Americans in 14 countries were not advised to evacuate until three days after the Trump administration began major combat operations in Iran. By that time, much of the region’s airspace and most airports had closed.
We have left one million Americans in an area we have engaged in war. We had months to bring those ships to the area, but not a week to get people out? Stoopid, stoopid, stoopid. I feel so badly for our armed forces who have already seen how ill suited their secretary of defense is - historically ill suited, he will be taught in military schools as what bad leadership looks like.
It's also unclear how many Americans *want* to return home. I worked for two years in Saudi, and if I was, for example, stationed in Jeddah or even Riyadh--both far from most of the fighting, I'd see little point in leaving a well-paying job.
But for folks stationed on the Persian Gulf coast, it's looking pretty dicey. Getting bused to Jeddah, and flying out from there would make the most sense. But the State Department has been severely gutted during both Trump1 & 2, and no longer has the logistical capability to organize a serious evacuation. Maybe if they'd been given a few weeks head start, they could've gotten some results. The main take away here is GOP is synonymous with Incompetence.
There is no evacuation. trump probably views those 500,000-one million American citizens as 'votes from abroad' that he wants to suppress or invalidate. The man is an American putin, and we will all become 'serfs' if we don't get rid of him and the criminals in his cabinet.
Do you like awake at night thinking, just for fun, of ways to get rid of him? Terrible but I do. I'm a Jimmy Carter democrat and I have lived through Nixon, Reagan (agh), the Bushes, each one degrading our country further in the interests of the wealthy few. But they were Republicans, not the enemy and we could see change any time a Dem got into office. But with Twump, this regime has been building since the resignation of Nixon. They have planned and plotted for decades for this moment. Their deviousness is so palatable, we have to think wtf country am I living in? We need to not only clean house, we might have to burn the house down and rebuild from scratch.
All the time, but I don't lose any sleep over the creep. Instead, I get people registered to vote to remove the sludge in Congress and the White House. What makes me smile is that he won't win in the end. He's miserable, and he'll die miserable.
And I have never had any use for political parties. They divide by nature.
Yeah, you don't hear any mention on FOX News of how Trump1 made a secret deal with the Taliban. We'd stop supplying the Afghan Army with air support and logistics--and Taliban would target only Afghan Army & Police.
By the End of Trump1, we'd withdrawn 90% of our combat troops--and the Taliban had slaughtered the Afghan Army, killing over 60,000. They left Biden a poison pill: if he brought troop levels back up, they'd call him a warmonger. When he completed Trump's withdrawl, they branded him unpatriotic and a coward. Fucking hypocrites.
Giving the Taliban whatever it wanted without gaining concessions, even before they asked. The release of thousands of Taliban from prison. Troop withdrawals began to “show good faith” before an agreement was signed.
All that and in the rural areas the Taliban was cutting deals to get support from village elders. Not much of a deal under the circumstances. Comply or die. It was clear as troops withdrew who would hold the power in Kabul.
Simply withholding air and logistics support from the Afghan Army was enough to ensure their annihilation. Sixty thousand human beings sacrificed, so Donald wouldn't get any bad press from US troop deaths. By the end of Trump1, our control had contracted to greater Kabul.
Then when Biden completed the withdrawal, GOP + FOX News went on and on about "cutting and running," "Disgraceful retreat," etc. Fucking hypocrites and their fucking propaganda.
The Taliban covered their bases. Trump gave them “legitimacy” at the negotiating table; success in the release of prisoners & consolidation of power. They, unlike the president, operate with perseverance, goals & multiple strategies.
I finally just watched Casablanca and this “The embassy noted that Americans in Israel may be able to take ground transportation to Egypt and depart from Cairo’s airport” sounds rather like the people fleeing Nazi’s in France through Morocco…. hmmm.
Check this map to see where Americans are stranded.
Trump abandons Americans in the Middle East. The "Epstein Class" at War: Profiting from Trump's war with Iran while Americans are stranded in the crossfire.
If American lives weren't being put at risk, it would be reassuring that the Trump administration's incompetence is showing again. Aside from brazen corruption and wanton cruelty, its overall professional inadequacy is something you can genuinely count on.
MAGA influencers... you know... important people for Trump administration performances. Remember last year a bunch of "influencers" were given binders by Bondi on Epstein for a photo shoot in D.C.
"The White House has helped MAGA influencers escape the Middle East on a private jet while more than a million ordinary Americans are still trapped with no way out.
Trump adviser Alex Bruesewitz, dog-walker Sarah Daither, and former lobbyist Jay Footlik were among six who managed to flee on a plane chartered by the former after US strikes on Iran unleashed chaos in the region."
