The Tactless Gnome

The bombing of Iranian children is an unforgivable crime America has blood on its hands.

"Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth insists that 'we, of course, never target civilian targets,' but large-scale bombing raids often hit and kill civilians, including children. This is one reason that it is immoral, as well as illegal, to launch wars of aggression."

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It’s past time for Trump and Hegseth to come clean on this. They already know the truth. What they are doing now is simply refusing to accept responsibility.

Opinion | In a War of Words, Trump Always Defeats Himself The public started out opposing the conflict in Iran. That will be a problem if things go south.

"We can’t be expected to raise our eyes to the shining beacon of our noble ideals if we can’t see through the acrid smoke of our leaders’ intemperate, incontinent, infantilizing verbiage."

-- WSJ op-ed on Trump's inability to state a coherent case for the Iran war

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The Gulf Countries Can’t Take Much More Iran is exposing their vulnerabilities.

Sen L. Graham to Trump: 'You want them to know America will fight'. He helped start this war!

Middle East bought a FELON POTUS:
Qatar: $400 million jet gift
Qatar: $5.5 BILLION - Trump Resort
UAE: $2 BILLION - AI chips access through crypto investment
Saudi Arabia: $7 BILLION - Trump Resort

Iran kills 7 American soldiers after being attacked by the United States without justification and is a "barbaric and terrorist" regime.

The United States kills 150 Iranian school girls for no reason and is on the side of goodness and right.

Yeah, right, Lindsey, you lying drunk.

I understand that there are a lot of folks on the left who instinctively recoil from religious language, and with good reason given its use by the right.

But please listen to this, and focus on how he's trying to realign "Christian values" so they align with and advance progressive policy goals.

Americans Should Stop Using the Term Christian Nationalism Religious beliefs have driven political change for centuries. The question today is which Christian values will prevail.

Haven't read the book discussed here, but the review makes a compelling argument (assuming the book makes a better one). It doesn't excuse the use of Christian works that are used to repress others (MAGA, KKK), but it does highlight that the same works can be used to lift others up as well.

A new saying should be American saying about Maga Pro Pedo

This reminds me of the video of all the Sinclair Broadcast Group's anchors mindlessly parroting the same dishonest, right-wing script. We are living in a time rife with propaganda.

Anthropic Sues Department of Defense Over Supply-Chain Risk Designation The Claude chatbot developer says the Trump administration overstepped by escalating a contract dispute into a federal ban on the company’s technology.

The Claude chatbot developer says the Trump administration overstepped by escalating a contract dispute into a federal ban on the company’s technology. www.wired.com/story/anthro...

It is worth remembering that only *one* of these men paid a price for the Access Hollywood recording. And it wasn't the one bragging about sexually assaulting women.

And now we have evidence that that same man raped children. And there is *still* no accountability.

RFK Jr.'s Pick for Surgeon General Cashed in Promoting Companies With a History of Unsafe Products RFK Jr's pick for surgeon general promoted in her newsletter companies with allegations of selling unsafe products

America’s top doctor shouldn’t be someone who peddles junk science to get rich off a grift.

Casey Means can’t even practice medicine.
 
I will vote NO on her confirmation.

In case you're looking for some extra cash . . .

Operational Excellence, Strategic Incompetence The president and his advisers are in the grip of “victory disease.”

Hegseth: "This is TRUMP's war."

'When you bomb a nation, kill its leaders, and call for its people to rise up, you’re engaged in war, and if you call for “unconditional surrender,” you are definitely at war'.

Live Nation settles US antitrust case Live ​Nation Entertainment ‌has ​reached ​a proposed ⁠settlement ​with ​the U.S. Justice ​Department, ​according to ‌a ⁠court hearing ​on ​Monday.

Instead of taking Live Nation-Ticketmaster to trial, Trump just let them off the hook.

The federal government had been building a case for years, and could have broken up the Live Nation-Ticketmaster monopoly.

