ROK Drop Open Thread – April 3, 2026

Let’s start the day with the national anthem of Setnaffaria.
 
Song of Setnaffaria
 
Verse I
On a very legal patch of land,
We drew a brand-new line,
With a Sharpie and a master plan
Scribbled out in wine.
No more forms, no more experts,
No more facts to check,
Just vibes, resolve, and confidence
And a glorious flag we’ll spec.
 
Chorus
Oh Setnaffaria! Loud and proud!
The greatest, some have said,
A perfect nation, huge and strong,
At least inside our head.
We’re winning big, we always were,
Despite what maps may show,
Setnaffaria marches on
In tweets and overflow.
 
Verse II
With trusted friends from far away
Who swear they mean us well,
They loan us tanks and talking points
And promise not to tell.
From Beijing’s scripts to Moscow’s nods,
Such generous advice!
They say our freedom’s very real
(Just don’t read the fine-print twice.)
 
Chorus
Oh Setnaffaria! Bold and new!
Uncancelled, free, and loud,
A nation built on grievances
And feelings deeply proud.
We’ve got the best beliefs around,
The strongest truths by far,
Setnaffaria shines so bright
It blinds the fact-check czar.

Bridge
We love free speech so very much
We shout it into law,
Unless you disagree with us,
Then that’s a serious flaw.
Courts are fake, but justice real,
As long as we agree,
And every loss is rigged, of course—
Except our victories.

Final Chorus
Oh Setnaffaria! Stand and cheer!
Salute the chosen few,
Where loyalty is currency
And facts are optional too.
So raise the flag (design TBD),
And sing both near and far,
Setnaffaria forever reigns—
The best that never was.

Wow.

Look at all those plus ratings for absolute cognitive slop.

So one idiot has access to several devices and has based their entire pathetic identity off recursive stupidity.

I am just going to hit the plus just to encourage this dysfunction out of morbid curiosity.

This is very good news for the US. It’s now an uncool, disgusting place and is no longer a place to go to for the Latin American countries! America won’t have to see those hated brown people trying to move to the US.

Interestingly, South Korea is now known as the coolest place to be and the coolest country for Latin America.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/apr/02/how-korean-culture-is-taking-latin-america-by-storm

“Perhaps the US is no longer, in people’s imagination, the place they want to go … Whenever my [10-year-old] daughter talks about going somewhere, she never cites the US … she cites things that she’s seeing more and more from the East and which are influencing our culture,”

CH, there are useful idiots in every group. Sadly, a lot of TDS sufferers refuse to see Islam as a greater threat to human survival than any other human effort, including Bernie Sanders.

Easter Sunday is the appropriate day to remind people with a five decade history of shìtbaggery that they have two more days of fùcking around before they find out.

Just because you are a giant wussy doesn’t mean everyone else has to be.

Go find a safe space to cry in and leave the geopolitics to the big boys.

Your definition of “presidential” is Obama-grade appeasement so we already know how little your opinion counts.

Let’s try a little toxic masculinity. It doesn’t seem like it can work out any worse.

Note to All: Notice all the left has is “but mean tweets”. That is all they every had.

“Now we’re paying eight dollars a gallon for gass”

Fortunately, very few Americans buy “gass”. Shocking they would pay $8/gallon for it.

Normal “gas” is highest right now in the People’s Republic of California at $5.923… which is about 50 cents higher than Korea.

AAA assures me the average America gas price right now is $4.110/gallon, which is about half of whatever nonsense you are basing today’s Trump derangement on.

The problem with libtards is they live in a fantasy world and then make decisions based on their fantasy.

A normal person would think a few months of higher gas prices is a small price to pay for keeping a fatalistic anti-American death cult from having a nuclear weapon.

Libtards are all me me me now now now and my feels.

Bonus: If you have to give a second thought to gas prices, you need to be taking the bus along with the other poors.

The “democrats” have a really short memory. They forget that when B-rock was prez, gas prices were $4.50 to $5.50 a gallon, depending which state you lived in. Did they bitch about that? Give them something shiny to play with and in a little while they they forget all about it!

