Speaking of Saudi Arabia, now seems like just as good a time as any to remind the reality based community of the crown prince’s comments regarding 9/11 in 2025 when he was invited to the White House by Trump:

The moment he was asked about Saudi Arabia’s role, the polished veneer cracked. After offering a few seconds of hollow sympathy, he shifted into a lecture on Osama bin Laden’s motivations and admonished Americans to “focus on reality.” For the thousands of families who lost loved ones on 9/11—and for the investigators, intelligence officers and bipartisan lawmakers who spent more than two decades uncovering the truth—his comments were not just dismissive. They were offensive.

Then came the most alarming claim: that Saudi Arabia was actually the victim because Al Qaeda supposedly targeted the U.S.-Saudi relationship. That is not reality. It is gaslighting. It ignores a substantial body of evidence showing that Saudi government officials—paid through the Ministry of Islamic Affairs and stationed in American cities—provided support to the hijackers before the attacks.

For years, the kingdom’s strategy was simple: deny, deflect and make the problem go away through political pressure. That ended on August 28, 2025, when federal Judge George Daniels rejected Saudi Arabia’s latest attempt to escape accountability and concluded after 13 months of careful review that the record collectively supports a determination that the Saudi government “knowingly, or at least with deliberate indifference, participated in supporting the [911] hijackers “terrorist activity.”

And even thought it’s doesn’t fit the reality Hegseth is trying to create, probably a good time to also remember what actually preceded the U.S. attacking Iran to “help defend Israel in this holy war.”

Push from Saudis, Israel helped move Trump to attack Iran

The Saudi crown prince, actually preemptively lobbied for Trump to attack Iran multiple times in the month leading up to the attack.

Because it’s in the Bible…?

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Come on, didn’t you hear the language they’re using to describe war, like “double tap” 😉? It’ll be fun, just like a video game. Except when you die it’s permanent.

Come on! Don’t be a 😺 be a penguin 🐧

Btw, this is almost definitely an AI rip off of the footprints in the sand poster, right? I know the actual picture of the penguin isn’t, but if you gave AI a prompt to use that image and convey blind faith, loyalty, nationalism and Trump as a savior, what do you think it would generate?

Maybe I’m reading too much into it, but knowing how propaganda is supposed to work, I can say it definitely caught some part of my own subconscious, and reminded me of iconic Christian pop culture I was surrounded by growing up. If you’re unfamiliar with the poem,

During the 1980 United States presidential campaign, Ronald Reagan used a variant of “Footprints”, with himself as the human, as the closing lines in an August speech to evangelical leaders in Dallas, Texas. President Reagan used “Footprints” again in a speech at the annual National Prayer Breakfast on 5 February 1981.

“Stray from the crowd” via conscription into the king’s military. Individualism is selfish. Your path has already been decided and laid out for you. So go protect the profits of the wealthy pedophiles destroying America and shitting on the constitution.

Don’t think too much about it. This is God’s will. It’s all in the Bible (if you squint).

You’ll just have to trust us.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/are-us-attacks-iran-legal-2026-03-04/

Presidents of both parties have conducted military strikes without congressional approval when it was in the national interest but less intense in ⁠duration and scope than what would be considered a war – a limit that Trump may be testing.

He’s already admitted and at this point Congress seems fully aware, this is going to last beyond any scope that would be considered a strike vs war.

Also, why TF did he hit a fucking elementary school? I hate to use the term double tap because it’s fucking stupid and this is not a video game, but that is the term they used to describe it. Just like they did to those fishermen they killed in Venezuela.

They’re escalating, just like any serial killer.

WHAT DOES INTERNATIONAL LAW SAY?

Legal experts said many countries will consider the attacks unjustified under the United Nations Charter, which states that member states must refrain from using force or the threat of force against other states. There are exceptions when force is authorized by the U.N. Security Council or used in self-defense in response to armed attack, neither of which applies. There is also the concept of pre-emptive self-defense, which would arguably allow the United States to attack Iran if it had proof of an imminent, overwhelming attack. The United ⁠States has a veto at the U.N. Security Council, shielding Washington. Legal experts said violating international law still carries a cost and both the United Kingdom and Spain have limited the use of their bases in the attacks, citing the lack of justification for the conflict.

It seems pretty clear what would happen if they (Trump, Netenyahu, MsB, and all the sycophants below them and handlers above them) ever faced a trial for their crimes. Which is why they’re hoping starting WWIII will keep that from happening.

