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friday firesmith – trump’s war on america

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Iran has been chanting “Death to America!,” since 1979, when the people of Iran deposed the dictator we installed back in 1953.

Our illicit and sometimes outright illegal activities, not to mention the bombings and economic sanctions, have not led to peace. Now we’re in a full fledged war with a country incapable of doing much stronger than chanting at us.

Until now.

Trump had blustered and blundered his way into a war he cannot extract himself from and cannot claim victory and walk away. A man who bone spurred Vietnam five times has created a new endless war he cannot get out of, and each day he stays in things get much worse for both Trump and America.


Iran has a legitimate opportunity of doing real damage to the Unites States of America, and they’re getting plenty of help. By lifting sanctions on Iran, while he’s bombing the same country, Trump has assured the world Iran’s economy is booming. Whatever damage we can inflict, Iran will have the money to pay for.


Infinitely worse, Russia’s futures have likewise brightened. Russian oil is flowing again, with buyers in the Pacific ignoring Trump’s admonishments not to buy. Russia can now fully fund their destruction of Ukraine thanks to Trump.


China and Russia can now both send intel to Iran as to where to hit the Americans, how to hit them, and maybe even pay them to strike American positions throughout the Middle East.

Suddenly, Trump decided to call up the Marines.

If there is anything more asinine than a war in the Middle East, it’s a ground war in the Middle East. Recruitment numbers were already crashing and now very real possibility of a bloodbath, with American blood flowing, looms large.

Once we establish any sort of infrastructure anywhere close to Iran, it’s going to make the previous Gulf Wars look like Disney. Bereft of allies willing to join in the stupidity, Marines and the American Army will be sitting ducks for any armed group in the Middle East who has a grievance against America, or Israel.


In the meantime, Israel is burning through billions of American dollars bombing people anywhere they think someone might die. By targeting oil fields and energy infrastructure, it’s only a matter of time before oil prices reach a point Americans are walking to work, if they can find a job.

How will this affect Trump and his family? Not at all. They’ve grifted their way through this war as if it were money for the taking. Qatar gave Trump a billion dollar plane and in return he allowed them a base in America. We have no idea what’s other deals he’s making or with who or for how much, but we do know Congress doesn’t have the balls to do anything about it.

As long as the Epstein files keep pinging the headlines, Trump will cause wars. It’s his way of distracting the county from the idea he ought to be serving life sentences without the possibility of parole.


Are we great again yet?


Take Care,
Mike

friday firesmith – the pedophile war continues

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This week the whole of nations across the globe told Trump to go “Eff” himself. Newly elected, he tossed tariffs out at anyone and everyone he could, railing against the inequity of global trade. Canada and Mexico, our closest neighbors and long-time friends, were threatened and bullied as well as fellow NATO countries.

Trump proclaimed America was doing too much for too many and “America First” was tattooed on his forehead.

Things descended into Hell.

When the European countries began not only releasing the Epstein Files, but also punishing those in them, Trump began to sweat, and he also began waging war. His quickie invasion of Venezuela and the illegal and immoral kidnapping of the president of that country, puffed Trump up like a schoolyard bully. Nations would tremble at his name.

Trump spend a lot of time and tweets telling people Obama would attack Iran to cover for being a bad president. Then Trump turned around and attacked Iran, telling everyone who would listen and more than a few who didn’t want to hear the sound of his voice that Iran’s nuclear program had been completely destroyed and it would take years and years to rebuild.

But the Epstein Files began to build attention and Trump’s name was mentioned so often it seemed like Epstein might have been working for Trump.

So Trump attacked Iran again.

Trump was looking for another Venezuela. He got Nam in the sand. Iran attacked in all directions, sending missiles after anyone who wasn’t an enemy of their enemy. They stopped oil from leaving the Middle East and American gas prices spiked upward quickly.

The man who promised gas at two bucks a gallon could soon see a half gallon go for more than that.

