I am utterly amazed at The Left's ability to pivot so quickly (in less than 24 hours) from "Trump should be Article 25'd for crimes against humanity and trying to start WWIII by bombing Iran" to "It's TACO Tuesday and Trump has chickened out again for not bombing Iran"... where do these people come from... they remind me of chickens playing chess the way they stumble all over the place, knock the pieces over, shit on the board, and then puff out their chests and crow about how they've won the game... The ludicricacy of The Left is absolutely beyond my comprehension.
The war crimes are on Iran - ordering civilians to form a human chain in case Trump follows through. The people line up completely unaware of Trump’s threat - outside communications have been shut down for awhile.
Iranian civilians were not "ordered" to form a human chain around key infrastructure. In most cases they volunteered to do so, and they were encouraged to do so., but no one was forced to do so.
You know this how? By reading the NYT, The Atlantic maybe? Seriously? You actually believe people are voluntarily gathering around targets they’ve been told are under imminent threat of being bombed? Maybe being “encouraged” by a regime that just killed approximately 30,000 of their fellow Iranians in the last few months qualifies as “voluntary” to you but I would call it something very different.
It's time we all read "The Art of the Deal." I have been putting it off, but have decided it's not only a way to buy real estate, it's also huge tool in our geopolitical toolkit.
Check out Sasha Stone's Substack that she posted overnight. In the morning, the Trump haters were all saying that the 25th Amendment should be triggered. By last night, they had returned to TACO! They clearly have not read the book. What I have learned about the Trump haters is that apparently there is no bottom to insanity.
Ran across this this morning…thought it a worthy explanation of what the literal heck is going on. Time will tell…but I do love the last sentence :).
From Charlie Garcia. He writes Capital Mischief:
The ceasefire tonight is not a ceasefire. It is the final staging.
Here is why.
The Pattern.
On March 25 he announced a 5-day pause. Said it was for diplomacy. During those five days the Tripoli crossed the Arabian Sea without a headline. The 82nd deployed. The Georgia left port. He used the pause to move pieces while the press wrote about "productive conversations."
He just did it again. Two weeks. The exact window I gave you on April 2.
Read Iran's response carefully.
Safe passage through Hormuz "will be possible via coordination with Iran's Armed Forces" with "due consideration of technical limitations." That is not reopening the Strait.
That is the toll booth with a press release. The IRGC keeps control. Ships pass with Iranian permission. The fundamental architecture does not change.
Trump will call that non-compliance on Day 14. Or Day 7. Or whenever the machine is ready. He has never met a deadline he did not set and then use as a trigger.
Where the pieces are right now.
Ford: Red Sea. Moving south. On station within 48 hours.
Bush: Mid-Atlantic with the Jolly Rogers. Arrival theater April 10-14. The third carrier.
Georgia: Eastern Mediterranean heading east. 154 Tomahawks. 66 SEAL berths. Dry Deck Shelter. Arrives Gulf area April 8-10. SEALs in the water April 9-11.
Tripoli: CENTCOM. Position increasingly vague. AIS intermittent. F-35Bs. Ospreys. 2,200 Marines. The assault force. She is already where she needs to be.
Boxer: En route. Diego Garcia arrival approximately April 10-12. The BLT debarks there. 1,200 Marines board C-17s. Fly directly to Kharg once the runway is fixed.
82nd: Command element in theater. Main body deploying. The general went first. The division follows.
What happens before the Marines land.
This is the checklist. The ceasefire buys time to complete it.
SEALs insert from the Georgia. Swimmer Delivery Vehicles from the Dry Deck Shelter. They swim onto Kharg and the Bushehr coast simultaneously.
Hydrographic reconnaissance. Beach gradients. Infrared beacon placement. Every surviving IRGC position mapped. Undersea fiber-optic cables cut. The island goes deaf.
CIA Ground Branch links up. They have been on the island. Possibly for weeks. Embedded in the civilian oil workforce.
Patrol schedules. Tunnel entrances. Which commander is a fanatic and which one wants to go home. When the SEALs arrive, Ground Branch is the welcome committee.
B-2 Spirits hit remaining hardened coastal positions on the Bushehr mainland. The 55-kilometer strip facing Kharg.
