#20 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-07-12 03:34 PM | Reply

You're a prime example of what is wrong with this country

Not conservatism per se

But you and your ilk lie, shamelessly

Then build policy and cut taxes based on those lies

You're just a ------ human being

You're a
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to say nothing of qatar, kuwait, oman, saudi arabia, UAE

so, yeah, try and end Iran's civilization

If you think Israel;s plants are immune from attack, you are simply wrong

Dude doesn't know how CEP works.

#62 | Posted by sitzkrieg

you are cognizant of the fact that Iran has improved their ballistic missile program, right?

Including accuracy

That was one of the justifications for this illegal, unjust, unjustifiable, cowardly war with Iran, right.

You get that, right?

and has seriously confused temporarily inconvenienced with ends of civilizations.

#63 | Posted by sitzkrieg

preventing 10s of millions of people from getting water=temporary inconvenience.

Let's reframe the question

What prevented Piggy and Geneociding Israel from "end{ing} their civilization"?

That was Israel's goal at least.

They don't have the theater air defenses to stop it. All they can do is shoot MRBM waves until they exhaust themselves.

#56 | Posted by sitzkrieg

Drone war says what?

The Middle East is home to about 42% of global desalination capacity. Reliance on this water varies significantly by country: Qatar and Kuwait rely on desalination for 90% or more of their municipal water, while Saudi Arabia (70%), Oman (86%), Bahrain (85-90%), and the UAE (42-90%) also depend on it for the vast majority of their drinking water. Desalination plants supply roughly 80% to 85% of Israel's domestic drinking water.

Iran could and would target these vulnerable plants.

Even a "temporary" stoppage at a few plants would be adequate to decimate a nation's population. Five days max without water and people die

Israel has 5 desalination plants. Knock out 2 for a couple of weeks and Israel collapses

Now let's consider Israel's nuclear plant

Iran could hit it with a few missiles and boom it's like a nuclear weapon went off

Keep in mind that when Israel and America attacked the Natanz nuclear facility Iran responded with an attack on the residential areas around Israel's plant, intentionally showing they had the capacity to hit the plant without actually hitting the plant which would have been a major escalation.

Now let's consider LNG in the ME

March 18"19, 2026: Further Iranian attacks delivered significant structural blows to the Ras Laffan complex, destroying infrastructure that accounted for nearly 20% of global LNG exports.

If you don't understand the devastation what would result from Iran permanently destroying 20% of the world's LNG I don't know what to say.

We don't need nukes. Our arsenal can end their civilization without then and trigger the biggest refugee crisis in history without them.

#44 | Posted by sitzkrieg

Do you think Iran will sit there and take it?

Do you understand that Iran can end western civilization or at a minimum most of the middle east's, including Israel's civilization?

It seems to be apparent he isn't wanting to go in and crush them like we could do.
To me, that looks like patience and hope backed by a show of strength.
#6 | Posted by BillJohnson

No we couldn't

Let me make this perfectly clear

Short of dropping nukes America cannot crush them.

Full stop

Tou are an idiot thinking we could

I told you so

"There's white people and immigrants, thats literally the message."

Doesn't know white people were immigrants, you're a hateful bigoted moron.

m also glad the court recognized that biological sex takes precident over what people think they are.

#19 | POSTED BY BILLJOHNSON A

Despite being told numerous times that trans people have different biology bill being the hateful bigot continues to deny it

Vance answers the question "is the pope Catholic?" With a hard no

That's $250billion NOT going to actual healthcare

I've been watching Veep recently and it is amazing how much of that show predicted the Piggy presidency. Absolutely amazing.

This whole ridiculous thing would probably be too crazy even for that show.

The reflecting pool is now surrounded by a fence and policed by the national guard.

Amazing.

Algae Lives Matter

Make Algae Great Again

Strait of Hormuz is closed again.

Hydrogen peroxide peels paint

the pool contains 6.5 million gallons of water

to treat that volume of water for algae you need between 6500 and 19,000 gallons of hydrogen peroxide depending on the strength

however, the stronger the hydrogen peroxide mix the more paint stripping will occur

Remember this was a no bid contract

So it appears that the hydrogen peroxide they added to the pool to kill the algae is stripping the paint from the reflecting pool.

SO

MUCH

COMPETENCE

Will this last 48 hours?

And FWIW regarding the tattoo I think it patently ridiculous he didn't know what it was-the totenkopf.

The totenkopf skull and crossbones is an extremely well known symbol in military circles.

Like the anchor and globe symbol for the marines.

I can definitely see an idiot 23 year old marine in Croatia getting a totenkopf tattoo, because he was stupid.

Platner at least recognizes the mistake and apologizes for it.

I want to point out that I asked for a specific thing-proof or evidence that Platner has done anything remotely naziesque.

The best response the lying POS could provide were allegations of poor behavior treating women.

Not racism
Not authoritarianism
Not fascism

Just allegations of "abusing women"

So, jeff could not document or demonstrate Platner is a nazi when the Lying POS called him one.

Shall I remind Jeff that Piggy dined with actual self-proclaimed nazis?

Look at his fricking tattoo and how he's described it. It's okay to hate all things right of center AND call out this POS for who and what he is.
But it's all binary with you.
#57 | Posted by BellRinger

Provide evidence anything Platner has done or said other than get a tattoo that is naziesque

I won't bother waiting for you to respond honestly.