Bored of War and Peace 15: Draft Dodging Donnie claims he'd have won Vietnam War as Iran War reaches 60 days

“Venezuela, I took it over in 45 minutes. It was basically 45 minutes — by the way, a very strong military country and we took it over in a day — let's be nice — but we basically took it over in 45 minutes."- So... why is Heroic Donnie charging one of "his" warfighters G.K. Van Dyke for using classified intelligence to make a winning bet on removing Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro on Polymarket? After all that's what Traitor trump does everyday as he uses the Federal Government to enrich himself, his family, and his co-conspirators.

    Donald Traitor trump is a deranged lunatic and his MAGA cult are reaching the levels of delusion, psychosis, and collective narcissism that they have no problem ascribing miraculous and fantastical to his semi-divine touch.

For example, here is Addison McDowell, a smooth-bodied, wide-waisted, expansive derrière Republican CongressMan whose clearly never done a day's labor, other than to repeat the lies whenever called upon to appear in the media, decked out in the trump uniform of bright blue suit and red tie,

Bloated Smooth-Bodied Bloodsucker

"Look, let's let him do his thing.  He's the best negotiator to ever live.  And so I-I'm excited to see what he can turn out, uh, from that.  Look you got him already saving these people in Iran.  They're slaves and they're going to be murdered.  Look their lives are being saved because President trump did what no President could do in 40 years and so many of my democrat colleagues... it doesn't matter what it is they hate trump so much they've broken - he's broken their brains and uh and it doesn't matter what it is they're going to fight him even when he very well might be leading us to world peace."

Childish nonsense.  Pure fantasy.  Utterly and frighteningly delusional.  The kind of slavish devotion to an erstwhile God-King which the Founding Fathers viewed as anathema to this whole Nation.  And sadly, there is no shortage of these worthless drones, literally wearing the same clothes as their Dear Leader.  But, did you expect anything other than cult-like devotion from a backwoods snake-handler from North Carolina like Addison McDowell?  (The McDowell family like bloated fat leeches have attached themselves to the Treasonous trump family.)

But, good ole Addy McDowell is in Congress and today marks 60 days since Traitor trump decided to embarrass the Nation and the American People by listening to Bloody Bibi Netanyahu and agree to a joint War against Iran.

Contrary to the last 3 Presidents who all rightly ignored the Zionist calls for an unprovoked War, trump and his cabal proudly boast about their involvement.  And in keeping with their non-stop blatant bad faith, Republicans continue with the rhetoric of trump didn't start any wars he's finishing them!

And, unfortunately, as we have seen over and over again, these kinds of faux masculine jingoistic soundbites appeal to the average Republican Voter, who agrees that trump didn't start the Iran War and we've already won anyway...

Which leads us back to the the War Powers Act of 1973, which dictates after 60 days of emergency military operations the President must either request Congressional approval for continued warfare or announce a withdrawal to be accomplished within another 30 days. This is why Traitor trump has been so frantic to get a "deal" with Iran so he can Declare Victory and award himself a Triumph and get back to the needed Fascist reforms at home, like we labelling ICE into NICE, and stealing $400 million dollars from the American people for his so-called "ballroom".

But, I don't think there is anyway Mike Johnson or John Thune let an Iran War resolution vote come to the floor of the House or Senate because they don't want their squishy Republicans to be put on record voting for War yet again.  It would  ruin their Anti-War Rhetoric.

"When it's over, and it will end, when it's over— You know, they want it to be over immediately," Trump said to CNBC about his illegal Iran War. "And I just looked at a little chart, World War I, four years and three months, World War II, six years, Korean War, three years, Vietnam, 19 years, Iraq, eight years. I'm five months, okay? Five months."  

"I would have won Vietnam very quickly," he rambled on. "I would have— If I were president, I would have won Iraq in the same amount of time that we won, because essentially, we've won here, okay? I mean, people can play games."

I sincerely hope all the Vietnam War Veterans who have surrendered their honor and voted for trump 3 times are physically and emotionally devastated by this.  Likewise, I hope the same for all the Iraq and Afghan Veterans too.

Service members and Veterans have always been nothing more than a rhetorical cudgel for Republicans to use to Bash the Left and to help advance the rightwing agenda of murder, intolerance, bigotry, and adulation of the rich.  And with the compliant and complicit corporate media defending them, Republicans have always known thy can be lauded for saying they "support the troops" whilst their every action undercuts and undermines them.

Draft-Dodging Donnie is a dignity wraith.  His one redeeming feature is how he utterly and thoroughly insults, debases, and eventually betrays his most ardent and loyal supporters.  Although yes sadly, I know he pardoned his paramilitary terrorist army of Jan6th en masse, although some of those child raping traitors are back behind bars.

Now, as per their official policy of Fuck Veterans, Republicans and the Department of War have reclassified injuries sustained during the past 59 days,  

On the day the ceasefire between the Trump administration and Iran took effect, the tally of U.S. dead and wounded was 385. Despite a pause in hostilities, the number had slowly risen to 428 on Monday, according to Pentagon statistics. Yet on Tuesday, the number of wounded-in-action troops declined by 15 troops without public comment from the War Department, dropping the total to 413. The count held steady on Wednesday, except for one public War Department tally that put the “grand total” of wounded and dead at 411.

