Trump has lied 170,000 times in the last 10 years. Last night Big Media gave this man a stage. And Iran's Pereshkian sent America a letter (full text enclosed).
And after he spoke, oil prices soared again. He is a fool. And we're fools to listen.
The Daily Kos, calling Trump the “Maestro of Mendacity, the Prince of Prevarication” lays it out for us:
Trump has told at least 170,000 lies in the last 10 years. The calculation is simple. Washington Post famously documented 30,573 lies Trump told in his first 4-year term. That computes to 21 lies on average per day. Since 2015 when he began running for the presidency, that 21 lies per day average computes to 85,000 total lies. However, that is just his public lies. It is highly plausible, almost assuredly true, that Trump lies as much in private conversations and meetings. He can’t help himself. So double the total and that equals 170,000 lies. That is just a staggering amount of dishonesty.
And now he is a “war president” to go along with his naming as much of the world as possible after himself.
And yet it gives major TV broadcasters NO problem to let this man lie to the world some more with a global megaphone while subjecting this drivel to INSTANTANEOUS, ON-AIR FACT CHECKING, which should be requisite any time this narcissist opens his lying mouth.
Meanwhile, the result of Trump’s speech, allegedly meant to calm America and the markets about the war is not what he intended. Business Insider reports the results that Trump’s speech are that:
Oil surged and US stocks sunk after president Trump struck a combative tone in his latest speech about Iran.
Traders worry that further military escalation will wreak havoc on global energy flows.
BI further noted that :
Crude prices have soared more than 75% this year.
Way to go, Donsy!!!!
Any Saudi or Israeli Boots on the Ground? Of course not. Why? Because that’s what they bought when they gave Trump money.
Meanwhile, he and Hegseth, the Eternal Adolescent, have moved 12,000 U.S. troops to the Middle East, along with a Mons Olympus-sized mountain of military hardware. This implies a ground invasion, and for details on this whole war, I sent you to Malcolm Nance at the Black Man Spy Substack. He’s the best. Follow this guy at:
https://substack.com/@malcolmnance
Meanwhile, Iranian President Pezeshkian wrote the American people a letter yesterday. It, too, is full of “false innocent victim” crap, and I will point it out as we go through it:
“In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
“To the people of the United States of America, and to all those who, amid a flood of distortions and manufactured narratives, continue to seek the truth and aspire to a better life:
Well, we’ve certainly suffered that!
“Iran — by this very name, character, and identity — is one of the oldest continuous civilisations in human history. Despite its historical and geographical advantages at various times, Iran has never, in its modern history, chosen the path of aggression, expansion, colonialism, or domination.
Pants on fire! Of course it has. It has enslaved its women. It has targeted the Ismailis with all kinds of abuse. It has arrested, jailed, tortured and executed political dissidents and gays. It has made war on the Kurdish peoples. It has continued operations inside Iraq almost 40 years after the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War, it still had butchers inside Iraq. I give as evidence that Iraq is where General Qasem Soleimani of the Iranian Quds Force was assassinated in 2020. It was Soleimani, in tandem with Syrian Hezbollah, that, according to the Mossad, “tightened the noose around Israel’s ncck.” However, there is no evidence at all that Iran knew ahead of time that Yahyah Sinwar would carry out the October 7th music festival attack that killed more than 2,000 Israelis and started the current war. It has been an integral element of the Sunni-Shi’a conflict for 1400 years, starting the day the Prophet Muhammad died without making the Iranian Ali the leader of all Islam.
Even after enduring occupation, invasion, and sustained pressure from global powers — and despite possessing military superiority over many of its neighbours — Iran has never initiated a war. Yet it has resolutely and bravely repelled those who have attacked it.
This is technically true, but it initiated and has sustained an intermittent attack against Israel for 40 years through its support for Hezbollah in Syria and its support for HAMAS in Gaza, which organization is declared a terrorist organization for every good reason I can think of. Iran has been in a proxy war with Israel for 40 years.
