Wingate

In 2019, Trump's Justice Department, then under Bill Barr, ordered the State of New Mexico to shut down a search of Epstein's New Mexico ranch, known as Zorro Ranch. Authorities did search Epstein's NYC home, his Florida home, and his Caribbean Island home, but the DoJ told New Mexico to halt their search of the Zorro Ranch. Now this is particularly interesting because in the Epstein Files, there is a document where an former employee of Zorro Ranch claimed two foreign girls' are buried on the ranch, having been strangulated during rough sex. This was know to the DoJ in 2019. Still, the DoJ told New Mexico to stand down, and the issue was then buried in the millions of documents in DoJ files. Only the passage of the "Epstein Act", that forces DoJ to release all the files related to Epstein, has brought this to light. What was AG Bill Barr trying to cover up, and for whom? This is going to come out. New Mexico authorities are now using specialized "cadaver dogs" to search the property to see if any human remains are buried. Even Republicans are concerned about this, as Rep Comer told Fox talking head Jesse Watters on the Fox network a day ago about the ranch and how the DoJ shut down any investigation in 2019, under Trump 1.0.

What a bizarre world Trumpers live in. Trumpers will never learn, but the JCPOA was 100% effective. Iran was completely out of the nuke game. Yes, Netanyahu tried to keep up the heat by releasing hundreds of documents on Iran's nuke program, hoping nobody would notice all of those documents were from 2003. In exchange for Iranian money held since 1979, Obama got Iran out of the nuke game. He had put the fear of Zeus in them earlier by unleashing the Stuxnet virus that destroyed their nascent U235 enrichment program, so they were ready to deal. The JCPOA was also intended to be a stepping stone to further negotiations about support for Shi'a terrorism...all while biding time until that generation of mullahs passed on. Trump could have used it, but refused, for no other reason than Obama had achieved it. So Iran began to try to enrich again. It's laughable that Trump care about the mullahs killing protesters. They are just better at it than Trump and his ICE stormtroopers. Trump attacked Iran for 3 reasons: Bibi forced his hand, deflect from Epstein, and play a bigshot blowing up stuff and killing people like the psycho he is. He posts strikes interspersed with video games and NFL tackles. Pure psychopath. He had no plan and has no plan now. He is spooked because the stock market is wobbling and oil prices are rising. He has made the mullahs stronger, at least in terms of domestic support. It is Epic Failure at every level. Trump could have helped ease out the mullahs, letting them go retire in Dubai with millions, and then letting moderate voices in Iran arise and perhaps peacefully bring Iran into the modern world. (Think of how SLORC/SPDC was eased out of Myanmar, allowing ASSK to take over. The again generals just wanted to be able to spend their ill gotten gains in retirement in Singapore. The US could have aided Myanmar and prevented the coup that later happened.) Now the mullahs are far more popular in Iran than Trump is in the US. Also, the Iranians once again are reminded of 1953 and the overthrow of Mossadegh, which feeds those who call the US The Great Satan.

LOL! If "lefties" supported anyone against their own country and people, lefties would all support Trump. You see lefties, who are the last remaining true American patriots, support the ideals of the US as laid down by the Founders: free speech, a free press. freedom from unlawful search and seizure, equality under the law, etc. Trump is against all of that. He tries to prosecute people merely for criticizing him, wants broadcast license pulled for networks who criticize him or employ comedians who make fun of him, he likes masked and unidentified secret police, and he thinks it's okay to use his position to enrich himself to the tune of $4 billion since January 2025. True patriots also expect both a rationale for war and a clear objective, as even lefties sometimes go into harm's way or send their sons and daughters into it. There is no such thing as "my country right or wrong". The US is a democracy, not a monarchy or dictatorship. Add to this---not only the lies and inconsistent messaging---the psychopathic nonsense of the White House itself posting videos of strikes interspersed with NFL football highlights and video games. That is disgusting and makes the US a sick joke of a once great nation.

