CliffsNotes of the Zeitgeist, 133d Edition. What happened to that Board of Peace?

The Trump Administration breaks down crying and asks for help from adults.

The Trump administration is desperately seeking UN intervention in the war it started as the US is on the verge of a complete defeat in the war with Iran.

Remember the much vaunted and completely absurd Board of Peace that Trump rolled out when he liked to pretend he was a peacemaker?  The countries that joined were Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Belarus, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Egypt, El Salvador, Hungary, Indonesia, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kuwait, Mongolia, Morocco, Pakistan, Paraguay, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam.

Ask them for help. . . 

Go ahead Marco, call them up. . .

Go ahead, have him do it.

Yesterday the Trump Administration rolled back into existence the Presidential Fitness Test which Eisenhower had put into effect in 1956 and Obama did away with in 2012, replacing it with the Presidential Youth Fitness Program.  Trump can't have anying Obama. . . like a peace deal with Iran that dealt with nuclear stuff . . anyhow.  . .

Secretary of Batshit Crazy Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. made a joke about Trump being able to do a fifty mile hike and Trump joked back that he could do it.

Go ahead.  Let's see him manage that. . . 

Mass Mailings

We've been getting tons of political mass mailings from three candidates.  I noted that here:

And we have this:

Gray, Rasner, Friess All Send Out Mass Mailers — And They’re Very Trumpy

Yes, they are.  They're frankly really irritating.

All three of these candidates essentially have the same message. They love Trump as only Trump loves Trump. They love Trump more than Trump's children love Trump.  They love Trump more than Melania, assuming of course that she loves Trump.  

Trump retains a hold on the minds of MAGA and the GOP has descended into the Party of Trump.  There really aren't real Republicans anymore.  As I've noted here already, there's a really good chance that after November the GOP will simply cease to exist.

But is being more Trump, than Trump, a liability in Wyoming?  I guess we'll see.

Not that the mailings are all identical.  Gray's just asserts his Trumpiness.  Rasner, who has a MAGA truckers cap J.B. Welded to his head, takes shots at Gray.  Freiss mostly accidentally shows himself to be super rich and not really knowing what, or where, Wyoming actually is.

Anyhow, the mass mailers are so irritating I took a little time to see if I could return them to senders.  The USPS Reddit, which isn't an official page, makes it clear that would be pointless. They just throw them away.  The topic really irritates mail carriers, as they'd rather you just throw them away yourself.  I can see their point.

Apparently a lot of people just throw them on the ground, which really irritates mail carriers also

What do we know about these guys?

It's occurred to me that Wyomingites have been voting for people they know absolutely nothing about.

This isn't true about candidates from other states.  We know all about Colorado's BoBo and Alaska's Peltola.  Why don't we know more about these people who claim to have all these super duper values that are supposed to reflect the state's?

Take Gray for example  Next to nothing about him is publicly known.  He could be robbing liquor stores on his off hours and we wouldn't know.

All we know about him is he grew up near Los Angeles and graduated from high school there in 2008, after he went to Wharton, where based on the economic example of Donald Trump, who also graduated from Wharton, must educate its students with Archie cartoons.  He spent his summers in Wyoming growing up, and when he graduated from Wharton, he went right to work for his father's radio station where he broadcast political babble.  That's pretty darned close to never having had to work in the real world.  He rose to his current position by barely beating Tara Nethercott for the Secretary of State by constant hystericaly spewing of lies.

He was a founding member of the Wyoming Freedom Caucus which was heavily funded by out of state and rich carpetbagger money.  I know that he's a Catholic, but only because when he lived in Casper I'd see him at Mass on odd occasion.  My presumption is that he regularly attended Mass, although I don't know that.  He went to a different parish than I do.  Frankly, if I'd been a parish priest, I'd have called him out for lying.

He's unmarried at age 36 and nobody is ever mentioned as a love interest.  Maybe he has one.  For all I know he could be dating AoC.  But the question is never asked.  It should be, as being unmarried at 36 is frankly odd and we have a right to know if people are personally living up to their declared political values.  It's one thing if he's so dedicated to work, or whatever, that he doesn't have time for gals.  Maybe he just isn't interested, some percentage of people, a small number, aren't.  But if on the other hand he hangs out with the dancers from The Clown's Den every night, and I'm in no way suggesting he is, we ought to be so informed.

