USAF orders 30K lb. GBU-57 bunker busters to prepare for Iran

Bunker Buster GBU-57

The US Air Force just dropped a massive reality check on anyone who thought we could casually bomb Iran's nuclear sites and then call it a day without restocking the pantry.

After unleashing 14 GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrators during Operation Midnight Hammer back in June, the B-2 fleet needs more of these 30,000-pound bahdahbing bombs to keep the arsenal ready for whatever comes next. And yes, Boeing is getting the sole-source contract because surprise, they're the only ones who build this thing.

The partially redacted justification notice posted online last week lays it out plain: "this procurement and sustainment activity is critically needed to replenish the inventory of GBU-57’s, ended during Operation Midnight Hammer (21 June 25)."

Boeing has "uniquely acquired expertise over a period of 18 years of adapting this specialized weapon to meet evolving mission needs as MOP transitioned from proof-of-concept to Full Operational Capability," the document explains. Handing the job to anyone else? "Unacceptable delays." And the brass isn't mincing words on why speed matters: "No delay in award is acceptable for this effort. Delaying this requirement would undermine force readiness and efficient acquisitions for this key weapons program. A delay undermines Combatant Commanders’ capabilities, jeopardizes force readiness and strategic deterrence, hinders nuclear proliferation prevention efforts, and could result in loss of life."

The exact number of bombs being bought, the price tag, and delivery timeline? All classified or just not released. Because why spoil the mystery?

What is the MOP, anyway? Developed in the early 2000s by Boeing and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, the GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator exists for one job: smashing through Hard and Deeply Buried Targets like underground labs, command centers, and those pesky nuclear facilities.

An Air Force fact sheet calls it "a weapon system designed to accomplish a difficult, complicated mission of reaching and destroying our adversaries’ weapons of mass destruction located in well-protected facilities."

This beast weighs 30,000 pounds (13,600 kilograms), with the warhead alone tipping the scales at 5,740 pounds (2,600 kg) and stretching over 20 feet (6 meters) long. It can punch through up to 200 feet (60 m.) of earth or 60 feet (18 m.) of reinforced concrete, making it the heaviest non-nuclear bomb we've got.

Scientific American once compared the kinetic impact to "800 to 900 megajoules (about 758,000 to 853,000 British thermal units) of kinetic energy – comparable to a 285-ton (285,000 kg.) Boeing 747-400 touching down at 170 mph (274 kph) or a 565-ton (565,000 kg.) Amtrak Acela train moving at 120 mph (193 kph)." In other words, it's a flying freight train with bad intentions.B-2 bomber drops a GBU-57 during a test

Operation Midnight Hammer marked the MOP's combat debut in June 2025, when seven B-2 Spirits hammered sites at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan with those 14 bombs. US officials called it a win, but independent looks suggest the results were mixed: Fordow took a serious hit, while Natanz and Isfahan might bounce back quicker than hoped.

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The strikes exposed both the MOP's raw power and its real-world limits, from the sheer size limiting which planes can carry it, to the headaches of ultra-hardened targets, and Iran's ongoing efforts to build better defenses. Replenishing the stockpile now isn't just housekeeping. It's a reminder that deterrence doesn't come cheap, and the mullahs aren't going to stop digging just because we hit them once.

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Another woman claims Trump raped her but only for 3 minutes

Claims Trump raped her decades ago for 3 minutes

E. Jean Carroll, an Elle magazine advice columnist, finally came out and told her "story" about how President Donald Trump allegedly raped her in the mid-1990s for three minutes, give or take. She said that she would not press charges because the publicity for her book on the subject is good enough and added that it would be "disrespectful" to illegal alien women victimized by rape by the drug cartels that covertly transport them across the border in chicken trucks or whatever wheels are available.

"After all, the rape only lasted three minutes and it is worse for women raped by coyotes," she said, referring to cartel members driving chicken trucks hiding illegal alien women under the floor panels.

Carroll's book, "What Do We Need Men For? A Modest Proposal," goes into detail about her accusation against the president, which he strongly denies.

“I would find it disrespectful to the women who are down on the border who are being raped around the clock down there without any protection,” Carroll told MSNBC host Comrade Lawrence O'Donnell when asked why she wouldn’t press charges.

“They’re young women, they tried to come into the county. As you know, they’re here by the thousands.”

And this makes sense . . . how?

"Mine was three minutes,” the alleged rape victim claimed of the alleged encounter. “I’m a mature woman, I can handle it, I can keep going, my life has gone on, I'm a happy woman.”

“But for the women down there, around the world … it just seems disrespectful,” she stammered, “it doesn't make sense to me."

