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BeyondGeography

(41,106 posts)
Thu Apr 2, 2026, 10:01 AM 22 hrs ago

President Gloating Sadist

And his Stone Age remark. Telling 90+ million Iranians they are going to be bombed back into the Stone Age “because that is where they belong”.

One of the worst things about being an American for me during these times is seeing ugly shit like this normalized. Nary a mention in the reports in this country about the speech. It was just Trump being Trump. Even though this whole misadventure started out at least in part under the pretense of regime change and a better world for the people of Iran.

But of course that was always bullshit. Trump doesn’t want a better country for anyone starting with his own.

The Iranians noticed. For them it was a no throwaway remark. It was a halftime pep talk that will serve as motivation to endure all the killing and destruction to come and to inflict the same on the forces of Trump, who will have no one to thank for their suffering more than him.

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President Gloating Sadist (Original Post) BeyondGeography 22 hrs ago OP
It's as he said about Venezuela, I want the oil. Firestorm49 22 hrs ago #1
Ignorance, arrogance malaise 22 hrs ago #2
Arrogance + Ignorance + Incompetence alterfurz 14 hrs ago #28
Add corruption and we have the quintessential malaise 14 hrs ago #29
Remember the public service ad....Here is your brain on drugs? democrank 21 hrs ago #3
Just imagine if the "sane washing" stopped! 31st Street Bridge 21 hrs ago #4
Nixon Already looks like Lincoln or an angel or a Sunday school teacher compared to it. mwmisses4289 21 hrs ago #8
Even Dubba Bush doesn't look so bad. flashman13 20 hrs ago #13
I will not forget or forgive.... returnee 19 hrs ago #22
I wake up every morning... GiqueCee 21 hrs ago #5
I wake up every morning and smash the clock radio. usonian 19 hrs ago #17
Damn... GiqueCee 19 hrs ago #20
I had to resort to printing them on a laser printer. usonian 19 hrs ago #21
USA has made it to pariah state. Passages 21 hrs ago #6
There are 90 million Iranians. Tehran has a subway system. maxsolomon 21 hrs ago #7
I couldn't agree more with you! CTyankee 19 hrs ago #18
Donald unleashed a nightmare. God knows where this really ends. Joinfortmill 21 hrs ago #9
I have said (and I 100% mean this)... Moostache 21 hrs ago #10
Well put! Felicita 21 hrs ago #11
Too true, sir dave99 15 hrs ago #24
Agreed! calimary 14 hrs ago #27
He is a psychopath and needs to be indicted for war crimes LymphocyteLover 20 hrs ago #12
Would be a beginning in gaining trust again. Passages 20 hrs ago #14
Great chance for his young son to win some medals and become a man. multigraincracker 20 hrs ago #15
This was coined in the Vietnam era, surprisingly ,not by Curtis LeMay, but by Art Buchwald. Go figure. usonian 19 hrs ago #16
Buchwald was an outstanding -- and funny -- analyst. Kid Berwyn 19 hrs ago #19
Interesting bit of Buchwald history. Another character from that period: Pierre Salinger. erronis 15 hrs ago #25
Israel may cease to exist as a country, shameful loss when it could of been avoided. dave99 15 hrs ago #23
Curtis LeMay underpants 15 hrs ago #26
I remember people saying, "Bombs away with Curtis LeMay", back in the day. generalbetrayus 14 hrs ago #30
I remember uncles etc in a "Hell yeah!" sort of way. underpants 14 hrs ago #31
America will be paying for this disgusting era for eons spanone 14 hrs ago #32
Wasn't he coming to the rescue of Iranians being oppressed by the Ayatollah regime? Martin Eden 12 hrs ago #33
Did he actually say because that is where they belong???? Amaryllis 12 hrs ago #34
Here is the exact quote BeyondGeography 12 hrs ago #35
Thank you. That is a brilliant and very sophistocated reply. Way over Trump's head. Amaryllis 12 hrs ago #36
Very well said. Native 58 min ago #37
All part of the plan ... BlueWavePsych 6 min ago #38

malaise

(296,164 posts)
2. Ignorance, arrogance
Thu Apr 2, 2026, 10:12 AM
22 hrs ago

and a public admission of intent to commit war crimes including genocide.
The global lack of condemnation is frightening.

democrank

(12,604 posts)
3. Remember the public service ad....Here is your brain on drugs?
Thu Apr 2, 2026, 10:55 AM
21 hrs ago

Here is our conscience on Trump. His morally bankrupt words and actions are so common, so everyday, so everywhere, that many of us are desensitized to them. He constantly erupts spewing hatred. We’ve come to expect it. He lies and we listen. He embarrasses our nation and Congress goes on vacation.

31st Street Bridge

(217 posts)
4. Just imagine if the "sane washing" stopped!
Thu Apr 2, 2026, 11:05 AM
21 hrs ago

Nixon would look like Lincoln by comparison with Child Rapist/Felon/Larcenist/Arsonist/Mad Bomber-47.

returnee

(928 posts)
22. I will not forget or forgive....
Thu Apr 2, 2026, 01:38 PM
19 hrs ago

…bush/cheney, inc. Same goes for Obama/Holder, inc., for not prosecuting them. The GWB administration set the stage for Trump and the Obama admin set the stage for Biden slow-walking Trump, inc prosecution. The U.S. is terrible at learning lessons.