“The lunatic needs to be removed from office. He just called up a FOX reporter and has threatened a nuclear annihilation of Iran.”

If that were true, one would expect it to make the news. Could you provide us with a link?

Because it has not been reported by either the left or the right, it would seem if you didn’t fully dream it up in a perpetual state of manufactured leftist outrage, you must have read it on leftarded-sheep-being-manipulated dot com.

You have accepted nonsense as truth and now you are making public decisions based on it.

This is a common trait of leftards and women just before that time of the month.

“If Americans think $4 a gallon is expensive, just wait til he’s done with pushing the button.”

If you think cars are expensive now, wait until they start making them out of solid gold… and other things that are only alarming to stupid and emotional people since normal people can rank probabilities of events and put their effort into worrying about more mundane but likely outcomes.

“What a satanic administration, what a satanic country, only worrying about high gas prices, when their government is murdering thousands of people, and now threatening the world with nuclear war.”

The left complains about the American religious right and then complains America is satanic. They complain America is acting with no concern of global energy prices and then complain America only worries about high gas prices. The left complain when America “murders” terrorists and drug dealers but never complains about terrorists or drug dealers. The left complains that Trump Always Chickens Out (TACO) and then complains when he takes care of business (never realizing the goal and the threat are frequently not the same).

The consistency of the left is not in thinking… it is in complaining.

“The US needs to be brought down; it has no business being a world leader.”

No it doesn’t. Yes it does. What you have been told not to like is only going to get stronger. There is nothing you can do about it.

The amusing part is that you have no idea what is going on and why… or you wouldn’t be so outraged… so you dream up imaginary threats of nuclear war by exaggerated villians and get angry about it to feel important in an otherwise empty and unfulfilling life of quiet and angry desperation.

I told you he would TACO. He always does.
We’ve “won” the war what, 12 or 15 times so far?
Iran’s AA batteries, army, navy, air force have been obliterated how many times now?
He gave Iran 48 hours, then 10 days, then another day, then he said he was going to “reign” (LOL) hell on them if they didn’t open the strait and guess what, Iran didn’t blink so then he said he was going to blow up their bridges and whatever other nonsense he spouted, like taking their oil aaaaaaaaand:

https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/energy/article/trump-backs-away-from-seizing-irans-oil-unfortunately-the-american-people-would-like-to-see-us-come-home-201041843.html

I guess he got tired of all that winning. Well, the good news is, it looks like there won’t be boots on the ground. Someone in his administration must have finally convinced him what a horrible idea that was and how badly it would hurt the GOP in the midterms once the body count went up.

BEFORE IRAN WAR:

• Iran didn’t control the Strait Of Hormuz, now it does
• Iran oil was sanctioned, now it’s not
• Iran was not building a nuclear, now it will
• US bases in the Gulf were assets, now liabilities
• Inflation was declining, now increasing

He’s Definitely winning… At losing!!

Release the Epstein File, you sicophants!

BEFORE IRAN WAR:

– Iran didn’t control the Strait Of Hormuz, now it does

Iran has always controlled the Straits of Hormuz via periodic disruption.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanker_war

Eventually, when enough of them are dead and enough of their stuff is broken, it will be much harder. But that’s not really America’s problem.

– Iran oil was sanctioned, now it’s not

Iran oil has always been sanctioned, including now. They are also shipping about the same amount of oil before the war and now.

As you don’t understand what a sanction is, the reason Iran could supply oil and can still supply oil is lost on you.

No doubt, you echoed the media lies about Trump’s “illegal blockade” of Cuba that was not illegal or a blockade.

Bonus: If Iran keeps FA, they might FO how hard it is to avoid sanctions when you have no way to fill tankers. I hope Trump doesn’t have to destroy Iran’s oil infrastructure, but that is a valid option.

– Iran was not building a nuclear, now it will

Iran laid all the foundations to build a quick nuclear (bomb). Now, they won’t because they can’t. And if it looks like they are trying to get things restarted, their efforts can be destroyed before gaining any traction. You might call this a forever war but it is really a glorified monitoring and live-fire excercise.

