Who's got the balls, Bondi and Noem or Gabbard? By Hal M. Brown Tulsi Gabbard been making the news for standing up to the biggest baddest ballsy bully boss in the country.

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The image above is from Instagram. It saves me the trouble of making my own picture. Below is what was posted in reply to it:

By now you’ve no doubt read stories like,'“Outside looking in': Intel official reportedly 'rubs Trump the wrong way' “ about Tulsi Gabbard disagreeing with the assessment that Iran was on the verge of devoloping a nuclear bomb.

This has been all over the news. On MSNBC they’re showing images from the times when Tulsi Gabbard was on Trump’s good side.

Yesterday balls were in the news courtesy of Sen. Elissa Slotkin:

We know what the expression means:

Here’s a lengthy explanation of how the idiom is used.

Now we have a woman who has been making the news for standing up to the biggest baddest ballsy bully boss in the country and actually, from all we can tell, having done her job properly. She seems to have met with actual experts, in her case top analysts in the country’s intelligence agencies, and instead of demanding that they justify something Trump wanted to hear, told them to tell her what their assessment was.

I suspect that they told her not only that Iran wasn’t poised to construct a nuclear bomb in any minute, but that doing so was a lot more difficult than many laymen think it is. 

Could it be that a Trump woman created an atmosphere among her top tier of advisors, and within all the agencies under her purview, where politics didn’t play the major part of doing their job?

I think it is worth taking a look at just who Tulsi Gabbard, the Democrat who turned Republican and supported Donald Trump, really is. Check out the Wikipedia profile here. (Clicking below will enlarge image)

Holy shit! Perhaps she actually is qualified to do her job!

Among the Trump’s bevvy of bullying beauties maybe she’s the only one who really has balls… and also the Aloha Spirit.

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I was going to write about how long Push-up Pete and other members of the Trump cabal have to bother testifying before Congress and then Trump came on and launched into a rant. This was supposed to be a one topic Substack. Thanks to Trump and an unhinged weave I ended up writing about two.

We learned one thing yesterday about members of Trump’s cabal, sometimes referred to as his Cabinet. They are not all invulnerable. At least not invulnerable to allergy attacks serious enough to require hospitalization. Of course I am referring to Kristi Noem. What I didn’t know until just now is that not only does she like to visit prisons in El Salvador but she, for whatever reason, decided to visit a biohazard lab with Rand Paul and RFK Jr.. (See Newsweek article.)

Perhaps she feels she must live up to her image as being fearless. Consider this from the Newsweek article:

Bruce Levell, an ally of President Donald Trump on X, formerly Twitter, on Tuesday: "My dear friend @Sec_Noem, our fearless Secretary of Homeland Security, was just rushed to the hospital. My heart is with her during this challenging time, but I know her strength and determination will shine through.

All this being said, Noem is one of the members of Trump’s Cabal (aka Cabinet) who has testified before Congress.

My point is that we will know when Trump has firmed up his dictatorship 100% when he tells members of his cabal to ignore Congress when they are asked to testify.

Today I thought of writing this while watching MSNBC this morning and saw this:

He’s on as I write this:

In case you wonder why I call Hegseth “Puch-up Pete” here’s a photo:

He’s competing onscreen with Trump who is talking about the glorious giant two flagpoles -with his blah blah blag braggadocio abut how great they will be.

He’s throwing in something about the fake news and the Fed lowering rates, he’s rambling on insulting Jerome Powell, abruptly shifts to talking about the best poles in the world, blah blah. He’s distracting me with the weave. He’s now insulting Biden and everyone who pops into his mind.

Holy shit… I can’t even get through writing a Substack while MSNBC is on without being led into my own “weave” thanks to Trump and his weave. 

He even compliments the construction workers and gets them to laugh and throws in Harvey Weinstein and talks about the word erection without saying it. He calls it the e-word. I wasn’t going to use the image below. I made it yesterday to post in a comment on a RawStory article about the flags:

Shit, he’s still rambling on and trying to joke with the construction workers about what would happen if any of them are illegal immigrants. He is now touting the $5 million Trump Card which would allow foreigners to buy their way into the country.

This is pure Trump. Perhaps he was frustrated when he couldn’t unleash his vitriol in his mercifully brief parade speech.

He just blasted Biden for having no clue and the autopen and men playing in women’s sports. 

