| THG: Tucker Carlson apologizes for helping Trump win election. Says he is sick about it. |
| THG: Iran didn't even show up for these latest rounds of talks. Our president the clown says he has the upper hand. Yeah right... |
| second: Ukrainian negotiators suggested naming the bit of Donbas that Russia is trying to conquer after U.S. President Donald Trump, calling it "Donnyland" [go to link] Governments flatter Trump to secure Washington’s backing. |
| THG: MAGA 'teetering' as devotees realize this isn’t 'what they signed up for' |
| second: In his first term, Trump tore up the Iran nuclear deal, a 159-page document signed by his predecessor, Barack Obama, and five other world leaders, even though international inspectors had verified Iranian compliance with its terms. Most of Trump’s advisers—as well as many Israeli military and intelligence officers (though not its right-wing ruling political leaders)—thought it was preferable to no deal at all. (Trump said he would negotiate a “better” deal but never even tried.) [go to link] |
| second: Trump Is Trying Nixon’s “Madman Strategy.” There Are Three Reasons It Won’t Work. [go to link] 1. It didn’t work for Nixon. 2. You can’t announce that you’re playing the Madman Theory game. 3. The whole idea is a half-witted distortion of fairly conventional deterrence theory. Alternatively, the Rational Leader Theory is demonstrate that you know what you want, have what it takes to get there, say what you mean, and mean what you say. This is a pretty straightforward list of qualities for leadership in any realm, but Trump has violated all of them. I have nothing but loathing for the Iranian regime, but its leaders have every reason to distrust anything Trump says, whether or not he’s wearing his Madman mask. |
| Brenda: Thanks for the fix. |
| THG:
Trump has ‘broken’ a part of the world & there is no solution | Former US diplomat
[go to link] |
| second: As the war in Iran and Lebanon enters its eighth week, Donald Trump’s seesawing declarations of violence, peace, raining hellfire, ceasefire, civilizational destruction, and international comity — a manic approach to negotiating typically euphemized by reporters as “mixed messages” — have grown increasingly deranged. In the Review’s May 14 issue, Fintan O’Toole writes that it is high time to dispense with the notion that the president is simply feigning madness. [go to link] |
| THG: Fixed |
| THG: Trump just laid bare his contempt for his own voters |
| THG: Trump just laid bare his contempt for his own voters |
| THG: Trump just laid bare his contempt for his own voters |
| THG: Trump just laid bare his contempt for his own voters |
| THG: Trump just laid bare his contempt for his own voters |
| THG: Trump just laid bare his contempt for his own voters |
| THG: Trump just laid bare his contempt for his own voters |
| THG: Trump just laid bare his contempt for his own voters |
| THG: Trump just laid bare his contempt for his own voters |
| THG: Trump just laid bare his contempt for his own voters |