If the childish war videos produced under the auspices of the President of the United States are not sufficiently amusing for you---yes, death is such fun!---I guess I have provided a public service in entertaining you additionally. I mean, what's not to like about headless schoolgirls and body parts strewn far and wide. Who doesn't love the screams of the injured and grief-stricken. And entrails...Whoa....entrails stretched out twenty feet from their former user....fun stuff, kind of a Jackson Pollock style masterpiece or maybe a Rube Goldberg. No, make that a reverse IKEA. Yea, IKEA can used body parts messing up a former elementary school in a new ad campaign....slip Head A on to Neck Slot B. One just have to applaud the kind of morality you show. Very MAGAish. Happy to amuse your sordid character. But why just enjoy it from thousands of kilometers away. Go sign up. Go see it for yourself. You can then smell it....the iron in the blood of the deceased, the stench of the partially digested food or feces near what was the alimentary canal, the burnt flesh of humans that will remind you of a pork BBQ. Go for it, killer!

The childish and ghoulish Trump Administration has made war a game. It's fun! You get points for big explosions and big kills! On the official White House social media feed, videos have been posted using segments from Call of Duty, Hollywood movies, and even big hits during National Football League games....all interspersed with actual strikes on targets in Iran. War is a game in Trump world. But it's not a game. People die. Even people on our side die. To use actual war footage, and then post "+100" points, like in a video game, is disgusting. Kill 168 elementary school girls....+100000 !!!!! Bonus time ! Trump and his Carnival People administration's psychopathy is showing. People used (abused) for Trump and Hegseth's entertainment purposed have responded...everyone from NFL greats Ray Lewis and Ed Redd to film maker and actor Ben Stiller (whose Tropic Thunder was used by Trump to entertain). Another aspect of this war of choice that gives people cause for concern is that much targeting is being driven by AI. Massive amounts of data is being consumed by AI programs, which then produce targeting instructions. This dramatically speeds up targeting, but if data is incorrect or AI errs, innocents die. CEO Dario Amodei of Anthropic chose morality over profit and refused Hegseth's demand for the use of Claude. Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg and other AI producers lack Amodei's morality, so they will play so long as they get paid.

If I know my tacos, it will take another -1000 pt down day in the Dow for Trump to truly taco. His manner of capitulation will be as it was the other day: call into a news outlet (maybe Jesse Watters or Maria Bartiromo of Fox this time) while the market is still open and claim "total and complete victory", plus announce he is removing all forces from the theater. He would go on to say, "Nobody thought we could do this well; many people are saying it's the greatest victory since I stopped the Rwandan Genocide in 1994". As oil climbs back up, and prices of everything from filling the car to getting food on the shelves soars, Republicans in Congress will quietly get word to Trump that it looks as if they might lose their seat in November, if living costs keep rising and 401Ks keep falling. Of the many fallouts from this war of choice, one of the most consequential might be a total shift in the US' view of Israel. Already the youth of the US (i.e., up and coming voters) has turned on Israel owing to the genocide in Gaza, but the reality that Netanyahu drew Trump and the US into this debacle could even resonate among senior Republicans and even the American Jewish community. Israel may be forced to dump Netanyahu (and prosecute him for his Trumpian-level corruption) in order to remain in the good graces of the American people. As for Iran, its people will continue to suffer under the thumb of fanatical (and self-serving) theocrats, perhaps BECAUSE of the war. One wonders what could have been if Trump had kept the JCPOA and used it for what it was intended....as a basis for further negotiation with the aging mullahs, who may well have passed before passing leadership on to the next generation of hardliners. The wars and the sanctions led to the economic fallout within Iran that had the people rise up in massive protest, which then forced the government's brutal hand. Absent the fallout after the JCPOA was tossed and the sanctions imposed, the government might not have become so hardline against its own people, and instead slipped quietly into history. Instead, Trump and Netanyahu made them a cornered dog, and they fought back.

Using your "logic", if Mossadegh was not overthrown in 1953, Iran might be the sole true democracy in the Middle East and not funding groups called Hezbollah or Hamas. Chicken and egg.

Not sure you've seen the news, but Khomeini is dead. Banisadr is dead. Reagan is dead. Malcolm Kalb is dead. Bill Doherty is dead. Many of the "students" and many of the other hostages are dead. Tony Menendez is dead. Shah Pahlavi is dead. Trump did not attack Iran because of 1979. Going back even farther, Kermit Roosevelt is dead. Mossadegh is dead. The former CEOs of British Petroleum and Esso in 1953 are dead. You say Trump is hostile to Iran because of 1979? Iranians say the Iranians are hostile to the US because of 1953. In a line from the movie Body of Lies: Ain't nobody innocent in this thing........but 180 elementary schoolgirls paid for someone's wrongdoing.

