Tuesday, March 10, 2026

We're All Paying the Price for the Myth of Trumps Competence

The administration's war with Iran is setting a mountain of taxpayer dollars on fire every day -- mostly because he doesn't know what he's doing.

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The man is, whatever his other faults, just way in over his head. Maybe Democrats should say that more often. The fact that he's costing taxpayers a billion dollars a day on a war most of them didn't want may be a good place to start. trib.al/oQGYMWP

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-- The New Republic (@newrepublic.com) Mar 10, 2026 at 10:48 AM

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Thanks, Bibi and AIPAC!

Links:

Cost to American Taxpayers for Attacking Iran on Behalf of Israel

Next American Generation Will Pay Dearly for Tuesday 5 Nov 2024

#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-03-09 01:29 PM

Trump's mind and heart are knots of worms.

The Really, Really Bad Thing hasn't quite happened yet.

But the man is working on it.

#2 | Posted by Zed at 2026-03-09 01:53 PM

Pedo 47 says Iran war is very complete

www.cnbc.com

Why did the brain dead orange chomo give up on unconditional surrender?

#3 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-03-09 05:41 PM

Early Iran Strikes Cost $5.6 Billion in Munitions

www.washingtonpost.com

#4 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-03-09 06:34 PM

And still no money for universal healthcare as enjoyed by the residents of Germany, Israel, Greenland, Canada, and tiny little Albania.

"Enjoy the BBB, rising health insurance premiums, abominable paperwork, poor health outcomes, and medical bankruptcies while we spend billions of your taxpayer dollars killing the people of Iran."
Signed,
The Quite Comfortable Defenders of the American Status Quo in Congress and Elsewhere

#5 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-03-09 07:19 PM

Why did the brain dead orange chomo give up on unconditional surrender?

He taco'd after Vlad told him to on the phone call.

It must be hell to have two different masters.... one Israel threatening to expose him unless he attacks Iran and one Russia threatening to expose him if he continues to attack Iran.

That problem could have never happened if he only didn't rape children.

#6 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-03-10 02:40 PM

We're all paying the price for uninformed voters who don't understand enough about the world around them to understand how to vote in their own interests.

For example, all of this nonsense really boils down to the price of eggs leading up to the election.

#7 | Posted by horstngraben at 2026-03-10 03:41 PM

Please. Somebody. Tell me the myth of Trump's competence. I have not heard this one.

#8 | Posted by moder8 at 2026-03-10 03:41 PM

Unfortunately, the line has been crossed and there is no going back with this administration in power and I doubt Iran would want to deal with a replacement Democrat led administration either. We are at war folks. Everything happening was 100% foreseeable yet our odious orange pedo couldn't not do it and couldn't be bothered to prepare before doing it - Epstein files were too close especially with the detailed accusations being finally released.

That said, how on earth was our military NOT prepared for the conflict? The hordes of Iranian drones and missiles? We had to go begging to Ukraine AFTER they were hitting all over the middle east? Was that arrogance, incompetence or both? Iron Dome appears to be less effective against Iran's ballistic missiles then was thought. Running out of Patriot Missiles too I am hearing. We SHOULD have been manufacturing them by the truck load well before all this happened. I am sure people like Kegseth were both arrogant and incompetent and squashed any preparations as un-needed as our mighty air superiority would just crush them. Now it is clear they are needed. It is also clear that Iran has ways to launch missiles that don't include the destroyed platforms.

A lot more people are going to die. I see boots on the ground to end this now because you can be 100% sure Iran is not stopping without Nukes otherwise. And we have incompetence in charge at every level in the White House, Congress and the Pentagon. Can our generals and admirals pull off a miracle despite that? I just don't now.

When it comes to Patriot Missiles - Asleep at the wheel. Ukraine should have set the production to over 2000k per year years ago. Per Lockheed - As of early 2026, the U.S. is aggressively scaling up production of Patriot (PAC-3 MSE) missiles to meet record global demand, with current output around 600"650 units per year. A new framework agreement with Lockheed Martin aims to triple this rate to approximately 2,000 per year. Where else are we asleep at the wheel?

#9 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2026-03-10 03:53 PM

Myth? Bankrupting two casinos wasn't enough.

#10 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2026-03-10 04:01 PM

For example, all of this nonsense really boils down to the price of eggs leading up to the election.
#7 | Posted by horstngraben

Talk about uniformed.

The election had already happened ....

#11 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-03-10 04:13 PM

The election had already happened ....

#11 | POSTED BY ONEIRONAUT

There's a new one one in November, unless Trump is telling you otherwise.

#12 | Posted by Zed at 2026-03-10 04:57 PM

"There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action."

Wolfgang von Goethe

#13 | Posted by SomebodyElse at 2026-03-10 06:19 PM

The election had already happened ....

Whoa! Good one, you got me. Not! (as in onionsnot).

Obviously, logic would conclude I was talking about the last election. When eggs was such a big deal.

And you were so close to getting it...

#14 | Posted by horstngraben at 2026-03-10 08:17 PM

He's surely hurting MAGA-GOP

The Democrat is currently leading the GA special election for MTG's seat with 70% of the votes counted:

LIVE RESULTS: www.nytimes.com (no paywall)

#15 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2026-03-10 08:42 PM

I bet Empty G would laugh if a Democrat won her seat.

#16 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-03-10 08:44 PM

I bet Empty G would laugh if a Democrat won her seat.

#16 | Posted by REDIAL

It's headed to a runoff.

#17 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2026-03-10 08:55 PM

It's headed to a runoff.

GOP stuff the ballot boxes at the last minute again?

#18 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-03-10 09:06 PM

I forgot if no one gets 50% + 1 it heads to a runoff in GA

The Democrat is doing massively well in a district MTG won by 39% in 2024.

#19 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2026-03-10 09:11 PM

Just heard a commentator say this is the most conservative district in GA.

The Dem is a retired Brigadier General now farmer.

#20 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2026-03-10 09:23 PM

We're all paying the price for uninformed voters who don't understand enough about the world around them to understand how to vote in their own interests

I came here to say exactly this.

It's not like Trump was an unknown quantity who turned out to be a dunce.

He was a known quantity elected by people even stupider and more of an overall net drag on society than he is.

#21 | Posted by jpw at 2026-03-11 08:06 PM

That said, how on earth was our military NOT prepared for the conflict? The hordes of Iranian drones and missiles? We had to go begging to Ukraine AFTER they were hitting all over the middle east? Was that arrogance, incompetence or both?

Were used to bombing Iron Age people back to the Stone Age.

We haven't fought a near peer in decades and we didn't date our capabilities to deal with the very public updates and changes in modern warfare.

Either that or this is just another money grab by MIC who will gladly take trillions to manufacture more munitions and energy cos who will insist on government bailouts to cover repairs and upgrades while using the war as an excuse to reset production capacity lower to keep prices higher.

#22 | Posted by jpw at 2026-03-11 08:12 PM

The rich start wars but guess who actually fights them?

#23 | Posted by fresno500 at 2026-03-12 06:19 AM

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