My 72 yr old civilian ass knew better than to screw with Iran and this Strait..and certainly not to impede the transit of China, India, and Pakistan. What an embarrassing fool. The whole world will turn on us thanks to Trump and we will be isolated and systematically destroyed. Here comes WW3. Check out Malcolm Nances Black Man Spy site. Trump wants to play pirate…appalling.
Exactly. That's what an abuser does. Turns everyone against his victims. He's no different from the abusive husband that isolates his abused wife from all of her friends and support systems in order to destroy her.
And trump gave away his urge to start WWlll when he claimed President Biden would start it. His typical projection, which is always a dead giveaway.
As many people are saying, this is what the 25th amendment was created for. Unfortunately, the founders never envisioned a cabinet in which the members would either be beholden to the President or just like him.
"From these facts, by which Montesquieu was guided, it may clearly be inferred that, in saying "There can be no liberty where the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or body of magistrates,'' or, "if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers,'' he did not mean that these departments ought to have no PARTIAL AGENCY in, or no CONTROL over, the acts of each other. His meaning, as his own words import, and still more conclusively as illustrated by the example in his eye, can amount to no more than this, that where the WHOLE power of one department is exercised by the same hands which possess the WHOLE power of another department, the fundamental principles of a free constitution are subverted."
IMPEACH AND DUMP TRAITORS, NAZIS PREDATORS AND ENABLERS , IMPERIALIST CRIMINALS, WAR MONGERS, CAREER CRIMINALS, CRIMINAL GRIFTERS, FASCIST PIGS, FRAUDSTERS, RACIST, AND CON REPUBLICONS EVERYWHERE. RELEASE ALL UNREDACTED EPSTEIN FILES AND JAIL CON RTRUMP. AVOID CON RTRUMP'S AND THE REPUBLICON'S RECESSION AND DEPRESSION. FIX CLIMATE CHANGE, FOR THE FAIR DEAL, NOT THE RAW DEAL. VOTE BLUE AND SAVE DEMOCRACY. STOP THE RTRUMP OLIGARCHY. BOYCOTT CRIMINAL RTRUMP & ELON THE NAZIS.
I listen to your podcasts and I notice that MeidasTouch consistently condemns JDVance and Trump’s cabinet heads about not doing their jobs to remove Trump from office. Could I ask you please when speaking about removing Trump from office and the aforementioned people, that you include the Congressional Republicans as well? It seems to me they are as much to blame as the rest of trump’s regime. Thank you for all your reporting.
The entire Republican Party and the idiot voters who put them into office need to be shipped to Siberia, where they can sit down with Putin and have a real good time. They are copying Putin in working toward an authoritarian nation, so let them taste the Putin wine up close. Get rid of Trump? Easy, flush the toilet.
But if he goes out that way, he will get an honorary presidential funeral.!!!! !!! Republicons in congress need to grow some balls or a spine or just do their jobs of protecting our democracy and our constitution from authoritarian takeover. Impeach, convict and prison ..he will go out in the disgrace that he has been for our country!💙🫂💙
I think all of us here strongly suspected that Netanyahu was manipulating Trump, and that Trump attacked Iran because he wanted the US to do so. Consultations with allies are not out of place, however, if Trump and Vance are taking direction from Netanyahu, that is treason. And given that Trump does nothing without compensation, how is Israel paying him off?
Yes and I remember all the smirks on Bibi's face every time he sat in the oval office with Trump during the press conferences. He was no doubt laughing to himself of how stupid trump is!!
People have stated that Netanyahu and Putin have had copies of the Epstein files from a few days after they were found and collated together. I never believed it, but I do now.
All that is Netanyahu's desire, and has been so for at least 3 decades now. This is how long, if not more, that these 2 have conspired and colluded to get where they are now.
Netanyahu took this same war plan to 3 previous Presidents: Bush, Obama, and Biden. All three turned him down. Netanyahu and Ehud Barak (Mossad) were both very close to Epstein (especially Barak) They have had the files probably all along. Also, Netanyahu is in on that Gaza land deal.
Yes, trump is Israel’s puppet. Trump’s usual skim is money transferred to an offshore account or the promise that he can build a trump tower in Israel somewhere (with Israel paying for it). He has appropriated vast amounts of money from US taxpayers for his own pocket and you can bet that Venezuela oil money is going directly to his pockets, with small amounts going to buy off the conspirators. Also as far as treasonous actions go, he went that far in his first months in office.
I believe that is part of it but trump has done everything he can to stop Green Energy projects and budgets passed under Biden, stop EV cars all to favor staying on fossil fuels-even dirty coal! Also, I do not think it is by accident that trump acted in Venezuela on pretext and now controls their oil. Makes sales of that oil and puts the profits who knows where because USA, Venezuelan oil will be part of trump's Monroe Doctrine to control all of Western Hemisphere and be oil independent. Russia, China and Middle East will get their spheres because of fossil fuel dependance and military, mineral assets. These dictators are playing for keeps and are ready to activate some of their invasions, attacks. I feel it in my "gut" that trump wants USA tied up, low on munitions, assets and will not or cannot save any country or peoples. I have the ability to think what ruthless and diabolical people and nations would do. I tend to think this is all cooked up by Putin, trump, Xi, Netanyahu and oligarchs. Oil, tech, defense, land purchases of bankrupted farmers, building purchases and small business purchases likewise. Sorry, I'm going on for too long. I've tested my information, my assumptions on current conditions and environments and nothing looks good for future generations subject to oligarch power, amoral decision-making and broken Oaths, laws and AI. May we somehow work together to benefit humankind-cooperation, education and swifter actions are badly needed.
