"In other words, not only was regime change a fantasy, but the notion that without incurring any losses we could completely “take out” Iran’s military capacity, leave it defenseless, and ensure the Strait would remain open was balderdash as well."
Trump's penchant for hyperbole has become an albatross around his neck. Let's hope it gets heavier and heavier (and heavier...).
Trump must have figured that Iran would be as easy a mark as Venezuela. Lacking preparation or exit strategy, he forced us into grabbing a tiger by the tail, and the escapade is now eating our economy and that of other countries around the world.
It’s maddening. He’s the gaslighter-in-chief and has gotten away with these ridiculous lies forever. However, it’s looking like our idiotic war of choice against Iran is a lie too far for many. Not his MAGA cultists, but those who supported him for reasons other than racism and adoration for their dear leader. The folks who voted “for the price of eggs” and “to keep us out of foreign wars” are beginning to see the lies.
In Trumpland, saying something makes it true. And if you said the opposite just yesterday, well then, the truth just changed-- that's all.
And the MAGAts buy this bullstuff-- hook, line and stinker.
I suspect there are at least some Repugnican'ts in Congress who know it's a big, stinking, steaming load of horse poop, but they're afraid to speak up lest they get primaried out by someone who is far crazier than they are.
I was picking up my dog at the vet where I saw this poster, "Puppy Property Laws." If I'm playing with it, it's mine. If I'm thinking about playing with it, it's mine. If I was playing with it yesterday, it's mine. Etc., etc.
Naturally, the first person I thought of was Trump.
The number of Repulsican Congresscritters who know the President is a 3-year-old prevaricating moron probably hovers at near 100%. But the power of the cult (or their fear of it) is such that almost none dare break ranks.
The thing I will never get is -- anybody who's known anything has always known this guy was a piece of dumb, wily excrement. Why on earth did they never think they would pay the price for backing him?
As mentioned before, better fear the voters more than being primaried. People will only stand for legislators not keeping promises, hiding from them, not answering questions and not serving their needs for so long.
If President Trump wants to “lower the temperature” in America’s political discourse, I urge him to publish the speech he planned to give at the WHCA dinner last Saturday. He can show us the kind of language he’s going to avoid going forward, and, in effect, admit his own complicity in the way things are today.
And just think about all the "new material" he has now after the assassination attempt. Nora O'Donnell got the first taste, just wait for the next go around. Hell, maybe he'll have all the reporters & any Dems at the dinner hauled off, just for show!
Things are going to get much worse if Trump either stalls or escalates. It is terrifying to think that this madman is basically deciding what is going to happen with the whole world economy--especially since he seems incapable of coming to terms with reality.
Keep remembering—as bad as he is, he wouldn’t be nearly as dangerous without his coterie of enablers: the Cabinet, GOP Congressional Members, SCOTUS, most of the main stream media, and the quasi-Libertarian “tech bro” billionaires. Fixing our nation’s problems means dealing with all of them, not just him.
Please define who you are referring to. I'm sure (well, maybe not so sure) that you aren't saying that all Americans are idiots. Most are people who are just as appalled as I am about what this administration is doing to our country AND international relations. Many who seem unengaged just honestly are doing what they can just to get through life, without the energy to process all the crap in the news. So who's left? People who feel attacked because they feel left out and put down by people who look down on them and call them names. Guess that covers it, What are YOU doing to help open up that silo so that those "idiot" people can see in and feel accepted, even when they disagree? Please let's focus on opening up our own minds and freeing ourselves from the tyranny of hate, which just gets in the way, and makes things worse.
Canada may be winning too, as Trump and his atrocious behavior has enabled Mark Carney to have a firm majority after being re-elected. And he is proceeding as if Trump doesn't exist, reporting recently:
"Abroad, we’ve secured more than 20 economic and security partnerships across four continents in less than a year...We’re re-engaging with global giants like India, China, and Brazil, and we’re deepening our partnerships with our closest allies, including the European Union, the Nordic countries, and Australia....As a result, we’re attracting the strongest investment in the G7. And we’re on track to double our non-U.S. exports within a decade, at $300 billion of new orders for Canadian resources, goods, and expertise."
Good for them. It will probably work out better for them in the long run. Sad for us, though. I'll miss our former BFF. (I keep hoping Canada might annex Michigan, or at least, the Upper Peninsula where I live.)
