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Classic CHEETO. In way over his head with a war he started that resulted in Iran closing the Strait. Can't bully Iran so now takes his ball and goes home, leaving everyone else to cleanup his $hit.
7 P's come to mind: Prior Proper Planning Prevents Pi$$ Poor Performance.Louisville; Rolling smoke in the neighbourhood. Life is too short for light/lite beer! Seems I'm livin in a transitional period. CHEETO (aka Agent Orange) makes Nixon look like a saint. -
(Googlez Images is filling up with "Don Tzu" memes....
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"There is a crack, a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in." - Leonard Cohen
Ogden, UT, USA
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From Bloomberg today:
News that a frustrated Donald Trump may be looking for a way out and Iran’s reported openness to negotiations sent markets skyward. Late in the day, the president said the US would end the bombing in a few weeks. But for much of Tuesday, the administration focused instead on the Iranian stranglehold on the Strait of Hormuz, the growing energy crisis and lack of response to Trump’s calls for help. He threatened allies unwilling to assist in reopening the strait, saying in a social media post, “you’ll have to start learning how to fight for yourself.” —David E. Rovella
A previous Trump threat—to let Russia attack other NATO members—didn’t do it. Publicly mulling annexing a NATO ally’s territory didn’t do it. But Trump’s decision to start the now-month long war with Iran may be what finally fractures the 77-year-old defensive alliance.
NATO members are dropping previous efforts at mollifying Trump and instead increasing resistance to his demands they get involved in the war. Spain closed its airspace to US jets and Italy denied US military aircraft bound for the Middle East permission to land at a base in Sicily. Poland said it has no plans to relocate its Patriot batteries following a report the US suggested Warsaw consider sending one to help in the Middle East.
“We’re seeing evidence of confusion and tension between public opinion and political opinion in many NATO countries,” said Ian Lesser, distinguished fellow at the German Marshall Fund. “As a default, there is a tendency to be helpful in Europe regarding military-to-military cooperation with the US, but the current war is putting these longstanding defense relationships under strain.”
European nations have coalesced around an offer to build a coalition to enforce freedom of navigation—after the end of active combat. But the broader divergence between European nations and NATO’s largest member remained stark on Tuesday. If the threats to NATO’s cohesion grow, it would confer perhaps the largest benefit of the war so far on the alliance’s chief adversary, Russia, which is profiting handsomely from high oil prices and loosened US sanctions.
As the US struggles to find an exit, European leaders also are losing patience with the optimism of at least one Trump administration official when it comes to the war’s collateral damage, and how long it will last.Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has tried to counter fears over the war’s long-term effects on the global economy and energy infrastructure, arguing the oil market is well supplied and the strait should reopen over time. But on Monday, European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde was having none of it.
She used an audience of high-level Group of Seven officials to challenge the former American hedge fund manager, warning the central bankers, finance and energy ministers convened for a video call that the effects would be felt for a long time because so much has already been destroyed.
The economic pain is already being felt: Data on Tuesday showed euro-area inflation jumped in March by the most since 2022, when Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Governments in the 21-nation currency bloc, meanwhile, are slashing their outlooks, hoping what they’d envisaged as a year of recovery doesn’t end up instead as a recession."Louisville; Rolling smoke in the neighbourhood. Life is too short for light/lite beer! Seems I'm livin in a transitional period. CHEETO (aka Agent Orange) makes Nixon look like a saint. -
"I've made a note never to piss you two off." - Stike
"The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand." - Deep Throat -
While we are distracted by Iran and Epstein, check out his lawsuit which may be set to settle on April 19th.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/secret-chaos-exposed-at-attorney-general-pam-bondis-doj-over-trumps-10b-suit/Here’s the core of the $10B Trump lawsuit against US Taxpayer∙ Trump is suing the IRS — an agency under his own control — for $10 billion over a 2020 tax return leak, essentially suing himself - when he was in charge. ∙ His own officials, including Deputy AG Todd Blanche (his former personal defense attorney), would be the ones approving any taxpayer-funded payout to him — a glaring conflict of interest. ∙ Trump’s executive order requiring federal attorneys to follow his legal interpretations makes it nearly impossible to assign any government lawyer to contest his claims without a conflict. ∙ A former DOJ tax attorney called it “outrageous,” saying the president is effectively shaking down his own agency. ∙ Past settlements Trump has won — from CBS and ABC — went to fund what he describes as a presidential library but has admitted could be a commercial hotel, raising further questions about where $10 billion would actually go. I would rather light a candle than curse your darkness.
