They only have two days to comply, or face a strongly-worded Truth giving them fourteen days.
And then – the comfy chair!
Finally, if they still will not open the Strait of Hormuz, he will have Elon replace all of their broadcasting and internet with “Jay Leno’s Garage.”
Lay down your weapons now or I will have no choice but to ask you to lay down your weapons later. You may think I’m bluffing, but believe me when I say you will feel the full weight of my social media posts.
Will tomorrow literally be TACO Tuesday? Let’s hope; he’s just as likely to push all the buttons in a giggling fit. (Then shit the bed.)
I hope the next President willingly surrenders him to the ICC once there’s a warrant for war crimes. Who knows if he’ll back out tomorrow or bomb a bunch of civilian infrastructure causing the deaths of thousands at this point when this fucker makes decisions based off ignorance and whatever dementia ridden whim he decides in the moment. Either way, Cheeto mushroom dick should be brought to The Hague.
Unlikely. The U.S. is not a party to the Rome Statute, and does not accept the authority of the ICC.
People rarely get prosecuted for war crimes unless they lose a war. I can’t think of any Americans ever prosecuted for war crimes in an international court, although some (like the notorious Lt. Calley) have been convicted by our own military under the the UCMJ.
Does anyone know any examples of Americans prosecuted for war crimes in an international court?
Yeah it’s wishful thinking, the ICC has only existed since 2002, nothing will ever happen to a former or sitting leader of a major country unless they cause WW3 – if there’s anything left afterwards.
I hate to give him credit as the less bad option – but at least under Bush during the Iraq War there seemed to be an attempt to do a professional operation and at least have the appearance of limiting casualties. Of course, as Wikileaks showed, the military loves to cover up when they take civilians out.
If Trump isn’t full of bluster, I would say tonight if he targets civilian infrastructure and go nuts as he’s threatening to do, he’s showing clear intent and follow through on a war crime. Nothing will happen to him even after he’s out of office due to precedent, but it would be nice if non-GOP president made him face justice if he’s going to carry out attacks on civilians.
I think the bigger concern is that Hegseth likely encourages civilian casualties as an intrinsic part of ‘Epic Totally Awesome Fury’. I mean, how can you be a badass secretary of War if you’re not kicking the ass of some impoverished Middle Eastern nation?
Also, let’s not forget that Trump can put a gun to a child’s head and pull the trigger if he pleases – the Supreme Court have granted him complete immunity so there’s nothing anyone can do about it anyway. Fun times.
Re: Bush43’s imaginary “strategy” er “surge” in 2007 ~ cutting to the chase what turned around Bush’s sinking ship was the U.S. military/govt paying the Iraqi warlords oodles of $$$ to (be on their team). Yes Virginia, this is not rocket science as everything in the universe comes down to $$$. Shocking !!!
Re: Trump ~ words cannot express.
Digressing ~ carry on …
My money’s on him making up some last-minute b.s. to avoid actually having to do anything. “The Iranians called me, they were very nice, they said they don’t want to be bombed any more and they’re very sorry.”
Meanwhile none of that actually happened.
It’s truly .50/50. Just hope he doesn’t go for nukes in his demented state.
Those four astronauts could be the last humans left alive in a few hours.
Man that would certainly make a great movie!
Except the film industry would be dead as well. 😉
Who knows what he might do? What little mind he ever had is now completely gone. Did you see him at Easter, talking to the tiny little kids about autopens? His brain is fried.
I hope that our military brass would not follow such an order, but they’ve been quite compliant so far.
They would come to phone with tears in their eyes, of course.
Only if they were big men, strong men, hard men who had never cried before.
Elon may schedule “Jay Leno’s Garage”, but the Iranians will counter by replacing Fox News with “Assess & Caress with Jeffrey Epstein”. Some AI may be involved with the production.
Annnnd…. TACO TUESDAY it is!
As often happens, The Onion’s article turned out to be real news.
So happy we’re not all going to die. But I still think he’ll be shitting the bed tonight.
I’m calling it now: two weeks from tonight (Apr 21) – TACO Tuesday II: Electric Jalapeno.
Or maybe we’ll have won and gone home by then, who the fuck knows with this asshole?
Does anybody know what “winning” would consist of? I mean in terms of something that could happen in reality, not just Trump declaring victory for the umpteenth time.
When I was working at Southland, one of my steps up the ladder was “marketing analysis manager.” I found that every project manager and product manager was claiming success because goals were never defined. If the promotion caused gross profit dollars to decline, they would claim it was successful because it built brand awareness. If it didn’t move the needle on awareness, they’d claim it was successful because it increased traffic. There was nothing for me to analyze because there was no yardstick for success.
The first thing I did was to ask the marketing vice-president’s council not to approve proposals unless they defined success in advance, thus allowing me to analyze whether the goals were achieved.
The point is that is impossible to determine success when the goals are not defined.Trump, as you know, has a moving target, so he will claim success no matter what happens. He will find something somewhere that he accomplished that was “absolutely essential to world peace.”
(As you know he has already tried to claim that successful regime change was victory, and that became a right-wing talking point for a few days, but it didn’t gain much traction. He’s not going to convince anybody he won the war because of the regime change. Some have even suggested that “regime change FOR THE WORSE” may be what he truly accomplished.)