GiqueCee

(4,275 posts)
5. I wake up every morning...
Thu Apr 2, 2026, 11:19 AM
21 hrs ago

... hoping to read his obituary. I'm waiting...

That ANYONE still supports this deranged psychopath is an obscenity. Maybe doing a bit in a Salvadoran prison would help them see the light. They were more than willing to inflict such a sentence on innocent people, not just criminals. So, as simple-minded MAGAts love to say, FUCK YOUR FEELINGS!

Trump is a traitor. If you support a traitor, you ARE a traitor.

maxsolomon

(38,739 posts)
7. There are 90 million Iranians. Tehran has a subway system.
Thu Apr 2, 2026, 11:31 AM
21 hrs ago

Absent their theocracy and fanatical conservative fundamentalists, Iranians are pretty much exactly like us.

And we have fanatical conservative fundamentalists, too.

Trump is tied with Putin for worst person on Earth.

CTyankee

(68,214 posts)
18. I couldn't agree more with you!
Thu Apr 2, 2026, 12:51 PM
19 hrs ago

The religiously insane believe that their reward is in heaven and they couldn't care less about what happens on earth. They're going straight to heaven when they die so we should not expect any concerns from them on what we all care about.

Moostache

(11,191 posts)
10. I have said (and I 100% mean this)...
Thu Apr 2, 2026, 11:35 AM
21 hrs ago

I will NEVER forgive or forget ANYONE who voted for this clown, EVER!
As soon as I know someone voted for him or for the GOP sycophants and ball lickers, there is no further personal relationship possible and any business ties will be immediately severed as well.

I cannot abide the cruelty and I loathe the ignorance and bluster and buffoonery more than I can ever say.

What I will say again and always - He day he dies (and I no longer care at all how he goes, just that he is cold and stiff and gone) is going to be a global holiday to rival V-E and V-J days. For me, it is going to be a catharsis like no one has ever seen before maybe in the history of forever.

Die you motherfucking child rapist and do it publicly and in as much pain as possible.

multigraincracker

(37,658 posts)
15. Great chance for his young son to win some medals and become a man.
Thu Apr 2, 2026, 12:10 PM
20 hrs ago

Hope he can talk him into signing on.

usonian

(25,381 posts)
16. This was coined in the Vietnam era, surprisingly ,not by Curtis LeMay, but by Art Buchwald. Go figure.
Thu Apr 2, 2026, 12:49 PM
19 hrs ago
https://professorbuzzkill.com/2017/10/03/qnq-34/


Art Buchwald. Older Buzzkillers will remember Art Buchwald, the columnist who lampooned politics and politicians from the 60s through the 90s, with diminishing effect in the last ten years of his career. But in the 1960s he was a fresh voice of quick but, frankly, shallow humor directed at American leaders, and using the gossip of the political and military chattering classes I mentioned a minute ago to fuel his newspaper column. Buchwald’s syndicated column of June 1, 1967 provides the first evidence of the use of the use, “bomb them back to the Stone Age.” Buchwald was making fun of the more militant wing of the Republican party, members of which were thinking about ways to defeat the Democrats in the 1968 election. Those militants thought Johnson’s approach to Vietnam was far too soft, and that a more, shall we say, “complete” strategy was needed.

Kid Berwyn

(24,422 posts)
19. Buchwald was an outstanding -- and funny -- analyst.
Thu Apr 2, 2026, 12:59 PM
19 hrs ago

Not so much Curtis LeMay ran for vice president under George Wallace.



Did serve to siphon Dixie for Dick.

PS: LeMay has a lot to answer for regarding Dallas.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=3981591

erronis

(23,907 posts)
25. Interesting bit of Buchwald history. Another character from that period: Pierre Salinger.
Thu Apr 2, 2026, 05:39 PM
15 hrs ago

generalbetrayus

(1,867 posts)
30. I remember people saying, "Bombs away with Curtis LeMay", back in the day.
Thu Apr 2, 2026, 06:31 PM
14 hrs ago

Not approvingly, mind you.

Martin Eden

(15,634 posts)
33. Wasn't he coming to the rescue of Iranians being oppressed by the Ayatollah regime?
Thu Apr 2, 2026, 07:49 PM
12 hrs ago

If he's bombing Iran back to the stone age, wouldn't that affect Iranians opposed to the regime?

BeyondGeography

(41,106 posts)
35. Here is the exact quote
Thu Apr 2, 2026, 08:12 PM
12 hrs ago
During his prime-time address to the nation, Trump said, referring to Iran: “We are going to hit them extremely hard over the next two to three weeks, we’re going to bring them back to the stone ages, where they belong.

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2026/4/2/bomb-back-to-the-stone-age-us-history-of-threats-and-carpet-bombing


And the Iranian response:

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Thursday responded to President Trump’s threat during his recent address to the nation to take Iran “back to the Stone Ages” with ongoing U.S. military operations against the country.

“There’s one striking difference between the present and the Stone Age: there was no oil or gas being pumped in the Middle East back then,” Araghchi wrote on social media. “Are POTUS and Americans who put him in office sure that they want to turn back the clock?”

https://thehill.com/policy/international/5813874-araghchi-responds-trump-iran-threat/amp/

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