Suze, "bored with life" is a guy who has posted 200,000 times under about ten screen names, and seemingly spends every waking hour churning out one liners with no value or merit. Some people check out this site once or twice a day, and then hit the gym, hit the office, meet with friends (Google that word "Friends", suze, as that concept is alien to you) and enjoy the wonders that life offers. Think back to your days as a schoolboy. Did you ever imagine you would be where you are today, friendless, Incel-ish, living what remains of your banal existence posting 200 times a day on a Forum, scrapping up 30 baht for a street food Pad Thai and a 500 baht a night flophouse....or did you still harbor delusions that somehow you would achieve even a minor degree of success in life? Would Mama suze think it was worth her pain and discomfort to tote around your zygote and fetus for nine long months?

In a recent presser, Trump essentially admitted it was Tomahawk missiles that hit the girls elementary school. When asked by a NYT's reporter, Trump claimed that it was likely a "stolen US Tomahawk" Iran used to hit the school itself. He used these "I've been told...." lie. Nobody told him that. Plus, it was a double tap, so according to Trump 2 US Tomahawks had been stolen by Iran and used in a false flag against the school. Nobody else has said that, just Trump.

Kim Jong-un---you know, the guy with whom Trump exchanges love letters---had schoolchildren executed because they watched pirated copies of The Squid Game. Kim made other schoolchildren watch schoolchildren being shot. Not a word from Trump on that horror. No military buildup in East Asia; in fact, weapons systems have been pulled from South Korea, because the US was running low in the Middle East. Kim Jong-un has been starving his people for years, even when Trump was writing love letters. Does it require 36,500 in 2 days (even if you numbers are correct), or if a million die of starvation over a period of years, that's acceptable? You Trump lovers are so full of worship and adoration, you can't see the bias. And please, suze, you couldn't care less about dead Iranians. Don't pretend.

So why did Trump decide to start a war with Iran? Does he even know? Does anyone in his Administration know? Why he is now trying to declare victory and call it off is readily apparent: oil and the stock market. Trump saw oil approaching $120/bbl and Dow futures down 1200 pts pre-market on Monday and decided to make up a definition for “victory”, claim he had achieved it, and do it WHILE the markets were open (I’ll also guess his buddies and sons went long equity futures and short oil before Trump’s CBS interview.) . Taco was just being taco again. That is abundantly clear. Still, the question remains: why did he start a war? Was it to carry out regime change? I guess technically he achieved that last week, as Ayatollah Khamenei was killed in an early strike. On the other hand, Khamenei’s son seems to have taken over, and he is more hardline than his father, and the regime is at least as popular in Iran as Trump is in the US, though neither is anything to brag about. Iran doesn’t even need to change the official letterhead of the President’s office, as it will still read “From the Desk of Ayatollah Khamenei”. Was it because, as his WH mouthpiece Leavitt said, he “had a hunch” Iran was going to attack the US? Well, unless Trump also had a hunch a major and massive tectonic plate shift was about to occur on Earth, moving Iran a few thousand miles closer to the US, Iran was incapable of directing any sort of attack against the US. How about the slaughter of protesters carried out by the regime recently? I doubt anyone on this planet thinks Trump gives a flying eff for any brown person, especially a Moslem one. That would be crocodile tears at best, if Trump claimed that. Besides, Trump’s penpal Loverboy in North Korea has killed far more of his subjects. In fact, recently Kim Jong-un executed schoolchildren for the “crime” of watching pirated copies of The Squid Game. Kim even made other schoolchildren watch the executions, in order to send a message. The DPRK has between 65,000 and 100,000 people in “re-education camps”, sentenced for what are essentially “thought crimes”. Also during Kim Jong-un’s reign of terror, at least 1 million North Koreans have died of starvation, all while Kim enjoys as lavish a lifestyle as a miscreant like him can create in a hermit kingdom. The DPRK, however, gets a pass, because Kim already has workable nukes, even miniaturized nukes that can be loaded on to a Hwasong 20 rocket capable of reaching the US. If only the Ayatollah had sent love letters praising Trump. Trump announced early on that he was starting a war in order to eliminate Iran’s nuclear program, something he boasted already about doing back in July 2025. If Iran was able to restart the program and already enrich U235 to weapons’ grade level of 93%, after never having been able to get above 50%, that is astonishing manufacturing ability, from which the rest of the world could learn a lesson. Of course Trump is lying, likely lying twice. He probably did not destroy Iran’s ability to get to 50% enrichment back in July, and no way Iran could have reached 93% by February 2026. One cannot just go down to the local HomePro and buy high speed centrifuges. As the possibilities for the justification are eliminated, what’s left? Maybe SecState Rubio spoke the truth on Day One of the war when he said Israel was going to strike, and despite the US not being ready, the US had no choice but to join in. That’s hardly “America First”, but then again, Trump campaigned on “no foreign wars” and “no regime change”. I guess if Trump was going to break two promises, he might as well go for the Trifecta. There is another possible excuse, which might be summed up partly with the old saying, “To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” Trump presides over an incredible military with capabilities that are simply astonishing. As a power hungry miscreant, Trump is wont to use it. He seems to take great joy in his ability to blow up stuff simply by ordering that it be done. That is as god-like as any human can be, and we all know Trump like to consider himself a messiah, if not semi-divine. He probably got bored just blowing up little boats in the Caribbean, even if some belonged to drug cartels, though some were just fishing boats from Trinidad in the wrong place at the wrong time. He wanted big explosions, so Iran was his canvass. Too bad it seems the US struck an elementary school killing upwards of 180 pre teen girls, though Trump is trying to claim it wasn’t the US. Privately, I would be willing to bet not only does he know the US did it, but it probably thrills him that he blew up 180 little brown Moslem girls. Finally, it may be that in some oddball way, Trump thought he could steal Iran’s oil, trying to play an 18th or 19th Century European monarch living the Kipling-esque dream of Colonialism and The White Man’s Burden. Certainly Lindsey Graham thought that, as over the weekend Graham hit the Sunday talk show exclaiming “how much money we’re going to make selling Iran’s oil”, sounding like a little kid on Christmas. Whatever Trump’s excuse, both the tumbling stock market and what Trump calls the “affordability hoax” got him to play taco yet again. As far as Trump is concerned, the war---whoops! Now he wants it just called an “excursion”, kind of like when one takes a weekend trip down to Hua Hin---is over. Iran may have other plans, though that remains to be seen. One thing is certain: every developing nation on the planet sees “Iran attacked” and “North Korea ignored”. The primary difference is nukes. The world is going to see an arms race the likes of which it has never seen, and with nuke scientists similar to the late for-hire nuke guy AQ Khan, plus lots of 93% U235 and lots of plutonium floating around on the Black Market from the former Soviet Union, that race is going to move into top gear.

