War with Iran

[Uncle Rico]

From Axios:

Small business profits are sinking as owners get squeezed by rising labor costs and energy prices spiking from the Iran war, according to a new Bank of America Institute report.

Why it matters: Businesses with fewer than 250 workers created half of all new jobs over the past half-decade.

By the numbers: Small business profitability in April suffered its biggest decline in two years, falling 1.3% after gas prices spiked, according to the report.

Small businesses spent 31% more on gasoline in April than they did a year earlier.

Pennies add up fast

[Jockey]

Pennies add up fast

But they are glad to lose money to prevent nuclear bombs from raining down on our cities.

We should be thanking the pedo.

[Jay Bee]

We should be thanking the pedo.

Yeah, u tell 'em buddy!  #LCJpower

[Uncle Rico]

Yeah, u tell 'em buddy!  #LCJpower

More people should tell 'em.  Pretty disgusting for the victims there are people out there like you that would rather protect a political party than hold those accountable that raped children.

[Uncle Rico]

Saudi's asked Trump to delay another attack on Iran until after the Hajj.

[MU82]

From the Daily Beast:

President Donald Trump's war with Iran has left dozens of U.S. airplanes damaged and destroyed, a new congressional report has revealed.

Casualties and equipment loss reports have been few and far between for a war that has cost the U.S. billions, with the Defense Department failing to publish its own comprehensive summary of the damage suffered during the fighting.

Several major incidents, such as the downing of two pilots over Iran, have garnered significant attention, while other incidents have flown more under the radar. Now the Congressional Research Service says the total number of lost or damaged vehicles could be as high as 42.

The group serves as a nonpartisan think tank that provides information to Congress. It used DoD and CENTCOM statements, as well as news reports, to build a picture of the actual losses of military fixed- and rotary-wing, manned and unmanned aircraft.

It covered key incidents such as the F-15E Strike Eagle, which led to a high-stakes search and rescue mission in early April, as well as three more F-15E Strike Eagles that were shot down in a friendly fire incident over Kuwait.

But the cost goes further, and includes a damaged F-35A Lightning II, a destroyed A-10 Thunderbolt II and the loss or damage of seven KC-135 Stratotankers and an E-3 Sentry AWACS, of which the U.S. has little more than a dozen.

There have also been 24 MQ-9 Reaper drones and one $240 million MQ-4C Triton drone lost.

The U.S. also destroyed a pair of its own MC-130J Commando II special operations aircraft while rescuing the pilots.

The search also saw an HH-60W Jolly Green II helicopter damaged by ground fire as it flew over Iran.

In April, Pentagon officials told Congress that $25 billion had already been spent on the fighting. ... On May 12, Acting Pentagon Comptroller Jules Hurst said that the number had now gone up to $29 billion, saying, "A lot of that increase comes from having a refined estimate on repair or replacement costs for equipment."

U.S. officials familiar with internal assessments told CBS News that the offensive's true price tag to date is closer to $50 billion.

As well as losses to aircraft, 13 service members have been killed in the fighting, six of whom were on board one of the Stratotankers which went down over friendly territory.

More than 350 Americans are also thought to have been injured, amid a furor about not enough being done to protect troops in combat zones.

[Jockey]

At least we're winning and oil is flowing again.

[Uncle Rico]

At least we're winning and oil is flowing again.

Looks we're celebrating Memorial Day with war.  Happy Memorial Day Weekend, even to the losers and haters of which there are many!

[Jockey]

Looks we're celebrating Memorial Day with war.  Happy Memorial Day Weekend, even to the losers and haters of which there are many!

That's just dum.

Sorry. I didn't realize dumb has a 'b' in it.

[forgetful]

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/terrifying-fact-iran-war-america-longer-safe-new-threat

Foxnews doing its best to try to justify invading Cuba. Happy Memorial Day Weekend!

[Uncle Rico]

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/terrifying-fact-iran-war-america-longer-safe-new-threat

Foxnews doing its best to try to justify invading Cuba. Happy Memorial Day Weekend!

The propaganda arm of MAGA doing some heavy lifting.  Another foreign excursion.  More excessive spending.  More world policing.  More dead Americans.

Promises made, promises kept.

[Uncle Rico]

Don't worry about fertilizer costs.

https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/energy/articles/human-urine-becomes-option-farmers-000003524.html

[TSmith34, Inc.]

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/terrifying-fact-iran-war-america-longer-safe-new-threat

Foxnews doing its best to try to justify invading Cuba. Happy Memorial Day Weekend!

Only the dumbest of dumbunnatural carnal knowledges--i.e., Fox viewers--would believe that Cuba is a threat.

[pbiflyer]

At least we're winning and oil is flowing again.

Hey at least he had an excuse not to attend his son's wedding!

[TSmith34, Inc.]

Hey at least he had an excuse not to attend his son's wedding!

To be fair, would you want to have to attend Don Jr's wedding?

[Shaka Shart]

To be fair, would you want to have to attend Don Jr's wedding?

The blow is probably top quality

[Uncle Rico]

https://youtu.be/kCXTq-fWWio?si=_gC3YpB7URVWR4Tj

[Uncle Rico]

What a colossal failure by our leadership

https://apnews.com/article/iran-us-war-ceasefire-negotiations-hormuz-e603a7759d6cbd70ce5ed01f439a29dc

If you know a cultist defending this gambit as successful, know they're either an idiot or beyond hope of saving.

[The Sultan]

What a colossal failure by our leadership

https://apnews.com/article/iran-us-war-ceasefire-negotiations-hormuz-e603a7759d6cbd70ce5ed01f439a29dc

If you know a cultist defending this gambit as successful, know they're either an idiot or beyond hope of saving.

At least he missed his son's wedding for this.

[MU82]

13 U.S. soldiers dead and hundreds more wounded for nothing.

The global economy sent reeling for nothing.

Gas prices skyrocket and the rate of inflation surges for nothing.

No regime change. No nuclear-related assurances. Iran will get to make bigly oil $$$ again. And the Strait will open ... just as it was before the idiocy started.

Wow.

[tower912]

At least he missed his son's wedding for this.

He'll make the next one.

[Uncle Rico]

He'll make the next one.

Christians get married multiple times, god bless you very much!

[forgetful]

13 U.S. soldiers dead and hundreds more wounded for nothing.

The global economy sent reeling for nothing.

Gas prices skyrocket and the rate of inflation surges for nothing.

No regime change. No nuclear-related assurances. Iran will get to make bigly oil $$$ again. And the Strait will open ... just as it was before the idiocy started.

Wow.

Yeah, we are worse off now than before. Iran may likely agree to dilute their uranium down (they offered that many times before), but will keep it. They also will likely work towards purifying plutonium from their spent nuclear fuel, or other heavy water reactors that can use the diluted fuel, providing them a new possibly more dangerous route to a weapon.

We lose.

[Shaka Shart]

Yeah, we are worse off now than before. Iran may likely agree to dilute their uranium down (they offered that many times before), but will keep it. They also will likely work towards purifying plutonium from their spent nuclear fuel, or other heavy water reactors that can use the diluted fuel, providing them a new possibly more dangerous route to a weapon.

We lose.

Wow TDS much???

[Uncle Rico]

You guys might not believe this, but the deal the president said was imminent yesterday now may not be imminent according to the president.

The art of the deal is remarkable to watch play out.