Nice to see Bibi joining the long list of smacked asses who thought they could rely on Trump. He should have heeded Kruschev's wisdom at the end of The Death of Stalin when, in answer to Kaganovitch's inquiry as to whether Malenkov could be trusted, Nikita said: "You can never trust a weak man."
And don't forget to add to the list the names of Qatar, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, and apologies to those I left out. With our actions since the 2024 elections, we have managed to make China look like a "stable genius." And boys and girls, we have to get to work to create the civilization we want because this ain't it!
I watched a video about the Gulf state's airlines and their tourist industry. Both have collapsed. Airline traffic on these Gulf states carriers is down by about 70%. All of the world's other major airline carriers are routing their flights around the Middle East instead of the stopovers they had in the ME, and these new routes will be permanent and hard to change back. Tourism in Dubai and other ME vacation spots is gone along with the rich who previously flocked to these places. They'll be unlikely to come back anytime soon. They've moved on to St. Barts and the Maldives.
All of this because of Trump. They lavished him with lots of cash but now they've learned first hand that ETTD (Everything Trump Touches Dies) because he's King Mierdas 💩
We need to completely rethink the Executive Branch in the Constitution. I understand why the Founders wanted to make the Commander in Chief a civilian, but this certainly ain’t it. There is so much about the Constitution which relies on the 3 branches adhering to norms and assumes that a megalomaniac and Psychopath won’t attain to the highest office in the land…. And look what happened when one did.
"The entire episode underscores the utter fecklessness of the Republicans in Congress, who don’t exercise their constitutional authority or conduct even minimal oversight."
Never forget.
Vote them out in November.
They've done worse than nothing, and don't deserve their taxpayer-funded paychecks.
Hallelujah! The Rs have allowed this utter catastrophe of a President to run wild. They should wander in the wilderness for decades. People who hate government should not be put in charge of it.
May I add you can never trust men who fear being prosecuted for war crimes and fraud on a scale that is too massive to find it' s total. Bibi and DJT would make perfect cell mates.
There are a lot of things you can call Benjamin Netanyahu-- none of them good-- but one thing he can't be called is a fool. He should have looked at Don the Con's behavior for all of his adult life. Everyone who has ever partnered with him, or trusted him, ended up holding the bag and being thrown under the bus while Don the Con managed to skate away. Since Bibi's nobody's fool, the only explanation I can figure is that he grossly overestimated his ability to manipulate Don the Con. Now Bibi, Israel, and the world at large are suffering the consequences of that mistake.
If Netanyahu put any faith in Trump, he was blind, misguided, misinformed or any and all of the three. Donnie has proven himself to be unreliable for decades.
Excellent point. Both are motivated in large part by fear of being held accountable & this has made them even more vulnerable to the most serious of crimes. They deserve no sympathy, only accountability.
Both Netanyahu and trump should be arrested for war crimes and that includes hegsbreath for murdering people on fishing boats. This war was a cluster F and so many lives including many children in iran at school were murdered. We lost our young men for nothing. Please tell me how they can just kill people and have no accountability. This administration is evil and makes me sick and wish that everything bad comes their way.
If only the Congressional Republicans would finally discover their collective spines and do the job they were elected to do. But none of us should hold our breath waiting for that to happen.
Yes! That day of prayer for the 250th anniversary was another ploy to divide us. To put us against each other. This country was founded on religious freedom. Trump's aim is to destroy the country so he can control all of us. But he can't do anything. He has messed up every scheme he has created. We really need to impeach him before he starts a war with Cuba.
And... wait til you hear this... If I were Iran I would never give up my nuclean program, especially when America is ruled by an unhinged man who will do whatever he wants to do. His Republican cult members seem to be willing to drink the purple Kool-Aid rather than stand up to the madman.
Is anyone taking Lindsey Graham (R-SC) seriously any more? He seems to be having frequent attacks of hysteria. The GOP clown car is quite full; all of these people are both unserious and completely lacking in integrity. Vote the bums out.
