The death toll needs to be broadcast. 750 dead or wounded. NOT 13.
AIr bases destroyed, where are the personnel living?
I understand; the sailors are complaining about food rationing on the ships and other ridiculous things. There was no planning, no logistical backup or a plan B. Hell, there wasnt even a Plan A.
Now, I want to see how Israel should be held accountable, too. Lebanon, Gaza. And we are complicit here as they are complicit in Iran. What a very expensive shitshow, lives lost, costs soaring and for what?
I recall hearing some weeks ago that thousands of US troops stationed at Iran-damaged Middle Eastern bases were sent back to the US, but that reporting was squashed with no further details since.
Trump sued the federal government for $10 billion to compensate him for his alleged pain and suffering resulting from an IRS contractor’s disclosure of Trump’s tax returns, which revealed how rich he really is and how much in taxes he actually paid. Now that Trump is President, he and his Acting Attorney General, Todd Blanche, who reports directly to Trump, have agreed between themselves on a resolution of Trump’s law suit.
I should add that Blanche previously served as Trump’s personal defense attorney in a criminal case in New York in which Trump was ultimately convicted of multiple felonies. I should also add that Blanche, as Deputy Attorney General, was placed in charge of overseeing what should and should not be disclosed from the Epstein files to Congress and the American people. There has been considerable conjecture that Blanche has erred on the side of non-disclosures, especially as they relate to his boss.
It was recently announced that Trump and Blanche decided upon a resolution of Trump’s law suit. Blanche has agreed to Trump’s proposal to divert over $1.7 billion in taxpayer money into a fund, to be overseen by Trump himself, to distribute compensation to alleged victims whom Trump would determine were mistreated by the Biden administration. Trump has made it clear that examples of such compensation from the taxpayers’ money would include those rioters who violently stormed the Capitol on January 6 at Trump’s urging and those who called for Pence’s hanging and who left dead bodies in their wake as they smashed through the Capitol windows and walls. No doubt Trump’s discretionary disbursements may also be viewed as a vehicle to buy the votes of those who claim to have been mistreated by anyone in the Biden administration or even any Democrat at the time, given that Biden was the head of the party. Trump would undoubtedly view the disbursement of such taxpayer money as “good will” gestures to console them for their alleged mistreatment.
Trump also induced his subordinate to legally bind the IRS into agreeing not to review any of Trump’s prior tax filings, which would thereby confer on Trump total immunity for under-reporting income, fraudulent tax filings etc. Why any responsible public servant would agree to such immunity boggles the mind, until one realizes that it is Trump’s lackey who is signing off on Trump’s demand.
COMMON SENSE:
While much of the tidal wave of objections by Americans in all walks of life and across the entire political spectrum has centered upon the huge amount of this “settlement” and the outrageous reasons for which the taxpayers’ money is to be disbursed by Donald Trump at his discretion, less emphasis has been focused on the outrageousness of the blatant conflict of interest in Trump suing himself and deciding himself what he himself should receive from the taxpayers.
What is so amazing here is how brazen Trump and his flunky have been in slapping this preposterous “settlement” together between themselves of $1.7 billion dollars of taxpayer money for Trump to dispose of as he pleases and expects the American people to actually buy this total rip-off.
We can only imagine the amount of time and money that will be expended in legal research, briefs, oral arguments and in collateral litigations consumed by this scam, which Trump may seek to appeal all the way up to the Supreme Court, where he hopes that his loyalist Justices will rubber stamp his plundering of the U.S. Treasury.
If this scam is in any way upheld, it would provide a precedent that would embolden any Governor of any state, any Mayor of any city, and any CEO of any company to conspire with his or her chief legal officer to have the chief executive sue the entity and then unilaterally “settle” his or her own the claim by plundering the treasury or other financial assets of the entity.
This is such a blatant abuse of power by both Trump and Blanche that it qualifies for all time as being a textbook example of a conflict of interest that “shocks the conscience of the court” and is patently against the public interest.
It’s time that the courts unite in wiping that smirk off of Trump’s face that he successfully pulled off this scam on the American people.
Trump is making money off this war machine, he doesn't want it to end, and his sons 700 million drone copies of Iran drones, make my family great for once, big time!
We always knew we would never get the truth out of this regime. That much damage is unacceptable. Taxpayer money wasted. Maybe we should bill 47 since he keeps getting richer. To literally strong arm a satellite company says it all and makes you wonder how many things are being covered up.
