CNN and other MSM who say this is "Yea US Power" or whatever fuck shit crap should just take themselves offline for a few days and do some consciousness raising.
A friend shared Timothy Snyder's 5 today. She also pointed out that the bombs were dropped on the 84th anniversary of the Nazi Operation Barbarossa. And, that turned out so well for them, NOT! She questioned whether it was intentional. Don't know. Trump does not seem that together. Someone else might be. Is it that creepy, evil demon Stephen Miller?
This? Has all the strategic *nous* of several drunken frat boys deciding to drive straight to Cancun...after picking up several ounces of cocaine charged to their Dad's business credit card.
::imagines drug dealers using Square credit card readers attached to their smartphones::
The legacy media, which is mainstream media for a select portion of the population that is rapidly diminishing does not know S--t! Lucian K. Truscott IV told us on Thursday that his intel, which I somehow trusted knowing who Truscott is, said that they would be bombing over the weekend, and the reasoning having something to do with the Monday stock market. Well, we shall see. Price of oil is probably going up, what else will be going up?
Knowing what Truscott has said, and I had a transatlantic flight on Friday-Saturday. I was somewhat worried about Trump bombing Iran while I was at the airport or in midair and retaliation being a bomb on our airport or plane. It sounds paranoid, but it seems in line with the sorts of retaliations that has happened over the past.
While everyone might expect Iran to set up some sort of Israeli pager number, or Ukrainian stealth Truck drone bomber move, I am thinking the more likely short term, bombing US bases, setting bombs in airports, planes, hacking our infrastructure, no electricity during a heatwave would be torture to Americans whose homes are not build as if they live in hot climates and might not have air conditioning. Our ships will be attacked, or hospitals, any US government building, so add to the demoralization of our government work force the worry about bombs and things could get worse rapidly.
Also, I would not want to be flying in and out of DC right now. And, Israel has how many embassies in the US? I would not want to be walking by them or into them, or working in them, or in their embassies in any other country either. I have been discussing this with Jewish friends, who do not feel Netanyahu represents them as he gets Israel into forever war.
Today, I talked to an Iranian cab driver whom I regular exchange pleasantries with. He parks at a cab stand on my block. He told me he has been in Germany for 15 years now and he is so glad that the US weakened Iran. He wants the Mullahs out. He asked who wants to live in a country run by religious people. Clearly not him. He seemed to think that it was a one and done. He told me the Mullahs have all left the country. I'll bet.
In Tim Mak's The Counteroffensive Substack, he talks about an Iranian man who is in Ukraine who is also glad that the Ayatollah has been weakened. Then they talk about bringing back the Shah's son, and they lose me. No way do I see that boding well. Why does it have to be a choice between a Mullah and royal in the Middle East? Neither seems like a good option.
I want to know, who is going to let women dress and do as they want, and not kill off people for being LGBTQ+? That is who I would like to see there. What about someone with some economic sense?
Yes. Both my daughter and I run into many people here who do not seem to have a problem with Trump. I find that interesting too. Many of them are working class. At the university my daughter has run into some. She steers clear of them finding their ideas about the world too small and ill informed. However, the people who have been working on our house are all left of center, at least in some ways, and in voting. It is interesting.
Are they so eager for a ratings bump that they'll start a conflict that almost certainly WILL burn across the Middle East, and might even lead to a nuclear exchange? I don't know about you, but the LAST thing I want is to find out Bibi the Butcher was right all along, Iran DOES have nukes, and they're going to drop one over New York City just to show us!
Or more likely Russia will do it FOR them, since Putin is itching to get back at the U.S. for helping Ukraine....
I'm not so sure we started a traditional war. I strongly suspect Iran's retaliation will take the form of terrorism. I hope I'm wrong, but I strongly suspect American civilians are likely to die in domestic terrorism incidents as a result of this.
It's also going to be interesting to see where the rest of the world comes down on this. As much as we deservedly vilify Iran, the fact is we just launched an unprovoked attack on a sovereign nation.
Especially given all the cuts to protect us against terrorist attacks! It was bad enough that the FAA had so many cuts. Guess I won’t be coming home anytime soon.
Wow so you’re telling me everyone who cheered on the Iraq war is on board with this now too? And so are the people who opposed the Iran nuclear deal and killed it?
If Democrats truly want to appeal to young men, they should probably start presenting themselves as the party that definitively *won’t* draft you into an illegal war.
This has an upside: At last we can stop worrying about the Orange Turd winning a Nobel Peace Prize. Last time I checked starting a war is a no-no. But of course that won't shut him up.
Perhaps he should go for the Physics Prize for his theory of hydromagnetism.
I don't hold much hope, but maybe use some reverse psychology on fate. Just say, "I know, I'll start a substack. it's not like I'll ever have to write about world peace and the rotten mango's incarceration" and see what happens. We have nothing to loose.
In the US, the alliance of insatiable billionaire greed combined with the willfully ignorant have elevated the volatile incompetent criminal elect Trump, the worst person imaginable at the most dangerous time in modern history.
Time to impeach, indict, imprison, and adjust the Doomsday Clock accordingly.
Sorry, George, there is no one left to impeach him. Our government is 💯 percent compromised. All checks and balances are either gone - via the Corrupt Supreme 6 - or are being completely ignored.
Exactly so. Why are people squeaking about impeaching? It is less likely than having the Israeli commandoes take him out (the only people capable of a successful surgical strike).
It’s really up to us. We have the oligarchs running disinformation out of mass media outlets, 💯 percent of Republicons refusing to follow the oath they signed, police agencies supporting illegal kidnappings by recently released domestic terrorists and a Supreme Court that is so fucking corrupt, they sit idly by as the world burns. Help is not coming.
As usual, drumpf is a most useful idiot to Israel, just as he is to Putin, the American evangelicals, the billionaires, the Saudis, etc. So the Mossad won't do the job
More than we know. Remember the Iranians had a hit list that included Mike Pompeo and John Bolton for their roles in the killing of General Soleimani? And drumpf removed their Federal security? Well, those guys better watch out now.
I doubt we could afford Eric Prince's group whatever name they go by these days. I wonder if Putin still has the Wagner mercenaries now that Prigozhin is gone?
yeah, the way the our system is designed, impeachment is only a good tool use for when a particular political party wants to impeach one of their own.
That makes impeachment easy and works fast.
It would take a miracle on 34th street for one political party to successfully impeach an individual from a different party.
The only way that could happen is if for some strange reason the impeaching side currently holds the most power in congress ...
there is one other exception. if there are enough members of congress to vote against their own party lines, that could be a game changer but extremely unlikely.
I keep telling that to my 83 year old mom when she calls to yell "IMPEACH" at me every day. Like - who, me? Impeach him? Call your DEM SENATORS and see if they'll do anything. Not that they can, since we are in the minority, but at least she'll be yelling at the right person.
