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Marilyn Ross's avatar

The Iranians have terror cells all over the world. We need to worry about them seeking revenge for the heinous things the US has done. God help us all.

Connie Haley's avatar

Seriously?? Witkoff you need to get off the psychedelic drugs too!! Jeez the entire regime must be tripping out!! If Trump were not “president,” we would not be waking up to nightmare after nightmare every day while struggling to make ends meet, and our children might have a chance for a better future than we had. Meanwhile, we're lucky, if America even exists when our children are young adults. Give me a break. How do you fools sit there and lie day after day. You are the stupid ones. We aren't fooled and we certainly don't fall for your propaganda.

joni's avatar

Vote them ALL out!

Cary Sipiora's avatar

Unfortunately even the quaint notion of “voting “ seems anachronistic.

Thomas Thompson's avatar

We'll see in November whether or not that right still exists!

E L Nolan's avatar

EXACTLY, who are you saying is lying and whom are the 'stupid ones'?

E L Nolan's avatar

thank you, wasn't completely sure.

Sally Devoe's avatar

Please keep innocent people safe tho 😇

Cary Sipiora's avatar

Good luck to that notion.

Sandy Stepina's avatar

Mainly , southern Florida….

Skitealwedrop's avatar

Any cells close to a certain golf course 🤣

Joanne Gatsis's avatar

Yeah, where were they yesterday for the GOP chest thumping rally?!

Susan's avatar

The war was planned at MacDill in Tampa.

djw's avatar

Planned? What "planned"?

Susan's avatar

Planned was not an accurate word.

djw's avatar

Best you could have done under the circumstances, I think.

C Bowlby's avatar

No war would have been better decision, but rumpie had alot of hot onions on his taco!

Thomas Thompson's avatar

Here's how they "planned" it: Hegseth: "We'll swoop in, bomb the shit of them, kill a couple hundred school kids, and they'll show the white flag. You'll be a hero, Mr. President!" Trump: "Ok, just as long as we don't piss of Vlad!"

S. A. Linden's avatar

Witkoff must be called before Congress, as well as Jared Kushner, who doesn't even have a security clearance. How are they profiting? What are they getting from calling Putin all the time? And many other questions.

If the American people ever wondered if the Trump Administration had your best interests in mind, forget about it. They do not.

Now, Lindsey Graham is going back to SC to urge his constituents to sacrifice their kids for Trump. This could tip SC politically.

WJB Motown's avatar

Whoppers and Big Macs are totally jealous!!!!

djw's avatar

Mar-a-Lago might be a good place for 1.

Paulette Mccoy's avatar

Actually, the gang is all at his Miami Doral golf resort right now. On a what they are calling a Republican retreat. While the bombs are flying, he is golfing. So the place today to get a bunch of his maga Republican suck ups is Miami.

Skitealwedrop's avatar

They are all in one compact place, together.

Joanne Gatsis's avatar

Yes! The perfect place! Although Melania won't be there because she lives in New York despite her saying she doesn't! 🙄

paulahik's avatar

But does she really live elsewhere? Are ghouls really alive?

Joanne Gatsis's avatar

hmmmmm??? Good question

Skitealwedrop's avatar

Is Melanie your neighbor? 😂

Jamie Murray's avatar

This entire s#itshow brought to you by Lying Liars and the Liars that love them.

Al Franken … where is YOUR voice?

David Nation's avatar

tfg learned from bush 2: just lie about the weapons of mass destruction and there's your Boogeyman.

Cary Sipiora's avatar

Too late to worry about yourself. The world is on fire thanks to everyone who voted for the regime.

jim king's avatar

JUST REPUBLICON TERRORISTS

GingerLee's avatar

ineed a laughing emoji.... brilliant

Ema Rush's avatar

You’ve got this the wrong way round. America has merciless and callously carpet bombed, infiltrated and betrayed countless countries all over the globe for the last 60+ years - what is it, like 8 sovereign countries this YEAR??

