and yet here we are funding Israel where all their citizens get healthcare using our tax dollars....and millions here in the US have either lost or are not able to afford insurance because the costs have doubled or even tripled because of republicans......
Trump will not invade Colombia or Cuba, he will bring them to heel by other means, They are all part of the Technate of Americas pr has he calls the Shield of the Americas, as Orwell called it Oceania Ecudador, Mexico Central America are in his or rather Elon Musks sights, and that of the Broligarchy.
You really shold pay attention to this map, as it foretold all events and what is to come:
No Trump is not letting Putin dictate foreign policy, Putin is dictating foreign policy to Krasnov.
Krasnov just bailed him out, using the war he and BB started, to lift sanctions and save Putin’arse.
There is no CubanMissile Crisis 2.0,because there is no daylight betweenTrump and Putin.
The blue states don’t need a federal health care plan. Vermont had one, butitcollapsed for lack of funding, California passed Prop 35 that was a state health care plan, but died on the desk of the Demcoratic speaker of the assembly, I don’t think Newsom would sign it, because the all powerful AHIP (Association of Health Insurance Providers) would expend massive amounts of money against Newsom, if he did sign it.
Blue states and and should form an interstate compact, and set up their own individual state banks, and then form their own Interstate public insurance company.
They should but they won't because they are governed by political cowards with alligator Mouths and humming bird asses. The only politician I'veseen lately is the Mayor of Denver,who had the balls to write an executive order, telling his police not to assist ICE and forbid ICEfrom using munipal buildings, he should also have told is police to protect the citizens from armed, masked thugs, who claim that theare from ICE or CBP
Alll I have seenso far is big talkin front of the mic, but nothing in the way of action.
We don't need congress of Pam Bondi, each state can bring charges against Trump, on hundreds of ground, charge and try him in state courts not ederal court, but they are afraid.
There is another wrinkle in the Cuban situation. China is helping them develop renewable resources. They are working with them on solar and wind. However, they have put a price-tag on it that the Cuban government may not have. Even when China bankrolls something, there is a "cost".
We could end-up in a stand-off with a united Putin and Xi 90 miles off our coast. TRump sent the Marines in the wrong direction. If he means to own Cuba, he better get on with it. The allies shared Berlin, just a weird thought. Who knows what crazy sh*t is in store for the Cubans.
Columbia and Cuba are all part of The Technate of America fever-dream TRump got from the Tech Bros and psycho billionaires that want to own the Western Hemisphere. No rules for them---no democracy for us! See you in the streets today and at NO KINGS on the 28th.
1. China operates four (4) suspected intelligence-gathering facilities in Cuba, including major sites in Bejucal and near Santiago de Cuba.
2. IMHO China has released zillions in gold, driving down the price, thus aggravating and exacerbating the oil crisis. Gold is down about 15% in the past month.
3. Whereas Cuba has a poulation of 11 million and Cuba is a small island, Colombia and Iran both have huge populations and territories.....
I invite you to read my three-part Substack series, which I just finished after an all-nighter. It's "Cuba's Tragedy." Today's is "rebel or starve." I think it's an I opener about U.S. sanctions and the Cuban embargo. It's free.
Headlnes in Baghdad By the Sea. Exclusive: Bags of shredded documents at NY jail after Epstein’s death, officer tells FBI By Julie K. Brown and Claire Healy
2. Is Trump Letting Putin Reshape U.S. Foreign Policy?
Ans. Does a (Russian) bear shit in the woods?
3. Thom: Rightwing Senator Tom Cotton asked the CENTCOM general in charge this past week, “Are we prepared for any kind of humanitarian crisis in Cuba—the possible flow of refugees, other civil disorder that may threaten our interests, especially if the decrepit, corrupt Castro regime finally falls or flees?”
Here in Baghdad By the Sea, WE are affected A Cato Institute report estimates there are over 1.2 million frozen immigration-benefits applications from these three countries, out of 2 million frozen in total across all countries. That breaks down to 935,000 applications from Cubans, 239,000 applications from Venezuelans and 81,000 from Haiti.
