This motherfucking shyster salesman is going to get us into war with everyone because his fucking ego is so fragile that he requires everyone to kiss his ass and he’s a fucking ignorant asshole to boot. Did I mention that he can be bought by certain corrupt foreign governments? Jesus H. Fuck, maybe the Deep State is right about this prick. Whatever it takes to get rid of him is fine with me. Dealy Plaza is a perfect kill zone (been there, intend to write about it). Does The Donald like ragtops? I bet he does. Of course like all chickenhawk cowards he lacks the balls to ride in one. What we need to do in order to safeguard civilization is to parachute this fucking loser over Tehran or Pyongyang or Moscow or Beijing with nothing other than a Glock and our best wishes.
The Mask Is Off: Trump Is Seeking War with Iran
Something extraordinary has happened in Washington. President Donald Trump has made it clear, in no uncertain terms and with no effort to disguise his duplicity, that he will claim that Tehran is cheating on the nuclear deal by October—the facts be damned. In short, the fix is in. Trump will refuse to accept that Iran is in compliance and thereby set the stage for a military confrontation. His advisors have even been kind enough to explain how they will go about this. Rarely has a sinister plan to destroy an arms control agreement and pave the way for war been so openly telegraphed.
The unmasking of Trump’s plans to sabotage the nuclear deal began two weeks ago when he reluctantly had to certify that Iran indeed was in compliance. Both the US intelligence as well as the International Atomic Energy Agency had confirmed Tehran’s fair play. But Trump threw a tantrum in the Oval Office and berated his national security team for not having found a way to claim Iran was cheating. According to Foreign Policy, the adults in the room—Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, and National Security Advisor H. R. McMaster—eventually calmed Trump down but only on the condition that they double down on finding a way for the president to blow up the deal by October.
Prior to the revelation of Trump’s Iran certification meltdown, most analysts and diplomats believed that Trump’s rhetoric on Iran was just that—empty talk. His bark was worse than his bite, as demonstrated when he certified Iran’s compliance back in April and when he renewed sanctions waivers in May. The distance between his rhetoric and actual policy was tangible. Rhetorically, Trump officials described Iran as the root of all problems in the Middle East and as the greatest state sponsor of terror. Trump even suggested he might quit the deal.
In action, however, President Trump continued to waive sanctions and admitted that Iran was adhering to the deal. As a result, many concluded that Trump would continue to fulfill the obligations of the deal while sticking to his harsh rhetoric in order to appease domestic opponents of the nuclear deal—as well as Trump’s allies in Saudi Arabia and Israel.
But now, assessments are changing. The tangible danger of Trump’s malice on the Iran deal—as well as the danger of the advice of the “adults in the room”—became further clarified this week as tidbits of the reality TV star’s plans began to leak.
How to Wreck a Deal
Recognizing that refusing to certify Iran would isolate the United States, Trump’s advisors gave him another plan. Use the spot-inspections mechanism of the nuclear deal, they suggested, to demand access to a whole set of military sites in Iran. Once Iran balks—which it will since the mechanism is only supposed to be used if tangible evidence exists that those sites are being used for illicit nuclear activities—Trump can claim that Iran is in violation, blowing up the nuclear deal while shifting the blame to Tehran.
Thus, the advice of the adults in the room—those who we are supposed to restrain Trump—was not to keep the highly successful nuclear deal that has taken both an Iranian bomb and war with Iran off the table. Rather, they recommended killing it in a manner that would conceal Trump’s malice and shift the cost to Iran.
According to The New York Times, the groundwork for this strategy has already been laid. Senate Foreign Relations Chair Bob Corker (R-TN) calls this strategy “radical enforcement” of the deal. “If they don’t let us in,” Corker told The Washington Post, “boom.” Then he added: “You want the breakup of this deal to be about Iran. You don’t want it to be about the U.S., because we want our allies with us.”
This is a charade, a rerun of the machinations that resulted in the Iraq war. It doesn’t matter what Iran does or doesn’t do. If it were up to Trump, he’d never have accepted that Iran was in compliance in the first place. He admitted as much to the Wall Street Journal. “If it was up to me, I would have had them [the Iranians] non-compliant 180 days ago.”
Sounding supremely confident of the “radical implementation” strategy, Trump added that “I think they’ll be noncompliant [in October].” In so doing, he further confirmed doubts that the process is about determining whether Iran is in compliance or not. The administration is committed to finding a way to claim Iran has violated the accord, regardless of the facts—just as George W. Bush did with Iraq.
