@lizzyh7 "All wars are bankers wars".

#9.3.1 I tend to think maybe wall street got cold feet, far too many derivative bets could blow up for them if Iran shuts down the straight. Just my opinion but we know the banks own our policies, always have.

@thanatokephaloides

if he did he would reinstate the strict rules of engagement. He'd lift the sanctions on Venezuela because 40,000 people are said to have died from them. He'd lift them on Iran instead of putting even more on today. And he would fully fund our social programs instead of trying to cut them. Same with Medicaid work requirements which has seen people dropping off it and no increase in them getting jobs.

But of course Trumps cruel budget cuts are nothing new. I just finished reading the article aliasalias posted on how Obama tried for years to cut social security and the other programs.

People keep saying that he was blocked from passing his legislation because of the republicans, but it was the republicans that refused to work with him on doing that only because it meant raising taxes on the rich.

Obama’s Long Battle to Cut Social Security Benefits

Inside it says that two conservatives were running in 2012. Amen to that! Just wow.

Remember when Obama said that the republicans drove the car into the ditch? Welp he brought a tow truck to get their car out of it. This is why so many people stayed home in 2012 which some people blame them for doing it. Just this week I read that it was the voters that let the democrats down not the other way around. Yep. Every person who ever voted for democrats in the past still owe their votes to them.

More..

Obama was, it appeared, willing to destroy the Democratic Party, if need be, in order to stay in the White house, even if this would mean his ruling as the titular “President” when both houses of Congress would be Republican in a second Obama term. Obama wouldn’t be able to achieve anything that way, but he still would retain the title of “President,” and he still would have the power to place the aristocracy even deeper into his debt, perhaps so that they’d finance yet-bigger memorials to him (etc.) during his retirement. And needless to say, a President retiring like that would have money poured at his feet, by lots of aristocrats who have money to pour.

$600,000 for a speech! $60 million for two books. When will we start seeing the monuments built in his honor outside Goldman Sachs and Citibank?

#9.3

Is it really that impossible to believe that someone actually thought about casualties, and that person happened to be Trump this time?

Yes, it is that impossible.

Were casualties really on the horizon, much less the agenda, of any Americans in the power-bearing community (or having any real chance of becoming part of it), we wouldn't be in the Middle East at all. There's not a damn thing in that odious desert worth the death of anybody, American or otherwise. Not even the oil. Alexander and his Roman successors needed the Middle East because it's the physical crossroads between Eurasia and Africa. With the Panama Canal and our Pacific Coast, we don't share that need, and we'd be better off without that particular millstone necklace.