Saturday, March 28, 2026

The Irony Of This Guy…

... getting the Mark Twain Prize is enough to make Samuel Clemens roll over in his grave. 

(All wars are “defensive wars” to the warring parties. Every country that starts a war does it first “protection.”)
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Banana Republicanism

Chavez took them away from Chevron. The same “crime” that caused us to put the Shah on the Peacock Throne in Iran. 25 years later, the Iranian youth replaced Pahlavi with Khomeini, and took their oil back.

Now we’re cutting out the middleman in Venezuela? Because apparently we do learn from history?

All the wrong lessons….
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Dogs Know

And some people:
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Is It 2001 Again? (And I Don’t Mean The Movie)

At least per the ads, Sharia law and being “agin” it, were hot topics in the GOP primary.
“Since 1965, we’ve allowed immigration from lots of places in the world whose culture and values do not align with America,” French said.
He’s in a runoff for the party nomination, if that tells you anything.
“I’m going to say something that’s going to make some people uncomfortable: The problem is, we call it Sharia [law], but the problem is actually Islam,” French said. “If they can infiltrate Texas and conquer Texas, then what’s going to happen? They’re going to be able to control the United States.”
The Texas Railroad Commission regulates oil and gas production in Texas (OPEC was modeled on it). Unless Sharia law is going to affect oil production in the Permian Basin, I got no idea why French cares. He is from Midland (Permian Basin area), and there ain’t many Muslims out there. Plenty in Houston, and none of them are forcing the rest of us to follow Sharia law.
Texas is home to more than 300,000 Muslims — more than all but four states — and long-established Muslim communities in Houston and North Texas. As of 2017, Muslims made up less than 2% of the state population.
In fact, some Muslims sued the State to allow Muslim schools access to the new voucher program. But that was Constitutional law, not Islamic (1st and 14th amendments).

I still don’t think this insanity plays well outside the Texas GOP sandbox, but we’ll see.
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Three Minutes Plus To Wait For The Wave And Fist Pump To…

… nobody. There’s literally no one on the ground at the end of the plane. It’s tarmac. It’s empty space. 

🤷‍♂️
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Nobody Could Have Foreseen

The price of gas is not going back down, either:
For nearly four weeks, the crude oil market has displayed remarkable resilience, holding together in the face of a 17.8 million barrels-per-day trade flow lost out of the Strait of Hormuz (of which 14.2 million bpd is crude and condensates).

The relatively muted price reaction was possible because the market entered this crisis with a heavily buffered system. But that buffer has disappeared.

The global oil system can no longer absorb shocks the way it could three weeks ago.

Any secondary disruption that would have generated a linear, manageable price response in a buffered system - such as an outage at the CPC pipeline from the Caspian through Russia, an active hurricane season, or infrastructure damage at Yanbu or Fujairah - would now hit a market with no absorptive capacity left.

The floor has moved up.

So has the ceiling.

And critically, the distance between a routine supply event and a disproportionate price move has collapsed.

This is no longer a market that is tight for a couple of weeks, it is a market that will be fragile for longer. That distinction is what the crude oil price does not yet fully reflect.

Before this conflict, the world was expecting a crude oil surplus of roughly 3.0 million bpd this year, onshore and offshore inventories were ample, and there was healthy spare production capacity, albeit very localized.

Those combined "extra" barrels allowed the market to absorb a supply shock that, in any other starting configuration, would have caused prices to react more violently.

Those buffers are now largely consumed, and the system that absorbed the initial shock is not the system operating today. Nearly 500 million barrels of total liquids have been lost in the disruption so far.

The combined policy response of strategic petroleum reserve (SPR) releases by the International Energy Agency (IEA) and waivers of sanctions against Russian and Iranian crude amount to about the same volume. In addition, excluding offshore inventories, the release rate of those policy barrels is far slower than the 17.8 million bpd loss rate of crude and oil products combined.
And Donald Trump’s ignorance is driving the bus:
For example, when he gave a February speech at the US Institute of Peace headquarters building in Washington, DC, which his administration seized from the nonprofit organization last year, he claimed, “It’s brand new, they built it for peace, but nobody occupied it. You know, nobody knew what the purpose of it (was).” In fact, it was known to numerous people in the federal government and in the broader capital that the building had been custom-built as a home for the US Institute of Peace, which had occupied it since 2011.