Anything the first two bombardments did not destroy. GBU-72 5,000-pound penetrators collapse the bunkers that survived conventional strikes.
EA-37B Compass Call orbits the northern Gulf. Jams every frequency the IRGC uses. The Kharg garrison goes deaf. The mainland goes blind. Communications severed.
Georgia's Tomahawks hit every position the SEALs marked. Oil infrastructure untouched. Third time.
Then silence. The silence before H-Hour.
Ospreys launch from the Tripoli. 24 Marines per bird. Three waves before sunrise. 82nd drops onto the airstrip simultaneously. Rangers and combat engineers fix the runway. First C-130 lands within hours. First C-17 by nightfall.
48 hours later the BLT arrives from Diego Garcia by C-17. The garrison triples. Patriot batteries operational. MADIS online.
The dimmer switch starts at zero.
The timeline.
April 8-10: Georgia arrives. SEALs deploy. Five simultaneous missions begin.
April 10-12: Boxer arrives Diego Garcia. BLT stages. Bush arrives theater. Three carriers on station.
April 11-16: Everything converges. The ceasefire provides cover. The press writes about diplomacy. The SEALs are in the water.
When Iran's "coordination with Armed Forces" produces the same toll booth under a different name, Trump has his predicate. Non-compliance. The permission slip is signed.
The bottom line.
He paused bombing on March 25 and moved the Tripoli into position. He paused bombing tonight and the Georgia, the Bush, and the Boxer are all in transit.
Every pause has been a positioning window. Every deadline has been a countdown timer for the audience while the military clock runs on its own schedule.
This is not the sixth extension. This is the last staging window disguised as the sixth extension.
April 9 through 16. Watch the Tripoli's AIS. Watch the Georgia disappear. Watch the silence.
The calendar bows to the signal. The signal is now.
A bit too technical for me, but I got the gist! And I agree - this ceasefire is tactical. No way he’s going to go in and bomb a human chain, but you just watch. First chink in that human chain and they better be saying their prayers! Be interesting to watch that April 9-16th timeline, for sure.
Of course you could be right. I 'm wondering though about casualties, (both U.S. and Iranian), and the longer term.
It's one thing to hop on the back of a tiger. Riding it and figuring how to get off are another thing entirely. And that second thing is one the U.S. has shown little ability to manage.
I’m more confused than anything else. I know that we don’t really have much information about what is happening, so for me it’s a wait and see. I do hope there is some resolution to all of this conflict, although it seems that Iran cannot be trusted given their history of broken agreements and their willingness to harm their own people.
The war crime is killing civilians intentionally. Children have a right to be in schools, hospitals, bridges, etc. It isn't like they are bringing them to military bases.
We have to remember how this started (and it wasn't Iran having nuclear ambitions). Trump wanted to liberate people from an evil regime. It was for the people. And now he is saying he wants to flatten the entire country and all their infrastructure. Once again, we are being lied into war that doesn't benefit anyone but the weapons manufacturers and maybe the oil tycoons.
Is it? If the US knows they’re there, they simply don’t have to bomb that area. Seems like a savvy move actually, because the war criminal is the one who drops the bomb, isn’t it? Gonna be pretty hard to knowingly bomb a bunch of kids and then say ‘the bad guys made me do it!’…
I’m in! Also, for now the ceasefire is real and maybe a little optimism would be a good idea. (But also… I’m pretty sure Iran is just buying time. I hope I’m wrong.)
The funny thing is that I have curly hair and absolutely destroyed my hair perming it for those years. Not to mention the flat iron years (shudders). Now I wear my natural curl which is about 76% smaller than the perm years.
I cut my hair short in the early ’80’s, wore it high on top kinda like Bowie. That was after a bad perm, 🤣 Got married in ‘86.
My prom was on my 18th birthday! Picture being sung Happy Birthday to by Asians instead of Mexicans. Note: It was a fancy swanky huge place in downtown Portland, we kept hearing Happy Birthday all night, it was kinda crazy and being only 18 we couldn’t drink to cope! 🤪 🍹🧉🥡
It would be great to see a ticker on all the mainstream news channels that shows how many billions are being spent because of "wars" similar to how they constantly told us how many people "died from covid".
