Did anyone think Trump would morph into Niki Haley with MAGA cheering? 
Help Is on the Way
Please note Trump Tells Iranian Protesters ‘Help Is On Its Way’
“Iranian Patriots, KEEP PROTESTING – TAKE OVER YOUR INSTITUTIONS!!! Save the names of the killers and abusers. They will pay a big price,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social Tuesday. “I have cancelled all meetings with Iranian Officials until the senseless killing of protesters STOPS. HELP IS ON ITS WAY.”
Large-scale demonstrations in Iran began in late December, initially triggered by soaring inflation; the collapse of the rial, the country’s currency; and the economic pinch felt by ordinary people.
Since then, hundreds of thousands have filled the streets. The regime has instigated a bloody crackdown that has led to hundreds of deaths and more than 10,000 arrests, according to Human Rights Activists in Iran.
Trump has repeatedly threatened to intervene, prompting U.S. officials to examine possible strikes on Iranian military sites. No action is imminent, the officials said, but Trump has taken briefings to explore options including military, cyber and economic measures.
U.S. Steps Up Planning for Possible Action in Iran
Also note U.S. Steps Up Planning for Possible Action in Iran
President Trump is scheduled to be briefed Tuesday on options to respond to the protests in Iran, according to U.S. officials, a sign the president is considering reprimanding the regime for its crackdown on demonstrators as he has repeatedly threatened.
The president’s planned meeting with senior administration officials will be a discussion about the next steps, which could include boosting antigovernment sources online, deploying secretive cyber weapons against Iranian military and civilian sites, placing more sanctions on the regime and military strikes, the officials said.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs Chair Gen. Dan Caine are expected to attend the Tuesday meeting, the officials said.
Trump, speaking Sunday to reporters on Air Force One, said he had been reviewing military options to strike Iran after the regime was “starting to” cross his red line of not killing protesters.
“We’re looking at some very strong options,” he said. If Iran retaliates to an American attack by targeting U.S. troops in the region, “we will hit them at levels that they’ve never been hit before.”
Crackdown on Starlink
In an effort to stop protest videos from going, Global Iran Is Hunting Down Starlink Users
With the government shutting down the internet and throttling phone services, Iranians are leaning heavily on Elon Musk’s Starlink service to share videos of growing protests and the regime’s escalating crackdown with the world.
But Iran has intensified efforts to jam the service, which is banned in the country, and users are being hunted.
Over the weekend, authorities began searching for and confiscating Starlink dishes in western Tehran, said Amir Rashidi, director of digital rights and security at Miaan Group, a U.S. nonprofit opposed to internet censorship.
“It’s electronic warfare,” Rashidi said. He said disruptions are worst in parts of Tehran where protests are taking place and in the evening, when the demonstrators gather.
The battle over information—while secondary to the confrontations taking place nightly in dozens of cities across Iran—has potentially serious consequences. President Trump has threatened to intervene in response to a crackdown by the regime.
Video from the streets is one of the few ways of getting information out about the scale of the protests and the actions of Iranian authorities.
Trump is scheduled to be briefed Tuesday on his options. One under discussion is to send in more Starlink terminals. Trump said he would ask Musk about the possibility.
“We may get the internet going if that’s possible,” Trump told the reporters.
Starlink terminals are illegal in Iran and had to be smuggled in, often on small boats from Dubai or across the border from Iraqi Kurdistan.
They started to show up in big numbers at the end of the last big wave of protests in 2022, when Musk said his company would seek an exemption to sanctions for his terminals.
Trump Sanctions Starlink Terminals
There is a shortage of starlink terminals in Iran and one of the reasons is Trump sanctions.
Now Trump is suddenly TACOing on starlink.
This in turn explains Musk’s sudden suck-ups to Trump.
Musk has even defended the killing of Renee Nicole Good and Vice President J.D. Vance’s idiotic portrayal of it.
Oh well, at least there’s profit in it.
Niki Haley Q&A
Q: What was it Trump said about Niki Haley?
A: “People that want to go have wars all the time. Nikki’s one of them. She’s one of them.”
Niki Haley Flashback
Please consider the Reuters January 23, 2024 post Trump, Haley spar in New Hampshire over foreign wars
Trump in turn has cast Haley as a “warmonger” who will drag the U.S. into a foreign conflict just as the country has finally exited Afghanistan.
