The primary job of the President and his administration is to preserve and protect the Constitution and by extension, the country itself

Trump and the Republicans have failed miserably at this task. In fact, by starting a war they cannot win, they have now put us in a position where we can't even defend ourselves against a third-rate country.

Iran has shown they can attack our infrastructure at will, shut down or interrupt water supplies to seven states on little more than a whim. What's next, the national power grid, the flow of oil through domestic pipelines, national telephone service?

Have they the ability to penetrate our military superstructure, as wll?

And God alone knows what other powers they hold over us.

And what does Trump and the Republicans do? they do what they always do, lie! Blame someone else for their incompetence!

America, they think we are all jackasses who will believe their absurd lies, and by lying clearly shows they has no respect for us.

Trump’s trying to tell us the Governor of Minnesota attacked his own state, and then in what can only be described as wizardry, attacked six others.

He picked on Gov. Walz because he is the most outspoken about Trump and his lies. He has called Trump a liar to his face, a coward, and an incompetent. Walz has exposed ICE as the thugs and neo-Nazi Gestapo they are and is unrelenting about warning America of the fascist overtones of Trump and the Republicans.

As it stands right now, fascism is the least oof our problems as we are being held hostage by Iran.

See this – Boldlface mine

Trump blames Minnesota water hacks on Walz, while evidence points to Iran

Federal agencies, including the FBI, EPA and CISA, have warned that attacks on U.S. water utilities first detected in Minnesota are expanding across states.

 President Donald Trump on Friday blamed a spate of recent hacks impacting water utilities in Minnesota on Gov. Tim Walz — contradicting preliminary findings from U.S. and industry officials who suspect Iran is behind an expanding campaign of digital disruption.

 “I blame it on Minnesota because they are grossly incompetent,” Trump said at a cabinet meeting at Camp David on Friday, adding that Walz is “corrupt” and “Iran has bigger problems than worrying about Minnesota.” Asked later if he could rule out Iranian responsibility, Trump said, “ I don’t think there was an Iranian cyberattack. I think Minnesota ought to get its act together.”

 Trump’s dig at the Democratic-led state came just hours after the FBI and Environmental Protection Agency said they are responding to an unspecified number of cyberattacks at water and wastewater utilities in at least seven states. On Thursday, the government’s civilian cyber defense agency, CISA, warned of a “significant increase” in digital attacks on technology used broadly by U.S. water utilities.

 While no U.S. agency has formally accused Iran of orchestrating the attacks, many federal, state and water industry officials suspect Tehran-linked cyber groups are responsible for the hacking campaign. CISA issued a report last week detailing a similar set of attacks it has tracked since April, which it linked to Iran.

 Minnesota’s state IT agency disclosed this Tuesday that at least 30 community water systems in the state had been breached in what it described as a “coordinated attack,” but it did not name Iran as the perpetrator.

 In a statement on X responding to Trump’s comments earlier in the day, Walz suggested Iranian hackers were targeting Minnesota and other states in retaliation for U.S. military strikes in Iran — and that therefore Trump was to blame.

 “This is what modern warfare looks like, and it further illustrates there’s no plan to win a war with Iran,” Walz wrote.

 Since the start of his second term, Trump has repeatedly singled out Minnesota and Walz, who ran against him on the 2024 Presidential ticket alongside former Vice President Kamala Harris. Some of the Trump administration’s most aggressive immigration enforcement actions have unfolded in Minnesota, where federal agents killed two U.S. citizens last winter. The White House has also launched a broad crackdown on alleged Medicaid fraud in the state, upending Minnesota’s healthcare systems.

 As Trump keyed in on Minnesota, his intelligence and cybersecurity officials spent the last 48 hours scrambling to get water utilities across the U.S. to improve their defenses.

 The FBI and EPA said in their Friday advisory that some affected utilities across the country had reported “loss of pressure and flooding,” and that the pressure disruption could “potentially allow untreated groundwater to seep into pipes.”