Besides the giant lie of the Iran War having been "won" as Donnie Don't Care declares Victory daily, the Pentagon is lying about Iranian attacks on bases and soldiers in theater as well.  Certainly, future Republican officials will enjoy taking away healthcare and service for future Iran "War" Veterans in the same way the current and past Republicans have enjoyed slashing Veterans care.

So, good luck to anyone serving right now.  Traitor trump doesn't give a shit about you.  Whiskey Pete Haguseth doesn't give a shit about you.  Squeaker of the House Porno Mike Johnson doesn't give a shit about you.  And I very much doubt Johnson is going to put a war resolutions vote today or tomorrow, instead Republicans will continue to claim the War is Won.  Trump is a Peacemaker.  The Strait of Hormuz is Open and even if it isn't we don't need it.  Gas is cheap!  America is beloved and respected around the world like never before and all the other Negging and Gas-Lighting they've adopted as their official policy to utterly destroy the United States of America and replace it with a simulacrum of a Democratic Republic modeled on the CSA and powered by fascist principles, American fundamentalism, and white power.

The White House Correspondents Dinner shows what Cowards Republicans are

Look at that Fucking FEAR in their Eyes. 
At least the guy in the upper right is hiding behind a table
and not behind a pregnant wife like Stephen COWARD Miller

 

I've added another photo of Stephen
using his wife as a human shield
because it shows Traitor trump
hiding behind some curtains above

    Just like with January 6th when the violence they inculcate and political ideology they sow across the Nation comes close to them Republicans turn into total fucking cowards.

I know in the immediate aftermath of the non-Assassination attempt at the WHCD at the Washington Hilton showed incredible message discipline by rightwingers who all rushed to the internet to demand BALLROOM NOW.

Of course, the Corporate Media which adores Donald J Traitor trump and works earnestly and eagerly to advance the Republican agenda of hatred and oppression, and loves this murderous regime was all aghast that something like this could possibly come close to them and dared to ruin their fucking grotesque dinner with Donnie.  The fucking despicable US media has worked for years to catapult rightwing lies about gun violence and has worked to bury and ignore the consequences of Republicans campaign of unrestricted gun violence across the Nation are shocked when it comes close them in their sheltered DC Bubble of ballrooms and black-tie dinners.

Don't worry baby! The baby will absorb the bullets
& I can always get myself another Judenräte wife

But, this little shots fired incident also showed how cowardly Republicans are.  First off, the shooter didn't even get close to the actual dining area and the panic and fear writ all over every tough guy Republican is as patent as it is pathetic.

Despicable Stephen Miller used his equally despicable but pregnant wife as cover and a human shield to protect himself.

HGHFK Jr ran away so quickly he left his wife Cheryl Hines scrambling over tables behind  trying to catch up.  So much for all those jeans wearing sauna room work out sessions with Kid Rock!

It takes 3! Agents to move bloated fake
muscles RFK Jr up a couple steps while
Cheryl Hines tries vainly to keep up

 RFK Jr is a fucking coward in a way in which his father and uncles would be ashamed, even more ashamed at his abject cowardice than his rightwing heel turn.

Meanwhile, Traitor trump himself fell over because he had been sitting so long his swollen ankles and flabby unused legs couldn't support moving his ponderous mass so quickly.  And never forget Traitor trump has falsely claimed for fucking years he went down to Ground Zero immediately after 9/11 and helped and tried to claim his fucking fat ass would have rushed into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland during the mass shooting in Feb 2018 during his first criminal administration. 

"I think, I really believe I’d run in there even if I didn’t have a weapon. They weren't exactly Medal of Honor winners, alright? They way they performed was frankly, disgusting."

Shit talking tough guys cowering everywhere.

Big Fucking Cowards.

So, while Republicans yearn to round-up and murder millions of people they are giant wimps, scared of everything, and unwilling and unable to do the dirty work themselves.  Why do you think they've been goading on the US Navy to murder brown people at sea from miles away?  And for masked unaccountable ICE agents to murder Americans at home?

The Republican Party is naught but a collection of criminals and cowards.  Also to add, this type of fear is what I earnestly hope everyone associated with this regime of bigots, child rapists, traitors, thieves, and war criminals lives in everyday of their miserable lives.

In a Charlie Kirk approved STAGED shooting: Apparent gun shots inexplicably go off near White House Correspondents Dinner

"It’ll be classic Donald J trump!"

 

"We have to get over it..."

"We can't dwell upon it..."

"This is reality we live in and a fact of life..."

"It's too soon to politicize a tragedy"

"Guns Save Lives"

"No gun free zones"

"Thoughts & Prayers"

SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED

"I don't really care, do you?"

Cowardly Vance was upset to 
be pulled away because
he was fucking that chair

This is the culture Republicans, their Corporate Media allies, and reactionary Law Enforcement Departments across the Nation have inculcated, justified, and normalized through years of undermining gun safety, gun regulation, gun restriction, and every sensible gun law.

Just last week, the entire Republican Federal Government completely ignored a mass shooting in which a man murdered 8 children shot two women, his children and his girlfriend and wife.  I've always chafed at the use of the term "his wife" or "his children" after these incidents because it conotates they were his property, to do with as he wished.  Now, in this case, of course the Republicans didn't care because the murderer was black, but they also don't care if a mass gunman is white.All Republicans care about is how to use every shooting to advance their fascist agenda of oppression, intolerance, and adulation of the rich.  In an apparent coordinated message dump, rightwingers began to call for Trump's Ballroom to be built.

