Emblem of Yemen.
September 20, 2026
The Houthis hit the Saudi capital of Riyadh with drones.
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Sunday, September 20, 2026
Thursday, September 17, 2026
King Donald's War, Part 13. A Second Rate Military lead by a Third Rate Clown College with a Secretary of War who should be impeached.
As we noted yesterday, Thomas Massie has introduced articles of impeachment upon Pete Hegseth.
They actually stand a chance of passing.
They provide, in relevant part:
Massie needs a simple majority in the House to pass the resolution. It would require 2/3ds in the Senate to impeach and remove Hegseth.
Massie is nothing if not independent. I don't agree with him on everything, but he's been one of the few Republicans in Congress, as opposed to the pack of willing sycophantic cowards that claim to be Republicans. When the history of this era is written, he'll be a hero, whereas people like Mike Johnson will be pathetic weirdos, and people like John Barrasso spineless wimps.
Everything in this bill is correct.
One thing that isn't is incompetence, which this administration has shown itself to be on military matters. The US Military has been revealed to be, frankly, pathetically bad, or at least its Navy has has been. We're losing the war against a power that has outfought us, and out thought us.
Hegseth promised a renewal, of sorts, in the U.S. Military. Frankly, it needs one, and has for a long time.
Hegseth seems to have imagined a military that was pre 1948 in some ways. All white, and mostly men. The date we really need to look back to is this one:
Today In Wyoming's History: September 16, 1940. Conscription starts and the National Guard mobilized.
September 16, 1940 is the day the US went from a peacetime establishment and peacetime military to a wartime establishment and a wartime military. We've been there ever since. To at least some degree, we've kept a huge military with a huge military establishment, massive arms requirement, and a very large professional military class.
That needs to end.
What Hegseth got right, sort of, is that the Military began to be used for odd social experiments and it never stopped. People look back to the 1948 integration of the military as being when that started, but that really misses the point. Segregation of the Army (not the Navy) started during the Civil War when the Army took in large number of black troops for the first time. With the inherent racism of the country, it simply would not have been possible to integrate black soldiers into regular units. They would have been killed. Establishing black units in and of themselves was a major accomplishment, and one only the war could have brought about.
Some efforts to integrate the military more fully occured in the 19th Century, but inherent racism in American society really just didn't make it possible until World War Two when it started to occur on a smaller and localized scale. American reaction to German racism reflected back in the face of Americans and made integration of the military not only fully possible, but inevitable, after the war.
Minorities have always been a huge success story in the military, and that's been the case all along. It simply provided opportunities to them that didn't exist elsewhere. That lesson was learned but started to be misapplied in the 1970s when the Carter Administration saw the military as a way to advance the cause of women in society. That evolved into allowing women into combat MOS's which was a huge mistake. Women and men are different. And then the Obama Administration allowed "transgendered" individuals into the military starting in 2016, which was turning a blind eye to a medically enhanced mental illness.
Women in combat units did create an internal reaction in military units that went unnoticed to some degree. Male combat troops didn't and don't like it, and react accordingly whereas the influence of young women had a feminizing and softening, even cutsey, impact on the military. Look up "Battle Boo" on Youtube and you'll see what I mean.
Having troops set against their political leaders is a bad thing. But that has occured. This created the perfect situation for a sort of Curragh Mutiny, and it's happened.
The thing here is that this all needed correction, but competent correction, which would have required a an actually conservative administration to bring about. We don't have one of those. In stead we have a demented megalomaniac octogenarian who is surrounded by sycophants, weirdos, and dimwits. Pete Hegseth is a good example. A Evangelical Protestant Zealot with tattoos recalling the Crusades, which weren't done by Evangelical Protestants, a record of hard drinking and philandering, he presents himself like an insecure frat boy trying to hang out with college football players. He also, as noted, not only claims to want to restore the "warrior" ethos to the military, he seems to have something against minorities and a bias against women that extend to their just being women.
Like much of the overgrown bloated U.S. Military, he doesn't seem to have grasped that its not 1941 any longer either. The war in Ukraine has shown that the age of drones is here. Iran and the Houthis have shown an ability to launch missile strikes that would have made Peenemunde pound. Believing that the US could take on Iran with Naval air alone, something GMT Games had already shown you could not, US forces were left heavily exposed in Middle Eastern bases which were wiped out by Iran nearly immediately. Logistical tails were stepped on and the USS Abraham Lincoln became a symbol for the entire country, a rusting psychologically stressed hulk.