I just posted a realllllllly long explanation of what is likely going on (not my insights…info from someone much more knowledgeable than I). Give it a look..it makes it make sense ;).
Russia is a little busy right now. I think the UN vote is about all the help they can provide. The neighbors are PO’d about the Russians moving the borders or something.
It’s a guarantee that this is only delaying the inevitable.
Anything Iran says is a lie.
Any deal Iran makes, they will break.
Anyone who trusts Iran is a fool.
We should have kept striking at military targets until all of the Iranian leadership and IGRC was dead. THAT would have made the strait safe permanently.
No, we posted simultaneously, but THANK YOU for the heads up! That is such a fantastic write up that I can only hope it is not only true, but only PART of the full plan they have agreed to let be surmised. Just imagine how much more is going on behind the scenes in classified plans that can’t be revealed until decades later.
Good morning. Yes it's certainly a "combo" morning here at my first shot of coffee. I'm waiting for my non-legacy media newsletters to starts hitting my inbox before I feel like I can actually get a good idea for what has really taken place. Jenna is the first in this AM.
Yeah Bob does not keep his web site up very well. I would just not go there. He does produce a 2x weekly free news letter that comes to your inbox, but with the web site misbehaving, I am not sure how to tell you to subscribe. (I'll ask him). But his semi-weekly newsletter is usually a deep dive into what is going on in the world, how it is effecting markets, and sometimes how to prepare for it personally.
I dont trust Iran to do the right thing at all, not one bit, but I do trust President Trump to so....he is control of this, and it had to be dealt with and he'sfoing it....trust him, he knows what he's doing.
Its awesome that you can hold your writing form when you have to pivot at the last minute. If Trump ever cares to get retail prices down, I will enthusiastically send you snail-mail money for a subscription!
I am utterly amazed at The Left's ability to pivot so quickly (in less than 24 hours) from "Trump should be Article 25'd for crimes against humanity and trying to start WWIII by bombing Iran" to "It's TACO Tuesday and Trump has chickened out again for not bombing Iran"... where do these people come from... they remind me of chickens playing chess the way they stumble all over the place, knock the pieces over, shit on the board, and then puff out their chests and crow about how they've won the game... The ludicricacy of The Left is absolutely beyond my comprehension.
The war crimes are on Iran - ordering civilians to form a human chain in case Trump follows through. The people line up completely unaware of Trump’s threat - outside communications have been shut down for awhile.
And yet the Left is accusing POTUS of being the one who is guilty of committing War Crimes... ????... The idiocy is amazing!... SMH!
Iranian civilians were not "ordered" to form a human chain around key infrastructure. In most cases they volunteered to do so, and they were encouraged to do so., but no one was forced to do so.
Of COURSE Iranian media says they "volunteered!" That doesn't mean that's what happened... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/07/iran-young-people-human-chains-power-plants-donald-trump-deadline-looms
You know this how? By reading the NYT, The Atlantic maybe? Seriously? You actually believe people are voluntarily gathering around targets they’ve been told are under imminent threat of being bombed? Maybe being “encouraged” by a regime that just killed approximately 30,000 of their fellow Iranians in the last few months qualifies as “voluntary” to you but I would call it something very different.
No one ever said democRATS/liberals/muslims were intelligent.
You just confirmed that.
The Left are sinister. They know it and so do we.
It's time we all read "The Art of the Deal." I have been putting it off, but have decided it's not only a way to buy real estate, it's also huge tool in our geopolitical toolkit.
I read Jeff Childers daily (just after Jenna usually, and I know she's a fan too). He does the best job I've seen interpreting Trump's moves.
I do too. Jenna, then Jeff.
Yep. I started watching the Apprentice a couple of weeks ago (never saw it until now). Same insight into how our President thinks.
Check out Sasha Stone's Substack that she posted overnight. In the morning, the Trump haters were all saying that the 25th Amendment should be triggered. By last night, they had returned to TACO! They clearly have not read the book. What I have learned about the Trump haters is that apparently there is no bottom to insanity.
yes, it's a fantastic book!
trump steaks. trump airline. trump casino. trump university. there's a clear art but maybe not the one you're thinking of.
