This is all helpful information and all alarming. Hope everyone reads. The part about Congress using a rule that allows them to choose a Republican loser versus a Democratic winner after the November primary is especially frightening. Let's all vote!
Colin Powell's "Pottery Barn Rule" no longer applies according to the psychos and Tech Bros trying to rule the world. I hope the Iranian activists understand that, because TRump is going to promise them everything and deliver nothing if a land invasion is his next move.
Disgusting Elon Musk was asked this week about his responsibility for deaths following the DOGE decimation of USAID. Nope! Says it did not happen. Dumb. Delusional. Disgusting. Let's tell them. See you in the streets.
Speaking of a land invasion. The spurt of airstrikes in Iran are telling, because airstrikes are used to prepare and prep the battlefield.
The airstrikes have been notable around Bandar Abbas, which is a major port, but to get to Bandar Abbass, you have to go through Queshm Island, that is the shark shaped Island near the strait of Hormuz.
And Hegseth has been prepping the south end facing the SOH by bombing, not IRGC facilities but stretches near the beach. Queshm Island is very rough terrain, there are pictures on the internet of the terrain, it is not favorable for war fighting, and especially for a parachute assault.
So we are left with a seaborn assault, that would involve the USS Tripoli, an amphibious assault ship that houses 2,500 marines of which 2,000 are war fighters.
Do yourself a favor, play intelligence recon and google "terrain of Queshm Island", check Wikipedia. If Trump and Hegseth try to secure Queshm Island, there are going to be a lot of , thousands of weeping widows in Camp Pendleton, or Fayetteville, NC (Ft Bragg,home of the 82nd Airborne.
If theytry to assault Pickaxe Mtn to get at the supposed nuclear stores, it is worse, the only way in is by an airborne assault, and the drop zone will be in a valley overlooked by mountains, with even goat herders armed with rifles and heat seeking misosles, and every kid has a cell phone.
The drop aircraft will have to descend to about 1,000 ft, 6 minutes out, fromthe drop zone, flying at 130 knots, and all of that time they are targets.to everyone in the valley and ringing the mtns up to the drop.
So night drop then. Day or night theyare going to have to paradrop a Combat Control Team which will set up visual and electronic naviagatonal aids, and give local weather reports, most importantly winds up to drop altitude, the maximum safe surface windspeed is 13 knots or 15 mph mmore than that you are looking at casualties.
Now dropping into enemy terrority with the enemy waiting for you, will be a disaster worse than the drop on SanMere Eglise on DDay (seen the movieBand of Brothers, with Red Buttons hanging from a church steeple.. it actually happened to a trooper.
Even worse was the experience of the 1st British Airborne Brigade during Operation Market Garden, they dropped on top of a German Regiment and were slaughtered hanging in their harness.
Let's say Qeshm island is a feint, the real target is Kharq Island, which is an oil tranfer and bunkering station. )Bunkering is where ships refill their tanks the tanks that fuel the diesel engines)
The IRGC has the island mined, to slow any ground advance, and the island sits under the guns of the Zagros mountains, which are fortified with well constructed and hidden tunnels and caves, that Iran has been building since the Iran Iraq war, and all it takes is a few goat herders with binoculars to pinpoint troops on an island that has been pregistered by the IRGC.
Lots of weeping widows on Coronado Beach, Newport Virginia, Camp Pendleton, Ft Benning,Savannah, GA and Tacoma, WA
Is this Trump;s hail mary for a third term, after all, as Dubya said, you don't change presidents in the middle of a war
Bizarre declaration by Trump that he is so concerned by the use of slave labor that he will now impose a tariff on those countries that do so. In some cases, there must be a stretching of the definition of slave labor to include any worker who is black--because blacks were slaves, I guess? Anyhow, could we not then impose a tariff on ourselves for our abundant exploitation of immigrant/ non-union/prison labor? Just to be "morally" consistent.
It is the only excuse his handlers think that can get international support. Like the excuse he uses for attacking Iran, a nuclear threat.
