Let me just reiterate: you can't have war profits without a war. Nobody in charge of this fiasco wants it to end. The scum that has floated to the top is making a fortune, much of it drained from citizen's bank accounts in higher prices, the rest from plundering the US Treasury.
When the Senate returns tomorrow their first order of business should be removing Trump. They should run from him like the rest of the world is doing. Just because he and his oligarch buddies spent millions on getting Trump’s hand picked crooks on the ballot doesn’t mean they’ll win. The man is toxic and everything he touches turns to s _ _ t.
Yup! They are crooks and cowards first, which is usually results in taking the money and run! I think we will find Ted Cruz holed-up in Cancun in the end, spewing political gobbledy-gook at the all-inclusive bar, way passed closing:)
If Americans weren't so ignorant and if our regime wasn't so violently stupid, they'd know Iranians aren't living in caves. The Iranian regime is awful too, but these are HIGHLY educated and sophisticated people. They aren't from Dixie.
But Americans, esp. MAGA, don't know this. They think everyone outside the US is an illiterate goat farmer who lives in a mud hut. They don't realize that most Iranians speak English, Persian, and a third language; around 20% of the population has a college degree or higher; around 70% of STEM college graduates/workers in Iran are women; and that the World Bank classifies Iran as an upper-middle-income country. The country has universal healthcare and free college. In many ways, it is more developed than the US. The fatal flaw is the fact that the government is a theocracy. And the people have been making spirited efforts to overthrow their government, but now that Trump has attacked, the theocrats are going to consolidate their control.
Trump is blowing up any agreement with Iran because one. His ego won’t let him and two, he and his family and buddies are making tons of money from it lasting. They’re manipulating the stock markets and his kids are invested in companies that get government contracts. Israel isn’t interested in peace and keeps the flames burning. Time for Congress to step in and take the keys and the codes from grandpa before things escalate out if control.
Israel isn’t interested in peace and keeps the flames burning.
NETANYAHU was undergoing a TRIAL for his corruption and ignored warnings of the OCTOBER attack....was this NETANYAHU's calculation to postpone his TRIAL?
IDF identified but ignored 5 warning signs of Hamas attack on eve of Oct. 7, its probe shows
Before 4 a.m., Southern Command chief spoke with senior intelligence officers and Shin Bet officials about unusual activity, but they all determined no attack was imminent
MUSLIMS place a heavy emphasis on EDUCATION. They know the lengthy history of ZIONISM in ISRAEL unlike most Americans.
I encourage everyone to do some historical research about the fabrication of the creation of ISRAEL. It's fascinating!
ISRAEL is the largest US WELFARE RECIPIENT and we are responsible for ARMING ISRAEL'S WAR CRIMES and GENOCIDE.
Very few have spoken out due to the ANTI-DEMOCRACY AIPAC threats to target elections, but voters are becoming more savvy about ANTI-DEMOCRACY AIPAC's fabricated attacks.
Each day, ISRAEL finds more civilian targets, apartment complexes to BOMB always claiming hidden terrorists.
Remember when they bombed a hospital and killed all personnel and MASS GRAVES were uncovered?
Who believes that people, medical professionals dedicated to saving lives were terrorists?
ISRAEL targets journalists to stop TRUTH and FACTS from being reported.
If you have nothing to hide, why kill journalists?
There are reports of the humiliating abuse suffered by members of the FLOTILLA that sought nothing other than to provide AID to STARVING GAZANS.
ISRAEL has become BARBARIANS and the World growing in their opposition.
Turning the people’s house into a pay-per-view theater to promote sponsorship opportunities and choreographed violence more befits a Roman emperor than an American president,
Yes, the days of the colosseum...........bloodbath to portray some kind of strength. Is this diplomacy and leadership???? Hopefully the people are able to vote..........
I have seen many posts now that refer to this as a Hunger Games type event and it does really fit that scenario. We are all trying to pay for gas, food, shelter, utilities, health care, in every part of the country while one place (DC) and it's leader (trump) watch, bet and play.
