Well That's an Odd Way to "Surrender"

But, but, but... how could this be?  The Great and Powerful Drumpf told us just yesterday that he had offered generous terms of "surrender" to the Iranian government and that he was confident they would see the error of their way and accept his offer that simply cannot be refused.

I'm no expert on international warfare, but it seems to me that the act of laying mines in the most heavily trafficked shipping route in the world doesn't sound like the Iranians are on the verge of "surrender" to DonOld Drumpf, much less anyone else for that matter:

 

Link:  Iran begins laying mines in Strait of Hormuz, sources say | CNN Politics

 

"Iran has begun laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz, the world’s most important energy chokepoint that carries about one-fifth of all crude oil, according to two people familiar with US intelligence reporting on the issue.

 Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which now effectively controls the strait along with Iran’s traditional navy, has the capability to deploy a “gauntlet” of dispersed mine-laying craft, explosive-laden boats and shore-based missile batteries, CNN has reported.

The IRGC previously warned that any ship passing through the strait would be attacked, and the channel has effectively been closed since the start of the war. The state of the strait has been described to CNN as a “death valley” given the risks involved in transiting."

  

Folks had better start saving up for $5-8 dollars a gallon of gas is all I can say.

 

 

 

---TFG

US Navy Throws Drumpf Under the Bus For His Lies About Shipping Escorts

And the hits just keep on coming for Emperor von Shitzinpants: 

 

Link:  US Navy tells shipping industry Hormuz escorts not possible for now | Reuters

 

"LONDON, March 10 (Reuters) - The U.S. Navy has refused near-daily requests from the shipping industry for military escorts through the Strait of Hormuz since ​the start of the war on Iran, saying the risk of attacks is too high for now, according to sources familiar with the matter.

The ‌Navy's assessments spell continued disruption to Middle East oil exports and reflect a divergence from President Donald Trump’s statements that the U.S. is prepared to provide naval escorts whenever needed to restart regular shipments along the key waterway.

Shipping along the narrow strait has all but halted since the start of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran more than a week ago, preventing exports of around a fifth of the world’s oil supply ​and sending global oil prices surging to highs not seen since 2022."   

 

This translates to little or no shipping traffic through the busiest shipping channel on the planet.  This means little to no oil tankers passing through.  This means the cost of gas at the pump will continue to steadily rise for the foreseeable future.  This means the price of other commodities will rise as well as the effects of a world oil shortage ripple through nation's economies.

And to think we owe it all to 'Don & Bibi's Grand Iran Armageddon Adventure' as we watch it continue along it's horrifying way with no clear or coherent end in sight.

 

 

---TFG

Moses Fetishist Threatens Americans Who Are Considering Voting for Democrats

I am not going to mince words here.

Fuck this smarmy little, disingenuous, moral values desecrating, democracy hating, radical extremist, Moses wannabe asshole straight in to the fiery depths of Hades: 

 

Link:  'Foolish to vote against us': Mike Johnson's ominous warning to voters amid midterm fear - Raw Story

 

"For Johnson, however, the upcoming elections were a contest, he said, “between normal and crazy,” and offered voters a piece of advice.

“Defying history to win the majority is not a simple task, but it is one that we will do, and you have to remember... this House Republican majority has defied expectation and historical trends and conventional thought virtually every single day that we've been governing,” Johnson said.

“And we will do it again. It would be a very foolish thing to vote against us – that's my advice to you, okay?”"

  

It's cute that Johnson thinks Drumpf World is "normal."  I'd seriously be interested in knowing what the knife-juggling squirrels in his head think "crazy" is.

The nerve of that fascist twat, though.  Lol.  After everything that has happened and is still happening.

Johnson is warning, no, he is actually threatening "foolish" Americans who dare vote against his corrupt party and their pedophilia scandal-plagued leader in the upcoming midterm elections later this year.

