US War Against Iran to Benefit Israel Now Costs $100bn
The unconstitutional US war against the people of Iran to benefit Israel will now cost the peace-loving, hardworking American taxpayer $100bn.
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Donald Trump's war with Iran has cost American households $100 billion -- so far. That's nearly $750 per household. -- Elizabeth Warren (@warren.senate.gov) 4:09 PM · Jun 1, 2026
Donald Trump's war with Iran has cost American households $100 billion -- so far. That's nearly $750 per household.
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Thanks a bunch Bibi, Miriam, AIPAC, mega-oligarchs, and Dummkopf Trumpf!
US Debt Clock: Irrational Islamophobia Has Bankrupted the US Economically and Morally
#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-06-03 01:42 AM | Reply | Funny: 1
US midterm elections are scheduled for Tuesday 3 Nov 2026.
#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-06-03 04:44 AM | Reply
#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-06-03 05:18 AM | Reply
40,000 pro-Israel trolls target Americans online 24/7 with PSYOP.
Todah rabah for highlighting my OP as "FUNNY."
Every little bit helps, Moishe.
FYI: Many Americans don't think that it's "FUNNY" that they are subsidizing Israel's world class universal healthcare system while they are going broke with the BBB and our for-profit system or sending Israel billions of dollars every year to butcher people wholesale.
#4 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-06-03 05:30 AM | Reply
The US has the most billionaires on the planet: 609
Israel has 42, one of the largest per capita ratios, since their population is 9.8m people.
But it is the hoi polloi who are the ones paying for this catastrophe, not the mega-oligarchs who are laughing their way through this quagmire, insouciant of medical bills, fuel costs, pollution created, or human lives lost.
"Ha ha ha, ho ho ho!"
#5 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-06-03 06:33 AM | Reply
#5 Flag:
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#6 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-06-03 08:47 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
#4 Flag:
#7 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-06-03 08:48 AM | Reply
FACT CHECK:
CLAIM: 40,000 pro-Israel trolls target Americans online 24/7 with PSYOPS RATING: TRUE
CLAIM: A FRIEND (DEMOCRAT) & RF4B (LIBERTARIAN) are actually PRO-ISRAEL PSY-OPS RATING: ABSOLUTELY TRUE
#8 | Posted by pumpkinhead at 2026-06-03 11:22 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2
Creepy Trolls making Comments to influence American thinking.
Hasbara.
Israel is not our Friend.
They have No Friends, only Victims and Accomplices.
Everything is filtered through, "What's Good for, The Jews".
Tribalism, at it's most Extreme and Destuctive.
#9 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-06-03 11:38 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
Cost of US attacking Iran for Israel's benefit will reach $101bn by the end of the day.
I'm glad Israelis all enjoy world class universal healthcare and are fielding political candidates from both parties in hundreds of races throughout the US while we suffer with the BBB and astronomical gas and grocery prices.
Perennial AIPAC and Likud rule await America.
#10 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-06-03 02:37 PM | Reply
Look how long A. Fiend has been operating on drudge.com as an Israeli PSYOP agent.
Drudge.com Stats Page:
A Friend
Seniority: 27
Private E-mail No Home Page
Joined 2005/09/21 Visited 2026/06/02
~snip~
This drudge.com account was one of the earliest taken by the Israelis 21 years ago.
Ariel Sharon, architect of the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre, was Israeli PM in 2005.
Two decades of writing "You're good people."
One wonders how many Israelis share this account or have passed it down since 21 Sep 2005.
"Here, Shlomo, you take over, I'm a little veklempt."
#11 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-06-03 03:11 PM | Reply
#11 Flag:
#12 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-06-03 05:16 PM | Reply
#13 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-06-03 05:18 PM | Reply
#14 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-06-03 05:20 PM | Reply
#15 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-06-03 05:22 PM | Reply
This fevered hallucination was actually spewed out in real time:
#11 "This drudge.com account was one of the earliest taken by the Israelis 21 years ago."
Would someone be so kind as to alert our host of this mole in his ranks... for 21 years, no less!!
21 years ! ! ! !
What to do?
Postscript: Apparently, posting to someone You're good people is the definitive giveaway here. Who knew?
And here I thought I was just supporting those on my side of the aisle.
#16 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-06-03 05:38 PM | Reply
"We... *sniffle* shouldn't burden or children with debt *cries*" - unless it's for endless war.
