"Earlier, over on Capitol Hill, there was a rally and march to support the fall of the Islamic Republic organized by the Organization of Iranian American Communities." The Islamic Republic has not fallen! I wish these people would live in the real world.
So Trump wanted to get a more compliant leader into power in Iran to avoid nuclear weapons being built.
So he kills the guy who was actually against nuclear armaments because they declared a fatwa on them. Kills his wife and other family members and now his son is in charge who is a hardliner that wants to build nuclear weapons AND now will want to avenge his family.
Hey I was at one you missed Dom! A couple of dozen of us showed up at DC Superior Court to support Brian McGinnis the marine vet and NC Green Party candidate who had his arm snapped by Montana’s grossest Senator and a squad of Capitol Police. He needed surgery and was given a pre-trial release. Unusual to get a weekend hearing but as the DC jail wouldn’t be dispensing pain meds saner and more humane heads prevailed and moved him up the court docket.
He is still facing three counts of assault on a police officer, because of course, he might have bled on them. The judge didn’t seem overly concerned about letting this dangerous one-armed lunatic back on the streets. But he did tell Mr. McGinnis to stay away from the Capitol and provided him with a helpful map to show him which streets that entailed.
Presumably he had time to attend one or more of the events Dominic reported on.
The Homunculus says that he'll talk to Iran's leader if said leader wants to talk, while Israel says they'll target and kill anyone who gets set up as Iran's leader.
"Well, maybe he'll die, maybe not, I guess we'll see. What I do know is that we need a deal. We'll be taking their oil, and we'll be doing that very strongly."
A 35-year-old Florida woman armed with an AR-15 style weapon fired several shots into the Beverly Hills-area home of pop star Rihanna on Sunday, and a round penetrated a wall of the mansion, a law enforcement source told The Times.
Police identified the suspect as Ivanna Ortiz. She is being held on $10.2 million bail. Officials have not cited a motive for the attack.
Los Angeles police responded to the report of the shooting at 1:21 p.m. Sunday in the Beverly Hills Post Office neighborhood.
The pop star was home, the source said.
According to police, the suspect fired multiple rounds from inside her vehicle toward the celebrity’s home. No injuries were reported in the incident, according to Police Sgt. Jonathan de Vera, a spokesperson for the Los Angeles Police Department.
The LAPD radio dispatch for the incident said that at least 10 shots had been fired at the residence from a vehicle across the street from the property’s gate. The vehicle, a white Tesla, then fled south on Coldwater Canyon Drive, per the dispatch audio.
As police searched for the Tesla, they relayed details over the radio: The suspect’s hair was in braids; she wore a cream-colored blouse; her car was dirty on the bottom. Officers in a helicopter soon caught sight of her vehicle and followed it to a shopping center parking lot in Sherman Oaks, where they arrested her around 30 minutes after the 911 call came in, according to radio correspondence reviewed by The Times.
“When they pulled the suspect over and took her into custody, they searched the vehicle and located an assault rifle and seven casings,” said Armen Arias, an LAPD spokesperson.
Police found bullet holes in a gate at Rihanna’s home and in an RV parked in the driveway, he said.
Motive doesn't matter. Access to big guns matters. No assault rifles, less danger to us all, regardless of the motivations of violent and stupid people.
I remember back in the day when someone blew up my mailbox with pipe bombs (twice) the cops basically said, "Kids! What you gonna do?" I think it's because I'm common folk like everyone else.
In the 1980s my sister became a Bahai convert. Unlike me, she never left the Chicagoland of our teenage years; that is where the stunningly beautiful Bahai Temple stands, and her faith allowed me access to its inner sanctum as well as introduction to several Iranian Bahai refugees who had fled what was becoming an increasingly lethal crackdown on their faith in their homeland.
The Bahai Iranians tend to get lost now in the discourse. Maybe it's that so many of them settled and prospered in my old neighborhood, embedding themselves deep into the fabric of the community. But I also suspect that they represent a peaceful and inclusive faith at odds with the long-peddled stereotype of Iran--which is to say: stereotypes used as propaganda are always lies, and must be questioned.
