[I’m long-winded again.] He should have seen this coming. But he didn’t. He seemed to think he could do what he wanted, and they would fall in line with him as the leader. We should pity anyone who has to stand behind, or even close to, Trump. But MAGA had already become restless over the Epstein releases because Trump was trying to *avoid* putting them out there. Some of MAGA started to pull away then, and more, if not all, will find a way to exit quietly, stage left. Regards to Raw Story:
A decision by Donald Trump to launch an assault on Iran with the help of Israel has set off a firestorm among longtime supporters who helped propel him to a second term based, in part, on his promise of no foreign military interventions. In the wee hours of the night in the US, jets pounded Tehran, with smoke being seen near the presidential palace.
The New York Times reported, “The American-led attack appeared to herald a much broader regional crisis. Iranian news media reported that Iran had targeted at least four U.S. military bases across the Persian Gulf — including in the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, which said they had come under attack.”
Bad idea, Dude. This is not going to help deflect from Epstein. His people were already mad about that, but now to be involved in a foreign war? Heh, and what about all the wars he “stopped”? Last we knew, Russia was still pounding on Ukraine. There is a whole lot more going on with Iran than I am competent and confident to discuss. But we’re looking at home, at the US, at MAGA. MAGA, who just saw our country partner with Israel and attack another.
On social media, the response among conservatives was condemnatory, with a former House supporter of Trump declaring, “End of MAGA.” //// Conservative podcaster Meghan McCain wrote, “Remember when every maga personality screamed at the top of their lungs that anyone with the last name McCain was a blood thirsty neocon warmonger who would bomb Iran and had no place in the Republican Party? Yea I didn’t forget that either.”
Trump ally Andrew Tate was even more blunt, writing, “NOBODY WANTS THIS WAR,” before adding, “War transfers wealth from the working class to the banking class. So does fraud and inflation. The working class man simply cant catch a break and is endlessly wrecked. This is The Matrix – extraction from the populace to feed a machine minded host. Heartless.”
Let’s take that last statement first, because of who it came from. I screamingly detest Andrew Tate. He’s slime and other things we won’t discuss. But he was A VOICE OF REASON. What the hell??!!! A troglodyte like that, seeing behind the pretty façade to what is really happening? And Ms. McCain has every right to scream, too. How much did her father go through? How much has she gone through, really, now? She *knows* about that shizzle.
A day before the assault, Ex-Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) predicted the attack and added it to her list of Trump betrayals by posting a clip of Trump previously railing against wars and then writing, “This is the Trump I supported, the man who called out the truth about the WMD in Iraq and declared NO MORE FOREIGN WARS. Now, for some unknown reason, Trump has joined the neocons and will soon go to war against Iran with the same BS excuses. End of MAGA.” On Saturday, Taylor Greene added, “I did not campaign for this. I did not donate money for this. I did not vote for this in the elections or Congress. This is heartbreaking and tragic. And how many more innocents will die? What about our own military? This is not what we thought MAGA was supposed to be. Shame!”
I do not like MTG. But she’s been surprising over the past year, especially regarding the Epstein Files and her support of the survivors. Sooooo, I can’t get behind *her*, but I can get behind some of what she is *saying*. Our country is in rough enough shape as it is. Never thought I’d say that about MTG out loud.
One of her followers wrote, “I’m afraid the GOP is going to lose the Senate as well because of this war.” //// Conservative pundit Matt Lewis chipped in, “I was told that if I didn’t vote for Trump, we’d keep doing these forever wars. And they were right …?” //// “I voted for Trump in 2016 and 2020. You can change your mind when new information is presented to you. I did that well before the 2024 election. When he lied about DeSantis and bragged about Warp Speed, I knew I was out. Now he is starting a very dangerous war. It’s not too late to withdraw your support of a President who has betrayed the American people,” accused Nicholas J. Stelzner.
Let’s start our commentary and closing with the phrase you love to hate (ha). Gee, YA THINK? This is going to crater a lot of Republicans ‘ hopes and futures. Democrats may very well flip all of Congress, and if they do, H0 h0 ho. Here we come! Forever wars. Heh. Trump was backing away from forever wars. Look at how he’s screwing Ukraine. That’s another emotional subject for me, so moving along. And last, “You can change your mind…” Yes, indeed, you can. We can hope a lot of MAGA finally see the light with this war starting and finally figure out Trump is a POS. We try to balance our views, but there’s no hiding what Trump really is. Let’s see how much faster our country gets wrecked.
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Well, pundit Brian Tyler Cohen has a couple of recent videos up on YouTube in which he reminds people of some very interesting things that Drumpf had to say in the past regarding an attack on Iran. Here’s one of them:
It’s 8 minutes in full but the really interesting parts start about a minute in. Drumpf may have forgotten his words but the internet never truly does.
Thank you! I’ll have to go see it.
“NOW, FOR SOME UNKNOWN REASON, TRUMP HAS JOINED THE NEOCONS AND WILL SOON GO TO WAR AGAINST IRAN WITH THE SAME BS EXCUSES. ”
Unknown reason? Marjorie, dear, Trump hasn’t changed one iota. It’s just the situation has changed. And he’s not going to be any more successful with this bullshit than he has with his whole lifetime of bullshit.
Ha. Nevertheless, she at least put it into words and put it out there. Gotta give her credit for that, at least.
I wouldn’t say I’m a soothsayer, but Trump, coming down an escalator in 2015, sure looked like a phoney to me. “Phoney” is putting it nicely. ETTD!
his big problem here is that the magats who are usually quick to blame everything on minions who somehow screwed up the boss’s intentions know that this is all trump, he owns it and they aren’t happy.