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Bullshit title. Demented rapist reeling from one fantasy to another, one petty aside to another, one incompetent mistake to another as per.

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. . . Trump demanded that the military go get them immediately. But the U.S. hadn’t been on the ground in Iran since the government overthrow that led to the hostage crisis, and they needed to figure out how to get into treacherous Iranian terrain and avoid Tehran’s own military. Aides kept the president out of the room as they got minute-by-minute updates because they believed his impatience wouldn’t be helpful, instead updating him at meaningful moments, a senior administration official said.

. . . Still, he has made risky pronouncements without input from his national security team—including his post about plans to destroy the Iranian civilization—saying seeming unstable could help spur the Iranians to negotiate.

At one point he even mused he should award himself the nation’s highest military honor, the Medal of Honor.

. . . Soon after Trump’s holiday post, aides fielded calls from Republican senators and Christian leaders. They asked, why would he say “Praise be to Allah” on Easter morning? Why would he use the F-word? Trump swears profusely in private but usually calibrates it in public and on social media. 

When one adviser later asked him about it, he said he came up with the Allah idea himself. He said he wanted to seem as unstable and insulting as possible, believing it could bring the Iranians to the table, senior administration officials said. It was a language, he said, the Iranians would understand. But he was also concerned about the fallout. “How’s it playing?” he asked advisers. (Iran’s parliamentary speaker called the threat reckless.)

. . . Trump’s decision to venture into the war surprised many who knew him best. “Blood and sand,” he told advisers in his first term to describe the region, explaining why he wasn’t interested in getting drawn into any Middle East conflict.

After a persuasive February briefing from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Situation Room, and repeated conversations with a group of outside allies that included Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.), he said he trusted the military to pull it off. Look, he said to advisers, at how quickly they had “won” in Venezuela, where the U.S. had, in a matter of hours, captured its president and ended with his more compliant deputy in his place.

. . . He grew angry with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer for being slow to allow U.S. forces to use U.K. bases and derisively mocked the French President as “Emmanuel,” dragging out the syllables in an exaggerated French accent, in White House meetings after the two sparred over both the war and Emmanuel Macron’s wife. When NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte came to Washington earlier this month for a pre-scheduled meeting, Trump told officials afterward it was largely a waste of time because Rutte couldn’t force his members to help.

. . . Trump has since marveled at the ease with which the strait was closed. A guy with a drone can shut it down, Trump has said to people, expressing belated irritation that the key waterway was so vulnerable. He has publicly oscillated between demanding support from allies to help open it and insisting that the U.S. doesn’t need or want military assistance.

. . . Trump’s top aides have taken turns telling the president that he should limit the impromptu interviews because they were only convincing the public he had contradictory messages. At times, Trump would joke with Leavitt that he had talked to a reporter and made big news, but she would have to wait and see what it was, White House officials said. For a bit, he agreed to curb them—then soon returned.

. . . Some advisers encouraged him to do a speech to the nation. White House chief of staff Susie Wiles thought it would reassure the country that Trump had a plan. Trump wasn’t initially interested. What would he say? He couldn’t declare victory. He didn’t know where it was going. He was eventually persuaded to make the address on April 1, and aides along with outside advisers filled the room hoping to encourage him.

. . . Minute-by-minute rescue

The repeated crises prompted by the war have led to scrambles inside the administration. 

For 24 hours over Easter weekend, Trump’s team dialed into the Situation Room: Vice President JD Vance from Camp David, Wiles from her home in Florida. They received almost minute-by-minute progress reports, of the military entering Iran, the rescue planes getting stuck in the sand, the efforts to distract the Iranians. They called the last airman by a code name. 

Trump wasn’t included in the meeting but received updates by phone.

. . . After Trump’s subsequent threat to destroy Iranian civilization, White House officials talked to Pakistani counterparts about mediating a cease-fire. Trump was too mad at the Europeans for any of them to serve the role, administration officials said.

. . . White House concerns about security threats have been heightened, aides said.

In recent weeks, for example, Trump and his team have noticed an increase in security. On a cloudless night in April at Mar-a-Lago, every umbrella was up on the patio in an unusual arrangement, guests said. Club members were told that there was an effort to limit drone visibility, a Mar-a-Lago member said. 

Rubio told others about standing outside his home at the military compound where he lives and watching a suspicious drone, administration officials said. Secret Service protection teams have expanded to carry weapons White House officials had never seen before.

. . . Also on his mind: raising money for the midterms. Hours after the war began on the last Saturday in February, he was at a fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago. When some staff questioned if they should cancel it, Trump said he would have to eat dinner regardless. 

At another gathering, one night after threatening to end Iranian civilization, Trump stood in the White House with donors and top staff for a reception ahead of America’s 250th celebration this summer. He mused about giving himself the nation’s highest military honor, the Medal of Honor, designed to honor bravery, courage and sacrifice, according to people who were at the reception. 

