Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?
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Let's see your tax returns, Shit Golem.
Go fuck yourself. Nobody cares except for you and Rachel Maddow.
Clowns.
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
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The Forever War Gets Scary
But I'm not talking about bombs and drones
By Paul Krugman | Jul 15, 2026
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-forever-war-gets-scary
Transcript
The war with Iran has just reached a very scary phase, and I’m not talking about the bombs and the drones. Hi, Paul Krugman here, doing a brief podcast instead of a full post, because I actually spent the day with friends and doing other things, and this is a quicker alternative.
If you’re following the news, you know that the sort-of ceasefire with Iran has been called off. Trump has reinstated the blockade. The Iranians are back to hitting things with their drones and missiles.
The U.S. position has been wildly erratic. First, Trump said he was going to impose a 20% toll on all shipping, basically turning the Strait of Hormuz into a U.S. toll booth, which would have been wildly illegal and irresponsible, aside from being impossible. Now he says, no, he’s going to demand that countries invest in the United States, which is also actually wildly illegal. But in any case, it’s never going to happen.
And yet, this is extremely scary. The reason to be afraid is not that I think the war is going to come to America. It’s not even that I think the United States is going to seriously try to occupy Iran. We don’t have the troops. We don’t have the missiles. Trump depleted a large share of our weaponry in the course of his failed war so far. So this is likely going to be punitive strikes, maybe some war crimes along the way, but that’s all.
But what is really frightening here is that it does appear as if Trump has given up on trying to extract something that looks like victory. If we go back just a few days ago, it appeared that what was going to happen was that Trump was going to de facto pull out, give up on the project, take advantage of falling oil prices because the strait was sort of kind of open — and try to spin the story about this was truly, this was actually an American victory and the economy is great and look at the stock market.
And, you know, it was just a little bit — more than a little bit — stupid and doomed. It was also kind of amazing because a serious attempt to end the conflict would have required facing up to reality, saying, OK, this war didn’t go well, but America remains great. Sorry about that.
But that was apparently not something Trump could emotionally bring himself to do. He just cannot admit that this venture failed. He can never admit that anything failed. We’re going to be searching for the saboteurs of the reflecting pool for the remainder of his presidency.
This is a change in strategy that is ominous because what is Trump’s plan for the midterm elections? Here the idea presumably was that there would be enough economic success and people would have sufficiently short memories that they would possibly give Trump credit for opening the Strait of Hormuz, but in any case have put the gas price shock and the whole disruption surrounding the war behind them. And be ready to start admitting that this is the golden age that Trump and company keep on claiming it is.
Now that’s all off. Now it’s just that we’re going to bomb Iran. No clear strategy there, but we’re not going to even pretend that things are okay. We’re going to blockade them, which actually has a little bit more leverage, but no hint that anything might be resolved in a way that would help Republican chances in the midterms. So what is going to happen?
I don’t think it’s a coincidence that just as Trump essentially gives up, not gives up in the sense of abandoning his war, but gives up on trying to achieve anything he can even spin as a positive outcome, that we now have an announcement that this Thursday he’s going to have a primetime speech, which reports say is going to be about election fraud in 2020. Some reports hint that he might try to declare the two Democratic senators from Georgia somehow illegitimate.
Okay, that’s not going to actually work. And nobody’s going to be convinced by the claim that he actually wo
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By the way... Trump is still polling nearly 41% on the RCP average. And that's with this Iran thing still dragging out.
All of this that you've done has meant NOTHING.
NOBODY is listening to you anymore.
I've said it before and I'll say it again now because it's even more real now than it's ever been before... YOU work for Trump for free. There are people who will vote for Trump simply to spite shit golems just like you and braindead Ted over there in the corner.
Trump's approval rating right now is 3 points higher than Joe Biden*'s was at the same time in his single term.
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Quote:Even 41% Nazi is not enough to win. Nazis need 50%.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
By the way... Trump is still polling nearly 41% on the RCP average. And that's with this Iran thing still dragging out.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Confession proves Trump insiders know the reckoning is coming | Opinion
By Thom Hartmann
Jul 15
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/confession-proves-trump-inside
rs-know-the-reckoning-is-coming-opinion/ar-AA27XTlb
Donald Trump is already telling us he’s going to try to steal the 2026 election, and the fact that he’s saying it now, months in advance, is the whole tell.
Back in February, he stood up and declared that “Republicans ought to nationalize the voting,” floated taking over the vote in 15 states his party doesn’t control, and returned to the lie he’s been pushing for a decade, that mail-in ballots are crawling with fraud.
They aren’t. Americans have voted by mail for more than a century and a half, and the Brennan Center has shown over and over that you’re more likely to be struck by lightning than to commit mail-ballot fraud.
The fraud claim was never an argument: it’s an excuse for voter suppression, its own form of election fraud. When you convince tens of millions of people that the only way your side can possibly lose is if the other side cheats, you’ve prepared them to swallow whatever you “have to do to protect the vote,” and to reject the result as illegitimate if you lose anyway. That’s the groundwork, and they’re laying it right now in the open.
