The US is not winning the war in Iran.

 Trump says it’s ‘treasonous’ to say US not winning war in Iran

Donald Trump told a Florida crowd that it is “treasonous” to say the US is not winning the war in Iran.

 The US president was speaking at The Villages in Florida, the world’s largest retirement community, when he made the remark.

Trump came to tout supposedly fulfilling his 2024 campaign promise to remove taxes on Social Security.

It came after the president told Congress that the war in Iran had already ended, despite his earlier issuing a fresh threat to Tehran.

Not any more than the US won Vietnam.

Seriously, when missiles are being dropped and lives are being lost, who “won” becomes very secondary compared to what was achieved and what got lost getting there. 

Storming the beaches of Normandy, ending the Nazi regime, saving the lives of millions in interment camps, that’s a worthy thing to call a win. Iran is no such win, we were there because … I’m still trying to figure it out, nukes was it the nukes we already had a diplomatic solution to under Obama, or are we using the “bringing freedom and democracy” excuse again?

You're really underselling it. This was the most humiliating defeat in US history.

Iran wrecked every US base in the region. That's never happened to America before. American soldiers were told to run away from the bases and hide in hotels!

The Irania systematically destroyed billions of dollars in critical radar, satelites, air defenses, etc. Multiple THAAD systems, America's top air defense with only 7 total deployed in the field, were destroyed. The US has to scramble to take a THAAD system back from South Korea.

Meanwhile, the US Navy was terrified to get anywhere near Iran's shores. The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier ran away from a distance of around 350km to over 1100km!

And the US was so afraid of sending aircraft into Iranian airspace that they ended up using a third of their long range missiles so they could launch strikes from outside Iran. Those missiles will take many years to rebuild and restock.

Meanwhile, the Iranians critical assets were all safe inside their missile cities, which are bunkers built 500 meters under granite mountains, designed to withstand nuclear blasts. That's where Iran keeps all their missiles, drones, launchers, missile and drone production, and intelligence hubs.

After over a month, the US didn't even manage to disable a single one of Iran's dozens of missile cities spread out across their 1.6 million sq km of mountainous terrain.

So what did the US destroy? Well, in addition to bombing schools, universities, police stations, civilian factories, etc. the US destroyed a lot of empty warehouses that had been evacuated prior to the war and decoys!

On the weekend before the war, the US tried to fly an F-15 deeper into Iran and it got shot down... Then two A-10s got shot down. Then a KC-135 refueler and and F-16 made emergency landings. Then two black hawk helicopters got shot up and destroyed. Then two C-130s and two little birds got stuck and destroyed. About HALF A BILLION dollars worth of aircraft gone in 48 hours.

And then of course there's the Strait of Hormuz. Iran has claimed permanent control over the Strait and there is nothing the US can do about it. So far, Iran has used that leverage to cause extraordinary damage to the economies of the US and its allies around the world. But if Hormuz isn't opened ASAP, then the global economy will plunge into a severe economic depression.

It's not just oil that comes through Hormuz, it's a third of the world's gas, fertilizer, aluminum, tungsten, helium, and sulfur. Global supply chains are going to start breaking down. The effects of this disruption are delayed but they're really starting to feel it in East Asia now.

The only way out of this mess is for the US to make major concessions to Iran including lifting all sanctions, unfreezing all stolen assets, paying reparations and accepting Iranian control of Hormuz, where they will start charging tolls.

If the US decides to escalate, Iran will go right up the escalation ladder as well. The red sea will be cut off, the Gulf states will be destroyed, oil and gas infrastructure across the region will be destroyed, and the collapse of the global economy will be guaranteed.

There is no parallel for this in American history. It is easily the worse defeat the US has ever suffered.

