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Griffin added more details to her initial post, writing, “A senior US official tells me that it was a US military strike on Iran’s Qeshm port and Bandar Abbas moments ago but added this is NOT a restarting of the war or end to the ceasefire.”

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[–] xenomor@lemmy.world 210 points 1 week ago (12 children)

So, is the ceasefire over, or are we just doing an Israel-style ceasefire?

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 91 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

Toddler logic:

Ceasefire means you stop, I can still do what I want.

People forget trump has always wanted a forever war to cancel elections.

He doesn't want to permanently fix anything, he wants it ready to blow as an excuse to cancel an election.

Don't forget Bibi has canceled like 4 consecutive Israeli elections, it's his bread and butter and he's running this show.

The war won't end while trump is in office.

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I expect a false flag attack, blamed on Iran, to happen right before the midterms

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Faux news:

Iran just shit trump's pants!

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[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He’s also likely hit the Alzheimer’s stage of his life. Combine his general impulsivity with the characteristic impulsivity of Alzheimer’s. Now add in his likely cluster B personality disorder. Anything can happen at any time.

Reason may not be involved at all.

[–] YellowParenti@lemmy.wtf 9 points 1 week ago

Someone gift him a luger with ammo and he'll fix the problem himself.

[–] Akh@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Ding ding ding

[–] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

So our best hope for mankind's future is...McDonald's?

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

apparently because Americans seem OK to bring the world to ruin before attempting to organize a general strike or protest on a week day

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[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 week ago

No, this is a new war which Congress totally doesn't need to approve for 90 days.

[–] Meron35@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

Actually, what he meant was a seas-fire, hence the bombing of a coastal city /s

[–] Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] RandAlThor@lemmy.ca 106 points 1 week ago (12 children)

Not a restarting of the war? LMAO this administration thinks we are STUPID.

[–] RustyShackleford@piefed.social 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The most significant issue with an idiot is that they will always assume that everyone around them is less intelligent than they are.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The Dunning-Cougar effect. I know this one and I'm never wrong.

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[–] comrade_twisty@feddit.org 14 points 1 week ago

It's just a demented military operation...

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Well, a large percentage of the US is stupid.

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[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It thinks Republicans are. Because passivity from the Republicans in the Senate is all he needs to keep the war going. I certainly have no faith in the military to reject unlawful orders themselves.

[–] cunnililgus@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I mean you guys did vote him in

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 week ago

Twice.
TWICE

The first time was moronic, but the second is unforgivable. Just unforgivable.

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[–] 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago

thinks we are STUPID.

the majority of the country voted for him or abstained.... so yes... amerikkka is stupid

[–] Nautalax@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Tbh our country re-elected him so I can see why they’d get that impression

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 7 points 1 week ago

Basic article, but news snippets & headlines (sans article reading) can work the same way. As one example, we are now seeing pregnant women shun Tylenol, not for anything specific they remember, just a vague “I heard it could be bad for the baby.”

MAGA knows what they say in brief sound bites, on repeat, can and will have similar impact.

Not on all. But they don’t need all. They just need enough absorbing the info in this way to keep us divided and forever following different information.

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/mandela-effect

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[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 64 points 1 week ago (3 children)

but added this is NOT a restarting of the war or end to the ceasefire

What in the fuck? When Iran retaliates, are these people gonna cry that Iran broke the ceasefire?

This is so childish.

[–] cunnililgus@sopuli.xyz 35 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Straight from Russian playbook. Just straight up lie in front of the whole world. Your fanatics will believe you anyways and the doubters won't know who to trust.

[–] SocialistVibes01@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

Where are those Iraqi nukes, George?

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[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago

They are going to say that literally nothing is breaking the cease fire, unless Iran does something large enough to rile up the US population.

The moment the ceasefire is “broken” they need to go before congress and get their stamp of approval on the war. But so long as they are in a ceasefire, they don’t have to do that.

So they are going to continue with the war, but constantly claim that their acts of war aren’t breaking the cease fire, so they still aren’t at war, so they still don’t need congress.

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[–] kn33@lemmy.world 51 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Y'all are missing the point of saying it's not a resumption. Of course it is. But they have to lie. If they admit they're resuming, it means they're in violation of the war powers act by going past 60 days. I expect the next lie will be that actually, this is a totally new military operation and the clock has reset.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

He's literally done that multiple times already...

So yeah, pretty safe bet

[–] Freeposity@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

And when they need to justify the war they claim we've been at war with Iran for 47 years.

Each lie is made for each argument or question they are addressing and does not need to be consistent with prior lies.

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[–] DigDoug@lemmy.world 47 points 1 week ago (4 children)

this is NOT a restarting of the war or end to the ceasefire

Fires

"This is not an end to the ceasefire"

[–] Kirp123@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Now they're gonna wait for Iran to fire back and say they broke the ceasefire.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 week ago

The old Israeli approach to ceasefires.

[–] socsa@piefed.social 9 points 1 week ago

I mean how can you cease firing if you aren't firing?

Checkmate atheists

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[–] Bwaz@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Huh. And here's me thinking a cease fire means you ceased firing.

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[–] homes@piefed.world 18 points 1 week ago

You can’t restart a war that never ended or end a cease-fire that never started

[–] formergijoe@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Us firing during a ceasefire doesn't cease the cease fire." Hegseth probably

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[–] stumu415@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 week ago

This is a new operation: ' Giant Clusterfuck'

[–] Greyghoster@aussie.zone 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Apparently this was a “love tap”. Only a man with the sexual history of Donny the Demented would think that.

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Well he probably thinks Qeshm was asking for it by dressing that way .....

[–] CyroSignal@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Trump doesn't even respect the ceasefire

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He can't spell ceasefire. Or Iran. Or USA

[–] wuffah@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

At some point, words still need to mean SOMETHING so at least a transfer of information happens. At this rate, by next year they’ll be down to pointing and grunting.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Once Iran reports on it then I might start to believe it.

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[–] switcheroo@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Sundowning Preznit Fuckwit is bigly mad because the trumpstein files are being brought up again.

There. That is why bombs are being dropped. Because a pedo doesn't like when you shame his child raping activities.

[–] TheTimeKnife@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Fake ceasefire to avoid the war powers act.

[–] rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago

Peace talks are progressing in the typical Israeli fashion I see

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