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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(137,318 posts)
Sat May 16, 2026, 03:22 PM 11 hrs ago

Rick Wilson - Trump Lost Iran

Strip away the spin, the flashing war-and-peace FOX News chyrons designed to juice the stock markets, the dead-eyed cable news ventriloquists of the MAGA media empire, and the frantic stage-management pouring out of the Trump White House, and you arrive at the cold, unsparing truth: we lost the war with Iran … and that’s not even the bad news.

Before the MAGA chorus warms up its dull, predictable shrieking, hear me out, because this is what serious countries do.

Serious countries conduct an honest accounting after a defeat. They look the disaster in the eye, they name it, and they learn from it. They do not retreat into the warm bath of denial, propaganda, and the cheap copium of grievance politics.

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The pill is bitter. Swallow it anyway, because everything that comes next depends on our willingness to face what just happened.

https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/trump-lost-iran

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Rick Wilson - Trump Lost Iran (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 11 hrs ago OP
We need a hefty dose of political antibiotic. returnee 11 hrs ago #1

returnee

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1. We need a hefty dose of political antibiotic.
Sat May 16, 2026, 03:40 PM
11 hrs ago

And as with all treatment of infection we must use the right medication in the right dose for the right amount of time so the infection does not return.

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