[UPDATED] Iran Ceasefire Reveals Zionist Netanyahu Took Dumb Trump for a Ride

[Updated with The Independent's details on how Trump "made" the decision to go to war] 

It is clear to everyone that the American Moron-in-Chief's was bamboozled by the Zionists into the war on Iran. Trump has never articulated one or two clear objectives for the war simply because 1- he's an idiot, and 2- he was led like a jackass by his war criminal buddy Netanyahu. Was it nuclear weapons? Was it oil? Was it ballistic missiles? Was it regime change? This weird soup of objectives suggests Trump wasn't interested in the war, which is consistent with his repeated campaign promises to never engage the US in foreign wars.

But like the dumb idiot that he is, Trump was convinced by the Zionist regime to FOLLOW the Israelis in their warmongering on the premise that he'll be making money from oil (which Trump has not stopped trumpeting around) while the Israelis would continue claiming to be hypothetical victims of a future nuclear Iran. Trump and his imbecile goons at one point were so confused by the messaging that they adapted the nuclear threat: They were claiming that the US was under an immediate threat of Iran attacking the US with a nuclear device.

The second point of the incestuous but failed Zionist plot to drag the US into the war was to provide Trump with the deniability of 1- not wanting the war, but 2- feeling obligated to support and defend the Israelis. Trump can now say (in aniticipation of the midterms next November) that he had to join the war effort only to support Israel (which is usually a winning argument with a Zionist-brainwashed American public).

Now that the Israelis, with US military support, have failed to achieve any of the objectives in the soup, other than inflict massive damages that Iran can eventually recover from, Trump feels he has been trapped by the Zionists. He has to defend a war that he didn't want and that his MAGA base rejects, and which could be very costly in the November 2026 midterms. The fool was trapped by the Zionists and now he is lashing out at them.

So according the the Daily Beast, "Donald Trump is seemingly done taking cues from his Israeli counterpart", who in turn is incensed that Trump unilaterally agreed to the ceasefire. That is usually a problem when you partner with an easy-to-fool moron, only to find out later that the partner is unreliable. It is the typical blind leading the blind situation.

For example, the Pakistani mediator says the ceasefire extends to the Israeli-Hezbollah war in Lebanon, which the Israelis vehemently deny. To prove their disagreement with the Pakistani - US ceasefire accord, the Zionists ratcheted up their bombing of civilian infrastructure in Lebanon and killing hundreds of Lebanese over the past 24 hours.

The Lebanese in general feel that a Republican administration will, again, betray them as Reagan, Bush Sr and Bush Jr did since the 1980s: Lebanon is a small country with zero interest. It is usually sold out by US foreign policy to countries like Syria, Israel, Saudi Arabia and others in exchange for interests-minded concessions. Right now, as Trump is clearly trying to change course away from the war because of the looming midterms and is hoping for some form of arrangement with the Iranians, he might be tempted to pacify Lebanon in some other way (just as Kissinger did in the 1970s by selling Lebanon to the Stalinist regime of the Assads in Syria), which might include allowing Hezbollah to survive until the next war. This is surely going to be a major point of contention between the US and Israel. 

The US has no real objectives in Iran (and by extension in Lebanon), while Israel has nurtured instability in Lebanon for decades (rejecting all UN resolutions as well as scuttling the May 1983 Accord signed after the 1982 Israeli invasion). Will the US again fall for the Israeli trap of maintaining an unstable Lebanon as a pretext for continued intervention? 
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Trump’s War Partner Fumes After He Blindsides Them
Laura Esposito
Wed, April 8, 2026

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is fuming that the 79-year-old American president reached a temporary ceasefire deal with Iran without consulting his wartime partner, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Trump announced Tuesday night that he had agreed to a two-week ceasefire with Iran in the war he launched alongside Israel on Feb. 28. The decision came minutes ahead of his deadline for the country to reopen the Strait of Hormuz—a vital waterway for the global economy—or “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.”

According to the Journal, Israel had no role in brokering the deal and was only informed after it had been finalized. Netanyahu begrudgingly agreed to the terms, but Israeli officials “weren’t happy”—particularly with Lebanon’s inclusion in the deal.

That frustration was evident in the early hours of Wednesday, not long after Trump had effectively declared peace, as missile and drone attacks continued to rain down across the Middle East while Israel pressed ahead with its offensive.

As of 3 p.m. EST Wednesday, Israel’s bombardment of Lebanon had killed 254 people and wounded more than 1,165 since the ceasefire deal was announced, Al Jazeera reported.

Pakistan, which negotiated the deal between the U.S. and Iran, asserted that the agreement included Lebanon—a claim both Israel and, later, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt denied.

Meanwhile, Iran and the U.S. are publicly disputing what, exactly, the 10-point framework both countries allegedly agreed to actually entails.

Iran’s publicly reported plan diverges sharply from Trump’s claims, including provisions the U.S. had previously rejected before the war. What’s more, the regime appears intent on continuing uranium enrichment, while Trump insists Iran is willing to abandon both its uranium stockpile and its nuclear weapons program.

The dispute comes as new details emerge about the extent of Netanyahu’s influence over Trump.

A bombshell New York Times report on Tuesday revealed that Netanyahu pitched Trump on the joint war effort against Iran before it was launched without congressional approval on Feb. 28. During a secret meeting with Trump’s top advisers, the far-right Israeli leader outlined an outcome that U.S. officials later described to the president as “detatched from reality.”

Days after the meeting, CIA Director John Ratcliffe summed up Netanyahu’s pitch to Trump in one word: “farcical,” the Times reported.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio also weighed in, reportedly telling Trump: “In other words, it’s bull—t.”

The Daily Beast has reached out to the White House and the Israeli prime minister’s office for comment.

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How the Jester and the Fool worked the Moron King who is now very angry at having been hoodwinked.

 
"Dumb McNamara" Pete Hegseth is the fool. Netanyahu is the jester.

‘Sounds good to me’: Trump ignored wary advisers as Israel’s Netanyahu talked him into war with Iran, report claims
Rhian Lubin
Wed, April 8, 2026 

President Donald Trump was persuaded to unleash war on Iran by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu despite deep skepticism from his inner circle, according to a new report about the high-stakes meetings that took place in the buildup to the conflict.

The New York Times also reported that despite polling his top advisers, he often only heard “what he wanted to hear,” and his team wound up serving as an echo chamber for his gut instincts.

Vice President JD Vance was the most vocal in his opposition to the United States going to war with Iran, while CIA Director Jim Ratcliffe, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Gen. Dan Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, warned Trump that Netanyahu had “oversold” him on what could be achieved by the bombing campaign, according to The New York Times.

None of them, though, except Vance, went as far as to say to the president that war was a “terrible idea,” according to the report. The vice president is said to have played a key role in negotiating a ceasefire between Iran and the U.S. as Trump threatened to wipe Iranian civilization off the map.

On Feb. 11, the Israelis gave a secret presentation to Trump and his closest advisers in the Situation Room, where they persuaded him that initiating a war on one of the most hostile regions in the world was a good idea, according to the Times report, which is based on reporting from the upcoming book, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump by Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman.

President Donald Trump was persuaded to unleash war on Iran by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu despite deep skepticism from his inner circle, according to the report (Getty Images)

“Sounds good to me,” Trump reportedly told Netanyahu after the presentation, which the leader then took as a likely “green light” for the joint U.S.-Israeli operation that has since killed more than 3,500 people, including 1,600 civilians and 13 U.S. service members in the Middle East.

But at a follow-up meeting on Feb. 12 that consisted only of the Americans, U.S. intelligence officials broke down Netanyahu’s presentation into four parts; killing Ayatollah Ali Khamenei; destroying Iran’s capabilities to project power; a popular uprising inside the country, and regime change with a secular leader installed, according to the report.