Potential for Backfire
But Trump’s confidence may be misplaced on two levels. First, abusing the inspection mechanisms of the deal may prove harder than Trump has been led to believe. The inspections are the cornerstone of the deal, and Iran’s ability to cheat on the deal is essentially non-existent as long as the integrity and efficiency of the inspections remain in tact. But if Trump begins to abuse the mechanism to fabricate a conflict, he will end up undermining the inspections regime and actually enhance the ability of those in Iran who would like to pursue a covert nuclear program. Precisely because of the commitment of Europe and others to non-proliferation, they are likely to resist Trump’s efforts to tinker with the inspections.
Second, by revealing his hand, Trump has displayed his duplicity for all to see. That includes the American public, whose anti-war sentiments remain strong and are a key reason they supported the nuclear deal in the first place.
The American public knows the Iraq playbook quite well. Trump’s own supporters remain enraged by the disastrous war with Iraq. They know how they got played. It’s difficult to imagine why they would allow themselves to get played again by a president who has left little doubt about his intent to deceive.
Trita Parsi is the founder and current president of the National Iranian American Council.
Appears to be a lobbying shill for Iran.
Trita supposedly speaks for Iranian-Americans, but is not an American citizen.
Stealthy
As an adult, Parsi has never visited Iran.
PROMISES MADE AND KEPT SO FAR:
Campaign Promise 1: To replace Antonin Scalia with a like-minded justice from a list of 20
•Trump replaced Antonin Scalia with Neil Gorsuch, an incredibly qualified and Constitution-abiding justice
*Campaign Promise 2: To suspend immigration from terror-prone countries
•Trump has successfully enacted a Travel Ban that is 100% CONSTITUTIONAL AND is made from the seven (six, now) “countries of concern” outlined by the Obama Administration. This ban is part of President Trump’s promise to keep every citizen of the United States safe from radical Islamic terrorism.
Campaign Promise 3: To defund and crack down on sanctuary cities
•Trump has implemented a YUGE crackdown on sanctuary cities, threatening to defund them
*- Attorney General Sessions has stated that he is not messing around when it comes to sanctuary cities, and continues in the fight against cities that harbor criminal illegal aliens
Campaign Promise 4: To revive the Keystone Pipeline and Dakota Access Pipeline
•The revival of the Dakota and Keystone XL Pipelines creating American jobs
Campaign Promise 5: To pull the US out of the TPP, an Obama-era trade deal detrimental to the US
•Trump pulled us out of the TPP which would have been absolutely disastrous for the US
Campaign Promise 6: DONALD TRUMP LOVES WOMEN AND WANTS TO HELP WOMEN!
•Trump has signed an Executive Order promoting women in STEM jobs (careers real feminists strive for, not “dance therapy” feminists)
•Trump has Launched a Council empowering female leaders and female entrepreneurs
Campaign Promise 7: To renegotiate, or pull out of Bill Clinton’s terrible trade deal, NAFTA
•Trump met with Justin Trudeau (what a joke) to discuss the tweaking of NAFTA to benefit the US more, after he threatens to leave it
*- The Trump Administration has laid out what he wishes to see in regards to NAFTA reform
Campaign Promise 8: To undo ridiculous Obama-era federal agency regulations
•Trump ordered a two-for-one repeal for all new regulations enacted by federal agencies
Campaign Promise 9: To rollback Obama-era regulations on small businesses
•Trump has rolled back ridiculous Obama-era regulations that have made it nearly impossible for small businesses to hire employees
•Trump has already saved taxpayers $86 Billion by cutting regulations
*- Trump has undone hundreds of Obama-era job killing regulations which has helped cause a significant increase of jobs
Campaign Promise 10: To help America’s inner-cities deeply in need of rebuilding
•Trump has signed an Executive Order to give major funding to “Historically Black Colleges and Universities,” helping out inner-cities immensely
Campaign Promise 11: To protect our policemen, the true everyday heroes
•Trump signed an Executive Order protecting our police
Campaign Promise 12: To crackdown on illegal immigration and to BUILD A WALL
•Trump has implemented a YUGE crackdown on illegal immigration and he has started the WALL initiative
Campaign Promise 13: To bolster our depleted military
•Trump has increased our military budget because we don’t want to use our military, but want to be prepared to use it
Campaign Promise 14: To enact a five year lobbying ban on government Officials after they leave office
•Trump has placed a five year and lifetime lobbying ban on government officials for when they leave office
Campaign Promise 15: To crackdown on drug cartels and illegal drugs crossing the border
•Trump signed an Executive Order cracking down on drug cartels
Campaign Promise 16: To revitalize the dying coal industry in the US
•Trump has enacted Joint Resolution 38 putting thousands of coal miners back to work
Campaign Promise 17: To create American JOBS and bring companies back to America
•Trump negotiated a deal with Carrier promising to bring manufacturing and jobs back to the US.
