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Sabrina Wood's avatar

Excellent well written article. Thank you.

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drbilldean@gmail.com's avatar

Cheeto Uses Iran Attack to Bail Out of Domestic Issues

Orange Cheeto leaned into the Israeli Iran Conflict with his strongman mentality and initiated a bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities In a way with Israel having weakened the Iranian air defense with a large bombing campaign Cheeto decided that the risk would not be high to move ahead and help Netanyahu "finish the job" with the nuclear facility bombing The other factor is that Cheeto is taking domestic hits at home with his strongman immigration policies with losses in court so the “distract card” was played

Now we as a nation is hoping that this is it Cheeto elected to ignore the national intelligence community that Iran has enough enriched uranium to create an atomic bomb but did not have a bomb https://bit.ly/3GaRbBz This US attack will set back the Iranian uranium program for a year but not deter But Iran could have removed the enriched uranium to another secure site before the bombing occurred

Cheeto hopes that this is a one off but the Iranians are in this for the long haul This maybe another Iraq "weapons of mass destruction" except no one can prove that Cheeto was wrong that Iran had the bomb based on its enriched uranium stores But one thing is clear that Cheeto is going to go full bore on Iran hence America is at war

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Al Barwick's avatar

“No One gets out of here alive!” Donald J. Trump is a mortal human being of advanced age and questionable heath. A great majority of Americans will determine our future unencumbered by Mr. Trump.

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Diana Platts's avatar

L'état, c'est moi ... Louis XIV

This is what Trump means when he rants about the opposition to "our country."

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Marie's avatar

Watching little Marco on face the nation. No sound. He looks like a spic dick tater. Muted all the glory story this morning of the porn star president attacking a country without the consent of Congress. Then all the big dick porn star media allowed the pogram powered propaganda to spew the great leader’s lies. So disgusting.

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OldnTired's avatar

3 of the members of the current SCOTUS were appointed by Trump, the other 3 'conservative' members were appointed by GHWB and GWB. A half dozen turds and no roses among them. And though Democratic President appointed judges on the Article III level still significantly outnumber those appointed by Republican presidents, the placement and jurisdiction comes into play. We all know that Trump ALWAYS goes for a sympathetic venue if he can, and if he can't, he cries like a baby. The Federal judicial system, supposedly the backbone to prevent abuse of power by the government, is sick and failing in their responsibilities. The MAGA SCOTUS has tossed out the Constitution time and time again to give His Royal Hind End rights that no other court, nor the Constitution, ever gave a president before.

Trump has stacked the deck in Federal Law Enforcement. You can take it to the bank that agents sent out to do his dirty work were hand selected for their willingness to do whatever he wants, without question. His expansion of organizations like ICE will be done by only hiring those who are political soulmates and subservient to his power, and with a tendency to be brutish for the pleasure of it.

As for Iran, may G-d have mercy on all those caught up in the conflagration that will follow. Of course the Saudis aren't being critical of us. They want our weaponry and shield, not even to discuss them being a Sunni Muslim state standing in opposition to the Iranian Shia Muslim state. The joke is, Trump has no concept of why the Iranians hate America so much. Look up the 1953 Iranian coup by Britain and the CIA. Then they chaffed under the Shaw for many years. The ayatollahs came to power because the worldly Shaw went against their fundamentalist principles. Sounds a lot like America today, don't it? Make no mistake about it, Iran is not a good guy. But if we want to say that we want to keep nuclear weapons out of the hands of dangerous states, then when will Trump attack North Korea's nuclear program. (rhetorical question)

By the time the largest mass of America wakes up to what's happening around them under the Trump Regime, it may be too late.

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MPT's avatar

The only thing trump wants is better poll numbers. As his polls crash at home, he needs to bomb the populace with war lies, and more lies. He is a lying, psychopath with quickly diminishing faculties telling the world he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize while bombing a country where there was a nuclear agreement before trump tore it up and then tried to basically reinstate the same treaty. The man is a walking,mumbling, bumbling bag of contradiction and stupidity. His only accomplishments are chaos and turmoil. Those two items he accomplishes on a daily basis. The maga maniac strikes again.

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Maxine Hunter's avatar

Dropping big bombs to take our eyes off that budget bill is not a surprise. That budget bill must be rejected. What it contains is not a "brave new world." It reflects a world full of meanness that I thought I would never see or experience. What on earth is the GOP thinking? Answer: They are not thinking. They are mindless zombies watching the world explode around them and us. Shame on them.

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gayle gibson's avatar

A fine essay about an irrational time. People all over the world must rise up and condemn this action. The man somehow elected as your president must be held accountable.

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Linda MacDonald's avatar

Powerful commentary. Direct. It is a Call to all Americans who are standing up now to defend our democracy, our constitution, our republic from this fascist regime, their funders and suck-ups to NEVER GIVE IN OR GIVE UP. Like John Lewis let us make GOOD TROUBLE for this regime until we achieve the kind of nation we truly aspire to become! It is The Fight of the generations now living, as critical, even moreso, than the battles for civil rights for all people joined in the 1960's. And THOSE battles began generations before those years. Make no mistake. Taking the masks off ICE and STOPPING THE GOP and Project 2025's democracy busting "budget" bill is just the beginning. "An evil man (many evil men) will burn down their country to rule over the ashes." There are a lot of arsonists in our government. Let's take their capacity to start fires out of their hands by marching peacefully against them, and while we still can voting them out of office at every opportunity.

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James McDermott's avatar

I hear no mention or debate about the application of the 1973 War Powers Resolution that defines and limits the President's authority to use military forces in the absence of Congressional authorization or declaration of war or national emergency. Trump is pushing the limits of his powers in a worrisome authoritarian direction with the apparent compliance of Congress.

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Linda MacDonald's avatar

"worrisome", "apparent"? Here is your sentence in a more direct way: Using the authoritarian playbook, trump will use war with Iran to distract Americans from the "budget" bill currently in the senate. It is a democracy busting bomb that the slim, yet compliant gop majority will do its best to pass.

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