"The entire world is coming apart at the seams right now — all because of Donny’s unnecessary, unprovoked and illegal war on Iran — and the oblivious fuck is cheating at golf, as if he hadn’t a care in the world.
The fact is, Donny doesn’t have a care in the world — he lives in a reality-free bubble, pampered, with all of his needs taken care of. None of this shit affects him one iota. He’s shielded from the consequences of his own fuckery — consequences the rest of us are forced to endure every goddamned day."
Top Trump officials rush to purchase nuclear war-proof bunkers after Iran attack
Business has been booming for Hubbard, who also told The Telegraph that his recent clients were almost all “Christian, conservative CEOs,” which included “several of the wealthiest men on the planet".
The christian CEOs have to buy the crummy, off-the-shelf nuclear war-proof bunker?
What? No room at the CEO's boss's mansion to take in their employee? I'll bet the Oligarch who paid the CEO their salary ain't about to rub shoulders with the help once the fallout starts drifting down.
Those CEOs will be at the gate asking to be let in and the guy who owned the majority share of the company stock will be telling them to fuck off and telling them to go find their own damn canned food.
Americans who believe anything other than that slavery happened because the White people who were gifted the U.S. land -- one could argue illegally, since people were already here AND the doctrine that "granted" that has actually been revoked -- DID NOT KNOW HOW TO FARM THAT LAND AND AS A RESULT THOUGHT IT WAS THEIR LITERAL GOD-GIVEN RIGHT TO KIDNAP PEOPLE WHO DID.
Until the masses realize we have been their slaves and pawns all along we will not move the needle and stay there on any front. Rs have walked us all back several decades.
Selling an expensive geegaw to a gullible fool who thinks this POS "bunker" will enable them to survive a nuclear winter brought on by an exchange of nukes in the middle east.
By the time they can safely move around again the consumers of their products will be dust.
Besides, IF they are christians where is their FAITH that Jesus told them to have? If Jesus does show up after Armageddon he might be a bit annoyed that he finds these christian, conservative CEOs hiding in bunkers when they should be joyously lining the streets welcoming their Lord and Saviour!
"WTF guys! I told you to be ready to welcome me didn't I? And here I find you cowering in your shelters? ASSHOLES!"
'$100 Million Of Gold Arrived From Venezuela': US Confirms Transfer Amid Mining License Move
The United States has received $100 million worth of gold from Venezuela, US Interior Secretary Doug Burgum confirmed, as the Trump administration pointed to a broader push to assert control over the South American nation’s natural resources.
“On Friday, there was $100 million of gold that came from Venezuela to the United States. Venezuela’s got $500 billion of resources of gold," Burgum said.
In mining-speak, "resources" are things that seem to be there in the ground, "reserves" are things that you're pretty sure are there and could be profitably dug up. So if they are using mining-speak, what they are talking about is not at all current bars of gold.
"Earlier, over on Capitol Hill, there was a rally and march to support the fall of the Islamic Republic organized by the Organization of Iranian American Communities." The Islamic Republic has not fallen! I wish these people would live in the real world.
So Trump wanted to get a more compliant leader into power in Iran to avoid nuclear weapons being built.
So he kills the guy who was actually against nuclear armaments because they declared a fatwa on them. Kills his wife and other family members and now his son is in charge who is a hardliner that wants to build nuclear weapons AND now will want to avenge his family.
Strong work guys. No notes.
Reza Pahlavi needs to get a real job. With a little job training, he could manage flipping burgers at some McDonalds.
Hey Dom, thanks for providing a nuanced report on the goings-on over the weekend. Appreciate you. Stay safe!
Hey I was at one you missed Dom! A couple of dozen of us showed up at DC Superior Court to support Brian McGinnis the marine vet and NC Green Party candidate who had his arm snapped by Montana’s grossest Senator and a squad of Capitol Police. He needed surgery and was given a pre-trial release. Unusual to get a weekend hearing but as the DC jail wouldn’t be dispensing pain meds saner and more humane heads prevailed and moved him up the court docket.
