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K “Our esteemed Secretary of War Crimes Hegseth appears to have engaged or attempted to engage in insider trading. Trading under the circumstances in a time of war involving war-related investments is treasonous, not merely criminal.”
J “While firing everyone who disagrees with him. The Psychopath-In-Chief or the alleged Pedophile-In-Chief or the Trader-In-Chief or the Traitor-In-Chief or whatever you want to call him is in complete agreement with the policy to muzzle dissent.”
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K “There is more to the purported search and rescue of an O-6 serving as a Weapons System Officer. The shenanigans were undertaken near Isfahan and the Natanz nuclear site. Looks like another failed Operation Eagle Claw with a wider mission to extract uranium rather than hostages or in this situation a downed pilot. The Iranians may be tracking the special forces that were injected into the country.”
J “Dozens of support aircraft were involved. Almost a dozen aircraft were lost or damaged. Something is up and going down.”
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J “Trump spent his life bleeding an enterprise and then, when it no longer served him, he dumped it into bankruptcy. He wants to dump the Iran quagmire into bankruptcy. That option is not available on the international scene.”
K “The hornets get a vote and may get the last vote.”
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J “I now wonder if Iran has significantly degraded the Israeli and U.S. air defenses and substantially exhausted their inventory of weapons? The nuclear option may be the only option. We shall see very shortly.”
K “We shall see. The world is watching and taking careful notes to see if the Bully can maintain the Protection Racket. When the Protection Racket goes, in due course the Treasury market goes and the PetroDollar goes and the Empire goes. Israel initiated an unprovoked war that may now have precipitated an existential threat to the U.S. Empire.”
J “The world is watching and taking careful notes to see if Trump TACOs on Tuesday.”
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[See “What the Hell Happened with the Rescue of the F-15E WSO in Iran?” by Larry C. Johnson in “Sonar21” dated April 6, 2026 and “It’s Official: US Boots-On-Ground Deep Inside Iran Amidst Another Day of Humiliating Losses” by Simplicius in “Simplicius76” dated April 5, 2026.]
[See the e-commentary in the month before the United States provoked the war with Russia at Washington Wants War In The Worst Way: Dust Off The IOSAT Or Return To The Status Quo Ante Bellum? (January 24, 2022) and the general level of public unpreparedness for an emergency event at Girding For The Going Grid (October 11, 2010).]
Bumper stickers of the week:
[Don’t] send in the Marines
“The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the axe; for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that, because his handle was made of wood, he was one of them.” Attributed to Aesop.
“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
An Easter poem during National Poetry Month from the President: “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah.” President DONALD J. TRUMP
He is the A) Psychopath-In-Chief, the B) alleged Pedophile-In-Chief, the C) Trader-In-Chief, the D) Traitor-In-Chief, or E) all of the above.
TACO: Trump Always Chickens Out
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