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Screenshot of an X post by Acyn quoting a CNN exchange. The text includes Blitzer asking about U.S. military losses if the war drags on, and Mullin responding that it is not a war and that the U.S. has not declared war on Iran. Below is a CNN split-screen <br />showing Wolf Blitzer on the left and Senator Markwayne Mullin on the right, with a “BREAKING NEWS” banner reading: “W: TRUMP SAYS NEW IRANIAN LEADERS ‘WANT TO TALK.’”

2026-03-02 23:30:07

georgetakei@universeodon.com

This is absurd. If another country hit our top civilian and military leaders and wiped them out, then bombed 1,000 targets and threatened five more weeks of bombings, we'd say it was war. Get real or get out of here with this.

2026-03-02 23:31:55

djghettoredneck

djghettoredneck@mastodon.djghettoredneck.com

@georgetakei Mark Wayne Mullin is a douche. I hope that I get to vote him out of #Oklahoma

2026-03-02 23:32:58

Tom Spettigue

tomspettigue@mastodon.social

@georgetakei right

but have you considered that Markwayne Mullin is an evil, bloodthirsty, bad faith ghoul?

2026-03-02 23:34:17

Captain Jack Sparrow

Captain_Jack_Sparrow@mastodon.world

@georgetakei

'We're not at war with Iranian people, we just decided to bomb a few of their schools and hospitals and murder a few thousand Iranian civilians... oh, and kill their leader.'

2026-03-02 23:39:47

John Breen

jab01701mid@mastodon.social

@georgetakei It is war.

2026-03-02 23:42:16

Nathan Salwen

NSalwen@mstdn.social

@georgetakei It's a "Special Military Operation". Now where have I heard that before?

2026-03-02 23:42:38

alan@lighthouse.co.im

@georgetakei
I see Congress didn't get a look in?
So what lawful authority was Supreme Leader Donny operating under? Another executive order? 🤷

2026-03-03 00:22:49

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

@al Order from Netanyahu.

"If you help me to destroy Iran, you can have Gaza."

2026-03-02 23:44:12

DTrasler Writing

Dtraslerwriting@mastodon.social

@georgetakei They can't call it a war, because their Capo is running his Board of Peace scam.

2026-03-02 23:47:48

FurballsNHairballs

ChrisHolladay@mastodon.social

@georgetakei
Some people are so ignorant they think everyone else is stupid.

2026-03-03 00:20:28

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

@George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽 It's not a war, it's a "special military operation" 🙄

2026-03-03 00:24:47

kirbygoulet

kirbygoulet@me.dm

@georgetakei would have been to point out that DOD was renamed department of war.

2026-03-03 00:32:11

Alan Campbell

alanthecampbell@techhub.social

@georgetakei surprised it hasn’t been called a ‘special operation’ yet #EpsteinWar

2026-03-03 00:57:28

Skim Shady

woodenmachines@mastodon.social

@georgetakei “if you’re a star they let you” #trump #epsteinClass

2026-03-03 01:02:08

jmht

jmht@theatl.social

@georgetakei But YOU are fluent in English. 🤷‍♂️

2026-03-03 01:05:22

Seppo Helava

helava@mastodon.cloud

@georgetakei I assume he’d be okay with Canada killing Trump then after ICE murdered a bunch of Americans? That’s a “murderous regime” no?

2026-03-03 01:16:36

U.Lancier

Ulan_KA@social.tchncs.de

@georgetakei „military special operation“
As the one in Ukraine. By another madman, who thought it'd be a few days.

2026-03-03 01:19:52

Felis_Catus_Domesticus

Felis_Catus_Domesticus@mstdn.party

@georgetakei

not a war?

2026-03-03 02:52:33

decapitae

decapitae@mastodon.social

@georgetakei Gaslighting the planet - nazi fascists, the lot of these grifting lying crooks

2026-03-03 02:53:29

Konan

Konan@mastodon.sdf.org

@georgetakei Mullin suffers from Trumpstein Derangement Syndrome.