The measures themselves are extraordinary. This spring, Trump signed an executive order trying to seize federal control over how states run their elections, and when the courts blocked most of it, his administration found a back door through, of all places, the Post Office.
The Postal Service has proposed a rule that would let it refuse to deliver mail-in ballots in any state that won’t first hand over its complete list of mail voters to the federal government, a rule the NAACP says is built to disenfranchise voters and that 23 Democratic-led states are now suing to stop.
Steve Bannon went on his podcast and promised that “we’re gonna have ICE surround the polls come November,” and when reporters asked the White House to rule it out, the press secretary wouldn’t.
More than forty-eight million Americans voted by mail in 2024.
These men want the power to decide whose ballot gets carried to the mailbox and who feels safe enough to show up in person.
If you’re wondering why they’re working this hard to keep you from voting, the answer slipped out of Todd Blanche’s mouth this spring.
Standing on a stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) outside Dallas, the man who’d been Trump’s personal criminal defense lawyer and who now runs the Justice Department as acting Attorney General told the crowd, “Everybody’s afraid that the next administration, if we don’t win, we’re going to all be investigated and indicted.”
He meant it as a rallying cry. What he actually delivered was a confession: you don’t spend your evenings bracing for an indictment unless some quiet part of you already knows what you’ve done.
A reckoning is coming for the people breaking the law for this president, and they can feel it.
And now the White House is even discussing completely blowing up the Constitution and the right of habeas corpus, which dates back to the year 1215 when the British elite forced King John to sign the Magna Carta on the plain at Runnymede. As the New York Times reported:
“Suspending habeas corpus was one of two radical ideas [Trump's Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen] Miller had been pushing that alarmed [White House Staff Secretary Will] Scharf. The other was invoking the Insurrection Act to deploy the military to enforce the law on American streets as protests grew against deportation sweeps.”
Todd Blanche, in particular, has every reason to be worried: he knows who Trump really is, and what he’s capable of.
He’s the lawyer who defended Trump in the New York hush-money trial that ended in 34 felony convictions, and in the federal cases over January 6th and the classified documents stashed at Mar-a-Lago.
He’s also the guy who’s now hiding three million Epstein documents and cut the cushy, puppy
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Even 41% Nazi is not enough to win. Nazis need 50%.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
By the way... Trump is still polling nearly 41% on the RCP average. And that's with this Iran thing still dragging out.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
You guys voted for Platner.
Nobody wants to hear anything out of you about Nazis ever again, Shit Golem.
You fucking loser.
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
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Quote:When the Democrats found out Platner was a Nazi and rapist, they curb-stomped him. When Trumptards found out Trump was a Nazi, a rapist, a tax cheat, and being bribed, they voted for him. Simultaneously, they said everything is Fake News, including climate change.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:Even 41% Nazi is not enough to win. Nazis need 50%.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
By the way... Trump is still polling nearly 41% on the RCP average. And that's with this Iran thing still dragging out.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
You guys voted for Platner.
Nobody wants to hear anything out of you about Nazis ever again, Shit Golem.
You fucking loser.
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
Trump is $4 billion Richer Than He Was Before The 2024 Election Because Of Bribes He Has Received As President.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/a-reporter-at-large/trumps-profiteering
-hits-four-billion-dollars
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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A tale of two Trump flip-flops
The president undid everything the Logoff wrote about this week.
By Andrew Prokop
Jul 15, 2026, 5:45 PM CDT
https://www.vox.com/politics/495780/trump-flip-flop-ice-stops-strait-h
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What happened? On Monday afternoon, President Donald Trump said he would charge a 20 percent fee to protect shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.
But he reversed course on that yesterday morning, posting on Truth Social that he’d “replace” the fee with trade and investment deals that Gulf nations would purportedly make in the US.
Yesterday afternoon, after two recent deadly shootings, ICE had been ordered to temporarily stop making traffic stops nationwide.
But this morning, Trump declared that traffic stops were back on, posting: “The Radical Left Dumocrats would like to see this done, but it won’t happen on my watch.”
Why did Trump flip-flop? The Hormuz fee was a Trump whim that many of his own aides had deep logistical and political qualms about. For one, they believed the move could push gas prices higher. Secretary of State Marco Rubio had said just last month that “no country is allowed to charge tolls or fees on an international waterway.”
As Monday stretched on, Trump was deluged with lobbying from Gulf nations who rely on the strait — such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates — and ultimately decided to back down.
The ICE traffic stop pause followed the opposite trajectory. This was a decision made by administration officials without Trump’s knowledge — and when he watched press coverage and heard right-wing criticism of it, he was irate, per CNN.
What’s the takeaway? The reversals show whose criticism and feedback Trump actually cares about.
