"This is a crazy person, who did a crazy thing, and is likely to do many more crazy things soon. ...
For years, conservatives told themselves that Trump’s constant escalations were crafty gamesmanship, that he was keeping all options on the table to avoid tipping his hand to the enemy. This barely-averted disaster cuts the knees out from under their creative fiction. Trump'’s not performing as a madman.
He’s just barking mad."
~ Liz Dye
"The question isn’t whether he’s crazy—he’s always been crazy—the question is, Just how crazy has he become?"
~ Lewis Grossberger
#Trump #Iran #war #insanity #MadKing #megalomania
/3
https://grossbergerbulletin.substack.com/p/just-how-crazy-is-he
"You wouldn’t ask someone who acted like Trump to watch your laptop while you went to the bathroom at Starbucks, let alone run your country."
~ Dan Pfeiffer
#Trump #Iran #war #insanity #MadKing #megalomania
/4
https://www.messageboxnews.com/p/the-25th-amendment-isnt-coming-to
"Not since the Bay of Pigs has the United States seen a president look as epically stupid and trapped and outplayed and overmatched as Trump looks to be now. Even the most rabid of the right-wing public asswipes are now saying Trump is nuts and hinting that he might need to be straitjacketed and deposed: Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Joe Rogan, Candace Owens … even noted lunatic Alex Jones.
~ Gene Weingarten
#Trump #Iran #war #insanity #MadKing
/5
https://geneweingarten.substack.com/p/two-weeks-one-fartnight
"To those of us in the intelligence community, it's pretty clear. This may have been a singularly epic defeat in the history of the United States. ...
Trump started a war, became enamored with the high-tech glitz and explosions, and in the end, surrendered to the reality that he was going to destroy the global economy. He gave Iran a much stronger hand than it had before the war began."
~ Malcolm Nance
"Last night, 90 minutes before Trump said he’d cause the death of a “whole civilization” if Iran didn’t open the Strait of Hormuz, an Iranian official said the shipping channel would be reopened for two weeks if the United States stopped bombing Iran. The U.S. has now stopped bombing Iran.
So we’re back to the status quo before Trump began his war."
~ Robert Reich
#Trump #Iran #war #insanity #MadKing #megalomania
/7
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-defeat-trump-every-time
"Donald Trump surrendered to Iran last night, in exchange for nothing. It was a war he started for no reason, and he got nothing. ...
Fox & Friends counted the ways this morning, or at least one of their hosts did:
Co-host Lawrence Jones walked through the initial demands one by one, in plain language. 'We have not reached any of those objectives,' he said."
~ Evan Hurst
#Trump #Iran #war #insanity #MadKing #megalomania
/8
https://www.wonkette.com/p/two-weeks-trump-caves-on-murdering
"The list of objectives? Dismantling nuclear facilities ('that has not happened'), ending uranium enrichment ('they are still enriching'), transferring uranium stockpiles out of Iran ('that hasn’t happened'), accepting international inspections ('they are still not willing to do it'), and suspending the ballistic missile program ('they’re still firing them off')."
“'We received a 10-point proposal from Iran, and believe it is a workable basis on which to negotiate,' the president announced on Truth Social – apparently referring to the 10-point plan that Iran had presented to the US before he threatened to murder its entire population."
~ Andrew Perez, Asawin Suebsaeng, and Prem Thakker
"In the span of several hours yesterday, Donald Trump went from threatening Iran by ensuring that 'A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,' to giving Iran everything it could possibly have wished for — and more."
~ Julie Roginsky
#Trump #Iran #war #insanity #MadKing #megalomania
/12
https://saltypolitics.substack.com/p/breaking-what-trump-just-agreed-to
"In this conflict, which Trump began, Iran has kicked Trump’s ass."
~ Brian Beutler
#Trump #Iran #war #insanity #MadKing #megalomania
/13
https://www.offmessage.net/p/25-thoughts-on-the-humiliation-of
"The war has cost 13 US soldiers’ lives & hundreds wounded, thousands of civilian deaths in Iran, conservatively $250 billion in military expenditures, and a major depletion of ammunition.
In exchange, Iran has more leverage and credibility than they could have imagined before the war."
~ Jim Stewartson
#Trump #Iran #war #insanity #MadKing #megalomania
/14
https://www.mind-war.com/p/taco-tuesday-good-news-and-bad-news
"The Iranians have agreed tonight to their own proposals."
~ Mehdi Hasan
Mehdi is joined by Trita Parsi, Harrison Mann, and Asawin Suebsaeng to break down the Iran ceasefire deal 10-point plan and whether it will last.