And Sen. Wicker's comments just made my head spin. Iran has never acted in good faith? I give you the JCPOA, the result of protracted, painstaking diplomacy backed by world-class nuclear science expertise, entered into cautiously by parties genuinely trying to overcome decades of dangerous mistrust in a perpetual-powderkeg region.
It was working. Iran acted in good faith under its terms, foregoing high-grade enrichment and allowing effective inspections, all for a release of frozen assets (their own money) that amounted to the price tag of Trump's outrageous slush fund ploy. Then the reckless mob boss tore it up because, black president who made fun of him years ago.
And what was accomplished by Operation Epstein Distraction? Twenty-five billion borrowed dollars incinerated by dangerously depleting weapons inventories that will require years of still more borrowed money to replenish, wanton death and destruction across the Middle East, a real-time affirmation of the Ukrainian proof-of-concept that cheap drones can effectively fight advanced (hideously expensive) modern weapons to a draw, and the Strait of Hormuz bottled up, provoking global energy panic and an impending global economic crisis.I guess that passes for accomplishments in Mississippi...
You are so correct. That F-16 plane the Iranians shot down cost a million dollars. It was a very expensive flying computer that was lost. And that the Ukraine has become the leader in building drones is just wonderful.
BUT we have to do something to stop Trump.
He is looking at Cuba as his next foray into taking countries over. Our reputation is down the tubes. Instead of keeping America as the place everyone wanted to come and live, he has taken away our health care, future inventions, is trying to destroy the media all while he is building edifices to carry his name into the future.
The Trump Ballroom, the Spa-Blue Reflecting Pond, the Trump Triumphal Arch, the Trump Performing Arts Center and soon the Trump NYC Railroad Station, formerly known as Penn Station. There is no end to his ego, and he needs something because his schemes are costly failures.
Thanks, but F-16s cost upwards of $50 million, up to $100 million with maintenance and upgrades. Then there's the two transport planes that got stuck in the mud with all the their little helicopters, and the AWACS plane, and the one that barely made it back to friendly airspace before the pilot ejected and abandoned it, and..
And it's not just the cost of the losses. Hegseth stupidly threw the kitchen sink at Iran, blowing through inventories that took years to accumulate and now must be replaced. Makes for an impressive video game, like those action movies where the hero never runs out of ammo, and I'm sure the secretary of war crimes and his audience of one were thrilled, but it was now clearly a pathetically ineffective strategy that only made things worse and stiffened Iranian resolve.
Unfortunately, the Art of the Deal idiot painted us into a corner by blindly heading into Iran, a place even George W. Bush—previously the dumbest president in history but since surpassed by the current one—wouldn't tread. As far as chicken hawk bootlickers like Lindsey Graham, if this were left up to him, hundreds of thousands of innoncent people would die, including our own service men and women, and billions would be spent on munitions that we're already in dangrously short supply of. Diplomacy and sanction are always preferable to a war, but the bonehead in the WH is far too ignorant to understand that, or listen to his considerably more experienced Middle East advisors. Everyone who cares about our country and its former standing as a beacon of democracy, regardless of party affiliation, needs to vote blue up and down the ballot in November, so we can start putting a check on the buffoon and also open invesigations into his daily corrupt activities.
There are five other Republicans trying to primary Miss Lindsey with the election on June 9. After that he'll face the Democratic candidate, maybe Dr. Annie Andrews, a pediatrician who spent her entire career serving South Carolina families. She should be a strong contender especially if the Iran War Lindsey cheered for continues to go badly.
“ Diplomacy and sanction are always preferable to a war.” Sorry, I generally agree, but here I think you are mistakenly applying this to the Iranian terror regime. They do not think or act in “western” terms. This is a religious crusade for them. Strategic logic does not apply. They must be defeated on the battlefield.
The Republicans went insane about President Obama's Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) with Iran which curtailed their nuclear program. Part of it required the return of $1.7 billion Iranian money sitting in US banks. The money exchange actually saved US taxpayers from having to pay more interest on the money, so it was a good deal for us Americans.
