We are not there yet! Big oil and billionaires have $500 Million Plus to spend to save more than 200 Rs. Please do not get complacent and start registering 18-25s in your neighborhood and at community colleges nearby? Latest poll says they are minus 40% on Trump so let’s get busy, eh? You can do it! Or donate to the best youth register program nationwide at www.TurnUp.US run by former Harvard students all over the country only in “truly competitive” congressional districts! Best money spent!And it’s tax deductible!! Thanks!
If 10,000 people get one person to register to vote, that would be 10,000 more voters. It isn't that hard...I'm up to 108.
No one should be complacent when it comes to saving this country and the Constitution, the very document that keeps a level playing field for all of us.
What would you like to bet that the Rs who lose will cry "foul" and refuse to leave? Supported by their Orange God, of course. Trump will never leave, either. He's planning to live the rest of his life in the secure facility under the tacky ballroom.
Thank you so much, Ira! I will go to www.TurnUp.US and figure out how to use it to register young voters, and I’ll post it on Facebook. Pass the word everybody!
Wonderful! They will welcome you as this group of Harvard students is spectacular in registering young women and following up to focus on voting! The margin of victory! Plus tax deductible!
Thanks, Lucian. We all know that the Dodo’s people never show him real stats, real videos, or introduce him to real admirals or generals who would talk the mentally deranged into sticking his binky into his big fat ugly mouth. Perhaps they would convince him to send Kegseth and Kid Rock to Iran together. Let’s strap them all to these missiles and send them on their merry way.
Iran is totally in control of the Strait of Hormuz, which is very defendible.
Destruction of nuclear capability has not been confirmed.
Iran's funding of terrorists is aided by a massive influx of cash from ships going through the Strait.
The U.S. has lost 13 military members and several hundred have been injured, far too many for Trump's vanity project and greedy bid to control Iran's oil.
Trump has an easy way out of an impossible situation by saying "time's up, we WIN, we're leaving," citing a random deadline for the end of the war.
His address of the nation will be an excrutiatingly long boast consisting of denial of all of the above and embroidered to the hilt. I hope most Americans will not buy it
The only good part of this is that those participating in Seders need not listen to the bloviating fool. We'll learn soon enough what he said and if any of what he says is comprehensible. I'll not waste my time (and my stomach) listening to him.
Unfortunately (or fortunately if it means not having v to listen to him), most US citizens have the same view of him as Iran as far as "the trust factor & honesty. It's so alarming that he's discussing bombing, etc with such a cavalier and casual attitude.
That was from Brenda H. This "war" is illegal, so why are the heads of our military branches allowing our troops to suffer losses? The generals may think it's best not to quit or be fired so they can keep damage to a minimum, but this is ridiculous. It's high past time that the military should be standing up to him, before he decides (perhaps in a slight break from his mid-night texts) to hit the red button! How will they stop that? BH
He wrote, referring to the Strait of Hormuz, “You’ll have to start learning how to fight for yourself. Go get your own oil!”
At his Substack, Paul Krugman says that that means Trump has surrendered and we've lost the war. Of course, we don't know what he will do tomorrow. If he orders the military to destroy Iran's infrastructure, taking out its electricity and water, then the question is whether the military will refuse to commit war crimes.
i think the military is a hotbed of neo-nazis and christian nationalists at the enlisted and non-com level. i always thought people from the military academies were exceptional and ethical. hope i am right about the officer class. of course, the military loves wars because that is when people make rank and bank
If…when…how: three giant unknowns. “The Iranians have no trust!” Is there anyone in this regime who can be trusted, not only by our adversaries or those countries we used to consider allies but by “us” as well? We were warned. The war of choice, Venezuela, Greenland, Gulf of America, White House ballroom, presidential library, the treatment of immigrants, the horrors of DHS, HHS, DOJ, FBI and Congressional Republicans, whose reverence is not to the Constitution but to the ConMan. It’s exhausting.
It's Farsi, not Persian. They teach it at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, CA. They used to teach Vietnamese there back before '73. Lots of other languages have been taught there.
Ah, ah, ah. The local Persians here (and we have a lot of them) refer to themselves as Persians and speak Persian. That's what their kids learn in the afterschool programs about two blocks from me.
You know, I remember, back in the late Seventies, when there were more posters on Telegraph Avenue protesting the Shah in Persian (Arabic lettering of course) than in English. That's what the Persians in Berkeley speak. Nowruz is a big celebration here. Little boys come to school the next day boasting about how many times they jumped the fire the night before. The "Iranians" in Southern California are a different group than the ones in Berkeley.
