Khamenei, One of Most Evil People in History, is Dead
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Trump: "Oman will behave just like everyone else, or we'll have to blow them up."
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/trump-threatening
-oman-why-hormuz-iran-b2985672.html
We are so far into "mad king" territory that the White House may not even bother to clarify whether Trump just confused Oman with Iran or is indeed threatening to bomb Oman.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:Do you recall that Trump requested $1.5 trillion for the Pentagon next year? The year after will be more. Two years will be even MORE! What does he intend to do with that mountain range of money? Each peak is bigger than the last.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Awwww....
Too bad you don't have hundreds of Billions in NGOs and USAid that you can pocket and pretend you're feeding people with.
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
https://www.war.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4465551/15-trill
ion-budget-request-prioritizes-service-members-modernization/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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The War Trump Can’t End
Washington needs a deal, but Tehran needs an enemy.
By Karim Sadjadpour | May 29, 2026
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/2026/05/iran-america-attenti
on-goals/687374/
For nearly five decades, the Islamic Republic of Iran has been preparing for a war that Donald Trump expected would take days.
As virtually every American president since World War II has learned, a monopoly on focus can outlast a monopoly on power. America under Trump is the attention-deficit superpower, pinballing from isolationism to interventionism in Venezuela, Iran, and Cuba, having hollowed out the State Department. The Islamic Republic is an obsessive-compulsive revolutionary state—a regime with a half-century fixation on resisting America, rather than advancing the welfare of its own people. Fighting America is not the regime’s policy; it’s the regime’s identity.
The deadlock is both ideological and structural. To justify the immense costs of conflict to American taxpayers, Trump must demand far more from Tehran in any deal than he would have before the war began. Conversely, having lost hundreds of billions of dollars and its top leadership, Iran’s theocracy must demand far more—and concede far less—than it ever would have previously. Neither side can afford a deal that the other might accept. And in a zero-sum negotiation, Iran’s monomaniacal focus is a greater currency than American military power.
Trump may pause his war against Iran. But the Islamic Republic’s 47-year ideological war with “the Great Satan, America, and its trained beast, the Zionist regime”—in the recent words of Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader—will continue in earnest. U.S.-Iran negotiations yield zero trust and zero closure. A win-win scenario does not exist. Tehran’s nuclear ambitions, threats to close the Strait of Hormuz, regional proxies, and missile programs will menace the Middle East so long as the Islamic Republic is in power.
Tehran is transparent about its negotiating tactics. “The Iranian negotiation style is generally known in the world as the ‘bazaar style,’ which means continuous and tireless bargaining,” Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi wrote in his 2025 diplomatic memoir. “This method is a process of interaction that requires great patience and time,” and thus, “he who gets tired and bored quickly will lose.” Trump has twice grown bored with diplomacy and resorted to military action against Iran.
The first phase of any deal would require Tehran to de-mine the Strait of Hormuz and cease harassing vessels traversing it, and the United States to lift its blockade proportionally—restoring, in theory, the prewar reality of an unfettered international waterway. For Tehran, the strait has become its greatest source of leverage. Iran’s implicit control over it—and the global economy—is both a potential fixed-revenue stream and a deterrent against future attacks. “This time, papers and signatures are not guarantees,” Ali Akbar Velayati, an adviser to Iran’s supreme leader, said. “The objective guarantee for preserving any agreement is the Strait of Hormuz.”
A coordinated reopening of the strait could be a prelude to successful nuclear negotiations, but it could also prove merely an intermission in fighting. The resumption of traffic through the strait would bring down oil prices—a crucial strategic objective in itself for the U.S., because it would make a return to war, if necessary, more sustainable, one senior official told me, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive diplomatic matters. Similarly for Tehran, the pause would provide much-needed cash and an opportunity to refortify its military.
Trump-administration officials believe that once the strait is reopened, Tehran will have a hard time closing it again: “It’s a card they can only play once,” the senior official said. Tehran appears confident taking opposite bets: that it has established a de facto Strait of Hormuz protection racket, and that the closer Trump gets to
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Trump is bored and wants everyone to leave him alone
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The picture above shows bodies of U.S. troops lying on the beach after the terrible first day of the Battle of Tarawa in 1943. This and other horrifying photos were released to the American public soon after the fighting. As the New York Times explained in 2023, these images were barely censored before being shown to American audiences, and prompted outrage at home. Instead of scenes of victory, the American public was confronted by haunting images in which, as [one of the war photographers] described it, “riddled corpses formed a ghastly fringe along the narrow white beaches, where men of the Second Marine Division died for every foot of sand.”