There doesn't seem to have been a lot of clear thinking going on.
Speaking of not thinking, and related to this war:
What the crap?
President Trump’s administration is planning to sell to Israel a munitions package worth $2.8 including 2,000-pound bombs which will be funded by a Foreign Military Financing (FMF) grant.
That's right. The heavily indebted United States will be spending money it doesn't have for Israel's military.
One thing that this war has caused and is causing is a rethinking of the US relationship with Israel. It's long overdue.
The common line is that "Israel is our only ally in the Middle East". Israel isn't a formal US ally at all. Indeed, in terms of formal allies, the only Middle Eastern one we have is Turkey, not Israel.
The US has a close relationship to Israel for historic and demographic reasons. The US was horrified to a greater extent than any other nation to what happened to Jews during World War Two and reacted by giving its strong support to the establishment of Israel, ignoring the fact that importing thousands of immigrants into a land already occupied by somebody else would result in problems.
Put another way, if Europe demanded that thousands of Mexican immigrants be allowed into Texas to create a new country, we'd freak out.
Added to that, the US has a substantial Jewish minority, although it has not been and has never been huge. It's about 2.4% of the population today. Somewhat ignored in this is that the US also has notable population of Middle Eastern immigrants, most of whom up until a couple of decades ago were Lebanese and Syrian Christians and Armenians. Perhaps because they were all members of Apostolic Christian faiths, that was just easy to ignore in some ways. It's France, for instance, that has traditionally defended the rights of the Lebanese. The US once concerned itself with the plight of Armenians, but that's been a long time ago. To some extent, perhaps because they were a more distinct minority, Jewish populations in the US have tended to be relatively better organized.
Anyhow, almost from day 1 Americans really bought off on the concept of the establishment of Israel being a really noble cause. In my household growing up I remember my mother feeling that way, although my father had a much more nuanced opinion. The plight of Arabs in the same region was generally ignored by Americans up until relatively recently, and only because populations of Palestinian and other Arabs have immigrated into the US. They're still a much smaller percentage of the population than Jewish Americans are.
Added to that, Islam has tended to really freak Americans out, and for good reason.
Israel has very divided politics and is going through something akin to what the US is, with the current Israeli government being, in my view, extreme. Nobody has ever stated it, but it seems relatively clear that there are those in Israel who would outright force Palestinians out of what had been Mandatory Palestine. There are Americans who have equally extreme views about modern Israel and its place in the world from a religious perspective.
Whatever brought the current Israeli government to power, it's also clear that there are huge numbers of Israelis who are horrified by recent events and would take Israel in another direction.
At this point, I'm with those who, like my father so many decades ago, take a much more nuanced view on Israel. Like Ukrainian born Argentinian-Israeli author Jacobo Timerman, I view Israel as a Middle Eastern state that has to learn to live in that neighborhood. It also, at this point, has to learn to get by on its own. It can build its own weapons and pay for them itself.
For that matter, while its a topic for another thread, the US wasn't a serious supplier of arms around the world until World War Two. It needs to stop being one now. Selling arms to some countries is, okay, in my view, but not to as many as we do, and for cash, not best wishes.
I'll note that it is interesting that a lot of our former arms client states have stepped out on its own in recent years. South Korea, for example, manufactures its own armored vehicles, artillery and small arms. Israel does produce some weapons of its own, but not all that many. I'm not for selling them arms anymore.
When people are killed by American arms, no matter who uses them, we're implicated.
Back to the illegal war in the Middle East that Israel got us into.
A resolution requiring the US to get out of that war passed the House yesterday.
H. CON. RES. 93
Directing the President, pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution, to remove United States Armed Forces from hostilities with Iran.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVESApril 28, 2026Mr. Moulton (for himself, Mr. Crow, Mr. Ryan, Ms. Houlahan, Mr. Panetta, Mr. Auchincloss, Ms. Goodlander, Mr. Vindman, and Mr. Scott of Virginia) submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs
CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONDirecting the President, pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution, to remove United States Armed Forces from hostilities with Iran.