San Luis Obispo is midway between San Francisco and Los Angeles. It is in what is commonly known as the Central Coast. Of the 45,000 people who live there, about 6000 are Persians. Of those, the overwhelming majority speak a language that they call Farsi. I don’t know what language is spoken by those from Iran in Berkeley. I only know the family of my son-in-law all of whom are from Tehran speak a language known as Farsi. My daughter who is married to a Persian has learned the language known as Farsi and speaks it although she does not do so in Berkeley
Lucian, it's more and more clear you have to be using liquid irony to paint your portrait of a deranged man who more and more resembles George III during the madness of his later years, when the British king would write 400-word-long sentences and speak, according to a court observer, until he was "exhausted."
No, no. Liquid irony is the secret ink color that terrific writers like Lucian sometimes put in their Parker 51 pens. Oh, dear. I guess I shouldn't have given that away. Ethyl Alcohol is the dame Pete Kegsbreath is dating. Please scatter laughing emojis throughout this reply.
Through the Strait of Hormuz after paying a "toll" to Iran. But 47 chose to celebrate the first few ships transiting the Strait as if he had successfully negotiated this. His disconnect from reality is getting worse by the day.
Strongly suggest Bill McKibben's writings of this last couple days describing the clean energy projects all over the world and that California runs on.
It may be that someone in the military has finally told taco that no war has ever been won by bombing alone, and if we commit ground forces we will lose because our forces are not trained, or equipped to win a drone war.
Our armed forces could have been a year closer to being, “drone ready”, had we accepted the agreement, proffered by the Ukrainians to give us the technical knowhow, manufacturing data , and most importantly the battlefield experience they have gained by using Drone Warfare to stop the Russians in their tracks.
A year later, the offer still stands, but taco will never do that deal! Why? I used to think it was because putin is taco’s idol. Lately, I have begun to think the real reason is that taco is afraid of putin. After all, he is the most cowardly person I know of.
Or he can't bear to appear less knowledgeable compared to Ukraine's leader & military. The way he & Vance treated him w/their bs about "you don't hold the cards" still enrages me. I'm surprised that Trump didn't try to follow that up w/ the sale of special decks of cards! BH
" the only regime change I can see on the horizon is right here at home in November when the Republican regime loses control of Congress."
Now that's a welcome change you can get used to!
We are not there yet! Big oil and billionaires have $500 Million Plus to spend to save more than 200 Rs. Please do not get complacent and start registering 18-25s in your neighborhood and at community colleges nearby? Latest poll says they are minus 40% on Trump so let’s get busy, eh? You can do it! Or donate to the best youth register program nationwide at www.TurnUp.US run by former Harvard students all over the country only in “truly competitive” congressional districts! Best money spent!And it’s tax deductible!! Thanks!
If 10,000 people get one person to register to vote, that would be 10,000 more voters. It isn't that hard...I'm up to 108.
No one should be complacent when it comes to saving this country and the Constitution, the very document that keeps a level playing field for all of us.
Thank you! Terrific work and results!
Not only that, but Trump won’t recognize any Democratic win as legitimate.
What would you like to bet that the Rs who lose will cry "foul" and refuse to leave? Supported by their Orange God, of course. Trump will never leave, either. He's planning to live the rest of his life in the secure facility under the tacky ballroom.
I think you’re right. They will refuse to leave, and Trump will cry fraud once more.
Thank you so much, Ira! I will go to www.TurnUp.US and figure out how to use it to register young voters, and I’ll post it on Facebook. Pass the word everybody!
Wonderful! They will welcome you as this group of Harvard students is spectacular in registering young women and following up to focus on voting! The margin of victory! Plus tax deductible!
Just posted the link on Facebook! Thanks, Ira!
Terrific thanks
Ditto
Thank you, Adam! We have to get ready for November.
His go to school yard bully bitch moves. ‘Yeah I had my friend hit you but you better not hit me’
So transparently imbecilic it’s painful to watch.
His incoherent ramblings make the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party the height of diplomatic brilliance.
Thanks, Lucian. We all know that the Dodo’s people never show him real stats, real videos, or introduce him to real admirals or generals who would talk the mentally deranged into sticking his binky into his big fat ugly mouth. Perhaps they would convince him to send Kegseth and Kid Rock to Iran together. Let’s strap them all to these missiles and send them on their merry way.
