The Iran Surrender: The most powerful country in the world with the most powerful military in the world by far - has effectively lost a war to a dangerously extreme opponent of mediocre military strength - based on lack of forethought, poor leadership, and impulsive, self-centered decision-making. In short, we lost this war because we're led by a lame duck malignant narcissist in decline.
Our unaccountable leaders, who live beyond the law, never explained the goal of the strike to begin with, beyond the pathological exertion of grandiosity. But no matter what you surmise it was, it failed to achieve it.
The Iranian regime will remain intact. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard will remain intact. The Strait of Hormuz will remain under threat. There will be no acquiescence to human rights improvements. There will be no acquiescence to ending state sponsorship of terror. There will be no surrendering of enriched uranium. Any commitment to avoid nuclear weaponry will be verbal without enforcement we had from the Obama deal. Sanctions will be lifted. Assets will be unfrozen. For all the reduction to its standard naval capacity, its drone army and missile stocks remain significant.
Many hundreds of billions of dollars of value have been squandered, markets have been rattled, US soldiers have been killed, innocent Iranian schoolchildren were blown up, all of America has higher gas costs, all our allies are shaking their heads in wonderment over the lunacy and incompetence of it all, and all the Gulf states have felt pain.
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All the Trump administration has to rely on - is what they always have - propaganda outreach spoken with volume and repetition, and an emotionalized audience who view the propaganda thru a reflexive demonizing of democrats and amid a thick vapor of dopamine.
Incompetence and inhumanity at the top. Again.
The single biggest irrigated crop in America isn't corn, wheat, or soybeans. It's not even avocados or almonds. It's lawn.
We grow more grass than any food crop in the country, around 40 million acres of it, and almost none of it feeds a single living thing.
Think about how strange that is. We took a grass that isn't even from here, planted it coast to coast, and now we pour water, fertilizer, and pesticide into keeping it short, green, and perfectly useless.
To a bee, a butterfly, or a bird hunting caterpillars for its chicks, a manicured lawn is a desert. Nothing to eat, nowhere to nest, mile after mile of it.
But here's the good news, maybe the easiest win on this whole account: you don't have to fix the entire desert. You just have to claw back a corner.
Pick one strip. The hellstrip by the sidewalk, the run along the fence, that awkward patch you hate mowing anyway. Stop mowing it and plant it with native flowers, a few black-eyed Susans, some bee balm, a couple of coneflowers. That's it. No ripping out the whole yard, no fight with anybody. Just convert one piece.
And that piece stops being dead space and starts being habitat: bees, butterflies, and birds showing up to a spot that offered them nothing a year ago.
Now picture your neighbor doing the same, and the one after that. That's how a desert turns back into a meadow, one reclaimed corner at a time.
"Trump has been played by pretty much every country in the Middle East, from Israel and Saudi Arabia to the UAE and Qatar, and now by Iran itself. He’s like a Baby Huey in a world of grownups." - Bill Kristol
El demente de Trump se gastó 14 millones de dólares en pintar de "azul americano" la piscina del Lincoln Memorial, en Washington... al día siguiente de pintarla, se llenó de algas que parecía un río infestado de cocodrilos de la selva del Amazonas.
Trump no pensó que la pintura oscura elevaría la temperatura del agua de la piscina y causaría un rápido crecimiento de algas. 🤡
Iran just leaked the receipts on the new deal, and it looks like a total US capitulation.
According to Mehr News, Tehran claims Washington locked in a staggering $300 BILLION in direct reconstruction funds. Even wilder? They're allegedly getting $24B in frozen assets unfrozen, with $12B handed over upfront just to sit down at the table.
This completely torches Trump’s narrative that Iran wouldn't get a single cent.
Trump is trapped.
This is a massive checkmate.
⚠️ Between April 2024 and April 2025, U.S. beekeepers lost 55.6% of all managed colonies, the highest annual loss rate ever documented... So naturally, the Trump administration is shutting down the lab that studies why. It makes no sense.
That’s not policy. That’s sabotage.
BREAKING: Donald Trump is reportedly not talking to JD Vance anymore after the New York Times published the bombshell story reporting how Vance held multiple secret meetings behind his back to advocate for releasing allegations in the Epstein Files that incriminated him.
Democracies don't fall because of outside invaders.
They fall because leaders dismantle them from the inside. They attack the press. They intimidate judges. They use the power of government to punish political opponents.
Sound familiar?
We have to fight this with everything we have.