Trump is not capable of carrying out a truce.

He isn't even trying. Paper means nothing to him. Haven't we already lost more jets and personnel than we should have? Trump and Hegseth are disasters. This needs to stop. It is past 90 days.

Remember when Trump demanded his Vice President completely mimic his actions and words in his first term? Look at this. His regime doesn't wear a uniform, they wear the same damn blue suit that Trump wears. The same shoes. The same suit. Everything is so regimented it is hideous. I don't see how they can be taken seriously. The people speaking for the USA are supposed to bring talent to the processes of governance, not a puppeteer.

July 15, 2026

By Susannah George 

Vice President JD Vance, second from right, and U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff, left, attend peace talks in Switzerland last month with Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, second from left, and Pakistani army chief Asim Munir.

Almost as soon as Iran and the United States agreed (click here) to an initial deal on a truce last month, they began accusing each other of violating it. At issue has been the document’s vague language on a critical issue: control of the Strait of Hormuz.

Iranian officials say the deal hands Tehran control over the strait, a key choke point, through which Tehran has halted most marine traffic for months, sending shocks through the global economy. U.S. officials say the agreement opens the waterway as it had been before the war.

Some critics of the accord accuse U.S. negotiators of hasty capitulation under pressure from President Donald Trump as he sought to relieve growing stress on global energy markets. Some key Republicans, such as Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) and Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Mississippi), questioned the deal’s extensive economic relief for Iran that required little in return....

This is laughable. Curacao is a country belonging to the Netherlands. THE NETHERLANDS! They are our allies. We are at war with the Netherlands now? 

WTF? 

I guarantee you if the Captain was asked in his own language if he knows why his engine was destroyed, he would not understand what happened except an onboard fire.

Where is the proof all these countries were formally notified of the operations of the USA Navy in the Persian Gulf. The USA was chasing pirates at one time and believe it or not the entire world is not aware Donald John Trump thinks he is on the mind of every human being on Earth.

Congress needs to rein all this in and soon. This is the most idiotic bunch of nonsense ever witnessed in the Free World. Those people are allies. Allies. If there is anyone injured or dead and the ship was not acknowledging the blockade this is murder. We are not at war with our own allies you idiots!

July 15, 2026

U.S. forces disabled an oil tanker Wednesday (click here) as it attempted to sail toward an Iranian port in the Arabian Gulf amid the resumption of the naval blockade, U.S. Central Command said in a Wednesday evening post on X. The Curacao-flagged M/T Belma ignored repeated warnings to stop as it headed toward Kharg Island, CENTCOM wrote. In an 18-second video, a U.S. aircraft is seen disabling the vessel by firing missiles into the ship’s smokestack. “U.S. forces remain vigilant and prepared to ensure full compliance,” CENTCOM said in the post to X. This is the first vessel that U.S. forces have disabled since the naval blockade resumed on Tuesday. Two other commercial vessels that complied with U.S. warnings were redirected, CENTCOM said in the same post....

White House again attacked by Trump

He is defacing government property again!

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The columns are a very important part of the historical White House. Trump’s contempt of ANYTHING that he did not first destroy and then spend enormous amounts of money to rebuild is very, very obvious.

He has bankrupted his own company something like 11 times because of his narcotic obsessive compulsive behaviors. He is the spoiler and he is once again destroying the history of the White House because of his misplaced arrogance. He is NOT a great builder of structures and he continues to prove it over and over and over again.

First the East Wing was destroyed.

Then the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

Now, the North Portico Columns.

Let me guess.

Hm????????

The columns are supposed to be a matching set to the never to be built arch.

Congress needs to stop the destruction of the White House including the extended fence line into the street and dedicate monies specifically to the historic organizations protecting the history of the White House and it’s qualified capacity as a museum. No more construction money for Trump!

The White House needs to be refurbished now by proper authority and blueprints to give the people back their history.

