Oh look; over there. Squirrel. Anything to distract from Epstein, anything!
Send Barron! War? Some of the poor slobs will die, but that is a sacrifice commander Bone-Spur is willing to make. All the while committing war crimes and bragging about it publicly. Domestic economic collapse? Let them eat cake.
Impeach and imprison the whole junta, and members of the central committee of the Republican Congress..
As Trump and Butcher Netanyahu unravel in their grand delusions and fantasies the world becomes the very hell hole (again) that the Allied Powers after WW II worked to prevent through the UN. (United We Stand, Divided We Fall mentality). But our madman Trump, with his buddy the Butcher, is intentionally destroying the very structures in place designed to prevent war and the annihilation of the human race and the planet we live on.
Trump and te Butcher are not builder,s of anything. They are destroyers. Anyone thinking otherwise is simply as crazy and dangerous as they are.
Tapper asked Tillis if we're at war with Iran. He muttered something like, "No, the president can do whatever he wants for 60 days before war is authorized". After saying they need a clearer message on why we're bombing Iran, he literally called it a war.
Hmm. Sounds like it's "Schrodinger's War". If you're in it, it's war. If not, it isn't.
Last week had our Sec of Defense telling his commanders (who then told their subordinates) that Trump was put in power by Jesus to light the beacon in Iran to bring about Armageddon which signals the return of their concept of a deity. Millions of humans on this planet believe this to be a true statement.
Yesterday I read about how every idea Trump had (boots on the ground, air drops, and other fantastical what abouts) was shot down by the experts. I listened as Hegseth said Iranians could die, using words of genocide not war. I listened to Trump say "it could happen" when asked about Iranian attacks here in the states. I've not heard one question asking about a nuclear option and for this tiny mercy I'm grateful.
I'm watching in real time as powerful humans on both sides throw everything they have at the Trump-Epstein debacle. I'm watching our economy crash every day, knowing what lies at the end of the run. And still, the drums of war beat every day because the MAGA crew were promised a war. Every Sunday and twice during the week they were told their enemies would burn in a pit of fire while they watched high above, saved because they tithed the correct amount, said the correct prayers, and did everything their pastor's staff told them to do.
So now it's war only Iran isn't the same as the other countries Trump has invaded or bombed. Iran is old, like older than China old. As a culture Iran is one of the original societies, around before the Greeks kind of old. Sun Tzu says a winning general does not underestimate their enemy. Hegseth and Trump didn't even read the Cliff Notes before rushing into their holy war. They've had decades to prepare for this. That they are taking their time should be a cause for worry.
Read somewhere (think Michael Wolf?) that the only reason anyone found out about Epstein was because Trump dropped the dime due to some spat the two had back in the day. LOL He did all this to himself!! I'm dying over here. LOL
Final note - if Trump does crash the economy and he has to institute Universal Basic Income here in the States I will be so grateful and pissed at the same time. Grateful for the UBI and pissed because you know he'll name it after himself.
The Late-Capitalist system no longer works for ordinary people. Changes are needed, but not yet agreed to (since the beneficiaries of the current system are the most powerful and likely to oppose them). An excerpt from a Zizek post today...
What a universalist leftist should be doing now is to search for links, for solidarity in struggle, between those in Afghanistan who oppose the Taliban’s ideological madness and those in the West who are aware of the deep crisis of the liberal-democratic capitalist model. One of the latest expressions of this crisis is the rise of a new form of leaders called by da Empoli “predators”2: leaders, either democratically elected or autocrats, who exert their power with disregard for traditional customs or for the legal system in order to thoroughly transform their country. Although there are aspects of predatorship in how Trump, Putin, and Xi act (and is Traoré in Burkina Faso not also acting like that?), the two pure cases are Nayib Bukele and Mohammed bin Salman (MbS). The two confronted in a predatory way the big problems of their countries, which could not be resolved within the scope of the established political system.