Last week Trump said that he was going to pick the new leader of Iran, and that he had a list of acceptable candidates. I have to be honest; I did not have Mojtaba Khamenei on my Bingo Card.

He earned his name yet again: TACO. Dow futures were down 1200 pts, oil was $118. As the world knows from his on again, off again tariffs, the stock market level is EVERYTHING to Trump. Oh, and "affordability" could no longer be called a "hoax". So the guy who started a war AFTER the markets closed on a Friday, made a phone call to the newest MAGA media outlet---CBS under Bari Weiss---and made up a definition of success in order to say he achieved it, and all BEFORE the markets closed. There was never an imminent threat. There has not only been no regime change, but like North Korea, the next generation is even worse than the previous one, a Khamenei, Jr. is supposedly even more hard line than his father. Trump also claimed that not only is the Strait open, but he is thinking about taking it over. Trump's lapdog Lindsey Graham was frothing at the mouth on the Sunday talk shows, believing the US was going to play 18th Century Imperialist and steal Iran's oil, "We're going to make so much money!" Graham said. We'll, it looks like Lindsey will have to be content using his position to front run stocks and engage in insider trading (as all Congress people do, D & R, as it is allowed under rules they voted for themselves). Trump was not clear on what "victory" means any more than he and his Carnival People administration were clear about why the US entered the war. I guess Trump and his drunkard SecDef can rejoice in the fact they blew up a couple hundred school girls. Not sure what comes next, as Iran still has its army and its theocracy. Militarily they are diminished, but they still have their proxies who simply need targets and small weapons to wreak havoc around the world. Iran will also likely redouble its efforts to become a member of the nuclear club, perhaps getting help from China or Pakistan, even using them as proxies to deliver ready-made nukes. I guess what we can safely assume is a long list of superlatives coming from Trump, about how nobody else could have done what he did, whatever it was he did, and whatever it means long term. In the meantime, let's see if Iran holds off any new missile and drone launches, because they are under no obligation to go along with Trump. Oh, and if he winds down the war, a thing called the Epstein Files rears its ugly head again.

