Why is the Question of the Day
And who's profiting because it sure ain't us
We have an Attention Deficit Disorder President. His daily briefings have always required flash cards as he gets bored easily. Once his briefings are done, his staff crosses their fingers and hope they got through to him, that he’ll do what they hope they’ve convinced him to do.
Then he does things on a whim. Unpredictably. Often without providing strategic info to the appropriate supporting cast. He might make an economic move that freaks out Wall Street or the Federal Reserve. He champions lawbreakers like a guy rooting for Bonnie and Clyde. And nobody’s permitted to wear the white hat except him. Yeehaw.
So it’s not really newsworthy that he and his minions keep changing the reason for bombing Iran. So far, they’ve only demonstrated that Israel’s intel has improved. Iran can shift their leadership around to avoid getting hit but Israel can track them better. But beyond that, why?
No evidence exists that they’re ‘imminently’ gonna have nuclear weapons. They had an incentive not to, based on the treaty they reached with the Obama administration and several other governments. Trump tore that up after three years, freeing Iran to pursue nuclear weapons, but no one has offered a shred of evidence to the world that they’re close. In June last year, a joint bombing by the US and Israel destroyed their nuclear labs. That was the official line by Trump back then and nine months later he’s contradicting himself.
Here’s the damage caused by Trump, as things were last June.
And in just 3 days of bombing, the reason(s) for the current attack have shifted like a game of hot potato between Trump, Hegseth and Rubio. It’s not a game. More than 900 people have been killed including 6 American Army soldiers. One fifth of the dead are primary school kids. Oh yeah, I forgot, collateral damage is not a war crime. It’s the standard cost of a responsible superpower trying to maintain order via psychopathic megalomaniacal means. (Hey, I didn’t make the rules).
Paraphrasing:
Trump: Because regime change….. no, to stop their nuclear weapons development. It’ll take 4 or 5 weeks…… (and now) Because Iran was behind the two assassination attempts on my life….. maybe it will take longer which I can do too.
Hegseth: Stop nuclear weapons development, eliminate their navy and any missiles that could reach Israel. Stop saying it’s another endless war, it’s not.
Rubio: Regime change is not the objective. Because Israel was gonna attack so we knew Iran would attack us. And? Our worst attacks on Iran are yet to come. Today: you reporters misquoted me; Trump made the decision and we acted before Israel did.
<eyeroll> So far, they’ve blamed everyone but Jesus….
»»Jonathan Larsen: ‘A combat-unit commander told non-commissioned officers at a briefing Monday that the Iran war is part of God’s plan and that Pres. Donald Trump was “anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth,” according to a complaint by a non-commissioned officer.
From Saturday morning through Monday night, more than 110 similar complaints about commanders in every branch of the military had been logged by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF).
The complaints came from more than 40 different units spread across at least 30 military installations, the MRFF told me Monday night.««
I can’t even….
A visual aid shows the damage done by Trump when he broke the treaty.
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The day before the bombing began, the State Dept insisted US tourists should get out of Israel TODAY. But by yesterday, they were urging US citizens to get out of 14 Middle East countries. AFTER many airports have shut down or have badly delayed flights. After two US embassies have closed. That’s really shitty planning but consistent with Trump’s impulsiveness and his ongoing lack of consideration for the lives of US citizens. Rubio today, paraphrasing: “We’ve helped evacuate 9,000+ Americans AFTER launching our attack and we think there’s 1500 to 1600 more we gotta do.”
Sidney Blumenthal:
»»As Trump careened to war, Wendy Sherman, a chief negotiator of Obama’s agreement and former deputy secretary of state, remarked: “If Donald Trump had not withdrawn from the original JCPOA, we would not be here.”
And yet, as Trump’s agents went through the pantomime of reinventing a version of the deal that Trump had trashed, his administration had made a very different kind of deal with Iran to deport Iranian asylum seekers in the US fleeing persecution back to Iran. Those deported throughout 2025 and as recently as January 2026 included Christians, ethnic minorities, and political dissidents, reversing decades of US policy that protected such individuals from the Iranian regime. Among them were gay people who faced almost certain execution. “Please save our lives,” pleaded one asylum seeker who had been detained in a Texas facility for more than a year.««
Heather Cox Richardson:
»» Another of the crowning achievements of the post–World War II international order is the Geneva Conventions, which define the legal treatment of noncombatants in war. In his confirmation hearings, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth refused to tell Senator Angus King (I-ME), who pressed him on the issue, that he would uphold the Geneva Conventions.
In the ideology that honors violent domination, Trump’s bombing Iran without regard for the Constitution or international law, when no president before him had done so, proves his strength. Hegseth illustrated that idea this morning when he said: “For forty-seven long years, the expansionist and Islamist regime in Tehran has waged a savage, one-sided war against America.” Hegseth, who was a Fox News Channel weekend host before becoming secretary of defense, tried to turn the administration’s military operation into a heroic stand in a silent war that had lasted for two generations.