Fast forward a decade, and Trump was moronic enough to start the war with Iran. There was no plan, no strategy, no thought of how to end the catastrophe. Now that he's in the middle of an unwinnable war and he has no good way out of his quagmire, Trump's trying to negotiate is a worse agreement with Iran than Obama's, and giving them 15 times more money back than what was given with the President Obama agreement.
You can be sure if this were a Democratic administration, the MAGA Republicans would be barking like junkyard dogs and lighting their hair on fire. But with Trump they'll roll over like lapdogs and wag their little tails.
Trump, with his poorly thought out schemes and refusal to listen to advisors, is going to "bankrupt" the USA-- just as he did many times with his own finances. And then he denies the outcome.
I think we're already there (bankrupt). The national debt is just under $40 TRILLION and we really have no realistic way of paying it back. We're in deep trouble. Or should I say, our children and grandchildren are in deep trouble.
Iran had demonstrated a weapon every bit as devastating as a limited nuclear strike and simultaneously as lucrative as exporting their own petroleum. Trump's presidency is an American suicide attempt.
"Whether this deal gets finalized or not, Congress must conduct extensive oversight..."
Couldn't agree more, but unless enough Trump butt-kissers are defeated and the Dems take both houses in November, "Congressional oversight" will continue to be an oxymoron.
And then there is Jamie Raskin, a one-man oversight committee. He and our other fine Dem reps and senators are watching and waiting. (Note: the "fine" ones do not include John Fetterman.)
I can't figure out what makes Fetterman tick. I'm not sure even Fetterman can figure out what makes Fetterman tick. FWIW I give it less than even money he will even attempt to run for another term in the Senate.
To all those GOP Congresscritters critical of the (purported) deal: why did you say nothing when Trump started the war, nor insist that he explain it to Congress, and either get authorization for beyond 60 days or bring the troops home? And will you now have a serious investigation?
Seems to me that their breaking point, their red line, was his endorsing Paxton over their own Cornyn. I wonder if any of these fools would be posting any of these objections if Trump had endorsed Cornyn or simply remained quiet. All of the sudden, they’ve realized the obvious; Trump will come out against them if they so much as fail to say “Sir,” once.
Let's remember that Cuba is an island full of people with families who love them, like my own. Don't let Trump dehumanize every nation. I can't tell you how vastly painful this is to me.
Every place that we choose to bomb is full of people with families who love them. I think what has been done to your family in Cuba already with the embargoes and blockades is despicable. I hope that our supine Congress will stop Trump and his drunken war secretary from bombing Cuba next.
Thanks, friend. It all is so abstract to them. How I wish their families would suffer in the manner that they have inflicted, so that they could learn their lesson. No, I harbor no good will; they can only learn from adversity.
Trump the Builder has built a disaster. And the Republicans in Congress were his subcontractors.
As you said, Jennifer, Congress must investigate these people and the decisions they made -- and hold them accountable. And they must contrast Trump's words with his deeds. In the end, even the blind must be forced to see his incompetence and his malevolence.
It would have been so much easier if, long ago, Mitch McConnell and his ilk had finished the House's job and convicted and removed Trump. Now it has turned into a massive and expensive cleanup issue that we'll be dealing with for a long time to come.
I completely agree & have posted the same comment for years: the state our nation is in is Mitch McConnell’s fault for not not Leading the vote to impeach tramp.
A minor correction: The House of Representatives did impeach Trump - twice. The Senate, under McConnell's rule, failed twice to convict and remove. It's a two-part process, the second part left undone by the Senate.
Lindsey Graham has to be the world's shabbiest, stupidest little worm imaginable. Going "I'm shocked, just shocked that Iran is getting its assets unfrozen" doesn't pass the simplest of giggle tests.
What did Senator PittyPat expect once he surrendered his soul to the Orange Satan?
It seems that Trump makes sweeping statements about successful negotiations with Iran in order to manipulate the stock market. Netanyahu is silent. Are we being 🎶fooled again🎶?
At this stage of Project Impotence, it will be a win if the Strait of Hormuz is opened, unmined and without tolls of any kind. Then they can spend the next 30 months of tramp's horrible term "negotiating" uranium terms through to the election.
