A reader, Michael Fox, said it best: “I believe that you go right for the jugular."
DAPHNE, AL, USA 06/20/2025; 2:40 pm - So Trump did his TACO dance. Trump lamented:
Iran cannot have a nuclear bomb!
Let me set this premise. Iran is not pursuing a nuclear bomb. Believe it! And it is Iran’s business, not ours. No one appointed us nonproliferation czar.
That pursuit prognosis is from the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), and the DNI has diverse intelligence sources and tools. I rest my case there, and my gut also says, they do not want a bomb. Your intelligence as a reader of mine must give deference to the authorities, so spare me any unsubstantiated claims.
Feel free to disagree with my premise and my gut, but present your substantiated basis and your evidence for your…opinion. An unsubstantiated claim is the bane of my government proposal trade. “I think” does not cut it here.
Call me a neophyte, but consider that I lived for 2 years in Tehran, Iran. That is 2 years more than you, and I know the Iranian people to be peace loving and generous. Let us leave the setting right there. Israel has inflicted damage.
There is a dangerous situation today and Israel has lessened some threat from Iran on that. Trump hints we are involved in the Israeli air strikes, and Trump hardens earned Iranian resolve against America to our detriment. All Trump has done is needlessly use braggadocio to claim credit where credit is so dangerous that it imperils us.
Reports say Trump vetoed Israel killing Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Given that, what is Donald Trump doing rattling sabres, pretending we are about to strike and demanding Iran’s surrender? Why would Trump suggest he will make a decision whether or not to strike Iran in 2 weeks? Why would Trump blurt out he knows where the Supreme Leader is hiding, but is not going to kill him yet? Is Trump suggesting another Iranian regime change as a continuing policy of the United States against Iran? I protest. We need to settle our differences and we owe Iran mega reparations.
Does Trump think Iran does not know his TACO tactics? Does he think Iran does not know 2 weeks never comes (to back up Trump’s mouth)? Does he think Iran does not know Trump has no authority to declare war? Does he think Iran does not wonder, like I do, why Trump does not just STFU?
The IR-40 Heavy Water Reactor at Arak, Iran, was hit by Israel. This reactor core had been cemented so that it could not produce plutonium.
Trump is playing the virtual big bully, while Israel is doing the fighting. Trump’s is a disgusting display of orange idiocy promoted by today’s “Age of Orange Journalism”. Media oligarchs give a bullhorn to the demented idiot, and they will promote and profit handsomely in a conflict with Iran.
Iran is damaged enough. We can say we are not involved if Donald will shut his trap. We can offer Iran reparations for taking away their democracy and reinstalling the brutal Palavi dictatorship. Yes, we did that to Iran. We owe them. In 1953, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, was briefly ousted from power but subsequently reinstated through a U.S. CIA-backed coup. This event saw the US and UK orchestrating a coup against Prime Minister Mosaddegh, who had nationalized Iran's oil industry. The Shah, who had previously fled the country, returned to Iran and resumed his rule, remaining in power until the 1979 Iranian Revolution, during which I was evacuated from Iran on February 19, 1979.
Personally, I opt for regime change and if the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei could help us in the U.S. topple the mentally unstable President Trump, I will cook and deliver my best tahdig and javaher polow to the banquet. I will also replace the F-14 Tomcats (lost in the current conflict) with good toy models for their museum. This is the most I can do for what would be their highly beneficial political support here in the U.S.
To expedite, I know where Trump is hiding. It is public knowledge here. Trump is at his golf resort in Bedminster, NJ today. He will be in Mar-a-Lago real soon. Just get a Piper Cub flying overhead, with that drone sound, to pull a banner that says “Hall-e Shoma Cetori, Donald, from your pal, Ayatollah Khamenei.” That should about do it. There will be ketchup on the walls. That Trump meltdown is a much better result than us militarily striking a former ally like Iran. I believe we can recover this relationship.
Coming from the mouth of anyone else on earth, Trump’s lament would be backed by reports from the intelligence apparatus of the U.S. president who is making the statement globally. The Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard informed Trump that her sources (all intelligence agencies in the U.S.) said they conclude Iran is not pursuing a nuclear weapon. Trump said he does not care what she said. I believe our intelligence agencies and the DNI. They confirm my personal knowledge of the Iranian people.
Now Gabbard is compelled to remain sullenly silent.
We are in a divide now, one of many. Trump stirs this Iran pot to distract from his tax cut in Congress. Make no mistake. Trump is doing another distraction dance, 1) raids in LA, 2) threats to Iran, etc., simply to gut Medicaid, Medicare, and Supplemental Nutrition programs.
What you ask is Trump’s problem? I want this to be very clear! Trump faces horrendous taxes on bitcoin profits. A huge tax cut is his only real focus. Likewise Republican crooks in Congress.
If you think Trump cares about anything other than his own billfold, you are zombie-like deluded. Further, you do not understand narcissistic personality disorder. It that case, I do not see hope for you.
The rest of us must tilt the National balance to egalitarianism, and you know well we have a bounty of love to give. It irks me that the haters are so few in number, but so very well funded. We can forge our fate only if we can build a foundation inspiring enough for voters to weigh in.
Trump is out of line spewing hatred on Iran. We need to fight like hell to sway our representatives in Congress. We need to get on with that, forging our fate with a platform that sells!
Turn the page from your very ineffective waste of time and money, DNC! Build a platform for all.
There is much more under each branch, isn’t there? Sadly, no DNC.
In the meantime, we must take to the streets en masse on July 17 to honor Rep. John Lewis, a civil rights icon. We can surpass the June 14th numbers protesting. That was 11 million to 13.4 million. I hear both.
Next month go out there 20 to 25 million strong!!! And yell, as Jackson Brown sang, til you go down. Yes, lay down in their streets.
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Thank you, Carl, for sharing your insider knowledge. Is there any way you can get the orange melon to pay attention?