This situation is unconscionable. ALL Americans have a DUTY to MAKE the Republicans take control of their conference, DO THEIR JOBS, and get our citizens HOME.
The toadies and lickspittles in the US administration and congress who enable the regimes „plans“ are showing their true colors. None of these scumbags give a shit about the citizens they claim to represent. It‘s a disaster for the entire world that US voters elected this mob boss and his thugs for a second time when it was readily apparent from his continual statements over the past 5 years that he would do his best to destroy your country if you gave him the chance.
Absolutely! It boggles the mind how so many "low information voters " just went along with all the horrendous false claims from Trump and just voted for him again. And didn't bother to give a glance at Project 2025.
The United States Congress is nothing more than an information gathering apparatus. First they give up the responsibility to declare war. Then they give up the right to levy tariffs. Then they give up the responsibility to require its budget to be followed. Their clarion call
When questioned is “Its not the right time”. We should ask each of them every day “Is today the right time?”. I suspect though the answer will always be “no”.
This is the latest “unprecedented” from an “unprecedented” administration! I hope all these suckers remember at the polls, assuming they are allowed to vote, that this is the first time Americans have been abandoned by their government. I realize that it should come as no surprise that if this ends it will be because Trump gets some kind of a payoff from the Iranians. A few billion put into an offshore account free from the prying eyes of the IRS and available to Trump or his children. As for Congress I am reminded of the quote from Julius Caesar “What meat doth this, our Caesar feed?”
Any chance of BOTH the State Department and Defense Department Secretaries being FULLY RELIEVED OF DUTY? - how about THAT? Anything less than this is CAPITULATION to the FILTH.
Not with this Republican Congress. Every Republican has sold out. Truly stunning yet not entirely unexpected: Republicans’ superpower is loyalty to each other and theories, whether empirical data supports those theories or not.
I keep thinking about regime change in the United States. Sure, we have free and fair elections but that should not matter to a foreign enemy who does not like the regime we have. What stops an adversary from determining that our leadership needs to bombed off the planet? Turnaround is fair play, all is fair in love and war, karma is a bitch.
What stops them are oceans, border security and a stronger DEFENSE. Not war, we have no business going to war with a sovereign, albeit shitty, country. Did you have a lousy time in Paris? Bomb that shit. Don't like your in-laws? Bomb their home country.
Hegseth and Rubio need to be bombed to see what it is like to see their children blown to bits. How's that feel, daddy?
Is spite of the deplorable disregard for citizens in the Middle East and the nightmare these folks are now enduring, ALL Republican Senators voted to give trump continued king-like power to:
do anything his brain from the 80's decides he wants or
anything Stephen Miller whispers in his ear
or anything Netanyahu flatters him to do.
trump is the worst possible leader for his own war but REPUBLICANS are worse because they are not doing their Constitutional duty that Congress has.
Trump and others were very critical of Biden for a chaotic evacuation from Afghanistan. Now who has a chaotic evacuation?
We have left one million Americans in an area we have engaged in war. We had months to bring those ships to the area, but not a week to get people out? Stoopid, stoopid, stoopid. I feel so badly for our armed forces who have already seen how ill suited their secretary of defense is - historically ill suited, he will be taught in military schools as what bad leadership looks like.
It's all about Trump 💩
*Probably taught in military academies between evangelical Armageddon propaganda class…🥴
Oh, like this?
Commanders Accused of Framing Iran War as Biblical Mandate, Jesus' 'Return'
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2026/03/03/military-officers-accused-of-framing-iran-war-biblical-mandate.html
It's also unclear how many Americans *want* to return home. I worked for two years in Saudi, and if I was, for example, stationed in Jeddah or even Riyadh--both far from most of the fighting, I'd see little point in leaving a well-paying job.
But for folks stationed on the Persian Gulf coast, it's looking pretty dicey. Getting bused to Jeddah, and flying out from there would make the most sense. But the State Department has been severely gutted during both Trump1 & 2, and no longer has the logistical capability to organize a serious evacuation. Maybe if they'd been given a few weeks head start, they could've gotten some results. The main take away here is GOP is synonymous with Incompetence.
I saw an article last night from Dubai. Many people said they were staying.
There is no evacuation. trump probably views those 500,000-one million American citizens as 'votes from abroad' that he wants to suppress or invalidate. The man is an American putin, and we will all become 'serfs' if we don't get rid of him and the criminals in his cabinet.
