How about a little recap.

There is a high degree of incompetence with the Trump administration to the point where criminality is valued.

But, as to the military:

Two Navy vessels were involved in friendly accidents and were required to be drydocked for repairs. 

The Venezuelan theater is an abject failure. Yes, Maduro is in the New York City prison along with his wife and they have faced their first arraignment. But, the freely elected president has yet to take her place and the next inline with the Maduro government is in power. As if a payment were required Trump stole the oil from a tanker and sold it. There were also extrajudicial murders.

The only person in the Middle East that wasn’t surprised by the attacks by the USA was Netanyahu. There was absolutely no preparation for the aggression into Iran by the USA. Embassy staff wasn’t told and in turn every tourist from the Free World was in the line of fire. 

The Mideast theater never saw preparedness. The Kuwaitis were never brought on board and as a result three expensive USA fighter jets were shot down by friendly fire.

Then for a completely unknown reason the USA jets had to fuel up in mid flight. There were two aircraft carriers in the region. As a result of deregulation by Hegseth all safety procedures were dissolved and the fuel tankers were in frequent flight rotation. As a result of that grossly uninformed decision making one tanker crashed to the ground while another was taking flight. It isn’t Newatk International Airport with a control tower and personnel tracking the entire mess. I don’t know why I even brought that up because within days of taking office a helicopter and jet were in flames on the ground in DC.

With all these failures and Trump’s knee jerk decision making our allies still willing to be loyal to the USA. Their decision making is correct. Ceasefire and then protection of ships transiting the Persian Gulf and passing through the Strait of Hormuz. 

Iran is not a disarmed Iraq.

Iran is not a grossly poor Afghanistan where soldiers were greater by villagers with donkeys.

Iran is a Shi’ite homeland with its own resources and allies. The Free World has never been welcome in the Persian Gulf where pirates make a living and Iranian zodiacs chase USA military ships. All of a sudden a completely incompetent administration believes they can change all that while hijacking the USA military. Any civilized human being would be in great danger no matter the armor plating to think a ceasefire wasn’t absolutely necessary.

Trump and Hegseth need to be reasonable and get rid of the idea they are accomplishing great feats of warfare. They aren’t. Our defense contractors, MIT, and the American people’s tax dollar created a defense that is unchallenged and it was hijacked by racketeers. No one voted for this. No one.

European allies are correct.

There is no other viable way forward. There must be a ceasefire. There is no reason to continue an assault against Iran.

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Iran’s Brain Trust.

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Rafael Mariano Grossi is very competent in his work. He is highly acclaimed regarding nuclear energy and its containment. There is no other authority needed unless Mr. Grossi decides he needs assistants to carry out an assessment.

Mr. Grossi should be a member of any negotiation team when it comes to Iran or any other nuclear country. He is a reliable knowledge source. He should have been asked to be part of the Iran peace negotiations. He wasn’t. Why? There is no one better. The people of Iran deserve the best possible peace.

Nuclear facilities do not do well with bombs falling around them. The intense bombing with heavy bombs can cause vibration deep within Earth and cause cracking and then where are we?

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Anyone except Sky Marshalls should wait in line. Absolutely.

There is one thing though. Democratic members of Congress are being targeted for fatal attacks. Will they occur in airports? I believe the airports still have to set rules to ensure the safety of people at risk for violence. The airports need to have a secure entrance to their boarding facility for anyone facing possible violence against them. The airports will have to set the standard. Each airport will be unique. 

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Let the Russian oil tankers pass.

Trump cannot do anything he wants. Russia has sent fuel tankers to Cuba as humanitarian relief. The tankers must be allowed to dock and deliver help to the Cuban people. 

Now!

Hegseth must end his oil blockade now.

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There are Russian ships offshore. We have seen these unidentified drones in New Jersey before. Trump has opened the USA to attack.

Those oil tankers haven’t come all this way unescorted. Where are the subs? The Russian subs. The nuclear subs. 

Where is Trump?

China and Russia have signed a Friendship Treaty. I believe it was 2000. The question is, did Russia say, “We’ll take Cuba, you handle Iran,” or are they traveling together?

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I doubt if even NATO will put up with this.

The egos of Netanyahu and Trump have placed the citizens of Israel and the USA in peril. They don’t care about citizens’ lives, only about power.

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Misdirecting

The Congressionally legislated support to students in the way of student and parent loans are issued by the Department of Education. Sending a segment of the Education Department to the Treasury is misdirection and never provided for in any contract.

If nothing else it will cause confusion between the two departments. Collection at the Treasury is very different than the Education Department. The loans are handled very differently when it comes to graduates seeking gainful employment. 

Gainful employment should be available for graduates. It is called a work force.

This is an interesting development because after the Midterms the Republicans want to institute not just a generalized military draft, but, also a post high school requirement for military service.

