Step 1: Remove filters in Reflecting Pool because Obama put them in.
Step 2: Give your criminal neighbor who runs "Greenwater Services" a $20 million no-bid contract to paint the pool.
Step 3: Fill the pool with water from the Potomac River, the phosphates from which cause algae blooms.
Step 4: Freshly sealed pool and extreme heat result in a super scum event
Step 5: Direct National Park Service to dump hydrogen peroxide into the pool which causes the paint to peel.
Step 5: Deploy US National Guard to stop people from taking photos of the swamp as a perfect metaphor for the administration.
Step 6: Blame someone else.
JD Vance one year ago today:
“I empathize with Americans who are exhausted after 25 years of foreign entanglements in the Middle East. I understand the concern, but the difference is that back then we had dumb presidents"
BREAKING: Donald Trump is reportedly furious that the annual ranking of US presidents by a committee of 50 top presidential historians was released today, and the committee almost unanimously ranked Trump’s second term as the worst in US history.
Street posters on the streets of Tehran from the Iranian Revolutionary Guards recruiting volunteers for Hezbollah with a salary of $1,000 per month.
Trump’s imminent release of frozen billions is going to build an army.
Who did not see this coming… except JD and Trump?
"Israel is destroying homes in Lebanon!"
I wonder why the fuck that is.
Here are Hezbollah terrorists using civilian homes inside Lebanon to launch their missiles and rockets toward Israel.
When Israel kills the terrorists, the world loses its mind.
An old video of JD Vance shows him saying his favorite politician is Bernie Sanders.
He didn't suddenly become anti-Israel. He always was. The worldview was always there.
Which raises an even bigger question: did JD Vance ever really change his opinion of Donald Trump, or did he simply bury it because power was on the table?
Some people evolve.
Others just rebrand.
To Trump: In the Middle East, loyalty is currency. If you abandon your closest friend halfway through a fight and cut deals behind their back while leaving them exposed, don't expect anyone to trust your guarantees again. You told the world, "The U.S. and Israel carried out an operation against Iran," then walked away and left your ally standing alone.
In the Middle East, we don't judge friends by speeches; we judge them by who stays when the missiles fly. A person who abandons an ally halfway and cuts deals behind their back is not someone you call in a crisis.
You will say it's about American interests. Fine. But others also have interests, and they have memories. You can call it "America's interests." We call it something else: leaving your friends in the storm.
Before asking, "Why don't they defend themselves?" remember that countries like Israel did and are still doing so alone.
And also remember that the UAE defended itself, struck back forcefully, and banned the Muslim Brotherhood. Many of your countries in the West did neither.
The lesson is simple. If you can leave your closest friend exposed today, why should anyone trust your promises tomorrow? Maybe it's time for the Middle East to start thinking about alternatives.
And yes, when Iran strikes again, don't assume the Middle East will dial Washington. People don't call someone who might leak information to Turkey or cut a deal with Tehran while their friends are still under fire.
JD Vance said Israel was “built with American money.”
That sounds great to people who learned Middle Eastern history from campaign slogans.
But it is not history. It is political theater from someone who discovered Israel yesterday morning.
Israel was not built by an American check.
Israel was built by Jewish money, Jewish labor, Israeli taxes, Zionist institutions, loans, diaspora donations, Israel Bonds, German reparations, austerity, immigration, sacrifice, industry, agriculture, and people who did not wait for Washington.
Long before Israel existed as a state, Jews in the land were already building towns, farms, kibbutzim, schools, universities, banks, defense groups, factories, hospitals, roads, and national institutions.
Before “American aid,” Jews put coins into blue JNF boxes.
Before billion-dollar defense packages, Holocaust survivors built a country from tents, ration cards, sweat, and trauma.
In 1948, when Israel declared independence and five Arab armies invaded, America did not “build” Israel’s army. America recognized Israel, which mattered, but the U.S. also supported an arms embargo.
Israel survived its first war not because America built it, but because Jews fought for their lives with too little money, too little ammunition.
So where did the money come from?
From Jews in the diaspora.
From Keren Hayesod.
From the Jewish National Fund.
From Israel Bonds.
From Israeli taxpayers.
From loans.
From German reparations.
From austerity.
From exports, agriculture, factories, innovation, and people working like their lives depended on it.
In 1951, Israel launched Israel Bonds to raise money from Jewish communities and investors abroad. That was not foreign aid. That was a young state borrowing money, building infrastructure, and paying it back.
In 1952, Israel signed reparations with West Germany. That money helped the young state absorb hundreds of thousands of Holocaust survivors and immigrants while recovering from severe shortages.
And Israelis themselves paid the real price.