•Trump has met with CEOs from huge companies to work on bringing jobs back to America
•There was an increase of 298,000 jobs in February alone (liberals will say that counts in Obama’s fiscal year, but we know the truth)
•Trump met with Intel CEO who promised $7 Billion investment and over 3,000 high paying (not “shovel ready” bullshit jobs) in America
•Trump met with the CEO of Softbank who has promised 50,000 more American jobs and has already fulfilled 3,000 of those jobs
•Kroger has promised over 10,000 new jobs in the era of Trump
•The month of March yielded 263,000 new jobs, which passes the month’s estimated 185,000 Big League
Campaign Promise 18: Pushing NATO allies to pay their fair share or face the reality of the US possibly leaving
•Trump has put major pressure on the members of NATO to pay their fair and equal share because there are only a handful of countries in NATO who currently pay as much as agreed upon
Campaign Promise 19: To make America energy independent, relieving us from our dependence on foreign entities, such as OPEC
•Trump has taken major steps towards America’s energy independence
Campaign Promise 20: To enact a hiring freeze on government employees to help stop corruption
•Trump enacted a hiring freeze to all federal employees, cutting down on the over-bloated bureaucracy
Campaign Promise 21: Trump could be the president that takes us to Mars!
•Trump signed a Bill allowing NASA funding, including an exploration to Mars
Campaign Promise 22: To undo many of Obama’s unconstitutional Executive Orders
•Rescinding (one of) Obama’s incredibly unconstitutional actions regarding transgender bathrooms in schools
Campaign Promise 23: The repeal and replacement of Obamacare. The recent GOP fallout of AHCA Plan was no fault of Trump’s. The blame solely belongs to Speaker Ryan. He created a shit bill and couldn’t even capitalize to get enough votes. Obamacare will crash in 2017 when individual mandates kick in and Democrats will be to blame. That is when Trump will truly work to Repeal and Replace it with a plan he promised us.
•Trump got rid of the idiotic penalty in Obamacare that fines you if you choose not to participate in the program
Campaign Promise 24: To “Bomb the shit out of ISIS”
•A few days ago, Trump dropped the YUGE MOAB on a group of ISIS militants, killing 90+ terrorists and causing damage to underground tunnels and technology
•He called for a drone strike in Afghanistan killing Qari Yasin, a Pakistani Al-Qaeda leader
Campaign Promise 25: To not take a salary as President
•He donated his first quarterly salary to the National Park Service
Campaign Promise 26: To reform the VA and make it easier for Vets to get more healthcare opportunities
•He signed A Bill allowing veterans to seek healthcare outside of the broken VA system
•Trump has created the Accountability Office at the VA, making it incredibly easy to oust incompetent VA employees
Campaign Promise 27: To create a much needed tax reform
•Trump has laid out an extremely concise, yet effective Tax Reform Plan to lower taxes for Americans and end things like inheritance tax, and to cut corporate tax rates down to 15%
Campaign Promise 28 (Scroll down to see “School Choice and Education Act”): To fix our country’s incredibly broken education system
•Trump has signed an Executive Order giving the power of our country’s education back to state and local authorities
ACTIONS NOT PROMISED ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL, BUT HAVE BEEN PUT IN EFFECT:
1.(Even though it was Mike Pence) The defunding of clinics that perform abortions. Because no matter whether you are pro-choice/pro-life, the government should not be funding abortions. (Also, if people bring up the Hyde Amendment which is supposed to not let any federal funding go towards abortions, LET THEM KNOW that US taxpayers pay for about 24% of abortions despite of that “amendment”)
2.Huge spikes in the NASDAQ average index and the DOW average index starting November 8th. (This will count for Obama unfortunately, but we know where the real credit belongs.)
3.He has placed sanctions on Iran after they tested ballistic missiles
4.He has met with/talked to over 68 foreign leaders
5.He negotiated down the Price of the new Air Force One one billion dollars in a meeting that lasted just one hour
6.He issued major cuts to the costs of the F-35 saving billions
7.He has opened the eyes of the American public to just how unbelievably corrupt (pretty believable to most) the Obama Administration was.