• 5) Iraq – (attacked by Bush 43 in 2003, even though 15/19 of the 9/11 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia; 2 were from the UAE; 1 was from Egypt; and 1 was from Lebanon - not one was from Iraq, but Bush and Cheney (for KBR) wanted the oil and infrastructure rebuilding contracts)
• 4) Canada - (threatened with annexation by Trump in 2025)
• 3) Iran (attacked by Trump in 2025 and 2026)
• 2) Saudi Arabia (MBS is Kushner's patron and someone Trump needs this oil rich monarchy for his empire)
• 1) Venezuela (attacked by Trump in 2026; oil seized)
Consider that 20% of the world’s oil transported on ships passes through the Strait of Hormuz and much of the other 80% goes through other similar chokepoints: Suez Canal and SUMED Pipeline; Bab el-Mandeb; Danish Straits; Turkish Straits (Dardanelles); Panama Canal; and the Cape of Good Hope.
The Danish Straits (which passes near Greenland) and The Panama Canal may look familiar. News10NBC; 8-Apr-26; https://tinyurl.com/2zdbve4d and the U.S. Energy Information Administration; 3-Mar-26; https://tinyurl.com/2krc484z
I may be mistaken, but there may be a pattern here.
Great adds. In terms of oil producers (2024 data), Nigeria was #15, a few slots behind Mexico at #11 and a few ahead of Argentina #22 (remember everyone's best friend - but only if he wins - Javier Milei?) As for Viktor Orbán, Hungary was #61 and Orbán is a loser; therefore, disapproved by 47.
"(Regarding synchronicity) What I found were 'coincidences' which were connected so meaningfully that their 'chance' coincidence would represent a degree of improbability that would have to be expressed by an astronomical figure." - Carl Jung
"That's too coincidental to be a coincidence." - Yogi Berra
I can speak for Canada. Regarding oil and electricity that we send you everyday, trump has hinted that he needs to “conquer” Canada to get these resources, that somehow we’ll stop selling them to you. We have been supplying these commodities to you everyday for a long time through permanent wiring and pipes. We haven’t stopped supplying them to you, not at any time since trump became dictator. Our government is looking to sell our excess commodities overseas but you would still get what you need. I know that our government has been talking hardball but that’s how you deal with trump.
Now that’s a conspiracy theory if I ever heard one. The FBI raided Epstein’s estate and took everything that was in his safe (all of the evidence linking trump and a pile of others) and they have sat on it ever since trump got elected. They wouldn’t be selling that stuff for anything. They’re just doing what herr trump tells them to do, which is shred, shred, shred, and redact. I’m sure that there are still people working 24 hour shifts shredding. If the Democrats were smart they’d subpoena the FBI office expense accounts and see how many shredding machines that they’ve burned through.
Drumpf and Netanyahu have a long history together. It's decades in the making too. And it wouldn't surprise me if all that's going on isn't what's contained in Project 2025
I expect Netanyahu has some hold on him. Israelis were, like the Russians, connected through Epstein. I have never believed in conspiracies or cabals, but Trump's behavior has been hard to comprehend even if he is demented.
Trump and Vance are not obligated to do anything that Netanyahu wants. If they do, that's on them. If someone told you to jump off a cliff and you do, that's on you.
I don't defend Bibi. He's Israel's worst nightmare. But Meidas, in the above statement, has shifted the blame away from the WH regime. Wrong!
Not like that. Putin and Netanyahu are both said to have copies of the Epstein files not long after they were collated. And don't forget how long it's just been sat on several desks and inside of some computer systems
Trump and Vance are not obligated to do anything that Netanyahu wants. If they do, that's on them. If someone told you to jump off a cliff and you do, that's on you.
I don't defend Bibi. He's Israel's worst nightmare. But Meidas, in the above statement, has shifted the blame away from the WH regime. Wrong!
Those injections he gets every day, a unique mix of cocaine, turpentine, whole milk, the blood of an ass and golden hair spray, are keeping him propped up and believing he’s Jesus.
My guess is the same as all the rest: vote for impeachment or under Amendment 25, whichever arrives first for a vote. I don't think their superpowers apply to removals.
I feel if the Administration doesn’t go along with the removal of something as obvious as an unstable President; they should be charged for crimes committed against..they have the power and authority to remove and choose not too.
There needs to be a Constitutional Ammendment that allows for removal of a authoritarian, money hungry potus like Trump who is dismanteling the government & country, raiding the treasury, using doj as his private law firm & skirting the Congress & doing what he wants to do without a care. Same with Congress & Senate not doing their job.
Without any undue attribution of intelligence or bona fides to him, I wonder if JDV allowed or caused the “negotiations” with Iran to crater after just one 20 hour attempt:
• Because directed to do so?
• To differentiate and position himself as a don’t-overlook-me candidate in 2028?
• Because the Islamabad Talks enabled him with Pakistan’s participation to lay the groundwork for him to restore/update Obama’s JPCOA when he has the conn?
• To annoy 47 and expose him further as the madman he is, safe from recourse?
• To bolster his decision to invoke the 25th Amendment, if he does, following the issuance of additional illegal orders from the Messiah (wannabe) in Chief?
Looking back on JDV's debate performance vs. Walz, I'm wondering if you are giving him too much credit. JDV, to me, is just an inveterate liar. (I still can't get over the number of pundits who said JDV "looked Presidential" during that debate!).
That being said, trump accusing Iran of "world extortion" struck a chord with me, besides
the obvious projection. It got me wondering if Iran, via backchannels, were to offer trump a 50% interest in revenue via tolls collected for using the strait, would trump suddenly end the war and declare victory?