Mike Johnson's "advice" to American voters is - vote for his MAGApublican party.  Vote for Trump - or else.  Or else what he slyly demurs in telling us.

Once again - no mincing of words here.  Mike Johnson can take his "advice," wrap it tightly in 40 grit sandpaper, and violently insert it up his radical extremist poop chute.

Here's the thing.  I don't take advice from elected officials who lie to the public for personal gain.  I also don't take advice from the people who knowingly elected not once, but twice, a lying, sniveling, cowardly con artist, lifelong criminal, adjudicated rapist, and highly suspected child rapist to the American people's White House and continue to support and protect this lying, sniveling, cowardly, raping, suspected child rapist every damn day.

Mike Johnson does not possess so much as a scintilla of fucking moral gravitas or moral authority to be threatening and warning Americans over who they vote for.

Capiche?

 

 

---TFG

Drumpf Lies About a War That Benefits Nobody But Himself, Netanyahu, and Putin

Drumpf is claiming today:

"If we didn't go in, they would have come in after us. Within a week, they were going to attack us."

Uh-huh.  

DonOld just had to go along with Bibi Netanyahu's 'Big Iran Armageddon Adventure' you see because Uncle Bibi told DonOld that mean old Iran was a mere week away from vaporizing the United States of America off the face of the planet, or some such other nonsensical horse shit that he cobbled together in his feeble, felonious, syphilitic mind: 

 

 

Link:  Post by @mollyploofkins.bsky.social — Bluesky

  

Drumpf's own fucking military said it's not true:

 

Link:  Pentagon tells Congress no sign that Iran was going to attack US first, sources say | Reuters

 

"WASHINGTON, March 1 (Reuters) - Trump administration officials acknowledged in closed-door briefings with congressional staff on Sunday that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack U.S. forces first, two people familiar with the matter said.

The United States and Israel launched their most ambitious attacks on Iran in decades on Saturday, killing Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, sinking Iranian warships and hitting more than 1,000 targets so far, officials say.

But Sunday's remarks to Congress appeared to undercut one of the key arguments for the war made by senior administration officials.

They told reporters the day before that President Donald Trump decided to launch the attacks in part because of indicators that Iranians might strike U.S. forces in the Middle East "perhaps preemptively."

 

To those who choose to continue supporting Drumpf to this day, ask yourselves-

If he will look you straight in your faces and knowingly lie to you about his reasons for sending young Americans to die in a war that only his corrupt buddy in Israel wanted, and that helps the mass-murdering Putin, then what won't he lie to you about?

He is using this dangerous war, a war that he involved this country in based on ZERO evidence of an imminent threat, as a cynical, contemptible ploy to not only cover up his 'Epstein Files' pedophilia problem, but also to benefit his longtime mentor and employer Vladimir Putin:

 

 Link:  Why Vladimir Putin is the biggest winner from the war in Iran – POLITICO

"For Russia, the surge in oil prices amounts to an economic windfall at a crucial moment, as the cost of four years of war in Ukraine threatened to spill over into a domestic economic crisis.

The assault on Iran may undermine Moscow’s claim to stand by its allies, but it is already benefiting Russia’s economy and, by extension, its war against Ukraine — leaving the Kremlin well placed to emerge as one of the main beneficiaries of the expanding conflict in the Middle East."

  

Putin is stove-piping Russian intel on the locations and types of US military assets in the Mid-East region to Iran for missile targeting at the same time that Drumpf is allowing countries like India to bypass US sanctions on Russia to purchase oil from them due to shortages caused by -- you guessed it -- Drumpf and Bibi's 'Big Iran Armageddon Adventure!'

I know - it's hard to keep up with this insane shit, isn't it?

But seriously - when are my fellow Americans going to stir from their slumber and recognize that the greatest danger facing Americans today isn't Iran, but the current occupants of the American people's own White House?

 

 

---TFG

The Wealthy Warmongers Are Buying Fallout Bunkers - What Does That Tell You?