While U.S. officials deemed that parts one and two were achievable, Ratcliffe said regime change as an objective was “farcical.”

“In other words, it’s bull****,” Rubio reportedly weighed in, while Vance “expressed strong skepticism” about the prospect.

Caine took it further and said the president had been “oversold” by the Israelis. “Sir, this is, in my experience, standard operating procedure for the Israelis,” Caine said, according to the Times. “They oversell, and their plans are not always well-developed. They know they need us, and that’s why they’re hard-selling.”

The Independent has contacted the White House for comment.

Some of Trump’s top advisers warned him that Netanyahu had ‘oversold’ him on what could be achieved by bombing the regime (AFP/Getty)

Vice President JD Vance was the most vocally opposed to the United States going to war with Iran and told the president his objections in the Situation Room, according to the report (Getty Images)

Over the following days, Caine reportedly shared with Trump “the alarming military assessment” that waging war with Iran would “drastically deplete” stockpiles of American weapons. In particular, he warned about supplies of missile interceptors, which had been strained after supporting Ukraine and Israel. Vance shared the same concern.

Caine also “flagged the enormous difficulty of securing the Strait of Hormuz and the risks of Iran blocking it,” and yet Trump “dismissed” the possibility. The president assumed that Iran would surrender before it got to that point, according to the report.

But Iran’s grip on the Strait has remained intact, with the regime blocking vessels that transport a fifth of the world’s oil, likely prompting Trump to post an expletive-laden Truth Social over the weekend.

While Caine gave Trump these warnings, “at no point during the deliberations did the chairman directly tell the president that war with Iran was a terrible idea,” the Times reports.

Two days before Trump gave the order to bomb Iran on February 28, he gathered the most senior members of his team and went around the room “one by one” to ask them for their personal opinions about going to war.

But by this point, Trump had “effectively made up his mind weeks earlier, several of his advisers said,” according to the newspaper.

Vance, who told Trump that going to war with Iran could unleash regional chaos and create mass casualties, also warned him that it risked splitting his base — and that it could be seen as “a betrayal” by many of his voters.

‘Sounds good to me,’ Trump reportedly told Netanyahu, which the Israeli leader was said to take as a likely ‘green light’ for the joint U.S.-Israeli operation (Getty Images)

White House communications director Steven Cheung also spoke of the “likely public relations fallout” given Trump campaigned on being opposed to launching wars overseas, according to the report.

Ultimately, Cheung reportedly said that “whatever decision Trump made would be the right one.”

Trump’s chief of staff Susie Wiles reportedly told colleagues that “she worried” about the U.S. “being dragged into another war in the Middle East,” but opted to “sit back” in the high-stakes meeting. According to people close to her, she believed it was not her place to air those concerns to the president in front of others and instead encouraged military advisers to share their expertise with him.

White House counsel David Warrington, who represented Trump during the House select committee investigation into Jan. 6, was pressed by the president to share his personal view.

“He said that as a Marine veteran he had known an American service member killed by Iran years earlier,” the Times reports. “This issue remained deeply personal. He told the president that if Israel intended to proceed regardless, the United States should do so as well.”

The White House declined to comment when approached for comment by the newspaper.

Trump Facing Impeachment for Crimes & the 25th Amendment for Insanity

The expected November 2026 blue tsunami may sound the end for the criminal insane weasel now squatting in the Whouthouse.
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Democrats introduce impeachment articles against Trump and Hegseth as nearly 100 lawmakers call for 25th Amendment
Alex Woodward
Updated Wed, April 8, 2026

  

Democratic members of Congress have filed articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over threats to Iran and alleged war crimes.

Democratic members of Congress have filed articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth while nearly 100 congressional Democrats are calling for the president’s removal from office over his threats to Iran.

Rep. John Larson of Connecticut has filed 13 articles of impeachment against Trump for high crimes and misdemeanors, including the president’s “criminal lawlessness” that has “invited blowback against the United States and its citizens risking 9/11 2.0.”

The congressman accuses Trump of a “serial usurpation of the congressional war power” and “commission of murder, war crimes and piracy” with attacks in Iran, Venezuela and in international waters against alleged drug-running boats and elsewhere.

His proposal also accuses the president of illegally militarizing law enforcement and surging immigration officers into U.S. cities to unlawfully detain and deport “citizens or immigrants based significantly on race or ethnicity or political opposition.”

“Donald Trump has blown past every requirement to be removed from office. And it’s getting worse,” Larson said in a statement.

Two House Democrats have filed articles of impeachment against Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth over the Iran war (REUTERS)

“His illegal war in Iran is not only driving up prices for American families — it has cost American lives,” he added. “He’s becoming more unstable by the day.”

The congressman’s proposal was drafted by consumer advocate and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader and constitutional law scholar Bruce Fein, who called the war “flagrantly unconstitutional” in The American Conservative this week.

“Trump’s attack on Iran in partnership with Israel was not in self-defense. It is a criminal war of aggression, plain and simple, including a violation of the United Nations Charter,” wrote Fein as he urged Congress to “do its job” and swiftly block spending and troop deployment.

White House spokesman Davis Ingle called Larson’s proposal “pathetic.”

“Democrats have been talking about impeaching President Trump since before he was even sworn into office,” he told The Independent. “The Democrats in Congress are deranged, weak, and ineffective, which is why their approval ratings are at historic lows.”

Larson’s articles of impeachment follow similar legislation targeting Hegseth.

The proposal from Democratic Arizona Rep. Yassamin Ansari, who is the daughter of Iranian immigrants and the first Democratic member of Congress of Iranian descent, accuses Hegseth of “repeatedly violating his oath of office and his duty to the Constitution.”

“Only Congress has the power to declare war, not a rogue president or his lackeys,” she said in a statement. “Hegseth’s reckless endangerment of U.S. servicemembers and repeated war crimes, including bombing a girls’ school in Minab, Iran and willfully targeting civilian infrastructure, are grounds for impeachment and removal from office.”

Arizona Rep Yassamin Ansari says ‘reckless’ actions from Trump’s defense secretary are ‘grounds for impeachment and removal from office’ (Getty Images)

On Tuesday, less than two hours before his self-imposed deadline to begin launching attacks that he said would destroy a “whole civilization,” the president announced a two-week pause in fighting while negotiations with Iran continue.

In an Easter message, Trump told Iran to “Open the F****’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell.”

“The entire country can be taken out in one night, and that night might be tomorrow night,” Trump said Monday.

The next morning, he wrote: “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will.”

His threats drew a wave of demands from congressional Democrats for the Trump administration to invoke the 25th Amendment and remove the president from office.

Several influential right-wing personalities — including Alex Jones, Candace Owens and Marjorie Taylor Green — also called on the administration to invoke the 25th Amendment, while Tucker Carlson advised military officials to reject the president’s plans.

At least 87 Democratic members of Congress, including several senators, publicly demanded Trump’s removal, according to The Independent’s review of their statements.

“Donald Trump's instability is more clear and dangerous than ever,” wrote former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. “If the Cabinet is not willing to invoke the 25th Amendment and restore sanity, Republicans must reconvene the Congress to end this war.”

More than 80 Democratic members of Congress are calling on Vice President JD Vance and members of Trump’s cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment and declare him unfit for office (REUTERS)

The 25th Amendment, which provides for the line of presidential succession, allows for the vice president and a majority of the cabinet to declare the president unfit to serve.

Rep. Jasmine Crocket wrote a letter to Vice President JD Vance, claiming that the president is “deranged, likely suffering from dementia, and has now brought the United States to the precipice of committing one of the largest war crimes in modern history.”