He is still facing three counts of assault on a police officer, because of course, he might have bled on them. The judge didn’t seem overly concerned about letting this dangerous one-armed lunatic back on the streets. But he did tell Mr. McGinnis to stay away from the Capitol and provided him with a helpful map to show him which streets that entailed.
Presumably he had time to attend one or more of the events Dominic reported on.
PSA from Olde Farte.
Donut store gas. Not in any container. Ever.
Yes, I know Everybody and their Dog sells gas containers, but that is only for lawnmowers and
industrial equipment like generators that you do not have. Handled by trained professionals.
I only know this because I survived the last gas crisis in the '70s in spite of myself. Really.
I had to read this several times to figure out which Donut shops sell gas.
All I could figure was
Donut store gas =the Convenience store gummies
Dunkin's has Chevron...I think...🤔
If you’re waving a flag with turnip and bibi on it while fire burns buildings in the backround, you’re probably on the wrong side.
>>the subsequent power vacuum that allowed far-right religious fundamentalists to seize power<<
If I didn't know this was in reference to Iran, I'd swear you were talking about what's going on right here at home, Dom.
HMMMMMMMMMM
Okay.
The Homunculus says that he'll talk to Iran's leader if said leader wants to talk, while Israel says they'll target and kill anyone who gets set up as Iran's leader.
I think they're missing something here.
"Just text me your location and I'll call you"
Good cop, bad cop.
So TACO will tell Iran's new leader to "move along" while Bibi tells him "don't move!"
Just like how ICE brownshirts give conflicting orders right before they fire.
🎆🎇🎆🎇🎆🎇🎆🎇
This isn't getting enough attention
I don't think there will be Love Letters.
Hey if you can't trust your butt fukin' 'friend', who can you trust ?
I've been told one should never enter into business adventures with a partner and discovered it's true.
A clear and shared objective, of course...
"Well, maybe he'll die, maybe not, I guess we'll see. What I do know is that we need a deal. We'll be taking their oil, and we'll be doing that very strongly."
Jesus, be careful! Your brain might stick like that!
Bit of a Catch-22 there.
That some catch, that Catch 22
The best there is.
I've been waiting for that!
Brain cells and common sense
there's one thing that's black and white, if you vote gop you are a na&i and a KKK, whether you like it or not. no ambiguity there.
Agreed. There is no such thing as being "Nazi adjacent".
Like it's been said, if you sit down to eat at table with 9 Nazis, you are now at a table with 10 Nazis.
NYT: "U.S. Gasoline Prices, Rising Again, Are Now Up 17% Since Conflict Started"
Boston Globe: "Home heating oil prices have spiked by one-third. It could get worse."
.
So much winning . . . and we aren't even talking about the TACO TARIFFS
[Epstein files - still millions of documents which have not been released, in violation of law]
Holy fuck. Last week I checked my oil dealer's price, $4.29/gal, up from $3.69 last month. I just checked it now, $4.99/gal.
The gas at my local Costco went up 44 cents a gallon in one week.
OT Florida Woman in Tesla story:
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A 35-year-old Florida woman armed with an AR-15 style weapon fired several shots into the Beverly Hills-area home of pop star Rihanna on Sunday, and a round penetrated a wall of the mansion, a law enforcement source told The Times.
Police identified the suspect as Ivanna Ortiz. She is being held on $10.2 million bail. Officials have not cited a motive for the attack.
Los Angeles police responded to the report of the shooting at 1:21 p.m. Sunday in the Beverly Hills Post Office neighborhood.
The pop star was home, the source said.
According to police, the suspect fired multiple rounds from inside her vehicle toward the celebrity’s home. No injuries were reported in the incident, according to Police Sgt. Jonathan de Vera, a spokesperson for the Los Angeles Police Department.