The White House needs as close to the original materials and construction as possible. To include, protective measures from any destruction in the future. There needs to be a return of the Rose Garden and the Kennedy tree. 

The hate Trump has for this country is screaming out loud and it will stop!

Trump is now being covert about his defacement of the White House. The guy has problems no one can solve short of impeachment. Enough of his mess!

Traffic Stops

It is important to remember why Trump is raiding the people of the USA. He wants opposition to his tactics so he can declare the end of elections. So, realizing the end game why stop traffic stops and the killing that results? 

It isn’t as if raiding traffic alone is dangerously involving the public, but, if the president; sorry dictator-king, does not care about the people in the first place (ie: radioactive shit from plane) killing IS his well funded goal. It is probably cost effective to kill rather than due process. Hitler thought so.

Two women that are Supreme Court Justices…

…show up in Congress to ask for money for their personal security. Comey-Barrett states the threats started after the court she was sitting on for the first time assaulted the bodies of American women. No surprise here.

Where are the guys? They aren’t having problems? 

Coney-Barrett is a cultist and wants the country to reflect her personal ideology for women’s demeanor and sexuality. She ruled according to her cultish personal preferences making it harder and harder to be a woman.

The United States of America is about choice not conformity. 

The United States Supreme Court has made some really lousy decisions including the most recent assaulting independent agencies that keep a check on racketeering like the one practiced by Trump.

Clarence was over at the House a week or so ago. It was a visit to discuss the politics, although, when the reporter asked what the conversation was about he clearly stated he wasn’t about to disclose the conversation especially to a competent journalist.

It is a really lousy court Roberts conducts. They have taken privacy and checks and balances to the bare bones and now they want protection so they can continue to make really lousy decisions that have taken American rights to privacy, along with the Tech Industry, away and removed protections for our constitution. 

I think instead of passing additional protection monies Congress should pass legislation that limits their term at the Supreme Court. I think that would give Americans hope their freedoms would be returned to them.

I mean. Protections? Maybe Coney-Barrett’s cult could pay for it since it is they getting what they want from her, not the American people. What is occurring with the high court is political preference, not governance. 

Stare decisis is dead and they call that good practice?

I don’t care who you are or what capacity you hold in this democracy but if the power of the USA is turned against the people and their best interests things aren’t going to go well.

Cuban Blockade

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The Cuban Blockade that Trump inhumanely instituted is teaching 90 days and he is still adversely effecting the people of that island nation. 

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Talks have been unproductive because Trump refuses to recognize the reforms he demanded.

The Late Senator Lindsay Graham’s Sister

I am sure she shared his love of this country and understood the way he contributed to the legislature. It is absolutely wonderful she should be among his memories and staff during a difficult time. I congratulate her. Another lady in the Senate. 

Domestically the people of the USA are seeing the same type of blind aggression.

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Another death by Immigration, Custom, and Enforcement. 

...The Maine Immigrant Rights Coalition (click here) identified the victim as a 26-year-old man from Colombia. Mufalo Chitam, the group’s executive director, told CNN that the man was on his way to work. The group said the man was authorized to work in the US and was issued a social security number....

This type of aggression has to be condemned at the highest levels of government. It is criminal. They literally murdered a man legally in the USA.

Trump has this idea that no matter who it is when it comes to being an immigrant there is no security. The immigration process has evolved over a century if not longer. It is clearly understood when a lawful person is given papers that legally allow them to stay in the USA and build a life, including work and a Social Security card, their future is secure.

This sham of a presidency is seeking to ignore USA policy and laws. Trump is completely lawless and passing along that mind set to the agencies he is supposed to maintain in a reasonable manner among the people of this country. He is negligent of ORDINARY CARE in administering the laws of the USA within it's own borders.

The ICE agents involved as well as their supervisors all the way to the president need to be charged with murder. The Maine Attorney General needs to begin an investigation and a jury to examine the facts.

NATO can breath a sigh of relief.