Is that the infamous Trumpian "two weeks"? Does he even have a concept of a plan? As far as I know, the MSM talking heads are not the major players in the crude futures market. It's the market players who have run up near and longer term crude contracts. Perhaps they know more than Trump about crude pricing. Trump has no clue how long the Strait will be closed. He doesn't even know what's next in the war he started. Neither does he know how much additional damage Iran might do to other GCC nation's production, such as taking out GOSPs or destroying refineries. A damaged refinery can be put back in service in months; a new refinery takes a decade to build. Trump is also destroying Iran's production, so that will be production off line for years, affecting prices on the margin. Iran doesn't need a navy to close the straits. A few mines, or even a Boston Whaler with a few guys carrying RPG7s can set a ULCC ablaze. Maybe the oil spike lasts a few weeks, but Iran shows no signs of caving or taco-ing, and major crude traders are not seeing this spike as a short term phenomenon..

Interesting fact: Trump's war of choice is already less popular with the American people than the Vietnam War was the day in April 1975 when the last helicopters were leaving the roof of the US embassy in Saigon. Wars even tend to get less popular with time.

Incidentally, it's also abundantly clear why both Bill and Hillary agreed to testify under oath: Precedent. A former POTUS and a former First Lady. Opens it up for BOTH Trump and Melania.

Wow! The now-released files are BAD! The DoJ lied yet again, claiming the files were "erroneously assumed to be duplicates", so they withheld them until NPR journalists discovered missing Bates #s. The files can be found on justice.gov/epstein if anyone wants to read them. In one of the FBI interviews with the accuser, who was 13 at the time of the alleged incident, she said Trump made her wear a blonde wig, because "it reminds me of my daughter". The woman, who claimed at that age she was a bit of a tomboy, said Trump told her, "I'll show you how a real girl ought to behave", as he undid his trousers and pushed her head down onto his penis. She bit it. She says Trump then hit her across the head and yelled for others to come and "get this bitch the XXXX out of here!". In one interview (these took place in 2019 during Trump 1.0), the woman claimed she had received a threatening phone call after her earlier interviews, and also said that nothing is likely to happen to Trump anyway, as he supposedly has some sort of immunity while serving. Under oath at the House Hearing two weeks ago, AG Bondi claimed there were no documents with allegations against Trump. She lied under oath, which is why even 20 Republicans signed on to have her subpoenaed. WH spokesman Leavitt tried to disparage the witness, claiming the woman (Leavitt does not know her real name)"has a long record of criminality" (sic). Apparently the woman has a violation for shoplifting as a minor, which doesn't really discredit her testimony. MAGAs try to argue that if it was bad, "Biden would have investigated". That is silly and shows no understanding of the Department. When Garland took over as AG, he oversaw a Dept that has tens, maybe hundreds of millions of documents in the files. Unless one specifically sought "Accusations against Trump by a Minor" on the database, such fles would be unlikely to just materialize on their own. The incoming AG would be brought up to speed on major ongoing investigations, such as against organized crime, terrorists, etc., but unless specifically told by the departing AG about the allegations against Trump, it's unlikely Garland ever would have known. Now that it is in the public domain, however, and with the precedent of former POTUS Clinton already having been questioned under oath, it's time Trump was put under oath. If he's innocent, he has nothing to worry about.

Not sure how it ends, but along the way we're seeing $115/bbl WTI Crude, up 26% just from Friday. Nikkei is down 7% so far Monday morning. US Dow futures are down 1050 in the pre-market. One way it ends is a massive Blue Wave in November, with Dems retaking the House and Senate, and Trump effectively neutered.......and that is before the body bags start arriving at Dover in bulk. Trump can then, if he lives, go about spending another $71 million per year for his golf, and spend the rest of his time talking to interior decorators about how to deck out his Qatari B747 for his retirement years. Trump had better make up a definition of "success" and then claim he achieved it and stop the madness, lest the entire world tumble into Depression. There's way too much debt and fallout from the introduction of AI, plus tariffs, plus already falling employment and GDP, to then add $115 oil on top of it.