The LAPD radio dispatch for the incident said that at least 10 shots had been fired at the residence from a vehicle across the street from the property’s gate. The vehicle, a white Tesla, then fled south on Coldwater Canyon Drive, per the dispatch audio.
As police searched for the Tesla, they relayed details over the radio: The suspect’s hair was in braids; she wore a cream-colored blouse; her car was dirty on the bottom. Officers in a helicopter soon caught sight of her vehicle and followed it to a shopping center parking lot in Sherman Oaks, where they arrested her around 30 minutes after the 911 call came in, according to radio correspondence reviewed by The Times.
“When they pulled the suspect over and took her into custody, they searched the vehicle and located an assault rifle and seven casings,” said Armen Arias, an LAPD spokesperson.
Police found bullet holes in a gate at Rihanna’s home and in an RV parked in the driveway, he said.
Motive doesn't matter. Access to big guns matters. No assault rifles, less danger to us all, regardless of the motivations of violent and stupid people.
Does Beyoncé have an alibi?
That's ... so unfunny - especially given who the perp is - that I'm too tired to explain it
The casual racism on the mommyblog sometimes
No racism - they had a musical rivalry.
You’re talking to someone who worked in the industry and is still industry-adjacent.
And you don’t get to gaslight someone who’s a regular target of racism that they don’t see what they’re seeing.
Stop deflecting.
These celebrity beefs are getting out of hand.
I remember back in the day when someone blew up my mailbox with pipe bombs (twice) the cops basically said, "Kids! What you gonna do?" I think it's because I'm common folk like everyone else.
FLORIDA WOMAN!
Stay away from me-hee...
LOL
“Officials have not cited a motive for the attack.” Florida woman
MAGA Karen.
WTAF?????😱
In the 1980s my sister became a Bahai convert. Unlike me, she never left the Chicagoland of our teenage years; that is where the stunningly beautiful Bahai Temple stands, and her faith allowed me access to its inner sanctum as well as introduction to several Iranian Bahai refugees who had fled what was becoming an increasingly lethal crackdown on their faith in their homeland.
The Bahai Iranians tend to get lost now in the discourse. Maybe it's that so many of them settled and prospered in my old neighborhood, embedding themselves deep into the fabric of the community. But I also suspect that they represent a peaceful and inclusive faith at odds with the long-peddled stereotype of Iran--which is to say: stereotypes used as propaganda are always lies, and must be questioned.
They are peaceful people.
OT:
𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘇𝗻𝗶𝘁 𝗙𝘂𝗰𝗸𝘄𝗶𝘁 𝗴𝗼𝗹𝗳𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗶𝗹 𝗵𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗮 𝗵𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗱𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗮 𝗯𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗹
𝘋𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘣 𝘋𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘺 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘩𝘦’𝘴 𝘦𝘯𝘫𝘰𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘪𝘴 ‘𝘦𝘹𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦'.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-190318096
I'm just waiting for President Mr. Hankey to say that it doesn't matter if the price of gasoline goes to $20 a gallon...
If he doesn't cheat at at least on thing every day he get recalled to Planet Blob.
Can we speak to them about that?
"The entire world is coming apart at the seams right now — all because of Donny’s unnecessary, unprovoked and illegal war on Iran — and the oblivious fuck is cheating at golf, as if he hadn’t a care in the world.
The fact is, Donny doesn’t have a care in the world — he lives in a reality-free bubble, pampered, with all of his needs taken care of. None of this shit affects him one iota. He’s shielded from the consequences of his own fuckery — consequences the rest of us are forced to endure every goddamned day."
Why should he have a care in the world since the six whores on the corrupted court anointed him to be a king above the law?
Top Trump officials rush to purchase nuclear war-proof bunkers after Iran attack
Business has been booming for Hubbard, who also told The Telegraph that his recent clients were almost all “Christian, conservative CEOs,” which included “several of the wealthiest men on the planet".
https://www.rawstory.com/iran-war/
Why are Christian conservatives buying bunkers? Don't they want to die and be with Jesus?