This time it is Trumps fault

 It was Trump the first time too, when oil prices went negative after Covid and he colluded with the American Petroleum Institute and OPEC+ (including Russia) to take oil off the market and to cut supply, thus artificially boosting prices because demand stays relatively similar. Effects lasted into Biden's era (inflation as well as gas prices).

https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/daugusta-etal-american-petroleum-complaint.pdf

By the way he's running the same play again, Russia is no longer on-board since Iran/Ukraine so he took out Venezuela and Iran which also spilled onto the rest of the Middle East production, and once again, Chevron, Exxon, etc., are at record highs.

https://www.budget.senate.gov/chairman/newsroom/press/budget-finance-committees-launch-joint-investigation-into-donald-trumps-quid-pro-quo-offer-to-big-oil-

Out of new Ideas Russian Asset Disrespectful Two-Time Grifter Petulant Demended Sleepy Thin skinned Facist Pedophile Convicted Rapist Felon Grandpa Donald Trump

Trump resurrects calls to arrest Barack Obama, accuses him and others of ‘treason’ in late-night posts

This again huh?

Whether you were disappointed with the late Mueller's investigation or not, let's lay down some facts that address MAGA's whole bad faith obsession with calling it the "Russia hoax."

First, The Russia investigation was not a "hoax." There's no evidence that Obama, James Comey, or any public figure committed "treason" or orchestrated some plot against Trump, these allegations contradict years of Intel/findings and are purely politically motivated.

And remember that the FBI publicly announced its investigation into Clinton right before the election while keeping the Russia investigation under wraps. If the Democrats and FBI conspired together against Trump, wouldn't it have been the other way around? Chew on that for a bit MAGA.

With that said:

• The Mueller investigation did not exonerate Trump
• The phrase "no collusion" is a misleading, right wing slogan popularized by Trump. Mueller was not investigating "collusion." The phrase hardly appears in the report, and never within the context of absolving Trump/his campaign of wrongdoing.
• Both the Mueller probe and a GOP led senate panel found that Russia engaged in "information warfare" and attempted to interfere in the 2016 election to the benefit of Trump and with the intention of damaging Clinton's campaign.
• The Russians directly targeted our election systems.
• Russian intelligence hacked organizations, employees and volunteers working with the Clinton campaign.
• Russia manipulated American voters and coaxed hackers into attacking Democrat computer networks.
• According to Mueller, the Russian campaign began in mid-2014, when employees of the "Internet Research Agency" first came to the U.S. to gather material for their elaborate interference effort.
• By the end of 2016, the Russians had set up fake social media accounts that reached millions of voters and aimed to promote Trump and divide Americans.
• The Mueller report lays out how the Russian interference campaign ensnared American political operatives, including the Trump campaign .
• For more than 100 pages, Mueller outlines scores of Russian contacts with the Trump campaign/presidency.
• The report says that Russian agents posed as American citizens and tried to contact the Trump campaign for its cooperation.
• Mueller revealed that there were numerous links between the Trump campaign and the Russians, and that several people connected to the campaign lied to Mueller's team and tried to obstruct the investigation into the Trump campaign's contacts with the Russians.
• WikiLeaks contacted the Russians on Twitter: "If you have anything Hillary-related, we want it in the next two days preferable." Then three days before the DNC, WikiLeaks released more than 20,000 emails and stolen documents to undermine Clinton's candidacy.
• In 2013, Trump took his Miss Universe Pageant to Moscow. Mueller reveals that this is when the Trumps got to know Aras Agalarov, a Russian billionaire and ally of Vladimir Putin. He owned the event hall where the pageant was held.
• Within a few months, Don Jr. signed a preliminary agreement with Agalarov's company to build a Trump Tower property in Moscow.
• Trump announces his run for presidency in 2015
• These ties between the Trump family and a Russian oligarch helped facilitate a new effort to build a Trump Tower in Moscow three months later, this time led by Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen, and developer Felix Sater.
• Sater told Cohen that he was working with high-ranking Russian officials. He emailed Cohen: "Buddy, our boy can become president of the USA, and we can engineer it. I will get all of Putin's team to buy in on this."
• The Moscow project is one source of Russian contacts. Mueller exposes about a dozen.
• Campaign aide Carter Page met with Russians and gave a speech in Russia.
• Michael Flynn gave speeches in Russia and had contacts with the Russian ambassador, including a discussion of softening sanctions.
• National security adviser, Jeff Sessions, also met with the Russian ambassador.
• Campaign chairman Paul Manafort shared internal polling data with Russian intelligence.
• Trump aide George Papadopoulos repeatedly met with a Russian intelligence agent who told him that the Russians have dirt on Clinton.
• Another contact point was the infamous NY Trump Tower meeting on June 9, 2016. That morning, Trump Jr. told colleagues he has a lead on damaging info about Clinton. Russians had pitched the meeting to Trump Jr., claiming they had dirt on Clinton. Trump Jr. responded, "If it's what you say, I love it."
• On Page 77 of Mueller's second volume, he writes, "The acting attorney general appointed a special counsel on May 17, 2017, prompting the president to state [in private] that it was the end of his presidency." Not the words of an innocent person.
• During Trump's presidency, WAPO revealed that he was under investigation for obstruction of justice. Three days later, Trump told White House counsel Don McGahn to call acting AG Rod Rosenstein to say Mueller has conflicts and can't serve anymore. The president says that Mueller must go. McGahn doesn't comply.
• Mueller details in the report that Trump obstructed justice at least ten times, but he could not pursue due to the DOJ and Bill Barr's policy that a sitting president cannot be indicted.
• Mueller accuses Trump of trying to obstruct his investigation.
• On page 89, Mueller writes: "Substantial evidence indicates the attempts to remove the special counsel were linked to investigations of the president's conduct."
• On Page 97, "Substantial evidence indicates that the president's effort to limit the special counsel's investigation was intended to prevent further scrutiny of the president's and his campaign's conduct."
• The investigation led to the indictments of 34 individuals
• One conclusion states that Trump's campaign staff presented themselves as "attractive counterintelligence vulnerabilities"
• Both Rick Gates and Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI
• Roger Stone was charged with obstructing and lying to Congress about his Russian contacts and his connection to the release of documents stolen by the Russians.
• The "Steele Dossier" had nothing to do with Mueller's findings. In fact, the first probe began prior to the Dossier being released and the investigation developed in response to two main things: Russia hacking the DNC and intel emerging about a Russian plot to reach out to the Trump campaign to provide dirt on Clinton.
• Trump urged hackers to target Democrats: "Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing."
• Within five hours of Trump saying those words on national TV, Russia's largest foreign intelligence service targeted Clinton's office for the first time