Was Trump lying, or did he not know this himself and therefore assume nobody else knew either? Nobody knows.
Sometimes Trump says “Nobody knew” to make himself look smart. Sometimes he does it to blind himself to his own ignorance. Either way, we’re going to be paying for it for a long time. Too bad we had no way of knowing….
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The Subtle Knife

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Maybe The Best Take On The FCC Chair At CPAC

BTW, yes, this CPAC: CPAC is in Texas this year. And MAGA is forcing Trump to back away from endorsing Cornyn in the Senate primary runoff.  Which I think is very good news for Talarico.  Because CPAC is pretty much dead, anyway (as is MAGA):
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Friday, March 27, 2026

Going In Circles

Identify three. It’s the picture…. Shit? Or go blind? Trump’s options. Not the flex he thinks it is. Wait! You mean the body count is a lie?

So when Trump says Iran is decimated, and he means “totally destroyed” (which is not what the word means), he’s “overstating” the situation? Huh. Next thing, you gonna tell me, he’s not trustworthy.
Huh. He doesn’t know what that word means, either. Nobody else knows what that word means. And with that, we end where we began.
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Trump Thinks He’s Jesus. Finds Out The World Ignored Jesus, Too

Yeah, about that. Trump’s not controlling the war, either. He’s been saying that for two weeks. “Deal” is the only word he knows. It’s the only concept he has. In his mouth, it’s absolutely meaningless. It only means: “I get what I want.” Whether he does or not, he tells himself he did. See? It doesn’t mean anything. Because he has no idea what he’s doing.
And the deathly irony remains that whilst it would prefer not to have been attacked in the first place, the latter is exactly what Iran too wants - it is a great big trap. As we have said repeatedly the Iranian regime has always known it cannot take on America head-on - but it can draw it into a humiliating guerilla war that will cost huge numbers of lives. And it can try and out-cost the US, forcing it to spend even more than the billions it has already cost, whilst also costing the Gulf States billions in Patriot missiles. And this is by using £30,000 drones against multi-million pound Patriot defence missiles to bankrupt Trump’s war machine into a retreat.

He has constantly bragged Israel has no navy or air force. The same could have been said for the Viet Cong and the Taliban and look where that got the States and other militaries that sacrificed troops, such as the UK, helping its war against terror. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has done extremely well, playing for time and resisting Trump’s infantile baiting of the UK to try and get this country involved in offensive operations. But what happens if a UK ship or base is hit by a missile, causing casualties?

But not before, it seems, Trump is tempted into a ground war against hundreds of thousands, perhaps a million, of Iranian IRGC and Artesh regular forces that cannot be won. It does not take 17,000 ground troops to win against those odds and it is likely Trump has already been told this. Even with defections and airstrikes a ground invasion of Iran would be a long-term and bloody nightmare. The same goes for the taking of Kharg Island and perhaps a special forces raid on Iran’s nuclear sites to seize its enriched uranium. This will be Trump’s undoing and the same goes for anyone else who goes along with it.
It’s certainly not Venezuela. Even Trump understands that. I’m not even sure Netenyahu wants regime change. He just wants to keep Israel in a permanent state of war. That, or he’s seriously delusional enough to want to destroy all his neighbors. Which makes him seem like Hitler, actually.

Maybe that’s why Trump is attracted to him. 🤷‍♂️

Anyway, regime change is not coming to Iran. Chaos is the best outcome, but, broken record here, that sounds more and more like Vietnam. We had a Navy; we had an army; we had an Air Force . We dropped more tonnage on Vietnam than in WWII. And we withdrew, finally.

We aren’t going to conquer Iran, because it is not Iraq. Or Venezuela. 

And Trump is trying to find someone to blame. Like he tried to blame China for Covid. Someone to blame so he can tell himself he won.

And how did that work out?
The new cause celebre. But if this is all Carr can brag about, he’s got nothing. CNN has been a joke so long Jake Tapper isn’t even a punchline anymore. Colbert was cancelled because Johnny Carson is dead and late night talk shows died with him (who has ever claimed the mantle? Or for that matter, replaced Jack Parr? Or Steve Allen?). CBS is being driven into the grave by Paramount and the news division. (It was always overrated.) Joy Reid? MS N——- (whatever) hasn’t kept anybody in their lineup except Scarborough for more than a few years, and he’s still more liberal than anyone on FoxNews not named Jessica. Times change, talking heads change. Carr is trying to take credit for the tides and the passage of time. Two more years and he’ll be less remembered than Newton Minow, who at least was memorialized in a sitcom. Carr is the empty suit whose greatest accomplishment was seeing Jimmy Kimmel get back on the air. I discard him.