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That, pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution (50 U.S.C. 1544(c)), Congress directs the President to remove United States Armed Forces from hostilities against the Islamic Republic of Iran, other than those elements of the Armed Forces that may be necessary to defend the United States or an ally or partner of the United States from imminent attack provided that the President complies fully with the requirements of section 5(b) the War Powers Resolution (50 U.S.C. 1544(b)) with respect to any such use of the Armed Forces, unless explicitly authorized by a declaration of war or a specific congressional authorization for use of military force against Iran.
It's not going to go anywhere, but it's not irrelevant. At least some are speaking up and standing out.
And some who claim to adhere to certain values should take note. In the Particular Judgement Mike Johnson is going to have to explain supporting all this killing and standing with Israel isn't going to excuse it. But then Johnson will have a lot to answer for.
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The Houthis shot down a Saudi F-15 with a domestically produced missile today.
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And Mike Johnson sent the House home early to avoid the impeachment vote.
That'd suggest either there were enough votes to pass it, or there were Republican Congressmen afraid to go on record.
They won't be back until November 9. They'd only been working for seven days since they came back from their last recess.
September 17, 2026
So it turns out the administration sent representatives to meet with the Houthis.
The same man who betrayed the Afghanis and surrendered their country to the Taliban is now negotiating with the Houthis while refusing support to Saudi Arabia.
Figures.
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Apparently a deal was reached:
Yemen’s Houthis have agreed to allow US shipping unfettered Red Sea access if Washington refrains from direct military involvement in the Saudi-led war. That’s according to US reports which say the two sides struck the deal amid a Houthi offensive along Yemen’s Red Sea coast.
Al Jazeera.
So King Donny stabbed Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the back, not that he is a nice guy.
Not that the Houthis are either.
The Houthis (Ansar Allah) are a Zaydi revivalist and Shia Islamist organization allied with Iran, which supports them. They've been a player in the Israel/Hezbollah War, as was Iran, and are attempting to gain control of all of Yemen.
Their emblem:
Some deluded sots who supported the Trump participation in the ongoing war against Iran maintained early on that it was sort of a Protestant crusade. The US had a Divine mission, some argued who were in the military, or the Department of Defense, to take on Shi'a Islam.
Well, apparently not so much.
For the second time, Trump has surrendered to an Islamist organization and betrayed somebody we supported.
Anyone relying on Trump for support is a fool.
And with this stab in the back, we will conclude this edition.
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King Donald's War, Part 12. The "Economic D-Day" edition. CliffsNotes of the Zeitgeist 152nd Edition, the irony edition.
Tuesday, September 15, 2026
King Donald's War, Part 12. The "Economic D-Day" edition. CliffsNotes of the Zeitgeist 152nd Edition, the irony edition.
The fearsome Scott Bessent.
August 26, 2026
King Donny sent the fearsome Scott Bessent out to cause the Iranians to quiver in their boots, announcing that the US would inflict an "Economic D-Day" on Iran.
Except the US is going to exempt China, meaning that Operation Economic Outcast was stillborn from the very beginning.
Midweek Update#25: Sanctions Without China Are A Sign Of Defeat
So, It Turns Out That The US Is Winning!; A Story Illustrating Why This Pentagon Cannot Be Trusted
The US is moving its ambassadors back to the Middle East, however, which suggests it either naively thinks this will work, or that it's just going to give up.
Meanwhile:
Pentagon reveals hundreds of new Iran war casualties
This post, by the way, is the first one that I've ever had Bessent's name as a label, which surprises me. He's been mentioned before, but I've never put in a label.
One thing I've thought about doing is posting how he's sort of uniquely a symbol of hypocrisy in the Trump Administration, or maybe in MAGA. MAGA proclaims loudly that it's for "Christian" values by which it means far right Evangelical values.
Christianity pretty clearly holds that homosexual sex is a mortal sin. St. Paul was blunt about it. And yet Bessent is a homosexual in a homosexual union in which two children are being raised. Most actual Christians of any type would question this, and if Evangelical Christians are to be believed, they find it completely abhorrent.
