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"Trump is at a point in his Mad Kingy delusions that he cannot negotiate with any one, over any thing - he can only dictate, attack, and demand that his foes YIELD and BEND THE KNEE."
~ Simon Rosenberg
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #StraitofHormuz #economy #dementia #stupidity #narcissism #megalomania #MadKing #ApprovalRating
/17
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Trump Must Now Fix The Global Mess He's Made (New Video, Analysis)
We hit our two big first quarter fundraising goals - thank you all!Simon Rosenberg (Hopium Chronicles By Simon Rosenberg)
"The other day your faithful podcast host argued that Donald Trump’s presidency is in free fall in terms of public opinion. Now the signs are even clearer: His approval ratings have dropped below 40 percent in The New York Times’ polling averages and in two other sets of averages as well. That’s a critical milestone."
~ Greg Sargent
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #StraitofHormuz #economy #dementia #stupidity #narcissism #megalomania #ApprovalRating
/15
newrepublic.com/article/208446…
Donald Trump’s Presidency Is in Free Fall
As Trump’s unpopularity hits a crucial new milestone, Indivisible co-founder Leah Greenberg reflects on what the massive turnout at the No Kings protests shows about his cratering with the public.The New Republic
"Trump has suffered so many setbacks in the last day that I couldn’t help wonder: Has Trump become a paper tyrant? … All strut and bluster but little ability to act beyond the bounds of his authority and power."
Jay Kuo
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #StraitofHormuz #economy #dementia #stupidity #narcissism #megalomania #PaperTiger
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"Maybe he even believes the US economy won’t be affected by sharply higher oil prices, fertilizer shortages for US agribusiness, slowdowns in supplies of critical materials like helium, disruptions to international shipping far beyond the Strait of Hormuz, that sort of thing."
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #StraitofHormuz #economy #dementia #stupidity #narcissism #megalomania
/12
"Trump is clearly enjoying living in a complete fantasy world where the US can simply walk away from the mess it made and let other countries figure out how to deal with it."
~ Marty Kelley
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #StraitofHormuz #economy #dementia #stupidity #narcissism #megalomania
/11
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Trump Says Seven Impossible Things About Iran Before Breakfast
Why yes, 'I want to do war crimes' is in there.Doktor Zoom (Wonkette)
“'I think he’s gone.' Trump’s former White House lawyer Ty Cobb says Trump is 'clearly insane'."
#Trump #Iran #war #economy #dementia #stupidity #narcissism #megalomania
/10
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Mike Sington (@mikesington) on Threads
“I think he’s gone.” Trump’s former White House lawyer Ty Cobb says Trump is “clearly insane”.Threads
"We are being told we must choose 'Lethality' over 'Longevity.' I reject that premise. A nation that cannot fund its own health is not a nation that is truly secure, no matter how many missiles are in the silo….
This $200 billion request is that wrong cut. It’s time we demand a budget that prioritizes the longevity of our citizens over the lethality of our weapons."
#Trump #Iran #war #stupidity #narcissism #megalomania #economy #healthcare
/19
"The recent announcement that the Department of Defense (DOD) is requesting a supplemental $200 billion for the war effort is a clinical failure of priorities. While the Pentagon asks for a massive infusion of capital to 'replenish stockpiles' and fuel conflict in Iran, our domestic healthcare infrastructure is being subjected to a radical, unguided amputation."
~ Eric Lullove
#Trump #Iran #war #stupidity #narcissism #megalomania #economy #healthcare
/18
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Missiles or Medicine? The $200 Billion Choice That Will Change American Healthcare
Trump's $200B Pentagon request is gutting the NIH, slashing Medicaid, and hollowing out VA care. Dr. Eric Lullove makes the case for medicine over missiles.Eric Lullove (Blue Amp Media)
"[At the NoKings protest] In St. Paul, signs with the message 'Healthcare Not Warfare'—distributed by Social Security Works to highlight the administration’s warped priorities—were ubiquitous."
#Trump #Iran #war #stupidity #narcissism #megalomania #economy #healthcare
/17
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Bernie Sanders: “This War Must End Immediately!” | The Nation
The senator delivered a powerful message on Iran at the No Kings Rally in Minnesota.smccroskey (The Nation)
"Axios is reporting that Republicans in Congress are considering cutting federal health spending to help pay for a budget that includes up to $200 billion for the war and immigration enforcement. The American people just want health care. Republicans are giving them another Middle East war."
Ben Meiselas
#Trump #Iran #war #stupidity #narcissism #megalomania #economy #healthcare
/16
"I think it's time for us to accept the bitter truth. We are going to pay, and continue paying for a long time to come, for the president’s war of choice against Iran. Such are the consequences of politics. Maybe Americans will take their democracy seriously next time."
