Donald Trump and the flunkies in his administration keep saying that "nobody" could have predicted Iran's response to the undeclared US-Israeli war which started over a month ago. Frankly, I could have generally told them what would happen. There's a very good reason no previous US administration has launched a full scale war against Iran.
The late Dr. Zbigniew Brzeziński was National Security Adviser to President Jimmy Carter. In a 2012 interview, he accurately spelled out how Iran would respond if attacked. At that time, Trump was too busy with birther conspiracy theories to have caught that Brzeziński interview.
Trump is an idiot who hires people to flatter him – not to give him sound advice on matters he knows nothing about.
Joe Scarborough pointed out in that piece that Trump's antipathy to Ukraine prevented him from asking Ukraine for advice on how to deal with Iranian drones before Trump's attack on Iran began. And NO country has more experience shooting down Iranian drones and Russian knockoffs than Ukraine.
So Trump's slavishness to Vladimir Putin, a notorious loser, has contributed to the US morass in the Middle East and most likely led to the destruction of oil infrastructure in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE, Kuwait, and Bahrain by Iranian drones.
Four years ago today, after losing a presidential election, Donald Trump incited an insurrection against the US Constitution.
The Warning With Steve Schmidt:
Four years ago today, after losing a presidential election, Donald Trump incited an insurrection against the US Constitution.
His mob stormed the Capitol, pissed on the walls and shat on the floors. They did
$1.5 million in damage, caused injuries to at least 174 of Capitol police officers, and caused the deaths of five people.
Trump will soon pardon the January 6 criminals, lionize them, and hang medals around their necks. Have no doubt about this.
Meanwhile, Elon Musk has denounced Nigel Farage, the leader of the UK Reform Party, saying that he is unfit to lead it. He has also stepped up his interference in the forthcoming German elections. He has also begun severely limiting criticism of himself and others on X with a social media scoring system that is straight out of China.
The Washington Post is in a state of collapse. The paper’s best political writers, journalists and commentators are like the first-class passengers on Titanic being lowered into half-filled life boats taking them to the Wall Street Journal and The Atlantic, but the truth is that there aren’t enough life boats for all. Everyone is going to want off a ship that is sinking into disgrace.
Whatever private commitments were made between the Graham family and Bezos when he bought The Washington Post regarding its stewardship have been shattered.
The most incredible part about the capitulations — which are not the least bit surprising — is how quickly they happened, and without so much as a soft whimper or scuffle.
By doing so, most editorial leaders of these institutions have demonstrated the only place they are truly fit to work is the Trump White House. There, they could combine the practice of moral appeasement, fecklessness, dishonesty, weakness and self-interest with being cheered, promoted and celebrated. Instead, these low men and women have to face the reality that the person staring back at them in the mirror is a different version of Lindsey Graham — only they call themselves journalists as opposed to senator.
The farce is the same.
The cowardice is the same.
The record will show that when the starting gun sounded nobody came close to Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski with their Usain Bolt-like dash to Mar-a-Lago. Bezos must look at them through his capitulant lens as visionaries. Perhaps they will have the opportunity to summer aboard Koru, his yacht, with the Lady Sanchez in the south of France. Given that Bezos has green-lit a Melania documentary that explains her reemergence from witness protection, maybe she could be there as well, softly purring about her deep love of Donald and America.
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Jeff Bezos, Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and all the rest of America’s oligarchs hold the American people in contempt. Because they do, they can’t see the character of the steelworker, trucker, nurse, teacher or cop. They only see one thing, and that in the end, is why this whole miserable MAGA project will crash and burn. They are locusts preparing to swarm to engorge themselves even though they feel no hunger and want for nothing.
Donald Trump will keep pushing until someone, somewhere, some day, effectively pushes back again.
I hope that day comes soon because until then they are going to be full speed ahead. By the time the inaugural address is over there will be perfect clarity around what must be fiercely opposed as indecent and un-American.
Steve Schmidt’s column is on the nose here. It’s insulting to see so many people and institutions obey in advance and capitulate to Trumpism, especially the Washington Post.
“I’ve written more than 400 songs…” #JoeScarborough talked about finally putting his music out there, fully expecting he’d “get killed” for it and doing it anyway because “this is what I love more than anything else.”
