My 2 cents - Netanyahu talked him into it.

From what I’ve read mostly here:

The CIA assessed that the likely successor to Ayatollah Khomeini would like be very hard line Republican Guard.

(6 days ago) Trump's top general warns of munitions shortages as Iran strike risks grow

US intel did not suggest a preemptive strike from Iran before US-Israeli attacks, AP sources say (Sunday Congressional briefing)

Sen.’s Warner AND Ted _______ Cruz both said that they saw no immediate threat from Iran.

Homeland Security is on impulse power during the funding fight.

Iran was relenting to EVERYTHING at the negotiations. Possibly because they saw what happened in Venezuela, sure, but without the threat of Iran (for 30 years) Netanyahu has nothing.

I know, Epstein, but Trump has weathered that for months and RW media (Fox) has ignored it and even rationalized it for months.


If there any other reasonable conclusion?

Sen.'s Warner and Cruz agree. (X & text)

WARNER: "I saw no intelligence that Iran was on the verge of launching any kind of preemptive strike against the United States of America."
BASH: "None?"
WARNER: "None."

Ted Cruz: "I have no indication they were anywhere close to getting nuclear weapons"


https://x.com/cnnsotu/status/2028116278578143463?s=46&t=3VBm1LJ8j8qLp6JTs_8J2A

https://x.com/atrupar/status/2028144049316618306?s=46&t=3VBm1LJ8j8qLp6JTs_8J2A

L7 "Wargasm"

L7’s 1992 album “Bricks are Heavy” is a great hard rock work written completely from the female perspective. Direct, biting, and quite funny.


Wargasm, wargasm, one, two, three
Tie a yellow ribbon 'round the amputee
Masturbate, watch it on TV
Crocodile tears for the refugee

Wargasm, wargasm, one, two, three
Smutty bloody pictures, ecstasy
Blue balls waiting impatiently
From Alcatraz to Lady Liberty

Body bags and dropping bombs
The Pentagon knows how to turn us on

Wargasm, wargasm, one, two, three
People, people, ecstasy
Wave those flags high in the air
As long as it takes place over there

Wargasm
Wargasm
Wargasm
Wargasm

Body bags and dropping bombs
The pentagon knows how to turn us, turn us on

Wargasm
Turn us on
Wargasm

Iran was just a matter of time. Bibi made Trump jump the gun.

Iran and North Korea were the last two big shut off countries. I hate it for both groups of people and NK is going to next to impossible to crack open.


Iran is like the Berlin Wall. It’s only a matter of time. Anyone under 50 (slightly younger than me) doesn’t remember the Revolution other than what they had drilled in their heads at school and, at this point, don’t care at all. They want blue jeans and rock n roll which is what really broke down The Wall*. Beatles & Rolling Stone albums were grooved into X-ray film so they could be snuck into Soviet Russia, often listened to in churches. The kids KNEW something was going on and they were missing it. They can’t travel. They have no access to the international banking system so they can’t order from Alibaba. Their internet and commerce is completely internal. There was a reporter my wife told me about earlier today (BBC/CNN/?) who said they had a lot of cash and they were headed out away from urban centers in Iran. Our cards don’t work there either. They are shut off and they are sick of it.

*that comes from a former G. I. I met in Germany. He worked on the General Services- Transportation Dept. Work was being done right up against the Wall. Tools were left leaning against the Wall. Bars started spilling out and someone, one guy, picked up a sledgehammer (said the epic two word phrase “____ it”) or pickaxe and started going at it. Others joined. The German cops didn’t want to join in on a bunch of drunk Germans so it kept going.

I must've been distracted, did they call this "Operation Epstein Fury"?Boy, if so,they missed the Epstein files by A LOT

Radiohead Tells Trump's Homeland Security to 'Go F-- Yourselves' After Song Used in ICE Video

Radiohead has issued a joint band statement decrying the use of the group’s song “Let Down” in a pro-ICE video, telling the U.S.’s Department of Homeland Security to “go fuck yourselves” for misappropriating the track.

A spokesperson for Radiohead said it “goes without saying it was without the band’s permission” and passed along their statement, which reads:

“We demand that the amateurs in control of the ICE social media account take it down. It ain’t funny, this song means a lot to us and other people, and you don’t get to appropriate it without a fight.
Also, go fuck yourselves… Radiohead.”


The text accompanying the video reads: “Thousands of American families have been torn apart because of criminal illegal alien violence. American citizens raped and murdered by those who have no right to be in our country. This is who we fight for. This is our why.”


https://variety.com/2026/music/news/radiohead-song-ice-video-responds-dhs-1236674808/

Sen. Kaine " Is he too mentally incapacitated to realize....?"

