Tea and Vitriol

 99 Jahre Krieg Liessen Mann kein platz für Sieger. Kriegsminister gibt's nicht mehr Und auch keine Düsenflieger. Heute zieh ich meine Runden Seh die Welt in Trümmern liegen Hab'n Luftballon gefunden Denk an dich un lass ihn fliegen... These are the last lines of Nena's international hit song 99 Luftballons . And they apply nowadays more than ever. The old "world order" is clearly dead and the new "world order" hasn't quite worked out the way that The Donald wanted. Yet he is the new "world order's" primary architect. Surrounded by a war mongering cabal who are "yes" men and ass kissers, the world has learned that The Donald does NOT ask for advice of his advisors. He gives them orders, to which most of them happily comply, they being no better than he. The prime example of The Donald's cabal is Pete Hegseth, his Secretary for War. The position was formerly called Secretary for Defense. Changing the title was a hint of the...

 Apparently, The Donald is a bit confused. As well as pissed. He claimed that the US had already won its war against Iran while the war is still ongoing. Then he "invited" NATO nations to send battleships to protect commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20% of the world's oil supply must travel and which Iran has effectively closed off. This has created a global energy crisis. The Persian Gulf region also produces about 40% of the world's fertilizer, the loss of which will undoubtedly result in global food shortages. Actually, The Donald didn't so much as invite NATO nations to participate as to threaten them if they didn't, which is his typical bullying tactic, which has largely worked before. Only it's not working now. Saying "bad things will happen to NATO" if that alliance doesn't participate isn't working. Not this time. NATO was originally conceived as a defensive alliance after WW II aimed at containing the exp...

The answer is simple: We didn't.  Having been goaded into this latest war against Iran by Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, both The Donald and Benny expected a quick victory. Massive bombings of both military and civilian targets were supposed to cause Iran to sue for peace on both The Donald and Benny's terms, which were unconditional surrender. It didn't happen. The war was supposed to cause Iran's regime to collapse. It didn't happen. The war was supposed to end the theocracy of the ayatollahs and substitute a puppet leader subservient to Benny and The Donald. It didn't happen. Both The Donald and Benny broadcast encourage to the Iranian people to rise against their government. It didn't happen. Here it became clear that both men were deluding themselves. The Iranian government controls the state news media and social media.  The exhortations of Benny and The Donald to rise against the ayatollahs and take control of their government never r...

Despite his statement that the US has already won his war against Iran, the truth is that The Donald hasn't. Far from it. Our so-called, self-appointed "Peace President" has twice in the last year has sent weapons of mass destruction against Iran, in conjunction with Israel.  In fact, it was Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu that precipitated both incidents, and The Donald was forced to go along with it in order to save face. The first incident led to "peace" negotiations, which really went nowhere, and were promptly abandoned to begin this second war. Once again, Benny was the chief instigator of the current war. Benny's political career in Israel requires perpetual wars to keep himself in power and out of jail. Any possibility of a neutralized Iran without nuclear capabilities would be a threat to him. So, Iran would have to be destroyed in a war where Israel was a major participant so he could look like a hero and cement his leadership role in his own count...

The latest chapter in the wars against Iran is on! And The Donald and Benny have seriously miscalculated this one. On Friday, in broad daylight, The Donald and Benny attacked Iran. The day before, The Donald didn't get the complete capitulation of Iran in meetings to eliminate the ayatollahs' nuclear capacity for all time, to reduce its military strike capacity and to end its support of proxies in the Middle East whose intent is the utter destruction of the State of Israel. Such acquiescence would have reduced Iran to the position of a US puppet. During these meetings there was NO mention of moderating Iran's repressive regime on its own people, nor of a change in regime. The simple fact is that The Donald and Benny don't give two shits about the Iranian people. They wanted Iran to be defanged, weakened and no longer a threat to US and Israeli interests. The Donald doesn't take rejection well, so on Friday morning he and his relatively faithful lapdog Benny attacked...

Bilbo (Horndog) Clinton and his wife Billary  finally responded to a congressional summons to testify about their relationship with the deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. This came after months of ignoring the congressional summons and they only agreed to do so after being threatened with criminal action if they didn't by the Department of Justice. The event took place in, appropriately enough, the Chappaqua Community Theater on February 26 and 27. Chappaqua is a hamlet in ritzy Westchester County, where the Clintons reside in luxury. The Clintons have been a fixture in American politics and the news media for the last forty years, mostly for the scandals with which they were involved. Former president Bilbo was a notorious sex pig since his days as Governor of Arkansas in the 1980s, a behavior he carried into the White House after he was elected President of the United States in 1992. It was at that time he embroiled his presidency with the Monica Lewinsky scandal, where he openl...

Rasputin, the "Mad Monk," needs no introduction to anyone with even cursory knowledge of the end of Imperial Russia. The excremental taint of his relationship with Tsar Nicholas II and his hysterical wife Alexandra enveloped the autocratic regime and ultimately was one of the factors behind the collapse of Nicholas II's government, the two Russian Revolutions of 1917 and the death of the Imperial Family in a blood-spattered cellar in June of 1918. Among many of the pronouncements and prophecies of this "Holy Man" was one that concerned the United Kingdom. The monarchy would survive there, he said, until a Battenberg would sit on the English throne. As of September 2022, a Battenberg has been sitting upon the English throne in the person of King Charles III. And his reign is in deep shit! King Charles's paternal grandmother was none other than Princess Alice of Battenberg. Her son, Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, adopted an anglicized version of Battenbe...

