While Donald Trump has the emotional maturity of a ten-year-old, he doesn’t have the common sense.

Netanyahu conned him into fighting Israel’s war by flattering him and making him think he’s a tough guy, when the reality is he’s just an incompetent dupe who has surrendered America’s might and prestige to a country so much smaller but so much smarter.

Iran agreed not to proceed with making a nuclear device, agreed to oversight and inspections, but the Dumbass-in-Chief got conned out of his cankle-swathed socks and started a war, anyway.

Anyone with half-a-brain would have seen Iran would retaliate by closing the Gulf of Hormuz first, then, if necessary, induce one of their allies to shut down other avenues so necessary for the transport of oil.

Now the world is being held hostage because of Trump’s gigantic incompetence!

That is exactly what is happening with the Hoothies shutting down the Red Sea approaches and Trump doesn’t know what to do to extradite himself from this situation, so he increases the ineffective bombing and reduces our ability to defend ourselves because all our armaments are being used up.

Where will it all end? Probably with the drooling fool crumpled into a fetal position, blithering and blathering in Melania’s uncaring arms while gas goes to 5 dollars a gallon and Republicans make believe they never kissed his ass out of fear, or dreams of self-enrichment.

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Trump's 'hunger for respect' sees him blindly stagger into 'obvious trap': ex-aide

Story by Travis Gettys

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President Donald Trump's personality flaws make him extraordinarily vulnerable to Iran's efforts to drag the U.S. further into a grinding war, according to a former White House insider.

The 80-year-old president has been promising the war he launched Feb. 28 would end in days, but instead fighting has intensified in its fifth month because U.S. adversaries want the conflict to drag on – and former Homeland Security chief of staff Miles Taylor wrote for he i Paper how they have learned to manipulate Trump to get what they want.

"Unfortunately, I learned how easily Trump could be played during his first term," Taylor wrote.

Most allies chose to flatter Trump, which Taylor said "worked with depressing regularity," with while adversaries learned that insulting him works best to their advantage.

"The hunger for respect that makes Trump easy to flatter also makes him even easier to provoke," Taylor wrote. "A well-aimed insult could send the president into a tailspin and upend the operations of the White House and the federal government for a day or more."

Taylor described how Trump hijacked policy meetings to rant about payback to whatever some foreign figure had said about him on television, saying that North Korea's Kim Jong-un became particularly adept at pushing his buttons – toggling between praise and provocation – to gain leverage.

"Washington insiders treated that episode as a punchline, but evidently the regime in Iran treated it as an instruction manual," Taylor wrote. "If you have any doubt, just look at what the Iranians have done since the war began in February. Regime propagandists have flooded the internet with videos ridiculing Trump, with content engineered for an audience of one."

"The regime has studied Trump for a decade," Taylor added. "They know their taunts goad him, maybe not always exactly how they’d hope, but enough to give them leverage the regime has never had before."

Trump sees the Iran war as something of a personal feud instead of a geopolitical conflict, Taylor wrote, which makes the regime's provocations even more effective at weakening the U.S. position in the Middle East to the benefit of Russia and China.

"A stable U.S. president would see this obvious trap and starve it," Taylor wrote. "They would recognize that their enemies are conspiring and exploiting their ego, and would decline, publicly and repeatedly, to be baited. Yet, in four decades of public life, Trump has not been known to decline a bait. Now, he is preparing to double down again in what some officials say might become a wider war."

Taylor offered a grim prediction of where Trump's personality flaws would lead the U.S. as the conflict drags on.

"Iran will drag the U.S. into an expanded air campaign," he warned. "The regime will deploy more proxies to harass shipping and American bases at a tempo calibrated to justify the next sortie without ever forcing a decision. In other words, it will keep the war too hot to leave and too cold to win."

"Meanwhile, we should be watching for Russia probing NATO's edges while U.S. aircraft carriers idle in the Gulf," Taylor wrote. "We should also be watching for China to grow bolder around Taiwan on the theory that Washington cannot manage two crises at once."

Taylor also expected Iran to dangle peace talks just before the November midterm elections, which he said would distract Trump from the moves it was making with China and Russia to gather strength.

"Trump will not rescue himself from this," Taylor wrote. "His character was settled long ago, and no adviser that I worked with has ever successfully talked him out of a grievance, at least not in the long term ... America’s enemies are spending next to nothing on insults and cartoons to purchase the exhaustion of the West. Until Trump learns that taking the bait is more expensive than restraint, they will keep getting serious value for their money."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-hunger-for-respect-sees-him-blindly-stagger-into-obvious-trap-ex-aide/ar-AA28oeLZ?