"Wall Street is buzzing this morning over a single figure: $25 million. That is the total compensation awarded last year to Kathy Ruemmler, Goldman Sachs’s departing general counsel, according to a company proxy filing released late yesterday. Ruemmler, a former White House counsel and seasoned defense attorney, resigned from the firm following a wave of scrutiny sparked by the release of the Epstein files.
"The documents revealed extensive email correspondence between Ruemmler and the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein when she was in private practice. While Ruemmler was never Epstein’s formal legal counsel, the communications painted a complex picture: She appeared to offer informal legal advice and guidance, while Epstein seemingly provided her with referrals to other high-profile clients. As the details became public, a growing chorus of critics — both inside and outside the firm — questioned how she could remain in a role that involved managing reputational risk. While Ruemmler initially resisted stepping down, the pressure eventually became a “distraction” she could no longer ignore.
"Throughout the controversy, the Goldman Sachs C.E.O., David Solomon [no relation], and the board of directors remained steadfast in their support. They maintained that Ruemmler had been transparent during her initial hiring process and that a prior review had cleared her of any wrongdoing. For those who doubted the depth of the firm’s loyalty, the $25 million payout, up from $22.5 million the year prior, serves as a definitive, if eyebrow-raising, proof of their backing."
If I were a partner/shareholder, I want the money back puls punies.
Epstein has not hurt Trump and will not. It is an annoyance,otherwise he is protected by MAGA,whom the Republican congress fears
And there is no way to force or punish the Attorney General, Pam Bondi, and she has spit in the face of the Senate, and there is nothing that they can do about it, because she isn't going to prosecute herself.
So lets'focus on more realistic issues and methods, like protecting the election from being stolen, or making sure that Blue State governors don't fall for the fiction of the SAVE act.
Congress has no jurisdiction over how a state manages it'selections,outside of a constitutional amendment.Anymore than Congress can pass a law against gay marriage or abortion, those or powers left to the sovereign states.
Trump certainly can't do it with anEO, though he will try, and we don't even need to file a lawsuit, just ignore any unconstitutional bill that is passed or any EO order.
The Miller/Netanyahu/AIPAC/Putin administration doesn’t appear to have America’s best interests at heart, and our traditional allies are justifiably re-evaluating their loyalties. Thanks Repugnicans.
As a psychologist, I start making sense of behavior by questioning motivation. David Brooks pointed out a while back that ambitious people are mostly motivated by wealth and power, whereas aspirational people are motivated by making a positive difference in the world. Pols like AOC and Mamdani are aspirational while Trump and most of Congress are ambitious and power-hungry.
When I look at Trump, it is hard not to notice early on that he is not the brightest bulb in the chandelier. An incompetent businessman, he was groomed to be a racketeer. That explains his sole reliance on extortion to get what he wants. But like many racketeers, he has a Capo di Tutti Capi who keeps him out of harm's way. In Trump's case, harm is serial business failures. While Trump is a sort of "Don," his Capo is Putin. Trump has been laundering the ill-gotten wealth of Russian oligarchs probably since he first needed capital to build Trump Tower.
Putin likely enticed Trump at some point to be his saboteur to distract America from interfering with his efforts to restore the USSR. He knew Trump would be the bull in America's crockery shop. After his failed 1-term presidency, Putin had four years to tutor Trump on how to be a competent government vandal. The pace of his conversion of America from democratic governance to autocratic rule is a historical first. America is stymied because it has never before had a president whose goal was treason. America's sky is clearly falling because our Congress is full of little chickens, not Chicken Littles.
Outstanding observations, especially "groomed as a racketeer," "his sole reliance on extortion to get what he wants" and "our Congress is full of little chickens, not Chicken Little." P.S. My father was career Navy, too.
Trump has a massive inferiority complex, and that drives him and explains his behavior, he is compensating, overcompensating, bluffing and bullying are acts of bravado, and as an experience conman he knows how to glad hand, he sucked in Bill Maher, and he has the leadership of the world debasing themselves, he snaps his fingers and the crawl to the throne with gifts, where he insults them and throws feces at them, and they smile and bow.