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"I've made a note never to piss you two off." - Stike
"The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand." - Deep Throat -
Trump is slipping. I can’t believe he didn’t rebrand the space center as the Trump-Kennedy Space Center yesterday.
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He was to busy listening to his televangelist spiritual advisor telling him he was Jesus. Not to mention him saying if he was really a King he could get a lot more done.DoubleEgger said:Trump is slipping. I can’t believe he didn’t rebrand the space center as the Trump-Kennedy Space Center yesterday.
This April 1st wasn’t very funny because you couldn’t separate the truth from the fiction. (Hint: fiction was the more believable)I would rather light a candle than curse your darkness.
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Pam Bondi out. Trump thinks the Attorney General should be his personal lawyer, so of course he has named Todd Blanche as the interim AG. Good times."I've made a note never to piss you two off." - Stike
"The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand." - Deep Throat -
She has been helping to bury bodies since at least 2010 when she was Florida AG. She dropped a case against Trump I’m 2013 when he made a campaign donation to her also. I hope next president offers her immunity or a pardon and she sings.JohnInCarolina said:Pam Bondi out. Trump thinks the Attorney General should be his personal lawyer, so of course he has named Todd Blanche as the interim AG. Good times.I would rather light a candle than curse your darkness.
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"I've made a note never to piss you two off." - Stike
"The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand." - Deep Throat -
"I've made a note never to piss you two off." - Stike
"The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand." - Deep Throat -
As we head into Easter weekend, it’s timely for us to imagine how much better the world would be with the resurrection of Melania’s “be best” program and really give it legs.
We are not talking those legs. Certainly not the long legs of lust that lead to the VJ Fly Trap. And certainly not that trap where our eventual President was ensnared by the Epstein-sourced international diamond in the rough. That’s not what is important. Let’s clean this up. Ignore the snares and traps of mediocre thinking and any of that other stuff that has been going wrong or promises not delivered. Trap yourself, instead, into the believing the dream of everyone and everything being their best!
God bless the broken road that led us back to be best!!!!
Wait, is Rascall Flatts MAGA, can we get a release for that? If not let’s get all dirt we have on them. They won’t get in our way.
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I know that things have been wild in the U.S. and all, but we should be thankful we haven’t seen societal decay to the level that the U.K. has.
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Well, thank goodness they weren't the "vitamin-C-deficient" ones; OMG, could you imagine?!?
"There is a crack, a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in." - Leonard Cohen
Ogden, UT, USA
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Forget euphemism, Trump is using unabashed viciousness in his language against Iran
The Trump administration takes pleasure in deploying dysphemism to describe the killing of Iranians
On 4 March, Pete Hegseth squirmed in pleasure as he described “death and destruction from the sky all day long”. Whatever happened to the subtle art of political euphemism?
The UK had a secretary at war long before it ever had a minister of defence, and the US did not rename its department of war to “defense” until after the second world war. People sniggered when Trump and Hegseth announced that “department of war” would be its new name, but that might be charitably taken as a macho refusal to mince words. The many overseas adventures of the US military since 1945, after all, have not all been exclusively defensive.
Official names for military actions are usually mealy-mouthed: the US invasion of Panama in 1989 was called Operation Just Cause, while the last Gulf war, as everyone remembers fondly, was Operation Iraqi Freedom. The name for the current war, Operation Epic Fury, certainly sounds more like a teenage boy’s idea of comic-book armageddon.
But even the word “operation” is a euphemism – these are not exercises in healthcare – and even Trump still won’t call his war a war, since that would raise uncomfortable questions about the consent of Congress. So it is instead, according to Trump, an “excursion”, or “our lovely ‘stay’ in Iran”. Vladimir Putin, who calls his four-year war on Ukraine a “special military operation”, would approve.
The opposite of a euphemism is a dysphemism: a name for something that makes it sound maximally horrible. Politicians normally use dysphemisms for their opponents: people might be labelled “terrorists” or “fascists”, already engaged in “genocide” or threatening to nuke London within 15 minutes.
The Trump administration, however, revels in the use of dysphemism for its own actions. “This was never meant to be a fair fight, and it is not a fair fight,” Hegseth said on 4 March. “We are punching them while they’re down, which is exactly how it should be.”
The following week, Trump posted on Truth Social: “Watch what happens to these deranged scumbags [ie, Iranians] today. They’ve been killing innocent people all over the world for 47 years, and now I, as the 47th President of the United States of America, am killing them. What a great honor it is to do so!” The crudity, here, is the point. Sociolinguists say that the use of dysphemism violates social norms and taboos, and Trump is nothing if not the taboo-buster-in-chief.