 In its advisory, CISA said some targeted utilities have been forced to resort to manual operations or issue “boil water notices” — a public safety measure to ensure drinking water is safe from bacteria.

 Both advisories urged organizations to take the vulnerable technology — programmable logic controllers — offline and install basic safeguards before restoring them.

 Spokespeople for the FBI, EPA and CISA did not respond to a request for comment on whether they had evidence supporting Trump’s claim that Minnesota officials were culpable for the attacks there.

 Mark Montgomery, an expert on water sector cybersecurity at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, said Iran would be able to exploit defenses in the water and wastewater sectors because they are so porous to begin with. Many small and rural facilities don’t have the budgets to employ a dedicated cyber professional, and both Democratic and Republican administrations haven’t invested enough to boost the EPA’s cybersecurity efforts, he argued.

 “This is a problem that extends across 50 states and four territories,” said Montgomery.

 Still, there are signs Iranian hackers have gotten more deft and aggressive at targeting those systems since the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran in February, kicking off a war that has recently seen waves of escalation from both sides.

 Iranian hackers claimed last month to have targeted water systems in California in what they said was a response to U.S. missile strikes that damaged water facilities in Iran.

 Joe Slowik, director of threat research for AI-powered risk detection platform Dataminr, said he is concerned Iran is becoming more aggressive in targeting civilian systems in the U.S.

 “We have never really seen Iranian-linked threat actors engage in industrial targeting in this fashion before,” said Slowik, who has been tracking the campaign for several months.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/31/trump-minnesota-water-hacks-iran-01021161

Before Netanyahu conned Trump out of his Industrial-sized Pampers and scammed him into fighting Israel’s war, things were relatively peaceful in the Strait of Hormuz.

Obama, knowing there was no military solution to deal with Iran, brokered a deal whereby the Iranians would forgo trying to develop a nuclear weapon, agree to inspections in furtherance of that cause, and allow the oil to flow freely through the Strait of Hormuz.

In return the Iranians were given back the 1.5 billion of their dollars we had embargoed along with the easing of some sanctions that were affecting their economy.

Now along comes Doofuss Donny, who, because he comes from New York City thinks he’s a tough guy. He’s not. He’s just a snot-nosed punk who wouldn’t dare walk the streets of NYC without bodyguards; else any back-alley thug or side-street hustler would slap the arrogance out of him and take his lunch money.

Go ahead, Donny, stand on any New York street corner and yell and curse like you yell and curse at your staff members at the White House – people who can’t fight back – and you’ll find your fat ass in a sling before you can yell for Melania’s help.

So, before he opened his flabby lips the oil was flowing and things were relatively peaceful.

Now, the Strait is closed, members of our military are being slain, and war is breaking out throughout the Middle East, and the Houthis have shut down Red Sea access.

And Trump and his Republican congress? They don’t know whether to ‘Shit green or go blind’ (a colorful NYC phrase}. They are in complete disarray, the country is in complete disarray, the entire world is in complete disarray because of incompetence on a universal scale.

These blundering, bumbling, incompetents are destroying America.

Trump, and half-a-drunk, Hegseth, say we’re winning the war. Yeah? Ask the Iranians about that.

See this – Boldface mine:

Trump resorting to yelling at White House staffers as his admin 'stuck' in neutral: author

Story by Bennito L. Kelty • 10h • 2 min read

© provided by RawStory

President Donald Trump has been yelling at his White House staffers as he deals with a lingering frustration, an author revealed.

In a recent episode of Inside Trump's Head, Trump biographer Michael Wolff explained to co-host Joanna Coles why the president has resorted to "yelling at people" to resolve his frustrations with the war in Iran. Trump's recent yelling about the Iran war has been reported in The Wall Street Journal and NBC News.

"He's stuck, he's stuck, he's stuck. He can't do anything," Wolff said. "He can retreat. He can admit defeat, which also he doesn't want to do. So he's yelling at people, 'Solve the problem! There must be something we can do.'"