If Trump really wanted to defeat Iran, he'd make Iranian oil worth less, not more.
We are energy independent. If China wants oil, we can sell it to them. Today in NYT,
Guyana’s wartime oil boom
The energy shock wrought by the war in the Middle East has established winners and losers across the globe, and thrust some countries into an outsize role in international markets.
Tiny, oil-rich Guyana is one. The South American country has become a surprising power player amid the war’s upheaval, Vivienne Walt reports.
The nation’s president, Mohamed Irfaan Ali, has been courted by President Trump, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India and Qatar’s emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. On Friday, Wall Street will focus on how Guyana factors into Big Oil’s profit push, when Exxon Mobil and Chevron report first-quarter results.
Multiply Guyana by Venezuela, Nigeria, etc.
Iran has concentrated its attack on UAE, its principal rival in the oil business. More missles and drones against UAE than Israel.
We are not energy independent in terms of not needing to import ANY oil. The reason for that is our oil from fracking is "light, sweet crude" and we don't have the refineries to make it into gas or other products. Trump said to the world, "Come buy our oil". His buddies whom he promised would do well under him if they contributed to his campaign, are going to do very well indeed. (Our refineries are geared towards heavy, sour crude such as that from Venezuela, which is why he wanted it.)
Right now, we only get about 8% of the oil we import from the ME, but the problem is that oil sells as a global market item, so as it rises everywhere, it costs us more too.
Paul Krugman discusses the coming price hikes, as the stored oil that has been released comes to and end, and oil prices rise everywhere. https://paulkrugman.substack.com/
That, sir, is prpaganda brought to us by Big Oil. OPEC dictates, fixes production, thus prices. Inside baseball, the price of gas is dictated by the profiteering that refineries, many controlled by foreign interests, impose on the price.
Trump is happy to spend billions of dollars on attacking Iran and making US and world security worse, so we have no funds for environmental protection, medical care, education, scientific research, humanitarian aid, and on and on. Maybe we should close some of those bases that were just heavily damaged, rather than try to repair them.
Trump said that the cursed ballroom would be built with donated funds. Did something change? Considering that the "donors" are forking over so much, what do they expect to get in return? If anyone believes that there is no quid-pro-quo here, they're deluded.
Putin's objective has been met. No surprise. Putin has Trump by the b***s. We all know Putin has something very big on Trump and has been blackmailing Trump for years.
Are the billionaires of the Heritage Foundation and the High Priests of the Jesus Jihad ready to take out the Trump Crime Syndicate yet? That is the only relevant question. If the answer is "yes" they will privately instruct their agents in the MAGA Congress to remove him through impeachment and conviction. If not, the WH Toddler and Crime Boss will continue to spew sewage from his face hole and continue his reign of terror against basic human decency.
Wow was Norah O'Donnell fast on her feet Sunday night :
NORAH O'DONNELL: The so-called manifesto is a stunning thing to read, Mr. President. He appears to reference a motive in it. He writes this quote, "Administration officials, they are targets." And he also wrote this, "I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes." What's your reaction to that?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, I was waiting for you to read that because I knew you would because you're-- you're he-- you're horrible people. Horrible people. Yeah, he did write that. I'm-- I'm not a rapist. I didn't rape anybody.
NORAH O'DONNELL: Oh you think-- do you think he was referring to you?
That was quite a moment, but I still wish she had followed up with a comment about E. Jean Carrol and the fact that Trump was actually found liable for sexual abuse in civil court.
And, I hope more people keep pressing the fact that Trump has celebrated violence over and over while they clutch their pearls over Jimmy Kimmel. Zeteo made a good supercut: https://zeteo.com/p/watch-trumps-own-words-prove-he-is
No need to reiterate E.Jean. We already know it. Trump does to. His immediate response proved it His expression said it all. We've all heard, or heard of, Trump's various slanders against anyone who disagrees with him, or he chooses to target. The rundown is superfluous.
He's never more unconvincing than when he's denying he's a rapist. Although denying he was a pedophile was right up there, too. And he didn't even bother to deny he was a traitor! Perhaps his BFF Pootie, was on his mind there.