So, let me see if I understand the situation here...

The bastards who cheer-led and egged Drumpf on to join hands with Israel's wanted war criminal and criminally-indicted leader Netanyahu to go to war against one of the largest, most heavily armed Islamic countries in the middle east are so self-assured of the success of their grand Iran war plans that they are using their wealth to panic buy nuclear fallout bunkers for themselves, family and friends, huh?

Boy, if that doesn't inspire confidence in the American people for the country's leadership, then nothing does, amiright?:

 

Link:  Top Trump officials rush to purchase nuclear war-proof bunkers after Iran attack: report - Raw Story 

 

"Since President Donald Trump’s unprecedented attack on Iran last week, at least two top Trump administration officials have raced to purchase their own survival shelters designed to withstand an apocalyptic nuclear war scenario, The Telegraph reported on Sunday.

The revelation comes from Texas resident Ron Hubbard, who owns Atlas, a company that manufactures survival bunkers designed to withstand "biological [or] nuclear fallout, EMP attacks” and other catastrophic scenarios. Hubbard spoke with The Telegraph and revealed that since the U.S. attack on Iran, inquiries had gone up “tenfold,” including inquiries from two senior Trump administration Cabinet members."

 

At some point, even among the most dull of the MAGA dullards, it has to dawn on them that Drumpf, his apparatchiks, and the cabal of scumbag billionaires who fund them do not give a flying fuck about America or the American people, and yes, that includes the Ma and Pa MAGAs out there as well.

These right wing assholes have dragged this country into a no-win, dangerously stupid game of war destruction attrition with Iran, and it is going to eat up American blood and treasure quicker than the dimwitted voters of this country are prepared to deal with as it escalates further.

And it should be noted that over the past weekend, Drumpf apparatchiks were asked about the prospect of Drumpf putting American troops on the ground in Iran as well as the prospect of Drumpf re-instituting the military draft if it comes to all out ground war and the US needs bodies for front-line action.  It's quite telling that those apparatchiks would NOT commit to those things not happening.

Yes, indeed, it's going to be quite the touching site watching Ma and Pa MAGA send their beloved sons and daughters off to Iran to become cannon fodder in Donald Trump's pedophile cover-up war.  Yessiree, quite touching indeed.

 

 

---TFG

There is Absolutely Nothing "Surprising" About the Loss of 92K Jobs in This 'Project 2025' Economy

So, not only is President Epstein Files embroiling America in another hopeless, billion taxpayer dollars a day war of choice in the Mid East, he is also steadily trashing the American economy at home:

 

Link:  A surprising loss of 92,000 jobs last month complicates the economic picture in the US | AP News

 

"WASHINGTON (AP) — American employers unexpectedly cut 92,000 jobs last month, a sign that the labor market remains under strain. The unemployment rate blipped up to 4.4%.

Hiring deteriorated from January, when companies, nonprofits and government agencies added a healthy 126,000 jobs, the Labor Department reported Friday. Economists had expected 60,000 new jobs in February.

Revisions also cut 69,000 jobs from December and January payrolls.

The surprisingly weak employment picture in February adds to the economic uncertainty over the war with Iran, which has caused oil prices to surge and saddled business and consumers with unforeseen costs."

 

The country should have seen at least 60,000 new jobs in February.

Instead, nearly 100,000 were lost.

Drumpf's great Iran War Adventure will ensure that any positive economic developments in the American economy will be cancelled out and rendered moot.

A months long Iran war most likely will usher in yet another Republican created recession.  Hang on to your wallets and bank accounts folks, because you know damn well who always gets to foot the bill for fucking Republican wars - that's right - Mr. and Mrs. US Taxpayer . . . AND . . . Mr. and Mrs. US Consumer.