~ John Stoehr
#Trump #Iran #war #stupidity #narcissism #megalomania
/15
Shashank Joshi, defense editor for The Economist, says,
"Total incoherence of war aims [with Trump, Rubio et al.]. Nuclear material / weapons not even mentioned here. Hormuz re-opening totally absent, even though the president literally just publicly said he would go on an infrastructure-destroying spree if Iran did not re-open it."
#Trump #Iran #war #stupidity #narcissism #megalomania
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"What’s always a danger for a bogged-down empire is a heightened risk for a superpower led by a man with a short attention span who is enthralled by military spectacle. ...
Whatever Trump lurches towards next, his stupidity, racism, hubris, and provincialism will — as it has for past U.S. administrations far less burdened by those weaknesses than he is — prevent him from seeing his avowed enemy clearly or on its own terms."
#Trump #Iran #war #stupidity #narcissism #megalomania
/13
"The only thing more dangerous than an unbound strongman launching elective wars is when those wars begin to go badly.
There’s no telling what President Trump will resort to doing to save face, create the mirage of victory, and extricate himself from the box canyon into which he so triumphantly galloped.
This is old-style mission creep on steroids."
~ David Kurtz
#Trump #Iran #war #stupidity #narcissism #megalomania
/12
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Trump’s Iran War Objectives Have Collapsed. Now What?
INSIDE: Pete Hegseth ... Kash Patel ... Eric SwalwellDavid Kurtz (Morning Memo)
"Trump can't read so he gets his briefings on video. Hegseth won't read because it's not manly. Rubio denies being able to read, to fit in. Pam Bondi fears reading because it's usually a subpoena."
~ Paul Rudnick
#Trump #Hegseth #Rubio #PamBondi #Iran #war #stupidity #narcissism #megalomania
/11
"That war-peration not going great."
~ Marcie Jones
#Trump #Iran #war #stupidity #narcissism #megalomania
/10
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Call Your Girlfriend: Tabs, Mon. March 30, 2026
Morning news roundup and things to read!Marcie Jones (Wonkette)
"His utterances each day about the war and the global crisis he has created make as much as sense as 'light inside the body' during COVID."
~ Simon Rosenberg
#Trump #Iran #war #stupidity #narcissism #megalomania
/9
hopiumchronicles.com/p/trumps-…
Trump's Global Crisis Worsens - Where Is Congress?
Tomorrow is the last day of the first quarter, and a critical fundraising deadline. Let's close strong these next two days everyone!!!!!!!!!Simon Rosenberg (Hopium Chronicles By Simon Rosenberg)
"Other presidents have been accused of negotiating with themselves. Trump is negotiating with his imaginary friends. There’s no reason at all to believe that these talks are actually happening."
~ Paul Krugman
#Trump #Iran #war #stupidity #narcissism #megalomania
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Pete Hegseth Believes in the Lethality Fairy
"Overwhelming violence of action" as the solution to all problemsPaul Krugman
"So, a ground invasion then, huh? We’re no Dionne Warwick or Mulan, but assorted half-assed boot-ground raiding into a country of 90 million people sounds like a strategy to do not much more than get a lot of (American) servicepeople killed."
~ Marcie Jones
#Trump #Iran #war #stupidity #narcissism #megalomania #troops #military #invasion
/7
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Just 67,000 US Troops In Iran, Hanging Out And Being Bros
Anybody smell boots on the ground?Marcie Jones (Wonkette)
"Donald Trump has lost his Iran war. He is the Iranian hostage. ... If there is any consistency to Trump’s policy, it is a series of frantic attempts to justify his original blunder and extricate himself from its dire consequences."
~ Sidney Blumenthal
#Trump #Iran #war #stupidity #narcissism #megalomania
/6
"Despite all the positive words and all the tough words from President Trump, behind closed doors, he understands that he is in really deep trouble, that he made a huge mistake.
When leaders are desperate, they do foolish things."
~ Tymofiy Mylovanov
#Trump #Iran #war #stupidity #narcissism #megalomania
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"If only the U.S. had competent negotiators and a sane president, a deal might be reached soon. We don’t. Tragically, more lives will be lost, billions more spent before the war’s end."
#Trump #Iran #war #stupidity #narcissism #megalomania
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"He therefore flails about, desperately trying to end this debacle without total humiliation. Thanks to the considerable leverage Trump’s blunders have given them, the Iranians surely expect to avoid Trump’s most draconian demands. They want the war to end, but not at any price."
#Trump #Iran #war #stupidity #narcissism #megalomania
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"This is what happens when impulsive, ignorant men — intoxicated with blowing things up — utterly bungle a war. ...
In sum, Trump did not get regime change or an unconditional surrender. His lack of strategy gave Iran advantages (e.g., control of the Strait of Hormuz, asymmetric missile/drone capacity) that neither he nor his yes men anticipated."
~ Jennifer Rubin
#Trump #Iran #war #stupidity #narcissism #megalomania
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"His reality distortion field has run into a brick wall."