Press, you aren't doing your job.

We don't know much about Reid Rasner either, although the fact that he keeps suing people for defamation (and people have said some awful things about him) has revealed a little.  In one suit he admitted, if "admission" is the correct word, to being a homosexual.  In the suits he's filed he's taken grave exception to being accused of molestation of somebody below 18, or molesting anyone, and I don't blame him a bit for that.  I suspect that some people just believe that every homosexual does things like that, which is certainly not the case, but suspecting such a thing is just flat out wrong.  The suits therefore make sense, although its really risky for a politician.  He's some sort of investment businessman.  So all in all, we know a lot more about him than we do Gray, which is really odd.  I don't like his politics at all, but the fact that he's been open about these things is really to his credit.

With both of these candidates what we don't know is if their mailing appearance matches anything about them in real life.  Chuck likes to wear Western cut wool shirts now, but he looks really uncomfortable appearing that way.  His button-down and blue blazer looked a lot more natural.  He's been videoed on oilfield locations, where he's never worked, and on a four wheeler, which looks unnatural to him.

Rasner likes to be photographed with firearms.  So does Freiss.  But do they really use them?   Maybe, but do we really know that?

Freiss, I'd note, is another one.  His father was a super wealthy carpetbagger and he seems to be the same.  Go home, carpetbagger.

Balow, who is the best candidate so far, is from Laramie.  As already noted, Gray is a carpetbagger from California.  Rasner is from Casper.  She was a career educator who took over as Wyoming Superintendent of Public Instruction after the disastrous Cindy Hill, who brought full blown batshit into that office.  Balow held that office and then took the same one in Virginia, where the position is (sensibly) appointed.  People have held that against here here, which is really ironic.  If that's bad, Brent Bien ought to be exiled to the far side of the moon.

We know a lot more about Hageman, Barrasso, Lummis and Gordon, although I'd even question that to some extent.  There's some questions I'd ask Hageman and Barrasso which I think are legitimate, but which just aren't done.

Anyhow, Press, why don't you tell us something about these people?  You report on them so little, that it's honestly the case that a triple ax murderer could move into Wyoming.

Or maybe it doesn't matter.  

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CliffsNotes of the Zeitgeist, 132nd Edition. Voting with their feet

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Afflicted with the world they helped make, and afflicting it on everyone else. The Baby Boomers, old age, the Sexual Revolution, and expelling the Barbarians.

This is going to be harsh.

But not as harsh as it started out to be.  I actually toned it down.

And yes, it's another dissing the Baby Boomers thread.

This past week there's been two articles in major journals regarding the aging of the Baby Boomers.  One I had to hunt for as it was published in The Free Press, and I don't subscribe to that.  Still, I found it here.

The Long Boomer Farewell

This will not be a clean handoff. It will be an extended interregnum.

The article is well written and largely correct, although in my view, much more gentle than it should be.  It will be an extended interregnum because, like actual regents, the obsolescent monarchy cannot accept that the obsolescent monarchs should go, and go right now.

I said that this would be harsh.

But not as harsh as it started out to be.

I've been dealing with this topic directedly, recently.  The entire country has been in fact.  On a personally local level,  I'm presently so frustrated with it that, as a member of Generation Jones, I'm about ready to drop out of employment in my "good office job" right now. I don't only because a panicked spouse feels that's financial devastation, even if she's wrong.  I keep on keeping on only for domestic peace, that's it.

In this, I've been dealing with the intersection of the stubborn refusal of an entire generation to yield power on absolutely anything, while at the same time, watching how their choices and that of the post WWII era continually to negatively impact an entire society today.

In my experience Boomers just will not yield in offices, or in office.  Indeed, right now, Donald Trump, who is clearly demented is lamenting former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani being in the hospital in critical condition.  Giuliani is an 81 year old serial polygamist like Trump, age 79.  A hallmark of the generation is that it just thinks its going to live forever and that none of the rules that held society together from when the first Vandal was taught to read until 1968 apply to them.

They've never stopped to ask about the reason the rules were there and what tearing them down would do . . . even to themselves.

Or acknowledged they'll die.

They will, they are but they will not acknowledge it or yield, and they are well on their way to going from being celebrated, albeit mostly by themselves, to unlamented.