Point taken, thank you, Dee Cee. It was with that in mind, I started the post with “Without any undue attribution of intelligence or bona fides to (JDV)....” I posited questions hoping they would elicit challenging posts such as yours rather than as declarative statements. They were suggestions, theories, and hypothesis.
IMO, FWIW, is that JDV is an incompetent spineless jellyfish. I agree with Dan Pfeiffer, former senior Obama advisor and co-host of Pod Save America. He described JDV as a pedantic high school debater (paraphrasing). Spot on. JDV would be over his depth in a shallow puddle. I think he was placed where he is by a dark money cabal that boosted him past Sherrod Brown in OH and assured that he would be compliant and complicit in their plans once the Useful Idiot had served their purposes, left to depart with his shiny objects or otherwise. If less than half this term remains, JDV potentially could serve up to 10 years as President (Dee Cee, I know you know that, but some may not).
Ponder: why did JFK depart 20 days after South Vietnam’s President Ngô Đình Diệm was assassinated (without JFK’s objection) and just 8-1/2 months before the Gulf of Tonkin Incident ramped up Vietnam, while RFK, Sr., as AG, was making life miserable for the Omerta crowd? Why did Harding die at 57 halfway through his term? See, https://tinyurl.com/3ht6hs65 and https://tinyurl.com/45hdwh48. From the first link (sound familiar?):
“In the 1920s, a lot of Americans were looking back on World War I and thinking they’d been sold a bill of goods, that the government had whipped the country into a frenzy and gotten it into a war when it wasn’t necessary,” says Kathryn Olmsted, a historian at the University of California, Davis…. Later, she adds, when the public began to learn about all the “skullduggery, lying and criminal activity” that had occurred during the Harding administration, it was easy to wonder if the president had been a victim of his own corrupt cronies, collectively known as the “Ohio gang.”
To the remainder of your excellent points: Yes, the world extortion reeks. As I posted yesterday, the “interdictions” (not piracy, I think because I believe piracy does not include state actors only private plunderers), the UNCLOS https://tinyurl.com/anhva9bz prohibits interdictions and tolls. In particular, note Articles 17, 18, 19, 45 and 127.
Yes, you did open with the appropriate disclaimer!
Incompetent spineless jellyfish is so fitting.
I have thought about timing with regard to the 25th amendment. As you note, it would be to the advantage of Thiel & The Dark Money Cabal's advantage to wait until trump was over halfway through his term to overthrow trump via the 25th.
I missed your post about interdictions. Thank you for that info and for all the other points to ponder. Much appreciated!
Ah, yes, preemptive disclaimers made in anticipation of and to fend off frontal assaults! Plus they serve my purposes far better than the superlatives some use (greatest, highest, best, huge, etc.) and attributions to the inaudible voices of the imperceptible (everyone is saying, some people are saying) that others might term “hearing voices.”
Along with spineless jellyfish, I would have to add Senator Sheldon Whitehouse’s (D-RI) term for the invertebrate GOP seat occupiers in the Senate: owners of “foams of spine.”
25th Amendment. Consistent with that, the cabinet is being repositioned in anticipation (Markwayne for ICE Barbie and Blanche in a continuing attorney-client relationship with 47 for Blondie, with more likely to follow: Hegseth? Gabbard? Patel?) and the frequency of the bandages on the hands, etc. is increasing to stave off premature real-time decay.
As for the UNCLOS, just those sections give you the gist of it. For an English introduction this article was pretty good: “When can a state seize a vessel?” on Lloyd’s List (Lloyds of London, I think) https://tinyurl.com/5yve3uyx. In particular, “UNCLOS provides that ships of all states enjoy the right of innocent passage through the territorial sea, or transit passage through a strait used for international navigation. Seizure of a vessel which is enjoying these rights would be unlawful as a matter of international law.”
Great question. I phrased mine as questions because it is so hard to know. “Because directed to do so” could include the reason you suggestion (warships, minesweepers, invasion forces, etc.). It could be at the request (direction?) of the other leader who seems even more interested in continuing this war than 47 does. It could be in the hope that the rest of the world will find itself unable to resist 47’s commanding influence and at last capitulates by bailing him out. It could be to appease Putin, who requires additional time and distraction to pursue his “little” Ukrainian “excursion.” It could be to continue to distract and misdirect (JE files are not in the news cycle, nor are the ongoing ICE/CBP horrors, nor is subversion of the midterms, nor is his family’s grift and insider trading). So many reasons he might have been told to make a show of it, then fail.
EDIT: It could be because 47 is trying to get JDV to resign before the Midterms and, as self-described kingmaker, replace him with someone who might be the next President.
There are also theories that Trump is trying to sabotage Vance because he's too close to the seat of power. And the 25th would require Vance's cooperation, wouldn't it?
Yes, vance and the cabinet need to initiate the 25th. When the 25th was set up in 1967, they did not foresee a regime like this where a deranged president would have the VP and the cabinet in his pocket.
Linda, my recollection is that the 25th Amendment was ratified in 1967, having been passed in 1965, 18 months after JFK’s death, to create a seamless succession process if a President were to die or become incapacitated I think it was to shore up gaps Article 2, Section 1, Clause 5 (https://tinyurl.com/bdd8apk8) in circumstances not addressed in the repair made by Amendment XX Section 3 (https://tinyurl.com/bdctzzrx) and to resolve any residual uncertainty created when Tyler demanded to serve as President, not Acting President, after W.H. Harrison died in 1841. https://tinyurl.com/4vh92a7s
Well, Trump is definitely possessed. Anyone who can spew hateful memes and ridiculous tantrums all night long and then continue all day is totally insane. Oh, goody! and he has the codes for the nuclear weapons. No wonder I wake up in the middle of the night wondering, what the heck?