That explains Trump's early years. Today, it appears that he really believes he is King of the World with the power to rule everyone. He is gonna live to 200 because his sycophant doctor Ronny told him so. We see him insulting foreign leaders just to test his power. Looks like the EU has not yet fallen in line. Japan just did.
The EU has caved it told it told him ,or least Starmer did that they could use their bases. As I said, Trump has no superpower, he uses America the great consumer (public and private) as his power, without us he is nothing. He is jack shit
What disgusts me, and I am sure disgusts their voters is the timidity of their leadership as it debases themselves.
Macron once in while grows some huevos, then wait a day and he neuters himself.
The media has made a big thing of them holding hands, the game is a game of macho, the first one to break off loses. I would tell Trump to go fuck himself and not play the game.
He welcomes Putin into the U.S. and the media treats it like a minor scandal, including the so called liberal press, it was an act of betrayal, he is getting away with murder right in front of our eyes. Good and Pretti were murders and Trump is responsible, for Bovino and his thugs are carrying out his order.
I was referring to the EU nations giving Trump the finger regarding minesweeping Hormuz and most recently jointly with other non-EU countries sending a statement of unity regarding ending the war and supporting free trade for all in Hormuz. Subtly - Go Home!
oh that, then they turn around and give him free use of their bases. Barbarically allowing him to prolong the war and giving him tacit approval.
He has two MEU's committed.the Tripoli is essentially on location, and the , and the Boxer left last week with two or three other ships one I hope is a resupply, because it will have to be fueled at least once,maybe twice and at 15kph it willl take another three weeks to get there.
Talk of the 82nd Airborne making a jump on kharg Island, they will be slaughtered on and off, or Special ops taking other islands, lots of islands in the gulf and the important ones in sight of Iran with mountains looking down on them..
Crazy talk about invasion, Iran is mountainous,not tank, wheeled or track territory, and with drone warfare developed by the Ukraineans, armored warfare is obsolute.
Russians have given up on tanks, and meat assault, then now use small groups on ATV's, motorcycles, even horses, to enter an area, shelter in a ruined building and harass the Ukrainians.
None of the warfare we have trained for, even special ops asymmetrical (as it were) is applicable today, and the Iran's have been preparing ever since the Iran Iraq war for asymmetrical warfare,the whole country is a booby trap.
Trump is bragging about eliminating their havy. The Iran navy was a show rust buckets lined up for visual effect. Unmanned they were there to be bombed. The real navy is the IRGC Navy, thousands of dhows and 33,000 small fast boats, many hid in underground bunkers, along a 400 mile coast line. Each one capable of carrying 15 men armed with machine guns, anti aircraft missles and RPG's. They could swarm Kharq or Qeshm island like hornets if the Marines survived the assault..
The assholes who fed Trump this intel and told him it would be a cake walk, should be shot.
You don't regime change with airstrikes, you need boots on the ground and the moment the boots hit the ground the Ayatollahs will declare a Jihad, and then every man,woman and child will be required to kill the Amriki's.
And paradise will be their reward.
Stupid, fucking stupid, people, and I am positive that this is all BB's doing, he has undue influence on Trump.
Saudis didn't mind, but now they are conflating in secret, because Iran is attacking their oil fields, and the UAE, even Qatar is not sitting quietly by(I bet they regret giving Donald that 747)
Iran has hit their desalinzation plant, and the South Pars gas field, as well as refineries and pumping stations.
We are already in a world war, the days of Blitzkreig and D Days are over, and carpet bombing? Forget about it. Iran has thousands of miles of tunnels, dug into the Mountains.
Americans think Iran is like Iraq, flat desert. It isn't it is mountainous, and Irans knew this day was coming and have prepared for asymmetrical warfare, including a long list of who replaces who when the top of the chain of command is martyred.
Even without Hegseth the Pentagon is stupid, it runs on yesterday., and apparently ideology, to wit that POS Dan Cain, hauled of retirement because he is obviously a Trump humper and probably one of those devout Christians that plague the officer ranks today, graduates of the service academies infected with Dominionism, NAR and 7 Mountains Mandate, or Opus Dei.