Just a few months after the landings, a full-length documentary containing gruesome footage, “With the Marines at Tarawa,” was released in theaters.
In other words, in the middle of a desperate, existential war, the U.S. government believed that citizens had a right to know what was happening — up to and including seeing graphic images of ugly setbacks.
But that was another America.
Today Donald Trump, who now says that talks with Iran are “very boring,” insists that anyone questioning how his war is going is unpatriotic:
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
Iran really wants to make a deal, and it will be a good one for the U.S.A, and those that are with us. But don't the Dumocrats, and various seemingly unpatriotic Republicans, understand that it is MUCH tougher for me to properly do my job and negotiate, when political hacks keep negatively "chirping," at levels never seen before, over and over again, that I should move faster, or move slower, or go to war, or not go to war, or whatever. Just sit back and relax, it will all work out well in the end - It always does! President DJT
Jun 01, 2026, 7:02 AM
We used to be a serious country. Not anymore.
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/stop-your-chirping
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Trump is Looking for a Lifeline
Heather Cox Richardson | Jun 02, 2026
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/trump-is-looking-for-a-lif
eline
Iran is in no hurry to throw Trump a lifeline. Their negotiators now maintain they have a right to control the Strait of Hormuz. They're demanding reparations for the damage inflicted in the country during the war, and they say they won't negotiate over the nuclear program until there is a ceasefire. But these conditions are all problematic for Trump's negotiators.
Permitting Iran to control the Strait is not just about oil; it's about the principle of freedom of the seas set out after World War II. Global trade depends on that concept. The exchange of money is also a problem for Trump. He has spent much of his political life attacking the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action that China, France, Germany, Russia, the UK, the US, and the European Union negotiated with Iran during the Obama administration, claiming that former President Obama gave Iran $1.7 billion. In fact, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action simply permitted the release of Iranian assets frozen overseas by sanctions. But much of Trump's base believes that Obama showed weakness by buying an agreement.
And then there's the nuclear issue. So what has tended to happen in negotiations is that the teams come up with a framework, details leak to the media, and Trump's base hears that Trump has weakened on some of his maximalist demands. They complain, Trump then posts something false about the talks or incendiary about Iran, and the negotiations fall apart.
Last Friday, Trump and his advisors spent two hours discussing the latest round of negotiations in the Situation Room. According to Erica Solomon and Farnas Fasihi of the New York Times, that agreement included the release of about $24 billion in frozen Iranian assets and a post-war investment fund to rebuild Iran, with one diplomat telling the journalists the number on the table was $300 billion. Talks about Iran's nuclear program would be deferred. On Friday morning, Trump posted once again that the strait would be opened and that Iran must never have a nuclear weapon. But then he emerged from the Situation Room without the final determination on the agreement he had promised.
On Saturday, Mohsin Rezaei, one of the advisors to Iran's Supreme Leader, posted, "As predicted, the President of the United States is betraying diplomacy for the third time."
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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How Weak Is The USA?
Phillips P. OBrien
Jun 03, 2026
https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/midweek-update-13-how-weak-is-t
he
In discussing the present situation with a knowledgeable US source yesterday, I asked how Trump eventually gets out of the Iran War (which he remains desperate to do). The response I got was fascinating. I was told, “Right now he cannot get out. It is physics.” What this person meant is that while Trump tries constantly to wriggle away, the unbreakable hold that Iran and Israel have over his power/position always sucks him back in. The US does not control its own destiny at this point in the war . . .
Cast your mind back to almost exactly a year ago. Trump had joined the Israeli bombing of Iran for one night in June 2025 and celebrated it as a great victory. Then, Trump was determined to end that phase of the war asap, and even though the Israelis believed that their campaign needed to go on, he ordered them, publicly and humiliatingly, to stop.
Trump’s public rebuke to Israel was accepted then, and the Israelis did stop the bombing of Iran, even reportedly turning around some aircraft that were already flying. In the last few weeks, Trump has tried to do something similar, and the Israelis are basically not reacting, but doing what Netanyahu wants to do in Lebanon.
For those who have not been following this, any deal with Iran that is acceptable to Iran must include protection for Lebanon. Netanyahu, however, has determined that a growing war in Lebanon is in his interest and has been steadily expanding the invasion of that country in the meantime. Israel now has established control over a long buffer zone.
This Israeli military action has been driving Trump nuts. That is not because he cares about the Lebanese people (he could not give a damn about them) but because he cannot get a deal with Iran unless Israel relents. Unlike last year, however, Trump cannot simply order the Israelis to turn around—and as such is getting desperate. He is even losing control over himself when he talks with Netanyahu.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Trump was hoping for a quick war so he could go to China with Venezuela and Iran in his pocket, but he walked into a bear trap instead.