#17 | Posted by Derek_Wildstar at 2026-06-04 01:28 PM | Reply
Look how long A. Fiend has been operating on drudge.com as an Israeli PSYOP agent. Drudge.com Stats Page: A Friend Seniority: 27 Private E-mail No Home Page Joined 2005/09/21 Visited 2026/06/02 Status: user ~snip~ This drudge.com account was one of the earliest taken by the Israelis 21 years ago. Ariel Sharon, architect of the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre, was Israeli PM in 2005. Two decades of writing "You're good people." One wonders how many Israelis share this account or have passed it down since 21 Sep 2005. "Here, Shlomo, you take over, I'm a little veklempt." #11 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-06-03 03:11 PM
GZLIVES Seniority: 39 Private E-mail No Home Page Joined 2005/05/25 Visited 2013/06/16 Status: user
#18 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2026-06-04 02:52 PM | Reply
@18
#19 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-06-04 03:56 PM | Reply
Corio, a spam-bot is a spam-bot, even if it is human. I am the unfortunate bearer of a peculiar form of Spidey-sense, so I get a tingling sensation when certain types of spam-bots are around. The right-wingers are easiest to spot and deconstruct. But if they are from the liberal side, it is more of a challenge. Still, I have a specific profile in mind when I encounter them online. It's a pretty disturbing profile.
One thing that always comes into my mind is that they wear suspenders, lol!
#20 | Posted by Nerfherder at 2026-06-04 09:25 PM | Reply
#20 Then it is a dammed good thing that I don't wear suspenders, Nerfherder.
Caius Marcius Coriolanus, a brilliant but arrogant soldier who excels in battle but is contemptuous of the plebeians (common people). Coriolanus is a Shakespearean tragedy about a proud Roman general, Caius Marcius Coriolanus, who despises the common people and is banished from Rome, leading him to join his enemies to attack his own city before being stopped by his mother and ultimately killed. The play explores themes of class conflict, political ambition, pride, and the tension between the individual and the state, and is considered one of Shakespeare's last tragedies, written around 1607-1608.
Coriolanus is a Shakespearean tragedy about a proud Roman general, Caius Marcius Coriolanus, who despises the common people and is banished from Rome, leading him to join his enemies to attack his own city before being stopped by his mother and ultimately killed. The play explores themes of class conflict, political ambition, pride, and the tension between the individual and the state, and is considered one of Shakespeare's last tragedies, written around 1607-1608.
#21 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-06-04 09:27 PM | Reply
#20 Flag:
#22 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-06-04 09:53 PM | Reply
#18
And who can forget LZT, who could see Lake Erie from her apartment in Chicago? 8-Year-Old Football Players Kneel During Anthem | Drudge Retort www.drudge.com 10 of 22 09/21/2017, 05:58 #67 | Posted by A_Friend at 2017-09-20 02:59 PM | Reply | Flag: GZLives. Seem to remember he lived in Boston. #64 | POSTED BY A_Friend I thought it was New York, but he definitely lived in a big city. It could have been Boston. He was politically left on most issues back then, except when the topic of Israel came up, then he sounded like a rwinger. He had some interesting discussions with Joe Soap. #68 | Posted by JeffJ at 2017-09-20 03:01 PM | Reply | Flag: Then there's this DR classic poster/post (was my first archived post): "...worthless piece of ---..." - "...his butt boy..." - "Waste of time piece of ---." - "...libcom ----..." - "...brainf*cking all the braindead..." - "...brainf*cking rampage..." - "...commie boy's ass..." - "...pants pissing pieces of --- traitors...Posted by rightnut at 2005-06-24 08:35 PM #69 | Posted by A_Friend at 2017-09-20 03:01 PM | Reply | Flag: #67
GZLives. Seem to remember he lived in Boston. #64 | POSTED BY A_Friend
I thought it was New York, but he definitely lived in a big city. It could have been Boston.