It would be, but only to the nuclear hegemony of Israel, but America is Netanyahu's dog. Any criticism of Israel is for public consumption, not real, he demands that Saudi Arabia and all Arab nations sign the Abraham Accord, despite the fact that any who do will be assassinated.
Like most things troubling us, today, the Social Security issue was also started or exacerbated by Reagan, from cutting taxes on the rich in half, to killing The Fairness Doctrine, to changing corporate pension funds from untouchable corporate liabilities to assets that could be gambled away and lost.
I generally like Biden as a person, but politically, he bows to corporations like Regan. In 1983, he voted to divert “our savings” to corporate entities via government funding. I want to access Muskrats “personal money” for my “escapades”.
The neoliberal Democrats who continue to call the shots are essentially Repugnican-lite, perfectly willing to torpedo the likes of Bernie or AOC or Abdul El-Sayed, etc., rather than take the bold actions these times call for. They’ll do whatever it takes to limit club membership to approved, corporate-compliant middle-of-the-roaders while feigning concern for threats to our individual and national well being. They are a luxury we can no longer afford.
Neo Conservative Tom, Neo liberals are economic,, slaves of the wealthy, the entitled, Neo Conservatives are war mongers, but essentially protectors of Israel, like Lindsey Graham.
The Israeli lobby has a major choke hold on our government, epitomized by Steven Miller, wose anti immigrant crusade is at root anti Islamic.
He was the author of Trump 45's, Muslim exclusion policy. The fact that a Jew was openly anti Muslim was too obvious, so he masquerades behind anti immigration.
You are correct: Social security has been and will be “wrecked” by wealthy. Taxpayer SAVINGS were changed in 1983 and totally depleted in 2029. Massive theft - it is a crime.
Election Interference 2028: The Nazi Republican Plan
Doesn't it seem odd that Cheeto is not at all phased by the most recent polling with his overall job approval at 30% and yet he perseveres with wearing a 2028 campaign baseball cap at last night's White House Correspondents Dinner? And he continues to do things that would alienate any electorate to vote for another Republican president in 2028....shooting Americans on the street, brazen lawlessness and corruption, imposing taxes on the American businesses/people with tariffs. Does he care about Nazi Republicans getting elected again because with all the unpopularity he persists in doing unpopular things? Seemingly not unless he knows something we don't.
During the 2024 campaign Cheeto repeatedly told rally attendees that he didn’t need their votes because he already had all the votes he needed. When one looks closely at the results of the 2024 election, the downballot races went as one would expect across states but when one looks at the top of the ticket, Cheeto outperformed those downballot Nazi Republicans in almost all the states.
There is lots of circumstantial evidence to support election interference with the electronic voting equipment and the This Will Hold substack channel along with the Election Truth Alliance have compiled this information that clearly supports that the top of the ticket was manipulated in favor of Cheeto while the rest of the Nazi Republicans faired not so well.
So Cheeto the dictator/unitary executive knows that like 2024 he will again manipulate the machines(BTW controlled by Republicans) to favor whoever is at the top of the ticket. It won't have to be Cheeto but he knows as does the Nazi Republican party that whoever is at the top of the ticket is all that counts because a dictator doesn’t need a Congress. He can veto Congress with a stroke of the pen unless there is a Democratic supermajority which is highly unlikely.
Peter Theil, now in Argentina, along with P25, have “paid off/bought/bribed” aka “invested in” anyone associated with any election to secure their desired results aka “investment”.
Life imitates art. Look no further than Back to the Future part 2, Biff Tannen as "President" trump. That is what the U.S. will eventually look like if we allow it to happen, taking over the country by controlling federal and state elections by determining who can vote. $ is power, republican controlled House and Senate rolls over to protect their own jobs in fear without considering anyone but themselves. What I cannot understand is how the military condones and follows illegal orders. The bill will become due at some point, trump himself may be immune for "official acts," (most of which are not) but everyone else in this sorry excuse for an "administration" will be exposed to criminal charges.
We are next. “Don't look away” human banner setting up this AM. I am going to be in bed for a couple days but I know Republicans plan on AktionT4ing us all. I have to do everything possible!
