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Based on what Steve, and Jared and Pete were telling him. He didn’t say based on intelligence briefings he had reviewed. He didn’t say based on threat assessments from the Pentagon or consultations with military leadership or authorization from Congress. He said Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner, and Pete Hegseth told him it was time. And so America went to war.
… And at the heart of all of this is that this is not a man running a war. This is a man being run through one. His handlers stack his appearances with the same material every time because that’s what his brain can still process. They get him in and out in under an hour now because that seems to be the limit before things visibly fall apart. And when he’s asked something he hasn’t been prepped for, he either looks to Hegseth for the answer, says he doesn’t know enough, or makes something up on the spot.
— Heather Delaney Reese (emphasis mine)
Liiiiiiiiike, where does one, the collective one, the editorial one, even begin with this unspooling humanitarian disaster? The Axis of Epstein, the United States and Israel, under shadow president Stephen Miller, started a war of choice.
It is killing hundreds of people, will reduce the quality of life and lifespan of many others exposed to toxins, from the chemical weapons Israel used in south Lebanon and perhaps elsewhere, and from the acid rain that fell. The humans exposed to that will get sick, if not today, but eventually. And in terms of the chain of command, the deranged illegitimate gangster president who is credibly accused of sexually abusing and assaulting children is surrounded by loyalists and handlers, and not by competent people, as Heather Delaney Reese noted in a post that characterized the state of the union as “late-stage authoritarian decline.”
And somehow the U.S. media, so far, presses back only to a gentle extent. They focus only on the surface level when a deranged illegitimate gangster president who is a child rapist (allegedly). makes Grampa Simpson sound like Winston Churchill.
Take Monday, March 9. In one press conference, here were some bits of brilliance.
“The Tomahawk missile that destroyed a girls' school in Iran could have been anyone's. A Tomahawk is very generic."
Well, no. It is a United States-made murder weapon. Only four other nations outside the U.S. buy them: Australia, Japan, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.
Then he acknowledged some light war-crime’ing, relating some conversation with a general that probably never happened.
"I said, 'Why don't we just capture the ship? We could use it. Why did we sink them?' He said, 'It's more fun to sink them.' They like sinking them better."
There were the comments, repeated more than seven times, about people, who “died and are right now walking around with no legs, no arms, a face that’s been so badly damaged.” Sure, we all know that scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (“ ‘tis but a flesh wound!”). Everyone has a good laugh.
Delaney Reese, bless her, caught a much more sinister and troubling admission that betrays there’s an inner circle propping up a half-corpse. The U.S. did not follow Israel, an aggressive ethnostate, into war based on sound policy or intelligence briefings.
The full context from what I quoted up-top:
When asked why he made the decision to go to war with Iran, the President of the United States gave us this: “The situation was very quickly approaching the point of no return and the United States found it intolerable, in my opinion, based on what Steve, and Jared and Pete and others were telling me.”
Based on what Steve, and Jared and Pete were telling him. He didn’t say based on intelligence briefings he had reviewed. He didn’t say based on threat assessments from the Pentagon or consultations with military leadership or authorization from Congress. He said Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner, and Pete Hegseth told him it was time. And so America went to war.
That sentence should be on the front page of every newspaper in the country tomorrow. The President just admitted, on camera, that the decision to launch a military operation that has now killed eight Americans, over a thousand Iranians, and 168 people at a girls’ school was made because his son-in-law, his personal envoy, and a former Fox News host told him it was necessary. These are not military strategists. These are not intelligence officials. These are loyalists. And they are the ones deciding who lives and who dies.
And if you watched his speech earlier at the Republican Issues Conference, you could see exactly how they manage him. It was the same speech he has given for weeks now. The same talking points. The same applause lines. The same recycled grievances delivered in the same order. His handlers have figured out that if they load him up with familiar material and triggering words they know will set him off on his usual rants, he can fill the time and it looks enough like leadership to get through the appearance. They have turned the presidency into a playlist on repeat. He knows the songs. He can still perform them from muscle memory. But the moment someone asks him something he hasn’t been prepped for, everything falls apart.
That’s exactly what happened when reporters asked about the elementary school that was bombed in Iran. A preliminary U.S. military assessment found that American forces were likely responsible. Video footage has surfaced showing what appears to be a U.S.-made Tomahawk missile striking a building right next to the school.
Abysmal. Unforgivable. The U.S. and Israel, the Axis of Epstein, murdered little girls, and left Iranian sailors to drown, because a troïka of troglodytes thought… what, it would make good TV? Because if the network airtime is focused on Iran and the Middle East, then Miller and his goons, sans Kristi Noem, can occupy cities in blue states and kill people like they did in Minneapolis?
Delaney Reese, again.
And at the heart of all of this is that this is not a man running a war. This is a man being run through one. His handlers stack his appearances with the same material every time because that’s what his brain can still process. They get him in and out in under an hour now because that seems to be the limit before things visibly fall apart. And when he’s asked something he hasn’t been prepped for, he either looks to Hegseth for the answer, says he doesn’t know enough, or makes something up on the spot.
This is what late-stage authoritarian decline looks like. In the final years of the Soviet Union, Leonid Brezhnev, the leader of the most powerful communist nation on earth, was so physically and mentally diminished that he could barely read the speeches his staff wrote for him. He slurred through public appearances. He lost track of where he was. He was propped up at state events by aides who positioned themselves on either side of him in case he collapsed. But no one removed him or intervened. Because the men behind him, the politburo, needed him right where he was. They didn’t need him sharp or coherent. They just needed him alive and visible enough to maintain the illusion that someone was in charge, so they could keep running the country through him. The inner circle didn’t serve the leader. The leader served the inner circle. He was 75 years old, and the entire Soviet government was organized around the task of keeping one deteriorating man upright long enough for the people behind him to hold on to power. He died in office. And the system that propped him up never once admitted what everyone could see with their own eyes. This is what the Trump Regime is turning into.
But none of this makes Donald Trump a victim. He isn’t one. He never will be. He has shown us exactly who he is for decades, and we should believe him.
(Emphasis mine.)
No country wants the 1980s Soviet Union as its comparison. As you know, by 1992, that nation had ceased to exist.
