Okay, it’s time for something a little silly. I needed this laugh. We all know that there are specific monikers for military actions (Desert Storm, Operation Metro Surge). Well, we don’t know who came up with this gem, but a guess would be a letter wheel like for the lottery. You get the idea. Once it became known, it was ridiculed everywhere. Who decided to use this one? With gratitude to Raw Story:
While the Trump administration’s unprecedented attack on Iran has received a wave of scrutiny, so too did the name the administration had given the operation – Operation Epic Fury – which was dogpiled on Saturday morning by critics as childish. “It’s called Operation Epic Fury because it tested well with a panel of 6-year-olds and Steven Seagal,” wrote author Russ Jones in a social media post on Bluesky Saturday.
Epic Fury *snerk* Something like that belongs in a video game, not a military action. Or possibly a Chuck Norris movie. Or a Nick Fury movie. What were they *thinking*? It’s really arrogant and juvenile. On the other hand, Hegseth may have come up with it, and we know *he* is a juvenile.
“More like Operation Epstein’s Fury,” wrote prominent political commentator and social media influencer Jackson Hinkle in a post to his more than 3.6 million followers on X, referencing the Trump administration’s ongoing fallout from its botched investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.
Operation Epic Fury began early Saturday morning after President Donald Trump authorized a series of strikes on Iran targeting its military assets. However, civilian infrastructure appears to have also been hit, including a strike on an elementary girls’ school that killed at least 85 people, according to Al Jazeera.
Okay, so that last sentence pissed me off. An elementary girls’ school. Come on, folks! They’re definitely non-combatants. They need to improve their aim. That’s low. On the other hand, this is the sort of thing Putin does: get the civilian zones. We know Trump “lurves” Pootie. Maybe he gave Trump some pointers. Alrighty, a few more quotes and we’ll close.
The juxtaposition between the brutal images of deadly U.S. strikes and the name of the operation continued to be widely mocked throughout Saturday morning. //// “Operation Epic Fury sounds like [an] energy drink that gives you heart palpitations and bad decisions,” wrote X user “Crypto Intel Plug,” a cryptocurrency commentator with more than 1,600 followers. //// “I love how these operation names are like the ones I used to give my little plastic soldiers when I was 5-6 yrs old,” wrote another, X user “Wonky Donkey,” a U.K.-based user and frequent commentator on British politics.
Ah, yes, humor on a Saturday night at oh dark hundred. It’s not like I have anything better to do, except sleep. Would have been nice if I had gotten anything constructive done. But I didn’t, and that means double the trouble tomorrow. In the meantime, I hope you had as much fun reading this as I did writing it.
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More like Epic Stupidity…
Ha. That, too. It’s going to be Epic no matter what.
back in the day they simply had lists of operation names. when something came up it wss given the next name on the list.
If only it was (were?) that simple now…..
Was or were? We assume that it is not that simple now, so this condition is contrary to fact. Therefore, it calls for the subjunctive, which means “were.” I asked the question online, and I received this AI response, which matches my understanding of the grammatical situation:
AI Overview
Use “if I/he/she/it were” for hypothetical, imaginary, or contrary-to-fact situations (the subjunctive mood), such as “If I were you…”. Use “if I/he/she/it was” for real, possible, or past factual situations, such as “If it was raining, I didn’t notice”. “Were” is generally preferred for formal writing, while “was” is common in casual speech.
Meidas is reporting this morning that in 2018 Epstein told Bannon in a text thread that if trump were cornered (like a rat) he would start a war with Iran as a diversion. So maybe we could call this Operation Epstein Diversion, which could lead to Operation Epic Fury in the US, and finally Operation Get Rid of Him Now, as the war turns into a hugely expensive fiasco.
Okay, those are better than anything I could come up with. And the sequencing is AWESOME. 😉
Trump is pouting because they wouldn’t let him name it what he wanted: Operation Mushroom Cloud The Size Of My Dick Over Iran
I just spit my Monster all over my monitor! Bahahahahaaaaa!