Trump has been downplaying the severity and threat of Russian cyber attacks and election meddling for years, siding with Putin over our own intelligence agencies on the matter.

Trump capitalized off of Russia's meddling in the election. The Mueller report said Trump's campaign "expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts"

A report earlier last year indicated that Pete Hegseth might order US Cyber Command to halt offensive cyber and information operations against Russia.

Trump fired the head of the NSA and US Cyber Command, Timothy Haugh. Haugh was a non-partisan appointee who played an outsized role in overseeing US cyber defense, particularly against Russian threats.

Trump actually once suggested that the US partner with Russia on a cyber security task force. It received swift, bipartisan backlash from lawmakers who had to remind Trump that Russia continues to be one of the US's most dangerous cyber security threats.

To this list we can also add the Republican party's failure to address foreign election interference because they have benefitted politically from this election meddling for the last several elections.

Iran has been 'weeks away' from nuclear weapons since at least 1995

 

This brings to mind this classic gif:

Trump’s Fed pick refuses to answer if his secret $100M is tied to Epstein. Let that sink in.

 This is not normal.

At a Senate hearing, Trump’s pick for Federal Reserve chair, Kevin Warsh, was asked a very direct question:

Do you have investments tied to Jeffrey Epstein?

He refused to answer.

Not “no”

Not “absolutely not”

Not even a clarification

Just: I will sell the assets if confirmed

That is it

According to reporting, Warsh has over $100 million in undisclosed investments that have not been fully explained to the public or even to ethics officials.