Yeah, right!

Trump and his crime family are trying to tell us (with a straight face) that the fact he, and, or his children, invests in certain stocks just days before they take off is coincidental.

He claims that the fact he’s going to talk up these companies, promote them, gives them giant government contracts has no bearing on where his advisors invest his money; a wink and a nod (and maybe a phones call?) No. No way. His advisors are just geniuses.

I don’t know where these geniuses were when he went bankrupt a zillion times, but they got really smart the day he was elected.

And his children are apparently such geniuses they are suddenly recruited as highly compensated – including stock options -- board members of some of these same companies or other grifts trading on the trust of the American people.

How long, folks, are we going to put up with a man who makes billions while his other decisions are ruining our economy, ruining our healthcare system, denying money for food for children and the indigent, turning all our allies and trading partners against us, does all he can do to defend Putin and denigrate Zelensky, and is under the thumb of Netanyahu, who must hold some interesting files?

Every dollar he makes by subsidizing companies he’s invested in, is a dollar stolen from the American people. Dollars out of your pocket, and into his.

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Questions surrounding Donald Trump’s financial interests have resurfaced after a new investigation claimed the U.S. president publicly praised companies shortly after investing in them.

The findings, published by CNN, have prompted renewed scrutiny of Trump’s business dealings, while the White House insists there is no conflict of interest and says the president has no direct control over his investments.

Investigation points to repeated pattern

According to CNN, Trump promoted roughly 20 companies on his Truth Social platform within days of purchasing shares in those same businesses.

One example highlighted by the investigation involved technology giant Nvidia.

Trump announced he had “very big and exciting news” about the chipmaker after the company revealed plans to help build AI supercomputers in the United States. Around the same time, he also promised government support for similar projects.

“All necessary permits will be expedited and quickly delivered.”

CNN reported that the president had purchased between $200,000 and $500,000 worth of Nvidia stock the day before making the announcement.

The investigation further alleged that several of the companies later secured valuable government contracts.

White House rejects conflict claims

The administration has forcefully denied suggestions that Trump used his office to benefit personally.

White House spokesperson Anna Kelly told CNN that the president’s investments are managed independently

.“President Trump’s assets are held in fully discretionary accounts managed by independent third-party financial institutions.”

Kelly also defended the president’s conduct.

“President Trump only acts in the best interests of the American public, which is why they overwhelmingly re-elected him to this office, despite years of lies and false accusations against him and his businesses from the fake news media. There are no conflicts of interest.”

Trump says he does not manage his investments

Trump has also rejected accusations that he profits from decisions made while serving as president.

Speaking to reporters at Joint Base Andrews, he insisted he has no involvement in the day-to-day management of his finances.

After being pressed about whether he still benefits financially regardless of who manages the investments, Trump replied:

“Well, I’ve made a lot of money before I became president, and they invest my money.”

The president added that he has no communication with those handling the accounts.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/new-revelations-pour-more-fuel-on-trump-s-corruption-allegations/ar-AA28hiJD?

For the full video, click here: https://youtu.be/lPFYHIzOwxo

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the place that put rovers on Mars, was co-founded by a man who led a Thelemite occult lodge, performed sex magick rituals under Aleister Crowley's direction, and died in an explosion the LAPD closed in a day. His name was Jack Parsons. There's a crater on the Moon named after him. Most people have never heard of him — and that's not an accident. Rituals hide in plain sight; that's the thread. Jack Parsons didn't hide his: he chanted Crowley's Hymn to Pan before rocket tests, in front of colleagues, and the FBI files describing his lodge sat in government archives for decades.

Marina Abramović's Spirit Cooking was ritual as performance art- occult recipes painted in pig's blood on gallery walls since the 90s, exhibited, cataloged, sold. And Epstein's operation ran in the open too: the 2008 plea deal was public record, the flight logs were court exhibits, the names were in filings anyone could pull. When Pizzagate erupted in 2016, it wasn't wrong that ritual and power coexist in public view; it was wrong about where to look. It went hunting for symbols in a pizzeria while the actual documents sat in PACER. Ritual has never needed a hidden room. It's performed in the open, and it stays invisible for the same reason Epstein did: because nobody with power to act wanted to read what was already on the record.