His whole strategy was basically wear you down. “At some point, the music’s good or it’s not,” and if it took dropping EP after EP until people stopped rolling their eyes, so be it. He’d been writing since he was 10, kept bands going through Congress and TV, and finally decided to stop sidelining the one thing that actually stuck. #MorningJoe
Morning Joe's Joe Scarborough on 400 Songs, Getting Roasted by a President, and Not Sounding Like John McEnroe’s Band
"A few weeks ago ... somebody who was going to be voting for Kamala Harris came up to me and said, 'Oh my God, Trump's going to win. ... I go to the grocery store, [and] butter is over $3.'"
- Joe Scarborough, host of 'The Morning Joe.' At that point, Scarborough's wife and co-host, Mika Brzezinski, interrupted to tell him that the butter she buys is actually more than double that price.
"It's $7. ... I'm just saying it's 7,” she stated as they somewhat spoke over each other.
"What's that?" Scarborough asked.
Finally cluing in to what he heard, Scarborough looked shocked as he stopped dead in his tracks.
"Butter is $7?!" he asked.
"Yeah," Brzezinski calmly replied.
"What, is it framed in gold?" Scarborough said as his panel laughed.
"Yeah, it depends on where you go," his wife reiterated.
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THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA DOESN'T KNOW BECAUSE THEY DON'T CARE! THEY LIVE IN ELISTIST BUBBLES POPULATED BY MOVIE ACTORS, TV SHOW ACTORS, CELEBRITY "JOURNALISTS," AND ASSORTED MEDIA FAVORITE GLITTERATI.
Here is the Truth: Accountant and Engineer Alexander Viera and Marcelo “Marc” Viera the Florida State University Tallahassee Lawyer Both Never Fought As Soldiers In Our United States Military While Their Ugly Fat Souless Mother Josephine Fify Viera the Corporate Accountant Demands That I, A Disabled Man Who Can Go BLIND, DEAF, ARMLESS, and LEGLESS from Both Types of Diabetes, Types 1 and 2 (she only has 2), and Have Been Pricking My Fingers with Needles 6 Times Each Day For Over 20 Years, and Other Disabled Men and Women, Children, and White and Black Gay Irish and Other American Soldiers who have Fought for Fat Lazy Brat Alexander Viera’s Rights (Alex Viera Thinks HIGHLY of the White Irish, but Deeply Loathes and Hates Gay Men and Gay Boys to Death) in which Alexander Viera Desires to Deny Our Gay American REAL MEN SOLDIERS their Rights and Liberties, Go Fight in Wars for Her and Her Two Bratty Sons’ Behalfs! Well, Guess What? If Our United States Defense Department Recruits US Disabled Men into Working for Our United States Militaries for 2 Hours Per Day All Week Long for Every Week Each Year, by Simply Teaching US Disabled How to Hold A Damn Gun, then US Disabled Can Defend Our Beloved Country the United States! It’s much better we work Something than Nothing. Let Me Turn Into Gandalf the White through Zen Buddhist Tree Huggings and Tree Meditations Up North in New Jersey (Mordor and Rivendell Combined) to Get US Out of This Helm’s Deep! But Ron DeSantis, Rick Scott, Marco Rubio, George W Bush, and Donald Trump are Demanding I Pay For Swimming Pools I Don’t Need Everywhere I Go In The State of Florida So That I Don’t Get To Know God Through Natural Trees and Borrow His Powers! We may not need to Know ALL of the Military Branches, USA Defense Department, but we can do Some Things like Control Our Schizophrenic Minds from Black Voodoo Jamaican Witches and Wizards who are Waging War and Terrorism here in Our USA, and Carry Guns to Patrol Our Borders Without Hurting Ourselves or Anyone Innocent. Debbie Wasserman Schultz is Our Black Broward Congresswoman who is Waging a War Against US with her Black Army of Jamaican and Haitian Voodoo Migrants Blocking US Disabled Men from Joining Our USA Militaries, as we have been Prisoners and Zombies of Debbie Wasserman-Schultz. I Am Voting for Chris Eddy if He Doesn’t Kill Me for Being Gay and Just Focuses On Tax Cuts for Our Foods instead of wasting Our Time on Killing Innocent Gay Men and Boys as Ron DeSantis has done and lost Our Votes for Tax Cuts for Foods, Rents, Healthcares, and Clothes….
