I really really need Jez to post about the Iran attacks. After Trump inadvertently encouraging Saudi Arabia and co. to single out Qatar over its support of Iran, then unprecedentedly Iran gets attacked by ISIS even though ISIS is known to have had difficulty gaining a foothold there? I’m feeling all tinfoil-y.

From standing too close to Trump — the radiating ignorance is like standing next to a lump of plutonium.

Israelis were celebrating? I have never heard that before.

We want him to tweet during this...it will be glorious. The GOP and WH aides are trying to distract the President with shiny baubles so he doesn’t tweet.

Meth face.

A politician’s primary goal is to get re-elected. Remember, we have a representative style government. Do you think, say, Mitch McConnell represents the views of his constituents? You’re goddamn right he does. We’re talking about how historically low Trump’s approval is, but 34 percent of MURCANS think he’s doing a…

The IRGC, and oh Lord, look at this:

Was it the Iranian government or the IRGC? I had seen the IRGC blamed it on Saudi, but even official news agencies like Fars had blamed it on Daesh earlier. I expected some level of blaming the Saudis though. Just like the Saudis blame Iran for every damn thing (years ago, as part of a school trip, I visited the Saudi…

I guess you saw that Iran has blamed Saudi Arabia for the attack, despite the fact that Daesh immediately took credit for it and Amaq posted video during the attack shot by the attackers, who were yelling Daesh’s slogan baqiya. So Daesh covered it live, but Tehran’s blaming the Saudis... as well as the US, apparently:

Urban combat is difficult, and if Daesh HQ has been sending advice or tips to the Abu Sayyaf group it’d be even harder. I think a lot of times people don’t know how difficult it is even for well trained militaries. The US is essentially the gold standard, but we earned that from over a decade in Iraq and Afghanistan.…

This also need to be reported because is all kinds of fuckery!

Trump wants to start charging stores to accept food stamps from Ylan Mui, NBR, CNBC.com

‘Whatever-the-fuck-this-is talk’

Per Vox:

So, the terrorist attack in Iran is really worrying and should be getting more attention. Iran has largely avoided such attacks for years, even though Daesh has a deep and deranged hatred of Shi’ites. An unstable Iran, despite what some hardline Republicans, the GCC, and the Israeli right think, is not good news. They…

If one Senate Republican stood up and said he or she is sick of Trump’s lies, disinformation, stonewalling, and hiding his tax returns, and stood up to the GOP enablers (all of them essentially) that Senator would be a freaking hero to the country. We need one person who is not a Democrat to speak up about putting…

potty talk

i went on his firms site the morning after the tweet, and he specializes as a litigation defense attorney in white collar criminal cases. so, if he gets through the vetting, then voila! in-house council for everyone on trumpertantrum’s team.

Talk about infrastructure?!? His budget guts funds for infrastructure projects!!!

‘Kremlin Talk’?

So we have “locker room talk” and now “New York City talk.” How many more dialects does the polyglot Mr. Trump speak?