Although, hearing about tramp's daily tweets just so he can see his name on screens and hear media analysts talking about him will be excruciating.
There's no way Iran is ever going to simply give up their control over the Strait. This is a more powerful weapon for them RIGHT NOW than any nuclear weapon they can hope to develop. Joke's on Trump who was so stupid he didn't anticipate this.
True - but he wouldn't be so malleable if he weren't! Project 25 got the perfect person for his spot! Very clever of them to groom, guide, and support him all this way (of course, many stupid and greedy people played a part). Why, someone with brains might actually want to READ the Executive Orders they keep handing him to totally dismantle and stigmatize this country. He's only proud of his Sharpie signature, which he loves to show the cameras. But READ the orders? Puh-leeze!!!
Too bad Trump is against alternative energy. He could clip them at the knees if he resumed the wind energy projects. He could, and make it his win in MAGA’s eyes, by rebranding it under a Trump banner with anti-Iran rhetoric.
The WH Criminal and all-around pus bucket is spewing, therefore he's lying. One truth: Small countries with nuclear weapons aren't attacked by large countries. Ukraine gave up its' nukes. North Korea built them and has kept them. What do you suppose the Iranian Theocrats have learned from this? What would a logical, rational President assume? Truth and reality are irrelevant to the MAGA Voodoo Cult and its' god.
Pretty much like what they did to President Carter. They gave the Embassy hostages back the day Reagan was inaugurated. Why they liked Reagan more than Carter is a mystery, however there was the whole Iran-Contra scandal. So it worked out for Iran in the end.
I wouldn't bank on there being anywhere near as good, and comprehensive as the deal Obama and Europe worked out in 2015/16. In fact, I can't think of one thing Trump has done that has made anything better. Thanks MAGA. You succeeded in in making us worse. Is that your definition of "great"?
Nice to see Bibi joining the long list of smacked asses who thought they could rely on Trump. He should have heeded Kruschev's wisdom at the end of The Death of Stalin when, in answer to Kaganovitch's inquiry as to whether Malenkov could be trusted, Nikita said: "You can never trust a weak man."
And don't forget to add to the list the names of Qatar, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, and apologies to those I left out. With our actions since the 2024 elections, we have managed to make China look like a "stable genius." And boys and girls, we have to get to work to create the civilization we want because this ain't it!
"Qatar, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait"
I watched a video about the Gulf state's airlines and their tourist industry. Both have collapsed. Airline traffic on these Gulf states carriers is down by about 70%. All of the world's other major airline carriers are routing their flights around the Middle East instead of the stopovers they had in the ME, and these new routes will be permanent and hard to change back. Tourism in Dubai and other ME vacation spots is gone along with the rich who previously flocked to these places. They'll be unlikely to come back anytime soon. They've moved on to St. Barts and the Maldives.
All of this because of Trump. They lavished him with lots of cash but now they've learned first hand that ETTD (Everything Trump Touches Dies) because he's King Mierdas 💩
Mierdas! lol
We need to completely rethink the Executive Branch in the Constitution. I understand why the Founders wanted to make the Commander in Chief a civilian, but this certainly ain’t it. There is so much about the Constitution which relies on the 3 branches adhering to norms and assumes that a megalomaniac and Psychopath won’t attain to the highest office in the land…. And look what happened when one did.
"The entire episode underscores the utter fecklessness of the Republicans in Congress, who don’t exercise their constitutional authority or conduct even minimal oversight."
Never forget.
Vote them out in November.
They've done worse than nothing, and don't deserve their taxpayer-funded paychecks.
Hallelujah! The Rs have allowed this utter catastrophe of a President to run wild. They should wander in the wilderness for decades. People who hate government should not be put in charge of it.
May I add you can never trust men who fear being prosecuted for war crimes and fraud on a scale that is too massive to find it' s total. Bibi and DJT would make perfect cell mates.
Send them both to Alligator Alcatraz.
Or CECOT. Lights on 24/7.
