Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: Helen
Date: 02 Mar 26 - 03:58 AM

No, I think it is his fake tan slipping.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Mar 26 - 06:49 AM

The genius masterful military tactician of Herr Trump has launched his lightning war for an extended period of time, which is said to be a month. He claims to Let's Make a Deal as the war is now a regional multinational war. Deals are not usually forthcoming as hardliners strengthen their revenge, and Trump spitballs his way into more quagmires.
Hail Trump as our Supreme Leader.

Perhaps elections should be canceled in times of war?







btw Trump is not bald since he had the bald area surgically removed and sewn together, stretching the scalp that still had minimal hair.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Mar 26 - 08:37 AM

When you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

While not for public information, one outcome of this war will limit cheap oil for China.

Back home, we already see the rocket-feather effect.
In war, oil prices will rocket up rapidly, but later prices will float down slowly like a feather.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Mar 26 - 09:12 AM

Hegseth has just described Operation 'Peptic Slurry'.

*Iran terrorists are cowards
*Iran uses a conventional defense of their nuclear capabilities
*Iran will surrender to the iron will of America First Trump.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 02 Mar 26 - 10:14 AM

Donuel: Asimov wrote:
The Foundation series (specifically Foundation and Empire and Second Foundation) is frequently compared to the Trump administration, with the character of The Mule seen as a parallel for a disruptive, anti-establishment force that breaks predictable historical trends. As a mutant who controls emotions, the Mule resembles a populist leader breaking a Constitutional political trajectory.

Asimov wrote nothing of the sort. Isaac Asimov (one of the founders of modern science fiction) died in 1992. The first Trump Presidency started in 2017.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Mar 26 - 10:32 AM

I suspect Don's sentence should read "Asimov wrote The Foundation series (specifically Foundation and Empire and Second Foundation) [that] is frequently compared to the Trump administration, with the character of The Mule seen as a . . . without the punctuation and line break making it look like an attribution.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Mar 26 - 11:51 AM

Satirist Andy Borowitz posted this today:

WASHINGTON—Calling it “maybe the greatest honor in the world, quite frankly,” Donald J. Trump said on Monday that the International Criminal Court in The Hague has invited him to receive an award.

“They said it was in response to the things I’ve done in Iran,” Trump told reporters. “It will probably be some kind of medal or maybe a gleaming gold trophy.”

Trump revealed that he will not be The Hague’s sole honoree, noting, “They also invited Bibi. They said he deserves special recognition.”

Calling the Hague invitation “much better than a stupid Nobel,” Trump quipped, “They never invited Obama!”

He also shared this (I've gone to the original post, not the Facebook copy of it) Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s assassination will likely backfire. Here is why by Daoud Kuttab

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 02 Mar 26 - 12:49 PM

"Brilliant," says Herself. I am requested and required to further quote: "I've been in a filthy temper all day, and that's fixed it." Well found, Stilly.

Oh, and I see a cloven hoofprint in Donuel's quote .... that's the sort of error of conflation that an LLM would emit. Go not unto the LLMs for advice, for they shall say both nay and yea, often at the same time.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: Helen
Date: 02 Mar 26 - 01:26 PM

I agree MaJoC. That article referred to by SRS has fixed my dark mood too. It explains the motivations behind the attack on Iran and how it connects to Netanyahu's aims and ambitions, but it also delves into the possible unexpected and unwanted consequences of tRump's rash decisions.

(Note: part of my dark mood this week also relates to two different personal situations playing on my mind this week, one recent and one in the past, which I thought were unrelated but may have a deeper connection to each other. That article may have provided some relevant clues. Sorry for being cryptic and for bringing personal issues into this thread.)

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: robomatic
Date: 02 Mar 26 - 01:47 PM

I am selfishly wondering if Iran's long range missiles can reach central Alaska. I can imagine that the strategic minds of Tehran might contemplate the 'trade' of a pipeline for an oil tanker, but their aim would have to be perfect. Since it's below zero right now, I'm not expecting terrorism. The average street crowd here is better armed than the average terrorist. And there are many Alaskans who are scarier than most terrorists.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 02 Mar 26 - 05:37 PM

More on the Anthropic kerfuffle:

Trump orders purge of 'woke' Anthropic from government

Without a single 'You're Fired' joke

President Trump has escalated Anthropic's dispute with the Defense Department with a social media post ordering the entire federal government purge the company's software from its systems. [...]

