Can the US Win the War Against Iran?

[See the end for a very interesting opinion on the war by jackass Trump himself] 

The Israeli Butler-in-Chief Donald Dumb cannot win his war against Iran. For one thing, the Iranians are a very stubborn people whose Shiite Muslim religion is grounded in victimhood ever since its leaders were killed by their Sunni Muslim enemies. Ali Ibn Abi-Talib - the fourth Caliph - was assassinated in 661 AD, while his son Hassan died in 670 AD from poisoning and his other son Hussein was killed at the Battle of Karbala in 680 AD. Shiism was born in violence and death, and has continued to hold a grudge for the past 1300 years. Muslim Shiites love the sight of their own blood, they thrive on being the eternal victims, hence their suicidal and martyrdom proclivities. Even if the regime in Tehran falls, it is hard to imagine Iran as a western puppet, like the Saudis and the other decadent Gulf penguins are.

On the other side, the American butlers of the Israeli Zionists are waging this war not out of conviction, but because the Zionist weasel Benjamin Netanyahu has bamboozled the ignorant and dumb American president into playing John Wayne in real life and idiotically fighting Iran on his behalf. We are spending more and more billions and suffering more deaths and injured soldiers just because the Zionists want to be the only nuclear policeman in the Near East. Beyond this, Donald Dumb's only fixation is to steal more oil and minerals wherever he can find them, and make more money for himself and his cronies and nepo family members. He doesn't give a hoot about Israel or about Iran: To him these are "shithole" countries he feels he, the superior dumb and ugly American, must abuse and exploit. The subprimate hominid is not about ideas or ideologies: He cares only about the big mamoo!

The more I think of nuclear power, the more convinced I become that all countries should have their cutsie little nuclear arsenal. Those with nuclear power today have not engaged in wars with one another: Nuclear power is a powerful deterrent against nuclear war. It is also a membership card to the Veto Club that has paralyzed any serious action by the United Nations.

Suppose for a moment that Iran owns one nuclear bomb: Will it really use it against some enemy (Saudi Arabia, Israel, etc.)? Won't Iran be immediately nuked to smithereens and not survive to tell about its great history as a major warmonger of antiquity?

But nuclear power makes the country untouchable. That is what Kim Jong-Un of North Korea has achieved. By having a nuclear arsenal, his country is protected against any attack or aggression, and for the past 80 years has neither attacked others nor has it been attacked by others. Grandstanding and burlesque shows of macho chest-beating are not a real threat.

Israel's Zionists are not afraid of Iran's "Islamist" nuclear bomb. They say they are, but they are lying. If they were sincerely worried about an Islamist nuclear power, they should be worried about ultra-religious Muslim Pakistan. But they are not. What the Zionists are worried about is to no longer be the exclusive regional bully that steals land which it then clears by ethnically cleansing its indigenous people, guards the oil fields of the Gulf on behalf of the US, and continues to expand its colonial ambitions beyond the pathetic stretch of Mediterrnean coastline that the "Jewish homeland" in Palestine that the crooked English gave away to wealthy European bankers.

Iran's real or hypothetical acquisition of a nuclear bomb is a red herring issue. But Donald Dumb did not ask questions when he initiated this war to satisfy the whimsical directives of his master Netanyahu. As a result, the US is been slowly drawn into the deadly marshes of yet another war in the Middle East that it will inevitably lose. The body bags have started arriving and thousands of innocent Iranian civilians are being killed. All of this for the sweet eyes of the Zionists whose value is in proportion to the Western and American investments in unnaturally maintaining the "homeland" alive.

From Lebanon, through Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen and others.... why has this region never known peace ever since it shed its colonial masters (Ottoman Turkey, England, France....)? Why have other regions of the world, e.g. Asia, been in peace since they rid themselves of their colonial rapists? The answer is the festering "homeland" pimple in Palestine known as Israel. Had the English crooks not gifted Palestine (which was not theirs to begin with) to the Zionist bankers with colonial aspirations in 1917, western imperialists would probably have invented another pretext to keep a foothold and protect their access to the region's oil reserves. 
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Family of Fallen Airman Rages at Trump’s ‘Uncalled For’ War
Laura Esposito
Sun, March 15, 2026

The families of a servicemember killed in Donald Trump’s war are pleading with the president to end the conflict in Iran—the same day he was [enjoying golfing] in West Palm Beach.

The family of Tech Sgt. Tyler Simmons, 28—one of six American service members killed Thursday when an Air Force refueling aircraft crashed while supporting military operations in Iran—said they believe his death could have been prevented.

“Just the worst nightmare we could ever imagine. We trust in God that he will comfort us and be with our family,” Simmons’ cousin, Stephan Douglas, told NBC4 in Simmons’ native Ohio. “We believe this could have been prevented. It’s a sad day.”

The Pentagon has formally identified the six service members killed in Trump's war in Iran. / Department of Defense

Douglas added that “We didn’t need to be in this war ... This is uncalled for, and this is what we get,” he said.

Simmons’ grandmother, Bernice Smith, echoed the same sentiment to NBC4. “Families are suffering right now,” she said. “Just to create a war because you want to create a war is not right.”

In a statement, the Simmons family encouraged the public to take their grief to the ballot box in November. “Our hearts are saddened beyond measure to learn of six more airmen being killed last night,” the family said in a written statement. “One of them is our Beloved Tyler Simmons. Tyler’s smile could light up any room, his strong presence would fill it. His parents, grandparents, family and friends are grief stricken for the loss of life.”

They went on: “Vote for Tyler and the five others who lost their lives recently and for all those serving our country,” the statement reads. “They are heroes who are loved and will be missed. Praying for Tyler, his fellow airmen, his family and we pray for the United States to do better and be better.”

Other loved ones of Simmons also took to social media to voice their sorrow.


Tech Sergeant Tyler Simmons is the second of the six individuals to be identified in the crash. The 28-year-old was an only child who had been described as being able to light up any room. / Screenshot/Instagram / Instagram

“We love you Tyler Simmons and could never forget you,” wrote a woman who identifies herself as Vida Michlle on Instagram, who wrote that Simmons was her neighbor and a friend of her children.

“You were an amazing young man and made the ultimate sacrifice. We will always look out for your parents in your honor.”

Simmons was one of three Ohio Air National Guardsmen killed during Thursday’s mission, alongside Capt. Curtis Angst, 30, of Columbus, and Capt. Seth Koval, 38, of Stoutsville.

The Pentagon identified the other servicemembers as Maj. Alex Klinner of Auburn, Alabama; Capt. Ariana G. Savino, 31, of Covington, Washington; and Tech Sgt. Ashley B. Pruitt, 34, of Bardstown, Kentucky.

As of Sunday, 13 servicemembers have been killed in the war Trump launched in coordination with Israel on Feb. 28 without congressional approval, and more than 140 have been injured.

The White House did not immediately respond to request for comment.

On Saturday—the day the Pentagon released the names of the service members—Trump was seen departing his golf club in Florida. The president spent Sunday on the green as well, according to White House pool reports.

The president has frequently bragged about being a good player. Here, he is wearing the same baseball hat he wore when he unceremoniously welcomed the fist six body bags of US military service men and women who died in service to Benjamin Netanyahu. / Jeff J Mitchell / Getty Images

In 2008, former President George W. Bush made headlines after admitting he quit golfing in 2003 out of respect for families with loved ones fighting in the Iraq War.

“I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal,” he said at the time, according to reports.

“I don’t want some mum whose son may have recently died to see the commander-in-chief playing golf. I feel I owe it to the families to be in solidarity as best as I can with them.”

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MEANWHILE,  

Skyrocketing energy prices and inflation woes mount as the ‘absurd’ reality in Iran sinks in
Jordan Blum
Sat, March 14, 2026

The immediate shock of the U.S. and Israeli war with Iran is felt most acutely in fuel prices. As the fighting drags into a third week, however, the ripples are spreading across a broader swath of the economy, threatening to affect everything from groceries and work schedules to stock markets and interest rates.

Even stagflation—the dreaded S-word that plagued American consumers during the 1970s Middle East oil crisis—is in the air again, as business leaders, analysts, and policymakers reassess the scope and duration of a conflict that the U.S. government seems to have underestimated.

At the center of the widening crisis is the false belief that the Strait of Hormuz—the narrow choke point separating 20% of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas from global markets—would be left untouched from the conflict, said Bob McNally, former White House energy adviser under George W. Bush and founder of the Rapidan Energy Group.

“Even the possibility that a hostile power could choke traffic in Hormuz—by far the world’s most vital energy and commodity artery—was considered to be absurd,” McNally told Fortune, largely because it hadn’t happened before. “When I would tell people our analysis shows that, in a military conflict with Iran, Hormuz would be shut for weeks, people looked at me like I was high on crack cocaine.”

