History shows how suddenly national tragedy can transform a struggling leader into a wartime commander, and why that precedent should make Americans uneasy today…
I saw Trump's neck rash and recalled putting medicated cream on shingles on patient's necks and faces when practicing as a nurse. It looks like shingles to me. Shingles isn't just a skin rash. It's a nerve inflammation that is excruciating and often requires opioid pain meds with side effects of poor judgement and euphoria. Do you think that may have something to do with joyful discussion about the gold curtains and ballroom instead of focusing on his new war?
That our nation has devolved into the monster nation of evil is obvious. That another attack by Republican agents will come is also obvious as hell. These scum know nothing but evils most foul. So we must attack them in every possible manner!
I watched Nance last night. MSM should use him as a talking head. In essence, our Arab Gulf states' allies have no defenses for Iranian drones and to stop internal insurgencies.
Iran allies include Hamas, Hezbollah, segments in Yemen, many other Arab countries.
In Iraq and Afghanistan we used mercenary armies.... Nance commented how many Arab countries use Latins and Africans for their own national security because they can't trust their own people.
I heard many Defense Base Act cases that involved Africans and Latin American mercenaries.
On this you and I are in total agreement. Nance also has his own you tube channel, and a substack newsletter.
Dude knows what he is talking about. Bibi and Donald have opened Pandora's box, and I think that was the purpose. The both are in hot water, and a forever war is a way out. Did you read tat link I provided, it is an eye opener.
Psychology shows us that this technique primes the brain for motivated reasoning and confirmation bias. Mix high fear, high uncertainty, and a story that loosely fits our priors and you can get an entire population to rally behind anything.
Have Republican party leaders heard the old phrase, "fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me"? Oh that's right--GWB fumbled that one in a speech. But it shows the public is in no mood to be fooled again by war-mongering, even if the MSM is once again diving in head first.
Thom, you beat me to it. The timing of the effective stand-down of our defenses against another 9/11 (or worse) is just too pat. Even gross incompetence, which one could never put past Patel or this regime, would quickly yield to recognition of the obvious -- you don't start a war with Iran and gut your capacity to prevent the only kind of retaliation they're capable of! -- and immediate course correction: Funding DHS and rehiring the fired intelligence and counterterrorism staff.
That's not happening, apparently. So what conclusion can be drawn other than that, as you say, we tossed the EpiPen because Trump WANTS the US to get stung and go into shock?
Because holding onto power and avoiding accountability are Trump/MAGA's imperatives and it's increasingly obvious there's no way to do it other than taking control of the election, and the easiest way to do that is to gin up a 9/11-style "crisis."
The warnings, however, just keep getting ignored, one after the other. One can understand the Iranians failing to understand how Trump operates and how vulnerable the guardrails of US democracy are when it comes to restraining him -- the failure of Americans to understand these same things is, by now, inexcusable.
The worst thing about 911 was that all the so-called description of what actually happened were government lies. See Architects and Engineers for 911 truth (https://www.ae911truth.org/) to learn more about this. Trump will probably invent a phony attack by Iranian sympathizers to the same thing Bush did
We do not need to aggrevate and frighten the leaders of all our former allies, nor do we need to become as proficient as killers of our own American citizens as the nastiest authoritarian nations around the world. What we need to do is aggrevate and frighten the military leaders of America who still feel bound to the oaths they swore to protect the American people from the extremes and hatreds of their own citizens from destroying what is left and quickly diminishing as we speak in the hands of our own citizens who are more dedicated to selfishness in place of fairness and morality.
We desperately need help to protect ourselves from ourselves, and firmly place our trust in our armed forces to return America to the country that we have abandoned. Remove and emprison our present out-of-control government, and replace them by hopefully younger and fairer leadership. Yes, there is a frighteningly high chance that things wouldn't get better with an attempt to a return to sanity, but frankly, things couldn't get any worse. Give us our country back! Our children deserve a chance!
I didn't think that creating another 9/11 was something Trump, for the reasons you articulate, may want. If it is what he intended by allowing Patel to do this, he would be wise to consider that if the Iranians want to go tit for tat here in the US, the only buildings they will be aiming at would be either the White House or Mar-a-Lago while he's in them.
Can't tell whether Mr. Trump is trying to recast himself as a wartime leader, cf.. his promise of no more wars, but also his saying ot Mr. Starmer that he was no Churchill. As if a war of aggression is equivalent to a war of defense.
BUT it seems increasingly likely that there may well be something in the Epstein files that isn't entirely reputation enhancing.
Yeah, but he would still go off on his beautiful ballroom ramblings right in the middle of his wartime president speech.
And no one ever calls the straight jacket squad.
I saw Trump's neck rash and recalled putting medicated cream on shingles on patient's necks and faces when practicing as a nurse. It looks like shingles to me. Shingles isn't just a skin rash. It's a nerve inflammation that is excruciating and often requires opioid pain meds with side effects of poor judgement and euphoria. Do you think that may have something to do with joyful discussion about the gold curtains and ballroom instead of focusing on his new war?
Epstein isn't going away.
YES: "And no one ever calls the straight jacket squad."
That our nation has devolved into the monster nation of evil is obvious. That another attack by Republican agents will come is also obvious as hell. These scum know nothing but evils most foul. So we must attack them in every possible manner!
Trump has transitioned from no boots on the ground to could be boots on the ground, which means boots on the ground.
