No, I am not kidding.
I’m watching MSNBC right now. Rachel Maddow was interrupted by Brian Williams about five minutes ago, saying Voldemort has launched 50 Tomahawk missiles towards Syria.
Jesus Fucking Christ.
More coming, when I can find the written stuff.
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Update, 8:23 pm CST: CBS is the only one I can find presently:
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Update, 8:30 pm CST: Thanks to Besame below, from WaPo:
The U.S. military launched approximately 50 cruise missiles at a Syrian military airfield late on Thursday, in the first direct American assault on the government of President Bashar al-Assad since that country’s civil war began six years ago.
The operation, which the Voldemort administration authorized in retaliation for a chemical attack killing scores of civilians this week, dramatically expands U.S. military involvement in Syria and exposes the United States to heightened risk of direct confrontation with Russia and Iran, both backing Assad in his attempt to crush his opposition.
The attack may put hundreds of American troops now stationed in Syria in greater danger. They are advising local forces in advance of a major assault on the Syrian city of Raqqa, the Islamic State’s de facto capital.
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Update, 8:41 pm CST: Rep. Adam Schiff (D — Badass) on Rachel right now, saying that Voldemort has no fucking excuse for not going to Congress to get an AUMF on this. (Except he didn’t use the word “fucking”. The man is amazingly calm, wow.)
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Update, 8:58 pm CST: Someone just dug up a Voldemort tweet from a few years ago:
Mango Mussolini is gonna talk soon on the teevee. Gah.
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Update, 9:05 pm CST: That was LITERALLY one of the worst speeches I have ever seen in my life. Very amateurish; Voldemort clearly thinks he’s playing fucking RISK. I’ll embed the video when it becomes available.
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Update, 9:15 pm CST: From Jeff Y, down below:
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Update, 9:32 pm CST: Politics here be damned, because we are a reality-based community. Yesterday, Hillary Clinton said that Voldemort should bomb Syria. It is important to note that Secretary Clinton is breaking with former President Obama and agreeing with (gulp) Voldemort.
"Assad has an air force, and that air force is the cause of most of these civilian deaths as we have seen over the years and as we saw again in the last few days," Clinton said in a speech at the "Women in the World" summit in New York City. "And I really believe that we should have and still should take out his air fields and prevent him from being able to use them to bomb innocent people and drop sarin gas on them."
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"I still believe we should have done a no-fly zone," she said, in a slight knock against former President Barack Obama, whose Cabinet she served in. "We should have been more willing to confront Assad."
Up next: McMaster and Tillerson will brief the press traveling with Hair Asshole in Florida.
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Update, 9:47 pm CST: Lady on MSNBC with yellow shirt (Hallie something?) saying it is NOT true that the United States alerted the Kremlin before the attack. In fact, Rex Tillerson is calling Russia “complicit or incompetent”.
From Jeff Y, below:
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Update, 9:55 pm CST: Rep. Ted Lieu (D — Awesomesauce) is pissed:
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Update, 10:35 pm CST: There are multiple conflicting reports on whether or not Russia was alerted to the airstrike beforehand. I will not be updating until we have confirmation one way or the other. (Last I saw, Russians on the ground were told of the airstrike, but the Kremlin was NOT told. wtf.)
Also, here’s Voldemort’s weird ass speech:
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Update, 11:15 pm CST: As per usual in the Voldemort administration, there is no cohesive bottom line:
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Update, 11:40 pm CST: We have a death toll now. Thanks, Trump.