But, while the reaction from Republicans has been the same false and tired rhetoric of always blaming Leftist violence or Trans people for every shooting, a funny thing is happening on BlueSky and from the left about this incident.  No one believes this shooting wasn't a staged event.

Right again Charlie!  Pow Pow!  Spurt Spurt!

This comes on the heels of everyone (even MAGA) apparently coming to the conclusion

the attempted shooting of trump in Pennsylvania on July 13, 2024 by Thomas Crooks was absolutely staged and fake.  Now, it's incontrovertible that Traitor trump wasn't shot, his ear was nicked by a piece of bullet-proof glass or a fragment of the shattered round but he wasn't shot.  I will say it is not a good thing that we are in an era of no one believing anything; but, while it may have started a Republican effort to undermine climate science and evolution as part of the Nixon Era Southern Strategy.  It is a direct consequence of the concerted Republican political effort in support of their agenda and realization by Americans the entire Traitor trump second administration is nothing more than Kayfabe and a non-stop manufactured photo-shoot. 

Look at that fucking fear on their faces!  Ha ha! Fuck yeah!

But, as we have seen time and time again, Republicans efforts around the Second Amendment have been the most destructive and deadly for our Nation.  

Guns have surpassed car accidents as the number one preventable cause of death among children and teenagers in the United States.

I can only hope that this fear and the cowardly way Republicans faced the reality of their policies is how Stephen Miller and every other deplorable vile treasonous Republicans lives in for the rest of their lives.  

Anyway it's too soon to politicize a tragedy and I have more important things, like my Chicago Bears draft selections, to scrutinize.

Bored of War & Peace 14: 3 Slops & a Quote (from Pulp Fiction)

Not even old shit-on-a-shingle
but a DEI tortilla

“Amateurs study strategy, professionals study logistics.” ― Omar Bradley

"It can cost around $3 a meal for a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, you know, a corn tortilla and one other thing." - trump's Agriculture Secretary, Brooke Rollins,

ART OF THE DEAL!!!

The United States is controlled by an emotionally dysregulated child rapist, his favorite chosen drunk talk show host, various lunatics, bigots, and sociopaths, and a cabal of criminal co-conspirators.  As such you should not expect them to know how to deploy military assets or have any concept of operational strategy.  Let along logistics...

One of the biggest scandals during my time in Afghanistan and Iraq was the massive no-bid military supply contracts for logistics and overseas base necessities steered by Dick Cheney to his old firm Kellogg-Brown and Root.  The entire GWoT was a massive transfer of wealth to the Military-Industrial-Complex precisely as Bush, Cheney, and the Republicans intended it to be. 

Now, of course, rapacious war profiteers seeking to bilk the United States and enrich themselves while not meeting the needs of the U.S. military stretch back to Valley Forge and most infamously old "Uncle Sam" (i.e. Samuel Johnson) and his US contracts to supply beef for the War of 1812.

Traitor trump views the military in the same way a colicky baby views toy ships in a bathtub something for him to play around with while he throws a tantrum.

Drunken Pete Hegseth has no interest in running or maintaining a stable, professional United States Military, what he wants is a re-segregated group of War Fighters overcoming everything by sake of their inherent whitness and armor of the lord as he goes around making social media content where he comes off bad ass.

 

It's the Myth of the Southern Fighting Spirit and the Lost Cause historical revisionism.

But, as trump's treasonous Regime are set upon their Glorious Crusade in Iran and making kick-ass social media content whilst Owning the Libs and brow-beating the Nation into believing things which are patently untrue, reality is not conforming.

But, remember when reality doesn't fit their conceptions, Republicans don't change to conform to reality, they change reality to conform to their ideology.

So, of course, in the wake of Traitor trump's blasphemous idolatry and stupid lies about the Pope, Drunken Pete Hegseth mimicked  Samuel L. Jackson's Pulp Fiction (1994) famous Ezekiel 25:17 speech as the basis for his "bad ass" prayer...

These fucking traitors are unoriginal thieves, are ignorant of the gospels, are simultaneously unserious and deadly serious as they endanger the American people and destroy the Nation's present and future with their fascist agenda.

And now after trump willy-nilly sent the U.S. Navy, and various Marine Expeditionary Units into the Persian Gulf area here come the stories of logistical nightmares and various mistreatment of the military.  Because Republicans don't give a shit about service members or Veterans and have always seen the U.S. Military as a rhetorical cudgel they could deploy against the Democratic Party in their no-stop propaganda campaign to destroy the United States of America and replace it with a simulacrum of a Democratic Republic along the lines of an Evangelical Fascist White Power Nation, in which their ignorant uneducated fundamentalist Christianity and White Male Supremacy hold sway and everyone else lives at the whims of these zealots, racists, and traitors. 

“I believe that uh Donald Trump is better than uh sliced bread. I think he’s almost a second coming, in my humble opinion,” Republican Troy Nehls of Texas told reporters on Thursday.

Bored of War & Peace 13: This Easter... He's Back... And Bigger than Jesus

The Prince of Pederasts?

 Don't let anyone, especially no fundamentalist fascist pretending to be a Christian, tell you they are aghast at what Donnie J. Traitor trump posted yesterday night.  