Though 99% sure this is just a windup, I'm going to play a little Oz Pearlman here and perform a parlor trick..... Okay, OP.....grab your wallet. Take out your Driver's License. Look at where it say "DOB". I bet it says "Yesterday". Right?

Is that kind of like Mission Accomplished? Pardon me for being Cassandra, but it’s a little early to declare it a win. Iran was led by a guy named Khamenei. It’s now led by a guy named Khamenei. Qatari LNG is shut down. Saudi production has been cut. The Strait remains closed, even if ULCCs could fill-er up. Aluminum smelters have been shut in the Gulf. WTI Crude is trading at $108/bbl. The silly Energy Secretary went on the Sunday shows claiming the oil price rise is just a few weeks phenomenon. How would he know that? Certainly the futures market has a different opinion. Trump says about oil up almost 80% in a few weeks that “it’s a small price to pay for defeating Iran”. Easy for a guy who gets a free airplane and free car and who has grifted $4 billion since entering office again, but for the average consumer, it’s a high price. World equity markets have lost about $3,500,000,000,000 in value since the war began, adding in the expected losses today from pre-markets. Hard to call that a win, except for shorts. Trump’s war of choice maybe got a minor respite from the Trump-Epstein Files, but that issue is not going away. Now 20 Republicans want to join Democrats and hold AG Bondi in contempt for lying to Congress. That means more Hearings, where hopefully they give her some Valium first. It seems there ARE allegations of wrongdoing against Trump. Besides, the Dow isn’t 50K anymore, and is down another 900 points in the pre-market Sunday night US time. Even Thomas Massie (R) wants to get to the bottom of those allegations of Trump raping a 13 year old. If Trump is innocent, he has nothing to worry about, so he should testify under oath (hint: he won’t). Anyway, MAGAs approve of pedophilia, it seems, as true MAGAs just want to move on from the crimes of Epstein et al, even though the guilty still walk free. Despite Trump’s claims (aka lies) that the US has unlimited weaponry, Iran is bleeding it by using $20K drones. Israel needs an emergency funding package of another $700 million, which is in addition to the $21.7 billion in military assistance it has gotten since the start of the Gaza War. It’s kind of like expats who sponsor an Isaan bargirl….unlimited funding and the US gets nothing for it in return. Iran still has armed forces of over two million, and they can be unleashed in teams to carry out terror attacks in the Middle East and around the world for the next few years. Trump’s choice is to take them on in a ground invasion, which would be quite unpopular in the US and guarantee a wipeout for Republicans in November. I guess one winner is Cuba, as the US is unlikely to have the forces and weaponry to invade them, despite the bone spurs coward saying they are next. Neither does the US have the ability to stand up to China should it decide now is a good time to take Taiwan. The little fat guy in North Korea (as opposed to the little fat guy AN member in Cambodia paying for sex with young females) gets a free pass, because he knows how to flatter the woefully insecure Trump. Yes, Iran “Bad”, but a guy who executes schoolchildren for watching The Squid Game, and makes other schoolchildren watch the executions, is safe. He is the shining example to the rest of the world that having nukes means being left alone. Russia could boost revenues by selling nukes to developing nations. So yes, it’s rather early to call this war a win. There is a perfect storm of bad news that will hit the US economy in the coming months. Oil is unlikely to go down anytime soon, exacerbating already high inflation. The jobs number were abysmal, and only made to look less bad because the Labor Participation Rate fell dramatically, meaning discouraged workers imply gave up looking for work. Economic growth is considerably below what Trump was handed by Biden. Trump said in his silly SotU address that Americans would get tired of winning. Maybe that’s why Trump is handing out lots of losses now. Wouldn’t want Americans to get as tired as Trump and fall asleep in the middle of a meeting.