After becoming president in July 2019, Bukele implemented the Territorial Control Plan to reduce El Salvador’s 2019 homicide rate of 38 per 100,000 people. Homicides fell by 50 percent during Bukele’s first year in office. After 87 people were killed by gangs over one weekend in March 2022, Bukele initiated a nationwide crackdown on gangs, resulting in the arrests of over 85,000 people with alleged gang affiliations by December 2024. How did he do it? Gang members in El Salvador were tattooed with signs which clearly indicated their gang and position in it, so Bukele simply arrested all tattooed men and put them in large prisons where they have no privacy and are kept indefinitely; he is even expanding these prisons to receive persons from other countries (such as illegal immigrants from the US). The results were fast: El Salvador’s homicide rate decreased to 1.9 homicides per 100,000 in 2024, one of the lowest in the Americas. Bukele ran for re-election in 2024 and won with 85 percent of the vote after the Supreme Court of Justice reinterpreted the constitution’s ban on consecutive re-election. Bukele is highly popular in El Salvador: throughout his entire presidency his approval rating has held above 90%, and he is popular throughout Latin America… Critics complain that El Salvador has also experienced democratic backsliding under Bukele’s leadership — however, this criticism misses the point because Bukele openly emphasizes his violation of the democratic legal system, pointing out that this is how he succeeded, and voters massively agree with him.
MbS is the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia. Since his appointment as crown prince in 2017, he has introduced a series of liberal social and economic reforms; these include curtailing the influence of the Wahhabi religious establishment by restricting the powers of the religious police and improving women’s rights, removing the ban on female drivers in 2018, and weakening the male-guardianship system in 2019. However, MbS did this as the head of an authoritarian government which has continued to imprison women’s rights activists on terrorism charges. Those regarded as political dissidents are systematically repressed through methods including imprisonment, torture, and execution, including for online criticism. Between 2017 and 2019, he led the purge of competing Saudi political and economic elites on an anti-corruption platform, seizing up to US$800 billion in assets and cash and cementing control over Saudi politics. How he did this is, even more than the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi, his signature act. He invited members of the Saudi elite to one of the most luxurious hotels and then kept them imprisoned there until they were ready to return most of their wealth to the state. Although MbS made many mistakes, he, like Bukele, basically succeeded: he is changing Saudi Arabia into a more modern and open state — the sad conclusion is that in both cases, with Bukele and with MbS, predatorship worked.
‘At the beginning’ of the law, there is a certain ‘outlaw,’ a certain Real of violence which coincides with the act itself of the establishment of the reign of law: the ultimate truth about the reign of law is that of a usurpation, and all classical politico-philosophical thought rests on the disavowal of this violent act of foundation . . . this illegitimate violence by which law sustains itself must be concealed at any price because this concealment is the positive condition of the functioning of law: it functions insofar as its subjects are deceived, insofar as they experience the authority of law as authentic and eternal. -Slavoj Zizek, "For They Know Not What They Do"
Law begins in trauma. From the standpoint of the old law, the violent establishing of something new is crime. The old law is disobeyed, overthrown, transgressed, usurped. From the standpoint of the new law, this crime is self-negating. It vanishes (or is concealed) as a crime once the new order is constituted. Put somewhat differently, the establishment of law overthrows law, for example, the law of custom, the law of nature, or even law as an ideal that only existed at the very moment of its loss. And, because establishing is overthrowing, there is a risk--the negation of law such. Establishing manifests a disregard for law as it perversely (or criminally) turns crime into law. This paradox, this traumatic identity of law and crime, is the repressed origin of law.
Trump blames Iranians for bombing their own grade school, killing over 150 children. Witnesses confused by US warplanes are just trouble makers. Where is Orwell when you need him?
Intel report warns large-scale war ‘unlikely’ to oust Iran’s regime
A classified U.S. report doubts that Iran’s opposition would take
A classified report by the National Intelligence Council found that even a large-scale assault on Iran launched by the United States would be unlikely to oust the Islamic republic’s entrenched military and clerical establishment, a sobering assessment as the Trump administration raises the specter of an extended military campaign that officials say has “only just begun.”