Why not mention the successes as well? Everyone in business has failures. Not everyone in business has success. Just sayin'
Ran across this this morning…thought it a worthy explanation of what the literal heck is going on. Time will tell…but I do love the last sentence :).
From Charlie Garcia. He writes Capital Mischief:
The ceasefire tonight is not a ceasefire. It is the final staging.
Here is why.
The Pattern.
On March 25 he announced a 5-day pause. Said it was for diplomacy. During those five days the Tripoli crossed the Arabian Sea without a headline. The 82nd deployed. The Georgia left port. He used the pause to move pieces while the press wrote about "productive conversations."
He just did it again. Two weeks. The exact window I gave you on April 2.
Read Iran's response carefully.
Safe passage through Hormuz "will be possible via coordination with Iran's Armed Forces" with "due consideration of technical limitations." That is not reopening the Strait.
That is the toll booth with a press release. The IRGC keeps control. Ships pass with Iranian permission. The fundamental architecture does not change.
Trump will call that non-compliance on Day 14. Or Day 7. Or whenever the machine is ready. He has never met a deadline he did not set and then use as a trigger.
Where the pieces are right now.
Ford: Red Sea. Moving south. On station within 48 hours.
Bush: Mid-Atlantic with the Jolly Rogers. Arrival theater April 10-14. The third carrier.
Georgia: Eastern Mediterranean heading east. 154 Tomahawks. 66 SEAL berths. Dry Deck Shelter. Arrives Gulf area April 8-10. SEALs in the water April 9-11.
Tripoli: CENTCOM. Position increasingly vague. AIS intermittent. F-35Bs. Ospreys. 2,200 Marines. The assault force. She is already where she needs to be.
Boxer: En route. Diego Garcia arrival approximately April 10-12. The BLT debarks there. 1,200 Marines board C-17s. Fly directly to Kharg once the runway is fixed.
82nd: Command element in theater. Main body deploying. The general went first. The division follows.
What happens before the Marines land.
This is the checklist. The ceasefire buys time to complete it.
SEALs insert from the Georgia. Swimmer Delivery Vehicles from the Dry Deck Shelter. They swim onto Kharg and the Bushehr coast simultaneously.
Hydrographic reconnaissance. Beach gradients. Infrared beacon placement. Every surviving IRGC position mapped. Undersea fiber-optic cables cut. The island goes deaf.
CIA Ground Branch links up. They have been on the island. Possibly for weeks. Embedded in the civilian oil workforce.
Patrol schedules. Tunnel entrances. Which commander is a fanatic and which one wants to go home. When the SEALs arrive, Ground Branch is the welcome committee.
B-2 Spirits hit remaining hardened coastal positions on the Bushehr mainland. The 55-kilometer strip facing Kharg.
Anything the first two bombardments did not destroy. GBU-72 5,000-pound penetrators collapse the bunkers that survived conventional strikes.
EA-37B Compass Call orbits the northern Gulf. Jams every frequency the IRGC uses. The Kharg garrison goes deaf. The mainland goes blind. Communications severed.
Georgia's Tomahawks hit every position the SEALs marked. Oil infrastructure untouched. Third time.
Then silence. The silence before H-Hour.
Ospreys launch from the Tripoli. 24 Marines per bird. Three waves before sunrise. 82nd drops onto the airstrip simultaneously. Rangers and combat engineers fix the runway. First C-130 lands within hours. First C-17 by nightfall.
48 hours later the BLT arrives from Diego Garcia by C-17. The garrison triples. Patriot batteries operational. MADIS online.
The dimmer switch starts at zero.
The timeline.
April 8-10: Georgia arrives. SEALs deploy. Five simultaneous missions begin.
April 10-12: Boxer arrives Diego Garcia. BLT stages. Bush arrives theater. Three carriers on station.
April 11-16: Everything converges. The ceasefire provides cover. The press writes about diplomacy. The SEALs are in the water.
When Iran's "coordination with Armed Forces" produces the same toll booth under a different name, Trump has his predicate. Non-compliance. The permission slip is signed.
The bottom line.