Iran hasn’t done any of this shit. Even now, they’re not targeting kids and hospitals. USA bombed 14 at least. Double taps. The unarmed warship. . War criminals, you lot and Israel . True terrorists.

smh

BellaB63's avatar

Like all countries, the government is not the people.

JAG's avatar

I'm sorry, but we are all complicit.

Kelvin Hobbs's avatar

I have no doubt that as you admit, you are. Other Americans and I are not and never were or will be. Instead of pontificating drivel from your soapbox, why don't you educate yourself or at least obtain reliable data before you try to drag us to the gutter where you live? Your complicity is on you. We who resist walk with pride knowing we are resisting the complicit, including you. If you had JAG affiliation (doubtful) our standards for JAG are too low.

Kelvin Hobbs's avatar

You underestimate the ways in which IRGC Quds 400 terrorists bring war to children and children to war. Your assignment of unilateral blame is too hasty and overtly biased

Qods Force employees are often posted in Iranian embassies, charities, and religious and cultural institutions that support Shia Muslims. In Syria and Iraq, children supporting the Islamic State and children supporting Iran sometimes fight each other. Former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Hailey noted in 2018 that Tehran had produced many films and television shows to recruit children. Those IRGC-produced films encourage boys to become “the protectors of the holy places” in Syria. Similarly, the Islamic State recruits boys to become “Cubs of the Caliphate.” Children in both societies are raised in aggressive environments and trained in weapons use early in their adolescence.

Marine Corps University Quantico, Virginia; 16-Sep-19 https://tinyurl.com/4h35xux5

JAG's avatar

Oh please! She's absolutely right. Most people are buying your bs fearmongering propaganda anymore.

Kelvin Hobbs's avatar

You're full of crap!

Dr.David's avatar

I worry more about trump than Iran terror cells. When he goes quiet, I get nervous. WHAT’S NEXT?

WJB Motown's avatar

Yea....I worry about any young girl below the age of 13.........the Orange Pedo is on the loose.

Cathy Wray's avatar

For the goddamn republicans who still support Pedophile, I would like to ask them, "Would you let trump babysit your daughter?"

Jerri Peake's avatar

They would probably say yes, and even have big tears of gratitude in their eyes!

WJB Motown's avatar

The MAGA pedophile-death cult lead by their Christian Nationalist demented psyco pastors are bottomfeeding piles of dog shit........let them ride their one way trip to fucking hell!!!

S. A. Linden's avatar

He's periodically demented, that's what. It will get worse. The irony of these authoritarians always pointing back to "Trump did this, Trump did that" and like he's making all the decisions is ridiculous. Some days he can barely function.

uRNangel423's avatar

I agree with that, DT is being fed the ideas from his advisors-Miller, Theil, Vought, JD, etc and then it’s DT’s idea and claims the credit. It’s all the staff behind the curtain that’s making the idea come to fruition and when things go south, DT will take the fall since he was the elected person. However, those behind will be prosecuted as well when the times comes in 2027 when Congress becomes blue!

Kira's avatar

"...behind the curtain...." (remember the "old man" pretending to be a grand wizard in the old Wizard of Oz movie? "...pay no attention to that man behind the curtain... I am OZ, the great & terrible..." The current, modern-day version is still pretending no one can "...see him as he manipulates the instruments "behind the curtain..." A sad day for the USA, as it is painfully obvious that the current Republication Administration's primary representative is exposed as a truly INCOMPETENT "faker", tinkering with all sorts of ways to continue a war that HE started, as though he was playing a virtual video game. Unfortunately for the rest of the world, the impact of the current US Republican Administration seems to have NO remorse for their heinous actions. For all the deaths, injuries, losses and more ,started by a draft-dodger who, in his first "term" claimed to know more than the US Generals in the US military. History for this time period will certainly be unkind, and rightfully so.

BellaB63's avatar

God isn't helping anyone. When you people figure that out we'll all be better off. The US is the biggest threat to everyone right now. That you are fear mongering Iran's revenge is ludicrous. Do you know anything about them?

