Trump claims Iran’s new supreme leader is ‘probably gay’

Trump claims Iran’s new supreme leader is ‘probably gay’

Pres TV

US President Donald Trump has said that the CIA told him that Iran’s newly appointed supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, may be gay, quipping to Fox News that it puts the cleric “off to a bad start.”

The claim comes amid failed US-Israeli regime change efforts in Iran, a country where homosexual conduct is illegal under Islamic Law.

Trump had previously made other disparaging comments regarding Mojtaba Khamenei, dismissing him as a “lightweight” and an “unacceptable” leader. However, critics have noted that such claims have only consolidated Iranian public opinion against Washington.

The president’s latest insult comes as the US and Israel continue their unprovoked attacks against Iran which began with the assassination of Mojtaba’s father, former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, late last month. US and Israeli officials have repeatedly called for regime change in Tehran, but the government has not collapsed.

According to a New York Times report on Sunday, the Trump administration had embraced an Israeli plan to foment a coup in Iran within days of the start of the war. Despite skepticism from US intelligence agencies, Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly bet on the “optimistic outlook” that decapitating Iran’s leadership would spark a popular uprising.

The plan failed, and Mojtaba Khamenei was quickly appointed as the new supreme leader. However, he has remained out of public sight since being wounded in the strike that killed his father.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has dismissed the notion that the killing of top officials could bring down the government. “The Islamic Republic of Iran has a strong political structure with established political, economic, and social institutions,” he told Al Jazeera last week. “The presence or absence of a single individual does not affect this structure.”

Former Mossad official Rami Igra also told RT that the US‑Israeli strategy of decapitating Iran’s leadership in hopes of sparking a revolution was a “miscalculation,” noting that a revolution requires a popular movement, local leadership and armed control – none of which exist in Iran.

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Via https://www.rt.com/news/636434-trump-claims-iran-leader-gay/

Handala brings FBI ‘to its knees’ by breaching director’s personal email

A photo by FBI Director Kash Patel released by Handala

Press TV

Pro-Palestinian hacktivist group Handala says it has brought the so-called “impenetrable” systems of the FBI “to their knees” within hours.

In a statement released on Friday, the group announced that its team has gained full access to data belonging to FBI Director Kash Patel.

Patel’s “emails, conversations, documents, and even classified files are now available for public download,” the statement read.

Questioning “the security that the US government boasts about,” the group declared to the world that the FBI “is just a name, and behind this name, there is no real security.”

Handala stated that the cyber attack came after the FBI announced a $10 million reward for the capture of its members.

The group reiterated that Washington can never “silence the voice of resistance” through “bribes and threats.”

Handala dedicated this cyber operation to the 84 navy personnel martyred aboard Iran’s IRIS Dena on March 4.

The vessel was on an official mission in international waters to participate in a naval exercise in India when it was struck by a US Navy MK 48 torpedo from a submarine, approximately 40 nautical miles off the coast of Galle, Sri Lanka.

Reports indicate that around 20 sailors remain unaccounted for, while 32 were rescued by Sri Lankan authorities.

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Vance chides Netanyahu in call over ‘overly optimistic’ Iran war predictions

JD Vance (L) and Benjamin Netanyahu (R).

 

Press TV

A tense phone call this week between US vice president JD Vance and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has laid bare growing friction between Washington and Tel Aviv over an unplanned war that has proved disastrous for both allies.

According to a report published by Axios, a US-based news website closely aligned with the Israeli military apparatus, Vance used the call to chastise Netanyahu for his “overly optimistic” assessments regarding the likelihood of “regime change” in Iran.

“Before the war, Bibi (Netanyahu) really sold it to the president as being easy, as regime change being a lot likelier than it was,” a US official was quoted as saying by the media outlet. “And the VP (Vance) was clear-eyed about some of those statements.”

The tense exchange underscores the delicate dynamics within the beleaguered Trump administration as it navigates both its partnership with Israel and bids to end the war that has failed to achieve any of its objectives.

Vance, who had previously projected himself as an opponent of open-ended foreign wars, reportedly was not in favour of the latest military aggression against the Islamic Republic but had to support it once Donald Trump and Netanyahu made the decision.

