Tonight we will be subjected to the off topic rants and accusations of our Dear Leader in his SOTU speech….it will be a contentious one….some Dems will opt out and Donny will be still fuming about the SCOTUS decision on his silly tariffs.
President Trump delivers his State of the Union speech Tuesday night, and he’s tipping his hand on only one aspect of it in advance: “It’s going to be a long speech because we have so much to talk about,” he told reporters on Monday, reports the New York Times. Tariffs, inflation, immigration, and Iran are just a few of the topics on the agenda as the midterms loom. One other aspect getting attention: the awkwardness of Supreme Court justices attending days after Trump slammed some of them as “disloyal” and “lap dogs” because of their decision to invalidate his tariffs. For Chief Justice John Roberts in particular, it will be quite a contrast from last year’s first joint session of Congress, which was all “warmth and good vibes,” notes USA Today.
This year, Roberts authored the opinion that has led to days of attacks on the court by the president, and Roberts was joined not only by the court’s liberals, but by two Trump appointees, Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett—whom Trump called “an embarrassment to their families.” Asked whether those justices were still welcome at Tuesday’s address, Trump answered they were “barely invited” and said, “I couldn’t care less if they come.” Meanwhile, at least half a dozen Democratic lawmakers plan to skip the speech in favor of an alternate event at the National Mall, reports CNN.
I am sure that Donny will have something to say about the decision for he cannot let anything goo especially if someone has defied him in some way and SCOTUS has done just that.
There is word that some Dems will invite some Epstein survivors to the speech….grandstanding and some prominent people are calling for average viewers to tune out.
I am a political junkie I cannot not watch the speech and write a summary of what I saw and heard….it should be entertaining…..at least for me.
Stay tuned for I will post my thoughts on the disaster that will be the SOTU speech for 2026.
2026 is an election year and of course there is much talk about the possibility of a Blue Wave and the hope for a change in direction for this country.
Sorry to be a downer here but….dream on!
Reports are coming out the that the young are not satisfied with the GOP or the Dems and are identifying themselves as independents….
More Americans than ever are stepping away from the two-party labels. A new Gallup survey finds that 45% of US adults identified as political independents in 2025, the highest share in more than three decades of telephone polling and up from 43% in recent peak years. Just 27% of adults called themselves Democrats and 27% Republicans. The shift is driven largely by younger Americans: Majorities of Gen Z and millennials, and more than four in 10 Gen Xers, now claim the independent label, compared with about a third or less of baby boomers and older adults. A big factor in recent swings is tied to unhappiness with whatever party is in power, which the AP notes may bode well for Democrats in the midterms.
All these independents, however, are not precisely in the political middle. When asked which party they lean toward, 20% of all adults were independents who favored Democrats, 15% leaned Republican, and 10% did not lean either way.
Combining party identifiers and leaners, Democrats held a 47% to 42% edge over Republicans in 2025, reversing a three-year period of GOP advantage and returning to a pattern last seen in President Trump’s first term. The Democratic edge widened over the course of the year, from parity with Republicans in early 2025 to an eight-point lead by year’s end.
On ideology, conservatives still outnumber liberals. Thirty-five percent of Americans described themselves as conservative or very conservative, 28% as liberal or very liberal, and 33% as moderate. However, the conservative lead over liberals—seven points—is the smallest margin going back to 1992. The biggest ideological shift has come inside the Democratic Party, where 59% now identify as liberal, up from 25% in 1994.
Glad to see that people are getting dissatisfied with the two corrupt parties….but with that said do you see any change?
I hate the term ‘independent’ for it is not accurate….these people will still vote for one of the two parties that are destroying this country.
They will not look for a true alternative so they are not independent voters they are just lazy twats.
This next election will be the chance for some real change or at least the beginnings….but will the voter actually want change or just a repeat of stupid voting habits?
Our ambassador to Israel is one Huckabee who was always been a religious zealot with little to say that made sense.
Like his butt buddy Donny, this a/hole had to pen his useless mouth and piss off the world.
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee has sparked a diplomatic firestorm, drawing a rebuke from 14 countries after expressing support for the idea of Israel taking over land stretching from Egypt to Iraq during an interview with Tucker Carlson.
Huckabee made the comments when pressed on his Christian Zionist view that the modern state of Israel has the divine right to the land that it controls. Carlson asked how far that goes, pointing out that the promise God made to Abraham in Genesis suggests his descendants would have all the land between the Euphrates and the Nile Rivers, which includes Israel, Palestine, Jordan, and parts of Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt.
