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Tuesday, April 7, 2026 12:41 PM

Donald Trump Warns a ‘Whole Civilization Will Die Tonight’ if a Deal With Iran Isn’t Reached

https://news.wttw.com/2026/04/07/donald-trump-warns-whole-civilization
-will-die-tonight-if-deal-iran-isn-t-reached

Any of you idiots here or in the media telling everybody that Iran was winning the war can shut right the fuck up now.

"Winners" don't tell their youth to commit suicide and go form circles around the only targets that are keeping the entire country from being sent back to the middle ages.

They're only doing that because they know we have cunts like Ted living in America who will scream about it.

Fuck Iran. Fuck Iranians.

Blow it all up and finish this.

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Tuesday, April 7, 2026 4:09 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Fuck Israel, and fuck Trump.

Iran was never a threat, until now.

Iran is not a terrorist state, but Israel and the USA are.

I hope Iran blows Israel and the corrupt, terrorist-loving, death-cult gulf monarchies off the map.

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

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Tuesday, April 7, 2026 4:49 PM

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Donald Trump Warns a ‘Whole Civilization Will Die Tonight’ if a Deal With Iran Isn’t Reached . . .

Fuck Iran. Fuck Iranians.

Blow it all up and finish this.

Trump’s latest rant confirmed what we all know about America

By Pablo O'Hana | April 6, 2026 3:24pm

https://metro.co.uk/2026/04/06/trumps-latest-rant-confirmed-know-ameri
ca-27873632/

Trump’s Republican Party is dead.

Not only in its soul, but in the essential qualities that once defined it. While it may still win seats in the Midterms and retain the loyalty of millions, what truly matters has been lost.

The capacity for independent judgment, for institutional self-respect, for the basic reflex of saying ‘No, not this’, is gone.

Donald Trump’s Easter Sunday post, in which he threatened to bomb Iranian power plants, dropped the f-word into the public record, and signed off with ‘Praise be to Allah’, is not an opportunity to wake up Republican Party officials, members and voters.

It is simply more evidence that they may be breathing, but in reality they’re dead inside.

We have been here so many times before that Trump reaction commentary has become its own genre, with its own predictable arc. Something happens. Jaws drop. A Republican or two issue carefully worded statements expressing concern. The news cycle moves on. Nothing changes.

The ‘Grab ’em by the pussy’ Access Hollywood tape, which arguably kicked all this off, feels like a lifetime ago.

Then we had a wave of ‘very fine people on both sides’, of children torn from their parents and put in cages, Russian interference and his references to Haiti and African nations as shithole countries leading to his first impeachment.

Not to mention the second impeachment, attempts to overturn an election, and facing 34 felony counts.

There has always been a fresh wave asking whether this, finally, is the moment that takes him down. It never is.

Yesterday was no exception.

At some point, we need to stop asking where the accountability is and consider why there is none.

The answer is not flattering.

What we’re witnessing now is true compliant devotion and the collapse of any structure in which resistance might be possible.

Tim Scott, the only Black Republican in the Senate, called a racist video depicting the Obamas as apes ‘the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House’ and then carried on as normal.

When the line is crossed and then simply redrawn further back, eventually, there is nowhere left to go.

Trump’s Easter post is a useful illustration precisely because of its particular combination of ingredients.

Profanity from a sitting president, directed at a foreign government, on the holiest morning of the Christian calendar, ending with an invocation of Allah.

I don’t think it’s unreasonable to suggest that any one of those elements, if attributed to a Democrat, would have prompted weeks of hearings and a hymn of outrage from every evangelical pastor with a television slot.

But when it comes from Trump, it generates a shrug and, from his more devoted supporters, unapologetic delight.

The real, harder question is how a party can lose its soul and yet remain electorally successful, and what that means for America.

Trump’s Republicans will be on the ballot in November, and many of them will likely still win. In a damning insight into the soul of America, the moral decay and decomposition of Trump’s administration are not translating into disaster for the party.

