Kait’sCritters

the US media and political and financial class is so lost in the myth of Great Leader Trump being the only one with agency that this rather striking fact is completely irrelevant to them. Trump says it’s over so it’s over! time for irrational exuberance!

Trump is relying on his textbook bankruptcy procedure: Take the money and run, leave the mess for others to clean up.

I’m not sure I’ve seen a dumber thing in my lifetime than the entire elite class of America deciding that the war is now over and everything is normal because Trump made that comment

Today has made it clear how completely our elite class has accepted that Trump is king, with total dominion over world affairs, that we either rise or fall at his command, and that our role is to wait with bated breath for him to pronounce his judgement.

Terrible tragedies are coming. And the Republican Party owns them. Trump has thrown America into financial crisis, expanding war, and a surging terror threat. The only good news is that he's all-but-guaranteed Republicans will lose in November.

Miles Taylor: “Republicans own this…They lashed themselves to the president with ball-and-chain oblivion. Now there’s no daylight left between them and the decisions producing $100 oil… a financial crisis… and a terror threat level that’s blinking red.”

WSJ: “.. U.S. military investigators think American forces likely were responsible for the strike, according to a U.S. official ..”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

The White House put out a series of hype videos about the war. Some have been defending it by saying military members themselves share these kinds of videos.

This is true. But they aren’t the White House. The WH is a bunch of children, and have no sobriety about the serious business of war.

Every time Trump gets on the phone with a new reporter we’re hearing the weirdest mix of a misremembered classified briefing video the CIA makes for him, part of a text he just got from Lindsey Graham, and the last three nouns he heard on Fox News.

Lindsey’s diplomacy working wonders in UAE.

I don't think you have to Nostradamus to figure that bombing Iran might raise oil prices. And it seems pretty obvious that buying oil in advance of causing an oil price spike might just save Americans a lot of money. But...

...maybe there wasn't much planning?

'Undo Trump's wildly unpopular tax cuts and strip funding from ICE!'

*cheers, applause*

"and plough the savings into interest payments and slightly reducing the deficit!"

*boos, rotten fruit thrown at stage*

US energy chief defends waiver on Russian oil sanctions, blames fear for higher gas prices Trump administration ​officials on Sunday defended a decision to temporarily lift some sanctions on Russian oil and predicted that a sharp increase in ‌gasoline prices resulting from the Iran war woul...

I see Trump is lifting sanctions on Russia because of Trump's war on Iran

www.reuters.com/business/ene...

I see your TACO and raise you STAR:

Some
Things
Aren’t
Reversible

Are we allowed to get the rest of the Epstein files now?

The Trump administration says there will be no more Epstein files released. Over half of the 6 million documents remain sealed.

Pam Bondi’s response:
“The DOJ is done.”

If we could do only one thing to right this ship it has to be ending the culture of elite impunity in this country. Once you get past a certain wealth threshold you not only become invulnerable to criminal liability, but you lose the ability to lose in any way at all

😡😡

I'm no fancy political consultant, but, hey, if you're in Dem comms, you should notice that Fox News panicked over Trump wearing a cheap Trump merch baseball cap to receive the bodies of soldiers he got killed for no reason he can articulate, and you should absolutely lean into that.

“You’re a U.S. senator!”

Bernie stops Noem’s replacement from literally trying to fight someone👇🏽

This should go great

They also dk wtf they’re doing.

It’s like they think the Iranian people are just a bunch of fully-formed Christian capitalists waiting for a magical government swap so they can spread their wings and create a perfect democracy that bows to the US’s every whim and fancy.

A PSA from Thomas Massie:

They don't *need* AI to make these decisions. But they *want* AI to make these decisions. Because the tech gives them plausible deniability--something to blame (other than themselves) when things go wrong.

They went to war with Iran (which nobody in America was asking for) so they could conjure an excuse to allow ICE to keep murdering Americans and teargassing schools here at home with impunity (which nobody in America was asking for).

There were def people in Washington who advised Trump not to do this, basically saying, "hes 90, hes had cancer twice, hes going to die soon anyway. Dont make him a martyr for the cause". He didnt listen.

Seems like the emerging policy is: you people out there are responsible for setting up your own governments, but if the US doesn’t like who ends up in charge we’ll just assassinate or kidnap them and then the ball is back in your court.

Trump Has No Plan for the Iranian People The mere act of bombing Iran will not by itself create a stable regime.

The fate of the Iranian people has never been of great concern to American administrations, and this one is no exception

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Trump has no strategy to help the Iranian people build a legitimate state—in fact, he’s dismantling tools that could have helped promote civic engagement and build a united opposition in Iran, @anneapplebaum.bsky.social argues. theatln.tc/k99IcIzV

@covie_93 Good thing Congress isn't alive to see this.

Spot the difference…