Them and no one else.
Gallows-mates.
There are a lot of things you can call Benjamin Netanyahu-- none of them good-- but one thing he can't be called is a fool. He should have looked at Don the Con's behavior for all of his adult life. Everyone who has ever partnered with him, or trusted him, ended up holding the bag and being thrown under the bus while Don the Con managed to skate away. Since Bibi's nobody's fool, the only explanation I can figure is that he grossly overestimated his ability to manipulate Don the Con. Now Bibi, Israel, and the world at large are suffering the consequences of that mistake.
Maybe Bibi thought our attacks would be more effective. Are you really sure he's not a fool?
Israel deserves to pay for 'Yahu's "mistakes", as we must pay for DJTbag's.
If Netanyahu put any faith in Trump, he was blind, misguided, misinformed or any and all of the three. Donnie has proven himself to be unreliable for decades.
Even Pootie knew better...
When Bibi was looking for a bright shiny object to take everyone's mind off his horrific war crimes ... maybe he thought Donnie would do the trick.
Excellent point. Both are motivated in large part by fear of being held accountable & this has made them even more vulnerable to the most serious of crimes. They deserve no sympathy, only accountability.
Netanyahu was SO impressed by all that tRump money that he didn’t bother to check the ethics of how it’s been acquired. Thieves gonna thieve…
Both Netanyahu and trump should be arrested for war crimes and that includes hegsbreath for murdering people on fishing boats. This war was a cluster F and so many lives including many children in iran at school were murdered. We lost our young men for nothing. Please tell me how they can just kill people and have no accountability. This administration is evil and makes me sick and wish that everything bad comes their way.
Agree, agree, agree.
Nice! I like the smacked ass application to Netanyahu.
If only the Congressional Republicans would finally discover their collective spines and do the job they were elected to do. But none of us should hold our breath waiting for that to happen.
They’re too busy constructing their Christofascist state and hastening Armageddon as a result of the turmoil in the Middle East.
Yes! That day of prayer for the 250th anniversary was another ploy to divide us. To put us against each other. This country was founded on religious freedom. Trump's aim is to destroy the country so he can control all of us. But he can't do anything. He has messed up every scheme he has created. We really need to impeach him before he starts a war with Cuba.
And... wait til you hear this... If I were Iran I would never give up my nuclean program, especially when America is ruled by an unhinged man who will do whatever he wants to do. His Republican cult members seem to be willing to drink the purple Kool-Aid rather than stand up to the madman.
Is anyone taking Lindsey Graham (R-SC) seriously any more? He seems to be having frequent attacks of hysteria. The GOP clown car is quite full; all of these people are both unserious and completely lacking in integrity. Vote the bums out.
And Sen. Wicker's comments just made my head spin. Iran has never acted in good faith? I give you the JCPOA, the result of protracted, painstaking diplomacy backed by world-class nuclear science expertise, entered into cautiously by parties genuinely trying to overcome decades of dangerous mistrust in a perpetual-powderkeg region.
It was working. Iran acted in good faith under its terms, foregoing high-grade enrichment and allowing effective inspections, all for a release of frozen assets (their own money) that amounted to the price tag of Trump's outrageous slush fund ploy. Then the reckless mob boss tore it up because, black president who made fun of him years ago.
And what was accomplished by Operation Epstein Distraction? Twenty-five billion borrowed dollars incinerated by dangerously depleting weapons inventories that will require years of still more borrowed money to replenish, wanton death and destruction across the Middle East, a real-time affirmation of the Ukrainian proof-of-concept that cheap drones can effectively fight advanced (hideously expensive) modern weapons to a draw, and the Strait of Hormuz bottled up, provoking global energy panic and an impending global economic crisis.I guess that passes for accomplishments in Mississippi...
You are so correct. That F-16 plane the Iranians shot down cost a million dollars. It was a very expensive flying computer that was lost. And that the Ukraine has become the leader in building drones is just wonderful.
BUT we have to do something to stop Trump.