So by her logic, it would be disrespectful of her to have reported the rape that took place when it happened because she has a crystal ball and knew that illegal alien women were going to be raped by coyotes in the 21st Century. Sure, makes perfect sense . . . if you're schizophrenic.

In her book, Carroll claims Trump raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in midtown Manhattan when she was 52 years old. Trump allegedly recognized Carroll and asked her to help him pick out lingerie for another woman; the duo then headed to the dressing room, which also makes perfect sense, since it was Trump who was going to try the lingerie on. Or perhaps Carroll was while Trump watched. 

Whatever.

"As we head to the dressing rooms, I’m laughing aloud and saying in my mind: I’m gonna make him put this thing on over his pants!" she claims, adding that “[t]he moment the dressing-room door is closed, he lunges at me, pushes me against the wall, hitting my head quite badly, and puts his mouth against my lips.”

I am really doubtful this woman is telling the truth and is willing now to disrespect rape victims at the border. I still think it might just have a wee bit to do with her book and the fact that the 2020 election is just down the road apiece.

“I am so shocked I shove him back and start laughing again,” the accusation continues. “He seizes both my arms and pushes me up against the wall a second time, and, as I become aware of how large he is, he holds me against the wall with his shoulder and jams his hand under my coat dress and pulls down my tights.”

Did you see the this in your mind? Are your eyes throwing up yet?

Carroll then explains that she kept “laughing,” which she says “astonished” her as Trump tickled her fancy.

“The next moment, still wearing correct business attire, shirt, tie, suit jacket, overcoat, he opens the overcoat, unzips his pants, and, forcing his fingers around my private area, thrusts his penis halfway — or completely, I’m not certain — inside me. It turns into a colossal struggle,” she alleges. “I am wearing a pair of sturdy black patent-leather four-inch Barneys high heels, which puts my height around six-one, and I try to stomp his foot. I try to push him off with my one free hand — for some reason, I keep holding my purse with the other — and I finally get a knee up high enough to push him out and off and I turn, open the door, and run out of the dressing room.”

Her memory of the event, at least in my estimation, is too vivid, too detailed. She even remembered the color of the bodysuit Trump allegedly chose--lilac. 

If it was true, I believe Carroll wouldn't have taken note nor remembered so much detail. An article in the Scientific American by Jim Hopper, an expert in the field of trauma, agrees that gaps in memory are quite common. He made this assertion in defense of Christine Blasey Ford's spotty testimony against Brett Kavanaugh, and now in this current case his words come back to bite the left and support the President.

Trump responded to the news of the accusation in a statement released on Friday. “I’ve never met this person in my life,” he said of Carroll. “She is trying to sell a new book — that should indicate her motivation. It should be sold in the fiction section.”

“False accusations diminish the severity of real assault,” the president added. “All should condemn false accusations and any actual assault in the strongest possible terms.”



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Democrat AG hopeful promises not to show you her penis

Lansing, MI -- One candidate running for Michigan's Attorney General, Dana Nessel, is running on the platform that she doesn't have a penis and therefore cannot whip it out to show us.

No, this is not the Onion. 

Nessel believes that in order to eliminate sexual harassment in the workplace you must not elect any men--just women. 

That of course is sexist, but she's a woman and can get away with it just like a Black Lives Matter protester can get away with racist comments against white people.

"Who can you trust most not to show you their penis in a professional setting? That would be the candidate who doesn't have one," she states in her video.

Naturally, Nessel is a Democrat, the party of identity politics.

"If you get more women in office, if you get more women in positions of authority, you're less likely to have issues where someone is pulling out their penis at an inappropriate time in the workplace," she says.

She states [accurately] that the vast majority of sexual harassment cases involve men, but it's far more likely that harassment against men perpetrated by women in power, are under-reported due to embarrassment of men perceived to be powerless.

Her message is offensive. It's no different than substituting the idea of all Muslims being terrorists.

Nessel seems to think that there problem that exists in which women are the perpetrators of sexual misconduct is minimal. The truth is, complaints are on the rise.

In 2015, the vast majority of EEOC cases were filed by women, but over time, the percentage of sexual harassment claims filed by men rose considerably. In fact, 8% of all claims were filed by men in 1990, while in 2015, 17% were filed by men.

Victimization of men by women is more common than previously believed. In a recent article in the Scientific American, that also speaks to the problem of women victimizing other women.

There is nothing wrong whatsoever with women in political office. But to use identity politics and cutesy ploys to get simple-minded people to vote for her, Nessel has stooped very low to conquer.


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