Don’t make them more than they are.
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So Now…

...we’re blaming Netenyahu for our naïveté and ignorance? 

Well, I mean, that tracks. Netenyahu talked us into this.  I just didn’t expect them to be quite so open about it.

Or so easily found out.
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How It’s Going At CPAC

Earlier that same day:
During a live discussion at CPAC on Friday, Bannon asked right-wing journalist James Rickards what oil prices were signaling to Trump.

"Wall Street doesn't sell stocks. They sell narratives to get you to buy stocks," Rickards said. "The narrative is the war's going to be over in a few weeks. Yeah, the price of oil is higher, but it's going to come back down. We'll get through this. Trump's got a plan, et cetera."

"None of that is true. This war is going to go on for much longer," he continued. "Escalation is the only path."

"This is far worse than Wall Street expects. I think investors would be well advised to get some cash and trim your exposure."

Bannon then pressed for cheers from the crowd.

"Let me see a show of hands. The American citizens here, the MAGA patriots, are you prepared to bear a little pain to get this problem solved?" he prompted

Four people raised their hands as the crowd reacted with near silence.
😎
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The Law School She Attended Should Be Shamed

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
U.S. Constitution, 14th Amendment, Sec. I  "...born or naturalized…” In case AG Bondi thinks naturalized citizens are permanently contingent; or native born citizens are subject to political approval.

There is seriously no context where this statement doesn’t reveal blank ignorance of the law. What she’s ostensibly referring to is judicial proceedings to undo individual cases of naturalization where the process was destroyed by fraud. If I describe it as a high legal bar, I’m doing it right. Given the state of her DOJ:
In contesting the injunction, ICE's legal team twice cited Planned Parenthood v. Rounds for the propositions that mandatory injunctions are "particularly disfavored" and that plaintiffs must meet a "heavy and compelling weight of evidence" standard.

Neither quote appears in that case, nor in any Eighth Circuit case the judge could find.

"Neither of these quotes appear in Planned Parenthood, nor in any Eighth Circuit case the Court has found that addresses injunctions," Brasel wrote flatly. "Even under the most charitable of readings, Planned Parenthood cannot possibly stand for such a proposition; the case discusses the heightened burden that applies to enjoining state statutes and does not involve mandatory injunctions at all."

"The Eighth Circuit does not apply—and has specifically rejected—a heightened standard for mandatory injunctions," the judge wrote.

The nonexistent citations came in a case where the judge had already found ICE's sole witness not credible, calling the witness's testimony "inconsistent at best and incredible at worst." To boot, the agency was found to have violated detainees' Fifth Amendment rights by blocking access to attorneys during Operation Metro Surge.
A snowball in hell has a better chance than her agency does with denaturalizing citizens. This is all just bleating to the cameras for her audience of one, the man who thinks he has a 100% approval rating.

Bondi is unfit to hold a law license, much less be USAG. Stupid and intemperate comments used to be grounds for public rebuke, at least. Now, it’s just Friday.
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Nothing To See Here

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Going Down Smooth*

Additionally, U.S. President Donald J. Trump has appointed Vice President JD Vance as the principal U.S. decision-maker to lead efforts to end the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. This, amidst an uptempo in Israeli strikes and promises by Israeli decision-makers to increase strikes on Iran.
Since the start of Operation Epic Fury, the ongoing strike campaign against the Islamic Republic of Iran which began roughly four weeks ago on February 28, the U.S. Navy has utilized over 850 BGM-109 Tomahawk Land Attack Cruise Missiles (TLAM) on targets throughout Iran, burning through precision weapons at a rate that has alarmed some Pentagon officials, according to the Washington Post.