I also read in Politico, I believe about a Kurdish faction dug in underground ready to pounce. That has to be a rogue faction, because the Kurds have been warned off by the Syrian kurds, who learned the hard way not to trust America. Iraqi and Turkish Kurds should have learned that lesson. I saw a picture of a coouple of them, definitely not the likes of the Peshmurga. a couple of dudes with AK 74's.
Regarding Fetterman...a sad turn around there. Could PA voters impeach him or have a recall election? I'm not sure what PA election rules are but surely they don't, and we don't, have to put up with him for 3 more years!
I don't get it, WHY GO THROUGH ALL THE TROUBLE OR THE INQUIRY INTO CONFIRMING HIM, IF THEY ARE JUST GOING TO DO IT ANYWAY, EVEN IF HE'S ANOTHER KRISTY NOEM IDIOT.
DO NOT CONFIRM HIM, HE'S NOT EVEN CLOSE TO QUALIFIED AND HE'S DUMBER THEN A ROCK.
We're marinating in the banality of evil / normality of corruption / cult of incompetence ... a pandemic of malignant narcissism ... dismal days of the dark triad.
Thom, there are so many things happening. I, believe despair is not an option and so much more. It, will get better or some say worse. We, shall have to wait and see. Wait for it! Lesson learned, thanks Thom. Believe! I, do.
and yet here we are funding Israel where all their citizens get healthcare using our tax dollars....and millions here in the US have either lost or are not able to afford insurance because the costs have doubled or even tripled because of republicans......
Trump will not invade Colombia or Cuba, he will bring them to heel by other means, They are all part of the Technate of Americas pr has he calls the Shield of the Americas, as Orwell called it Oceania Ecudador, Mexico Central America are in his or rather Elon Musks sights, and that of the Broligarchy.
You really shold pay attention to this map, as it foretold all events and what is to come:
https://digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/ss:34227574
No Trump is not letting Putin dictate foreign policy, Putin is dictating foreign policy to Krasnov.
Krasnov just bailed him out, using the war he and BB started, to lift sanctions and save Putin’arse.
There is no CubanMissile Crisis 2.0,because there is no daylight betweenTrump and Putin.
The blue states don’t need a federal health care plan. Vermont had one, butitcollapsed for lack of funding, California passed Prop 35 that was a state health care plan, but died on the desk of the Demcoratic speaker of the assembly, I don’t think Newsom would sign it, because the all powerful AHIP (Association of Health Insurance Providers) would expend massive amounts of money against Newsom, if he did sign it.
Blue states and and should form an interstate compact, and set up their own individual state banks, and then form their own Interstate public insurance company.
They should but they won't because they are governed by political cowards with alligator Mouths and humming bird asses. The only politician I'veseen lately is the Mayor of Denver,who had the balls to write an executive order, telling his police not to assist ICE and forbid ICEfrom using munipal buildings, he should also have told is police to protect the citizens from armed, masked thugs, who claim that theare from ICE or CBP
Alll I have seenso far is big talkin front of the mic, but nothing in the way of action.
You must not have been following the Governor of Illinois, J.B. Pritzker.
Just in time, serendipity, https://cmarmitage.substack.com/p/fact-no-law-protects-a-president No Law Protects a President from State Criminal Charges. So What Stopped Georgia?
We don't need congress of Pam Bondi, each state can bring charges against Trump, on hundreds of ground, charge and try him in state courts not ederal court, but they are afraid.
Since I lve in Washington state, of course not, but I've seen nothing of what he has actually done, reported anywhere.
So what has he actually done, what executive orders has he signed, what bills has he pushed through the house?
I've heard him on the state house steps, but speechifying is one thing, action another.
From what I have read or seen.....
There is another wrinkle in the Cuban situation. China is helping them develop renewable resources. They are working with them on solar and wind. However, they have put a price-tag on it that the Cuban government may not have. Even when China bankrolls something, there is a "cost".
We could end-up in a stand-off with a united Putin and Xi 90 miles off our coast. TRump sent the Marines in the wrong direction. If he means to own Cuba, he better get on with it. The allies shared Berlin, just a weird thought. Who knows what crazy sh*t is in store for the Cubans.