I haven't slept a decent night's sleep since he took office again. Same thing as the last months of his 1st term when it was looking like he was going to start something with N. Korea..
didn't consider Iran a threat? THEN WHY THE FUCK GO TO WAR WITH THEM???? Especially since you said you OBLITERATED their weapons & nuclear capability several months ago.
And never thought they might personally attack all the Gulf States where we have bases? To quote Jeff Tiedrich, this is what you get when you send two real estate guys and a.couchf**ker as negotiators.
One of the reasons I hate Mondays is that he always seems particularly charged on Sunday night and floods untruth social with his rants. I watched an interview with a hospice nurse who stated that this behavior (up all night and unable to stay awake during the day) is something she sees all the time in dementia and alzheimer patients.
He is unconcerned with the stock market on weekends, so able to do maximum damage then. By Sunday evening, he has had two days two do what Hamlet in 3.4 scolded his mother Queen Gertrude for doing: ““Nay, but to live/In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed/Stewed in corruption, honeying and making love/Over the nasty sty …” Two days to recharge and become fully enveloped in the mania of his walls-closing-in Sundowning.
I think he just stays up all night and day until he can't anymore. Crashes and sleeps for three days and comes back and does it again. He has idiotic old man syndrome. A GET off my lawn kinda jerk.
He's on a LOT of drugs too. And sometimes they have a short half life, esp. sleeping pills. Take them and you'll be up several hours later. Older folks usually sleep less at night too, as a natural order.
Add in that he's an addled old man who obsesses all night and we have a social media syndrome that is reckless and dangerous. Off the tracks.
I agree, but wonder, is that what he wants to happen? Think of the damage he could do by invoking The War Powers Act and if there is any pushback, The Insurrection Act and Martial Law. What Bill of Rights? Posse Comitatus? Any pretext will suffice, thank you
I haven’t even finished the bullets points and I am furious…..if Biden or any other president shared a picture of themselves as Jesus they would be removed immediately from office! Fuckwit Trump is so out of control, so out of his depth, this is beyond crazy. And JD reporting in to Netanyahu …….WTF??????
Did anyone else notice that the man Trump as Jesus looks a lot like Epstein. I'm not Catholic but Trump's attacks against the first American Pope is despicable and disgusting when that man doesn't have a religious bone in his rotting body.
“f this was your relative, you’d immediately encourage them to seek help.”
Nope.
If this was my relative he would already be put away. That we treat this insane baboon as if he were merely “just a little bit crazy” is itself insane. And the fact that he’s the president makes it all the more critical that he be removed from office now, not deferred to simply because he IS the president.
The only blockade that will work now is in his coronaries so hurry up cholesterol and do your thing already.
Wanted: One patriotic hamberder.
My 72 yr old civilian ass knew better than to screw with Iran and this Strait..and certainly not to impede the transit of China, India, and Pakistan. What an embarrassing fool. The whole world will turn on us thanks to Trump and we will be isolated and systematically destroyed. Here comes WW3. Check out Malcolm Nances Black Man Spy site. Trump wants to play pirate…appalling.
Exactly. That's what an abuser does. Turns everyone against his victims. He's no different from the abusive husband that isolates his abused wife from all of her friends and support systems in order to destroy her.
And trump gave away his urge to start WWlll when he claimed President Biden would start it. His typical projection, which is always a dead giveaway.
As many people are saying, this is what the 25th amendment was created for. Unfortunately, the founders never envisioned a cabinet in which the members would either be beholden to the President or just like him.
Yes!! You covered it all. 😊
Maybe Madison? See The Federalist Papers: No. 47 (1-Feb-1788) https://tinyurl.com/mr3duzmh
"From these facts, by which Montesquieu was guided, it may clearly be inferred that, in saying "There can be no liberty where the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or body of magistrates,'' or, "if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers,'' he did not mean that these departments ought to have no PARTIAL AGENCY in, or no CONTROL over, the acts of each other. His meaning, as his own words import, and still more conclusively as illustrated by the example in his eye, can amount to no more than this, that where the WHOLE power of one department is exercised by the same hands which possess the WHOLE power of another department, the fundamental principles of a free constitution are subverted."
Trump is moral and political scum. Enough said.
IMPEACH AND DUMP TRAITORS, NAZIS PREDATORS AND ENABLERS , IMPERIALIST CRIMINALS, WAR MONGERS, CAREER CRIMINALS, CRIMINAL GRIFTERS, FASCIST PIGS, FRAUDSTERS, RACIST, AND CON REPUBLICONS EVERYWHERE. RELEASE ALL UNREDACTED EPSTEIN FILES AND JAIL CON RTRUMP. AVOID CON RTRUMP'S AND THE REPUBLICON'S RECESSION AND DEPRESSION. FIX CLIMATE CHANGE, FOR THE FAIR DEAL, NOT THE RAW DEAL. VOTE BLUE AND SAVE DEMOCRACY. STOP THE RTRUMP OLIGARCHY. BOYCOTT CRIMINAL RTRUMP & ELON THE NAZIS.
Get a grip.
At least you know what the “fast ships" are. I thought they were just something Trump made up!
Hahahahaha!
I listen to your podcasts and I notice that MeidasTouch consistently condemns JDVance and Trump’s cabinet heads about not doing their jobs to remove Trump from office. Could I ask you please when speaking about removing Trump from office and the aforementioned people, that you include the Congressional Republicans as well? It seems to me they are as much to blame as the rest of trump’s regime. Thank you for all your reporting.
