davidmluebke.bsky.social
Historian of the Reformation, early modern world, social movements, uprisings. Helped create the permanent exhibition at Holocaust Museum in DC, ages ago. Union activist. Amateur cook and photographer. Opinions are my own, RT ≠ endorsement. 💙🌊
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Heceta Head?
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Except maybe the VMI cadets and the Revolutionary War cosplayers, everybody in that parade looked mighty uncomfortable with marching in formation.
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Incredibly chaotic scene here in downtown Los Angeles where LAPD have just charged protesters with horses while others fire munitions.
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The assassin founded a security firm that was designed to impersonate police.
www.pguards.net
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www.pguards.net/services
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The article offers no information, either way. But I also think that we should welcome those who have had a change of heart. The right owes a lot of its strength to welcoming former adversaries into their fold; the opposition can and, in my view, should do the same.
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Now the Bannon / Kirk wing of MAGA is in a lather over Tr•mp's failure to restrain Netanyahu.
www.alternet.org/trump/trump-...
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Strictly speaking, Axios is reporting that Israeli diplomats are suggesting that Trump was faking his own foreign policy vis-à-vis Iran. I would not dismiss that scenario out of hand, but it does require us to believe that the entire negotiation around Iran's nukes has been an elaborate feint.
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If I were capable of feeling sorry for Rubio, I would worry about him now.
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But Iran and its allies (Hezbollah, the Houthis) are weak; there is little that Iran can do to retaliate other than the usual skirmishing with drones or warships.
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And because Bibi knows that no U.S. president since George H.W. Bush has been willing to punish Israel when it acts against U.S. wishes, he knows he has veto power over the Iran deal. The price is that Israel is now in a state of open war with Iran.
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Fortunately for Bibi, in Season One, Trump was only too happy to oblige, so an airstrike was unnecessary. So far, Season Two has played out differently, with Rubio struggling to repair what Trump destroyed, though without acknowledging it. In both senses, Bibi dropped a bomb on their plan.
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Rubio has been trying to negotiate a deal with Iran that would set verifiable limits on its nuclear program; had he succeeded, the result would have been a deal very much like the one Obama negotiated and Trump nixed in his first term. Bibi, famously, did not like that deal either.
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Trump's latest poop on TruthSocial read to me like the bark of braggart who has lost control of a situation but feels compelled to insist that he remains fully in charge. He did a similar thing yesterday when he hinted that he might relent on ICE roundups of farm workers and hotel housekeepers.
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I'm trying to figure out from what I've seen so far whether or not the U.S. military actively coordinated with Israel in launching this airstrike -- as the Jerusalem Post suggested. The JP isn't exactly a mouthpiece for Bibi, as far I know, but it's not hard to add up why they would this to be true.
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Absolutely. The word "involvement" has been doing a lot of work in this exchange: if by that one means "morally and strategically implicated in everything Bibi does," then yes: Trump and the U.S. were involved. And so was every president going back to JFK, arguably even Ike.
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Indeed not. On the other hand, he often lies.
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Yeah, saw that. I'm not entirely convinced that he is telling the truth, though.