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BeyondGeography

(41,104 posts)
Thu Apr 2, 2026, 10:01 AM 5 hrs ago

President Gloating Sadist

And his Stone Age remark. Telling 90+ million Iranians they are going to be bombed back into the Stone Age “because that is where they belong”.

One of the worst things about being an American for me during these times is seeing ugly shit like this normalized. Nary a mention in the reports in this country about the speech. It was just Trump being Trump. Even though this whole misadventure started out at least in part under the pretense of regime change and a better world for the people of Iran.

But of course that was always bullshit. Trump doesn’t want a better country for anyone starting with his own.

The Iranians noticed. For them it was a no throwaway remark. It was a halftime pep talk that will serve as motivation to endure all the killing and destruction to come and to inflict the same on the forces of Trump, who will have no one to thank for their suffering more than him.

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President Gloating Sadist (Original Post) BeyondGeography 5 hrs ago OP
It's as he said about Venezuela, I want the oil. Firestorm49 5 hrs ago #1
Ignorance, arrogance malaise 5 hrs ago #2
Remember the public service ad....Here is your brain on drugs? democrank 4 hrs ago #3
Just imagine if the "sane washing" stopped! 31st Street Bridge 4 hrs ago #4
Nixon Already looks like Lincoln or an angel or a Sunday school teacher compared to it. mwmisses4289 4 hrs ago #8
Even Dubba Bush doesn't look so bad. flashman13 3 hrs ago #13
I will not forget or forgive.... returnee 1 hr ago #22
I wake up every morning... GiqueCee 4 hrs ago #5
I wake up every morning and smash the clock radio. usonian 2 hrs ago #17
Damn... GiqueCee 2 hrs ago #20
I had to resort to printing them on a laser printer. usonian 2 hrs ago #21
USA has made it to pariah state. Passages 4 hrs ago #6
There are 90 million Iranians. Tehran has a subway system. maxsolomon 4 hrs ago #7
I couldn't agree more with you! CTyankee 2 hrs ago #18
Donald unleashed a nightmare. God knows where this really ends. Joinfortmill 4 hrs ago #9
I have said (and I 100% mean this)... Moostache 4 hrs ago #10
Well put! Felicita 3 hrs ago #11
He is a psychopath and needs to be indicted for war crimes LymphocyteLover 3 hrs ago #12
Would be a beginning in gaining trust again. Passages 3 hrs ago #14
Great chance for his young son to win some medals and become a man. multigraincracker 3 hrs ago #15
This was coined in the Vietnam era, surprisingly ,not by Curtis LeMay, but by Art Buchwald. Go figure. usonian 2 hrs ago #16
Buchwald was an outstanding -- and funny -- analyst. Kid Berwyn 2 hrs ago #19

malaise

(296,149 posts)
2. Ignorance, arrogance
Thu Apr 2, 2026, 10:12 AM
5 hrs ago

and a public admission of intent to commit war crimes including genocide.
The global lack of condemnation is frightening.

democrank

(12,602 posts)
3. Remember the public service ad....Here is your brain on drugs?
Thu Apr 2, 2026, 10:55 AM
4 hrs ago

Here is our conscience on Trump. His morally bankrupt words and actions are so common, so everyday, so everywhere, that many of us are desensitized to them. He constantly erupts spewing hatred. We’ve come to expect it. He lies and we listen. He embarrasses our nation and Congress goes on vacation.

31st Street Bridge

(217 posts)
4. Just imagine if the "sane washing" stopped!
Thu Apr 2, 2026, 11:05 AM
4 hrs ago

Nixon would look like Lincoln by comparison with Child Rapist/Felon/Larcenist/Arsonist/Mad Bomber-47.

returnee

(927 posts)
22. I will not forget or forgive....
Thu Apr 2, 2026, 01:38 PM
1 hr ago

…bush/cheney, inc. Same goes for Obama/Holder, inc., for not prosecuting them. The GWB administration set the stage for Trump and the Obama admin set the stage for Biden slow-walking Trump, inc prosecution. The U.S. is terrible at learning lessons.

GiqueCee

(4,268 posts)
5. I wake up every morning...
Thu Apr 2, 2026, 11:19 AM
4 hrs ago

... hoping to read his obituary. I'm waiting...

That ANYONE still supports this deranged psychopath is an obscenity. Maybe doing a bit in a Salvadoran prison would help them see the light. They were more than willing to inflict such a sentence on innocent people, not just criminals. So, as simple-minded MAGAts love to say, FUCK YOUR FEELINGS!

Trump is a traitor. If you support a traitor, you ARE a traitor.

maxsolomon

(38,737 posts)
7. There are 90 million Iranians. Tehran has a subway system.
Thu Apr 2, 2026, 11:31 AM
4 hrs ago

Absent their theocracy and fanatical conservative fundamentalists, Iranians are pretty much exactly like us.

And we have fanatical conservative fundamentalists, too.

Trump is tied with Putin for worst person on Earth.

CTyankee

(68,212 posts)
18. I couldn't agree more with you!
Thu Apr 2, 2026, 12:51 PM
2 hrs ago

The religiously insane believe that their reward is in heaven and they couldn't care less about what happens on earth. They're going straight to heaven when they die so we should not expect any concerns from them on what we all care about.

Moostache

(11,187 posts)
10. I have said (and I 100% mean this)...
Thu Apr 2, 2026, 11:35 AM
4 hrs ago

I will NEVER forgive or forget ANYONE who voted for this clown, EVER!
As soon as I know someone voted for him or for the GOP sycophants and ball lickers, there is no further personal relationship possible and any business ties will be immediately severed as well.

I cannot abide the cruelty and I loathe the ignorance and bluster and buffoonery more than I can ever say.

What I will say again and always - He day he dies (and I no longer care at all how he goes, just that he is cold and stiff and gone) is going to be a global holiday to rival V-E and V-J days. For me, it is going to be a catharsis like no one has ever seen before maybe in the history of forever.

Die you motherfucking child rapist and do it publicly and in as much pain as possible.

multigraincracker

(37,654 posts)
15. Great chance for his young son to win some medals and become a man.
Thu Apr 2, 2026, 12:10 PM
3 hrs ago

Hope he can talk him into signing on.

usonian

(25,354 posts)
16. This was coined in the Vietnam era, surprisingly ,not by Curtis LeMay, but by Art Buchwald. Go figure.
Thu Apr 2, 2026, 12:49 PM
2 hrs ago
https://professorbuzzkill.com/2017/10/03/qnq-34/


Art Buchwald. Older Buzzkillers will remember Art Buchwald, the columnist who lampooned politics and politicians from the 60s through the 90s, with diminishing effect in the last ten years of his career. But in the 1960s he was a fresh voice of quick but, frankly, shallow humor directed at American leaders, and using the gossip of the political and military chattering classes I mentioned a minute ago to fuel his newspaper column. Buchwald’s syndicated column of June 1, 1967 provides the first evidence of the use of the use, “bomb them back to the Stone Age.” Buchwald was making fun of the more militant wing of the Republican party, members of which were thinking about ways to defeat the Democrats in the 1968 election. Those militants thought Johnson’s approach to Vietnam was far too soft, and that a more, shall we say, “complete” strategy was needed.

Kid Berwyn

(24,420 posts)
19. Buchwald was an outstanding -- and funny -- analyst.
Thu Apr 2, 2026, 12:59 PM
2 hrs ago

Not so much Curtis LeMay ran for vice president under George Wallace.



Did serve to siphon Dixie for Dick.

PS: LeMay has a lot to answer for regarding Dallas.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=3981591

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