Matt Schlapp made the staggering comment during Wednesday’s episode of “Piers Morgan: Uncensored,” where discussion of the now-ongoing Iran war eventually turned to the airstrikes on a girls school that killed up to 175 people Saturday, mostly children under 12."
And this witheringly vapid press secretary:
Leavitt: "The president has a right to share his opinions with the American public…"
(Opinions are not facts. Trump often doesn't know what he's talking about -- hardly the sort of person a country would want while waging war against a Middle East country.)
Thomas Friedman, NYTimes:
One day it’s regime change, one day not; one day he doesn’t care about Iran’s future, the next day he will have a say in choosing the country’s next leader; one day he’s open to negotiations, the next day he is demanding “unconditional surrender.”
I thought the Middle East analyst Hussein Ibish summed up the Trump strategy in Iran concisely when he wrote: 'It goes like this: The U.S. and Israel bomb and destroy assets. Then (fill in the blank) Iranians will secure (fill in the blank) political change that will achieve (fill in the blank) U.S. war aims.' ”
Would you invest in a company whose leader, without warning, embarked on a radically new business strategy and then, in the next week, described its goals in five different ways? That is a flashing red light."
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This is a POTUS who picked a troop of unqualified cabinet members and who has accusations about him of pedophilia -- protecting a pedo, Maxwell, and engaging in such acts himself. What could possibly go wrong?
Not only is there no endgame, there is no understanding of who we are attacking. Trump won't be able to lie his way out of this because the economic aftershocks are going to be real.
"Pardon me", "I am not responsible, they were alive when I pushed them on the train to the east," and "I was only following orders."
ReplyDeleteRefrains we will be hearing soon when the junta is on trials for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Impeach!
Send Barron!
ReplyDeleteHe’s probably inherited his father’s bone spurs.
DeleteBoston Globe, Letters to the Editor:
ReplyDelete"Saturday’s front-page headline exclaimed that President Trump demands “unconditional surrender” from Iran, just days into what ... a police action, a military exercise, kinetic activity, or can we call it a war? Isn’t that what war is — when bombs are dropped and military personnel are killed or wounded? It sounds like a page from Vladimir Putin’s playbook about a “special military operation” into Ukraine, otherwise known as an invasion.
In the case of the US-Israeli attack on Iran, how many nations are militarily involved so far? At least 20, and counting. And before I forget, what are the objectives here anyway? We’re going back to a situation just like Iraq and Afghanistan — no plan, no exit strategy, another endless war. And Congress is OK with this?
Meanwhile there are reports that the Department of Defense has invoked a Christian nationalist angle in the administration’s efforts to subdue Iran, and perhaps bring about Armageddon.
Never mind regime changes elsewhere. We need one right here, at home.
The midterm elections cannot come soon enough.
Bob LaFrance"
Today is not a day for words. I will be doing other things but before I do there are a few ideas I must share.
ReplyDeleteIt is not lost to me that those who've historically controlled the levers of power are all lost to the race of chasing a dancing target which remains just out of reach. If I am who I know I am it is my desire the target leads them all to what they believe is solid ground before they catch it. And then, ala Wiley Coyote, the dust clears and they are standing on nothing except a lot of air and the ground way far below.
Key: Dancing target = antiquated energy producing methods. Method of target animation = the power of greed and avarice ensuring one's competitor will not win. There exists an energy or power if you will in this universe that can not be defined using known methodologies. The minute one tries they imprint themselves on the energy, knowingly or not. It is the unknowable which stops the game of catch. It is force of For the Good of All and May it Harm None that leads the dance to the cliff. It is greed which blinds those caught in the chase. All they need do is stop, but they can't. Greed is a hell of a drug and sometimes the best cure is mercy.
That's it, all the words I've got. Tons of love though which I share with all of you.
Trump does not have advisors, he has sycophants. They did not miscalculate, they did not calculate at all and went with their gut feeling!
DeleteThe sickness that has overtaken America will not be easily treated.
ReplyDeleteIt is a deep sickness of the soul of a nation.
A nation that once had a sense of compassion as well as a conscience.
One that understood what empathy was and that it is important.
This sickness was not created by Trump or any other specific individual.
It was the natural growth of a cancer known as greed and is carried by the oligarchs of Americab capitalism.