An echo of Slim Pickens as Major T. J. "King" Kong riding an atomic bomb as it dropped on the USSR in "Dr. Strangelove."
No fighting in the war room.
😂😂
Say it loud and say it clear, Lawrence!
What an image! I saw the movie!
I saw it more than once, too!
On a side note, this afternoon while sitting at a traffic light, I saw a message chalked on a street utility box: "Send Trump's boys to Iraq!"
So nice of him to address the nation during the first Passover Seder.
The regime stays in place in Iran.
Iran continues to bomb other countries.
Iran is totally in control of the Strait of Hormuz, which is very defendible.
Destruction of nuclear capability has not been confirmed.
Iran's funding of terrorists is aided by a massive influx of cash from ships going through the Strait.
The U.S. has lost 13 military members and several hundred have been injured, far too many for Trump's vanity project and greedy bid to control Iran's oil.
Trump has an easy way out of an impossible situation by saying "time's up, we WIN, we're leaving," citing a random deadline for the end of the war.
His address of the nation will be an excrutiatingly long boast consisting of denial of all of the above and embroidered to the hilt. I hope most Americans will not buy it
- Karen Cooper
The MAGA base will believe him.
I have a feeling that the MAGA base has been diluted somewhat...
The only good part of this is that those participating in Seders need not listen to the bloviating fool. We'll learn soon enough what he said and if any of what he says is comprehensible. I'll not waste my time (and my stomach) listening to him.
Unfortunately (or fortunately if it means not having v to listen to him), most US citizens have the same view of him as Iran as far as "the trust factor & honesty. It's so alarming that he's discussing bombing, etc with such a cavalier and casual attitude.
That was from Brenda H. This "war" is illegal, so why are the heads of our military branches allowing our troops to suffer losses? The generals may think it's best not to quit or be fired so they can keep damage to a minimum, but this is ridiculous. It's high past time that the military should be standing up to him, before he decides (perhaps in a slight break from his mid-night texts) to hit the red button! How will they stop that? BH
he is a monster, devoid of character
Rat!
The perfect schmuck thing to do.
No doubt it'll be when we open the door for Elijah - and Miriam.
He wrote, referring to the Strait of Hormuz, “You’ll have to start learning how to fight for yourself. Go get your own oil!”
At his Substack, Paul Krugman says that that means Trump has surrendered and we've lost the war. Of course, we don't know what he will do tomorrow. If he orders the military to destroy Iran's infrastructure, taking out its electricity and water, then the question is whether the military will refuse to commit war crimes.
i think the military is a hotbed of neo-nazis and christian nationalists at the enlisted and non-com level. i always thought people from the military academies were exceptional and ethical. hope i am right about the officer class. of course, the military loves wars because that is when people make rank and bank
Isn't up to not the "military" but to the top general? (I forget his name.) That's what Krugman seemed to say. https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-psychology-of-military-incompetence
Gotta train those junior officers and ncos on a regular schedule...not to mention keeping the material class supplied with $$$!
If…when…how: three giant unknowns. “The Iranians have no trust!” Is there anyone in this regime who can be trusted, not only by our adversaries or those countries we used to consider allies but by “us” as well? We were warned. The war of choice, Venezuela, Greenland, Gulf of America, White House ballroom, presidential library, the treatment of immigrants, the horrors of DHS, HHS, DOJ, FBI and Congressional Republicans, whose reverence is not to the Constitution but to the ConMan. It’s exhausting.
Twenty Fifth Amendment. I know it's just a dream.
When we do finally get rid of this regime, how do we end this war?
Speaking Persian
It's Farsi, not Persian. They teach it at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, CA. They used to teach Vietnamese there back before '73. Lots of other languages have been taught there.
Ah, ah, ah. The local Persians here (and we have a lot of them) refer to themselves as Persians and speak Persian. That's what their kids learn in the afterschool programs about two blocks from me.
I imagine it's a little dodgy to call yourself "Iranian" in the US at the moment. . .
My son-in-law who lives in San Luis Obispo was born in Tehran. It’s Farsi, not Persian.
Dear Donald I'm ok with your Farsi. It definitely is the main speech in Tehran. In Afghanistan its called Dari and Tajiki in Tajikistan.
All are a dialect of Persian. A Endo-European language.
Again I intentionally used the word Persian for my own conscience thoughts about Iranian history and today's Iranian government leaders.
I aloogize for this diatribe as I prefer one word or one line posts.
