You've got to be kidding me! Instead of an official government report we get this entertainment movie style release 🙄 This'll make the Salem Witch Trials look like child's play. I'll tell you an abduction of a very specific person I'd like to see right now and I'd like it to be permanent.

You've got to be kidding me 🙄

The days of US coercion are coming to an end. There may be one or possibly two countries that feel the pressure, but it is quickly going the way of fading empires. When fading empires lose respect they resort to force instead of diplomacy. They make laughable ultimatums. Eventually they are ignored.

He knows whereof he speaks. Nothing says "I know how this will go" like someone who helped clean up mess for Britain and that was a country who had the ability to keep basic services running when they did separated and it still didn't go well.

Any president who sues his own government while in office should immediately be impeached.

Q: As American as _______? A: Guns. Just guns. Lots and lots of guns.

Good morning Bluesky peeps and welcome to Taco Tuesday 🌮

I understand how tired you are. It feels like an uphill battle. There's a low-level background stress that never goes away. Solid ground has vaporized. Guard rails are missing. Gone. But don't give up! Don't let them win. You're still here. You're stronger, braver, and more resilient than you know.

The term “Thucydides trap” is that the established superpower manages the rising power badly and feels obliged to go to war when that’s not necessarily the only option.

Honestly, I don't care what you believe. None of that is anybody's business. But when you openly proselytize and push your own religion on others as a superior on your employees that is beyond the pale. This! This is Project 2025 in all its ugliness. This is exactly what they wanted to do all along.

Seriously?! Would you hire this painter? 😲

Self-defense? This is like saying, "He pulled my hair!" after you punched him in the face 🙄

To be clear. Vaccines are like a computer virus program update. It doesn't give your computer a virus. It doesn't harm the operating system. It shows the virus software a "signature" that looks like the virus it's trying to stop. That way it recognizes so it prevents it from infecting your computer.

Here he is folks. The best "deal" maker in the world 🙄 Run the US like your other failed businesses and this is what you get. You turn allies into wary partners who reconsider their alliance to you, drive them to other markets, and while you're busy "winning" they quietly step away from the table.

"The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all." John F. Kennedy

Here's the truth of the matter

People ask me, "What happened to the US?" Well, it's just like when you're dating someone. They can only sustain out of character behavior for so long before they become who they really are. In dating it's the 6 mos mark. For the US? There were early signs, but it took 250 yrs for that to happen.

Mark my words, the Middle Powers will be the next Super Power.

Everything Trump says is meant to manipulate, grift, and/or distract. Iran Navy isn't destroyed. Hostilities haven't stopped. The war isn't over. Not even close. Just because you say it's so doesn't make it so. Trump has gotten the US into an intractable conflict. When will it end? Anybody's guess.

AI Data Centers (DCs) are KW hungry beasts. To combat that DCs are now using LFP batteries for backup power. Batteries made from potash and phosphate. The very thing farmers use for fertilizer, which is in short supply thanks to the Iran war. Not only will we be in the dark, we'll go hungry too 😔

Not on the merits of Iran's proposal, mind you, but on whether Trump thinks they've been punished enough for the past 47 years. That's right 47. How can you take him serious? It's all a game to him. Truth is we're all being punished while he makes out like a bandit. He's a criminal and a scoundrel.

Trump has a 90 minute phone call with Putin and then pulls 5000+ troops out of Germany 🤔

Feel like we're watching Wag the Dog on steroids? Sex scandal (Epstein files)? Drummed up war (Iran)? Operation to recover downed pilot (Trump can't share the limelight so no fake hero here)? All made for media consumption to boost his poll numbers? You can't make this up . . . or maybe you can 🙄

No, the United States hasn't completely destroyed Iran's weapons or Navy or leadership. No, the United States isn't winning the war. Saying so doesn't make it so. Saying the war is over doesn't end the war. He's hoping his followers just accept what he says without question. They'll see soon enough.

Old sayings that still have modern application: "You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. " Just like you can't make a decent human being out of a multi-bankrupted real estate developer/grifter who's also a convicted rapist.

I usually feel I can trust the AP for correctness, but this? From their article today King Charles "will become the first British monarch to address the U.S. Congress since his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, in 1991." Am I missing something? Isn't he the ONLY British monarch since Queen Elizabeth?

This is a tight rope walk where if you fall it's expected and if you succeed it doesn't matter. Trump may be an anglophile, he may admire the pomp and pagestry of it all, he may even fancy himself as some sort of king, but he'll never be one. King Charles is simply a figurehead. A relic of the past.