He then told a story about why he said he deserved it: In his first term as he flew into Iraq for a surprise holiday visit to the troops, his jet descended in the dark toward an unlit runway. In dramatic fashion, he counted down the feet to the plane landing, and recalled how scary it was. The pilots kept reassuring him, he said, and they landed safely. 

He couldn’t get the medal, he said, because White House counsel David Warrington, who was standing nearby at the event, wouldn’t allow it. 

Leavitt, the White House spokeswoman, said he was joking. 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45537372

Project MKUltra Begins (1953)

Mon Apr 13, 1953

Image: From 1955, artist William Millarc takes part in an LSD experiment alleged to have been part of the MK-ULTRA program. [whyy.org]

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On this day in 1953, the CIA's Project MKUltra began. MKUltra is the code name given to a secret CIA program of mind control experiments, sometimes involuntary and involving the unethical use of hallucinogens, on test subjects.

These experiments were intended to identify and develop drugs and procedures to be used in interrogations in order to weaken the individual and force confessions through mind control, and often ran without the test subject's consent or knowledge.

Under MKUltra, the CIA created secret detention camps in international areas under American control so experiments could be done on prisoners without being prosecuted, hired British psychiatrist Donald Ewen Cameron to conduct experiments on patient, including dosing them with LSD and putting them in drug induced comas for weeks at a time, and secretly dosed Dr. Frank Olson with LSD after he asked to resign from the CIA, resulting in his suicide.

In 1973, amid a government-wide panic caused by Watergate, CIA Director Richard Helms ordered all MKUltra files destroyed. Most CIA documentation of the project was destroyed, however 20,000 documents survived because they had been incorrectly stored in a financial records building.

We only know about MKUltra today because of this misplaced cache and a Freedom of Information Request filed in 1977.

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• Date: 1953-04-13
• Learn More: en.wikipedia.org, www.smithsonianmag.com.
• Source: www.apeoplescalendar.org

cross-posted from: https://yall.theatl.social/post/9683582

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Previously Unseen Docs Reveal That Susie Wiles Witnessed Trump Showing a Classified Map to Unnamed Plane Passengers, and President Took Sensitive Document Accessible to Only Six People in the U.S. Government Washington, D.C. (March 25, 2026)—Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi demanding urgent […]The post New documents reveal Trump stole classified documents to advance his business interests appeared first on Atlanta Tribune.

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Donny Convict’s superpower has always been how relatable he is. he’s just like one of us!

under all the burnt-cork spray-tan, under that rat’s nest of fucked-up bullshit atop his big, dumb pumpkin head, under the makeup that conceals his rotting hand, under that doughy torso, and the neckgina and the cankles, Donny’s just a perfectly normal homey, doing perfectly normal stuff.

I mean, who among us hasn’t sat at the head of a table while sycophants and psychopaths praise our imaginary accomplishments, as we gradually lose consciousness and fill the room with the pungent aroma of ass music?

seriously, check out Don Snorelone during yesterday’s cabinet meeting. the decaying old fuck can barely keep his beady little eyes open, even as his piss-drunk Secretary of Death slobbers all over his ass.

“President Trump knows better. and here’s what success actually looks like. you mentioned it, Mr. President. A-10 Warthogs — if you know them, you love them — and Apache helicopter gunships are flying strike missions inside Iranian airspace and throughout the Strait of Hormuz at will. you see, you only send this slow, low-flying, air support platforms when the enemy has no meaningful air force.”

fact check for Piss-Drunk Pete: here’s how well the don’t-you-dare-call-it-a-war on Iran going:

“The US military has mostly abandoned 13 of their military bases in the Middle East because they can’t be protected. Iran’s missiles and drones are getting through and successfully attacking the bases.”

oh, huh. that doesn’t sound good, that Iranian drones are zipping around the Middle East at will and fucking America’s shit so thoroughly that we’ve had to abandon 13 military bases.

and where is Iran getting these drones that they’re using to cripple our military? you’ll never guess.

wait, didn’t the US just loosen sanctions on Russian oil? why is America doing favors for a country that’s helping Iran blow our shit up? am I on crazy pills? none of this makes one lick of sense to me.

maybe Donny might want to bring this up with his despot bestie Vlad the next time they have a snugglebunny playdate.

oh, dear — silly me for even suggesting it. I’d forgotten who pulls the strings around here.

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now let’s listen to Dear Leader’s few remaining synapses struggle to connect as he whines about how unfair it was of Iran to fight back.