American democracy does not yet have a mechanism for automatically disqualifying the morally bankrupt and broken.

So the issue that needs to be grappled with is not really whether the Republican Party is dead. It is whether America wants to revive it – and if so, how it would be done, and who would do the work.

It’s an issue that belongs, uncomfortably, to the Democrats, as much as anyone.

There is a version of the next few years in which the party simply runs out the clock, waits for the exhaustion to set in, and inherits whatever is left. That is a strategy of sorts, but it’s not a vision.

They need to be presented with something worth voting for, rather than simply something to vote against.

That is the reality of the situation for the Democrats – and it’s a reality that’s a lot harder and less satisfying for them than they would like.

So their task will not be to blame everything on the monstrosity of Trump, though monstrous he undoubtedly is. It is to prove that the Republic is recoverable, that institutions can be rebuilt, that the extraordinary can be made ordinary again – in the right direction this time.

Trump signed off his Easter message with ‘Praise be to Allah’.

The Republican Party was ineffectual, and thereby complicit, in its response. It’s what we’ve come to expect, and what we should expect going forward too.

We have established, beyond any remaining doubt, that there is nothing he could say or do that would change that.

For a long time now, America has been at risk of losing itself, facing a fundamental battle for the soul of its country.

We have now reached the natural conclusion of that battle.

The Republican Party – once the party of giants Abraham Lincoln, Ronald Reagan and John McCain – is not sleeping. It is not lost.

It is dead. And in the void where its soul used to be now stands something deeper and darker: an aggressive, erratic, vengeful movement that is isolationist in its instincts, authoritarian in its appetites, and answerable to no one but the man at the top.

Americans must now decide. They can either take the necessary steps to bury the Republican Party as it stands, or do nothing, and accept that what has replaced it is all they have left.

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Tuesday, April 7, 2026 4:57 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Fuck you, Pablo.

Go back to whatever shithole country you hail from.

Your presence in America is no longer necessary.

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Tuesday, April 7, 2026 4:57 PM

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Our Darkest Hour

The civilization we destroy may be our own

Paul Krugman

Apr 07, 2026

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/our-darkest-hour

This is America’s darkest hour.

Hi, Paul Krugman with an update Tuesday morning. Earlier today, Donald Trump posted on Truth Social,

"A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again."

Not going to be a problem if we ever do get the war crimes trial that all of this deserves. A statement of motive and intent is completely clear.

I don’t need to say how vile it is. It is shocking, although at some level, if you didn’t see this as a real possibility, then you weren’t paying attention. Not much to say here except to talk about how those of us who are not Donald Trump should behave.

First of all, any military commander given orders to start destroying civilian infrastructure in Iran should disobey that order, should say it, should not even quietly resign. This is a time to stand up and make it clear that this is totally unacceptable. This is a violation of everything that the military stands for. It’s a violation of everything that America stands for.

Second, any member of the Trump administration: to continue in your position doing your job as Trump takes America on the course of becoming a criminal nation, a criminal terrorist nation, you cannot continue in good conscience.

Particularly, if you play any role in making this happen, then you are a war criminal too. Then you ought to be brought up someday before an international tribunal. But even if you’re in a peripheral role, even just putting your head down and saying, well, I’m an assistant secretary at the agriculture department or something like that, that’s not good enough. This is not a regime that you can serve in good conscience.

Republican politicians, any Republican, I mean, there are people already saying, “oh, you know, I don’t approve of destroying civilizations, but” — that “but” makes you an accessory to the crime, if you are failing to stand up against it.

And I really don’t like this notion that only Democrats have agency. This is a very common thing. All of this is made possible by the lockstep slavish obedience of Republicans. Nonetheless, Democrats have a role here, too. And this is not a time to attack Trump’s war because it costs too much money or to attack it because it’s bad for energy markets or raises the price of groceries. I mean, it does do all of that. All of that is true. But we’re way past that point now. We’re at the point where you need to unambiguously condemn the immorality and criminality of what’s going on. No mincing of words.