The entire Republican Party and the idiot voters who put them into office need to be shipped to Siberia, where they can sit down with Putin and have a real good time. They are copying Putin in working toward an authoritarian nation, so let them taste the Putin wine up close. Get rid of Trump? Easy, flush the toilet.
I'm all for sending the whole lot of them to that new trump tower on the moon.
It's not built yet? Give them some supplies and wish them well.
That was rather obvious, no?
What am I missing, what do you think is obvious? Please advise. Thank you
Cholesterol, clots, whatever works... please.
All the Iranian people at the table have PhDs.
Many on Trumps team do too ; Delegate of Pedophile
All the Americans have Florsheims so ther
😂😂🙏
Have a double-cheesburger&lg fries. Ring bell for colostomy bag
change! Rep a-kissers waiting in line!
PS: EVERYBODY KNOWS YOU'RE LYING djt, hush!
But if he goes out that way, he will get an honorary presidential funeral.!!!! !!! Republicons in congress need to grow some balls or a spine or just do their jobs of protecting our democracy and our constitution from authoritarian takeover. Impeach, convict and prison ..he will go out in the disgrace that he has been for our country!💙🫂💙
Amen, and asap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bibi is the boss! He controls Trump, Vance and the entire regime. He's our leader without ever being elected! 😤
I think all of us here strongly suspected that Netanyahu was manipulating Trump, and that Trump attacked Iran because he wanted the US to do so. Consultations with allies are not out of place, however, if Trump and Vance are taking direction from Netanyahu, that is treason. And given that Trump does nothing without compensation, how is Israel paying him off?
Israel will pay him off via his dreams of developing "the Riviera of the Middle East" -- Gaza. Remember the memes trump posted?
Yes and I remember all the smirks on Bibi's face every time he sat in the oval office with Trump during the press conferences. He was no doubt laughing to himself of how stupid trump is!!
People have stated that Netanyahu and Putin have had copies of the Epstein files from a few days after they were found and collated together. I never believed it, but I do now.
Found? They are court documents, not files. Not how any of this works.
Maybe now, but not then. 🙄
Putin wears the same smirk. Awful.
I noticed that too. Disgusting.
All that is Netanyahu's desire, and has been so for at least 3 decades now. This is how long, if not more, that these 2 have conspired and colluded to get where they are now.
Netanyahu took this same war plan to 3 previous Presidents: Bush, Obama, and Biden. All three turned him down. Netanyahu and Ehud Barak (Mossad) were both very close to Epstein (especially Barak) They have had the files probably all along. Also, Netanyahu is in on that Gaza land deal.
Yes, you're correct as I read that a few days ago. Big thanks 😊
Yes, agree.
Exactly!! Treason!! Hang the entire the regime!!
Yes, trump is Israel’s puppet. Trump’s usual skim is money transferred to an offshore account or the promise that he can build a trump tower in Israel somewhere (with Israel paying for it). He has appropriated vast amounts of money from US taxpayers for his own pocket and you can bet that Venezuela oil money is going directly to his pockets, with small amounts going to buy off the conspirators. Also as far as treasonous actions go, he went that far in his first months in office.
Along with Putin’s master hand on trump’s strings!
His treasure is Gaza; a resort on the Mediterranean. His ignorance of history will get him in trouble there if he lives long enough.
I believe that is part of it but trump has done everything he can to stop Green Energy projects and budgets passed under Biden, stop EV cars all to favor staying on fossil fuels-even dirty coal! Also, I do not think it is by accident that trump acted in Venezuela on pretext and now controls their oil. Makes sales of that oil and puts the profits who knows where because USA, Venezuelan oil will be part of trump's Monroe Doctrine to control all of Western Hemisphere and be oil independent. Russia, China and Middle East will get their spheres because of fossil fuel dependance and military, mineral assets. These dictators are playing for keeps and are ready to activate some of their invasions, attacks. I feel it in my "gut" that trump wants USA tied up, low on munitions, assets and will not or cannot save any country or peoples. I have the ability to think what ruthless and diabolical people and nations would do. I tend to think this is all cooked up by Putin, trump, Xi, Netanyahu and oligarchs. Oil, tech, defense, land purchases of bankrupted farmers, building purchases and small business purchases likewise. Sorry, I'm going on for too long. I've tested my information, my assumptions on current conditions and environments and nothing looks good for future generations subject to oligarch power, amoral decision-making and broken Oaths, laws and AI. May we somehow work together to benefit humankind-cooperation, education and swifter actions are badly needed.
Which countries have the biggest reserves of oil? Geographical; 11 March 2026; https://tinyurl.com/5n8wx747
• 5) Iraq – (attacked by Bush 43 in 2003, even though 15/19 of the 9/11 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia; 2 were from the UAE; 1 was from Egypt; and 1 was from Lebanon - not one was from Iraq, but Bush and Cheney (for KBR) wanted the oil and infrastructure rebuilding contracts)
• 4) Canada - (threatened with annexation by Trump in 2025)
• 3) Iran (attacked by Trump in 2025 and 2026)
• 2) Saudi Arabia (MBS is Kushner's patron and someone Trump needs this oil rich monarchy for his empire)
• 1) Venezuela (attacked by Trump in 2026; oil seized)
Consider that 20% of the world’s oil transported on ships passes through the Strait of Hormuz and much of the other 80% goes through other similar chokepoints: Suez Canal and SUMED Pipeline; Bab el-Mandeb; Danish Straits; Turkish Straits (Dardanelles); Panama Canal; and the Cape of Good Hope.