The findings, confirmed to The Washington Post by three people familiar with the report’s contents, raise doubts about President Donald Trump’s declared plan to “clean out” Iran’s leadership structure and install a ruler of his choosing.
The report, completed about a week before the United States and Israel initiated the war on Feb. 28, outlined succession scenarios stemming from either a narrowly tailored campaign against Iran’s leaders or a broader assault against its leadership and government institutions, the people familiar with its findings said. In both cases, the intelligence concluded that Iran’s clerical and military establishment would respond to the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei by following protocols designed to preserve continuity of power, these people said.
The prospect of Iran’s fragmented opposition taking control of the country was described as “unlikely,” said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a classified report.
The National Intelligence Council, or NIC, is composed of veteran analysts who produce classified assessments meant to represent the collective wisdom of Washington’s 18 intelligence agencies.
The CIA referred questions to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which declined to comment. The White House did not say if the president was briefed on this assessment before approving the military operation.
Trump used regime change as a pretense to grab their oil. He admits he doesn't give a damn if they have another theocratic dictatorship.
The abject dishonesty, disregard for international law, disregard for human life, the desire (lust) for power and absolute control over everything and everyone, the ignorance, the hate, and the imperial aspiration of the MAGAt Trump ranks him among the most dangerous and worst leader in modern history. Period. Full Stop.
Oh look. USA is in negotiation with Cuba about something. Looks like an honest broker, right. Then in the middle of the night, a 'knife in the back' as USA attacks. Haven't We The People seen this film before?
America has essentially been an Empire since US taxpayer dollars helped to rebuild Europe after the last Fuhrer destroyed it destroyed Eurupe to satify his lust for power and control. Every single nation that agreed to allow US military bases on its soil (for "protection") essentially because a Vassel state for the USA.
Which is why the gutless European Union nations are kissing the a*s of Trump/Butcher Netanyahu and denouncing Iran. Which makes them as unethical, immoral, and ignorant as the two nations who started the unnecessary, illegal, and immoral war of choice against Iran.
The ultimate cost to America, and the world will be a heavy one.
America, Israel, and nations supportive of the evil of Trump/Netanyahu have lost any right to claim moral superiority over anyone. Including so called terrorist actors. Period. Full Stop.
Neoliberalism doesn't work anymore. There are too many gynofascists at the table debating the etiquette of good governance and ignoring the practical and economic facts of life.
Key details in the account of a woman who’s accused President Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was a minor were verified Sunday in an explosive investigation conducted by The Post and Courier.
The woman first came forward to the FBI following the 2019 arrest of Jeffrey Epstein, and was interviewed by the agency four separate times. A Justice Department source told the Miami Herald that the woman was found credible by the agency, the outlet reported.
In her interviews with the FBI, the woman accused Epstein and at least two other associates, including Trump, of sexual assault when she was 13. She accused Trump of sexually assaulting her, pulling her hair and punching her in the head sometime in the mid-1980s.
Yes, child abuse and rape are also peachy with MAGAts.
Will -FJ follow his leader's example? Or has he already?
Corporal Bone spurs = "Come on, dwindling 30% - Follow FJ the Fearless into the glory of picking on little itty bitty countries and impress the voters in the mid=term slaughter.
Oh look; over there. Squirrel.
ReplyDeleteAnything to distract from Epstein, anything!
Send Barron!
War?
Some of the poor slobs will die, but that is a sacrifice commander Bone-Spur is willing to make. All the while committing war crimes and bragging about it publicly.
Domestic economic collapse?
Let them eat cake.
Impeach and imprison the whole junta, and members of the central committee of the Republican Congress..
As Trump and Butcher Netanyahu unravel in their grand delusions and fantasies the world becomes the very hell hole (again) that the Allied Powers after WW II worked to prevent through the UN. (United We Stand, Divided We Fall mentality). But our madman Trump, with his buddy the Butcher, is intentionally destroying the very structures in place designed to prevent war and the annihilation of the human race and the planet we live on.
ReplyDeleteTrump and te Butcher are not builder,s of anything. They are destroyers. Anyone thinking otherwise is simply as crazy and dangerous as they are.