He was politically left on most issues back then, except when the topic of Israel came up, then he sounded like a rwinger. He had some interesting discussions with Joe Soap. #68 | Posted by JeffJ at 2017-09-20 03:01 PM | Reply | Flag:
Then there's this DR classic poster/post (was my first archived post): "...worthless piece of ---..." - "...his butt boy..." - "Waste of time piece of ---." - "...libcom ----..." - "...brainf*cking all the braindead..." - "...brainf*cking rampage..." - "...commie boy's ass..." - "...pants pissing pieces of --- traitors...Posted by rightnut at 2005-06-24 08:35 PM #69 | Posted by A_Friend at 2017-09-20 03:01 PM | Reply | Flag: #67
#23 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-06-04 10:03 PM | Reply
Then there was poor "Teenager". That kid spent 3 full days getting beaten up by the lefties - just quit the site after that drubbing. #70 | Posted by JeffJ at 2017-09-20 03:03 PM | Reply | Flag: Don't forget the trio of: Jackass, Rex and Horace. #71 | Posted by JeffJ at 2017-09-20 03:03 PM | Reply | Flag: Box and Lurch were one and the same. Zat had a prior name as well, I forget what it was. #72 | Posted by Rightocenter at 2017-09-20 03:05 PM | Reply | Flag: There was also Dirtyrightboy. Also, there was the hilarious post by that dude who claimed he set his own fractures and that people would get knocked down when they shook his hand. Laura Hans'ed that one. #73 | Posted by JeffJ at 2017-09-20 03:05 PM | Reply | Flag: "After 50 years of constant reforming, It's obviously a failed project. The more the public pays, the more expensive it gets." Yes it was but it was also often completely brutal, insulting, bizarre but I loved it. #74 | Posted by danni at 2017-09-20 03:06 PM | Reply | Flag:
Don't forget the trio of: Jackass, Rex and Horace. #71 | Posted by JeffJ at 2017-09-20 03:03 PM | Reply | Flag:
Box and Lurch were one and the same. Zat had a prior name as well, I forget what it was. #72 | Posted by Rightocenter at 2017-09-20 03:05 PM | Reply | Flag:
There was also Dirtyrightboy. Also, there was the hilarious post by that dude who claimed he set his own fractures and that people would get knocked down when they shook his hand. Laura Hans'ed that one. #73 | Posted by JeffJ at 2017-09-20 03:05 PM | Reply | Flag:
"After 50 years of constant reforming, It's obviously a failed project. The more the public pays, the more expensive it gets." Yes it was but it was also often completely brutal, insulting, bizarre but I loved it. #74 | Posted by danni at 2017-09-20 03:06 PM | Reply | Flag:
#24 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-06-04 10:19 PM | Reply
Poor, poor "Teenager"'s GBCW post:
"And again I am a teenager.....My name is Miguel, I go to Hoover high schoolSchool, HR Room 286, Mr. Garcia. I take two buses to get to school, the 81 and tha 181. if you are familiar with the area. Im gone for good. Goodbye." - Posted by teenager at 2005-09-30 03:00 PM
#25 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-06-04 10:22 PM | Reply
Should have been this one: "I don't recall exactly when it was, but when I first got on here there were only a few people (RCade, Jeff, Tadowe, Brian Wolf, Spud, Alex, and Danni are all I can remember right now) and it was a riot." #76 | Posted by danni at 2017-09-20 03:08 PM | Reply | Flag: Another funny bit of DR history: Walt was taunting Buffalo Bob one day. Bob literally wanted to fight him so he emailed Walt his name and address and Walt promptly posted the email on the DR. It was a major dick move, but it was nonetheless funny. #77 | Posted by JeffJ at 2017-09-20 03:08 PM | Reply | Flag: | Funny: 2 "Zat had a prior name as well, I forget what it was." - #72 | Posted by Rightocenter at 2017-09-20 03:05 PM He was Data for a year, following the death of his beloved cat, Max. About a year after that loss, he went back to being Zatoichi. #78 | Posted by A_Friend at 2017-09-20 03:09 PM | Reply | Flag:
"I don't recall exactly when it was, but when I first got on here there were only a few people (RCade, Jeff, Tadowe, Brian Wolf, Spud, Alex, and Danni are all I can remember right now) and it was a riot." #76 | Posted by danni at 2017-09-20 03:08 PM | Reply | Flag:
Another funny bit of DR history: Walt was taunting Buffalo Bob one day. Bob literally wanted to fight him so he emailed Walt his name and address and Walt promptly posted the email on the DR. It was a major dick move, but it was nonetheless funny. #77 | Posted by JeffJ at 2017-09-20 03:08 PM | Reply | Flag: | Funny: 2
"Zat had a prior name as well, I forget what it was." - #72 | Posted by Rightocenter at 2017-09-20 03:05 PM
He was Data for a year, following the death of his beloved cat, Max. About a year after that loss, he went back to being Zatoichi. #78 | Posted by A_Friend at 2017-09-20 03:09 PM | Reply | Flag:
#26 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-06-04 10:25 PM | Reply
rip Max.
