(March 2, 2026 at 7:41 pm)Paleophyte Wrote:(March 2, 2026 at 3:31 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: That depends on whose numbers you take, and how long this campaign runs.
The Iranian Red Crescent is currently reporting 555 dead in Iran, plus another 52 in Lebanon, 11 in Israel, and 6 US troops. And yes, those numbers will go up the longer this goes on. Add to that the refugee crisis that this is likely to create and nothing good happens.
Does anybody know what Trump's trying to accomplish by bombing them more? Aside from getting his popularity out of the shitter?
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I've heard numbers ranging up to six thousand for the IRI's put-down of the protests in January, which if true means we're at about 10% of that total.
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(March 2, 2026 at 7:46 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: ‘South Park’ Writer Sets Up Site Calling for Barron to Go to War
Three U.S. service members were killed and five others seriously wounded on Sunday as Operation “Epic Fury,” the U.S.-Israeli assault on Iran that launched Saturday, moved into its second day.
The latest bombing campaign on a foreign country by the self-styled “Peace President” has seen Trump blasted for his seeming indifference towards U.S. soldiers who have been killed in the process.
It has also prompted a wave of Americans to ask a pointed question—if this is such a noble war, why isn’t the president’s youngest son joining in?
Into that gap stepped Toby Morton, a comedian and former writer on South Park who, Variety notes, runs roughly 50 political parody sites, and has previously snagged domains including those of the Trump-Kennedy Center, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Moms for Liberty.
His latest creation—DraftBarronTrump.com—went up as U.S. fatalities began to be announced.
The site opens with mock-heroic Trumpian pomp: “America is strong because its leaders are strong. President Trump proves that every day. Naturally, his son Barron is more than ready to defend the country his father so boldly commands. Service is honor. Strength is inherited.”
It finishes with the flourish: “Dog Bless Barron.”
At the same time, the hashtag #SendBarron trended across the United States as news broke about the first American casualties of the Iran conflict.
Thousands of social media users were demanding that the first son—who lives at the White House while attending New York University’s Washington, D.C. campus—be called up to serve alongside the soldiers his father sent into battle.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/south-park...-iran-war/
Donald probably wouldn't mind sending the little brat to a war, but Melania would.