Claiming the U.S. attacks on Iran that started this conflagration were defensive, rather than offensive, Hegseth claimed: “We didn’t start this war, but under President Trump we are finishing it…. It took the 47th president, a fighter who always puts America first, to finally draw the line after 47 years of Iranian belligerence. He reminded the world, as he has time and time again…[i]f you kill Americans, if you threaten Americans anywhere on Earth, we will hunt you down, without apology and without hesitation, and we will kill you.”
(Me: Really? You’re gonna do your weak Liam Neeson impression?)
Hegseth celebrated Israel and its strikes alongside the U.S., while he condemned “so many of our traditional allies who wring their hands and clutch their pearls, hemming and hawing about the use of force. America, regardless of what so-called international institutions say, is unleashing the most lethal and precise air power campaign in history…. No stupid rules of engagement, no nation-building quagmire, no democracy-building exercise, no politically correct wars. We fight to win, and we don’t waste time or lives.” ««
Trump revealed to CNN how surprised he was that Iran retaliated, reminding everyone about his ongoing struggle doing that whole thinky thing:
He might also be surprised to learn that the barbarians he defines also do strategic planning instead of relaxing and enjoying his bombs.
NY Times:
»»Iranian strikes conducted over the weekend and on Monday damaged structures that are part of or near communication and radar systems on at least seven U.S. military sites across the Middle East, according to a New York Times analysis of satellite imagery and verified videos.
Visuals show damage on or close to radar systems used to track incoming ballistic missiles, satellite dishes and radomes, which are weatherproof covers that protect sensitive equipment used by forces to communicate over long distances.
U.S. military communication infrastructure is highly classified, making it difficult to determine which exact systems may have been affected. But the targeted locations appear to indicate Iran was aiming to disrupt the U.S. military’s ability to communicate and coordinate. Iran has attacked the U.S. military’s communication capacity as recently as last June, when it struck a Qatari base it hit again over the weekend.
Strikes potentially affecting these systems also occurred on military facilities in Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.««
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Meanwhile, back at the older Trump War against Americans
Outgoing North Carolina’s Republican Senator Thom Tillis had DHS director Kristi Noem on the hot seat today. Yes, yes, the first 30 seconds of him attacking our last president is cringe. And yes, I’ve never favored the policies of Thom Tillis, but he’s never shied away from criticizing the president.
But this time, you have to watch and listen. Because what he said to Noem about the performance of ICE burned my monitor and speakers to ashes. He dropped more tonnage than Tehran has experienced. (I just wish he had Corey Lewandowski there, who actually runs DHS while hiding behind and in her bloomers.)
The Trump-endorsed Republican was chosen in the NC primary today. The Trump toady will face former Democratic Governor Roy Cooper who’s never lost a statewide race there.
Personal Security Concerns Keep Expanding
CBP and ICE have multiple ways to track immigrants. I’ve long suspected the DOGE intrusions on private personal info at the IRS, Social Security and other government agencies were done to aid the tracking of immigrants as well as adversarial protesters of DJ Trump. I’ve also developed concerns about data being mined from social media accounts due to a slew of account suspensions I’ve endured in recent weeks that aren’t caused by any violations of community standards. To get the suspensions lifted, I have had to upload videos and photos and a driver license of myself.
Is Facebook actively feeding these to DHS facial recognition programs? Could be. After all, a government bent on building enormous detention facilities in a globe-wide new gulag easily could use them during some emergency decree or the invocation of martial law to lock up more than paperless immigrants.
Here’s the latest ad tracking info from 404 Media.
Do you have fake phone towers tracking you?
And is the government covering its tracks and why?
IN CONCLUSION
Given the financial support of the top 1% of wealth barons, overlords, oligarchs, fat cats and tech bros that the president gets and his impulsive and unlawful actions that regularly cost lives and destroy family budgets across the globe, it’s time to create a fresh designation between civilized leaders in control of militaries and leaders of small groups typically referred to as terrorist orgs.
Donald Trump is the USA’s first Ego-Terrorist. Russia, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Israel and North Korea have Ego-Terrorist leaders, too. Iran did before our military took him out and likely will again. There’s probably others in Myanmar and elsewhere.
Ego-Terrorists are sociopaths, compulsive hoarders of money and power, with little regard for the lives of the working class backbones of every country.
Unlike mainstream media analysts, I’m not buying that this fresh war was driven by Israel and the US alone. I’m certain that Saudi Arabia and the UAE are involved. Their financial support (aka: bribes) to the Trumps and Kushners make that clear to me.
I’ve also come to the conclusion that there is no winning outcome to this war. Sadly, I’m predicting this will prove to be one of our country’s greatest losses. My opinion will easily be ignored for now, but maybe someone will recall my prediction. I can do that thinky thing way better than our Ego-Terrorist.
I’ll give the final word to Senator Ron Wyden who remains laser focused on the REAL reason for this war: the stunning breadth of the greatest coverup in US history, one that is not gonna end well for the perps.
And now, for dessert, an old friend just uploaded a musical number to Soundcloud that’s perfect for this somber occasion. He goes by the stage name of Neddie Jingo.
Pass that on too.