With crude oil benchmarks hovering near $100 per barrel—up 70% since early January—prices may rise to all-time highs of $150 or greater by the end of March if the strait remains effectively closed with no clear end in sight, McNally said. If anything, he said, prices are still artificially lower than they should be: “The world can’t grow without 20% of its energy—not in the short term. People are just unwilling to come to grips with the idea that we’re not going to get 20% of our energy back really fast.”

Oil forecaster Dan Pickering, founder of the Pickering Energy Partners consulting firm, noted that the effects in the U.S. are relatively muted thus far thanks to domestic oil and gas supplies. While U.S. fuel prices are up nearly 35% from January lows and still rising, there are no shortages or long lines at gas stations. That is not the case in much of Asia, where dependence on Middle Eastern supplies has led to skyrocketing prices and a cascade of other effects. Shortages of fuel, cooking gas, and electricity, have led to work from home directives, school closures, and conservation requests in countries such as Vietnam, the Philippines, and Pakistan. Shortages of fertilizer shipments will trickle down into food and grocery costs.

“Compared to a week ago, the situation looks more challenging and longer lasting. An easy solution to the straits does not appear on the horizon,” Pickering said. “With that, there’s fear of inflation, fear that stocks might be overvalued, and you’re hearing ‘stagflation’ a lot. It’s rippling through sentiment, and it’s putting a higher floor on pricing whenever this conflict ends.”

A previously robust stock market is starting to show signs of disquiet: The Dow Jones Industrial Average, for instance, is down 6% in a month and expected to dip further at least as long as the war extends. The exception, of course, is energy producers capitalizing off the price surges, as Exxon Mobil, Chevron, and many other U.S. oil and refining stocks jumped to record highs.

Open for transit, aside from the shooting

Member countries of the International Energy Agency agreed to release a record-high, 400 million barrels of oil from strategic reserves, including 172 million barrels from the U.S., but doing so will take at least four months to pull from storage. “Oil can’t come out fast enough to offset the closure of the straits. You have some help that will come over the next three to six months, but this crisis is happening now,” Pickering said.

It’s been more than a week since President Donald Trump announced plans for government-backed, oil tanker insurance and potential naval escorts through the strait with little tangible progress. The U.S. is currently in the process of sending more warships and Marines to the Middle East.

The military is currently focused on weakening Iran’s defenses, and naval escorts for tankers may begin as soon as the end of March, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said March 12. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth downplayed the problems more, saying on March 13 that he’s not concerned about the strait.

“The only thing prohibiting transit in the straits right now is Iran shooting at shipping. It is open for transit should Iran not do that,” Hegseth said with a straight face during a press conference.

Later March 13, Trump was asked on Fox News when he would know the war is over. His response, “When I feel it in my bones.”

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What comes next?

Iran responded to the war—including the death of its supreme leader and other top officials—by firing missiles at its energy-producing, neighboring Gulf states and then at tankers within the strait.

Although he has yet to be seen and is believed by the Trump administration to be injured, Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei issued a statement pledging to keep the strait closed, using both mines and bombing attacks from ground forces. A handful of tankers from non-enemy nations, including India, were strategically allowed through.

“Iran is demonstrating that it controls the Strait of Hormuz, and not the United States,” McNally said. “It does that by both periodically attacking ships in the strait—re-instilling fear among tankers and insurers and keeping them from moving—and apparently allowing certain tankers to go through.”

White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly countered to Fortune that the U.S. has destroyed over 20 of Iran’s mine-laying vessels with more to come. “President Trump is fully prepared to provide U.S. Navy escorts through the Strait of Hormuz if he deems it necessary,” she reiterated.

Carolyn Kissane, associate dean of the New York University Center for Global Affairs, said the markets are no longer taking White House statements “at face value”—as was the case during the first week of the war—and are recognizing that Iran is “going for the jugular.”

“This is historic that Iran is targeting Gulf states and the Strait of Hormuz, which has always been the worst, worst, worst-case scenario,” Kissane said. “If there’s no conclusion in the next two-to-three weeks, we are looking at much higher prices, and a lot of insecurities across supply chains for the foreseeable future. There are going to be some very huge ripple effects.”

One of those ripple effects is the political implications in a midterm election year in the U.S., especially since this is clearly recognized as a “war of choice,” she said.

While just a few weeks ago, voter concerns about AI data centers and rising utility costs seemed to be replacing gas prices at the pump as the new political bellwether, now surging fuel prices are the focus again. Former President Joe Biden took a big political hit from high fuel costs when Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, and that obviously wasn’t an American military decision.

That said, it’s because of those very reasons that this war might still conclude within a couple of weeks or so, said Pavel Molchanov, energy analyst at Raymond James. Trump has always focused acutely on keeping fuel prices low.

“When prices at the pump spike, presidential approval ratings go down. And now, the price of oil is the highest in four years,” Molchanov said. “The longer Americans feel pain at the pump, the more political pressure there will be on the White House to end the war.”

And while the level of Iran’s military response has surprised some observers, the country needs resolution as well. After all, Iran isn’t moving its oil through the strait either, Molchanov said.

“Iran needs to export its oil. They need the money.”

This story was originally featured on Fortune.com

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[Update]:

Donald Trump left critics in disbelief on Sunday with a remark about his Iran war during a press gaggle aboard Air Force One.

The president was discussing his call for other countries to send ships to help secure the Strait of Hormuz, the vital — and currently effectively shut — waterway off Iran through which roughly one-fifth of the world’s oil passes.

Asked how quickly those deployments would happen, Trump said it would “start immediately,” with different countries offering different forms of assistance, including minesweeper boats.

He later said: “So, we need, I, I would really, I’m demanding that these countries come in and protect their own territory because it is their territory, it’s the place from which they get their energy and they should come and they should help us protect it.”

Then came the line that should spark fury in the American people. In it the Moron continues to beg other countries - allies that he and his sub-morons with big Florsheim shoes, Rubio, Hegseth and Vance, have been chiding for their attachment to democracy and treated like scum -  to help him in the war. 

Worse yet, the Moron admits that this war is not America's war, revealing that he is waging this war on behalf of "allies" like his Zionist masters and he is now regretting having gone to war because he is losing it. He obviously did not mean the Arab Gulf states as his "allies" because, for one, they are not white Aryans whom he would NEVER encourage to emigrate to the US, and second, he is not egging them on to join the war because these incompetent hapless Arab Muslim slaves of the West can't defend themselves and need to protection for their disgusting decandence and Trump-inspired golden opulence, and need to be pampered because they have oil. The Moron definitely is exposing the true rationale for the war, namely to submit to the Israeli Zionist directives.

“You could make the case that maybe we shouldn’t even be there at all because we don’t need it.”

“We have a lot of oil,” said Trump. “We were the number one producer anywhere in the world times two by double, at least double. Now I think it’s much higher than that. But we do it. It’s almost like we do it for habit, but we also do it for some very good allies that we have in the Middle East.”

Trump's War Not Going Well: He's Begging "Allies" he's Been Berating for Help

[See update at the end] 

An increasingly desperate Donald Trump is now begging other nations to send warships to the Strait of Hormuz and join the war effort against Iran, after Iran has escalated its targeting of increasingly restive Arab Gulf nations. Iran has the ability to stop shipping through the strait, a major channel for oil and gas transport, and to significantly undermine the economies of the Arab Gulf states. The Iranian scarecrow that the Americans and Israelis have erected for decades to force the oil-drenched Arab Gulf states to submit to their will (e.g. by signing the Abraham accords) has turned out more alive than expected.

In his deranged All-Upper-Case post, the dumb jackass in the Whouthouse said, "The Countries of the World that receive Oil through the Hormuz Strait must take care of that passage, and we will help — A LOT! ... The U.S. will also coordinate with those Countries so that everything goes quickly, smoothly, and well."

Energy hubs have become regular targets for Iranian drone attacks, and disruptions are already under way. U.S. embassies in Iraq, Lebanon and other countries in the region have been warning with alarm U.S. citizens and US corporations and industries to move out of the region.

The joint US-Israel attacks on Iran have created the biggest-ever oil supply disruption and have pushed up global prices and rattled stock markets across the world. Acccording to an AI query - "Since the onset of the Iran war, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has experienced significant losses, dropping around 3,000 points from its peak in early February 2026. This includes a plunge of over 1,200 points on March 3, 2026, and further declines in subsequent days.

Oil-loading operations were suspended last Saturday in the UAE's Fujairah emirate, a global ship-refueling hub. Meanwhile, an Iranian military spokesperson has warned people in the UAE to evacuate ports, docks, and "American hideouts". 