Our House members can turn the screws on the whimpy little maga mike, but they’ll need to be willing to disrupt & get in front of every microphone available. We can call every single one of them every single day. It may be spitting in the wind, but it’s better than sitting this out. Mr Spouse & I are off to an anti-war protest this afternoon — and I can’t effing believe that after 60+ years I still have to protest this shit.
I know it's longer range but this is why we need to stop savaging Democrats because they're not performing impossible miracles and start working in a pragmatic way to flip the House. In the meantime, there should be anti-war march in D.C. that rivals or exceeds the one in September 2005.
We are savaging Democrats because they are completely ineffectual in stopping this fascist coup. We cannot afford to be patient or “wait for a good pitch to hit.” We need drastic action and the Dems, minus a handful, are capitulating. Going to picnic lunches with Shitler at the White House while a coup is underway? Primary every fucking elected official and let’s pay attention to who the fuck we are voting for.
With stern wordiness, Schumer has called for a vote in Congress on the War Powers Act to limit Trump's "ability" to engage the U.S. in a prolonged conflict. The world makes jerk-off motions. Mike Johnson is probably all a-quiver, thinking this could be Rapture Time or a step toward making Jerusalem the Christian launching pad for it.
Share your plan for "stopping this fascist coup." What would YOU do? Primarying every elected Democrat would hand the government permanently and irrevocably to the MAGAs. It' like wiping our everything, good and bad, to slake your tantrum,
I told a kid today (14 years old) "War is not healthy for children or other living things" and he thought I was a genius and just made it up. Looking for my old poster with the floppy sunflower right now...
Hooray Abbi! We aren't excused from fighting even if we suspect it's useless. I'm calling, marching, writing. Maybe I'm spitting in the wind. I have to try!
I write to my senators regularly. Bernie Moreno sends the exact same form email no matter what you write to him about. Jon Husted never responds; I'm not sure he's alive. People say his brain isn't and that he gives Tommy Tubervlle stiff competition for the "Stupidest senator."
I see you are living in the state of my birth, Anastasia. Sorry about that. Ohio used to be a reasonable place to live when I left in the early 80’s. Now, it is screaming toward 3rd world status. Recently elected, Bernie Moreno, was a second rate car dealer with zero qualifications for leadership. The misinformed voters of Ohio (including half of my family) elected him over a superb, experienced Senator, Sherrod Brown. Senator Brown was one of the last bright lights in Ohio government, but, he has a (D) after his name, so he had to go.
That had less to do with it than the Ohio GOP's total seizure of power, with gerrymandering, term limits and voter suppression tactics, all of which destroy democracy and discourage voters.
That's all about gerrymandering and the seizure of total power by the Ohio GOP which discourages turnout. We're currently 5-10 in Congress; to reflect the voters we should be 7-8. The Republicans in the lege are currently working on a 3-12 map, trying to write Em Sykes and Marcy Kaptur out of Congress, in favor of opponents so dire I can hardly describe them,
Keep it up anyway. Overwhelm the dolts who work for these guys. There’s an app, 5Calls, that’s really helpful if you’re not used to calling. More than 20 calls, and they notice.
Husted replied to me with multiple lies…”the bill cuts spending to reduce debt, he provided support for SS, Medicare, Medicaid, he listens to Ohioans to better represent our state.” He forgot to mention huge tax cuts for the wealthy and the trillions that will be added to the debt.
He occasionally replies to my emails with nonsense about what an awesome job he is doing to support trump and Ohioans. I plan to do whatever I can to get him booted in 2026. He lied about the First Energy bribery scandal and continues to lie about republican stupidity.
Big bowel movement toward the Dark Enlightenment, where tech bros CEOs become little dictators over areas of the world they divide up. It starts with getting a foothold in the military, no?
And as soon as possible before rodent infested brain Donnie gets another wild hair up his ass about how to accomplish peace. AOC was spot on but when you have devout MAGAs like Rep. Massie questioning the constitutionality of this beyond illegal attack, you know we're in deep shit for the long haul.
Massie has completely blown me away! He used to be very heavy and has sparse hair, plus wear glasses. He was the epitome of evil. Now, ever since his wife died, he’s lost weight, gotten new hair, and maybe had Lasik surgery. Now he’s siding with the Dems?? Call me confused as hell!
The defense contractors and our elected officials are all in on the grift. The Pentagon has been given a blank check for decades. Years ago, there were multiple attempts to audit the Pentagon’s budget. All of those efforts failed. They spend, grift and steal with impunity!
George, I think you're right. We need to impeach even though the GOP will not cooperate. It is necessary that we protest Trump's illegal actions if only to have it on the record. Dems, stand up and shout, make our voices heard.
Iranian Parliament just voted to close the Straits of Hormuz.. oil prices=$$$$ will skyrocket and will ripple through our economy causing everything to cost more along with inflation.. Thx Donald..
We'll see if they follow through. Rick Wilson sez they'll fight "assymetrically," with their global network of operatives who can create all manner of mayhem, murder, etc.
I agree with Rick.. Sleepers cells of terrorists around the world.. Also it’s not forget… if the Ukraine can smuggle drones into Russia and Israel can smuggle drones.. well there is no reason the Iranians can do the same, on American soil. All we have are Fox News personalities cos playing a government, a president that does not read daily intelligence reports.. this is a damn fucking clown show🤡🤡
A Defense Secretary who is a dishonorable liar and is rightfully disrespected by the military.
A low intelligence Secretary of Homeland Security who relishes kidnapping women and children with cruelty and violence. Trust her to protect our borders!
A cowardly Secretary of State holding down multiple roles, with no core values of his own.
A Secretary of the Treasury overseeing a fraudulent "Strategic Crypto Reserve" that the Trump Gang is using to line their pockets with thousands of millions (of real dollars).
California has lots and lots of solar. And on the way home yesterday evening I counted 20 Teslas between Berkeley and Oakland. And none of them were bought in the last year. We have a friend who had three, but sold two of them last summer and kept the one that has free charging for life...
Oil prices? So old time. We have solar (nine years), a solar storage battery (new), and two EVS (10 years old and one year old). Don't you live in AZ? Shouldn't you have solar?
I lived in AZ in the 90s and the attitude was "why fugly up your house when we have all those dammed up rivers". Thank you for being a conscientious desert dweller. 😎👍
Weeks before Bibi reacted to the Hamas strike on Israel by launching the most disproportional response in memory, Israelis were in the streets protesting his attempts to write the judiciary out of existence in order to stay in power. A week before dropping bunker-busting bombs on Iran, trump was looking like a sad, weak, stupid big-time loser and the world was laughing at him. Both of these men, drunk on power, resorted to the same "wag the dog" strategy of tyrants. When things aren't going your way, rain down a little death and destruction.
Here we are — in a war of our own making. Europe hates us, why wouldn’t they, so we’re on our own with a bunch of morons who can’t find their asses with both hands. The question now is, how do we run these Republicans, all of them, out of the country? I’m not sure we can until next year. Please somebody come up with a way.
