Paul Revere by Cyrus Dallin, North End, Boston

Monday, June 30, 2025

Trump’s BBB is very unpopular with the American people.




The "One Big Beautiful Bill" does not fully eliminate taxes on tips, overtime, or Social Security as claimed; it offers limited deductions with caps (e.g., $25,000 for tips, $12,500 for overtime) and excludes high earners, with no provision to remove taxes on Social Security.

 
















“If Republicans vote to pass this bill they are TOAST in the next election. According to the latest polls, this is the most unpopular legislation maybe ever: "Washington Post, -19 points, Fox News -21 points.”

Saturday, June 28, 2025

Wednesday, June 25, 2025

It cost US taxpayers over $25 million to strike Iran.

 

Via Reddit:






 


 "Preliminary classified findings indicate that the attack sealed off the entrances to two facilities but did not collapse their underground buildings.  

Before the attack, U.S. intelligence agencies had said that if Iran tried to rush to making a bomb, it would take about three months. After the U.S. bombing run and days of attacks by the Israeli Air Force, the report by the Defense Intelligence Agency estimated that the program had been delayed, but by less than six months.

 The report also said that much of Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium was moved before the strikes, which destroyed little of the nuclear material. Iran may have moved some of that to secret locations."


Will Trump and Bibi bomb the sites again in 3 months? And then in another 3 months again?

 
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Sent to me in an email by a friend:

"President Obama's nuclear deal with Iran (JCPOA) took effect in January 2016. Its term was for 15 years. Iran, China, France, Russia, Germany, the United Kingdom, the European Union, and the United States all signed the agreement thanks to the diplomatic leadership of President Obama. Iran agreed to stop enriching uranium, and to stop developing a nuclear weapon. As long as the deal lasted, Iran would be held at a point where they were several years from even beginning to build a nuclear weapon. The Middle East, and the entire world, were a safer place. The signatories all insisted on rigorous independent inspections to ensure that Iran complied. The deal would've lasted until 2031. Unfortunately, Trump pulled out of the deal in his first term. Now Israel attacked Iran, and the US dropped the most powerful non-nuclear bombs in the world. But the experts are saying that it may have only set back Iran's nuclear program by three to six months. President Obama had Iran in a place where in 2031 they would be several years from developing a nuclear weapon. Trump has Iran in a place where their nuclear program is set back until the end of this year. But hey, 'Operation Midnight Hammer' sure sounds like the tough guys are in charge."


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So was Trump’s “Completely and Totally Obliterated” just Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” but in a louder font?

Tuesday, June 24, 2025

America's most successful Con Man:

 

Carrick Ryan:






I must admit, there's a part of Trump that's kind of impressive.

He convinced the party of Reagan to advocate for tariffs and market intervention.
He convinced the party of law and order to celebrate the first convicted felon President, and the pardoning of violent insurrectionists.
He convinced the party of family values that it didn't matter if he cheated on his pregnant wife with a pornstar.
He convinced millions of women to vote for him even when they've heard him brag about sexually assaulting them.
He's convinced Epstein conspiracy theoriests to somehow accuse anybody but him, despite mounting circumstantial evidence of his complicity.
He's convinced evangelical Christians to vote in the least religious President in US history.
...and now he's convinced isolationists, who called Obama a "neocon" and cheered the "end of foreign wars", to now openly support yet another foreign war.
But he's not a salesman. A salesman actually gives you what he's selling. Trump is conman, someone who promises big but never comes through with the goods.
What has Trump promised that he's actually delivered?
Did he build the wall? And did Mexico pay for it? Did he lock her up? Did he enact a "Muslim Ban"? Did he repeal Obamacare? Did he eliminate national debt? Or add to it? Did he end the war in Ukraine or Gaza? Did he decrease the cost of groceries? Did he keep the US out of foreign wars?
Did he make America great again?
...or a global pariah?
I've done a lot of fraud investigations in my time, and there's almost always a devastating moment when someone realises with horror they've been conned. But there's also always a few that just don't want to believe it... no matter how much evidence you show them.
...and the conman usually just continues to con them, until they've fleeced them of everything that they've got.