– US bases in the Gulf were assets, now liabilities

U.S. bases have always been both strategic assets and potential targets, so increased risk during conflict does not make them newly “liabilities.”

– Inflation was declining, now increasing

Waiiiiit.. that almost sounds like some sort of unintentional admission that something good was happening under Trump. But, yes, a war around oil has given us a month of inflation. That must be devastating for short-term first-order thinkers. You will live just like you did during Biden’s 2.5x inflation during covid mismanagement while you were out there yelling about masks and social distancing.

Wonder how much money @setnaffa receives from China and Russia for his laptop farm and his puppets.

Commie?

So kind of the misguided right-wing kyopo Joshua Lee to remind us once again that when there’s no real argument, the fallback is calling everyone a “commie.”

Ah yes @setnaffa and his sockpuppet ChickenHead, the Sino-Russiabots of the ROK Drop.

A Korea Thing likes to upload pictures of others in the community?

Coincidentally, I have one of him.

Cartoons don’t do me justice. Let me see if I have a current picture. Oh, there’s one I took last week.

“The Easter Bunny’s blank eyes seemed first shocked and then desperate”
Indeed. Here we see the “Easter Bunny’s shocked face”. Also his “desperate face”.

“The Easter Bunny’s blank eyes seemed first shocked and then desperate.”

Terrifying.

She observed the bunny judging Trump in real-time.

Plot Twist: The costume bunny head never actually changed expression. Like the rest of the article, everything was all in her head.

Also, something that everyone should get caught up to speed on is that the world doesn’t revolve around Everything I Don’t Like Done by Somebody I Don’t Like is a War Crime.

Look up how Shock and Awe worked in Iraq and Serbia.

Besides, Trump is likely not going to hit power plants and bridges… yet. The Iranians are already moving military and government to other places and putting civilians as human shields on these targets… which is an actual war crime, by the way, if you still need to whine about something.

The US military is likely watching where regime assets are moved and will target those, which are much better targets.

The TDSers will watch power plants and bridges not get blown up in favor of some truly excellent targets and yell, “but but but TACO!”

Or maybe Trump will hit power plants and bridges and a couple of girl’s high schools for good measure.

You just never know with Trump.

I just found a picture of Trump and the Ground Invasion Sauropod.

Certainly a look of desperation.

I called it, and anyone who’s been watching the blatant market manipulations and the fact that Trump the bully throws a tantrum and then Iran tells him to F off, knew this is exactly what was going to happen at the last minute of his “ultimatum”. Hahahahahahaha

Nah brah.

Trump was panicking because he had no off ramp and the markets were tanking. Iran rejected his 15-point plan and at the request of Pakistan and China, they gave Trump a 10-point plan of their own and knowing he might as well take the L, he accepted. Truth.
4D chess? The man is insane and unfit to run a carnival, much less a country. He couldn’t even play checkers if his life depended on it.
We love TACO Tuesday 🙂

Ha! This -9 likes is a record, especially for such a short time. I didn’t realize there were so many TDSers on this site… all hunched over their keyboards and waiting for me to comment.

I feel much more important knowing that.

Trump’s offramp was to bomb Iran back to the stone age.

Not the ideal solution, but better than no solution.

Right now, we can predict what we want but it is meaningless.

The reality is:

– Iran doesn’t open the Straits and Trump does nothing but talk

– Iran opens the Straits while further negotiation happens

– Iran does not open the Straits and Trump starts bombing

You believe in #1. I believe #2 with a fallback to #3.

You base your opinion on TDS. I base my opinion on Trump’s history of negotiation and action.

Let’s see what happens over the next few days.

Where did all these votes come from?! LOL. We call it the 중국부대 meaning the Chinese army.

Korean Person must go to a pc bang and takeover 10 computers to vote, or ask their fellow Commies to do so. Pathetic.

