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Maybe trump thinks he gets the Iranian oil fields, once he "takes control" and dictates terms.
@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 libe…
CNBC headline: "Trump... tells (Iranian) protesters help is on the way."
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’ fa…
From my school d-a-z-e.
Lord Byron. The Prisoner of Chillon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chillon_Castle
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43842/the-prisoner-of-chillon
Ya, saw that. News to me, most of it. Those pathetic wankers are schoolyard weakling bullies who want to feel important. Just give 'em a badge and a mask. And a gun. Motherlovers.
Comments: I'm amazed that certain people of Jewish descent unquestionably endorse Trump's actions.
Segments of Trump's support base (potentially large?) loathe all Jews based strictly on ethnicity.
I guess this unusual phenomenon only occurs when th…
So, I just looked at EWJ, the iShares ETF. It's at a 52-week high on 12 January, '26. Much room left to run? Maybe get in before the expected snap-election? More recent performance numbers are better than the long-term numbers with EWJ. Surely, the …
If anyone needed to better understand just how nervous trump's own tariffs are starting to make trump, just look at him applying ONLY 25% tariffs on countries doing business with Iran. Weak sauce. He threatens them, bombs them and then goes with onl…
I LOVE dat shit!
Here's another: From the days of The Troubles in Ireland. Glad that's in the past! Written by Tommy Makem, who routinely toured with the Clancy Brothers. A pity that subtitles are not available. "Lord Nelson:"
Orange Clown Car. Every.Single.Day. The Marquee should read:
"How to f**k up a country and make Uncle Vlad extremely happy in the process."
Oh, ya. I almost forgot: EPSTEIN. EPSTEIN. EPSTEIN.
The Orange regime, including its D.O.L, is a massive bucket of three-week-old spooge. They want no regulations, no oversight at all, because of course, Big Money can be trusted to police itself..... Right????? Alan Greenspan told us that. You should…
I am laughing, reading this thread. No need to add. The Orange Wunderkind (LOL) just can't hit a target! Judges all over the place are reversing his decisions. He sends ICE around the country, only alienating nearly everyone. Windfarm off R.I. coast…
And he created an emergency-by-fiat the other day, in an attempt to keep Venez. oil assets out of the reach of the courts. Orange FUBAR doink-head. CRIMINAL doink-head. And the hits just keep on coming.
"...officials in the Trump administration have fully embraced the same fascism that underpinned
the Nazi government that American soldiers were fighting 80 years ago."
TRUTH!
Giggle. I take your tongue-in-cheekiness, @Mark.
"...Must be commies."
From HCR, via @davidmoran:
"...Third, fascists would insist that “the world has but two choices—either fascism or communism, and they label as ‘communists’ everyone who refus…
"...Americans should not be fooled into thinking that fascism could not come to America..." Um, yup. We are witnessing the realization of every aspect which that booklet describes. You think uncle Pete Hegseth would let anyone in uniform go anywher…
...So, P. Krugman was correct: nobody's diving in head-first to grab the "amazing opportunity." And did I not come across a news item reporting that Hugo Chaves arbitrarily asserted a much larger number on his own, regarding the size of the oil rese…
Thanks, guys. Ran into a woman on the Board of the church I attend when I went downtown tonight. Then I saw some fellow members drive by. "I love it when a plan comes together."