Vance has reportedly held multiple calls with Netanyahu, met with Persian Gulf allies of Washington, and been involved in indirect communications with some mediators in an attempt to persuade Tehran to give up its retaliatory military operations.

In a cabinet meeting on Thursday, Trump introduced him as a potential negotiator, replacing Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, who were the strong proponents of war against Iran.

Axios, however, said that the vice president’s scepticism of Israel’s prewar strategy and his push for a negotiated end to the war have made him a target of Israeli war hawks.

Meanwhile, as Press TV reported on Wednesday, Iran has responded negatively to an American proposal conveyed through Pakistan and aimed at ending the ongoing war, insisting that it will only occur on Tehran’s own terms and timeline.

The official with knowledge of the details of the proposal said Iran will not allow Trump to dictate the timing of the war’s end and will end the war when it decides to do so and when its own conditions are met, emphasising Tehran’s resolve to continue its defense and inflict “heavy blows” on the enemy until its demands are fulfilled.

The official outlined five specific conditions under which Iran would agree to end the war. These include: A complete halt to “aggression and assassinations” by the enemy, the establishment of concrete mechanisms to ensure that the war is not reimposed on the Islamic Republic, guaranteed and clearly defined payment of war damages and reparations, the end of the war across all fronts and for all resistance groups involved throughout the region, Iran’s exercise of sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz is and will remain Iran’s natural and legal right, and it constitutes a guarantee for the implementation of the other party’s commitments, and must be recognized.

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Via https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/03/27/765925/vance-chided-netanyahu-call-over-overly-optimistic-iran-war-predictions-report

War against Iran draining US Tomahawk missile stockpile, alarming Pentagon

Each Tomahawk missile costs between $2 million and $4 million ans US military has fired more than 850 of them in four weeks of its war against Iran. (File)

Press TV

US military has fired more than 850 Tomahawk cruise missiles in four weeks of its war against Iran, burning through the precision weapons at a rate that has alarmed Pentagon officials and prompted internal discussions about how to make more available, according to a report by The Washington Post, citing sources.

The heavy expenditure – a part of the so-called ‘Operation Epic Fury’, which began on February 28 with the assassination of Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei and some top-ranking commanders as well as ordinary civilians – has raised concerns about the strain on US weapons stockpiles, the report stated.

According to analysts, the US currently produces approximately 90 to 100 Tomahawk missiles annually, meaning that the number fired in the past four weeks exceeds the total output of the past five to eight years, triggering alarm bells.

Each Tomahawk missile costs between $2 million and $4 million, depending on the variant, with some estimates placing the cost as high as $3.5 million per unit.

At that rate, military experts say, the 850 missiles fired represent a cost of up to $3 billion, a fraction of the overall war bill, which is estimated to have exceeded $18 billion so far.

Replacing the expended missiles is expected to take years. Building a single Tomahawk requires between 18 and 24 months due to complex components, including solid rocket motors, advanced seekers, and terrain-matching sensors that rely on single-source suppliers.

The fragile supply chain and historically low production rates have left manufacturers struggling to scale up rapidly, according to reports, citing military experts.

In an effort to address these vulnerabilities, the Pentagon recently entered into a seven-year framework agreement with Raytheon, an RTX business, aimed at ramping up annual Tomahawk production to more than 1,000 units.

The agreement, announced in early February, came just weeks before the US and the Israeli regime launched an unprovoked aggression on Iran. Officials acknowledge that even with expanded capacity, replenishing stockpiles depleted at the current rate will take years.

Iranian armed forces have so far carried out 83 waves of Operation True Promise 4, using their advanced missiles and drones to inflict heavy blows on the enemy.

Israeli military infrastructure in the occupied territories, as well as US military bases scattered across the region, have been destroyed and made “uninhabitable,” according to the New York Times and other US media outlets.

Importantly, US military had used Tomahawk missiles in its attack on an elementary school in southern Iran’s Minab that killed more than 170 schoolchildren on February 28.