Kelvin Hobbs's avatar

‘This cannot be sustainable’: The U.S. borrowed $50 billion a week for the past five months, the CBO says; Fortune; 10-Mar-26; https://tinyurl.com/3s64vzy7

The U.S. Treasury’s borrowing showed no signs of slowing as the U.S. headed deeper into fiscal year 2026, with the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reporting that another $1 trillion was added to the federal deficit in the first five months of the year. The monthly budget review from the CBO, updated to February 2026 and released yesterday, showed that the government is estimated to have borrowed $308 billion last month alone. The U.S. Treasury’s borrowing showed no signs of slowing as the U.S. headed deeper into fiscal year 2026, with the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reporting that another $1 trillion was added to the federal deficit in the first five months of the year. The monthly budget review from the CBO, updated to February 2026 and released yesterday, showed that the government is estimated to have borrowed $308 billion last month alone. Our fiscal problems will not solve themselves. We need policymakers to come together, agree to reduce deficits—a 3% deficit-to-GDP target would be a great start—and put our national debt on a downward sustainable path as a share of the economy.” If this tips too far out of balance, growth can be hampered by the excessive amount of cash needed for interest payments.

MJ62Bravo's avatar

Whatever country he visits next should arrest him. International criminal.

Anastasia Pantsios's avatar

Also Kushner and Witkoff, swanning around the world like they run things. Neither is qualified and neither has any official role in government. I'd also like to see Eric and Don Jr grilled for enriching themselves based on government activities. I want to see them given the Hunter Biden treatment since what they're doing is 100 times worse than anything Hunter did as far as using inside government knowledge (Hunter did not).

Joanne Gatsis's avatar

My thoughts exactly!! WTF are they waiting for?

Grant Rowson's avatar

Some court to indict him — can’t arrest him without that. It can’t be the ICC, as the only route for it lies with the UN Security Council referring it to them (which will never happen, due to US veto).

And lately, he hasn’t travelled to any countries who are party to th Rome Statutes (the ICC) anyway, as that court depends on the cooperation of local police.

And with neither USA/Israel nor Iran as members of the Rome Statute, there’s no route for official complaint.

The worst he has done is violate the UN Charter (re aggression) but that also falls to the Security council.

So that’s WTF everyone isn’t waiting for. :-(

Joanne Gatsis's avatar

You're right! Thanks for pointing that out! 😉

Grant Rowson's avatar

Follow-up musing: Since Trump has legitimized the notion that a foreign national (including leader) can be indicted in a domestic court, and then that country can just send its military into the territory of the "alleged criminal" and kidnap the person (including killing other people in that country or damaging property while doing the kidnapping, without much accountability), I guess it's possible that some other country could indict Trump for something (hmm, some Canadian women were abused by Epstein - maybe they can find a Trump angle?), and then that other country could just sail up to Palm Beach and use their special forces to pluck him off the golf course . . . (RCN, with Canada's JTF2 (equivalent to Seal Team Six))

But of course, while that is very POSSIBLE, we all know that there's no way that the foreign naval forces would get very far (further hmmm, 80% of the active US air craft carriers are all in the Middle East theatre, with the sole remaining carrier being in Japan . . . ), US government would ever sit on its hands and file diplomatic protests. The foreign country (Canada in my example) would find itself invaded so fast it wouldn't be funny. And International courts, while maybe being privately amused by such an action, would publicly point out that "two wrongs do not make a right, in matters of law."

(of course, some in the US government might actually say "Good, thanks - you can keep him!" ;-) ).

io bonini's avatar

I'm waiting for the Canadians Go Maples, we'll support your regime change here.

London's avatar

Everyone is scared he’s a treasonous criminal

WJB Motown's avatar

Put Cankes in a zero security prison........give him shower stall 13...lots of soap and KY.

Lets see him yell at the inmates and throw 50 bucks in their faces!!!!

Joan Pearson's avatar

And we wonder why they hate us.

paulahik's avatar

I've never wondered.

