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We didn’t tell anybody about it because we wanted surprise. Who knows better about surprise than Japan, OK? Why didn’t you tell me about Pearl Harbor, OK? Right? You believe in surprise, I think, much more so than us.
Other than widening eyes and a deep breath, Prime Minister Takaichi did not react, a feat I don't think many could have managed. That she didn't rise from her seat, thank him for his time, and walk out of the office was a testament to her grace under spitball fire.
Robert Mueller just died. Good, I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people! President DONALD J. TRUMP Mar 21, 2026, 12:26 PM
Today's narishkeit was top notch. He claims he had productive talks with Iran over the weekend and he was holding off obliterating them. The only problem with that is Iran doesn't recall having any talks with him. According to the BBC:
At an event in Memphis later in the day, Trump said Iran had "agreed that they will not have a nuclear weapon". There has been no confirmation of this from the Iranians.
"I think there's a very good chance we're going to end up in a deal," he said. "And so we're giving it five days and then we're going to see where that takes it."
The US president has repeatedly told reporters that multiple tiers of Iranian leadership have been wiped out, and at a Friday event at the White House said that it is "hard to find leaders in Iran to talk to because they keep getting killed".
In a brief telephone interview with CNBC reporter Joe Kernen immediately after Trump's post on Monday morning, Trump said that Iran has representatives left, contradicting his own previous public statements.
He suggested they were behaving differently than their predecessors. Kernen said Trump was "insisting" that the change constitutes a form of regime change.
Iran's denial that any talks have taken place, however, complicates this narrative for the administration and will likely make for awkward questions.
Already, an unnamed Iranian source quoted by Fars News Agency, affiliated with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), characterised Trump's statement as something of a victory for the regime, claiming Trump "backed down" after Iran's threats to launch retaliatory strikes against energy infrastructure across the region.
Iranian parliamentary speaker Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf. Meanwhile, denied the talks had happened and called it "fake news".
The talks could also be something of a ruse - as was the case last summer when talks with the Iranians were reportedly still progressing right up until US bombs struck Iranian nuclear facilities during Operation Midnight Hammer.
Trump, after all, often reminds reporters that his decision-making process or thinking on a particular topic is a mystery to almost everyone.
The last line is priceless.
Between his 24k gold coin, and the new attempt to deface what's left of the White House by tearing down the Ionic columns of the North Portico to replace them with schmaltzy Corinthian columns, We, the People had better get used to an Imperial Presidency where Feckless Leader aka President Felon has his face plastered on everything.
Every day, there is something else on which his image is enlarged. And the bigger it gets, the smaller, it would seem, his winkie gets. Maybe it really is dementia and his cabal is trying to cover it over with absurdity. Do I really need to post Charles Durning doing the Texas Sidestep again? I mean, I love watching that, but these days, it's hitting a little close to home.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch.....
...across the United States, Cesar Chavez's name is being removed because of the recent exposure of his sexual misconduct. How can you idolize a man who groomed and abused young girls?
MAGA does it every day and in every way. From the very beginning of his political aspirations, they have shielded his aberrant, deviant behavior when it came to women. So let me ask you all, when was the last time you heard anything about significant Epstein-related evidence being published? Where are the files about the underaged girls who testified that President Felon forced himself on him? This is beyond guilt by association; these are crimes.
The midterms are in jeopardy. Some people claim ICE at the airports is merely practice for voter suppression. I'm not of that mind, but I can see why that gets traction. The SAVE Act will do a pretty good job of keeping women from voting. And rural citizens. How do you prove you are who you say you are in this day of photoshop, AI, and visual manipulation? Beats the hell outta me. I have no clue.
or hear Dr. Devin Naar talk about Ladino culture,
I suspect that no matter how the Supreme Court decides on when mail-in ballots will be considered timely, that Trump and his enablers will do everything they can to delay mailed ballots timely being postmarked and timely arriving in the mail and will pull other stunts to try to impede anyone they suspect might vote Democratic from voting. As we all should recall from the last time Trump was in office, his administration removed blue mail boxes from the streets and eliminated mail processing equipment so as to later urge that mailed in ballots were too late to be considered. Meanwhile Republican politicians, federal and state, have been passing and/or trying to pass legislation to make it harder for citizens to exercise their right to vote, including by dropping registered voters from the lists of registered voters if they haven’t recently voted, having mail postmarked not necessarily in the post office where and when they were mailed there but some unspecified later date after that mail is transported to a separate mail processing center, switching voters’ long-standing polling places to somewhere new and inconvenient for them without giving them adequate notice, and by requiring them to have proof of citizenship and of who they are via records not readily available to them and which cost money to obtain in order to vote. I expect more of these roadblocks to be set up by the Trump administration and Republican politicians in red controlled states. They don’t believe in free and fair elections. Further their claims that their actions are simply taken to ensure a lack of fraudulent voting is a cure in search of a nonexistent disease and a ruse to cover their malevolent motives.
ReplyDeleteThank you for writing this. In fact, you kinda hit next week's blog topic unless there is a major catastrophe between now and next Monday.
DeleteThe issue of voter suppression beginning with the absence of mail boxes is no joke and all too often, it is overlooked. This is one of the simplest ways to prevent voting and I guarantee it will be used to the max in the midterms.
This is all very scary on so many levels, not the least of which is the impotence most of us feel as we watch our government devolve into something the Founding Fathers would not recognize. On the other hand, this is what was elected, and you elect the government you deserve. Clearly, not enough of We, the People care for civil rights for all, especially not for women. I suppose Margaret Atwood was on to something. Welcome to the Republic of Gilead.