Excellent writing. I have now signed up at £32.50(UK) for a full year - real value! PS the in article link says 25% off for November, you need to update
Over the past year, the Trump administration has secured equity stakes and struck bespoke deals with at least 10 US companies. The Hinrich Foundation’s hfAI Lab ranks these deals by their potential impact, signaling which carry the greatest strategic weight for national security.
To observe the executive mansion at this specific historical juncture is to witness a profound, almost poetic collapse of substance into spectacle. We are asked to celebrate the Semiquincentennial—the 250th anniversary of a republic conceived by the giants of the Enlightenment, men who weaponized the prose of Locke and Montesquieu to forge a nation—and yet the visual centerpiece of this milestone is not a rededication to foundational principles, but a literal cage match.
The deliberate leveling of the East Wing to clear sightlines for a temporary gladiatorial arena is the perfect architectural manifestation of this shift. If, as Betty Ford once elegantly put it, the West Wing represents the mind of the nation and the East Wing its heart, we have witnessed a radical, surgical extraction. The heart has been bulldozed, and the mind has been entirely co-opted by the primitive physics of mixed martial arts.
The analogy is one of uninhibited, accelerating decadence. We have transitioned from the deliberate, dignified rule of law to the raw, athletic vulgarity of the Octagon, where "truth" is decided not by rigorous debate or constitutional fidelity, but by whoever can successfully apply a rear-naked choke before the buzzer sounds.
"There is a singular, stomach-churning irony in watching the American Republic arrive at its 250th year of existence—an anniversary that ought to evoke the ghost of Thomas Jefferson and the severe, elegant reason of the Founders—only to find the executive mansion transformed into a low-rent satellite of Las Vegas.
The demolition of the East Wing, ostensibly to accommodate the sprawling geometry of a UFC cage on the South Lawn, is an architectural metaphor so thuddingly on-the-nose that a third-rate satirist would reject it for lacking subtlety. Yet, here we are. The historic structure that once housed the social conscience and diplomatic grace of the presidency has been summarily flattened, replaced by an iron cage designed for the deliberate, televised letting of blood. It is the literal uprooting of civilization to make room for the circus.
And for what grand purpose is this desecration enacted? To celebrate the octogenarian milestone of a man whose entire life has been a relentless war against the concept of understatement. On June 14, the incumbent turns eighty. It is entirely fitting that his birthday party should double as a national anniversary, for in his mind, the state is him. The Roman emperors, at least, had the decency to build their colosseums away from their private villas; here, the Caesar of the outer boroughs brings the blood sport directly to his back porch.
To witness a cage fight on the lawn of the White House is to see the complete, unarguable triumph of the lumpenproletariat aesthetic. We are invited to celebrate two and a half centuries of constitutional liberty by watching two men beat each other into semi-consciousness in a corporate-branded cage, while an aging narcissist blows out the candles on his cake. It is not a tribute to the American experiment; it is its funeral dynamic, set to a soundtrack of entrance music and pyrotechnics, proving beyond doubt that while Rome merely burned, Washington prefers to pay-per-view its own decline."
The Core Irony: The juxtaposition reveals that the American experiment, which began with a single sheet of parchment and 56 signatures dedicated to the rule of reason, has reached a point where its highest celebration requires the physical destruction of its own heritage to accommodate a display of structured, commercialized violence. It is the ultimate victory of the transactional over the institutional.
I don't even count Trump's "Victory" shoutings... It seems he really thinks of this war like playing video games... And at the end of the day, he clicks the "Share victory" button... EXCEPT: That's just not the way physical war happens and serious diplomacy works! He's completely disconnected from reality.
The death toll needs to be broadcast. 750 dead or wounded. NOT 13.
AIr bases destroyed, where are the personnel living?
I understand; the sailors are complaining about food rationing on the ships and other ridiculous things. There was no planning, no logistical backup or a plan B. Hell, there wasnt even a Plan A.
Now, I want to see how Israel should be held accountable, too. Lebanon, Gaza. And we are complicit here as they are complicit in Iran. What a very expensive shitshow, lives lost, costs soaring and for what?
I recall hearing some weeks ago that thousands of US troops stationed at Iran-damaged Middle Eastern bases were sent back to the US, but that reporting was squashed with no further details since.
I agree.
Also, Americans and the world are being made crazy by the promises that are never kept.
