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.
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...
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 💩
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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?
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.
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🎶?
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?
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.
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 have maintained since Trump’s first attempt at being a leader in 2016 and with sufficient proof during that time that Donald Trump is a no talent, no smarts guy. He brings a lot of bravado and lot of swagger and noise to whatever he is about , but no substance and no results worth his efforts.
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.
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.
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...
Pressure them.
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 💩
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.
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.
Even Pootie knew better...
Maybe Bibi thought our attacks would be more effective. Are you really sure he's not a fool?
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…
Nice! I like the smacked ass application to Netanyahu.
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.
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.
What took them so long! I've been tired of him for years!
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.
Mister prefers firing squads to diplomacy.
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👊
“ 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.
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.
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.
"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.
I'm not sure he's ticking... or if he is, he's about to blow.
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.
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.
Yeah, he seems to think that all other countries are Venezuela. Good luck with that idea…
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.
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.
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!
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?
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.
I agree, though it will be excruciating to relive it all again.🙄
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.
I have maintained since Trump’s first attempt at being a leader in 2016 and with sufficient proof during that time that Donald Trump is a no talent, no smarts guy. He brings a lot of bravado and lot of swagger and noise to whatever he is about , but no substance and no results worth his efforts.
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.