She’s been very consistently and vocally opposed to war in Iran. https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/icymi-in-floor-speech-warren-slams-trumps-war-in-iran-exposes-10-ways-big-beautiful-bill-increases-costs

“We all agree that Iran should not and cannot have a nuclear weapon…But the only successful strategy for preventing Iran from developing a nuclear weapon is diplomacy, something Trump had been pursuing right up until Netanyahu began bombing Iran,” said Senator Warren.

Trump didn’t say shit about going to war with Iran before doing it. It’s probably the most impulsive thing he’s done as president, (so far), which is why we’ve heard several excuses for why he did it and why these excuses he gives seem to contradict each other.

It was definitely naive and unnecessary for her to stand and applaud in hindsight, but keep in mind Trump had been in the middle of negotiating peace talks. Warren (and literally everyone else) did not know that he was going to just suddenly pivot away from the ongoing peace talks and try to kick off armageddon to avoid facing accountability.

I mean technically what he is doing is illegal, but so is 95% of everything this administration does.

As far as biggest mistakes America ever made, I would have to say:

1. The entire patriot act, which basically allows the government to legally ignore all of our rights in the name of protecting our safety (for instance during an unaccountable war started by the people who are keeping us safe.)

2. Citizens United, which declares faceless and unaccountable corporations with billions of dollars to burn are people too, and deserve the same consideration as individual citizens. More money to burn= more donations= “rights” and demands of unaccountable corporations are prioritized above the rights and demands of the American people.

So hypothetically, if corporations wanted to idk, overthrow the government or something…, they could: •Dump billions of dollars into propaganda and misinformation campaigns.

•Buy and install the majority of elected officials that make up a government

•Fully privatize the government via contracts the officials they have purchased then hand to their monopolies, so they profit from tax dollars and become the only option for public services (again with zero accountability).

•Sart global wars to capture resources, increase their profits, and spread their inverted totalitarianism around the globe in the name of spreading democracy and human rights. Aka Friendly fascism.

3. Ever creating the CIA after WWII, and enabling a government authority to have zero accountability from the public or even the president, for their policies or their budget, which is composed of tax dollars but also an untraceable amount of mystery income gained by their investments/partnerships with private corporations… 🙃

There was also some fucky shit going on with the CIA and mistake #1, (the Patriot Act), which I still don’t understand, and honestly nobody seems to actually understand. Because of whatever the patriot act did, each president gets to pick a new leader for the CIA, in the name of having more accountability. Because we all know more executive power should help eliminate the deep state…🙃

So the guy currently leading the CIA and directing all of these wars, was selected by Trump and his corporate handlers, to jizz this neo manifest destiny shit around the globe with zero plan other than destabilize, profit, and successful purchase/capture the entire globe, or, kill us all by trying. Drill baby drill.

🤔 I wonder what reason Trump, Netenyahu, and MbS could have for wanting to cause the apocalypse?

You’re not wrong, and to be clear I voted for Kamala just like I begrudgingly voted for Biden in 2020, and if somebody wants to argue things would be just as fucking horrible right now with Kamala as president, I would assume they’re a troll or just a contrarian not worth arguing with.

But if we’re looking at this as a continuum of who is to blame if the world were to end today, I do have to say I think there are plenty of more blameworthy people than just those on the left who either fell for propaganda or refused to compromise their values, and honestly (if not naively) believed they were making the right choice.

Regardless, we can’t change that now, but if the world ends this way, as of this day I honestly would have to say the establishment Democrats are continuing to edge towards more complicit than blameless, even while knowing this is their chance to prove why they deserve any votes they don’t receive.

If I could do 2024 again, I would still vote for Kamala, but I have to say, it makes me more than just a little angry to see so little effort by establishment Democrats to consider their constituents before their donors.

Why Can’t Top Democrats Just Say “No War With Iran”?

It’s definitely not all Democrats, and there have been some (like Wyden) who have made their opinions very clear. Those democrats deserve every vote they can get. But shit like this from Schumer only helps to undermine democracy and public faith in the democratic party. It would be great to not have to constantly question who’s interests he actually has in mind.

One such note included an anecdote from a noncommissioned officer, who reported that their commander had “urged us to tell our troops that this was ‘all part of God’s divine plan’ and he specifically referenced numerous citations out of the Book of Revelation referring to Armageddon and the imminent return of Jesus Christ.”

