Sen Chris Murphy: "Just came from a 2 hour closed door classified briefing on the war, a disaster of epic proportions"

[Miles Archer]

Aaron Rupar

‪@atrupar.com‬
Chris Murphy: "I Just came from a two hour, closed door classified briefing on the war. It just confirmed to me it's totally incoherent. We are not gonna be able to achieve any of our stated objectives ... this is a disaster of epic proportions, a 10 day debacle"

Chris Murphy: "I Just came from a two hour, closed door classified briefing on the war. It just confirmed to me it's totally incoherent. We are not gonna be able to achieve any of our stated objectives ... this is a disaster of epic proportions, a 10 day debacle"

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-03-10T20:30:37.721Z

[senseandsensibility]

1. I hope this statement and that of Blumenthal

who warned this morning that ground troops are going to be sent to Iran after leaving a briefing will get the attention they deserve. Whatever Leavitt, Hegseth, and of course trump are spouting is not worth listening to. These guys know what they're talking about.

[efhmc]

23. Good Goddess they are stupid. Do they not have one human in that group with a brain? Oh forgot any of those are gone.

[lostnfound]

27. Even the two Republicans in that briefing, described an open ended "evolving" war

Wicker said the administration is not ruling out troops on the ground. Hawley said it was large, open-ended and evolving. Both were speaking after the same briefing that Murphy and Blumenthal were commenting on.

[SergeStorms]

41. That's what tRump needs....

to cancel November's elections. They have it all figured out, so what could go wrong?

[lame54]

2. War Is Surre-Hell

[awesomerwb1]

3. Murphy should be minority leader

At least he tries

[PuraVidaDreamin]

4. Right? Jeffries has been quite disapointing.

It's only democracy that's on the line.

[Katinfl]

6. Murphy is in the Senate. Should replace Schumer.

[PuraVidaDreamin]

10. Ya I know that.

3 day's into a Divertic flare- clear liqs- wicked Headache and
trying to survive the shit storm is just hard, ya know?

[RussBLib]

11. first I've ever heard of that

I've heard of diverticulitis, but not the flare.

Intelligent design, my ass. I'm sorry to hear you are suffering.

[Bluetus]

33. Without the infectious flare-ups, it is diverticulosis

which is discovered in a routine colonoscopy. When the diverticula become infected, that is no joke. This can quickly advance to perforated colon, sepsis and worse. If one received a diverticulosis finding from a colonoscopy, I strongly suggest an intense program of it management because you really, really don't want it to develop into diverticulitis.

[PuraVidaDreamin]

44. Oh it's the real deal.

Been on clears for days. Doing a scrambled egg and toast trial.
Also I'm an RN who worked in the OR and ICU. I have seen the perfs and what
they can morph into. I have no temp or N/V- It's my 3rd flare in six years.
Probably r/t overwhelming grief since my husband passed plus the state of the world.

Funny thing is I had a scope about a month ago and the diverticula out-pouching was confirmed.
Was given an all clear for 5 years.

Feeling a bit better today. I truly appreciate your words of wisdom.

[Bluetus]

45. I'm glad you are on top of it.

I had diverticula on 4 scopes over 10 years, but nobody really gave me any useful advice, other than eat more greens and fiber.

I have no doubt that your flare-up could be from stress, and it sounds like you have had more than your share recently.

In my case I ignored worsening symptoms for 3 weeks because I had no reason to associate any of that with my diverticulosis. I had some heavy jobs the week before I presented to the ER. 6 hours later, I had emergency surgery to remove about 1/3 of the colon, followed by 9 days in ICU to clear the sepsis. That was followed by months on an ostomy to rest the remaining colon. I eventually had successful take-down surgery and can live a mostly normal life now.

I just wish somebody would have advised me that difficult, straining and painful BMs are not normal and you can be kind to your guts by doing simple things like figuring out how much psyllium (Metamucil) daily will allow your system to do its thing without unnecessary strain. In my case, I am certain it was completely preventable had I been educated about it.

I will be thinking of you and wish you steady, gentle progress. FWIW, I logged every bite I ate and every BM event for 2 years before I felt like I was really healthy again. It is a lifestyle change, but can be very successful.

