Yes indeedy

 Ukraine Launches War's Largest Attack On Moscow: Zelensky Says "If Ukraine Burns, Moscow Will Burn As Well"

Typical straw man argument from Trump when Saudi Arabia has primarily defensive ballistic missiles, 30x fewer of them than Iran, and used none of them in the recent war when Iran launched 135 against them

 Trump On Iran Deal: "What Am I Going To Do? Let Saudi Arabia Have Missiles, But They Can't?"

Creating space for taking the insane mullahs of Iran seriously is insane, Senator

 

 Sen. Eric Schmitt: Trump Created "Space For Diplomacy" With Iran That Experts Thought Was Impossible

Like I said, Trump is making us all nuts. 

Real Clear Politics puts a guy in its lineup this morning to whom the Obama presidential library denied access three times

 

A Tombstone for Obamaism

Ryan Zickgraf, UnHerd

 

"... the Obama Foundation denied my media credentials for the opening three times ..." 

 

Gee, why would Obama do that to someone who traffics in fabricated anti-gay slurs, even if they're about Trump?

 

 

 I carry no brief for Obama. I've been whaling on (look it up) the guy since 2009.

 

But criticizing Obama's so-called library because it's all about Obama, and Obama himself post-2016 for being apolitical, strike me as bizarre criticisms.

 

Isn't the latter what we want in an ex-president? In fact if the comparison is between George W. Bush and Barack H. Obama in their post-presidencies, it is Obama who has been far more political, most recently sealing the fate of Biden at the eleventh hour of the 2024 race. Bush merely fancies himself a painter.

 

That the Obama library isn't really a library only reminds us that the Affordable Care Act provided neither care nor affordability, just as America will not be great again when Trump leaves office and millions of illegal aliens will still be here.

 

To say that there isn't anything very tangible left of the Obama era can be said of all the presidents in our lifetimes to one degree or another.

 

Yes, it will be hard to ignore Obama's giant tombstone jutting up into the sky from Jackson Park, if you happen to be traveling there. Otherwise he'll be as forgettable as the next guy.

 

But to speak at this hour of Obama's excess of vanity when there has never been a more self-important and grandiose spectacle erupting daily from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue than now in the person of Donald Trump is as batshit crazy as Trump is.

 

Trump is making us all nuts. 

What we want is the truth

Can you imagine a Vance presidency?

I can't. 

Vance: Iran Deal Critics "Want This To Go On Until Every Bomb Has Been Dropped Or Until Every Iranian Is Dead" 

Three Iranian tankers exit U.S. blockade as shipowners eye Hormuz in ‘wary disbelief’ 

 ... The U.S. and Iran signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Monday to end the nearly four-month war, with a formal signing ceremony to take place on Friday in Geneva. The pact, whose details have not been disclosed, is expected to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and waive sanctions on Iran’s oil sales. ... 

Update 12:10pm 

Read the 14-point draft agreement between the US and Iran

... The 14-point memorandum of understanding has not yet been officially released but a copy of it was obtained by CNN from a US official.

... A White House spokesperson said the text did not reflect the actual memorandum. 

... The US official told CNN that the text reflects the agreement signed digitally by President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Iranian parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf on Sunday. 

... Bloomberg earlier published a version of the draft. ...                                          

Update 5:20pm

The CNN story above now contains the official agreement, as of 38 minutes ago.  

A day after the June 16th primaries, everybody has 95% of the vote counted, except for California

 

You can always count on Brit Hume to state the obvious long after the fact

 Brit Hume: "Iran Has Lost A Lot, But This Is Not Unconditional Surrender"

 

 

Trump is a POS, he's describing what Putin does routinely to Ukraine and for which he never lifts a finger to complain to or sanction Russia

 Israel meanwhile sends evacuation warnings ahead of strikes.

 Trump: Israeli Attacks In Lebanon Are "Vicious," "Too Much" -- "Knock Down Entire Apartment House Looking For Someone"

It's a giant con: They signed a nothingburger with Iran, that's why they're not showing it to us

 

 

It is another desperate ploy to jawbone oil prices down in a world hurtling toward tank bottom.

 

Meanwhile, why did Vance have to sign?

 

Is Trump on his last legs?

 

And we're still dealing with Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf? I thought Trump said all this took extra time because they were trying to find a more moderate faction?

 

It's all BS, MS, Piledhigh and Deep. 

 

 

June 11:  Oil executives warn White House that gas prices will get worse 

 

... “Both camps know exactly what is at stake,” said one industry official who frequently interacts with the administration. “The industry folks are intent on making sure that if the worm turns, the White House does not point fingers that the industry did not do enough.”

