| second: It seems extremely unlikely that the Trump administration will be chastened by its failure in Iran. Shamelessness has been central to Trump’s business and political success, and his reaction to setbacks is to deny objective facts and construct fantasies of achievement. The rigors of war do not seem to have persuaded him of the need for a more coherent process of policy formulation and assessment; he continues to blurt out his every whim, and a cabinet of sycophants and amplifiers is unlikely to impose discipline on an undisciplined principal. Nor can the two parts of the government that have apparently provided solid strategic judgments—the CIA and the military—salvage the process. They are advisory bodies, not policy actors, and Trump repudiates or ignores their counsel whenever it conflicts with his claims or preferences.
~Kori Schake [go to link] |
| THG: Gilligan, you are the angriest illiterate man I've ever come across. Yet, you make me laugh. Perhaps that's why? |
| 6ixStringJack: Fag. |
| THG: Oil prices climb as Trump is only 'semi-negotiating'
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| 6ixStringJack: Shut the fuck up, Ted Bundy Clone. |
| THG: Ossoff: "There's something uniquely despicable about lying a nation into war."
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| THG: "There's something uniquely despicable about lying a nation into war."
[go to link]? |
| THG: "There's something uniquely despicable about lying a nation into war."
[go to link]? |
| 6ixStringJack: If any of that's true, whose fucking fault is that, Shit Golem. I say we round up all Democratic straight-ticket voters and ship them all to Iran. |
| second: The Department of Homeland Security has stopped releasing timely, reliable statistics on immigration enforcement. The administration’s immigration crackdown continues in a fog of fake numbers and statistical subterfuge. ICE statistics show that the agency deported about 400,000 people during Trump’s first year in office, a figure well short of the White House’s goal of 1 million annual removals. [go to link] |
| second: Lake Mead hit its lowest depth since it was created nine decades ago. Forty million people in seven states depend on Lake Mead and the Colorado River.
Trump calls climate change a hoax. His own Interior Department ordered the largest water cuts in the river’s history. Hoaxes don’t drain reservoirs. [go to link] |
| 6ixStringJack: Bomb, bomb, bomb... Bomb, bomb Iran. Bomb, bomb, bomb... BOMB, BOMB IRAN.
BOMB, BOMB, BOMB... BOMB, BOMB IRAN! |
| second: Trump’s ‘Treasonous’ Leaker Hunt Backfires With Epic Self-Own. The president’s own past remarks appear to undermine his furious denials that the Pentagon is running short of munitions. [go to link] What next for Trump? Nukes! He has an Abundance of A-bombs. That ought to work great! Trump will win the Nobel Peace for sure. |
| second: Trump has a plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to shipping. What plan? Nuke Iran! [go to link] Since conventional weapons have not forced Iran to capitulate, what else can Trump do other than drop A-bombs? He can't think of anything, which worries Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Dan Caine. |
| second: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Dan Caine made clear that the US needs to find an off-ramp from the war with Iran because the military options on the table to escalate the conflict could backfire and airpower alone is unlikely to achieve Trump’s stated objectives [go to link] |
| second: The world was a better place before February 28, the day the US and Israel attacked Iran and made Iran realize it had a stronger weapon than atom bombs: The Strait of Hormuz [go to link] |
| THG: Trump CRUSHED in BACK to BACK Cases as LAWSUITS BACKFIRE on HIM!!! |
| 6ixStringJack: You're so fucked. Posting AlJazeera propaganda and believing anything that Iran has to say. Get the fuck out of my country, loser. |
| second: Trump says US is ‘only semi-negotiating’ ?with Tehran. He is almost right: Iran said it is currently not holding negotiations with the United States and is only exchanging messages through intermediaries. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has issued conditions for the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, including an end to the US’s naval blockade and compensation for war damages. Trump says he does NOT comprehend what is going on, calling Iranians fags who have been defeated over and over . . . [go to link] |
| 6ixStringJack: Fag. |