He absolutely re-upped an AI Slop image of himself as Jesus.  With divine light and a bunch of comical signals of rightwing American jingoistic patriotism, flanked by false idols, and hollow christianity.

Now, technically to tamp down the blasphemy Donnie blamed "fake news" and claimed he thought it was him depicted as a "doctor" and Donnie did it on Orthodox Easter and not Western Church Easter, while last week on Easter Day he was rage-posting his threat to destroy an entire Civilization and Praising Allah.  

This week it's been having his grotesque minions in the Department of Defense threaten the Pope and claiming the leader of the Catholic Church is "weak on crime" and "weak on nuclear weapons".  Those two phrases alone demonstrate how insanely juvenile and unserious American political discourse is around law&order and foreign relations, and just how utterly brain-dead and propagandized conservatives are.

Of course, this fat fucking traitor thought he could post this image of himself as the returned christ and not only have no negative blow-back but be praised by his cult of evil minions.

An emotionally dysregulated child rapist decided Easter, Ramadan, and Passover are the perfect times for him to post his latest mass murdering criminal and blasphemous rants.

I hate playing this can you imagine rhetorical game;  but can you imagine if President Barack Obama had sent out a message of "Praise Be to Allah" on Easter?  Or during a time of War with a Muslim country?  Or fucking ever?

Or if current rightwing boogieman New York Mayor Zohran Mandami did it?

There are a different set of rules governing what Traitor trump is not only allowed to get away with but, does purposefully in his campaign to Neg the United States into full-blown fascism.

Of course, understand to MAGA nothing Traitor trump does could truly lead them to not support him because at this point the illogical justifications and tortured motivated reasoning is the entire core of their being.  MAGA will never face a dark night of the soul and no amount of cognitive dissonance will sway them from screaming, red in the face, that We have Trump Derangement Syndrome!

Now, the madman in charge has been flailing for a way-out of the debacle in Iran.  Understand Donnie Don't Care is bored with the fiasco he started 45 days ago (15 days until we see if the The War Powers Resolution of 1973 still holds sway) without any kind of plan other than;  Kill people.  Blow shit up.  Be hailed as a Hero! That didn't come to fruition so now with no idea of strategy, with dubious tactics, and with no operational plan besides the next headline Traitor trump has started a blockade.  

What's the fucking goal of that?  

 “I know you’re worried about it, but it’s going to be OK,”
the president said. Mr. Carlson asked how he knew.
“Because it always is,” Mr. Trump replied.

Asked if the goal of the obstruction is to force Iran to reopen the strait or come to the negotiating table, Trump said, “Both of those things, certainly, and more.”

Holy fvck.  No fucking clue what to do.  Not a fucking idea in that cheap gilded mafioso treasonous pile of shit for brains skull of his.  This is the most salient, cut to the quick point;  Donnie Dumbass has no idea how to get himself out of this mess.

And understand Traitor trump doesn't think in terms of the Nation; he couldn't give a flying fuck about the ramifications of what he's done, this is entirely centered on how it affects him, as he has acted his entire coiled childish life.  Child Rapist Donnie has never had to face the full brunt of his actions and he's still expecting someone else or some fucking miracle to get him out of this absolute shit-show of a quagmire.  As things continue to drag on and Just Despicable Vance flails away at negotiation eventually, Traitor trump is going to be motivated or pushed into starting a ground war.  Certainly, Israel and, bloodthirsty warmongering American Magats want a full-scale invasion;

"How do we keep them in a box? If we're not going to completely take them out!  But, again Maga, the Republicans are behind the President.  But, if we can't do it because of political winds, if we can't do it because of other reasons, then how are we going to keep them in a box?  It can't be just peace in out time, and the ten-point deal and they've agreed to this this this..."

Levin then goes through a ball-washing exercise of how much he loves trump and how this has been the greatest most spectacular military campaign in US History (HOLY FUCK DELUSIONAL) and concludes with,

"They are the enemy. They're not going to go away if there's not regime change and we're going to have to figure out and it's not going to be easy how to keep our, our you know, foot on their throat."

Levin is apparently one of the rightwing propagandists Donnie Don't Care listens too often.  But, while all this serious shit is going down, don't fret Donnie still had time to take in a UFC fight to be lauded by disgusting Dana White and reactionary Joe Brogan...  

Bored of War & Peace Twelve: Shit-for-Brains Trump now wants President Obama’s Iran Deal or a good supply of body bags

 Q: "If the war is ending do you still need $200 billion dollars?"  "We... uh, it's always nice to have."  - this is somehow acceptable as an appropriate response by the sitting President to say while he mismanages his fiasco of a quagmire and fumbles around and absolutely obliterates 70 years of post-World War 2 diplomacy and alliances.

But, can you guess where this $200,000,000,000 is going to come from?  That's right, Republicans are going to take another huge chunk out of the meager American social safety net by cutting yet more from the federal health care spending.

"I'm not going to tell you what the present is,
but it was a very significant prize," 

"Well, I think we're going to end it.  I can't tell you for sure.  You know I don't like to say this;  We've won this war.  This war has been won.  For instance, if I want to take down that power plant, that big powerful power plant, they can't do a thing about it.  It's like take me, that's all they can do."  The Rapist in Donnie always comes out when he talks about doing something against the will of his victims.