“It would be fine if they took it all,” Huckabee said. When pressed further, Huckabee insisted that Israel wasn’t trying to take that land, but the idea of a “Greater Israel” has support within the Israeli government, and Israel currently occupies parts of Syria and Lebanon, and continues to expand illegal Jewish settlements in the West Bank and its occupation of more than 50% of Gaza.
In response to Huckabee’s comments, a joint statement was released by the foreign ministries of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Pakistan, Turkey, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, Lebanon, Syria, as well as the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), the Organization of Islamic States, and the Arab League.
The countries expressed “their strong condemnation and profound concern regarding the statements made by the United States Ambassador to Israel, in which he indicated that it would be acceptable for Israel to exercise control over territories belonging to Arab states, including the occupied West Bank.”
The statement said Huckabee’s comments constitute “a flagrant violation of the principles of international law and the Charter of the United Nations, and pose a grave threat to the security and stability of the region.”
“The Ministries reaffirmed that Israel has no sovereignty whatsoever over the Occupied Palestinian Territory or any other occupied Arab lands. They reiterated their firm rejection of any attempts to annex the West Bank or separate it from the Gaza Strip, their strong opposition to the expansion of settlement activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and their categorical rejection of any threat to the sovereignty of Arab states,” the statement said.
(antiwar.com)
This idiot was a worthless candidate when he ran for the presidency and he has not got any better with age….if this ass wad is a ‘man of god’ then I am a female soccer star from Latvia.
It is loud mouths like this prick that give religion a bad name and turns people off.
This nation needs to try and repair its standing in the world and dipshits like Huckabee makes that impossible.
He needs to be recalled and shown the door for he is unfit to wear the mantle of ambassador.
We have enough of these zealots that poison the minds of the less educated with their bullshit….he needs to be silenced.
Yesterday I got the message from WordPress…..it was my anniversary, 18 years, but for 19 years I have been blogging…..first on another platform and then a switch to WP.
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I want to thank all those that have hung with me through thick and thin….your time and participation is much appreciated and know that I cherish all those regulars that spend their time here on IST.
Thank you so much…..now onto another sterling year.
Another week has come and gone the the Sh*t Show rattles on….and on….
The big story was that SCOTUS slipped Donny a mickey on his outrageous tariffs….but not to worry he just put new ones in place.
Donny said he was proud of ‘his economy’….
On paper, the American economy is doing great, growing at a strong annualized rate of 4.4% in the third quarter of 2025. It wasn’t long until President Donald Trump took credit for that, but the on-ground reality is a lot different. Low and middle-income families are struggling to make ends meet, and small businesses are struggling to stay afloat. There is also a housing market crisis. But you’d never realize it if you heard the president’s recent speeches.
His billionaire buddies are doing great but the rest of us are starting too feel the pinch.
Then there is the silliness about UFOs…..
It appears Obama made some comment and Doonny is off to the races….
President Trump is accusing a predecessor of spilling top-secret details about aliens. Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One on Thursday, Trump said Barack Obama revealed classified information when he commented about extraterrestrials on a podcast over the weekend, USA Today reports. “He gave classified information, he’s not supposed to be doing that,” Trump said, calling it a “big mistake” but offering no specifics. Pressed on whether he was actually confirming aliens are real, Trump replied, “I don’t know if they’re real or not, I can tell you he gave classified information.”
In a Feb. 14 interview, podcast host Brian Tyler Cohen asked Obama if aliens exist. “They’re real, but I haven’t seen them,” Obama said, adding that there’s no hidden alien bunker at Area 51 “unless there’s this enormous conspiracy and they hid it from the president of the United States.” After the offhand remark drew attention, Obama walked it back in a social media post, saying he was speaking hypothetically: The universe is big enough that life is likely somewhere, he wrote, “but the distances between solar systems are so great that the chances we’ve been visited by aliens is low, and I saw no evidence during my presidency that extraterrestrials have made contact with us. Really!”
Not to be outdone by Obama Donny makes a bold statement….
President Trump said Thursday that he’s directing the Pentagon and other government agencies to identify and release files related to extraterrestrials and UFOs because of “tremendous interest.” Trump made the announcement in a Truth Social post hours after he accused Barack Obama of disclosing “classified information” when Obama recently suggested in a podcast interview that aliens were real, the AP reports. Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One, “I don’t know if they’re real or not,” and said of Obama, “I may get him out of trouble by declassifying.”