If your ego is so fragile maybe you shouldn't be in the highest office of the country. This is exactly what the Correspondence Dinner is about. It's about jabs and roasting people. Trump can't take a joke. He takes everything personal. What could possible go wrong with that? Just saying 🙄

Ever feel Trump thinks the World is his stage? That everything he does is an act? That everything he does is to manipulate the audience? What happens when no one cares what he says or does anymore? What happens when the audience starts to leave? What happens when he starts playing to an empty room?

How to find 10% of 1% Multiply the two values: 0.10×0.01=0.001 Then convert the decimal back to a percentage by multiplying by 100: 0.001×100=0.1% Finish by questioning your life choices and whether you're living in a parallel universe of the absurd 🙄

It's gone from horrible to absurd 😬 If this was a movie I would have walked out in the first ten minutes.

Norah reads shooters post: “I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes." Trump: “You’re horrible people. Horrible people . . I’m not a rapist. I didn’t rape anybody . . I’m not a pedophile.” Norah: “Oh, do you think he was referring to you?”

Basement level poll numbers? War in Iran a complete mess? Ballroom project is just rubble? Economy tanking? Former allies and trade partners turning away? Guess it's time for another incident. Pretty soon he'll be able to say he's the most shot at President ever. Not really a claim to fame, is it? 🙄

This is what you say when you're trying to distance yourself. As if being the White House Press Secretary wasn't a political position. She's literally the Presidents mouthpiece who has to spin his insanity to the press (and public at large) every single day.

The Strait of Hormuz is a digital infrastructure chokepoint. It's where the majority of internet traffic occurs between Asia, Europe, and Africa. That data travels on fiber-optic cables that run underwater in the Strait. 95% of all global internet data flows through there and now Iran controls it.

The Strait of Hormuz is a digital infrastructure chokepoint. It's where the majority of internet traffic occurs between Asia, Europe, and Africa. That data travels on underwater fiber-optic cables. Approx 95% of all global internet data makes is way through those cables and now Iran controls it.

If this happened in any other progressive country they'd be horrified, mourning would take place country wide, and steps would be taken to try to prevent another. It's become so common in the US they hardly have time to read the headline before it happens again. You had the opportunity, but didn't.

Most of us only read headlines and move on, but this headline tells you more about NBC than anything. They didn't catch that Pope wasn't capitalized. The Pope is not a thing. It's an official title of the Bishop of Rome. If NBC can't get this right what can they get correct? Good job.

You can't read this and not think Trump is confusing reality with cinema. I don't doubt that the US keeps files on everyone including the papacy and I'm sure we would be shocked to see some on those files, but one thing I can tell you for certain is who the Pope answers to and it isn't Donald Trump.

I'm not a military expert, but when you conduct a war don't you have to also create a pipeline to support those troops? These buffoons actually thought they'd simply bomb and leave. No thought of anything else. They have put our military men and women in a very precarious position. It's criminal!

We are literally at the point in history where the Pope is battling the Antichrist. 🍿

I think this is the most likely explanation for what unfolded after the fact. #DonaldJChrist

These two separate stories from Reuters were released one hour ago. So what is it? Is the USD is rising or is it falling? Actually, given the whims of DJT and what happens with Bibi and his illegal war, it's a 50/50 shot either way.

Crypto tolls in the Strait of Hormuz? Absolutely! Trump's crypto business is a glaring conflict of interest, but the same tech he's profiting from is being used by Iran to undermine US sanctions. Crypto tokens aren't easily seized because they basically circumvent the US financial system.

When they say it's a "man's world" this is exactly what they mean. Doing whatever you want with impunity.

Remember when the world wasn't such a friggin' mess? Yeah, you were 12 then 🙄

"The lady doth protest too much, methinks." And she certainly knows how to deliver a veiled threat from a seat of power. Remember, people connected to Epstein have died.

The US has always been about conquest. About taking. About their Manifest Destiny. About what's mine is mine and what's yours is mine. Sometimes clothed in diplomacy, sometimes wrapped in opportunistic treaties, sometimes openly hostilic, but always about taking never about anything else. Period.

Can we stop talking about impeachment and start talking about imprisonment

Surprise! American White Jesus didn't return when Christian Zionist dispensationalists joined Israel in their ill-conceived apocalyptic Middle East war. As a matter of fact, things are now even worse than before. Go figure. Someone should let Hal Lindsey know. Oh, that's right. He's dead 🙄