And things were worsening by the moment. The aircraft carrier Gerald R Ford arrived without functioning toilets. A fire broke out in a laundry room destroying the bedding of hundreds of soldiers. The toilets are clogged with tee shirts and debris, fueling the rumor the sailors aboard the Ford are sabotaging the ship so they can go home.

Trump cried for help from allies to help make the waters in the Middle East safer for oil tankers and was met with stoney faced glares from the men and women he once threatened with tariffs.

Now, back home, with the midterms eight months away and counting, gas prices are still rising, our military is in a war no one knows how to end, and Trump cannot string together a coherent sentence.

The price of gas will get him even if the war he claimed Harris would start if she was elected, is somehow stopped. Crops are not being planted this spring because of fuel costs and they will not be harvested in the fall. Food prices and fuel prices at all time highs as winter closes in is going to hurt millions of Americans.

And the Epstein Files are not going away. It’s looking worse and worse for Trump and his wars are not distracting anyone.

Trump may tuck tail and run from his war in Iran, but if things get worse over there, he may have to hope his impeachment due to the Epstein Files distracts voters from the war he cannot extract himself from.

Take Care,

Mike

friday firesmith – the end of trump

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Trump’s demand of “unconditional surrender” will bury him. The Iranians were negotiating in good faith up until the day Trump declared war. No one in Tehran thought it would come to war, because they agreed to stop enriching uranium, and agreed to oversight. Trump attacked them the next day.

What Trump doesn’t realize is that by blindsiding the Iranians he precludes the possibility of surrender. He’s eliminated any goodwill from allies in Europe. Trump has set the clocking ticking as to how long he can sit in the water and throw rocks at Iran while declaring the war being won.

Today is the 8th of March, 2026. In eight months the Republicans must have something to show for this war or they are going to take a beating in the midterm elections. Trump has already hinted the next war will be against Cuba, and he doesn’t have so much as a thin excuse to attack. But Trump knows if the public focuses on the Epstein files he’s going to spend some time, maybe a lot of time, in prison when the Republicans finally lose power in Congress.

None of this helps Trump in Iran.

Unlike any other opponent he might face, Iran is in it for the long haul. The Persians have fought wars for thousands of years and Trump isn’t the worst they’ve seen. He’s an American colonist as far as most Iranians are concerned and they rather die than surrender to him. At a minimum, at the very least, these are people who are not going to be bombed into submission.

The moment, the very second Trump orders ground troops into Iran, he’s screwed. He’ll have to crank up the draft in order to get enough bodies on the ground in the Middle East. The American people will fill the streets and the Republicans will face extinction.

Yet by declaring he will accept nothing but “unconditional surrender” Trump must also commit to total war. It is a war he cannot win, or even extract himself from. In the meantime, the United States is bleeding money out in billions. Israel, who has a leader who also must distract with a war, has to hope they can continue to bleed American taxpayers dry.

Yet this is some sort of end game for Trump unless he can pull off a coup. He’s already the most hated President ever. He’s already destroyed all credibility on the international level. He’s abandoned domestic policy for endless wars that will not force anyone to forget he raped children.

My deepest regret is he will likely defect to Russia, screwing America over one last time.

Take Care,

Mike

friday firesmith – the pedophile war

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Whatever you’ve been told you’re going to get from the war with Iran, what you are actually getting is abundantly clear by this point. Gasoline prices have soared up to over three dollars a gallon and getting higher. Four bucks a gallon, or even more, is a given by the end of March.

At the end of March, we’ll see April roll around, then May, and finally Hurricane season in June.

Imagine a hurricane barreling down on New Orleans with gas already at four bucks a gallon.

With the Gulf of Mexico rigs out of production, even for a short while, we’re looking at gasoline prices somewhere around five bucks a gallon. If the war is still raging at that point, it might be considerably worse.

Higher gas prices during the spring means farmers, those who are left by this time, will pay much higher prices to plant, and to harvest, which means we’ll be paying even more for food by the middle of the summer.

By the teeth of hurricane season in September, we could be at the point farmers, those who could afford to plants, are unable to harvest. The states pounded by hurricanes could be looking at limited help from the government, and unable to pay for fuel to do search and rescue.