“their neighbors were sort of like bystanders. they weren’t involved very much. they didn’t choose heavy sides. they didn’t want to, because people were concerned with Iran, they were stu— big black cloud over the Middle East. they were concerned but all of a sudden the war starts and they start shooting at— these five, in particular five countries. they start shooting at Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuait, Oman. they start shooting at ’em, they were— they were— everybody was shocked. including us. you know why? because they’re sick.”

what in the actual fuck is this incoherent drivel? ‘they didn’t choose heavy sides’ isn’t my transcription error, folks — Sundowning Grandpa Bugfuck actually spoke those words, while reading off prepared notes. his brain is rancid tapioca pudding.

I love how this shitwit claims that nobody saw any of this coming. ‘shocked! we were shocked!’

hey, you know who would have absolutely seen it coming? all the generals and admirals who Piss-Drunk Pete fired.

it’s too bad that not one of these shitcanned military experts were around to explain to Dear Leader all about the Strait of Hormuz. it’s knowledge that might have come in handy — you never know.

**it’s all so fucking stupid. every single one of these these act-first-and-think-never imbeciles like Donny and Plastered Pete and Liddle Marco Big-Shoes were so high on their own supply that they never imagined Iran would defend itself after being attacked. **how clownfuckingly naive is that?

look, I’m no military historian, but isn’t ‘fight back’ the one of the first rules of warfare? how can anyone claim to be shocked? it seems pretty goddamned obvious to me.

none of this had to happen. there was no reason for Donny to blunder into an unprovoked, unnecessary and illegal war in the first place — and now that shit has gone sideways, all he can do is bellyache like a piss-baby about unfair is it that Iran won’t let him win.

how completely fucking childish.

you have to let me win — mommy says I’m the best!

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hang on, the most insecure ball of fragility every to crap a diaper in the Oval Bordello has a pathological need to reassure everyone that his mommy also says he’s the smartest!

“I’ll say it right now, I’ll say it because no press ever reports it. I’m the only president that ever took a cognitive test. I took it three times. it’s actually a very hard test for a lot of people. it wasn’t hard for me. but it’s a cognitive test. starts off with an easy question, and by the time you get to the middle it gets tougher. by the time you get to the end, very few people can answer those questions. they get very tough. mathematical equations and things. I took it three times. I aced it all three times, in front of numerous doctors that I have no idea who they are.”

look, we’ve discussed to death this to business of Donny continually bragging about acing a dementia test where he had to point a drawing of a camel.

I remain unimpressed. how about a cognitive test where Donny has to point a drawing of the Strait of Hormuz? I’ll bet he’d fucking fail that one.

at this point I’d settle for Donny pointing to a map of Phillydilly.

“…the Mayor of Chicago and the Governor of Phillydilly.”

where the fuck on Earth is Phillydilly? and where the fuck are the worthless scribblers of the corporate-controlled press?

Donny has blundered into a war, destabilized the Middle East, caused an energy crisis, plunged the world into economic uncertainty — and he’s so cognitively impaired, he can’t even comprehend the damage he’s done, much less do anything to fix it. he’s too busy blithering about the magical enchanted land of Phillydilly.

isn’t that worth writing about? if this were Joe Biden pulling any of this shit, the press would be crucifying him.

look, you fools. the world is on fire — and none of this is fine.

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hey, you know who’s cordially invited to fuck all the way off?

Lisa Murkowski, that’s who.

“In an interview with my colleague Erik Wasson, ahead of a weeks-long congressional recess, Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski says, ‘I’m worried we get out of town and the president goes in with ground troops aiming for a full takeover.’”

oh yeah? if Murky Lisa was so fucking concerned about Donny going ape-shit in the Middle East, then why did she vote against the War Power Resolution that would have prevented Donny from pulling any of this shit in the first place?

thanks a ton, Senator. here’s a present from We the People.

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and now, it’s time for your Crowning Moment of Complete Batshit.

yesterday afternoon, Dear Leader phoned into Fox News to praise himself — and things very quickly went off the rails.

Dana Perino: “I think it is alarming that we have not been able to see or hear from the Iranian people, and I imagine that is because their internet is shut down, and I think there is some general worry about them … I would never ask you to tell us something that is classified, but do you have an insight as to how they are doing? do they have drinking water? do they have food? it’s upsetting.”

Donny: “do you remember when we had lunch years ago in Trump Tower? you haven’t changed. you may be even better looking, okay?”

holy shit. Dana Perino comes as close to committing an actual journalism as anyone who accepts a paycheck from Fox News is allowed to — and all Donny can do in response is flirt. ugh. gross. shut the fuck up, you malignant toad.

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ok, folks — tomorrow is No Kings Day. let’s make this the largest single day of protest in American history.

check out this map. there will be rallies all over the US and Europe — and even down in South American and over in Africa.

go here to find the rally nearest you.

see you there!

cross-posted from: https://yall.theatl.social/post/9574042

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