Prior to the start of the Iran War, it was assessed by the American Enterprise Institute that the Navy had an inventory of between 4,000-4,500 Tomahawks, with only a few hundred being produced every year, while other naval analysts have said the number could be much lower, perhaps closer to 3,000, following their extensive use in recent operations, including the Trump Administration’s strikes last year in Iran, Yemen and Nigeria.
Kids breaking their toys and expecting Daddy to buy them some more. And for all that:
According to Reuters, citing sources with knowledge on the matter, the U.S. can only determine with certainty that they have destroyed about a third of Iran’s missile arsenal. Another third of the arsenal, buried in underground facilities that have been targeted in ongoing strikes, cannot be counted with certainty as destroyed.
But I was assured the war was over and Iran had no military left.
In addition to the 850 Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles (TLAM) that have been expended, the Washington Post reports that the U.S. military has also has fired more than 1,000 of its much more advanced and limited supply of air-defense interceptor missiles in defending against retaliatory attacks by Iran. These include hundreds of interceptors fired by the U.S. Army’s MIM-104 “Patriot” Surface-to-Air Missile and Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) Systems, and SM-3 Exoatmospheric Ballistic Missile Interceptors launched by Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers with the U.S. Navy.



*The title of a Robert Silverberg story about a computer (today we would say “AI”) programmed to provide psychological counseling, which slowly goes mad from exposure to its patients (learning!), and hides its neuroses from its programmers (more learning!)

Be careful what you ask for, lest the inmates take over the asylum.
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Fortunately, For Those Of Us Who Don’t Speak French (🙋‍♂️), It Is Captioned

If there is precisely one thing you watch today, make it this. French Senator Claude Malhuret. A microphone. And the most magnificently savage dismantling of the Trump administration ever delivered in a language they almost certainly don’t speak.

He covers Iran. He covers corruption. He covers the kind of staggering, industrial-scale incompetence that would get you fired from managing a car park. And he does it with the calm, unhurried certainty of a man who has read every page of the indictment and found it, if anything, worse than expected.

France has never pretended to like these people. But this is contempt elevated to an art form. The kind of refined, aristocratic disdain that takes centuries of civilization to produce and approximately ninety seconds to deploy.

Malhuret sounds like he is four seconds from the button. Not out of panic. Out of sheer, exhausted disgust.

Honestly? Understandable.

Watch it. Share it. The adults are speaking.
It reminds me that Garrison Keillor once called the French “the most adult people on the planet.”
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This Is Fine

A cognitive test of the type he took (the MOCA) is to determine dementia. NOBODY is given that test unless it's suspected they have dementia. NOBODY is given that test TWICE, unless it's gauging progression. And NOBODY aces a cognitive exam. That's like acing a breathalyzer when you're sober.
"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.” —Ian Fleming 
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Ain’t That America?

U.S. bases across the Middle East have been severely damaged.

American troops are being hunted by Iranian forces as they relocate to hotels and makeshift sites. And the administration still has not given members of Congress any meaningful briefing on what is happening.

Members of Congress are learning about the conduct of this war from the press. That is completely unacceptable. This war was launched without our approval, and it is being prosecuted without our oversight. Even some Republicans are now raising serious questions.

The American people and their elected representatives deserve real answers.

Trump and Hegseth are running an unauthorized war in secret, and it’s totally outrageous.
Speaking of reality: This is a BFD. And we have Trump and Hegseth in charge. 😵‍💫
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Pot Complains About Complexion Of Kettle

According to Barak Ravid, U.S. Vice President JD Vance had a difficult call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday where he said that Israeli assessments for toppling the Iranian regime were not realistic enough, saying "You were too optimistic in your assessments regarding the overthrow of the regime in Iran."
"I killed Paul.” (The White House’s grip on reality is getting all sweaty.)
The IRGC has rejected U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s characterization of talks, denying the “big present” that the president announced yesterday, saying “ This morning, following the false statements of the corrupt U.S. president claiming that the Strait of Hormuz is open, three container ships of different nationalities moved toward the designated corridor for authorized vessel traffic, but were turned back after warnings from the IRGC Navy,”
I was told we’d destroyed the Iranian Navy.

🤔
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Thursday, March 26, 2026

♟️

Also, too, as well: No, no, no, it was all the Democrats’ fault. You just don’t understand how to play fourth dimensional chess. ♟️ "Pawns.” Heh.*

And yes, that announcement came after this happened:
Coincidence? I think not.


*No, Trump can’t do this.  But was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
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For The Record

U.S. President Donald J. Trump is weighing several options for dramatically escalating the Iran War should his latest push for diplomacy fail, with Pentagon officials preparing for the next phase of war by drawing up scenarios for deploying troops to seize various targets within Iran, more than half a dozen people familiar with the discussions told CNN.