This is all helpful information and all alarming. Hope everyone reads. The part about Congress using a rule that allows them to choose a Republican loser versus a Democratic winner after the November primary is especially frightening. Let's all vote!
You break it-you bought it!
Colin Powell's "Pottery Barn Rule" no longer applies according to the psychos and Tech Bros trying to rule the world. I hope the Iranian activists understand that, because TRump is going to promise them everything and deliver nothing if a land invasion is his next move.
Disgusting Elon Musk was asked this week about his responsibility for deaths following the DOGE decimation of USAID. Nope! Says it did not happen. Dumb. Delusional. Disgusting. Let's tell them. See you in the streets.
Speaking of a land invasion. The spurt of airstrikes in Iran are telling, because airstrikes are used to prepare and prep the battlefield.
The airstrikes have been notable around Bandar Abbas, which is a major port, but to get to Bandar Abbass, you have to go through Queshm Island, that is the shark shaped Island near the strait of Hormuz.
And Hegseth has been prepping the south end facing the SOH by bombing, not IRGC facilities but stretches near the beach. Queshm Island is very rough terrain, there are pictures on the internet of the terrain, it is not favorable for war fighting, and especially for a parachute assault.
So we are left with a seaborn assault, that would involve the USS Tripoli, an amphibious assault ship that houses 2,500 marines of which 2,000 are war fighters.
Do yourself a favor, play intelligence recon and google "terrain of Queshm Island", check Wikipedia. If Trump and Hegseth try to secure Queshm Island, there are going to be a lot of , thousands of weeping widows in Camp Pendleton, or Fayetteville, NC (Ft Bragg,home of the 82nd Airborne.
If theytry to assault Pickaxe Mtn to get at the supposed nuclear stores, it is worse, the only way in is by an airborne assault, and the drop zone will be in a valley overlooked by mountains, with even goat herders armed with rifles and heat seeking misosles, and every kid has a cell phone.
The drop aircraft will have to descend to about 1,000 ft, 6 minutes out, fromthe drop zone, flying at 130 knots, and all of that time they are targets.to everyone in the valley and ringing the mtns up to the drop.
So night drop then. Day or night theyare going to have to paradrop a Combat Control Team which will set up visual and electronic naviagatonal aids, and give local weather reports, most importantly winds up to drop altitude, the maximum safe surface windspeed is 13 knots or 15 mph mmore than that you are looking at casualties.
Now dropping into enemy terrority with the enemy waiting for you, will be a disaster worse than the drop on SanMere Eglise on DDay (seen the movieBand of Brothers, with Red Buttons hanging from a church steeple.. it actually happened to a trooper.
Even worse was the experience of the 1st British Airborne Brigade during Operation Market Garden, they dropped on top of a German Regiment and were slaughtered hanging in their harness.
Let's say Qeshm island is a feint, the real target is Kharq Island, which is an oil tranfer and bunkering station. )Bunkering is where ships refill their tanks the tanks that fuel the diesel engines)
The IRGC has the island mined, to slow any ground advance, and the island sits under the guns of the Zagros mountains, which are fortified with well constructed and hidden tunnels and caves, that Iran has been building since the Iran Iraq war, and all it takes is a few goat herders with binoculars to pinpoint troops on an island that has been pregistered by the IRGC.
Lots of weeping widows on Coronado Beach, Newport Virginia, Camp Pendleton, Ft Benning,Savannah, GA and Tacoma, WA
Is this Trump;s hail mary for a third term, after all, as Dubya said, you don't change presidents in the middle of a war
Bizarre declaration by Trump that he is so concerned by the use of slave labor that he will now impose a tariff on those countries that do so. In some cases, there must be a stretching of the definition of slave labor to include any worker who is black--because blacks were slaves, I guess? Anyhow, could we not then impose a tariff on ourselves for our abundant exploitation of immigrant/ non-union/prison labor? Just to be "morally" consistent.
It is the only excuse his handlers think that can get international support. Like the excuse he uses for attacking Iran, a nuclear threat.