Damned if I know what’s going to happen. I mean, at some level, I think that the civilization that may be destroyed tonight is our own. I mean, are we civilized if we do this kind of thing? If America as a nation doesn’t stand up against this, what are we?

So, God help us. Normal life will continue. It’s going to be a really weird thing to be out there, you know, grocery shopping and taking the subway and all of those things. But this is, in a way, the defining moment. The fate of the whole American idea is on the line.

I have no idea how this ends.

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Tuesday, April 7, 2026 5:50 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Paul should get on a plane himself and go wherever it is that Pablo needs to go.

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Tuesday, April 7, 2026 6:01 PM

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“It’s really difficult to cover him in a way that conveys how unhinged he is,” journalist Aaron Rupar of Public Notice told George Grylls of The Times about President Donald J. Trump. Rupar explained that political journalists are trained to think, “‘OK, what did he say that was newsworthy?’ So you…convey that to your audience. But in reality, when you actually watch his rallies, you see that they’re full of hatred, he’s lying constantly, and a lot of it is incoherent.”

Rupar spends as many as eighty hours a week watching Trump and members of his administration, clipping videos of their noteworthy statements into a few minutes at a time. His work is indispensable for translating Trump’s long, meandering speeches to people who need shorter versions of them. In this quotation, he nails the real problem of this moment in which the president of the United States is threatening “obliteration” if another nation doesn’t do as he demands: the noteworthy story is not what the president says; the story is the president himself and his obvious mental deterioration.

Today was another surreal day in the second Trump administration.

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-6-2026-monday

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Tuesday, April 7, 2026 6:57 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Nobody cares about your opinions anymore dude.

They haven't for a very long time now.

Maybe if you would have bothered picking and choosing what you wanted to bitch about and stick with one topic for more than 15 minutes before jumping right to the next one for the last 10 years straight then somebody would pay attention to you now.

Go ahead. Call Trump evil. Call people who voted for him evil.

We've heard it all before a bajillion times now out of all of you freaks.

Nobody cares.

Maybe it's time for you to move out of my country if you don't like it here anymore.

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Tuesday, April 7, 2026 8:33 PM

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Trump wins again...

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Based on conversations with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir, of Pakistan, and wherein they requested that I hold off the destructive force being sent tonight to Iran, and subject to the Islamic Republic of Iran agreeing to the COMPLETE, IMMEDIATE, and SAFE OPENING of the Strait of Hormuz, I agree to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks. This will be a double sided CEASEFIRE! The reason for doing so is that we have already met and exceeded all Military objectives, and are very far along with a definitive Agreement concerning Longterm PEACE with Iran, and PEACE in the Middle East. We received a 10 point proposal from Iran, and believe it is a workable basis on which to negotiate. Almost all of the various points of past contention have been agreed to between the United States and Iran, but a two week period will allow the Agreement to be finalized and consummated. On behalf of the United States of America, as President, and also representing the Countries of the Middle East, it is an Honor to have this Longterm problem close to resolution. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP

What he didn't mention and I'm sure is pretty self-evident to most people with at least a 3-digit IQ is that if they cause any fucking trouble in the Strait over the next 2 weeks they're going to be obliterated.

So everybody had better be on their best behavior and be policing the suicidal idiots they have living in their own boarders a lot better than we handle those infesting our own borders.

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Tuesday, April 7, 2026 8:34 PM

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Be Evil. Be a dick.

Trump's deadline for destroying Iran came and went. He will give Iran two more weeks to surrender or else face death. Iran ignored the flaming Nazi gasbag.

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Tuesday, April 7, 2026 8:35 PM

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With Trump Threatening Genocide in Iran, Military Must Disobey His Orders, Former Pentagon Officials Say

What President Trump is describing as the destruction of ‘a whole civilization’ would be a war crime, plain and simple.

