Tulsi Gabbard now says Iran could produce nuclear weapon 'within weeks'

Sounds like Congress needs to ask her why she lied to them in the first place. Alas, they will not, because she is already playing the "Fake News" card.

Why she lied? because she opened her mouth

How I Edged Myself For 20 Years: A U.S. Lawmakers Heroic Effort To Convince Themselves Everyday That Iran Is Two Weeks Away From A Nuke

"This memoir is beautiful, it shows a secular side to fanatical devotion you don't often see."

Coincidentally that's the same timeline trump has for any major policy implementation
- No that is two weeks
  Edit wait, I am not sure who is trolling who anymore, you trolling me, me trolling you, you trolling Trump, Trump trolling me, us trolling Trump?
  hahaha I genuinely lost the plot on that being the punchline thank you for punching it for me
2 weeks fits the Fortnight Fuhrer’s agenda most perfectly

Fusion energy is always 10 years away

Iran is always 2 weeks away from nukes

30 years from now the first humans might live on Mars. If not, read this again.
Fusion energy is always 10 years away
I mean, we're closer to commercial fusion than Iran is to nuclear weapons, because Virginia is actually building a fusion power plant while Iran has never had a program to enrich uranium to weapon's grade.
Depends what you mean by fusion energy, but fairly recently ignition has been achieved and breakeven surpassed.
In December 2022, the National Ignition Facility, or NIF, an inertial confinement facility, reached Q = 1.54 with a 3.15 MJ output from a 2.05 MJ laser heating. NIF achieved ignition seven times. The highest gain as of 2025 of Q = 4.13 yielded 8.6 MJ from 2.08 MJ of laser energy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_energy_gain_factor
- While that quote alone, and the NIF's results are very impressive and promising...
  The beginning of that wiki page says you actually have to hit more like a Q of 5 before you get something that can power its own heat managment and other operating systems as well, to stand a chance at being sustainable.
  The other big, missing piece of context is:
  The NIF facility's impressive results come from shooting about 200 lasers at a tiny capsule, which heats it so fast it becomes a plasma and undergoes fusion, and then the energy released is captured.
  But... this is not like a toroidal reactor, that, if it got high enough Q, could just keep running and producing energy in net.
  This is more like firing an artillery canon that needs to be carefully and manually reloaded.
  It is not a continuous, on going process... the position of the capsule must be perfectly aligned to where all the lasers convergently aim at, and its a burst, with a reload time.
  That and the capsule (technically a 'hohlraum') itself is... making one is a massively intensive and complex process.
  The actual fusion fuel part of the pellet has to be encased in a diamond, and then gold, and it has to be like nano scale perfect.
- yhea, but a practical implementation is always some years away.

Her evidence was a photo of an alleged nuclear facility with an arrow and "nukular missiles" written on with black sharpie. She also noted the MS-13 lettering stamped on top of one of the buildings.

It was a real photo, Iran likes to write "Nukular missiles" in giant black letters next to their hospitals.
- I did not know that. Thanks for educating me. I withdraw my objection to the evidence, although their connection to MS-13 was already damning for Iran.

It's remarkable how fast she changed her story to the one Trump wanted to hear.

question who is the smartest invertebrate?
octopi, or conservatives?
Octopi can solve puzzles, but conservatives can imitate human words, both spineless.
- Trick question, it's the centrist democrats. By preying on leftists and wearing their skin as camouflage, they get to court votes from the left while still growing fat on milk from their billionaire hosts. The conservatives are a very close second, though.

put them in a spreadsheet
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1keQUAr1T_pGtretagWbXtkiWzNKEdshFjtfzdJqyTsU/edit?usp=drivesdk
if we assume linear relationships, then Iran will have nukes by 2018.
however it looks more like a log relationship, so Iran will always inch closer to nukes, but will never get them. I'm a century they'll be seconds away, but never get them.
Bibi invented Zeno's paradox

In a fascist society the states enemy is your enemy

They are both strong and weak depending on the fascists agenda

this was has been so jarring.
I constantly get stuff like "Israel controls Iranian skys, it's over for iran" and also "Israel about to run out of interceptors, cant stop the bombing, its really bad"

Everything old is new again. This is the same shit Dubya's administration claimed in 2003 when they wanted to attack Iran.

