If the US drops a nuclear weapon on Iran, Russia might not immediately drop one on Ukraine, instead choosing to point out that the United States would have done so three times.
I’m not sure that calm, strategic thinking is the standard once mushroom clouds commence.
And now it’s time for The President’s Brain Is Missing, special “I dare one of these reporters to just ask him what year it is right now” edition.
"Q: You message has moved from ‘the war is coming to an end’ to ‘we’re gonna be bombing Iran to the stone ages.’ So which is it?
TRUMP: I don’t know"
“We want Greenland. NATO doesn’t want to give it us. And I said, ‘Bye bye.’”
“Somebody said, ‘Oh, he doesn’t have a plan.’ I have the best plan of all, but I’m not going to tell you what my plan is.”
“[The Iranians are] willing to suffer that in order to have freedoms. We’ve had numerous intercepts – ‘Please keep bombing. Do it.’ These are people that are living where the bombs are exploding.”
“We’ve got 45,000 soldiers in South Korea to protect them from Kim Jong Un, who I get along with very well. He said very nice things about me. He used to call Joe Biden a mentally retarded person.”
“God is good. And God wants to see people taken care of. God doesn’t like what’s happening. I don’t like what’s happening. I’ve ended eight wars.”
“I’m going to Venezuela. I’m gonna run for president.”
“How Israel can vote for a Democrat is-- if you’re Jewish in New York City or anyplace else in this country, how you can vote for a Democrat is unbelievable”
“This should’ve been handled by seven presidents. And those presidents are saying now, every one of them, to their friends, ‘We should’ve done this a long time ago.’”
“Iran was a great country if you go back 25 years ago or so”
“They came in so fast and so hard. ‘Let’s go – bwaaaa!’ They came one right after another. Not as the same time. They don’t want to come at the same time. They had to come right after each other. There was barely any room to land. A tiny little patch of very wet earth.”
“How did I do with the voters that do eggs?”
“It was a big thing to our great First Lady, who’s here someplace. Let’s see. I think this is our First Lady.”
What’s that you say, Mrs. Robinson?
Sleepy Joe has left and gone away
Hey, hey, hey
So he’s going to run for President of Venezuela? Has anyone checked his poll numbers there?
I often wonder about our billionaires, oligarchs, heads of major corporations, etc. I get that they’re thrilled with Donald’s blessing on lawlessness and fraud. I understand that they love the ‘no regulations’ Trump Regime.
But I wonder how they think their business will do when the nukes start destroying cities.
I guess it’s the power of optimism!!!
He said he has overwhelming support.
They literally have fantasies about living in ultraluxurious post-apocalyptic bunkers. Complete with things like security troops kept in line with shock collars.
And it is a fantasy. There’s no chance it’ll work like they imagine. They are just too irrational to acknowledge it.
Third base!
I hadn’t heard the word “decimate” in a while. Probably since I learned it came from the supposed act the Romans had of killing one of every ten treasonous soldiers. Apparently trump is going to decimate Iran.
It’s going to be a favorite word of trumps. It’ll be a perfect decimation of power plants, people and every kind of flora and fauna. Do they have minarets? Decimate!
Had he thought of blowing up the Strait of Trump? Blast a ship-wide canal alongside it. Perfect!
Trump to the Artemis II crew: I saved NASA and I did Space Force and it was the bigliest thing ever
Ack, I watched it and immediately rolled my eyes/ cringed. When his voice came on I kind of stopped paying attention, but as we all know, there’s no way to block out that grating sound coming out of his puckered butthole of a face opening. The astronaut from Canada was as gracious as, well, a Canadian 
. Thanked him and the U.S. for leading the way. And I may have imagined it, but it looked like Christina Koch was biting her tongue or trying to keep her Tang and Space Sticks down while he was blathering. I don’t think she said anything to him.
@WOOKINPANUBv.2 I’m wondering how much credit the magaflatearthers will give him and how much he will tkae when, thanks to his weaponizaiton of space, Russia does it faster, better, and more lethally than the US.
Are you a journalist? Pack your bugout to prison bag. (The bolding is mine.)
The Suppliant Court of the US gives the felon yet another pass.
I sure hope the Kurds aren’t counting on the US to be their ally.
Sergeant’s new wife arrested by ICE after honeymoon.
It’s almost like he knows he’s committing war crimes.
*Aside: some years ago, I was eating lunch at a restaurant in Incheon. Some jerk started smoking in the restaurant. I told him in Korean that there’s no smoking in the place. His response was to ask me what country I’m from.
FUN FACT: the country I’m from and the outlet the journalist work for have no bearing on the sitution.
Isn’t this part of a B-movie plot? (The link is a video.)
We know who the journalist is - Amit Segal, a prominent Israeli journalist and right-wing pundit, co-anchor of the Israeli Meet the Press, who’s considered close to the Netanyahu administration.
He probably will not be turning himself over to the U.S. authorities.
The crew of Artemis II have gotten farther away from Donald Trump than anyone else in history ever has. But they still can’t escape his voice.
Pete Hegseth continues to mix the military with religion:
Hegseth Compares Airman Rescue to the Resurrection
In his account of the rescue operation, Mr. Hegseth drew parallels between the airman’s ordeal and the account of Christ’s death and Resurrection given in the Bible.
The F-15E fighter jet, he noted, was “shot down on a Friday — Good Friday.” That is the day Jesus was crucified.
After the airman bailed out over Iran, he hid, Mr. Hegseth said, “in a cave, a crevice, all of Saturday,” reminiscent of the tomb cut into a rock in which Jesus was buried.
Then, he said, the airman was rescued on the day Christians celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus — “flown out of Iran as the sun was rising on Easter Sunday.”
“A pilot reborn, all home and accounted for, a nation rejoicing,” the defense secretary said. “God is good.”
From Heather Cox Richardson’s Substack today. She quotes Aaron Rupar, whom @Smapti regularly cites in his (much appreciated) The President’s Brain Is Missing updates.
“It’s really difficult to cover him in a way that conveys how unhinged he is,” journalist Aaron Rupar of Public Notice told George Grylls of The Times* about President Donald J. Trump. Rupar explained that political journalists are trained to think, “‘OK, what did he say that was newsworthy?’ So you…convey that to your audience. But in reality, when you actually watch his rallies, you see that they’re full of hatred, he’s lying constantly, and a lot of it is incoherent.”
Rupar spends as much as eighty hours a week watching Trump and members of his administration, clipping videos of their noteworthy statements into a few minutes at a time. His work is indispensable for translating Trump’s long, meandering speeches to people who need shorter versions of them. In this quotation, he nails the real problem of this moment in which the president of the United States is threatening “obliteration” if another nation doesn’t do as he demands: the noteworthy story is not what the president says; the story is the president himself and his obvious mental deterioration.
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My bold.
WHOA! Talk about taking one for the team.
* That would be The Times of London. Here is a free link to the Rupar article, courtesy of H.C.Richardson:
Trump is threatening to annihilate the Iranian people tonight.
JD backs up the president’s threats, saying that we deserve a world where oil and gas flow freely, and if we don’t get that world, the president’s got tools in his tool box which he hasn’t used yet but will use. So: give us oil or we nuke you.
Well, it IS Tuesday…so there’s that.
ETA: And Congress is in recess this week, right? Not that that would make any difference on either side of the aisle.