Perhaps the costly war in Iran will provide additional reasons for a wealth tax on the top 5%? Bring that idea back up please.

When Trump and the military industrial oligarchs and the inherited wealth billionaire families mention "shared sacrifice", then I want to see the first and proportionally biggest sacrifices made by those groups.
Otherwise, the "war" is just another corrupt racket run by the rich for gain.

Strategy is not a card in the deck of either Trump or Hegseth. Both of them are multiple cards short of a full deck.

I can't find words for how badly I react to her statement.
She is saying
that Russia's support of Iran doesn't matter,
that targeting of US assets (meaning our military people) doesn't matter,
and that Trump (since that's the person she is speaking for), frankly doesn't care about any of it.

She can keep the costumes. Mullin will get to choose his own.

She might not be able to charge her hair and botox appts as business expenses, depending on the appearance requirements of her new role.

Aaron Rupar, aren't you supposed to be on vacation this week?
Did this military adventure cause your family to change plans? That's a shame because it looks like the US has started a program of aggression that could last months or years, and so far the govt hasn't provided much rationale for it.

This was from today's press briefing? Was there any content or just mongering talk? Any additional reasons for making a first strike without planning for possible outcomes? Isn't strategy an important part of military leadership?

That's more of a Beowulf and Grendel retelling. Obscure book, but I enjoyed it.

Impeachment, followed by prosecution for criminal acts and restitution for misuse of public funds, as indicated by evidence, credible testimony, and public records.

I am really going to miss Jasmine Crockett in Congress next year, but I expect she will continue her political career.

The US can never have too many smart progressive women with style. I hope she inspires hundreds more.

Might be more productive to develop ads for the Democrat candidate for governor, a relative unknown to most Texas voters. She is running against a close Trump ally who is running for his fourth term, I think.

If the Democrats want to turn Texas blue, they really need to defeat Abbott, soundly.

I don't think the shopping lover really gets fascism; he just wants to feel popular and all-powerful, without ever mixing with the peons.

Did she ever answer the question? Or did she change the subject and Padilla didn't force her to answer the question?

She just said there is no plan, not that she would refuse such an order.

It's called projection. It infects so many in Washington apparently.

Kristi Noem's departure would be a start. But there are Noem-types all the way down, and at the bottom there is a huge cadre of CBP & ICE armed masked resentful thugs.

Yes. National embarrassment would be another option, or unnecessary hemorrhage (of human, financial, & political capital), or the classic SNAFU, which applies to many efforts of this administration.

And because Trump could not foresee what he himself would do, thousands of other American lives are at risk.
Got it.
It explains why he needs a person to help him get dressed every day.

No one can tell the president that he can't do something. After all, he says that he reduced drug prices over 600 percent.

He won't be a negotiator anyway because he is not going to travel to Iran until a Trump Hotel is built in Tehran.

Do you think he will admit refugees from there?

I'd agree, since the negotiating team was apparently led by the president's son-in-law, who has no government authority or official status, and whose business fortune is closely tied to or dependent on Saudi Arabian investors.

The train of thought left the station without him.

Biden was a politician. Trump is a wannabe interior decorator. Biden's diplomatic staff had relevant experience. Trump's diplomatic staff is headed by his son-in-law and some golfing friends who have investments overseas.

It doesn't seem likely that democracy will emerge in Iran after outside attacks. It seems more likely that another autocratic government will be installed and will be managed by either government or corporate interests based outside of Iran.

1. Bibi needed a distraction, and he said it would be easy.
2. Trump needed a distraction too.
3. Trump believes that Americans will always support a war.
4. Nothing makes a president feel powerful like attacking another country.
5. Trump still needs a distraction from his Epstein involvement.

And FIFA, which presented a Peace Prize to Trump very recently, is now considering whether World Cup games should be held in the US this summer or not, because the country may be involved in a war.

Lovely. This was not a complication expected by the administration, I think...

Aaron, I think your vacation plans may have to be deferred. Possibly until after the 2026 elections or Trump's impeachment, whichever happens first.
In all seriousness, your readers are so sorry that the president messed up your plans. He messed up plan of many people.

Has anyone heard any comments from either John Thune or Mike Johnson today? Anything? Has anyone told them yet that the US bombed Iran, apparently on the whim of the president?

Someone should let them know, so that they can prepare a comment other than saying they haven't seen the news yet.

Trump is hosting a $1,000,000/plate fundraising dinner tonight at Mar a Lago, even though he cannot run for a third term and even though the US has attacked another sovereign country.

What is the purpose of the fundraising? And why isn't he too busy to party, now that he's killing people overseas?

Probably you don't want to use the term Christian when referring to Hegseth. His interest in killing people in Iran is not based on any religious principles other than his devout devotion to worshipping JDTrump.

I don't understand why your household needs to be armed with assault rifles, which are intended for shooting long distances. I also don't understand why you need heavy high power rifles for babies who are too young to handle them.
I also think maybe the neighbors should be very concerned about you.

The president does not have authority to attack another country, especially not to make the first strike against a smaller nation halfway around the world.
The pretense that he is doing it "for the people of Iran" is doubtful. I don't think he could find Iran on a Middle East map without names.