Greed enhanced by the rush of power lust. Trump is simply the figurehead of the disease.
Greed and power lust are fed by human ignorance.
According to the American oligarchs and the MIC:
Tis better to spend 200 billion plus waging an unjust and immoral war of choice than to spend 20 billion dollars to eliminate homelessness.
Better to worship the god of wealth/greed and control than to worship the god of peace, love for all of humanity, compassion, and empathy
Tis better to divide a nation than unite it. As it makes it easier to set up the us versus them mentality. Creating distrust betwen brothers and sisters.
The winners are always the wealthy and powerful. The oligarchs of unregulated capitalism and grift. And the power structures of the CIA and the MIC.
The American Empire is cracking under the leadership of Trump and the fascists oligarchs controlling him. The rest of nations of the world are beginning to see the outline of a new path to stability and peace. That path runs eastward, to a society and culture thousands of years older than the ours.
And America sleeps. Blind to reality as it is unfolding right before its eyes.
It isn't long before we woll see, with a tear in our eye:
RIP America -The Nation That Took Its Eyes Away From Doing What's Right
When despots rule, they gut institutions and then surround themselves with yes men. Unfortunately you end up with a like minded group of individuals who spend days in an echo chamber.
DeleteThe United States used to have wonderful institutions like the State Department and NSA that provided thoughtful and thought-provoking analysis to the US Congress and president.
No more, Musk gutted these along with all the other institutions of the US government. Then what happened to the high-ranking members of the NSA and State Department, now headed by a single individual? Is it no wonder no possible scenarios of what Iran would do and the United States' preparation for such responses were ever produced. Who was left to do them?
Where do we begin?
ReplyDeleteMaybe at the fact the US has decided not to be critical of Russia for giving targeting information on US assets in the Middle East?
How about the reason we are even at war with Iran?
Or if this is even a war, or not a war?
What are the stated objectives objectives of the war/non war in Iran?
Are we calling for unconditional surrender in Iran?
As we continue to kill Iranian leaders, who do we negotiate with in Iran?
Why did the Trump Admin, in August 2025, turn down the very technology from Ukraine for drone warfare, they are now asking from Ukraine to protect US forces?
Since POTUS Trump said the US "totally obliterated" the Iranian nuclear capability last year, how is it possible Iran was an "imminent nuclear threat" requiring us to start this war/non war?
Everyone reading this knows when a body passes in a flag draped coffin, unless you are military, you remove your hat out of respect for the dead. Why did Trump not do so? Why didn't any of his advisors tell him to do so? Why did FOX News run last year's footage of Trump at a ceremony when he did not have a baseball cap on, as opposed to the recent ceremony when he did?
Finally... many conservatives, the GOP and MAGA supporters, including those who comment here, have mocked and ridiculed POTUS Biden personally and professionally since Sept 2021 over the Afghanistan withdrawal. Why is it that crowd has been strangely silent over the utter incompetence, constant lies and excuses on the Iran War from the current President?
From what I've read in various news articles on the internet, the Trump administration miscalculated Iran's response to Trump's bombings. What is happening in the Straits of Hormuz is having a global effect. Read that again: The Trump Administration MISCALCULATED what the effects would be from bombing Iran, and they miscalculated Iran's response!
DeleteThis is the result of Trump's foolish cabinet appointments -- most especially, Pete Hegseth, who was not qualified to lead the Dept. of Defense, and who has shown his inexperience through his damn-fool performative shenanigans that made the Dept. of Defense look like a war-time video game and a religious revival tent meeting instead of a deadly serious organization that holds the lives of millions of people in its hands.
NYTimes: "After Trump administration officials gave a closed-door briefing to lawmakers on Tuesday, Senator Christopher S. Murphy, Democrat of Connecticut, said on social media that the administration had no plan for the Strait of Hormuz and did “not know how to get it safely back open.”
Inside the administration, some officials are growing pessimistic about the lack of a clear strategy to finish the war. But they have been careful not to express that directly to the president, who has repeatedly declared that the military operation is a complete success."
"But they have been careful not to express that directly to the president, who has repeatedly declared that the military operation is a complete success."
DeleteThis is how dictators are treated by their sycophantic lackeys. That's where we are. Trump has done everything he claimed his opponent in the 2024 election would do. He promised he'd be the president of peace!
Why do the American people continue believing a pathological liar?