Tapper asked Tillis if we're at war with Iran. He muttered something like, "No, the president can do whatever he wants for 60 days before war is authorized". After saying they need a clearer message on why we're bombing Iran, he literally called it a war.
ReplyDeleteHmm. Sounds like it's "Schrodinger's War". If you're in it, it's war. If not, it isn't.
Last week had our Sec of Defense telling his commanders (who then told their subordinates) that Trump was put in power by Jesus to light the beacon in Iran to bring about Armageddon which signals the return of their concept of a deity. Millions of humans on this planet believe this to be a true statement.
ReplyDeleteYesterday I read about how every idea Trump had (boots on the ground, air drops, and other fantastical what abouts) was shot down by the experts. I listened as Hegseth said Iranians could die, using words of genocide not war. I listened to Trump say "it could happen" when asked about Iranian attacks here in the states. I've not heard one question asking about a nuclear option and for this tiny mercy I'm grateful.
I'm watching in real time as powerful humans on both sides throw everything they have at the Trump-Epstein debacle. I'm watching our economy crash every day, knowing what lies at the end of the run. And still, the drums of war beat every day because the MAGA crew were promised a war. Every Sunday and twice during the week they were told their enemies would burn in a pit of fire while they watched high above, saved because they tithed the correct amount, said the correct prayers, and did everything their pastor's staff told them to do.
So now it's war only Iran isn't the same as the other countries Trump has invaded or bombed. Iran is old, like older than China old. As a culture Iran is one of the original societies, around before the Greeks kind of old. Sun Tzu says a winning general does not underestimate their enemy. Hegseth and Trump didn't even read the Cliff Notes before rushing into their holy war. They've had decades to prepare for this. That they are taking their time should be a cause for worry.
Read somewhere (think Michael Wolf?) that the only reason anyone found out about Epstein was because Trump dropped the dime due to some spat the two had back in the day. LOL He did all this to himself!! I'm dying over here. LOL
Final note - if Trump does crash the economy and he has to institute Universal Basic Income here in the States I will be so grateful and pissed at the same time. Grateful for the UBI and pissed because you know he'll name it after himself.
It's more complicated than that...
ReplyDeleteThe Late-Capitalist system no longer works for ordinary people. Changes are needed, but not yet agreed to (since the beneficiaries of the current system are the most powerful and likely to oppose them). An excerpt from a Zizek post today...
What a universalist leftist should be doing now is to search for links, for solidarity in struggle, between those in Afghanistan who oppose the Taliban’s ideological madness and those in the West who are aware of the deep crisis of the liberal-democratic capitalist model. One of the latest expressions of this crisis is the rise of a new form of leaders called by da Empoli “predators”2: leaders, either democratically elected or autocrats, who exert their power with disregard for traditional customs or for the legal system in order to thoroughly transform their country. Although there are aspects of predatorship in how Trump, Putin, and Xi act (and is Traoré in Burkina Faso not also acting like that?), the two pure cases are Nayib Bukele and Mohammed bin Salman (MbS). The two confronted in a predatory way the big problems of their countries, which could not be resolved within the scope of the established political system.
After becoming president in July 2019, Bukele implemented the Territorial Control Plan to reduce El Salvador’s 2019 homicide rate of 38 per 100,000 people. Homicides fell by 50 percent during Bukele’s first year in office. After 87 people were killed by gangs over one weekend in March 2022, Bukele initiated a nationwide crackdown on gangs, resulting in the arrests of over 85,000 people with alleged gang affiliations by December 2024. How did he do it? Gang members in El Salvador were tattooed with signs which clearly indicated their gang and position in it, so Bukele simply arrested all tattooed men and put them in large prisons where they have no privacy and are kept indefinitely; he is even expanding these prisons to receive persons from other countries (such as illegal immigrants from the US). The results were fast: El Salvador’s homicide rate decreased to 1.9 homicides per 100,000 in 2024, one of the lowest in the Americas. Bukele ran for re-election in 2024 and won with 85 percent of the vote after the Supreme Court of Justice reinterpreted the constitution’s ban on consecutive re-election. Bukele is highly popular in El Salvador: throughout his entire presidency his approval rating has held above 90%, and he is popular throughout Latin America… Critics complain that El Salvador has also experienced democratic backsliding under Bukele’s leadership — however, this criticism misses the point because Bukele openly emphasizes his violation of the democratic legal system, pointing out that this is how he succeeded, and voters massively agree with him.
