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Iran's Fars news agency: "no direct communication with Trump"

News: "Trump Postpones Strikes on Energy Targets But Iran Denies Truce Talks"

Any Trump posts/news between 5-7am US-EST (on a trading day) is market manipulation.

To the extent anyone can be said to be in "control" in Iran, those people have essentially said that they are waiting for Trump to admit he was wrong — something that will never occur — before they'd be willing to consider releasing the Strait.

The war is running wild.
The WH doesn't know how to resolve the problem they started, so they're waiting for circumstances that they *think* will allow them to declare "victory" & bail.

Pentagon Sees Iran War Lasting Up to Six Weeks, Trump Aide Says A top aide to President Donald Trump said the Pentagon estimates the Iran war, now in its third week, would take between four and six weeks.

Naw… WH *economic advisors* are giving Pentagon timelines?

From the article: "Kevin Hassett, head of the White House’s National Economic Council, offered the timeline along with a caveat that the ultimate decision on when the war will conclude lies with Trump."
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

WH toadies tasked with saving Trump's face made this "Sasquatch is in over his head & needs everyone else to bail him out" masterpiece.
• "100% defeated/decapitated," & simultaneously a persistent threat
• "Artificial," and authentic.
• Doesn't know how to make it happen, but it'll happen "soon".

Preventing Russia from reestablishing its war chest vis-à-vis Ukraine (which Trump has enabled by suspending RU sanctions on oil sales) is a priority.

"Reactivate RU sanctions & help us properly support/resupply Ukraine; then we'll help you out," oughta be a line France & UK can get behind.

…could be ineptitude.
…could be an intentional effort to let Russia off the sanctions "hook" & replenish their war chest.

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WH toadies tasked with saving Trump's face made this "Sasquatch is in over his head & needs everyone else to bail him out" masterpiece.
• "100% defeated/decapitated," but still a persistent threat
• "Artificial" & yet really real.
• Doesn't know how it'll happen, but it'll happen "soon".
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Would-be Ukrainian Skeleton athlete Vladyslav Mykhailovych Heraskevych, presenting his helmet, adorned with the faces of colleagues, peers & friends who were killed as a result of Russia's war in his country, for photographers, after having been denied his place in competition, because his helmet was deemed by the IOC as being overtly political & thus against IOC rules.

If you're competing at the Olympics, you're there to represent your country.
IOC's abuse of anti-coercion rules, to avoid controversy, is the same as promoting/defending an unjust war.
IOC head Kristy Coventry (and the board overall) don't have their heads on straight.

As kids it was: "screenshots or it didn't happen;" now it's "video from multiple angles or you're a `domestic terrorist’."

"Informing Congress would've screwed with our plans," is not a state-of-affairs that US citizens ought to tolerate between their (ostensibly) co-equal executive & legislative branches of federal government.

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• Vote Early this October!

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Ontario to Run Trade Ad That Angered Trump During World Series The Ontario government plans to stop running the anti-tariff advertisement that irked President Donald Trump after airing it during broadcasts of baseball’s World Series.

Ontario to Pause Anti-Tariff Ad Campaign After Trump’s Ire www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

…may also be good to figure-out who is feeding him these questions.
Was he supposed to be prepared for this question & his sycophants dropped the ball?

Does anyone know who is *actually* giving direction at the Executive Branch these days?
I know it's not this nutbag — he's just there for the cameras, and the nearby sycophants don't have the chops.

Who's really giving the orders?

JUST IN: A federal judge has granted the New York Times’ demand for a list of Elon Musk’s security clearances. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This law, enacted by Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, ensures public access to emergency services regardless of ability to pay (yes, including illegal aliens — which is sensible).

Call your Republican representatives & tell them what you think of this move."

A TSA-issued poster headed "Equal Opportunity Notice" that has been modified with black boxes obscuring some of the text: If you feel you have been subject to discrimination based on race/ethnicity, color, national origin, sex [redacted], religion, age, or disability, [redacted] you may file a complaint at (followed by addresses)

Spotted at the Billings, MT airport:

Your rights, redacted

Feel free to make any edits you deem appropriate.

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Please consider framing the latest GOP bs in the following manner:

"Instead of restoring the healthcare guarantees that their Big Beautiful Betrayal law took away, Republicans shut-down government and *now suddenly* want also to get rid of the Emergency Medical Treatment & Labor Act‼️

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MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell

JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too

D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals?

J: I didn't see it

D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.

A Trumper asked me today if I was one of those nutjobs trying to save polar bears.

My reply I think shocked him: No. The polar bears are already dead bears walking/swimming. We can't save them. They will go extinct in the wild. At this point, we're just trying to keep agriculture from collapsing.

me?…I just wanted to not to have MAGA domination, but thanks to large-scale fantasy logic like yours…

Mature personalities understand that there is no perfect solution, that there will always be problems, and that the goal with elections is to mitigate the worst of them.
Hopefully you'll get there.

…as if blaming candidates is some kind of catharsis for ending-up with MAGA dominating everything.

wait nevermind — I've had enough of malcontents for a lifetime.