Do I endorse war crimes, by threatening to bomb Iran’s desalination plants? Very well then, I endorse war crimes. Who cares? Hegseth, meanwhile, announced a policy of giving “no quarter” to the enemy, ie refusing to take prisoners, which is itself another war crime. The “secretary of war”, especially, is addicted to virtue signalling, as long as the virtue being signalled is martial.
His favourite term is “lethality”; he loves telling the armed forces how “lethal” they are. “We are not defenders any more,” he announced gleefully. “We are warriors: trained to kill the enemy and break their will.” (It might seem excessive to break their will after killing them, but why settle for half measures?) He seemed to experience a sadistic pleasure in announcing the sinking of an Iranian warship by a US torpedo, enjoying the idea of the doomed crew’s “quiet death”.
This sort of unabashed viciousness is part of the appeal of the Maga administration for its fans, and might seem like a refreshing return to plain speaking. But you can, of course, speak plainly while lying. (“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity,” claimed George Orwell. Well, who is more insincere than Trump?) And Trump and Hegseth’s vivid wallowings in industrial ultraviolence are in reality no more honest than regular political dissembling.
After all, if your focus is on destruction as a virtue in itself, does it really matter what you blow up and who you kill? The goal, as Hegseth described it, is to “unleash” American “lethality”, not to “shackle” it, as though the US armed forces are a dangerous dog that deserves to roam free across the globe, pursuing its own savage instincts wherever it turns.
But while this maniacal, no-**** posturing, this chest-beating fiesta of blood and guts, takes centre stage, the real **** – of geopolitical miscalculation and cynical profiteering – seems to be simply swept under the carpet.
The Financial Times reports that a broker acting for Hegseth sought to invest in US military companies before the war. Trump told the same paper: “My favourite thing is to take the oil in Iran.”.
The current landing page of the White House’s website, by contrast, celebrates Trump’s accomplishments so far in terms of the finest obfuscation: “Abroad, a doctrine of peace through strength has secured alliances, ended eight wars, and positioned America as an indispensable force for global stability.” Peace through strength, is it? As the party in Nineteen Eighty-Four insisted: “War is peace”.
What do Trump and Hegseth really want? One answer is: to enrich Trump and Hegseth. But if their real aim all along was simply to troll the shade of Orwell, they are doing an absolutely lethal job.
Louisville; Rolling smoke in the neighbourhood. Life is too short for light/lite beer! Seems I'm livin in a transitional period. CHEETO (aka Agent Orange) makes Nixon look like a saint. -
The “Department of War” designation said it all.lousubcap said:Forget euphemism, Trump is using unabashed viciousness in his language against Iran
The Trump administration takes pleasure in deploying dysphemism to describe the killing of Iranians
On 4 March, Pete Hegseth squirmed in pleasure as he described “death and destruction from the sky all day long”. Whatever happened to the subtle art of political euphemism?
The UK had a secretary at war long before it ever had a minister of defence, and the US did not rename its department of war to “defense” until after the second world war. People sniggered when Trump and Hegseth announced that “department of war” would be its new name, but that might be charitably taken as a macho refusal to mince words. The many overseas adventures of the US military since 1945, after all, have not all been exclusively defensive.
Official names for military actions are usually mealy-mouthed: the US invasion of Panama in 1989 was called Operation Just Cause, while the last Gulf war, as everyone remembers fondly, was Operation Iraqi Freedom. The name for the current war, Operation Epic Fury, certainly sounds more like a teenage boy’s idea of comic-book armageddon.
But even the word “operation” is a euphemism – these are not exercises in healthcare – and even Trump still won’t call his war a war, since that would raise uncomfortable questions about the consent of Congress. So it is instead, according to Trump, an “excursion”, or “our lovely ‘stay’ in Iran”. Vladimir Putin, who calls his four-year war on Ukraine a “special military operation”, would approve.
The opposite of a euphemism is a dysphemism: a name for something that makes it sound maximally horrible. Politicians normally use dysphemisms for their opponents: people might be labelled “terrorists” or “fascists”, already engaged in “genocide” or threatening to nuke London within 15 minutes.
The Trump administration, however, revels in the use of dysphemism for its own actions. “This was never meant to be a fair fight, and it is not a fair fight,” Hegseth said on 4 March. “We are punching them while they’re down, which is exactly how it should be.”
