Trump says a whole civilization will die tonight. I think he’s not going to do much of anything other than increase the bombing and mass murder he’s done for 5 weeks now.
Anyway...
We always hear from MAGA...
“he was just kidding'
“nobody could have taken him seriously when he said ________"
“you guys fall for his negotiating strategy every time"
I was curious how the spin is going to go when we go into this weekend with the quagmire still in place (mind you, today is Tuesday). Trump will get nothing accomplished outside of mass murder which is all we’re doing to Iran at this point.
So there are some choices up there for you to consider as the 8PM Eastern deadline looms.
Iran's regime calls on civilians to shield power plants as Trump threatens "a whole civilization" with destruction if Tehran doesn't reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
www.cbsnews.com
Trump was asked if Americans should be concerned about potential retaliatory attacks that could take place on US soil. "I guess," Trump responded. "But I think they’re worried about that all the time. We think about it all the time. We plan for it. But yeah, you know, we expect some things. Like I said, some people will die. When you go to war, some people will die."
a reporter asked President
Donald Trump if he believes God supports the United States’ actions in its war on Iran.
“I do, because God is good,” Trump said. “And God wants to see people taken care of. God doesn’t like what’s happening. I don’t like what’s happening.”
And remember they said Biden didn't protect every single American when he got out of Afghanistan? And 13 people died?
Americans struggling to evacuate Middle East say State Dept. unhelpful
Abbass saw the headlines and started seeing video from social media the weekend the war started. But neither she nor her sister had received any direct communication from the U.S. State Department.
By March 2, she was still hearing "loud booms" overhead, so she enrolled in the
STEP program, a free service for U.S. citizens and nationals so that the State Department can contact them in case of an emergency. On the
MyTravel.gov website, one of the benefits of the program is to "Help the embassy or consulate contact you if there's an emergency like a natural disaster, civil unrest, or a family emergency."
Although she still had not been contacted directly, she said, she saw on social media that the U.S. government was urging Americans to evacuate certain countries in the Middle East, including the UAE.
In the
social media post, it gave two numbers for Americans who needed emergency assistance. One of the phone numbers listed did not work internationally. She said the other led to recorded messages which offered no instructions on how to get out.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters on March 3 that his department would help everyone who needed it.
"We are confident that we are going to be able to assist every American, as I told you, right now, we have about a little over 1,500, maybe closer to 1,600 Americans requesting assistance," Rubio said. "And we know that we're going to be able to help them. It's going to take a little time because we don't control the airspace closures."
Imagine if Biden did this???
"It took 11 days of conflict for the State Department to contact me. That’s disappointing, to say the least," Abbass said.
"The U.S. government did not help us at all even though they’re saying they are on the news,"
The letter
demanded an explanation as to how the State Department planned to ensure the safety of Americans before the start of the war.
They didn't!!!
"The Department under your direction did not prioritize getting Americans out of the conflict area or sufficiently preparing U.S. embassies and personnel for the consequences of
President Trump’s decision to begin the war on February 28," Meeks wrote. "It was not until March 2 that Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs Mora Namdar posted on X for Americans to, 'DEPART NOW … using available commercial transportation' from 14 countries. But by that time, commercial flights had largely stopped across the region, leaving Americans stranded. The conflicting messaging telling Americans to leave without means of evacuation sowed mass confusion."
Meeks also argued that the department could have
raised travel advisories to Level 4 weeks before the campaign started so that diplomats and American citizens could leave.
In a post shared on X, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, also criticized the Trump administration.
"Evacuation warnings were issued three days into the war, with airspace shut down and no U.S. government flights in place," Schumer wrote. "This is what happens when you recklessly gut the State Department under DOGE and rush into a war with no plan."
When
President Donald Trump was asked why there wasn't a
plan in place to evacuate Americans, he responded, "Because it happened all very quickly."
Yea, just like how Biden got us out of Afghanistan.
And they DOGE'd the State Department of the kinds of people who would help Americans abroad like this. 1300 of them.