“Everyone everywhere fully appreciates that the standoff cannot go on for another 30-45 days without the political calculations changing,” the official said.

“The White House knows and understands the severity of the potential situation. … They are politically constricted from saying that publicly.” ...

 

June 15: Trump, Vance, Iranian official sign US-Iran peace memo

... Both President Trump and Vice President Vance electronically signed a memorandum of understanding with Iran on Sunday, while Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, speaker of the Iranian Parliament, signed for the Iranian side, senior U.S. officials said Monday. ...

 

 Vance: Iran Deal A "Very General Document," We'll Figure Out The Details In The "Technical Negotiation Phase"

Vice President Vance acknowledged that the preliminary U.S.-Iran memorandum is only "about a page and a half" and described it as a "very general document. ... what the MOU does is set up a framework ..."                                   

 

Trump is a terrible judge of character. Ghalibaf is an IRGC fundamentalist.

 

 

President Paula White calleth those things which be not as though they were

 

No new wars

Says He Never Promised No New Wars...

Trump: "I Didn't Guarantee No War," "This Is Not An Endless War"

C-SPAN

The Times of Israel 

 

 

 

Update:

Trump storms out of interview after being challenged about election fraud claims, DOJ fund 

MAGA Marxist has a point

 Batya Ungar-Sargon: Democrats Called MAGA 'Nazis' For Years, Now They’re Defending Platner’s Actual Nazi Tattoo

This Donald Hussein Trump statement is willfully blind

 Trump: "A Little Perturbed" About Israel "Constantly Fighting With Lebanon... We've Got To Stop It"

As if Hezbollah doesn't exist in Lebanon.

Or Hamas in Gaza. 

Or Russia in Ukraine.

Who's side is he on, anyway?!

 

The good news is that the phony Chip Roy lost, the bad news is that the crook Ken Paxton won

 But! it will not be without humor, and with any luck Cornyn will serve out his term impeding Trump's impulses.

Paxton: Talarico Is A Vegan Who Thinks God Is Non-Binary And There Are 6 Sexes

Talarico Denies He's Vegan: "I've Been Eating Barbecue Since Before Ken Paxton's First Indictment"

 

   

Rubio is so stupid: The leader of NATO attacked Iran on February 28th

 Rubio: We're Very Upset With NATO For Refusing To Do Anything in Iran

Ha, what a crock, Trump is the decay personified

 

Trump Saw a Decaying America and Chose To Fight It

James Thorne, RealClearPolitics

Instead of sovereignty we get imperial intimidation and alienation of our friends, servile acquiescence to the despotism of our foes, and two wars fought to a stalemate in the Middle East in just fourteen months. 

 

Instead of production we get sub-post war GDP, sub-50% level full time employment, and a sub-2.1% replacement fertility rate of 1.57%.

 

Instead of fiscal discipline we get $2.3 trillion new total public debt in just the first year.

 

And instead of strategic clarity we get Ukraine blamed for its own invasion. 

Tom Bevan of Real Clear Politics spews nonsense about Michigan's U.S. Senate contest

 

A 2010-Style Disaster Brewing for Dems in Michigan

Tom Bevan, RealClearPolitics

 

He thinks the Democrat candidates for U.S. Senate in Michigan are analogous to "the questionable, untested" losing candidates Sharron Angle in Nevada and Christine O'Donnell in Delaware whom the GOP ran in 2010.

 

OK Tom. Have another drink. 

 

Haley Stevens is hardly questionable or untested.

 

She is a centrist, pro-Israel Democrat committed to the U.S. auto industry who has been elected four times to represent MI-11 in Oakland County.

 

Yes, the two progressives running against her look questionable and untested, even crazy.

 

But Stevens is a serious, normal candidate with a great record whom Democrats can run to beat Mike Rogers.

 

I think that's why Bevan doesn't really want to talk about her, and slaps her instead with the broad brush he's using to diss the progressives, as if she were guilty by association.

 

Not good form, old boy. 

A Blue Wave is building in the 2026 Generic Congressional Vote with Democrats now +7.2 points

As usual politics at the extremes is less about voting for someone and more about voting against someone.

All you have to do most of the time is not piss off the voters.

 

A war 6,338 miles away is OK though

 Trump On Taiwan: "The Last Thing We Need Right Now Is A War 9,500 Miles Away"

And yes, DC to Taipei is 7,864 miles, not 9,500. 

And, oh yeah:

Trump says Cuba will be 'next.' Here's what he doesn't get.

 

Trump only wishes he could be leader for life like dictator Xi

 Trump to Xi: "You're A Great Leader. Sometimes People Don't Like Me Saying It."