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.
First, isn't it great to have a President who knows how to play chicken with an Islamic regime who loves to make its own threats and promise turning America (and Israel) into a pile of ashes?! The only language they seem to understand is ultimatums backed up by demonstrated force. Trump speaks that language. Second, isn't it great to see the Democrats face plant once again when the narrative is reversed on them and forcing them to go from propping up a terroristic, sadistic regime to demanding that Trump follow through and bomb them to oblivion. Of course, the Dems have no "True North", only a burning desire to regain national power and then torment, regulate and imprison conservatives who they hate a lot more than death cult Islamists.
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.
One Iranian on FB said the Trump administration was actively informing Iranian citizens of where and when to be in order to avoid being hurt. Iran, in contrast, is ordering them where and when to be in order to be killed.
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.
It doesn't mean that's not what happened either. Besides, I would believe Iran before most other deeply involved media outlets. In this current war, they have behaved with a dignity and surprising fairness that is sadly lacking in the US and Israeli forces. I am not a supporter of Iran; they have many problems, and their human rights abuses are well known, but that does not mean they are always automatically the bad guys.
The supply of fentanyl entering the United States has been greatly reduced, but it's obvious by your comment, that powerful drugs must be still available.
They are always the bad guys - the Iranian regime are bad guys through and through!!! Killing 40K+ of their own people makes them bad guys, but there are so many other things you could add to this list.
They were slaughtering hundreds if not thousands in the streets. How the fuk is that behaving with dignity? I agree with @10ffgrid you may need to check your meds.
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.
As I am not a US citizen, as you seem to assume, and I do not read the NYT, or the Atlantic, or any other US news source. I know what I said is true because I read trustworthy news outlets. Why do you choose to be so aggressive? Whatever happened to respectful debate? Perhaps you are unaware that grown up responsible adults still do that...
I was merely responding to your unwarranted certainty that the Iranian people would willing put themselves in harms way in a futile attempt to defend bridges and infrastructure for a regime that thinks nothing of slaughtering its own people. The fact that you believe it’s true doesn’t make it true. When you present disputable statements as fact, you should be prepared for challenges.
I would venture to say that there are no "trustworthy news outlets"... only varying degrees of propaganda to support whatever agenda is behind the particular mouthpiece being used. The only way one will ever know the "truth" is by actually living in and experiencing the situation being discussed in real time... And it's a pleasure to enjoy a respectful debate with you, John.
40k slaughtered and people swallow it whole. Like countless other propaganda from media outlets proven to be false time and time again (remember covid?).
Sure, the regime gently suggested that they line up on bridges. My thought would be, I wonder why? most pics showed mostly women covered in burkas holding flags lined up. I bet none knew they were potential targets offered up by their regime as fodder. It’s been reported they don’t have news from the outside, only propaganda.
Hmmm that’s possible that they can easily be misled as to what they are really doing. For all they know they were asked to show the world they care about their fellow citizens and are proud of their country. Think of how easily the demoncrats can get little old ladies to line up to protest for evil regimes.
I am not a US citizen, so I am not in any way connected with "democRATS/liberals/muslims" - whatever the fuck that's supposed to be. Some day, hopefully, you'll grow up and behave like an adult. :-)
This is becoming tedious... I am not a Muslim. I do not have any religious label, or any religious affiliation. You appear to have a serious mental problem. I feel sorry for you.
Trump played Chicken with Iran and Iran didn't blink.
Like most uninformed Americans, Trump grossly underestimated Iran's military ability. And last week when top American military officials, who actually DO understand Iran's military strategy told him this was a really bad idea and to back out, withdraw now, Trump fired them!
Trump played Chicken with Iran, and lost. And now he is forced to sit down and negotiate the same settlement that Iran has offered him since day one.