By Nick Turse | April 7 2026, 3:01 p.m.

https://theintercept.com/2026/04/07/trump-iran-civilian-power-plants-b
ridges/

President Donald Trump threatened to commit genocide in Iran, ahead of warnings of a wave of attacks on civilian infrastructure on Tuesday night. “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” he wrote on Truth Social on Tuesday. This followed a drumbeat of similar threats of wanton and criminal destruction. “The entire country could be taken out in one night. And that night might be tomorrow night,” he said on Monday, having recently warned he would bomb Iran “back to the Stone Ages.”

“President Trump has repeatedly threatened war crimes in Iran and now he is expressing genocidal intent,” said Sarah Harrison, an associate general counsel at the Pentagon’s Office of General Counsel, International Affairs during Trump’s first term. “Every single lawmaker and national security leader needs to stand against this and make clear to the U.S. military that these are unlawful orders and if carried out they will someday face criminal prosecution.”

This interpretation was echoed by Rebecca Ingber, a former State Department lawyer and now a law professor at Cardozo Law School. “The U.S. understanding of the definition of genocide in the Genocide Convention requires a ‘specific intent’ to destroy a group — such as a national or ethnic group as relevant here,” she told The Intercept. “That is an intentionally high bar, and one that explicitly would not cover unintended consequences of armed conflict. If acted upon, the President’s statement would be evidence of that required specific intent.”

Trump has repeatedly threatened to obliterate Iran’s civilian infrastructure should the nation’s leaders not heed his demands. “We have a plan because of the power of our military where every bridge in Iran will be decimated by 12:00 tomorrow night,” he said on Monday. “Where every power plant in Iran will be out of business, burning, exploding, and never to be used again.” This echoed an Easter morning missive. “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!!” Trump ranted on Truth Social. “Open the Fuckin’ Strait [of Hormuz], you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell.”

Asked on Monday if he was concerned that his threat to bomb power plants or bridges amounts to war crimes, Trump replied “No, not at all,” and said in another interview, “I’m not worried about it.”

“There is no gray area on this under international law.”

“What President Trump is describing as the destruction of ‘a whole civilization’ would be a war crime, plain and simple,” said Sarah Yager, the Washington director at Human Rights Watch and a former senior adviser on human rights to the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff. “There is no gray area on this under international law.”

Civilian infrastructure has been a frequent target since the U.S.–Israeli war on Iran began on February 28. “Strikes on critical infrastructure and industrial sites have disrupted basic services including electricity, water and telecommunications, also leading to increasing immediate and longer term environmental and health risks,” wrote the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, or OCHA, in a brief report issued last week. Airports, cultural heritage locations, hospitals, industrial sites markets, residential areas, and schools have also been struck, including the civilian international airport in Tehran, a power plant in Khorramshahr, and water reservoirs in Fars and Khuzestan. Last week, the U.S. attacked the newly constructed B1 highway bridge, which killed 8 people, who were, according to the deputy governor of Alborz province, not military targets but nearby villagers celebrating Nowruz, the Persian new year.

The International Atomic Energy Agency has confirmed strikes affected multiple nuclear sites, including Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant. Rafael Grossi, head of the nuclear watchdog, warned on Monday that “continued military activity near the BNPP — an operating plant with large amounts of nuclear fuel — could cause a severe radiological accident with harmful consequences for people and the environment in Iran and beyond.”

Trump claimed that the Iranian people actually want the United States to attack their civilian infrastructure, citing “numerous intercepts” of communications. “‘Please keep bombing,’” Trump said on Monday of these supposed pleas. “And these are people that are living where the bombs are exploding. And when we leave, and we’re not hitting those areas, they’re saying, ‘Please come back.’”

In actuality, Iranians have been fleeing from Tehran and other major urban areas under attack. Almost a month ago, UNHCR — the U.N. refugee agency — reported that as many as 3.2 million people were already displaced inside Iran due to the conflict. While casualty counts are fragmentary, more than 2,100 civilians had been killed in the war by the end of last month and around 28,000 injured, according to Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education. This included 216 children killed and 1,881 injured, as of April 3.