If you are a US citizen or have US residency, would you please read my piece explaining the Free Speech for People campaign to impeach Trump AND his cabinet and help them get 2 million signatures by signing the petition in it? https://lindaweide.substack.com/p/indivisible-abroad-supports-the-impeach?r=f0qfn
If you can't find the link to the petition in the above piece, here it is. Just scroll down and you will find it. https://www.impeachtrumpagain.org/
Agreed. That 13 dead figure is months old. I sadly suspect the real number is much higher but Petey Kegsbreath is hiding it.
Hegseth is Trump's evil echo.
The Biggest Swindle in American History
Background:
Trump sued the federal government for $10 billion to compensate him for his alleged pain and suffering resulting from an IRS contractor’s disclosure of Trump’s tax returns, which revealed how rich he really is and how much in taxes he actually paid. Now that Trump is President, he and his Acting Attorney General, Todd Blanche, who reports directly to Trump, have agreed between themselves on a resolution of Trump’s law suit.
I should add that Blanche previously served as Trump’s personal defense attorney in a criminal case in New York in which Trump was ultimately convicted of multiple felonies. I should also add that Blanche, as Deputy Attorney General, was placed in charge of overseeing what should and should not be disclosed from the Epstein files to Congress and the American people. There has been considerable conjecture that Blanche has erred on the side of non-disclosures, especially as they relate to his boss.
It was recently announced that Trump and Blanche decided upon a resolution of Trump’s law suit. Blanche has agreed to Trump’s proposal to divert over $1.7 billion in taxpayer money into a fund, to be overseen by Trump himself, to distribute compensation to alleged victims whom Trump would determine were mistreated by the Biden administration. Trump has made it clear that examples of such compensation from the taxpayers’ money would include those rioters who violently stormed the Capitol on January 6 at Trump’s urging and those who called for Pence’s hanging and who left dead bodies in their wake as they smashed through the Capitol windows and walls. No doubt Trump’s discretionary disbursements may also be viewed as a vehicle to buy the votes of those who claim to have been mistreated by anyone in the Biden administration or even any Democrat at the time, given that Biden was the head of the party. Trump would undoubtedly view the disbursement of such taxpayer money as “good will” gestures to console them for their alleged mistreatment.
Trump also induced his subordinate to legally bind the IRS into agreeing not to review any of Trump’s prior tax filings, which would thereby confer on Trump total immunity for under-reporting income, fraudulent tax filings etc. Why any responsible public servant would agree to such immunity boggles the mind, until one realizes that it is Trump’s lackey who is signing off on Trump’s demand.
COMMON SENSE:
While much of the tidal wave of objections by Americans in all walks of life and across the entire political spectrum has centered upon the huge amount of this “settlement” and the outrageous reasons for which the taxpayers’ money is to be disbursed by Donald Trump at his discretion, less emphasis has been focused on the outrageousness of the blatant conflict of interest in Trump suing himself and deciding himself what he himself should receive from the taxpayers.
What is so amazing here is how brazen Trump and his flunky have been in slapping this preposterous “settlement” together between themselves of $1.7 billion dollars of taxpayer money for Trump to dispose of as he pleases and expects the American people to actually buy this total rip-off.
We can only imagine the amount of time and money that will be expended in legal research, briefs, oral arguments and in collateral litigations consumed by this scam, which Trump may seek to appeal all the way up to the Supreme Court, where he hopes that his loyalist Justices will rubber stamp his plundering of the U.S. Treasury.
If this scam is in any way upheld, it would provide a precedent that would embolden any Governor of any state, any Mayor of any city, and any CEO of any company to conspire with his or her chief legal officer to have the chief executive sue the entity and then unilaterally “settle” his or her own the claim by plundering the treasury or other financial assets of the entity.
This is such a blatant abuse of power by both Trump and Blanche that it qualifies for all time as being a textbook example of a conflict of interest that “shocks the conscience of the court” and is patently against the public interest.
It’s time that the courts unite in wiping that smirk off of Trump’s face that he successfully pulled off this scam on the American people.
Thank you for the clear, factual communication. We know who we can trust - and who we can’t. It is time to show up, stand up and speak up (loudly).
Trump is making money off this war machine, he doesn't want it to end, and his sons 700 million drone copies of Iran drones, make my family great for once, big time!
The criminal clown show always lies and grifts off Americans...
The most telling is they tried to stop the satellite feed. 😡😡😡
Krasnov strikes again. Dismantling the USA bit by bit as Congress stands by with their thumbs up their a$$e$.
We always knew we would never get the truth out of this regime. That much damage is unacceptable. Taxpayer money wasted. Maybe we should bill 47 since he keeps getting richer. To literally strong arm a satellite company says it all and makes you wonder how many things are being covered up.
