Because his crimes didn’t involve crossing state lines, nor did they involve federal properties or office holders, I’m not clear on why there would be the possibility of federal charges. Murder is a crime dealt with by local officials under state law. Am I missing something? I assume there must be something else which might apply?
But first someone needs to explain to him that The Bunker Buster™ is not a new party-sized pizza deal from Domino’s.
(Personally, I think it should be the name of a last resort, prescription-strength laxative.)
Trump’s response to virtually everything is to accuse and insult, which brings to mind the maxim I heard somewhere: With Trump, every accusation is an admission. (In this case, it is as if Trump is saying, “I’m not weird. The other guy is. He’s whacked out.”)
I think back to when he called Kamala Harris “a very low IQ person.” Whatever one might think of Harris, she passed the very grueling California Bar Exam. In comparison, Trump keeps bragging about passing this:
The cognitive exam you’re thinking of, which includes elements like naming animals (such as a camel, elephant, and rhinoceros) and drawing a clock, is called the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) .
You know, I actually am surprised. For some reason, I still expect him to at least meet the barest, absolute bottom of the barrel scrapings of how a decent human being, never mind an elected head of state, ought to behave. But it looks like I have to abandon even that.
Text message sent to Trump by Mike Huckabee, former Governor of Arkansas, current US ambassador to Israel, and fundamentalist preacher who believes in the “end times”. The White House actually released this. Words fail.
I was about to post that same thing. Huckabee completes possibly the most obscene, complete and thorough public rimjob in american history. The Don’s sphincter has never been cleaner.
Meanwhile, in a disagreement with other republicans, Trump says that HE first coined the term “America first”, so he should be the one who gets to define it.
Of course, his ignorance backfires once again (though his followers will never learn of this.) It was a slogan of both political parties in the Woodrow Wilson era and of the KKK in the 1920’s. Many other groups adopted the slogan as well including the German American Bund and other pro-Nazi groups in the 1930’s.
Many of us grew up watching cheaply produced recycled newsreel-based documentaries (such as Walter Chronkite’s “The 20th Century” on Sunday afternoons) which covered these basics. So I would think that a lot of us Boomers recognize “America First” as a political slogan well over a century old with many recurrences through the decades.
Of course, Trump also thinks he invented the word “equalizing”. Ya can’t make this stuff up, although he certainly can.
The US military strikes on three of Iran’s nuclear facilities last weekend did not destroy the core components of the country’s nuclear program and likely only set it back by months, according to an early US intelligence assessment that was described by four people briefed on it.
The assessment, which has not been previously reported, was produced by the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon’s intelligence arm. It is based on a battle damage assessment conducted by US Central Command in the aftermath of the US strikes, one of the sources said.
The analysis of the damage to the sites and the impact of the strikes on Iran’s nuclear ambitions is ongoing, and could change as more intelligence becomes available. But the early findings are at odds with President Donald Trump’s repeated claims that the strikes “completely and totally obliterated” Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth also said on Sunday that Iran’s nuclear ambitions “have been obliterated.”
Two of the people familiar with the assessment said Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium was not destroyed. One of the people said the centrifuges are largely “intact.”
“So the (DIA) assessment is that the US set them back maybe a few months, tops,” this person added.
The White House acknowledged the existence of the assessment but said they disagreed with it.
The Leader of the Free World seems to be belatedly realizing that other nations are not obliged to obey when he declares on social media that they have reached a ceasefire. And now he’s dropping bombs on Israel:
Do Holocaust comparisons become apt when the government is building concentration camps, and close friends of the president are openly calling for the extermination of millions along racial lines?
She seems to forget that, due to the Mexican–American War, many Hispanics have been living there, before ‘there’ was actually American. Maybe the Hispanic residents of the territories the US acquired in that war should tell the non-Hispanic Americans there to “go back to where they came from”.
The Trump administration has canceled all government subscriptions to Nature, its family of journals, and all journals published by Springer. The death of American science proceeds by a multitude of small cuts.
So US governmental research institutions, which do everything from nuclear physics to medicine, now don’t have institutional access to some of the highest impact scientific journals in the world?
I mean, be reasonable. How can you expect to give billions of dollars in tax cuts to billionaires and establish the largest and most heavily armed paramilitary police force the world has ever seen without making cuts somewhere?
I just now saw the news headline that Trump announced the new tariffs for each of seven nations. I was surprised to find Myanmar on the list with a tariff of 40%. (Laos also showed 40%.)
Would someone please explain to me how a poor country like Myanmar—with just about 54 million people and a Gross Domestic Product of around $67 billion—is supposed to “equalize” the imports the USA (with 334 million people and a GDP of $27 trillion) buys from that country? So does Trump somehow expect Myanmar to buy the same amount of goods and services from the USA as what the USA buys from Myanmar? [My estimates are from 2023.]
So why did Myanmar and Laos get hit the hardest of the group of countries?
Meanwhile, I noticed that in the “Big Beautiful Bill”, most of the Medicaid and SNAP benefit changes will hit AFTER next year’s mid-term elections. (So next year I suppose MAGA enthusiasts will be saying, “The doomsayers predicted major harm for people but we’ve not noticed any problems.”)
Because they are particularly weak, making them an easy target for bullying? Myanmar is a civil-war-wracked basket case, and Laos is poor and land-locked. Trump’s foreign policy appears more performative than designed to actually achieve results. His policies are about the performance of punishing the ‘Other’, be they foreign or domestic, rather than achieving any economic aims. After all, with the US’s low birth rate, it makes no economic sense to crack down on immigration so harshly.
