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No, sir. You are mistaken again. I don’t remember Ted Kennedy ever being president, for example. [Hidden Content] Typically speaking, Presidents don’t weigh in on primary elections. Meaning, they don’t select this Republican over that Republican… but once the voters select their candidate, the President will often weigh in. My guess is that your 81 Obama endorsements were for the Democratic candidate over the Republican, not to the democratic candidate that Obama preferred over the other democratic candidates. [Hidden Content] No need to apologize. Let’s just call it a teachable moment for you.

Were you aware that: Trump said that his endorsement would be coming soon, and the candidate who didn’t get endorsed should drop out of the race immediately for the good of the party. Paxton came back and said “endorsement or not, I’m staying in-the voters should decide.” To which Trump responded “that’s not good… that makes me want to endorse the other guy.” Keep in mind that typically party leaders don’t make endorsements during the primary season. That’s a new Trump phenomena. Even locally, you can see the Orange County Republican Party endorsing candidates in the primary election. The party, with whom all candidates are required to file, and whose filings must be accepted by… is calling winners and losers in the primary based on loyalty to Trump. It’s insane.

Just wait and see how it looks when we’re trying to decide who the next President will be… do you think can sit back and let the voters decide? Do you think he’ll wait until the primaries are over to endorse somebody? Especially how he’s trying to pick the senator from Texas in real time. I’ve got a bad feeling that the second half of this term will be craziness like we’ve never seen before.

Don’t forget the fact that they built their civilization on top of our oil.

No, but “America good, Iran bad” isn’t true, either.

Thats the thing… it’s always “Iranian-backed.” Never proven to be them. But what happened over there in 1957?

Do you remember when the Iranians shot down that US airliner in 1988, killing all 290 people on board?

They can’t secure the Strait of Hormuz from behind computer screens. It’s going to take some people over there with guns. I read that the Marines are being sent to secure the oil shipping facilities on Kargh Island. Because that’s the end goal of all of this, much like Venezuela. Trump wants their oil. The only question is whether or not the world is going to let us keep seizing the resources of other nations.

It’s funny that the Trump Presidency is turning out to be exactly what the Democrats said it would be, and exactly what the Republicans said it would not be. The Iranians won’t be able to compete in the World Cup in the USA because they’re being bombed by the FIFA Peace Prize Winner. [Hidden Content]

Here’s the real lesson to be learned by every nation on earth. Iran felt like they needed nuclear weapons to defend itself against other nations that had nuclear weapons. Now you have two countries with nuclear weapons beating the holy hell out of a nation without any nuclear weapons. In hindsight, Iran was right. They needed nukes. Unless you want the USA selecting your governance, you’d better arm yourself.

Trump is literally begging for help this morning from the same exact countries that he’s been tariff-ing the pants off of. France? He wants France to send help? China? Excuse me… “CHI-NUH.” I bet they put his fat butt on speaker so the whole room could laugh. Trump said “we have already destroyed 100% of Iran’s military capability,” then in the very next sentence said “it’s easy for them to send a drone or two, drop a mine, or deliver a close range missile somewhere in, or along, this waterway.” Which is it, Fat Boy? Are they 100% destroyed or do they still have the ability to shut down 20% of the world’s oil supply? This happened because maga didn’t send him back to Florida for putting out his election denying lies and attempted insurrection. He literally believe things that are not true. The secretary of the Treasury will be fired shortly, I’m afraid, because he released data yesterday that shows very clearly that we’re not in “the best economy in the history of rhe world. Nobody has ever seen anything like it.” And after shuttering the newly renovated and renamed “trunp Kennedy center,” today he fired the handpicked leader of that org. Since that’s a priority. My guess is that the center will be razed before July 4th for a rebuild, aka the Ballroom. Everybody but MAGA is tired of it.

Reagan: “I feel good about the Republican Party. We’re killing the right people and cutting your taxes. Trump is my favorite President. We’ve run out of bombs. We didn’t even run out of bombs in WWII.”

And considering how journalists are being banned for taking photos of Hegseth that he thinks are unflattering, I wouldn’t expect any truth to come from Trump’s fellow rapist.

Well, he didn’t stammer when he said that prices would come down on day one, but they’re still going up. And let’s not forget his pledge to repeal and replace Obamacare…. He’s had 5 years, 1 month, and 21 days. Plenty of time to do something, but he’s too busy filing frivolous lawsuits on his own behalf in jurisdictions all over the country. But nobody has a problem with him doing THAT instead of his job.

Here’s my thought… all of the admin keeps talking about how they’ve been threatening us for 47 long years. But they’ve literally done nothing but talk since the hostages came home from Iran when in 1981. That’s 45 years of hot air by my math. Trump made a deals for his own businesses all over the gulf states since retaking office. The price of those deals? His business partner’s asked Trump to pledge American might to force regime change in Iran. So that’s what we’re doing. Iran came to negotiate, and we still attacked. Disarmament wasn’t the impetus, it was regime change on behalf of the gulf states on the US taxpayers dime and blood, so that Trump could expand the family business over there…. Plus a new jet. This is my opinion, based on evidence unseen. Much like the plan of salvation, and equally real.