“Has President Trump learned nothing from decades of U.S. meddling in Iran and forever wars in the Middle East? Is he too mentally incapacitated to realize that we had a diplomatic agreement with Iran that was keeping its nuclear program in check, until he ripped it up during his first term?

“For months, I have raised hell about the fact that the American people want lower prices, not more war—especially wars that aren’t authorized by Congress, as required by the Constitution, and don’t have a clear objective. These strikes are a colossal mistake, and I pray they do not cost our sons and daughters in uniform and at embassies throughout the region their lives. The Senate should immediately return to session and vote on my War Powers Resolution to block the use of U.S. forces in hostilities against Iran. Every single Senator needs to go on the record about this dangerous, unnecessary, and idiotic action.”

https://www.kaine.senate.gov/press-releases/kaine-statement-on-trumps-illegal-war-with-iran

The first Cabinet was in 1789. 😂😂😂😂

Kash Patel's use of jet delayed FBI's team mass shooting (Brown U) response, whistleblower tells top senator

Agents with the FBI’s elite evidence response team were delayed in reaching the scene of a mass shooting at Brown University in December because there was no FBI plane available to take them to Rhode Island, according to three sources and a whistleblower’s account newly provided to Congress.

FBI Director Kash Patel was in south Florida at the time with one of the FBI’s two available jets and had given an order to hold the other for another team that would not normally respond to the scene, according to the whistleblower and the sources. The evidence response team instead had to drive through the night amid a snowstorm to reach the university in Providence, Rhode Island, by 9 o’clock the next morning, according to the whistleblower’s account.


According to the whistleblower’s account, Patel ordered that the Hostage Rescue Team be put on standby after learning of the shooting, which froze the use of the second plane by any other FBI team. FBI officials were confused by his order as numerous SWAT team agents in the nearest local field offices — in this case, Boston and New York — would ordinarily be called upon to provide immediate support, rather than the Quantico, Virginia-based Hostage Rescue Team.

An FBI official familiar with Patel’s travel said he was using the jet that December weekend to visit his elderly parents, but declined to say where the parents lived due to security concerns. Property databases reviewed by MS NOW indicate Patel’s parents reside in south Florida.

https://www.ms.now/news/senator-slams-kash-patel-for-use-of-fbi-jet-asks-for-investigation

The State of the Union Revealed a Sad Reality. David Frum

He writes long paragraphs



President Trump’s State of the Union address last night was very like the man who delivered it: divisive, abusive, and childish.

The speech turned reality on its head in many ways. The president who has enriched himself and his family by more than a billion dollars in his first year in office called on Congress to clean up its corruption. The president who has collected about $175 billion in illegal tariffs from the American people falsely told them that he had given them a great big tax cut. The president solemnly condemned political violence—the same president who ended his first term by inciting a mob to sack Congress and overturn an election. Maybe most shocking, Trump demanded that members of Congress rise to agree that it’s the first duty of government to protect American citizens—even as his own government by its brutal police methods has shot American citizens dead on the streets and then tried to deceive the country about how those Americans had been killed and why. Then of course there were the many misstatements of fact about the economy, about crime, and about wars and peace—many of which look like deliberate decisions to deceive the public watching on television.


The most radical fantasy in the speech, though, was its claims of a new golden age of prosperity. That misstatement surely deceived nobody. Prices continue to rise; the job market stagnates. In almost every way that can be measured, Americans are communicating economic anxiety and discontent. Trump insisted that they are all wrong. It is as if the nation were being soaked by a torrential downpour, water rolling over umbrellas and into boats, soaking everyone’s clothes—and the leader whose job it is to lead them through the deluge insists that it is not raining at all, that in fact it is sunny, the sunniest day ever.

But there comes a point when sad realities must be faced. The speech last night was empty and uselessly garrulous. Its length was its first declaration of disrespect for those obliged to sit through it. Trump’s name-calling of his predecessor and of the members of Congress in the chamber, his demands that legislators rise at his command, his strategic deployment of systematic untruth in service of those demands to rise and clap—put together, he misused the State of the Union ritual in ways so radical as to call the ritual itself into question. Are members of Congress really supposed to sit meekly and quietly while the president uses the rostrum of their chamber to abuse and insult them in the ugliest language? The president is present in Congress as a guest: That’s the reason for the famous language about the “high honor and distinct privilege” of welcoming him to speak. He has no right to be heard in person; it’s a courtesy.


https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/trumps-childish-state-of-the-union/686133/?gift=j8JiJIlliWfcdD_mDVMd94I5LFigbGOIYL8rso4U9_Y