I'm surprised Europe didn't toss us out of the G-7 last week. NATO and the G20 and the EU should get rid of us now. The UN might want to throw out Israel, Russia, and the USA too.
Everyone on the left needs to relentlessly shout to the rooftops that the idiotic jingoes in the rethuglican party are responsible for repeatedly embroiling us in endless Middle East wars that cost our military personnel, cost our treasury, garner animosity, encourage terrorism, guarantee retaliation, destabilize the world, and increasingly cloud the future. These chickenhawk motherfuckers never learn. Just as the right and their moronic supporters are not stepping up to harvest crops, neither are they the ones to strap it on and fight the wars they so gleefully advocate.
I know we all keep wondering if each latest batshit violation of the Constitution will finally be IT, the abomination that will trigger impeachment and the taking back of our nation, but I have to keep sane by telling myself this has GOTTA do it, FFS. Another quagmire in the Middle East, with no appreciable end and no real benefit to anyone? Starting a war without congressional approval?! Holy shit, what does it have to take?!!
My very first reaction was more like, “Hey! What happened to Only Congress can declare war?” “General “Raizin” Caine; I’d like a word along with everyone else involved in committing this crime against our Constitution.” I’m not impressed with the precision the operation was carried out.
I've heard AOC will introduce articles of impeachment, but as has happened previously, the soulless lying GOP scumbags will not vote in favor of it. They are pathetic.
This war could be the death of the all-volunteer army. Trump is likely to EO the draft, with or without Congress' vote, and use the Emergency Powers lever to ratchet up his nascent police state. Worst case scenario.
Robert Reich's explainer IS very good, and he makes a point one may not have thought of: Not only did Trump do this to distact from his many domestic failures, but he can (he thinks) use "we're at war" to enact more repressive policies at home.
I disagree. It's one potential outcome, but I think k a rather more unlikely one, given that this was unprovoked (no 9/11) and that he sold to his own BASE the idea that there would be no foreign wars: "America first." I know we love to drool over catastrophe, but I think we also paralyze ourselves with fear when we should be taking action, for instance, an anti-war march to rival the anti-Iraq War march on 2005.
It’s a cult. Nothing else explains the hold a demented, flatulent, babbling narcissist has on a nation that was, heretofore unknown, filled with MAGATS.
Yes re "catastrophe," but I don't think anyone is paralyzed with fear, and I foresee just that kind of march on July 4. But whatever he sold his base to get elected is irrelevant to him. Literally nothing he promised--peace in Ukraine; lower prices; wealth from tariffs; you name it--has, or will, come to pass. He doesn't care, and mostly THEY don't care. It is indeed a cult, which means the leader can never be wrong.
Exactly - he could tear up the Constitution on TV - and say it’s time for a NEW Ahmerika- and they would raise their cheap beer and shout that he’s Gods angel!
Pretty much everything he said he was not going to do was the real plan. I worked in a mental asylum for 15 years. There was always that that unwritten law that you take people by their actions. They always gave you some kind of warning of what they are about to do. Our rapist treasonist and chief usually says we are not or I am not before he does exactly that. When he said he was not going to cause world war 3 I just figured that was the plan. I am by no means a conspiracy person. I just tend to go by what people show me. I keep saying this I wish I was shocked but I am not. I am just worried for all the people who are real people that this going to hurt and kill. The consequences for his actions that he never pays for, but everyone else seems too.
Minor Correction: It's the Four Horses Asses of the Shitpocalypse. I'm reminded of that episode of F-Troop where Agarn, disguised as Ulysses S. Grant, warns the Hawkowe, "Peace be with you . . . or we'll WIPE YOU OUT!" Someone contact FanDuel and get the odds on Captain Combover's Nobel Peace Price. Frankly, I think all those TACO accusations were starting to get to him. And now let's hear it for Regime Change. Yeah, that's the ticket. Because it's worked so well in the past. AOC is right. Impeach the clown. For shits-and-giggles if nothing else.
Ah yes, nothing says “peace through strength” like waking up on a Sunday to a Twitter tantrum with BOMBS in all caps and a war crime in the comments.
If the Book of Revelation and a Cialis ad had a baby during a WWE promo, this would be it. The only thing more unstable than the foreign policy is the man baby behind it, fist-pumping over mushroom clouds like it’s a damn Fourth of July grill-out.
Let’s be honest. This isn’t about national security. It’s about dopamine. About watching things go boom so you don’t have to feel how empty your own soul is. That’s not statesmanship. That’s emotional pyromania.
And to the evangelicals cheering this on—remember when your guy said “Blessed are the peacemakers”? Or did that get drowned out by the sound of F-22s dropping righteousness on civilians?
"...Chinese bots altered vote counts in voting machines in 2020, and that he really won in a landslide...". Might want to mention that everything he projects is a confession. HE stole the 2024 election, sure as shit. ZERO DOUBT, at this point, with the help of Elon, who "knows the vote counting machines very well". Why say something like that in your INAUGURATION SPEECH? Why say it at all? In what context is Elon having a conversation with tRump, talking about vote COUNTING machines? He knows them so well? WHY? HOW? OH, to PROTECT them from evil liberals and their hackers who hacked 2020? Exactly how did he protect these "vote counting machines"? Why aren't we all aware of this most-excellent work he's done to protect our democracy? Why keep it a secret? BECAUSE THAT'S NOT WHAT HAPPENED. The only CONTEXT that makes any sense to any rational person is that he HACKED the vote tabulators using the Universal Power System (UPS) backup power devices that manage power fduring power outages and can bring down application services in an organized, careful, way to avoid corruption of data, (I'm a software consultant with 30 years experience). Look for recent articles about this right here on Substack. Eaton is the company that makes these. Eaton, which was owned by the evil Leonard Leo, the architect of the Federalist Society's takeover of our judicial system. Sold to none other than Elon's ex-parner, Peter Thiel. These devices are WiFi enabled. They are not part of the security testing that goes on with tabulators. Very easy to hack into these machines and change the vote counts as they're being transmitted - via Starlink. You don't even have to change any voting-related code!! It's brilliant, actually. But absolutely done.
Accusation is admission. The best way, in my opinion, to get rid of the entire administration and complicit R leaders is to null and void the election by recounting votes. Both Elmo and taco have admitted how they rigged the election. Cut off the head of the snake and burn the body. Done deal. Off to Gitmo!
I don't think there will be American boots on the ground, because Trump has only said a million times there never would be. Of course, he is a liar. Soooo...
Fortunately, this is not the beginning of World War III, because two nuclear powers have to be shooting at each other.