But then, by the same token, having an alleged president who is a serial polygamist, a special envoy for the Shield of the Americas, whatever that is, who seemed to be having an affair while in her earlier role and whose husband was wearing giant fake boobs in internet photos, etc. etc., is pretty odd too.
Indeed, it's impossible to reconcile.
Mind you, I'm not saying that a homosexual, including one who is in a homosexual union, cannot be an effective Secretary of the Treasury. I'm saying you can't have an implied policy that everyone who isn't, white, straight, and sympathetic to far right Evangelicalism isn't a real American and still have a homosexual as one of your primary cabinet members and really mean any of that.
Making it all the more odd, Bessent is one of those cabinet members who has in recent months been dragged out to try to explain away whatever brain fart the Trump has uttered.
That feature of this administration has been there all along. Whereas for a transportation issue you might, in normal times, get a Transportation official, in this administration you might very well end up getting the Chief Chef of the White House to address it. And people appear and then disappear in that role pretty rapidly. Chris Wright, the Secretary of Energy, regularly was being hauled out to address the Press on all sorts of things for awhile, right up until he said that Biden was validly elected to the Oval Office.
Goodbye Chris.
Anyhow, there's something extra weird about Bessent, who always seems extremely nervous, being hauled out to address the Press on the war while we have Pete "High T" Hegseth in charge of the "War Department". Hegseth definitely fits into the far right Evangelical mold and is loud about it, while also being loud about the services being for manly men.
Well, anyhow. So much for Operation Economic Outcast.
August 31, 2026
Trump just shot some missiles at Iran and nobody cared
September 1, 2026
Iran, which you will recall supposedly lost the war, numerous times, hit Jordan with missiles within the last couple of days.
Only somewhat related, Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, who is close to J. D. Vance, submitted his resignation. It is well known that he does not get along with Hegseth.
September 8, 2026
Iran, which we are repeatedly assured is on the edge of complete collapse, is imposing a restricted zone in the Strati of Hormuz.
September 9, 2026
Houthis attacked four Saudi Arabian cities and their oil installations yesterday opening a new theater in the war.
The US hit Iranian tankers.
September 11, 2026
Iranian allied Houthis seized control of Yemen’s port city of Mocha on Thursday and advanced down the Red Sea coast to strategic islands giving them extended control over the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. The movies are likely Iranian backed themselves and squeeze Saudi Arabia and the world further.
Meanwhile Donald Trump stated that he expected the Iran war to end after the U.S. midterm elections. D'uh.
If the Houthi advance isn't arrested, it will draw Saudi Arabia back into the Yemeni civil war which will be an expansion of King Donald's War.
September 12, 2026
It's being reported that Saudi Arabia asked for Trump to intervene against the Houthis. Trump declined.
What an absolute irony. Trump illegally engaged in war against Iran where Israel undoubtedly had an influence, if in fact it didn't convince Trump to do it. That war has caused the Houthis to advance in the Yemeni Civil War, which was always a risk given that they're an Iranian client and have been active previously. They've struck Saudi Arabia, probably at Iran's request. Saudi Arabia has legitimately asked the US for assistance as a result, and we've said no.
If only we'd said no to start with.
The Houthis have taken islands in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.
Saudi Arabia has halted transfers on its East-West Pipeline.
September 15, 2026
When the Japanese succeeded in launching a surprise attack on Army air installations in Hawaii and on the Navy's base at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 it resulted in a Congressional investigation that ended the careers of the Admiral and General in command.
All that and frankly the Japanese attack wasn't all that predictable.
The Iranian strike on U.S. installations in Bahrain were.
New photos show widespread damage at U.S. positions caused by Iranian missile, drone attacks
Donald Trump and his collection little girls are the most outrageous liars to have ever been in the senior leadership of a democratic nation, and perhaps in the leadership of any nation. You'd have to look at Nazi Germany to find any comparison, so they are going to excuse this away, but the Iranian counterstrike's success shows a lack of planning and understanding by the Trump Administration that is simply unforgivable.
Related to the outrageous failures of the administration, Thomas Massie introduced Articles of Impeachment on Peter Hegseth including contravention of the War Powers Act, but also including ignoring the laws of war and extrajudicial killings, the latter including the illegal attack on Venezuela.
With this, we will conclude this addition.
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King Donald's War, Part 11. The worst defeat in American History. Sic transit Gloria Mundi.