You have to remember - the Republican party, long before the orange menace came along, had an impressive track record of inheriting fair to robust economies from Democratic presidents, only to trash those recovering economies with their undeclared wars and regressive, billionaire fondling economic and tax policies that punished average American workers and rewarded the silver spoon in mouth heirs of the billionaire class who are already wallowing in more ill-deserved wealth than they could ever dream of having, much less are deserving of having. 

I mean, ffs, you got Drumpf tweeting out AI pictures of how he imagines his new, nearly half billion dollar, gold-gilded ballroom being built in his own honor at a time when he and Pete Kegsbreath are contemplating putting American soldier's boots on the ground in a hostile country of nearly 100 million pissed off Arabs:

 

 

Time to face reality.

Drumpf doesn't give a shit about 'jobs' or 'job reports.'  Just like he couldn't give less of a fuck about American soldiers being sent off to wage war and die in a foreign, hostile land because he himself made the colossally boneheaded decision to join Israel in waging a holy war on Iran.

There is no telling how badly this dangerously stupid Iran conflagration will spin out of control, or how badly Drumpf and his clown show administration will fuck things up even worse.  The only thing we all can confidently count on with Drumpf himself is that if there is a way to make an already horrifying situation even more horrifying, DonOld Drumpf is the man to do it, and he will have plenty of help from the pathetic quislings in his administration.

Oh yeah, lest I forget - gas prices have shot up 11% nationwide (per AAA) since the Iran bombing began and are likely to go higher the longer the conflict drags on and even more so if the shipping lanes of the Strait of Hormuz are threatened and shipments of gulf energy supplies are cut off.  That's going to get ugly pretty quick.

And you know it's only going to get worse because we have now seen Drumpf and his lackeys and apologists, in just the space of a few days, go from saying America's engagement would be days, to a couple of weeks, to now saying it will be an unspecified number of "months".  

You can almost smell the lust that emanates from the regime change/nation building mission creep fantasies of Drumpf's MAGA lieutenants and compromised apologists and it's unnerving.  

As for Drumpf's Iran War business partner Bibi Netanyahu - that criminal piece of mass murdering shit has had a boner for waging war on Iran - WITH THE U.S. AT HIS SIDE of course for 45 years.  Well, it looks like Bibi finally at long lost got his rocks off, and the witless faces of Drumpf and MAGA are the lucky recipients of that foul, incestuous copulation.  Sadly, American taxpayers get stuck cleaning up the sticky, unholy mess afterward.

Yes-siree.  A convicted felon, Epstein Files POTUS and his criminally indicted, UN wanted Israeli war criminal bff really pulled a number on Americans this time, didn't they?

😶 Good luck everyone.

 

 

 

---TFG

America's Great Protector "Guesses" There Will be Death on American Soil

Not comforting in the least.

In fact, it's quite disturbing on a multitude of levels.

 

Link:  'I guess': Trump admits Americans should be worried about retaliatory Iran strikes at home - Raw Story

 

"President Donald Trump made a stark admission on Thursday about potential retaliatory strikes by Iran, according to a report.

Time Magazine reported on Thursday that Trump admitted Americans should be worried about Iran striking the U.S. His comments come a few days after U.S. and Israeli troops coordinated strikes across more than 100 sites in Iran, which killed several top military and political leaders in the country.

“I guess,” Trump said in response to a question about whether retaliatory attacks could happen at home. “But I think they’re worried about that all the time. We think about it all the time. We plan for it. But yeah, you know, we expect some things. Like I said, some people will die. When you go to war, some people will die.""

   

Let's quickie deconstruct that.

First off - let's establish a baseline of truth to start from.

Drumpf, all by himself, without consulting the US Senate, without consulting the US House of Representatives, and without consulting the American people, consulted with the criminally indicted, wanted war criminal leader of Israel to launch a tag-team bombing war against the largest, most heavily armed state in the Arab world and has assassinated 80% of their leadership structure with no known plan in place for what comes next other than more and less discriminating bombings.

