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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What happens when you let the gremlin get wet. By Hal M. Brown

 

It did’t literally rain on Trump’s parade, but it still sucked. In fact, for him the entire day sucked. Between the protests and the news coverage of the Minnesota shooting, not only did the non-Fox and other far right media not give it, I mean HIM, uninterupted coverage all day, but for many people, even his supporters, it was just boring.

If you are one of the six people in the country who doesn’t know the plot of the hit movie Gremlins, this is from Wikipedia. Those who know the plot about what happens when a gremlin gets wet can skip this quote.

Struggling inventor Randall Peltzer visits a Chinatown antique store to find a Christmas present for his son, Billy. In it, Randall uncovers a small and furry creature called a mogwai (Cantonese: 魔怪, 'devil'). The owner, Mr. Wing, refuses to sell it to Randall, but his grandson secretly does, warning Randall to remember three important rules concerning the mogwai – do not expose the creature to light, especially sunlight, which will kill it; do not let it come in contact with water; and above all, never let it eat after midnight.

In Randall's hometown of Kingston Falls, Billy works at the local bank, but fears that his dog Barney will be put down by widowed miser Ruby Deagle. His father returns and offers him the mogwai, now named "Gizmo", as a pet, and informs him of the rules. Gizmo is friendly and docile, but when Billy's friend, Pete Fountaine, accidentally spills water on Gizmo, five more mogwai spawn from him – a more mischievous sort led by the aggressive Stripe, named after the white mohawk-like tuft of fur on his head. Billy shows one of the mogwai to his former elementary school science teacher, Roy Hanson, spawning another mogwai, whom the latter experiments on. Back at home, Stripe and his fellow mogwai trick Billy into feeding them after midnight by severing the power cord on his bedside clock. They form cocoons, as does Hanson's mogwai, which soon hatch, emerging as destructive and reptilian imp-like monsters called "gremlins". Hanson is murdered by his gremlin, while those at the Peltzer house torture Gizmo and assault Billy's mother, Lynn.

Trump’s parade day birthday extravaganza was a big bust, and not the kind that prompts him to grab women.

He and Melania couldn’t even manage to effect a glimmer of a smile. They were pictured in the media looking like they’d been sucking lemons as they realized that what, at least Donald, hoped would be a bunker busting parade was bombing like the Broadway play, the aptly named Frankentein, which after 29 previews, closed after one night. Put this fiasco of a farce on this list of Broadway plays that closed after one perfomance on the Great White Way. This was supposed to be a the show of shows for Trump’s great white America… instead it not only was boring but so poorly managed that numerous people gave up on waiting in long lines in the heat and went home.

Even Trump’s speech, such as it was, was a dud. The only thing it had going for it for anyone who decided to watch in person or on TV was that it was mercifully short. I figured Trump was so bored he didn’t bother embellishing it by going off script and just wanted to get home.

It didn’t take long for Trump to realize that his parade had been rained on. Like the aggressive gremlin Stripe, he unleashed his malevolent self with what is probably the first formal presidential order given by a social media post. (Clicking below will enlarge the image, not go to Truth Social):

The post screamed “I’ll show you muthaforkers not to rain on my parade.”

Here’s a HUFFOST artilce about what he did: 'Openly Admitting': Critics Rip Trump For 'Dehumanizing' Sunday Night Announcement.

Trump desperately wants to be like the tough guy shown below. He has the power to inflict great pain on those he considers his enemies.

He’s really this guy:

(Click the above images will go to the YouTubes of the songs.)

Putting aside whether Trump will directly help Israel attack Iran, which would be an act of war, with this TRUTH he has declared war on half of America.

He will go down in history not only as the president who made himself dictator, destroyed democracy, but as the vengeance and retribution president.

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Even Febreze, with its HPβCD, wouldn't take out the stink of what Trump's psychopathic Gestapo are doing.

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I was watching Ali Velshi this morning and he was showing videos of, and describing, some of the more horrifying ICE arrests. He noted that Trump’s administration had ordered ICE to triple the number of arrests. He talked, for the umpteenth time, about what he and others have said “that for Trump and his minions the cruelty is the point.”

Then he went to a commercial for Febreze.

This is what Wikipedia tells us abut how Febreze works:

The active ingredient in several Febreze products is hydroxypropyl beta-cyclodextrin (HPβCD). The molecule traps and binds volatilized hydrocarbons within its structural ring, retaining malodorous molecules, which reduces their volatility and thus the perception of their scent.^.The active ingredient is produced from corn cobs.