I'll spare you the capslocked drivel, to leave space for a couple of the Comments:

When Trump et al. declares something is woke, it literally means "not evil enough to be useful to us". It's that simple.

It seems Trump calls anyone who says no to him “woke”.

.... I'll shut up now, so others can comment on quite what Tucker Carlson said about Turnip. It ain't nice (in either sense).

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Mar 26 - 10:34 PM

I complained about all of this Trump BS to my representatives in letters I mailed over the weekend. A version appeared in my teeny tiny blog.

Trump spent the first part of a press conference today bragging about the new "ballroom" and how he was going to save money by not replacing the golden curtains that he had installed in his first term. "I love gold," he gushed, as bombers head toward Iran.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: The Sandman
Date: 03 Mar 26 - 02:52 AM

An American Warmonger.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: Helen
Date: 03 Mar 26 - 04:21 AM

After reading the article by Daoud Kuttab, for which SRS provided the link, the word "machinations" popped into my head. I was thinking about Netanyahu probably wanting the US to do his dirty work for him and using his sneaky influence over tRump, who is too gullible to question his motives or predict the consequences for the US.

machination (definition from Wordnik)

1) The act of scheming or plotting. 2) A crafty scheme or cunning design for the accomplishment of a sinister end. 3) The act of machinating, or of contriving a scheme for executing some purpose, particularly a forbidden or an evil purpose; underhand plotting or contrivance.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: The Sandman
Date: 03 Mar 26 - 04:50 AM

could Mossad influence be connected with trump and epstein files

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: Hrothgar
Date: 03 Mar 26 - 04:53 AM

Well, King Bonespurs has pushed Epstein off the front pages.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 03 Mar 26 - 05:09 AM

Stilly:
I suspect Don's sentence should read "Asimov wrote The Foundation series (specifically Foundation and Empire and Second Foundation) [that] is frequently compared to the Trump administration, with the character of The Mule seen as a . . . without the punctuation and line break making it look like an attribution.

Yes, I considered that interpretation, but the writing seemed so clear compared to Donuel's usual gnomic, and heavily contrived, postings that I decided to take it at face value.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: robomatic
Date: 03 Mar 26 - 06:42 AM

I have the overall problem of inadequate information. In this era of AI and 'high'tech, we have much more 'information' and barely any truth.
Personally, I don't think we'd be here and now without Oct 6, 2023. And I think the Mullahs running Iran had something to do with at the very least enabling that.

The article by Kuttab is more an explainer of what we can already see going on rather than insightful. We are undergoing unpredictable events brought on by a gang of . . . whaaaaaaaa?

So for the time being, I'm going with this

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Mar 26 - 07:01 AM

We could also believe the many reasons given for the US-Israel war against Iran. Perhaps they will next tell us we had to attack since Nostrodamus predicted that Iran would nuke the US.

Netanyahu has dreamed of a US joint attack for forty years,
When the Saudis and Israel both agreed that Trump should attack Iran, I guess he couldn't resist. It seems like Donald is fairly one-dimensional.

SORRY about the 300,000 stranded Europeans at the airports. I guess Hegseth didn't think of that.
Besides, Trump probably sees personal free oil profits like in Venezuela. What's more important than $ for Trump?
Like Iran, the white Christian Nationalists also want A State Religion.

The author of 1984 also died before the Trump administration

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Mar 26 - 07:25 AM

I treasure Colbert's usual gnomic and heavily contrived delivery of the truth.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 03 Mar 26 - 10:31 AM

From the Kuttab article:

For Netanyahu, the assassination of Khamenei is a major success. Facing crucial elections that could mean the possible end of his political life and maybe his imprisonment over four corruption charges, the short-term gain in popularity and votes is worth it. Israeli leaders do little thinking and planning on the mid- to long term and do not have to bear the consequences of military adventurism abroad. After all, Israeli society is very much in favour of it.