Remember back then the joke was that Iran was next.
- I remember McCain singing "Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran" in a jocular tone.

We killed all their scientists who could make them and blew up all their labs...

plus about 400 people.
maybe the west should stop giving Iran more reasons to get nukes.
I really hope all of the idiots supporting this shit are like 15 years old or something, because anyone who was alive when GW Bush went into Iraq has seen this shit before.
People think we're fucking untouchable... We're in for a major wakeup call, especially given that our intelligence apparatus has been gutted by Trump.
But it's almost like that's what they want so they can manufacturer consent for this bullshit war we have zero business being any part of.

She is a shell of a human being whose only driving force is ambition and a complete lack of shame.

my theory is they they aren't "people".
they are mouthpieces of an institution. replaceable, and chosen for their bootlicking. if it wasn't her, they would have chosen another puppet. same thing with CEOs, corporate goons, and most politicians.
if they were honest and had actual beliefs they'll have extraordinary resistance, if they even get a chance to speak.
When I look at her eyes in a photo or video, I see the kind of evil where as she squeezed the life out of a kitten she would not laugh, cry, or grit her teeth. She would just stare, then tilt her head like a curious alien or Labrador without blinking.
Please note that I am a fan of both dogs and space, so I am sending zero insults their direction in that comparison. It's like if I were to compare the number of times Trump shit his pants throughout his first term with the number of times my baby boy -- born right after the inauguration -- shit his pants over the same interval.

WMDs!! Trust me bro.

just one more intervention Bro, I swear, just one more regime change ans we will have peace in the middle east.

Two weeks by any chance?

Good thing we'll have that new national health care plan by then.

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'Could' vs 'are'.

They may not have been, but they could if they wanted to, supposedly.

Now, if they didnt before, they certainly have the motivation and arguably the justification.

I certainly wouldn't blame them for seeking out nuclear weapons now.

There is no reason to be weeks away from an atomic bomb unless you're interested in building a bomb. Tulsi was wrong about the timeline, but they were/are doing all the things a country interested in building a bomb would do.
- Well, maybe if foreign countries would leave them the fuck alone to do things like control and develop their own infrastructure and natural resources; they wouldn't require nuclear weapons just to get some peace and quiet.
  The last couple decades has proven that's the only deterrent that actually works.

Absolutely everything in Trumpworld takes “two weeks”

Bullshit, some things happen on day one!!! Like the ending of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Just like with Putin's stooges, the grovelling and the self humiliation is the point.

Desperate for her job I see.

I've always wondered why there's "intelligence" in National Intelligence. But the bottom is really dropping out with the cretinous Trump cabinet picks.

And nobody's called out the cultist toady on pivoting to whatever Trump wants to hear. Fuck the US media.

Pretty sure they have been saying that for years.

Is Tulsi ever right about anything?

i remember her trying to pander to the Bernie crowd after he "lost" the primaries in 2016. it was the first time I heard of her and some articles were treating it as if she was going to take Bernie's torch.
She was right when she was talking about Bernie's healthcare and socialism liteish, but it was more of a broken clock
so, she's a complete grifter, trying to get ahead without any principles.
- she's a ~~complete grifter~~ politician, trying to get ahead without any principles.

Tulsi Gabbard is a piece of complete shit. News at 11.

Human-animal hybrids could fly within weeks

fly?
I'm lucky if I get my dog to speak using my alchemy research grant, my daughter.... she's in... school right now.

"The number is ~~40 percent~~ within weeks. Do not contradict the president.”

These ghouls can't be trusted with reality.

I've heard this before. At least a dozen times over 10 years

any moment now

It that's true, and we're afraid Iran might use them, then it seems like a bad idea to attack it.

We should attack Iran, they have WMD
why not Russia?
are you crazy? they have WMD

Somebody dig up Colin Powell. This fuckwit is stealing his bit.

Only a matter of time before they fall in line. Weak ass Putin puppet.

Now? Lol

they been months away from nukes for decades, any moment now. that eta can't go down due to US/Israel propaganda

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