For his part, Trump was spending the weekend playing golf in his Florida club. After berating traditional US allies ever since he acceeded to the white house, he is now begging those same countries to join the yet-unsuccessful US-Israeli attacks. Trump keeps sending mixed and ambiguous messages about the conduct of the war, reflecting a confusion between desirable goals (e.g. a complete surrender of Iran) and unsatisfactory facts on the grounds (Iran is digging in, and Arab Gulf states are increasingly terrified at the massive flight of capitals and investments and loss of revenue from disrupted oil shipping). 

Trump is now begging countries like China, France, Japan, South Korea, Britain and others for help. After repeatedly calling the US's western allies "ungrateful" - although they all rushed to support the US after 9-11 in its war in Afghanistan - Trump is only now realizing that he needs them. It is likely that (at least) the Europeans would be reluctant to join the Israel-US war effort, as they negotiated with Iran a successful JCPOA agreement in 2015 on Iran's nuclear program, only to see the American jackass walk out of it "in spite" at the behest of his Zionist handlers.

Trump's call for help is significant, given that he has based his entire program on "America First" and "America Alone". His call to those traditional U.S. allies who have been slowly divorcing themselves from the unreliable US is reflected in historically neutral Switzerland's distancing itself from any involvement in the Iran war. The Swiss Federal Council has rejected two U.S. requests to allow reconnaissance aircraft to fly through Swiss airspace en route to Iran. 

Meanwhile, Iran is ratcheting up its warnings to Gulf Arab states, acccusing the UAE for example of harboring sites for U.S. missile attacks and warning that parts of that country are ​legitimate targets for retaliatory strikes. Iran has also said it would target U.S. companies in the region or companies in which the U.S. ‌had shares.

Resentment had already been mounting in Gulf Arab capitals at being drawn ‌into a war they neither initiated nor endorsed, but are now paying for economically and militarily. It is highly unlikely that Trump would foot the bill of reconstruction for those Gulf Arab states that will continue to suffer from Iran's counterattacks. They are wealthy, for now. 

Some of Trump's own surrogates are increasingly impatient as well. Venture capitalist David Sacks, who is the Moron's AI and crypto czar, has warned of potentially catastrophic consequences if the U.S.-Israel war on Iran continues. In a podcast on Friday, he said “we should probably find the off-ramp... This is a good time to declare victory and get out, and that is clearly what the markets would like to see." But he complained that there’s a hawkish faction of the Republican Party who wants to escalate the war, send in ground troops, and seek regime change. Yet, any ramp-off would mean that the war has failed and that Iran, by default, has won.

Trump initially said he seeks regime change in Iran, but has since retreated from that objective. Meanwhile, he has ordered the U.S. military to send 2,500 Marines from Asia to the Middle East in a clear indication that his recklessness at abiding blindly by Zionist demands is not paying off, will cost the US blood and treasure, and will not ensure the success of otherwise poorly defined war objectives.

Sacks flagged concerns of a tit-for-tat escalation spiral in Iran that could see both sides targeting each other’s oil and gas infrastructure. By that point, resuming energy flows by reopening the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran has effectively closed, won’t matter because restarting oil and gas production wouldn’t be possible, he said.

The Iranian attacks on desalination plants across the water-poor Gulf is raising alarms. Sacks said, “If you see that type of destruction continue, you could literally render the Gulf almost uninhabitable ...I mean you’re not going to have enough water for 100 million people, and human beings just cannot survive very long without water. So that would be a truly catastrophic scenario, and we’re talking about destroying the Gulf states economically and then also from a humanitarian perspective.”

While Israel isn’t as vulnerable, Sacks also pointed out the country has been hit hard by Iranian attacks, adding that “Israel could just be destroyed or very large parts of it” if the war drags on for weeks or months. "In a scenario where Israel is facing such a serious threat, that raises the risk of it escalating the war even further and perhaps contemplate the use of nuclear weapons", he said. Lebanon iznogood has previoulsy raised a seemingly inexorable slide into using nuclear weapons, [https://lebanoniznogood.blogspot.com/2026/03/will-trump-nuke-iran-to-bring-quick-end.html]

Given the “horrifying directions” that further escalation may produce, Sacks said it’s time to look at de-escalation, which could entail a ceasefire agreement or negotiated settlement. The comments come amid reports that some administration officials are also pushing Trump to seek an off-ramp to the war as the recent spike in oil prices raises severe political and economic risks.

Trump's ambiguous and confusing messaging on the war is extremely frigthening. Not only does it indicate that a dumb Trump was reluctantly dragged into the war by Israel's War Criminal PM Benjamin Netanyahu, but it also portends that any retreat by the US will be seen as a defeat for the US and a victory for Iran. The Iranian regime will win this war by simply not losing it, just as its terrorist subsidiaries like Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Palestine have been "winning" for four decades... by not losing.  Which means that a US-Israeli hyper-escalation of warmongering is inevitable for the simple reason that they must save face, just as the Iranian regime's own survival depends on its own escalation of its retaliatory strikes. 

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Key Ally Instantly Slaps Down Trump’s Demand for Help

Jack Revell
Sun, March 15, 2026

Sometimes it takes a good friend to call you out when you’re wrong.

For Donald Trump, that pal is the nation of France, which has delivered an emphatic “Non!” to the American president’s request for military support in his Middle Eastern campaign.

President Donald Trump’s request for help in the Strait of Hormuz might not be going according to plan. / SAUL LOEB / AFP via Getty Images (SAUL LOEB)

The 79-year-old conducted diplomatic relations via Truth Social on Saturday, begging America’s allies to intervene in the Strait of Hormuz. The maritime shipping lane, which is the only sea passage from the Persian Gulf to the open ocean, is currently being blockaded by Iran following the U.S. and Israel’s joint attacks on the country.

As a result, approximately 20 percent of the world’s oil supply is not moving, rapidly driving up the prices of gas and aviation fuel in America.

“Many Countries, especially those who are affected by Iran’s attempted closure of the Hormuz Strait, will be sending War Ships, in conjunction with the United States of America, to keep the Strait open and safe,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Saturday.

Trump has claimed the Iranian military is both destroyed and posing a significant issue to American forces. / Truth Social

“Hopefully China, France, Japan, South Korea, the UK, and others, that are affected by this artificial constraint, will send Ships to the area so that the Hormuz Strait will no longer be a threat,” he continued, in what appeared to be a veiled plea for help from America’s allies.

French Response, the official X account of the French government’s foreign office, was quick to clarify that it would not be sending the ships Trump requested.

“No. The [French] aircraft carrier strike group remains in the Eastern Mediterranean. France’s posture is unchanged: Defensive. Protective,” the diplomatic outlet wrote. “Stop the scaremongering.”

The official French Foreign Office account has denied that the country will be sending military support. / X

The account repeated the message to multiple posts on X that had claimed France would be deploying warships to the Middle East.

Earlier, Trump had posted a separate message, calling for a coalition to help reopen the Strait.

“The Countries of the World that receive Oil through the Hormuz Strait must take care of that passage, and we will help—A LOT!” he promised.

“The U.S. will also coordinate with those Countries so that everything goes quickly, smoothly, and well. This should have always been a team effort, and now it will be—It will bring the World together toward Harmony, Security, and Everlasting Peace!”

The United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence has said that it is discussing “a range of options to ensure the security of shipping in the region.”

Trump has claimed that allies will come to the aid of the U.S. in getting the Strait open. / Truth Social

The Financial Times had previously reported that both France and Italy were seeking to negotiate a deal to guarantee safe passage of their ships through the Strait, though Italy has since denied the report.

Two French officials also previously told Reuters that the country was working on attempting to build a coalition to allow European ships through the strait, but French Response’s message suggests this may not include military activity.

Trump has made a series of posts in recent days suggesting that the Iranian military is both “completely decimated” and proving to be highly resilient, with continued bombardment required to open the vital maritime passageway.

Shipping traffic has all but come to a standstill through the Strait of Hormuz as the war enters its third week. / JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP via Getty Images

“In the meantime, the United States will be bombing the hell out of the shoreline, and continually shooting Iranian Boats and Ships out of the water,” Trump wrote. “One way or the other, we will soon get the Hormuz Strait OPEN, SAFE, and FREE!”

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told reporters on Friday that the Strait of Hormuz is, in fact, open for shipping but that it carries a high risk of being bombed by Iranian forces.

“The only thing prohibiting transit in the Strait right now is Iran shooting at shipping. It is open for transit should Iran not do that,” Hegseth said.

Iranian military leaders have said that they will continue to block shipping through the strait and drive up the price of oil, which has already climbed to more than $100 per barrel. It is the largest disruption to global oil supplies in history.

While Iran’s historical Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in the opening salvo of the joint U.S.-Israeli strikes, his son, Mojtaba Khamenei, has since taken over and vowed to keep fighting.