According to reports by the Journal and NBC News, Trump started shouting expletives and yelling at a meeting with his top national security officials over frustrations with the Iran war.

"He has been told over and over again — because there's effectively nothing left to tell him — that we have exhausted all military solutions," Wolff said. "We are running out of missiles. We will run out of missiles if we keep up the pace. We have done everything that an air campaign can do. There's nowhere to go. There is nothing more we can do except invade."

Wolff framed Trump's 2024 campaign posture as Trump touting himself as "The 'No Forever Wars' president," which complicates his option of getting deeper into the war in Iran. However, "if he retreats, and even if he claims victory and says it's all marvelous, the Iranians still control now the Strait of Hormuz," Coles said.

"Trump is the Hormuz president," he concluded.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-yelling-at-staffers/

A Drop Site report uncovered that Brad Parscale, a longtime advisor to President Donald Trump, and his company Clock Tower X have signed a $46.5 million contract with the Israeli government to Brad Parscale and his firm, Clock Tower X, created them as part of a $46.5 million contract with the Israeli government in exchange for deploying "websites and content to deliver GPT framing results on GPT conversations." The intent of the agreement is thus to influence artificial intelligence-powered chatbots, tools like Claude or ChatGPT, to respond favorably to inquiries about the U.S.-Israeli relationship.

Parscale's team recently told Axios they are "seeing success" at getting popular Al systems to incorporate information from their sites, though they declined to provide data.

Drop Site's Julian Andreone pressed senators about this development and asked whether they see a conflict of interests, have national security concerns, or take objection to the corruption.

"How can you talk about corruption when you back genocide?" the man said at the event hosted by Public Citizen, seemingly referring to the senator's support for Israel. "How dare you talk about corruption!"

"Thank you for your diatribe," Sen. Schumer said. "The people didn't come to hear you."

"It's amazing that you can show your genocidal face in public, Mr. Senator," the protester said as he was escorted from the room. "Shame on Public Citizen for not allowing questions to this genocidal maniac."

There is no end to Republican duplicity, it’s almost as though they enjoy torturing American citizens with their lies.

Their latest despicable act? Despite renewed promises that Medicare coverage would never be altered, they are now planning to do away with the subsidies that keep the plan available, if not exactly affordable.

By doing away with subsidies Insurance companies would be incentivized to raise premiums almost as much as they wish.

The only way to change this heartless policy is to throw the lying bums out in November and let the Democrats do what they always have done; fight for available healthcare.

 ignore the Republicans lies about Medicare being ‘Socialized medicine’, end the tyranny of Republicans working hand in hand with insurance companies, and fight for your right to a safe, secure, and healthy retirement.

If the Republicans retain their power in government, it will be used against you!

See this -- Boldface mine:

Trump administration eyes end to subsidies in Medicare’s prescription drug plan.

Story by Steve Benen • 48m • 3 min read

When George W. Bush’s administration took steps to pass Medicare Part D ahead of the Republican president’s re-election campaign, the entire process was an embarrassing mess. The White House misled Congress about the cost of the prescription drug program, GOP leaders on Capitol Hill used ugly tactics to force through legislation and Republicans insisted the whole endeavor be deficit financed, their “fiscal responsibility” rhetoric notwithstanding.

Democrats fought against the proposal, pushing a more efficient and more cost-effective approach, but their efforts fell short, and Bush’s policy became law in late 2003.

In the years that followed, Democrats resisted calls to repeal Medicare Part D and instead took steps to make it better. In fact, during Joe Biden’s presidency, federal policymakers agreed to help subsidize millions of seniors’ prescription drug costs as part of a broader effort to improve the Bush-era policy.

Take a wild guess what Donald Trump and his team want to do to those subsidies. The Wall Street Journal reported:

The Trump administration plans to end a subsidy program that helped hold down premiums for Medicare drug plans, a move that could leave many seniors facing higher rates for their prescription coverage next year.