“The Iranian people harbour no enmity toward other nations, including the people of America, Europe, or neighbouring countries. Even in the face of repeated foreign interventions and pressures throughout their proud history, Iranians have consistently drawn a clear distinction between governments and the peoples they govern. This is a deeply rooted principle in Iranian culture and collective consciousness — not a temporary political stance.
If that’s the case, why are you constantly calling the United States “the Great Satan”??? Hmmmm? Hmmmmm? Is that not a slur against all Americans?
“For this reason, portraying Iran as a threat is neither consistent with historical reality nor with present-day observable facts. Such a perception is the product of political and economic whims of the powerful — the need to manufacture an enemy in order to justify pressure, maintain military dominance, sustain the arms industry, and control strategic markets. In such an environment, if a threat does not exist, it is invented.
Well, you guys should know. By declaring gays, Ismailis, Iraqis, Israelis, Americans, the Kurds, the Saudis, and any woman without a veil an enemies of the state, you have mastered this technique. Any repressive state MUST create both an external enemy and an internal enemy to continue to legitimize its existence as a possessor of power. [Read Jerrold Post on this.]
“Within this same framework, the United States has concentrated the largest number of its forces, bases, and military capabilities around Iran — a country that, at least since the founding of the United States, has never initiated a war. Recent American aggressions launched from these very bases have demonstrated how threatening such a military presence truly is. Naturally, no country confronted with such conditions would forgo strengthening its defensive capabilities. What Iran has done — and continues to do — is a measured response grounded in legitimate self-defence, and by no means an initiation of war or aggression.
“Relations between Iran and the United States were not originally hostile, and early interactions between the Iranian and American people were not marred with hostility or tension. The turning point, however, was the 1953 coup d’etat — an illegal American intervention aimed at preventing the nationalisation of Iran’s own resources. That coup disrupted Iran’s democratic process, reinstated dictatorship, and sowed deep distrust among Iranians toward US policies. This distrust deepened further with America’s support for the Shah’s regime, its backing of Saddam Hussein during the imposed war of the 1980s, the imposition of the longest and most comprehensive sanctions in modern history, and ultimately, unprovoked military aggression — twice, in the midst of negotiations —against Iran.
True. All of it.
“Yet all these pressures have failed to weaken Iran. On the contrary, the country has grown stronger in many areas: literacy rates have tripled —from roughly 30 per cent before the Islamic Revolution to over 90pc today; higher education has expanded dramatically; significant advances have been achieved in modern technology; healthcare services have improved; and infrastructure has developed at a pace and scale incomparable to the past. These are measurable, observable realities that stand independent of fabricated narratives.
And Iran has jailed its Nobel Prize winners, its critics, its journalists, its film makers, its women’s rights activists, and its religious minorities. It has, with staggering frequency, detained foreigners accusing them of collaboration with the CIA. It has killed tens of thousands of its own citizens in the streets when they have required an end to the Islamic regime.
“At the same time, the destructive and inhumane impact of sanctions, war, and aggression on the lives of the resilient Iranian people must not be underestimated. The continuation of military aggression and recent bombings profoundly affect people’s lives, attitudes, and perspectives. This reflects a fundamental human truth: when war inflicts irreparable harm on lives, homes, cities, and futures, people will not remain indifferent toward those responsible.
“This raises a fundamental question: Exactly which of the American people’s interests are truly being served by this war? Was there any objective threat from Iran to justify such behavior? Does the massacre of innocent children, the destruction of cancer-treatment pharmaceutical facilities, or boasting about bombing a country ‘back to the stone ages’ serve any purpose other than further damaging the United States’ global standing?
Point taken.
“Iran pursued negotiations, reached an agreement, and fulfilled all its commitments. The decision to withdraw from that agreement, escalate toward confrontation, and launch two acts of aggression in the midst of negotiations were destructive choices made by the US government —choices that served the delusions of a foreign aggressor.
