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Wendy Shelley's avatar

And the market hit a new high? How soon will that hit a new low? God, what incredibly STUPID people the maggots elected and we have to put up with!! BiBi needs to be convicted by the ICC and put in jail. Cut off support from the US; it’s not doing us any good. And for heaven’s sakes, cut the mic for anything JD says!

Richard Van Atta's avatar

JD — Just Damned his prospects as a presidential nominee… He is a lightweight prefabricated poser.

Wendy Shelley's avatar

JD has no prospects of being the nominee. Even the RNC wouldn’t allow him that post. It’s obvious Felon doesn’t like him, wants him to fail, spectacularly and, for some reason, touting Marco more and more – – another one who will be doomed.

Richard Van Atta's avatar

Thought: when Donnie is gone it’s a new ballgame. And Donnie will be gone soon…. Then who calls the shots? Thiel? Musk? Vought? Is it conceivable that “mainstream” REPUGNANTCANTS can reset the party apart from the Trumphukians?

Eddie1a's avatar

Richard, I have the same fears. Musk has hundreds--thousands?--satellites, including Starlink and mostly government contracts. In the past he already stopped the launch of missiles from Ukraine to Russia.

Musk wants to control ALL electronics.

Bezos wants to control all sales. He seems to be aspiring to be the *only* vendor in the U.S. He recently went into presciption drugs. I don't know if he implemented banking yet, but he talked about it. He owns the Washington Post, which I canceled as soon as he bought it.

If Musk & Bezos decided to partner, they'd probably aspire to own the world.

Richard Van Atta's avatar

Where’s Dr. Evil in all this…. Peter Thiel?

Palintir is inside all our national security systems and more ….

Eddie1a's avatar

You're right, Richard, I forgot about Thiel. He and the other oligarchs will be involved, I'm sure.

Anne Fletcher-Jones's avatar

I’m giving Amazon the ultimate insult—looking up things there then finding different outlets to buy them from (in the U.K.).

Richard Van Atta's avatar

Good strategy…. Not sure others are much better. Here we have Costco which doesn’t deliver and is 20 miles away…. Is Target management any better than Bezos Amazon?

Margaret Rivera's avatar

I'd like to think that they'd be gone, but having someone like trump in the White House has literally made them BILLIONS!! So, unfortunately, I suspect they will continue to contribute $$$millions to the campaigns of people like trump who will deregulate and deny climate change So that we can have many more Trillionaires -- not just musk. It truly is sick..

Susan Wells's avatar

The only way JDV gets to be POTUS is if something happens to DJT and the next in line (Vance) takes over as POTUS - and JDV knows it. What he does about it is yet to be seen.

Richard Van Atta's avatar

Yup …. He’s hoping that the Pusillanimous Pussygrabber has a full up Myocardiar infarction!! He probably feeds him Big Macs with fried chicken and duck fat fries!

Margaret Rivera's avatar

Is Israel (Netanyahu) trump's last friend? (I mean besides Putin?)

Deborah B's avatar

trump has no “friends”, just people who manipulate and use him for $$, power or whatever

Declan's avatar

America will never stop giving Israel BILLIONS every year. Where isnthe public furor????

Richard Van Atta's avatar

Hmmmmm…. Where’s Dr. Evil in all this? Or is that Peter Thiel?

Richard Van Atta's avatar

Wellll … you’ve got bangers and mash…

Richard Van Atta's avatar

We have great friends in Rancho Mirage out thataway. Just too damn hot there now—and the politics with a lot of them folks are way too Trumpy for me …. Except for the Canadians who apparently aren’t so interested in coming down there.

Richard Van Atta's avatar

That’s what THEY would like to do … I think THEY were grooming Charlie Kirk as a future replacement … but 2028 might have been too soon. Do what Durwood Dimwit Dumphuk will they foist on the MAGAmaniacs? Whatshisface Markwayne Mullet?

Rain Desjardins's avatar

Someone needs to write the book, The Art of the Steal. Then Zen and the Art of Being in Jail.

JD better be careful going up against Israel, he may get Kirked.

Margaret Rivera's avatar

That's JD (after reading that he's a smurf) trying to act like a big kid and stand up to ? ? ? trump? ? ? Netanyahu?? trying on his 'big kid' shoes and whoops. They don't really fit, do they.

🇨🇦 Wayne Masters's avatar

Vance is not authentic, he is attracted only to power.

Margaret Rivera's avatar

I really totally agree. He tries but he still is a smurf trying to act . . .

Richard Van Atta's avatar

No more than lil’Narco fit in his Trump clodhoppers!

J. Rock's avatar

Full marks for "lil Narco"! 👏👏👏

Rain Desjardins's avatar

Maybe Trump will cut off Israel’s weapon supply.

Charlie H's avatar

To be fair, Trump treats Israel like a vassal state and didn't even consult them on his surrender, but committed them to it's terms.