Yager noted that Iranians who have already suffered severe government repression, including the mass killings of protesters earlier this year, now face obliteration by America. “They’re being told their entire society could be destroyed by the president of United States, with the power of the U.S. military at his fingertips. His previous threats to bomb their power plants and bridges are threats to the systems that keep people alive, their electricity, water, and health care,” she told The Intercept. “Even before anything happens, that kind of rhetoric creates deep anxiety and fear for millions of civilians who have no control over these decisions but who will bear the consequences.”

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Tuesday, April 7, 2026 8:37 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Trump wins again...

Quote:
Based on conversations with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir, of Pakistan, and wherein they requested that I hold off the destructive force being sent tonight to Iran, and subject to the Islamic Republic of Iran agreeing to the COMPLETE, IMMEDIATE, and SAFE OPENING of the Strait of Hormuz, I agree to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks. This will be a double sided CEASEFIRE! The reason for doing so is that we have already met and exceeded all Military objectives, and are very far along with a definitive Agreement concerning Longterm PEACE with Iran, and PEACE in the Middle East. We received a 10 point proposal from Iran, and believe it is a workable basis on which to negotiate. Almost all of the various points of past contention have been agreed to between the United States and Iran, but a two week period will allow the Agreement to be finalized and consummated. On behalf of the United States of America, as President, and also representing the Countries of the Middle East, it is an Honor to have this Longterm problem close to resolution. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP

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Tuesday, April 7, 2026 8:37 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

CNBC: Oil Plunges 15%

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/07/oil-prices-iran-war-trump-deadline-str
ait-hormuz.html

According to your idiots, nothing at all has changed, Second.

The markets would beg to differ. If nothing changed, there's no reason for oil to drop 15%.

You lose again. You are a loser.

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Tuesday, April 7, 2026 8:48 PM

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CNBC: Oil Plunges 15%

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/07/oil-prices-iran-war-trump-deadline-str
ait-hormuz.html

According to your idiots, nothing at all has changed, Second.

The markets would beg to differ. If nothing changed, there's no reason for oil to drop 15%.

You lose again. You are a loser.

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Trump said he would destroy Iran tonight. Then he chickened out and gave Iran another two weeks before he would destroy the country. Where this ends is with Trump declaring victory, leaving, but the Iranian people still live under the same old government that Trump said he would overthrow, but didn't because he is a chicken. (Iran opens the Strait because Trump leaves, but Trump claims he forced the Strait open and then left. Total cost to the USA for this exercise in futility is $200 billion, or $588 per person living in America.)

Trump’s $200 billion war supplemental is already testing GOP loyalty

Republicans want to support Trump, but they also want answers. “You gotta show me the candy before I’ll get in that car,” said Sen. John Kennedy, R-La.

https://www.ms.now/news/trump-200-billion-war-supplemental-gop-loyalty

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Tuesday, April 7, 2026 10:19 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Nobody wants to hear anything from you.

No matter what Trump does regarding any topic on any given day is going to be the wrong move according to you in retrospect.

Shut your fucking mouth and go back and read everything you posted today.

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Wednesday, April 8, 2026 5:34 AM

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Nobody wants to hear anything from you.

No matter what Trump does regarding any topic on any given day is going to be the wrong move according to you in retrospect.

Shut your fucking mouth and go back and read everything you posted today.

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In an eleventh-hour announcement on Tuesday night, Donald J. Trump gave himself a two-week deadline to come up with a new distraction from the Epstein files.

“Threatening to annihilate a nation of 90 million people worked for about a day, but now I need to come up with something else,” Trump said in a Truth Social post.

Immediately after his announcement, Trump summoned his entire Cabinet to the Situation Room to brainstorm ideas before the two-week window expires.