Monday, June 23, 2025

FROM POLITICO:

 

Trump floats regime change in Iran, muddying the administration's message 

 Top Trump officials said their strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites were limited, but they don’t have much control over the knock-on effects in the Middle East and their party. 

 President Donald Trump’s top national security officials spent much of Sunday insisting his administration doesn’t want to bring about the end of Iran’s government, only its nuclear program. 

Then Trump left the door open for exactly that. “It’s not politically correct to use the term, 'Regime Change,' but if the current Iranian Regime is unable to MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN, why wouldn’t there be a Regime change??? MIGA!!!” 

Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. While Trump did not call for the ouster of the regime, or say that the U.S. would play any role in overthrowing the Iranian government, his words undercut what had appeared to be a coordinated message from his top advisers. 

Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth each insisted Sunday that the U.S. was only interested in dismantling Iran’s nuclear capabilities.

Saturday, June 21, 2025

 

TRUMP BOMBED IRAN!

HE BOMBED A COUNTRY THAT DID NOT ATTACK THE UNITED STATES!


SATURDAY NIGHT MUSIC

 

Van Morrison -- Evening in June


 



 The Decemberists -- June Hymn

 

Friday, June 20, 2025

 



E.P.A. Plans to Reconsider a Ban on Cancer-Causing Asbestos 

The Trump administration’s move sets back a decades-long effort to end the use of the material, which is widely banned in other countries.

 








Thursday, June 19, 2025

WHY?



Didn't Trump promise he was only going after the criminals? Why did his goons throw this woman out of the country after living here peacefully for almost 30 years?

Why?


Pastor's Wife Deported After 30 Years in U.S. as Family and Officials Clash Over Her Legal Status



 In a matter of days, Maria Isidro – a nanny and a preacher's wife – went from being in Live Oak with her family to being deported to Matamoros, Mexico, after a one-way trip from the federal government. 

Isidro, a Mexican immigrant who came to the U.S. in 1998, went to what she thought was a routine immigration check-in June 3 in Tallahassee. She thought U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement needed more paperwork for her case. But instead, she was detained and held for eight days before she was removed to Mexico.

 On June 11, after an 15-hour trip by van and by plane from a Florida detention center to Mexico, immigration officials threw a red mesh bag of her belongings at her feet and drove off.

HAPPY JUNETEENTH!

 






Wednesday, June 18, 2025

THE GUY WHO BANKRUPTED CASINOS...

 

earlier today mused about firing head of the Federal Reserve Bank, Jerome Powell, and appointing himself to head it.


BREAKING: Fed Chair Jerome Powell confirms that Trump's tariffs are wrecking the American economy, driving up unemployment and inflation and slowing growth since March. "That’s what you see. You see the effects of tariffs."



 

TRUMP'S DYSTOPIAN AMERICA

 


These thugs are on the streets of America. No identification, no warrants of removal/deportation. They're grabbing people off America's streets -- Americans included, as well as people here legally and not legally.

Everyone who voted for Trump is complicit in this insult to the Constitution and the rule of law.










 

SOURCE



Israeli journalist Barak Ravid, who served as an intelligence officer with the Israeli Defense Forces, told CNN Wednesday that Israel fully expects President Donald Trump to involve the U.S. in its bombing campaign against Iran.



TRUMP IN 2013:




Tuesday, June 17, 2025

I DON'T KNOW IF THIS IS TRUE, BUT IT WAS JUST POSTED ON BLUESKY:







BREAKING:

 

We have a madman running the country!

Last night he ordered the evacuation of Tehran, a city of 10 million people!






Trump posted Mike Huckabee's text to him. Huckabee tells Trump to listen to the voices in his head:





WHAT THE ABSOLUTE F**K? Mike Huckabee is trying to invoke God to make Trump NUKE Iran? That sure the f**k is how it reads. We have mentally ill people in power. This is insane.


Trump doesn't believe his own National Security Advisor:



Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, just two and a half months ago testified under oath, saying this: “The Intelligence Community continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme Leader Khamenei has not authorized the nuclear weapons program that he suspended in 2003.” Trump Now: "I don't care what she said. I think they were very close to having one."