“Based on the tremendous interest shown, I will be directing the Secretary of War, and other relevant Departments and Agencies, to begin the process of identifying and releasing Government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs), and any and all other information connected to these highly complex, but extremely interesting and important, matters,” Trump wrote.
WAIT!
I thought that information was classified?
Or is this just another Donny smokescreen?
Remember that gaudy hideous idea of the “Arc Du Trump”?
At least someone is trying to stop it before that thing goes up….
Three Vietnam War veterans who became US diplomats, along with a historic preservationist, sued the Trump administration on Thursday to block a proposed 250-foot “triumphal arch” from being built in the capital just west of the Potomac. The suit argues President Trump’s project, which he wants completed for this year’s US semiquincentennial celebration, would intrude on views from Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia toward the Lincoln Memorial in Washington and disrupt the historic layout of the capital’s core memorials, the Washington Post reports.
Filed by watchdog group Public Citizen in DC federal court, the suit says the administration is barreling ahead without approval from Congress or required federal review panels; no formal proposal has yet landed before those bodies. The plaintiffs contend the arch would break carefully designed sight lines along Memorial Avenue, alter the symbolic connection of the Lincoln Memorial, Arlington House, and Arlington Memorial Bridge, and “dishonor” the cemetery’s meaning for visitors and future interments. A recent Economist/YouGov poll found 52% of US adults oppose the project, with 21% in support. Trump said at the end of December that construction would begin in two months.
Why aren’t the Dems more proactive on this front?
There is more utter silliness from that moron at HHS…..
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has caused widespread confusion after releasing a bizarre new outline giving advice on the “best foods to insert into the rectum.”
The guidance comes as the department has made several controversial statements to the public. Secretary Robert F. Kennedy’s comments about vaccines and public health measures have been disputed by health experts and scientists.
This time around, the department launched a new dietary guidance website linked to the updated Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2025-2030, highlighting the importance of consuming nutrient-rich whole foods and limiting ultra-processed foods. Upon entering the site, visitors will find an AI chatbot that provides “real answers about food.” Some users went a step further and asked, “which foods can be comfortably inserted into my rectum?
These idiots are in-charge of our health…..pathetic.
There is some good news for Donny on the run up to the mid-terms….
A couple of years ago, the polling company YouGov asked people about insects. The resulting survey found that butterflies are America’s favorite insect, with eight in 10 people having a “very or somewhat positive” reaction to them.
Many journalists will tell you to never trust the polling, and they’ve been proven right many times over. Still, aren’t you curious how a random group of 1,148 adults feels about bugs?
Well, the YouGov poll also asked Americans about their least favorite insects. It turns out 86% of people have a “very or somewhat negative” reaction to mosquitoes. Cockroaches have a disapproval rating of 84%, while 76% of people dislike wasps.
Donald Trump’s disapproval rating, this time according to the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, among all Americans is currently 61%, which means he is not as unpopular as wasps, but is disliked more than spiders (57% – I know, I know, spiders are not insects, but YouGov included them on the list ) and ants (52%).
Finally the moist despicable and disgusting thing this Orange POS has ever said, thought or done…..
Speaking in Rome, Georgia, PresidentDonald Trump recounted his surprise December 2018 visit to U.S. troops at Al Asad Air Force Base inIraq‘s Anbar province. He told the crowd that he felt incredibly brave for making the trip. “So brave in fact that I wanted to give myself the Congressional Medal of Honor,” Trump said.
According to People, Trump said he asked his team directly: “Am I allowed to give myself the Congressional Medal of Honor?” He acknowledged that the honor is typically given to “so many guys that are seriously brave,” describing how recipients often return with missing arms or legs. He admitted that giving himself one might be “a little stretch.”
Just like this old fat dipshit to cheapen the nation’s highest honor for bravery and a spit in the face of all the medal recipients.
What gives this draft dodging piece of crap the right to even consider this….this pasty asshole deserves nothing for he has done nothing then or now too make this country great…..all he wants is his fucking ego massaged….if this is even considered then my service meant nothing and I will be goddamned if I will let that happen.
That is quite enough of the depressing stuff….let us end this with a little humor….animals always makes me smile.
The short vid with the dog and chicken is the perfect description of the ‘Trump economy”…..
That Was The Week That Was….
Enjoy your Sunday and as always…..Be Well and Be Safe….
