How it started How it’s going @NikkiHaley edition

Just the one who demeaned a Gold Star family and desecrated Arlington. Just the one who has fired more veterans than any other president in our country’s history. Just that one. And I will never understand how anyone who claims to support our military can support him at the same time.

No other president in the history of this country has ever dismissed the combat deaths of our men and women in uniform as “the way that it is” None. Just the one who also called the fallen of war suckers and losers. Just the one who disparaged a POW. Just the one who dodged the draft five times.

This monster — who skipped dignified transfers, skipped memorials because of rain, downplayed traumatic brain injuries because limbs weren’t missing, desecrated Arlington for a photo op — is now casually telling the country some of our service members will just have to die.

Some say it’s about legacy. In reality, it’s probably all of the above. But what it is not — is about America. We’re not even on the goddamn list.

War was never meant to sit in one cake-makeup-covered hand. And yet here we are. People say it’s about oil. Others say it’s about money. Others point to regime change — which he’s openly talked about. Some say it’s a distraction from Epstein.

And now the same glue-sniffing goon squad that once shrieked about “no new wars” nods along while cable dull-witted dickheads call dead soldiers “the price of freedom.”

How does launching missiles make insulin more affordable? The problem is, to MAGA, that doesn’t matter. Because this was never about policy. This was about permission.

And now, once again, he’s giving them coffins. While everything at home keeps tightening — people opening GoFundMe tabs for insulin while their tax dollars fund missiles launched into a mess we don’t even pretend to understand. So how does bombing some foreign country make milk cheaper?

He stitches their sexism into the national fabric until it passes for pattern instead of a tear. He lifts the lid off the things they used to whisper so the stink can settle into the room until nobody notices it anymore

He drags their bigotry out of the basement and props it in the sun like a houseplant meant to grow. He hangs their xenophobia in the front window like heirloom china instead of a stain.

Because when they say he’s fighting for them, what they’re really saying is that he hates who they hate — and in doing that: He oils the hinges on their fear until it swings open without a sound.

And one thing is fatally clear: he sure as hell hasn’t ended foreign wars. He’s dragged us into brand-new ones with even deadlier consequences. But none of that matters.

And the Epstein names are still buried under bluster, bullshit, and blackouts. All of it wrapped in the same performative pretense and packaged pablum that sold them the lie in the first place. A lie. A lie inside a lie inside a lie. A Russian nesting doll of lies.

He hasn’t fixed the roads. Hasn’t brought manufacturing back. Hasn’t made healthcare cheaper or more accessible. He’s made all of it worse. He’s added to the deficit. Mexico never paid for the wall.

He promised to end foreign wars. He promised groceries would get cheaper. He promised manufacturing would come back, healthcare would become accessible, the swamp would be drained, and the Epstein names — including his own — would be exposed.

They built an identity — one they’ll twist into whatever ideological pretzels it takes to preserve — because the mouth-breathing bullshit brigade would rather choke on contradiction than admit they were conned.

And suddenly, this is what they voted for. Because that grievance-guzzling chucklefuck caucus didn’t just build a philosophy.

Meanwhile the MAGA cult that built an entire identity around “no new foreign wars” — the drool-and-scroll dipshits who screamed Kamala would drag our children into conflict — now sit quietly while their guy tells them, in a slurry video that deaths are just the way it is & there will likely be more.

And he’s doing it from a gilded golf club, letting war be whispered behind black banquet curtains by an Adderall addict, a day drunk, and a coke-fiend court jester while nouveau riche pay for proximity to power and the rest of us get handed folded flags.

— has now sent at least three American service members to their deaths in a war he does not even have the goddamn constitutional authority to start.

sneered at a Gold Star family and scolded grieving widows, who stood among sacred graves and reduced sacrifice to a self-centered spreadsheet of “what’s in it for them,” a bone-spur-manufacturing motherfucker who once bragged that dodging STDs was his personal Vietnam

The Madman Who Called The Fallen Of War “Suckers” Is Now Sending Our Troops to Die. open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom... A 5 time draft-dodging, nepo baby with an eggshell-fragile ego — who mocked a POW for being captured, called the fallen “suckers & losers,”

You have to stand right out in the cold light of day saying loud and proud that you support Epstein’s BFF and love George W Bush’s foreign policy, and that you think it’s great to stomp out freedom of speech in America to defend the information interests of Israel.

