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How should Iran respond if Trump assassinates their leader? Oh, wait.

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-- Michael McDonald (@electproject.bsky.social) 1:09 PM · Jul 10, 2026

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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 4

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

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

Thanks to puling, stupid "progressives."

Don't ever forget that "progressives" are as much to blame as MAGA for our country being torn down piece by piece.

That's not something to be proud of.

#6 | Posted by jpw at 2026-07-18 10:24 AM | Reply

---- that.

It's some kind of twisted logic to conclude that progressives are to blame for Trump.

Maybe its Milquetoast Democrats like yourself, callous to human suffering that encouraged the DNC to refuse to consider Gaza or allow Palestinian voices to be heard at Kamala's Coronation, er, Nomination,for President.

Look in the Mirror Boyo.

If the DNC had even played Lip Service to giving a ---- about Palestinian Lives, Kamala could have ecked out a Win.

It was Denying any Palestinians the opportunity to even be heard and their pain acknowledged that kept me and many others from voting at all.

More registered voters stayed home than voted for Either candidate in 2024.

That's on Kamala and the DNC for being so Stupid; and Dismissive, of Progressive people's concerns and very real Pain.

Go ---- yourself with your blaming Progressives for your own failure of Empathy and Imagination.

#7 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-07-18 12:17 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

America started this illegal, unjust, unjustifiable war of aggression with a cowardly sneak attack that murdered the Iranian leader and babies. We launched a murderous attack during negotatations.

We are the bad guys

We deserve to suffer

#8 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-07-18 09:23 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#6 | Posted by jpw

You can fug straight th' fug off with that BS.

#9 | Posted by Angrydad at 2026-07-18 09:51 PM | Reply

Thanks to puling, stupid "progressives."

Never realized Biden, Garland and the Democrats who did nothing about Trump from 2021-2024 were progressives.

#10 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-07-18 10:32 PM | Reply

I didn't elect him. A lot of us didn't elect him..
#3 | POSTED BY ZED

To the rest of the world. We're one nation.

We're not doing anything about Trump.

We're not trying to overthrow the government.

Republicans attacked the Capitol Buildings of several states when Biden won. Tennessee and Michigan come to mind, not to mention DC.

Democrats went on a walk with their signs at noon and were back home in time for dinner.

When it comes down to it. Should Trump interfere with the midterms. Nothing will happen. Not one thing. Democrats aren't going to do anything and republicans know it.

#11 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-07-18 10:39 PM | Reply

I'm not sure I agree.

If Trump tried something Truly Outrageous,like Cancelling Elections Outright or Johnson refused to seat multiple Congresspeople who clearly won the Elections,I think there would be Rioting.

Real dangerous Unrest.

People getting Shot.

Trump's power is Fragile because he is trying something Americans have no direct experience with since the 19th century.

Open Outlaw Government.

#12 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-07-18 10:52 PM | Reply

If People did Resist Trump would Enact Repression by Decree.

Something we have never really known in the US.

It's actually quite frightening to think what could develop.

#13 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-07-18 10:55 PM | Reply

You can fug straight th' fug off with that BS.

#9 | POSTED BY ANGRYDAD

lol so the response to being called a puling, self-righteous progressive is to act like a puling, self-righteous progressive?

#14 | Posted by jpw at 2026-07-18 11:11 PM | Reply

If Trump tried something Truly Outrageous,like Cancelling Elections Outright or Johnson refused to seat multiple Congresspeople who clearly won the Elections,I think there would be Rioting.

Wont happen.

Democrats won't risk it.

There are too many creature comforts to lose.

Especially not people who are only democrats because the republicans party has gone full fascist.

#15 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-07-18 11:17 PM | Reply

Never realized Biden, Garland and the Democrats who did nothing about Trump from 2021-2024 were progressives.
#10 | POSTED BY CLOWNSHACK

Do what? Garland was the only one who actually fits your post.

Sitting the election out was a far bigger sin.

#16 | Posted by jpw at 2026-07-18 11:19 PM | Reply

The executive branch is supposed to protect the nation.

Biden failed.

Your hate for progressivism is idiotic.

Especially since you're running away to a progressive nation that provides all the benefits you attack American progressives for wanting.

#17 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-07-18 11:41 PM | Reply

What specifically should Biden have done? How would those actions not crossed a line POTUS shouldn't cross?

I don't hate progressivism. I, like most Americans, support the ideas.

What I can't stand are progressives.

See the difference?

And "running away." Lol what an idiot.

#18 | Posted by jpw at 2026-07-19 12:25 AM | Reply

Trump's biding his time til his Tiananmen massacre moment.

Not until hundreds are mowed down in the streets will the real protests begin.

At that point, Trump already has a foot out the door.

#19 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-07-19 12:44 AM | Reply

The executive branch is supposed to protect the nation. -- Clownshack

I've never heard that. How, and how differently than the other branches at any given time?

Not saying you're wrong, but this is a Civics 101 lesson I missed.

#20 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-07-19 12:47 AM | Reply

The president is the Commander-in-Chief of the military, is how.

#21 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-07-19 07:36 AM | Reply

Fifty some years ago some Russian mafia thugs operating in the boroughs of NYC and made a deal with DJT. He would cooperate with them and they would make him very rich. Was it the KGB who introduced him to the thugs, or did the thugs refer the KGB to work with DJT. Does it matter?

Since then, KGB operators and contractors sought out this prime opportunity to swell DJT's ego at every turn and to inculcate every grievance DJT had against minorities, taxes, corporate law, and American government into rage, and then into a political platform.

Look to the seeds of this anti-American, anti-democratic rage in DJT's own responses and ramblings in his interview with Playboy magazine in March 1990 (www.ebroadsheet.com). It's full of his rage vs US allies and American laws and values.

Then check out how many times DJT's casino was slammed for money laundering.

The KGB invested well in weaponizing DJT. This term is aided by many useful idiots and pro-Putin justices letting us destroy ourselves and our alliances and everything Putin wants us to wreck.

#22 | Posted by Augustine at 2026-07-19 08:09 AM | Reply

Dummkopf Trumpf: Double Agent.

Working for the KGB while coughing up occasional Russian or Italiano mafioso to the FBI, like his buddy Felix Satir.

I bet Roy Cohn taught Trumpf how to be a sucessful Confidential Informant (CI) for the FBI before he croaked in the mid-1980s before this 1990 Playbpy interview.

#23 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-07-19 08:30 AM | Reply

Typo fixed: "Playboy interview"

#24 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-07-19 08:37 AM | Reply

*** Iran Releases American Woman After Almost Two Years Detention ***

"US-Iranian citizen Dena Karari has been freed after almost two years of detention in Iran.

Her lawyer said she was held on "bogus charges" of collaboration with a hostile state and espionage.

Ms Karari is now outside Iran and Dummkopf Trumpf has welcomed the "gesture of goodwill" from the regime."

~snip~

The US goodwill gesture: Having Team Iran fly back to Mexico after every FIFA game.

Now, back to bombs away!

Source: AMCIT released

#25 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-07-19 08:42 AM | Reply

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