It is hardly shocking that this pathetic lying loser has not clue about how to get out of any mess he makes. His entire life he has made one mess after another and left it for someone else to clean up. Now that he has ensured that no member of his cabinet is capable since he thought it brilliant to pick incompetent losers to make himself look like a "winner" there is no way out without looking like a failure. The only positive things will be his favorability will sink to the 20s and only his cult followers will be left to praise him, and Republicans are happily following him like lemmings over the cliff.
And, we will remain mired in this mess for a long time, because the way out requires removing the megalomaniacal, delusional, psychotic octogenarian sitting in the oval office, playing with the contents of his Depends. Many people and most rethuglicans simply cannot admit they chose poorly.
Makes me crazy how little pushback he gets when he spouts his nonsensical lies.
The magic word is still EPSTEIN. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/69375471a1fcf3781452cbc0/t/69ef69cfaf731f47de7110e7/1777297871750/Epstein+Complaint.4.27.26+%28optimized%29.pdf
"In other words, not only was regime change a fantasy, but the notion that without incurring any losses we could completely “take out” Iran’s military capacity, leave it defenseless, and ensure the Strait would remain open was balderdash as well."
Trump's penchant for hyperbole has become an albatross around his neck. Let's hope it gets heavier and heavier (and heavier...).
Trump must have figured that Iran would be as easy a mark as Venezuela. Lacking preparation or exit strategy, he forced us into grabbing a tiger by the tail, and the escapade is now eating our economy and that of other countries around the world.
As the saying goes, "he chose poorly."
bankrupt 6 times
Trump's attempt to bankrupt the country is going to be a 'fail' as well. We are bruised, but we shall survive.
that, Mr. Steve remains to be seen
I remain optimistic that the midterm elections will be a turning point. The fight is far from over.
It’s maddening. He’s the gaslighter-in-chief and has gotten away with these ridiculous lies forever. However, it’s looking like our idiotic war of choice against Iran is a lie too far for many. Not his MAGA cultists, but those who supported him for reasons other than racism and adoration for their dear leader. The folks who voted “for the price of eggs” and “to keep us out of foreign wars” are beginning to see the lies.
hope so
The thing that needs to be taken out is the garbage of this administration.
Seditious conspiracists, violent J6 insurrectionists & cop beaters are "patriots", but the real dangerous enemies within are Dems, immigrants, "fake news” & comedians? Resist the gangster authoritarians. #VoteBlue! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBj57ivPsxQ&list=RDuBj57ivPsxQ&start_radio=1
In Trumpland, saying something makes it true. And if you said the opposite just yesterday, well then, the truth just changed-- that's all.
And the MAGAts buy this bullstuff-- hook, line and stinker.
I suspect there are at least some Repugnican'ts in Congress who know it's a big, stinking, steaming load of horse poop, but they're afraid to speak up lest they get primaried out by someone who is far crazier than they are.
I was picking up my dog at the vet where I saw this poster, "Puppy Property Laws." If I'm playing with it, it's mine. If I'm thinking about playing with it, it's mine. If I was playing with it yesterday, it's mine. Etc., etc.
Naturally, the first person I thought of was Trump.
“ In Trumpland, saying something makes it true. And if you said the opposite just yesterday, well then, the truth just changed-- that's all.”
George Orwell would be very unhappy in a Dr. Ian Malcolm kind of way: “ God, I hate being right…” as the Tyrannosaurus stalks out of the paddock.
The number of Repulsican Congresscritters who know the President is a 3-year-old prevaricating moron probably hovers at near 100%. But the power of the cult (or their fear of it) is such that almost none dare break ranks.
The thing I will never get is -- anybody who's known anything has always known this guy was a piece of dumb, wily excrement. Why on earth did they never think they would pay the price for backing him?
Maybe they counted on the general stupidity of the American public, or at least a big enough fraction of the public to win in a close election.
As mentioned before, better fear the voters more than being primaried. People will only stand for legislators not keeping promises, hiding from them, not answering questions and not serving their needs for so long.
When bigotry and ineptitude meet stupidity and cupidity all wrapped up in a lying sack of garbage….this is what you get.
I would change the word "garbage," but otherwise.....yes!
The narrative has shifted back to the necessity for a gilded ballroom.
Yeah, well, Iran has no more gilded ballrooms!!