Wealthy Gulf leaders and the spectre of higher gas prices helped talk him down from his Hormuz fee. And on traffic stops, he ultimately cared less about tamping down national outrage over deadly shootings than he did about preserving his “tough on immigration” reputation and agenda.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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[America’s first Nazi President speaks tomorrow night about “saving” Democracy]
Midterm Elections: The Con Always Works, Right Up Until the Moment It Doesn’t
Democracy has survived con men before, but only because ordinary Americans refused to become the mark.
By Thom Hartmann | July 15, 2026
https://hartmannreport.com/p/midterm-elections-the-con-always-4c5
Tomorrow night at nine o’clock Eastern, Donald Trump will look into a television camera and tell America he’s rescuing democracy. He teased the address to reporters this week, promising “really big news” about “free and fair elections” and adding that “it doesn’t get bigger.” For once, he and I agree. It doesn’t get bigger.
An administration official told Reuters that the speech will center on newly declassified intelligence about the 2020 election and what the White House calls voting machine vulnerabilities open to foreign hackers; multiple election experts quoted in that same reporting warn he’s laying the groundwork to contest Republican losses this November.
To understand what we’ll actually be watching Thursday night, we have to go back to 1973, to a Manhattan night spot called Le Club, where a 27-year-old Donald Trump, freshly sued by the Justice Department for refusing to rent apartments to Black families, met the most feared lawyer in New York. It’s a story I tell in detail in The Last American President.
Roy Cohn had made his reputation as Joe McCarthy’s chief counsel, wrecking careers with accusations he never had to prove. His advice to young Trump, as Cohn’s own cousin later recalled it, was blunt: “You might be guilty; it doesn’t matter.” Don’t settle. Don’t apologize. Attack the accuser.
So instead of quietly signing the consent decree his father’s regular lawyers recommended, Trump called a press conference and countersued the federal government for $100 million. A judge tossed the countersuit; the Trumps eventually signed roughly the deal they’d been offered at the start, and Cohn declared total victory anyway.
He understood something that’s become the operating system of Donald Trump’s entire life: the court of public opinion matters more than any court of law, and a lie defended with absolute commitment will usually beat a truth defended halfheartedly.
Over their thirteen years together, Cohn drilled three rules into his student: Attack, never defend. Deny everything, admit nothing. Claim victory no matter what actually happened.
When Jeff Sessions recused himself from the Russia investigation in 2017, Trump reportedly demanded of his aides, “Where’s my Roy Cohn?” He was mourning a fixer who’d been dead for three decades.
It took him eight more years, but he’s finally found his Roy Cohn. He’s found several of them, in fact, and he’s installed them at the Justice Department, the FBI, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
That’s the machinery humming behind Thursday’s speech. The acting Director of National Intelligence is now Bill Pulte, a nepo-baby real estate guy with no intelligence experience who referred Trump’s political enemies for criminal prosecution based on mortgage records he pulled from government databases, and who Democrats say was installed precisely to help Republicans rig the midterms.
A White House task force has been combing through thousands of pages of classified documents, timed to land in the middle of an election season. Federal agents have already raided the Fulton County elections office and carted off 700 boxes of 2020 ballots, something I covered here at the Hartmann Report earlier this year.
Steve Bannon has promised ICE agents at the polls come November, and Trump’s new Postmaster General has confirmed the Postal Service won’t deliver mail-in ballots from states that refuse to hand over sensitive voter data to the federal government. And Jay Clayton, Trump’s pick for permanent DNI, faces his Senate confirmation hearing today, one day before the speech, having already auditioned for the job by echoing Trump’s phony claims about “election integrity” on CNB
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Originally posted by second:Quote:When the Democrats found out Platner was a Nazi and rapist, they curb-stomped him.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:Even 41% Nazi is not enough to win. Nazis need 50%.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
By the way... Trump is still polling nearly 41% on the RCP average. And that's with this Iran thing still dragging out.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
You guys voted for Platner.
Nobody wants to hear anything out of you about Nazis ever again, Shit Golem.
You fucking loser.
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
No. They didn't. They all circled the wagons and protected him and said that it was more important for Republicans to lose than to worry about who they were voting for.
(You really should look at more than just what I post in the Garden, and you would have known about the dozens upon dozens of Left-wing shit sites that were blowing Platner even after the tattoo thing, and maybe you wouldn't look like a fucking idiot again right now).
It was only after one of yours came out and claimed that he raped her that they curb stomped him.
Being a Nazi was never a disqualifying issue as far as Democrats were concerned about Platner. Even the Jews that vote straight-ticket Democrat rallied behind him. Being an alleged rapist was never an issue for Democrats either, until it was a woman who voted Democrat that came out and claimed he raped her.
And it is just another in a very, very long list of reasons that nobody takes a fucking thing you say on any topic seriously anymore.
Your party is shit. You are shit. Shit Golem.
You stand for nothing, and you NEVER have.
All you care about is the destruction of everything good.
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