The minute the planes were in the air headed over, it was going to happen. Trump did this because of Timothy Snyder‘s point about wars are about domestic policy. The entire world stood up on Trump‘s birthday and screamed, “We hate you.” He needed to change the channel and use a war to entrench himself. Trump must be hauled out of there and impeached. They have to find the Republicans to help. They have to get rid of Johnson and do things that are not going to tank our economy to the point that China can run all over us. We cannot afford a war. The big, beautiful bill and everything else? Getting rid of laborers and paying bounty hunters $1000 for each illegal? Having absolutely no government agencies functioning? This has got to stop and there’s gotta be some people in office who understand this is self-destruction at the highest level.
T💩p is assuming that since GeeDumbya Bush got away with starting two illegal wars for fun and profit, it'd work for him too. Rethuglicans are monsters. All of 'em, Katie. Fking all of 'em.
Which goes to the reluctance of Pelosi and other Dems to hold Bush II accountable. It’s in this type of way that the Dem leadership has failed.
There has been failure and lack of backbone throughout America across many institutions, from journalism to politics and beyond. The country needs a complete overhaul and reform that unfortunately won’t happen until the entire system crashes and burns, if history is any guide.
Given his personality disorder, I suspect people laughing at him pushed him to the side of the war hawks screeching in his miraculously grown back ear. And the isolationists will likely bow down to whatever he did out of fear of retribution.
Lots more people died in Vietnam than will die in this war. Lots more people died in Korea. A lot more people have died in obscure wars on the African continent.
Iran is very good at long range attacks by missile and by assassination. They may seriously interfere with ships carrying oil out of the Middle East, and that will mess up the economy pretty damn good.
This is just a guess, but many of their top military leadership has been killed and many of their missile launchers have been destroyed, so Iran may be quite weakened at this point.
Bottom line: this is just another damn Middle Eastern War.
I said yesterday that the emperor has no clothes, nor appetite for another war. Lucian and a few others disagreed. Trump was humiliated last week, the saber rattling was done by the Warhawks in his cabinet. They convinced the Taco tosspot that this would make him powerful again and possibly make martial law even easier to defend Kathleen!!
me in 2023: "I know, I'll start a substack. it's not like I'll ever have to write about a war"
CNN and other MSM who say this is "Yea US Power" or whatever fuck shit crap should just take themselves offline for a few days and do some consciousness raising.
Same old shit, different war.
1. Every leader who starts a war with a successful surprise attack feels triumphant the next day.
1A. The evaluation five and ten years down the road tends to be quite different.
2. Those who initiate war in the Middle East always fail to create peace or achieve security.
2A. The U. S. has a particularly bad track record in this regard.
A friend shared Timothy Snyder's 5 today. She also pointed out that the bombs were dropped on the 84th anniversary of the Nazi Operation Barbarossa. And, that turned out so well for them, NOT! She questioned whether it was intentional. Don't know. Trump does not seem that together. Someone else might be. Is it that creepy, evil demon Stephen Miller?
The difference between this and Pearl Harbor?
Was that at least Pearl Harbor was well-planned!
This? Has all the strategic *nous* of several drunken frat boys deciding to drive straight to Cancun...after picking up several ounces of cocaine charged to their Dad's business credit card.
::imagines drug dealers using Square credit card readers attached to their smartphones::
This is one of the reasons they had the knives out for Biden for actually executing the Afghanistan withdrawal.
You are correct until that day it was all just talk and when the USA left Vietnam so impossible to leave quietly.
We don’t talk about this ‘enough’…😒😏
Yes, and then they criticized the shit out of him for playing the hand he was dealt.
Thank you. Effing pissants.
Indeed Anne, celebrating senseless war, its destruction, deaths, suffering and consequences is unprecedented, unimaginable and shameful!!
The legacy media, which is mainstream media for a select portion of the population that is rapidly diminishing does not know S--t! Lucian K. Truscott IV told us on Thursday that his intel, which I somehow trusted knowing who Truscott is, said that they would be bombing over the weekend, and the reasoning having something to do with the Monday stock market. Well, we shall see. Price of oil is probably going up, what else will be going up?
Knowing what Truscott has said, and I had a transatlantic flight on Friday-Saturday. I was somewhat worried about Trump bombing Iran while I was at the airport or in midair and retaliation being a bomb on our airport or plane. It sounds paranoid, but it seems in line with the sorts of retaliations that has happened over the past.
While everyone might expect Iran to set up some sort of Israeli pager number, or Ukrainian stealth Truck drone bomber move, I am thinking the more likely short term, bombing US bases, setting bombs in airports, planes, hacking our infrastructure, no electricity during a heatwave would be torture to Americans whose homes are not build as if they live in hot climates and might not have air conditioning. Our ships will be attacked, or hospitals, any US government building, so add to the demoralization of our government work force the worry about bombs and things could get worse rapidly.
Also, I would not want to be flying in and out of DC right now. And, Israel has how many embassies in the US? I would not want to be walking by them or into them, or working in them, or in their embassies in any other country either. I have been discussing this with Jewish friends, who do not feel Netanyahu represents them as he gets Israel into forever war.
Today, I talked to an Iranian cab driver whom I regular exchange pleasantries with. He parks at a cab stand on my block. He told me he has been in Germany for 15 years now and he is so glad that the US weakened Iran. He wants the Mullahs out. He asked who wants to live in a country run by religious people. Clearly not him. He seemed to think that it was a one and done. He told me the Mullahs have all left the country. I'll bet.
In Tim Mak's The Counteroffensive Substack, he talks about an Iranian man who is in Ukraine who is also glad that the Ayatollah has been weakened. Then they talk about bringing back the Shah's son, and they lose me. No way do I see that boding well. Why does it have to be a choice between a Mullah and royal in the Middle East? Neither seems like a good option.
I want to know, who is going to let women dress and do as they want, and not kill off people for being LGBTQ+? That is who I would like to see there. What about someone with some economic sense?
I appreciate you sharing your view from Germany. I liked the cab driver's perspective, as well as yours.
Yes. Both my daughter and I run into many people here who do not seem to have a problem with Trump. I find that interesting too. Many of them are working class. At the university my daughter has run into some. She steers clear of them finding their ideas about the world too small and ill informed. However, the people who have been working on our house are all left of center, at least in some ways, and in voting. It is interesting.
If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
- @mollyknight.bsky.social
Going back to that classic of cinema, MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL (which just celebrated its 50th Anniversary!):
https://youtu.be/OfhRAXWKsM0
"Pull the Other One!"
Is CNN out of its Vulcan Mind?????
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Are they so eager for a ratings bump that they'll start a conflict that almost certainly WILL burn across the Middle East, and might even lead to a nuclear exchange? I don't know about you, but the LAST thing I want is to find out Bibi the Butcher was right all along, Iran DOES have nukes, and they're going to drop one over New York City just to show us!
Or more likely Russia will do it FOR them, since Putin is itching to get back at the U.S. for helping Ukraine....
Yes. Ever since Robert Malone bought it with the plan to make it "Fox lite".
Mission Accomplished! USA! USA!
I never wanted to write about a war Jeff ever but here we are https://thistleandmoss.com/p/trump-wants-to-buttfuck-a-nuke-and
Thank you uncle Jeff for all your hard work
Another great history lesson Wendy!
