It’s OK though. After stock prices crash Monday morning, Trump will announce his threats worked and really really serious negotiations to end the war are underway. The Dow will rebound sharply, while savvy investors who bought at the dip will profit. Then TACO Tuesday will arrive and what do you know, Iran won’t be bombed back to the Stone Age. More 5D chess by our Leader!
How on earth would that apply to Nixon?
I have James Comer and Mitch McConnell.
It could go that way. But not if anyone within Donald’s hearing floats the “resign with dignity by claiming to have brain cancer” theory (mentioned 50-or-so posts up-thread).
He’s not leaving voluntarily, no matter how Dignified an excuse is offered him.
And if anyone says “25th” where he can hear it, he’ll call for the nuclear football.
(I do think it likely that he’s no longer in the ‘play the Market’ phase he’s been in recently. He’s so far gone now that he might really think nuking Iran would work out swell for him.)
“Our President is not a Christian and his words and actions should not be supported by Christians.”
Seriously?
Well, not now, that he’s dead, but that is a perfect description of Nixon in 1972-73.
I am terrified to agree with you. He may well think “Well a nuke ended the war with Japan so it’s bound to work again!”
And very importantly to him, it would let him end the war with a “win”. Killing a few million Iranians would be more than worth it to him; none of them are Trump, and therefore by definition their lives are worth nothing.
Along with punishing the Iranians for not bowing down to him like they are supposed to. Don’t they understand that he’s the purpose and center of the Universe?
If you read this with Roman Troy Moronie’s voice, it sounds exactly like something from Johnny Dangerously.
Ditto.
Shortly after I moved to China in 2012, I was on the phone with my oldest brother. I told him I was surprised the Chinese news media were doing wall-to-wall coverage of the U.S. election. I forgot what scandal was highlighted in said election. My brother said it made perfect sense because the Chinese authorities could point to that and tell their people how screwed up the U.S.'s system is and thus they should appreciate how the Chinese authorities are selected.
Little did we know.
One cannot lose that which one has never had.
Very good!
I’ve taken to calling it his vanity war. Prove me wrong.
Count yourself lucky. When I write mine (a Georgia republican, sadly, Barry Loudermilk), I actually get a response that’s obviously not a form letter. It’s gushing Rip van Simple idolatry, but, hey, it shows he cares. Of course all he cares about his worshiping his tan-in-a-can conman idol.
Remember the hymn title game? After the title, just add “in bed” or “between the sheets” to it.
Which he has been told by said NATO countries in exacty those term, IIRC.
Here’s a fun stunt. Grant someone asylum, start a war against their home country, then arrest them.
Yeah we have the worst of the worst.
Trump said today in a phone interview with Fox News that if Iran won’t deal, he is “considering blowing everything up and taking over the oil.”
"But in his phone interview later Sunday with ABC News’ Rachel Scott, Trump pushed back on that characterization, saying “there could be a deal, and there could also not be a deal. I don’t know. I have no idea what these people, they’re getting the s— beat out of them, and that’s, that’s all I can tell you. There’s been no country that’s ever taken a pounding like that.”
A stable genius and an accomplished student of history, Donald is.
Could be another sign he’s decompensating mentally.
Or decomposing.
I’d prefer that. Wonder if it would smell worse than he does now?
He’s often been coarse in the past, but in the last year or so, yeah, it’s seemed to have ramped up, and he’s dropped several F-bombs in public.
Examples:
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/24/nx-s1-5443337/trump-expletive-israel-iran
REGIME CHANGE JOB #1. “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED”
Twenty-six generals and admirals in fourteen months. No misconduct cited for a single one.
A former Fox News weekend host who never held a senior military command has removed the Joint Chiefs Chairman, the Army Chief of Staff, the commander of Army Transformation and Training, the Chief of Chaplains, and at least 22 other senior officers from the most powerful military on earth. He blocked four Army officers from promotion to brigadier general, two Black men and two women, by unilaterally striking their names from a list of 36. When Army Secretary Dan Driscoll refused to remove them, Hegseth did it himself. No hearing. No review board. No Senate consultation. The names were struck because the man who reads the list decided they should not be on it.
The pattern is not random. It is architectural. Every removal serves the same function: shortening the distance between a presidential decision and its execution. The officers who remain are the ones who did not resist. The officers who resisted are gone. The replacement for the Army Chief of Staff is Vice Chief General Christopher LaNeve, who served as Hegseth’s personal military aide. The man who carried the briefcase now signs the orders. The chain of command has been rebuilt so that every link answers directly to the man who removed the previous link.
General Randy George was the commander of the United States Army’s ground forces. That title matters now in a way it did not matter six weeks ago. Before February 28, ground forces in Iran were a theoretical exercise discussed in war colleges and think tanks. After five weeks of air strikes, with the IRGC publishing bridge target lists across four allied nations, with the President saying the military has “not even started” destroying what remains, with MEUs staged in the Gulf and the 82nd Airborne deploying and JSOC operators at forward bases in four countries, the ground option is no longer theoretical. It is a logistics package. And the man whose job was to assess whether that package should be opened was told to retire the same day the President posted “much more to follow.”
Lieutenant General Hodne ran the command that trains every soldier who would execute a ground operation. Major General Green led the chaplain corps that would minister to every soldier who dies in one. George decided whether the operation should happen. Hodne prepared the soldiers to carry it out. Green prepared them to live with it. All three were removed on the same afternoon.
Congress has not held a hearing. No subpoenas issued. The legal authority for a Defence Secretary to unilaterally override promotion lists and force immediate retirement of Senate-confirmed officers during wartime has not been tested because nobody with the authority to question it has chosen to.
The IRGC has said attacks will “intensify from next week.” The Ford carrier is heading back. The CNN intelligence assessment confirms half of Iran’s launchers and thousands of drones remain. The President has named the next targets: power plants, desalination, oil wells, Kharg Island. And every general who might have said “this crosses a line” is already gone.
Twenty-six officers. Zero misconduct findings. One question that every general still serving is asking behind closed doors: who is left to say no? And what happens when the answer is nobody?
Trump and Hegseth will fire every general who opposes a ground invasion and predicts it will be a disaster. Then, when the invasion does turn into the disaster as predicted, they’ll fire the generals in charge of leading that invasion, calling them incompetent.
Don’t forget his tried and true method of creating a problem for his successor to deal with. He’ll end up making a deal with Iran and when the next president follows the terms of the deal, more Americans will die and the felon will blame that next president.
And the magatlatearthers will lap it up just like they did with Afghanistan.
[bolding mine]
I admire your optimism.
No matter what, he’ll die eventually.
Remember: entropy is our friend. It’s the one thing we can always count on.