Trump’s Know-Nothing Arrogance in 2018 Brought This War on Himself
In May of 2018, Donald Trump cancelled United States participation in the 2015 agreement that limited Iran's nuclear development in return for sanctions relief. The pact — the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA — had been forged between Iran, the United States, and five other countries — Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China — with the full European Union signing on as well. Acting entirely on his own, ignoring those allies, Trump had America go back on its word.
He has always called the agreement terrible. He underscored that view again at the beginning of March:
"I was very proud to have knocked out the Iran nuclear deal by President Barack Hussein Obama. That was a horrible, horrible, dangerous document. They were on the road to getting [a nuclear weapon] legitimately, through a deal that was signed foolishly by our country."
In his lazy ignorance not to learn what went before, he cancelled a deal that 
did the opposite — prevented uranium enrichment required for a bomb. He restored sanctions instead. So he put Iran on the road; Iran resumed uranium enrichment bringing several hundred pounds up to 60%, a short hop below bomb grade. And now, to stop them, he has without prior analysis, without any strategy, blundered the United States into a war that he doesn’t know how to get out of.
For a span of variously 10 to 15 years, the 2015 accord subjected Iran to an inspection regime of the various sites where Iran was enriching uranium. It provided that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) would have "regular access to all of Iran's nuclear facilities" and "suspicious sites of allegations or a covert enrichment facility, centrifuge production facility, or yellowcake… Read More »
Here’s How Trump Will Steal the Coming Elections
Democrats naively assume a blowout this fall. Trump will make it an obstacle course.Donald Trump fears impeachment should Democrats take majority control of the House of Representatives this November. There are a few Republican grumbles about his presidency but nowhere enough for the Senate to then convict and remove him from office. Eight of them would have to join all the Democrats to reach the needed 67% super majority.
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Nevertheless, it seems that Mr. Trump is troubled by a third impeachment damaging his reputation. So, he who persistently but falsely calls elections "rigged" and ridden with "horrible corruption" is marshalling every weapon and contrivance to be the one who actually rigs elections.
To know what’s coming, here’s a round-up of the several tactics Trump is employing to minimize Democratic votes. As the election approaches, keep a link to this and watch… Read More »
Tech World Says Get Rich Now, or Fuhgedaboudit!
The oligarchs are raising the drawbridge.The panjandrums of Silicon Valley see a future, largely of their creation, that prompts this warning: If you want to get rich, you'd better be about it, because it won't be possible once AI takes over.
Having spent trillions building an archipelago of data centers across this country and beyond, they will own the technology that runs the world. They few foresee that their infinite wealth will make them a superclass well removed from the rest of us. We will get the crumbs. AI will destroy work and eliminate opportunities for us to generate money, much less get rich. Well get to what that leads to, but first… Read More »
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the war
Notes on Trump’s War
Apr 10 2026
With the clock already ticking on the meager two-week ceasefire, Vice-President JD Vance is in Pakistan 
Saturday to begin talks with Iran. The negotiations will go nowhere, but Vance doesn’t know this.
His blustering on the tarmac shows he knows nothing of our dealings with Iran that began some 15 years ago that went on not for two weeks but four years. Ask John Kerry, who led the negotiations resulting in the nuclear agreement with Iran of 2015. But Vance assures us:
”If the Iranians are willing in good faith to work with us, I think we can make an agreement. If they’re gonna lie, if they’re gonna cheat,…then they’re not going to be happy, because what the President has showed is that we still have clear, military, diplomatic and maybe most importantly, we have extraordinary economic leverage… They’re gonna find out that the President of the United States is not one to mess around. He’s impatient. He’s impatient to make progress. He has told us to negotiate in good faith and I think that if they negotiate in good faith, we will be able to find a deal.”
Iran has the upper hand. They have no interest whatever in catering to Trump’s impatience.
where are our allies?
A reporter said to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt…
“A joint statement put out this morning [Wednesday] by some of America’s European allies, our NATO allies. They said, regarding the Strait of Hormuz, our governments will contribute to ensuring freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz.”
”I have a direct quote from the president: ‘They were tested and they failed'. And I would add that it’s quite sad that NATO turned their backs on the American people over the course of the last six…
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With the clock already ticking on the meager two-week ceasefire, Vice-President JD Vance is in Pakistan
Saturday to begin talks with Iran. The negotiations will go nowhere, but Vance doesn’t know this.
