you dropped a fucking bomb on a school and killed over a hundred children. that’s a war crime. you destabilized an entire region of the planet. that’s not a ‘little excursion,’ you fucking fuck.
a ‘little excursion’? fuck you, you callous piece of shit. you flushed billions of dollars down the toilet. you damned near depleted America’s stock of tomahawk missiles.
mission accomplished! that was all Donny needed to hold a press conference and grant himself an unearned victory lap.
“we took a little excursion because we felt we had to do that to get rid of some evil. I think you’ll see it’s going to be a short-term excursion. short term. short term!”
but sure enough, after Donny’s announcement, the price of crude went from Way Too Fucking High all the way down to Still Too Fucking High.
there’s been no regime change. Iran’s repressive theocracy still stands. the Iranian people didn’t rise up and overthrow their government, as Donny had hallucinated they would. the Strait of Hormuz is, at this moment, still shut down.
let’s be perfectly clear about Donny’s boast: America isn’t winning shit.
not a single goal of this fucked-up war has been met. Iran hasn’t ‘unconditionally surrendered,’ as Donny demanded they do.
Republican approval numbers are in the shitter right now, and super-high gas prices are only making things worse. something had to be done, and done now. so yesterday afternoon, a panicked Donny phoned CBS News reporter Weijia Jiang and made this stunning announcement: ‘hey, guess what. I won.’
Donny had to eat shit because it never occurred to any of these trigger-happy dumbfucks that going to war right next to the Strait of Hormuz would send the price of crude through the roof.
and now that it’s all blown right the fuck up into his big, dumb pumpkin face, Donny is doing the most Donny thing ever: he’s TACOing — chickening out, pretending he won, and declaring victory.
10 days later shit has gone completely sideways. thousands of people are dead, billions of dollars have been wasted, the price of crude oil is in the stratosphere, not a single objective has been met, and the Middle East is arguably a much less stable place than before the bombs started falling.
acting first and thinking never, he blundered into an unnecessary, unprovoked and illegal war on Iran — all because his piss-drunk Secretary of Whiskey convinced him all America had to do was rain down bombs on Tehran for a few hours, and the war would be over and won in a single afternoon.
Unfortunately, his job as he sees it is to destroy the federal government’s capacity to solve problems or serve the public, and he has made great progress toward that end. If every member of the cabinet were as effective, the horrors might well increase.
We haven’t even mentioned Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought, a rarity in Trump’s cabinet in that he understands the government quite well and performs his job with skill.
and of course FBI Director Kash Patel, who possesses that signature Trumpian combination of confidence and ineptitude.
The list would start with Stephen Miller, one of the most sinister government officials in the entirety of American history, and would include the likes of Brendan Carr at the FCC, Tom Homan at DHS (remember that $50,000 in the paper bag? Eh, who cares),
That isn’t even to mention the incredible collection of hacks and barbarians outside and below the cabinet marauding their way through the executive branch.
But rather than acting as a force of reason & restraint, Rubio has accelerated his long moral decline, becoming both an abject bootlicker and an enthusiastic implementer of Trump’s vision to turn America into a plundering far-right rogue state.
Many hoped it would be Rubio, who was confirmed in the Senate by a vote of 99-0.
As many as 150 US troops wounded in Iran war, sources say - www.reuters.com/world/iran-w... Sean Parnell, who claimed most wounds were minor, is a notorious liar
BREAKING: As many as 150 U.S. troops have been wounded in the war with Iran, according to sources familiar—far higher than the Pentagon’s publicly disclosed figure of just 8 seriously wounded troops. The true toll of this war is already far worse than the public has been told. (Reuters)
As a result, thousands of experienced lawyers have fled the department, leaving it a hollow and corrupt shell of its former self.
Unlike every AG of the modern era, she can’t even bother to pretend she is anything but the president’s lawyer, using the awesome power the DoJ holds to protect him and pursue his enemies.
Pam Bondi — who, let’s not forget, was Trump’s second choice after Matt freakin’ Gaetz — has managed in one short year to utterly corrupt and degrade DOJ, reversing a half-century of post-Watergate progress in creating a culture of professionalism and nonpartisanship.
As a recent editorial in The Lancet put it, “The destruction that Kennedy has wrought in one year might take generations to repair, and there is little hope for US health and science while he remains at the helm.”
Kennedy brought with him to HHS a bevy of anti-vaxxine and anti-science extremists who have rampaged through the NIH, the CDC, the FDA, and other agencies vital to American public health and scientific progress, with the effects only beginning to unfold.
RFK. is so far outside the norm that he can’t be compared to any previous HHS Sec, or any cabinet member at all. If you had to find an analogue, it might be Trofim Lysenko, the Stalin-era agronomist whose pseudoscientific views set Soviet science back decades and led to famines that killed millions.
Hegseth resembles nothing so much as a deeply insecure boy trying to convince everyone he’s a real man.
Whether he’s compromising operational security, purging the top ranks of respected officers if they aren’t white men, or prattling on about “warfighters” and “lethality” while expressing his contempt for “woke” ideas like human rights and the laws of war,
The former weekend co-host of Fox & Friends has proven himself to be a model of incompetence; the word insiders use again and again to describe DoD under his leadership is “chaos.”