“The United States now stands isolated as the world awaits whether America will brazenly commit genocide or whether the Vice President, the Cabinet, and the Congress will put an end to the chaos caused by a frail and likely demented American president,” she wrote.

The proposals are unlikely to go anywhere under the current Republican-controlled Congress, and the president has built his cabinet around ironclad allegiance to him.

Democratic leadership did not call on their Republican counterparts this week to bring lawmakers back to the Capitol to pass a war powers resolution to curb the president’s actions, and GOP leadership in the House and Senate are unlikely to do so when they return.

But Trump, who was impeached twice in his first administration, has publicly mused about his potential impeachment if Republicans lose control of both chambers after midterm elections this fall.

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Calls to invoke the 25th Amendment grow after Trump threatened to destroy 'whole civilization' in Iran. How does it work, and has it been used before?

Kate Murphy, Reporter
Updated Wed, April 8, 2026

Dozens of congressional lawmakers have called upon Vice President JD Vance and members of President Trump’s cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment against the president to forcibly remove him from office. The calls were in response to Trump’s threat to destroy a “whole civilization” if Iran didn’t succumb to a deadline to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a key oil shipping channel.

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Tuesday morning. “I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will.” Hours later, Trump announced that the U.S. and Iran had agreed to a two-week ceasefire, conditional on Tehran reopening the strait.

More than 80 House Democrats, including Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from New York, Rashida Tlaib from Michigan and Ilhan Omar from Minnesota, as well as two Democratic Senators, Ed Markey from Massachusetts and Ron Wyden from Oregon, reportedly called for Trump’s ouster, either through impeachment or the 25th Amendment.

“This is not ok. Invoke the 25th amendment. Impeach. Remove. This unhinged lunatic must be removed from office,” Omar wrote about the threat on X.

Some former conservative allies of the president, including former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene from Georgia, also joined in the calls to remove Trump from office.

“25TH AMENDMENT!!!,” Greene wrote on X. “Not a single bomb has dropped on America. We cannot kill an entire civilization. This is evil and madness.”

In January, several lawmakers called for the 25th Amendment to be invoked after Trump doubled down on his intention to “purchase” Greenland. He blamed the Norwegian government for his failure to win the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, which is awarded by the independent Norwegian Nobel Committee, and said he no longer felt obligated to “think purely of Peace.”

How did the 25th Amendment originate?

It dates back to 1963, when Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson became president after the assassination of John F. Kennedy. There was no plan in place to choose Johnson’s replacement, and there was concern about the process that would follow if he were to become ill or incapacitated before a new vice president could be named. In 1965, Congress formally proposed the 25th Amendment, and it became part of the Constitution in February 1967.

The 25th Amendment has four sections. The first three clarify the presidential order of succession and who can temporarily assume the president’s duties. Section 4 gets the most attention: it’s a multi-step process for the vice president and the Cabinet to declare that the president is “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.”
How would it work?

Invoking Section 4 of the 25th Amendment would require Vice President JD Vance and the majority of Trump’s Cabinet to submit a declaration to Congress that Trump isn’t able to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Doing so would mean an immediate transfer of presidential power to Vance, who would serve as acting president. Trump would have the chance to refute the declaration, which could then be challenged by his Cabinet. Congress would have 21 days from the date of receiving the declaration to formally approve any decision to remove Trump from office.

A two-thirds vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate would be needed in order for Trump to be removed from office. Otherwise, he would regain his presidential powers.

Has the 25th Amendment been used before?

The first section of the 25th Amendment was invoked when Richard Nixon resigned from the presidency in 1974 and was replaced by his vice president, Gerald Ford. Section 2 was used when Gerald Ford, as president, nominated Nelson Rockefeller for vice president, and he was confirmed in the House and the Senate.

Section 3 was used in 1985 when Ronald Reagan underwent brief cancer surgery, and Vice President George H.W. Bush assumed his responsibilities. In 2002 and 2007, George W. Bush invoked Section 3 when he underwent medical procedures, and then-Vice President Dick Cheney became acting president.

Section 4 has never been used because the process is so challenging. It’s more difficult to remove a president under the 25th Amendment using Section 4 than under the impeachment process.

What’s the difference between impeachment and invoking the 25th Amendment?

The purpose of seeking impeachment to remove a president from office is to address potential “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.”

The House would require a simple majority to vote on Articles of Impeachment, which are formal written charges against a president. After a trial, the Senate would vote on whether to convict and remove the president from office, which requires a two-thirds vote. The Senate can vote in a separate proceeding to ban the president from holding future office, which would require a simple majority vote.

Trump was impeached twice during his first term in office. The first time was on December 18, 2019, for initiating foreign interference in the 2020 presidential election, and the second was on January 13, 2021, following the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. In each case, he was acquitted on all counts by the Senate and remained in office.

Should the movement grow to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump due to incapacity or inability to perform presidential duties, invoking it would require a two-thirds vote in both the House and the Senate. The president would not be barred from holding future office.

Greedy for Oil Money but Coward Draft Dodger Slime Trump TACOes Again on Iran

Is there anyone out there who still takes this idiot seriously? 

The criminal moron knows he is losing in 2026 and 208 elections. That is the only reason he is backing down on Iran. He would love to steal Iran's oil and make more money for himself, his family and his MAGA billionaire friends, but he is backing down because he knows that the American people (who he says "would like to see us come home") will trounce him and his MAGA Mafia malfeasance gang at the upcoming elections.

His only concern is to always make more money. He doesn't gove a hoot about lives - American and Iranian lives. Just listen to his words. Not one word on civilian lives or even on military "suckers and losers" whose lives he will exploit to make money. His words are all about making money, and to add another infantilizing insult to the American people, he justifies his cowardice and greed with "I just don’t think the people of the United States would really understand". Why would a selfish ignorant imbecile like him expect the American people to understand sending their sons and daughters get killed and kill innocent Iranian civilians in order for him to make more money than he already has is not difficult to understand. 

He alway said during his campaigns that he doesn't want foreign wars. But stupid as he is, he was manhandled by Netanyahu and his Zionist chaperones and bamboozled into believing he could make more money by stealing Iran's oil. Now he is backing down like the pathetic loser that he is. Like all criminals, he's got no shame.
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Trump backs away from seizing Iran's oil: 'Unfortunately, the American people would like to see us come home'
Ben Werschkul, Washington Correspondent
Mon, April 6, 2026



President Trump expressed interest in seizing Iran's oil but acknowledged the lack of political will for such a move.

Amid a day with dozens of threats and escalating rhetoric toward Iran, President Trump took a significant step back on one key issue for energy markets: a US campaign to control Iran’s oil.

“I’d like to take the oil because it’s there for the taking,” the president told reporters at the White House easter egg roll. “Unfortunately, the American people would like to see us come home.”

The president said multiple times on Monday that he personally wants to take the oil. “We’d make plenty of money,” he said

But the president repeatedly acknowledged that there might not be political will for such a move, which would likely require a ground operation, saying, “I just don’t think the people of the United States would really understand.”

“I’m a businessman first,” Trump said, recounting the operation in Venezuela that saw the US take some oil proceeds. He expressed nostalgia for previous eras when “to the winner belong the spoils.”

Monday’s comments — which came between ever-escalating threats to annihilate Iran’s bridges and electric grid as early as Tuesday night — appear to lessen the odds of a potential US operation that energy traders and observers have been watching closely for weeks.

An operation to seize Iranian oil would be risky and costly and would likely require the use of ground troops to take strategic points like Kharg Island, a seaport that handles up to 90% of Iran’s oil exports.