I don't know how you can be so sure! Iran is saying "The US agreed to our framework!" and Trump is saying "Iran agreed to our framework!" and the media (which is worthless but still) can't even agree on whether the "frameworks" they have are even legit. Iran DID blink and open the strait right before Trump's deadline, so there's that. The big issue (other than the strait) is uranium. Trump wants ZERO enrichment; they want the right to enrich. Trump posted TODAY that there will be "no enrichment." Could that be BS? That's my point--we don't know yet! https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116368825638596650
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.
Agreed! Alex Berenson, who never fails to disappoint, wrote this morning that both Iran and the Democrats have won the day! He was good early on about covid but set off an alarm in me when he said all fevers should be reduced and that his daughter would be getting the Gardasil vaccine!
He also bought into the whole ivermectin scam completely and would cite all of the fraudulent studies "proving" it ineffective. Dude, you're a JOURNALIST. Be better. (I quit him after that, too.)
Oh, that's right! I forgot about his stubbornness about ivermectin! I remember seeing an online and live debate he had with one of the great covid docs and he STILL didn't get it.
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.
The key is you have to meet power with even more power. The approach that has been popular on the Left (and some on the right) is "we need to A. be nice; B. turn the other cheek; C. extend an olive branch; D. give them a bunch of taxpayer money". Libs love D best. But appeasement in whatever form, never works with the Middle East (Arabs and Persians). It really doesn't work anywhere else either, even though the prim and proper Europeans like to think it does (Hitler, anyone?)
Working with the Middle East is completely different than working with weak, overeducated Europe. Iran has been screaming "Death to America" forever. Trump spoke to them in their own language. He horrified some people over here, but he wasn't talking to Americans or Europeans. He was speaking directly to Iran.
Well when you rule by threats over your neighbors the way Iran always has (and with an iron fist and bullets and hangings over its own people) the only language you will respect is someone threatening you. It’s how to deal with a bully. You don’t council and try to change a bully’s thinking, that just allows him/her to continue bullying others relentlessly without any relief for the victims. You have to meet the bully head on and be a bigger bully - and THEN they back down because they fear anyone stronger than them.
Iran was the strongest bully in that region. The ONLY force on the planet stronger than them that wasn’t working alongside them is America. It’s long overdue for America to stand up to this bully and strike fear into them.
Only one but I sold it and now very (very) comfortably retired. At least he increased the value. Unlike someone you likely admire like Pritzker who inherited billions and built nothing with it. You should get over being envious of others. It’s not healthy.
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.
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 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.
I had a friend in the later half of the 90’s who wore her thick hair long and straight half way down her back but she had crazy big bangs. It looked so odd. She ran an art gallery next door.
Finally convinced her to go get a trim and wear her bangs straight. She came back from the stylist and she looked drop dead gorgeous. Next day the bangs were big again. 😂
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.
My prom picture was farrah faucet tubey curls along my face. But I graduated college in 1988. My first career position that fall required photo ID. I swear my bangs were higher than enviable surfing waves. Half the picture height was my bangs. I looked ridiculous wearing a suit with hair like that. 🤣🤣🤣
Mine too Juju. 1974. Still parted in the middle, or just slightly off middle. Better than long hair parted in the middle set with hot rollers before school.
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.
Not sure that’s true. But what you’re saying is the equivalent of saying that someone who rapes three women is somehow less bad than someone who rapes five women. Make it make sense.
Iran will continue to FA and FO. The IRGC is like the scorpion in the scorpion and the frog story, it’s in their nature to continue attacking, consequences be damned.
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.
What is puzzling to me is that I just saw a now viral clip of Hillary in 2008 saying that if she is president, she will ATTACK and “TOTALLY OBLITERATE” Iran. This is what the Dems cheered and voted for. Now suddenly Trump is the monster of monsters (well, the day before anyway) who needs to be impeached. The hypocrisy is stunning.
"Two weeks to flatten the country" - More Jenna Gold!
It is interesting that Trump signed his ceasefire as: "On behalf of the United States of America, as President, and also representing the Countries of the Middle East..." Did I miss an election somewhere? When was he elected to represent countries of the middle east?