Officials have developed options for capturing Kharg Island, which handles roughly 90% of Iran’s crude exports, or authorizing a bombing raid aimed at effectively wiping out all oil infrastructure on the island in the Persian Gulf. And the administration has examined the potential for taking over other strategically placed islands near Iran that might weaken the regime’s ability to threaten tankers trying to traverse the Strait of Hormuz.
Either scenario probably renders the facilities unusable. Which is not going to stabilize the market; or lower the price. And weakening Iran’s ability to threaten tankers is not the same thing as eliminating the ability. Unless you do the latter, or otherwise convince Iran to back off, the strait doesn’t open. Worst case scenario, Iran blows up a tanker in the narrowest, shallowest part of the Strait.*

And blocks traffic for a long time.

There is no military scenario where this ends well, quickly, and the world resets to status quo. 

As Anthony Blinken put it:
(4/10) What would have happened if President Trump had just left the JCPOA in place? When the JCPOA expired, it could be extended or renegotiated, as with most arms control agreements. If Iran refused, the U.S. would still retain the military option, with a lot more information about Iran’s program, because of the most intrusive inspections ever.
5h (5/10) Now, we have to be able to hold multiple ideas in our heads at the same time. Once our armed forces are engaged in conflict we should all be pulling for their safety and success. Is it a good thing the Ayatollah who inflicted so much suffering on the Iranian people (and wrought so much violence around the world, including on Americans) is gone, Iran’s missile arsenal is diminished, and its nuclear program “re-obliterated” (since apparently it wasn’t “obliterated” in June)? Yes. But to what ends, at what cost, and for how long?
(8/10) The failure to anticipate and prepare for Iran weaponizing the Strait of Hormuz puts us literally at the bottom of the barrel. Markets (oil, LNG, stocks, bonds, fertilizer, helium) and munitions (offensive and defensive) will dictate when President Trump feels compelled to declare victory and walk away, but with Iran controlling the Strait. Maybe a negotiation can fix that, but with what concessions to Iran? Or we can double down, at huge risk.
(9/10) Meanwhile, 13 American servicemembers have lost their lives and hundreds more have been wounded. The Iranian people are still under the fist of a highly repressive regime. Iran and Russia are getting an oil bonanza. America is more isolated than ever from our closest allies and partners. And billions more U.S. taxpayer dollars are being spent on another war in the Middle East (with an additional $200 billion requested from the Pentagon to fund this war). Not to mention the failure to make the case to the American people for why this was necessary, in their interest, or worth risking American lives for.

Trump truly is a toddler with a shotgun. And we are all stuck in the room with him.  By “all,” I mean all the world. And I can never forget we, the electorate, put him, and us, there.

The Iranians have actually shown restraint in their targeting. If we take Kharg island and thereby deny Iranian access to oil revenues, then they have the incentive to attack all the oil infrastructure in the gulf. We can't protect our own bases, let alone all the oil and gas storage, pumping and loading facilities across a wide swath of the Middle East. Throw in sinking a half dozen tankers to emphasize their point and oil prices will soar. They won't come down anytime soon given that restoration will only begin after hostilities cease, and repairs could take years.
Iran attacking other oilfields and facilities is perfectly predictable. I wonder if that turns us into a pariah state?
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✒️ v ⚔️

CNN cut back to Trump, who embarked on a four-minute tale about ink pens, with a brief discursion into his ongoing grievances against Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and renovations at the central bank's headquarters, and the entire room burst into laughter as he wrapped up his story and handed off to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
Fact check: true!
Trump: You see this pen right here? This pen is very inexpensive. But it writes well. I like it. Sharpie. I came here. They had $1,000 pens. You hand out pens. You hand them to people. 30, 40 people. They were $1,000 a piece. Beautiful pen, ball point. I hand out to kids that don't know. It's kid getting a pen for $1,000. They have no idea what it is.

I had another problem. They didn’t write well. I sign—no ink. I have all you people looking and say there must be something wrong with Trump. There is no ink in the pen. It cost $1,000.
Yeah...no. You can spend $1000 on very high end fountain pens. I seriously doubt Trump could use one. Most people can’t, these days. Books are available now, to instruct on how to use them. Which is reason to conclude no one in the White House is passing out $1000 pens, to children or anyone else.

