. But the rules are the same: Imperial systems, whatever you call them, last only as long as their means are adequate to their ends. And with the Iran war, President Trump has overextended the empire dangerously.

A Middle Eastern military misadventure is one of the last ways a casual observer would have expected Mr. Trump’s presidency to go wrong. The problems he alluded to in all three of his presidential campaigns had mostly resulted from our leaders’ governing beyond their means. At home, proponents of wokeness underestimated the costs and difficulties of micromanaging interactions between groups. Abroad, the mighty American armed forces proved to have no particular talent for democracy promotion, and there was the recent debacle in Iraq to prove it. Overextension was a danger that President Joe Biden contemptuously dismissed. “We’re the United States of America,” he used to say, “and there’s nothing we can’t do.”

Mr. Trump, people thought, would be different. For all the grandiosity of the expression “Make America great again,” Trump voters did not expect him to take on new problems. The greatness would be mostly atmospheric — braggadocio, not adventurism. The United States could become greater even if it withdrew to a less expansive sphere of influence. When he proclaimed an updated Monroe Doctrine, refocusing American attention on the Western Hemisphere, retrenchment was what most people thought they were getting. In last November’s National Security Strategy, he added, “The days in which the Middle East dominated American foreign policy in both long-term planning and day-to-day execution are thankfully over.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/03/opinion/iran-us-empire.html

 

[Hafar1014]

MAD!

Thats Wash DC exploding after Iran bombs it. Now thats not going to happen. Iran thanks you for your support

 

[Lockback]

More Trump-hate. More wanking in public.
Yawn.

 

[Mac1958]

Because trump is ushering in our decline with haste.

America Is Officially an Empire in Decline​

The American-Israeli attack on Iran was more than a bad idea; it has turned into a watershed in the decline of the American empire. Some might prefer the word “hegemony” to describe the world order the United States leads, since its flag does not generally fly over the lands it protects or exploits. But the rules are the same: Imperial systems, whatever you call them, last only as long as their means are adequate to their ends. And with the Iran war, President Trump has overextended the empire dangerously.

A Middle Eastern military misadventure is one of the last ways a casual observer would have expected Mr. Trump’s presidency to go wrong. The problems he alluded to in all three of his presidential campaigns had mostly resulted from our leaders’ governing beyond their means. At home, proponents of wokeness underestimated the costs and difficulties of micromanaging interactions between groups. Abroad, the mighty American armed forces proved to have no particular talent for democracy promotion, and there was the recent debacle in Iraq to prove it. Overextension was a danger that President Joe Biden contemptuously dismissed. “We’re the United States of America,” he used to say, “and there’s nothing we can’t do.”

Mr. Trump, people thought, would be different. For all the grandiosity of the expression “Make America great again,” Trump voters did not expect him to take on new problems. The greatness would be mostly atmospheric — braggadocio, not adventurism. The United States could become greater even if it withdrew to a less expansive sphere of influence. When he proclaimed an updated Monroe Doctrine, refocusing American attention on the Western Hemisphere, retrenchment was what most people thought they were getting. In last November’s National Security Strategy, he added, “The days in which the Middle East dominated American foreign policy in both long-term planning and day-to-day execution are thankfully over.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/03/opinion/iran-us-empire.html

I'll forever blame his enablers for this. From craven congressional Republicans to his shameless Cabinet to his sycophantic WH staff to the ignorant, Dunning-Kruger useful idiots in the street.

This is even pulling apart American families as we speak. This attempt to turn us into a theocratic neofascist state is really happening. Reality is hitting home now.

 

[Lockback]

I'll forever blame his enablers for this. From craven congressional Republicans to his shameless Cabinet to his sycophantic WH staff to the ignorant, Dunning-Kruger useful idiots in the street.

This is even pulling apart American families as we speak. This attempt to turn us into a theocratic neofascist state is really happening. Reality is hitting home now.

You drama queens are really phuxking tiresome.

 

[Harry Dresden]

I'll forever blame his enablers for this. From craven congressional Republicans to his shameless Cabinet to his sycophantic WH staff to the ignorant, Dunning-Kruger useful idiots in the street.

This is even pulling apart American families as we speak. This attempt to turn us into a theocratic neofascist state is really happening. Reality is hitting home now.

run and hide mac, like you do in this forum...

 

[BlindBoo]

Thats Wash DC exploding after Iran bombs it. Now thats not going to happen. Iran thanks you for your support

Mutually Assured Destruction.

The Neo GOP thanks you.

 

[Hafar1014]

Mutually Assured Destruction.

The Neo GOP thanks you.

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Not in this case we wont nuke the Iranians people. What we will have is conventional war.

 

[berg80]

I'll forever blame his enablers for this. From craven congressional Republicans to his shameless Cabinet to his sycophantic WH staff to the ignorant, Dunning-Kruger useful idiots in the street.

This is even pulling apart American families as we speak. This attempt to turn us into a theocratic neofascist state is really happening. Reality is hitting home now.

The most frustrating aspect of trumpery is its spread is a self-inflicted wound with......
From craven congressional Republicans to his shameless Cabinet to his sycophantic WH staff to the ignorant, Dunning-Kruger useful idiots in the street.........dragging the rest of us down with them.

As they say, a chain is only as strong as its weakest link. trumples are the glaring weakness.

 

[Hafar1014]

The most frustrating aspect of trumpery is its spread is a self-inflicted wound with......
From craven congressional Republicans to his shameless Cabinet to his sycophantic WH staff to the ignorant, Dunning-Kruger useful idiots in the street.........dragging the rest of us down with them.

As they say, a chain is only as strong as its weakest link. trumples are the glaring weakness.

These are the moinds of those TRump forces to face the failure of their beliefs. Bidens 4 years wasnt enough