But Trump just let them settle out of court.

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Reminder: DOGE (named after Musk's Doge Coin) was NEVER about efficiency! Musk invested ~$234 million to buy Trump and get appointed to lead a FAKE agency to DISMANTLE all investigations into Musk companies for a savings of about $2.3 BILLION!

Also, Musk is a Nazi immigrant. #muskisanazi

Me a year ago: "Musk may be a happy hatchet man thinking he is reshaping the government. But for Trump he is a useful tool to help allow Trump to restaff it."

WaPo today: "A year after Elon Musk and his DOGE allies purged 100k's of federal employees, the Trump administration is ramping up hiring."

Thought I would have gotten used to it by now, but I’m still grappling with the realization of just how stupid the men running this country are.

CA Attorney General’s Office challenges mental health diversion granted for Zack Scrivner California’s Attorney General’s Office is challenging the superior court’s grant of mental health diversion to former Kern County supervisor Zack Scrivner.CA AG

Update - hopefully CA AG is successful.

Trump Forced Into Humiliating Reversal After Mass Firing Mayhem After campaigning on promises to shrink the size of government, the Trump administration is stepping up hiring.

After campaigning to shrink the size of the government, Trump's administration fired more than 387,000 employees and now needs to hire back to cover significant operational blind spots.

The Gulf Countries Can’t Take Much More Iran is exposing their vulnerabilities.

Also, the Middle East bought a FELON President:
Qatar: $400 million jet gift
Qatar: $5.5 BILLION - Trump Resort (beach side) & Golf
UAE: $2 BILLION - AI chips access through crypto investment
Saudi Arabia: $7 BILLION - Trump Resort & Golf

So, they bought a FELON POTUS. Is he protecting them or US?

Americans are seeing the costs of everything go up — including groceries, housing, and now gas. Trump promised to bring these costs down, but he hasn’t.

Don’t let this President lie to you. We’re in an affordability crisis.

I have never seen anyone claim 'record breaking' as a positive note when the record set was for some of the WORST returns at theater releases and numerous reports of MAGA buying out tickets to empty theaters to ensure the paid-for First Lady looks as complicit as her FELON husband.

Don’t worry, America. The House Republican majority is working hard for you at Trump’s golf resort in Miami this week.

The DHS shutdown ends the minute Republicans agree to reasonable ICE reforms that the majority of Americans agree with. But they refuse any changes because masked, poorly-trained paramilitary agents terrorizing communities is what they want.

The Gulf Countries Can’t Take Much More Iran is exposing their vulnerabilities.

Middle East bought a FELON President:
Qatar: $400 million jet
Qatar: $5.5 BILLION for Trump Resort (beach side) and Golf
UAE: $2 BILLION for AI chips access through crypto investment
Saudi Arabia: $7 BILLION deal for Trump Resort and Golf

So, they bought a FELON POTUS. Is he protecting them or US?

The Gulf Countries Are Facing Their Nightmare Scenarios Iran has exposed their vulnerabilities.

Even without missiles, a “trickle of drone strikes, if they continue for months, could damage the Gulf’s brand as a haven within a volatile region,” Robert F. Worth writes:

The Gulf Countries Can’t Take Much More Iran is exposing their vulnerabilities.

Middle East bought a FELON President:
Qatar: $400 million jet
Qatar: $5.5 BILLION for Trump Resort (beach side) and Golf
UAE: $2 BILLION for AI chips access through crypto investment
Saudi Arabia: $7 BILLION deal for Trump Resort and Golf

So, they bought a FELON POTUS. Is he protecting them or US?

Criminal Rick Scott is evil!

Rick Scott: Senator & past FL Governor, CEO and chairman of Columbia/HCA, a hospital that pleaded guilty to 14 corporate FELONIES and paid $1.7bn for systematic fraud against Medicare and Medicaid. He resigned with $10 million cash and $350 million in stock!