He is looking at Cuba as his next foray into taking countries over. Our reputation is down the tubes. Instead of keeping America as the place everyone wanted to come and live, he has taken away our health care, future inventions, is trying to destroy the media all while he is building edifices to carry his name into the future.
The Trump Ballroom, the Spa-Blue Reflecting Pond, the Trump Triumphal Arch, the Trump Performing Arts Center and soon the Trump NYC Railroad Station, formerly known as Penn Station. There is no end to his ego, and he needs something because his schemes are costly failures.
Thanks, but F-16s cost upwards of $50 million, up to $100 million with maintenance and upgrades. Then there's the two transport planes that got stuck in the mud with all the their little helicopters, and the AWACS plane, and the one that barely made it back to friendly airspace before the pilot ejected and abandoned it, and..
And it's not just the cost of the losses. Hegseth stupidly threw the kitchen sink at Iran, blowing through inventories that took years to accumulate and now must be replaced. Makes for an impressive video game, like those action movies where the hero never runs out of ammo, and I'm sure the secretary of war crimes and his audience of one were thrilled, but it was now clearly a pathetically ineffective strategy that only made things worse and stiffened Iranian resolve.
Thank you for correcting my comment about the cost...and thank you for epanding the story. [I'm a little numerically dyslexic.]
Graham,Cruz and Wicker- chicken hawks squawking in the clown car.
We shall have to unseat them and replace them with competent, attentive people.
Pressure them.
Unfortunately, the Art of the Deal idiot painted us into a corner by blindly heading into Iran, a place even George W. Bush—previously the dumbest president in history but since surpassed by the current one—wouldn't tread. As far as chicken hawk bootlickers like Lindsey Graham, if this were left up to him, hundreds of thousands of innoncent people would die, including our own service men and women, and billions would be spent on munitions that we're already in dangrously short supply of. Diplomacy and sanction are always preferable to a war, but the bonehead in the WH is far too ignorant to understand that, or listen to his considerably more experienced Middle East advisors. Everyone who cares about our country and its former standing as a beacon of democracy, regardless of party affiliation, needs to vote blue up and down the ballot in November, so we can start putting a check on the buffoon and also open invesigations into his daily corrupt activities.
Lindsey has real trouble to squawk about. Seems unlikely he will be able to keep his seat in Congress, as people grow tired of him.
There are five other Republicans trying to primary Miss Lindsey with the election on June 9. After that he'll face the Democratic candidate, maybe Dr. Annie Andrews, a pediatrician who spent her entire career serving South Carolina families. She should be a strong contender especially if the Iran War Lindsey cheered for continues to go badly.
What took them so long! I've been tired of him for years!
I never thought him tolerable or credible.
Mister prefers firing squads to diplomacy.
"... a place even George W. Bush—previously the dumbest president in history but since surpassed by the current one—wouldn't tread."
Iran actually paused their nuclear program for a while during "W"'s term as President because they were afraid that he would invade the country.
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Ingenious graphic series!
“ Diplomacy and sanction are always preferable to a war.” Sorry, I generally agree, but here I think you are mistakenly applying this to the Iranian terror regime. They do not think or act in “western” terms. This is a religious crusade for them. Strategic logic does not apply. They must be defeated on the battlefield.
Oh, man, have you ever heard Hegseth talk about this conflict? The dissonance is deafening.
You do remember, I hope, that we took over Iran and allowed Kumeni to return to Iran. He had been exciled by his country.
I disagree that "they must be defeated on the battlefield.
Here in America we are fighting Trump in the courts and winning. We are showing the world that Democracy works when it is challenged.
We have a lot to fix but - luckily - so far - the orange menace tried to
send ICE to get rid of protestors but we are fighting that.
When we show the world that we can get rid of the Global Monster we
have allowed to get elected....how did that happen... But we can show
the world that peaceful means work when everyone gets together,
In spite of everything, there are more of us than of them... the oligarchs
who are trying to grab at all the money they can. Remember, they are
making that money out of the sweat equity of Americans.
Remember the French saboteurs. They threw their sabots (shoes)
into the machinery. We are more powerful than they want us to believe.