Your pal
ERNEST H
Also know as
GERONIMO
Sumar-Elam
Kilgamesh
INDO-European, maybe?
You enlightened me. I appreciate your knowledge! Thank you! 😊
You know, I remember, back in the late Seventies, when there were more posters on Telegraph Avenue protesting the Shah in Persian (Arabic lettering of course) than in English. That's what the Persians in Berkeley speak. Nowruz is a big celebration here. Little boys come to school the next day boasting about how many times they jumped the fire the night before. The "Iranians" in Southern California are a different group than the ones in Berkeley.
San Luis Obispo is midway between San Francisco and Los Angeles. It is in what is commonly known as the Central Coast. Of the 45,000 people who live there, about 6000 are Persians. Of those, the overwhelming majority speak a language that they call Farsi. I don’t know what language is spoken by those from Iran in Berkeley. I only know the family of my son-in-law all of whom are from Tehran speak a language known as Farsi. My daughter who is married to a Persian has learned the language known as Farsi and speaks it although she does not do so in Berkeley
Sorry to have to disagree with you
Thanks Donald. I knew that.
I purposely said Persian.
"Persian (known locally as Farsi) is Iran's official language."
Also 6 other languages.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8iovyTeZM8
How the Heck did Oswald Learn Russian? w/ Jim DiEugenio and Mark Adamczyk
I'll pass on the bullshit festival tonight. It's stacked up way too high already.
The trust level is zero-true words
I read that t is going to make a national speech on Iran on Wednesday.I hope someone manages to watch and report on it!
😶 Sorry. Don't count on me. BH
In the evening? I’ll be sure to watch!
I have to clean my toilets. Or something... 🤔
Lucian, it's more and more clear you have to be using liquid irony to paint your portrait of a deranged man who more and more resembles George III during the madness of his later years, when the British king would write 400-word-long sentences and speak, according to a court observer, until he was "exhausted."
I read this as irony that flows through his mind and onto the page ... gummies might help :-)
Exactamundo. (Warning: approaching cliche): Whatever floats your boat.
If you mean ethyl alcohol by "liquid irony", Lucian IV has written he doesn't drink it--at all.
No, no. Liquid irony is the secret ink color that terrific writers like Lucian sometimes put in their Parker 51 pens. Oh, dear. I guess I shouldn't have given that away. Ethyl Alcohol is the dame Pete Kegsbreath is dating. Please scatter laughing emojis throughout this reply.
I've never encountered this English usage before.
Probably because it was part of what I'm very charitably calling my creative juices. I apologize. Sometimes cleverness is confusing, not clarifying.
What happened to those 8 or 10 or 24 or whatever "big beautiful gifts" Iran was sending him? I wonder where those went?
Through the Strait of Hormuz after paying a "toll" to Iran. But 47 chose to celebrate the first few ships transiting the Strait as if he had successfully negotiated this. His disconnect from reality is getting worse by the day.
Back into his addled mind where they came from.
Our freaking president.
Imagine a Pesach where 80% of the earth’s energy needs were powered by alternative methods, (not fossil fuels).
I would think The Strait of Hormuz becomes vastly less important; and, oil company campaign dollars begin to evaporate.
Strongly suggest Bill McKibben's writings of this last couple days describing the clean energy projects all over the world and that California runs on.
That's why I have a tiny sliver of hope that this is the silver lining in this nightmare.
Reminds me of the greed of the "Robber Barons"... BH
It may be that someone in the military has finally told taco that no war has ever been won by bombing alone, and if we commit ground forces we will lose because our forces are not trained, or equipped to win a drone war.
Our armed forces could have been a year closer to being, “drone ready”, had we accepted the agreement, proffered by the Ukrainians to give us the technical knowhow, manufacturing data , and most importantly the battlefield experience they have gained by using Drone Warfare to stop the Russians in their tracks.
A year later, the offer still stands, but taco will never do that deal! Why? I used to think it was because putin is taco’s idol. Lately, I have begun to think the real reason is that taco is afraid of putin. After all, he is the most cowardly person I know of.
Or he can't bear to appear less knowledgeable compared to Ukraine's leader & military. The way he & Vance treated him w/their bs about "you don't hold the cards" still enrages me. I'm surprised that Trump didn't try to follow that up w/ the sale of special decks of cards! BH
Yes! Gold edged cards, with his bitcoin on the back of each.
With Trump as The king of hearts.
Thanks! I hadn’t considered that.