You can’t lie to yourself about who he is anymore, so now all you can do is side with his depravity. You have to directly side with war, authoritarianism, corruption and abuse.

His actions and his words have made that impossible; he’s been openly advancing longstanding neocon warmonger agendas after publicly admitting to being bought and owned by the world’s richest Israeli, Miriam Adelson.

You can’t lie to yourself and pretend he’s anti-war anymore. You can’t lie to yourself and pretend he’s fighting the Deep State and sticking up for the little guy. You can’t lie to yourself and pretend he’s making the world a better, more peaceful place.

Imagine still being a Trump supporter. Think about what a desolate wasteland of spirit you’d have to have inside you to keep supporting that ghoul after all this. You’d have to stand for absolutely nothing. You’d have to have no values besides “triggering the libs” and lower taxes for billionaires.

It must be a surreal to be a diplomat appearing on a foreign news show to speak to newscasters, and suddenly finding yourself having to explain to fully grown adults that your nation is fighting the US military because the US military attacked your nation. The western press are a fucking joke.

“Because they are attacking us!” Araghchi replied with a chuckle. “They are US military installations, facilities, bases who are attacking us. We are under attack. Why don’t you, you know, recognize this fact?”

Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi went on NBC News to discuss the war and was actually asked by co-anchor Laura Jarrett how Iran can justify striking US military bases in the region. “Why is attacking US military bases abroad justified?” Jarrett asked. <God is she insipid>

“Tehran is now doing everything it can to demonstrate the opposite — despite the massive cost it itself will pay.”

“Iran understands that many in the American security establishment had been convinced that Iran’s past restraint reflected weakness and an inability or unwillingness to face the US in a direct war,” Parsi writes.

It would be great if Tammy Baldwin would pull her head out her butt and stop arguing about Congressional prerogatives and as a paraplegic veteran denounce Hegseth, Graham and Trump's indifference to the value of American military lives.

Quincy Institute’s Trita Parsi assesses that Iran believes it needs to impose severe costs on the US before returning to the negotiating table, because they know if they make a deal now they’ll just be attacked again in a few months unless they establish clear deterrence.

Iran has reportedly rejected Trump administration offers to make a deal after the initial rounds of attacks.

Only the United States could bomb a country, kill its leader, massacre its children, declare the intention to destroy its military and topple its government, and then call that country’s retaliation against US military bases “unprovoked”.

US Calls Iranian Retaliatory Strikes "Unprovoked", And Other Notes open.substack.com/pub/caitlinj... US Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz used the word “unprovoked” to describe Iran’s retaliatory strikes on US military bases in the region, which is just plain hilarious.

I question whether Trump actually realizes that Iran is a nation of 93 million people the size of Alaska. That's before we factor its military -- which isn't insignificant.

Trump: "I think, if what happened in Venezuela happened in Iran, that would be the perfect scenario. They'll be subdued in the end, yes. I am confident that Iran will eventually surrender to the will of the US and Israel."

Trump today said "sadly, there will likely be more" US casualities, noting "That's the way it is."

The Simurgh reports that the US military is transferring senior military from its bases in Bahrain to Saudi Arabia via the bridge connecting those two states.

Macron has announced that he is sending the French aircraft carrier Charles de Galle to the eastern Mediterranean to support Israel. My source is Middle Eastern Stream

Middle Eastern Stream is reporting that US CENTCOM is underreporting US casualties. Apparently the damage to a US base in Kuwait has been severe & severe damage was done to a US base in Bahrain. US CENTCOM denies that the USS Abraham Lincoln has hit, though I know it was targeted by 4 missiles.

Berlin, London and Paris have announced that they are prepared to take defensive steps to destroy Iranian military capabilities. They are putting targets on the backs of their citizens.

the base in question is the UK Akrotiri air force base, and it was hit by a drone.

It was just reported that piercing sirens are going off at the US military base in Kuwait.

The Lebanese PM, attempting to appease Israel and the US made an announcement that Hezbollah launching rockets at Israel endangers Lebanon and provides Israel a pretext for attacking.

relative to Keir Starmer announcing the US can use British airbases, Iran did attack and take out of service a British base on Cyprus today. I don't know if Starmer's remarks preceded or followed the Iranian attack.

The symbolism of Booker T. Washington is lost on most Americans but not for many black Americans. Washington was a strong advocate for black advancement and higher education -- but also was an advocate for "separate but equal" -- meaning that the Trump Regime hopes to reintroduce apartheid.