Excellent piece Wendy, perfectly crafted and beautifully written!!
I'm not so sure we started a traditional war. I strongly suspect Iran's retaliation will take the form of terrorism. I hope I'm wrong, but I strongly suspect American civilians are likely to die in domestic terrorism incidents as a result of this.
It's also going to be interesting to see where the rest of the world comes down on this. As much as we deservedly vilify Iran, the fact is we just launched an unprovoked attack on a sovereign nation.
Especially given all the cuts to protect us against terrorist attacks! It was bad enough that the FAA had so many cuts. Guess I won’t be coming home anytime soon.
Agree completely, and have already begun worrying like hell about this.
Wow so you’re telling me everyone who cheered on the Iraq war is on board with this now too? And so are the people who opposed the Iran nuclear deal and killed it?
You’re kidding.
- @aoc.bsky.social
If Democrats truly want to appeal to young men, they should probably start presenting themselves as the party that definitively *won’t* draft you into an illegal war.
- @katmabu.bsky.social
https://bsky.app/profile/jvl.bsky.social/post/3lsalb7nvbs25
This has an upside: At last we can stop worrying about the Orange Turd winning a Nobel Peace Prize. Last time I checked starting a war is a no-no. But of course that won't shut him up.
Perhaps he should go for the Physics Prize for his theory of hydromagnetism.
I don't hold much hope, but maybe use some reverse psychology on fate. Just say, "I know, I'll start a substack. it's not like I'll ever have to write about world peace and the rotten mango's incarceration" and see what happens. We have nothing to loose.
Never say never. It temps fate.
:'(
See? It IS your fault!
(cries real tears)
🤣🤣🤣💩🤣🤣🤣
Isn't it NICE of Donnie Diapershit to give you so much to write about?
I think you ought to send him a bouquet of Poison Ivy, Poison Oak, and Poison Sumac....
"Do you want America to be at war with Iran?"
No: 85%
Yes: 5%
YouGov /June 22, 2025 / 9:13pm
@pollingusa.bsky.social
Thanks Jeff.
In the US, the alliance of insatiable billionaire greed combined with the willfully ignorant have elevated the volatile incompetent criminal elect Trump, the worst person imaginable at the most dangerous time in modern history.
Time to impeach, indict, imprison, and adjust the Doomsday Clock accordingly.
Sorry, George, there is no one left to impeach him. Our government is 💯 percent compromised. All checks and balances are either gone - via the Corrupt Supreme 6 - or are being completely ignored.
Exactly so. Why are people squeaking about impeaching? It is less likely than having the Israeli commandoes take him out (the only people capable of a successful surgical strike).
It’s really up to us. We have the oligarchs running disinformation out of mass media outlets, 💯 percent of Republicons refusing to follow the oath they signed, police agencies supporting illegal kidnappings by recently released domestic terrorists and a Supreme Court that is so fucking corrupt, they sit idly by as the world burns. Help is not coming.
Come on MOSSAD!!!
As usual, drumpf is a most useful idiot to Israel, just as he is to Putin, the American evangelicals, the billionaires, the Saudis, etc. So the Mossad won't do the job
The U.S. is Israel's puppet and cash cow. We served as the stupid proxy bomber for Netanyahu and are bragging about it. The target is on our backs.
There’s got to be a black ops group somewhere.
More than we know. Remember the Iranians had a hit list that included Mike Pompeo and John Bolton for their roles in the killing of General Soleimani? And drumpf removed their Federal security? Well, those guys better watch out now.
I doubt we could afford Eric Prince's group whatever name they go by these days. I wonder if Putin still has the Wagner mercenaries now that Prigozhin is gone?
Sadly, you have nailed it.
ex Tik Tok is still up and running and Trump just illegally postponed its demise in US ignoring the Supreme court ruling
yeah, the way the our system is designed, impeachment is only a good tool use for when a particular political party wants to impeach one of their own.
That makes impeachment easy and works fast.
It would take a miracle on 34th street for one political party to successfully impeach an individual from a different party.
The only way that could happen is if for some strange reason the impeaching side currently holds the most power in congress ...
there is one other exception. if there are enough members of congress to vote against their own party lines, that could be a game changer but extremely unlikely.
Ignored is more like it.
Impeach, indict and imprison? Sure… how does that actually happen? Who has power to do those things?
I keep telling that to my 83 year old mom when she calls to yell "IMPEACH" at me every day. Like - who, me? Impeach him? Call your DEM SENATORS and see if they'll do anything. Not that they can, since we are in the minority, but at least she'll be yelling at the right person.
Our House members can turn the screws on the whimpy little maga mike, but they’ll need to be willing to disrupt & get in front of every microphone available. We can call every single one of them every single day. It may be spitting in the wind, but it’s better than sitting this out. Mr Spouse & I are off to an anti-war protest this afternoon — and I can’t effing believe that after 60+ years I still have to protest this shit.
I know it's longer range but this is why we need to stop savaging Democrats because they're not performing impossible miracles and start working in a pragmatic way to flip the House. In the meantime, there should be anti-war march in D.C. that rivals or exceeds the one in September 2005.
We are savaging Democrats because they are completely ineffectual in stopping this fascist coup. We cannot afford to be patient or “wait for a good pitch to hit.” We need drastic action and the Dems, minus a handful, are capitulating. Going to picnic lunches with Shitler at the White House while a coup is underway? Primary every fucking elected official and let’s pay attention to who the fuck we are voting for.
With stern wordiness, Schumer has called for a vote in Congress on the War Powers Act to limit Trump's "ability" to engage the U.S. in a prolonged conflict. The world makes jerk-off motions. Mike Johnson is probably all a-quiver, thinking this could be Rapture Time or a step toward making Jerusalem the Christian launching pad for it.
Share your plan for "stopping this fascist coup." What would YOU do? Primarying every elected Democrat would hand the government permanently and irrevocably to the MAGAs. It' like wiping our everything, good and bad, to slake your tantrum,
yes , agreed.
I told a kid today (14 years old) "War is not healthy for children or other living things" and he thought I was a genius and just made it up. Looking for my old poster with the floppy sunflower right now...
Hooray Abbi! We aren't excused from fighting even if we suspect it's useless. I'm calling, marching, writing. Maybe I'm spitting in the wind. I have to try!
I write to my senators regularly. Bernie Moreno sends the exact same form email no matter what you write to him about. Jon Husted never responds; I'm not sure he's alive. People say his brain isn't and that he gives Tommy Tubervlle stiff competition for the "Stupidest senator."
I see you are living in the state of my birth, Anastasia. Sorry about that. Ohio used to be a reasonable place to live when I left in the early 80’s. Now, it is screaming toward 3rd world status. Recently elected, Bernie Moreno, was a second rate car dealer with zero qualifications for leadership. The misinformed voters of Ohio (including half of my family) elected him over a superb, experienced Senator, Sherrod Brown. Senator Brown was one of the last bright lights in Ohio government, but, he has a (D) after his name, so he had to go.
