Late Saturday evening, Josh Dawsey and Annie Linskey of the Wall Street Journal reported that Trump was so unstable and angry after learning on April 3 that Iranians had shot down an American jet that his aides kept him out of the room as they received updates and reported. From HCRichardson website
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Snap cannot be used to buy candy. Now I am pissed. I guess one must just watch the rich eat. This is happening in so many ways.
Member of British Parliament. Trump is a dangerous corrupt gangster.
Trump wealth adds 3 billion in one year in one report
Trump's Republicans are pushing Social Security to the brink of COLLAPSE. Seniors on Social Security could face a cut of $460 per month if Congress doesn’t act.
There was a poster of Trump as a Jesus type image saving a man. The man looked like an Epstein type image. Perhaps he will be on the right hand of Trump while he reigns in the sky building condos in the sky and cheating the buyers that come along.
The president once denounced those hellbent on “conquest.” Now, he believes the military that he commands is “looking forward … to its next Conquest.
How did the Republicans become a conqueror of the weak under our noses? They will be the death of us.
Perhaps our sons will be drafted for one.
pay the toll for now, and start digging pipelines asap. End this war now and go around the straight The bonus is work for Western contractors to build things and shared costs.
Raskin noted that “[e]xperts have repeatedly warned that the President has been exhibiting signs consistent with dementia and cognitive decline.” And, in recent days, the country has watched President Trump’s public statements and outbursts turn increasingly incoherent, volatile, etc.
NEW: “Trump plans to build 250ft Washington DC monument “Arc de Trump” that dwarfs Lincoln Memorial”
Are we mad enough to go back in time chanting Hey, Hey Donald Jay how many innocents have died today?
You’ve exiled the skill labor to build it. I’m asking SEE A DOC!!!!
I have heard it said many times. It has never been more true. “We have met the enemy, and he is us”
Trump is under water in 135 Congressional Districts. Time to write get out the vote handwritten postcards to swing states. Just google Postcards to swing states.
Trump said “To the victors goes the squirrels.” When your grandfather says something like this, you take him to the emergency room because he may need medical attention. We need a majority of both parties to remove him and his friends and family to get him medical tests. Not jokes. HELP HIM.
I liked this.
The end of the longest partial shutdown in history is in sight — but thanks to some House Republicans refusing to rush back to Washington to pass it, the finish line is still almost two weeks away.
Alas LOW ENERGY REPUBLICANS
From Liza Donnelly Substack.
All The President’s Men turns 50 this month. It was screened in NYC this day 50 years ago, and released to the public on April 9th
The Guardian has a good article about the making of the film.
STOP TRUTH DECAY
LIZA DONNELLY
Republicans want to cut healthcare to fund the war
NYT. 300 billionaire families accounted for 20 percent of all electoral spending in the 2024 election. We have a huge job ahead that might be helped with postcards to swing states
If you want people in Iran to overthrow their government, you might be smart to stop threatening to bomb them back to the stone ages. Trump should be impeached because of mental impairments.
Forty countries met to discuss the Strait of Hormuz. The US was not invited
That should scream that our leaders suck. The world may believe that we are just troubled children.
Sources told the BBC's US partner CBS News that a search-and-rescue effort was under way for a downed US F-15 fighter jet in southern Iran. It's not known what has happened to the missing crew member - a second has reportedly been rescued. It seems we didn’t weaken Iran that much.
Iran offers reward: Tehran has claimed responsibility for shooting down the F-15 and has promised a reward if Iranians find and hand over an American service member. Please find him first.
We were told that Iran’s defenses were completely eliminated but Iran is now shooting US planes and pilots are bailing out. At least one is still on the ground and at risk. The US called for no mercy and no quarter. We could see once more bodies of soldiers dragged through the streets on our news
But the Straight is America’s problem, whether Trump wants it to be or not
The oil and natural gas markets are global. Iran has blocked about 20% of the global supply, and all it needs to do to keep it blocked is make shipping and insurance companies too afraid to sail.
President Donald Trump has mused for decades about sending U.S. troops into Iranian territory. A key Republican senator close to the president is now publicly advocating for it. And lawmakers in both parties are sounding the alarm about the prospect. By David Rohde
Trump will be the death of many
Iran possesses more than 400 kilograms of highly enriched uranium. That would be enough to produce several nuclear weapons. Iran may withdraw from Nuclear NonProliferation Treaty. Iran could sell its uranium to others. That would be bad.
Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf says his country's forces are "waiting for American soldiers to enter on the ground so they can rain fire upon them"
His comments follow the US announcement that about 3,500 personnel have arrived in the region.
I hope all come back soon
Trump may cause the summer World Cup to move everything to Canada. It is screwed up in US.
On Meet the Press, Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) said: “We’re gonna give Iran $14 billion to fund this war with the United States? We’re literally putting money into the pockets of the very nation that we are fighting. We have never seen this level of incompetence ”