The second surrender at Versailles. Irony is dead.

Walter Bruno's avatar

No. Your 'vassal state' arm-twisted the happy Trump to 'start the war for us'.

3 months later Trump shrieked at Bibi on the phone to GTF onside.

Netanyahu's occupation of Lebanon is #1 on his agenda and no dummy in the WH is going to interfere with that. So he torpedoed the MOU even before Trump did it verbally..

TJ's avatar

This entire Iran, USA and Israel debacle otherwise known as “excursion” or in reality called “war” is going to change on an hourly basis… what a shit-show of epic proportions..

Mary Jo's avatar

I hope I can live through it. This is so bad…my heart hurts!

cmcgrath's avatar

So much saber rattling; and to what end? Thousands of lives lost or damaged beyond repair. The global economy scraping the bottom of the barrel.

The spoiled bullies won't get out of the sandbox, no matter what the adults say.

It's time someone dragged them back to their respective corners for some serious time out.

Congress, what say you?

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Richard Van Atta's avatar

Well he certainly TRUMPHUKED this up! Just like he TRUMPHUKED the economy with his tariffs. Just like he TRUMPHUKED the “Reflecting Pond” with his stooooopid paint job.

Just like he TRUMPHUKED our society with his racism and attacks on anyone in opposition. Just like he TRUMPHUKED our military by putting in Putrid Hogsbreath as our Suckretary of Wars. Just like he TRUMPHUKED our nations health by kiboshing ACA and installing RFK the junior snake eater as our Suckretary of Hellth and Inhuman Servitude.

Whatever Donnie j. Trumphuk touches turns to shit! Unfortunately we the American people — the taxpayers as opposed to the bazillionaires who bought and paid for him who don’t pay taxes—will pay for all this Trumphukian idiocy.

Thanks a lot Heritage Foundation and the bloodsuckers who funded its Project 2025 assault on our federal government. Thanks for rigging the system and providing the misinformation and propaganda that put Donnie J back into command so he could literally TRUMPHUK everything up!

Thanks for giving us a new verb: TRUMPHUK. Meaning—to screw up everything you touch due to abject stupidity, ignorance and nastiness.

Teri Gelini's avatar

Everyone knew BiBi was not in agreement and was not even included in the deal. He will never stop as the very next thing to happen to him is jail...

J. Rock's avatar

"the alliance isn’t having a disagreement. It’s having a divorce conversation in front of the kids." You really do have a way with words, Dean!

elliottoberman's avatar

Notable

Boycott Trump’s Fourth of July party. “Thanks to the incompetence and dishonesty of Mr. Trump’s planning team, there won’t even be any good bands playing. Talk about a lame party. Better that states stay home and invest in less divisive local festivities.”

Stephen ONeill's avatar

The "Joker" is real. He lives in Israel.

Deepak Puri's avatar

How much will Trump’s surrender to Iran cost you? Check this infographic.

https://thedemlabs.org/2026/06/19/iran-war-household-financial-cost-infographic/

Dr Lou's avatar

This MOU false 'agreement' was dead on arrival from the instant it was announced. And that had nothing to do with Israel but Trump and his 'team's remarkable incompetence...and the fact that Trump was humiliated in Iran and is desperate to end the fighting by surrendering to Iran's primary demands. To note, I oppose Netanyahu as strongly as I support Israel but am, frankly, tired of Israel always being the target for 'fault' and the errors of others

This is the many millenia long History of Judaism and virulent antisemitism. Anytime any government or other leadership is failing, it somehow becomes the fault of the Jews and, often, Jews everywhere rather than just in their country alone. This is no different nor, especially, is Vance's just verbal attack on Israel in an attempt at transference of American culpability and outright failure in Iran.

As little as I support the Israeli government, the reality is that they did not make nor were asked for ANY promise or agreement to stop fighting Hezbollah.

Two days ago, in fact, Trump called Lebanon a 'small war' and said he supported Israel's fight with and defense against Hezbollah to include its occupation of southern Lebanon. I don't support Israel's occupation of southern Lebanon but understand that strategic reasons exist so long as Hezbollah, via Iran, continues its attacks on Israel.

Then yesterday, Trump suddenly demanded that Israel not return or respond to what was Hezbollah's continued attacks and immediately accede to the arbitrary demand in the MOU of an Israeli (but not Iranian/Hezbollah) ceasefire. More importantly is that Trump's nonsense MOU made NO reference that Iran had to rein in its proxies from their constant attacks on Israel.

That Trump ensured Israel was cut out of his faux negotiations with Iran meant that Israel had not agreed to a damn thing and was/is not a signatory to Trump's surrender document to Iran that pays off Iran in an attempt to end his humiliation and loss in his Epstein War of Choice to include the key loss of control over the key Strait of Hormuz - which was fine and fully open the day before the joint US/Israel attack on Iran.