Labels: 2020s, 2026, 2026 Election, Chris Christie, Donald Trump, Iran, Israel, King Donald's War, Operation Eagle Claw, Sic transit Gloria Mundi, Suez Crisis, The Second Trump Administration, United States and Israel v. Iran
Day One of the Next Administration.
The November election won't stop Trump from issuing dictatorial executive orders, and he's not going to sign any bills the upcoming Democratic House and Senate pass, no matter what they are, so we're going to have to put up with an increasingly erratic and weird Executive Branch over the next two years.
It may, frankly, get much, much more worse. There's literally nothing I'd put past Trump whatsoever.
Assuming we all make it to January 20, 2029, it's going to be a priority for the incoming administration to act quickly. Republicans, having taken a drubbing in 2026 and 2028, will be back on the conservative bandwagon and howling about anything a Democratic administration does.
So, looking forward, what should it do on day 1?
The very first thing it should do is an omnibus executive order wiping out every standing executive order and declaring any issued by Trump a nullity. This should be done partially on the legal premise that Trump was not a legitimate President and all actions he took, including executive actions and appointments to Federal office are null, void, and of no effect.
Any executive orders that were worth doing can be preserved in a following order, or the same order.
Yes this means that over 5,000 Federal employees that were Trump appointees would lose their offices immediately, including sitting judges.
And it means that every single military officer commissioned during Trump's interregnum would lose their commissions. They can be recommissioned in a following order, but it would have to be a conditional order so that if they were deemed disloyal or associated with the criminal war in Iran, they would be removed.
On day one, the incoming President should order that any officer complicit in the illegal war against Iran be court-martialed appropriately, including every current member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
All the Joint Chiefs should be removed. The senior positions should be filled with Reserve and National Guard officers.
Every member of the Space Force should be transferred into the Air Force. Eliminating the Space Force would take an act of Congress, but that doesn't mean it's absurd presence really has to be tolerated. Former Space Force personnel would report to their stations with Air Force insignia within six hours of the order, as they otherwise came on duty.
Taking a page out of the conservative agenda (I am conservative), women should be removed from combat MOS's. Basic training should be strictly segregated by gender. All Air Force basic training should be transferred to the Army.
On Day 1 Lt. Gen. William H. "Butch" Graham Jr., head of the Army Corps of Engineers, should be summoned to appear as soon as the inauguration is over. He should be given an order to cause the demolition and removal of the Ball Room with in 24 hours of receiving the order. The same shall apply to the Triumphal Arch. Within an additional 48 hours, the subterranean bunker complex shall be filled with cement.
The helipad should be broken up and restored to grass. A dedicated Marine Corps helicopter and dedicated Air Force aircraft for Presidential use shall be halted and those aircraft, all of them, returned to conventional service use within their respective branches. Likewise the Rose Garden paver shall be removed. All the gilded crap shall be tossed out within four hours of the inauguration and the interior of the impacted areas restored within twelve hours. The gilded equestrian statutes shall have the gold removed within 48 hours. The rhino lining in the reflecting pool shall be removed with in 48 hours.
All Federal lands subject to mineral exploration including petroleum exploration shall be withdrawn from the same, something well within the President's authority. Biden's order on electric vehicles shall be restored and expanded.
Federal lands removed from withdrawal by Trump shall immediately restored to their prior status.
Deputy Postmaster General Doug Tulino should be summoned (the current Postmaster General's appointment is illegitimate) and ordered to restore the 671 sorting machines that were dismantled in the first Trump administration back into service within one week. If they are not available, and they likely are not, he will be ordered to cause their replacement within one month.
Federal offices which have been relocated, such as the Interior's, shall be ordered back to their original quarters within one week of the inauguration. As the order to move them was invalid, all costs associated with the moves to and from other locations shall be ordered to be recovered by the U.S. Attorney's Civil Division by those causing the moves to occur, including Donald Trump.
All use of government property during the interregnum of an improper and personal nature, such as Trump's use of government aircraft, shall likewise be subject to a suit for recovery.
The complete Epstein files shall be released along with an order that anyone implicated in them shall be sought for prosecution, no matter who it is.