“FAT BOY’S” birthday party falling apart? Could it be because he would not allow other fat boys to attend. Had they been allowed to attend, when time came to play the birthday party game of “who is biggest fat boy”, orange donnie might have lost, then the crying would have started!
And to reiterate one of your salient points -- government is NOT a private corporation with a Board of Directors and proprietary information. They're a public entity spending our public funds. Their decision are "our" decisions. Everyone needs to understand this basic point!
Pretty sure Iran knows they're dealing with and imbecile whose brain left the building years ago. In spite of the ghoul stephen miller thinking he himself is a stable genius, I doubt he know anything about what he is doing. 100% sure he's like piggy and believes POC are low IQ. So I anticipate this will NOT end well for piggy or AMERICA. Stupid jr.high mentality hench men aren't doing shit but mucking this "war" up.
What would our country be like, right now, if those insurrectionists had caught Pence his family and some other politicians that day and murdered them in public? That could have been a real possibility, and what would we do about that, I wonder?
Axios pollutes the airwaves it travels through before its shit even lands on any screen. Just like Faux News, Truth Social, or Newsmax. These entities are little better than legacy media, which have proven themselves better at profit-taking than properly informing Americans (or anyone else) about the politicians/neo-fascists eager to wreck America. Obsessed with 'balance' and 'whataboutism,' legacy media fails to see that fascism meets NOBODY in the middle. I indict the NY Times, America's flagship publication, and the WAPO, where democracy has died in darkness.
Shout out to New Jersey where the folks are calling out ICE and trying to bring down one of the concentration camps there. I hope everyone got to see the official government website claiming that we're under siege by extra-terrestrials. "They walk among us." Mind-blowing. Forget about the lies---concentrate on the violence done with our tax dollars and in our name. Resist!
AXIOS has, sadly, become the internet Fox, and Barack Ravid, Trump's mouthpiece.
As regards Iraq, some of the artillery fired fired into Kuwait and the UAE come from Iraq and the Popular Mobilization Force.
The Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF/Hashd al-Shaabi) are a massive, dominant power in Iraq, fielding approximately 238,000 fighters and receiving a multibillion-dollar annual state budget. While formally integrated into the Iraqi Armed Forces, they operate largely as an autonomous political, economic, and military empire with allegiance and loyalty to the Supreme Shia leader, Moijtaba Khameini. his fatwa's are religious commands to the MBF.
The MQ-1 Drone that was shot down, most likely was launched by the UAE, the gulf states have received quite a few of the obsolete MQ-1's.
People are going to have to adjust their thinking, when they heear of planes being shot down, aske if they were manned or unmanned, because the Drones, be they MQ 1, MQQ9, Shaheed or LUCAS are unmanned aircraft.
You say that “several” acts backed out of Trump’s 250 shindig, but ALL BUT ONE backed out, and I hear now that Donny is just gonna have a “rally” instead. Also looks like the UFC event is collapsing. He would do well to flee to Argentina now — Thiel will welcome him with open arms.
Let me just reiterate: you can't have war profits without a war. Nobody in charge of this fiasco wants it to end. The scum that has floated to the top is making a fortune, much of it drained from citizen's bank accounts in higher prices, the rest from plundering the US Treasury.
True, Susan. As long as there's an ongoing war, they're making billions. Disgusting.
Never forget it is an illegal war. Congress could stop it in less than 5 minutes.
Follow the money right in to GOP pockets
Yes, it's a bloody trail!!
When the Senate returns tomorrow their first order of business should be removing Trump. They should run from him like the rest of the world is doing. Just because he and his oligarch buddies spent millions on getting Trump’s hand picked crooks on the ballot doesn’t mean they’ll win. The man is toxic and everything he touches turns to s _ _ t.
I really wish they would, but won't hold my breath.
I agree. It'll never happen with this current Senate or House. They're profiting off of this war too with all the insider trading etc.
Defense contracts carefully spread among several states
That too, yes.