He paused bombing on March 25 and moved the Tripoli into position. He paused bombing tonight and the Georgia, the Bush, and the Boxer are all in transit.
Every pause has been a positioning window. Every deadline has been a countdown timer for the audience while the military clock runs on its own schedule.
This is not the sixth extension. This is the last staging window disguised as the sixth extension.
April 9 through 16. Watch the Tripoli's AIS. Watch the Georgia disappear. Watch the silence.
The calendar bows to the signal. The signal is now.
May the Mischief be with you.
Wow that’s really LONG! My mind can’t take that this early, I stopped reading one page length down. I’ll have to come back to it!
I KNOW! but do come back…totally worth the read ;). Or skip to April 8th and go from there…still good.
A bit too technical for me, but I got the gist! And I agree - this ceasefire is tactical. No way he’s going to go in and bomb a human chain, but you just watch. First chink in that human chain and they better be saying their prayers! Be interesting to watch that April 9-16th timeline, for sure.
Good morning @Nard🙏 . Good insights
Love the last sentence. I am stealing it Nard!
I wish I could take credit for it lol.
Awesome Nard 😊best response yet 💥
And so we pray 🙏. Thank you .
Anybody know what BLT stands for? Visions of a tasty lunch are dancing in my head but I don't think that's it.
Very interesting post, thanks for sharing it!
Of course you could be right. I 'm wondering though about casualties, (both U.S. and Iranian), and the longer term.
It's one thing to hop on the back of a tiger. Riding it and figuring how to get off are another thing entirely. And that second thing is one the U.S. has shown little ability to manage.
that all makes sense.
I’m more confused than anything else. I know that we don’t really have much information about what is happening, so for me it’s a wait and see. I do hope there is some resolution to all of this conflict, although it seems that Iran cannot be trusted given their history of broken agreements and their willingness to harm their own people.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QSOr57IA7Ao
If they are that stupid to line up on the orders of their leaders, oh well. I would tell the fanatic leadership to shove Allah up their asses. Next.
Yes, I saw that on the news. Very disturbing.
Deliberately moving civilians into bombing sites to use as human shields is in itself a war crime. One of the worst, and most evil, IMO.
The war crime is killing civilians intentionally. Children have a right to be in schools, hospitals, bridges, etc. It isn't like they are bringing them to military bases.
We have to remember how this started (and it wasn't Iran having nuclear ambitions). Trump wanted to liberate people from an evil regime. It was for the people. And now he is saying he wants to flatten the entire country and all their infrastructure. Once again, we are being lied into war that doesn't benefit anyone but the weapons manufacturers and maybe the oil tycoons.
Is it? If the US knows they’re there, they simply don’t have to bomb that area. Seems like a savvy move actually, because the war criminal is the one who drops the bomb, isn’t it? Gonna be pretty hard to knowingly bomb a bunch of kids and then say ‘the bad guys made me do it!’…
My prom was in 1986. One question… how big was your hair?
Mine was huge, got bigger during college before I finally regained my senses around 1990. I think it was aquanet poisoning, if I’m honest.
Lol IT WAS HUGE. Teased within an inch of its life (with a nice "root perm" for extra lift hahahahaha).
Oh fun... let's have a prom photo sharing article!
That would be far more entertaining and honest than fake ceasefires.
I’m in! Also, for now the ceasefire is real and maybe a little optimism would be a good idea. (But also… I’m pretty sure Iran is just buying time. I hope I’m wrong.)
This is worse than being on a run-away roller coaster imo.
Optimism is always a great idea!
I wouldn't be so sure about the ceasefire being real:
"UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain report attacks despite Iran-US ceasefire"
"Live updates: Attacks reported in Iran and Gulf Arab nations hours after ceasefire announcement"
Yeah, I saw some of that.
😢
"Mall girl hair" means never having to say you're sorry.
The funny thing is that I have curly hair and absolutely destroyed my hair perming it for those years. Not to mention the flat iron years (shudders). Now I wear my natural curl which is about 76% smaller than the perm years.
Did you have giant bangs?
I cut my hair short in the early ’80’s, wore it high on top kinda like Bowie. That was after a bad perm, 🤣 Got married in ‘86.