From Heather Cox Richardson (look her up – she posts without bias or opinion, she just reports the facts)

April 7, 2026 (Tuesday)
At 5:06 this morning, President Donald J. Trump posted on social media: “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!”
Trump has painted himself into a corner in his impulsive war against Iran. His job approval is dismal and Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz, through which about 20% of the world’s oil travels, is sending the cost of oil soaring, squeezing the global economy. Always in his life he has had someone to fix his mistakes—his father, Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg, the “adults in the room” in his first administration who distracted him from catastrophic errors, and so on—but no one was willing to bail him out of the global disaster of his war on Iran.
So he threatened that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” an open threat to push his current embrace of war crimes all the way to genocide. No one knew if he was gearing up for a ground invasion of Iran in a war that has never received congressional authorization, or a massive bombing campaign, or even the use of nuclear weapons.
Or if he was making yet another empty threat.
Within the announcement were signs that perhaps it was bluster designed to let him claim victory and walk away. Despite his claim, there has been no “regime change” in Iran: the regime is very much still in place, although it has changed leadership in the wake of the bombing deaths of previous leaders. The new leaders appear to be more radical than their predecessors.
There was also the unmistakable echo of television advertising in his announcement. Either “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” or “maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World.”
At 6:32 this evening, we learned that the horrifying announcement of the morning was, indeed, cover for Trump to declare victory and get out of the crisis he has caused in the Middle East.
Trump posted: “Based on conversations with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir, of Pakistan, and wherein they requested that I hold off the destructive force being sent tonight to Iran, and subject to the Islamic Republic of Iran agreeing to the COMPLETE, IMMEDIATE, and SAFE OPENING of the Strait of Hormuz, I agree to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks. This will be a double sided CEASEFIRE! The reason for doing so is that we have already met and exceeded all Military objectives, and are very far along with a definitive Agreement concerning Longterm PEACE with Iran, and PEACE in the Middle East.
“We received a 10 point proposal from Iran,” Trump continued, “and believe it is a workable basis on which to negotiate. Almost all of the various points of past contention have been agreed to between the United States and Iran, but a two week period will allow the Agreement to be finalized and consummated. On behalf of the United States of America, as President, and also representing the Countries of the Middle East, it is an Honor to have this Longterm problem close to resolution. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP”
Michael Rios of CNN reported that Iran’s media is claiming it has achieved a great victory, forcing the U.S. to agree in principle to its 10-point plan, which includes the end of sanctions against Iran, the removal of all U.S. combat forces from bases in the region, and Iranian control of the Strait of Hormuz. If these terms are correct, they leave the United States significantly worse off than it was before the war and leave Iran significantly stronger.
Trump called Rios’s story a fraud, and immediately sought to reassert his strength. He posted, “Authorities are looking to determine whether or not a crime was committed on the issuance of the Fake CNN World Statement,” and said that “CNN is being ordered to immediately withdraw this Statement with full apologies for their, as usual, terrible ‘reporting.’”
Political commentator Ben Rhodes summed up the situation: “In the best case scenario, Trump struck a deal to reopen a Strait that was open before the pointless war he started, with [Iran] demonstrating its control over the Strait and potentially extracting fees plus sanctions relief. Thousands of innocents—including hundreds of children—dead in Lebanon and Iran for no reason. U.S. troops killed and wounded. U.S. embassies and bases in the Middle East badly damaged. U.S. standing in the world obliterated. U.S. munitions badly depleted. Hundreds of billions spent. Prices up everywhere. More global economic fallout to come. Putin strengthened and enriched. Just a catastrophic situation even in the best of circumstances. A profoundly shameful episode in American history no matter what happens next.”
And then, a minute after midnight, Trump posted:
“A big day for World Peace! Iran wants it to happen, they’ve had enough! Likewise, so has everyone else! The United States of America will be helping with the traffic buildup in the Strait of Hormuz. There will be lots of positive action! Big money will be made. Iran can start the reconstruction process. We’ll be loading up with supplies of all kinds, and just ‘hangin’ around’ in order to make sure that everything goes well. I feel confident that it will. Just like we are experiencing in the U.S., this could be the Golden Age of the Middle East!!! President DONALD J. TRUMP”
Journalist Aaron Rupar of Public Notice wrote: “Trump went from making insane genocidal threats this morning to hyping the ‘golden age’ of Iran hours later, and he received no concessions in between. He’s an absolute basket case who needs to be removed from power before he follows through on one of his mass murder fantasies.”
The American people spent the whole day wondering if their mad king would destroy the world, only to find out he was terrorizing them in order to protect his ego after starting a disastrous war. Throughout the day, Democratic members of Congress have called for Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) to recall the Senate and for Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to recall the House of Representatives from break to end the war in Iran and start the process of removing Trump from office.
Trump’s threat that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again” was not just a reference to Iran. If he had destroyed Iran in our names, unhampered by the Republican Congress members who have vowed to defend the U.S. Constitution, it would also have been an epitaph for the United States of America.