The Danish Straits (which passes near Greenland) and The Panama Canal may look familiar. News10NBC; 8-Apr-26; https://tinyurl.com/2zdbve4d and the U.S. Energy Information Administration; 3-Mar-26; https://tinyurl.com/2krc484z
I may be mistaken, but there may be a pattern here.
Interesting. Another piece of the puzzle: remember when trump threatened to take the Panama Canal?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/world/americas/trump-panama-canal.html
trump also attacked Nigeria, which also has oil reserves:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/us/politics/trump-isis-nigeria-strike.html
Coincidence? Maybe, maybe not.
Great adds. In terms of oil producers (2024 data), Nigeria was #15, a few slots behind Mexico at #11 and a few ahead of Argentina #22 (remember everyone's best friend - but only if he wins - Javier Milei?) As for Viktor Orbán, Hungary was #61 and Orbán is a loser; therefore, disapproved by 47.
Oil Production by Country (2024); Worldometer; https://www.worldometers.info/oil/oil-production-by-country/
I adopt your thoughts: "Coincidence? Maybe, maybe not."
"(Regarding synchronicity) What I found were 'coincidences' which were connected so meaningfully that their 'chance' coincidence would represent a degree of improbability that would have to be expressed by an astronomical figure." - Carl Jung
"That's too coincidental to be a coincidence." - Yogi Berra
I can speak for Canada. Regarding oil and electricity that we send you everyday, trump has hinted that he needs to “conquer” Canada to get these resources, that somehow we’ll stop selling them to you. We have been supplying these commodities to you everyday for a long time through permanent wiring and pipes. We haven’t stopped supplying them to you, not at any time since trump became dictator. Our government is looking to sell our excess commodities overseas but you would still get what you need. I know that our government has been talking hardball but that’s how you deal with trump.
The common denominator is trump’s pocket.
Israel is hiding information on His involvement with Epstein’s girls.
Now that’s a conspiracy theory if I ever heard one. The FBI raided Epstein’s estate and took everything that was in his safe (all of the evidence linking trump and a pile of others) and they have sat on it ever since trump got elected. They wouldn’t be selling that stuff for anything. They’re just doing what herr trump tells them to do, which is shred, shred, shred, and redact. I’m sure that there are still people working 24 hour shifts shredding. If the Democrats were smart they’d subpoena the FBI office expense accounts and see how many shredding machines that they’ve burned through.
Drumpf and Netanyahu have a long history together. It's decades in the making too. And it wouldn't surprise me if all that's going on isn't what's contained in Project 2025
I expect Netanyahu has some hold on him. Israelis were, like the Russians, connected through Epstein. I have never believed in conspiracies or cabals, but Trump's behavior has been hard to comprehend even if he is demented.
Trump and Vance are not obligated to do anything that Netanyahu wants. If they do, that's on them. If someone told you to jump off a cliff and you do, that's on you.
I don't defend Bibi. He's Israel's worst nightmare. But Meidas, in the above statement, has shifted the blame away from the WH regime. Wrong!
Bibi and Putin are driving DJT! They are all related in the Epstein files!
Oh without a doubt, Renee!!
Bibi and Putin "have" the files. trump is "in" the files.
Not like that. Putin and Netanyahu are both said to have copies of the Epstein files not long after they were collated. And don't forget how long it's just been sat on several desks and inside of some computer systems
I, and plenty of others, have been saying that for the best part of a year
Don't forget that Putin is with this too!
Just one of many…!
Bibi will murder as many as it takes & turn the world into rubble, to stay out of prison
Yes, tactically. Then there's Pooten. He supplies USA with playbook. Release the Trumpstein files.
Don’t forget about Putin & Orban too.
Trump and Vance are not obligated to do anything that Netanyahu wants. If they do, that's on them. If someone told you to jump off a cliff and you do, that's on you.
I don't defend Bibi. He's Israel's worst nightmare. But Meidas, in the above statement, has shifted the blame away from the WH regime. Wrong!
How come this pedo criminal just can’t drop dead of stress
Those injections he gets every day, a unique mix of cocaine, turpentine, whole milk, the blood of an ass and golden hair spray, are keeping him propped up and believing he’s Jesus.
shot of Covid bleach too...for, ya know, protection...
That is funny!
Agreed
Probably throwing ketchup at the wall is a release. lol He's certianly having a bad week and I hope it gets worse.
I want him outed and in prison where he belongs. Dropping dead is too good for him.
I fantasize about that every damn day, Brigette! 🤞
Satan is keeping him alive
Trump is an idiot and making things worse.
He has no plan he's just winging it! Please put a stop to this madness
And doing a terrible job at it.
Congressman Jamie Raskin wants to set up a committee that could oust Presidents unfit to serve:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/congressman-jamie-raskin-wants-to-set-up-a-committee-that-could-oust-presidents-unfit-to-serve/ar-AA20JdMK
Doubtful this will make it through the house, but bless Congressman Raskin for all the efforts he's put into defending the good.
It's unfortunate we don't have a means by which we could recall trump, as my home state California has.
What,if anything, can “the Gang of 8” do?
My guess is the same as all the rest: vote for impeachment or under Amendment 25, whichever arrives first for a vote. I don't think their superpowers apply to removals.
I feel if the Administration doesn’t go along with the removal of something as obvious as an unstable President; they should be charged for crimes committed against..they have the power and authority to remove and choose not too.
There needs to be a Constitutional Ammendment that allows for removal of a authoritarian, money hungry potus like Trump who is dismanteling the government & country, raiding the treasury, using doj as his private law firm & skirting the Congress & doing what he wants to do without a care. Same with Congress & Senate not doing their job.
Except Raskin may be beholden to AIPAC. Check his votes in conditioning aid to Israel.
Oh, shut up.
