Slack Tide by Matt Labash

Slack Tide by Matt Labash

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To Bomb, Or Not To Bomb

To Bomb, Or Not To Bomb

Should we jump into the Israel/Iran War?

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Physicist Norris Bradbury sits next to The Gadget, the nuclear device created by scientists to test the world's first atomic bomb, at the top of the test tower at the Trinity Site in New Mexico, 1945. (Photo by © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Dear Matt,
If you were Pete Hegseth, what advice would you give President Trump concerning the Iran situation? To wipe Israel off the face of the earth? 🙏
Kind regards,
Ayatollah K.

If I were Pete Hegseth, there are a lot of things I’d have to square away before giving any advice to Donald Trump. That would include:
1. Ditching my zany, message-driven socks — a grown-ass man’s socks should sheath his ankles, not “make a statement.”
2. Picking one mistress, and sticking with her, so as to set a better example for the rest of the manosphere.
3. Making sure my jabroni minions don’t accidentally rename the Black Hawk helicopter the “White Hawk” helicopter while trying to enforce my anti-DEI policies.

After that, when considering the high-stakes hostilities between Iran and Israel, if I were Hegseth, I could only present the President with one viable option in good conscience. And that would be this:

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