But, it recently struck me why Traitor trump has such appeal and his fanbase reveal in Trump Derangement Syndrome and #OwntheLibs rhetoric.  And when one of these a-ha moments hits you it's always illuminating to look back at past actions/statements and see how they fit into a pattern.  What Traitor trump, Kegsbreath, Scott Bessent, or KKKaroline Leavitt are doing is "negging".  Hegseth and Trump think they can neg the World into fixing their Fiasco.  They also apparently believe they can neg Iran into Unconditional Surrender.

This is the entire manosphere and Pick-up Artist (PUA) culture so beloved and emulated by rightwing media.  Of course, Child Rapist Donnie has been doing this his whole life of course, especially against Women and people to whom he owes money, but negging as it were is the entirety of the rightwing media.  Child stalker Jesse Waters and Scott Jennings engage in these grotesque PUA tactics not only against their fellow panel members but, also the entire Nation.  And every MAGA Chud you see on-line or in interviews or on those insipid Jubilee 20 vs. 1 debates engages in the same negging bullshit.

How about an Excursion?
"They don't like the word 'war,' 
because you're supposed to get approval, 
so I'll use the word 'military operation,'"

Of course, this technique goes back way further as the term "gaslighting" is a century old.  We Gen-X people used to call this "reverse psychology" back in the 1900's...

Look at Hegseth, a fragile toxic masculine reality host playacting as a Tough Guy, when Whiskey Pete isn't busy being a War Profiteer he's busy blaming NATO and the UK for Republicans launching this grotesque joke of a Not a War, a special military operation. 

Go back over any statement trump et al have given ("They are begging to make a deal.  Not Me!  They're begging for it." or "They gave us a present, and the present arrived today, and it was a very big present") since he capriciously started this War a month ago and you'll see it's this underhanded manipulative Pick-Up Artist (PUA) technique to get your victim to break down and give in to you.  Listen to any press conference KKKaroline Leavitt gives it's all negging all the time.

After Totally Winning a War  
it's odd to need a Final Blow

What syphilitic shit-for-brains traitor trump has decided to do is repeatedly declare victory because he knows his gaslighting will absolutely be accepted as reality by the MAGA cult and young bro MAGAts are the most enthusiastic for the Iran War;  appears we're looking at Generation Chickenhawk II:  MAGAboogaloo.

Trump and MAGA are losing to Iran and if the treasonous chickenhawks don't put US Forces on the ground we will effectively give Iran control of the Strait of Trump.

What Traitor trump has done has put US into a losing position both home and abroad.  Republicans are the biggest losers in US history.  But, because of structural crutches and government welfare they are allowed to remain in power.

Here's the kick to America's nuts;  Trump is so fucking bored of the Iran War he's either simply going to stop paying attention or be convinced to do some 10,000 man combined amphibious/airborne assault on Kharg Island while sailing the US Navy up the Persian Gulf, I guess in an effort to recreate;  Tarawa, A Bridge Too Far, and Ironbottom Sound in one fell swoop? 

This is all just one great big joke to that fat fuck.  All so this child raping traitor can get everyone waiting for his latest comedy schtick were he Owns the Libs and calls everyone else sick and deranged.

And his sycophantic shit-eating lick-spittles give him awards and bow and scrape and step all over each other's balls to tell him how big and strong he is and how huge his penis is...

And understand we are talking 50 years, minimum, of diplomatic problems for the United States after this;  of course, traitor trump couldn't give a rat's hind tit about that he and his family will have stolen billions and he'll have etched his name into the history books so deeply no one in next 250 years won't learn about him.  And Republicans don't care because they'll simply blame the Democrats for all this and a new generation of Republican traitors will control the government and enact the same rightwing agenda of oppression, intolerance, hatred, bigotry, adulation of the rich, and destruction of the American dream.

I guess big fat traitor trump is going to make some speech tonight.  I guess it is 50/50 he'll simply say He Won the War and no longer cares and leave the Strait of Hormuz for the EU to solve and trump is going to get all of Venezuela's oil and make a trade agreement for Russian crude oil.  Or we are launching a full-scale invasion for the Final Blow.  Either way he has all of April to play pretend armchair general, then we will see if the War Powers Act of 1973 will be enforced by the Republican Congress or not.

Bored of War in Iran 11: Traitor trump looks to return to conducting Financial Crimes at Home - Paul Krugman calls it "Treason"

"Otherwise we'll just keep bombing
our little hearts out..."

“That was like the paper clip. You know the story of the paper clip? 182 years ago, a man discovered the paper clip. It was so simple. And everybody that looked at it said, ‘Why didn’t I think of that?’ ICE was my idea.”  - Syphilitic psychopath trump while giving a press conference comparing the "discovery" of the paperclip to his brilliant idea of putting ICE Nazis into airports...

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

I fucking told you.

I told you with the attention span of a turd in a toilet trump would get bored with his Iran War Fiasco and et voilà here it is.  3 whole weeks.  This fucking child raping traitor thought he'd get a huge War Bump in his popularity.  This ignoramus thought he'd blow up the elderly Ayatollah and all the hard work of overthrowing the Iranian Regime would magically happen and he'd be recognized as the Greatest President Ever.  

Look at all the lies he's told about this, don't forget he conjured up a scenario where an unnamed President congratulated him on these bombings and said he too wanted to do it.  All the dead soldiers families came up to him, big strong families, with tears in their eyes saying thank you and finish the job.  Now he's claiming he's speaking ("very strong talks") with Top Men in Iran but no you can't know their names...