The last time Mitch McConnell addressed the alliance of NATO he was one of their staunch defenders. 

He needs to take his time in recovery from what is being described as a physically weak moment. He is needed to write and pass legislation that protects the alliance and funds it to the capacity where there is no doubt it is an effective member of our national security.

He looks good. That is not a misdirected smile by a confused man. Admittedly, Elaine Chao looks better than Mitch, but, that is something everyone has gotten used to over the years. 

Peace and well being to both of them.

Which side is which?

The entire power playing in the Persian Gulf is out of hand. 

Iran closed the strait within three weeks ago (click here) over violations of the ceasefire which was supposed to include Israel's end of violence in Lebanon. 

To begin the Persian Gulf is not international waters. The USA has no particular right to even be in the Persian Gulf. Wall Street complaining is not a valid right of USA to act against another country. Profit and loss is a reality, engaging in war to put a thumb on the scale and it is called racketeering.

Iran is acting in it's own interest when closing it's sovereign waters to international traffic. It has a right to do that. 

Trump is engaging in an illegal war against a sovereign authority in Iran as it is far beyond 90 days of war without the explicit act of Congress declaring war.

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There are laws that govern blockades regardless of whether Trump wants to abide by it or not. Brut force is not an international permission. The USA Navy or military of any kind has no right attacking a sovereign country when it declared it's own blockade and has been enforcing it through strikes against ships in violation of it.

This mess reminds me of a tennis match. Which player has the control of the court and is up next to serve the ball.

There have been commercial ships fired on by the USA causing deaths of the people on board. There have been persons on commercial ships caught in the middle that have died. All these ships are not necessarily informed as to the tensions in the Persian Gulf and who is controlling the waters. These are innocent parties caught in a dynamic that continues to wax and wane. That is not a war. Those are temper tantrums. Trump does not have permission either by the country, the Congress, or the United Nations Security Council.

The USA cannot disrupt shipping lanes and cause violations in maritime and humanitarian laws as well as the international law of sovereign waters. This is not the place for the USA military. The region needs to solve it's own problems and find peace and cooperation, that can't be done so long as Trump is having temper tantrums over Iran's actions within it's own sovereign authority. The laws of blockade belong to Iran as well as any other authority.

How is any kind of peace to begin to form if the USA continually throws it's weight around?

Aortic dissection

It is a devastating and painful way to die. He was carrying too much stress. The legislature has to be careful about their health and maintain a good relationship with their personal doctors. It is a highly charged and stressful time in this country. I am so sorry to hear about this abrupt passing of Senator Graham. My deepest sympathies to his family and friends. This sudden loss is very difficult to deal with. 

Stress is something that is real and at one time was on the minds of Americans. Now. With the angry and dangerous political environment in the USA a complaint about stress is viewed as a weakness rather than a necessary precaution. 

He was too young to die.

Novichok

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Britain recently sanctioned scientists responsible for producing Novichok, the poison used by Russia to kill people in Europe believed to be enemies of the country. 

No one gets a free ride.

Trump's foreign policies will never work except when it comes to Trump's bank account. Trump's racketeering habits backed up by Hegseth's priorities in USING AND ABUSING the USA military is over.

Trump's administration is demanding all sorts of ideological outcomes without facing the reality that the world recognizes the racketeering Trumps are personally profiting from. They get the money and they keep the money as if they honestly deserve it. The fact is the Trumps have hijacked the USA government and military for their own wealth through the favors they allow and capitalistic plans they have in building resorts that fall flat on their face every damn time.

Maralogo was falling apart when Trump took office. I am not certain where the money came from, but, my guess is the Chinese in anticipation of becoming wealthy themselves while compromising every classified document in the possession of national security. And the Republicans allow it to continue regardless of the facts before them.

