Countdown to "Razin" Caine being fired

 This is an unverified story, but making the rounds...

US President Donald Trump was blocked access to his country's nuclear codes by a senior US military chief, according to bombshell reports.

Retired CIA analyst Larry Johnson said on popular YouTube show Judging Freedom that during an emergency meeting on Saturday, Trump tried to access the nuclear codes.

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"One report coming out of that meeting at the White House is that Trump wanted to... use the nuclear codes and General Dan Caine stood up and said 'No'."

"He invoked his privileged as the head of the military, so to speak. It was apparently quite a blow-up... There's some very bizarre things going on in DC."

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[I]t comes following reports that Donald Trump was barred from the Situation Room by military advisors during a critical Iran rescue operation.

The US President was reportedly shut out of discussions amid concerns about his furious temperament.

Top administration officials believed his volatility could compromise the operation.

  MSN

If Caine gets fired, you'll know the story is true.

And, if you didn't think Trump was absolutely batshit crazy, check out this crazy shit:

And, speaking of firing military leaders...

First, it’s worth emphasizing that Phelan was a curious choice for Navy secretary in the first place. He never served in the Navy and had no connection to the Navy or the U.S. Armed Forces before the president tapped him for the role. The gig appears to have been a reward for being Trump’s pal who helped raise a lot of money for the Republican’s 2024 campaign.

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As viewers of “The Rachel Maddow Show” might recall, Phelan was listed in Epstein’s flight logs and appeared to have traveled on at least two transatlantic flights with Epstein. These revelations reached the public two months ago, though Team Trump quickly shrugged them off.

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A related report in The Wall Street Journal described what sounded like a classic behind-the-scenes power struggle, with the Pentagon chief having grown frustrated by Phelan’s “close relationship” with Donald Trump: “Phelan regularly chats with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago club, just down the street from his own Florida home, and told lawmakers last year that he exchanges texts with the president about shipbuilding in the middle of the night.”

The same article, which has not been independently verified by MS NOW, added that Hegseth “worked to undermine Phelan” after he “pitched the idea for a modern battleship directly to Trump, bypassing Hegseth.”

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Just three weeks before Phelan’s ouster, Hegseth also fired his Army chief of staff, Gen. Randy George, the Army’s top officer, even as the war in Iran raged on. MS NOW confirmed that two other Army generals were fired alongside George: Gen. David Hodne, the head of Army Transformation and Training Command, and Maj. Gen. William Green Jr., the 26th chief of chaplains.

Those developments came on the heels of Hegseth forcing out Col. Dave Butler, who worked closely with George, which came after the defense secretary parted ways with three-star Lt. Gen. Joe McGee, which came just two weeks after the public learned about Adm. Alvin Holsey resigning as head of the U.S. Southern Command, reportedly at Hegseth’s request.

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Just days before Holsey stepped down at Southern Command, the Pentagon chief fired Navy chief of staff Jon Harrison. (His ouster roughly coincided with two high-profile military retirements — Gen. Bryan Fenton, the head of U.S. Special Operations Command, and Gen. Thomas Bussiere, a top Air Force commander — though it’s unclear whether their departures had anything to do with Hegseth.)

There was no ambiguity, however, when in late August the defense secretary fired Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse, who served as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, and Rear Adm. Milton Sands, a Navy SEAL officer who oversaw the Naval Special Warfare Command.

Four days earlier, Gen. David Allvin, the chief of staff of the Air Force, was also shown the door.

The broader purge also includes Air Force Gen. Timothy Haugh, who was both the head of U.S. Cyber Command and the director of the National Security Agency; Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., who was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Gen. James Slife, former vice chief of staff of the Air Force; Adm. Linda Fagan, the commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard; Adm. Lisa Franchetti; Lt. Gen. Jennifer Short; Lt. Gen. Joseph B. Berger III, the Army’s top military lawyer; Lt. Gen. Charles Plummer, the Air Force’s top military lawyer; and Navy Vice Adm. Shoshana Chatfield, the only woman on NATO’s military committee.

Political scientist Caitlin Talmadge, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor who specializes in foreign policy and military operations, recently noted via social media, “Firing senior officers for cause is one thing. Firing them repeatedly on this scale and with no explanation is unprecedented in our nation’s history.”

  MSNow

Running a smooth operation there at Defense.

Stalin-level purges.