Abhorrently untrue.  Grotesque.  Ridiculous.  Unfit.  Destructive.  Treasonous. 

So, today he gave one of his patented tarmac briefings, for which the corporate media love him.  I recommend you watch and not just rely on the chunks you see on Bluesky or elsewhere because you see how much he's deteriorated and how badly his speech patterns have become.  

Traitor trump is still cunning.  He's recognized he's losing popularity and so like the canny conman he is, he's returned to his bread & butter bigotry: TRANSGENDER!!!  And let's blame the Democrats for everything.  Oh and look at how good I did in Venezuela!!!  I did enjoy how Traitor trump told a Newsman guy "You're not doing a very good job" and when the Newsmaxxer kept asking questions, trump calmly told him, "You're not doing a good job did you hear me?"

Traitor trump like all Republicans knows his voters thrive on Fear&Anger and anything he does can be forgiven as long as he Owns the Libs.  And whenever he gets into a political trap it's always blame Joe Biden.

Meanwhile, just yesterday Lindsey Graham was extolling the virtues of conducting an amphibious assault on Kharg Island; 

I would gladly kill US Marines for an election victory.

"We’ve got two Marine expeditionary area units sailing to this island. We did Iwo Jima, we can do this. The Marines, my money’s always on the Marines."

But, besides the focus on Graham invoking Iwo Jima, his whole Faux News interview was an encapsulation of the current Republican Party; bloody emotional rhetoric, riddled with lies, made-up statistics, blame for President Joe Biden, a non-stop invocation of Fear&Anger, and the kicker calling Iran the #1 State-sponsor of Terrorism worldwide.  

Sorry to break it to you but, the United States is and has been for this entire quarter century the #1 sponsor of State-supported Terrorism.  Perhaps followed by Israel and then Saudi Arabia.

The campaign to fed Americans nothing but non-stop lies and ceaseless propaganda has been so wildly successful that a child raping, career conman, traitor and thief has been twice elected to the American Presidency. 

And don't forget... the Royal We.  One thing which always comes out when Republicans are stressed is their absolute belief in Hierarchy.  US Republicans absolutely do not believe in Democracy, do not believe in equal rights, do not believe in equality under law,  Republicans believe there should be a strict stratified society in which many current uppity people know or are returned to their place, stay there willingly of their own accord, and if they don't that what ICE and "Law Enforcement" is for.

For the upcoming battle of Kharg Island, I was thinking worst case scenario was Tarawa not only because of the casualties inflicted on the Marines but because it was widely criticized at the time.  But, it's interesting Lindsey Graham would reference Iwo Jima.

As most people probably know the Battle of Iwo Jima is the only Pacific Island hopping campaign battle in which American casualties (Killed and Wounded) outnumbered Imperial Japanese forces, although the Japanese died almost to the last man.

But, who fucking knows what's coming next after Donnie Don't Care declared a 5 day moratorium on bombing Iran.  So Good Fucking Luck Marines, this is the most ill-advised, capricious, terribly managed, unplanned, mismanaged cock up in US History.  The only thing from making this an absolute atrocious  failure is no ground troops have yet been introduced.

But, while Traitor trump side-stepped the question of pulling back both MEUs, the 82nd Airborne is getting ready to drop in and with syphilitic shit-for-brains making decisions based on whomever got the last word in with him, it seems likely he'll reverse himself and this may continue to escalate.  I wonder what genius (Stephen Miller?  MarkyMarkWayne Mullin?) who has convinced him to do a combined air assault / amphibious landing for Kharg Island?

My only hope is trump being a natural coward will make him balk at a Boot-on-the-Ground invasion.

Additional:

One more thing which is really being highlighted is the apparently blatant Market Manipulation by His Fraudulence, King DonOld the Traitor.  After announcing he will obliterate Iran in 48 hours and then inexplicably announced a 5 day bombing pause.

Traitor trump then gave that tarmac press conference where he lied that he was talking to the top Iranian Official No you can't know his name!!!

Paul Krugman notes

Trump’s sudden climb-down was startling. Who could have seen this coming?

The answer is, the person or people who bought large quantities of stock market futures and sold large quantities of oil futures around 15 minutes before Trump’s announcement. As CNBC reports,

At around 6:50 a.m. in New York, S&P 500 e-Mini futures trading on the CME recorded a sharp and isolated jump in volume, breaking from an otherwise subdued premarket backdrop. With thin liquidity typical of early trading hours, the sudden burst stood out as one of the largest volume moments of the session up to that point.

A similar pattern was observed in oil markets. West Texas Intermediate May futures also saw a noticeable pickup in trading activity at roughly the same time, with a distinct volume spike interrupting otherwise quiet conditions.

When officers of a company or people close to them exploit confidential information for personal financial gain, that’s insider trading — which is illegal. But we have another word for situations in which people with access to confidential information regarding national security — such as plans to bomb or not to bomb another country — exploit that information for profit. That word is “treason.”

Why is profiting from insider information about national security decisions effectively a form of treason? First, it’s hard to think of a more fundamental principle for officials we entrust with important decisions, especially those that involve national security, that they or people they know should not be allowed to exploit their positions for personal gain. 

If you ever speak to a Trump cultist don't expect this type of blatant corruption to blunt their zealous devotion to him, if you press them they'll simply respond Biden Crime Family and Hunter Biden Laptop and continue broiling in their fascist fever.