Isn’t it amazing how many incompetent boobs have been elected to the Repugnican party. That party seems to own the mold for stupidity, sad to say.
I’m in Illinois and gave money for Brown.
Big disappointment. Ohio should be blue but, i guess the people believed Herr Orange Turd that they were eating dogs,cats,and pets not too far away.
That had less to do with it than the Ohio GOP's total seizure of power, with gerrymandering, term limits and voter suppression tactics, all of which destroy democracy and discourage voters.
That's all about gerrymandering and the seizure of total power by the Ohio GOP which discourages turnout. We're currently 5-10 in Congress; to reflect the voters we should be 7-8. The Republicans in the lege are currently working on a 3-12 map, trying to write Em Sykes and Marcy Kaptur out of Congress, in favor of opponents so dire I can hardly describe them,
Keep it up anyway. Overwhelm the dolts who work for these guys. There’s an app, 5Calls, that’s really helpful if you’re not used to calling. More than 20 calls, and they notice.
Husted replied to me with multiple lies…”the bill cuts spending to reduce debt, he provided support for SS, Medicare, Medicaid, he listens to Ohioans to better represent our state.” He forgot to mention huge tax cuts for the wealthy and the trillions that will be added to the debt.
How did you get Husted to respond? I get radio silence from this unqualified dolt.
He occasionally replies to my emails with nonsense about what an awesome job he is doing to support trump and Ohioans. I plan to do whatever I can to get him booted in 2026. He lied about the First Energy bribery scandal and continues to lie about republican stupidity.
Right?!? Shouting into the wind. I cannot read “impeach” one more time. Maybe people feel better for 15 seconds after declaring “impeach.”
Jeff, what do you make of these 4 so-called tech bros who have no military experience becoming Lt. Colonels?
Big bowel movement toward the Dark Enlightenment, where tech bros CEOs become little dictators over areas of the world they divide up. It starts with getting a foothold in the military, no?
And the 22 year old former grocery clerk being in charge of domestic terrorism? Not what we need right now!
Should be the Capitol police! Those who are retired should be rehired, such as, Dunn, Fanone, Hodges, and Gonell. Then bring in Kinzinger!
The GOP knows they can control the VP shillbilly and might begin to worry the criminal elect is a 2026 liability. But fairly unlikely.
Who has the balls to do it is the question!!!
Balls? How about access to power.
🎯🎯🎯
They have power just no balls to use it.
Yup, all of those balls are in dear leader's golf bag.
Now we know why he slices so much playing golf.
It sure ain’t Antifa, Meryl. All checks and balances in our government are gone.
Congress and the Judiciary were supposed to be the checks and balances. What used to be the republican party has destroyed all that
People keep saying "Impeach". He was impeached twice the last time. Nothing was done. If there is no follow-up impeachment is useless.
Apparently no one anymore. Our best hope is that he gets arrested & imprisoned for war crimes.
I’m not going to touch the most reasonable answer to your post meryl !!
And as soon as possible before rodent infested brain Donnie gets another wild hair up his ass about how to accomplish peace. AOC was spot on but when you have devout MAGAs like Rep. Massie questioning the constitutionality of this beyond illegal attack, you know we're in deep shit for the long haul.
Thanks Rick. While the 2026 elections may or may not happen, if they do, you can bet the R’s are doing the requisite electoral science calculus.
Massie has completely blown me away! He used to be very heavy and has sparse hair, plus wear glasses. He was the epitome of evil. Now, ever since his wife died, he’s lost weight, gotten new hair, and maybe had Lasik surgery. Now he’s siding with the Dems?? Call me confused as hell!
“insatiable billionaire greed”- I prefer ‘money addiction’. To me it shows the destruction around these soul-less creatures more clearly.
Who is making money on the war now, does anyone know? In the early 2000s, it was definitely the cabal around Cheney.
The defense contractors and our elected officials are all in on the grift. The Pentagon has been given a blank check for decades. Years ago, there were multiple attempts to audit the Pentagon’s budget. All of those efforts failed. They spend, grift and steal with impunity!
“ It’s $50 for this hex nut and they need 12 on each wheel!”
The weapons makers of course...whoever makes the munitions, planes, tanks etc etc.
Remember, that's the old wars. New wars are fought by drones. The weapons manufacturers are running scams.
China's drone manufacturers are smiling.
B2s aren't drones. There are still weapons makers here that are creaming in their jeans over this.
Palantir.
The jobs that the military industrial complex has created in this country might shock you Anastasia!!
Any corporation that gets a sweet, sweet contract with the Pentagon. A blank check to print money.
Money addiction and cult member describes MAGA perfectly
Perfectly said George!!
Absolutely!! Well said! Thank you!!
George, I think you're right. We need to impeach even though the GOP will not cooperate. It is necessary that we protest Trump's illegal actions if only to have it on the record. Dems, stand up and shout, make our voices heard.
George, you're absolutely right! 💯
This is the worst person to exist, and he's been put in a position of leadership. The assembled advisors are beyond incompetent.💔😱‼️
Iranian Parliament just voted to close the Straits of Hormuz.. oil prices=$$$$ will skyrocket and will ripple through our economy causing everything to cost more along with inflation.. Thx Donald..
We'll see if they follow through. Rick Wilson sez they'll fight "assymetrically," with their global network of operatives who can create all manner of mayhem, murder, etc.
I agree with Rick.. Sleepers cells of terrorists around the world.. Also it’s not forget… if the Ukraine can smuggle drones into Russia and Israel can smuggle drones.. well there is no reason the Iranians can do the same, on American soil. All we have are Fox News personalities cos playing a government, a president that does not read daily intelligence reports.. this is a damn fucking clown show🤡🤡
MAGAs when gas prices soar: "It's Biden's fault!"
One of the first things uttered from the drunks mouth was “blah blah blah previous administration.” No accountability ever.
Never fear. Trump's carefully selected Cabinet Secretaries will protect us.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/the-cabinet/
A Defense Secretary who is a dishonorable liar and is rightfully disrespected by the military.
A low intelligence Secretary of Homeland Security who relishes kidnapping women and children with cruelty and violence. Trust her to protect our borders!
A cowardly Secretary of State holding down multiple roles, with no core values of his own.
A Secretary of the Treasury overseeing a fraudulent "Strategic Crypto Reserve" that the Trump Gang is using to line their pockets with thousands of millions (of real dollars).
How will these boobs react when Iran retaliates?
Uh, blame Biden?
don't forget the 22 year old former assistant grocery clerk who is now in charge of the DHS terror prevention team. Boy do I feel safe now!
Ok, I will get off the computer and go fill my tank. Best to everyone.
$3.49 here (I’ll.) going up soon i’m sure
Cali will prop hit $8 once they start the disruption of oil.