Secondly, here we have another instance of Drumpf himself referring to what's going on in Iran as "war," and of course it begs the obvious question, who gave him authorization to take the country to war based solely on the advice of a criminally corrupt foreign leader and a conniving Saudi oil sheikh? 

And now Drumpf just blithely shrugs his padded shoulders, and with those dead, porcine eyes, and that callous, deadpan look tells Americans to prepare for Iranian retaliatory attacks on the US mainland.

I mean . . . ffs.

So essentially folks, when some hell-bent jihadist looking to exact revenge for the attack on Iran by Netanyahu and Drumpf perpetrates a mass casualty event in your city or community, you can't say you weren't warned it was coming.  Daddy Drumpf flatly told you that people die in war, and so I "guess" you should have better prepared for it.

 

 

 

---TFG

DonOld's Shitshow Regime Just Dropped Another Load on The Country

Well, of course, the big news of today is that ICE Barbie, aka Madame Puppy Killer, aka Kristi Noem, Drumpf's atrocious hire for DHS chief, was fired from her job, and to add glory to insult, she took her mile-high fuck toy houseboy and herpes sore in human form, Corey Lewandowski with her:

 

Link:  (1) Live updates: Noem fired as DHS secretary, Mullin to replace | AP News

 

"President Donald Trump on Thursday fired his embattled Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, after mounting criticism over her leadership of the department, including the handling of the administration’s immigration crackdown and disaster response.

Trump said he would nominate Oklahoma Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin in her place and make Noem a “Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas,” a new security initiative that he said would focus on the Western Hemisphere."

  

Lol.  Poor Kristi gets shuffled off to the "Special Envoy" wilderness.  I think this is Drumpf's way of dragging Kristi out behind the White House to the open gravel pit where the East Room used to exist and pumping a bullet into the back of her head.

And for anyone who didn't get the obvious reference in that quip to Kristi Noem's method of dealing with unruly pets, just click this link here and get yourself caught up, mkay? --> Trump VP contender Kristi Noem writes of killing dog – and goat – in new book | Books | The Guardian

But good for Kristi. She played her dutiful role in Drumpf's fascist mugging of the country and true to form, Drumpf shits on her and shows his underlings once more that loyalty is a one-way street with Donald Trump. 

Oh, but all of this gets better, or ever more horrifying depending on your level of cynicism.

So who did Drumpf waste no time in naming as KKKristi's replacement?

Well, it should come as no surprise that he nominated yet another totally unqualified, MAGA fuckwit whose sum total of National Security experience is that he inherited his old man's plumbing business when he was younger:

 

 

Link: Sen. Markwayne Mullin Lowballed Plumbing Salary in Fight With Teamsters - Business Insider

  

"A Republican senator drastically understated how much money he made in the private sector as he argued with the head of the Teamsters union at a hearing in Washington on Wednesday.

While lambasting Teamsters president Sean O'Brien for his nearly $200,000 salary, Oklahoma's Senator Markwayne Mullin claimed that he paid himself a salary of just $50,000 when he ran a plumbing business. But his financial disclosures show his salary was nearly $92,000 in 2012, the year he was first elected to Congress. His total income was even greater." 

 

That's right.  Drumpf appointed a plumber to be in charge of safeguarding this country's 'homeland' security.  

Not a person with military experience.  Not someone with national intelligence experience.  Not someone with law enforcement or border security experience.  

A plumber.

And a lying, crooked MAGA plumber at that.

Lol.

. . . . sigh . . . . some days I just can't with these fucking people . . . I really can't . . . .

But, today is not one of those days.

Anyway - this all gets back to my recent posts about why Drumpf hires the most unqualified, shittiest people like Kristi Noem and Markwayne Mullin and others (Hegseth, Bondi, Patel, Lutnick, Rubio, Witkoff, RFK Jr., etc...) for all of these top-level positions.  