When pressed, Senator Elizabeth Warren specifically asked whether those investments could include:

• Trump affiliated entities

• money laundering vehicles

• Chinese controlled companies

• or financial structures tied to Epstein

He still would not answer.

And this is not coming out of nowhere.

Warsh’s name has appeared in Epstein related documents before. That does not prove wrongdoing. But it does show how tightly connected elite financial and social circles can be.

Now zoom out for a second.

A man with massive undisclosed wealth

Being considered for one of the most powerful financial roles on the planet

Refuses to answer whether any of that wealth is tied to Epstein linked financial vehicles

And the response is basically:

Trust me, I will deal with it later

This is the Federal Reserve. The institution that influences interest rates, markets, housing, jobs, and the financial lives of millions of people.

And we are supposed to be comfortable with that level of opacity?

Because here is the pattern that keeps showing up:

Connections surface

Names appear in documents

Questions get asked

Answers never fully come

And somehow it always stops just short of real transparency

At the same time, markets are swinging hard on geopolitical headlines, massive trades appear perfectly timed, and the biggest players always seem positioned ahead of major moves.

Maybe that is just how modern finance works.

Or maybe it is a system where access, information, and networks matter more than anything else.

Either way, the gap between what the public is told and what actually happens keeps getting wider.

At some point this stops feeling like coincidence

It starts feeling like a closed system

So the real question is simple:

Why is it still so hard to get a direct answer when Epstein connected financial ties come up

And who benefits from that silence

What do you think is still being hidden

AG Blanche is actively covering up: We're not going to prosecute the predators in the Epstein files

 Todd Blanche is the same guy who met with Maxwell before having her moved to a minimum security with all kinds of privileges. He’s actively part of the coverup.

He’s probably one of the predators, too

Trump is a rapist pedophile and the DOJ is protecting him, there are mountains of evidence, even after they illegally redacted most of the files. You can either believe the actual victims of Epstein's pedophile ring, or you can believe Trump, who is the biggest liar in American political history.

https://www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein-victim-fbi-trump/article_21a2149f-f4a1-4351-9ac7-d12746f03a58.html

The woman who accused Donald Trump of sexually abusing her when she was 13 provided several verifiable details about her life in interviews with the FBI, according to a new report.

The woman detailed her alleged abuse by Trump and convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein over four interviews in 2019, the Epstein files revealed. The interviews were initially kept secret by the DOJ.

A woman who claims she was abused as a minor by both Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump has given the FBI vivid accounts that include aspects of her life corroborated by The Post and Courier through public records.

The Epstein class owns our government lock, stock, and barrel. They’re not going to prosecute their owners.

It’s worth noting:

1) This is admitting there are high profile predators on the list.

2) Predators on the Epstein List are still predators today.

These were pedophiles BEFORE Epstein. Epstein simply gave them easy access to minors, but once he died then they had to go back to other sources. And since this is an international list of clients then protecting them is a global issue.

Russian Asset Disrespectful Two-Time Grifter Petulant Demended Sleepy Thin skinned Facist Pedophile Convicted Rapist Felon Grandpa Donald Trump promised to eliminate debt

10 Years Ago Today, Trump Promised To Eliminate the National Debt. Instead, It Has Doubled. 

Ten years ago today, Donald Trump said he would pay off the national debt in the span of just eight years.

That did not happen. Instead, the gross national debt has doubled since that day—from about $19 trillion to over $39 trillion. Much of that additional borrowing has taken place during Trump's five-plus years in the White House.

Lol. such a financial genius. So much winning.

People continue to put trust into someone who managed to bankrupt a casino twice and has more failed businesses in his name than he has failed marriages.

Well of course it doubles when you reduce taxes on the people who pay the most in taxes (and have way way more than they need because of their exploitation of the working class) and don’t significantly cut spending (because the only place to realistically cut enough without causing societal collapse would piss of the donors in the war business)…