“People that want to go have wars all the time. Nikki’s one of them. She’s one of them,” he said. “’Let’s kill people all over the place, and let’s make a lot of money for those people that make the missiles.’”
“We will restore peace through strength,” Trump said at a rally in Rochester, New Hampshire, on Sunday. “I will prevent World War Three.”
Kai Taggersell, a 34-year-old Trump supporter, said Haley’s stances on foreign policy are one of the reasons he can’t back her. He sees her as a “Bush-era” Republican keen to jump into wars.
“I’ve lost friends who went to war and came back and are now passed away. They took their own lives and died from overdoses,” said Taggersell, a Maine resident who attended the Rochester rally.
“We just don’t want to keep doing it,” he added. “America hasn’t benefited at all.”
Peace Through Confrontation, Intervention, and War.
Trumps new motto appears to be Peace Through Confrontation, Intervention, and War.
Niki Haley would approve that message. And so would Hillary and John McCain.
Here’s an amusing 2006 New York Times flashback on Clinton’s Bond With McCain.
Two summers ago, on a Congressional trip to Estonia, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton astonished her traveling companions by suggesting that the group do what one does in the Baltics: hold a vodka-drinking contest.
Delighted, the leader of the delegation, Senator John McCain, quickly agreed. The after-dinner drinks went so well — memories are a bit hazy on who drank how much — that Mr. McCain, an Arizona Republican, later told people how unexpectedly engaging he found Mrs. Clinton to be. “One of the guys” was the way he described Mrs. Clinton, a New York Democrat, to some Republican colleagues.
Mrs. Clinton and Mr. McCain went on to develop an amiable if professionally calculated relationship. They took more official trips together, including to Iraq. They worked together on the Senate Armed Services Committee and on the issue of global warming. They made a joint appearance last year on “Meet the Press,” interacting so congenially that the moderator, Tim Russert, joked about their forming a “fusion ticket.”
McCain talks economy with Hillary
On October 15, 2008, Politico reported McCain talks economy with Hillary
On Sept. 24, Hillary Rodham Clinton received a surprise phone call from the man she’s often denounced as an economic know-nothing: John McCain.
Three weeks later, at the town hall debate in Nashville, Tenn., McCain rolled out a $300 billion anti-foreclosure plan that’s similar, if not identical, to Clinton’s — and subsequently credited the concept “to a suggestion that Sen. Hillary Clinton made not that long ago.”
Moral of this Story
In case you have not figured out the moral of this story, please note that no matter who you vote for, you get more wars which leads to more military spending to support them.
The amusing thing is MAGA now openly cheers Trump’s bombing of 8 countries so far in 2026. Did you vote for this?
MAGA also cheers Trump’s announcement that he is president of Venezuela and his threats to take Greenland by force.
But hey, look on the bright side we have two new slogans: MIGA (Make Iran Great Again) and MVGA (Make Venezuela Great Again).
Was any of this on your bingo card?
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Addendum
A reader comments: Trump wants to prosecute politicians in Iran who kill protesters. He’s not at all concerned about ICE killing protesters in the US.
And how could I forget: Trump Is “Locked and Loaded” and Ready to Save Iranian Protesters
Be prepared for another nation building failure.
Addendum
A reader comments: Trump wants to prosecute politicians in Iran who kill protesters. He’s not at all concerned about ICE killing protesters in the US.
And how could I forget: Trump Is “Locked and Loaded” and Ready to Save Iranian Protesters
Be prepared for another nation building failure.
If he prosecuted those responsible for killing protestors, he’d need to put Netanyahu and himself on trial. The pattern of violence and attempts to start a color revolution fits with Mossad/CIA tactics.
yup. bombs away. like the uniparty has been doing since my childhood. born 1960. the MICC employs so many amerikan twats now, the people love it. democracy works perfectly. always has.
Did you hijack the word “twats”? I seem remember addressing it to you the other day.
Still, nice tout on the Peikoff book.
nope. been using it for decades. 3 types of amerikan men. we are all pussies. the blessing of 3rd base lives. many are also twats. and some are even cunts. trump and biden would be cunts. you and me are pussies. most of my family and friends are twats.