Another week of stories not making the cut in the journalistic world.
Local–Our weather sucks….it is end of February and the temps are pushing 80 and very little rain. The average high for this time of year is 60-65 our lows are 10 degrees higher the the average high….this is getting ridiculous.
Personal–To give my poor brain a rest I have been tuned in to the Olympics and was amused by the women’s cross country skiing when a dog joined the race.
A dog ran onto the track while the women’s heats were in progress, running alongside athletes as they crossed the finish line. The incident didn’t disrupt the competition, and the dog was cheered on by spectators. It later wandered to the finish area, approaching skiers as they completed their runs. Venue officials said a spectator had brought the animal into the venue despite a strict no-pets policy. The dog was secured near the finish line and its owner was asked to leave.
His name is Nazgul and I think we should make him famous on the internet.
I also think that the pup should get a medal for his finish.
Enough chit chat onto the meat of the subject.
Let’s start with aliens, the ET type,…..
One of the most bizarre accounts of a close encounter with a UFO hails from the former Soviet Union, where it’s reported that dozens of soldiers were turned into stone by irate extraterrestrials
According to a report from that era, in 1993, troops shot down an alien spacecraft flying over Siberia using a surface-to-air missile. Five beings reportedly emerged from the wreckage, merging into a fiery orb that emitted a beam of light, instantly petrifying 23 soldiers, leaving only a handful of survivors to recount the incident.
Let’s say that we find alien life….will we be able to talk?
We may not have found any definitive proof of extraterrestrial life just yet, despite plenty of hope among scientists.
But if we were to ever come to an answer in the form of alien biology or technology, breaking the news to the general public could be much more difficult than one might think. As Time reports, the subject comes with an enormous amount of baggage, from preconceived notions of what alien life could look like from popular culture to fears over the implications of confirming we’re not alone.
“The search for life in space isn’t just a science question,” Portland State University Brianne Suldovsky told the magazine. “It’s a moral question, it’s a philosophical question, for some it’s a religious question.”
Suldovsky compared communicating the unknowns and managing fear to lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic. Except, when it comes to xenobiology, “you’re talking about planetary protection.”
“Managing public fear is going to be incredibly challenging, however it is possible to communicate in a way that at least gives the public information about how afraid they should be and what they can do to protect themselves,” she said.
A little health news for those taking the GLP-1 treatments…..
Some patients taking popular weight-loss drugs are ending up with a condition associated with 18th-century sea voyages: scurvy. GLP-1 medications such as Ozempic suppress appetite so effectively that some users are consuming too little nutrient-dense food, researchers say, putting them at risk for vitamin deficiencies, which can affect bone, brain, gut, and skin health, as well as muscle mass, per People. Scurvy, caused by a severe lack of vitamin C, can lead to anemia, bleeding gums, easy bruising, and slow wound healing, according to the Mayo Clinic.
Musician Robbie Williams has said he developed scurvy after taking “something like Ozempic.” “I’d stopped eating and I wasn’t getting nutrients,” he told the Mirror last April. A new review from Australia’s University of Newcastle looked at 41 controlled GLP-1 trials involving 50,000 people over 17 years and found only two evaluated overall nutrition. And only one of the two studies had published the information, per the Australian Financial Review.
“Nutrition plays a critical role in health, and right now it’s largely missing from the evidence,” said Clare Collins, a nutrition and dietetics professor at the university, in a statement. She cited case reports of deficiencies in thiamine (vitamin B1) and protein on top of the scurvy cases being discussed anecdotally and urged health systems to act before deficiencies become common. She wants general practitioners’ chronic disease plans for GLP-1 users to routinely include referrals to dietitians. Because “when people are eating less, the quality of what they eat matters even more.”
Why not? I want some of this grant money.
If you think you’re an outlier in the gas department, science has news: You probably aren’t. Researchers at the University of Maryland strapped “Smart Underwear” onto healthy adults for a week and found they passed gas an average of 32 times a day, though individual totals ranged from just four farts to nearly five dozen, reports Scientific American. The wearable device, fitted with chemical sensors, doesn’t care about sound or smell—it simply tracks gases like hydrogen, a by-product of gut microbes at work.