Cathy Wray's avatar

Take him before The Hague.

Grant Rowson's avatar

Won't happen, as I previously commented in this thread. There is no viable route (at this time) for anyone to refer the matter to the ICC or similar courts there. And without someone doing that, the ICC cannot then authorize an ICC Prosecutor to investigate the matter (which would then be put in front of the Court to indict the person for arrest. And then they would actually have to arrest the person!). And all of that has to happen before the accused would face trial.

If the US was not a permanent member of the UN Security Council (with veto power), there would be options.

Ballard Graham's avatar

When Joe Biden was President, we did not suffer through Government shutdowns, bombing of boats and ships in international waters, executing Americans in our streets and NO F’n wars!

Anastasia Pantsios's avatar

Not only was Joe Biden sane and competent (and still is), but he had qualified, experienced advisors. Trump has a team of former Fox "News" hosts who look the part to him.

JAG's avatar

Bullshit, Biden and Kamala supported Israel’s genocidal war as much as neocons, they funded it and only criticized Israel when it was convenient. Just look how much AIPAC money some of your favorite darling Democrats have ranked in. The left and right BS is just a big theater. At the core they are all part of the same rot that is destroying America. Wake up!

Kelvin Hobbs's avatar

So, Republicans were hands off innocents in Korea, Vietnam, Gulf War I, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Iran and all of the blame (not just the overlap) is on Dems?

Skitealwedrop's avatar

It was insane how so many Americans were bitching about Joe Biden. Now look at this fucking felon/pedophile we’re stuck with. People need to be more respectful sometimes and give our older peeps a damn break. Joe served our country for 50 years. Thank you, Joe 🇺🇸

Ann Harding's avatar

And huge job creation

JAG's avatar
Mar 10Edited

Biden and Kamala supported Israel’s genocidal war as much as neocons, they funded it and only criticized Israel when it was convenient. Just look how much AIPAC money some of your favorite Democrats have ranked in. The left and right BS is just a big theater. At the core they are all part of the same rot that is destroying America. Wake up!

Terry's avatar

You're a huge reason I don't understand why comments aren't limited to paid subscribers.

Kris's avatar

It seems maga is creeping into this app again. 😑 ugh! 😩

Terry's avatar

They do with any comment section of the Substacks that aren't limited to paid subscribers only. I got my money back from both Parnas' because of the amount of maga, and the rude comments by supposed democrats. It got to be too much, so I was paying? For what? No thanks.

Joanne Gatsis's avatar

This dumbfuck is underestimating the Iranian Regime! They will never cower to the West or Israel! This dumbfuck doesn't care what happens to us Americans or the rest of the world when the sleeper cells start killing us!

Sally Herbert's avatar

This is his way of distracting the world from the Epstein files! Trump doesn’t care about the American people or the people of the world, he only cares about himself and he is panicking because he knows he can’t lie himself out of the peadophile connection!

Joanne Gatsis's avatar

I agree, Sally! Insane he is putting us and the world in harm's way just to protect him and his pedo buddies!

paulahik's avatar

It stands to make him and his family lots of money. That's all he cares about.

Sally Herbert's avatar

I see that Eric Trump is now wanting to take the military drone information that Ukraine will share so he can develop drones which will obviously be sold to the US Military for billions of dollars…. Every day, I think it can’t possibly get more corrupt and every day I’m surprised that it has!! 🤬🤬🤬

Joanne Gatsis's avatar

You're 💯% correct!

Jeff Lazar's avatar

I spent the morning intensely reviewing obituaries in several newspapers. Nothing of note under the letter "T". Once again, profoundly disappointed. Sigh.

Mark's avatar

How this POS is still breathing air baffles me!

Joanne Gatsis's avatar

It is indeed disappointing! Looking forward to the day when he croaks!

paulahik's avatar

I'm hoping it's slow and excruciating.

Alan Moote's avatar

They are highlighting the new generation of the Ayatollah? He's WORSE and these attacks killed his father AND wife! He's going to get his pound of flesh.