My prom was on my 18th birthday! Picture being sung Happy Birthday to by Asians instead of Mexicans. Note: It was a fancy swanky huge place in downtown Portland, we kept hearing Happy Birthday all night, it was kinda crazy and being only 18 we couldn’t drink to cope! 🤪 🍹🧉🥡
Theatre, circus... I sure hope everyone has a good stockpile of popcorn as the show continues on.
Meanwhile under the covers... the financial wheeling and dealings continue. This is what happens when wealthy humans fight over who gets wealthier.
Butter too, why else bother?
😋 Yum! Yes butter! (or at least olive oil)
It would be great to see a ticker on all the mainstream news channels that shows how many billions are being spent because of "wars" similar to how they constantly told us how many people "died from covid".
I would happily contribute towards that cause.
Well, it's great, as long as russia doesn't continue to send them weapons so they're all re-armed up in 2 weeks... It's a pause, not a settlement.
I just posted a realllllllly long explanation of what is likely going on (not my insights…info from someone much more knowledgeable than I). Give it a look..it makes it make sense ;).
Hey, we need to manufacture more missiles too! Welcome to the military economy. 🤦♂️ Never ending war... never ending profits.
Russia is a little busy right now. I think the UN vote is about all the help they can provide. The neighbors are PO’d about the Russians moving the borders or something.
It’s a guarantee that this is only delaying the inevitable.
Anything Iran says is a lie.
Any deal Iran makes, they will break.
Anyone who trusts Iran is a fool.
We should have kept striking at military targets until all of the Iranian leadership and IGRC was dead. THAT would have made the strait safe permanently.
Did you see Nard's information?
No, we posted simultaneously, but THANK YOU for the heads up! That is such a fantastic write up that I can only hope it is not only true, but only PART of the full plan they have agreed to let be surmised. Just imagine how much more is going on behind the scenes in classified plans that can’t be revealed until decades later.
The cease fire is a pause to regroup. Both military and politically.
Yah and the US and Israel always keep their word.
More often than Iran.
Good morning. Yes it's certainly a "combo" morning here at my first shot of coffee. I'm waiting for my non-legacy media newsletters to starts hitting my inbox before I feel like I can actually get a good idea for what has really taken place. Jenna is the first in this AM.
Same! Our dear and daring Jenna is in my top two (there is no #1…it’s a tie). No morning is complete without a daily dose of Jenna’s side and ☕️C&C🦠.
My morning reads include (in no particular order)
- Jenna
- Jeff (at Coffee & Covid)
- Promethean Action
- Wise Wolf (thx Jenna)
- Bob Rinear at Investyourself.com 3x a day
- several other Substacks as time permits
(I've got my own writings to write so I can't spend all morning at this :) )
I clicked on your link to investyourself and a warning popped up saying it’s not secure, they may be trying to steal your money.
Yeah Bob does not keep his web site up very well. I would just not go there. He does produce a 2x weekly free news letter that comes to your inbox, but with the web site misbehaving, I am not sure how to tell you to subscribe. (I'll ask him). But his semi-weekly newsletter is usually a deep dive into what is going on in the world, how it is effecting markets, and sometimes how to prepare for it personally.
I dont trust Iran to do the right thing at all, not one bit, but I do trust President Trump to so....he is control of this, and it had to be dealt with and he'sfoing it....trust him, he knows what he's doing.
More adult writing? I could get spoiled. Everyone please subscribe!
Keep it up, J!
Its awesome that you can hold your writing form when you have to pivot at the last minute. If Trump ever cares to get retail prices down, I will enthusiastically send you snail-mail money for a subscription!
LingOL and I appreciate that! :)
We are in the 3rd inning of the game to end the Iranian Terror Regime. Long way to go. We only get to see the top of iceberg.
As it should be…
Yes. I agree.
Someone in Washington better study the Koran to know where this is headed . 😢. God help us 🙏
Damned if you do , damned if you don’t ……Human chains …pray wisdom and discernment for our government. https://m.economictimes.com/news/international/world-news/iran-forms-human-chains-to-protect-power-plants-as-trumps-strike-deadline-looms/articleshow/130089850.cms