Columbia and Cuba are all part of The Technate of America fever-dream TRump got from the Tech Bros and psycho billionaires that want to own the Western Hemisphere. No rules for them---no democracy for us! See you in the streets today and at NO KINGS on the 28th.
1. China operates four (4) suspected intelligence-gathering facilities in Cuba, including major sites in Bejucal and near Santiago de Cuba.
2. IMHO China has released zillions in gold, driving down the price, thus aggravating and exacerbating the oil crisis. Gold is down about 15% in the past month.
3. Whereas Cuba has a poulation of 11 million and Cuba is a small island, Colombia and Iran both have huge populations and territories.....
I invite you to read my three-part Substack series, which I just finished after an all-nighter. It's "Cuba's Tragedy." Today's is "rebel or starve." I think it's an I opener about U.S. sanctions and the Cuban embargo. It's free.
The Putin White House controls Trump.
None dare call him Krasnov.
1. The majic word is EPSTEIN.
Headlnes in Baghdad By the Sea. Exclusive: Bags of shredded documents at NY jail after Epstein’s death, officer tells FBI By Julie K. Brown and Claire Healy
Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article315131144.html#storylink=cpy
Pressure Congressional Republicans re Epstein!!!!
2. Is Trump Letting Putin Reshape U.S. Foreign Policy?
Ans. Does a (Russian) bear shit in the woods?
3. Thom: Rightwing Senator Tom Cotton asked the CENTCOM general in charge this past week, “Are we prepared for any kind of humanitarian crisis in Cuba—the possible flow of refugees, other civil disorder that may threaten our interests, especially if the decrepit, corrupt Castro regime finally falls or flees?”
Here in Baghdad By the Sea, WE are affected A Cato Institute report estimates there are over 1.2 million frozen immigration-benefits applications from these three countries, out of 2 million frozen in total across all countries. That breaks down to 935,000 applications from Cubans, 239,000 applications from Venezuelans and 81,000 from Haiti.
Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/cuba/article315105131.html#storylink=cpy
This is dinero that is witheld from our LOCAL economy. Tourism is also dead. Muchas gracias Don Don.
I recommend Gloria J. Maloney's thrree part essay on Cuba.
As to the Epstein effect:
NYT Dealbook this morning:
"Wall Street is buzzing this morning over a single figure: $25 million. That is the total compensation awarded last year to Kathy Ruemmler, Goldman Sachs’s departing general counsel, according to a company proxy filing released late yesterday. Ruemmler, a former White House counsel and seasoned defense attorney, resigned from the firm following a wave of scrutiny sparked by the release of the Epstein files.
"The documents revealed extensive email correspondence between Ruemmler and the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein when she was in private practice. While Ruemmler was never Epstein’s formal legal counsel, the communications painted a complex picture: She appeared to offer informal legal advice and guidance, while Epstein seemingly provided her with referrals to other high-profile clients. As the details became public, a growing chorus of critics — both inside and outside the firm — questioned how she could remain in a role that involved managing reputational risk. While Ruemmler initially resisted stepping down, the pressure eventually became a “distraction” she could no longer ignore.
"Throughout the controversy, the Goldman Sachs C.E.O., David Solomon [no relation], and the board of directors remained steadfast in their support. They maintained that Ruemmler had been transparent during her initial hiring process and that a prior review had cleared her of any wrongdoing. For those who doubted the depth of the firm’s loyalty, the $25 million payout, up from $22.5 million the year prior, serves as a definitive, if eyebrow-raising, proof of their backing."
If I were a partner/shareholder, I want the money back puls punies.
Wow. I'll have to look that up. You always add info to the conversation.
Epstein has not hurt Trump and will not. It is an annoyance,otherwise he is protected by MAGA,whom the Republican congress fears
And there is no way to force or punish the Attorney General, Pam Bondi, and she has spit in the face of the Senate, and there is nothing that they can do about it, because she isn't going to prosecute herself.
So lets'focus on more realistic issues and methods, like protecting the election from being stolen, or making sure that Blue State governors don't fall for the fiction of the SAVE act.
Congress has no jurisdiction over how a state manages it'selections,outside of a constitutional amendment.Anymore than Congress can pass a law against gay marriage or abortion, those or powers left to the sovereign states.