Bored of War & Peace X: The US won every Battle and is going to lose the War in Iran

Donnie Don't Care

"Oh I think we’ve won from a military stand point all they’re doing is clogging up the strait…"

How many times has Donnie Don't Care already declared victory?  I guess it doesn't matter...  Declarations of Victory will be the first thing at every despicable press briefing by Drunken Whiskey Pete Hagueseth and KKKaroline Leavitt!

However, things must be much worse than I thought; because Traitor trump has taken to just flailing on his stupid internet forum about other people having to clean this up;

The Hormuz Strait will have to be guarded and policed, as necessary, by other Nations who use it — The United States does not! Importantly, it will be an easy Military Operation for them.

I told you Donnie was bored, bored, bored with his Iran Fiasco already but, now it's clear he's also upset and big mad about it.  He's clearly casting about for someone to blame.  And since he's already planted the Blame NATO seeds in the shitty heads of his Mega Cult members he's blaming them.

Ironically NATO is an acronym for
Hormuz Strait Patrol Organization

Now, one of the main Republican (not just Traitor trump) talking points about Iran was President Obama's JCPOA deal in 2015, shamefully paid hundreds of millions of dollars to the Terrorist Iranians.  No amount of explaining this was money owed to Iran from years of sanctions.  No instead right away Republicans demagogued about it and Treasonous Tom Cotton led a coalition of 47 Traitor Senators in telling Iran when they were in power they wouldn't honor the Agreement.  

Years of competent diplomacy in crafting a first real building block at normalizing relations with Iran destroyed.  Because in his first term Traitor trump told his cult it was a bad deal.  Then in 2018 he declared the US was withdrawing from the deal.  And since then he's been deluding himself and others about Iran even when his hand-picked cabinet members like Tulsi Gabbard flatly stated Iran was not rebuilding it's nuclear program.

Unfortunately, what was Traitor trump supposed to do when Bloody Netanyahu told Marco Rubio Israel was going to launch a War on Iran and there was no way they would be talked out of it by Us?

"The president made the very wise decision—we knew that there was going to be an Israeli action, we knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces, and we knew that if we didn’t preemptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties."

Bloody Nethanyahu has been yearning for years to destabilize the entire Middle East region as well as killing as many Muslims (Persian, Arabs, Arabic christians, Druze, eh whatever) for decades.  But, then there is this article in The Atlantic from two rabid warmongers who love Israel's war crimes and worked to submarine President Obama's Nuclear Iran Deal in 2015.

 I've cancelled my The Atlantic subscription mainly because in the face of trump's fascist rise they've caved because for the American Corporate Media the only reporting angle they can ever adopt is the President is ipso facto legitimate and we have two equally legal and responsible political parties therefore, writing about the treasonous and criminal Republican Party aiding and abetting Traitor trump's descent into syphilitic madness, racist human rights crimes, unbelievable pardons of known and convicted rapists and thieves, and now starting a capricious war on a whimsy after being prodded by Netanyahu and Lindsey Graham and then delusionly believing he'd be lauded as a Hero and whilst trump and Republicans declare Victory in Iran daily, would be wrong;

Two weeks after the United States and Israel launched their combined military campaign against Iran’s clerical regime, the outlines of victory are beginning to emerge. 

The early results are promising, though much remains unfinished. 

The United States and Israel have already achieved once-unimaginable strategic gains for the free world.  

Operation Epic Fury is only two weeks old. The campaign has already delivered major wins for American national security, and more are likely to emerge in coming days. But something much bigger and more historic is starting to come into view—something that can be unlocked with a little more patience from the American public as the United States degrades Tehran’s ability to wage war outside its borders and Israel degrades the regime’s ability to wage war against its own people. 

Victory can be defined in many ways when a campaign delivers multiple layers of success in destroying capabilities that threaten the United States. But the ultimate goal should be enabling the Iranian people to rid the world of this radical, terror-sponsoring regime. And achieving that goal—total victory—seems ever more possible.

What utter dreck.  This entire premise is bullshit. There haven't been any "Strategic gains", we've killed a bunch of people including non-combatants and justified children's deaths by claiming Iran built a school too close to a military target.  "Major wins for national security?"  Get fucked... "Total Victory".... holy hell. But, these two writers are warmongering lunatics whose tax-free organization (Foundation for Defense of Democracies) is predicated on totally backing the bloodthirsty Likud-Israel and going to war with Iran.

And here's the real kick in the teeth... ready? Iran is winning this "war". Yes, I know the US has total Air Supremacy and can murder little Iranian children at will, but fighting back in pitched battles with the technologically superior US forces isn't the metric for Iranian Victory. Surviving the Great Satan and Little Satan campaign of murder is... And once Traitor trump gets really bored with this and pulls US forces away and affords himself a Triumph...  well that will be it.

History doesn't repeat but, it sure does rhyme. Traitor trump, Hagueseth, and other Republican mouthpieces are busily declaring We are winning every battle! And Whiskey Pete Hegseth is demanding the usually compliant US Media change their reporting to

A dishonest and anti Trump press will stop at nothing, to downplay progress, amplify every cost, and call into question every step...