"Iran comes out of Trump’s announcement tonight looking like a winner. They’ve still got their nuclear program. They have enough missiles and drones that they have been able to hold the Strait of Hormuz hostage from day one of Trump’s big war on Iran, and they can still shut down the Strait any time they want to because Trump’s Truth Social post doesn’t say a fucking word about defanging Iran’s missile and drone capabilities."
~ Lucian K. Truscott
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/its-not-taco-its-chicken-nuggets
"They portrayed it as a victory in the press conference this morning. It really looks like just a terrible black eye for our country. We've lost world standing. We didn't come out of this war, which cost us American lives and large numbers of lives lost on the ground in Iran without any measurable gains."
~ Joyce Vance
#Trump #Iran #war #insanity #MadKing #megalomania
/16
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/coffee-with-contrarians-and-joyce-daf
A recording from Joyce Vance and Jennifer Rubin's live video
"The real focus of the highly contingent ceasefire agreement was the Strait of Hormuz, which was free and open before President Trump’s elective war and is now throttled by Iran. Trump is declaring the strait open for his own political purposes, but the terms of the ceasefire give Iran more control over the vital waterway than it had before the war started."
~ David Kurtz
#Trump #Iran #war #insanity #MadKing #megalomania
/17
https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/declaring-victory-and-walking-away
"So the world’s greatest military power went to war with a poor, medievalist theocracy. It was an incredibly uneven match. … Yet Iran won. The Iranian regime has emerged far stronger than it was before, controlling the Strait of Hormuz and having demonstrated its ability to inflict damage on both its neighbors and the world economy."
~ Paul Krugman
"The Dow is up 1,300 points this morning. …
The market is celebrating one sentence on Truth Social while the region burns."
~ Mike Brock
#Trump #Iran #war #insanity #MadKing #megalomania
/19
https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/trump-derangement-syndrome
"Iran Ceasefire By Trump:
•Strait of Hormuz closed, only open for $2M Per Ship
•Iran makes no guarantee of limit on uranium enrichment
•Iran makes no guarantee of no nuclear weapons
•Iran makes no guarantee to allow Int'l inspectors
MAGA: Trump Playing 5D Chess! Art Of The Deal!!"
Iran Ceasefire By Trump: •Strait of Hormuz closed, only open for $2M Per Ship •Iran makes no guarantee of limit on uranium enrichment •Iran makes no guarantee of no nuclear weapons •Iran makes no guarantee to allow Int'l inspectors MAGA: Trump Playing 5D Chess! Art Of The Deal!! IMPEACH NOW! 2/2
"Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth drew attention for framing the military campaign in explicitly religious terms, saying 'God deserves all the glory' for the outcome of the conflict and describing operations as guided by 'divine providence.'”
~ Aaron Parnas
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #insanity #MadKing #megalomania
/23
https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-republicans-upset-with-trumps
Good morning everyone.
"Well, that was all pretty dumb, wasn’t it? …
Oil market researcher Rory Johnston wittily called this 'Schrödinger’s ceasefire.' …
As Jonathan V. Last put it on last night’s Bulwark livestream, that 'This entire thing was avoidable and predictable. Donald Trump made America walk into the diner to eat the shit sandwich.'”
~ William Kristol
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #insanity #MadKing #megalomania
/24
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/its-not-a-taco-its-a-surrender-trump-iran-ceasefire-plan-hormuz
"This terrorizing White House occupant is no less deranged and reckless today than he was yesterday. Are we really going to live through 33 months of this ongoing madness, required to endure his obvious inability to discharge the powers and duties of his office? ...
His profane genodical ultimatum on Easter Sunday was a turning point…."
~ Steven Beschloss
Watch now | Mad Hattery and Other Outrages: A Short Video
"The '10-point proposal' wasn’t new. Iran had delivered it to Pakistani mediators on Monday, a day before Trump threatened genocidal war crimes. …
Nothing in the proposal actually changed between Monday and Tuesday night. Trump’s big announcement was to pretend the Iranians had come forward with something new when they hadn’t. In short, there was no statecraft, only stagecraft."
~ Jay Kuo
#Trump #Iran #war #insanity #MadKing #megalomania
/27
https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/did-trump-fabricate-an-iran-war-off
The market can remain irrational etc etc....
This is nothing new for the US. Seems we Should have learned by now. We lost in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq now Iran and all the little conflicts in between. In the same way we have created Dictatorships all around the world. Iran from the Shaw on has been as result of our political efforts & then we get into Cuba & much of South America. Maybe we should learn, a big well trained & armed military isn't a winning hand, it takes leaders that have a clue. & now we have this looser.
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