3 hours ago, Gorth said:

Reminds me of former Australian PM, Scott Morrison, who not only didn't support renewable energy, but actually worked against it. To the poing of trying to prevent local state governments from any initiatives, that encourated solar or wind energy (because it hurts the oil, gas and coal industry). If nothing else, it created a lot of Don Quijote memes, where Morrison was shown charging windmills (his actions being so absurd it made you think of British humour at times)

Juice Media did a video on that. Or they have raised this in several videos

9 minutes ago, rjshae said:

Trump says U.S. strongly considering NATO exit, Telegraph newspaper says

Putin must be immensely pleased; the President he helped get elected is destroying the greatest potential threat to Russia.

collaborationist leadership of eu will never leave nato on their own

at least this generation of leader

if usa disband their own vassal organization without any real conflict it would be the best thing happen at europe since the end of ww2

55 minutes ago, rjshae said:

Trump says U.S. strongly considering NATO exit, Telegraph newspaper says

Putin must be immensely pleased; the President he helped get elected is destroying the greatest potential threat to Russia.

I'm pretty sure he's not allowed to do that. You need a qualified majority of 2/3 of the Senate as well as an act of congress, says google. Instead, Trump will be removed from NATO, which will only improve the alliance.

He's lost his mind, and he's not very far away from losing power as well.

2 hours ago, Gorgon said:

I'm pretty sure he's not allowed to do that. You need a qualified majority of 2/3 of the Senate as well as an act of congress, says google. Instead, Trump will be removed from NATO, which will only improve the alliance.

He's lost his mind, and he's not very far away from losing power as well.

It occurred to me that maybe it's an April Fool's joke? But then every day is April 1st under Redacted, so how can you tell? 🥳

3 hours ago, Gorgon said:

I'm pretty sure he's not allowed to do that. You need a qualified majority of 2/3 of the Senate as well as an act of congress, says google. Instead, Trump will be removed from NATO, which will only improve the alliance.

He's lost his mind, and he's not very far away from losing power as well.

He can just remove US forces from Europe, but armament sales on hold and say that US doesn't participate in any Nato joint operations. And he effectively achieves same thing without needing permission from Congress

Don't threaten us with a good time.

6 minutes ago, Elerond said:

He can just remove US forces from Europe, but armament sales on hold and say that US doesn't participate in any Nato joint operations. And he effectively achieves same thing without needing permission from Congress

He doesn't need an excuse, article 5 has no stipulation on the exact nature of the help you would need to give, so it could be 'hopes and prayers' or a couple of pallets of aid. Article 5 is effectively dead for the remainder of his presidency given his statements, at least it has no value for deterrence anymore.

The point here is that a majority in the US doesn't want the US to exit NATO, and he can't force it. He's on his way out, and we are starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel.

If Trump really wants to leave NATO there are ways he can, irrespective of what the law says. Like invading Greenland or Canada. Invading a NATO member is a pretty effective way to destroy the alliance without having to do anything formal about it. Usually you'd think it's bluster to try and get them to help him out, but there has been an awful lot of very similar bluster from him in the past year(s).

You might also have thought the issues with Iran might have tempered Trump's military adventurism, but it's Trump. If anything his self created crisis seems to have convinced him even more that the Euros are simply weak rather than not willing to bail him out of a pot of hot water he willingly jumped into. And the weak deserve to have their lunch money stolen.

(Ultimately, it's the problem of von der Leyen, Rutte and pals completely misjudging things and folding like a napkin to every bit of early pressure. You might think you're 'building up credit' or similar by signing massively disadvantageous trade deals or financing Ukraine's weapons instead of the US or agreeing to up your military spending to ludicrous levels or agreeing to buy overpriced LNG but all evidence is Trump simply doesn't see the world that way. He sees you as a serf who should fight in his armies and be hung upside down and shaken to make sure they haven't got some coins hidden from the taxman. And of course as a serf, you don't really own anything except the stuff your lord lets you have...)

Edited April 1Apr 1 by Zoraptor

Trump sounds drugged

Some allowance made for the obvious losing of voice, but he certainly sounded drunk or similar.

Really though, what was the point of that? It was the political equivalent of your 'outspoken' uncle having a rant after one too many Christmas sherries. Nothing new, nothing genuinely important and the only people who'd be impressed are people who are already impressed; everyone else verges from appalled to incredulous. At this point those impressed are likely to be the sort of person who'd applaud Trump eating a boiled egg because it's Trump doing it

Be interesting to know if he was using a teleprompter or not. Guess he must have been in part since he wouldn't have had war lengths right (?, well they didn't seem miles off as they would have been if he was just making them up; also didn't mention Afghanistan there) but how on earth it was handled for all his weird digressions and circular sentences I don't know. Unless he actually sat down and wrote it all out, which seems... unlikely.