2026-03-03 02:59:53

Lenora

FaithinBones@mastodon.social

@georgetakei MAGA will believe it 🙄

2026-03-03 03:26:07

huntingdon

huntingdon@mstdn.social

@georgetakei

How Markwayne Mullin admits he's a former mixed martial arts pro and not a Senator without really trying.

2026-03-03 03:35:08

Macer

macer@his.macer.life

children in immigration detention cages under foil blankets in the US

@georgetakei meanwhile.... in the US...

2026-03-03 03:49:38

Faraiwe

faraiwe@mstdn.social

@georgetakei haven't declared war on Iran because only Congress can do that, and Congress is dead.

#TurdReich #OperationEpsteinFury #Iran #USPol

2026-03-03 04:10:31

A. No, née: Moose

A_No_nee_Moose@nrw.social

@georgetakei sounds like a "special military operation" to me

2026-03-03 04:30:31

TJC-

TJC_2@mastodon.social

@georgetakei
It's the predator argument. "See what you made me do?," he says after bashing her face in and stomping on her belly.

2026-03-03 04:44:48

Humphrey Archer

screwturn@mastodon.social

@georgetakei
In other words "It isn't a war because we don't want to call it that."

2026-03-03 05:48:13

MegatronicThronBanks

megatronicthronbanks@mastodon.social

@georgetakei It's a Special Operation, hey!

2026-03-03 05:55:59

LΞX/NØVΛ 🇪🇺

lexinova@cyberplace.social

@georgetakei i guess putin his buddie told them it's not a war, it's a "special military operation".

2026-03-03 05:59:54

@iveyline

Iveyline@mastodon.nz

@georgetakei Yeah, right.

2026-03-03 06:04:21

Roger Ap Gwillian

ausgroucho@aus.social

@georgetakei
If George Orwell had named Big Brother "Top Trump" he couldn't have been more prescient of today.

2026-03-03 06:20:30

Bill Zaumen

bzdev@fosstodon.org

@georgetakei Mullin said that? It sounds like the sort of dialog you'd hear in Dr. Strangelove.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T2uBeiNXAo

2026-03-03 07:13:03

One Dude. Opinions. All Mine.

thunder_struck@ioc.exchange

@georgetakei Seth may not have "declared war" put those are the exact words come from the mouths of the commander in chief and his cabinet members...including HIS secretary of WAR 💥
🖕

2026-03-03 07:47:13

Philip C James

PhilipCJames@mas.to

@georgetakei

Of course it's not a 'War'...

It's simply the use of WMD - Weapons of Mass Distraction...

#EpsteinFiles #Trump #GOP #MAGA

2026-03-03 08:15:10

Arne Rossmann

maccaffeine@mastodon.social

@georgetakei well, if that’s the argument, who will now remove the regime in the White House?

2026-03-03 08:25:24

Kai Lücke

kaichen@libranet.de

It's a "Special military operation".

2026-03-03 08:27:05

Koen Hufkens, PhD

koen_hufkens@mastodon.social

@georgetakei Strong is the "special operations" force in this one.

2026-03-03 09:37:17

Jan Ekholm

chakie@toot.community

@georgetakei The regime to remove should obviously have been the orcs and four years ago, preferably ten. This war happened to start extremely conveniently when there seemed to be some movement on the Epstein files. Now everyone has forgotten about those and nothing will happen about them ever again. What a sad country.

2026-03-03 10:16:34

Peter Bindels

dascandy@infosec.exchange

@georgetakei You know as well as I do that if you call it a "war" that there are globally accepted rules of war, and the current view by some countries is that as long as you don't call it a war, your opponent's forces don't get the rights they'd get under a war. No war crimes, no prisoners of war, no Geneva convention.

Not saying it makes sense, or that it's actually going to hold. But it matches what they do.

2026-03-03 11:31:09

MidgePhoto

Photo55@mastodon.social

@georgetakei an undeclared war. I think that also impinges on international law. IANAL but I think some of the Geneva clauses relate to armed forces in uniform in a declared war, prescribing protections for those captured.
Perhaps the Administration is not concerned with s7ch protections.