/s/
No gilded ballrooms,but they have the Strait
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If President Trump wants to “lower the temperature” in America’s political discourse, I urge him to publish the speech he planned to give at the WHCA dinner last Saturday. He can show us the kind of language he’s going to avoid going forward, and, in effect, admit his own complicity in the way things are today.
I’m not holding my breath.
Only his written speech was probably fine. But he wouldn't have only said that; he would have ad-libbed with his real thoughts.
And just think about all the "new material" he has now after the assassination attempt. Nora O'Donnell got the first taste, just wait for the next go around. Hell, maybe he'll have all the reporters & any Dems at the dinner hauled off, just for show!
Trump knows he's destroying this country and helping Russia. He knows.
Things are going to get much worse if Trump either stalls or escalates. It is terrifying to think that this madman is basically deciding what is going to happen with the whole world economy--especially since he seems incapable of coming to terms with reality.
And his toadies in Congress are enabling it all.
And Russia and China keep winning…
Keep remembering—as bad as he is, he wouldn’t be nearly as dangerous without his coterie of enablers: the Cabinet, GOP Congressional Members, SCOTUS, most of the main stream media, and the quasi-Libertarian “tech bro” billionaires. Fixing our nation’s problems means dealing with all of them, not just him.
don't leave idiot americans off your list !
Please define who you are referring to. I'm sure (well, maybe not so sure) that you aren't saying that all Americans are idiots. Most are people who are just as appalled as I am about what this administration is doing to our country AND international relations. Many who seem unengaged just honestly are doing what they can just to get through life, without the energy to process all the crap in the news. So who's left? People who feel attacked because they feel left out and put down by people who look down on them and call them names. Guess that covers it, What are YOU doing to help open up that silo so that those "idiot" people can see in and feel accepted, even when they disagree? Please let's focus on opening up our own minds and freeing ourselves from the tyranny of hate, which just gets in the way, and makes things worse.
The oil companies are winning too. Big time. "Obscene profits" this quarter are expected.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/28/middle-east-crisis-oil-firms-profit-colombia-conference
Canada may be winning too, as Trump and his atrocious behavior has enabled Mark Carney to have a firm majority after being re-elected. And he is proceeding as if Trump doesn't exist, reporting recently:
"Abroad, we’ve secured more than 20 economic and security partnerships across four continents in less than a year...We’re re-engaging with global giants like India, China, and Brazil, and we’re deepening our partnerships with our closest allies, including the European Union, the Nordic countries, and Australia....As a result, we’re attracting the strongest investment in the G7. And we’re on track to double our non-U.S. exports within a decade, at $300 billion of new orders for Canadian resources, goods, and expertise."
Good for them. It will probably work out better for them in the long run. Sad for us, though. I'll miss our former BFF. (I keep hoping Canada might annex Michigan, or at least, the Upper Peninsula where I live.)
If Trump really wanted to defeat Iran, he'd make Iranian oil worth less, not more.
We are energy independent. If China wants oil, we can sell it to them. Today in NYT,
Guyana’s wartime oil boom
The energy shock wrought by the war in the Middle East has established winners and losers across the globe, and thrust some countries into an outsize role in international markets.
Tiny, oil-rich Guyana is one. The South American country has become a surprising power player amid the war’s upheaval, Vivienne Walt reports.
The nation’s president, Mohamed Irfaan Ali, has been courted by President Trump, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India and Qatar’s emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. On Friday, Wall Street will focus on how Guyana factors into Big Oil’s profit push, when Exxon Mobil and Chevron report first-quarter results.
Multiply Guyana by Venezuela, Nigeria, etc.
Iran has concentrated its attack on UAE, its principal rival in the oil business. More missles and drones against UAE than Israel.
We are not energy independent in terms of not needing to import ANY oil. The reason for that is our oil from fracking is "light, sweet crude" and we don't have the refineries to make it into gas or other products. Trump said to the world, "Come buy our oil". His buddies whom he promised would do well under him if they contributed to his campaign, are going to do very well indeed. (Our refineries are geared towards heavy, sour crude such as that from Venezuela, which is why he wanted it.)