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.
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.
First, isn't it great to have a President who knows how to play chicken with an Islamic regime who loves to make its own threats and promise turning America (and Israel) into a pile of ashes?! The only language they seem to understand is ultimatums backed up by demonstrated force. Trump speaks that language. Second, isn't it great to see the Democrats face plant once again when the narrative is reversed on them and forcing them to go from propping up a terroristic, sadistic regime to demanding that Trump follow through and bomb them to oblivion. Of course, the Dems have no "True North", only a burning desire to regain national power and then torment, regulate and imprison conservatives who they hate a lot more than death cult Islamists.
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!
One Iranian on FB said the Trump administration was actively informing Iranian citizens of where and when to be in order to avoid being hurt. Iran, in contrast, is ordering them where and when to be in order to be killed.
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Not surprised. Israel does the same.
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
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It doesn't mean that's not what happened either. Besides, I would believe Iran before most other deeply involved media outlets. In this current war, they have behaved with a dignity and surprising fairness that is sadly lacking in the US and Israeli forces. I am not a supporter of Iran; they have many problems, and their human rights abuses are well known, but that does not mean they are always automatically the bad guys.
The supply of fentanyl entering the United States has been greatly reduced, but it's obvious by your comment, that powerful drugs must be still available.
They are always the bad guys - the Iranian regime are bad guys through and through!!! Killing 40K+ of their own people makes them bad guys, but there are so many other things you could add to this list.
They were slaughtering hundreds if not thousands in the streets. How the fuk is that behaving with dignity? I agree with @10ffgrid you may need to check your meds.
Wow 😮
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.
As I am not a US citizen, as you seem to assume, and I do not read the NYT, or the Atlantic, or any other US news source. I know what I said is true because I read trustworthy news outlets. Why do you choose to be so aggressive? Whatever happened to respectful debate? Perhaps you are unaware that grown up responsible adults still do that...
I was merely responding to your unwarranted certainty that the Iranian people would willing put themselves in harms way in a futile attempt to defend bridges and infrastructure for a regime that thinks nothing of slaughtering its own people. The fact that you believe it’s true doesn’t make it true. When you present disputable statements as fact, you should be prepared for challenges.
I would venture to say that there are no "trustworthy news outlets"... only varying degrees of propaganda to support whatever agenda is behind the particular mouthpiece being used. The only way one will ever know the "truth" is by actually living in and experiencing the situation being discussed in real time... And it's a pleasure to enjoy a respectful debate with you, John.
This.
40k slaughtered and people swallow it whole. Like countless other propaganda from media outlets proven to be false time and time again (remember covid?).
Weird how THIS time we’re being told the truth.
(eye roll)
Sure, the regime gently suggested that they line up on bridges. My thought would be, I wonder why? most pics showed mostly women covered in burkas holding flags lined up. I bet none knew they were potential targets offered up by their regime as fodder. It’s been reported they don’t have news from the outside, only propaganda.
Hmmm that’s possible that they can easily be misled as to what they are really doing. For all they know they were asked to show the world they care about their fellow citizens and are proud of their country. Think of how easily the demoncrats can get little old ladies to line up to protest for evil regimes.
Probably the wives and daughters of IRGC.
No one ever said democRATS/liberals/muslims were intelligent.
You just confirmed that.
I am not a US citizen, so I am not in any way connected with "democRATS/liberals/muslims" - whatever the fuck that's supposed to be. Some day, hopefully, you'll grow up and behave like an adult. :-)
So, a Muslim .
I figured as much.
But all three are the same.
Same cult of hate, pedophilia, chaos and destruction.
This is becoming tedious... I am not a Muslim. I do not have any religious label, or any religious affiliation. You appear to have a serious mental problem. I feel sorry for you.
Children???
The Left are sinister. They know it and so do we.
Trump f'kd up.
Trump played Chicken with Iran and Iran didn't blink.