On Friday, Trump announced that the U.S. had struck more than 90 military targets on Kharg Island, the deep-water fuel terminal through which most Iranian oil flows, typically to its main buyer, China. Fuel infrastructure reportedly remains intact on the strategic island, which is considered vital to the regime’s finances.

On Saturday, however, Trump said the U.S. “may hit it a few more times just for fun,” telling NBC that Tehran is ready to make a deal but he won’t accept it as the “terms aren’t good enough yet.”

Iran has downplayed the damage on Kharg and is now targeting fuel ports in nearby Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and the United Arab Emirates.

"Stockhom-Syndrome" Psychology of Trump's Lackeys Rubio, Cruz and Graham

 In the Mafia, the boss has secrets about his cronies to keep them "loyal". They then metamorphose into voluntary hostages who love their kidnapper tyrant boss. Who knows what secrets Trump has on Texas moron "Lyin' Ted" Cruz, Big-shoes Vendido Marco Rubio, and "the dumbest human being" Lady Lindsey Graham?

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I Know Secrets of Trump’s Hold Over These Cowards

William Vaillancourt, The Daily Beast Podcast

Thu, March 12, 2026

Donald Trump’s former rivals in the GOP are now firmly on his side because “the trappings of power are very attractive,” The View co-host Ana Navarro says.

Navarro, appearing on The Daily Beast Podcast, detailed the transformation of Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham, and, in particular, Marco Rubio.

All three had challenged Trump during the 2016 Republican primary. Cruz called him a “coward” and a “rat,” while Rubio said he was a “con artist” and that people who supported him were falling into a “trap.” Graham called Trump “a race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot” on national television.

Rubio, 54, and Graham, 70, are among those Navarro knows who have since done “180s,” she said.

“I have seen person after person who I personally knew and admired and thought were different, do complete 180s,” the former Jeb Bush adviser told co-host Joanna Coles. “I have known Marco Rubio since he was very young. We’re the same age. We grew up in Republican politics in South Florida. I’ve known Pam Bondi for decades, since she was attorney general of the state of Florida.”

Navarro said she knew Graham “when he was John McCain’s wingman, not Donald Trump’s.” She added, “He’s a completely different person than he was.”

The reason, she said, was simple: power.

“So many people in Congress, so many people that are serving in this administration, so many people that I see on TV [are] defending the indefensible and the unjustifiable because it means they have access to power,” she said.

“Let’s be clear, the trappings of power are very attractive,” Navarro, 54, continued. “It’s great to be invited to the White House. It’s great to be able to go to the Christmas parties. It’s great to be able to ride on Air Force One and be able to call up the White House and talk to whomever you want. All of those things are heady things. I know; I’ve done them.”

In Rubio’s case, Navarro said the fact that the secretary of state grew up “a poor kid from West Miami” has meant that having his own plane, attending state dinners, and being generally “in the center of things” is especially appealing.

“But the question is: are you willing to compromise every principle you supposedly stood for, every conviction you supposedly had, every belief you supposedly held in order to stay in that circle of power?” Navarro asked.

Rubio, she said, has to convince himself that by essentially “selling his soul” to Trump, he has been able to do good things.

“I think he believes getting rid of [Venezuelan President Nicolas] Maduro is a good thing,” she said. “I think he believes a dead ayatollah is a good thing. I think he believes that the possibility of regime change in Cuba is a good thing.”

The Daily Beast has reached out to the State Department, Graham’s office, and Cruz’s office for comment.

A White House spokesperson said in a statement: “Ana Navarro is a dingbat moron whose pea-sized brain has been warped by a debilitating, yet very serious, condition called Trump Derangement Syndrome. Sadly, she has to live out the rest of her days on The View and CNN, away from the public.”

Navarro concluded by saying that the career paths of anti-Trump Republicans like Bush, her former boss, and former Sen. Mitt Romney are increasingly restricted.

“There are two ways to exist in the Republican Party right now,” she said. “Either you are a Trumper and you approve and...defend everything he says and does, and that benefits your political career, or you’re not, and you’re probably going to lose your primary, or you’re going to retire, or or you’re just not going to be part of it.”

Recover your Sanity: Close your Social Media Accounts

I have only this blog. I don't do all the other BS platforms (Facebook, X, Instagram, etc.) form intellectually indigent and verbally disabled morons who are looking for attention. I've had hundreds of this blog's readers who ask me why I don't have a presence on these social media platforms. I generally answer that I don't need to have every jackass out there giving their opinion on what I think. Which is why I rarely post comments from readers.

I also don't want to be free-funding these giant corporations with my personal information so that they make a buck off of it. To me, having a social media presence is like leaving the door of your house open all the time and allowing anyone and everyone to come in and walk around and pick up stuff. Social media are the biggest violators of privacy that ever existed.

I encourage everyone to bail out and close your social media accounts.

Here is a fantastic analysis of people like me who do not have a social media presence.
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Psychology says people who keep their personal lives off social media often share these 12 beliefs about attention and identity
Julie Brown
Thu, March 12, 2026

I posted a photo of my daughter's birthday party three years ago and spent the next hour checking how many people liked it. I noticed I cared about the number, and that bothered me more than the number itself.

I deleted the post that night. I just looked at it and thought: I don't want this moment to live here. I want it to live in my memory, not in a feed where it gets measured.

That was the beginning of a slow, quiet withdrawal from sharing my personal life online.

Not a big announcement. Not a self-righteous post about leaving social media. Just a gradual pulling back, one unshared moment at a time.

People who stop sharing as much on social media have all arrived at a similar set of beliefs.

1. They believe that what's personal loses something when it becomes public

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The dinner with the friend.

The quiet morning with a partner.

The moment with their child that felt sacred in real time.

They've noticed that the act of documenting and sharing these moments changes the experience of having them—and the change isn't an improvement.

Something about turning a private moment into content flattens it.

The memory gets replaced by the post, and the post becomes the version they remember.

They'd rather keep the original, unfiltered and unwitnessed, even if no one else ever sees it. The privacy is what makes it theirs.

Once they realized that, the urge to share stopped feeling like connection and started feeling like giving something away.

2. They think the comparison game is damaging

According to the American Psychological Association, people who limit their social media presence often report that one of the primary reasons is a desire to avoid the comparison cycle—both the comparisons others make about them and the comparisons they catch themselves making about others.

They post a vacation photo, and someone they haven't spoken to in years uses it to measure their own life against. They share a career milestone, and it triggers something in a friend who's struggling. The sharing creates a feedback loop they didn't intend, and opting out of the loop is easier than managing it.

3. They'd rather have real relationships than share only the good stuff

They want the people in their lives to know them through direct experience—through conversations, shared meals, and actual time spent together—rather than through a curated highlight reel that represents the best angles on their best days.

The people who know them well know them well because they've been in the room. Not because they've been scrolling. And there's a quality to being known that way—through proximity and repetition rather than posts and updates—that can't be replicated digitally.

The people who know them through a screen know a version. The people who know them through time know the person. And they've decided the second kind of knowing is the only one worth investing in.

4. They've realized that posting changes why they do things

Research from Neuroscience News has found that frequent social media users often report a shift in motivation—where experiences that were once pursued for their own sake begin to be filtered through the question of whether they're worth sharing or not, subtly reshaping the reason the experience was sought in the first place.

They catch themselves framing the meal before tasting it.

They notice the thought "this would make a good post" arriving before the thought "I'm enjoying this."

And the moment they see that shift, they pull back—because the experience started belonging to the audience before it belonged to them.

5. They associate privacy with self-respect

Not in a preachy way. In a quiet, personal way.

They've decided that keeping certain parts of their life off-screen is a form of self-care—a way of protecting the things that matter most from being consumed by people who aren't part of them.

Their relationship. Their children. Their grief. Their joy.

These things exist in a space they've deliberately kept separate from public view, and the boundary feels as natural to them as locking the front door. They're not hiding. They're choosing what deserves protection, and they've decided most of the important things do.

6. They don't trust the version of themselves that shows up online

Frontiers in Psychology reports that many people who step back from social media do so after noticing that the version of themselves they project online has started to feel separate from the person they actually are—and the gap between the two becomes uncomfortable.

They're funnier online than they are in person. More confident. More polished. And instead of enjoying the performance, they start to feel uneasy about it—because the person getting the likes isn't quite the person living the life.

Stepping back is a way of closing the gap and staying honest with themselves about who they actually are.

7. They believe that some emotions aren't meant to be witnessed by everyone

The grief that came after a loss.

The pride they felt watching their child do something remarkable.

The love that lives quietly between them and the person they're with.

These feelings are real and enormous, and they believe the feelings deserve more than a caption.

I feel this one deeply. The moments that matter most to me are the ones I'd never post, because the act of sharing them would turn something I felt into a show or a performance. And the feeling was better than any performance could be.