Michelle D's avatar

Many were dancing in the streets, waving American flags and posters glorifying Trump after the initial attack killed the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Now they're realizing Trump is the biggest monster of them all as they celebrate an even more extreme leader with an even bigger grudge.

William MacKenzie's avatar

Not sure I agree. It could also because the celebrants of the war have come to realize their lives are at risk from the Revolutionary Guard if they continue to publicly demonstrate.

Michelle D's avatar

Well, they were celebrating the end of a brutal tyrant's reign, and now there's an even more extreme but younger tyrant in place with an even bigger grudge.

It would be difficult to believe those who cheered the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would be happy to see his son take his place. Especially following the indiscriminate bombing of a girl's school and thousands more citizens dead with more bombing to come. It seems illogical that they would still believe Trump is their savior, or even on their side, as he announces his consideration for the total annihilation of their country, not just a regime.

S. A. Linden's avatar

Certainly no duck and cover. Not intimidated in the least.

Protect the Vote's avatar

Cheeto: A Traitor Working Before Our Very Eyes

We’ve known for some time Cheeto’s cozy relationship with Russia and Putin but the intolerable Benedict Arnold actions of recent are beyond the pale We the People watch as this scumbag puts out troops and military accessories at risk by allowing Russian intelligence to feed targeting information to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard(IRGC) Meanwhile he perversely lifts American sanctions on Russian oil when the price of oil has gone through the roof so Putin can continue to fund his Ukrainian war Meanwhile Cheeto has turned his back against the Ukraine people

This is blatant betrayal and the American electorate should be incensed and enraged at what this illegitimate dictator is doing to the country He knows what he’s doing and so he’s laying the groundwork for obvious voter suppression tactics heading into the 2026 midterms Like the 2024 election where he lied through his teeth to stay out fo jail, this up coming election is to try to rig the election so he won’t be impeached a 3rd time

Marc Elias over at Democracy Docket is pointing out the confiscation of ballots from Fulton county Georgia and Maricopa county Arizona as just the beginning of the CNPP(Christian Nationalist Pedo Party) attempts to claim that the results of the midterms will be null and void Laws and rules do not apply anymore so everyone has to be prepared Show up in mass numbers to throw this traitor and has complicit Nazis out of power It’s up to us WE the People

RandomHuman's avatar

Treason. Impeach, remove 'em all.

DianaBean's avatar

When will you report on Pete Hegseth spending $93 billion at the end of the 2025 fiscal year in September on king crab, steak, lobster, and ice cream machines, all while the GOP was ending the ACA credit because they claimed the government did not have the funding for it. Ironically enough, the amount needed to keep the ACA going was $92 billion which is 1 billion less than Pete war monger nut case spent on his little spending spree party for his buddies.

Penny Thibeaux's avatar

This is beyond vile. He should be impeached immediately.

Alcoholic, narcissistic sociopath, pathological lier,

Incompetence is overwhelming.

Vile disgusting, inhumane, murderer

Remove the beast !

Terry's avatar

Included in there is 225 million spent in 2025 was the highest amount for furniture in over a decade. He spent $12,000 on fruit basket stands and over $60,000 on Herman Miller recliners. Plus $93 billion on high-end food, Apple devices, and, separately, a $98,329 Steinway & Sons grand piano for the Air Force chief of staff's home.

Waste. Fraud. Abuse.

S. A. Linden's avatar

Hegseth needs to explain every bit of it. Fact is, this kind of stuff has been going on for years as part of the Pentagon budget. No lawmaker dares question these purchases. It's unpatriotic.

Abandoned Afghan Ally's avatar

As an Afghan veteran who has seen the real cost of war, reading this is deeply disturbing. Wars are not games, and the lives of civilians and soldiers alike are being treated carelessly. The escalation, the lies, and the mismanagement put millions at risk while ordinary people pay the price. True leadership would prioritize peace, accountability, and the safety of all innocent lives, not reckless displays of power.