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Via https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/03/27/765917/war-against-iran-draining-us-tomahawk-missile-stockpile-alarming-pentagon-report

US troops using Arab civilians as human shields

Iran’s Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi

Press TV

Iran’s Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi said that US soldiers have abandoned their bases in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries since the very beginning of the war, seeking shelter in civilian hotels and offices while turning local populations into human shields.

In a post on X on Thursday, Araghchi stated: “From outset of this war, U.S. soldiers fled military bases in GCC to hide in hotels and offices. They use GCC citizens as human shield.”

Araghchi drew a comparison to practices inside the United States, noting that American hotels routinely deny bookings to military officers whose presence could endanger civilian guests.

“Hotels in U.S. deny bookings to officers who may endanger customers. GCC hotels should do same,” the top Iranian diplomat urged.

Despite Washington’s aggressive posturing and a war of aggression on Iranian territory that began on February 28 — which targeted civilian sites including schools, hospitals, and sports facilities — American troops have shown little resolve to defend their forward positions.

Instead, they have retreated into densely populated civilian areas, recklessly exposing innocent Arab citizens to potential retaliatory actions.

Iran’s firm and precise response to the unprovoked US-Israeli aggression has repeatedly demonstrated the strength and determination of the Islamic Republic.

While Iranian forces continue to inflict defeats on the aggressors on multiple fronts, US commanders appear more concerned with self-preservation than with protecting their allies.

By hiding among civilians, the US not only violates basic principles of international humanitarian law but also endangers the very populations whose governments have hosted American bases and facilities long used to threaten regional stability and Iranian sovereignty.

The US and Israel launched an unprovoked war of aggression against Iran on February 28, assassinating Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, along with several senior officials and military commanders, as well as hundreds of civilians.

The Iranian armed forces have responded by launching almost daily missile and drone operations targeting locations in the Israeli occupied territories as well as US military bases and assets across the region.

They have also blocked the strategic Strait of Hormuz to oil and gas tankers affiliated with the adversaries and those cooperating with them.

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Via https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/03/26/765897/Iran-FM–US-troops-using-Arab-civilians-as-human-shields

Thank you, Iran!

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The Costs for the Western World

All it took was the Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s mere announcement that it would close the Strait of Hormuz. And suddenly it was clear that no insurance company would cover the costs if the Revolutionary Guard actually sank a ship. This financial weapon alone was enough to trigger a global disruption of supply chains. Not a single shot had to be fired. So American farmers are now waiting for fertilizer[1]. In vain. Because ships cannot transport fertilizer through the Strait of Hormuz. But farmers in the U.S. are mostly Trump voters. They will thank Trump..

But far more painful for the U.S. economy is the collapse of the Arab sheikhdoms in the Persian Gulf.

Apparently, no one expected that the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, or Bahrain would come under such massive attack from the Iranians.

There is no effective air defense. They were so confident. So confident that they didn’t even set up bomb shelters in the sheikhdoms. The U.S. had concentrated all its defensive capabilities on Israel. The Americans hadn’t thought about the Arabs. That has left a bitter taste in the Arabs’ mouths.

But the U.S. military also suffered losses. In the first two weeks of the current war with Iran, Iran destroyed U.S. military bases in Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia, causing an estimated $800 million in damage[2]. Oil and gas fields in Saudi Arabia and Qatar were severely damaged and have had to temporarily scale back production. The United Arab Emirates had been focusing on diversifying its economy. It was well on its way to becoming a transportation hub between Europe and Asia. Even tourism was flourishing in the artificial landscapes built on reclaimed land from the lagoons. The goal was to attract start-up companies. Anyone who was anyone in the financial world bought an apartment in Dubai. Money was borrowed from the many bank branches that had sprung up overnight.

All of that is now over in one fell swoop. It’s every man for himself. Flights through the Dubai hub have been canceled indefinitely. Surely no one wants to go on vacation anymore with bullets whizzing by. And as for the up-and-coming entrepreneurs, all you can see now are contrails on the horizon. Money is now being stashed elsewhere. It didn’t pay off to let the Americans use their own sandy soil for a military buildup against neighboring Iran. Now the sheikhs are left high and dry. No insurance company will cover any damages. The War Exclusion Clause in the fine print of the insurance policy states that insurers will not compensate for damage caused by acts of war. The sheikhs must now pay for this out of their own coffers instead. And said coffers have so far been lavishly filled by revenues from oil and gas production. In some sheikhdoms, citizens aren’t even taxed. The lavish profits from oil and gas sales are invested in U.S. government securities. Or in future-oriented industries such as artificial intelligence.