Iran said yesterday that after the agreed to 60 day lull and free passage in Hormuz, it would be creating a system of tolls for ships passing through the Strait. The 60 day added period for more 'negotiations' will just allow Iran to further play off of Trump's instability, confusion and desperate need to withdraw.

The MOU also agrees to remove American military from geographically near Iran (though what that means exactly is unclear). What IS clear is that Trump not only lost to Iran but that Iran is dictating the terms of his surrender which will leave Iran stronger than ever before and the Middle East, especially Israel, at ever more risk. Trump lost to Iran and Netanyahu screwed up to the same degree he did prior to October 7.

Turns out that because of his claimed 'special' alliance with Trump and self-proclaimed status as a 'Trump whisperer,' Netanyahu also lost the current war with Iran while not meeting any objectives despite several having been rather important. Netanyahu would've been far better off if Israel had done more surgical and strategic strikes and not tried to bring the war monger and dementia addled mentally ill, Trump, into this battle.

Of further importance is that nowhere in this MOU is there even a reference that Iran and its terror proxies, led by Hezbollah, will leave Israel the hell alone. It is only and arbitrarily stated that Israel, however, won't fire back. And Hezbollah has not stopped its attack on Israel to include killing and wounding IDF soldiers SINCE the MOU was supposedly agreed.

Israel and Hezbollah have just reportedly agreed to a ceasefire even as they continue to fight and kill the other.. Realize that Hezbollah's sole purpose, as fully aligned with Iran (to include Hamas), is the total annihilation of Israel to include ending it as a sovereign nation.

I'd think providing for Israel's security would've been rather important in any agreement with Iran. Trump's 'agreement' with Iran can't contain a line about Israel's self-defense in Lebanon without having had Israel involved in the negotiations and to, again, have Iran agree to leave Israel the hell alone directly and through its proxies.

I consider Netanyahu and his Ben Gvir/Smotrich wing' to be potential war criminals. Netanyahu pushed a pointless slaughter of civilians in Gaza - but which is still not genocide - to include the use of way disproportionate force even as the war against Hamas was relevant in the wake of the October 7 genocidal slaughter and extreme sexual violence by Hamas terrorists in southern Israel.

As I've written previously, and even Trump just referenced, Israel must stop leveling residential buildings in Beirut because they may have seen a single Hezbollah operative enter the building. This has nothing to do with the Trump/Iran MOU since Israel was blocked out of any participation or input.

But the thing is that despite the mass slaughter in Gaza, Netanyahu and his Jewish Supremacist coalition also lost to Hamas who is now in control of at least 50% of Gaza, still fully armed, and back to terrorizing and murdering Gazan citizens. For all those rightly horrified by the extremity of the Netanyahu coalition's campaign in Gaza, I've yet to hear unconditional condemnation of Hamas for 10/7 or, now, for resuming their pre-Oct 7 terror campaign against their own citizens.

But I digress.

I honestly resent making it appear that I'm defending Netanyahu - because that is the last thing you will get from me. What I am defending is Israel and both, Israeli and Diaspora Jews.

The constant incitement from figures like Trump, combined with the blindness to the historical, geopolitical and strategic realties on the ground by others even as they think they are well meaning, are creating hate for Israel and death for Israeli and Diaspora Jews from Australia and the UK to the US. In the US that has ranged from Pittsburgh to, very recently, Michigan and as in other locations in the West, continues to escalate.

Israel must realign by first getting Netanyahu out of office which he has, sadly, now identified that he wants to run in the about to happen elections. I'd like to see Israel's President Herzog have a conversation with Bibi about his political (and judicial) future.

America must recover by having the GOP Congress get its collective head out of its ass and hold Trump accountable. Pull the plug on his unilateral behavior from starting deadly pointless wars to destroying the Reflecting Pool. Article II Section 4 of the Constitution must e engaged - either that or the 25th Amendment

But, first and foremost, I'd even more like to see in the immediate term the realization that the fact that Trump and Iran arbitrarily put Israel and Hezbollah by way of Lebanon in their 14-point MOU to be irrelevant to Israel but only accountable to Trump's incompetence, humiliation and surrender. It has now been made Israel's problem but it is not Israel's fault or responsibility.

Israel through Netanyahu has plenty else for which to be held accountable - but this current dynamic is not one

Coco's avatar

I just threw my phone down at the table having read, only the title, of this piece. President Trump is such a liar, and embarrassment. Insider trading again. There's got to be a way to cut his yo-yo string. I'm going back to your story now Dean.😊

🇨🇦 Wayne Masters's avatar

Israel attacked overnight.

Deal is off and trump knew $300 billionaire lie.

Robot Bender's avatar

It's my understanding that the SoH is closed again. According to Malcolm Nance this morning, we have about a month's worth of oil left in our reserves. Given the current Israel/Lebanon situation (not to mention Gaza), Israel is guaranteeing a world economic disaster with his actions