Mish,
“But hey, look on the bright side we have two new slogans: MIGA (Make Iran Great Again)”
I think the “I” in MIGA really stands for Israel. They’re going to make Israel great by taking out Israel’s arch-rival Iran.
Good catch!
Totally agree – Trump can’t himself from getting involved. Watch for:
What Obama did was to count people turned away at the border as DEPORTATIONS.
Maybe Grok will convince you.
if you go to Fox NEws, they don’t report this statement prominently. you have to scroll waaaay down. they’ve done this befire where they just hide statements and actions by him that they know is not consistent with what MAGA said they believe.
“Fourth Turning.” There is no question.
Actually, it is the end of the Age of Pisces. What is coming is more than a ‘turning.’
Apparently, some of taco’s recommendations/verbal vomit given to the Iran protestors were similar to those he gave the proud boys on January 6th.
the shah that IKE help install by the coup we fomented was a real man of the people. don’t ya know the history of usa in persia. he was a client of our wall street family. i’m embarrassed to admit. a real puppet of our cunt of an imperial pax amerika. i’m still amazed at how much amerikans love to rule the world. the lowly plumbers to the billionaires……….crumbling evil empire 101
It’s a whole lot about oil. Denying China low cost oil that is. If you think we can co-exist you’re a fool. Trump has maybe until the mid-terms to make changes and protect our debt from crashing everything. At least that’s how he sees it. If Dems take power they will impeach immediately and Trump’s influence is over.
Welcome from HELL.
US is digging its own grave.
US is meddling Venezuela and Iran, 2 significant oil producing countries
with Chinese investment and technology.
Without Chinese help there will be no oil.
( And US sanction on Russian oil )
Look at oil price – well over 60. Soon it will be over 100.
Look at Japanese Yen and JGB. Going down to the HELL.
US is destroying the world economy and its own.
You know what?
Who are beneficiaries?
Surprise, Surprise! China and Russia.
Russia benefitted from high oil prices.
China is well positioned with renewable energy. eg. EVs, solar energy
My investment advice:
Long oil price.
Short JGB and Treasury
Long gold
Your understanding of global politics and economics would benefit from research.
Where are these numbers of dead protesters coming from? CBS is quoting “Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, who leads the Norway-based activist organization Iran Human Rights.” https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-protest-death-toll-over-12000-feared-higher-video-bodies-at-morgue/ WaPo and PBS are quoting “U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency”. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/iran-protest-death-toll-spikes-to-at-least-2000-activists-say The NYT is quoting “Another government official, also speaking on the condition of anonymity”. The Jerusalem Post is quoting “Iran International” – a digital news operation based in London and reportedly linked to Saudi Arabia. https://mishtalk.com/economics/us-and-iran-on-brink-of-war-help-is-on-the-way-says-trump/#comment-403424
While there may be dead protesters, this sounds like some CIA-Mossad propaganda.
WMD and 9.11 was a surprise level propaganda……..
They know Trump won’t fact-check their numbers.
Trump is eleven months older than I am. Jeez people, stop electing the elderly to high office.
As always when a fascist government is overthrown, there is an evil contingent of internal enforcers who must be disarmed and exterminated. Strategic strikes that assist with this are actual lifesavers.
Trump continually mouths off about his concern for people dying.
Yet he refuses to fully support Ukraine by providing them the weapons they need to stop the senseless killing of Ukrainians by aggressor Russia.
The reporters in Trump’s regular press gaggle need to start calling him out on this and be ready for the incoming flack that will follow.
What weapons do you think we have laying around? Who’s going to use them?
F-35s?
It’d be bad for business for an F35 to get shot down, especially since it would have an American pilot.
What was used in Venezuela to capture Maduro? Whatever they used appeared to be deadly effective!
In Venezuela they used cash to bribe the military to not use their air defenses. That won’t work against Russia.
Let’s stop pretending that DJT wants to stop the war. The CIA tried to kill Putin with drones a few weeks ago. Without publicly accusing DJT of ordering the attack, Russia handed over evidence to U.S. military officials showing they know how it proceeded. Diplomacy is dead, and if we ignore the warnings and escalate further, so are we.