Going further and seizing Iranian oil production itself, which is predominantly drilled onshore in the southwestern portion of the nation, would be an even more complex operation.

For weeks, Trump has repeatedly teased the idea of taking the oil.

Last Friday, the president posted, “KEEP THE OIL, ANYONE?” after another message earlier that day suggested that taking the oil would be easy with “a little more time” and that the world would make a fortune in response.

A satellite view of Kharg Island, located in the Persian Gulf off the coast of Iran. (Gallo Images/Orbital Horizon/Copernicus Sentinel Data 2024)(Gallo Images via Getty Images)

The ongoing US operation has included missile attacks on Kharg Island, but Trump and his aides have repeatedly said that only military targets were hit and oil infrastructure was spared.

Other times, Trump has threatened to go further, suggesting destroying Iran’s oil infrastructure.

The president posted on March 30 that he might leave Iran, but only after “blowing up and completely obliterating” targets like Kharg Island.

Ben Werschkul is a Washington correspondent for Yahoo Finance.

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Opinion
I was a Navy commander. Trump's approach to military deaths is concerning.
Dave Petri, Opinion contributor
Tue, April 7, 2026



When Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth invokes “no quarter, no mercy” and prays for "overwhelming violence of action" against those who "deserve no mercy" during a prayer service at the Pentagon, the country is hearing more than wartime bluster. It is hearing a dangerous view of power that confuses cruelty with strength, and risks replacing the language of disciplined force with the language of vengeance.

It’s even more concerning when the nation's commander in chief speaks of killing as an “honor,” and shares videos integrating the actual violence of war with fictional depictions pulled from popular culture films and video games.[THE HOLLYWOOD EFFECT ON UGLY AND DUMB AMERICANS]

That matters because in the United States, war is supposed to be an instrument of policy, constrained by law and guided by discipline, not a stage for bloodlust.

Americans have long accepted that military force may be necessary at times, but we have also insisted that force be used for a lawful purpose, under civilian control, and with professional restraint.

That is not softness. It is one of the things that has long distinguished a professional military from a mob, and a constitutional republic from the regimes it opposes.

The American military ethic does not teach service members to delight in killing or to treat mercy as weakness. It teaches them to perform difficult duties under the law, mission and discipline.

It demands self-control in the face of danger and obedience to standards that are meant to preserve both effectiveness and humanity. Service members are trained to understand that war is not an emotional outlet. It is a grave responsibility.
The military is no place for trash-talking

President Donald Trump, with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, holds a news conference at the White House in Washington, DC, on April 6, 2026.

That is why Trump's and Hegseth's statements should trouble Americans across the political spectrum. They suggest not merely a hard line toward an enemy, but a philosophy of war untethered from restraint.

There is a profound difference between promising to defeat an adversary and speaking as though killing itself is a source of honor. There is a profound difference between resolve and rhetoric that dismisses mercy altogether.

One is the language of disciplined command. The other is the language of vengeance.

Defenders of such comments will say critics are overreacting. War is brutal, they will argue, and leaders sometimes need harsh language to project strength, intimidate enemies and reassure the public. No one expects a president or Defense secretary to sound delicate in a crisis.

Fair enough, but that defense misses the real issue.

The question is not whether leaders should sound strong. The question is whether they understand that true strength requires restraint. The US needs to distinguish itself from its enemies

Defense Secretary [and alcohol-driven howling baboon] Pete Hegseth speaks during a news conference with President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, DC, on April 6, 2026.

The United States does not prove its resolve by sounding more pitiless than its enemies. It proves its resolve by showing that even when it uses force, it remains governed by law, discipline and constitutional accountability.

Words from leaders at that level do not exist in a vacuum. They shape public expectations. They influence the command climate. They signal to allies and adversaries alike what kind of nation America intends to be.


People gather at the site of a destroyed building at a school where, as the state media reports, several people were killed in an Israeli airstrike, following strikes by the United States and Israel against Iran, in Minab, Iran in this screengrab obtained from a social media video released on February 28, 2026. Iranian state media reported on February 28 that Israel struck a school in southern Iran, resulting in 40 deaths.

History offers ample warning about where the rhetoric of cruelty can lead. Nations rarely begin by openly abandoning restraint. They begin by blurring it. They begin by teaching citizens to hear vengeance as resolve, brutality as realism and moral limits as weakness.

Once that shift takes hold, the line between lawful force and licensed cruelty becomes easier to cross.

This is why Congress cannot remain a spectator.

Generations of Americans in uniform did their duty under law, discipline and civilian authority. They were expected to bear the burden of combat without abandoning professional restraint.

They followed lawful orders, operated within rules and accepted that in a constitutional system, military power is never supposed to answer to impulse alone.

Congress should be held to no less a standard.

The Constitution does not give lawmakers the luxury of silence when the executive branch drifts toward open-ended conflict or adopts rhetoric that suggests contempt for restraint. Congress has a duty not only to authorize war, oversee it and debate it, but also to defend the legal and moral framework that governs how America fights.

The War Powers framework exists precisely because the country is not meant to slide into war on presidential will alone.

That means members of Congress should publicly reject rhetoric that glorifies killing and scorns mercy. They should insist that any further military action be subject to the constitutional role of the legislative branch.

They should demand clarity on objectives, the legal basis and the limits. And they should make plain that toughness is not measured by how casually leaders speak about destruction.


(L-R) Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Kash Patel, Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) Lt. Gen. James Adams III, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, and Army Lt. Gen. William Hartman arrive to testify during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on worldwide threats to U.S. national security in Washington, DC, on March 18, 2026.

Americans who served have done their duty under the hardest of conditions, but always under a professional ethic that demanded discipline over rage, and mission over vengeance. They were not given a license for bloodlust. They were given standards.

Now Congress faces its own test.

When a president celebrates killing and a Defense secretary flirts with the language of no mercy, the issue is no longer just rhetoric. It is whether America still intends to act like a constitutional republic in matters of war.

Service members did their duty. Congress must now do its own.

Dave Petri, a retired U.S. Navy commander, serves as the communications director for National Security Leaders for America.

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Retired Army general says US may need ‘Nuremberg’ like trials for Trump’s ‘illegal orders’ in Iran war
Mike Bedigan
Tue, April 7, 2026 

“I’m old enough to remember the Nuremberg trials and how we’ve held the Germans accountable after… the atrocities they committed during World War II,” Brigadier General Steve Anderson told CNN Tuesday.

“And I’d hate to think… five, 10 years from now, we’d be doing the same kind of thing with American soldiers and leaders that made decisions that were being directed by the president of the United States that are illegal.”

The historic Nuremberg trials took place from 1945 to 1946. They saw 22 of the highest-ranking surviving Nazi officials tried for war crimes and “crimes against humanity” over atrocities committed during the Second World War.

Anderson’s remarks came in response to Trump’s social media post Tuesday morning, in which he vowed that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again” if Iran did not agree to a ceasefire deal and open the Strait of Hormuz by 8 p.m.

“I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will,” the president wrote.

A retired U.S. Army General has warned that Donald Trump’s actions in the Iran war may lead to serious consequences for the president and all those who follow his ‘illegal’ orders (AP)

Multiple experts and people on both sides of the political aisle have said that many of the president’s threats in recent weeks would constitute war crimes, should he make good on them.

MAGA stalwart Marjorie Taylor Greene and even right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones are among those who have expressed outrage online.

Back on CNN, Anderson said Trump was “not competent” and speculated that he would find a way to avoid the 8 p.m. deadline.

“I think he will figure out a way to either extend the deadline, because there’s no way that he can do what he says he’s going to do, which is to bomb every single civilian target in the theater and in Iran,” he said.

“If he were to do that… it would be the commitment of a great war crime.”

