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Saturday, July 18, 2026

As the bombing starts again, it's clear the president has dragged the US into a limitless fiasco " and the world into an economic quagmire.

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It's plain that Trump, vowing to impose maritime tolls in the strait and then reversing himself within 24 hours, overseeing attacks on civilian infrastructure that could amount to war crimes, and facing the economically dire prospect of a Red Sea blockade by Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis, has no clue how to escape this deepening quagmire. European allies look askance, Washington's enemies chortle with glee, global markets take fright and the oil price rises again. The US's reputation and influence in the world diminish with every missile fired. It's tough being a superpower when no one respects you.

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Tisdall points out:

"The Trump conundrum is ultimately one for the American people to resolve. They elected him. They saddled the world with this dangerous monster."

It's they who may ultimately pay the highest price for his depredations. Like Thomas Jefferson and the founding fathers back in 1776, we, the people of the world, hold these truths to be self-evident: far from making America great again, Trump makes it smaller, meaner, unhappier, more divided, isolated and unloved. Urgently needed now: a 2026 declaration of independence from Trump.

#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-07-18 07:24 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Dummkopf Trumpf is assessed as more of a threat to the world than ICC-indicted mass murderer Vladimir Putin, who "is only too happy to watch the Americans channel scarce missile interceptors, treasure, and energy into another Middle East forever war, far removed from Ukraine."

And oil prices surged again yesterday.

Former senior White House correspondent and foreign affairs editor Simon Tisdall is not alone in his estimate of the draft-dodging, morbidly obese sexual predator undergoing dementia treatment at no expense to him at WRAMC.


This reckless and unconsitutional war against Iran was in the making ever since Bibi seized power in Israel decades ago.

Now the hardworking American taxpayer -- saddled with the BBB and no universal healthcare like in Israel -- is stuck with this trillion dollar bill, a migraine headache, and a quagmire.

Thanks for everything Lindsey, Bibi, and AIPAC!

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-07-18 07:45 AM | Reply

"The Trump conundrum is ultimately one for the American people to resolve. They elected him. They saddled the world with this dangerous monster."

Oh, I didn't elect him. A lot of us didn't elect him. Most of us don't think he's a god, or god-like. Or even able to tie his own shoelaces.

But it's up to most of us to deal with this fetid POS, and the mess he is leaving us.

If we don't, the mess will only grow bigger, and we are the first to suffer from it.

Unless most of us are very smart and very brave, come November the merely intolerable in this country will switch to excruciating.

#3 | Posted by Zed at 2026-07-18 07:51 AM | Reply

Our corrupted system and the status quo "I got mine" Congressmen and Senators did this to the American people, bought by the PACs and oligarchs.

For years, Dummkopf Trumpf got away with crimes, misdemeanors, felonies, blasphemies, and outrages, while the feckless Weimar Republic 2.0 squandered away their incumbency on Tuesday 5 Nov 2024.

USAG Merrick "the Meek" Garland couldn't destroy Trumpf in any court or with the explosive Epstein files from 21 Jan 2021 to 19 Jan 2025?

Now the "Democratic Party" resistance is moving chairs on Titanic as we're sinking.

And still some dinosaur Democrats are fighting to keep their party in the center, therefore maintaining the status quo.

For example, white man James Carville (81) bleated that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has no chance as POTUS in 2028.

The southern fossil snivelled that the "Squad" congresswoman's politics are too far-left for Democratic presidential primary voters, especially black voters in the South.

James 'the Ragin' Cajun' Carville offered no non-AIPAC candidate in his critique, praising AOC as talented, but unwinnable at the national level.

But a recent nationwide poll showed that voters prefer a Democratic Socialist candidate over a MAGA politician or one endorsed by Dummkopf Trumpf.

So, "Democrats" James Carville, John Festerman (D-Israel), Andrew Cuomo, the late Barney Frank, and Charles Schumer (D-Israel), join the ranks of Alan Dershowitz, Mike Johnson (R-Israel), the status quo oligarchs, to rationalize and disparage a potential non-AIPAC POTUS candidate who may up-end their comfortable status quo.

And we're stuck with Dummkopf Trumpf, the BBB, war, and austerity.

Link: Dinosaur James Carville


#4 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-07-18 08:50 AM | Reply

#3
I agree.

That said, I have a feeling Tisdall reflects but the tippity-top of the international iceberg. Totally anecdotal: My brother-in-law, who lives in the UK, is a retired Tory banker, refereed soccer well after retirement, travels, reads books, absolutely fell in love with Boston when he visited the US a few years back, talked of returning. Now? Not just "No," but a vehement "No!" Followed by a "Not until" checklist of the some of the regime's more egregious behaviors and attitudes. I doubt we shall see him in these parts ever again. Him and countless others who have been shocked into pretty much giving up on this country - which once actually held out a beacon of hope - while wondering what's the matter with a people who could cleave to a monstrosity like Donald Trump. I'm afraid Americans are going to find out what, for many years, it may have felt like to be a German in much of post-World War II Europe.

#5 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-07-18 09:04 AM | Reply

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