Without any undue attribution of intelligence or bona fides to him, I wonder if JDV allowed or caused the “negotiations” with Iran to crater after just one 20 hour attempt:
• Because directed to do so?
• To differentiate and position himself as a don’t-overlook-me candidate in 2028?
• Because the Islamabad Talks enabled him with Pakistan’s participation to lay the groundwork for him to restore/update Obama’s JPCOA when he has the conn?
• To annoy 47 and expose him further as the madman he is, safe from recourse?
• To bolster his decision to invoke the 25th Amendment, if he does, following the issuance of additional illegal orders from the Messiah (wannabe) in Chief?
Looking back on JDV's debate performance vs. Walz, I'm wondering if you are giving him too much credit. JDV, to me, is just an inveterate liar. (I still can't get over the number of pundits who said JDV "looked Presidential" during that debate!).
That being said, trump accusing Iran of "world extortion" struck a chord with me, besides
the obvious projection. It got me wondering if Iran, via backchannels, were to offer trump a 50% interest in revenue via tolls collected for using the strait, would trump suddenly end the war and declare victory?
Point taken, thank you, Dee Cee. It was with that in mind, I started the post with “Without any undue attribution of intelligence or bona fides to (JDV)....” I posited questions hoping they would elicit challenging posts such as yours rather than as declarative statements. They were suggestions, theories, and hypothesis.
IMO, FWIW, is that JDV is an incompetent spineless jellyfish. I agree with Dan Pfeiffer, former senior Obama advisor and co-host of Pod Save America. He described JDV as a pedantic high school debater (paraphrasing). Spot on. JDV would be over his depth in a shallow puddle. I think he was placed where he is by a dark money cabal that boosted him past Sherrod Brown in OH and assured that he would be compliant and complicit in their plans once the Useful Idiot had served their purposes, left to depart with his shiny objects or otherwise. If less than half this term remains, JDV potentially could serve up to 10 years as President (Dee Cee, I know you know that, but some may not).
Ponder: why did JFK depart 20 days after South Vietnam’s President Ngô Đình Diệm was assassinated (without JFK’s objection) and just 8-1/2 months before the Gulf of Tonkin Incident ramped up Vietnam, while RFK, Sr., as AG, was making life miserable for the Omerta crowd? Why did Harding die at 57 halfway through his term? See, https://tinyurl.com/3ht6hs65 and https://tinyurl.com/45hdwh48. From the first link (sound familiar?):
“In the 1920s, a lot of Americans were looking back on World War I and thinking they’d been sold a bill of goods, that the government had whipped the country into a frenzy and gotten it into a war when it wasn’t necessary,” says Kathryn Olmsted, a historian at the University of California, Davis…. Later, she adds, when the public began to learn about all the “skullduggery, lying and criminal activity” that had occurred during the Harding administration, it was easy to wonder if the president had been a victim of his own corrupt cronies, collectively known as the “Ohio gang.”
To the remainder of your excellent points: Yes, the world extortion reeks. As I posted yesterday, the “interdictions” (not piracy, I think because I believe piracy does not include state actors only private plunderers), the UNCLOS https://tinyurl.com/anhva9bz prohibits interdictions and tolls. In particular, note Articles 17, 18, 19, 45 and 127.
Yes, you did open with the appropriate disclaimer!
Incompetent spineless jellyfish is so fitting.
I have thought about timing with regard to the 25th amendment. As you note, it would be to the advantage of Thiel & The Dark Money Cabal's advantage to wait until trump was over halfway through his term to overthrow trump via the 25th.
I missed your post about interdictions. Thank you for that info and for all the other points to ponder. Much appreciated!
Ah, yes, preemptive disclaimers made in anticipation of and to fend off frontal assaults! Plus they serve my purposes far better than the superlatives some use (greatest, highest, best, huge, etc.) and attributions to the inaudible voices of the imperceptible (everyone is saying, some people are saying) that others might term “hearing voices.”
Along with spineless jellyfish, I would have to add Senator Sheldon Whitehouse’s (D-RI) term for the invertebrate GOP seat occupiers in the Senate: owners of “foams of spine.”
25th Amendment. Consistent with that, the cabinet is being repositioned in anticipation (Markwayne for ICE Barbie and Blanche in a continuing attorney-client relationship with 47 for Blondie, with more likely to follow: Hegseth? Gabbard? Patel?) and the frequency of the bandages on the hands, etc. is increasing to stave off premature real-time decay.
As for the UNCLOS, just those sections give you the gist of it. For an English introduction this article was pretty good: “When can a state seize a vessel?” on Lloyd’s List (Lloyds of London, I think) https://tinyurl.com/5yve3uyx. In particular, “UNCLOS provides that ships of all states enjoy the right of innocent passage through the territorial sea, or transit passage through a strait used for international navigation. Seizure of a vessel which is enjoying these rights would be unlawful as a matter of international law.”
To buy time for more warships to arrive in the strait?
Great question. I phrased mine as questions because it is so hard to know. “Because directed to do so” could include the reason you suggestion (warships, minesweepers, invasion forces, etc.). It could be at the request (direction?) of the other leader who seems even more interested in continuing this war than 47 does. It could be in the hope that the rest of the world will find itself unable to resist 47’s commanding influence and at last capitulates by bailing him out. It could be to appease Putin, who requires additional time and distraction to pursue his “little” Ukrainian “excursion.” It could be to continue to distract and misdirect (JE files are not in the news cycle, nor are the ongoing ICE/CBP horrors, nor is subversion of the midterms, nor is his family’s grift and insider trading). So many reasons he might have been told to make a show of it, then fail.