Day two - US war crimes in Iran

I started this blog when the US invaded Iraq under W Bush with bullshit intelligence, 22 years ago. I can hardly believe it's been that long. And here I am again, back in the same insane spot while we're bombing Iran. How do we think this will go?

Three B-2 bombers flying from the United States dropped six 13.6-ton Massive Ordnance Penetrator “bunker-busters” on the underground Fordow plant, while a US submarine fired about 30 Tomahawk cruise missiles at Natanz and Isfahan. President Donald Trump later declared the targets “completely and totally obliterated,” warning that “far greater” strikes could follow if Iran retaliates.

  Jerusalem Post

And, perhaps that's because, as reported, Iranians moved their stockpile before the hit.  And, it's reported, that the US told Iran beforehand that we were going to drop the bomb -- but only the one time.  So much bullshit.  

It was reported that US officials “reached out to Iran diplomatically on Saturday” to say the strikes were all the United States planned and that no wider war was intended.

  Jerusalem Post

Dimplomatically!

No war was intended! Insanity.

CBS reported that US officials “reached out to Iran diplomatically on Saturday” to say the strikes were all the United States planned and that no wider war was intended. Reuters quoted US sources repeating the same message and noting it was passed hours before the first bombs fell.

Iranian officials subsequently evacuated “most” enriched-uranium stocks from Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan before impact, an Iranian source told the regional site Amwaj media. The Indian NDTV also reported on Sunday that the US updated the Iranian regime before the attack, about 24 hours beforehand. According to the report, the information was passed on to Iran through a third Middle Eastern country.

Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization denounced the raid as a “brutal act” violating the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and vowed to rebuild its nuclear industry.

Officials have not detailed casualties or damage, but Iranian state television said the sites had been partly evacuated beforehand.

I don't think that's it.  They don't care about Congress or laws.  They care about the fact that Trump told his loyal followers that he wouldn't get us into wars.

And now, maybe we'll stop talking about ICE raids.  And we're not talking about the MAGA assassinations in Minnesota.

That's General Dan 'Raisin' Caine.  Trumped loved that.  He's there for his name.

So...more bullshit.

We will attack, unprovoked, and then defend ourselves.

A decoy!  For whom?  We already told Iran what we were going to do!  Must have been a decoy for "the people in Washington."

Without WASHINGTON knowing.  A man in Missouri reported that he saw the B-2s leaving Whiteman Airforce base.  And the US TOLD apparently several Mideast countries what was coming.  And yesterday, before the attack was reported, I even posted the ridiculous Bloomberg report that B-2s had launched while Trump was "weighing" whether to bomb Iran, noting that the decision had obviously already been made.

After it was over, in other words.  Never mind that Congress is supposed to be the agency to approve war.  Oh yeah, it's not war.  It's just a "one-off" bombing.

CNN, finger on the pulse. On the very DAY of the attack.  Kevin Liptak should go back to school, and CNN needs an editor who's awake.

No. No, you idiot asshole, they have not.

A little late for that, Chuck.

Of course!

Trump didn't plan anything, but thanks for putting the responsibility - which he sees as credit, asskisser - on him.

You know what was a deterrence?  The JCPOA that Trump trashed.

I wonder what Pakistan was promised to get them to nominate him.

Too late.  

 In a nutshell...

AIPAC was a huge player in the Iraq invasion.

This post will be updated below throughout the day.

UPDATE 09:35 am:

War is peace.

Yeah, we didn't declare war on Cambodia, either.

I don't know why they wouldn't believe that.

Well, we don't want THEM to engage.

And now we have a genius.  Who, by the way, was one of those presidents "back then."

UPDATE 01:49 pm:

While Trump recently publicly disputed Gabbard’s testimony [that the intel community believes Iran is NOT building a nuclear weapon], according to two administration officials with knowledge of internal deliberations in recent weeks, the president’s decision to strike was not driven by any new U.S. intelligence on Iran.

“There is no intel,” says one of the officials, who were granted anonymity to discuss sensitive matters. “Nothing new, that I’m aware of… The president is protecting the United States and our interests, [but] the intelligence assessments have not really changed from what they were before.”

  Rolling Stone

Not to mention the crazy tariffs.  Maybe China would like to make a deal.

Weeeeelllllll...

Somehow, little tough man and AI are going to keep us safe.  No worries.

My posts on American involvement in war since the beginning of the blog have carried a tag of "perpetual war".

Every Sunday show Republican has said we are not interested in regime change in Iran.

Every. Time.

UPDATE 06/23/2025: