https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/13/oil-prices-today-trump-iran-protests.html"Oil prices rise 3% after Trump cancels meetings with Iran, tells protesters help is on the way"
They campaigned on no foreign intervention. trump built his political appeal over the past decade partly by
vowing to extricate America from military quagmires overseas, promising to avoid “nation building” and wars designed to topple regimes.Now he has toppled a regime in Venezuela, has already bombed Iran, is threatening intervention in Mexico, Columbia and Cuba. And has involved himself in Gaza only to support genocide.
Lots of foreign wars in the making. Probably a few more in the warm up circle. Do the dupes who bought his lies, plan to send their children? Planning to add $500,000,000,000 to the war budget is a big clue. They are going to need to reinstate the draft.
But, once again meddling in the Middle East? I am sure that works out fine. The locals just love that stuff.
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If his memory were not that of a goldfish, he might've resisted temptation. Or if he wasn't a total hypocrite.
It's always very "messy" whenever we get involved in Middle East conflicts.
"DUBAI—Iran’s Arab rivals across the Persian Gulf, led by Saudi Arabia, have been lobbying the Trump administration against a strike on Tehran, after the U.S. warned them to be prepared for such an attack." WSJ
Telling him NOT to do something stupid is almost certain to produce the opposite result. Organic Iranian regime change is the holy grail. Leave it to trump to ruin it for the whole world.
A White House official told the Wall Street Journal that Trump was unlikely to heed these warnings outright, saying, “the President listens to a host of opinions on any given issue, but ultimately makes the decision he feels is best."
-The Jerusalem Post
"UN human rights chief Volker Türk said on Tuesday that he was “horrified” by mounting violence by Iran’s security forces against peaceful protesters."
Text of the e e cummings poem: "Thanksgiving (1956)":
(remembering the Hungarian uprising.)
a monstering horror swallows
this unworld me by you
as the god of our fathers’ fathers bows
to a which that walks like a who
but the voice-with-a-smile of democracy
announces night & day
“all poor little peoples that want to be free
just trust in the u s a”
suddenly uprose hungary
and she gave a terrible cry
“no slave’s unlife shall murder me
for i will freely die”
she cried so high thermopylae
heard her and marathon
and all prehuman history
and finally The UN
“be quiet little hungary
and do as you are bid
a good kind bear is angary
we fear for the quo pro quid”
uncle sam shrugs his pretty
pink shoulders you know how
and he twitches a liberal titty
and lisps “i’m busy right now”
so rah-rah-rah democracy
let’s all be as thankful as hell
and bury the statue of liberty
(because it begins to smell)
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A.I. internet search:
"E. E. Cummings wrote the poem "Thanksgiving (1956)" as a response to the Soviet suppression of the Hungarian Uprising in 1956, which occurred during the same year the poem was composed.
Although the poem was written in 1956, it gained significant attention when Cummings read it publicly at the Boston Arts Festival in 1957, where he was the featured poet.
The poem was delivered with "Swiftian savagery," criticizing the United States' inaction during the Hungarian Revolution and satirizing American political complacency, particularly through the image of "the voice-with-a-smile of democracy"."
@Crash Excellent poem. I always appreciate the work of "e". One might say that this work has direct bearing on Ukraine today, as trump "twitches a liberal titty".
The Orange felon needs to be in a matching jumpsuit, inside a cage.