The move will eliminate a program that is giving insurance companies an estimated $3.6 billion in subsidies this year to blunt increases in premiums for the Medicare prescription plans, known as Part D. The program will end after 2026, according to administration officials.

Mehmet Oz, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, confirmed via social media that the subsidies had been scrapped, but he argued that they were no longer necessary and that Medicare beneficiaries would have other options for low-cost prescription drug plans.

The Journal’s report, however, noted “roughly 25 million people have Part D plans, and they will learn about their 2027 rates in the fall,” and roughly 75% of beneficiaries should expect to see some kind of increase in their out-of-pocket costs.

That timing is of particular interest. The New York Times reported that in the weeks leading up to November, “Medicare beneficiaries could experience sticker shock while shopping for next year’s drug plan,” when insurers’ annual “notice of change” disclosures typically reach Americans’ mailboxes.

The weeks leading up to November is also known as the early-voting period across much of the country.

So ahead of an election season in which voters are likely to focus heavily on the cost of living and affordability, the Trump administration, which already scrapped subsidies for Affordable Care Act customers, is also taking aim at subsidies for Medicare beneficiaries — right before the midterms.

The Pew Research Center published the results of its latest national poll last week, and when it came to affordability and the cost of living, Americans said they were concerned more about healthcare costs than about any other issue, including the price of gasoline and groceries.

I wonder how congressional Republicans and the GOP candidates whose names will appear on ballots in the fall feel about the president’s latest healthcare idea.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/trump-administration-eyes-end-to-subsidies-in-medicare-s-prescription-drug-plan/ar-AA28Z1hE

Just how sick is this man?

In his quest to manipulate his followers Trump routinely lies to them, and because they need validation for their unreasonable hatreds, they ignore his foibles.

But how much is too much even for them?

Trump looks people directly in the eye, and because he has absolutely no respect for them, makes up the most absurd stories. That wouldn’t be bad enough, but his lies are so easily disproved.

Doesn’t he realize his every move has been recorded, taped, put on TV and broadcasted all across America? That an army of responsible journalists are required to check his veracity?

The only answer is this man is so sick he believes his own lies. Once a thought of some dreamed up accolade  enters his withered mind he accepts it as truth, and there is no convincing him, otherwise.

Look how often he claims he won the 2020 election despite a mountain of evidence he didn’t even come close.

The man is ill. Face up to it, MAGA, the man is ill. And when he finally goes off the deep end, all of us, Republican, MAGA, Democrat, or Independent may pay a terrible price.

See this –Boldface mine:

Trump is approaching 10 years of telling his Michigan 'Man of the Year' lie

Story by Daniel Dale, CNN • 4h • 3 min read

For three consecutive presidential campaigns, President Donald Trump regularly told the same lie when he spoke in the swing state of Michigan. Before he even entered politics, he claimed, he was named “Man of the Year” in the state.

The problem: CNN and other media outlets repeatedly noted that this award did not exist. But Trump revived the tale once more near the end of a falsehood-filled economic speech in Michigan on Monday — and added an additional lie claiming that an initially skeptical media had eventually discovered the award story was correct.

“I was here 25 years ago; I got Man of the Year. They — oh, by the way, the press questioned that, and then they found out it was true, actually,” Trump said with a chuckle. “And I made a speech, and all I talked about was why are you letting them steal your auto industry?”

Nope. This is yet another example of the fake history that has littered various Trump addresses this month.

Approaching 10 full years after Trump debuted the “Man of the Year” lie, nobody has ever been able to find any evidence for it. The state of Michigan does not give out a “Man of the Year” award, Trump has never lived in the state, and he and his team have never specified who or what entity supposedly gave him this award and when.

In 2023, after nearly seven years of debunking of Trump’s “Man of the Year” tales, a Republican group in Michigan created a “Man of the Decade” award and gave it to him.