“Do or Do Not. There is No Try”
— Yoda
You have a comedian running (some might say pillaging) Ukraine, Supporting him makes the outcome for Ukraine far worse, unless the US declares war on Russia.
Yet another poorly educated citizen. FYI, I think the word you intended is flak. However, flack also works, but makes it funnier.
“Flak” refers to anti-aircraft fire or criticism, while “flack” is a term for a publicist or someone who promotes something.
Got me!
Sigh. So you have AGAIN caught Trump in another dichotomy between what he says and what he does. Now what?
I’m optimistic we finally find those weapons of mass destruction we were promised were in Iraq!
If Iraq had two, maybe three US-made nuclear bombs/missiles, would you have heard about it?
I suspect the dilema for Trump is not to bomb or not to bomb but how does he make something out of this. As things have moved so fast he will find it difficult to position himself.
At a relatively benign level he will want bragging rights about having “solved Iran” when Obama failed.
However I suspect he will be trying to cook something up (possibly with Israel or possibly with the Shah’s son) that gives the US preferential access. This would be absolutely ludicrous and likely to back fire but I bet he can’t help himself.
The biggest thing for the US to ‘make out of this’ will be the dismantling of the nuclear program.
The second will be cutting off funding for various terrorist groups that operate in several other Middle East countries.
There’s a good chance that Israel will suffer more in this round than will Iran.
More than a good chance. This would be a binary event which probably changes the balance of power in the Middle East. Israel faces its own destruction, and U.S. faces the destruction of all of its regional bases and if they aren’t careful, some important sea assets.
israel is amerikan empire useful idiot colony. nothing more.
Clearly it’s qualitatively different than any other colony or vassal, since the Israel lobby thoroughly controls the American government and much of American society.
No, I didn’t vote for it. And it doesn’t matter what I voted for, does it? Because once we empower the political class, we’ve “consented” in practice to whatever they do. Notwithstanding the founders’ intent, consent is now a blank check.
On the Iran front, what is il duce doing? If his threat against Iran is empty rhetoric, he’s encouraging men and woman to get themselves murdered protesting against an absolutist dictatorship. If he plans to follow through on the threat, what will the death toll be?–and does anyone believe a blooding will transform Iran into a liberal society, as Iraq, Somalia, Afghanistan, have done–with Nigeria about to make the transition?
This president needs to have a large foot jammed into his mouth and another tucked up his ass. Problem is, there’s no reason to hope that whatever followed would be any better.
Looks like Joe Biden is going to get us into WWIII, doesn’t it?
Perhaps China will support those in the United States that are protesting against ICE. Trump should support that.
When all else fails, take them to war
Is it fair to interpret this as you saying we have tried everything else?
Good thing the Iranian govt. has strict gun control laws. You see, gun control works, especially if you are an evil dicktaster.
I am waiting for a post on the Day Care Center and Welfare scandals in Minnesota% of the past but I guess we will have to wait a while longer. When cut and paste becomes over 80% of the post that’s a red flag.
3 new wars (do we get out of any of them for under a trillion), pigs shooting American women in the face, and pigs chanting Nazi slogans is a little more relevant.
For what the wars alone will probably cost, we could BUY Minnesota.
So no, I don’t care about daycare in Minnesota. Maybe blow the trans whistle, that seems like a pretty solid diversion.
Who gives a toss that the stupid woman was an American you racist fuck? You break the law and use a large car in a dangerous manner then it doesn’t matter about nationality or race when it comes to response by the people your vehicle hits.
My! Aren’t we fierce!
Watch the video, from all the angles, then come back and apologize for making an ass of yourself.
Or I shall taunt you a second time.
It was standard Police tactics, nothing exceptional.
There are plenty of deaths every year by Police that look exactly like that one. Doesn’t make it right but it’s nothing exceptional. Don’t believe me, ask any Black person about their treatment.
That’s why the protesters/obstructors are all white and mostly women. Black folks don’t have a problem with deporting illegal aliens, and they know that driving toward an officer might not end well.
As they should know. Because apparently it is ok for the police to just kill people. It is ironic though, to see all the Maga comments switch from “we need guns to defend against the government “ to “Yeah, the government can’t shoot enough people without due process (or even warrants. Or ID).”
Black folks know they’ll be targeted if the speak up.
Which makes it ok how?