Iran has the right of law to protect it's sovereign borders regardless of it's priorities. If Iran is invading others sovereignty the countries involved may have a grievance which they can settle as they please, but, there is no automatic trigger that puts the USA military in the line of fire or as a defense force. Besides, Hegseth has already violated maritime law that INSISTS human life on the seas comes first no matter the issue. He killed civilians on commercial ships because of his inflexible barricade of the ports along the Persian Gulf even if it was Iranian ports. Hegseth set down NO RULES for the blockade. There was and is no respect for human life aboard those ships and that is perfectly fine with him. He and Trump have an unspoken rule, the more dead the better.

You know what really pisses me off, Phil? Decades and decades of Republican majorities in the Legislature DEGRADING every regulation that protects human life and health in the USA. That really pisses me off.

Wars. Illegal wars. Wars that cause the death, not of success by the opposition, but, by homeland neglect of PTSD. PTSD, Phil. Dr. Phil should know something about that. Our soldiers no longer were coming home intact, but, psychologically assaulted by road side bombs and terrorist attacks, death squads and corruption within the countries promised to be improved by nation building. That really pisses me off. Nation building is a lie, ask the Taliban.

So, while Trump and Dr. Phil are tapping into the anger of Americans in hopes Trump is able to come out of his closet and kill as many Americans as possible in his second term, Iran has every right to refuse any and all ships in it's sovereign waters. Considering the assault by Hegseth and the civilian deaths abroad commercial vessels I am certain Iran has no problem in attempting to control and patrol all the waters of the Persian Gulf.

Is there some kind of United Nation Resolution about this mess? Wait. The USA would veto anything anyway. So much for a peace process.

The United States (click here) pressed Iran to publicly pledge free and secure transit through the Strait of Hormuz as Tehran hosted talks in Oman to de-escalate tensions amid a reopened negotiation cycle. Washington signaled a willingness to continue discussions despite ceasing hostilities and asserting the ceasefire is over, while Iran accused the U.S. of violating the truce and pushed for a mutual, concrete commitment. The broader context involves recent attacks on shipping, U.S. and Israeli strikes in Iran, and efforts by Qatar to mediate, with oil markets reacting to the heightened risk. The long-running conflict has unsettled Gulf security, raised oil prices, and complicated the path toward a broader settlement. A renewed interim framework remains the focal point, with leadership in both capitals weighing leverage and incentives for compliance going forward.

Trump is in sovereign waters illegally in the Persian Gulf.

There is a report on CNN there exists picture evidence Iran is attempting to rebuild their nuclear facilities.

1. It is ONLY picture evidence. 

2. Iran has agreed to verification of their facilities as part of the peace initiative. The IAEA should begin their inspections after things have settled following the interments of the Iranian leadership.

3. Iran has every right to protect itself from a USA president that stated he does not see an end to the hostilities and cancelled any form of ceasefire.

4. Trump was supposed to have Israel end hostilities in Lebanon. 

5. Iran is a sovereign country and while the world likes to travel the Persian Gulf for commercial expediency, there are problems. They are not minor problems.

6. Iran did not ask for the pain and hardship it is facing. Trump and Hegseth set their sites on Iranian leadership and a school full of girls. It was calculated and deliberate. By every measure between Trump’s first term and this one, there are at least three illegal assassinations of Iranian leadership so far. 

7. While Iran was able to develop centrifuges, the country never had a viable nuclear weapon program.

8. Hegseth has violated maritime law in allowing the deaths of personnel of the commercial vessels in the Persian Gulf while hijacked in a blockade.

The USA in its illegal war with Iran has resulted in enormous use of weapons intended for the defense of the USA. Israel has been protected by USA interceptor missiles making Israel’s continuing aggression in the Middle East possible. USA Middle East allies have suffered attacks of USA facilities. The losses of USA military personnel was due to continuous stress of a supposed emergency declaration. The USA soldiers are fatigued and making mistakes resulting in their deaths, loss of assets, and loss of assets in Iranian territory providing state of the art technology to Iran. 

IT IS CALLED INCOMPETENCE.