In November the Justice Department opened an investigation into a video featuring Democratic lawmakers including Senators Mark Kelly (pictured) in which they urged service members to follow established military protocols and reject orders they believe to be unlawful (AP)

In November, the Justice Department opened an investigation into a video featuring Democratic lawmakers, including Senators Mark Kelly and Elissa Slotkin, in which they urged service members to follow established military protocols and reject orders they believe to be unlawful.

The group, all of whom had military backgrounds, issued a video statement last week telling troops they “can and must refuse illegal orders,” emphasizing that threats to constitutional order can emerge “from right here at home.”

However, a grand jury ultimately refused to indict the lawmakers in connection with the video. Kelly described the attempt by the Trump administration as an “outrageous abuse of power.”

“It wasn’t enough for Pete Hegseth to censure me and threaten to demote me, now it appears they tried to have me charged with a crime — all because of something I said that they didn’t like,” he said. “That’s not the way things work in America.”

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Trump Eviscerated by ‘Disgusted’ War Veterans and Officials for ‘Grotesque’ Posts
Leigh Kimmins, Donovan Lynch
Tue, April 7, 2026

President Donald Trump’s unhinged war ramblings have left war veterans and former government officials “disgusted.”

The backlash erupted after Trump, 79, warned Tuesday morning that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” if Tehran does not open up the Strait of Hormuz. A separate post on Sunday threatening to obliterate civilian infrastructure also contributed to the outrage among those who have served.

Naveed Shah, political director for Common Defense and an Army veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom, said he is “disgusted and genuinely alarmed” by Trump’s “increasingly unhinged rhetoric.”

Naveed Shah speaks as people protest in Philadelphia last June. / Lisa Lake / Getty Images for No Kings

He told the Daily Beast on Tuesday: “I know over the last decade we have become desensitized to Trump’s locker room talk, but language like that is beneath the dignity of the office and dangerous for our troops on the ground.”

He took particular issue with the “sarcastic Praise be to Allah line” from Trump’s post on Sunday, which he labeled “grotesque” because it mocks a faith practiced by millions, “including many who fought alongside us in Iraq and Afghanistan.”

“Trump’s statement today about the ‘whole civilization’ is the opposite of a responsible Commander-in-Chief,” he added.

He drew attention to the 13 troops the U.S. has lost during Operation Epic Fury, as well as the hundreds injured, and said, “Every casualty is a bill we pay in blood while the President heckles from the cheap seats.”

“Threatening to expand this war without any regard for the damage it has caused and what it will cost demonstrates his contempt for our troops, the American people who do not support this, and the innocent people caught in the middle,” Shah said.

He said that it appears that the president and his close advisers on the war are “not negotiating or looking for off-ramps.”

The president launched into a full-blown genocide level threat against Iran in his Truth Social Post. / Truth Social/ Donald Trump

“Instead, he’s issuing ultimatums via tweet. Without clear, realistic conditions for de-escalation, we’re surging towards another forever war in the Middle East,” he said.


Rick Shimek, of the American Legion chapter in Miami, told MS NOW’s Alex Tabet that he was “totally against” the route Trump is taking with respect to Iran.

“It’s a war crime. I mean, how do you win a war by destroying the country?” Shimek said. “It’s just, he even said it! It would take years to rebuild the infrastructure that he wants to blow up tomorrow. So let’s hope they negotiate and this never happens.”

Brian Finucane, a former state department lawyer, told the Beast that Trump “appears desperate and is using threats to try to coerce Tehran to reach a deal.”

He said the situation is “unprecedented and suggests that he is in over his head.”

Foreign officials have also warned of the legal issues that would arise if Trump follows through on his threats.

“Under international law, deliberately attacking civilians and civilian infrastructure is a war crime,” said UN human rights chief Volker Türk.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene called for Trump to be impeached after his bizarre war threat. / Getty Images

Many prominent conservative voices in the U.S. have also turned on the president. Former congresswoman and Trump ally Marjorie Taylor Greene on Tuesday called to invoke the 25th Amendment and remove the president from office.

“Not a single bomb has dropped on America. We cannot kill an entire civilization. This is evil and madness,” she said.

When reached for comment, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told the Daily Beast that Iran has until 8 p.m. Tuesday to “meet the moment and make a deal with the United States."

“Only the President knows where things stand and what he will do,” Leavitt said.

US-Born White Evangelical Christian Expert on Sex Rapes Child

Note that virtually ALL these child sex criminals are WHITE US-BORN AMERICAN CHRISTIANS and from backward states like Texas, Louisiana, and Florida. None is a migrant or an immigrant. You can see from their white skin that they are "in God's Image".

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Expert on Christian Ethics in Marriage and Sexuality Arrested in Ohio for Raping Child
Chris Harris
Mon, April 6, 2026

A former university professor who authored books for Christians about the ethics of marriage and sexuality has been arrested for raping a child, Us Weekly has learned.

John Kent Tarwater was once a finance professor at Cedarville University, a Baptist school in Ohio.

Tarwater, 55, is facing eight sex-based felonies stemming from allegations made by the minor victim.

He was formally charged on March 27 with two counts of rape, three counts of sexual battery and three counts of gross sexual imposition.

He has no defense counsel identified in court records, and there are no hearings scheduled in his case.

Tarwater was a professor of finance at the Robert W. Plaster School of Business.

Tarwater published two books for Christian readers — 2005's Marriage as Covenant: Considering God’s Design at Creation and the Contemporary Moral Consequences, and 2019's Business Ethics: A Christian Method for Making Moral Decisions.

He is accused of raping a victim younger than 13 starting in 2019. He sexually assaulted the victim for six years, investigators alleged.

Authorities contend Tarwater compelled the victim to comply using force or threatening force.

Cedarville University sent an email to students and staffers last week, explaining, “We were informed in July 2025 that Dr. Tarwater was under investigation concerning allegations. Due to the nature of the investigation, he was immediately placed on administrative leave and restricted from coming on campus."

Tarwater "was dismissed from his contract" in October.

“Today we were informed that Dr. Tarwater was indicted by a Greene County Grand Jury and arrested on eight felony counts, including rape, gross sexual imposition, and sexual battery," the email added. "Our understanding is that these charges do not involve anyone Dr. Tarwater met or interacted with as a university professor. Even so, we desire to be transparent and ensure the safety of everyone on campus,” the message continued.

Police have asked anyone who may believe they may be a victim of Tarwater's to come forward.

Cedarville’s email also urged anyone aware of “any inappropriate behavior from this former professor” to contact their Title IX office. “This is difficult news that is grievous to read, but we share it because the safety and well-being of our students will always be a guiding priority,” reads the email. “We encourage you to pray for healing for all affected by this situation.”

If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673).

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OTHER RECENT US-BORN WHITE AMERICAN SEX CRIMES:

Ohio Man Exploited Mom’s Knocking Instructions to Sexually Assault Girl in Store Bathroom

Former FedEx driver pleads guilty to killing 7-year-old girl after making delivery at her Texas home

Biology Teacher at Louisiana All-Girls Catholic School Arrested for Sexually Abusing Student

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CT man accused of sexually assaulting stepdaughter found dead in Enfield home held on $1M bond
Peter Yankowski
Updated Mon, April 6, 2026


Anthony Federline, 39, of Enfield, faces first-degree sexual assault and risk of injury to a minor charges after police say his DNA was linked to a swab taken from his stepdaughter, Eve Rogers, who was found dead in the family home on March 18. (Courtesy of the Enfield Police Department)

HARTFORD - The Connecticut man accused of sexually assaulting his 12-year-old stepdaughter before authorities found her dead in the family's Enfield home last month was arraigned Monday.