It would be, but only to the nuclear hegemony of Israel, but America is Netanyahu's dog. Any criticism of Israel is for public consumption, not real, he demands that Saudi Arabia and all Arab nations sign the Abraham Accord, despite the fact that any who do will be assassinated.
Like most things troubling us, today, the Social Security issue was also started or exacerbated by Reagan, from cutting taxes on the rich in half, to killing The Fairness Doctrine, to changing corporate pension funds from untouchable corporate liabilities to assets that could be gambled away and lost.
I generally like Biden as a person, but politically, he bows to corporations like Regan. In 1983, he voted to divert “our savings” to corporate entities via government funding. I want to access Muskrats “personal money” for my “escapades”.
The neoliberal Democrats who continue to call the shots are essentially Repugnican-lite, perfectly willing to torpedo the likes of Bernie or AOC or Abdul El-Sayed, etc., rather than take the bold actions these times call for. They’ll do whatever it takes to limit club membership to approved, corporate-compliant middle-of-the-roaders while feigning concern for threats to our individual and national well being. They are a luxury we can no longer afford.
Neo Conservative Tom, Neo liberals are economic,, slaves of the wealthy, the entitled, Neo Conservatives are war mongers, but essentially protectors of Israel, like Lindsey Graham.
The Israeli lobby has a major choke hold on our government, epitomized by Steven Miller, wose anti immigrant crusade is at root anti Islamic.
He was the author of Trump 45's, Muslim exclusion policy. The fact that a Jew was openly anti Muslim was too obvious, so he masquerades behind anti immigration.
You are correct: Social security has been and will be “wrecked” by wealthy. Taxpayer SAVINGS were changed in 1983 and totally depleted in 2029. Massive theft - it is a crime.
Election Interference 2028: The Nazi Republican Plan
Doesn't it seem odd that Cheeto is not at all phased by the most recent polling with his overall job approval at 30% and yet he perseveres with wearing a 2028 campaign baseball cap at last night's White House Correspondents Dinner? And he continues to do things that would alienate any electorate to vote for another Republican president in 2028....shooting Americans on the street, brazen lawlessness and corruption, imposing taxes on the American businesses/people with tariffs. Does he care about Nazi Republicans getting elected again because with all the unpopularity he persists in doing unpopular things? Seemingly not unless he knows something we don't.
During the 2024 campaign Cheeto repeatedly told rally attendees that he didn’t need their votes because he already had all the votes he needed. When one looks closely at the results of the 2024 election, the downballot races went as one would expect across states but when one looks at the top of the ticket, Cheeto outperformed those downballot Nazi Republicans in almost all the states.
There is lots of circumstantial evidence to support election interference with the electronic voting equipment and the This Will Hold substack channel along with the Election Truth Alliance have compiled this information that clearly supports that the top of the ticket was manipulated in favor of Cheeto while the rest of the Nazi Republicans faired not so well.
So Cheeto the dictator/unitary executive knows that like 2024 he will again manipulate the machines(BTW controlled by Republicans) to favor whoever is at the top of the ticket. It won't have to be Cheeto but he knows as does the Nazi Republican party that whoever is at the top of the ticket is all that counts because a dictator doesn’t need a Congress. He can veto Congress with a stroke of the pen unless there is a Democratic supermajority which is highly unlikely.
Peter Theil, now in Argentina, along with P25, have “paid off/bought/bribed” aka “invested in” anyone associated with any election to secure their desired results aka “investment”.
Life imitates art. Look no further than Back to the Future part 2, Biff Tannen as "President" trump. That is what the U.S. will eventually look like if we allow it to happen, taking over the country by controlling federal and state elections by determining who can vote. $ is power, republican controlled House and Senate rolls over to protect their own jobs in fear without considering anyone but themselves. What I cannot understand is how the military condones and follows illegal orders. The bill will become due at some point, trump himself may be immune for "official acts," (most of which are not) but everyone else in this sorry excuse for an "administration" will be exposed to criminal charges.
We are next. “Don't look away” human banner setting up this AM. I am going to be in bed for a couple days but I know Republicans plan on AktionT4ing us all. I have to do everything possible!
Thanks, Thom. Now, I know. And So It Goes.