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bigtree

(94,333 posts)
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 04:12 PM Monday

Trump says Iranians 'would be willing to suffer' his attacks on their life sustaining infrastructure

...this isn't just a madman, he's an animal.

There is nothing more barbaric and psychotic than suggesting that the people who are at the mercy of a dictatorial regime which kills dissidents and opposition supporters by the thousands would welcome American attacks on the infrastructure that sustains their very lives.

“They would be willing to suffer that in order to have freedom,” Trump just told reporters in the last hour.

Aside from the fact that there hasn't been any request or approval from Iranians to bomb their power plants and decimate their lives., there haven't been any calls from the people who live in Iran for the U.S. to use their lives as a cynical and extremely dubious bargaining chip; all of this saber-rattling supposing the Iranian regime that our government asserts are terrorists who have brutalized countless civilians, including their own people, cares enough about the lives and well-being of their countryfolk to do whatever Trump wants.

Trump is making an inhumane and dishonest demand of the Iranian people he expects to suffer his deadly assaults from the air; as the quote attributed to either Lincoln or John Brown insists: 'A highwayman points a pistol at a traveler and says, 'stand and deliver, or you will be a murderer.'

Trump isn't defending anyone, not even the troops he's deploying into harm's way. No defense of Iranians; not even a credible defense of the U.S. in his military actions which have done nothing but escalate the possibility of relaliatory actions from Iran against the U.S. or our interests abroad.

He's absorbed with his attempt to conquer Iran for the sake of nothing more than the conquest, which make the collateral killings, and threats to attack civilian, life-sustaining infrastructure little more than outright murder.

It's especially damning because he's now claiming the people whose lives he's decimated, essentially asked for it, which is an absurdly dishonest way of describing the very people our government has long recognized as victims of the government we're attacking (most notably in the administration's justifications for the very war they're waging)

We're now a nation of animalistic thugs whose leader has regressed our nation back to nothing more than invading barbarians looking to steal and eviscerate another nation's people and heritage just because we think we're able.

The unrestrained evil emitting from the White House right now is almost unbearable. We're now among the lowest forms of predators in the world; our nation now a bastardization of what we've been calling civilization. We'll be justifiably reviled by the civilized world for generations afterward, even if we manage to eventually take the power out of Trump's megalomaniacal hands.


TRUMP: “The Iranians are animals. That’s why blowing up their bridges and power stations isn’t a war crime.”




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Trump says Iranians 'would be willing to suffer' his attacks on their life sustaining infrastructure (Original Post) bigtree Monday OP
He's not an animal. Animals aren't vengeful. Ocelot II Monday #1
Meh malaise Monday #2
a monster bigtree Monday #5
I agree malaise Monday #6
And there's things like the "double tap" strike on the Iranian bridge meant to take out rescue workers and civilians... wcmagumba Monday #3
yes, serial murderers bigtree Monday #8
The more he bombs the Iranian people, the harder they will cling to their regime. Intractable Monday #4
So Iranians are willing to die to glorify His name dalton99a Monday #7

Ocelot II

(130,667 posts)
1. He's not an animal. Animals aren't vengeful.
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 04:18 PM
Monday

Animals only kill for food and in defense of territories, mates and offspring. They aren't cruel; they don't harm for the joy of dominance and subjugation. Only humans do that. Only humans are capable of evil. Whether he's literally insane is for the psychiatrists to determine; but he's clearly evil, which is for philosophers and theologians to diagnose and for the rest of us to deal with. Just don't impugn our animal friends.

malaise

(296,395 posts)
2. Meh
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 04:19 PM
Monday

He is yet to apologize for the slaughter of Good, Pretti or the 160 little girls in Iran.
He’d wipe out Democratic Party leaders without blinking.
He’s an amoral lowlife in search of imaginary glory..
He is lower than the lowest animal.

bigtree

(94,333 posts)
5. a monster
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 06:37 PM
Monday

...and it's just a matter of time before he turns his full ire on the American people.

And no, we haven't seen the worst of it yet.

wcmagumba

(6,264 posts)
3. And there's things like the "double tap" strike on the Iranian bridge meant to take out rescue workers and civilians...
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 04:29 PM
Monday

TSF and Hegseth (aka the drunk) are remorseless animals who love killing other people...

bigtree

(94,333 posts)
8. yes, serial murderers
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 08:00 PM
Monday

...because they aren't operating out of any principle except dominance; asserting their dominance over the people they blithely demonize and then kill.

It's the way the barbaric 'Normans' established themselves in Britain after repeatedly invading and killing the Saxons and others settled and farming there; building castles and churches.

One difference, although their history is a gory mess, was a notion of 'honor' on the battlefield that was established and practiced in the course of their savagery by 'knights' like William Marshall, an Anglo-Norman soldier and statesman in medieval England who fought bloody battles, including his last which determined the very fate of England, yet ended up being a signatory to the second Magna Carta which helped end the age of kinghts and their 'chivalry,'ushering in the predominance of democratic government.

Trump is going the exact opposite way. We'll soon be back to fighting each other with the rocks and stones we're left with.

Intractable

(2,192 posts)
4. The more he bombs the Iranian people, the harder they will cling to their regime.
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 04:38 PM
Monday

They will see their fundamentalist government as their only protection from the American and Israeli monsters.

dalton99a

(94,339 posts)
7. So Iranians are willing to die to glorify His name
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 06:48 PM
Monday
Ave Imperator, morituri te salutant ("Hail, Emperor, those who are about to die salute you" )
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