Thank you, MSNBC, for restoring my sanity as they just cut away from the rant.

Okay, I can’t resist reflecting on Trump’s bringing up the e-word. Trump is obsessed with size. He just admitted that he knows damn well what he admires about how big, tall, and upright his glorious flagpoles are going to be. 

I wonder if he knows that at 100 feet it doen’t come close to being the world’s tallest flagpole (see list). The tallest is 662 feet and is in Cario. Now, that a damn tall flagpole (watch video).

Here’s a minute long segment of his “weave” rant:

Now I can have Ann proofread this for typos and send it to you.

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Trump's decision about joining Israel's war against Iran with a bunker busting bomb will rest on emotion rather than logic.

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Trump has lusted over being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (click Google search) for brokering a deal with Iran to assure they stopped their pursuit of nuclear weapons or for ending the war in Ukraine. This was clearly to make him feel good. He’s always wanted to stick his Nobel Peace Prize in the eyes of all of his critics. Of all the people who were awarded the world’s most prestigious prize the one who he is most resentful of has to be Barack Obama. Trump isn’t even listed as a notable omission.

Trump is a person driven by feelings. He doesn’t make decisions by first considering reason and logic. He makes them based on how they enhance his feelings of superiority and power.

I don’t know enough about international relations to opine with confidence on what will happen if Iran eventually becomes a nuclear armed power. It does seem on the face of it that unless the United States uses its Air Force to destroy the deeply buried unranium enrichment facility or faclicites eventually they will have a nuclear weapon. If this happens the balance of power in the region will change. Perhaps this would be akin to what it is like between India and Pakistan. They would join the countries where nuclear war is avoided because such a war would destroy both countries. This is the MAD scenario, mutually assured destruction.

All this should be what Trump will be considering today when he meets with his security team in the Situation Room.

First, consider the optics of using the Situation Room for this meeting. He could hold this meeting in any secure room in the White House. It will make for a better photo op to show him presiding over a meeting in this room. This is a minor point.

The major matter is what he will do and why he will do it. I think that whoever is in favor of entering the war and authorizing the use of bunker buster bombs alone with our planes to drop them will have a bang-up presentation ready for him. It will probably include graphics showing how such munitions work and possibly a video.

If he’s been watching TV he’s already seen pictures like this which I assume also are on Fox News:

Trump may have looked up bunker buster bomb on the internet, although it is unknown whether Trump ever uses the Google machine and Wikipedia. If he looked it up he’d find this post on, of all things, a mixed martial arts website.

They have this video. I can see it being shown to Trump.

If he looked up bunker buster bomb on Wikipedia and waded through the description of how they work, perhaps with someone to explain the technicalities of how they did what they can do, he’d be impressed.

He likely would think “this is no ordinary bomb.” I can see Hegseth saying “this is one big bad bomb Mr. President. You’ve got it, maybe you should use it.”

The crucial word is big. Trump loves the word when applied to anything Trump. Big and biggest. Biggest bill, biggest parade, biggest crowd, and of course biggest brain. One might speculate that there’s some unconscious inscurity Trump has about size.

You don’t have to be a psychoanalyst to interpret what the mental imagery of the bunker buster bomb penetrating a hardened uranium enrichment facility and exploding deep inside of it signifies in the unconscious mind.

Updates: 

1. Check out this Nick Anderson cartoon. It says pretty much what this Substack is about.

2. Unless Trump is playing a game of chicken with Iran, this deployment suggests that before long we will be dropping those bunker busiting bombs: 'Unprecedented mass deployment' of warplanes across Atlantic fuels war fears.

3. Note that in the post shown below, Trump is already sounding like the United States is engaged with Israel in fighting Iran:

   

   4) Trump actually referred to his mood (reference). I can imagine what world leaders, both with our allies and adversaries, think when they see how Trump makes vital decisions based on his mood.

   President Donald Trump denied early on Tuesday having had contact with leaders in Iran, saying he hadn't reached out about a potential ceasefire and that he was "not too much in the mood" to negotiate with Iran.

   "I've been negotiating. I told them to do the deal," Trump said. "They should have done the deal. The cities have been blown to pieces, lost a lot of people. They should have done the deal. I told them do the deal, so I don't know. I'm not too much in the mood to negotiate."

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