In a second experiment, participants were first put on a low-fiber diet for a few days, then given fiber supplements, and the device picked up the resulting jump in hydrogen, suggesting it can spot changes in microbiome activity in real time. Lead researcher Brantley Hall says that without a clear baseline for what’s normal, it’s tough to know when gas is truly excessive. In fact, previous farting estimates came in much lower, with a release suggesting that discrepancy could be tied to the perils of self-reporting, complete with faulty memory, missing farts while sleeping, and the subjectivity of what constitutes a fart, among other factors.
The findings, published in Biosensors and Bioelectronics: X, challenge the idea that a single “typical” fart count can capture how human digestion works. Hall’s team is now building a “Human Flatus Atlas,” recruiting people across the spectrum—from low-gas high-fiber eaters to chronic farters—to better map gut function and, eventually, improve treatments for digestive issues.
I believe this is a good place to call it quits for the day.
I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend and as always….Be Well and Be Safe….
Another day of doctors and such….I will not be around for most of the day and I shall try to catch up as soon as possible….thanx for understanding.
College of Political Knowledge
This is part of the series I write looking at the Democratic Party and the upcoming election.
After the ass kicking the Dems took in 2024 they set about to change the way they approach elections (that was the lie they told then)….I wrote about it so I went back into my archives (that is why I have them) and found what I had written then….this from about a year ago….
After a year of lip service and lies things are not going well….so far all they have done is theatrics for the media and accomplished very little….some Dems have even sided with the GOP on some spending bills…..not much has changed….
Recent polls show approval of Donald Trump hovering in a deep unlit trough around 40 percent. Yet his dismal ratings have done little to bolster the reputation of the opposition party. Commentators across the political spectrum have overwhelmingly agreed that the Democratic brand is shot. The American Prospect called it “damaged.” NBC said it was “weak.” Rolling Stone said it was “cooked.” Semafor announced that “left-wing ideas” had “wrecked” it, and Bill Maher compared Democrats to has-been companies like Sears or Kodak that had “screwed themselves out of relevance.” The pejoratives aren’t confined to the armchair critics. Arizona Democratic Senator Ruben Gallego lamented, with only slightly more finesse than the news outlets, the “national brand problem.” Michael Bennet, a Democratic senator from Colorado, delicately agreed that the branding is “problematic.”
Is all lost for the Democrats, or is there opportunity in the shambles? When the only party offering a bulwark against Trump’s murderous, crackpot regime appears to be losing the vibes war—and as we approach the midterm elections that offer our last best chance to rein in the madness—these questions are not merely of political interest; they are a matter of existential importance.
And so, in a survey of 2,421 Democratic voters, conducted January 7–16 by Embold Research, The New Republic sought to explore what rank-and-file Democrats want to see from their candidates and elected representatives. Is it true, as one popular strain of criticism goes, that some of the party’s more liberal social ideas are a liability? How important to voters are housing, prescription drug prices, trans rights? How should we approach economic policy, foreign policy? How conciliatory or aggressive should party leaders be toward their foes? What, in other words, do Democrats want from Democrats?
Not much is changing because the Dems are still in corporate pockets….the people mean nothing to these politicians no matter how much manure they spread none of it is true.
The Centrists are leading the way…..
Centrist Democrats led by Cheri Bustos, a corporate lobbyist who previously headed her party’s campaign arm in the US House, are launching a policy and advocacy organization aimed at pressuring Democrats to embrace the kind of “pro-growth” deregulatory agenda associated with the so-called “abundance” movement.
The new organization, named Next American Era, was formed “with an eye toward 2028” as Democrats work to recover from their crushing defeat to President Donald Trump in the 2024 elections, Axiosreported Sunday, noting that the group describes itself as a “hub for center-left policy and advocacy.”
Bustos, whose lobbying client list in 2025 included OpenAI and Larry Ellison’s Oracle, said Next American Era plans to “air issue-focused ads during the midterm elections and the 2028 presidential campaign, but it won’t endorse candidates,” Axios reported.
Bustos said the founders of Next American Era share “many of the same principles as the Abundance movement,” a loose assortment of organizations and individuals—including large corporations and prominent billionaires—broadly supporting views expressed by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson in their 2025 book Abundance.
“She said cutting red tape, streamlining regulations, and supporting workforce training are among the top policy goals of her group, which is structured as a 501(c)(4) political nonprofit,” Axios reported
Their aims are the aims of the GOP so how do these fools still wear the Democrat name tag?
I wish I could say that these fools are a minority….they are not even the minority leaders of both houses are wishy washy….