Enjoy your nuclear winter, rich doofuses. The joke's on you.
When food runs low for the master and his servants in the bunker, guess who's first on the menu?
LOL! The prophecy will be fulfilled with choice meat.
Joke’s on them, the warning system we had for this sort of thing has been gutted and sold for parts.
The christian CEOs have to buy the crummy, off-the-shelf nuclear war-proof bunker?
What? No room at the CEO's boss's mansion to take in their employee? I'll bet the Oligarch who paid the CEO their salary ain't about to rub shoulders with the help once the fallout starts drifting down.
Those CEOs will be at the gate asking to be let in and the guy who owned the majority share of the company stock will be telling them to fuck off and telling them to go find their own damn canned food.
Funny thing is the peasants will all be gone and they have never worked a day in their lives. They won't last long.
THIS. PART.
THIS.
Americans who believe anything other than that slavery happened because the White people who were gifted the U.S. land -- one could argue illegally, since people were already here AND the doctrine that "granted" that has actually been revoked -- DID NOT KNOW HOW TO FARM THAT LAND AND AS A RESULT THOUGHT IT WAS THEIR LITERAL GOD-GIVEN RIGHT TO KIDNAP PEOPLE WHO DID.
Atrocities.
Until the masses realize we have been their slaves and pawns all along we will not move the needle and stay there on any front. Rs have walked us all back several decades.
(overheard while handling a shovel)
“Which end do I use to slice the bread?”
The ultimate con / scam / grift.
Selling an expensive geegaw to a gullible fool who thinks this POS "bunker" will enable them to survive a nuclear winter brought on by an exchange of nukes in the middle east.
By the time they can safely move around again the consumers of their products will be dust.
Besides, IF they are christians where is their FAITH that Jesus told them to have? If Jesus does show up after Armageddon he might be a bit annoyed that he finds these christian, conservative CEOs hiding in bunkers when they should be joyously lining the streets welcoming their Lord and Saviour!
"WTF guys! I told you to be ready to welcome me didn't I? And here I find you cowering in your shelters? ASSHOLES!"
Why would those "christians" buy underground bunkers when JC is gonna turn on the Holy Hoover Vacuum and suck them up to Hay-Venn?
Where is their faith?
"How do we keep our bodyguards from killing us and taking our stuff"?
You don't.
Once the dust settles the mercenary security contractors will just kick their boss out to fend for himself.
But the bosses female family members....they stay.
Great. And everyone of them gets a harem to repopulate the Earth with their superior DNA like Dr. Strangelove.
A world of Eric's......
A land of zombies then.
Gah! Hey, I'm trying to eat lunch here!
They’re obviously not interested in meeting Jesus anytime soon.
Jesus doesn't seem in a big hurry, either
But I thought they wanted to meet Jesus!
So, we wait til they enter them to test them out and we bury the entrances.
Easy-peasy.
Collectively speaking, bulldozers and concrete are cheap.
I saw this in 'A Boy and His Dog'
I hate that I love that movie.
The story behind it is crazy and the director changed the ending from the novella, for a "wacky, jokey" ending...
Just sayin'...
'$100 Million Of Gold Arrived From Venezuela': US Confirms Transfer Amid Mining License Move
The United States has received $100 million worth of gold from Venezuela, US Interior Secretary Doug Burgum confirmed, as the Trump administration pointed to a broader push to assert control over the South American nation’s natural resources.
“On Friday, there was $100 million of gold that came from Venezuela to the United States. Venezuela’s got $500 billion of resources of gold," Burgum said.
https://www.news18.com/world/100-million-of-gold-arrived-from-venezuela-us-confirms-transfer-amid-mining-license-move-ws-l-9949623.html
In mining-speak, "resources" are things that seem to be there in the ground, "reserves" are things that you're pretty sure are there and could be profitably dug up. So if they are using mining-speak, what they are talking about is not at all current bars of gold.