In this video, I go through what the primary record actually says: Parsons' declassified FBI file, his role in founding JPL and Aerojet, his leadership of the Ordo Templi Orientis Agape Lodge, his correspondence with Crowley, the Babalon Working with L. Ron Hubbard, the security clearance battles, and the 1952 explosion that ended his life at 37. As always: I'm a paralegal, not a journalist. Factual claims are sourced to primary documents. Opinions are labeled as opinions. Top vs. bottom, not left vs. right.

SOURCES: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPFYHIzOwxo, https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1F_RLzxpjOQ, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8DU-nMfFGg, https://www.youtube.com/shorts/l9kWd-lx5oc, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46Pv33DEuio, https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-JW22AL5-7k, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Evt8euU3KM, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tmt6g0bCeTA&t=1424s

A bill so egregious even an occasional Republican calls it a travesty.

Ther will be enough money to deport millions of hard working, tax paying immigrants.

There will be enough money to give tax breaks to already obscenely wealthy millionaires and billionaires.

There will be enough money to fund Trump’s ill-advised, needless war, by giving hugecontracts to defense industries they have already invested in

But there is never enough money to provide healthcare, feed children and the indigent, and ensure every American will retain the right to vote.

This is America under the blood thirsty, grifting government of Trump and the Republicans.

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Republicans expose their warped priorities with desperate last-minute play: analysis

Story by Thomas Kika • 9h • 2 min read

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Republican leaders in Congress are hoping to pull off a desperate, last-minute spending bill, and according to a new breakdown from MS NOW, the largely war-focused funding makes the party's "priorities horribly clear."

Earlier this week, the budget framework, totaling around $95 billion, emerged from committee to a divided reaction among House and Senate Republicans, with some taking issue with its lack of spending cuts to offset the $73 billion it sets aside for military spending, most of which would be for the Iran war. This uncertainty prompted what MS NOW's Hayes Brown called a "scolding" from House Appropriations Chair Tom Cole, an Oklahoma Republican.

"When did you ever pay for a war? A lot of this is military expenses aimed at that war,” Cole said. “The point is that play’s been called. It’s time to put up or shut up.”

This take from Cole, Brown argued, was telling of the "problematic message" the GOP is contending with heading into the 2026 midterms."

There’s a lot to unpack in Cole’s admonition," Brown wrote. "First and foremost, his finger-wagging underscores the problematic message Republicans are sending ahead of the midterms: The country can’t afford to help the poor and needy — but there’s always more money for war, even pointless wars of choice such as the one President Donald Trump has waged against Tehran."

He continued: "Look at what the GOP prioritized in the first two reconciliation bills. The most recent one funded immigration enforcement, making sure there was enough funding to break up communities, detain people with no criminal record and kick them out of the country as quickly as possible. The White House has framed this crackdown on immigration as part of a supposed 'war' on the Southern border, and GOP lawmakers made damn sure to fund it."

The other big Republican reconciliation bill, Brown explained, was 2025's Big Beautiful Bill, which was largely focused on "taking from the poor to give to the rich," with tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans funded by further cuts to things like Medicaid and food assistance programs.

"Pass or fail, this reconciliation bill is what the GOP has decided is its priority before the party asks voters to keep them in power in November," Brown concluded. "A bill that pays for a deeply unpopular war, sets aside money to help the farmers that have been hurt by this war and Trump’s tariffs and, if Trump has his way, makes it harder for Americans to vote. It will do nothing for Republican lawmakers facing questions about affordability, nothing about the real problems that their constituents face and nothing that shows any regard for their lives."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/other/jd-vance-s-baby-name-found-plummeting-in-popularity-after-he-announces-birth-of-fourth-child/ar-AA28iKZs?

Upon first glance the following article may seem extreme, filled with opinion and a bit hyperbolic.

But it also contains quotes that support the contention that Trump is both a danger to himself and the world at large, as well.

Fo the most part, Trump’s critics are intelligent, educated men. Men who don’t react to stimulus but take the time to evaluate the conditions and then render a careful, objective opinion.

Trump’s supporters, on the other hand, are comprised mainly of the common folk, under educated, under employed, and more apt to be reactionary, and while not understanding the full scope of the treachery facing us, look for any opportunity to ‘stick it to the man’.

And so, we see Trump every day, virtually foaming at the mouth and ranting over some imagined slight or perfectly honest criticism. We see him sleeping fitfully at some meeting and then waking with a jarring star, as though he can’t tell a dream from reality. He wanders the halls like Macbeth on the parapets and perhaps sees the same ghosts.  He tweets his rabid thoughts obsessively, thoughts that make sense to him but are a clear example of his derangement.         

  He has threatened not only US citizens but also called for the destruction of an entire civilization.

