Wednesday Reads: Holy Hell, Holy Sh*t
Posted: January 8, 2020 | Author: JJ Lopez aka Minkoff Minx | Filed under: Iran, Iraq, just because, morning reads |16 Comments
Good morning, when I started writing this post, I had no idea about the new battlefields in Iraq.
So…some of the cartoons may be a little, dated. Here’s to WWIII
Iran crisis: Rockets strike Iraq air base used by US forces
I fucking voted for Hillary Clinton.
— 👑 Black Professor 👑 (@Wonderbitch82) January 8, 2020
Just thought I’d go back and read this from @maureendowd in the venerable @nytimes pic.twitter.com/Y3iGoc105b
— Soledad O'Brien (@soledadobrien) January 8, 2020
Rockets hit airbase in Iraq where US troops are located
Here we go. Pray for all our troops. Their blood will be in Trump's hands.https://t.co/lWYz7AVmyD
— 🖕🏻Aunt Crabby calls Bullshit 🖕🏻 (@DearAuntCrabby) January 7, 2020
Gorka says "we should welcome" Iran attacks because Trump will "unleash Holy Hell" https://t.co/xYyXQDfrFd
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) January 8, 2020
What the fuck is wrong with these people? “Holy Hell?”
With reports of missile strikes launched by Iran against U.S. bases in Iraq, my thoughts and prayers are with our service members, diplomats and other personnel at risk, and with their families.
— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) January 8, 2020
Tonight's news is all the more sobering because, if history is any guide, this won't constitute the totality of the retaliation. We should be prepared for months or even years of this, across theaters and with different tactics — all for choosing a path we never had to go down. https://t.co/ohtuwEaP9p
— Ned Price (@nedprice) January 7, 2020
Iran is saying that if there is no retaliation from America for these latest attacks then they will stop attacking. But if America attacks then their response will be crushing and wide spread. #iran #soleimani #war
— Ali Arouzi (@aliarouzi) January 8, 2020
It’s extremely difficult now to escape the conclusion that @realDonaldTrump started a war because he was impeached.
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) January 7, 2020
the didn’t attack. they retaliated. they were attacked by the United States. choose your words wisely. https://t.co/So2Dc5ogH6
— Liza Sabater 🇵🇷👸🏾🌹 (@blogdiva) January 8, 2020
There have been no immediate reports of casualties after Iran launched missiles at Iraq military bases housing US troops. https://t.co/3Yw3O19IQ9
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) January 8, 2020
https://twitter.com/mcfaul/status/1214775041109442560?s=21
Trump just refused to brief the nation tonight on Iran, because he's a coward who needs to be removed.
— Scott Dworkin (@funder) January 8, 2020
“My country, right or wrong,” is a thing that no patriot would think of saying. It is like saying, “My mother, drunk or sober.”
G.K. ChestertonCartoon by @Patbagley in @sltrib pic.twitter.com/ANRaT2wF9B
— Karim Emile Bitar (@karimbitar) January 8, 2020
https://www.instagram.com/p/B7CqZzgHOTu/?igshid=1i0mwvdk5q59a
She told us. I voted for Hillary Clinton. Did you? If not, I hope you've learned your lesson. https://t.co/HSi3deAwCd
— Laura👠Marlin (@GiGicmka) January 8, 2020
As if all that wasn’t bad enough,
Ukraine International Airlines plane crashes in Tehran shortly after takeoffhttps://t.co/QCz1eRoqbh
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) January 8, 2020
Most of the passengers aboard the Ukrainian flight that crashed outside of Imam Khomeini International Airport have died as the crash site is ablaze, the head of Iran's Emergency Medical Services Pirhossein Koulivand said on Iran’s IRINN state-run media. https://t.co/hOFHoBwTj8
— Shimon Prokupecz (@ShimonPro) January 8, 2020
BREAKING: All 180 passengers aboard Boeing 737 Ukrainian plane crash in Tehran are dead. Plane went down into ball of flames, Iranian media report.#Iran pic.twitter.com/a27hmMtUsA
— Farnaz Fassihi (@farnazfassihi) January 8, 2020
If this is actually the footage of the plane that went down in Iran, I’m gonna go out on a limb and guess they hit it with anti-aircraft fire.
That’s a lot of fire for “technical difficulties” https://t.co/kKh4qZW87K
— Angry Staffer (@AngrierWHStaff) January 8, 2020
Lastly, a bit down under:
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Thanks for the round-up JJ. My heart goes out to the people and wildlife in Australia. It’s pretty gutsy to take in koalas, as so many people have done. If they feel threatened they can actually kill you.
Great cartoons, JJ. I think my favorite isn’t one of the cartoons, though. The “we define holy differently” one.
Agree. JJ, this post expresses what I’m feeling now.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/ny-goper-arrested-for-dui-allegedly-blamed-wife-for-crash-you-know-how-women-drive
He seems nice.
Wow. Just wow. And, obviously. That’s why women’s insurance rates are higher — no, wait —.
Big Tech turns up the censorship dial.
He’s disintegrating faster.
God, this makes me want to scream. Hello? We have laws that say a Prez has to consult Congress before going to war.
He. Is. Ignoring. All. The. Laws.
So how is passing yet another one going to do anything? Gives me the same feeling as stories about rearranging the deck chairs on the goddamn Titanic.
No one’s enforcing the laws. Repugs think it’s just fine to break the law as long as a Republican does it.
Can we possibly be so lucky? Relatively lucky, that is.
Well, after an initial dive, the stock markets recovered nicely on the assumption he was just chest thumping. Then they started to trend more seriously down when they thought, “Hey, wait a minute. We don’t actually know what this baboon is going to do.” So then he started making more soothing noises.
The pattern holds every single time when he does something even more cockamamie than usual. Danger of market crash? He stops doing it, whatever it is.
Because he knows he hasn’t got a prayer of staying in power if the economy tanks, and then he’s afraid of going to jail.
Needless to say, he’s shit at estimating the consequences of his actions, so he could easily overshoot on the bluster and find out things had spun out of control.
As some Democrat said on the Hill: it takes two madmen to start a war and luckily Iran hasn’t got one.