U.S. dominance in the IT sector is largely based on surplus funds from the Arab monarchies. And this is now becoming quite painful for the U.S. Unfortunately, Arab investments in U.S. future projects that were already firmly planned must now be redirected from overseas to repair the ailing infrastructure in the Arab world. It remains unclear to what extent the slowdown in Arab capital flows will affect the development of artificial intelligence. However, highly challenging times could be on the horizon for Nvidia and OpenAI.

Heavy Backlash for the Cloud Technology

One piece of news got lost in the fog of war: the Iranian Revolutionary Guard destroyed a total of three Amazon data centers in Dubai and Bahrain[3]. Why Amazon? Well, we all know from personal experience that Amazon is the world’s largest online retailer. But Amazon has since established a second pillar of its business with its subsidiary Amazon Web Services (AWS). This makes Amazon one of the largest providers of commercial cloud infrastructure. In addition to Amazon Web Services, the main players in this field are Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. Clouds are data centers with enormous storage capacity that offer extremely fast computing power. Anyone can rent capacity there. Clouds are, first and foremost, completely neutral tools. What matters is what customers do with them. The clouds handle complex financial transactions. The cloud designs large-scale projects in the blink of an eye. But it can also scrutinize and spy on the population with unprecedented speed and high resolution. And then, using the data obtained, ultimately manipulate social development in its own interest.

But it is primarily the world’s more advanced military powers that have cornered the cloud market. And that is precisely why the shrewd Iranians have set their sights on Amazon’s data centers. For it is in the Middle East, in particular, that data centers are concentrated. And these data centers primarily serve the United States and Israel in their warfare. The data centers provide the infrastructure in which the war against the rest of the world is automated thanks to artificial intelligence. Autonomous machines locate war victims and then kill them based on their soulless algorithms. This is how a city park in Tehran came to be heavily bombed. This city park is called “Police Park.” But there are no police or other armed personnel there. Our colleague AI had been prompted to carry out its blind strike by the misleading name.

The ruthless genocide currently being perpetrated by Israel against Iran and Lebanon did not happen by chance. This genocide follows a pattern that was tested and refined over many years during the war against the people of the Gaza Strip. The operation is called “Project Nimbus.” A collaboration between Amazon Web Services and the Israeli government. With the participation of the two Israeli defense contractors Israel Aerospace Industries and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems. The Palestinians are being completely monitored and scrutinized. The Israeli settlers receive precise information about their Palestinian victims.

Samer Abdelnour sums it up:

“Israel’s regime of Apartheid and military occupation subjects six million Palestinians to extreme levels of surveillance and violence, and this acts as a laboratory for developing, experimenting with, and testing weapons later sold to the global arms market as ‘field tested’.

Moreover, the rapid digitalization and use of AI for military purposes is deepening the globalization of violence and widening complicity with violence in horrifying ways, invisibilizing crimes against humanity within servers and code. This is exemplified by ‘Project Nimbus’, an Israeli initiative to integrate cloud computing and AI into the operations of its state agencies, including its military and police.“[4]

This use of cloud technology to subjugate entire populations met with massive resistance as early as 2021 from employees at Amazon Web Services and Microsoft.

The employees addressed the global public in an anonymous open letter, protesting the insidious use of cloud technology for inhumane purposes. In the open letter, the shocked employees write:

“Continuing this pattern, our employers signed a contract called Project Nimbus to sell dangerous technology to the Israeli military and government. This contract was signed the same week that the Israeli military attacked Palestinians in the Gaza Strip – killing nearly 250 people, including more than 60 children. The technology our companies have contracted to build will make the systematic discrimination and displacement carried out by the Israeli military and government even crueler and deadlier for Palestinians.

