Via Sherrilyn Ifill:

When the man w poss worst judgment, & best poss personal security that ensures his safety is left to make decisions based on “instinct” that imperil the rest of us.

‪Ryan Goodman‬:

1 more reason only constit option was to get Congressional approval:

"In the days before Trump gave final order for the attack...#Iran sent private message to pres that it wd respond to such a move by unleashing terrorist attacks on U.S. soil carried out by sleeper cells"

[Me: Btw👇🏼]

@GottaLaff

The Director of the Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships in the Department of Homeland Security, the government's main hub for terrorism prevention, a) is 22 years old, b) has been out of college one year, c) prior to being named director was most recently employed as a grocery store worker and a lawn boy, and d) has no apparent national security experience.

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dhs-thomas-fugate-cp3-terrorism-prevention

@victorvonvortex Yes, I know. I posted about him a few days ago. Utterly horrifying.

@GottaLaff @victorvonvortex

I’ve never been able to escape the sense that the people in power have been deliberately chosen in order to destroy any semblance of national security.

My rational mind tells me why this is true. The people who control the government the people who bought total control of the government with pocket chain want to destroy the United States. They want to subjugate and kill us. Why would they care?

I don’t think they thought it through.

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @GottaLaff @victorvonvortex That's the part that bothers me. Trump and his people are clearly playing "We're going to lose the least" instead of trying to win.

It's all predicated on the costs being pawned off on us even as they kill us all.

Dying alone in a bunker is the Grand Prize everybody's chasing? Really?

@GottaLaff Fear Not, Citizen!

The Rock(tm) imitation eyebrow raise should scare terrorists all the way back to where they came from!

@GottaLaff
Even if it’s bluster, it will cause the United States conniptions for the next 30 years.
@GottaLaff
And we all effing knew that, but the orange shitgibbon just had to prove how "strong" he is, so he ignored it. A$$bite!
@GottaLaff
Trump would love brown people doing terrorism in the US. It would allow him to declare the emergency he so needs, and justify even more ICE raids.
#USPolitics #IranAttacks

@GottaLaff
Wonderful
The guys who have demonstrated the worst opsec in the history of the nation, pick an unnecessary fight with a foreign power known for sneaky attacks, and normalize armed guys in tactical gear and masks just pushing their way into places and refusing to show ID.

Just the best possible awareness.

/S

@mloxton Everything we imagined and worse
@mloxton @GottaLaff I’m sure the confusion of masked thugs terrorizing blue cities under the guise of ICE enforcement won’t make citizen security any harder. /s
@GottaLaff For #Trump, this may be a feature, not a bug. A terrorist attack within our borders would be a perfect excuse for martial law.
@BruceMirken @GottaLaff Most of us believe that is what Trump wants.
@GottaLaff Yes but that would allow Reichsprezident Stephen Miller to unleash ICE and the NG in (probably only blue) cities across the country for raids that used to be for immigration but then got expanded into 'counterterrorism'. Watch for it ... these people never met a crisis they couldn't exploit for evil purposes.
@rickf That';s the point

@GottaLaff

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/07/style/underground-bunkers-super-rich

Trump's fascist billionaire donors all own apocalypse bunkers, as they each vie for ways to personally profit from the "war on terror" by selling military tech to the folks that funded 9/11.

They are indifferent to the fates of anyone else in a world war.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/record-u-s-arms-sale-saudi

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/13/us-and-saudi-arabia-agree-to-142bn-weapons-sale-during-trump-visit

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/05/13/trump-tech-execs-riyadh/

https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/14/saudi_spending_spree/

The UAE, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia were ostensibly at peace just few days ago.
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/trump-musk-pentagon/

Operating theaters, bowling alleys and home cinemas: Not happy with safe rooms, the super-rich are building luxury fortresses

Few things appear to soothe the existential anxieties of the super rich like a bunker designed to withstand anything short of total nuclear Armageddon.

CNN

@Npars01 I take comfort in knowing these guys aren't completely secure in their bunkers. I remember reading about a recent bunker conference or conclave where one of the billionaires were concerned about the guards guarding them taking dominion over them.

That will bring me no relief being outside the bunker while I lay in desolation in a ditch somewhere in the future, but the thought might bring a snicker or smile during a respite. @GottaLaff

@Npars01 @GottaLaff I think it's everybody's duty to humanity to seal and otherwise destroy these anywhere they can be uncovered.

@gooba42 @Npars01 @GottaLaff

Ideally, only after they’ve entered these facilities

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @Npars01 @GottaLaff I'm on the fence about this one because if they're inside, presumably they've set the bombs to drop outside and won't care.

If they're stuck outside with us, they may find incentive to make different decisions.