[Katinfl]

13. Hope you feel better.

[phxjurist]

40. I have often thought that too. Jeffries is too weak. We need someone with the strength of Pelosi.

[mr715]

8. And it goes without saying, Majority Leader too.

[Celerity]

12. indeed!

[Johonny]

22. IDK

The minority leader is about holding the caucus together behind closed doors.

The party can use other people in the press.

It's the senate where the caucus seems aimless and so often not together...

[Hassler]

5. You mean it's not a 15 out of 10?

Whooda thunkit?

[NoMoreRepugs]

7. Once again the USA will have to be rescued from Republican mismanagement.

[ananda]

9. And in other news...

water is wet.

[surfered]

14. Anybody surprised? Everything Trump touches dies and maybe us with him

[WmChris]

15. Operation Epsitine

Sure changed the focus so the main objective has been achieved.

[cab67]

16. there are stated objectives?

[usonian]

18. Unstated. Distract from Epstein.

Wildly overplayed his hand.

Started (along with Bibi) a mideast war. A few days and it’s over.

NOT EVEN IN

[womanofthehills]

20. Goals???

Link to tweet

?s=46

Link to tweet

?s=46

[Exp]

17. When is the ICC going to issue arrest warrants for Trump, Hegseth and Rubio? nt

[Justice matters.]

39. I am afraid to predict "never" ...

A world led by cowards may end up un-inhabitable by the peace-lovin peasants (the rest of the world struggling to live til the next week).

[yellow dahlia]

19. When Chris Murphy speaks, I listen.

[meadowlander]

21. I'll take a 10 day debacle over the start of WWIII. We should be so lucky.

[poozwah]

24. great expectations

did anyone expect anything different? distraction is not now or ever been a good reason to go to war. btw, epstein is still a big thing.

[themaguffin]

25. it really can't be overstated what fuck up this is.

[GreenWave]

26. Call it the Epstein Deflection War.

[thomski64]

29. We're going to have to come with a..

...different way to abbreviate Erectile Dysfunction, now that ED refers to
EPSTEIN DEFLECTION: most of what does every day..

[Irish_Dem]

28. The only objective for Trump is to get richer.

He wants oil, gold, land, power.

Nothing else is on his radar.

[thomski64]

31. I would add avoiding any accountability..

..for his criminality. So far aside from the 2020 election loss, only the 13 year old that bit his little mushroom cock in 1983, when he tried to force her to blow him.

[Irish_Dem]

37. Yes that too. Stealing the elections are about not facing charges.

[Roc2020]

30. The dictionary should change the word

incompetent to these five letters. T***P. What a stupid set of people

[ShazzieB]

32. I thought the only objective was to blow stuff up because Schlump likes blowing stuff up.

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Let's face it: this happened because he needed something that would give him an ego boost, with the added bonus of creating a distraction from Epstein and everything else he's in the doghouse for. Because the only thing that really matters to Schlump is the care and feeding of his greatly oversized but very fragile ego.

If that means killing a bunch of Iranian civilians and American service people, he's fine with that. He 's a psychopath, so causing people to die has no more significance to him.than setting fire to a stack of paper dolls.

[BannonsLiver]

34. This will be a downer for the 3-4 DUers who are dedicated to supporting Trump's war.

First they said the casualty reports were lies and were proven wrong.

Then they said the Iranians won�t have the ability to lay mines in tne strait and have been proven wrong.

Maybe �war gaming� isn�t their thing. 🤷‍♂️🤣

[fujiyamasan]

46. Winner winner chicken dinner

I was told by one of them that I should read up on my geopolitics. I’m thinking shut the f-ck up, at least I seem to have a memory of another two endless wars launched about twenty years ago.

[Martin68]

35. Trump insured he wouldn't wring any concessions from Iran when he demanded unconditional surrender.

they were probably ready to negotiate.

[progressoid]

36. Operation Epstein Fury

[underpants]

38. God.

[ForeGoneLegsBirne]

42. Can Anyone Get General(retired) Milley On The Phone?

Please leave a message: "Uh hello....Gen Milley.... ummm... s*** sandwich cleanup? We have a bunch from the American & Israeli teams making a mess in the Persian aisle! Can you get these kids back home before curfew?"

[Six117]

43. To no one's surprise.

Any of them being held accountable would be nice.