The following week, Trump posted on Truth Social: “Watch what happens to these deranged scumbags [ie, Iranians] today. They’ve been killing innocent people all over the world for 47 years, and now I, as the 47th President of the United States of America, am killing them. What a great honor it is to do so!” The crudity, here, is the point. Sociolinguists say that the use of dysphemism violates social norms and taboos, and Trump is nothing if not the taboo-buster-in-chief.
Do I endorse war crimes, by threatening to bomb Iran’s desalination plants? Very well then, I endorse war crimes. Who cares? Hegseth, meanwhile, announced a policy of giving “no quarter” to the enemy, ie refusing to take prisoners, which is itself another war crime. The “secretary of war”, especially, is addicted to virtue signalling, as long as the virtue being signalled is martial.
His favourite term is “lethality”; he loves telling the armed forces how “lethal” they are. “We are not defenders any more,” he announced gleefully. “We are warriors: trained to kill the enemy and break their will.” (It might seem excessive to break their will after killing them, but why settle for half measures?) He seemed to experience a sadistic pleasure in announcing the sinking of an Iranian warship by a US torpedo, enjoying the idea of the doomed crew’s “quiet death”.
This sort of unabashed viciousness is part of the appeal of the Maga administration for its fans, and might seem like a refreshing return to plain speaking. But you can, of course, speak plainly while lying. (“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity,” claimed George Orwell. Well, who is more insincere than Trump?) And Trump and Hegseth’s vivid wallowings in industrial ultraviolence are in reality no more honest than regular political dissembling.
After all, if your focus is on destruction as a virtue in itself, does it really matter what you blow up and who you kill? The goal, as Hegseth described it, is to “unleash” American “lethality”, not to “shackle” it, as though the US armed forces are a dangerous dog that deserves to roam free across the globe, pursuing its own savage instincts wherever it turns.
But while this maniacal, no-**** posturing, this chest-beating fiesta of blood and guts, takes centre stage, the real **** – of geopolitical miscalculation and cynical profiteering – seems to be simply swept under the carpet.
The Financial Times reports that a broker acting for Hegseth sought to invest in US military companies before the war. Trump told the same paper: “My favourite thing is to take the oil in Iran.”.
The current landing page of the White House’s website, by contrast, celebrates Trump’s accomplishments so far in terms of the finest obfuscation: “Abroad, a doctrine of peace through strength has secured alliances, ended eight wars, and positioned America as an indispensable force for global stability.” Peace through strength, is it? As the party in Nineteen Eighty-Four insisted: “War is peace”.
What do Trump and Hegseth really want? One answer is: to enrich Trump and Hegseth. But if their real aim all along was simply to troll the shade of Orwell, they are doing an absolutely lethal job.
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I had to check that this was real:
"I've made a note never to piss you two off." - Stike
"The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand." - Deep Throat -
"Throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart... I went from VERY successful businessman, to top T.V. Star... to President of the United States on my first try. I think that would qualify as not smart, but genius....and a very stable genius at that!"JohnInCarolina said:I had to check that this was real:.
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Oh **** us all. We are doomed. Crazy motherfucker thinks this is a joke and after the episode ends it just resets.JohnInCarolina said:I had to check that this was real:I would rather light a candle than curse your darkness.
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"I've made a note never to piss you two off." - Stike
"The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand." - Deep Throat -
JohnInCarolina said:I had to check that this was real:
That is not another unhinged trump rant, it is him delivering the Easter message of modern Christian Zionism.LBGE, LBGE-PTR, 22" Weber, Coleman 413GGreat Plains, USA -
Damn. The first two C-130s that landed within Iran to extract the F-15 WSO got stuck, we had to send in two more to get everyone out, and had to bomb the first two as they had some classified capabilities aboard.
This was reported by the BBC, with photos; haven't seen anything about it on AP yet."There is a crack, a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in." - Leonard Cohen
Ogden, UT, USA
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Is this what “peace through strength” looks like?JohnInCarolina said:I had to check that this was real:
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JohnInCarolina said:I had to check that this was real:
I kinda hope this isn't another TACO Tuesday.Owensboro, KY. First Eggin' 4/12/08. Large, small, 22" Blackstone and lotsa goodies. -
I’ve seen him compared to Biff Tannen.StillH2OEgger said:Trump is the Jack Doherty of world leaders."I've made a note never to piss you two off." - Stike
"The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand." - Deep Throat -
"I've made a note never to piss you two off." - Stike
"The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand." - Deep Throat -
Wonder how Trump supporters feel about war crimes? Do you support full gloves off everything possible is fair game?
I would rather light a candle than curse your darkness.
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