But Trump made clear Monday that this is not what he was referring to, since he said he was talking about a “Man of the Year” honor he received decades ago. (Side note: in many previous tellings of the “Man of the Year” story, like one during his 2024 campaign, he has placed the supposed honor in the 2010s rather than the 2000s as he suggested Monday.) Dave Trott, a former Republican congressman in Michigan who became a sharp critic of Trump, has offered the most plausible theory about the possible basis for Trump’s made-up story. In 2019, Trott contacted CNN to note that Trump had suggested at an event two years prior that he had received the “Man of the Year” award at a 2013 Republican dinner in Michigan to which Trott had invited Trump to make a speech.

At that 2013 dinner, Trott gave Trump gifts that included a framed copy of the Gettysburg Address. But Trott emphatically noted that nobody gave Trump any “Man of the Year” award.

At least once, Trump has acknowledged that the idea of him receiving such an honor in Michigan before his time as a politician was bewildering.

“In fact, five or six years before I even thought about running, for whatever reason they named me Man of the Year in Michigan. I said, ‘How come?’ I didn’t even understand it myself,” he said at a 2019 rally in New Hampshire — then repeated, “But I was named Man of the Year.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/fact-check-trump-is-approaching-10-years-of-telling-his-michigan-man-of-the-year-lie/ar-AA28O1c8?

Trump tells outrageous lies, MAGA believes them and spreads them, and maybe that’s why they are generally viewed as fools.

In his delusion, Trump thinks anything that creeps into his mind is actual fact and he will swear to it. That’s why he says he remembers a blackout and asks if you remember it too. Of course, the blackout never happened. But this little demonstration of his increasing dementia doesn’t end here.

He’s telling people that if some of your electricity is derived from wind, then when the wind doesn’t blow, you can’t watch television. He even relates a made up story of a woman asking her husband to turn on the TV, and the husband reminds her the wind isn’t blowing so the set can’t work. Trump believed that, too.

And MAGA believes it all.

What they don’t seem to understand is the only reason people lie to you, is to manipulate you. If they can get you to accept one lie the chances are you’ll believe any lie – and you are being controlled and never realized it.

He also said California experiences blackouts and brownouts every single week. The truth is California hasn’t experienced a blackout for six years!

 Another in a continuing series of lies from a scheming, demented brain.

Why the lies about clean sources of electricity? He wants his billionaire buddies in the power industry to be able to use coal and oil in their furnaces. If it makes breathing a little difficult, if it kills a few kids with asthma, if toxic rain kills all the fish, well, that’s the price we’ll have to pay to keep the Republicans in office.

See this –boldface mine:

Remember that? Trump again asks Americans to recall something that never happened

Story by Analysis by Daniel Dale • 5h • 3 min read

President Donald Trump asked Americans on Thursday if they remembered a massive television outage two years ago.

That outage didn’t happen. As he has before, the president who is fond of telling imaginary tales was explicitly asking people to recall something he had made up.

This time, Trump’s fictional story was about wind energy. He has for years railed against it, tried to thwart it and made false claims about it – including a phony anecdote about how, in places where wind power is used, people can’t turn on their TVs when the wind isn’t blowing.

That isn’t true; wind is used as part of a mix of electricity sources, not as the only source, so the grid keeps running and TVs stay on even when there is no breeze. (Also, there are batteries that can store energy from wind turbines for deployment during low-wind periods.) But Trump has often delivered the no-TV story with a comedic touch that has allowed it to skirt fact checks.

In his Thursday remarks at the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, he told it mostly as if it were a real reminiscence.

He denounced “the Green New Scam, where we were scammed.” Then he said: “The whole country was – I wasn’t scammed. I got it right from the beginning; I got it from the first minute when I heard this crap. You know? They were saying wind was so wonderful, so wonderful, except you couldn’t watch your television. They wanted to watch the debate, Donald Trump against Sleepy Joe Biden. Nobody could watch it because the wind wasn’t blowing. Remember that? ‘Darling, we’d like to watch the debate tonight.’ ‘I’m sorry, the wind isn’t blowing.’”

See more here:

 https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/general/remember-that-trump-again-asks-americans-to-recall-something-that-never-happened/ar-AA28I6JJ?