The austerity years were not a slogan. Israel absorbed mass immigration, built housing, roads, ports, schools, hospitals, factories, and an army — while citizens lived under rationing, taxes, shortages, and a controlled economy.
Israel was not born because America clicked “send payment.”
Yes, America later became a crucial ally.
Yes, American military aid is important.
Yes, real friendship deserves gratitude.
But there is a massive difference between helping an ally become stronger and claiming you built that ally.
American aid helped strengthen Israel.
It did not create Israel.
By the time U.S. aid became central to Israel’s defense, Israel had already been founded, survived wars, built institutions, absorbed millions of immigrants, and turned itself from a poor country under rationing into a serious economy.
That is the part Vance wants to erase.
Israel was not a Washington real estate project.
Israel was not a startup that got seed funding from America.
Israel was not a charity case with a flag.
Israel was a nation that came home, built before it had sovereignty, fought before it had enough weapons, absorbed refugees before it had enough houses, built an economy before it had enough foreign currency, and became strong before American politicians started taking credit.
Today, Israel is one of the world’s most advanced economies. Its high-tech, cyber, defense, medical, agricultural, and AI innovation help the United States and the free world.
That did not come from foreign aid. It came from human capital, education, military necessity, research, risk-taking, and Jewish survival instinct.
America is an important ally.
But America is not Israel’s parent.
America is not Israel’s owner.
And America does not get to erase 3,000 years of Jewish identity and 78 years of Israeli sacrifice with one cheap populist line.
Israel was built with Jewish money, Israeli hands, Israeli brains, and Jewish blood.
America helped.
Israel built.
There is a huge difference.
The relationship between the U.S. and Israel is not transactional, it is a long and vital partnership, but the next time you hear the tired question of "What does the U.S. get for $3.8 Billion to Israel," answer simply - RETURNS.
R – Research, Innovation, and the Combat Laboratory
Access to one of the world's most active laboratories for military innovation, where new technologies, concepts, and operational methods are developed, tested, and refined under real combat conditions. Combined with one of the world's leading defense technology and startup ecosystems, this environment generates technological advancements, operational insights, and innovation that would be difficult, expensive, and in many cases impossible to replicate through peacetime experimentation, exercises, simulations, or war games.
E – Economic Benefits
American jobs and manufacturing supported through purchases of U.S.-made military equipment, while strengthening the U.S. defense industrial base through joint production, co-development, and missile defense cooperation for the benefit of the U.S. military and American national security.
T – Technology
Access to military technologies refined in combat, from active protection systems and missile defense to counter-drone capabilities, artificial intelligence, and other emerging technologies.
U – Unique Understanding of Modern Warfare
Battlefield lessons drawn from one of the world's most active conflict environments, providing insights into urban warfare, tunnel warfare, missile defense, drones, battlefield medicine, artificial intelligence, and modern combat. These lessons help the United States adapt and prepare without having to learn them first through American casualties, American mistakes, or American wars.
R – Regional Stability Through Alliance
A capable ally helping deter common adversaries and maintain stability in one of the world's most strategically important regions while remaining willing and able to fight alongside the United States when necessary.
N – National Security Intelligence
Intelligence that helps prevent attacks against Americans, American forces, and American interests while improving U.S. understanding of shared threats, adversaries, and emerging security challenges.
S – Strategic Freedom to Focus on China
Greater freedom for the United States to concentrate military, diplomatic, and economic resources on long-term competition with China in the Indo-Pacific while helping preserve a favorable balance of power in the Middle East.
To George and Laura, Bill and Hillary — we're grateful for your friendship, counsel, and devotion to this country. And to Joe and Jill, thank you for being on this journey with us.
Antisemitism at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles.
During World Cup matches, security at the stadium demanded that a fan remove his Israeli flag.
When he asked why, they simply said they had “orders from above.”
Meanwhile, numerous fans waving Palestinian flags were left completely undisturbed.
This is selective discrimination against Israel and Jews.
Double standards at the World Cup, enforced by FIFA and stadium officials.
Shameful.
@YourAnonNews There was also his Oklahoma campaign chair.
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March 9: "We're now totally independent of the Middle East. We don't need their oil."
April 1: "It doesn't really affect us. We have so much oil. We have tremendous oil and gas, much more than we need."
June 17: If I didn't agree to the MOU, we "would run out of reserves at about 4 weeks...we would really run out, and there'll be a time when you wouldn't be able to get it."
MAJOR BREAKING: Trump's full Iran deal LEAKS out of Saudi Arabia — and it's a thousand times worse than even his harshest critics predicted.
This is a historic surrender by Trump and Vance.
#6 is a real doozy...
