A walking-talking disease

Elon Musk is on the verge of becoming the world's first trillionaire. His personal wealth will amount to more than 1.1 trillion dollars. A trillion dollars is one million million dollars, one thousand billion dollars. There are less than ten thousand hours in a year. So one would have to dispose of one million dollars every hour for well over a century just to spend so much money. And yet this fellow - this clever capitalist - still has not realized or does not appreciate the fact that accumulation of so much money by a single person means that countless other persons will not have even their bare survival needs met.

Looking for a word

Odious does not cover it. Perhaps pernicious. Donald Trump lives as if virtue is a vice, and vice a virtue. He is a blight on Planet Earth.

Trump's military genius

Once again TACO Baby lets his cowardly and malevolent intellect shine. Instead of Iran blocking the Strait of Hormuz, US warships will do the same thing. Why should Iran get the "glory" of driving global oil prices up (for the benefit of Russia?) when the USA can bear that responsibility... and maybe simultaneously starve some Iranian civilians?

Non compos mentis

With a POTUS (a President of the US) who is clearly no longer in control of his own mind... basically insane... the next three years should prove very interesting... unless Trump is somehow removed from office in an unprecedented fashion.

Talk about desperation at the White House!

First it was the Iran war to distract from Jeffrey Epstein. Now it is Jeffrey Epstein to distract from the Iran war.

Of course it's a victory for Iran

Iran has weathered a brutal attack by one of the world's biggest bullies and its proxy in the Middle East. How can that not be deemed a victory? Furthermore, the United States... or at least the U.S. Government has been exposed as having genocidal intent, framing both this war of aggression as fundamentally unprovoked and tending to justify anything that Iran now does (including the acquisition of nukes and retaining control over the Strait of Hormuz) as prudently defensive. Though an elderly, radical-religious government in Iran was deposed (brutally), a younger (but probably no less radical-religious) government has come in its place. And meanwhile, Iran retains a similar and proportionate military strength in the region, temporarily degraded but certainly not destroyed. So where is there any victory for Israel or the United States? Bibi and TACO Trump have only done the world and their own countries an obscene disservice.

Well duh!

Baby Trump writes: "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will." Even a 5-year old can work out the ethics of such a proposition. If something you intend to do is likely to destroy an entire civilization, then you simply don't do it. It's a no-brainer. Hopefully, the American military will demonstrate a greater moral compass and more common sense than their Commander-In-Chief.

Talk about low energy and dementia!

And this Bozo has another 3 years in the cockpit.

Against my better judgement I watched Trump's speech on the state of his war. Boring! The scripted part and all the rest too. Scripted: This war lasted so many days, that war lasted so many days, and yada-yada. Unscripted: We've got more oil than anybody needs, and we'll be leaving Iran soon... but not before I commit this war crime and that war crime... all delivered in a tired, old voice.

But the greatest absurdity of that 20-minute, more-than-he-could-handle speech was: Donald failed "epically" to achieve the implicit  goal of his address. Clearly, he wanted to calm America's fears about rising prices and lost income; but instead (due to his demented rant), oil prices surged and the stock market tanked as soon as he dropped the mike. Somebody bring back Biden!

Long live Iran

In case anyone is wondering, in the current conflict my support is for Iran in a similar way as I have supported Ukraine (after the Russian invasion). There can be no doubt that the USA and Israel are the aggressors in the current war and that any threat to world peace lies primarily at the door of Israel and the USA. I give no credibility to the notion that Iran is an imminent existential threat to Israel, much less to the USA. Hence the attack on sovereign Iran and the assassination of its political leader and others (no matter how bad any of them were) cannot be justified. Neither Israel nor the USA was acting with the welfare of Iran's 92 million people in mind.

US Supreme Court rejects Trump tarriffs

Demonstrating a major shift in SC policy, by a 6-3 ruling the USSC has outlawed the Trump tarriffs. Given the fact that legal rulings are often more the product of naked self-interest than legal logic or reason - with the current Supreme Court possibly more flagrant than any predecessor - this ruling suggests that Trump's days of political dominance are now numbered. It may be that a significant majority of the SC justices have realized, at long last, that they've hitched their future to an aging and ailing donkey.