These days I believe that the oligarchs, large corporations and anyone worth $100,000,000 or more are running this country and pitting the American people against each other.
They are the real enemy not your neighbors. I keep reminding myself that we are all seeing different “facts” depending on our sources. Never before has there been such a range of different realities and beliefs based upon biased information.
Thank you for the article, Mary. The President has lost the war against, Iran. He is giving back the money to, Iran that will most likely to Hezbollah.
Trump is a tin pot dictator wannabe with, unfortunately, massive military might and evidently a Supreme Court at his disposal and a tenuous grasp of reality.
Take over the rest of the country? We don't occupy any of Iran!
A better agreement than the JCPOA? He's been promising a better health plan since 2015 and yet has never even proposed one. TrumpRx doesn't count.
He will never do anything that doesn't in some way make himself feel more powerful, smarter or richer.
Vance is just the smug teacher's pet that no one has ever liked and has gotten where he is by other men's intervention, principle Peter Thiel. Left on his own he is a political lightweight.
If the Democrats don't destroy themselves factionally, there is no reason that they shouldn't be a Vance & ? ticket. But there is that 'if '
OMG! What a joke! But the joke is not really funny. Donald Trump, toddler-man that he is started a war with an idiot in charge at Defense so the two of them could try to prove a manhood that doesn't even exist between the two of them. Then, Baby Donnie sends incompetents to negotiate something with Iran while letting Iran know they have all the cards and the Americans are just fumbling along. OK, the Iranian negotiators are not great either, but they have more of something than our boys have and that ain't much.
One way to stop this whole thing would be to put far far more effort into renewable energy, limiting the use of oil, gas, and coal, and working together to make the world safer from global warming. With no vision among the entire Trump white house toddler pool, We the People are going to have to work harder for that, even at a state level or even city level, then vote out the maniacs in Congress who keep lying that global warming is a hoax while they are pushing their air conditioner to high so they will be comfy when the temperatures are at record levels for weeks at a time! Yep, it truly is a toddler pool trying to deal with almost adults. Ugh!!
Vance’s statement regarding “trash talk” seems to me to be backwards. Replacing “you guys” with DJT, and “the president” with Iran seems to be more on point. And the quote about the deal being a classic Trump deal and good for American farmers is true only that it’s a classic Trump deal but will inevitably hurt the American farmers because the Iranians will predictably charge more for the fertilizer our farmers so desperately need. You can bet that anything DJT (via Lutnick and Kushner) negotiates will be a lopsided deal that benefits only the Iranians.
Since DJT didn’t like Obama’s deal, and if he had a braincell in his head, he would have worked to add to the JCPOA instead if ripping it up before he had a better deal signed, sealed, and delivered. But that is obviously not how DJT operates, as he has shown us over and over again. His “shoot now and ask questions later” philosophy might have worked for him in business (it didn’t), but it certainly doesn’t work in diplomacy. And intimidation destroys and never works to foster and/or retain effective relationships.
DJT uses the following phrases ad nauseum: “we’ll have to find out…” and “we’ll wait and see” when he has no idea what he’s doing. His further statement: “I hope it’s a lot of money” only further supports the fact that he doesn’t do anything that doesn’t benefit him financially. Waging his “war of choice” was for one major purpose: to showcase DJT’s perceived power to the world. Because anything DJT does is for one of two reasons – and sometimes both at the same time: Money and Power.
DJT promised voters that he is brilliant (he’s not), is an expert negotiator (he’s not), and will run the country like his businesses (most of which have failed spectacularly). Regarding the war with Iran, DJT doesn’t care about how much it costs because it isn’t his money. He doesn’t care about our brave military members’ who died or were injured because he thinks they’re all “suckers and losers” anyway. He doesn’t care about the Iranian people because they’re all (fill in any racist slur here) anyway.
All he cares about is showing the world how powerful he is (he’s not).
Great article, Mary - but OMG - What a total clown show by a bunch of idiots spouting nonsense and pretending what they are saying has any BASIS IN TRUTH, FACT OR REALITY. Pretty sure not one of these dingbats has even a limited clue about how they are actually regarded as ignorant and untrustworthy and cartoonish and laughable by most other countries and their governments.
Donald J. Trump is still that six year old with potatoes on his head.
Another classic blunder!
Love that the Qatari rep ignored him. Priceless.
Great article Mary👍
Trump and his negotiators are totally incompetent. Your post says it all.
And it makes no difference to his red hat followers, who say, "If it wasn't for him, we would have had Iran dropping nuclear bombs on us by now."
I think I'm too old and tired for this timeline - I need another.
Ellie, you are right! Unfortunately, Trumplandia will never be known for its intelligence, creativity, or decency.
These days I believe that the oligarchs, large corporations and anyone worth $100,000,000 or more are running this country and pitting the American people against each other.