Trump certainly can't do it with anEO, though he will try, and we don't even need to file a lawsuit, just ignore any unconstitutional bill that is passed or any EO order.
IMHO we went to war to distract from Epstein.
We went to war for the sake of BB, distract from Epstein was side dish.
Thank you. Daniel. I worked hard on it because I think Cuba is the prime example of what is wrong with sanctions.
The Miller/Netanyahu/AIPAC/Putin administration doesn’t appear to have America’s best interests at heart, and our traditional allies are justifiably re-evaluating their loyalties. Thanks Repugnicans.
As a psychologist, I start making sense of behavior by questioning motivation. David Brooks pointed out a while back that ambitious people are mostly motivated by wealth and power, whereas aspirational people are motivated by making a positive difference in the world. Pols like AOC and Mamdani are aspirational while Trump and most of Congress are ambitious and power-hungry.
When I look at Trump, it is hard not to notice early on that he is not the brightest bulb in the chandelier. An incompetent businessman, he was groomed to be a racketeer. That explains his sole reliance on extortion to get what he wants. But like many racketeers, he has a Capo di Tutti Capi who keeps him out of harm's way. In Trump's case, harm is serial business failures. While Trump is a sort of "Don," his Capo is Putin. Trump has been laundering the ill-gotten wealth of Russian oligarchs probably since he first needed capital to build Trump Tower.
Putin likely enticed Trump at some point to be his saboteur to distract America from interfering with his efforts to restore the USSR. He knew Trump would be the bull in America's crockery shop. After his failed 1-term presidency, Putin had four years to tutor Trump on how to be a competent government vandal. The pace of his conversion of America from democratic governance to autocratic rule is a historical first. America is stymied because it has never before had a president whose goal was treason. America's sky is clearly falling because our Congress is full of little chickens, not Chicken Littles.
Outstanding observations, especially "groomed as a racketeer," "his sole reliance on extortion to get what he wants" and "our Congress is full of little chickens, not Chicken Little." P.S. My father was career Navy, too.
Trump has a massive inferiority complex, and that drives him and explains his behavior, he is compensating, overcompensating, bluffing and bullying are acts of bravado, and as an experience conman he knows how to glad hand, he sucked in Bill Maher, and he has the leadership of the world debasing themselves, he snaps his fingers and the crawl to the throne with gifts, where he insults them and throws feces at them, and they smile and bow.
That explains Trump's early years. Today, it appears that he really believes he is King of the World with the power to rule everyone. He is gonna live to 200 because his sycophant doctor Ronny told him so. We see him insulting foreign leaders just to test his power. Looks like the EU has not yet fallen in line. Japan just did.
The EU has caved it told it told him ,or least Starmer did that they could use their bases. As I said, Trump has no superpower, he uses America the great consumer (public and private) as his power, without us he is nothing. He is jack shit
What disgusts me, and I am sure disgusts their voters is the timidity of their leadership as it debases themselves.
Macron once in while grows some huevos, then wait a day and he neuters himself.
The media has made a big thing of them holding hands, the game is a game of macho, the first one to break off loses. I would tell Trump to go fuck himself and not play the game.
He welcomes Putin into the U.S. and the media treats it like a minor scandal, including the so called liberal press, it was an act of betrayal, he is getting away with murder right in front of our eyes. Good and Pretti were murders and Trump is responsible, for Bovino and his thugs are carrying out his order.
We are fucked, no one has any spine.
I was referring to the EU nations giving Trump the finger regarding minesweeping Hormuz and most recently jointly with other non-EU countries sending a statement of unity regarding ending the war and supporting free trade for all in Hormuz. Subtly - Go Home!
oh that, then they turn around and give him free use of their bases. Barbarically allowing him to prolong the war and giving him tacit approval.
He has two MEU's committed.the Tripoli is essentially on location, and the , and the Boxer left last week with two or three other ships one I hope is a resupply, because it will have to be fueled at least once,maybe twice and at 15kph it willl take another three weeks to get there.
Talk of the 82nd Airborne making a jump on kharg Island, they will be slaughtered on and off, or Special ops taking other islands, lots of islands in the gulf and the important ones in sight of Iran with mountains looking down on them..