Hopefully, the Pedophile War, that war of distraction from a sitting president doing anything possible to distract from his crimes, will be over, but I doubt it. Trump knows he had to remain a moving target, creating one distraction after the next, regardless of what it costs the average American, or America herself.

Sadly, even if after midterm elections, even if Trump is impeached and removed from office, the forces that allowed something like this to happen are still in place. We still have a population of voters who believed everything Trump said and willingly followed him down his path of destruction and supported him at every turn.

We still have a government that doesn’t function well at all, and the two sides of the aisle in Washington are little more than bought and sold lackeys of corporate America.

We still lack the will to put a leash on campaign funds, or prosecute elected officials who are on someone else’s payroll other than the taxpayers.

House prices, food prices, fuel prices, medical care and transportation are all priced out of range for the average American, whose paychecks are getting smaller as government gets bigger, yet not better at all.

Trump is a cancer, that needs to be removed, and everyone paying attention knows this to be true. But the causes of this disease are still in place, and recurrence is 100% unless we change the way we run elections, and our schools.

The stench of Trump’s diapers might be gone when he goes, but we’ll be dealing with the same sh!t until we come together for real change.

Take Care,

Mike

Friday Firesmith – the invasion of greenland

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(trigger warning for those overly sensitive readers ~ admin)

If you aren’t paying attention to why Greenland is suddenly becoming a hot topic, let me remind you of a few things.

First, reading is a habit I picked up about age four. It was, and still is, the most important method of retaining information the human brain that has ever been created. Video information doesn’t have the impact of reading as far as information retention is concerned, and if you have a camera and half a brain you can make a video.

Second, Greenland is the cork in the bottle, the stopper that seals Europe’s northwestern borders from Russian aggression. We, the Unites States, help operate, maintain, and use extensively, the passive sonar systems that cover vast stretches of icy ocean waters in that part of the world. We, the United States and NATO, keep the Russian submarine fleet under near constant surveillance and we know where nearly every Russian missile submarine is at all times.

Russian missile submarines carry nuclear warheads that target American cities and military installations.

We, the Unites States of America, are one stupid decision by an aging and slightly coherent orange painted elderly narcissistic felon away from losing this protection from the Russians, forever.

If you are stupid enough to think we shouldn’t try to defend against nuclear weapons that are targeting our nation simply stop reading this right now, because you are not intelligent enough to understand the threat. If your loyalty to a president is greater than your love of America, and you are fine with a nuclear arsenal aimed at your children, then leave now.

We can’t get that system of protection back once we lose it. The moment we declare war on Greenland we lose the faith and trust of our NATO allies. We can’t elect anyone who will be able to go to Europe and tell them it was all a mistake, and the Good America is back.

Europe will respond to all things American as an existential threat, as well they should. All trade treaties and immigration will halt.

Every military installation in Europe will be seized, or worse, will surrender to European forces.

If you think the American military will blindly allow American security in the northern Atlantic to be totally destroyed by the whims of a man who wears a diaper and cannot speak coherently on his best days, you are deluded.

We, the United States of America, have voted into office the one person on this planet that could create the conditions for a military coup.

Men who have spent their entire lives hand in hand with our European Allies to protect this nation are not going to sit idle while the best military alliance in human history is destroyed. They shouldn’t. They should do what they have to do to keep this nation safe, as our military has always done.

You want to know who I trust? I trust the collective of humanity who believes that the unity of free nations is more important than the personal ambitions of two elderly white men who are going to be tried for crimes as soon as they leave office.

If you do not believe this, if the wall falls down, and we discover that isolationism is suicide, I hope your bunker is deep enough to stop a nuke. I hope it’s deep enough to be the final resting place for Democracy, and the dream that the Constitution offered humankind as a guide of governance.  Across the world, people are holding their breath, waiting, wondering, and asking, “Where are the Americans?”

Where are we?

Take Care,

Mike

(admin note – Damn, son!)

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