I personally particularly liked him singling out all the Gulf states for praise for all their help, then very next sentence wondering why the Iranians were attacking them and saying that was proof of how dangerous they were. Good thing for him Trumpists aren't renowned for critical thinking.

I liked his comparison of this war to WW1, WW2 and Vietnam.

Trump fired Pam Bondi for mishandling the Epstein files and not being witch-hunty enough. Hegseth and Gabbard are probably nervous since Iran doesn't seem to fold even after today's destroyed highway bridge.

I wonder why they didnt target the bridge piers. 🤔

7 minutes ago, Gfted1 said:

I wonder why they didnt target the bridge piers. 🤔

Probably because they wouldn't have collapsed the bridge.

3 hours ago, majestic said:

Trump fired Pam Bondi for mishandling the Epstein files and not being witch-hunty enough. Hegseth and Gabbard are probably nervous since Iran doesn't seem to fold even after today's destroyed highway bridge.

They just fired the Chief of Staff, presumably for not waving the right magic wand. Bondi seemed pretty loyalist in her behavior, so once again Redacted expects loyalty but doesn't give it.

4 hours ago, majestic said:

Hegseth and Gabbard are probably nervous since Iran doesn't seem to fold even after today's destroyed highway bridge.

Hegseth more so, I'd say. Leavitt is probably next though if she doesn't end up 'quitting' due to her pregnancy. Trump seems to have decided that people not seeing the US as being the winningest side of a war ever is down to bad communications more than anything. Which is about the only reason I can think of for his speech yesterday; so the great communicator could show them how it's done (badly. It must be incredibly frustrating and difficult trying to run PR for a guy with a shambolic mish mash of concepts of plans and views that change every few hours).

Gabbard, like Vance, clearly didn't support attacking Iran in the first place and has said the bare minimum. Those who opposed it are probably in a safer position than those who supported it at this point.

I've been half expecting that Redacted's flailing decision making would hasten America's decline, and it's starting to look like that is happening.

The US-Israel war on Iran is accelerating de-dollarization and America’s decline

It's the ultimate irony as MAGA gradually sinks the nation. Is the USA becoming the Greece to China's burgeoning (Roman) empire?

so dow at 50000 moron was fired

undoubtedly will be replace by someone worse

Another F-35 shot, this one was downed.

1 hour ago, Sarex said:

Another F-35 shot, this one was downed.

seem like spirit of john macain are still with usa

I cant seem to find a link that I feel is reputable, and the mention of grok instantly makes my BS-dar flicker, but heres a counterstory:

Iran War News: Iran Claims 2 US F-35 Jets Shot Down In 24 Hours, Grok Tells Different Story

Edit: Looks like it was an F-15E:

Photos Of F-15E Wreckage Emerge Amid Iranian Claims It Shot Down An American Fighter

2 hours ago, Gfted1 said:

I cant seem to find a link that I feel is reputable, and the mention of grok instantly makes my BS-dar flicker, but heres a counterstory:

Iran War News: Iran Claims 2 US F-35 Jets Shot Down In 24 Hours, Grok Tells Different Story

Edit: Looks like it was an F-15E:

Photos Of F-15E Wreckage Emerge Amid Iranian Claims It Shot Down An American Fighter

NYT has this

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/us/politics/us-fighter-jet-iran.html?smid=url-share

Edited April 3Apr 3 by Malcador

A-10 crashed as well near Hormuz, albeit according to unnamed official. Seems to be being treated as genuine though. And really, the A-10 is a sitting duck in anything approaching contested airspace.

Would be Classic Trump if it were shot down as well: proclaim the enemies' anti air as totally destroyed to the nation; proceed to lose 2 planes to it in the next 48 hours.

22 hours ago, rjshae said:

They just fired the Chief of Staff, presumably for not waving the right magic wand. Bondi seemed pretty loyalist in her behavior, so once again Redacted expects loyalty but doesn't give it.

Well that explains it. Apparently Hegseth pushed out Gen. Randy George because the latter refused to remove two black and two female officers from the list of candidate one-star generals. The remaining officers are all white males. Yes, we still live in the 18th century.

ABC News

Jobs report shows strong hiring in March, exceeding econo...

The labor market rebounded from job losses in the previous month.

Latest US job numbers for March exceeded expectations. Good economic results for the US economy

"The U.S. recorded strong job gains in March, rebounding from dismal losses a month earlier, a jobs report on Friday showed. The reading far exceeded economists' expectations.

The U.S. added 178,000 jobs in March, according to the report, which marked a sharp increase from 133,000 jobs lost in the previous month. "