Distractions reportedly being considered include naming Kid Rock Attorney General, replacing Lincoln’s head on the Lincoln Memorial with his own, and putting Hannibal Lecter’s face on the dollar bill.

https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/trump-gives-himself-two-weeks-to?utm_
source=post-email-title&publication_id=2337656&post_id=193522213&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=5jgrx&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

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Wednesday, April 8, 2026 9:00 AM

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Keep it real please, and use a VPN

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Trump, TACO's out. Iran kicked his ass.

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Wednesday, April 8, 2026 3:55 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

No matter what Trump does, you're always going to say bullshit.

You two idiots were afraid it was the end of the world yesterday.

Shut the fuck up.

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Wednesday, April 8, 2026 3:58 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Crude is down to under $75 a barrel right now.

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Wednesday, April 8, 2026 5:42 PM

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No matter what Trump does, you're always going to say bullshit.

You two idiots were afraid it was the end of the world yesterday.

Shut the fuck up.

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I have always known that Trumptards misunderstand the simplest things going on all around them. What happened yesterday was just one more occasion for Trumptards to prove they confuse up with down and left with right.

Hegseth Accidentally Reveals Big Hole in Trump Victory Claim

Who blinked first? So Iran came to the table because Trump threatened to blow up their civilization, eh? Sorry, that spin is in tatters.

By Greg Sargent | April 8, 2026

https://newrepublic.com/article/208794/hegseth-reveals-hole-trump-vict
ory-claim

Now that Donald Trump has backed off his threat to obliterate a nation of 93 million people, his propagandists are already retconning it into proof of his Solomon-like foresight and wisdom. The new spin is that the war with Iran temporarily ended in a ceasefire precisely because he made this threat, forcing Iran to renegotiate on more favorable terms.

“Iran ultimately understood—their ability to produce, to generate power, to fuel their terrorist regime—was in our hands,” Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth told reporters Wednesday, in response to questions about Trump’s threat. Hegseth insisted Trump’s vow to eradicate “a whole civilization” persuaded Iran that he could crush their ability to “export energy” and thus end the entire basis for the regime’s existence.

“That type of threat is what brought them to the place where they effectively said, ‘We want to cut this deal,’” Hegseth continued. This talking point has gone out widely: GOP Representative Mike Lawler of New York, a top target of Democrats, suggested that due to Trump’s “extreme rhetoric,” the Iranians “understand for once that they need to actually negotiate.”

But there’s a small problem with this spin. It’s that the Iranians were already negotiating with Trump before the war started. Trump largely sabotaged those negotiations, because he was talked into believing the war would be easy and deliver a quick burst of glory. Trump’s approach to the talks made success impossible—deliberately.

As The New York Times’ magnum opus on this reveals, Trump had decided to take the plunge (all that remained uncertain was the timing) weeks before those talks with Iran hit their critical phase. This was partly because Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu talked Trump into believing the risks of war were manageable—that strikes could render the Iranian regime too debilitated to close the Strait of Hormuz (which proved disastrously wrong). U.S. intelligence officials disputed Israeli confidence about all this, the Times reports, but Trump brushed off these warnings—because he “appeared to think it would be a very quick war.”

The prewar talks with Iran were doomed because Trump shifted between objectives in a way that ensured that outcome. The core issue was supposed to be ending Iran’s capacity to develop a nuke. But the Times also reveals that Iran was prepared to make meaningful concessions on that front, yet Trump officials effectively decided only regime change was acceptable, ensuring war.

For Hegseth’s story to be true, Iran would have to be more willing to give Trump the concessions he wants than before, due to his mighty threats. But, while the war did badly degrade the Iranian military and kill many senior leaders, here’s what else we know: The regime is still there in more radicalized and brutal form. The strait is being reopened, but as Ben Rhodes notes, the regime’s control over it now appears tighter. The fate of Iran’s nuclear material remains as indeterminate as ever.

Will talks now get Trump a better deal than he might have gotten the first time? Maybe, but Iran seems emboldened by its survival to demand more this time. The points that Trump accepted as the basis for talks appear more friendly to Iran than before.