Take heart. Vote blue - and get the vote out and we can win.
The Republicans went insane about President Obama's Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) with Iran which curtailed their nuclear program. Part of it required the return of $1.7 billion Iranian money sitting in US banks. The money exchange actually saved US taxpayers from having to pay more interest on the money, so it was a good deal for us Americans.
Fast forward a decade, and Trump was moronic enough to start the war with Iran. There was no plan, no strategy, no thought of how to end the catastrophe. Now that he's in the middle of an unwinnable war and he has no good way out of his quagmire, Trump's trying to negotiate is a worse agreement with Iran than Obama's, and giving them 15 times more money back than what was given with the President Obama agreement.
You can be sure if this were a Democratic administration, the MAGA Republicans would be barking like junkyard dogs and lighting their hair on fire. But with Trump they'll roll over like lapdogs and wag their little tails.
Dawg don't hunt.
Trump, with his poorly thought out schemes and refusal to listen to advisors, is going to "bankrupt" the USA-- just as he did many times with his own finances. And then he denies the outcome.
I think we're already there (bankrupt). The national debt is just under $40 TRILLION and we really have no realistic way of paying it back. We're in deep trouble. Or should I say, our children and grandchildren are in deep trouble.
Absolutely and this is the message the legacy press should be
telling Americans.
Our children and grandchildren will be paying for Trump's folly and the Republican Senate and house... aided by the Supreme Court have
let this happen.
Unfortunately most of the legacy press have been bought by right-wing oligarchs or became lapdogs.
He is playing to his strengths. Bankruptcy is Trump's gift.
The "advisors" and negotiators that he selects are hardly competent to run a gas station.
Iran had demonstrated a weapon every bit as devastating as a limited nuclear strike and simultaneously as lucrative as exporting their own petroleum. Trump's presidency is an American suicide attempt.
"Whether this deal gets finalized or not, Congress must conduct extensive oversight..."
Couldn't agree more, but unless enough Trump butt-kissers are defeated and the Dems take both houses in November, "Congressional oversight" will continue to be an oxymoron.
And then there is Jamie Raskin, a one-man oversight committee. He and our other fine Dem reps and senators are watching and waiting. (Note: the "fine" ones do not include John Fetterman.)
I can't figure out what makes Fetterman tick. I'm not sure even Fetterman can figure out what makes Fetterman tick. FWIW I give it less than even money he will even attempt to run for another term in the Senate.
Strokes mess with your brain. You never know what you might lose, and what might come back, and what might never be able to return.
I'm not sure he's ticking... or if he is, he's about to blow.
Fetterman doesn't stand a snowball's chance in hell the next time he's up. With what's left of his cognition, he knows it. He won't run.
To all those GOP Congresscritters critical of the (purported) deal: why did you say nothing when Trump started the war, nor insist that he explain it to Congress, and either get authorization for beyond 60 days or bring the troops home? And will you now have a serious investigation?
Trump is their MAGA cult leader, and one cannot go against him and maintain one’s congressional position.
Cassidy and Massie found that out. John Cornyn may be next.
Seems to me that their breaking point, their red line, was his endorsing Paxton over their own Cornyn. I wonder if any of these fools would be posting any of these objections if Trump had endorsed Cornyn or simply remained quiet. All of the sudden, they’ve realized the obvious; Trump will come out against them if they so much as fail to say “Sir,” once.
Trump insists on 100% loyalty no matter what, but returns zero loyalty.
Many employers do the same.
He didn't get what he wanted, so he's bored and ready to move on figuring he'll get more pleasure by attacking Cuba.
Let's remember that Cuba is an island full of people with families who love them, like my own. Don't let Trump dehumanize every nation. I can't tell you how vastly painful this is to me.
Every place that we choose to bomb is full of people with families who love them. I think what has been done to your family in Cuba already with the embargoes and blockades is despicable. I hope that our supine Congress will stop Trump and his drunken war secretary from bombing Cuba next.