8. They've seen what happens when people build identities around their online presence

They've watched friends curate a version of their life that looks nothing like reality.

They've seen people chase engagement metrics as if the numbers measured something real.

They've noticed the anxiety that follows a post that didn't perform, and the brief high that follows one that did—and the way neither feeling has anything to do with the actual quality of someone's life.

The decision to stay off isn't superiority. It's self-preservation. They saw the cost in other people and decided they couldn't afford it.

9. They value being known by a few over being seen by many

Research from the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin suggests that people who limit their online presence tend to invest more heavily in deep, in-person relationships—and that this investment is often a conscious trade-off, prioritizing quality of connection over breadth of visibility.

They'd rather have five people who know the real version of them than five hundred who know the curated one. The smallness of the circle is the point. It means everyone in it got there by being present, not by scrolling.

10. They don't want to be searchable anymore

There's a specific kind of freedom in being hard to find online.

No old posts to explain. No comment history to defend. No photo archive that follows them into every job interview, first date, or new relationship.

They like the idea that the person meeting them for the first time has to actually meet them—that the impression will be formed in real time, not pre-loaded by whatever someone found on a screen. It isn't evasion—it's an invitation to show up fresh.

11. They've realized that silence online doesn't mean they don't have a life

The people who matter know where they are.

The people who don't know were probably relying on the feed to maintain a connection that wasn't actually there.

The quiet online hasn't made them less present—it's made them more present in the places that count.

They're at the lunch. They're in the room. They just aren't on the screen. And the distinction matters to them more than most people realize—because the people who confuse online silence with absence are often the same people who confuse online presence with connection.

12. They'd rather protect their inner life than protect their image

Most people worry about how they look to the world.

These people worry about how the world gets in.

They've built a boundary not around their reputation but around their experience—keeping the internal landscape intact by limiting who has access to it.

The belief underneath all of this is simple: some things are more valuable when they're not shared. Some joy is richer when it's private. Some love is deeper when it isn't documented. And some version of themselves is more real precisely because no one else has ever seen it.

Will Trump Nuke Iran to Bring a Quick End to the Stalemate?

I have my own hypothesis about why the idiot is clueless about the war on Iran: He is merely following the Zionists' directives. He himself doesn't want war, but he has been fooled and bamboozled by his Zionist handlers into waging war against Iran. The world has accepted a nuclear North Korea, a nuclear Pakistan, a nuclear India, and a nuclear Israel. What difference will it make if Iran becomes a nuclear country? The thing with nuclear weapons is that no one dares use them offensively; they serve as a defensive deterrent. Even if Iran develops a nuclear bomb, it will never use it unless it is willing to disappear from the surface of the globe.

Which brings me to the really scary scenario of the senile madman in the Whout House deciding - if Iran doesn't surrender (which I don't think it ever will, like the Vietcong back in the 1960s nd 1970s) - to nuke Iran in order to bring a quick end to the stalemate. Trump can cite Truman's 1945 calculation of the number of casualties (US and Japanese) that would succumb from a land invasion of Japan versus the number of casualties from dropping a nuclear bomb, and use it as an argument in favor of nuking Iran. Trump can also be assured that history will remember him more for dropping the first nuclear bomb since 1945 than for all his epic criminality and stupidity. Still, it's hard to foresee the consequences of nuking Iran.

Trump did not want war, but the Zionists gave him orders and he is reluctantly obeying them. He does want a quick end to the war, for fear of losing his Arab Gulf allies and losing the midterms next November. With his shallow cerebrum, he might think that a couple of nuclear bombs over Tehran might assuage his fears an secure him a paragraph in the history books. 
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The question isn’t whether Trump is clueless about the war in Iran, it’s why
Steve Benen
Thu, March 12, 2026


President Donald Trump speaks on stage on March 11, 2026, in Hebron, Kentucky. (Andrew Harnik / Getty Images)

On Wednesday night, after headlining a campaign rally in Kentucky, Donald Trump spoke briefly to reporters at the White House, one of whom asked about developments in the Strait of Hormuz. The president responded, “The straits are in great shape.”

This was plainly absurd. Indeed, the crisis conditions in this relatively small waterway between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, which includes shipping lanes that provide much of the world with oil and fertilizer, have generated deadly violence, disrupted oil supplies and wreaked havoc in global markets.

So why did Trump say things are “in great shape”? It’s certainly possible that he was just trying to deceive the public, as he has been known to do, but there’s another explanation that’s worth considering: What if the president has no idea what he’s talking about, and appears generally clueless about the war he started for reasons he hasn’t explained, because people around him are afraid to present him with facts? The New York Times had a report this week that included a memorable element:

Inside the administration, some officials are growing pessimistic about the lack of a clear strategy to finish the war. But they have been careful not to express that directly to the president, who has repeatedly declared that the military operation is a complete success.

To be sure, much of Trump’s incoherence is his own fault. On Wednesday, for example, he referred to the U.S. military offensive as a “war” and an “excursion.” Asked which of those labels was accurate, he replied, “Well, it’s both. It’s an excursion that will keep us out of a war. … For them, it’s a war. For us, it’s turned out to be easier than we thought.”

Got that? According to the Republican president, we’re currently in a war that will keep us out of a war, except for our enemy, for which it is an actual war. (This came just a couple of days after Trump offered a related assessment, in which he said the United States has already won the war, which we’ll win soon, which we haven’t won enough, which is both over and just getting started.)

The evidence that this guy is just in over his head is overwhelming.

But I’m also interested in the nonsensical claims that might also be attributed to the president being in an information bubble of the White House’s making. Trump insisted this week, for example, that the entirety of Iran’s political leadership has been completely eliminated. Reuters reported soon after that U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that Iran’s leadership “is still largely intact and is not at risk of collapse any time soon.”

Did Trump just peddle made-up nonsense, was his team afraid to present him with inconvenient facts, or was it both?

Similarly, earlier this week, the president said several Middle Eastern countries, including Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, have attacked Iran in recent days. That has not happened.

Was Trump, who has long struggled to tell the difference between reality and events he wishes were true, telling another tall tale, or did administration officials assure him that we have many allies that have joined the fight?

The most obvious explanation for Trump’s rampant falsehoods is that he’s the most prolific liar in modern American history, one who wants the public to believe his war/excursion is a great success. But as the crisis continues, it’ll be worth watching to see how many facts are kept from Trump by aides and officials who are afraid to tell their boss what he doesn’t want to hear.

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United Scams of America's Healthcare Compared to Japan's

Since I do all my heathcare overseas, my Medicare Advantage (Part C) provider recently dumped me with a deliberately ambiguous non-explanation: Something like "you will no longer be covered under your plan as of the date of xxxxx". I'm only left with interpretations and suppositions like they weren't making enough money off my back and Medicare because I almost never use them.

So I am now defaulted back to Original Medicare (Parts A and B). But I plan to eventually disenroll from Part B and save $202 a month because I do all my medical care in other countries. It's always much much cheaper, and you're treated like a human being and not like a "patient", a "consumer", a "client", a "customer", and as you'll read from the story below, you are spared the harassment, the multiple mailings, the commercialization, the exploitation and the incomprehensible billing... Plus you get to travel around. I've had superb dental work done, as well as surgeries for a mastoidectomy and hernia, CT and MRI scans, and I've done cardiac and GI checkups (colonoscopy and gastroscopy), etc... all in countries where the concept of healthcare is first and foremost a public service and is less of a business.

It is really difficult to understand why most Americans are convinced that theirs is the best healthcare system in the world. Granted that there may be a few institutions in the US where scientists and physicians (mostly immigrants now hunted down the streets by ICE and CBP because of accents, skin color or an ancient traffic violation) make discoveries and inventions (thanks to the NIH and NSF grants that Trump and RFK Jr are dismantling to save money). 

But in the average American's daily life, healthcare in the United Scams of America is ... well, a scam by insurance companies to bilk people of as much money as possible while traumatizing them with uncertainty, confusing language and hidden fine print, fraudulent billing, etc.... I'm sure many of you have been through the American healthcare nightmare. But I finally quit my stupidly patriotic addiction to the belief that the American healthcare system is the best and I frequently travel seeking some of the best and most decent healthcare systems around the world for a fraction of the cost and without heartaches and sleepless nights.

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I'm an American who got a full medical checkup in Japan. In 4 hours, I learned more about my health than I would in years at home.
Ingrid Yang
Thu, March 12, 2026


I got a full medical checkup during my trip to Japan. This preventive care taught me a lot about my health in an efficient way. Ingrid Yang

While in Japan, I got a comprehensive preventive medical checkup that took just four hours.

A translator helped me navigate the process, and I completed several tests and screenings.

The $1,800 exam showed me how Japan's emphasis on preventive care can help with longevity.