Skyrocketing gas prices will make a really great incentive for mouthy MAGATs to support Trump's banning of Newsom's electric car mandate.
$3.39 at Costco. I suppose we'll never see that again.
California has lots and lots of solar. And on the way home yesterday evening I counted 20 Teslas between Berkeley and Oakland. And none of them were bought in the last year. We have a friend who had three, but sold two of them last summer and kept the one that has free charging for life...
Oil prices? So old time. We have solar (nine years), a solar storage battery (new), and two EVS (10 years old and one year old). Don't you live in AZ? Shouldn't you have solar?
I lived in AZ in the 90s and the attitude was "why fugly up your house when we have all those dammed up rivers". Thank you for being a conscientious desert dweller. 😎👍
We do as well. I love not having to play the oil and gas game
I wonder if the muskox is happy that petroleum prices are going up? Gotta buy those EVs.
https://bsky.app/profile/gtconway.bsky.social/post/3ls7ybehgz22s
Weeks before Bibi reacted to the Hamas strike on Israel by launching the most disproportional response in memory, Israelis were in the streets protesting his attempts to write the judiciary out of existence in order to stay in power. A week before dropping bunker-busting bombs on Iran, trump was looking like a sad, weak, stupid big-time loser and the world was laughing at him. Both of these men, drunk on power, resorted to the same "wag the dog" strategy of tyrants. When things aren't going your way, rain down a little death and destruction.
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True dat Gini!!
THIS RIGHT HERE. 👆
Here we are — in a war of our own making. Europe hates us, why wouldn’t they, so we’re on our own with a bunch of morons who can’t find their asses with both hands. The question now is, how do we run these Republicans, all of them, out of the country? I’m not sure we can until next year. Please somebody come up with a way.
I'm surprised Europe didn't toss us out of the G-7 last week. NATO and the G20 and the EU should get rid of us now. The UN might want to throw out Israel, Russia, and the USA too.
Or with a mirror on a stick.
Do to them what they did to the politicians in Minnesota?
There’s plenty of ways, opportunities though???
My solution is to split the country. Red states/blue states.
Everyone on the left needs to relentlessly shout to the rooftops that the idiotic jingoes in the rethuglican party are responsible for repeatedly embroiling us in endless Middle East wars that cost our military personnel, cost our treasury, garner animosity, encourage terrorism, guarantee retaliation, destabilize the world, and increasingly cloud the future. These chickenhawk motherfuckers never learn. Just as the right and their moronic supporters are not stepping up to harvest crops, neither are they the ones to strap it on and fight the wars they so gleefully advocate.
We are in a death spiral 🌀 and I don’t think Tom Cruise is piloting the plane.
I know we all keep wondering if each latest batshit violation of the Constitution will finally be IT, the abomination that will trigger impeachment and the taking back of our nation, but I have to keep sane by telling myself this has GOTTA do it, FFS. Another quagmire in the Middle East, with no appreciable end and no real benefit to anyone? Starting a war without congressional approval?! Holy shit, what does it have to take?!!
My very first reaction was more like, “Hey! What happened to Only Congress can declare war?” “General “Raizin” Caine; I’d like a word along with everyone else involved in committing this crime against our Constitution.” I’m not impressed with the precision the operation was carried out.
This is a crime.
Great question, Doc. What will it take and is it already too late?
I've heard AOC will introduce articles of impeachment, but as has happened previously, the soulless lying GOP scumbags will not vote in favor of it. They are pathetic.
Go AOC! It needs to be done.
Come on Walt. We've been in the death spiral since April 30.
I put the date as November 5, 2024
Or we’re in a weird trance, and we think we’ll be ‘ok’ in the next episode…
This war could be the death of the all-volunteer army. Trump is likely to EO the draft, with or without Congress' vote, and use the Emergency Powers lever to ratchet up his nascent police state. Worst case scenario.
War is a money maker. He needs better numbers. Life and limb - not his concern.
I would believe that his “two weeks” only changed because of TACO reference and he wants the Nobel Peace Prize desperately.
He's such an idiot he thinks starting a war will win the Peace Prize
Well said Doc!!
Robert Reich's explainer IS very good, and he makes a point one may not have thought of: Not only did Trump do this to distact from his many domestic failures, but he can (he thinks) use "we're at war" to enact more repressive policies at home.
Wag the Dog+
I disagree. It's one potential outcome, but I think k a rather more unlikely one, given that this was unprovoked (no 9/11) and that he sold to his own BASE the idea that there would be no foreign wars: "America first." I know we love to drool over catastrophe, but I think we also paralyze ourselves with fear when we should be taking action, for instance, an anti-war march to rival the anti-Iraq War march on 2005.
It’s a cult. Nothing else explains the hold a demented, flatulent, babbling narcissist has on a nation that was, heretofore unknown, filled with MAGATS.
Yes re "catastrophe," but I don't think anyone is paralyzed with fear, and I foresee just that kind of march on July 4. But whatever he sold his base to get elected is irrelevant to him. Literally nothing he promised--peace in Ukraine; lower prices; wealth from tariffs; you name it--has, or will, come to pass. He doesn't care, and mostly THEY don't care. It is indeed a cult, which means the leader can never be wrong.
Exactly - he could tear up the Constitution on TV - and say it’s time for a NEW Ahmerika- and they would raise their cheap beer and shout that he’s Gods angel!
Touché Ellis!!
Pretty much everything he said he was not going to do was the real plan. I worked in a mental asylum for 15 years. There was always that that unwritten law that you take people by their actions. They always gave you some kind of warning of what they are about to do. Our rapist treasonist and chief usually says we are not or I am not before he does exactly that. When he said he was not going to cause world war 3 I just figured that was the plan. I am by no means a conspiracy person. I just tend to go by what people show me. I keep saying this I wish I was shocked but I am not. I am just worried for all the people who are real people that this going to hurt and kill. The consequences for his actions that he never pays for, but everyone else seems too.
The Republicons will lie even when the truth can cause them no harm. It is their way.
Or, as I used to say about my classic narcissist ex-husband: "he'd tell a lie even if the truth sounded better".
Andy Borowitz wrote that Trump sent Barron to the podiatrist
I saw that, something about “genetic predisposition to bone spurs.”
Minor Correction: It's the Four Horses Asses of the Shitpocalypse. I'm reminded of that episode of F-Troop where Agarn, disguised as Ulysses S. Grant, warns the Hawkowe, "Peace be with you . . . or we'll WIPE YOU OUT!" Someone contact FanDuel and get the odds on Captain Combover's Nobel Peace Price. Frankly, I think all those TACO accusations were starting to get to him. And now let's hear it for Regime Change. Yeah, that's the ticket. Because it's worked so well in the past. AOC is right. Impeach the clown. For shits-and-giggles if nothing else.
Trump is jonesing for the Nobel.
He can share it with Vlad.
f*****g cnn wtaf?
CNN has gone full quisling. Fucking cowards and enablers
Here-I’ll spell it… FUCKING cnn! Totally agree!
