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.

I think a lot of people are going to be surprised...
Personally, I don't know why, because it's obvious Russia needs Iran for Ukraine.
But Putin isn't going to let trump attack Iran.
And it's already causing the people Putin makes support trump, start going against him.
I don't want to link an actual tucker Carlson video, so here's some people talking about his interview with Rafael Cruz:
https://youtu.be/yQEd-ECAwDU?t=1140
It tucker is breaking from trump over this, a lot more rightwing media is going to as well
- Russia needs Iran for Ukraine
  Oh, well, if this somehow hurts a few Russian Oligarchs then I guess incinerating 90M Persians is perfectly fine.
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.

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.

I wonder if the American population will buy the same lies sold to them 20 years ago.

I just repeated this to a table of 6 and got nothing but blank stares.
5 of them genuinely thought we found WMDs Iraq/Afghanistan
One had no idea what I was talking about and thought the war was entirely about the world trade centers.
I am surrounded by morons.
- I was talking to a guy and he said "who was that politician that used to wear a bunch of makeup?".
  "I'm not sure" I said
  "The one with the eyeliner"
  "Oh you mean J.d Vance? The vice president?"
  "He's the vice president?"
  Physically had to stop myself from facepalming.
  Right after he started talking about Greta Thunberg. He said "people that don't know anything about politics shouldn't get involved".
  I wish I could make this stuff up.
We elected Biden on mostly anti-Trump sentiment then forgot and elected Trump again 4 years later. I think 20 years is more than enough time.
- Whatever shadow of a hope I had that the people of this country would not gobble up low-effort lies about Iran just had this comment appear from the shadows and shiv it in the fucking liver.
I don't think the majority of Americans bought the DMW bullshit back then either, but the war happened anyways because those in power wanted/let it happen. The people didn't have a say in it.
- I don't know about a majority, but I lived through that as a young adult and I'd believe it if at least 51% of the US population bought the Iraq WMD crap. Colin Powell was a well respected military leader and political moderate and he cashed in all of his influence to sell the lies to Congress and the population.

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"

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.

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.
- Iran's actions seem to stem more from their close relationship with the east. Most western allied states de-escelated or gave up nuclear capabilities, such as Ukraine.
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.

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.

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

Press [x] for doubt.

"We're sorry, your [x] has been disabled due to unapproved usage.
Press any key to agree with the regime..."

Two weeks by any chance?

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

Absolutely everything in Trumpworld takes “two weeks”

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

Desperate for her job I see.

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

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

'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.

There it is.

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.

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.

If only they had colin powell to prop up this lie.

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.

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

Imagine a ... A bully..

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

any moment now

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

I doubt countries are sharing intel with the US given how Trump and his minions handle classified information.

So she probably wouldn't know whether or not Iran was building nukes.

Iran is a ally of Russia, so if she did have information on Iran building nukes Putin probably wouldn't let her say. Trump probably overruled that because he saw Israel was winning and he wanted to take credit for the win.

What a shitshow the US has become.

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

LIMITED EDITION SALE. YOU MUST BY THIS NOW. URGENCY!!!

Extortion or payoffs.

Now? Lol

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

"You have to kill us to make WW3 stop"

Tulsi "Russian Asset" Gabbard? Who cares?

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