I arrived at the hospital in Tokyo on a clear December morning aware of two things: how far I was from home and how little Japanese I speak.

Like many visitors to Japan, my vocabulary consists of pleasantries, menu items, and apologies, which is hardly the skill you need when checking in for a full medical workup.

As a physician practicing in the United States, I know how medical visits usually unfold, yet that knowledge does not make the experience easier once you become the patient.

Although I'd been to Japan many times before, the country has long fascinated me with its longevity. It consistently ranks among places where people live the longest, and although many factors contribute, its cultural embrace of preventive medicine stands out.

On this trip, I was determined to experience that system from the inside.
A huge goal of these checkup is to catch small issues before they become big problems

NTT Tokyo hospital lobbyIngrid Yang

Despite my worries about the language barrier, booking the appointment through the Nippon Health website turned out to be easier than expected.

I chose NTT Tokyo in Shinagawa, one of many medical centers that accommodates international patients. The website was in English, the intake forms were straightforward, and the email responses arrived quickly. Within two days, I had a confirmed appointment.

The type of checkup I scheduled costs about $1,800 and is known in Japan as a "ningen dock."

The phrase loosely translates to "human dock," borrowing the nautical image of pulling a ship from the water so its structure can be inspected before it returns to sea.

The goal is not to wait for problems, but to periodically examine the vessel. After all, preventive screening in Japan is simply part of the routine maintenance of adulthood.
With the help of a translator, my tests and exams moved smoothly and quickly

NTT medical center entranceIngrid Yang

When I arrived at the clinic, I searched for English signs while the antiseptic air stirred a subtle flicker of nerves.

My nerves faded when the elevator doors opened. A supervising nurse greeted me with a bow and introduced me to the Japanese-to-English translator, who would guide me through the day.

They led me down a spotless hallway to a private changing room where a neatly folded patient uniform waited: sweatpants and a brown scrub-style top that felt almost dignified compared with the backless gowns I hand my own patients.

I pulled the sleeves toward my wrists and watched them stop short, a reminder that I was an American-sized body navigating a Japanese system.

Over the next four hours, I moved through a comprehensive preventive medical checkup that, in the US, would typically require months of scheduling, referrals, and coordination.

CTIngrid Yang

Throughout the day, my translator did more than translate — she explained the reasoning of the sequence of tests and exams and clarified cultural details.

With her help, the visit unfolded smoothly as a clearly guided process. The pace was not rushed, yet nothing stalled.

My morning began with bloodwork and urinalysis, followed by measurements that included height, weight, vision, hearing, grip strength, lung capacity, and blood pressure.

From there, the testing moved to imaging and diagnostic studies: electrocardiogram, chest X-ray and CT, abdominal ultrasound, bone-density scan, and gastric screening.

Each test had its own technician, a clear flow, and a station ready before I arrived.

Small gestures, like technicians bowing before explaining each test, created a sense of ease and reflected a process refined through years of repetition.

lab waiting areaIngrid Yang

At the end of the testing sequence, I immediately met with a physician to review my lab results.

This was incredibly useful and turned out to be one of the biggest differences from the American system — normally, I'd wait days or weeks to get lab results through a portal or follow-up appointment.

While reviewing the results of my exams and tests, the physician emphasized that no single checkup is definitive and that the real value lies in building a dataset over time.

Even so, a few findings gave me clear insight into habits worth adjusting, which made the experience genuinely useful.

I left the clinic with a folder of results, a few recommendations, and additional imaging reports (that required a radiologist's interpretation) arriving in the weeks ahead.
By the end, I had experienced firsthand a few things Japan's system gets right about longevity

HallwayIngrid Yang

The $1,800 cost of this exam sounds a bit substantial … until you compare it with the American system. A similar collection of tests in the United States can easily cost more than $10,000, depending on insurance coverage and billing practices.

More important than the price is the simplicity and efficiency of this process — everything took place in one building over a single morning.

There were no separate referrals, no weeks of waiting for scheduling calls, and no surprise invoices months later. The experience was not dramatic or life-changing. In many ways, it was deliberately ordinary.

The most valuable aspect of the visit was its completeness. In the United States, health information trickles in over time: a lab result here, an imaging report later, maybe a conversation at the next appointment.

That morning, everything unfolded in practical succession: bloodwork, scans, consultation. I walked out with a clear sense of what was worth paying attention to and which habits were serving me well.

It reminded me that longevity is not built through dramatic medical moments. It develops through systems that help you see your health clearly and make adjustments before problems appear.

Just one morning inside a Tokyo hospital showed me how a culture can make that kind of maintenance feel routine.

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Did the Penile Demented Idiot go to War to Distract us from Sticky Epstein Files?

Jaw-Dropping Poll Reveals Real Reason Behind Trump’s War in Iran
Laura Esposito
Thu, March 12, 2026

A majority of Americans think that Donald Trump’s surprise attack on Iran was an effort to distract the public from his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, according to new research.

Fifty-two percent of likely voters polled by the progressive think tank Data for Progress said they believed Trump at least partly launched strikes on Iran on Feb 28 to distract from his once-close relationship with the late financier and convicted sex offender, which was thrust back into view following the Department of Justice’s botched release of the so-called “Epstein files.”

The survey—funded by Zeteo and Drop Site News and conducted among 1,272 likely voters—also found that at least a quarter of Republicans shared the same belief.

Jeffrey Epstein alleged that he was the president's closest friend for ten years. / Davidoff Studios Photography / Getty Images

Additionally, a striking two-thirds of people under 45 echoed such claims, according to the survey.

The poll also found that 55 percent of respondents disapproved of the war, a finding consistent with several other surveys.

Last week, a separate poll from CNN found that nearly six in 10 Americans oppose the president and Israel’s coordinated strikes on Iran, which, as of publication, have claimed the lives of at least seven U.S. service members.

The president, 79, said at a press conference Monday that he expects the war he launched to end “very soon.”

But a majority of those surveyed by CNN—56 percent—said they believe long-term military conflict between the United States and Iran is at least “somewhat likely.”

Even lawmakers have accused the president of starting a war to distract from Epstein, who died by suicide in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019.

Rep. Thomas Massie vowed he won't be distracted from Jeffrey Epstein. / Screenshot/X / X

A day after Trump struck Iran, Rep. Thomas Massie issued a pointed reminder that war would not distract him from his push to force the Justice Department to release all documents linked to Epstein.

“PSA: Bombing a country on the other side of the globe won’t make the Epstein files go away, any more than the Dow going above 50,000 will,” the Kentucky libertarian wrote on X.

Massie is one of several Trump critics who have accused the president of staging foreign policy crises and other White House controversies to deflect scrutiny from his historic relationship with Epstein, particularly as new Justice Department documents related to the late sex trafficker’s crimes are released.

Massie and his Democratic ally, Rep. Ro Khanna, spearheaded the Epstein Files Transparency Act—which Trump begrudgingly signed into law—directing the Justice Department to release all files connected to Epstein.

Just this week, it was reported that documents detailing FBI interviews with an Epstein victim who accused Trump of sexually abusing her when she was 13 are reportedly being kept under wraps by the Department of Justice. The Department of Justice published 16 pages regarding the accuser last week, yet more than three dozen pages remain missing from the Epstein files, according to an analysis by NPR, including “files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor.”

The Daily Beast has reached out to the White House for comment.

US-Born White Trash American Rapes Children, but is Not Deported

 

He's pure white ... trash that is. US-born and entitled to the country his grandparents raped and plundered. His parents or grandparents were migrants, perhaps of Scottish (KKK founders), German (Nazi hoodlums) or French Nazi collaborator stock, but he isn't a migrant. He was beamed out of his mother's womb right here on American soil and was thus personally saved by Jesus, and is therefore in theory undeportable. He will instead spend the rest of his miserable days in prison, costing us taxpayers millions of dollars.

Per AI, "The average cost of keeping a prisoner in jail in the U.S. is around $65,000 per year, but this can vary significantly by state, with some states spending as little as $19,202 annually and others over $100,000. The costs include expenses for staffing, healthcare, and facility operations".

His curriculum vitae, so to speak, makes him a great candidate to become an ICE thug or a CBP goon or a polite but racist Turning Stomach USA cult operative. Instead of jail, he should be made to work at sadistically arresting and manhandling, and who knows, raping and killing, innocent people as he implements Trump's immigration policies and tries to convert them to Evangelical Christianity. 
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Pennsylvania Man Who Raped and Beat Children, Locked Victims in Dog Kennels Sentenced to Prison
Julia Marnin
Updated Thu, March 12, 2026


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A Pennsylvania man accused of raping four children over a span of decades “will be behind bars for the rest of his life,” the state’s attorney general announced.

Andrew Allamon, of Perry County, was found guilty in October of multiple counts of rape, unlawful contact with a minor, sexual assault, indecent assault of a child, and endangering the welfare of a child, according to the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General.

