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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This story has been updated here.

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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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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The GOP using Hamas attack to bash Biden is un-American

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 Trump blamed the Hamas attack on President Biden (article):

Donald Trump blamed President Joe Biden for Hamas’ attack on Israel on Saturday, claiming the long-simmering Israeli-Palestinian conflict erupted into new violence because Biden is perceived as “weak.”

“It was a big attack with a lot of dead people all over the place,” Trump told an audience at a Waterloo, Iowa rally. “Who would think that? And the only difference, I believe, is the difference between one president and another president.”

Donald Trump Jr. tweeted a graphic video showing a dead body in Israel Saturday – and used it to claim that similar attacks to those committed by Hamas were coming to the U.S.  Reference

So did the RNC chair:

RNC Chair Spots 'Great Opportunity' For GOP Candidates Following Hamas Attack

“I think this is a great opportunity for our candidates to contrast where Republicans have stood with Israel – time and time again – and Joe Biden has been weak,” McDaniel said.

“And when America is weak, the world is less safe. We’re seeing this not just with the war in Ukraine and with an emboldened China, but now with an attack on Israel.”

Here's Nikki Haley, a former UN ambassador, who should know better:

'You don't have any evidence': NBC host confronts Nikki Haley for blaming Biden for Hamas attack

… Haley attacked Secretary of State Antony Blinken for denying that $6 billion slated to be returned to Iran played a part in the attacks.

"They go and spread terrorism every time they get a dollar; it doesn't go to the Iranian people; it does go to terrorist attacks, and Secretary Blinken is just wrong to imply that this money is not being moved around as we speak and yet, and that's it," Haley said.

"And yet, ambassador, there's just no proof of that," Welker pointed out, "yet this is just the hours after that immediate attack. Is it irresponsible to level that charge when you really don't have any evidence of that at this point in time?"

Haley pointed to "evidence" that was unconnected to the recent attacks.

This is how Marjorie Taylor Greene blamed Biden:

"What happened to Israel could happen to America because our country has been invaded by millions of people from over 160 countries, and we've been invaded by people we don't even know where they are." Reference

Florida GOP congressman Corey Mills posted this in Truth Social: "This war in Ukraine, attacks on Israel, and open US borders would not be happening if Pres Trump were in office. We had peace under President Trump. In 2024 don’t forget the chaos overseas and on our border is under Joe Biden."

The actual case against Biden, that is the deal with Iran to pay for the release of hostages (read article) might have helped Hamas is too obscure for most voters to grasp. Trump said that  “American taxpayer dollars helped fund these attacks.” Of course, Trump and others are only speculating that Iran even helped fund the attack.

This is just background noise for MAGA voters since they already hate Biden. They are like the man wearing a Let's Go Brandon hat who we sat next to at this parade in August. 

This was an old fashion partiotic small town parade:

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I have no doubt that this man considers himself to be an American patriot. If he'd known that the couple sitting next to him and his wife at the foot of his driveway were Democrats he'd probably consider us to be un-American.

He and his ilk who want to blame President Biden, someone who he most lilely considers to have stolen the election, are the not patriots they think they are.

Israel, for all the anti-Democratc far-right policies Netanyahu favors, is still a democracy and a staunch American ally. 

These MAGA people don't need reasons to blame Biden for the Hamas attack. It isn't a stretch to think that some of them don't particularly care about what happens in Israel and harbor antisemitic beliefs.

You can believe that Israel has been committing the crimes of apartheid and persecution against Arabs in the occupied territories and Israel itself, which is what Human Rights Watch said, (read article) and still agree that Israel has the right to defend itself against a terrorist attack. 

This is not the time for poltical blame games.

This is the time to support Israel without promoting an American political agenda. When the United States helps other democracies who have been attacked, whether it's Ukraine or Israel, both poltical parties should stand together. It's un-American not to do so. 

Alas, these people are so brainwashed that they will believe that had Trump been president none of these bad things would have happened because no country would have dared to defy the righeous Rambo whose flag they fly.

After all, Trump not only has the biggest brain, he has the biggest gun.

Addendum/Update:

Democratic comrgessman James Crow just pointed out to Jen Psaki that because the GOP doesn't have a Speaker of the House they can't hold an emergency session to approve aide for Israel.