In LA, deputy sheriffs have become members of the Trump psychopathic Gestapo and they are doing their own spraying. They are attacking peaceful protesters with tear gas. Needless to say, not only does this hurt, but it can inflict serious harm.

Tear gas, also known as a lachrymatory agent or lachrymator (from Latin lacrima 'tear'), sometimes colloquially known as "mace" after the early commercial self-defense spray, is a chemical weapon that stimulates the nerves of the lacrimal gland in the eye to produce tears. In addition, it can cause severe eye and respiratory pain, skin irritation, bleeding, and blindness. Common lachrymators both currently and formerly used as tear gas include pepper spray (OC gas), PAVA spray (nonivamide), CS gas, CR gas, CN gas (phenacyl chloride), bromoacetone, xylyl bromide, chloropicrin (PS gas) and Mace (a branded mixture). From Wikipedia

Do they care? I doubt it. The cruelty is the point. 

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In more innocent times, aka, Trump’s first term, the baby balloon was effectively used to mock Trump. Now we have a president who wants to come across like this:

Now the baby balloon is wielding an assault rifle:

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Trump has already torn holes in the Constitution, today his tanks will rip holes in Constitution Avenue. By Hal M. Brown Trump's big beautiful birthday bash on, of all places Constitution Avenues, will be covered on all networks. It should be broadcast split screen with all the No Kings demonstrations.

 

It’s difficult not to feel a bit of cynicism when you realize that this particular president is holding his $40 million birthday parade on Constitution Avenue. (I recommend reading this on Substack where I often include updates.)

Trump said that he hadn’t heard about any planned protests, but “warned that 'any' protesters at military parade will be 'met with heavy force’.” (Reference)

Trump got what he wanted. Every TV station will be covering his big beautiful parade.

The question I have is whether they will broadcast it with a split screen showing the protests around the nation. They should, Whats more important, a parade of prodigious proportions or thousands of protests across the nation involving hundreds of thousands of people protesting what the parade represents. 

Whoever came up with the theme of the protests couldn't have thought of anything better to call them. Two simple declarative words: No Kings. The suffix “in America” goes without saying.

There are too many ironies to point out regarding this parade to cover all of them. Suffice to say that the ostensible excuse, the raison d’être, for the parade is to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the US Army which during the Revolutionary War fought to free us from the rule of a king. In World War II they fought to save much of the world from Nazi domination.

If tragedy strikes at one or more demonstrations as is feared by many (see illustration I used for this Substack) what will happen to the television coverage of Trump’s parade is that this will no longer be a split screen. The news will have to break away to cover whatever act, or acts, of violence occur. The more horrific it is the less of the parade will be covered. In fact, if Trump wants to put on a show in Los Angeles this will be in competition with the self-glorifying extravaganza he wants everyone to watch.

Ultimately Trump may get what he has always wanted even though few eyes would have been on his parade. Unless it could be absolutely proved that whatever violence occurred was due to a member of a far right group who posed as a protester he’d have ample justification to declare martial law.

Even if it could be proved that there were deliberate acts to justify Trump’s calling the 99% of peaceful protests an insurrection Trump, being Trump, could simply claim that was fake news. 

On a personal note, Ann and I will be going to the protest in Clackamas. This is the easiest to get to from where we live in a Portland, Oregon suburb. The way people will congregate there won’t represent a threat to anyone since it is along both sides of a busy thoroughfare, 

We have friends who are going to the protest in downtown Portland. This will be where a large crowd will be packed together. You can see a photo of the most recent protest here,

This is the protest we are going to.

We fear that groups like the Proud Boys which have an affinity for Portland may turn up there to cause trouble. In 2019 they clashed with members Antifa at a "The End of Domestic Terrorism" rally. This happened again in 2021. 

Addendum: Trump must be enjoying watching coverage of the tanks preparing for his parade. If he’s watching MSNBC he might not like the image on the bottom.

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Here’s the part about No Kings Day protests and his parade:

We’ll see about that. Republicans in Congress may have lost their voices and their balls, but the American people haven’t. Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King Jr. defeated the Trump/Hegseths of their time by wielding nonviolent resistance as a strategic weapon. We will do the same.

On Saturday, June 14, millions of Americans will protest Trump on No Kings Day, as Trump enjoys his $45 million ego-fest military parade in DC. The protests will continue, and they will grow. As Justice Louis Brandeis said about civic engagement, “In a democracy, the most important office … is not the presidency, and it’s certainly not governor. The most important office is … citizen.”