Of course Iran will strike back…in the near future and over the next decade. They will take a long term view. Somebody will blow up a McDonalds or a Starbucks in Paris. Somebody else will walk into a bar frequented by US Military personnel in Germany and shoot it up. Somebody will figure out how to take down an airline with a bunch of lithium batteries. Somebody will stab some fat western expats in Pattaya. Israeli or American diplomats in New Delhi will be blown up in their car. Israel will have another 7 October. We will call it terrorism; they will call it retribution. Terrorism by its nature is asymmetrical warfare. It is how those without thousand pound bombs and Cruise missiles fight back and feel some sort of satisfaction via retribution. Frankly, it’s no different than 6 January 2021. Trump lost. Democracy beat him, and he hated democracy for its win. He felt powerless. He found a way to fight back, calling his goobers to DC for no reason other than to try to overturn the election results, and then held his rally on the Mall telling them to march to the Capitol and “fight like Hell”. Trump is an idiot, but even an idiot had to know his goobers would turn violent. Obviously, that was his intent from when he first Tweeted “It’ll be WILD!!!!!”. Terrorists always have an excuse, claiming the “other side” started it. It becomes a chicken or egg sort of thing. Also, terrorists who win are called “Freedom Fighters”, like the Irgun and the Stern Gang, the leader of which went on to become Prime Minister. The terrorist head of the PLO went on to be invited to Camp David, and he became a fashion icon sporting a three day growth,establishing a trend that continues to this day. Terrorists who lose or die, become “martyrs” and have their image adorning t-shirts in the night market, whether Che Guevara or Osama bin Laden. Iran will fight back, long after Trump defines “victory” and then claims he achieved it. Of course terrorism rarely affects the Epstein Class, just as modern war never results in the children of the Epstein Class ever paying a price. Barron Trump will never hit the beaches of Bandar Abbas. (Hat tip to Prince Harry, who did go into harm’s way on behalf of the Coalition of the Willing.) Like a lightning bolt, be in the wrong place at the wrong time, and you will die for what Trump believes in. It is what it is.

Trump can bluster all he wants about how the US has "unlimited" weaponry it can unleash on Iran, but the Iranians will not be listening to him. They will be listening to Russia. Russian intel services likely know the full extent of the US' arsenal. Russia may not know how many Sig P226s the US military has, but regarding major weapons, Russia would know in fine detail. Russia can also count. They know how many missiles have been fired, how many Cruise and Tomahawk missiles, how many air based missiles have been fired, how many Patriots, etc. Russian intel would also know how many Patriots, etc., Israel still has as well as the Gulf nations. Likely all of that will have been shared with Iran. Iran will know which targets have been weakened, as well as how long the US can continue to strike, absent the use of nukes. Iran can engage in a war of attrition. Iran can also engage in a war of economics, as in using $20K drones to force the US, Israel and the GCC nations to burn through their limited supply of $ million and $ billion systems. It would seem the Trump Administration expected Iran to cry uncle quickly. It also seems the US did not anticipate Russia actively cooperating with Iran with targeting and weapon availability. I would suspect Russia is also keeping Cuba informed about stockpiles of US weapons, so that Trump's threats of "you're next" might not cause much consternation in Havana.....nor Ecuador, nor Yemen, nor Nigeria, nor Iraq, nor Syria, nor Venezuela, nor Somalia, nor any other country Trump has already attacked or might plan to attack. The Iranian leadership killed 30,000 or so of its own citizens in recent protests. That should have suggested to Trump that they really are not fazed by continued aerial bombing that will kill civilians as well as bad guys. Iran is in survival and martyr mentality. It's kind of like that famous scene in the first Indiana Jones, when some guy brandishes a sword and shows off his skill with it. Jones just pulls out a gun and shoots him. Iran seems to be baiting the attackers to shoot their load, and then it will take its time and hit targets to cause the greatest economic damage. (The Qatar Finance Ministry issued a dire warning about possible economic consequences if the war continues.) Iran also is bating the US to put boots on the ground, assuming that will enrage the American public. Fighting an asymmetrical war, one relies on whatever relative advantage it has. With Russian help, Iran has an additional advantage it's unlikely Trump anticipated.

If a witness is not credible, the FBI doesn't interview them 4 times. If a witness is not credible, the DoJ doesn't use the interviews in its cases against two other criminals, Epstein and Maxwell---which they did. Innocent until proven guilty, yes, but if this witness' statements were part of what convicted Epstein and Maxwell, it certainly demands additional investigation of Trump---which DoJ did not do. If the House can call the two Clintons, one of whom never met Epstein, and question them under oath, it certainly seems time to call in Trump and question him under oath. Maybe that will have to wait until after the midterms, because Republicans have no interest in truth.

Oh come on! It's an affordability hoax! Our supreme leader told us in his SotU speech that gas is only $185 a gallon and that he, and only he, brought prices down. I'd hate to think he lied yet again. He also told us the economy is booming and the envy of the world, even though total jobs gained since April 2025 is now flat, and 34 of 367 major world equity indices are beating the US.