He controls ‘The Bomb’ with only a few lackeys and yes men to deter him, and they aren’t about to risk their unearned livelihood no matter the consequences to America and the world.

Do we act now, or wait for that irrevocable moment when he plunges us into a nuclear war with Russia, China, and North Korea – the final holocaust!

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Trump is a 'psychopath' who converses 'only with himself': biographer

Opinion by Nick Hilden • 6h • 2 min read

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On Thursday night, a presidential historian and biographer of President Donald Trump that the time has come for either the 25th Amendment or impeachment. Seth Abramson, who wrote a trilogy of bestselling books on corruption within the Trump administration, was responding to the president’s address and election denial rhetoric in general. The president, asserts Abramson, is intentionally stoking “violence.”

“The most sober, terrifying thing I can say as a Trump presidential historian is that what happened tonight was not about you, me, or America,” posted Abramson. “He's going to do what he's going to do based on how he convinces himself to do it. Nothing else matters. He's not listening to anyone.

Trump has revealed this kind of thinking before. In January, for example, when asked if there were limits to his global powers, he chimed, “My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.”

According to Abramson, Trump’s issues are deeper than political. As the biographer writes, “However it came to pass — childhood trauma, genetics, dementia — this U.S. president is now functionally a psychopath. He lives in his own reality. He converses only with himself. All America is now downstream from a madman who's not listening to anyone or anything but his own madness.”

This is not the first time someone with expert knowledge of the president has suggested that he may have a severe cognitive or psychiatric disorder. Earlier in the year, Trump’s threats against Iran prompted calls for his removal, even from MAGA figures like Alex Jones, who asserted that the president had dementia and compared his behavior to the “madness of King George III.” Others, including doctors, have noted “mental glitches” and “red flags” signaling a major condition.

With all this in mind, Abramson argues the only solution is for Trump to be removed from office, but says that these outcomes are unlikely, writing, “The 25th was made for this moment. It won't be used because Trump nominated cowards. Impeachment was made for this moment. It won't be used because America elected cowards. The federal courts were made to stop this. They won't because lifetime appointments reward cowardice.”

He argues that Trump is actively stoking political violence, posting, “Violence would destroy America and leave no winners. You'll never see me support it but in self-defense I think Trump is doing all he can to convince a large swath of America that violent rebellion is necessary. The president has escalated his calls for violence against his political opponents, painting them all (even the Pope) as “radical leftists” and “communists.”

“Why?” Abraham’s conclusion as to Trump’s ultimate goals is grim. “He wants to either kill half of us or burn everything.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/trump-is-a-psychopath-who-converses-only-with-himself-biographer/ar-AA2883p2?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a5a90e04cb74a05968cd068b80246a1&ei=92

So, let’s get a few things straight. Trump and the Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the Presidency. So, if there is any finagling going on with the vote, they are the ones doing it.

Secondly, Trump said the Chinese stole the voting records and implied they used them to somehow manipulate the 2020 vote where Biden kicked his fat ass. All that would be well and good, except the Chinese downloaded the voting information two years after Donnie Dimwit lost the election; they didn’t steal them, they downloaded them. He lied about that, too.

Why is the information online, you ask? It’s a safety measure meant to keep the records available to anyone who wants to check on the results.

Russia, China, and North Korea would love to see Americans doubt the legitimacy of the vote. They would give anything to undermine Americans confidence in our freedoms and see us battling each other over non-existing issues. They love to see mistrust, dissention, and back-biting among us. And who is causing said mistrust? Who is playing right into our enemy’s hands?

You got it. Trump and the Republican lies are doing more damage to our country than all the foreign villains, combined. Whether intentionally or inadvertently, they are playing right into Moscow’s hands and weakening our country in ways Putin never dreamed of.

So MAGA, I know some of you are the dumbest, hate filled, sumbitches wearing shoes, but some of you passed the GED.

Use your head instead of you hate, and we’ll all be better off.

The discussion took place in light of the recent bill proposal put forward by Massie which would have blocked $3.3bn in defence aid from being directed to Israel. Despite the bill not passing the vote this week, it showed a stark change in positions within the Democratic Party, where a majority of representatives voted in favour of the bill.

As Trump warns of election threats, independent agencies have been cut

It’s been well documented that Trump and the Republicans have fired all personnel willing and capable of investigating their crimes, and replacing them with sycophants, lackeys, and any incompetent who will support their repugnant lies, and provide cover for their crimes.