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ReplyDeleteMbS is the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia. Since his appointment as crown prince in 2017, he has introduced a series of liberal social and economic reforms; these include curtailing the influence of the Wahhabi religious establishment by restricting the powers of the religious police and improving women’s rights, removing the ban on female drivers in 2018, and weakening the male-guardianship system in 2019. However, MbS did this as the head of an authoritarian government which has continued to imprison women’s rights activists on terrorism charges. Those regarded as political dissidents are systematically repressed through methods including imprisonment, torture, and execution, including for online criticism. Between 2017 and 2019, he led the purge of competing Saudi political and economic elites on an anti-corruption platform, seizing up to US$800 billion in assets and cash and cementing control over Saudi politics. How he did this is, even more than the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi, his signature act. He invited members of the Saudi elite to one of the most luxurious hotels and then kept them imprisoned there until they were ready to return most of their wealth to the state. Although MbS made many mistakes, he, like Bukele, basically succeeded: he is changing Saudi Arabia into a more modern and open state — the sad conclusion is that in both cases, with Bukele and with MbS, predatorship worked.
‘At the beginning’ of the law, there is a certain ‘outlaw,’ a certain Real of violence which coincides with the act itself of the establishment of the reign of law: the ultimate truth about the reign of law is that of a usurpation, and all classical politico-philosophical thought rests on the disavowal of this violent act of foundation . . . this illegitimate violence by which law sustains itself must be concealed at any price because this concealment is the positive condition of the functioning of law: it functions insofar as its subjects are deceived, insofar as they experience the authority of law as authentic and eternal.
ReplyDelete-Slavoj Zizek, "For They Know Not What They Do"
Law begins in trauma. From the standpoint of the old law, the violent establishing of something new is crime. The old law is disobeyed, overthrown, transgressed, usurped. From the standpoint of the new law, this crime is self-negating. It vanishes (or is concealed) as a crime once the new order is constituted. Put somewhat differently, the establishment of law overthrows law, for example, the law of custom, the law of nature, or even law as an ideal that only existed at the very moment of its loss. And, because establishing is overthrowing, there is a risk--the negation of law such. Establishing manifests a disregard for law as it perversely (or criminally) turns crime into law. This paradox, this traumatic identity of law and crime, is the repressed origin of law.
ReplyDeleteTrump blames Iranians for bombing their own grade school, killing over 150 children. Witnesses confused by US warplanes are just trouble makers. Where is Orwell when you need him?
ReplyDeleteWell, well. No wonder the Criminal Regime is backing off from their regime change bullshit.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/03/07/iran-intelligence-report-unlikely-oust-regime/
Intel report warns large-scale war ‘unlikely’ to oust Iran’s regime
A classified U.S. report doubts that Iran’s opposition would take
A classified report by the National Intelligence Council found that even a large-scale assault on Iran launched by the United States would be unlikely to oust the Islamic republic’s entrenched military and clerical establishment, a sobering assessment as the Trump administration raises the specter of an extended military campaign that officials say has “only just begun.”
The findings, confirmed to The Washington Post by three people familiar with the report’s contents, raise doubts about President Donald Trump’s declared plan to “clean out” Iran’s leadership structure and install a ruler of his choosing.
The report, completed about a week before the United States and Israel initiated the war on Feb. 28, outlined succession scenarios stemming from either a narrowly tailored campaign against Iran’s leaders or a broader assault against its leadership and government institutions, the people familiar with its findings said. In both cases, the intelligence concluded that Iran’s clerical and military establishment would respond to the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei by following protocols designed to preserve continuity of power, these people said.
The prospect of Iran’s fragmented opposition taking control of the country was described as “unlikely,” said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a classified report.