In professional offices, and often in politics, where they were granted power in their 30s and 40s, they retain it as a last ditch matter no matter what.  For two weeks running I've seen a Boomer confronted with the "it's time to go" reality and simply refuse.  That person would rather retain an presence in an office where the person is not wanted rather than leave with dignity.  It's bad enough that Gen Y and Gen X in that situation cites the Boomer presence as a reason that they might now want to commit to what the older person cites as his "legacy".

Well, if they have to work it, they may just let his legacy die in an economic desert.

Regarding one such struggle, I've seen a number of minor requests made recently of a Boomer, and some not so mild ones.  The latter come from an awareness by the Boomer's fellows that there's some cognitive decline.  "Whose project is this?" is the question, followed by, well Boomer took it in. . . 

Oh oh.

Less significantly, a minor request made by one Gen Xer to the effect of "can you move your office so the most active person in it could occupy it as we want that person up front was met with "No."  It's a prime example of the Afghan Warlord Principal. As we previously noted:

1.  "The Afghan Warlord Principal".  Years ago I saw a photograph of a body of men, all armed, in Afghanistan.  They were tribesmen fitted out to fight the Soviets. Some were boys.  The boys carried ancient rifles, and if I recall correctly one had a muzzle-loading rifle.  One man, squatted down dead center, had an AK47, the only one so armed.

He looked like he was 80, if he was a day.

He had the most effective combat weapon not because he was the most effective combatant, but because he was senior to everyone else.  Much technology in any one office setting works the same way.

It's not actually the physical trappings that concern anyone in this latter instance, it's just the stubborn grasp on the institution itself.  A better space is available for somebody who needs it, or who can better profit through its use. That person, whose in Generation Jones, cannot have it.  It'll sit, instead, largely empty a gaping Arch de Trump type monument to somebody who is largely not htere.

Things like this are the reasons that quite a few professional firms have a partnership agreement that actually expels a person at age 65.  

In the meantime I'm familiar with the descent into oblivion of another person, Gen X I think, who is killing herself with cigarettes, alcohol, and marijuana.  I think it's intentional, but it's also putting the person into a situation in which she can really no longer be employed.

That'd be tragic by any measure, but the entire time I've known the person she's had the same grossly underemployed "boyfriend" that she's shacked up with.  Her life is the job she's no longer able to do, pet cats, the deadbeat long-term underemployed boyfriend, and bar hopping.  If she was in her 20s it'd still be bad, but redeemable.  Now it really isn't.

Left to Gen Jones to clean up, I'd note.

Related to this, the aforementioned Boomer was approached by another Boomer, also in her 70s, about a job.  Her company is closing, and no wonder.  Also a professional company, it just never was successful in recruiting anyone young to work with it, save for the son of one of the partners who has decided to leave the field and go into a new one with his wife, who has a successful business.  No succession plan, just an end.  At least the owners of that business were able to successfully bring it to an end. Nothing of it will remain.

She's worked for them for something like 30 years.  In the 30 years that I've known her she was never married.  I don't know if she was ever married, although I dimly recall it being mentioned that she had a daughter. She's been hinting to another professional firm in her office that she "needs to work" and needs to find a job, which was a broad hope that they'd offer her a job.  She finally just flat out asked. . . the Boomer, for one.  A 70 year old office worker asking a 70 year old professional for a job which everyone else would have to pay for.

Gen. Jones vetoed it.

They don't doubt she needs a job.  They just don't have one for her.  They're not going to hire her based on her resume for a position that doesn't exist.

And here's the harsher reality.  

People love concept of romantic love, which is a real thing.  But on top of it, marriage is, as so often noted, a fundamental aspect of society.  An institution so ancient that it seems to be full ingrained in hte species, the Boomers broke that, and they're inflicting the damage on everyone.

When lifetime marriages went out the gate, and bed hopping and living for yourself came in, did nobody think that there would be implications?

The main Boomer I noted here is divorced.  He's shacked with somebody too, which is extremely unseemly for somebody in their 70s, but it means that not only does he have no attachments, his attachment to his (former, more or less) place of employment is massively disordered.  He won't go, as it that is what he dedicated his life to, and he's clinging to it as if its his life. 

It is, but like life itself, it won't life on forever.

Estranged from his family, living in a relationship of convenience, and hostile to religion, he has the four walls of his old office.