Anything can be “part of God’s divine plan” as long as some fundamentalist asshole wants to claim it is.

Was protecting pedophiles all part of God’s divine plan too, or were y’all just improvising? Guess we’ll all just have to wait and hear what God says. Probably sooner than any of us were expecting thanks to these mentally I’ll murderous cunts “righteous angels” who walk among us.

Yeah just saw that… Oh holy fuck

Holy fuck…🚨🚨🚨 🚩🚩🚩‼️‼️‼️

These people are legitimately crazy. Like drowning their kids in the bath tub because the voices in their head they think are Jesus told them to “save them,” level of crazy.

And we’re still claiming to be doing this because the Iranian people were stuck living under a murderous and repressive regime? Or has he just dropped the act?

O captain! My captain!

diagnosed President Trump with bone spurs as a favor to his father, Fred Trump, in order to help him avoid the military draft.

So Barron might be “too tall” to serve his country…? and even if he’s not I’m sure we’ll find out real quick that bone spurs run in the family.

It’s so insane that it has always been standard practice for wealthy and powerful men to start wars then refuse to send their own children to fight, but it’s especially egregious watching the Trump administration carry this shit out. The level of planning leading up to this to create another endless war seems so obvious in hindsight.

•Hegseth’s “anti-woke” military speech

•Elimination of government loans for education (even for nursing and medical school, so only the wealthy can afford an education, let alone a deferment. If you’re not born rich you have 2 options: take out private loans at a huge interest rate or join the army. Sign yourself over to the oligarchs one way or the other.)

•Up the country’s birth rates (gotta gradually replace them as they die by the thousands at war)

•Openly admitting your goal is to eliminate the entire department of education. Because you don’t need an education when your entire path birth to death has already been laid out for you:

You’re born to serve while Trump and his oligarchs sit in their country club and move you around like a piece of plastic on a game board.

Life is hard and it seems like people are constantly fighting and dying around you from the moment you’re born. It’s all you know. Everyone around you is sick, destitute, and miserable. There are no jobs. You have no education. You know nothing but struggle and see no future for yourself.

The army is the only hand reaching out and offering to help pull you up, so you grab it.

Then you either die thousands of miles away from your home or you come back and spend the rest of your life wounded, without a doubt mentally and pretty often physically.

If you try to speak out against it or warn others, you’re accused of being “woke.” There is no hesitation to show you how little your rights, that you were told you were fighting for, mean to the people who sent you to fight.

Glad you’re better!

Since my wife had her own medical event this year involving a massive infection, spinal intrusion and below knee amputation

Omg! I’m so sorry, y’all have had such a rough start to the year. I hope she’s feeling better and y’all can catch a break.

we already hit the out of pocket maximum on our insurance for the year.

My husband had a surgery at the beginning of the year a few years ago and we met our out of pocket earlier than we ever had before.

It’s such a weird feeling bc it’s like you know it’s a broken and unnecessarily complicated and expensive system in the U.S. At the same time walking out of a doctor’s office or hospital without having to pay almost feels like you finally figured out how to take advantage of some kind of crooked points system, and now you can now treat yourself to the “luxury” of healthcare that you’ve always paid for but avoided using.

The CIA does whatever they want, shirt brother. They always have.

•HUGE C.I.A. OPERATION REPORTED IN U.S. AGAINST ANTIWAR FORCES, OTHER DISSIDENTS IN NIXON YEARS (New York Times Dec. 1974)

•2022: How the CIA Is Acting Outside the Law to Spy on Americans

•Operation CHAOS or Operation MHCHAOS was a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) domestic espionage project targeting American citizens operating from 1967 to 1974, established by President Lyndon B. Johnson and expanded under President Richard Nixon, whose mission was to uncover possible foreign influence on domestic race, anti-war, and other protest movements. The operation was launched under Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) Richard Helms by chief of counter-intelligence James Jesus Angleton, and headed by Richard Ober.

•The 1975-76 Church Committee congressional hearings probed widespread intelligence abuses by the FBI, CIA, IRS and NSA. Headed by Senator Frank Church (D-Idaho) in the wake of the Watergate scandal, the committee exposed how under the guise of national security agencies spied on American citizens for political purposes during the Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon administrations.

