| 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.) |
| 6ixStringJack: Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump... |
| THG: [go to link] |
| THG: Brett Loyd, a polling and research specialist for the Independent Center, told Newsweek that independents are increasingly turned off by what he described as “the never-ending hyperbolic partisan rhetoric,” arguing that Trump and Republicans in Washington are leaning into a rigid “you’re either with us or against us” mindset at the expense of broader appeal. |
6ixStringJack: Beautiful weather here today Brenda. First really nice day of the year. Mid-60's for the high and sunny and dry.  We're almost through another winter. |
| BRENDA: Working on things is good SIX. Your body still needs the sleep to recover. Dry on this Saturday as well. |
| second: BREAKING: Attacks on energy infrastructure in the Middle East have caused the price of oil to skyrocket to a whopping Donald Trump raped children per barrel.
[go to link] |
| second: Trump is learning quickly that Iran puts up a bigger fight than a 13 year old girl. [go to link] |
| THG: Inflation is at 5.2% |
| 6ixStringJack: Dry here today too, Brenda. Missed half the day sleeping in though because I was up all night last night working on stuff. |
BRENDA: Dried up today.  Why wasn't it like this yesterday. |
| second: Three weeks into Donald Trump’s war against Iran, he has still refused to define victory other than to say the war will soon be over. From the moment he launched hostilities, he offered many rationales for the war, choosing among them like he’s picking hors d’oeuvres from a buffet at one of his golf resorts: It’s about regime change; it’s about nuclear weapons, it’s about terrorism, it’s about ballistic missiles. Asked for explanations, he continues to careen between demanding “unconditional surrender” from Tehran and signaling “that he might abruptly declare victory and leave.” The American intelligence community has reportedly issued an assessment that the regime “will remain intact and possibly even emboldened, believing it stood up to Trump and survived.” [go to link] |
| second: Scenes from the Death of the Pax Americana.
Just a few scenes from the accelerating collapse in America’s reputation and influence.
Item: The Danish Broadcasting Corporation reports that two months ago Danish forces were prepared to blow up runways in Greenland to prevent a possible U.S. attempt to seize the island by force.
Item: During a meeting with Japan’s Prime Minister, Donald Trump was asked why the U.S. didn’t inform its allies before attacking Iran. He replied, “Because we wanted surprise. Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn’t you tell me about Pearl Harbor?”
Item: Pete Hegseth angrily attacked news coverage of the war:
The media here — not all of it, but much of it — wants you to think, just 19 days into this conflict, that we’re somehow spinning toward an endless abyss or a forever war or quagmire. Nothing could be further from the truth.
[go to link] |
| 6ixStringJack: Bummer. At least it's not snow, right? |
| BRENDA: Hey, SIX. I must have forgot to hit tag it. But still being rained on. Yuck! |