All existing "emergencies" which have been declared in place by prior Presidents shall be declared over and any authority extended under them eliminated. Any order allowing the imposition of tariffs by the President shall be declared over.
All combat operations in place by the United States anywhere would be ordered over within an hour of the inauguration. Restoring the status quo ante in the Persian Gulf is now almost impossible, so how to proceed on this would be tricky in the extreme. The best course may be to immediately ask for an international convention on the topic.
Military aid, and frankly any aid, to Israel would be terminated. The country has been there since 1947 and can make it on its own. Israel has a right to exist, but it's situation does not involve a vital interest of the United States.
Likewise, pulling out militarily in the Middle East should be ordered to be commenced. It would take some time, but it should be done.
All military missions to Venezuela would be withdrawn within twelve hours of the inauguration and the legitimate elected head of state recognized as the proper one.
All extrajudicial killings by the U.S. military in the Pacific and Caribbean would be ordered halted and anyone participating in them, right down to the E1 level, ordered to be prosecuted.
All "pardons" issued by Trump would be declared null, void, and of no effect, with anyone released from jail ordered to be returned. An illegitimate President cannot issue a pardon.
The production of penneys would be ordered resumed.
Currency bearing Donald Trump's signature would be ordered to be recovered through the banking system for destruction.
Trump's name would be stricken from anything it attached to during his "second term".
There's be a lot more to do, but that's what ought to happen on the very first day.
Friday, September 4, 2026
Monday, August 24, 2026
CliffsNotes of the Zeitgeist 142nd Edition, 25th Amendment Watch, 22nd Edition. Worry.
If you aren't afraid of what's going on with the United States government and Donald Trump's increasingly demented brain, you should be. We've really entered the Twilight Zone on this one.
Tom Nichols, the columnist for The Atlantic, nailed it in this MS Now interview, in which he stated:
Nichols: It’s almost like we have a relative in the room, and there’s something deeply wrong with him. And we’ve all agreed not to talk about it. But there is something deeply wrong with him.
His friends know it, his critics know it. His staff, I’m sure, knows it. The world knows it. World leaders know it. And most importantly, our enemies know it, which is why they don’t take him seriously.
Nobody hangs on his words. They kind of do, but mostly out of freakish curiosity to see what kind of wild thing he’s going to say next, not because his words have any inherent meaning or reflect policy.
You know, I spent years teaching students that when the president speaks, it’s policy, and you must pay attention when the president speaks because nobody can contradict him.
Now, you know, are we really cutting off all trade with Spain? Who knows? Maybe. Maybe not. It might have just been a stray electron, you know, careening around inside his brainpan. Who knows?
But this is really dangerous because in the middle of all this stuff—and we can laugh about, you know, the Islamic Republic of Japan and all of that—but he made several statements about an ongoing war that the United States is losing. And no one’s even trying to pretend that they can make any sense of it.
And I’ll just add one last thing that you just brought up.
If this were any other president, this would be a national crisis. I mean, Joe Biden got somebody’s name wrong, and it was headlines. The president gets all kinds of things wrong, completely, you know, is out to lunch at an important NATO summit, and, you know, it’s Wednesday.
This is a crisis.
Trump's brain was really on full display over the past week while he was attending the NATO summit.
During a public meeting with Zelensky, he referred to him as Putin. For that matter, he claimed:
We had 11 missiles shot by the Islamic Republic of Japan.
The same man who can't get out of the war claimed:
In one day, we could knock down every single bridge in Iran. There's not a thing they can do about it ... if we have to, we'll take them out. They have desalinization plants. We'll take them out if we have to ... maybe we'll take over Kharg
Attacking desalinization plants would likely be a war crime.
On the bogus Red Scare:
I would be the greatest communist in history. I'd be right up there with Leneeen.
On Spain, which he liked the next day or day after:
Spain is a wasted cause. We don't want to do any trade business with Spain anymore, by the way. I'd like to cut it off. Spain is a terrible partner in NATO. Cut off all trade with Spain, please. Including visits. We don't want anything to do. They're hopeless. Bad
And on IEDs.
The roadside bomb is a bomb that goes on when you're driving your little around, and it goes on and you have no legs, no arms, and no face.