His blustering on the tarmac shows he knows nothing of our dealings with Iran that began some 15 years ago that went on not for two weeks but four years. Ask John Kerry, who led the negotiations resulting in the nuclear agreement with Iran of 2015. But Vance assures us:
”If the Iranians are willing in good faith to work with us, I think we can make an agreement. If they’re gonna lie, if they’re gonna cheat,…then they’re not going to be happy, because what the President has showed is that we still have clear, military, diplomatic and maybe most importantly, we have extraordinary economic leverage… They’re gonna find out that the President of the United States is not one to mess around. He’s impatient. He’s impatient to make progress. He has told us to negotiate in good faith and I think that if they negotiate in good faith, we will be able to find a deal.”
Iran has the upper hand. They have no interest whatever in catering to Trump’s impatience.
where are our allies?A reporter said to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt…
“A joint statement put out this morning [Wednesday] by some of America’s European allies, our NATO allies. They said, regarding the Strait of Hormuz, our governments will contribute to ensuring freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz.”
”I have a direct quote from the president: ‘They were tested and they failed'. And I would add that it’s quite sad that NATO turned their backs on the American people over the course of the last six… Read More »
environment
The Climate War That Trump Is Winning
Mar 27 2026
Lacking any knowledge of climate science, President Trump nevertheless persists in calling global warming a “hoax”, a “scam”, a “con job” advanced by climate scientists who are “stupid people”. Fittingly, on taking office again, he immediately set about cancelling all climate initiatives, hyping oil and gas with his infantile "drill, baby, drill" mantra, hobbling wind and solar, and slashing regulations.
On his first day he set in motion the yearlong process that removes the United States from the Paris Agreement, the treaty to combat climate change. Adopted by 195 parties at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris in December 2015, the U.S. is the only country to withdraw, with the White House calling it “restoring American sovereignty” in keeping with "America First". It is just one of a long list of United Nations organizations that he simultaneously, on his own, chose to cancel by executive order that day.
Halo Mustafa Al Askari, the environmental minister of the Pacific island nation of Tuvalu, threatened by rising oceans caused by climate change, spoke directly:
”Tragically, the world’s [second] largest emitter of greenhouse gases has withdrawn...Mr. President, this is a shameful disregard for the rest of the world”.
the great undoing
Lee Zeldin, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, is an ardent deregulator. Just weeks ago he celebrated what he called “the single largest deregulatory action in the history of the United States”. His agency has worked to unravel the over 200-pages of peer-reviewed evidence that led to the 5-to-4 Supreme Court Massachusetts v. EPA decision in 2007 that agreed carbon dioxide is a pollutant that, under the Nixon-era Clean Air Act, must therefore be regulated as a…
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Lacking any knowledge of climate science, President Trump nevertheless persists in calling global warming a “hoax”, a “scam”, a “con job” advanced by climate scientists who are “stupid people”. Fittingly, on taking office again, he immediately set about cancelling all climate initiatives, hyping oil and gas with his infantile "drill, baby, drill" mantra, hobbling wind and solar, and slashing regulations.
On his first day he set in motion the yearlong process that removes the United States from the Paris Agreement, the treaty to combat climate change. Adopted by 195 parties at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris in December 2015, the U.S. is the only country to withdraw, with the White House calling it “restoring American sovereignty” in keeping with "America First". It is just one of a long list of United Nations organizations that he simultaneously, on his own, chose to cancel by executive order that day.
Halo Mustafa Al Askari, the environmental minister of the Pacific island nation of Tuvalu, threatened by rising oceans caused by climate change, spoke directly:
the great undoing”Tragically, the world’s [second] largest emitter of greenhouse gases has withdrawn...Mr. President, this is a shameful disregard for the rest of the world”.
Lee Zeldin, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, is an ardent deregulator. Just weeks ago he celebrated what he called “the single largest deregulatory action in the history of the United States”. His agency has worked to unravel the over 200-pages of peer-reviewed evidence that led to the 5-to-4 Supreme Court Massachusetts v. EPA decision in 2007 that agreed carbon dioxide is a pollutant that, under the Nixon-era Clean Air Act, must therefore be regulated as a… Read More »