#27 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-06-04 10:26 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
As Gingrich straps on his divine wind headband gets into the explosives filled plane and flies off in the direction of Camp Rmoney Spud is salute the mad ole bastard. Tora Tora Tora, --------! Be Well. #10 | Posted by dethspud at 2012-01-12 05:02 AM
Tora Tora Tora, --------!
Be Well.
#10 | Posted by dethspud at 2012-01-12 05:02 AM
#28 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-06-04 10:28 PM | Reply
Ah, Tadowe: How to post like Tad: 1) Make up a position. 2) Assign it to 'Liberals' in general and another blogger in particular. 3) Find an example of that blogger contradicting the position you made up for him/her. 4) Call that person a lying crapweasel or puling hypocrite. 5) Throw in some stuff you heard while walking by an asylum. 6) Repeat - ad nauseum. And now we have step 7: Receive ------- from Horace. Posted by Sully at 2006-05-12 01:42 PM
How to post like Tad:
1) Make up a position.
2) Assign it to 'Liberals' in general and another blogger in particular.
3) Find an example of that blogger contradicting the position you made up for him/her.
4) Call that person a lying crapweasel or puling hypocrite.
5) Throw in some stuff you heard while walking by an asylum.
6) Repeat - ad nauseum.
And now we have step 7: Receive ------- from Horace.
Posted by Sully at 2006-05-12 01:42 PM
#29 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-06-04 10:32 PM | Reply
OK, has the cost of Pres Trump's war of choice actually reached $100 billion?
If so, citations, please.
#30 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-06-04 10:33 PM | Reply
The Drudge Retort Report welcomes Rex Zeitgeist A serving of red meat for yellow dogs. Brian and A_Friend welcome a Drudge Retort legend: Rex Zeitgeist! Special day and time.
A serving of red meat for yellow dogs. Brian and A_Friend welcome a Drudge Retort legend: Rex Zeitgeist! Special day and time.
I forgot that was both of you, A_Friend. Good times and Brian is missed. #100 | Posted by Rightocenter at 2017-09-20 04:21 PM
#100 | Posted by Rightocenter at 2017-09-20 04:21 PM
#31 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-06-04 10:35 PM | Reply
A serving of red meat for yellow dogs. Brian and A_Friend welcome a Drudge Retort legend: Rex Zeitgeist! Special day and time. The crazy thing about that appearance was discovering that, unlike his 6ft 220lb way he represented himself here, the sound of his voice was precisely how you would characterize a pimply faced 115lb teenager eating hot pockets in his mother's basement. I'm not really here. Kanrei sends his best. To most of you. #103 | Posted by Hagbard_Celine at 2017-09-20 04:27 PM
The crazy thing about that appearance was discovering that, unlike his 6ft 220lb way he represented himself here, the sound of his voice was precisely how you would characterize a pimply faced 115lb teenager eating hot pockets in his mother's basement.
I'm not really here.
Kanrei sends his best. To most of you.
#103 | Posted by Hagbard_Celine at 2017-09-20 04:27 PM
#32 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-06-04 10:40 PM | Reply
February 28, 2009: The Drudge Retort Report: Rogers Cadenhead The Drudge Retort Report for February 28th, with special guest, Rogers Cadenhead, publisher of the Drudge Retort. Plus, calls from LarryMohr and RevDarko, and Kanrei's post about The Drudge Retort Report
The Drudge Retort Report: Rogers Cadenhead
The Drudge Retort Report for February 28th, with special guest, Rogers Cadenhead, publisher of the Drudge Retort. Plus, calls from LarryMohr and RevDarko, and Kanrei's post about The Drudge Retort Report
#33 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-06-04 10:45 PM | Reply
GruB Gott Nerfherder:
You are right, to ID the phony liberals is much harder than the regular right-wing trolls.
Note that several blog websites "for Democrats" in the US are really fronts for AIPAC.
You would detect the same pattern almost immediately when you read the blog entries.
To avoid giving them free advertising to spread their subtle agit-prop, I won't mention them here.
This is why I had my own website or write here and elsewhere under a different nom de plume. A couple of three years ago, geography allowed me to arrange a meeting with a progressive blogger. But circumstances prevented the rendez-vous.
There's a fellow US Army CI veteran in California who I'll never meet in person for coffee and a smoke as geography is an obstacle.
Speaking of coffee, time for my second cup.
Tschuss!
#34 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-06-05 04:22 AM | Reply
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