I am surprised Trump hasn’t dissolved, or attempted to dissolve, child labor laws yet.

Why bother educating young people if they are going to die at an early age fighting racist wars of choice?

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I have a question for the fear filled Bondi.

Considering the counseling she has received from the judiciary, would she step down and become a witness if Congress issued her a pardon from prosecution for her legal cooperation?

Representative Garcia is correct; to date Bondi has proved incompetent in withholding the identification of the victims of Epstein and covered up the facts. There are more documents withheld that should be forthcoming. 

She is in trouble and it seems she was given every opportunity to exonerate herself, but, continues to obstruct the facts. 

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The court will take any investigation seriously.

But, given the track record of this administration AND the methods, I doubt anything will come of it. ie: Comey (click here), Fitzgerald, etc.

There are two sides to the same coin. There is a problem when racketeering enters the process at high levels of government. When racketeering dominates the process the end result is corruption and won’t hold up. They might in Russian courts, but, not in the USA. 

Trump has tried his best to corrupt the processes of the Rule of Law in this country. The result of his shenanigans always seems to come out in the wash.

I am sorry to see Joe Kent resign because he seems very qualified. If he was and is having a rush of conscience I applaud him and welcome him to the ranks of the patriots. 

There, by the way is a very viable strategy for a winning defense. He and his attorneys simply expose the corruption that motivated his whistleblowing and the case dies.

It is better to be a patriot rather than a prisoner.

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Kristi Noem

Kristi Noem and any other members of Trump’s administration, past or present, that have broken state laws, including putting citizens in the line of fire with National Guard troops, must be charged. There are no competent U.S. Attorneys (which is probably by design) and when they are Trump owns them. So, Justice falls to the State Attorney Generals.

There are people, albeit some undocumented, deported (with legal status), missing, maimed, with property damage, and ultimately deceased. All those are criminal activity by the federal authority. Those guilty will be handed pardons by Trump. Those guilty have committed serious crimes and should be out of reach for commutations and pardons. They are dangerous people, including those that served as ICE agents. People that seriously dangerous should be removed from society to correct their paths.

I see no mercy for those that acted against the USA Constitution. This time it citizens, not the brave Capital Police injured and dead. They were warned by six USA Senators about illegal orders. They enriched themselves illegally knowing they lacked sufficient training, too. 

Oh, one other thing. If Trump officials, former or current are hard to find to serve papers or arrest, the FBI might be able to buy their location. Oh. Wait. FISA might be a viable option actually.

Who needs Due Process now? You know THE TOOL Trump has relied on for his voluminous lawsuits.

DO NOT FUND the war with Iran.

Any escalation by Trump or Hegseth by putting troops on the ground is on them. 2500 Marines are not able to exist yet advance in Iran. Any troop deaths are conducted without permission of the American people or their Congress.

Iranian allies are conducting business in Iran’s sovereign waters. Interference with such peaceful activity is a war crime.

This war is over. The ONLY additional military funding is to be stipulated to rebuild what Trump and Hegseth lost. Additionally, the rebuilding will be tempered with Iranian war reparations. The national security of the USA must be balanced again including allies in the Pacific.

NO NEW funding for a war with Iran. The nuclear infrastructure is gone. Any occupation of that land is criminal.

The IAEA must find a time of safety to further assess Iranian assets and continue to monitor any redevelopment of same infrastructure. To be honest, with the carnage by the USA and Israel, the global community has no patience anymore and rightfully so. How that translates will be interesting. NATO had no role in this. NATO did not come running to Trump’s ridiculous demands. I congratulate them.

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This is called Peaceful Transition.

Iran is appropriately providing for its national treasury through responsible use of its natural assets; its sovereign waters. The countries that have negotiated their fees should begin the use of Iranian Safe Passage immediately.

In time and with negotiations and treaties the USA and Israel may even have safe passage.

Gee, I wonder why minion Rubio couldn’t/wouldn’t come up with such a peaceful answer to the now defunct Iranian Nuclear Capacity? Hm? Curious. Very, very curious.

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Iran was given no other choice.

This is what happens when a third world country is under attack without a means of defense; it turns to use of whatever is left.

I read an article. I think it was the Jerusalem Post (my experience with Israeli media is they get it right) stating Hezbollah pleaded for Iran to end any campaign against other Arab countries. There was a pause until Israel and the USA thought they would finish the job. 

Wrong.

What would H.W. Bush do? Sure as hell not this. He was a great American and as Commander and Chief he measured power verses annihilation and genocide.

If H.W. was ever on board with this it would have occurred a long time ago. Israel had to name land after Trump in order to win his favor. Every country in the world wants the USA military, Trump is using it as a mercenary force to the highest bidder.

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The FCC has no right to remake private industry.

Trump is in over his head riding his ego the entire time after hijacking the federal government to reshape it to a personal vendetta administration. 