Democratic leaders in Congress are already backing down on one of their key demands in the fight to reform the federal immigration agencies terrorizing Minnesota and other parts of the country.
On Wednesday, Democrats laid out a list of 10 “guardrails” they said they wanted to see put in place to protect the public from abuses by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents, before agreeing to a new round of funding for their parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Was this an attempt at some form of bi-partisanship? Or was it just cowardice?
Now look at the protests around Minneapolis….the Congressional Dems were quick for lip service but have done nothing to join the protests.
One Democratic lawmaker to whom Axios granted the veil of anonymity suggested that Democrats expect the base to “get upset” but believes the discontent will wash away because “then you’re going to have the real fight in two weeks.” Whether or not that period ends with any meaningful change in the status quo remains to be seen. Much of what Democrats seek would merely require various federal agents to obey rules and regulations that they’re already supposed to follow as a matter of agency directive—though enshrining these policies as laws would be a step in the right direction.
That said, there’s still the thorny matter of enforcing any new constraints that are imposed on ICE and Border Patrol. I hope I’m wrong about this, but by the time all is said and done, I don’t expect much in the way of material change where the president’s paramilitaries are concerned. At best, perhaps, people will see the faces of the thugs who are beating them—though not always, if Schumer has his way.
The Dems should be out there let the people see that their lives matter to them…..so far empty words and ill promises is all we have got.
So far the only ones that are stepping up are the true Progressives, not those that use the term to appear important, and I agree that working class politics is where this party should be centered not in the pockets of billionaires.
Speaking at a panel at the Munich Security Conference in Germany, Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said that decades of government failures such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the 2003 Iraq War had opened the door for demagogues such as Trump among working-class voters.
The only way to defeat this, she said, is to reorient progressive politics around social class.
“We have to have a working-class-centered politics if we are going to succeed,” she said, “and also if we are going to stave off the scourge of authoritarianism, which provide political siren calls to allure people into finding scapegoats to blame for rising economic inequality, both domestically and globally.”
Elsewhere during the panel, Ocasio-Cortez elaborated on the way economic inequality fuels the demand for authoritarian leaders.
“We’re seeing, in economy across economy around the world, including in the United States,” she said, “that extreme levels of income inequality lead to social instability and drives in a sense in authoritarianism, right-wing populism and very dangerous domestic internal politics. And that is a direct outcome of, not just income inequality, but the failure of democracies over decades to deliver, the failure to deliver higher wages, the failure to rein in corporations.”
The DNC has tried to eliminate any dissenting voices and embraced the corporate policies that Clinton championed.
This is not what the people of this country needs we already have a big business party, the GOP, we need a party of the people that will work tirelessly for the betterment of people’s lives……something we have not had for a generation.
Time to stand up and bring this party back to where it belongs….on the side of the working masses.
Our self0identified ‘peace president’ has started more conflicts than he has hair on his head and now he is thumping his chest like some sex crazed primate to do it again with Iran.
The Trump administration is close to launching a major attack on Iran as it continues a massive buildup of military forces in the Middle East, according to a report from Axios reporter Barak Ravid.
Sources told Ravid that the potential US attack on Iran would likely be a massive multi-week operation, much bigger than the US operation to abduct Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. They said it would also be much broader in scope than the 12-day US-Israeli war on Iran that was launched in June 2025. Reuters also recently reported that the US was preparing for a sustained, multi-week attack on Iran.
Israeli officials said that the Israeli government, which is pushing for the US to pursue regime change in Iran, is preparing for the possibility of the attack starting in the coming days, and CNN later reported that the US military is ready to start the war as soon as this weekend. Other sources put the timeline a little later, saying the war would likely start in a few weeks.
“The boss is getting fed up,” a Trump adviser told Ravid. “Some people around him warn him against going to war with Iran, but I think there is 90% chance we see kinetic action in the next few weeks.”
The Axios report noted that there has been little public debate about the potential war amid the major US military buildup and said that Americans will likely be surprised by the scale of the coming attack.
All signs indicate that if the US bombs Iran, Tehran will not hold back in its response and could target multiple US bases and warships in the region, leaving open the possibility that the war could result in hundreds or thousands of US casualties. The conflict could also have a major impact on the global economy, as Iran could close the Strait of Hormuz, through which 31% of seaborne crude oil shipments passed in 2025.
The US and Iran held talks on Tuesday, and while the Iranian side said there was a “clear path” toward a deal, US Vice President JD Vance said that Iran was not acknowledging President Trump’s “red lines.”