Would that have been different in prior eras?

It's hard to say, but at least to a degree we can say yes.  Their father's generation had their families, and families first.

The two women in this story?

Well, had marriage remained the institution it once was they'd both have spouses and children to rely on, at least to some degree.  Maybe the one has a child, but that gets to another point below.

The first point, however is that societal structures existed for a reason.  Marriage has always featured love, in spite of what some may say, but it also was society's protection against children and destitution.  Married couples provided for the needs of their children, not the Department of Family Services and the school free lunch program.  And husbands provided for their wives, unless a husband was too sick to do so, in which case the reverse was true.

People did very often work into old age, and we should not pretend otherwise, but I have to say that the Boomer woman in this scenario would very likely not be in it, but for the destruction of structure mentioned.

Likewise, before anti biologic pharmaceutical's women could not become the sexual playthings of men save at great risk.  The younger woman mentioned above would be married. And the pressures of society would have bene such that the man in question, who could get a real job, would have gotten one.

The FDA allowed the first pharmaceutical birth control pill in 1960.  The Boomers had taken it up in spades by the late 60s and were engaging in illicit sex on a broad scale.  No fault divorce was first introduced in California in 1969, and spread throughout the country rapidly.  Abortion was made a right by the Supreme Court in 1973.

No matter how it was sold, the impact was pretty clear.  The Sexual Revolution reduced women to sex slaves and slaves in general.  In essence, Western women had their status stripped to what it had been in pre Christian times.  Toys for sex, who very soon had to work.  Feminism didn't liberate them, it enslaved them, prisoners of war of the Sexual Revolution.

But not just them, men too became casualties of the war.

So here we are.  Crediting Generation Jones, as we should, as a real generation, the youngest Boomer is now 72 years old.  Save for those who solely own a business, or who are in family businesses actually run by their families, not one single one should be working.  Those who have the means to retire, absolutely should. Those who are in position of societal power should not be.  Sure some may be in great shape, and "want to contribute", but most aren't, and aren't contributing in a meaningful way.

But not all can retire.  For one thing, a lot of them don't have the spouses that would help them to.  Many lack the children that would provide guidance.  Even those with children are finding that the warehousing of the elderly they advocated and participated in, and the warehousing of children they advocated for and participated in, has come back to haunt them.  The damage they did to societal structures, in particularly their churches, has aided in all of that.

But the expectations remain there.  Gen X and Gen Y will still employ us, right?

No, they won't.  They have their own families and priorities, often much more traditional than yours.

Well Generation Jones will, won't it?

No, we're tired.  We had to struggle our whole lives due to you Boomers and are ready to lay our burdens down ourselves.  We will go, however.  You often never had a place for us, and we're not going to end our lives finding one for you.

The past was far from perfect, in every sense.  Women got married as they had very few options for a single life, if that's what they would have preferred.  Couples that did not have children, prior to 1960, or actually some time following that, did not have them due to what was usually a tragic medical situation, or because the marriages were truly ones of convenience.  Children didn't always grow up in a home in which they were really valued and wanted, but then of course that's true now.

But it is also the case that in fact much more of life had to wit with the family, and was much kinder.  My paternal grandmother, for instance, was in close contact, often daily contact, with all of her children.  My maternal grandmother was in close contact as well, in spite of her children being spread across two, and often three, countries.  One of her sons lived with her until he died, and then his siblings were careful to take care of him.

Now, well the barbarians are back through the gate.  The Boomers let them in.  Everyone behind them is struggling in some ways to toss them out.

Sic transit Gloria Mundi.

Saturday, May 6, 1911. One Colorado Senator.

Colorado's Senate adjourned after having failed to appoint a replacement for the late Senator Charles J. Hughes.  There would be only one Senator from Colorado until January 20, 1913.

It was a Saturday.

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Friday, May 5, 1911. La Cruz Blanca Neutral.

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Monday, May 6, 1901. 15,000 dead.

The British Ministry of War announced that 14,264 enlisted men and 714 officers had died, to date, in the Boer War.

The first issue of Gorkhapatra, Nepal's oldest still publishing newspaper, was issued.

The House of Commons of the United Kingdom voted 333 to 227 to approve a tax on the sale of coal, still then a major source of power, heat, and coke, in the United Kingdom.