But for Trump, the gains are not as apparent. He gets to brag about killing an 86-year-old ailing leader of a faraway country to a public that has no appetite for war. At a time of a continuing cost-of-living crisis in the US, he is spending billions of taxpayer dollars to fight a war against a country that posed no imminent threat, a war that many Americans are increasingly identifying as “Israel’s war”.

Instead of projecting power, Trump risks showing weakness and being seen as a US president fooled into starting a costly war to ensure the political survival of the prime minister of a foreign country.

I think he misreads this, perhaps not being in the US and seeing all of the Epstein files controversy up close and personal. And Trump is a convicted felon with other trials on hold. They're both killing people in other countries in order to keep themselves out of prison and enrich their families, the worst kinds of despots possible.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: Helen
Date: 03 Mar 26 - 11:04 AM

I don't know what to think, SRS. I think it is a combination of a lot of things, but of all the countries tRump could target it seems more than just a coincidence that he chose Iran. Venezuela - obvious: oil supplies.

And then there is the sad irony of tRump supposedly defending the right of the Iranian people to protest against their government when he is actively targeting people in his own country for protesting against him.

We all know that this is not in his moral code, "forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us".

Personally, I can't get past the deaths of all those Iranian schoolgirls killed in the bombing. Has he even spoken about them or mentioned them in any of his social media posts?

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 03 Mar 26 - 12:44 PM

> We all know that this is not in his moral code, "forgive
< us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against
> us".

A show of hands, please: Who else here, on reading that, immediately thought "do unto others before they do unto you"?

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: robomatic
Date: 03 Mar 26 - 02:27 PM

I think there is more going on than has been mentioned by those going after the usual subjects. Iran has been a major supplier of war drones to Putin. Iran is a major supplier of petroleum to China. Putting the kibosh on Iran is potentially sending a message (that there is another gunfighter in town who is in no way a sheriff). This would suggest tie-ins to Ukraine and Taiwan. I don't think Netanyahu is the main driver. Maybe HE thinks he is, but Israel is a small country and American Jews STILL do not vote majority Replicant.

I do not know if during his record long State of the Union address, TRMP
1) kept his war plans to himself
2) had not made up his mind
3) was simply not thinking about it at all.
4) We KNOW is fickle as f***.


I think there is insight in the humorists. In TRMP's previous administration John Mullaney ventured a parable about a horse let loose in a hospital. The Democrats are being made to look weak and indecisive, mainly by freezing them out of the information loop. (The Republicans have been cravenly obedient so long they masquerade as stalwarts - when I want to skip a meal I think of Lindsey Graham}.

The people IN the information loop are posturing sycophants qualified for their Dunning/Kruger qualities.

I'm still angry and disgusted, right now what keeps me going is Wordle, Connections, and espresso, long as I don't overdo that last one.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Mar 26 - 03:32 PM

For three weeks, the US Navy and military have been diverted for action in Iran.

Israelis are not behind Netanyahu. When Bebe tried to eliminate their Supreme Court to avoid prosecution, 80% of the country took to demonstrate in the street. It's like saying Americans are all in support of Trump.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Mar 26 - 06:14 PM

The Trump presidency is without policy, without debate internally or externally, without foresight, without FBI experts on Iran, without intelligence or cyber security, without Constitutional legality, and without the root of truth.
He always goes with his gut, and you can imagine how bad that must be.
It sounds like Trump is talking to the Kurds. The Bush family made the Kurds total suckers 3 times. Why would they believe Trump?

What next, will Trump order our Navy to box itself in at the Strait of Hormuz?

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Mar 26 - 07:26 PM

I was thinking about how to explain the actions of Trumpism to a teenager or child and thought of a gamification of America that is like a first-person shooter game; move fast, break things, and give no aknowledgement of real life consequences.

Today republican Senator Tillis compared Christy Noem's behavior as head of HLS to treating the American public like the young pets she shot to death on her farm.