IT AIN’T GOIN’ TA WORK!

Trump is a criminal and every entity affiliated with his administration, including the administration itself, is involved with racketeering. Every one of them. The FCC is no different.

Is there no privacy in American lives anymore? The FBI circumvented the courts because they knew they would be refused the purchase of information about Americans. DOGE couldn’t get the job done evidently.

THIS IS THE FBI. HELLO, America! Or is it Good Morning, America?

THE GLOVES ARE OFF!

I love the Daily Show. The reason Stewart has a panel of four Trump’s all with different dialogues is because Trump’s strategy to win over Americans is to be in their face 24/7. And. And. Those different faces of Trump’s is his attempt to disguise the Big Daily Lie.

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I am a little late..,

…but, congratulations to all nominees and winners.

It is called racketeering.

Private Tuition Christian Schools are the future of a USA education. It is why Trump is defunding the USA Department of Education.

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Japan has it’s reasons but it is a bit fool hearty .

To begin Hormuz is one half that if Iranian. The Iranian security forces no matter what form it takes has the sovereign right to act against anyone in those waters it perceives as a threat. In addition to that if Iran recognizes a country’s flag as an enemy in any waters in Gulf it has the sovereign right to identify that enemy and destroy it. That is all legal warfare.

The said, Iran has suffered insult to any fleet they have. That does not affect Zodiac attack boats or drones. There is also the issue of short distance missiles and what that means to the region if activities in their sovereign waters exist.

Israel can completely kill off Iranian leadership but that will not stop their alliance members from acting in response to Iranian threats. Those alliance members are throughout the Shea Crescent as well as other bad actors from Africa. You can say what you want but now in reflection the terrorist networks the Iranian leadership built that were attacked and disarmed by USA and Israeli forces actually was quite a strategy.

Trump can try and treat Asian communists as friends to help with a flotilla power structure but that is inviting the fox into the henhouse. 

The best strategy for any vessels, military or civilian is avoidance of confrontation and abandonment of the Persian Gulf entirely. The only approach at all is a coalition of countries in negotiations with Iran. The Trump State Department is untrustworthy.

Any country’s flag that is an enemy to Iran entering the Persian Gulf waters will not make it through unscathed. That is all an estimation. But, it is good advice and it is free.

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One of his most important contributions.

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The first thing airlines can institute is their own security protocols.

The airlines and their passengers have been hacking away at these procedures for sometime now. They have retinal scanners and advanced clearance and it has all been holding up. There may have been some explosions in countries yet to regulate safety, but, for the most part Free World airline operations has been trouble free. The argument can be made that the TSA, except for smaller airliners, was never needed in the first place. The airline requirements should have been in place before September 12, 2001. 

At the time of September 11th the financial side of democracy was hit as intended. The airlines arguably could not formulate the requirements needed nor have the funds for such major improvements in passenger safety. It was correct for the government to take the forefront in modernizing air travel to meet the challenges of burgeoning terrorist threats. The FBI was on their trail of these networks, as demonstrated with Moussaoui, but, the actual treat had yet solidified to require changes to infrastructure. Therefore the failure to the challenge.

Today, however, is different. Major airline companies realize how insidious threats can be, including the shoe bomber, and have even empowered flight attendants to stop unruly passengers that present a danger to the flight and its passengers. I believe the airlines want their passengers to be safe and want to reassure them their choice in travel was a wise one. So, I see no reason to continue to burden every passenger with long and invasive inspections to board a jetliner. The airlines should aggressively move toward their own methods of being safe in the air.

This is not a frivolous ideology, it is a very serious need to address an aggressive and dangerous regime that is currently occupying the federal executive branch of our democracy. There is every reason for greater and greater autonomy for providing safety while using the templates developed over the years. Why? Because the Executive Branch and majority Republican legislators are unreliable, unpredictable, and dangerous. It is only reasonable to allow business to assure its safety margins. As witnessed so many times in the past year this Administration and Congress allow dangerously loose rules and deregulation. These acts have even caused deaths of citizens. It has proven to take time to work through the courts to reverse dangerous decisions. The course correction is occurring. The Constitution is great and strong. Its checks and balances are valid and good. The elimination of some aspects of DHS is paramount rather than loosening control to allow danger back in. For that reason business and the public need to be aware of dangers and move to protect from them.

This strengthening of the citizenry is patriotic and has the correctness of authority as witnessed in the process of deputizing people to enforce the laws of this great country. This is not anarchy. It is a thoughtful and intelligent path of civilization. The Rule of Law is still intact.

We are at a point where returning power to this administration is irresponsible and would return the dangerous practices of lawlessness.

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Commander, you are fighting an illegal war.

Maybe no one wants you to know. There are also issues of genocide.

Legally, the best course of action is desertion. It is the right thing to do.