Horrible they are profiting from it. Crooked!!
True Joanne-they don't need to get re-elected! Just take the money and run!
I suspect this will happen.
Yup! They are crooks and cowards first, which is usually results in taking the money and run! I think we will find Ted Cruz holed-up in Cancun in the end, spewing political gobbledy-gook at the all-inclusive bar, way passed closing:)
They're going to flee to Argentina. I said this long before Peter Thiel left.
If Americans weren't so ignorant and if our regime wasn't so violently stupid, they'd know Iranians aren't living in caves. The Iranian regime is awful too, but these are HIGHLY educated and sophisticated people. They aren't from Dixie.
But Americans, esp. MAGA, don't know this. They think everyone outside the US is an illiterate goat farmer who lives in a mud hut. They don't realize that most Iranians speak English, Persian, and a third language; around 20% of the population has a college degree or higher; around 70% of STEM college graduates/workers in Iran are women; and that the World Bank classifies Iran as an upper-middle-income country. The country has universal healthcare and free college. In many ways, it is more developed than the US. The fatal flaw is the fact that the government is a theocracy. And the people have been making spirited efforts to overthrow their government, but now that Trump has attacked, the theocrats are going to consolidate their control.
All true wendy! Here in Toronto I have alot of Persian friends-all educated and speak fluent English!!
Very nice snap at the end. Thanks!
Excellent string of headlines from Axios! What a joke. I haven’t been on Twitter today, but that oughtta be a meme!!!
Axios: Trump's and Bibi's stenographer
yup!
Trump is blowing up any agreement with Iran because one. His ego won’t let him and two, he and his family and buddies are making tons of money from it lasting. They’re manipulating the stock markets and his kids are invested in companies that get government contracts. Israel isn’t interested in peace and keeps the flames burning. Time for Congress to step in and take the keys and the codes from grandpa before things escalate out if control.
This says it ALL:
Israel isn’t interested in peace and keeps the flames burning.
NETANYAHU was undergoing a TRIAL for his corruption and ignored warnings of the OCTOBER attack....was this NETANYAHU's calculation to postpone his TRIAL?
IDF identified but ignored 5 warning signs of Hamas attack on eve of Oct. 7, its probe shows
Before 4 a.m., Southern Command chief spoke with senior intelligence officers and Shin Bet officials about unusual activity, but they all determined no attack was imminent
https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-identified-but-ignored-5-warning-signs-of-hamas-attack-on-eve-of-oct-7-its-probe-shows/
SEPTEMBER 2025:
Maps: Israel has attacked six countries in the past 72 hours
In just three days, Israel has carried out strikes in Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Tunisia, Qatar and Yemen.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-identified-but-ignored-5-warning-signs-of-hamas-attack-on-eve-of-oct-7-its-probe-shows/
NETANYAHU and ISRAEL have told so many lies, we will never know.
MUSLIMS place a heavy emphasis on EDUCATION. They know the lengthy history of ZIONISM in ISRAEL unlike most Americans.
I encourage everyone to do some historical research about the fabrication of the creation of ISRAEL. It's fascinating!
ISRAEL is the largest US WELFARE RECIPIENT and we are responsible for ARMING ISRAEL'S WAR CRIMES and GENOCIDE.
Very few have spoken out due to the ANTI-DEMOCRACY AIPAC threats to target elections, but voters are becoming more savvy about ANTI-DEMOCRACY AIPAC's fabricated attacks.
Each day, ISRAEL finds more civilian targets, apartment complexes to BOMB always claiming hidden terrorists.
Remember when they bombed a hospital and killed all personnel and MASS GRAVES were uncovered?
Who believes that people, medical professionals dedicated to saving lives were terrorists?
ISRAEL targets journalists to stop TRUTH and FACTS from being reported.
If you have nothing to hide, why kill journalists?
There are reports of the humiliating abuse suffered by members of the FLOTILLA that sought nothing other than to provide AID to STARVING GAZANS.