They are the real enemy not your neighbors. I keep reminding myself that we are all seeing different “facts” depending on our sources. Never before has there been such a range of different realities and beliefs based upon biased information.
I'm sure you're right.
Thank you for the article, Mary. The President has lost the war against, Iran. He is giving back the money to, Iran that will most likely to Hezbollah.
Trump can't even win a war against algae, much less Iran.
Trump is a tin pot dictator wannabe with, unfortunately, massive military might and evidently a Supreme Court at his disposal and a tenuous grasp of reality.
Take over the rest of the country? We don't occupy any of Iran!
A better agreement than the JCPOA? He's been promising a better health plan since 2015 and yet has never even proposed one. TrumpRx doesn't count.
He will never do anything that doesn't in some way make himself feel more powerful, smarter or richer.
Vance is just the smug teacher's pet that no one has ever liked and has gotten where he is by other men's intervention, principle Peter Thiel. Left on his own he is a political lightweight.
If the Democrats don't destroy themselves factionally, there is no reason that they shouldn't be a Vance & ? ticket. But there is that 'if '
Another well written piece by Ms. Trump! Clear, concise, and to the point.
And things are only going to get worse and worse
Mary, my question is, "How do we wake up the Republicans in the House and Senate; the ones needed to impeach and convict him?"
As bad a Vance will be, I doubt if he hates the country and will actively work to destroy the country as Trump is now doing.
Even worse, as I see it, the more Trump loses, the more aggressively he will work to destroy us all.
I never know whether to be relieved or alarmed by this regime’s incompetence
OMG! What a joke! But the joke is not really funny. Donald Trump, toddler-man that he is started a war with an idiot in charge at Defense so the two of them could try to prove a manhood that doesn't even exist between the two of them. Then, Baby Donnie sends incompetents to negotiate something with Iran while letting Iran know they have all the cards and the Americans are just fumbling along. OK, the Iranian negotiators are not great either, but they have more of something than our boys have and that ain't much.
One way to stop this whole thing would be to put far far more effort into renewable energy, limiting the use of oil, gas, and coal, and working together to make the world safer from global warming. With no vision among the entire Trump white house toddler pool, We the People are going to have to work harder for that, even at a state level or even city level, then vote out the maniacs in Congress who keep lying that global warming is a hoax while they are pushing their air conditioner to high so they will be comfy when the temperatures are at record levels for weeks at a time! Yep, it truly is a toddler pool trying to deal with almost adults. Ugh!!
Vance’s statement regarding “trash talk” seems to me to be backwards. Replacing “you guys” with DJT, and “the president” with Iran seems to be more on point. And the quote about the deal being a classic Trump deal and good for American farmers is true only that it’s a classic Trump deal but will inevitably hurt the American farmers because the Iranians will predictably charge more for the fertilizer our farmers so desperately need. You can bet that anything DJT (via Lutnick and Kushner) negotiates will be a lopsided deal that benefits only the Iranians.
Since DJT didn’t like Obama’s deal, and if he had a braincell in his head, he would have worked to add to the JCPOA instead if ripping it up before he had a better deal signed, sealed, and delivered. But that is obviously not how DJT operates, as he has shown us over and over again. His “shoot now and ask questions later” philosophy might have worked for him in business (it didn’t), but it certainly doesn’t work in diplomacy. And intimidation destroys and never works to foster and/or retain effective relationships.
DJT uses the following phrases ad nauseum: “we’ll have to find out…” and “we’ll wait and see” when he has no idea what he’s doing. His further statement: “I hope it’s a lot of money” only further supports the fact that he doesn’t do anything that doesn’t benefit him financially. Waging his “war of choice” was for one major purpose: to showcase DJT’s perceived power to the world. Because anything DJT does is for one of two reasons – and sometimes both at the same time: Money and Power.
DJT promised voters that he is brilliant (he’s not), is an expert negotiator (he’s not), and will run the country like his businesses (most of which have failed spectacularly). Regarding the war with Iran, DJT doesn’t care about how much it costs because it isn’t his money. He doesn’t care about our brave military members’ who died or were injured because he thinks they’re all “suckers and losers” anyway. He doesn’t care about the Iranian people because they’re all (fill in any racist slur here) anyway.
All he cares about is showing the world how powerful he is (he’s not).
Once again Mary ignores the Lebanon bombing, Palestinian genociding Israeli elephant in the room. PEP much?
Great article, Mary - but OMG - What a total clown show by a bunch of idiots spouting nonsense and pretending what they are saying has any BASIS IN TRUTH, FACT OR REALITY. Pretty sure not one of these dingbats has even a limited clue about how they are actually regarded as ignorant and untrustworthy and cartoonish and laughable by most other countries and their governments.