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Well, trump said he would ârunâ Venezuela and now - quite literally - God has set him up with a test. How will he respond to the challenge? If God actually put him in this role as his chosen leader, what he does about the suffering there will be decisive.
Except his followers WILL make excuses.
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Jun 27, 2026 - 5:29am
Well, trump said he would ârunâ Venezuela and now - quite literally - God has set him up with a test. How will he respond to the challenge? If God actually put him in this role as his chosen leader, what he does about the suffering there will be decisive.
Lest not we forget that 3 of the 5 world religions stem from Mesopotamia, i.e. Persia with all three tracing their origins back to their Father Abraham (Ibrahim).
Process that and find, the US is fighting our all own roots... which, of course cannot go on but will surely end at some point.
Global capitalism keeps destroying life on Earth, and Earth herself.
Lest not we forget that 3 of the 5 world religions stem from Mesopotamia, i.e. Persia with all three tracing their origins back to their Father Abraham (Ibrahim).
Process that and find, the US is fighting our all own roots... which, of course cannot go on but will surely end at some point.
Global capitalism keeps destroying life on Earth, and Earth herself.
Only 79 years of US meddling in their country/region. They'll continue to adapt and resist.
Macedonia, the Turks, the Afghans all tried and wound up being absorbed so much they eventually picked up Persian language and culture. We may wind up being Persian soon.
Notable - the long haul is measured in generations in that part of the world. They waited out Alexander the great, and the mongols, a ranting 80 year old trump is barely a blip on their scale.
Only 79 years of US meddling in their country/region. They'll continue to adapt and resist.
The attack, confirmed by U.S. and Iranian officials, came after Tehran threatened to disrupt shipping in the waterway and as Washington sought regional support for its peace agreement.
...The strike halted traffic through the crucial waterway, contradicting President Trumpâs claim that Iran did not control the strait and his assurances that it was open once again open to shipping. Oil prices jumped after the attack, with the cost of Brent crude, the global benchmark for oil, rising over 2 percent to about $75 a barrel. West Texas Intermediate crude, the U.S. benchmark, also rose over 2 percent, to around $72 a barrel....
Trump is officially Iran's bitch.
He is learning the Art of the Deal, from people who are smarter than him, more strategic than him, take advice from smarter people, and willing to suffer if necessary in the short term to win over the long haul.
Trump's decision to bomb Iran has forever placed him in the history of monumental blunders... a combination of Hitler's invasion of Russia with a splash of Mao's Great Leap Forward.
Notable - the long haul is measured in generations in that part of the world. They waited out Alexander the great, and the mongols, a ranting 80 year old trump is barely a blip on their scale.
The attack, confirmed by U.S. and Iranian officials, came after Tehran threatened to disrupt shipping in the waterway and as Washington sought regional support for its peace agreement.
...The strike halted traffic through the crucial waterway, contradicting President Trumpâs claim that Iran did not control the strait and his assurances that it was open once again open to shipping. Oil prices jumped after the attack, with the cost of Brent crude, the global benchmark for oil, rising over 2 percent to about $75 a barrel. West Texas Intermediate crude, the U.S. benchmark, also rose over 2 percent, to around $72 a barrel....
Trump is officially Iran's bitch.
He is learning the Art of the Deal, from people who are smarter than him, more strategic than him, take advice from smarter people, and willing to suffer if necessary in the short term to win over the long haul.
Trump's decision to bomb Iran has forever placed him in the history of monumental blunders... a combination of Hitler's invasion of Russia with a splash of Mao's Great Leap Forward.
The attack, confirmed by U.S. and Iranian officials, came after Tehran threatened to disrupt shipping in the waterway and as Washington sought regional support for its peace agreement.
...The strike halted traffic through the crucial waterway, contradicting President Trumpâs claim that Iran did not control the strait and his assurances that it was open once again open to shipping. Oil prices jumped after the attack, with the cost of Brent crude, the global benchmark for oil, rising over 2 percent to about $75 a barrel. West Texas Intermediate crude, the U.S. benchmark, also rose over 2 percent, to around $72 a barrel....
Trump is officially Iran's bitch.
He is learning the Art of the Deal, from people who are smarter than him, more strategic than him, take advice from smarter people, and willing to suffer if necessary in the short term to win over the long haul.
Trump's decision to bomb Iran has forever placed him in the history of monumental blunders... a combination of Hitler's invasion of Russia with a splash of Mao's Great Leap Forward.
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Jun 25, 2026 - 12:29pm
I don't see (and I suppose I wouldn't) anyone's posts being deleted by the mods. So it looks to me that anyone here can say pretty much whatever they want, following William's rules.
Now, if that post is full of nonsense, it's the nature of the internet to fact check or disagree with it, no matter the politics. Although the internet is world-wide, that's also The American Way: to speak out without fear of being arrested for doing so. (First Amendment hasn't been repealed, amirite?)
So, arguments of "I've been squelched" - no matter how that assertion is worded but suggesting that folks can't say what they want - seem to be complete nonsense. Protected from disagreement? I would hope not. "Alternative facts" are really lies, and shouldn't be allowed free passage.
Mods - and not us posters supposing things - please let us know if you're removing posts for political reasons. That would put this issue to rest.
Trump is now in a public feud with a person in an inflatable frog costume. He posted the frog's photo to attack it as a "crazy pro-algae (likely paid) protestor." This is the President of the United States.
He is losing a fight to a guy in a frog suit, and he started it.
Trump spent $14 million renovating the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and dyeing it "American flag blue." It promptly filled with algae and the paint started peeling.
Rather than admit the job was botched, Trump invented a conspiracy about "vandals," sent in the National Guard, and had Park Police arrest a 67-year-old Olympian for touching a loose flap of paint.
It was already absurd. Then it went full idiocracy.
On Monday night, the President of the United States, leader of the world's largest economy and commander of its military, sat down and posted a photograph of a protester in a giant inflatable frog costume. The frog was labeled "Amphifa." It was holding a sign reading "First they came for the algae."
And Trump, apparently, could not let the frog win.
"Here is another example of a crazy pro-algae (likely paid) protestor," he wrote, deadly serious, before launching into a lengthy explanation of the Martin Niemoller poem the frog's sign was parodying. He took the bait so completely that he annotated the joke.
He fact-checked a frog.
Somewhere out there is an ordinary person who put on a novelty amphibian costume, made a silly sign about pond scum, and stood near a puddle. And the most powerful man on the planet saw it, felt personally threatened, and fired off an official presidential statement declaring the frog a paid agitator.
The protester won the entire exchange without saying a word. The frog didn't have to do anything. Trump did all the work himself, transforming a man in a costume into a national news story by being unable to ignore him.
A confident leader laughs at a frog. A secure man scrolls past. Trump cannot, because every joke at his expense lands like a wound, and he has to swing back at all of them, even the ones wearing inflatable green suits and standing next to an algae-filled pool he ruined himself.
The pool is still green. The paint is still peeling. And the President of the United States spent his Monday night at war with a frog. The frog is winning.
