George Rebane
Millionaire taxes on the rich don’t work. Massachusetts tried that in 2023 and lost $4.2B in state revenues. A large number of the rich just high-tailed it out of the state. This is not reported in the lamestream media, so none of the Democrat voters know about it and will no doubt support the same stupid policies proposed by New York, Illinois, and California. We must always keep in mind that it is the carefully conditioned ignorant liberal voter that votes for the sleazebags who come up with such insane pro-socialist public policies.
Trump is giving the Iranian ragheads five more days to open up the Strait of Hormuz, based on recently opened “good talks” with the regime. The Iranians are denying that any such talks are ongoing. In any case the markets went nuts this morning in hopes that the strait will soon be opened and the war ends. The reality is that any talks with this regime will be as fruitless as they have been for the last almost 50 years. The only acceptable end to the hostilities will come when the current regime is removed from power, and the Iranian people establish a new pro-western government. Any other conclusion to the conflict will constitute a massive geo-strategic loss for the western countries and an unsurvivable political disaster for President Trump and his administration that will usher in the beginning of a socialist winter in the United States.
[24mar26 update] Trump’s lead mid-east negotiators Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff should not be involved in any negotiations with Iran’s current regime of theocratic thugs. Kushner and Witkoff have a good record negotiating with various Islamic parties who can be expected to keep their word in trust-but-verify agreements. That cannot be said for the towelheads in Tehran who have been destabilizing the mid-east, lying and violating every agreement they have signed. Trump’s using the Kushner/Witkoff team gives explicit and unwarranted credibility to the regime as being good-faith negotiators who share US/Israeli goals for a stable and prosperous region. Such expectations expose our president’s continued naivete in negotiating with the likes tyrants such as Putin, Xi, Kim, and the Iranian theocrats. There remains only one thing to negotiate – how the current thugs may be allowed to leave Iran in one piece. Absent that, the clear alternative is that we kill them. And to carry out such a negation requires substitution of one of our senior military hard-asses who can explain the matter to them with succinct clarity. All other approaches will hasten President Trump’s political future as an obviously naïve post-election lame duck.
[26mar26 update] “A very big present” claims President Trump that Iran has given the US re the Hormuz Strait. Sadly, this characterization goes a long way to confirm that our fearless leader is often bamboozled when it comes to international affairs. When a thief empties your house of valuables and then later returns some of the stolen loot, that cannot then be called a magnanimous ‘present’ from him. He has merely returned some stuff that was already yours. Any other portrayal of the act shows that the victim doesn’t understand what has just happened. Iran letting a limited amount of shipping to pass through the strait again is now a “very big present” to the allies??!! I think not, as we all hope that wiser heads in the administration agree and so advise.
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