So you’re admitting that they didn’t have bombs? And honestly, I wouldn’t trust anything they say to be true. My guess is that they either have 1. No uranium or 2) way more than it takes to build 11 weapons. My guess is they don’t have it.

You have to admit… we had a deal, Trump hated it because it wasn’t his idea/nobel, then blew up the deal…. And now our troops are dying. So much winning, lol. And his supporters are blind to the obvious.

Grifter in Chief. Did you see where Melanie is hawking MAGA jewelry now?

Here’s my problem. Nobody is going to deny that we’re winning in the air and on the sea. To suggest anything less isn’t being honest. Trump would LOVE for the Iranians to run up a white flag, install Kusher (or some other handpicked Trump loyalist) as their new democratic leader and demand all of their oil reserves as compensation for “liberating” them. Except Iran won’t surrender. They won’t even talk about it. This is where the problem comes in. If we leave, they’ll just come out of their bunkers and take up right where they left off, but with much more purpose. We can pack up all of our gear and go home, but Iran has no reason to let anybody sail through the strait. If you ask me, they’re just biding their time, anxiously waiting on us to send warships through the strait… within range of their drones, etc. a major hit on one of our warships would be a coup for the Iranians. I think we’re going to get tired of fighting long before they do. They’re literally applying massive economic pressure, while we’re blowing up their pirogues. This is what happens when you have a semi-successful hotel developer play war, believing that his boldness will be a suitable substitute for experience or advice. It ends badly.

2. I misspoke… out total cost to mobilize, pay hazard pay, munitions, etc… 2 billion/day doesn’t even come close to covering the cost that we’re laying out 3. The rate at which oil jumped, not the total price per barrel. It actually doubled over the course of last week, at one point, I’m pretty sure. This is a breakdown of the costs of different missile types that we use they claim to have struck more than 3000 sites in Iran. That doesn’t include the cost of defensive missiles. They fire off two Patriot missiles at a time, at a cost of 4 million each… so that’s 8 million dollars every time we try to intercept an Iranian missile or drone with a patriot battery. Key Missile Costs (Estimated as of 2026): THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense): ~$13 million per interceptor SM-6 (Standard Missile-6): ~$4.3 million to $9.3 million per unit Patriot (PAC-3 MSE): ~$3.7 million to $3.9 million per interceptor SM-2 (Standard Missile-2): ~$2.1 million per unit ESSM (Evolved SeaSparrow Missile):~$1.7 million per unit JDAM (Joint Direct Attack Munition) kits: ~$25,000 (air-dropped guided bomb) Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance +6

Read it to the end.

So far, the war (“excursion”) has: 1. Led to the installation of a younger Ayatollah 2. Cost the US a few hundred billion dollars in spent munitions 3. Halted the flow of oil from the Gulf States, causing the price of oil/fuel at a rate unseen since the 1970s 4. Knocked the Down to 46500 from 50000 5. Cost us a half dozen troops with hundred more maimed. The good news is that I can lay down and sleep soundly tonight knowing that it’s very unlikely that the Iranians will attack me in my sleep tonight. Sound about right?

It should breeze through the house.

Not me, not so much. I saw him on Colbert and his take on us being a “Christian nation” was spot on. We’re not a Christian nation… we’re a nation where you’re free to be a Christian…. Or not. You can be an atheist, agnostic, Muslim… anything you want. The idea that the far right has the authority to force their religious beliefs on everyone is quite simply, not right. We’re not a theocracy, even if that’s what the far right wants. My hope is that Republicans getting destroyed in the general election will cause a lot of people to rethink their blind support of whoever smooches trumps behind the longest or best. Kinda like when the Tea Party fad died a painful death.

Simply put, our elections aren’t rigged. That’s the reason that no one can ever find evidence of widespread election fraud. Never. Not even once. Now, the losing side likes to cry out “they cheated” whenever they lose. You have to look no further than the SOTU when the Crybaby-in-Chief stated “The democrats can’t win an election unless they cheat” and all of the lesser-understanding voters didn’t disagree. Same thing from Jasmine Crockett earlier this month. “I was cheated.” No, you lost. I get it you-believe that out elections aren’t fair… they’re rigged. Does that mean that Donald Trump legitimately won in 16? “YES!!!” Do you believe that he legitimately lost in 20? “No, they CHEATED!” Ok, so did Donald Trump actually win in 2024? “Yes! The People have Spoken!” So the system works, right? “No! It’s broken! We need people like Ken Paxton to save us from a broken election system!” Losers cry “cheating,” and they known what’s about to happen in November. Whenever somebody is trying to stop people from voting, you can be assured that person will be a white republican, without fail. ALWAYS.