Friday, March 20, 2026
US is minting a gold coin for its 250th birthday
I assume these will become collectors items in the way Nazi memorabilia is.
The rest can be melted down and used to help repair a bit of the damage done by Biff.
Also, is that what Trump thinks he looks like?
Whiny boy
He can't find anyone to take the blame for destroying the world with him.
Some times he boldly claims we don't need anybody; he can handle everything by himself. Other times he bitches nobody will help pay for his mess.
He's actually "crying uncle" and blaming everybody else.
Thursday, March 19, 2026
Wednesday, March 18, 2026
Yikes
So if two or three of the top four Democrats don't bow out, California could end up with a Republican governor next year.
Today in the US-Israeli attack on Iran
Glad to see Juliana won yesterday's Illinois primary for Senate
She'll take Dick Durbin's seat (and good riddance to Dick) if she wins over whoever her Republican challenger will be in November. I expect she will. Her fellow primary candidates were Raja Krishnamoorthi - a well-known Democratic Congressman who outspent her by about 5 times and might have been expected to win - and Robin Kelly.
Tuesday, March 17, 2026
This explains a lot
A former official who was briefed on the Geneva talks by some of the participants said: “Witkoff and Kushner did not bring a US technical team with them. They used Grossi as their technical expert, but that is not his job. So Jonathan Powell took his own team.
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“It was not a complete deal, but it was progress and was unlikely to be the Iranians’ final offer. The British team expected the next round of negotiations to go ahead on the basis of the progress in Geneva.”
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The UK saw no compelling evidence of an imminent threat of an Iranian missile attack on Europe, or of Iran securing a nuclear weapon.
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UK officials have subsequently explained they were impressed that Iran was prepared for the deal to be permanent and, unlike the 2015 nuclear agreement, would not have cut-off dates, or sunset clauses ending the restrictions on its programme.
Iran had also agreed to down-blend the 440kg stockpile of highly enriched uranium under the supervision of the IAEA inside Iran. It agreed no stockpiles of highly enriched uranium would be built up in the future.
In the final session of the talks, Iran agreed to a three- to-five-year pause on domestic enrichment, but the US in the afternoon session, after consultations with Trump, demanded a 10-year pause.
In practice, Iran had no means to enrich domestically because of the bombing of its enrichment plants in 2015.
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Accounts differ on whether Kushner left the talks giving the impression Trump would welcome what had been agreed, or that the US negotiators knew it would take something massive to persuade Trump that war was not the best option.
One Gulf diplomat with knowledge of the talks said: “We regarded Witkoff and Kushner as Israeli assets that dragged a president into a war he wants to get out of.”
The Guardian
Also...who's in charge here? What's really going on?
"We're way ahead of schedule"
DNI Counterterrorism Director resigns!
That's pretty amazing. But I'm not at all convinced Trump will even read it.
Typical Trump response:
UPDATE 03/19/2026: I didn't realize Joe is so young. Maybe there's hope for his future, but I'm a little discomfitted by the fact someone of this age was put in charge of counterterrorism.
Monday, March 16, 2026
He doesn't want war
I guess he just likes to name them.
Seriously, how many tweets and pressers has he used to glorify war? If he could get an erection, you'd think he'd have one every time he gushes about obliterating and blowing up things.