I didn’t say it was ok. I just said thats how it is and has been for decades. The courts have backed it up repeatedly. Its not going to change.
It’s like Mish just suddenly discovered how the sausage is made.
Contact was made.
And even if it wasn’t why make a racist comment that she was a US citizen? Whether she was a US citizen, an illegal migrant or a legal migrant should make no difference, or do you think non US citizens have less rights to not being shot when they commit a stupid act with a potentially deadly car manoeuvre?
Same with the stupid idiots who think that because she was a woman or a mother she should have not been shot. Sex, race, colour and birthing status should not make the response different.
Your taunt failed
What a sad, sad comment. Shooting people is now ok if you are an unidentified, masked thug.
no doubt it was the jooooos fault in nazi germany, too. /sarc i guess i need to type. lots of morons on this blog.
Ah yes, more stupid whataboutism.
And the fact is, I did write about it
https://mishtalk.com/economics/medicare-and-medicaid-fraud-are-brazen-and-ubiquitous-but-who-cares/
It’s gotten much worse than when you wrote it. It needs an update. It also needs deep analysis and not cut and paste.
Felonzuela is the 51st US state? Its capital city is Krookacas? The state parliament building known as Llavemos Con Malo? Its military stronghold is in Draftdodge City?
bibi the butcher must have some bad shit on him
Ironic
Wants to prosecute politicians and such in iran who kill protesters. Not at all concerned about kill protesters in us
The “rules for thee” president has spoken
So if Iran falls this means sanctions worked and drove the country into the ground with a worthless currency and limited strikes which made the world a better place. We need to get a new paradigm and start to think like Trump and not like Biden. No nukes for Iran and freedom taken by the oppressed. Don’t make the same mistake we did in Iraq when the people rose up after the first Iraq war and we sat on our ass.
If Iran falls, it will be the beginning of the work (not the end). Unless you do want civil war in Iran and the nuclear program falling into the hands of the strongest fighting force.
I’m sure they’ll greet us as liberators. Mission Accomplished!
Not sure what you mean that voting for anyone results in more war. Comparing Libya (a huge mistake but limited involvement and cost) and Ukraine (not at all Obama or Biden fault and we’ve not had any involvement in the war other than providing arms to Ukraine) with Iraq and Afghanistan under Bush Jr or the morass we’re going to be in with civil war soon in Venezuela and Iran (and likely to need boots on the ground in Greenland and Cuba) under Trump. If you want fiscal responsibility and (less) war, there is no option but Democrat (at least for President).
CIA ,MI6 mainly direct ( via satellite info ), Drone strikes on Russian Refineries, Oil Platforms ,Shadow Fleet and some industries! The only baffling thing is Ukrainian strikes on Kazakh oil.
Wonderful. But Trump is still President for the next 3 years. Will we be hearing more admonishments from you along a similar view for that time? Told you so’s are so effective!
Except the war started in 2014 when the US meddled to cause a bloody coup that only half succeeded. The neo Nazis succeeded in overthrowing the government and siezing most of the country but a large portion of the country refused to submit and you ended up with the Donbas region resisting attacks for 8 years. Then in 2022 the Western Ukrainians built up an attack force to try and overcome the Donbas Ukrainian resistance and Putin warned them he would intervene to stop this. Then when the Western Ukrainians doubled down Putin started the SMO to defend the Donbas and denazify the Nazi ruled part.
So blame Obama, Nuland and others for starting this conflict, hopefully it gets cleaned up with Trumps input or else it will end on Putins input only.
Girl Scout Cookies?
Boy Scout Popcorn?
perhaps faucci leftover AZT and 19 vaxxs?
Good Wishes?
Looks like he’s on track to start 3 wars before summer.
And the final one could easily be WW III…. So much for all the empty promise’s regarding “peace”, when running for office. Of course integrity has never been his strong suit, so this should have been expected I suppose.
He’ll send in special forces to take his Nobel peace prize.
Does that include the inevitable Cuba attack or will that be the 4th?
Thats Venezuela, Iran, and Greenland.
There’s a decent chance we’ll be able to take Greenland – hopefully without resorting to nukes.
If he was going to take Cuba, he would have done it during his first week in office.
He’s chicken of something, regarding Cuba.
Then more for Trump to negotiate ceasefires!