It’s Monday…
Shitshow’s public schedule for…
Puddle will host the West Suburban Little League team From Johnstown, PA.
Following a memorable performance in the championship game of the 2025 Little League Softball® World Series, Presented by DICK’S Sporting Goods, Little League® International was proud to welcome the West Suburban Little League team from Johnstown, Pennsylvania, to Championship Sunday at the 2025 Little League Baseball World Series, Presented by T-Mobile, to celebrate their achievements.
How about that choice war?
Puddle’s war of choice with Iran is going awful.
On Sunday CENTCOM offered an updated on the recently fallen US Service Members.
CENTCOM Update on Recently Fallen U.S. Service Members
— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) July 19, 2026
TAMPA, Fla. — Yesterday, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) announced the passing of two U.S. service members and the missing status of one in Jordan following an Iranian attack on July 17. After a thorough search, U.S.…
Asked about the fallen service members Puddle said “We feel badly, but you know.”
Fuckstick:
Well, we feel very badly, but you know, those great people, those great patriots were out there fighting that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. Uh, Iran has been very, very badly damaged. They’ve, uh, lost everything almost militarily. They’ve got very little left. They’ve got some missiles. They’ve got some drones. They’ve got some manufacturing ability, not much. Uh, we control the Strait. They don’t control anything. So we’ll see what happens, but we hit them very hard again tonight. And, uh, we did that in honor of the probably three. It’s probably three as opposed to two great patriots.
RollCall.com. 07/19/2026.
As best as I can tell, this is the first time Puddle has publicly mentioned the service members’ deaths.
*Flashback*
Fuckstick:
No, I’m saying that if other countries have them, it’s a little bit unfair for them not to have some. A ballistic missile is not the same thing as what we’re talking about when we talk nuclear. But if Saudi Arabia and Qatar and they all have some, I would say in relative proportion, I think it’s OK. That’s what I mean, OK?
RollCall.com. 06/17/2026.
*End Flashback*
Asked about his original timeline of four to five weeks to end the ill-advised attack on Iran, Fuckstick said, “This is a far bigger job that we’re doing.” He added that before, they were doing a “little job.”
Fuckstick:
Well, you keep hitting me with, this is a far bigger job that we’re doing. We were doing a little job and stopping them from having a certain capability. Now, we’re just ending it. So it’s really not the same thing. What we’re doing now is we’re ending any chance where they could have a nuclear missile. If you look at it after a week and a half, not four weeks, a week and a half, two weeks, we stopped them from probably, but I don’t want to have the word probably. Thank you very much, everybody.
RollCall.com. 07/19/2026.
My Coffee Talk Take:
It’s a shitshow.
Sunday, the Washington Post reported that as we sink further into Fucksticks war of choice with Iran we are also on the facing a limited dwindling stockpiles of air defense and long-range munitions.
Breaking news: The United States and Iran moved closer to all-out conflict, as the exchange of attacks on civilian and military structures continued to escalate and at least three and possibly four U.S. service members killed since combat resumed. https://t.co/5eoqSqChIV
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 19, 2026
Bahrain and Kuwait reported a number of Iranian attacks on Monday morning, amid reports that the Pentagon is sending additional aircraft to the region.“The U.S. is planning for a wider war,” said one U.S. official familiar with internal administration discussions.
But the official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media, cautioned that the expansion of U.S. operations will be limited by dwindling stockpiles of air defense and long-range munitions and constraints on the ability to surge more troops and aircraft into the area because of battle damage.
“We do not have enough to safely sustain operations, and I don’t think the White House is aware of that,” the official said.
Military experts have said that in addition to the toll taken on U.S. equipment and munitions stocks, the U.S. is unprepared for possible ground operations inside Iran, which Trump last week refused to rule out.
“I think it would be a mistake to put ground forces anywhere in islands in the strait or onshore,” said Seth Jones, who heads the defense and security department at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies. “I don’t think U.S. forces are prepared for standoff strikes from Iranians.”
Washington Post. 07/19/2026.
This morning the New York Times reported that the Pentagon is withholding the numbers of wounded troops.
In the week leading up to the Iranian attack on Friday that killed two U.S. soldiers and left one service member missing in Jordan, Iran carried out three other strikes against U.S. forces in the country.
Those attacks injured dozens of U.S. service members and damaged several helicopters, according to several U.S. officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss operational matters.
But the Pentagon did not disclose the earlier strikes, nor the casualties and damage they inflicted.
The episode is the latest example during the Iran conflict of the tension between what the Pentagon says is the need for operational security and the government’s obligation to inform the public about the conduct of the war.
[snip]
Central Command is not required to release information about injured service members, especially when they quickly return to duty, a U.S. military official said.
Moreover, another U.S. military official added, why would the Pentagon divulge information that could help Iran zero in on its deadly ballistic missiles and drone attacks in Jordan and other bases in the Middle East where thousands of American troops are stationed?
Central Command has also stopped announcing how many sites in Iran it hits each day for the same reason, U.S. officials say.
Sean Parnell, the chief Pentagon spokesman, said that the military had not withheld or misrepresented U.S. casualties in the war. “Claims of concealment are fabrications meant to further distress the American people in the wake of three service members killed in action,” he said in a statement.
[snip]
In the days since the collapse of a fragile truce, the Pentagon has provided little information about the American military strategy after nearly five months of war. The last major Pentagon briefing on the war was in early May.
New York Times. 07/20/2026.
It’s a shitshow.
PS.
I had more to share, but I have adulting to do away from the interwebs. I’ll try again tomorrow.