It's because they are compromised, weak, and unprincipled individuals.  They are DonOld's "kind of people" - the kind whom he knows how to control and manipulate in to doing his own nefarious bidding.  In other words - they are dutiful stooge types - and  being a dutiful, no questions asking stooge is the only prerequisite for employment in a DonOld Drumpf regime.

 

 

 

---TFG

An Open Window to the Nazi Virus Consuming What Remains of The Republican Party

When Drumpf came along he gave license to every hateful, bigoted, racist, nazi-loving, America-hating piece of right wing shit to crawl out from under their rocks and become part of mainstream conservatism.

That strategy has worked out quite well for the racists, bigots and nazis in this country as this Miami Herald story details:

 

Link:  Leaked FIU chat reveals racism in Miami GOP ranks | Miami Herald

 

"The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s Republican Party started a group chat primarily for conservative students last fall — and within three weeks it was filled with racist slurs, someone wrote dozens of ways of violently killing Black people and the chat was renamed after what one member described as “Nazi heaven.” 

In WhatsApp conversations leaked to the Miami Herald, participants used variations of the n-word more than 400 times, regularly described women as “whores,” used slurs to talk about Jewish and gay people and mused about Hitler’s politics.

Interspersed throughout were discussions about events promoting the Republican Party at Florida International University. The school told the Herald the chat logs are part of an ongoing criminal investigation. 

The conversations included some of the campus’ top conservative leaders: the county GOP secretary, FIU’s Turning Point USA chapter president and the former College Republicans recruitment chair. 

The group chat — verified by two people in the group — reveals the extent of racism and extremism within the highest ranks of campus Republican Party leadership in Miami at a time Florida’s Republicans are reckoning with an increasingly emboldened far right."

Still think that American Nazis who are being "influenced" and funded by foreign, America-hating actors haven't hijacked the Republican party?

Well they have.  And they call themselves MAGA.

MAGA demonstrate their affinity for Nazism and fascism to us all on a daily basis in this country.  At some point, as this nation's own past history has shown, these home-grown Nazis will have to be confronted with force by better people in our own society.  Sadly, if past history is any indication, brutal force is the only thing Nazis seem to understand.

These Nazi-adjacent Republicans are playing with fire.  They clearly have forgotten the past lessons of what inevitably happens to Nazis once their power wanes and their Nazi leaders are vanquished.

A lot of these Nazi-friendly, MAGA groupies have some difficult, lesson-learning events on their horizons and most are oblivious to it.

 

 

 

---TFG

American Voter's Boots Need To Boot Drumpf and Republicans From Office

American "boots on the ground" would happen only because Israel's leader, who is currently under criminal indictment in his own country AND is also a UN wanted war criminal, told a dementia-addled Drumpf that it was a smart and dandy idea to help Israel go to war with Iran.

 

 

Link:  Experts erupt as White House won't rule out Iran boots on ground: 'That is on the table' - Raw Story

 

"The White House caused a social media stir on Wednesday by leaving the door open to a ground invasion of Iran.

Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stopped short of ruling out ground troops during the first briefing since the military campaign launched.

"I know there's many leaders in the past who like to take options off of the table without having a full understanding of how things could develop. So again, it's not part of the current plan, but I'm not going to remove an option for the president that is on the table," Leavitt said.""

  

And should those American boots hit the ground in Tehran and the American casualties start coming home in body bags, I don't want to hear a fucking word from the people who elected the individual that made it happen.

As stated in a prior post - this will be Drumpf's and MAGA's war.  They own it lock, stock and barrel and a clear majority of Americans do NOT want our nation involved in it.

And make no mistake here - the rejection of the Drumpf/MAGA Iran war does not in any way suggest antagonism toward our American troops.  I believe as citizens we demonstrate the best of our American values by working to ensure that our brave men and women in uniform are kept OUT of foreign wars of choice that are started by corrupt, self-dealing, tinhorn despots like DonOld Drumpf and Benjamin Netanyahu.  I can't state it any clearer than that.

 

 

 

---TFG