ISRAEL has become BARBARIANS and the World growing in their opposition.
Turning the people’s house into a pay-per-view theater to promote sponsorship opportunities and choreographed violence more befits a Roman emperor than an American president,
Yes, the days of the colosseum...........bloodbath to portray some kind of strength. Is this diplomacy and leadership???? Hopefully the people are able to vote..........
I have seen many posts now that refer to this as a Hunger Games type event and it does really fit that scenario. We are all trying to pay for gas, food, shelter, utilities, health care, in every part of the country while one place (DC) and it's leader (trump) watch, bet and play.
“FAT BOY’S” birthday party falling apart? Could it be because he would not allow other fat boys to attend. Had they been allowed to attend, when time came to play the birthday party game of “who is biggest fat boy”, orange donnie might have lost, then the crying would have started!
And to reiterate one of your salient points -- government is NOT a private corporation with a Board of Directors and proprietary information. They're a public entity spending our public funds. Their decision are "our" decisions. Everyone needs to understand this basic point!
Pretty sure Iran knows they're dealing with and imbecile whose brain left the building years ago. In spite of the ghoul stephen miller thinking he himself is a stable genius, I doubt he know anything about what he is doing. 100% sure he's like piggy and believes POC are low IQ. So I anticipate this will NOT end well for piggy or AMERICA. Stupid jr.high mentality hench men aren't doing shit but mucking this "war" up.
What would our country be like, right now, if those insurrectionists had caught Pence his family and some other politicians that day and murdered them in public? That could have been a real possibility, and what would we do about that, I wonder?
I cannot believe that the fate of this country appears to lie completely in the hands of that incompetent, boorish, ignorant, self serving ass.
Axios pollutes the airwaves it travels through before its shit even lands on any screen. Just like Faux News, Truth Social, or Newsmax. These entities are little better than legacy media, which have proven themselves better at profit-taking than properly informing Americans (or anyone else) about the politicians/neo-fascists eager to wreck America. Obsessed with 'balance' and 'whataboutism,' legacy media fails to see that fascism meets NOBODY in the middle. I indict the NY Times, America's flagship publication, and the WAPO, where democracy has died in darkness.
Barak Ravid with Axios is nothing more than a mouthpiece for this regime. It's almost as bad as Fox.
He better hope he has his pardon secured.
Shout out to New Jersey where the folks are calling out ICE and trying to bring down one of the concentration camps there. I hope everyone got to see the official government website claiming that we're under siege by extra-terrestrials. "They walk among us." Mind-blowing. Forget about the lies---concentrate on the violence done with our tax dollars and in our name. Resist!
AXIOS has, sadly, become the internet Fox, and Barack Ravid, Trump's mouthpiece.
As regards Iraq, some of the artillery fired fired into Kuwait and the UAE come from Iraq and the Popular Mobilization Force.
The Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF/Hashd al-Shaabi) are a massive, dominant power in Iraq, fielding approximately 238,000 fighters and receiving a multibillion-dollar annual state budget. While formally integrated into the Iraqi Armed Forces, they operate largely as an autonomous political, economic, and military empire with allegiance and loyalty to the Supreme Shia leader, Moijtaba Khameini. his fatwa's are religious commands to the MBF.
The MQ-1 Drone that was shot down, most likely was launched by the UAE, the gulf states have received quite a few of the obsolete MQ-1's.
People are going to have to adjust their thinking, when they heear of planes being shot down, aske if they were manned or unmanned, because the Drones, be they MQ 1, MQQ9, Shaheed or LUCAS are unmanned aircraft.
You say that “several” acts backed out of Trump’s 250 shindig, but ALL BUT ONE backed out, and I hear now that Donny is just gonna have a “rally” instead. Also looks like the UFC event is collapsing. He would do well to flee to Argentina now — Thiel will welcome him with open arms.
With so many "assassination" attempts (/s) how can DJT plan all these public outdoor events? Suddenly the chatter about a ballroom has gone silent.