The Justice department, the CIA, the FBI, the director of National intelligence -- any and all agencies who could provide oversight—have been hollowed out, thinned of competent, honest workers or have had their budgets slashed so Americans will remain uninformed of the treacheries in place against them.

Trump and the Republicans manufacture lies about stolen, ‘rigged’ elections and provide no evidence of same while at the same time destroying those agencies who could attest to the truth there are no ‘rigged’ elections and no evidence exists that undocumented non-citizens are voting.

When there are no cops the bad guys can do as they wish, even if it means the end of democracy and the establishment of a despotic government.

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As Trump warns of election threats, independent agencies have been cut

Story by Sarah D. Wire, USA TODAY

Since taking office, President Donald Trump has cut or hobbled the independent federal agencies that would normally handle election security issues, such as those the president claimed the United States is experiencing.

In his White House address on July 16**, Trump asserted that U.S. elections are vulnerable to foreign interference** and claimed China meddled in the 2020 election. He said Americans have for years been "blatantly lied to" by the government about the security of election infrastructure, including voting machines and ballot-counting systems – claims that could not immediately be verified.

Some of the agencies that pushed back on Trump's baseless 2020 election fraud claims have seen staff steadily reduced since 2025, diminishing their ability to be a trusted voice for election officials and American voters, said Wendy Weiser, director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, a nonpartisan think tank.

"This is an attempt to undermine trust in our election system being waged by our own president and federal government and his administration and the system," Weiser said.

Weiser and other experts told USA TODAY that without those trusted federal voices, it will be up to state election officials to defend the security of elections.

CISA after 2020 election: 'No evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes'

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/as-trump-warns-of-election-threats-independent-agencies-have-been-cut/ar-AA286jNu

For the full video, click here: https://youtu.be/Xlcfcxs56Tg

You know Trump and the Republicans are in trouble when even Fox News points out their lies.

Trump’s speech last night was just a retelling of old lies, references to documents hastily edited to conform to the BS narrative, and nonsense about ‘evidence’ that is never offered.

For six years Trump has claimed evidence exists, but never in over 65 court cases has any ever been produced. That’s why the cases were all thrown out – many by judges Trump himself, appointed.

To the morons of MAGA, none of this will matter. They are so indoctrinated, so manipulated, so ruled by their hate for people they never met, logic and truth escape them. But anyone who listens carefully will easily discern that innuendo isn’t fact, accusations are not evidence, and constant childish ranting are the work of a fool and have no place in honest discourse.

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Fox News drops humiliating clarification for Trump after his bombshell claims

Story by Connor McCrory • 8h • 2 min read

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Fox News quickly distanced itself from President Donald Trump’s election claims Thursday, telling viewers that the network had not seen the evidence he cited during a White House address.

Trump used the roughly 25-minute speech to announce the release of declassified documents that he said exposed serious vulnerabilities in U.S. election systems. He also claimed electronic voting machines could be easily compromised.

But moments after the address, Fox delivered a pointed clarification. "We also heard the president make claims that electronic voting machines are vulnerable and easily compromised," the anchor said.

"Fox News has not seen that evidence yet and is not in a position to evaluate the accuracy of the president’s statements and claims at this time."

The disclaimer immediately drew attention because Fox had just carried Trump’s remarks under a banner reading, "Trump delivers address on election integrity."

During the speech, Trump described alleged efforts by China to gain access to American voter rolls and discussed previously documented concerns about electronic voting machines.

However, the information outlined by Trump did not appear to prove his repeated claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. He also did not present evidence showing that ballots were changed or vote totals were manipulated.

Trump issued several broad orders to the FBI, the director of national intelligence and other federal agencies. He called on officials to investigate “how and why such crucial information was hidden” from him and demanded prosecutions over what he described as a cover-up.

Fox’s decision to add a disclaimer sparked a wave of reaction on X, where users quickly brought up the network’s costly legal battle over its coverage of the 2020 election.

"They’re literally holding the receipts..." one person wrote.

"They have PTSD from that settlement huh," another user posted.

A third person wrote, "He said almost 6 years ago that he had evidence & has yet to present it."

"Fox over here learning lessons from that multimillion-dollar fine," another response read.

One user directly challenged Trump, asking, "Is the evidence with you now, Mr. Trump?"

Several other posts referred to Fox’s $787.5 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems in 2023.

Dominion had accused the network of repeatedly airing false claims that its voting machines helped rig the 2020 election against Trump.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fox-news-drops-humiliating-clarification-for-trump-after-his-bombshell-claims/ar-AA2866Ib?