I think Iran at this point wants to destroy USA presence in the mideast, and maybe Israel too, bc that's the only way for them to get peace and security.
This war is over when Iran says it's over, and that won't happen until Iran's security needs are met.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
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US House votes to end Trump’s Iran war: Does it matter?
Four Republicans join Democrats in a rare public rebuke of the president. But Congress is still far from being able to stop him from attacking Iran again.
By Shola Lawal
Published On 4 Jun 2026
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/4/us-house-votes-to-end-trumps-i
ran-war-does-it-matter
. . . the vote will remain largely symbolic because of Trump’s own presidential veto power on legislation . . . [It is a serious conceptual flaw in the law that the President can veto the enforcement of the law that restrains the President. It would be like giving the President the power to veto an impeachment of the President. Or a President pardoning himself.]
The War Powers Act, which has been in force since 1973, requires the president to seek lawmakers’ approval before entering armed conflict. But if a President unilaterally goes to war without approval and Congress fails to declare war afterwards, the president must withdraw troops within 60 days of entering the war. Trump failed to withdraw troops deployed to fight the war at its 60-day mark: around April 29.
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Trump's illusion: From Tehran 2026 to Munich 1938
The initial drafts of the negotiations recall the sweeping concessions Chamberlain granted Hitler. Despite the massive bombing campaign Trump ordered, the US is on track to give Tehran billions and leave its nuclear program intact. If the West again chooses a false peace, the duty to stop this existential threat will fall on Israel.
By Gil Samsonov | 05-28-2026 11:20
https://www.israelhayom.com/opinions/trumps-illusion-from-tehran-2026-
to-munich-1938/
The initial leaks from the draft agreement with Iran horrified me and led me to reflect on the 1938 Munich Agreement, which was ostensibly a peace accord but in practice served as the West's surrender agreement to Nazi Germany. Instead of stopping the Nazis, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain gave Adolf Hitler a license to continue Nazi expansion in exchange for a false peace.
Only one man stood against that surrender: Winston Churchill. Another year and a half would pass, along with the invasions of Poland, Norway and Denmark, before he would be chosen as prime minister of a British unity government and save the world at the last minute.
Once again, the West wants peace at any price, to the point that it is prepared to make sweeping concessions to a new oppressor and give a dangerous state a license to expand and trample its neighbors. Once again, the West is surrendering to a state that does not try to hide its extremist worldview.
Precisely after the courageous leader of the free world, US President Donald Trump, launched a second campaign against the nuclearizing ayatollah state and commanded the largest bombing campaign in history by the tremendous forces of the Israeli and US militaries, we expected his envoys to complete the regime's subjugation at the negotiating table. But it appears that the US is capitulating in the talks.
With mediation by countries close to the ayatollahs' regime, such as Pakistan and Qatar, it appears the Iranians are emerging from the campaign victorious. The nuclear process will continue, and Iran will receive many more billions than Barack Obama gave it. The US will be left with what it already had before the fighting: the opening of the Strait of Hormuz and a drop in fuel prices.
The winner of the deal
When the draft agreement was published, countries in the region quickly grasped its significance and began moving closer to the winner: Iran. Qatar and other oil states have already begun distancing themselves from Israel and returning to the embrace of a regime that has already proven it is not afraid to fire missiles at their capitals. Such a move would prove that Iran can stand up to the US and even receive billions that will save its economy, while further arming its military so it can continue to terrorize the entire region.
At the time of writing, it is not known whether an agreement will be signed. What is clear is that President Trump examined the agreement brought by the mediators and understood that it was Munich 2.0. If Trump succeeds in adding the removal of the nuclear program, as he has declared, it will be a Churchillian step, even if not a real victory.
It seems to me that Israel's citizens are united in their anxiety over the agreement and in their hope that the most beloved president here of all time will act according to his own legacy and succeed in blocking the Iranian danger, about which he has courageously warned from every platform.
We all know and understand President Trump's constraints, but our existential interest obligates us to confront, by ourselves or together with the US, the threat posed by Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas.
The Israeli interest requires strikes against Iran's proxies wherever they are and stopping the Iranian nuclear program. Even before elections. On this issue, there is not and must not be any political consideration, political debate, political interest or political limitation. This is the existential interest of us, our children and our grandchildren. In the agreement
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It must be really nice for you to sit in a position where you can bitch about what Trump does no matter what it is, huh?
We already know that everything that Trump does is wrong to you. It's especially funny when he does what Democrats would do and/or actually want and you still shit on him for it.
Nobody gives one single fuck about your opinion or the idiots who give it to you.
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
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