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Saturday, May 4, 1901. The Caste War of Yucatán ends.

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The 2026 Election, 10th Edition. The Setting the stage for a Pyrrhic Victory edition.

 

We start off this edition with what might be a little light at the end of a tunnel:

GOP Senate Challengers Emerge To Take On Harriet Hageman In Primary

I'll note that the LinkedIn article is the first really good article on Skovgard's views that I've seen.  Personally, I'm favoring Mead.

And something to remember:

Hageman's Senate Run Reignites Criticisms Over Public Lands

And then there's this:

Wyoming Republican Party plans to buck law and endorse candidates ahead of critical primary

The GOP is really playing with fire here.  It's correct that as a private organization the government shouldn't tell it who it can and cannot endorse.  But then, the laws of the state shouldn't give a preferential position to a private organization, let alone a political party.  As a "major party" it has a role in nominating replacement for some positions and has pride of place in primaries.  When challenged in court, and it could be, this might be the first step towards an open primary in Wyoming.  That is, one with no parties noted at all.

In other races, the amount of money being violently hurled by Chuck Gray and Reid Rasner at the House race is simply nuts.  Weekly flyers now arrive, printed obviously by the same company, by both candidates, and television ads appear constantly.  Frankly Rasner's television ads are a little better than  Gray's, the latter of which basically amount to a swooning expression of love, albeit by a man who comes across as so angry its unhinged, and absolute fealty to Donald Trump.  Rasner has, in my view, less than zero chance of winning the seat, but if he has any success at all it will be due to his media blitz.  At any rate, both campaigns are largely self funded, which gives rise to the "well, it's their money" comment.  None the less, the expenditure of this sort of money is obscene and is reason enough that neither man should win office . . . any office.

The Star Tribune ran an article about the Democratic candidate taking on Art Washut, one of the best members of the Wyoming legislature.  Stewart McAdoo turns out to be a South Carolinian, so we'd put him in the carpetbagger category, and he's running on the predictable Democratic seas of blood support of infanticide.  

April 30, 2026

Protect Wyoming ran an ad this morning in the Tribune against Bill Allemand.

Hunters and fishermen should really oppose Allemand, who following the corner crossing ruling of the Federal Court sponsored a Draconian bill on hunting trespassing.   While he claims no present interest in it, he's from a well known Powder River Basin Wyoming ranching family, a region of the state that features very limited land access.  He's fighting a charge for drunk driving in Johnson County presently.

He's being challenged by Bar Nunn Mayor Peter Boyer, who got cross wise in a Bar Nunn town council meeting according to news reports.  Allemand quixotically adamantly opposed a proposed nuclear generator project north of the small Natrona County Casper bedroom community.  The WFC seemed to align with that opposition, showing it thinks so little that its only concept of the energy industry is grounded in fossil fuels.

Democrat Keenan Morgan is also running against Allemand.  Morgan and Boyer are from Bar Nunn, Allemand from Midwest.  The district covers a large amount of territory but uniquely features three small towns, Midwest, Edgerton and Bar Nunn, with Bar Nunn being by far the largest of the three.  House District 58 also includes a sliver of Casper and the large unincorporated area north of Highway 20/26 in Natrona County.

It'll be interesting to see how Allemand, who has a semi uncontrollable temper, reacts Protect Wyoming's advertisement.

May 1, 2026

Maine Gov. Janet Mills dropped out of the race for the Democratic Senate ticket.  A popular Governor, she was being upstaged by Graham Platner for the bid to replace 72 year old Susan Collins.  Mills is 77 years old, so the race shows the steadfast refusal of Boomers to know when the heck to get out and let the young have a place.  

Platner is an oyster farmer and Marine Corps veteran who is a tender 41 years old, an age that would have been regarded as far from young in any era but the current one. As an oyster farmer from Maine this race is showing the interesting rise of some strong agrarian interests on the coasts, with Mary Peltola of Alaska, a Blue Dog Democrat, campaigning on the following:

 

It's Simple:

The fight for

Fish, Family, Freedom

depends on fixing the rigged system in DC

May 2, 2026

Teacher Brian Costello has announced his bid for House District 37, currently held by Steve Harshman who is running for Superintendent of Public Instruction.  Harshman is also a teacher.  He will be running against far right wing gadfly  Ross Schriftman and Democrat Betsy Erickson.