Well, analysis is insight from a logical brain. One of which Trump doesn’t have. He doesn’t get beyond simple transactional numbers, if he even gets there at all to admit there’s a problem. As your example goes, there’s no quantification of success because he doesn’t tolerant dissent, doesn’t understand causation, or anything else a rational mind would try to use to problem solve.
So, he’s back at the usual hits. First, attempt to lie and say everything is great and better than ever. Then, rage at the things not going well, creating a contradiction to the first point. Destroy any dissent by removing anyone who doesn’t preach to his ego in his cabinet, and insult and pull the press passes of anyone that dare questions him on his insane rants. Threaten media outlets with prison or censorship for not praising his ego and selling the lie.
We don’t even get to the point of measuring success because of the incoherent flailing and constant paradox of his unhinged rambling that it’s both the biggest success of all time and at the same time threaten with angry wrath the things that aren’t going well.
I think if Trump, or Hegseth, or anyone else Trump might listen had tried to define what success would consist of before launching this war, it wouldn’t have been launched in the first place. I think it was more of “Send in the planes, bomb everything, and success pops will rise like the sun!” kind of deal.
My worry in all of this is that it ultimately will strengthen the control of hardline elements of the Iranian Islamic regime. Let’s not forget in all of this that they are really bad actors. It would have been better to wait them out until the regime collapsed under its own weight or make a deals to encourage reform. But the U.S. is being led by very stupid actors, and pretty bad ones too in their own right, so we have getting results that predictably have made things worse for everyone.
Weapons stockpiles are depleted, so the military industrial complex will get more money for their executives and shareholders out of this. That and billions in damage and losses to aircraft the taxpayer will pay for. Which won’t be the rich or the corporations since he’s already given them gigantic tax cuts.
The Gulf Cooperation Council has takes multi-million dollar losses for going along with the US and we won’t be trusted again. Iran will get tolls out of the Strait, China gains greater influence in the area, and Trump may undo sanctions in return for the same agreement he pulled out of a decade ago.
All in all, at best another exercise in stupidity for him and his fucking supporters who should be paying for this and the rest of his bullshit out of their own pocket. Anyone with a brain cell who can follow simple logic and causality could have predicted what the end of this uneducated ignorant dumbass was going to do to the economy and populace when all was said and done.
Is he the dumbest president ever? I mean, leaving aside specific political opinions. If you could sit them all down and give them an IQ test, or even an easy general-knowledge test like “Who wrote Macbeth?”, would any of them score lower than him?
He’d be a contender for sure. Other contenders would be Zachary Taylor and Andrew Johnson. It’s tough to evaluate those pre-20th century dudes, so if we stick to the 20th century, I think only Coolidge and Biden would give Trump a run for the bottom spot. I’m not sure whether Harry Truman would be in that group.
We have now had 9 consecutive years of being led by dullards. That can’t be good.
**** Some guys who were reputed to be dumb, like Dubya and Harding, were not. (Harding graduated from college with a bachelor’s degree at 16!) ****
Ummm…a lot of people around Biden weren’t dullards…as opposed to Trump’s sycophants.
Don’t forget, Trump doesn’t have to get a good score, he just needs to convince enough people that the test was rigged and that the results are invalid.
NOT THE COMFY CHAIR… (ominous music plays)
Schrodinger’s ceasefire: there is one and there isn’t at the same time. Israel still bombing civilians, the Strait still blocked, but hey who you going to believe – what Trump tells you or your lyin’ eyes?
I saw analysis today that given that 6 weeks of oil shipments have been missed and that it may take at least 2-3 weeks for semi-normal shipments to resume, we are stuck with a likelihood of oil prices at $85 US a barrel for much of the rest of this calendar year. That is significantly higher than before the current military campaign began. There is no immediate way to replace the oil shipments that were missed, leading to continued shortages and higher prices.. And that $85 was premised on the Strait of Hormuz actually opening at this time, which it has not yet done. It also is premised on shippers having confidence that it will stay open so that they can confidently and safely schedule and dispatch tankers to go there. That confidence may depend on achieving more than the current 2-week ceasefire – if even that has actually been achieved – but rather achieving an actual peace settlement, which may prove to be elusive. The price of oil in the last day has come off significantly from its recent highs at $110-115 a barrel, but is stuck for now at about $95 a barrel, and may stay there or even rise again as buyers realize that oil may not starting flowing all that quickly.
But, hey – Nobody’s been talking about those pesky Epstein files for a couple of weeks, so that’s a win for the Pedo in Chief.
I saw further analysis today suggesting that the $85 U.S. a barrel figure for the forecast price of oil (that I referred to yesterday) for the rest of this calendar year is optimistic and that $95 is more realistic given the significant oil shipments that have already been missed and the difficulties of re-establishing a regular supply. And that $95 is premised on things going reasonably well in the ceasefire and in the peace negotiations. So far they are not going particularly well and oil prices are heading back up over $100 a barrel today.
Maybe the one saving grace in all of this is that people even in the MAGA cult are starting to realize that the President is a malevolent, megalomanic, dunce surrounded by sycophants.
And see this in The Economist…