Like most uninformed Americans, Trump grossly underestimated Iran's military ability. And last week when top American military officials, who actually DO understand Iran's military strategy told him this was a really bad idea and to back out, withdraw now, Trump fired them!
Trump played Chicken with Iran, and lost. And now he is forced to sit down and negotiate the same settlement that Iran has offered him since day one.
Trump played Chicken, and lost.
So you wanted the U.S. to attack?
"So you wanted the U.S. to attack?"
No PEL, its just facts.
Trump attacked Iran, and Iran didn't back down. So Trump threatened to bomb Iran back to the Dark Ages. Iran didn't blink.
So then Trump threatened to kill EVERYONE and destroy Iran's civilization. Iran didn't blink.
So now Trump is forced to sit down and negotiate the same settlement that Iran has offered him since day one.
Trump played Chicken, and lost.
I don't know how you can be so sure! Iran is saying "The US agreed to our framework!" and Trump is saying "Iran agreed to our framework!" and the media (which is worthless but still) can't even agree on whether the "frameworks" they have are even legit. Iran DID blink and open the strait right before Trump's deadline, so there's that. The big issue (other than the strait) is uranium. Trump wants ZERO enrichment; they want the right to enrich. Trump posted TODAY that there will be "no enrichment." Could that be BS? That's my point--we don't know yet! https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116368825638596650
Iran has not backed down yet.
Trump imposed sanctions on Iran fo stop them building weapons.
Iran didn't back down. So Trump bombed them.
Iran still didn't back down.
So Trump attacked Iran.
Iran didn't back down.
So Trump threatened to bomb Iran back to the Dark Ages.
Iran didn't back down.
So Trump threatened to destroy their civilization.
And Iran didn't back down.
Hmmm, I thought bombers were on their way when Iran called Pakistan and asked to negotiate.
Wanna play poker?
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.
Agreed! Alex Berenson, who never fails to disappoint, wrote this morning that both Iran and the Democrats have won the day! He was good early on about covid but set off an alarm in me when he said all fevers should be reduced and that his daughter would be getting the Gardasil vaccine!
He also bought into the whole ivermectin scam completely and would cite all of the fraudulent studies "proving" it ineffective. Dude, you're a JOURNALIST. Be better. (I quit him after that, too.)
Oh, that's right! I forgot about his stubbornness about ivermectin! I remember seeing an online and live debate he had with one of the great covid docs and he STILL didn't get it.
Same. He's soooo full of himself.
I stopped reading him. You can take the boy out of the NY Times but you can’t take the NY Times out of the boy.
He can't get out of his own way.
Agreed! He should definitely let that TDS fever burn itself out.
I remember reading him talking about something other than Covid, and he was an idiot. Stopped reading him on anything but Covid.
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.
The key is you have to meet power with even more power. The approach that has been popular on the Left (and some on the right) is "we need to A. be nice; B. turn the other cheek; C. extend an olive branch; D. give them a bunch of taxpayer money". Libs love D best. But appeasement in whatever form, never works with the Middle East (Arabs and Persians). It really doesn't work anywhere else either, even though the prim and proper Europeans like to think it does (Hitler, anyone?)
Working with the Middle East is completely different than working with weak, overeducated Europe. Iran has been screaming "Death to America" forever. Trump spoke to them in their own language. He horrified some people over here, but he wasn't talking to Americans or Europeans. He was speaking directly to Iran.
Well when you rule by threats over your neighbors the way Iran always has (and with an iron fist and bullets and hangings over its own people) the only language you will respect is someone threatening you. It’s how to deal with a bully. You don’t council and try to change a bully’s thinking, that just allows him/her to continue bullying others relentlessly without any relief for the victims. You have to meet the bully head on and be a bigger bully - and THEN they back down because they fear anyone stronger than them.
Iran was the strongest bully in that region. The ONLY force on the planet stronger than them that wasn’t working alongside them is America. It’s long overdue for America to stand up to this bully and strike fear into them.
bingo
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yes, it's a fantastic book!
