Trump is spending at least $2 billion a day to attack Iran, which doesn’t include the economic cost of the disruption to oil supplies. Now he’s offering $500 million to the oil-rich UAE for no discernible reason. Everyone is getting in on the grift of taxpayer money except the American taxpayers who are suffering in a crappy job market and rising prices.
When an American pilot was shot down behind enemy lines during the US War against Iran, the military and conservative politicians crowed that we have a culture of “no man left behind” in such situations. If and when the same man suffers from PTSD and winds up homeless on the streets of America’s cities, as have so many veterans, however, there will be little to no help on offer.
What does it say about the American political system and the American people that we can’t do anything about the fact that the president of the United States is obviously insane?
Once again, the US government is issuing a highly dubious sales pitch to American voters about why they should risk life and treasure overseas.
Conservatives are decrying New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s plan to impose a pied-à-terre tax on luxury second homes, calling it the beginning of a slippery slope that could eventually affect us all.
Right-wing supporters of President Trump’s war against Iran have pivoted from bragging about low gas prices to saying that the high prices caused by the conflict are a small price to pay to liberate the people of Iran (assuming this war can do that). Will voters buy that pitch this fall?
Those who back Trump’s war against Iran argue that the United States has defeated Iran because it has killed many Iranians and destroyed so much of its military and civilian infrastructure. As we’ve learned in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq, however, outkilling the other side is hardly a guarantee of military victory.
After President Trump posted a social media message threatening to destroy Iranian civilization, his defenders and supporters argued that words are meaningless, that he wasn’t serious, and that nothing he says is meant to be taken seriously. If true, should such a man be president?
The DNC and Democrats who dominate the nation’s op-ed pages and cable news networks argue that Democrats must move right to win, never that Republicans must move left to win. Self-serving?
President Trump claims he has already obliterated Iran’s nuclear program and other infrastructure, yet he also claims he must continue bombing Iran in order to destroy those same exact targets. At this rate, when will he overshoot and bomb all the way through the Earth to himself?
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