Iran attack update

 

Compare and contrast:

Ted Cruz will be running for president in 2028 if we still have elections for president in 2028.

He better watch his back.

Lindsey shows him how he's supposed to act...

So his buttboy didn't even check in with him.

I don't think it would take the CIA to figure that one out.

Good Christ, John, it's only day 2!  Or, day 1 when he said that!

Pennsylvania, fix this problem when it comes around again:

UPDATE 08:47 pm:  Detestable.

Wow...

I thought Trump and Erik Prince were on the same page.

Virginia followingCalifornia

Virginia’s state Supreme Court will decide whether state Democrats’ gerrymander push can proceed after an appeals court on Wednesday pushed the case to the high court.

The state Circuit Court of Appeals, in a motion, stated that the case is of “such imperative public importance as to justify the deviation from normal appellate practice and to require prompt decision in the Supreme Court.”

The move comes after a court in Tazewell County last week blocked Virginia Democrats from going forward with gerrymandering, ruling that the Democrat-led Legislature had wrongly approved a constitutional amendment that would allow for mid-decade redrawing of congressional districts ahead of the midterms this fall.

  Politico

 

Ted Cruz hoping to hold his Senate seat next time it's in question

 

Republicans reframe everything

 The Texas senator says California started the gerrymander war.

Here's the thing that bothers me.  Democrats are now talking about what they need to do - and can do - if they get control of government again.  They HAD control of government, and they didn't do ANY of those things.

It's Sunday

 

Ted Cruz, another ignorant Christian.

Tucker has been kicking Ted's ass in this interview.  I don't know what he personally has against Ted, and I'm too lazy to find out.  I dislike them both greatly.

Sen Ted Cruz (R-TX) continues to post maniacally about Tucker Carlson since he was destroyed in his debate with him about the situation in Iran and Israel: “Tucker Carlson is obsessed with defending Russia and the KGB thug that runs it.”

Good thing Trump doesn’t do that.

  Meidas Touch

Breaking news:

 

Did people think we weren't already involved?

UPDATE 11:32 am:

You will, though.

A new battle between Trump and Tucker Carlson over Israel’s war with Iran is severely undermining that understanding of MAGA. Carlson and MAGA podcaster Steve Bannon, among others, have been urging Trump not to deploy the U.S. military in tandem with Israel. Trump appears close to doing so, and people like Carlson and Bannon are loudly proclaiming that this would betray the MAGA movement—which in turn is angering Trump.

“Somebody please explain to kooky Tucker Carlson that IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON!” Trump raged on Truth Social late Monday. Trump also vented about this to reporters, declaring: “I don’t know what Tucker Carlson is saying.”

What’s triggering Trump is Carlson’s surprisingly direct criticism of him over Israel’s hostilities with Iran. Carlson claimed Trump is “complicit” in this war, apparently due to Trump’s expressions of support for Israeli strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities and top military leadership. Trump is now weighing whether to deploy American B-2 bombers to help destroy Iran’s nuclear enrichment facility at Fordo, which would entangle the United States in exactly the sort of Mideast conflict he vowed to avoid.

[...]

Carlson has denounced top Fox News figures like Sean Hannity for actively encouraging Trump to pursue “direct U.S. military involvement” abroad, slamming them as “warmongers.” In an online discussion, Carlson and Bannon argued that this threatens to drive away supporters who want to “stop the forever wars,” describing them as crucial to the MAGA coalition. And MAGA stalwarts like Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene have sounded rattled as they urge Trump not to sell out MAGA here.

  New Republic

What will put the most money in Trump's pocket? That's what he will eventually do.

Republican Representative Thomas Massie on Tuesday introduced a House resolution barring Trump from entering into war with Iran without Congress’s explicit authorization. Co-sponsored by Democratic Representative Ro Khanna, this “privileged” measure will get a vote if House Speaker Mike Johnson doesn’t procedurally thwart it.

Which he will.

“It’s a test of whether the MAGA movement is really antiwar,” Khanna told me.

They are not.

Trump helped pave the way to this moment by withdrawing from America’s 2015 nuclear deal with Iran; our intelligence services have not assessed that Iran has decided to produce nuclear weapons; and rushing into war now would be illegal and further destabilize the Mideast.

Then, my guess is that's what he'll do. Maybe he'll play coy for a while to see how much he can manipulate the stock market.

Trump grasps that “America First,” or MAGA, is simply whatever he says it is at any given time. And here it may mean enthusiastically backing war with Iran. Will MAGA robotically go along? We’ll soon find out.

Oh, they will. They will.

 

Probably futile, but...

 It might matter. Especially if you're in a red state.

UPDATE 05/13/2025:

When you hear that Pam Bondi says this isn't quid pro quo or a bribe, remember this:  it really is, but it doesn't matter if it isn't.

Trump is gonna be so mad if he doesn't get his plane.

But I expect he will get it.

Would be amazing

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

What do you have to lose?

I have given up on MAGA voters, but hopefully, the swing voters Democrats need recognize that MAGA is talking about taking away their health care and voting rights.  They've already taken away many of their women's rights. And they're going for contraception and same sex marriage next.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Look out, Ted

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Ted Cruz is an effing asshat

Really?  He's a lawyer. He knows this is bullshit and isn't going anywhere.   He's also a pathetic, inveterate attention hound. He only hopes it will get him some of that MAGA approval so many Republicans crave these days.  

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

We Americans have trouble connecting dots

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

They all look alike to Ted

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Uh-oh, Ted

Abby Grossberg with the receipts

Add another defendant to Jack Smith's case.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.