Crazy talk about invasion, Iran is mountainous,not tank, wheeled or track territory, and with drone warfare developed by the Ukraineans, armored warfare is obsolute.
Russians have given up on tanks, and meat assault, then now use small groups on ATV's, motorcycles, even horses, to enter an area, shelter in a ruined building and harass the Ukrainians.
None of the warfare we have trained for, even special ops asymmetrical (as it were) is applicable today, and the Iran's have been preparing ever since the Iran Iraq war for asymmetrical warfare,the whole country is a booby trap.
Trump is bragging about eliminating their havy. The Iran navy was a show rust buckets lined up for visual effect. Unmanned they were there to be bombed. The real navy is the IRGC Navy, thousands of dhows and 33,000 small fast boats, many hid in underground bunkers, along a 400 mile coast line. Each one capable of carrying 15 men armed with machine guns, anti aircraft missles and RPG's. They could swarm Kharq or Qeshm island like hornets if the Marines survived the assault..
The assholes who fed Trump this intel and told him it would be a cake walk, should be shot.
You don't regime change with airstrikes, you need boots on the ground and the moment the boots hit the ground the Ayatollahs will declare a Jihad, and then every man,woman and child will be required to kill the Amriki's.
And paradise will be their reward.
Stupid, fucking stupid, people, and I am positive that this is all BB's doing, he has undue influence on Trump.
Saudis didn't mind, but now they are conflating in secret, because Iran is attacking their oil fields, and the UAE, even Qatar is not sitting quietly by(I bet they regret giving Donald that 747)
Iran has hit their desalinzation plant, and the South Pars gas field, as well as refineries and pumping stations.
We are already in a world war, the days of Blitzkreig and D Days are over, and carpet bombing? Forget about it. Iran has thousands of miles of tunnels, dug into the Mountains.
Americans think Iran is like Iraq, flat desert. It isn't it is mountainous, and Irans knew this day was coming and have prepared for asymmetrical warfare, including a long list of who replaces who when the top of the chain of command is martyred.
Even without Hegseth the Pentagon is stupid, it runs on yesterday., and apparently ideology, to wit that POS Dan Cain, hauled of retirement because he is obviously a Trump humper and probably one of those devout Christians that plague the officer ranks today, graduates of the service academies infected with Dominionism, NAR and 7 Mountains Mandate, or Opus Dei.
I also read in Politico, I believe about a Kurdish faction dug in underground ready to pounce. That has to be a rogue faction, because the Kurds have been warned off by the Syrian kurds, who learned the hard way not to trust America. Iraqi and Turkish Kurds should have learned that lesson. I saw a picture of a coouple of them, definitely not the likes of the Peshmurga. a couple of dudes with AK 74's.
Plus, he's a vefry competent grifter. His marks are primarily his followers.
I say again, Epstein may be the Achiiles Heel, causing epiphanies on many levels.
How is Epstein the achilles heel Daniel. Can you answer the question in your own words, sans AI?
Regarding Fetterman...a sad turn around there. Could PA voters impeach him or have a recall election? I'm not sure what PA election rules are but surely they don't, and we don't, have to put up with him for 3 more years!
I don't get it, WHY GO THROUGH ALL THE TROUBLE OR THE INQUIRY INTO CONFIRMING HIM, IF THEY ARE JUST GOING TO DO IT ANYWAY, EVEN IF HE'S ANOTHER KRISTY NOEM IDIOT.
DO NOT CONFIRM HIM, HE'S NOT EVEN CLOSE TO QUALIFIED AND HE'S DUMBER THEN A ROCK.
YES I'M MAD HENCE THE UPER CASE!!! ,
Some of us like them dumb.
Yes. It. Is. Sick.
We're marinating in the banality of evil / normality of corruption / cult of incompetence ... a pandemic of malignant narcissism ... dismal days of the dark triad.
Once again, Thom’s telling it like it is. Hope all will pay attention!
Thom, there are so many things happening. I, believe despair is not an option and so much more. It, will get better or some say worse. We, shall have to wait and see. Wait for it! Lesson learned, thanks Thom. Believe! I, do.