Allamon’s conviction stemmed from years of him using his “relationships with the victims to carry out evil, disgusting acts,” Attorney General Dave Sunday previously said in a news release issued on October 31, 2025.

According to prosecutors, Allamon sexually abused victims while armed with a pocket knife.

He allegedly used the knife “during sex acts and in other apparent acts of cruelty,” against the minor victims, the state attorney general’s office said.

If the children “did not comply” with the abuse, Allamon allegedly beat them and forced punishments, including by locking victims inside dog kennels and making them “eat out of dog bowls,” according to prosecutors.

On Tuesday, March 10, a Perry County judge handed Allamon a sentence of 65.5 years to 131 years in prison in connection with four victims, the attorney general’s office said in a news release issued that same day.

“This defendant no longer presents a threat to anyone in our communities,” Sunday said in a statement.

“We hope the survivors who bravely testified at trial can take solace from this outcome and continue moving on with their lives,” Sunday added.

In an emailed statement to Us Weekly on Wednesday, March 11, Allamon’s defense attorney Shawn M. Stottlemyer said that “Mr. Allamon's sentence, although not unexpected given the outcome of the trial, is very lengthy.”

“Mr. Allamon maintained his innocence throughout the Sentencing Hearing and looks forward to exercising his post-sentence and appellate rights,” Stottlemyer added.

After an investigation was launched by Pennsylvania State Police, criminal charges were filed against Allamon in September 2023 in connection with alleged sexual abuse beginning in 1990, according to police, the Daily Voice reported.

Allamon is accused of raping children as young as 5 and 9, investigators said, according to the outlet.

Before Allamon was convicted in October in connection with four victims, he was found guilty of unlawful touching and attempted indecent assault in connection with a fifth victim, according to the attorney general’s office.

In April 2025, he was sentenced to four to eight years in prison on those charges, the attorney general’s office said.

Perry County is about a 30-mile drive northwest from Harrisburg.

If you or someone you know is experiencing child abuse, call or text Child Help Hotline at 1-800-422-4453.

Trump's Afrikaaner Nazi Refugees Heading Back Home: Dismal American Dream

Yup, those poor white South African "refugees", of European Nazi colonial settler vintage, who escaped the "genocide" perpetrated against them by the South African government by fleeing to Trump's fantastically warm United States, are finding that the American dream is just Republican MAGA cordon-bleu bullshit. They seem to have discovered that the "genocide" in their South African colony is much better than Trump's asylum for the insane that the US has become.

They found fear, brutality, violence, chaos and ignorance in Trump's US that are far worse than any "discrimination" Trump claimed they face in their white Afrikaaner colonial settler enclaves in South Africa. Trump's attempts at "bleaching" America's inexorably darkening skin color are, as expected, failing because the dumba-- Orangutan and his hillbilly white trash advisers haven't learned their history.

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White South African ‘Refugees’ Choose to Head Home Instead of Living Under Trump
Leigh Kimmins
Wed, March 11, 2026


MANDEL NGAN / AFP via Getty Images (MANDEL NGAN)

The Trump administration’s crusade to “save” white South Africans from supposed persecution is backfiring.

Instead of embracing his invitation to America, growing numbers of those same expatriates are buying one-way tickets home—disillusioned by the violence, fear, and brutality in Trump’s United States.

Andrew Veitch, who left South Africa for California two decades ago after being carjacked, told Reuters he no longer feels safe in Trump’s America. “People are being shot in broad daylight. American citizens are being shot and killed,” said the 53-year-old. He plans to return to South Africa this year, joining a wave of repatriations driven by disillusionment with the country that once promised security.

Trump sparred with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office in May. / Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images

“I don’t want to live in a place like this,” Veitch told the outlet.

Trump’s officials have defended Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers who killed two U.S. citizens in January, claiming self-defense—though video evidence disputes that.

South Africa, which Trump once accused of persecuting whites, now finds itself welcoming thousands back. South Africa’s government says there is “no evidence” of racial discrimination against whites, and newly relaxed laws have prompted an online rush: 12,000 expatriates have checked their eligibility to reclaim citizenship since November.

Reuters reported that Home Affairs Minister Leon Schreiber, a member of the white-led Democratic Alliance coalition, said 1,000 people have already reclaimed their citizenship, with many more expected. “There is definitely a sense of optimism for South Africans abroad,” he said.

Recruiters helping expats return report a surge in interest. DNA Employer of Record saw inquiries jump 70 percent in six months, while HomecomingEx reported a 30 percent rise since 2024. The motivations go beyond politics. Expats cite cheaper living, proximity to family, and, increasingly, exhaustion with American volatility.

Benjamin Schoonwinkel, a 59-year-old white Afrikaner, also found himself tangled in the Trump administration’s heavy-handed immigration clampdown.

He flew from Johannesburg to Atlanta in September after the president openly embraced white South Africans. But when Schoonwinkel landed in the U.S. on a tourist visa and told American border agents that he was seeking asylum, he was detained and later thrown into a federal detention facility in rural Georgia.

Naomi and Danny Saphire pose with their children and dogs at their new home in Plettenberg Bay after returning from the U.S. / Esa Alexander / REUTERS

“I never expected this to happen,” he told The New York Times.

Schoonwinkel decided to come to the U.S. on his own rather than go through the refugee program. Departed Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said at the time, “Anyone who claims asylum at a port of entry is subject to mandatory detention while the government investigates their claims.”

South African data undercuts Trump’s well-worn narrative of “white genocide.” Unemployment stands at 35 percent for Black people and 8 percent for white people in the country, while police figures show more Black victims than white in farm attacks.

The White House did not immediately return the Daily Beast’s request for comment.

US-Born White Americans Not Listening to Trump: They Discard Newborns in Trash

According to AI, "The Trump administration, including President Donald Trump himself, has been promoting policies aimed at encouraging Americans to have more babies, often referred to as "pronatalist" initiatives. This effort is supported by various allies within the administration who advocate for conservative family values and reversing declining birth rates."

Obviously they want more white babies to tilt the demographics of the country away from a "darker-skinned" majority that is looming for some time this century. Per my previous post, people believe Trump is conducting his own ethnic cleansing of the US by harassing, persecuting, deporting, jailing and occasionally killing Americans who do not look like Marylin Monroe or who have an accent that is more exotic than the digusting southern drawl.

But white trash Americans who constitute Trump's "base" of MAGA morons appear not to be listening to his admonition to procreate and produce more white ignorant illiterate peasants who claim to be God's new-and-improved chosen people.

To wit, this blonde bimbo from the backward state of Kentucky had a baby out of wedlock (a sin for Evangelist morons), was prevented by Jesus freaks from having an abortion, delivered her bastard white trash baby and proceeded to discard it in the dumpster. That's two strikes, one against God and Jesus and all that stuff, and the other against MAGA and its Orangutan prophet of doom.

Human justice will surely be meted out against her, but behold the wrath of God and his MAGA prophet Donald Dump. Had he been allowed to live, this bastard white child could have pursued a career one day as an SS-ICE-Nazi or a CBP-Gestapo... 

We hear that Donald Trump's best friend Jeffrey Epstein, before he was murdered in his jail cell to keep him from spilling the beans on his career as an underage-girl rapist, ran a ranch in New Mexico in which he deliberately impregnated dozens of young girls with the specific objective of augmenting his DNA share in the American genetic pool. 

Just like the Catholic Church, bigoted conservatives and religious imbeciles ban everything that prevents pregnancies (no masturbation, no sex before marriage, staying celibate "pure", no sex for priests, no condoms, no abortions, no morning-after pills, etc....). For some reason, their intellectual underpinnings are always focused on the gonadal part of the body between the navel and the knees - or "below the belt" as it is often called. 

They seem to think a lot about sex, which explains why they are often caught with their pants down and their cassocks up as they adulterously fornicate with other people's spouses, molest and practice sodomy on other people's children, and just as often sodomize other men!! 
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US-Born White Kentucky Student Kills and Ditches her Newborn Baby in the Trash. 
Terra Watts
Wed, March 11, 2026 


Laken Snelling

A former University of Kentucky student has been indicted on a charge of first-degree manslaughter of her baby. She is also charged with abuse of a corpse, tampering with evidence, and concealing the birth of an infant.

In August 2025 her baby was found dead in a residence in Lexington, not far from the University of Kentucky campus. Police were called to the residence on Park Avenue, and they found a baby in a towel in a trash bag in a closet. The baby died at the scene.

According to court documents, Snelling told police that she had given birth to a baby and then placed it in a trash bag in a closet. The baby died, and police charged Snelling with abuse of a corpse, tampering with evidence, and concealing the birth of an infant. A grand jury decided to indict Snelling on a charge of first-degree manslaughter after it was determined that the baby had been born alive.