Project Nimbus is a $1.2bn contract to provide cloud services for the Israeli military and government. This technology allows for further surveillance of and unlawful data collection on Palestinians, and facilitates expansion of Israel’s illegal settlements on Palestinian land.“[5]

Unfortunately, this wake-up call was completely lost amid the general uproar over COVID-19 policies. But we should take this danger seriously. For we must not believe that this dystopian development will pass us by. What is being tested in Palestine and now in Lebanon and Iran is, in the long run, also directed against us. The automated mass suppression and destruction techniques being tested there will sooner or later be used against us as well. Every organism strives for growth. So does militarized cloud technology. The insidious part is that our very personal, very private data resides on the same platform as military applications. The magazine Fortune describes this in striking terms:

“The boundary between commercial cloud computing and military operations has largely vanished. The Pentagon’s Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability and its Joint All-Domain Command and Control networks run on the same commercial infrastructure that serves banks and ride-hailing apps. Meanwhile, several news organizations have reported that the U.S. military used Anthropic’s AI model Claude—which runs on AWS—for intelligence assessments, target identification, and battle simulations during the Iran strikes.“[6]

In a nutshell: the military is footing the bill for the party in the cloud.

Militarism is gradually devouring civilian life.

Iranians are already facing a life-or-death struggle against this dystopian threat.

And the Iranians are holding their ground bravely.

By disrupting and halting the financial foundations of this fascist-like technology, they are also fighting for our freedom.

Given all the mainstream framing of the “abhorrence of the mullah regime,” that sounds like quite a shift to get used to at first. Anyone who adopts this framing of abhorrence participates in the notorious dehumanization of the enemy. They shut the door on their compassion for the Iranians. The Iranians, however, are fighting for their survival and their dignity as a free nation. This is, of course, something entirely exotic to the eerie new Epstein world. But we should not close our minds to the fascination of undomesticated people in Iran.

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Via https://www.globalresearch.ca/thank-you-iran/5920268

Treasury Just Declared US Insolvent

The Treasury just declared the U.S. insolvent. The media missed it

Hal Turner

The U.S. government is insolvent. That’s not hyperbole — it’s the conclusion drawn directly from the Treasury Department’s own consolidated financial statements for fiscal year 2025, released last week to near-total media silence. The numbers: $6.06 trillion in total assets against $47.78 trillion in total liabilities as of September 30, 2025.

Importantly, the $47.78 trillion in reported liabilities does not include the unfunded obligations of social insurance programs like Social Security and Medicare — those are disclosed separately in the off-balance-sheet Statement of Social Insurance (SOSI).

The government’s consolidated balance sheet position, excluding the SOSI, deteriorated by nearly $2.07 trillion between FY 2024 and FY 2025, reaching a staggering negative $41.72 trillion. Total liabilities are now nearly eight times the value of reported assets. The largest drivers were a $2 trillion increase in federal debt and interest payable (now $30.33 trillion) and a $438.8 billion increase in federal employee and veteran benefits payable (now $15.47 trillion).

The Off-Balance-Sheet Iceberg

The off-balance-sheet picture is even more alarming. The 75-year unfunded social insurance obligation surged by $10.1 trillion in a single year, rising from $78.3 trillion in FY 2024 to $88.4 trillion in FY 2025 — driven primarily by a $6.9 trillion jump in projected Medicare Part B shortfalls and a $2.5 trillion increase for Social Security. The Treasury’s Statement of Long-Term Fiscal Projections shows the 75-year fiscal gap widening from 4.3% of GDP in FY 2024 to 4.7% in FY 2025.

If the $88.4 trillion in 75-year off-balance-sheet obligations were added to the $47.8 trillion in official balance sheet liabilities, total federal obligations would now exceed $136.2 trillion — roughly five times U.S. annual GDP.

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a disclaimer of opinion on the U.S. government’s FY 2025 financial statements — the 29th consecutive year it has been unable to determine whether the statements are fairly presented. This is primarily due to serious, ongoing financial management problems at the Department of Defense and weaknesses in accounting for interagency transactions.