The latter, I'd note, is typical for Trump in this stage. He talks about something that everyone else in world knows more about than he does, and then gives it a toddlers explanation. A week or two ago he discovered that the word dumb is spelled dumb. He was so pleased to discover that. Apparently he really believed that most people thought it was spelled "dum".
That last item should worry us in and of itself A President ought to have a trusted advisor to tell him, "look Donny, the entire f*****g world except you knows how that word is spelled.
Instead, we're on a roller coaster in control of a man who has the mind of a toddler.
July 11, 2026
On his recent trip to be ignored at the NATO summit, in Turkey, where the participants have tired of the raving octogenarian, Donald Trump switched airplanes as Qatari One lacks the full set of countermeasures that the two Air Force Ones have. It took the Press about a day to figure that out, which wasn't all that difficult, particularly as the lame excuse was that it was going to a U.S. Airbase in the UK so the airmen there could admire it. Nonetheless, the Administration is now suing over the story breaking.
The story further developed, basically, that the Iranians, after having their complete leadership killed in the first hours of the war might revisit the tactic on Donald Trump, which is the very reason that nations at war do not do this. A more likely story, however, is simply that there's an intelligence assessment that it was a risk, which it obviously is. When Trump was called on the real reason for the airplane's diversion he at first sort of brushed it off, but by yesterday he no longer was.
Now we're getting this:
This is flat out absurd and frankly nobody believes it. Given the sort of missiles this would entail, it threatens what amounts to a nuclear strike on Iran.
Frankly, this entire episode is a massive example of playing a stupid game and winning a stupid prize. Trump made himself a target by assassinating or allowing the assassination of the Iranian civil government. If they aren't targeting him, and frankly they likely aren't, it's because they deem it in their best interest not to, and not because the US would retaliate, but because it's in their best interest at this point to have the country lead by a distracted demented fruit loop.
For what it's worth, a President can't give a "if they kill me, do this" order. Once the President dies, his role as Commander in Chief dies with him. This could only occur if the next President authorized it. If a President was assassinated by a foreign power, there'd be some sort of military retaliation, but this wouldn't be it.
The real danger here, however, is that Trump went from "m'eh" to absolute panic in the space of a day. He's getting extremely erratic and he's not going to get better. Normally if a threat like this was made parties would be getting ready to invoke the 25th Amendment. We're now so used to this it's just another day.
July 22, 2026
Green New Scam where we were scammed. The whole country was, I wasn't scammed. I got it right from the beginning… they were saying wind was so wonderful, so wonderful, except you couldn't, watch your television, they wanted to watch the debate. Donald Trump against Sleepy Joe Biden. Nobody could watch it because the wind wasn't blowing. Remember that?
Everything about this Trump babble is completely erroneous.
Seriously, he needs to have the 25th Amendment applied to him. That it isn't, is reckless in the extreme.
August 10, 2026
An example of the rank stupidity of the Second Trump Administration.
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:Section 1. Purpose and Policy. Pursuant to the Presidential Memorandum of December 5, 2025 (Aligning United States Core Childhood Vaccine Recommendations with Best Practices from Peer, Developed Countries), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) completed a scientific assessment, which identified a set of consensus vaccines that are consistently recommended in all peer countries and found that the United States currently recommends more childhood vaccines than any peer nation, including more than twice as many vaccine doses as some European nations (scientific assessment). The scientific assessment also found that, instead of implementing vaccination mandates, most peer nations maintain high childhood vaccination rates through public trust and education. In the United States, by contrast, individual States set mandatory vaccination requirements that children must meet to attend school.Executive Order 14407 of May 29, 2026 (Realigning United States Core Childhood Vaccine Recommendations With Best Practices From Peer, Developed Countries), committed the Federal Government to ensuring that Americans are receiving the best scientifically supported medical advice in the world, as well as to protecting religious liberty and parental authority. However, implementation of my Administration’s prior directives regarding childhood vaccines has been delayed due to litigation over the composition of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and separate updates to the Federal vaccine schedule. Therefore, I am taking further action to reaffirm that it is the policy of the United States that the core childhood vaccine recommendations should be aligned with scientific evidence and best practices from peer, developed countries while preserving access to vaccines currently available to Americans. Further, it is the policy of my Administration that Federal programs and funding should support maximal parental choice over childhood vaccines, consistent with the Federal Government’s constitutional and statutory obligations and the fundamental principles of personal