“Iran is at the table because Trump now appears willing to base negotiations on a wider range of Iranian demands,” Sina Toossi, senior fellow at the Center for International Policy, told me. He cites Trump’s apparent willingness to entertain total relief from U.S. sanctions, continued control over the strait, and some form of uranium enrichment: “The civilizational threat did not factor into the ceasefire.”

So what did Trump’s threat—which would have been a massive war crime—actually accomplish? It’s exclusively negative. As Bill Kristol writes:

Trump’s war has further shaken any confidence our allies might still have in us. It will be seen as confirmation that Trump’s United States of America has become just another rogue nation in the international arena, if a less disciplined and cunning one than Putin’s Russia or Xi’s China.

Kristol is referring to the overall war’s impact, but Trump’s threat of civilizational erasure is also a factor in ensuring these outcomes. That the American president eagerly vowed to obliterate a nation of 93 million is bad enough. On top of that, the U.S. political system appeared utterly powerless to stop it—largely because one of our major parties revealed that it will not step up even when its leader threatens unthinkably massive war crimes and even genocide.

Brian Beutler points out that Republicans who wouldn’t challenge Trump’s maniacal designs got lucky that he blinked. Next time, they might not be so lucky—and neither might we. Indeed, it’s also worth asking what sort of dispiriting toll this glimpse of our profound powerlessness in the face of Trump’s madness will take on the millions of Americans who find the idea of their country threatening such wanton, indiscriminate destruction extremely troubling, which surely includes a lot of ordinary Republicans.

One can hope that this galvanizes millions into voting against the GOP in the midterms—and it probably will help—but translating this into serious checks against a rerun of this insanity is a tall order. That, too, is a painful realization to endure.

In a sense, Hegseth’s spin is doing us a public service. By insisting Trump’s threat drove Iran to the table, it should force a reassessment of why the original talks fell apart, why we went to war in the first place, and what Trump’s vicious, sadistic bluster actually accomplished. This is a story of failure all around, and the threats, too, accomplished only bad things. Which reveals another layer to this catastrophe, blowing another hole in Trump’s claim of victory.

That’s because the core story that Trump and Hegseth have told about this war is that it’s showcasing that American strength and power are supreme, unquestioned, and can accomplish literally anything. That includes the mere threat to unleash that power: Because the specter of American military violence and terror can make literally anyone do anything that Trump wills, maximal threats of annihilation are inherently good. Hegseth constantly preens about America’s superlative killing power with unnerving relish and bloodlust in order to tell that story.

But it’s taken a big hit. Yes, the war showcased awesome technological prowess. But that cannot accomplish literally anything Trump wants it to. Nor can threatening to rain it down on millions of innocent people with unconstrained brutality and savagery. Trump and Hegseth set out to prove otherwise, and at this too they failed miserably.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Wednesday, April 8, 2026 5:45 PM

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No matter what Trump does, you're always going to say bullshit.

You two idiots were afraid it was the end of the world yesterday.

Shut the fuck up.

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Wednesday, April 8, 2026 8:26 PM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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No matter what Trump does, you're always going to say bullshit.

You two idiots were afraid it was the end of the world yesterday.

Shut the fuck up.

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Only Losers Play the Madman

Does Trump seem crazy? Sure. Credible, not so much.

By David Frum | April 8, 2026, 4:43 PM ET

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/trump-iran-war-ceasefire/686
736/

The most important thing to understand about the “madman theory” of foreign policy is that it was designed by losers for losers.

The world first heard of the madman theory from a 1978 memoir by President Richard Nixon’s former chief of staff H. R. Haldeman. According to Haldeman, Nixon said: “I want the North Vietnamese to believe I’ve reached the point where I might do anything to stop the war.” Faced with an otherwise hopeless war in Vietnam, Nixon would pretend to be crazy to intimidate the North Vietnamese into allowing him some face-saving escape.