EDIT: It could be because 47 is trying to get JDV to resign before the Midterms and, as self-described kingmaker, replace him with someone who might be the next President.
There are also theories that Trump is trying to sabotage Vance because he's too close to the seat of power. And the 25th would require Vance's cooperation, wouldn't it?
Yes, vance and the cabinet need to initiate the 25th. When the 25th was set up in 1967, they did not foresee a regime like this where a deranged president would have the VP and the cabinet in his pocket.
Linda, my recollection is that the 25th Amendment was ratified in 1967, having been passed in 1965, 18 months after JFK’s death, to create a seamless succession process if a President were to die or become incapacitated I think it was to shore up gaps Article 2, Section 1, Clause 5 (https://tinyurl.com/bdd8apk8) in circumstances not addressed in the repair made by Amendment XX Section 3 (https://tinyurl.com/bdctzzrx) and to resolve any residual uncertainty created when Tyler demanded to serve as President, not Acting President, after W.H. Harrison died in 1841. https://tinyurl.com/4vh92a7s
S.A., that was my thought and the reason I included the related bullet-point question.
Well, Trump is definitely possessed. Anyone who can spew hateful memes and ridiculous tantrums all night long and then continue all day is totally insane. Oh, goody! and he has the codes for the nuclear weapons. No wonder I wake up in the middle of the night wondering, what the heck?
Same. When I awaken it’s peaceful for a brief moment… then I remember.
I haven't slept a decent night's sleep since he took office again. Same thing as the last months of his 1st term when it was looking like he was going to start something with N. Korea..
didn't consider Iran a threat? THEN WHY THE FUCK GO TO WAR WITH THEM???? Especially since you said you OBLITERATED their weapons & nuclear capability several months ago.
And never thought they might personally attack all the Gulf States where we have bases? To quote Jeff Tiedrich, this is what you get when you send two real estate guys and a.couchf**ker as negotiators.
Yes. They poked a sleeping hornets nest and now wanna cry because they are more dangerous than they thought. AND the sting is a bitxh. Nice move.
Precisely.
It was all lies.
What medication has the side effect of all night insane posting?
In dementia day and night often flip. So thatʻs why heʻs falling asleep during the day.
One of the reasons I hate Mondays is that he always seems particularly charged on Sunday night and floods untruth social with his rants. I watched an interview with a hospice nurse who stated that this behavior (up all night and unable to stay awake during the day) is something she sees all the time in dementia and alzheimer patients.
He is unconcerned with the stock market on weekends, so able to do maximum damage then. By Sunday evening, he has had two days two do what Hamlet in 3.4 scolded his mother Queen Gertrude for doing: ““Nay, but to live/In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed/Stewed in corruption, honeying and making love/Over the nasty sty …” Two days to recharge and become fully enveloped in the mania of his walls-closing-in Sundowning.
I think he just stays up all night and day until he can't anymore. Crashes and sleeps for three days and comes back and does it again. He has idiotic old man syndrome. A GET off my lawn kinda jerk.
He's on a LOT of drugs too. And sometimes they have a short half life, esp. sleeping pills. Take them and you'll be up several hours later. Older folks usually sleep less at night too, as a natural order.
Add in that he's an addled old man who obsesses all night and we have a social media syndrome that is reckless and dangerous. Off the tracks.
He probably has gotten into Elon's ketamine!
Lol 😂
I like this explanation best!
I often think ALL of them have!
Toxic combo portions of diet sodas and burgers?
Unfortunately not toxic enough.
😊
He is sundowning. It is typical in people with Alzheimers Disease. He needs to be removed from the White house before he gets the USA bombed.
No worries! He'll be safe and sound in his newly fortified bunker/military complex underneath the golden gilded biggliest ballroom.
As far as the rest of us, that's a sacrifice he's willing to make.
I agree, but wonder, is that what he wants to happen? Think of the damage he could do by invoking The War Powers Act and if there is any pushback, The Insurrection Act and Martial Law. What Bill of Rights? Posse Comitatus? Any pretext will suffice, thank you
So much for this being over in 2-3 weeks. 🙄
I haven’t even finished the bullets points and I am furious…..if Biden or any other president shared a picture of themselves as Jesus they would be removed immediately from office! Fuckwit Trump is so out of control, so out of his depth, this is beyond crazy. And JD reporting in to Netanyahu …….WTF??????
He's been posing as the Evangelical's Second Coming for years. Now he has no filters and is assuming that ALL Americans love this stuff.
Yep, as early as 2019, he was proclaiming himself "the chosen one":
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/21/politics/donald-trump-chosen-one
"I am the chosen one." - DJT
That, and as he has said at least twice: "I don't care." He never did but now he owns it.
verify please,heard US ship sunk
Bring our troops home. They are sitting ducks. He doesn’t care
They’re on a suicide mission. Do not listen to illegal orders for an illegal war. You are taking orders from a drunk newscaster. Come home
I keep telling people, Trump was using that image to announce his long awaited healthcare plan!
hahaha good one.
Good one!
Did anyone else notice that the man Trump as Jesus looks a lot like Epstein. I'm not Catholic but Trump's attacks against the first American Pope is despicable and disgusting when that man doesn't have a religious bone in his rotting body.
I noticed that straightaway! Hmmmm 🤔 It does resemble Epstein.🤨
“f this was your relative, you’d immediately encourage them to seek help.”
Nope.
If this was my relative he would already be put away. That we treat this insane baboon as if he were merely “just a little bit crazy” is itself insane. And the fact that he’s the president makes it all the more critical that he be removed from office now, not deferred to simply because he IS the president.
the dumkof called Iranian ships.....water boats, hello is there anyone in there ??