Right now, we only get about 8% of the oil we import from the ME, but the problem is that oil sells as a global market item, so as it rises everywhere, it costs us more too.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2026/04/08/does-us-get-oil-from-middle-east/89521086007/
Paul Krugman discusses the coming price hikes, as the stored oil that has been released comes to and end, and oil prices rise everywhere. https://paulkrugman.substack.com/
That, sir, is prpaganda brought to us by Big Oil. OPEC dictates, fixes production, thus prices. Inside baseball, the price of gas is dictated by the profiteering that refineries, many controlled by foreign interests, impose on the price.
Once upon a time, this was a bipartisan issue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Oil_Producing_and_Exporting_Cartels_Act
Today UAE says it will leave OPEC starting May 1.
I don't understand. What specifically are you saying is propaganda?
trump is an idiot, bankrupt 6 times
Trump is happy to spend billions of dollars on attacking Iran and making US and world security worse, so we have no funds for environmental protection, medical care, education, scientific research, humanitarian aid, and on and on. Maybe we should close some of those bases that were just heavily damaged, rather than try to repair them.
But the Senate Republicans seem to think we have $400 million that we should fork/f**k over for his goddam ballroom/bunker.
Hmm, that bunker. The fact he thinks he's a king. Is that bunker going to be the equivalent of the castle keep?
yeah, we can keep him in it until he passes
Trump said that the cursed ballroom would be built with donated funds. Did something change? Considering that the "donors" are forking over so much, what do they expect to get in return? If anyone believes that there is no quid-pro-quo here, they're deluded.
Putin's objective has been met. No surprise. Putin has Trump by the b***s. We all know Putin has something very big on Trump and has been blackmailing Trump for years.
the only big thing on trump is his stupid hair...
Are the billionaires of the Heritage Foundation and the High Priests of the Jesus Jihad ready to take out the Trump Crime Syndicate yet? That is the only relevant question. If the answer is "yes" they will privately instruct their agents in the MAGA Congress to remove him through impeachment and conviction. If not, the WH Toddler and Crime Boss will continue to spew sewage from his face hole and continue his reign of terror against basic human decency.
Wow was Norah O'Donnell fast on her feet Sunday night :
NORAH O'DONNELL: The so-called manifesto is a stunning thing to read, Mr. President. He appears to reference a motive in it. He writes this quote, "Administration officials, they are targets." And he also wrote this, "I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes." What's your reaction to that?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, I was waiting for you to read that because I knew you would because you're-- you're he-- you're horrible people. Horrible people. Yeah, he did write that. I'm-- I'm not a rapist. I didn't rape anybody.
NORAH O'DONNELL: Oh you think-- do you think he was referring to you?
That was quite a moment, but I still wish she had followed up with a comment about E. Jean Carrol and the fact that Trump was actually found liable for sexual abuse in civil court.
And, I hope more people keep pressing the fact that Trump has celebrated violence over and over while they clutch their pearls over Jimmy Kimmel. Zeteo made a good supercut: https://zeteo.com/p/watch-trumps-own-words-prove-he-is
No need to reiterate E.Jean. We already know it. Trump does to. His immediate response proved it His expression said it all. We've all heard, or heard of, Trump's various slanders against anyone who disagrees with him, or he chooses to target. The rundown is superfluous.
totally disagree that a journalist shouldn't follow up with an indisputable fact that counters his lies, but ok.
He's never more unconvincing than when he's denying he's a rapist. Although denying he was a pedophile was right up there, too. And he didn't even bother to deny he was a traitor! Perhaps his BFF Pootie, was on his mind there.
Yeah, that was pretty rich.
It is hardly shocking that this pathetic lying loser has not clue about how to get out of any mess he makes. His entire life he has made one mess after another and left it for someone else to clean up. Now that he has ensured that no member of his cabinet is capable since he thought it brilliant to pick incompetent losers to make himself look like a "winner" there is no way out without looking like a failure. The only positive things will be his favorability will sink to the 20s and only his cult followers will be left to praise him, and Republicans are happily following him like lemmings over the cliff.
Daily Doses of Dunderhead DonOld Doubling Down.
I'm too old for this s#@!@
Right with you., and fine alliteration.
Dx6, pretty much anybody over 35 is too old for this pile of ripe manure
And, we will remain mired in this mess for a long time, because the way out requires removing the megalomaniacal, delusional, psychotic octogenarian sitting in the oval office, playing with the contents of his Depends. Many people and most rethuglicans simply cannot admit they chose poorly.