Anthony Federline, 39, is facing charges of first-degree sexual assault and risk of injury, Enfield police announced Friday. He was held over the weekend on $1 million bond and a state Superior Court in Hartford kept his bond as set. 

Prosecutors at the arraignment said there were signs of sexual trauma on the victim.

Officials have identified Federline's stepdaughter as Eve Rogers. Her cause of death remained pending further studies as of Friday morning, according to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.

The prosecutor said semen was found in the victim's genital area testing showed there was a high likelihood it came from Federline.

An investigator noticed signs Eve had been sexually assaulted when police were called to the Elm Street home the morning of March 18 after she was found unresponsive, Federline's arrest warrant affidavit said. The affidavit said pills were also found in Eve's room.

The medical examiner's office performed a sexual assault kit, which identified Federline as one of the contributors to DNA found in a genital swab taken from Eve, according to the warrant.

In a statement to CT Insider on Sunday, Melanie Federline said she was not aware of the allegations against her husband and was "allowing the legal process to unfold."

"I'm taking this very seriously and cooperating fully," Melanie Federline added. "Right now, my priority is my children and their wellbeing, and I'm asking for privacy as we navigate this process."

Eve had autism and was homeschooled, her mother said in an interview.

In the wake of Eve's death, a state lawmaker who represents Enfield called for amendments to a homeschooling bill before the legislature. The lawmaker, State Rep. John Santenella, said the bill should close any loopholes "that may allow individuals to evade accountability under the guise of homeschooling, particularly in cases where there has already been interaction with state agencies.

In the statement, Santanella said, "there are many questions we need answered," in the wake of Anthony Federline's arrest, and called Eve's death "heartbreaking."

Homeschooling came under renewed focus for state lawmakers last year after the death of Jacqueline "Mimi" Torres-Garcia. The 11-year-old girl was pulled out of school by her family and suffered abuse and starvation before her death in fall 2024, according to court documents. Jacqueline's mother, stepfather and aunt have each been charged after police said the family hid her remains and later disposed of them at an abandoned house.

Melanie Federline said in a previous interview she anticipated negative comments about homeschooling given the current atmosphere in the state surrounding Jacqueline's death.

But she described her daughter as "healthy and happy and well cared for," and said Eve had a therapist "to help her navigate existing in this world with a neurodivergent brain."

"She was a big advocate for social justice," Federline said. "She cared so much about the world and the people in it."

Staff writers Jesse Leavenworth and Liz Hardaway contributed to this story.

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The MAGA congressman below is a "family-values" Christian man. Which does not affect the fact that is a prolific sexual addict. He has six children from his wife, but seems all dedicated to impregnate as many women as he can. Like Pete Hegseth who was saved from his own profligacy by his personal copy of Jesus, the Texas sex freak says "God had forgiven him!" now that he was caught with his pants down. They discover religion only after being caught. Shouldn't their Christian values work to save them BEFORE they commit their crimes?

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Second woman who worked for [TEXAS] Republican congressman comes forward to say he sent sexually explicit texts
Rhian Lubin
Tue, April 7, 2026

A second woman has come forward alleging that Republican Representative Tony Gonzales sent her sexually explicit text messages, prompting him to drop his re-election bid last month after admitting to an affair with another staffer who later died by suicide.

A second woman who worked for Republican Representative Tony Gonzales has alleged that he bombarded her with “hundreds” of sexually explicit text messages.

The GOP congressman from Texas, a married father-of-six children, announced he was dropping his re-election bid last month after admitting to an affair with Regina Santos-Aviles, a married congressional staffer who died by suicide in September 2025.

Now it has emerged that Gonzales allegedly asked a second woman, his former campaign political director, “more than a dozen times to send nude photos over a period of three days,” the San Antonio Express-News first reported.

“He obviously pursued, pursued, pursued her like he did with me,” the woman told the outlet, referring to Santos-Aviles.

The woman was not identified by the publication but confirmed she was the political director of Gonzales’s 2020 campaign for Congress.

Representative Tony Gonzales has dropped his bid for re-election after admitting to having an affair with a staffer who later died by suicide (Getty)

She characterized the alleged behavior as “sexual bullying” in a separate interview with NBC News and said she was speaking out now because the congressman “should be held accountable” for his alleged behavior.

The former political campaign director said the pair never had a physical relationship. In text messages obtained by the San Antonio newspaper, the congressman repeatedly expressed his desire to have sex with his staffer and asked her for photos.

“47 nos is about my limit,” the congressman replied, according to a slew of explicit texts published by the newspaper. Many of the messages were “too salacious” for publication, the woman said.

She added that she was “not totally innocent in all of this” and expressed regret over a handful of messages where she appeared to engage with the congressman, according to the newspaper.

She added that the messages made her uncomfortable, but “not enough to prompt her to resign from the campaign,” the outlet reports.

Texas congressman Gonzales, a married father of six children, announced he was dropping his re-election bid last month after admitting to an affair with Regina Santos-Aviles, a married congressional staffer who died by suicide in September 2025 (Facebook)

Neither Gonzales nor his office responded to questions from the newspaper about the ex-staffer’s claims.

The Independent has contacted the congressman’s representatives for comment.

After initially denying the allegations, Gonzales admitted last month that he had an affair with Santos-Aviles, his former staffer and a 35-year-old wife and mother who worked in his Uvalde office.

He said that he “made a mistake,” and called his infidelity with a subordinate “a lapse in judgment” in an interview with conservative talk show host Joe Pagliarulo. Gonzales told Pagliarulo he had “absolutely nothing to do” with Santos-Aviles’ death.

Gonzales said he had reconciled with his wife, Angel, and “asked God to forgive me, which he has.”

News of the affair, including screenshots of him asking for risque photos from Santos-Aviles, led a number of Republicans to call for him to step down. But the Texan’s resignation could be damaging to House Republicans, who hold a razor-thin margin of 217-214 seats over Democrats.

The House Ethics Committee is investigating Gonzales for his extramarital affair.
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Comment summary

Comments include criticism of Republican Party values and calls for accountability, with some linking the congressman's behavior to broader GOP issues under President Trump. Other comments point to hypocrisy in claiming divine forgiveness and the party’s reluctance to act against misconduct.
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It must be difficult to dispense Christian love to children without including Christian sex in the process. These southern bigoted mongrels must have wrongly understood Jesus's "Let the children come to me".

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Texas Pastor Arrested for Allegedly Sexually Abusing 2 Young Girls for Several Years
Katherine Schaffstall
Tue, April 7, 2026 


San Antonio Police Department
Pastor Ryan Pena was arrested in San Antonio, Texas, for sexually abusing two young girls over several years, with the victims being family members of Pena, and the abuse allegedly starting when they were as young as 6 to 8 years old.

A pastor in San Antonio, Texas, was arrested last week for sexually abusing two young girls over the course of several years.

Pastor Ryan Pena was charged with continuous sexual abuse of a child on Friday, April 3, after investigators in California reached out to the San Antonio Police Department, according to News 4 San Antonio.

The two victims, who are now adults, said that they are family members of Pena, 50. However, it’s not exactly clear how they are related to him.

While speaking to investigators, the victims said they had been brutally assaulted by Pena on several occasions beginning back in 2008.

Both victims recalled graphic acts of abuse, which allegedly started when they were as young as 6 to 8 years old. The victims added that the abuse continued until they were both in their late teens.

One of the victims claimed that Pena sent her a message on social network MySpace and told her he wanted to be “friends with benefits,” according to KSAT. The victim also said that Pena groomed her from a young age and told her that he loved her, according to an affidavit viewed by the outlet.

The victims both reported that they previously disclosed the incidents to family members, though they didn’t initially contact police because they wanted to move on from the abuse.