Although I’m sure Trump is already seeking a supplier for $1500 Trump MAGA sharpies. With gold (colored) ink, of course.

Only the best gaudiest.
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This Only Gets Worse

U.S. President Donald J. Trump appears to be leaning toward ordering a “major ground operation” against Iran, involving the seizure of Iran’s Kharg Island in the Northern Persian Gulf, with Washington convinced Tehran will buckle under such military pressure, an official from one of the countries mediating between the U.S. and Iran tells The Times of Israel.
Weren’t they supposed to have buckled by now?
Another official warns that while the U.S. may be able to capture the island, holding onto it for an extended period of time will require many more soldiers and an extended period of fighting - far beyond the four-to-six week window that Washington has told the public the Iran War would last.
Trump wants out. Trump wants to win. What happens when he can’t have either outcome?
President Trump on negotiations with Iran: “I mean, the problem with the issue of the Hormuz Straits is this: We've decimated them as a military. No air force, no navy, very few rockets left. We blew up so many. Hard to manufacture them. Same thing with drones. The leadership is gone. The problem with the Straits is this: Let's say we do a great job. We say we got 99%. 1% is unacceptable, because 1% is a missile going into the hull of a ship that cost a billion dollars, right? So 1% is not... If we do a 99% decimation, that's no good. So it's really, you know... I have a feeling it's going to clean up pretty quickly. I could just say this. They want to make -- they want to make -- and I probably hurt our little negotiation. It gives them a little impetus to say, ‘Well, I wish you didn't say that.’ But they said yesterday that we weren't negotiating with them, and now they admit that we were negotiating with them. So they want to make a deal. The reason they want to make a deal is they have been just beat to shit.
Then why do we need to take Kharg Island? To beat their shit into shit?

And how does that open the Strait? Trump is right: 1% is too great a risk. Ask Lloyds.

The missiles can come from further away than Kharg Island. And if you take it, why shouldn’t they keep the Strait closed? What have they got to lose, at that point?

Or has nobody imagined that yet?
According to U.S. President Donald J. Trump, the “big present” that Iran gave to the U.S. was allowing 8-10 tankers full of oil through the Strait of Hormuz, as the president mentioned the transit of a few Pakistani-flagged vessels, but failed to mention if this applies at all to U.S., Gulf nation, and Israeli vessels.
The price of WTI is over $94.  It was $88 on Monday. That’s American oil, as Trump likes to think. I guess the present wasn’t that big, after all.

Wait a minute. 
Trump: As per Iranian Government request, please let this statement serve to represent that I am pausing the period of Energy Plant destruction by 10 Days to Monday, April 6, 2026, at 8 P.M., Eastern Time. Talks are ongoing and, despite erroneous statements to the contrary by the Fake News Media, and others, they are going very well.
Never mind. I guess.
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Are They Still Talking?

"Require them” is not the defense of your actions you think it is. And it’s hollowing out the DOJ. To argue that the DOJ has been full of partisan actors since at least the Watergate reforms, is to argue everyone in the world is crazy except you and me; and I’m not so sure about you.

Not sound, I mean. You do see that, don’t you? Because if you don’t, it’s not a stronger defense of your position.
He really needs to stop now.
MacFarlane: Another question asks, “Have any of those who were pardoned been sent back to jail for other offenses?”

There have been dozens who have been jailed, charged, or arrested in other cases, including a man who was accused of firing a gun outside the Capitol during the U.S. Capitol siege. He is now facing charges in Utah for a previous alleged crime, but he was caught and arrested after his pardon.

There was also a breaking-and-entering case involving a pardoned January 6 defendant that went to sentencing. And in a threats case in New York, a man accused of threatening a Democratic member of the U.S. House pleaded guilty—that was after his pardon.
Blanche: When it comes to the FBI… Director Patel has cleaned house there too. There is not a single man or woman with a gun, federal agent, still in that organization that had anything to do with the prosecution of President Trump.

President Trump for the first time in modern history has said I am the president and if you work in the executive branch, you work for me. And guess what? We can all read the constitution. He's right. And unfortunately, past administrations, Republican included, have just resigned themselves to putting up with partisan actors within the DOJ. We do not.
Ah, context. Clearly Blanche has a different version of the Constitution than the rest of us have. And a different concept of the “rule of law.” 