Iran just issued a warning to the US for breaking the ceasefire agreement. Israel keeps on attacking and bombing Lebanon. Trump promised security guarantees for the Lebanese, but America’s tool, Israel, won’t stop the violence against their Arab neighbors.

Donald Trump is in a panic mode, as his side has violated Iran’s ten-point rule. Trump had better do something quickly, otherwise the Strait of Hormuz will never open.

Some deal maker you are, Donald. You better do something about your welfare queen. Everything is much worse now compared to the days before the war.

James Whitlock, Stephen, Korean Person, watch this interview.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=740hOcpAKlY

Some of the interesting summary points from this interview include:

The US has suffered its worst ‘strategic defeat, worse than Vietnam.

Iran is now a world superpower, controlling the flow of the entire Middle East oil, and they have the control of the Global Economy.

The United States military is now finished in the Middle East; it will be forced to leave the Gulf Arab countries.

The Gulf Arab countries are also finished; they can no longer lean on America for military protection. They will now have to kowtow to Iran, which will have immense power/influence over them. Their leadership will also be susceptible to revolts from their lower-class population.

All thanks to Donald Trump. That’s what you get when you depend on one man to make all the decisions for your nation. Yes, you might be able to get away with that for a while, if the lone decision-maker were like Park Chung Hee in 1960s Korea. But if that lone decision maker is as incompetent and clueless as Donald Trump, your entire country can be wrecked in a matter of a year or so. LOL.

Looks like Baghdad Bob found a new job shilling for Iran while it burns. Good for him.

“Trump’s statements have been all over the place. Not good. Should have kept it simple with a demand for unconditional surrender after getting air superiority. Then upon a refusal to agree, dropped a gravity bunker buster nuke on one of Iran’s known underground military sites.”

LOL He’s not smart enough for that. Right now, Iran holds the cards while Trump is in panic mode.

Grayblack,

“Trump’s statements have been all over the place. Not good.”

Ambiguity of this nature is one of Trump’s tactics and he has been writing books about it since the 1980s.

“Should have kept it simple with a demand for unconditional surrender after getting air superiority.”

That is not enough dominance. Iranians are smart yet crazy, almost irrational sometimes. And so very proud, but rightfully so. America is not even close. The only thing close to surrender is if there is a 1979-style government change. Until that happens, it will be a calculation balancing their demands with American demands and cost of compliance.

“Then upon a refusal to agree, dropped a gravity bunker buster nuke on one of Iran’s known underground military sites.”

Nukes is a big step… there may be a time and place for that. Not yet.

Just like Russia is fighting the Ukranian government (and Europe) but working hard to not make enemies of the people, especially in areas where everyone will eventually be Russian, America has to do maximum damage to the hated Iranian regime and minimum damage to Iranian citizens who are quite pro-American.

This is not easy and it restricts options.

So far, everything is going quite well, perhaps even better than could be expected.

Stephen,

Should I give you a long list of battles where the whiners whined just like you because they didn’t see the brilliance?

Let’s start with Operation Chromite.

Watching the TDS here is outstanding entertainment as the Korea Things try to shoehorn selective snippets of fact into their alternate reality and try to align their misperceptions with reality using misshapen tool.

My purpose here is well defined and of a certain value to me but I wonder what they are trying to gain. Certainly there are other places with a larger and more receptive audience.

If they had clever arguments, perhaps there would be some good. But it is more like a random concept generator before setup and tuning.