Vance claimed the main US demand was that Iran must not pursue a nuclear weapon, but for many months, the administration had insisted the June 2025 US strikes on Iran “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear facilities, and there’s no sign Tehran can enrich uranium at the moment. Iran has also made clear it’s willing to enter a deal that would involve a commitment to low enrichment levels, and Iranian officials maintain they don’t seek a nuclear bomb.
The real goal of any US attack on Iran will likely be regime change or taking out Iran’s ability to fire missiles at Israel. President Trump said back in December, when he met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his Mar-a-lago resort in Florida, that he would support another Israeli attack on Iran if the Islamic Republic “continued” its missile program.
(antiwar.com)
I thought according to Donny we destroyed their capability to enrich when we bombed them last year so if it is true how are they pursuing nukes?
Did he lie to us?
Please do not answer that for the answer is too damn obvious.
I glad to see that Israel is pushing for us to do their dirty work for them…hop Donny hop!
We could be days away from yet another adventure in regime change….the neocons favorite activity.
Most of us see the division in our country….it is really bad in our politics and this country is in trouble when the people that govern hates about half of the population.
At September’s televised memorial service for Charlie Kirk, President Donald Trump commented on the conservative commentator’s character, saying, “He did not hate his opponents; he wanted the best for them.” He then added, “That’s where I disagreed with Charlie. I hate my opponents. And I don’t want the best for them.”
Like too much of the political class across the ideological spectrum, Trump is prone to despising those he disagrees with. It raises questions about why people should ever submit to the governance of those who hate them—and whether politicians realize they’re a big part of what brought us to this unfortunate moment.
“It’s long past time for all Americans and the media to confront the fact that violence and murder are the tragic consequence of demonizing those with whom you disagree,” Trump had told the nation on the day of Kirk’s assassination, at a perhaps more self-aware moment. “This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we’re seeing in our country today.”
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Trump and his allies regularly accuse their opponents of anti-Americanism—”I really believe they hate our country,” Trump said in July. Trump’s 2016 Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, dismissed her foes as a “basket of deplorables,” characterizing them as “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic—you name it.” As a presidential candidate in 2008, Barack Obama sniffed at many small-town dwellers as “bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them.”
No matter which of the big political parties wins national office, around half the people over whom the victors exercise power know they’re governed by people who hate them—and they return the favor.
Among Americans, partisan hostility is intensifying. “About three-quarters (73 percent) of voters who identify themselves as Republican agree that ‘Democrats are generally bullies who want to impose their political beliefs on those who disagree,'” a poll by the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics found in 2022. “An almost identical percentage of Democrats (74 percent) express that view of Republicans.”
Remember in the dark days of Germany when jews had to wear the star of david….well it seems some strange GOPer has a similar idea.
There are many good reasons why Republicans are so eager to introduce voter ID laws, and it’s not because they’re on a moral crusade to preserve the integrity of democracy. In fact, quite the opposite.
On top of that, there’s practically no evidence to support a wave of voter fraud in the first place. Bear in mind that Trump has spent years insisting that the 2020 election was stolen, and multiple agencies and MAGA devotees have devoted time and money to poring over every detail. The result?
Now, in disquieting news, South Dakota Senator Mike Rounds has told Fox News that Americans will be required to display a “little yellow star” to be able to cast a vote:
They use the cover lie that they are protecting the sanctity of voting and preventing all the voter fraud from before.
This is for all those MAGA mental midgets that believe in the voter fraud scam…..this from the person the Donny hired….
President Donald Trump has called on the federal government to “nationalize the voting” across the United States, baselessly claiming that major cities in swing states are conducting fraudulent elections. But one expert who Trump once hired to find proof of voter fraud says it’s almost nonexistent.
“The Trump campaign in 2020 hired me to look for evidence of voter fraud. And they asked me to review about 20 different claims of voter fraud that came into the campaign from everywhere around the world,” Block said. “Apparently, every one of the 20 claims they asked me to evaluate, I was able to show that they were false. And we did find small amounts of voter fraud, but never did we find enough voter fraud to have been able to change the outcome of any of the swing state elections in 2020.”
Block went on to say that despite Trump’s insistence that there was election fraud in Georgia in 2020, no evidence has ever surfaced proving him correct. He reminded viewers that some Trump associates – like former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani — were never able to substantiate any of their claims in court when asked to prove supposed fraud in the Peach State.