Schrifman is a Wyoming native.

Conicidentaly Protect Wyoming ran an add on Harshman in today's Tribune:

In House District 57 Luc Colgrove announced a bid for the seat occupied by Julie Jarvis and formerly occupied by Carpetbagger Jeanette Ward, who is trying to get the seat back.

May 3, 2026

About time:

Democrats are not OK with Boomers

Perhaps having learned their lesson with Joe Biden, the party’s voters are starting to reject older, establishment-bound candidates.

May 4, 2026

Democratic candidates announce legislative, county seat bids

All four Democratic state lawmakers will seek reelection. Democrats also have candidates for both commission seats, sheriff, county clerk and more.

Elsewhere I read an interview of Provenza.  Like me, she's been in both major parties, and has been an independent.

May 5, 2026

Statewide candidates split on Wyoming GOP’s plans to defy state law and make endorsements 

Some agree with the party’s decision and will seek out an endorsement. Others oppose a political party breaking election law.

This stands a pretty good chance of being the political equivalent of pulling the pin on a live grenade and then dropping it in your own foxhole.  There's a really good argument there that could lead to the state Supreme Court simply wiping out party dependent primaries under Wyoming's law, and creating a judicially mandated open primary.

Indeed, I hope that happens.

Part of what's amusing here is that Chuck Gray and Reid Rasner, both of whom assert their undying love for Trump whenever possible, are on opposite sides of this issue with Rasner claiming the "establishment" is trying to stop him.  Politicians are big on opposing "the establishment".  Gray likes the new provisions, Rasner does not, probably because Gray is bargaining on the WFC to endorse him with the Confederate Seal of Approval.  Gray was an original WFC Cornfederate, so Rasner is probably correct here that the "establishment" is trying to stop him, if the WFC is the establishment, which of course they'll deny that they are.

Ballow is frank she's opposed. She's been pretty quiet up until recently, but there's a good chance that she will secure the nomination.

May 6, 2026

Trump backed sycophants did well in Indiana where Trump intervened to punish Republicans who didn't vote for redistricting.  The result will help march the GOP right off the cliff its headed towards in theall.

This shows the extent to which the GOP is actually dead, replaced by a group of worshippers who follows the words of their leader, rather than reality.

In contrast, Democrats won big in special elections.

And we have this:

Gray, Rasner, Friess All Send Out Mass Mailers — And They’re Very Trumpy

Yes, they are.  They're frankly really irritating.

Related threads:

Pollice Verso. The 2026 Political Negative Endorsement. The Don't Vote For List.

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The 2026 Election, 9th Edition. The Sic Semper Tyrannus edition.*

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King Donald's War, Part 5. Quagmire. The $25,000,000,000 and thirteen American lives later, "So we (but not Donald) were in Vietnam for 18 years. Iraq, many, many years....I've been doing this for...six weeks" Edition.

 

King Donny before he was a national embarrassment, and just working on being a family one.

April 30, 2026

Secretary of Defense Hegseth testified the war had cost the US $25B so far.

We clearly have absolutely no idea how to get out of it or win it.

May 1, 2026

Iran responded to King Donny's threats to ramp up the war on Iran, now in a ceasefire, with threats of their own.

They seemed rather unimpressed by Donny.

Donny's administration says it doesn't have to comply with the sixty day provision of the War Powers Act due to the ceasefire.

May 3, 2026

Iran sent the US a fourteen point peace plan.  

May 4, 2026

The U.S. rejected Iranian peace proposals and is now going to escort ships through the Straits of Hormoz.  Iran threatened to strike the ships and has already claimed to have hit a U.S. Navy craft with missiles, which the U.S. denies.

cont:

Iran attacked ships in the straits today with small surface vehicles and it resumed drone strikes on the UAE.

May 6, 2026

Yesterday was Taco Tuesday, and so we have this headline from the Tribune.

Well of course we do.  Trump's an ignorant man with extremely limited world experience with a cabinet of sycophants.  This was a war run by ignoramuses.

Trump paused his latest version of the illegal war with his escort program in the Straits of Hormuz.  We have no way out of the war that anyone in D.C. grasps.

The US has clearly and absolutely lost this war, not succeeding in a single one of its objectives.  At this point, absent ground operations, this is humiliating US defeat, worse than the loss in Vietnam.

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