What $136 Trillion Looks Like in Your Living Room

Not only has the financial press ignored the consolidated financial statements, but most members of Congress and members of the general public will not read the consolidated financial statements. Documents like the consolidated financial statements are not the kind of thing you want to read before driving. If that’s not bad enough, most people cannot relate to the trillion-dollar numbers in the financial statements. Therefore, it is appropriate to translate them into terms that people will understand.

Most people cannot relate to trillion-dollar figures on a government ledger. So consider this: divide every number by 100 million — drop eight zeros — and federal finances look like a household budget in freefall.

That household earns $52,446 and spends $73,378 — running a $20,932 annual deficit. Its total liabilities and unfunded promises amount to $1,361,788 against just $60,554 in assets, leaving it $1.3 million in the hole. Uncle Sam, by any accounting standard, is insolvent.

Congress has clearly lost control of the nation’s finances. America is facing a fiscal catastrophe. The reckoning, long deferred, is becoming impossible to ignore.

BY: Steve H. Hanke, David M. Walker, via FORTUNE Magazine at: https://www.yahoo.com/news/finance/economy/policy/articles/treasury-just-declared-u-insolvent-151425143.html

Hal Turner Editorial Opinion

Now, perhaps you understand why they’ve been trying so hard to actually START World War 3; they’re broke. They don’t want to take the blame for being the one’s who did it, they need a really big war to blame it on. Too bad for them the Russians didn’t take the bait with Ukraine.

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Via https://seemorerocks.substack.com/p/treasury-just-declared-the-us-insolvent

Trump’s Daily 2 Minute War Briefings

Rep Nancy Mace (Rep South Carolina): No US Boots on the Ground in Iran

Trump Officials Flee into the Bunker

Fort Lesley J. McNair, north gate

Russ Baker

In the last few days, drones have reportedly been spotted over Fort Lesley J. McNair, in Washington, DC, where Marco Rubio and Pete Hegseth live. Officials are worried, and so am I, though for different reasons.

Did you know our secretary of state and secretary of defense live on an army base?

And they’re not the only ones.

Pam Bondi, Stephen Miller, and other senior Trump officials have moved into military housing. Tulsi Gabbard and Russell Vought are browsing the available housing, but have not moved yet. One more senior official, unidentified, has been advised to move by security officials.

The official excuse is that they face threats from a range of purported foes, including, we are told, cartels, foreign adversaries, and protesters.

But I can’t help feeling we’re not getting the real story. And, frankly, what that might be chills me.

Why does a king (and his courtiers) go into his castle and pull up the drawbridge?

Because they see themselves as besieged — or are planning to do something they know will cause them to be besieged.

Harvard professor Steven Levitsky — an expert on threats to democracies — made this sobering observation:

It is something you never see in a democracy. Government officials live on military bases or other sort of fortified zones [only] in authoritarian regimes.

In authoritarian regimes.

Coming at a time when fair elections are openly threatened and our constitutionally guaranteed freedoms challenged at every turn, when we see this group withdraw to a hardened inner sanctum, we’d better be paying close attention.

But thus far little attention has been paid to this matter, and what it may mean.

Plenty of factors do come to mind as potentially precipitating even more dramatic action on the part of Team Trump. You can surely think of many, but here are a few:

  1. Cringeworthy descriptions of Trump’s vile behavior emerging from the Epstein files and into the light with every new day.
  2. The consequences, potential and immediate, of Trump’s Iran war: the fear of a draft, the rising body count, and the mind-boggling expenditures. The Pentagon’s now put in for an additional $200 billion, with more requests to come if things drag on. As Hegseth said, “Obviously, it takes money to kill bad guys.” He doesn’t talk about how many lives it will cost.
  3. The specter of economic collapse, perhaps triggered by the jobs-crushing regulation-free rollout of AI.
  4. The threat of a nationalized election, overturning our 250-year tradition of local control of state and local elections.

Any one of the above could — or, at least, should — spark such outrage that even the most indolent of MAGAs might eventually grab torches and pitchforks and join the masses storming the castle wall.

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Via https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/trump-officials-flee-into-the-bunker/ar-AA1Zdg5i