The National Intelligence Council, or NIC, is composed of veteran analysts who produce classified assessments meant to represent the collective wisdom of Washington’s 18 intelligence agencies.
The CIA referred questions to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which declined to comment. The White House did not say if the president was briefed on this assessment before approving the military operation.
Trump used regime change as a pretense to grab their oil. He admits he doesn't give a damn if they have another theocratic dictatorship.
The abject dishonesty, disregard for international law, disregard for human life, the desire (lust) for power and absolute control over everything and everyone, the ignorance, the hate, and the imperial aspiration of the MAGAt Trump ranks him among the most dangerous and worst leader in modern history. Period. Full Stop.
ReplyDeleteOh look. USA is in negotiation with Cuba about something. Looks like an honest broker, right.
ReplyDeleteThen in the middle of the night, a 'knife in the back' as USA attacks.
Haven't We The People seen this film before?
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.
ReplyDeleteWe were REALLY off to see the Wizard. Come on Toto
let's go back to Kansas.
America has essentially been an Empire since US taxpayer dollars helped to rebuild Europe after the last Fuhrer destroyed it destroyed Eurupe to satify his lust for power and control. Every single nation that agreed to allow US military bases on its soil (for "protection") essentially because a Vassel state for the USA.
ReplyDeleteWhich is why the gutless European Union nations are kissing the a*s of Trump/Butcher Netanyahu and denouncing Iran. Which makes them as unethical, immoral, and ignorant as the two nations who started the unnecessary, illegal, and immoral war of choice against Iran.
The ultimate cost to America, and the world will be a heavy one.
America, Israel, and nations supportive of the evil of Trump/Netanyahu have lost any right to claim moral superiority over anyone. Including so called terrorist actors. Period. Full Stop.
Face it losers, your brand of International GynofascistAbundance)
ReplyDeleteNeoliberalism doesn't work anymore. There are too many gynofascists at the table debating the etiquette of good governance and ignoring the practical and economic facts of life.
ReplyDeleteSo tea-time's over. Either lead, follow, or get out of the way! Donald Trump has chosen to lead...
ReplyDeleteYes, -FJ. We already know about your authoritarian personality.
DeleteWorld War III is just peachy if Trump starts it, amirite?
How are you enjoying your new Trump War Tax at the gas pump? Better blame Biden and Kamala.
And speaking of MAGA "values":
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-epstein-2675900458/
Key details in the account of a woman who’s accused President Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was a minor were verified Sunday in an explosive investigation conducted by The Post and Courier.
The woman first came forward to the FBI following the 2019 arrest of Jeffrey Epstein, and was interviewed by the agency four separate times. A Justice Department source told the Miami Herald that the woman was found credible by the agency, the outlet reported.
In her interviews with the FBI, the woman accused Epstein and at least two other associates, including Trump, of sexual assault when she was 13. She accused Trump of sexually assaulting her, pulling her hair and punching her in the head sometime in the mid-1980s.
Yes, child abuse and rape are also peachy with MAGAts.
Will -FJ follow his leader's example? Or has he already?
Lead this nation, as well as the entire globe to death and destruction. All to satisfy his ignorance and narcissistic delusions of personal grandeur.
ReplyDeleteAnd the vessel states under USA control bow to his ignorance and delusions.
As do You -fj.
The Neo-Con MAGAts are now in their glory. As The Anti-Christ Trump emulates GWB's ignorance, lies, and insanity.
ReplyDeleteCorporal Bone spurs = "Come on, dwindling 30% - Follow FJ the Fearless into the glory of picking on little itty bitty countries and impress the voters in the mid=term slaughter.
ReplyDeleteWell -FJ, he's chosen something. Seems very Patton like to me. Maybe you, since no one else can, tell me what his objectives are in Iran.
ReplyDeleteOn a semi related note... you're not wrong on theocracies being tough and difficult in a democracy. As you mentioned on the Mothership.
Because the problem with theocracies is the government essentially takes all criticism of their actions as a slap in the face to their religion.
And now many want that here in the US...