Their mindsets changed in March when both victims told police they were ready to press charges against Pena.

An investigator visited Pena’s home and informed him of his rights before he interviewed him. Pena acknowledged that he was aware of past allegations made against him and appeared hesitant to speak.

Pena also reportedly suggested that the victims’ claims were based on dreams or mental health issues. Additionally, he reportedly attempted to discredit one victim’s family.

The interview eventually concluded when Pena requested an attorney.

Detectives took both the victims’ allegations and the suspect's statements into consideration before the San Antonio Police Department secured a warrant for Pena's arrest.

Pena was then arrested and was taken into custody. He has since been released from custody after he posted a bond amount of $150,000.

It is not currently clear if Pena has entered a plea or retained legal counsel following his arrest.

The San Antonio Police Department did not immediately respond to Us Weekly’s request for comment regarding the case.

Pena was previously associated with the Church of Acts, according to News 4 San Antonio.

If you suspect child abuse, please call the Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline at 1-800-4-A-Child or 1-800-422-4453, or visit ChildHelp.org. All calls are toll-free and confidential, and the hotline is available 24/7 in more than 170 languages.

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KTAL Shreveport

Bossier Parish man sentenced to castration for sexually assaulting minor

Dominique Woods

Mon, April 6, 2026

BOSSIER PARISH, La. (KTAL/KMSS) — A man from Bossier Parish has been sentenced to castration for sexually assaulting a minor.

Convicted felon faces removal of testicles for rape under new Louisiana law

Zachary Dewayne Doolittle, 40, pleaded guilty in Bossier Parish District Court on Monday, April 6, for sexual acts performed on a family member under the age of 13. Doolittle was sentenced to 45 years to hard labor. In addition to the 45-year sentence, Doolittle entered his guilty plea under Louisiana Revised Statute 14:43.6, which requires that he also be castrated.

Under the revision, the court may sentence the offender to be treated with medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA), which is used for chemical castration by reducing testosterone blood levels to castrate levels.

A court may sentence a defendant to treatment (MPA) only if a medical expert chosen by the court decides that the defendant is a suitable candidate for it.

“My office is committed to prosecuting the predators that victimize children and will work
hand-in-hand with our partners in law enforcement to protect children,” said Bossier/Webster District Attorney Schuyler Marvin.

“The Bossier Parish Sheriff’s Office should be commended for their outstanding work in this case. They delivered us a solid investigation, and we were able to remove another sexual predator from our community. I am extremely proud of the work my ADA Chance Nerren did on this case.”

This case was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Chance Nerren.

The Liar-in-Chief Doesn't Have Money for Childcare, Medicare or Gas

The jerk says he doesn't have money for day care, medicare or medicaid. He says the US can't afford to help poor and struggling Americans by lowering grocery prices or lowering gas prices...His campaign, however, promised the backwoods moron peasants from the poorest and most backward states of the union, that he'll take care of them....by finding solutions to all these things. 

But he turned out to be the liar-in-chief that we all knew he was. His sole objective is to enrich himself and his family and his cronies by playing the market: When he makes a downward annoucement on the war (threats and warnings that the war will be getting more violent...), stocks drop the next day. He waits a couple of days until all his family and billionaire friends buy up stocks on the cheap. Then, he makes an upward annoucement (a deal is near... we will wrap this up...) and the stocks shoot up and he and his family and GOP friends sell and make billions in profits.

He lied to his MAGA herd who believed him because they are dumb jackasses from the boonies. We can't count on them to use their brains. It is the independents that make a difference at the polls. They should be using their brains and remembering the principles on which this nation is built. Not be bamboozled like idiots by an illiterate racist criminal moron. 

Trump is wasting at least 1 billion dollars every day and putting men and women of the US Armed Forces at great peril in his stupid war on Iran. He's been led by his Zionist handlers like a fool. Do you really think he can prevent Iran from becoming nuclear? Do you really think this is what the war is about? Don't you think that the Zionists are pushing for war so they can be the only bully in the region? Imagine for a second that Iran does acquire a nuclear bomb. What do you think it will do with it? Bomb Israel? It knows that if it does that, it itself (Iran) will really be obliterated the very same day. Nuclear deterrence works. No one questions the north Korean madman's quest for nuclear power any longer. No one even talks about him anymore. Even if he has nuclear heads, he wouldn't dare use them unless he is willing to decimate his own country. So, he's now safe in the club alongside the five bullies on the Security Council - United States, Russia, China, France, United Kingdom- and Pakistan, India, and Israel. It's a dog-eat-dog world, and you gotta be a mean dog to survive.

Trump finds money when it is suitable: Kennedy center takeover, building a triumphal arc in DC, playing golf (which costs millions of taxpayers' money)... But where money is needed for struggling Americans, he finds solutions  like: buy only one pencil to your child. Buy only one gift at Christmas, not thirty. 

When will this insane demented moron be institutionalized and removed from office before he does any more irreversible damage? The country may not heal after Trump. Changing presidents is not going to delete the impact of the past few years. What Trump is doing and getting away with (because of his GOP-MAGA co-criminials) is creating PRECEDENTs that will be difficult to ignore by future presidents.
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Opinion
Trump bails on his biggest promise just in time for midterms 

Sara Pequeño, USA TODAY
Mon, April 6, 2026

It looks like President Donald Trump is going back on campaign promises – surprising no one familiar with his track record of grift in the process. He said at a private lunch on Wednesday, April 1, that Medicaid, Medicare and day care were too costly for the United States to foot the bill.

“We’re a big country,” Trump said. “We have 50 states. We have all these other people. We’re fighting wars. It’s not possible for us to take care of day care, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things.”

While running for reelection in 2024, he had said that his administration would help alleviate the costs of childcare and fund Medicaid and Medicare. Instead, Republicans have done the opposite by slashing Medicaid funding in the congressional budget. They have no plan to make childcare more affordable for their constituents.

No, Republicans would rather incinerate billions of dollars by going into a war that no one wants instead of doing things that would benefit Americans. For all their talk of “America first,” it sure seems like they’d rather focus their attention on an overseas conflict that wasn’t even approved by Congress.
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters during the signing ceremony for an executive order on mail ballots at the White House on March 31, 2026.

Trump's lying is nothing new. There are whole teams of journalists dedicated to monitoring what he says and evaluating its truthfulness. Still, it’s unfortunate that so many people believed these lies and voted for him because they thought he would solve our economic crisis and make life more affordable for his constituents.

Luckily, the Democrats can reverse his mess in the November elections – and they should be advertising that very clearly.

Trump's unpopular war isn't making life more affordable

The war in Iran has damaged Trump’s credibility with voters, who wanted to see the president focus his energy on domestic issues. An NBC News poll found that the majority of Americans disagreed with Trump’s actions in the country, although he still received support from Republicans and those aligned with the Make America Great Again movement.

Meanwhile, a CNN poll shows that Trump has a dismal 31% approval rating when it comes to the economy, and a 35% approval rating overall. The majority of Americans in the poll say that the cost of gas is causing financial hardship in their homes and that Trump has worsened economic conditions in the country.

It’s definitely something that’s going to hurt Republicans in the midterm elections, as Trump supporters are less enthusiastic about voting because of it.

[The Criminal Moron hurling his lies]

For Trump to then go out and say the government doesn’t have the finances to cover things that should be basic rights for people in this country is unreal. He is the person with the power to make things better for people in this country, yet he continually makes things worse.

The government should be prioritizing the people it governs, not a war that is costing the country $1 billion a day, by some estimates.

Trump 2.0 is a complete failure. Will Democrats ride that to win in the midterms?

