UPDATE #2: Both the Associated Press and The Guardian have a running timeline regarding this latest T.A.C.O. None of this removes the terroristic threats which both Israel and the United States represents (both governments, especially Israel have acted in bad faith and cannot be trusted without an ironclad security agreement).
In spite of the ceasefire, a military official said a few hours ago that Israel was still conducting attacks against Iran (though Israel has since said it will honor the ceasefire in Iran but not in Lebanon). The U.S. needs to stop funding Israel and acting on its behalf going forward and elected politicians from any political affiliation in the U.S., need to be voted out if they support the government of Israel (I personally have my doubts this will happen because that institutional capture is so deep given the years of Israeli money pumped into campaign coffers).
The fact that POTUS was sold a lie of an easy victory by Netanyahu, is another additional reason (amongst many others) as to why he ought to be removed (but we know that isn’t going to happen). Bringing the world to a brink of a nuclear holocaust, is something which cannot be swept under the table (but we know this is what Republican’s in Congress will do; every single one that did not put out a statement previously condemning the president, should be considered traitors). This whole war has also only strengthened Iran’s theocratic regime to the detriment of its citizens looking for an actual free society.
The irony is also not lost on me that so many of those responsible for the divisive rhetoric that have torn apart this country, sounded like the reasonable ones once this threat of a holocaust level genocide was put out in such a deranged fashion earlier this morning. I’m not going to be one of those “purity test” folks on this; their vocal rejection and calls to have the 25th Amendment invoked (as previous close allies to the POTUS) of this insane notion of disappearing an entire civilization and it’s rich culture via an implied nuclear attack, is how you make cracks in that cycle of division.
The FOX News echo chamber is going to continue to distort/covering up the actual facts (it’s a propaganda machine which needs to be dismantled). It will take these former allies (people like Alex Jones, Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Greene, etc) to voice their condemnation of such threats in order for that to infiltrate the rightwing echo chamber. None of these folks will stop with wanting to “own the libs”, but at least there is common ground with not wanting to see weapons of mass destruction being used to end a civilization.
The United States as a whole has serious institutional issues which need to be fixed; it’s broken from the very top in each branch. Far too much of it relies on the equivalent of honorable people doing a handshake. The founders who are often times given far too much credit, were NAIVE in this area. It was written to protect the system from themselves because they as privileged people who wanted to get away from being ruled by a king, knew they would be tempted to do the same without a form of self-created checks and balances.
But none of the amendments that were added, solved the root cause issue with unscrupulous individuals capturing every part of that easily abused system (which is what happens when those who abused the system in the past, were never held accountable including Nixon, Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, etc — the excuse always being “going after your political enemies” and “moving forwards to heal the country”). While this needs to be fixed, the damage has already been done with this genocidal threat by an American president. It’s a huge moral stain that we already know will attempt to be whitewashed like everything else.
While I could continue to “stream of consciously” core dump even more, I’ve already exceeded my self-imposed monthly time limits that I’ve tried to adhere to for posts of this type by several times now (it’s not something I enjoy focusing on but I also understand the significance in terms of current events and the historical record). Myself, I’m not confident this will last because POTUS is a narcissist with severe levels of cognitive decline who really needs to be removed from office. We could be right back at another nuclear threat level in two weeks.
BTW, China is the one pulling a lot of the diplomatic strings here. It’s China that many other countries that are turning to for trade and face it, stability. The U.S. has thrown away a lot of its standing because we have ignorant incompetent racist hacks making unqualified decisions. As a country, it needs to look itself in the mirror and face up to its history of being the one interfering in the business of other countries and creating conflicts in the process. Compared to these other countries, the U.S. is only 250 years old this summer. The last 8+ decades has been as a global empire and like all past empires, they eventually come to an end from arrogance, hubris, and self-created destruction.
UPDATE #1: T.A.C.O. at the last moment (which is better than the other alternative of a nuclear holocaust, global pariah, the global chaos). Iran called his bluff and reveals how weak POTUS is in the process. The “emperor has no clothes” and this boy crying wolf is damaging what little credibility the U.S. has. Two more weeks of abusive derangement is the only reprieve… will add more thoughts when I get home.
I wake up to what I would say is “5 alarm fire time” as we honestly are at the “lunatic has the nuclear codes” part of this war… and maybe TACO Tuesday may not be happening after all (we shall see). Regardless, this is a threat to an already weakened global economy (think major crash) and global security threat.
The President of the United States declared the potential genocide of the entire Iranian civilization in this vile posting of his. The following is the text in full.
A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS?
We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!
Once again, the media in the U.S. fails to call things out with clear language (calling this out as a genocide). Iran has cut off direct communications with the U.S. after this threat. The U.S. began bombing Kharg Island shortly after. Kharg Island (satellite image above) is a key oil export hub and would require boots on the ground in order to secure those key assets. The problem of course is Iran has the literal high ground (with those mountain ranges where they can fire off rockets from) plus launch suicide boats hidden in the many caves lining that side of the strait.
That first part in his demented post (a whole civilization will die tonight) is also threatening nuclear annihilation without saying it. Who exactly are the terrorist nations in this war? Let me answer that one again; the governments of Israel and the United States (they started this). Israel has suckered the U.S. into funding most of the dirty work. So much for America first (many of us knew that was a lie except for his MAGA base).
Reminder that Israel is also terrorizing the people of Lebanon (alongside their continued genocidal campaign in Gaza). Folks in the U.S. mainstream media that label talk against Israel like this as anti-semitic, can go and shove it (because they are showing who owns them without saying it).
It doesn’t matter if it’s a tactical nuke (most of those are magnitudes more powerful than what was dropped on either Hiroshima or Nagasaki). Furthermore, Israel’s national security minister laughed on television the other day when the reporter asked about the possibility of using a neutron bomb over Iran (which leaves buildings intact). How evil must one be to even talk about something like this so on broadcast television? These are SICK people.
Let me go a step further. Exactly who are the UNCIVILIZED savages here musing about committing war crimes and wiping out an entire civilization (aka GENOCIDE) off the face of the planet? I will again answer that; the governments of Israel and the United States. Any official/person in power that fails to speak out against this threat, should not be treated kindly by history IF we don’t end up annihilating the planet first. If any nuke signature is detected, that is out on the street general strike time in the U.S. 14 million Iranians have declared they will die fighting for their country. If our military carries this out, we deserve global condemnation.
This veiled threat of using nukes is nothing to even muse about let alone, hint at possibly doing. In the U.S., this is enough for the 25th Amendment to be invoked… if we had a working Congress (which we don’t because the Republican majority has all but caved in complicity where most of them are silent in condemning this) and a cabinet that abides by the U.S. Constitution (which this regime does not). Real talk in the following:
Updates to be added as needed.