Thanks, friend. It all is so abstract to them. How I wish their families would suffer in the manner that they have inflicted, so that they could learn their lesson. No, I harbor no good will; they can only learn from adversity.
Craven Marco will look at continued aggression against Cuba as a political opportunity. Amoral bloodthirsty midget.
Yeah, he seems to think that all other countries are Venezuela. Good luck with that idea…
Trump the Builder has built a disaster. And the Republicans in Congress were his subcontractors.
As you said, Jennifer, Congress must investigate these people and the decisions they made -- and hold them accountable. And they must contrast Trump's words with his deeds. In the end, even the blind must be forced to see his incompetence and his malevolence.
It would have been so much easier if, long ago, Mitch McConnell and his ilk had finished the House's job and convicted and removed Trump. Now it has turned into a massive and expensive cleanup issue that we'll be dealing with for a long time to come.
I completely agree & have posted the same comment for years: the state our nation is in is Mitch McConnell’s fault for not not Leading the vote to impeach tramp.
A minor correction: The House of Representatives did impeach Trump - twice. The Senate, under McConnell's rule, failed twice to convict and remove. It's a two-part process, the second part left undone by the Senate.
I agree, though it will be excruciating to relive it all again.🙄
Lindsey Graham has to be the world's shabbiest, stupidest little worm imaginable. Going "I'm shocked, just shocked that Iran is getting its assets unfrozen" doesn't pass the simplest of giggle tests.
What did Senator PittyPat expect once he surrendered his soul to the Orange Satan?
It seems that Trump makes sweeping statements about successful negotiations with Iran in order to manipulate the stock market. Netanyahu is silent. Are we being 🎶fooled again🎶?
We're not being fooled right along with Iran, because now the world has evidence: Trump Always Chickens Out.
LET'S GO, TACO!
At this stage of Project Impotence, it will be a win if the Strait of Hormuz is opened, unmined and without tolls of any kind. Then they can spend the next 30 months of tramp's horrible term "negotiating" uranium terms through to the election.
Although, hearing about tramp's daily tweets just so he can see his name on screens and hear media analysts talking about him will be excruciating.
There's no way Iran is ever going to simply give up their control over the Strait. This is a more powerful weapon for them RIGHT NOW than any nuclear weapon they can hope to develop. Joke's on Trump who was so stupid he didn't anticipate this.
Indeed, DJTbag is pretty fucking stupid.
True - but he wouldn't be so malleable if he weren't! Project 25 got the perfect person for his spot! Very clever of them to groom, guide, and support him all this way (of course, many stupid and greedy people played a part). Why, someone with brains might actually want to READ the Executive Orders they keep handing him to totally dismantle and stigmatize this country. He's only proud of his Sharpie signature, which he loves to show the cameras. But READ the orders? Puh-leeze!!!
Too bad Trump is against alternative energy. He could clip them at the knees if he resumed the wind energy projects. He could, and make it his win in MAGA’s eyes, by rebranding it under a Trump banner with anti-Iran rhetoric.
That is, make the Strait irrelevant or at least far less relevant.
The WH Criminal and all-around pus bucket is spewing, therefore he's lying. One truth: Small countries with nuclear weapons aren't attacked by large countries. Ukraine gave up its' nukes. North Korea built them and has kept them. What do you suppose the Iranian Theocrats have learned from this? What would a logical, rational President assume? Truth and reality are irrelevant to the MAGA Voodoo Cult and its' god.
Yes, the Iranians will talk and talk right into November.
Pretty much like what they did to President Carter. They gave the Embassy hostages back the day Reagan was inaugurated. Why they liked Reagan more than Carter is a mystery, however there was the whole Iran-Contra scandal. So it worked out for Iran in the end.
If you recall, the Republicans were there in Iran making a deal and
telling the Iranians to wait until after the election so that it would
make Carter take the blame and Regan look like the winner.
I wouldn't bank on there being anywhere near as good, and comprehensive as the deal Obama and Europe worked out in 2015/16. In fact, I can't think of one thing Trump has done that has made anything better. Thanks MAGA. You succeeded in in making us worse. Is that your definition of "great"?