The amount of damage, both physical and in international relationships and reputation, done to the USA by the Trump administration is incalculable.

Texas Paul can't be wrong.

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Cyclosporiasis

Try cabbage.

Coleslaw.

It is a summertime food.

Nicole Wallace

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I was sitting with my son, a forty something dyed in the wool MAGA identifying voter. (I will get into that later because the reasons will astound any rational reader.)

After hearing what Nicole stated about Trump at NATO, my son said, “This is why an

80 year old man should not be president of this country.”

Please pay attention to the statement Trump made about his popularity. “I am number one on TikTok.” He considers his popularity a good thing, not a laughable thing.

This is the insane, indulged, protected, and corrupt man the Republican majority worships as president. The ONLY question that can be legitimately asked is, why?

The 25th Amendment should be invoked as soon as possible. Trump was at a NATO Summit with our friends. It is only reasonable Trump conduct himself correctly or be removed from office. Trump has a very bizarre method of attempting to destabilize world power because he wants to. His demeanor is so far out on the edge he is not reachable by the other sane leaders at the conference.

Trump is an unhinged racist ranting about our allies as if they were bizarre and not him. He hates Spain because of the language they speak and Japan because they have squinty eyes. He is a racist through and through. 

Trump believes he is entitled to his idiocy on the world stage where the USA national security is paramount for the reason NATO exists.

Senator McConnell is recovering from an apparent heartache and is an aged adult. What was his priority to Senate Leader Thune? National Security and the military. An aged man recovering from a heartache in a hospital bed is more sane than the idiot in the White House. 

McConnell appreciates NATO steadfastness and would never dream of abandoning NATO or insult its leaders. Never. I don’t like Mitch. But, when it comes to national security and NATO he is my best friend. Why? Because we are both Americans that love this country. That’s why.

Many people voted for Trump because they expected a leader of change. My son, along with his friends and his father, a millionaire logistics entrepreneur. He focused on DEI. My son is not a racist and has good friends of every skin color under the sun. When I asked him what the problem of DEI was all about, expecting it to be a denied opportunity of some kind because he is a white guy. Caucasian. That wasn’t it. 

Take a seat for this one.

He pointed to the entertainment industry and in particular Harry Potter. My son is a high school graduate, works for a living in physical labor, occasionally has problems in life because of congenital issues that plague him as an adult. He and I are best friends as well as son and mother. He is welcome in my life anytime. He is a kind and gentle man.

As to DEI. Harry Potter. J.K. Rawlings is starting up a new movie from what I understand. The Potions Master Severus Snape is not dead. Alan Rickman had passed away. He was the actor who played Severus in the past movies. My understanding is that the new Severus Snape is a black man. Hence, DEI. According to the crowd in criticism of that decision, “Why didn’t Rowlings just let Snape die?”

That is not the best part of the anger.

Ready?

“Chadwick Boseman died. I hated that he died. But, THEY (the inconsistent media industry, evidently) never replaced the Black Panther with a white guy.”

Now, you can say what you want, but, Americans live media. It is why Trump is successful. Tabloid media. They are attached to a Trump because he plays into their ideology no matter what that ideology is or how it occurs. WWF and alien encounters are all part the Trump’s bullshit and the reasons are not rational, they are bizarrely political and now President Zelenskyy is called Putin while Trump points a finger at him. 

GET THE SON OF A BITCH OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE!

The dignity of the USA is being bartered away for racketeering. 

Enough!

Mexico is trying to protect the rest of their immigrated citizens in the USA.

Wrongful death? The trend in the USA courts is to uphold the presence of immigrants (legal or illegal) and allow for Due Process. The death of a human being within the sovereign borders of the USA is depriving that person Due Process. 

The Fifth Amendment states:

Due Process Clause: Mandates that the federal government cannot deprive any person of "life, liberty, or property, without due process of law". This ensures that legal proceedings must be fair and follow established rules. 

