| THG: The Treasury just declared the US insolvent. The media missed it |
| 6ixStringJack: When nobody comes back here, you know who is to blame, Theodore. |
| THG: |
| 6ixStringJack: "Robert Mueller never should have been a liberal hero" [go to link] by Jeet Heer, a Canadian Indian who writes for ultra-left The Nation and ultra-left The New Republic and spends his days on BlueSky. He's making fun of you, Ted. |
| 6ixStringJack: You don't get to do both, Ted.
Pick one. |
| THG: Hello, firefly fans |
| THG: |
| 6ixStringJack: You have serious mental issues. |
| second: Trump said in January, weeks before the Iran War began, that he thought the U.S. military’s budget for 2027 should increase from $1 trillion to $1.5 trillion. That would amount to nearly double U.S. spending on national defense from the $874 billion spent in the last year of former President Joe Biden’s term. [go to link] |
| second: After meeting with major defense contractors at the White House this month, Trump said the companies had agreed to “quadruple” production of “exquisite” weapons, a term of art referring to sophisticated and expensive systems that can repel ballistic missile attacks, such as Patriot missile batteries and Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptors. Each THAAD interceptor missile costs roughly $12.7 million, and each Patriot PAC-3 interceptor costs about $3.7 million. That’s millions of dollars going up in smoke each time they’re fired. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth requested $200 billion in additional funds. [go to link] |
| second: Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
Now with the death of Iran, the greatest enemy America has is the Radical Left, Highly Incompetent, Democrat Party! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DJT
3/22/26, 7:24 AM
[go to link]
Finally, a President who recognizes that the real threat isn't Iranian nukes, it's people who want healthcare. How can something be both a huge threat and incredibly incompetent? |
6ixStringJack: OH NO!!!! PANIC!!!!!  |
| second: Trump contemplates bombing schools full of children. Surely that will open the Strait of Hormuz. How could the Iranian government allow children to die by tens of thousands when surrendering to Trump is so very easy? Give Trump what he wants and save the children! |
| second: “He’s lost control of the war and he is panicking.” Trump is cycling through an increasingly desperate list of options as he searches for a solution to the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz. He is now escalating to a direct threat against civilians, which is a war crime. Trump insists he was always prepared for Iran to block the strait, yet his erratic strategy has fueled criticism that he is grasping for answers. [go to link] |
| 6ixStringJack: Tell Paul Krugman we're done listening to his crap. |
| 6ixStringJack: Tell Paul Krugman we're done listening to his crap. |
| second: Setting a new record for evilness and stupidity, Trump threatened Iran with a massive war crime against civilians, saying that if the Iran government doesn’t open the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours he will order attacks on Iranian power plants, on civilian infrastructure, which is, you know, a war crime. The Trump administration is not willing to accept sustained pain as part of this war. They’re willing to drop bombs on school children and all of that, but they’re not willing to accept economic pain in the United States, even enough to shut off the revenue flow to the Iranian government. [go to link] |
| 6ixStringJack: For the record! |
| second: For the record, the president of the United States is now simultaneously claiming:
he has won the war,
is currently winning the war,
needs help to win the war, and
needs no help to win the war.
All to destroy the nuclear program he claims to have already destroyed last year. |
| second: Trump becomes first president to bomb 8 countries in 12 months
• Iran
• Iraq
• Nigeria
• Palestine
• Somalia
• Syria
• Venezuela
• Yemen
[go to link] (Palestine is iffy because Israel dropped American built bombs from American built planes that Trump ordered Israel to stop doing because he was annoyed by the noise.) |