Don't you Trump Derangement Americans dare to question the wisdom or conduct of this Not a War. Now go wait in a 6 hour TSA line and shut up about gas prices!  FREEDOM!!!  Also don't worry about that group of armed, masked men roaming about Airports they are truly legitimate law enforcement and not a gaggle of untrained white power thugs and no you can't know their names as they rifle through your belongings and rub down you and your wife's groins!

Meanwhile, Russia and Iran have had their oil sanctions lifted and Iran has control of the Strait of Hormuz and is willing to respond to trump's bombastic threats by threatening every American petrostate client with bombing and Netanyahu and the IDF warmongers are trying to draw the United Kingdom in by warning Iran could hit London with ballistic missiles.

Bored of War & Peace 9: Boots on the Ground! Finish the Mission! Utterly despicable Republicans shit on dead soliders

     “Families are suffering right now.  Just to create a war because you want to create a war is not right.”- Bernice Smith grandmother of Tech Sgt Tyler Simmons (KIA)

  I've known for decades Republicans look at veterans and active duty service members as nothing more than RISK pieces and props in their agenda.  Traitor trump et al don't give a shit about "the troops" and have engaged in the most egregious and disrespectful behavior and gotten away with it for years.

I naively though when Traitor trump desecrated Arlington National Cemetery he'd face backlash.  I naively thought when he thought he deserved a Purple Heart and wanted to award himself a Congressional Medal of Honor, this would cost him electoral support and finally force the media to call out draft-dodging liar trump about his Stolen Valor.

But, I was wrong.  Republicans don't give a rat's hind tit about service members and enjoy shamelessly shitting on them because they know their servile Corporate Media allies, will excuse, defend, or deny Republicans have dishonored the troops.  Instead the Corporate Media continually ignores what Republicans do and instead highlights what Republicans say, even while Republicans enact legislation to harm military members, or slash VA benefits, or start a growing conflict on the nothing more than the delusions of syphilitic madman and his cadre of criminal co-conspirators.

So, it shouldn't come as no surprise trump and Hegseth lied and claimed fallen service members families came to them crying for them to "finish the job".

“What I heard through tears, through hugs, through strength and through unbreakable resolve was the same from family after family. They said, ‘Finish this. Honor their sacrifice. Do not waver. Do not stop until the job is done,’” Hegseth said.

“I can’t speak for the other families. When he spoke to me, that was not something we talked about,” he told NBC News in an interview Thursday.

Asked if he said anything to Hegseth or Trump about the need to keep fighting the war, Simmons said, “No, I didn’t say anything along those lines.”

 Grotesque.  Outrageous.  Inexcusable.  Deplorable.  Unconscionable.  What despicable frauds.  Years ago Dalton Trumbo correctly identified these "men",

So the words about noble deaths and sacred blood and honor and such are all put into dead lips by grave robbers and fakes who have no right to speak for the dead. Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo

It did indeed get worse...

The only veteran or solider Republicans love is a dead one, whom they can propagandize and use in their never-ending campaign to destroy America and refashion the Nation into a Neo-Confederate White Power slavery state.  The MAGA Cult members need and expect stories like this because it reinforces their absolute belief in Traitor trump and gives them "evidence" to #OwntheLibs.  Of course, anyone who has heard the odious Traitor speak should have known this was a total lie from, it follows the standard ego-stroking script Traitor trump likes to tell of 'Big Strong Men, coming up to him with tears in their eyes saying thank you'...

But, Whiskey Pete Hagueseth is a insane True Believer, a cross festooned Crusading lunatic who wants to murder the infidel and bring about the Rapture and Armageddon.

And it certainly looks like, the treasonous Republican Party is planning on an amphibious landing on Kharg Island.  The War Powers Resolution of 1973 gives trump another 40 days before Congress has to explicitly declare War or otherwise grant authorization for continued military action.  But, Republicans in Congress have no intention of putting the Iran War to a vote, as they continue to declare it's not a war!

“We are not invading. Are you seeing boots on the ground there? Because I’m not.  Targeting strategic military sites and invasions are two totally different things. Strategic strikes are not war.” - Anna Paulina Lunatic

But, fret not, even if the Marines conduct an amphibious assault on Kharg Island it still doesn't count as Boots on the Ground...

“These 2,500 Marines, the Marine Expeditionary Force, would be to probably secure the island.  The island is not, in my opinion, boots on the ground in combat circumstances, it would be to secure the facility.  Is that boots on the ground? No, not like inside Iran where they’re in the cities, where we go through circumstances we’ve had in the past of large areas of population, combatants against us, and it is a mess,” - Pete Sessions, longtime Republican liar and coward

"As a history teacher, I consider boots on the ground occupying an entire country like we did after WW2in Japan," - Republican Hairdopolos of Florida  on C-SPAN

Hahahahahahahahaha!!!  These fuckers are really going with It's only Boots On the Ground if it’s the Boots Region of Iran...   otherwise it's just sparkling war crimes...

Good Fucking Luck Marines;  Traitor trump, Whiskey Pete Hegseth, and the Republicans do not give a single solitary shit about you...

Update:

The United States military is deploying thousands of additional Marines and sailors to the Middle East, three U.S. officials told Reuters on Friday.

The deployments of the USS Boxer, along with its 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit and accompanying warship, comes as Reuters reported that President Donald Trump’s administration was considering deploying thousands of U.S. troops to reinforce its operation in the Middle East.

Traitor trump told reporters on Thursday that he was not putting troops “anywhere,” but that if was going to, he would not tell journalists.