Ballard Graham's avatar

In the long run, all Americans lose with this criminal regime! Those of us that did not vote for this criminal regime are innocent bystanders of this warmongering regime!

Ballard Graham's avatar

Someone please tell me and others reading this post how does the bombing and killing of innocent little children present an “imminent threat” to the most powerful country on the face of the globe! PLEASE TELL ME!

S. A. Linden's avatar

I commented yesterday so forgive a repeat: what I've read is that there USED to be a Revolutionary Guard installation under where the school was built years later.

Frankly, I suspect that this group of clowns is using old intel. But it's just possible that they were careless. Hegseth is a monster, a "take no prisoners" kind of pretender.

Just like the violations of international law in the Caribbean, where they SHOULD have captured suspicious boats and investigated, instead of droning the people. It was murder. And it was nothing more than a careless, immoral video game to these creeps.

T Peterson's avatar

He's alienated all our allies. No one will protect us when they come for us...and you know they will come for us!

Myra Willis's avatar

There are still honourable countries. Canada has said it will honour its NATO alliances. Until then, Trump is on his own, with Putin who I believe was first to congratulate Iran’s new leader. It’s all about the oil.

Welcome to the forever war because Iran’s leaders sincerely believe it is a holy war and will not back down. The question is how badly does Putin want the oil for himself and what will he do to make sure he gets it? Playing Trump again for a fool.

Debby's avatar

Nobody can be bullied by Trump any more! TACO Trump!

Old Man with a Dog's avatar

From someone who has lived both North and South on the Persian Gulf, the answer for Iran is that, now that you have kicked the hornets nest, the stinging will continue as long as you live! To them this is a Holy War and will continue. You cannot bomb your way out of a Holy War.

S. A. Linden's avatar

It's a holy war to Hegseth too. That kind of mania will kill us all. As a Christian Nationalist, he has the fervor of an alcoholic.

Terry's avatar

Who can blame Iran? They agreed to a ceasefire before Israel bombed them. You know trump knew they would. Instead of telling them to stand down, he can tell anyone what to do, remember? He stayed silent and bombed a children's school. Imagine if the tables were turned. Imagine what trump would do to Iran or any country for that matter if the tables were turned.. He might finally understand what the word "obliterate" means.

People keep talking about sleeper cells in the US. Seems they had the perfect opportunity over the weekend when trump and most maga republicans were at the Doral golf course and nothing happened.

Karen Neumann's avatar

Our children would be way better off if Trump would have never been elected he is running up the dept , got us in a war all our allies hate us,Stolen our money with tariffs, ruin our economy, Ruined Department of Education and Justice which will take grnerations to repair

S. A. Linden's avatar

If the Democrats can't do something with this kind of massive failure, we have to get new parties.

Terry's avatar

Democrats need a majority in both chambers before they can do anything. Without that, we have nothing.

Carol's avatar

Why would you be surprised if Iran 🇮🇷 bombed us?

Marilyn~ we deserve it

WE ATTACKED THEM FIRST

It is what Israel has been doing since October 7, 2023 to Palestine 🇵🇸

It’s time for Justice to be served and we are not going to fair well

djw's avatar

I consider any Iranian attack on Israel only partial payback for what Israel has done to Gaza.

Dee Cee's avatar

We actually attacked Iran when we assassinated Qasem Soleimani in January 2020. He was basically the second in command under Khamenei. So it's no surprise that trump, who celebrated, mocked, and bragged about Soleimani's death on Truth Social, received death threats from Iran.

trump had become increasingly terrified that Iran was going to get their payback by assassinating him. He said the quiet part out loud when he recently told ABC News that he got Khamenei before Khamenei could get him.

Now innocent lives, both American and MidEastern, are going to pay for these two despots feud. That trump started.

PlynJyn's avatar

OK GOP, bitch about them killing innocents while you do nothing as our children die in school from gunfire on our own soil. Hypocrites.

Cathy Wray's avatar

Plyn, well said!!!