July 8, 2026

By Chantelle Lee

...According to Salgado, (click here) it seemed as though three other people were detained by federal officers after the shooting. Salgado said that one of those men was his uncle.

Araujo had been living in the U.S. for about 35 years and had been working to try to obtain legal status in the country, Salgado said.

“He did not deserve to die. He did not deserve to be reduced to a headline of Mexican man shot and killed by ICE,” Salgado said. “He deserved to live a quiet life as Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a husband, a father, and a job creator for dozens of men who also wanted the American dream.”

Democratic Rep. Sylvia Garcia of Texas, who joined Araujo’s family at the press conference on Wednesday, said that Araujo had no criminal record. She demanded a “full,” “transparent,” and “independent” investigation into the incident....

Below is Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's son. The loss is profound and the pain in real. The entire paradigm of authority under Trump was illegal. He assassinated two legally protesting Americans and terrorized communities of the undocumented. The USA Constitution protects their lives in the guarantee of Due Process regardless of their legal status.

July 8, 2026

Mexico plans to file criminal complaints in U.S. courts (click here) over deaths of Mexican nationals in ICE custody and during anti-immigration operations, signaling a shift from diplomatic protest to direct legal action. The move follows the shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national living in the U.S. illegally for decades, which spurred protests and added to rising fatalities in immigration enforcement. The government frames the effort as seeking criminal investigations rather than formal diplomacy. The timing comes amid a broader crackdown and increasing confrontations over U.S. immigration policy under the current administration. Movements like this could set a precedent for state-to-state legal actions tied to enforcement-related deaths, with the next steps hinging on U.S. prosecutors' responses....

Freedom fuel?

Since when is $3.47 for a gallon of gasoline freedom?

I always thought crossing the Delaware was freedom.

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The White House announced the first "Freedom Fuel" gas station, which it says is selling gasoline at a below-market rate of $3.47 a gallon....

When Trump took office in January 2025 was $2.958. That price had held since January 2024. Petroleum products are a hardship fuel standard. The USA should have moved on decades ago.

Anyone who states…

…a ceasefire and peace treaty are not possible is only interested in genocide. 

It almost occurred in the USA with Native American Tribes. The political will is there for all the immoral reasons. 

Fear of the other is propaganda.

The fight for land and/or resources is not answered by war, but, by peace and prosperity. 

Afghanistan, the generational war and nation building, is proof war only begets resistance and not civilization.

If any country is capable of bringing about a strong and civil policy for the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz it is Oman (click here).

Oman had proven in the past it is capable of governance, finding peace, and enacting agreements of peace. The USA has no right to be involved in sovereign waters of other countries unless invited. There are no international waters in the Persian Gulf. The governance law of the Persian Gulf is administered by local governments and authorities. That is clearly understood as international law. 

The strait of Hormuz is only 12 nautical miles.

Trump is trespassing. He is pounding his chest and flexing military muscle out of religious bigotry and self-righteousness.

Or.

Maybe it is time to buy and sell petroleum stocks for his portfolio.

Senator Mc Connell needs to bring impeachment forward.

NATO is vital to the national security of the USA and Trump is endangering the alliance and our homeland. Focusing on Greenland as if a new possession is treasonous for pitting one member country against another. It will be an unhappy day when the Ukraine drones visit the White House.

NATO needs to continue to build strength. It won’t be long before a real president will once again live in the White House. 

Trump is not trustworthy. He is extremely manipulative and the alliances need to realize he is an enemy to them and democracy. As he loses grip in power and the USA Senate doesn’t act Trump will feel more threatened and be more dangerous. 

Trump and Putin are looking to defeat NATO. I think that is important to focus on. NATO and its USA component need to make clear to Congress the problems with their lax attention to details of national security. Soldiers are citizens too. The Republicans are hoping the courts will handle Trump. He is lawless. The USA Legislature needs to live in the real world, not their ideological ones.