•2014: Former Church Committee Calls for New Investigative Panel

The letter comes after revelations of sweeping domestic surveillance programs by the NSA as well as charges by Senate Intelligence Committee chair Dianne Feinstein that the CIA is spying on and obstructing a Senate investigation into CIA torture methods.

They also seemed to realize a long time ago they could get away with even more unconstitutional shit with even less oversight by outsourcing domestic surveillance to private contractors like Wackenhut (which would eventually become current ICE contractor, GEO Group)

•Many of the Wackenhut documents and a series on student movements in California highlight the suspected connections between Communism, opposition to the Vietnam War, and the broader left counterculture of the 1960s, and document the right’s evolving definition of “subversion.”

•Ice contractor plans for surveillance boom under Trump migrant crackdown: Geo Group, an Ice partner, is moving at ‘unprecedented speed’ to build out its monitoring, executive chair says

•3 weeks ago: The Central Intelligence Agency said it’s overhauling how it procures technology from the private sector, as part of an effort to more quickly adopt leading-edge capabilities for use in its missions. The new acquisition framework, made public Monday, involves a centralized vendor vetting system and a streamlined IT authorization process to “significantly reduce the time between when CIA defines a mission requirement and when it receives operating authority,” the agency said in a prepared statement.

CIA-style structure at the state level that blurs the traditional line between state law enforcement and intelligence work.

Well duh, you can’t have a neo-confederacy destroy the union without an army.

Who needs DHS funding when you can just shuffle things around and funnel ICE and all of their 287-g state-federal partnerships into FIA? Or any of the ::Insert your red state here:: Intelligence agencies that will be created after that?

Watch this (and probably multiple suspiciously timed terror related events linked to Iran between now and November) be used as the excuse for why the midterms have to be cancelled… For our own “safety”

“We’re destroying democracy to save America!” -Some authoritarian shitbag who works for either the Heritage Foundation/CIA faction of the Trump administration or the Silicon Valley/CIA faction.

Why not just be upfront about it then? Why did they try to hide the details for decades?

NYT (2010): Nazis Were Given ‘Safe Haven’ in U.S., Report Says

The 600-page report, which the Justice Department has tried to keep secret for four years, provides new evidence about more than two dozen of the most notorious Nazi cases of the last three decades.

Perhaps the report’s most damning disclosures come in assessing the Central Intelligence Agency’s involvement with Nazi émigrés. Scholars and previous government reports had acknowledged the C.I.A.’s use of Nazis for postwar intelligence purposes. But this report goes further in documenting the level of American complicity and deception in such operations.

They kept it hidden because they knew even then that controlling public opinion depends on controlling the narrative and the information the public receives or doesn’t receive, hence reality based communities.

The history we’re told about the collapse of the Soviet Union, and creation of modern Russia’s own Oligarchy/managed “democracy,” also seems to follow a similar narrative control pattern, and never acknowledges the fact that key members of the Heritage Foundation (the organization behind Project 2025), who openly opposed democracy, were in the Soviet Union just before the collapse, coaching Soviet politicians and holding mock elections to help spread “democratic values.”

•“You capture the Soviet Union --I’m going to capture the states.”-Thomas Roe, Heritage Foundation board member and founder of the State Policy Network to fellow Heritage Foundation board member Robert Krieble.

•In 1989, the Krieble Institute was created “to promote democracy and economic freedom in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.”

•1989: A Republican in Moscow (WaPo article about Paul Weyrich holding mock elections)

•“I don’t want everyone to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people. They never have been from the beginning of our country, and they are not now. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.”- Paul Weyrich (1980), creator of the Heritage Foundation.

•1991: RUSSIA HOUSE, TRADING IN ITS NAME WaPo Article about the first ever go between for U.S. and Russian businesses involving Weyrich and Krieble

•PBS Documentary about Weyrich and Krieble involvement in Collapse of USSR Playing For Power (2012)

But again, it’s just one of those things that nobody talks about or acknowledges for some reason, even as we’re watching the Heritage Foundation sitting in the White House, privatizing the U.S. government, and destroying any remaining scraps of democracy left in America.

Trump’s current CIA director coincidentally also has strong ties to Heritage.

•2024: Heritage Applauds John Ratcliffe as CIA Chief in President-elect Donald Trump’s Administration

Maybe in another 30+ years, we can start to open up the dialogue on the stuff we still don’t acknowledge today?