Malcolm Nance paints a realistic scenario here, and it involves Iran capturing and parading Special Forces and paramilitary CIA.
Iran does not have navy, but along the gulf coast are 33,000 fast boats, each able to cary 15 armed IRGC soldiers. https://malcolmnance.substack.com/p/1001-arabian-nightmares-it-can-get
I watched Nance last night. MSM should use him as a talking head. In essence, our Arab Gulf states' allies have no defenses for Iranian drones and to stop internal insurgencies.
Iran allies include Hamas, Hezbollah, segments in Yemen, many other Arab countries.
In Iraq and Afghanistan we used mercenary armies.... Nance commented how many Arab countries use Latins and Africans for their own national security because they can't trust their own people.
I heard many Defense Base Act cases that involved Africans and Latin American mercenaries.
If you have 54 minutes, this video from Nance just show up in my inbox, it is an update on the Iran fiasco
https://malcolmnance.substack.com/p/black-man-spy-us-iran-warcast-day
On this you and I are in total agreement. Nance also has his own you tube channel, and a substack newsletter.
Dude knows what he is talking about. Bibi and Donald have opened Pandora's box, and I think that was the purpose. The both are in hot water, and a forever war is a way out. Did you read tat link I provided, it is an eye opener.
Psychology shows us that this technique primes the brain for motivated reasoning and confirmation bias. Mix high fear, high uncertainty, and a story that loosely fits our priors and you can get an entire population to rally behind anything.
YESsss...
Have Republican party leaders heard the old phrase, "fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me"? Oh that's right--GWB fumbled that one in a speech. But it shows the public is in no mood to be fooled again by war-mongering, even if the MSM is once again diving in head first.
We'll see re the Senate vote. What does Wicker say?
Thom, you beat me to it. The timing of the effective stand-down of our defenses against another 9/11 (or worse) is just too pat. Even gross incompetence, which one could never put past Patel or this regime, would quickly yield to recognition of the obvious -- you don't start a war with Iran and gut your capacity to prevent the only kind of retaliation they're capable of! -- and immediate course correction: Funding DHS and rehiring the fired intelligence and counterterrorism staff.
That's not happening, apparently. So what conclusion can be drawn other than that, as you say, we tossed the EpiPen because Trump WANTS the US to get stung and go into shock?
Because holding onto power and avoiding accountability are Trump/MAGA's imperatives and it's increasingly obvious there's no way to do it other than taking control of the election, and the easiest way to do that is to gin up a 9/11-style "crisis."
The warnings, however, just keep getting ignored, one after the other. One can understand the Iranians failing to understand how Trump operates and how vulnerable the guardrails of US democracy are when it comes to restraining him -- the failure of Americans to understand these same things is, by now, inexcusable.
The firings? So no one can track the goings-on of the setup.
Setup for what?
An INSIDE JOB. Think: "3 Days of the Condor" or JFK.
- A suitcase atomic device.
- A stolen tugboat.
- The Battery at the tip of Manhattan.
Voila !!! ... So what if he rapes and punches little girls in the head.
VOTE NOW OR PAY EVEN MORE LATER.
OH, AND "DO" HIDE YOUR DAUGHTERS.
WIVES, TOO. He likes to bang other men's wives.
Helps him feel powerful.
I used to think that all history's wars were driven by religion.
But now it's clear that they're driven by power-hungry wealthy men.
The worst thing about 911 was that all the so-called description of what actually happened were government lies. See Architects and Engineers for 911 truth (https://www.ae911truth.org/) to learn more about this. Trump will probably invent a phony attack by Iranian sympathizers to the same thing Bush did
We do not need to aggrevate and frighten the leaders of all our former allies, nor do we need to become as proficient as killers of our own American citizens as the nastiest authoritarian nations around the world. What we need to do is aggrevate and frighten the military leaders of America who still feel bound to the oaths they swore to protect the American people from the extremes and hatreds of their own citizens from destroying what is left and quickly diminishing as we speak in the hands of our own citizens who are more dedicated to selfishness in place of fairness and morality.
We desperately need help to protect ourselves from ourselves, and firmly place our trust in our armed forces to return America to the country that we have abandoned. Remove and emprison our present out-of-control government, and replace them by hopefully younger and fairer leadership. Yes, there is a frighteningly high chance that things wouldn't get better with an attempt to a return to sanity, but frankly, things couldn't get any worse. Give us our country back! Our children deserve a chance!
I wrote about Kash Patel decimating our FBI Iran counterintelligence unit here: Kash Patel fired elite FBI Iran counter-intelligence unit. What could go wrong? >> https://halbrown.substack.com/p/kash-patel-fired-elite-fbi-iran-counter
I didn't think that creating another 9/11 was something Trump, for the reasons you articulate, may want. If it is what he intended by allowing Patel to do this, he would be wise to consider that if the Iranians want to go tit for tat here in the US, the only buildings they will be aiming at would be either the White House or Mar-a-Lago while he's in them.
In answer to your headline, Yes. And we should expect it. Sad.
YES!
Can't tell whether Mr. Trump is trying to recast himself as a wartime leader, cf.. his promise of no more wars, but also his saying ot Mr. Starmer that he was no Churchill. As if a war of aggression is equivalent to a war of defense.
BUT it seems increasingly likely that there may well be something in the Epstein files that isn't entirely reputation enhancing.
Tragedy upon tragedy.
Any chance we can see the lyrics of today's song: Rhyme of Fire?