8.After spending 3 years in a prison in Egypt, and absolutely no help from President Obama, humanitarian and US citizen Aya Hijazi has safely returned home and has given all credit to President Trump.
Just some info–FWIW
Javelin, I hope you get a fat check for your comment (I agree with most of it). Seriously though I hope your check is in the mail.
No check needed–this is just easily accessible info that the media REFUSES to tell you about ( lying by omission I believe it is called) because the narrative needs to be that Trump is incompetent and has done nothing.
Like making it impossible for Trump to actually develop friendly relations with Russia without hanging himself. He MUST be painted as ineffective and incompetent–otherwise the eyes of the populace may shift to the traitor Rino’s, out-dated Dem dinosaurs and the entire corrupt Deep State Establishment ( the real reason that the will of the people and efforts of the POTUS can’t be forwarded.)
“So much winning!” So little credit from all the various self interested asshole factions.
Just so I understand.
A pathetic President who couldn’t even get his own party to keep the promise that they made about a repeal of Obamacare, who hasn’t gotten 5 seconds of rest since the election was declared from fighting off bogus charges of Russian collusion is all of a sudden going to be given free reign to attack Iran?
You think that’s how these conflicts get started?
This guy can’t keep ISIL members off an inbound flight to JFK without being told what’s what by some third string judge in Oregon, but now he’s leading an entire nation into a war on his say so?
IF we go to war with Iran (this is the same country the last administration was shipping planeloads of cash to for over a year) it will be because someone with real power decides we’re going to war. This guy is as neutered as Phil Donahue’s cats.
You beat me to it.
Have a new neighbor across the street. Nice guy – he’s from Tenessee originally, married a Canadian girl so he’s stuck here. We have been having some ‘middle of the street meetings’ while working on our houses in the evenings. I don’t say a lot about politics to people I don’t know because I never assume they are aware of what is going on around them just because of their place of origin.
The topic of Trump came up a few nights ago. I told him I was neutral on the topic and let him speak. He says to me he likes Trump for speaking his mind but realistically he’s just a puppet. He’ll do whatever he is told by the real people in charge.
I like this new neighbor. I hope he stays.
The mask was off THREE MINUTES after the balding whoremongers election victory with his praise for the old hag Hillary. A lot of blunt tools here missed that one!
No, it was an attempt to suture the wound.
You can’t fight a war without wounding people. And besides, why are you defending him? Even the honest politician Farage is disowning him and has woken up to the fact that he’s a fucking fake.
The Iran nuclear deal was a trap from the get go. It just sets up the bullshit justification to go to war if they should violate any of the terms. I forget who it was that said that from the beginning, while every other talking head was talking about how the US was getting screwed.
Defiant Goyim
Diogenes
It’s always been about Iran. They just didn’t expect to get bogged down in Iraq this long. It cost them their momentum & political capital.
Death to Iran!
It’s “Marg bar Irani!”
All you raghead lovers can blow me.
All of the Iran Hawks on the NSC – including at least one, Derek Harvey, cited in the Foreign Policy article referenced in the above article – have already been fired by H.R. McMaster. The Deep State effort to take down Trump with lies about collusion with Russia hasn’t worked, so maybe now they’re trying – with anonymous sources – to paint him as frighteningly desirous of war with Iran. This despite the fact that he just shelved the CIA project of arming jihadis to depose Assad. So which is it – that he’s naively blasé about the dreaded “Shia Arc” (in Syria) or overly attenuated to it (in Iran)? His neocon enemies might want to pick one narrative, but it seems they’re throwing it all against the wall to see if anything will stick.
Recent leaks show Trump admitting that we’re losing in Afghanistan. After 16 years of being bogged down in a country of 20 million goat fuckers, Trump won’t see any upside to attacking a more sophisticated country of 75 million. I’ll file this article with the rest of the “Trump is Hitler” hyperbole.
One thing this article does is illustrate the divide in this country that Obama finalized and why there will be no peaceful reconciliation of it.
There are no opportunities for reconciliation with people that think like this or those who support them.
They aren’t going to quit and they aren’t going to go away, figure out for yourself the probable outcome and prepare for it.
Silly and ignorant article! Sorry I read it.
Yeah. I love the smell of speculation in the morning. It smells like horseshit.
Anon 10:12 and unit 10:23,
agreed.