~ David Smith
#Trump #Iran #war #stupidity #narcissism #megalomania
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‘Battle of the titans’: Trump’s distorted reality on Iran war runs into a brick wall
War is testing operating principle that has guided Trump for decades: construct a narrative, declare it to be true and relentlessly force the world to submit to itDavid Smith (The Guardian)
"When they stop to cheer the rapist, they are active participants in the horrific crime."
#Trump #Iran #war #narcissism #megalomania #stupidity #StraitofHormuz #oil #gas #RobertMueller
/8
"He’s a deeply disturbed sociopath slipping into the darkness of dementia and failing health. It is about the collective failure of the Republican party to exhibit even a base level of admirable human qualities. If a woman is raped in a busy airport and the passengers ignore it and walk by, the shame and guilt is shared by every person who looks the other way."
#Trump #Iran #war #narcissism #megalomania #stupidity #StraitofHormuz #oil #gas #RobertMueller
/7
"Trump is likely to come out with something even more despicable at any minute, but the sad spectacle of an American president dancing on the grave of a man who lived a patriotic life of virtue will long be remembered as another death in the mass suicide of decency in the Republican party.
This is not about Trump."
~ Stuart Stevens
#Trump #Iran #war #narcissism #megalomania #stupidity #StraitofHormuz #oil #gas #RobertMueller
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Robert Mueller, My Father, and the Vanishing American Patriot
I’ve been thinking a lot about my dad and Robert Mueller.Stuart Stevens (Lincoln Square)
"Today, he played golf on one of his courses in Florida. Tonight he will sit on the patio at Mar a Lago and eat a steak and take the plaudits of the people who pay thousands of dollars in membership fees so they can be in his presence.
The man is a monster, and today millions of people turned out all across the country to protest his presence in the White House."
~ Lucian K. Truscott
#Trump #Iran #war #narcissism #megalomania #stupidity #StraitofHormuz #oil #gas
/5
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Let's remember how truly loathsome this monster is
He was best friends with a convicted pedophile.Lucian K. Truscott IV (Lucian Truscott Newsletter)
"Or what they consider that to be. That is what makes them so unpredictable. Consequently, they couldn’t care less about international law.
Second parallel: their megalomania has led to massive military miscalculation."
#Trump #Putin #Iran #war #stupidity #megalomania #narcissism #DunningKruger
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"Both Putin and Trump clearly acted out of a kind of megalomania. Their behaviour is evil and unlawful, but rational motives are not the decisive factors. Rather, Putin and Trump are primarily concerned with their own greatness. Or what they consider that to be."
~ Robert Habeck
#Trump #Putin #Iran #war #stupidity #megalomania #narcissism #DunningKruger
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Like Putin, Trump is a megalomaniac. In Europe, we can shield ourselves, not look for rational motives
I had to deal with the energy shock in Germany after Putin invaded Ukraine. The solution now is the same: buy ourselves out of the fossil fuels trap, says Robert Habeck, former vice-Chancellor of GermanyRobert Habeck (The Guardian)
Greg Dworkin quotes Acyn of MeidasTouch, who says,
"Trump on Iran: We really had regime change. This is a change in the regime because the leaders are all different. I think we can say this is regime change."
Dworkin responds:
"A 6 year old could do deeper analysis."
#Trump #Iran #war #stupidity #megalomania #narcissism #DunningKruger
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dailykos.com/stories/2026/3/25…
Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: 'Dazzle them with bullshit' won't cut it anymore
FOX: House conservatives erupt over Senate GOP, White House deal amid SAVE Act fight A source familiar with the Freedom Caucus' thinking also panned the prospective DHS deal House conservatives are firing a warning shot at their Republican counterpar…Daily Kos
"This is the first war of my lifetime that lacks even a coherent phony justification. It's also the first war of my lifetime in which the president who launched it is simultaneously engaged in a desperate search for a trapdoor through which he can escape."
~ Charles Pierce
#Trump #Iran #war #stupidity #megalomania #narcissism #DunningKruger
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This Is the First War of My Lifetime That Lacks Even a Phony Justification
Trump is sending the 82nd Airborne Division to the Middle East, but I wouldn’t have been surprised if they had been ordered to turn around and fly back when they were halfway there.Charles P. Pierce (Esquire)
"Especially in an administration so driven by the whims of one man, that man’s ignorance and unearned confidence can have a profound, even catastrophic effect. In the Iran war, we can see Trump’s ignorance operating at multiple levels from the general to the specific, each of which has its own consequences."
#Trump #Iran #war #stupidity #megalomania #narcissism #DunningKruger
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"We have ourselves a Dunning-Kruger president, one who is supremely confident in his abilities on a range of topics where he is completely ignorant. And now he has taken us into a Dunning-Kruger war, defined by that fatal combination of ignorance and confidence."
~ Paul Waldman
#Trump #Iran #war #stupidity #megalomania #narcissism #DunningKruger
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A Dunning-Kruger War, Courtesy of the Dunning-Kruger President
Ignorance plus overconfidence gets you the Iran War.Paul Waldman (The Cross Section)