It doesn’t work that way, of course.
Not in the way you mean. Ask Jim Comey. Ask Letitia James. Or Fed Chairman Powell.  Or look at the record number of grand jury no bills you’ve racked up. 

Blanche is as full of 💩 as his boss.
Damn that rule of law that won’t let Trump do whatever wanders across the wasteland of his mind. The tests are for evidence of dementia. Taking them three times (at least)  indicates concern, not competence.
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You Can’t Argue With A Hat

Well, if it’s a hat. And it’s new! But! He’s right about everything! 😵‍💫 And yet he can’t make the connection…. Why does he keep asking for them? Dementia this early in the morning? With the whatever... you know what he meant.
Trump: "Let me set the record straight because I've been watching the Wall Street Journal's fake news and all these stories like, 'Oh, I want to make a deal.' They are begging to make a deal, not me. They're begging to make a deal. I don't know if we'll be able to do that. I don't know if we're willing to do that."
🐂 💩 People in the room aren’t saying “Trump” enough. The lack of self awareness would be interesting, if not for the situation. So, Iran used their own money, returned to them in exchange for ending their nuclear program. And then Trump tore that up because Bibi told him to; and here we are. I’m sorry, what was your point, again? King's ‘X’. And it’s not fraud, says the man convicted of over 30 counts of criminal fraud. Trust him. Has he ever lied to you? It’s good to be king. "A billion dollars”? Five year olds talk like this. Not without a full scale invasion. In which oil infrastructure gets destroyed. Then what? Bubble, bubble, who’s in a bubble?
Does he understand why oil prices are up? And rising? That got his attention. Trump is certainly liberating Venezuela’s wealth from…Venezuela. Nobody understands what you’re saying, Grandpa. Eat your oatmeal.🥣  A stump is more self-aware. And less racist. Stupid people robbing us blind is just confession, coming from this guy.
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Welcome To The Monkey House

Tell 'em about the strawberries. That’ll prove it with geometric logic. Thank Grandpa for the medicine, children. Nothing to see here. No cause for alarm. Relax. He got a gift, and everything. He’s not even running for reelection.
Trump: "The Iranian negotiators are very different and 'strange.' They are 'begging' us to make a deal, which they should be doing since they have been militarily obliterated, with zero chance of a comeback, and yet they publicly state that they are only 'looking at our proposal.' WRONG!!! They better get serious soon, before it is too late, because once that happens, there is NO TURNING BACK, and it won’t be pretty! President DJT"
While Trump is just running his mouth.

The White House knows invading Kharg Island would be a shitshow. 1000 Marines is not an invasion force . They would be cannon fodder. We are running low on munitions, and it hasn’t been a month, and all we’re using is missiles and bombs.
According to the Washington Post, citing three people with knowledge on the matter, the Pentagon is considering diverting military aid for Ukraine to the Middle East, amidst the munitions intensive conflict with Iran. The munitions would included interceptor missiles bound for Ukraine through a NATO program where countries supplied military aid to Ukraine by buying U.S. weapons for them. No decision has been made yet on the matter. This comes less than 24 hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky thanked the U.S. for continuing to supply military aid to Ukraine despite the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.
As ridiculously expensive as the weapons used so far are,  they are still cheaper and easier to deploy than human beings, who need logistical support. Missiles just need replacements. Remember the months GHWB spent preparing a ground invasion to drive Iraq out of Kuwait? Trump has done none of that, and yet he’s going to send in troops on a, what? Frustrated whim? To save face?  While the GOP Congress debates whether or not this is an actual “war.”
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“We Negotiate With Bombs”

This is truly insane, and it should be front page news across America.

Denmark secretly deployed soldiers to Greenland prepared to blow up airport runways to stop a U.S. invasion.

They brought blood supplies to treat the wounded. France, Germany, Norway, and Sweden quietly coordinated against us.

This was not a drill.

This was our closest allies preparing to fight Americans.

Let that sink in. NATO allies. Countries whose soldiers have fought and died alongside ours for decades. They looked at this president and decided they had to prepare for the worst.

Fewer allies does not make America great. It makes us more isolated, more vulnerable, and it hands Russia and China exactly what they have always wanted: an America abandoned by its friends.

The American people deserve to know how badly this president has damaged our standing in the world.
Dear President Trump: You were saying?
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