TJD IS "THE BIGGEST LOSER" PRESIDENT IN HISTORY OF HISTORIES. The people of the u.s. are a close second because of ^
Thank you, Mr. Blundell.
Excellent writing. I have now signed up at £32.50(UK) for a full year - real value! PS the in article link says 25% off for November, you need to update
Thank you for being a voice from the outside world, cause we won't get the truth from this regime.
Thank you Dean for the historical analysis of the Orange Menace MESS!
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Over the past year, the Trump administration has secured equity stakes and struck bespoke deals with at least 10 US companies. The Hinrich Foundation’s hfAI Lab ranks these deals by their potential impact, signaling which carry the greatest strategic weight for national security.
https://www.hinrichfoundation.com/research/article/trade-geopolitics/ai-ranks-trump-administration-equity-investments?utm_campaign=article-hfai-lab-trump-equity-investments-l2&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8oNECTxEEj3rpC1D2qliPEHuTqOADWtulhdjjOs5jLIcMAq3l5Fcqi2mYMpTxLrJi8aZwXny5J5j3I9gQexOxvT1zKow&_hsmi=421747212&utm_content=20260602-weekly-research-&utm_source=hinrich-thought-leadership
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The Colosseum on the Potomac
To observe the executive mansion at this specific historical juncture is to witness a profound, almost poetic collapse of substance into spectacle. We are asked to celebrate the Semiquincentennial—the 250th anniversary of a republic conceived by the giants of the Enlightenment, men who weaponized the prose of Locke and Montesquieu to forge a nation—and yet the visual centerpiece of this milestone is not a rededication to foundational principles, but a literal cage match.
The deliberate leveling of the East Wing to clear sightlines for a temporary gladiatorial arena is the perfect architectural manifestation of this shift. If, as Betty Ford once elegantly put it, the West Wing represents the mind of the nation and the East Wing its heart, we have witnessed a radical, surgical extraction. The heart has been bulldozed, and the mind has been entirely co-opted by the primitive physics of mixed martial arts.
The analogy is one of uninhibited, accelerating decadence. We have transitioned from the deliberate, dignified rule of law to the raw, athletic vulgarity of the Octagon, where "truth" is decided not by rigorous debate or constitutional fidelity, but by whoever can successfully apply a rear-naked choke before the buzzer sounds.
"There is a singular, stomach-churning irony in watching the American Republic arrive at its 250th year of existence—an anniversary that ought to evoke the ghost of Thomas Jefferson and the severe, elegant reason of the Founders—only to find the executive mansion transformed into a low-rent satellite of Las Vegas.
The demolition of the East Wing, ostensibly to accommodate the sprawling geometry of a UFC cage on the South Lawn, is an architectural metaphor so thuddingly on-the-nose that a third-rate satirist would reject it for lacking subtlety. Yet, here we are. The historic structure that once housed the social conscience and diplomatic grace of the presidency has been summarily flattened, replaced by an iron cage designed for the deliberate, televised letting of blood. It is the literal uprooting of civilization to make room for the circus.
And for what grand purpose is this desecration enacted? To celebrate the octogenarian milestone of a man whose entire life has been a relentless war against the concept of understatement. On June 14, the incumbent turns eighty. It is entirely fitting that his birthday party should double as a national anniversary, for in his mind, the state is him. The Roman emperors, at least, had the decency to build their colosseums away from their private villas; here, the Caesar of the outer boroughs brings the blood sport directly to his back porch.
To witness a cage fight on the lawn of the White House is to see the complete, unarguable triumph of the lumpenproletariat aesthetic. We are invited to celebrate two and a half centuries of constitutional liberty by watching two men beat each other into semi-consciousness in a corporate-branded cage, while an aging narcissist blows out the candles on his cake. It is not a tribute to the American experiment; it is its funeral dynamic, set to a soundtrack of entrance music and pyrotechnics, proving beyond doubt that while Rome merely burned, Washington prefers to pay-per-view its own decline."
The Core Irony: The juxtaposition reveals that the American experiment, which began with a single sheet of parchment and 56 signatures dedicated to the rule of reason, has reached a point where its highest celebration requires the physical destruction of its own heritage to accommodate a display of structured, commercialized violence. It is the ultimate victory of the transactional over the institutional.
I don't even count Trump's "Victory" shoutings... It seems he really thinks of this war like playing video games... And at the end of the day, he clicks the "Share victory" button... EXCEPT: That's just not the way physical war happens and serious diplomacy works! He's completely disconnected from reality.