Just as an aside, the word "gift" translates into German as "poison." And poisonous the Epstein files are!  Jeffrey Epstein was the shady billionaire who acted as financial advisor, piggy bank, fixer and pimp to the world's celebrities, the rich, the powerful and international political acrobats. Epstein died in police custody in 2019. His death was promptly ruled a suicide. It probably wasn't. Too many people the world over would sleep more easily if their relationships with the convicted pedophile were silenced by his death. Furthermore, the night of his death, two of the three closed-circuit cameras set to monitor his section of the jail in New York City were either not functioning or turned off! Further still, the security guards that were to monitor Epstein later changed and falsified their records that night! Ruling Epstein's death as a homicide would have caused an investigation as to why and who, implicating a lot of his former clients among the ...

Melanija Knavs is a Slovenian-born immigrant who came to America thirty years ago to become a "fashion model." I use that term politely. Most of the clothing she modeled could be found in exclusive catalogs and would be sent in plain brown wrappers. They left little to the imagination, and she happily displayed her breasts, buttocks and beaver in pursuit of her career. Since Slovenia wasn't nearly big enough to contain her, she set off for Paris and Milan, where she changed her name to "Melania Knauss" and there met Paolo Zampolli, a businessman based in New York City. It was Zampolli who hired Melania and brought her to Manhattan, arranged for her Green Card and whereupon he introduced her to multi-millionaire Donald Trump, who was then between wives. The Donald, with a taste for flashy women and prostitutes, eventually made her his third wife in 2005. Like any self-respecting pimp, Zampolli was later awarded political appointments by The Donald, once he had be...

Of balls, that is! Who woulda thunk it? Less than a week ago, US President Donald Trump was at his most bellicose, claiming that he would have Greenland, regardless of what anyone said. The Donald did NOT rule out a military invasion of that island. Furthermore, he slapped more tariffs against 7 European states that loudly opposed his intentions regarding Greenland. Those 7 nations sent a token number of military personnel to show solidarity with the native Greenlanders, who do NOT want to be part of the United States. That fact pissed off The Donald more than somewhat, because the European Union had been capitulating to his demands since he returned to the White House last January. The Donald, as we all know, demands to be obeyed. Yet, 48 hours ago, The Donald stated that he was ruling out military conquest of the island and its annexation to the United States. Instead, he supported extending the status quo regarding American military presence in Greenland, which would permit the Unit...

 " Ainsi sera, groigne qui groigne!" "That is how it is going to be, grumble though they may." This is clearly the motto of The Donald's imperial presidency...on a global scale. While I am the first to admit that I voted for Trump for president the last three times, and I agree with most of his domestic policies, it is his global adventuring that, at best, leave me muddled. At worst, I am opposed to many of them, since they are making enemies of our erstwhile friends. In a sense, The Donald's international blustering, bullying and threats ARE understandable, compensating for the disastrous four years of Sloppy Joe Biden's dismal regime, that made the US a laughingstock on the international scene while remaining the world's piggy bank. But there IS such a thing as overcompensating, which is what The Donald is now doing on a global scale. He is scaring the shit out of most of the "leadership" of the European Union, who are heavily dependent u...

Ahh, Christmas is upon us. The season of peace and good will towards men. Which, of course, is a lovely fairy tale with no basis in reality. Particularly in Ukraine, where the war keeps dragging on, despite US President Donald Trump's campaign promise that he could end the war in one day. The Donald, once inaugurated for his second term as president, didn't. And couldn't. When push comes to shove, the Donald is basically an elitist who likes to play with the "Big Boys" among political and business leaders. It is only with lesser and weaker people does he feel confident to throw his considerable weight around. It's only with countries like Venezuela that he can afford to threaten to make war. Such is the typical behavior of bullies, which is why Hsi and Putin laugh at The Donald's bluster and are not particularly frightened of him. In fact, it is The Donald's peculiar bromance with Putin, to wean him away from Hsi, that has become a source of hilarity a...

Well, there goes the neighborhood! President Trump received the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman at the White House. It was a public relations attempt to rebuild the Crown Prince's sordid reputation and tarnished image. By seeking the approval of the most powerful man in the world, our own president, it was thought that the Crown Prince would gain respectability in the eyes of the world. Because the Crown Prince was not only notorious as a wife beater but as a murderer as well, having ordered the execution of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018. Khashoggi had fled Saudi Arabia in fear of his life and was then living in Istanbul, Turkey. That was a rather odd choice, since the Turkish President Erdogan is no fan of dissident journalists criticizing HIS regime and usually jails them. The Saudi Crown Prince thereupon ordered a fifteen-man Saudi hit squad to execute Khashoggi by luring him to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, then dismembering his body, p...

And lo, there shall be an ending...to the US Government shutdown! At least this time. As of tonight, the longest shutdown in US history, 43 days, came to a close in the House of Representatives. The vote was purely along party lines, with the Democrats voting against reopening the government. As the Republicans have a slight majority in the House, its passage was a foregone conclusion. It was the Senate that had been the problem for the last forty-three days. While the Republicans hold a majority there, it was not enough to pass the bill to reopen the government and then to send it onto the House. The Democrats shot down the bill 14 times. As a result, federal aid to SNAP and WIC were curtailed and federal employees were either furloughed or working without pay. Airline Controllers were working extra shifts to keep air traffic flowing, but many of them stopped showing up for work, which has resulted in a total disruption of flight schedules across the country, with delays or downright ...