Dave Rubin talked about that book today related to negotiating style.
That book reveals all we need to know about how Trump's mind works. I'll have to listen to Rubin's analysis. Thanks for heads up!
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'
which successes?
How many companies have you started?
3 and a non profit. pitiful I know but I didn't start with 413M from my parents. how about yourself?
Only one but I sold it and now very (very) comfortably retired. At least he increased the value. Unlike someone you likely admire like Pritzker who inherited billions and built nothing with it. You should get over being envious of others. It’s not healthy.
If you could figure out how to monetize your name for $Millions, you would too. Looks like a case of envy to me
how the hell do you have the slightest idea what I'd do? or are you just projecting your own fantasies?
Nancy this anger you have. See a therapist!!
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
Awesome Nard 😊best response yet 💥
that all makes sense.
Love the last sentence. I am stealing it Nard!
May the Mischief be With You!
Love it too 👍
They should name the operation Project Mischief
That is a perfect name for an operation!
I wish I could take credit for it lol.
And so we pray 🙏. Thank you .
Shared this with friends.
Excellent read.
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!
🤣🤣🤣👍 I had the same thought.
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.
But then, we have never had a business man who also loves human life in charge before.
Trump is one fascinating man.
WOW! 😮. Step by step - direct, clean, clear and understandable! Impressive Nard!
Thank Charlie Garcia 💗
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.
Horrible and inhumane but not a war crime according to former presidents prior to Trump. See Jeff Childer’s substack today.
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 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.
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).
I knew it! 😂😂😂
😂
I had a friend in the later half of the 90’s who wore her thick hair long and straight half way down her back but she had crazy big bangs. It looked so odd. She ran an art gallery next door.
Finally convinced her to go get a trim and wear her bangs straight. She came back from the stylist and she looked drop dead gorgeous. Next day the bangs were big again. 😂
🤣
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.
My prom picture was farrah faucet tubey curls along my face. But I graduated college in 1988. My first career position that fall required photo ID. I swear my bangs were higher than enviable surfing waves. Half the picture height was my bangs. I looked ridiculous wearing a suit with hair like that. 🤣🤣🤣
Mine too Juju. 1974. Still parted in the middle, or just slightly off middle. Better than long hair parted in the middle set with hot rollers before school.
😂😂
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! 🤪 🍹🧉🥡
They were very swoopy bangs but not super high. Your cut sounds pretty awesome though.
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".
Better yet include a ticker showing how many trillions in fraud and the military expenditures will look small in comparison.
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.
Not sure that’s true. But what you’re saying is the equivalent of saying that someone who rapes three women is somehow less bad than someone who rapes five women. Make it make sense.
It does make sense. You are not informed. Too bad so sad for you.
Iran will continue to FA and FO. The IRGC is like the scorpion in the scorpion and the frog story, it’s in their nature to continue attacking, consequences be damned.
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.
Thank you!
The site is safe ... he is just no longer signed up to take credit cards from the site, so it gets flagged
“You will fall into our credit traps or we will discredit you!”
Oy! I really hate the credit industry
He wrote back. On his email list! Thanks!
Bob said just shoot him an Email
"just send an Email to editor@investyourself.com and I'll load them"
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
What is puzzling to me is that I just saw a now viral clip of Hillary in 2008 saying that if she is president, she will ATTACK and “TOTALLY OBLITERATE” Iran. This is what the Dems cheered and voted for. Now suddenly Trump is the monster of monsters (well, the day before anyway) who needs to be impeached. The hypocrisy is stunning.
"Two weeks to flatten the country" - More Jenna Gold!
It is interesting that Trump signed his ceasefire as: "On behalf of the United States of America, as President, and also representing the Countries of the Middle East..." Did I miss an election somewhere? When was he elected to represent countries of the middle east?
Yes, "two weeks to flatten the country" was pure rhetorical genius! 👍🇺🇸❤️
Oh I missed that!! 😭
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.