The Kentucky Medical Examiner’s Office ruled that the baby died of “asphyxia by undetermined means.”

Trump's Ethnic Cleansing of the US: Cloning the Zionist Playbook

Trump has dutifully obeyed his Radical-Right Zionist masters' orders in waging a deceptive Bush-W-me-too-Iraq-War against Iran. Watch the MAGA morons get increasingly disappointed as the body bags of SUCKERS AND LOSERS start pulling Trump's polls down toward the midterms. Attending boring funerals for SUCKERS AND LOSERS dying for their country takes time away from playing Golf. Always be cognizant of the fact that Trump policies can nearly all be traced back to how the Zionist leash around his neck is yanked. Unless, of course, he is planning another seditious subversive crime against fair elections this coming November, in which case he's gonna go full monty on cheating, bullying, making up emergencies...

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‘You Trigger My Gag Reflex’: GOP Senator And Witness Throw Down Over Trump’s Mass Deportations

Alex Griffing

Tue, March 10, 2026 at 8:52 PM GMT+2·3 min read

Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) sparred with CATO Institute Director of Immigration Studies David Bier during a Senate Budget Committee hearing on Tuesday about sanctuary cities in the U.S.

Kennedy began the tense exchange with Bier by bringing up some of his past statements, “Don’t you think your hyperbolic statements undermine your credibility?”

Bier replied, “What hyperbolic statement did I make?”

Kennedy added, “On February the 11th, 2026, you posted on Bluesky. My words — or your words, not mine. ‘The Democrats’ video telling service members to ignore illegal orders didn’t go far enough. They should have also urged them to refuse unethical orders, whether illegal or not. There are many things deemed legal that are still obviously unethical, and everyone should hold themselves to this higher law.’ End quote. Did I read that correctly?”

Bier replied, “I believe you did. Do you disagree with it? You think people should do unethical things in their capacity as–”

Kennedy jumped back in, “On December the 31st of 2025, you posted — in front of God and country, you said — quote, ‘They’ — referring to Republicans — ‘think they can troll their way into us accepting ethnic cleansing.’ End quote. Your words, not mine. Did I read that correctly?”

Bier hit back, “That was in regard to a Department of Homeland Security post advocating 100 million deportations. That is what DHS tweeted from their own account. A hundred million deportations would be ethnic cleansing. You would be removing one-third of the country. So yes, there are people within the Department of Homeland Security–”

Kennedy cut in, “And you don’t think this is hyperbolic? Give me 30 more seconds.”

Bier replied, “I think advocating 100 million deportations is ethnic cleansing.”

“On February 5th, you quoted — you said the following on Bluesky,” Kennedy continued as Bier jabbed, “Your time is up.”

“These are all good, but there’s no enforcement mechanism. I’m sorry, let me try a better one,” Kennedy replied, adding:

On March 2nd, you said, quote, “If you rule against Trump’s population purge agenda” — no hyperbole there — “the nativists will name you, threaten you, and come after you. These judges are much braver than the ICE agents who hide behind masks while violating the Constitution.”

Bier doubled down, “They are much braver. They put their names on their rulings, and they stand behind their constitutional rulings.” He concluded:

When I talk about “population purge,” I’m talking about the fact that they’re trying to deport US-born citizens — people born here. They are trying to deport them as well. So it’s not a mass deportation agenda; it is also an agenda intended to reduce the population of the United States, including US-born people. So these are not hyperbolic statements. I appreciate you reading my account. I appreciate it. Here’s the good news—

Kennedy concluded as he was urged to wrap it up, “Wait a minute, Mr. Chairman. What planet did you just parachute in from?” The committee chair tried to stop Kennedy there as he added, “You trigger my gag reflex.”

Watch the clip above via C-SPAN.

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David Bier, a witness at a Senate Budget Committee hearing Tuesday, drew a incoherent rant from digusting southern-drawling imbecile GOP Sen. John Kennedy from backward Louisiana. Bier has accused the Trump administration of engaging in a "population purge" in the U.S.

Earlier in the hearing, Bier, an immigration policy expert at the CATO Institute, argued that both legal and illegal aliens "are a benefit to this country" because they help to reduce the national deficit.

Bier claimed that federal judges opposing President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement operations "are much braver" than U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. "They are much braver. They put their names on their rulings, and they stand behind their constitutional rulings," said Bier.

He accused the administration of carrying out a "population purge," saying, "They're trying to deport U.S.-born citizens, people born here, they are trying to deport them as well. So, it's not a mass deportation agenda, it is also an agenda intended to reduce the population of the United States, including U.S.-born people."

Earlier in the hearing, Bier had called for "more" immigrants to help address the soaring national deficit. While being questioned by Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., Bier said that there are "clear reasons for believing that they are reducing the deficits and debt, they are a benefit to this country, and we need more people who are going to contribute in the future as our population ages."

Bier said "it's easy to understand why" immigrants reduce the deficit "because they work at 12 percentage points higher than the national average, they use less benefits because they're subject to constraints, unique barriers to applying for those benefits, in particular Social Security and Medicare. Those are by far our largest programs, and they're not eligible for those at all if they're here in the country illegally or if they came legally and they don't have a sufficient work history to qualify."

After the hearing, Bier later told Fox News Digital that "this exchange had nothing to do with illegal immigration" and that "the question was about immigration generally." Bier posited that more immigration is a positive step for the country.

"According to the Social Security Administration, we need about 35 million more workers in order to keep revenues equal to expenses by the middle of the 2030s," he said. "So, we are at a position right now where immigration is not going to solve it. Obviously, it's not going to solve it, but it is moving us in the right direction."

He praised immigrants, saying, "These are people who are showing up, they're ready to work, they're often prime age individuals who are ready to enter the labor force."

"So, it's a huge benefit fiscally to the United States to have these people who want to contribute to our country," he added.

Bier was not the only one arguing in the hearing that immigrants can improve communities. Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., one of the Trump administration’s most outspoken critics, took a similar line, arguing that sanctuary policies actually lower crime, poverty and unemployment.

"Data shows that sanctuary policies actually make communities safer, healthier and more prosperous. That's right, the evidence shows, the research shows sanctuary jurisdictions have lower crime rates, higher median household income, less poverty, less reliance on public assistance, higher labor force participation, and lower unemployment," said Padilla.

"That's right. It seems like sanctuary cities are helping to make America great, I said it," he added.

Lady Lindsey Graham Wants Communist Cuba to Fall. But Communist China OK?

Lady Lindsey Graham suddenly has some testosterone running in his veins. But like any bully, this charlatan MAGA republican from the backward pro-slavery state of South Carolina is a hyyyuuuge coward: Flex muscles against the poor and downtrodden like Communist Cuba, but make friends with mighty and powerful Communist China. What gives? Not much, just that a bully is typically a coward.

Iran is not "Communist", yet it is one of those countries that have fallen victim to imperial America which, truth be told, hates Iran for only two reasons: Oil theft, and keeping the bastard Anglo-American child Israel as the unchallenged oil police in the Near East. 

On oil, there is not much to explain other than it was English-American collusion that coup-toppled a very normal, middle of the way, democratically elected government of Mohammad Mosadeg back in the 1950s because Mr. Mosadeg wanted to take his country's oil industry out of the hands of colonial Britain's "Anglo-Persian Oil Company". The English did it with Egypt too when Nasser wanted to take control of his country's Suez Canal, as part of a fine and "civilized" Israeli, French and English coalition of colonial hegemons. Interesting that the US back then supported Egypt against that colonial coalition. Nasser succeeded in Egypt, but Mosadeg in Iran did not. He was imprisoned and the decadent puppet Shah of Iran was installed to serve western interests. Can you now understand why the Iranians hate the US and the West in general? 

“They are going to fall. This communist dictatorship in Cuba, their days are numbered,” said the closeted gay republican Graham.

It's true what they say: Pick fights you can win, and Cuba is an easy target for the American bully. But therein lies the hypocrisy and the jesuitism. If you want to wage war against "Communist" Cuba on principle, shouldn't you also wage war against "Communist" China (nuclear), Vietnam, North Korea (nuclear), and Laos? And perhaps, since we're on a roll, all the Socialist (dirty word in the US) countries out there like Russia, Nicaragua, Eritrea, Bolivia, India, Nepal, Portugal, Spain, Bangladesh... not to mention those "former allies" of the US who, while not publicly Socialists, run socialist welfare and heavy-handed regulatory systems of governance, which is essentially all of Europe.

Trump and his cabal are taking us back to a 1950s mindset, stoking fear in a credulous and ignorant American people for the sole objective of expanding the American capitalistic pilfering of world resources. This amounts not just to bullying for the sake of bullying, but with a definite touch of Mafia blackmail and thievery.