autonomy and informed consent.Sec. 2. Recommendations for Childhood and Adolescent Vaccines. (a) Based on consultation with my advisors and review of available scientific evidence, it is hereby declared that the United States recognizes Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations informed by the three distinct categories of childhood immunization recommendations identified in the scientific assessment, as specified below:(i) immunizations recommended for all children: measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, Haemophilus influenzae type B, pneumococcal disease, human papillomavirus, and varicella;(ii) immunizations recommended for certain high-risk groups or populations: respiratory syncytial virus monoclonal antibodies, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, meningococcal B, meningococcal ACWY, and dengue; and(iii) immunizations based on shared clinical decision-making: hepatitis A, hepatitis B, rotavirus, meningococcal disease, influenza, and COVID-19.(b) The Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations also recognize that the combined measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine should be administered in three separate single-disease shots once such products are domestically available and that, to the maximum extent feasible, all childhood immunizations should be administered at separate medical visits.(c) Each executive department and agency shall review the Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations and take any appropriate steps to advance them, to the fullest extent allowable by law.(d) States and territories are advised to review the Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations and consider updating relevant laws and regulations that define the scope of immunization requirements for contexts such as school enrollment and attendance based on the scientific assessment and best practices from peer, developed countries.(e) The United States will routinely reassess the Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations according to the findings of the HHS Task Force on Safer Childhood Vaccines as specified in section 3 of this order.Sec. 3. Improving Vaccine Research and Options for American Parents. The Secretary of HHS, through the HHS Task Force on Safer Childhood Vaccines, shall, within 90 days of the date of this order, present plans to the President through the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy to, to the extent appropriate and consistent with applicable law:(a) offer options to administer core childhood vaccines, starting with MMR, as single vaccines rather than combination products/doses, including by working with the private sector and other countries as appropriate, while guaranteeing continued availability of combination vaccines and those vaccines recommended for shared clinical decision-making;(b) assess the ideal timing and sequencing of all core childhood vaccines and adjust the Federal childhood and adolescent vaccine schedule as appropriate based on gold‑standard science;(c) develop additional alternative adjuvants to aluminum and conduct comparative safety and efficacy studies;(d) ensure continuous evaluation of the risk/benefit profiles of all childhood vaccines based on United States and international data; and(e) improve vaccine safety monitoring, transparency, and research.Sec. 4. Maximizing Parental Choice over Childhood Vaccines. (a) The Attorney General shall take appropriate measures to further meritorious legal actions challenging State laws that conflict with States’ constitutional and Federal statutory obligations related to parental authority, religious freedom, disability accommodations, and equal protection under the law, including, to the extent applicable under Federal law, States’ obligations to provide religious and medical exemptions from childhood and adolescent immunization requirements.(b) The Departments of Justice, Education, and HHS shall take appropriate action to ensure that their contractors and grantees, including States and localities, are compliant with their constitutional and Federal statutory obligations related to parental authority, religious freedom, disability accommodations, and equal protection under the law, including, to the extent applicable under Federal law, their obligations to provide religious and medical exemptions from childhood and adolescent immunization requirements.Sec. 5. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.(d) The costs for publication of this order shall be borne by the Department of Health and Human Services.DONALD J. TRUMPTHE WHITE HOUSE,
At some point you have to admit that Donald Trump is fairly stupid.
He has, we will give him, some native skills. But by and large, he appears to be fairly dumb.
An example on this very topic:
They have a vaccination that’s the size of a bottle of soda poured into a child’s body.
Trump.
That statement is moronic.
The question at this point would be, has he always been this dumb, or did he decline into stupidity?
Even so, he clearly has some reservations:
Nothing bad can happen from what we're doing. Nothing bad can happen. It's possible it doesn't work. I don't think that's much of a possibility, frankly.
Trump.
We're gambling with children's well being based on the medical advice of a non doctor who is a complete and utter quack.
And Trump on Joe Biden's cancer:
If you feel sorry for him, don’t feel so sorry, because he’s vicious.I really don’t feel sorry for him.
August 25, 2026
This is absolutely insane.
One Canadian figure called the demands "insane".
This administration at this point is so stupid on these matters its indescribable.
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