“Attacking Iran’s vital infrastructure — including energy and industrial facilities — directly targets the Iranian people. Beyond constituting a war crime, such actions carry consequences that extend far beyond Iran’s borders. They generate instability, increase human and economic costs, and perpetuate cycles of tension, planting seeds of resentment that will endure for years. This is not a demonstration of strength; it is a sign of strategic bewilderment and an inability to achieve a sustainable solution.
Point taken again.
“Is it not also the case that America has entered this aggression as a proxy for Israel, influenced and manipulated by that regime? Is it not true that Israel, by manufacturing an Iranian threat, seeks to divert global attention away from its crimes toward the Palestinians? Is it not evident that Israel now aims to fight Iran to the last American soldier and the last American taxpayer dollar — shifting the burden of its delusions onto Iran, the region, and the United States itself in pursuit of illegitimate interests?
If this point does not hit home for Americans, it should:
Trump went to war to deflect attention over the Epstein files debacle, over which he has just this morning fired Pam Bondi, making the Bitch Brigade two for two down.
“Is ‘America First’ truly among the priorities of the US government today?
“I invite you to look beyond the machinery of misinformation — an integral part of this aggression — and instead speak with those who have visited Iran. Observe the many accomplished Iranian immigrants —educated in Iran — who now teach and conduct research at the world’s most prestigious universities, or contribute to the most advanced technology firms in the West. Do these realities align with the distortions you are being told about Iran and its people?
And then go talk to every Iranian woman under 30 you can find, and let them tell you what their lives are like.
“Today, the world stands at crossroads. Continuing along the path of confrontation is more costly and futile than ever before. The choice between confrontation and engagement is both real and consequential; its outcome will shape the future for generations to come. Throughout its millennia of proud history, Iran has outlasted many aggressors. All that remains of them are tarnished names in history, while Iran endures —resilient, dignified, and proud.”
And does this mean you will stop funding HAMAS and Hezbollah? Does it mean you will stop torturing your women and gays? Does this mean you will stop disenfranchising the Israelis and stop abusing the Kurds? Does it? Does it? Iran is a totally illegitimate state that has not had a free and fair election in at least 34 years. It is not run by some benign religious potentate. It is run by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corp that has financial tentacles all over the world and by the Basij, the Iranian “Stasi” domestic secret police. I’ll know you mean business when you empty Evin Prison of women and dissidents and the people who falsely accuse of spying for leverage with the West.
So, now, after Pereshkian’s noble exercise of the sooty pot calling the greasy kettle black, back to Trump.
Trump is flailing. This was a mistake. Trump is bleeding treasure every day, and soon he’ll be bleeding the blood of Americans all over the ground in Iran.
The Strait of Hormuz is a strategic and tactical nightmare.
Trump’s ace in the hole is that, as he says, America gets little of its imported oil from the Gulf region. So, he’s really socking it to other countries who do. That’s why Starmer just called together 45 oil-producing and -consuming nations to try to work a solution that does not require opening the Strait immediately.
And do you know what that’s going to do to Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, and the UAE? It will be devastating.
Asia ran out of imported oil this week. Next week Europe will run out.
And then America will rapidly start running out of friends, and it’s possible we will NEVER, ever, ever get them back.
Trump did this to cover his ample backside during the Epstein files furor and to pay his “debts” to AIPAC and Israel and the ones brokered by Jared Kushner with Saudi Arabia.
And that’s why Pereshkian himself is correct when he asks, “Is it not evident that Israel now aims to fight Iran to the last American soldier and the last American taxpayer dollar?”
Yes, it is. And this is why we need to get out of this war and stop defending the current regime in Israel. It is why we should make NO deals with Saudi Arabia. And it is why we must reverse Citizens United and disallow foreign campaign financing—because unless we do, it will be American soldiers and taxpayers who pay the price for Trump’s fat ego and craven lack of soul.