If today didn't make it clear (to anyone with a shred of critical thinking abilities), there is no voting our way out of foreign influence and corruption. Democrat or Republican.
Trump banned CNN, MSNOW, and Politico from the White House, and is promising more fake news outlets to follow. But Trump likes fake news when it works to his advantage. When I spoke the truth about inflation, Trump threatened the Fox News booker to ensure I was not invited back.
If you’re still in the administration and are truly opposed to the Iran war, you might as well publicly resign & speak out—because at this rate no one is ever going to know or care that you were quietly against it, whispering to the media.
The loudest people encouraging Trump to continue this foolish war are the same neocons who gave us the Iraq war, and who now are gleefully cheering on the destruction of MAGA while telling Trump they’re the only ones who see his brilliance.
Trump is sharing an article by Marc Thiessen, a Bush speechwriter, a week after Trump accurately labeled Bush a failure.
Thiessen is attacking all who tried to warn Trump that this war would be a disaster in order to keep Trump in state of siege. The neocons’ ultimate goal is to ensure this war escalates so it can fulfill its purpose of destroying Trump’s historic movement & pushing out those around him who believe in putting America first instead of prioritizing foreign interests & personal gain.
Trump will not be removed from office by a Democrat Congress.
Israel wants Trump in office because he works for them.
Both parties work for Israel.
You will get a 2 year dog and pony show while Israel continues to destroy the world.
Four Republicans have signed the Epstein Files II discharge petition! When we return from recess that @SpeakerJohnson imposed until the election, @RepRoKhanna & I will have 218 names required to force a vote!
Please thank @RepBrianFitz@RepRalphNorman & @RepNancyMace
Trump had it all. Congress, Senate, SCOTUS and most importantly the PEOPLE.
He threw it all away for Israel, he could have had the biggest landslide victory in history but instead he started a war for Israel.
It’s a race against time, but we are moving fast toward justice and transparency. We have 195 of the 218 signatures required to force a vote on Epstein Files Transparency Act II !!
https://t.co/zO4ZdvfMRl
And there it is. Just as I predicted. They’re canceling Congress tomorrow to avoid the vote on IMPEACHING @SecWar. It will also make it harder for us to reach 218 signatures on the Epstein Discharge Petition before the election. We were at 190+ signatures last night.
According to an informed federal official, in the coming months the Trump administration plans to send a total of 40,000 Mark 84 and Blu-117 bombs to the government of Israel. Each bomb weighs 2,000 pounds. This appears to be the largest transfer of conventional explosive ordnance from the United States in modern history.
How big is this shipment? It amounts to 40,000 tons of bombs. For perspective, the largest American air raid of World War Two was the Eighth Air Force’s attack on Berlin in March of 1945. Combined, the 2,023 Allied aircraft involved dropped about 3,000 tons of bombs. That’s 7.5 percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. That same month, March of 1945, the US Army Air Forces began the single most destructive bombing raid in human history, Operation Meetinghouse over Tokyo. More than 100,000 Japanese civilians were killed. By the end of that operation, the US had dropped 1,600 tons of bombs. That’s four percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. World War Two ended five months later, when the US dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. The shipment Trump is sending to Israel amounts to more than three times the destructive power of that nuclear explosion. There is no precedent for what the Trump administration is doing.
Nor is there a justification. The government of Israel is not fighting World War Two, or even a war. It is engaged in periodic skirmishes with a guerrilla force in Lebanon, and it is working to exterminate an unarmed civilian population in Gaza. Neither front requires modern 2,000-pound bombs.
An American-made Mark 84 has a destruction radius of half a mile. It releases a thermal wave the temperature of the surface of the sun. Within 100 feet of the explosion, rock melts and human flesh turns to vapor. The bomb collapses apartment buildings and leaves craters thirty-five feet deep. Until the war with Iran, the US military generally avoided using the Mark 84 in urban areas. It kills too many civilians.
For the Netanyahu government, that’s been the upside. In the weeks after October 7, the IDF dropped nearly six hundred 2,000-pound bombs on densely populated areas in Gaza, including on more than 100 officially designated civilian evacuation zones. The slaughter was so grotesque and embarrassing that for a moment the Biden administration paused a shipment of Mark 84s. Those shipments quickly resumed under Trump. Now they’ve accelerated.
It’s hard to overstate the scale of the crime the Israeli government is committing in Gaza. Over the last three years, more than a quarter-million Palestinians have been killed or wounded by Israeli forces there. The majority of them have been noncombatants: women, the elderly and tens of thousands of children. Many thousands more remain missing, presumably entombed under the rubble of 200,000 collapsed buildings. So far the Israelis have destroyed 92 percent of all homes in Gaza, and 34 of the 36 hospitals. By comparison, the 1945 Allied bombings of Dresden, now acknowledged as a war crime, destroyed about half of the city’s inhabited buildings.
By any definition, what the Netanyahu government has done in Gaza is genocide. The 40,000 new bombs the Trump administration is sending will be used to do the same in Lebanon, and likely in other countries in the region. If you wanted to extend the Iran war into the indefinite future, this is exactly what you’d do.
So far none of this has received public scrutiny. At some point, inevitably, it will be described in media accounts as an “arms sale.” It is not an arms sale. It is a gift, funded by American taxpayers through the Foreign Military Financing program, an arrangement designed to disguise welfare as capitalism: Congress appropriates money to the executive branch, which transfers the cash to Israel to “buy” American-made weapons, in this case from General Dynamics. Politicians claim this is a win for America. Most voters have no idea they paid for it. The bill in this case is about $3 billion. Add that to the $352 billion the US Treasury has transferred to Israel since 1951.
How did this happen? The request for 40,000 new high-explosive civilian-killing bombs originated at the US Embassy in Jerusalem, which is run by Christian Zionist Ambassador Mike Huckabee and his aide David Milstein, who is the stepson of Fox News host Mark Levin. From there it moved to the State Department, where Marco Rubio enthusiastically approved it.
At this point, only four more people need to sign off before the bombs ship to Israel: Senators Jim Risch and Jeanne Shaheen, the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; and Congressmen Brian Mast and Gregory Meeks, the top two members of the equivalent House committee. All four are committed neocons. Collectively they’ve taken millions from the Israel lobby. In 2015, Brian Mast traveled to Israel to volunteer for the Israeli military. In 2023, Mast showed up in the House of Representatives wearing an IDF uniform.
It’s hard to imagine any of them hesitating before sending more free bombs to Israel. Only public outrage can stop this.
Breaking News: Congressman Thomas Massie is reading Articles of Impeachment against @SecWar Pete Hegseth on the House floor now.
Watch here: https://t.co/J2JdHz7Bpo
This is not AI, it’s real. She’s spent hundreds of millions to influence elections in America for the benefit of Israel. And it worked… we’re fighting the war in Iran for them and propping up Netanyahu, while turning a blind eye to the atrocities in Gaza.
Trump: “Mr. Zelenskyy has to do one thing. He has to stop knocking out diesel fuel in Russia. He’s causing a shortage of diesel. This isn’t done by the Middle East. This is done by what’s happening between Russia and Ukraine.”
Are you fucking KIDDING ME? Diesel is $6 a gallon in the US due to a war that NOBODY voted for, that YOU started in order to please YOUR Israeli MASTERS.
Fuck ALL the way off, @POTUS. 🖕
You have ZERO credibility left.