According to Al Arabiya, a state-owned news channel out of Saudi Arabia, the agreement between the White House and Tehran is a 14-point "Memorandum of Understanding."
Here are those points in summary:
1) Iran, the United States, and their allies declare upon signing that there will be "an immediate and permanent end to the war on all fronts, including Lebanon." They vow not to "launch any hostile attack against each other" and will "will refrain from the threat or use of force against each other."
That means no more Truth Social threats from Trump ranting that a "whole civilization will die tonight."
2) The Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States undertake to respect each other's sovereignty and territorial integrity, and to refrain from interfering in each other's internal affairs.
3) The Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States undertake to negotiate and reach a final agreement within a maximum period of 60 days, extendable by mutual consent.
4) The U.S. will lift its naval blockade and "prevent any interference or obstruction against" Iran. Traffic through the region will be restored within 30 days to "full capacity" and "pre-war volume of traffic on the part of the Islamic Republic of Iran."
The U.S. agrees to withdraw its military forces from the surrounding region within 30 days of the final agreement (which still has to be written and ratified).
5) Iran agrees to immediately "take steps" to ensure that the movement of merchant ships from the Persian Gulf to the Sea of Oman and vice versa is resumed within 30 days to the pre-war volume, taking into account the need for the removal of technical obstacles and the neutralization of mines by Iran.
6) The U.S. and its allies will create a "comprehensive plan" for the "rehabilitation and economic development of the Islamic Republic of Iran." It must amount to AT LEAST $300 billion. The full design of the program will be written into the final agreement.
In other words: Trump wasted billions of your tax dollars to blow up Iran and now he's spending billions more to rebuild it.
7) The U.S. agrees to end "all types of sanctions" on Iran, including those implemented by the U.N. Security Council and the International Atomic Energy Agency, as well as all "unilateral U.S. sanctions, both primary and secondary."
This is an absolutely MASSIVE concession. Sanctions have long been the primary tool of imperial oppression wielded by the U.S. against Iran. While ostensibly designed to weaken the Ayatollah and the theocratic mullahs, in practice the sanctions have done nothing but inflict pointless suffering and misery on the Iranian people.
Iranian elites exist in a pampered bubble much like the elites do in the United States. It's the normal people who suffer under sanctions because they're denied access to food, medicine, technology, and other imports. Because those supplies are restricted, prices inflate, choking the middle and lower classes.
With the removal of these sanctions, the Iranian people have a chance to enter into a new era of economic blossoming. In his genocidal, nihilistic quest to weaken and destroy Iran on behalf of Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump may have accidentally Made Iran Great Again.
8) The Islamic Republic of Iran reiterates that it will never produce nuclear weapons. The Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States have agreed that the fate of enriched material and the fate of all other mutually agreed nuclear-related issues, including Iran’s nuclear needs, will be adequately addressed in a final agreement; the final agreement will confirm the provisions of this Article.
While Trump will try to claim point 8 as some big victory, the use of the word "reiterates" here is crucial. Iran was never pursuing nuclear weapons in the first place. The White House and Israel lied about Iran's intentions as a pretext to start this war. Tellingly, Iran has not agreed to surrender its enriched uranium in this memo.
9) The Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States agree that, pending a final agreement, they will maintain the status quo: Iran will maintain the status quo on its nuclear program, and the United States will not impose new sanctions on Iran or strengthen its forces in the region.
To put it more succinctly: Trump accomplished nothing.
10) The U.S. agrees to "immediately" issue waivers for exports of Iranian crude oil, petrochemical products and their derivatives, and all related services, including banking, insurance, transportation, and the like. Those waivers will no longer be required once the sanctions are lifted in full.
11) The U.S. agrees to release "frozen or restricted funds and assets of the Islamic Republic of Iran" so long as negotiations progress towards a "final agreement." Those funds will "fully available for use" by Iran.
12) The U.S. and Iran agree that "an implementation mechanism will be established to oversee the successful implementation of and future commitment to the Final Agreement."
The final agreement will be approved through a binding resolution of the UN Security Council.
Let us be very clear about what this deal memo represents: a complete, and total surrender by the United States of America to the Islamic Republic of Iran.
It constitutes the greatest military defeat in American history.
It's also a cause for celebration.
The deal is good for Iran, but more importantly it's good for the world. This conflict accomplished nothing beyond aiding Israeli's territorial expansion into Lebanon. Innocent people were slaughtered and Americans were forced to pay the price in the form of skyrocketing groceries and gas.
It would have been far better if Trump had never started this war. But since he did, it's a blessing that it's finally (possibly) coming to an end.
Please ❤️ and share if you think that Obama got a better deal!