What is worse, a full time propaganda network like FAUX News, or a subtle disinformation network, like CNN?
It's a conundrum because both are evil.
Propaganda and entertainment only Walt!!
I’d take CNN- but can only hold my nose for so long…Faux is 100% Republifart propaganda.
Try Meidas Touch and other alternative news sources. They're getting bigger and better all the time!
What about the price of eggs? C'mon people focus...I'm so hungry. Fuck fuckity fuck fuck, BOMBS!
Eggs can be used as bombs. Dropped from a tree or rooftop. Probably not fatal.
A war of nutrition; slowly raising the enemies cholesterol - the BAD cholesterol. Thanks you for my attention to your matter.
Good point. And we are the only country capable of dropping eggs from trees.
Ah yes, nothing says “peace through strength” like waking up on a Sunday to a Twitter tantrum with BOMBS in all caps and a war crime in the comments.
If the Book of Revelation and a Cialis ad had a baby during a WWE promo, this would be it. The only thing more unstable than the foreign policy is the man baby behind it, fist-pumping over mushroom clouds like it’s a damn Fourth of July grill-out.
Let’s be honest. This isn’t about national security. It’s about dopamine. About watching things go boom so you don’t have to feel how empty your own soul is. That’s not statesmanship. That’s emotional pyromania.
And to the evangelicals cheering this on—remember when your guy said “Blessed are the peacemakers”? Or did that get drowned out by the sound of F-22s dropping righteousness on civilians?
Jesus wept. And probably vomited.
"...Chinese bots altered vote counts in voting machines in 2020, and that he really won in a landslide...". Might want to mention that everything he projects is a confession. HE stole the 2024 election, sure as shit. ZERO DOUBT, at this point, with the help of Elon, who "knows the vote counting machines very well". Why say something like that in your INAUGURATION SPEECH? Why say it at all? In what context is Elon having a conversation with tRump, talking about vote COUNTING machines? He knows them so well? WHY? HOW? OH, to PROTECT them from evil liberals and their hackers who hacked 2020? Exactly how did he protect these "vote counting machines"? Why aren't we all aware of this most-excellent work he's done to protect our democracy? Why keep it a secret? BECAUSE THAT'S NOT WHAT HAPPENED. The only CONTEXT that makes any sense to any rational person is that he HACKED the vote tabulators using the Universal Power System (UPS) backup power devices that manage power fduring power outages and can bring down application services in an organized, careful, way to avoid corruption of data, (I'm a software consultant with 30 years experience). Look for recent articles about this right here on Substack. Eaton is the company that makes these. Eaton, which was owned by the evil Leonard Leo, the architect of the Federalist Society's takeover of our judicial system. Sold to none other than Elon's ex-parner, Peter Thiel. These devices are WiFi enabled. They are not part of the security testing that goes on with tabulators. Very easy to hack into these machines and change the vote counts as they're being transmitted - via Starlink. You don't even have to change any voting-related code!! It's brilliant, actually. But absolutely done.
Accusation is admission. The best way, in my opinion, to get rid of the entire administration and complicit R leaders is to null and void the election by recounting votes. Both Elmo and taco have admitted how they rigged the election. Cut off the head of the snake and burn the body. Done deal. Off to Gitmo!
All we need is a Congress with a backbone. Maybe this Iran BS will help take him down...
That's exactly what I think. And I also believe every he says is a confession.
Here's a question: I guess this means we still cant see the Epstein files? 🤔
A clear indication that Shitler’s name is all over them.
As if we didn't know. Trust me, we know he's a pedo and God knows what else.
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Well, Trump surprised me by dropping a bomb.
I don't think there will be American boots on the ground, because Trump has only said a million times there never would be. Of course, he is a liar. Soooo...
Fortunately, this is not the beginning of World War III, because two nuclear powers have to be shooting at each other.
I didn't think Donny would actually drop bombs. I figured his 'two week pause' was an excuse to taco his way out of the situation
The minute the planes were in the air headed over, it was going to happen. Trump did this because of Timothy Snyder‘s point about wars are about domestic policy. The entire world stood up on Trump‘s birthday and screamed, “We hate you.” He needed to change the channel and use a war to entrench himself. Trump must be hauled out of there and impeached. They have to find the Republicans to help. They have to get rid of Johnson and do things that are not going to tank our economy to the point that China can run all over us. We cannot afford a war. The big, beautiful bill and everything else? Getting rid of laborers and paying bounty hunters $1000 for each illegal? Having absolutely no government agencies functioning? This has got to stop and there’s gotta be some people in office who understand this is self-destruction at the highest level.
T💩p is assuming that since GeeDumbya Bush got away with starting two illegal wars for fun and profit, it'd work for him too. Rethuglicans are monsters. All of 'em, Katie. Fking all of 'em.
Which goes to the reluctance of Pelosi and other Dems to hold Bush II accountable. It’s in this type of way that the Dem leadership has failed.
There has been failure and lack of backbone throughout America across many institutions, from journalism to politics and beyond. The country needs a complete overhaul and reform that unfortunately won’t happen until the entire system crashes and burns, if history is any guide.
May it be so.
Given his personality disorder, I suspect people laughing at him pushed him to the side of the war hawks screeching in his miraculously grown back ear. And the isolationists will likely bow down to whatever he did out of fear of retribution.
Really? You doubted he would take the opportunity to drop the world’s largest non-nuclear bomb on brown people he hates?
Moslem brown people he hate.
He's a stone cold racist and has been all his life. He knows he's inadequate in every way.
Same - surprised me. Maybe he got mad at the mockery.
That's what I think, too.
I thought so too, as did Daniel Drezner (do read him, he is outstanding).
But my reservation is that Trump took the "chickening out" as a threat, so he likely impulsively made this call.
What I can say is that this probably caused Bill Kristol to get his first chubby since 2003 in the run up to Iraq.
Yay.
That’s probably one reason he did it. “See? I’m not a TACO.”
Mega dittos, Jeff! Exactly!
I think it was planned from “evacuate Tehran”.
Same
That is what I thought too.
Perhaps Partial World War II 1/2?
Lots more people died in Vietnam than will die in this war. Lots more people died in Korea. A lot more people have died in obscure wars on the African continent.
Iran is very good at long range attacks by missile and by assassination. They may seriously interfere with ships carrying oil out of the Middle East, and that will mess up the economy pretty damn good.
This is just a guess, but many of their top military leadership has been killed and many of their missile launchers have been destroyed, so Iran may be quite weakened at this point.
Bottom line: this is just another damn Middle Eastern War.
I said yesterday that the emperor has no clothes, nor appetite for another war. Lucian and a few others disagreed. Trump was humiliated last week, the saber rattling was done by the Warhawks in his cabinet. They convinced the Taco tosspot that this would make him powerful again and possibly make martial law even easier to defend Kathleen!!
Trump says, "hold my beer".