Nobody executes a madman strategy when he feels that he’s winning. Strong and successful powers emphasize consistency and predictability. So do powers that hope to be seen as strong and successful. When China’s foreign minister speaks to the world, he uses language such as “China will be a reliable force for stability” and China “is providing the greatest certainty in this uncertain world.” He understands that true power does not need to boast or yell.

Those who feel their power ebbing, however, may bluster and bellow. Over the seven weeks of his Iran war so far, Donald Trump has discovered that no amount of the force at his disposal will calm world energy markets or boost his sagging poll numbers. He has tried a double strategy of promising imminent breakthroughs in negotiations while posting ever more violent threats on social media to ostensibly accelerate those negotiations. But if this was a madman strategy, it signally failed to gain the advantage that he sought. Everyone could see that Trump wanted a deal more than his Iranian counterparts did. A good rule of thumb is that the side that wants a deal more is the side that is losing.

The madman strategy is for not-crazy leaders caught in adverse predicaments. It’s a strategy of deception. The madman strategist pretends to be willing to do things that he’s not really willing to do. This approach relies on credibility: Rivals must be able to take the threat of extreme action seriously.

Trump’s problems with this strategy are ironic. Foreign leaders are surely willing to believe that Trump is “crazy” in the sense that he is detached from reality. They have seen him miscalculate risk and bungle all kinds of projects, such as his trade wars with China and his attempted coup on January 6, 2021. But they also know that when push really comes to shove, Trump will flinch. TACO has become, like NATO, an acronym so familiar that it no longer needs spelling out.

The Iranians just executed the most dramatic TACO event in history. Trump threatened to annihilate their entire civilization if they didn’t agree to his demands to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Iran defied the threat—and now Trump has apparently conceded control over the strait and the right to impose tolls on the ships that navigate it. On the point in which Trump tried hardest to terrorize, the Iranians aptly guessed that he was bluffing.

Trump has taught the world that he has every quality of the madman except indifference to pain. He likes his wars unilateral, quick, and cheap. He won’t seek consent from Congress; he cannot appeal to public opinion. He just gambles that the war will end before his poll numbers sink too deep. When this latest war of his turned difficult, he panicked. Everyone could see the panic, including the Iranians. His blood-curdling Truth Social posts—shocking as they were—proclaimed desperation, not resolve. That’s the Trump version of the madman strategy: yelling at people in the street while begging those same people for a bailout. What’s the opposite of the expression crazy like a fox?

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Wednesday, April 8, 2026 10:23 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

No matter what Trump does, you're always going to say bullshit.

You two idiots were afraid it was the end of the world yesterday.

Shut the fuck up.

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Thursday, April 9, 2026 2:15 AM

JEWELSTAITEFAN

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Donald Trump Warns a ‘Whole Civilization Will Die Tonight’ if a Deal With Iran Isn’t Reached

https://news.wttw.com/2026/04/07/donald-trump-warns-whole-civilization
-will-die-tonight-if-deal-iran-isn-t-reached

Any of you idiots here or in the media telling everybody that Iran was winning the war can shut right the fuck up now.

"Winners" don't tell their youth to commit suicide and go form circles around the only targets that are keeping the entire country from being sent back to the middle ages.

They're only doing that because they know we have cunts like Ted living in America who will scream about it.

Fuck Iran. Fuck Iranians.

Blow it all up and finish this.

The reports I heard were women and children were the human shield.
Also, that less than 1% of Iranians have access to internet. With no data on Starlink usage.

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Thursday, April 9, 2026 2:23 AM

JEWELSTAITEFAN

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CNBC: Oil Plunges 15%

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/07/oil-prices-iran-war-trump-deadline-str
ait-hormuz.html

According to your idiots, nothing at all has changed, Second.

The markets would beg to differ. If nothing changed, there's no reason for oil to drop 15%.

You lose again. You are a loser.

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Sloppyseconds seems to be becoming illiterate.

Yesterday, Hormuz was blocked and Trump spent the night bombing bridges.
Today, Iran has agreed to beg to be bombed as soon as the first ship is restricted thru Hormuz.
The opposite of the same.

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