This isn’t the only campaign promise Trump has gone back on. He still hasn’t ended the war in Ukraine as he promised. The government still isn’t covering in vitro fertilization treatments. We’re nowhere near paying off the national debt, energy costs are not down and nothing is affordable.

The only things he has been able to accomplish is making life worse for immigrants and LGBTQ+ people. He’s great at throwing marginalized groups under the bus, but it hasn’t exactly made life better for everyone.

Democrats need to capitalize on Trump’s many missteps in the midterms. They need to make it clear that, while Trump may have made promises he couldn’t keep, they are willing and able to heal the country. Democratic candidates should focus on the ways they plan to lower the costs of childcare and make sure the country’s retirees are taken care of.

Trump’s failure to live up to his lofty promises is an opportunity for the Democrats to create a blue wave come November. With affordability this low and Trump's tone-deafness this high, midterms will be theirs to lose.

A deep hole is visible as construction work has been ordered halted on President Trump's White House Ballroom on the site of the former East Wing of the White House on April 1, 2026 in Washington, DC. A federal judge has temporarily blocked construction of the new ballroom "unless and until Congress blesses this project."

Contrary to Superstitious Lore: Jesus of Nazareth Did not Rise from the Dead

When you argue with Christians, especially with Catholics, their last resort argument in defense of their religious bullshit is "miracles". Strange that God, Jesus, Mary and their army of saints make miracles only to a tiny fraction of people beseeching them for health, fame and fortune, many of whom are not card-carrying faithful. The dispensing of miracles seems either too arbitrary or with insufficient critical mass to drive belief. 

I, for one, would return to the "faith" if a miracle is performed where a missing limb is grown back. That to me would be the ultimate proof of a miracle. Of course, the real ultimate proof miracle would be to raise someone from the dead. Jesus did it, supposedly, with Lazarus and then with himself. So my question to the herds of faithful spending hard-earned money to travel to miraculous sites to be ripped off with custom-tailored prayers or paid intercessions with the divine: Why can't the virgin, Jesus, and any of the millions of saints that the Church beatified and sanctified over the millennia bring grandpa from the dead? Why are miracles always unexplainable, cryptic, unfalsifiable... constantly churning out doubts as to their veracity?

Why can't we run a double-blind test in which neither the tested faithful nor the church officials know who is praying sincerely or who isn't. This would reduce bias and generate clearly reliable and reproducible outcomes. But, the Church hides behind "God's mysterious ways", a nice way to describe the greatest invention made by an ignorant mankind, namely the absurd existence of a sage old man up in the clouds who capriciously toys with our stupidity, traps us, tests us, and plays games with us.

I often wonder why did God have to send his Jewish son to die because of us. First why Jewish? Is God himself Jewish? Why couldn't God's son have been a native Ameridian or a Pacific Islander or a pygmy from Congo or a Chinese? Don't you find it odd that God started his three favorite monotheistic cults with barbaric nomads of the Arabian desert who, thousands of years on, continue to kill one another over who is God's true and favorite cult? The Hebrew prophets were Arabian desert Jews. The Christian cult was founded by a rebel Jew from Palestine. And the Muslim cult was entrepreneured by a camel trader from Mecca who may have been a Jew himself or at the very least grew up in the Hebrew culture of his time (which is why he retained all Jewish practices and customs in his new and improved Judaism known as Islam: circumcision, no pork, loud recitation of holy texts, etc. ). 

Don't you think it odd that the omnipotent, all-knowing God decided to choose all his messengers from a tiny geographic line between Jerusalem and Mecca stretching some 800 miles (1400 km)? He had all the earth and all of human cultures to choose from. Oops, forgive me: He had the entire universe with its zillions and zillions of galaxies, each comprising zillions of stars and planets.... Why did he choose planet earth's Arabian deserts and its stinking tribes to produce prophets of doom (Hebrew garbage), then make an out-of-wedlock son for himself (Christian garbage), and finally gift us yet a third monotheistic cult, that of Islam (Muslim garbage)? Did God have a bias for these Arabian desert nomads? If so, why? What did he find in these people that was missing in other peoples on earth? With the benefit of retrospection, God may have found their innate violence so appealing for his gamesmanship of setting traps for humans, watch them fall in them, then punish them UNLESS they promise to be loyal to him. Come to think of it, this is Donald Trump's standard operating procedure!

Don't you think it odd that God, whose love we are told is boundless, decided to send a born-out-of-wedlock bastard Jewish son, to be tortured and killed to redeem our hypothetical sins (including the absurd Original Sin of just being born)? If God loves us so much, why doesn't he simply forgive us without torturing and killing his son? You see, the imagination of illiterate ignorant people from the Bronze and Stone Ages could not get past the tradition (across most cultures around the world) of human sacrifice: Abraham was asked by a devious God to kill his son to prove his love - my girlfriend once asked me to fly with her on her tiny boxy Cessna the day she got her license TO PROVE THAT I LOVED HER. I suspended my reason and took the unnerving flight of a simple takeoff and landing with a rookie pilot. Same bullshit. Then God sends his bastard son to die TO PROVE THAT HE LOVES US. I don't like these disgusting mind games that God plays with humans. Exasperated, the camel trader from Mecca said enough is enough: All you have to do to go to heaven is swear allegiance, pray, fast, pay the tithe, and do the pilgrimage. No thinking. No miracles. No mysteries. Sort of a Monotheism for dummies! Just some dumb traditions. Islam was, in a way the first reform movement that presaged the Protestant reformation: A reaction to a decadent pagan Catholic (Roman) - Orthodox (Greek, Byzantine) Church laced with gold, wealth, power, statues, saints...and a return to the basics of the generic Semitic Hebraic culture that prevailed back then. 

On this day of Easter, I ask people to keep the traditions but please lose the faith. Oftentimes, the faithful conflate faith with tradition. They think that having faith means ONLY to keep the traditions (culinary, processions, prayers, masses, chanting, dancing, lighting candles....). But faith is, by definition, the suspension of reason: You are asked to believe some bullshit without any proof. Which is why people instinctively don't take faith too seriously but fall back on traditions as a substitute for faith. Our cerebral cortex demands explanations for everything in our environment, but when we have no reasonable evidence and explanations, we make stuff up, collectively known as RELIGION. And to counter our need for evidence, we are asked to have faith, i.e. suspend your reason and believe whatever bullshit some "prophets" come up with.

Example: 500 years ago, when the Black Plague struck human populations worldwide, people did not know of bacteria, protozoa and viruses. Failing to understand the calamity striking them, they imagined God to be mad at them and punishing them. Nowadays, thanks to explorers and discoverers, we know that the bacterium Yersinian pestis causes the plague, and thanks to other researchers we have antibiotics to kill the bacterium. Should the plague strike again, people would no longer blame God. They would blame garbage and lack of hygiene and rush to get an antibiotics shot. Everything humans think and believe is couched in this paradigm: When we don't know, it is God. When we know, it ceases to be God. Which means that as time goes by, God will inevitably continue to shrink the more we discover our environment. 

In fact, there is a straight line between our original ignorance, say some tens of thousands of years ago, and our current state of affairs. Long ago, human cultures believed there were gods everywhere and in everything: rocks, trees, animals, clouds, stars... As many as tens of thousands of gods. Then that number began slowly shrinking down to a few thousands and hundreds (Semites, Greeks, Egyptians, Sumerians etc.). Then again, that number continued to shrink until Egyptians began believing in one god, an idea the Semitic Hebrews borrowed and marketed. So, logically, if we were to extrapolate that trajectory, that tendency of divine reduction with time, into the future, I guess we'll one day reach zero god. None will exist. And we are well on our way to that realization. 

To the faithful, don't be upset. You'll always have your traditions.