| second: Trump’s aides have been telling him Iran’s civilian infrastructure is a legitimate wartime target, despite the understanding among experts that such attacks are illegal. A White House official added that destroying electric plants could foment civil unrest, which would in turn make it more difficult to produce a nuclear weapon.
Ryan Goodman of Just Security commented: “That would be an F on a bar exam.” He observed, “This isn’t legal analysis. It’s idiocy.” [go to link] |
6ixStringJack: Love it!  |
| second: Trump to Iran: "Open the Fuckin' Strait" or face bombing Tuesday
[go to link] Are you getting the feeling that Trump is mentally unraveling? Maybe this Trump quote on Sunday will convince you: "Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah." |
| second: Trump requests an additional $500 billion dollars for the Pentagon's annual budget and 6ixStringJoker's flippancy is "Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah..." I believe 6ixStringJoker might not be aware of how much money half trillion dollars per year is nor is he aware of how to win a war with Iran. Winning in Iran is NOT about destroying maternity hospitals, kindergartens, and power plants. The USA did that in Vietnam but it didn't work for Nixon and won't for Trump. By the way, 6ix, Vietnam is still around and very much Communist, the very reason the USA attacked in the 1960's. If Trump wants to change Vietnam's government like he is trying to change Iran's, bombing it back to the Stone Age is NOT the tactic to use. [go to link] |
| 6ixStringJack: Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah... |
| second: President Donald Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth are stuck in the logic of escalation, according to which the feeling of defeat today can be reversed by doing the first thing that comes to mind tomorrow. Trump is surrounded by people who are making money from the war; each day of war strengthens a warmongering lobby with personal access to the president. Trump wants to increase the defense budget by nearly 50% without any review of what the money is for; this is strategic nonsense, and has to be understood as a payoff [go to link] |
| 6ixStringJack: Go donate some money and save some kids then if you give a shit, Ted. You don't really give a shit, so you won't. So you might as well not say anything at all. |
| THG: We're on the precipice of a $10 trillion wipeout: Prof G warns rising oil prices could cause global markets to unravel.
Do you know how many children are going to stave Jack? Do you even care? |
| second: Trump Is Robbing You to Pay for His Dumb War. Not content with launching a costly and disastrous war on Iran, Trump has unveiled a new plan to pay for it by further slashing domestic programs that keep Americans economically afloat. His new 2027 budget document is effectively a political suicide note. With his war on Iran, Donald Trump has already landed a quadruple axel of political self-destruction: notching the most unpopular US war effort in modern history, splitting his own political coalition, seeing his approval rating dip below Joe Biden’s, and, for the first time, falling underwater with white working-class voters. [go to link] |
| second: Someone in the White House seems to have put the word out: Stop talking about a free and prosperous Iran, and start talking about pulverizing Iran until you can sift the rubble through a tennis racket. On Wednesday, Donald Trump vowed to bomb Iranian targets hard enough to send them “back to the Stone Ages where they belong.” Pete Hegseth also tweeted “back to the stone age.” The messaging shift over the past couple of weeks reflects a change in plans, after Iran’s resistance proved more vigorous than expected. This mismatch—with America measuring its success by its destruction of Iran’s capabilities, and Iran measuring its success by its stubborn will to fight—has left Trump sounding frustrated. How badly must he devastate the Iranian military before he is allowed to declare victory? [go to link] |
| THG: Doesn't add up—diesel surged 45% and crushed 900,000 American truckers |
| 6ixStringJack: That's a good one. I like that. |
| second: 6ixStringJoker, if you stand in front of a mirror and whisper “Dumb-ass” 3 times you will see yourself. |
| 6ixStringJack: No. I mean you. |
| THG: Thank Trump |
| 6ixStringJack: Sad... |
| THG: 'Sends shivers down your spine': Farmers sound alarm as fertilizer prices surge 30%, and it could hit wallets far beyond the fields next. |
| second: White House budget chief Russell Vought requested $1.5 trillion in defense spending, a roughly 42 percent increase from 2026 funding levels. It comes as the U.S. war with Iran stretches to five weeks with no clear end in sight. Republicans have swiftly embraced Trump’s proposal, framing it as a fulfillment of key campaign promises. To pay for the spending increase, they propose cutting non-defense spending, stuff like Medicaid. And why not? Medicaid recipients do not control the Strait of Hormuz. Yes, deluded Trumptards are certain of their convictions and evil ones are convinced of their rectitude. [go to link] |
| THG: The government isn't funding these programs, the taxpayers are. And we want them. |
| THG: Trump and the republicans have been saying forever, as they tried to repeal the ACA that they would offer something much better. The country cried bullshit. Trump just said Medicare, Medicaid childcare and the rest are a scam and the government should not be footing the bill for any of them. |