A couple days ago during a press briefer, a reporter was trying to lighten up a tense session and so asked: “Just curious Mr. President, what’s your favorite color?” Without hesitation, Trump replied, “Plaid!”. The entire group murmured their approval. The next day a reporter whose favorite color was red reported that Trump’s favorite color was also red. Another reporter whose favorite color was blue reported that Trump’s favorite color was actually blue. And so it went for the entire color spectrum. All were happy throughout the land because Donald is all things to all people, sooner or later.
Hey, don’t be mad at ME!! All I’m saying is Donald said the Iranians were not cheating on the nuke deal before he said they were cheating. It’s brilliant. There’s something there for everyone, which is the very essence of good negotiating!! heh heh
MAGA!!!
You’re sourcing The Times, Foreign Policy, and the Journal? Seriously? So you advocate for his removal by any and all means? You’re nuts, just fucking nuts.
He must believe Iran is cheating and his experts can’t prove it especially since we cannot look, thank you Democrats Kerry and Obama. So Trump got mad but that doesn’t mean he will take US to war with Iran and NK with a dozen other potentially disastrous economic, social and political problems eating US alive (and US Navy ships evidently sitting ducks). Get rid of Israeli Agent 666 (Kushner), all Bankster Agents, all NeoCons/RINOs and sue the MSM like the KKK decades ago; that should reduce the work and stress load.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=er7sYyFufFc
Whoa… FaceLikeTheSun being posted to TBP!
Are you a regular viewer anonymous?
“According to The New York Times…”
That’s where I stopped reading this trash article.
Zara, there are those who are going to disagree with Trump no matter what. Then there are those who will disagree with him along ideological lines. You fall into the second camp. A white boy from suburbia wherever you grew up, but you go along with the liberal BS, and are an Islam apologist, because you hate God.
There’s the bright line. Liberals are able to reconcile there professed tolerance with the intolerance of Islam, because they hate God. But, Zara, you are a special case, because instead of just hating God, you profess belief in some neverafter all knowing all seeing persian diety.
All hail, Kek!
There is one God and it’s name is Ahura Mazda. The others are simply bad translations. Sorry. I love God and I don’t hate any of the pretenders, even yours.
A car is God?
There are many Aeons. The Aeon of this planet is Sophia. Sophia take all the servants of Yaldaboath.
Defiant Goyim
Diogenes
Actually, the male Aeon Thelete, in tandem with Sophia, were the Aeons of this planet, but Sophia engrossed herself too intimately which lead to a chaotic burst of life here.
“With creative dance of Sophia and Thelete completed, the singularity is configured and ready to be released. In a collective act of emanation, all the Aeons circulating the galactic core merge their currents to form a lattice, like a holographic plate. Using the lattice as a lens, the Pleromic Aeons in their entirety project the Anthropos into the outer realm beyond the bounding membrane of the galactic nucleus. Out there is the Kenoma, the zone of dark elementary matter arrays (dema) swirling in the immense carousel of the spiral arms. The encoded singularity will be seeded in the dema where new worlds are constantly arising, so that the Anthropos can have a habitat, a world of its own in which to unfold its singular potential. Many strains of humanity can emerge from the template so projected, and there are many world-systems rising and dissolving in the galactic limbs, providing ample opportunity for these strains to take root and develop.”
…
“Sophia muses about a world to come where the human singularity will emerge and thrive. She empathizes intensely with the human creature that will appear in the divine experiment now underway. As one of the Aeons who configured the genome, she takes an unusual interest in its future development, and she do does unilaterally, without consulting with her counterpart, Thelete. This is unusual behavior for a Generator, transgressing the norm, but is within the freedom allowed by the Originator that such developments can arise. ”
Unfortunately for us, Sophia’s zeal and zest lead to the unforeseen formation of Archons, who thrive on negative human emotion (loosh). A terrible side effect of her deviation of Aeon creationism.
https://www.metahistory.org/GAIA%20SOPHIA/Synopsis9SM.php
Sounds like someone with a pretentious modicum of intellect tried to write a cheesy sci-fi paperback.( and failed miserably with this inane drivel)
When I find myself in tweets of trouble, mother Russia comes to me, speaking words of wisdom, covfefe…
Once Paul was out I firmly became a member of ABC, Anybody But Clinton. So I am content. Trump could accomplish literally nothing and I am fine. Because the she-devil is not sitting in the pilot’s seat. He has accomplished more than I was expecting. Whatever happens, I am good.