Do you like awake at night thinking, just for fun, of ways to get rid of him? Terrible but I do. I'm a Jimmy Carter democrat and I have lived through Nixon, Reagan (agh), the Bushes, each one degrading our country further in the interests of the wealthy few. But they were Republicans, not the enemy and we could see change any time a Dem got into office. But with Twump, this regime has been building since the resignation of Nixon. They have planned and plotted for decades for this moment. Their deviousness is so palatable, we have to think wtf country am I living in? We need to not only clean house, we might have to burn the house down and rebuild from scratch.
All the time, but I don't lose any sleep over the creep. Instead, I get people registered to vote to remove the sludge in Congress and the White House. What makes me smile is that he won't win in the end. He's miserable, and he'll die miserable.
And I have never had any use for political parties. They divide by nature.
The big difference was that Biden was ending a war, Trump is starting one.
Explain that to Fox News, speak slowly and clearly.
And keep all words to single syllables.
Wait! Ain't that all they know? Words like: lie, twump, cheat, twump, steal, twump, grift, twump, cash, twump, ice, gun, twump?
Remedial class for those guys!
World Peace 101: Don’t start any wars.
So true and with few harsh comments on mainline media. When you vote for a clown, you get a circus running the government.
Good one. He is just missing the big red nose.
Remember who actually "negotiated" that same chaotic evacuation? Uh huh. Same old ish on a different day!
Yeah, you don't hear any mention on FOX News of how Trump1 made a secret deal with the Taliban. We'd stop supplying the Afghan Army with air support and logistics--and Taliban would target only Afghan Army & Police.
By the End of Trump1, we'd withdrawn 90% of our combat troops--and the Taliban had slaughtered the Afghan Army, killing over 60,000. They left Biden a poison pill: if he brought troop levels back up, they'd call him a warmonger. When he completed Trump's withdrawl, they branded him unpatriotic and a coward. Fucking hypocrites.
Giving the Taliban whatever it wanted without gaining concessions, even before they asked. The release of thousands of Taliban from prison. Troop withdrawals began to “show good faith” before an agreement was signed.
All that and in the rural areas the Taliban was cutting deals to get support from village elders. Not much of a deal under the circumstances. Comply or die. It was clear as troops withdrew who would hold the power in Kabul.
Simply withholding air and logistics support from the Afghan Army was enough to ensure their annihilation. Sixty thousand human beings sacrificed, so Donald wouldn't get any bad press from US troop deaths. By the end of Trump1, our control had contracted to greater Kabul.
Then when Biden completed the withdrawal, GOP + FOX News went on and on about "cutting and running," "Disgraceful retreat," etc. Fucking hypocrites and their fucking propaganda.
I agree.
The Taliban covered their bases. Trump gave them “legitimacy” at the negotiating table; success in the release of prisoners & consolidation of power. They, unlike the president, operate with perseverance, goals & multiple strategies.
Exactly. He (Biden) had to make a cake from a box of shit and did his best.
I finally just watched Casablanca and this “The embassy noted that Americans in Israel may be able to take ground transportation to Egypt and depart from Cairo’s airport” sounds rather like the people fleeing Nazi’s in France through Morocco…. hmmm.
Or, at present, a non-existent evacuation!
Check this map to see where Americans are stranded.
Trump abandons Americans in the Middle East. The "Epstein Class" at War: Profiting from Trump's war with Iran while Americans are stranded in the crossfire.
https://arcg.is/14i11u0
If American lives weren't being put at risk, it would be reassuring that the Trump administration's incompetence is showing again. Aside from brazen corruption and wanton cruelty, its overall professional inadequacy is something you can genuinely count on.
It's all about Trump 💩
“I thought we were going to have a situation where we were gonna be attacked.”
Um, what? Attacked where? This is nonsense.
It’s ludicrous.
MAGA influencers... you know... important people for Trump administration performances. Remember last year a bunch of "influencers" were given binders by Bondi on Epstein for a photo shoot in D.C.
"The White House has helped MAGA influencers escape the Middle East on a private jet while more than a million ordinary Americans are still trapped with no way out.
Trump adviser Alex Bruesewitz, dog-walker Sarah Daither, and former lobbyist Jay Footlik were among six who managed to flee on a plane chartered by the former after US strikes on Iran unleashed chaos in the region."
This situation is unconscionable. ALL Americans have a DUTY to MAKE the Republicans take control of their conference, DO THEIR JOBS, and get our citizens HOME.
The toadies and lickspittles in the US administration and congress who enable the regimes „plans“ are showing their true colors. None of these scumbags give a shit about the citizens they claim to represent. It‘s a disaster for the entire world that US voters elected this mob boss and his thugs for a second time when it was readily apparent from his continual statements over the past 5 years that he would do his best to destroy your country if you gave him the chance.
Absolutely! It boggles the mind how so many "low information voters " just went along with all the horrendous false claims from Trump and just voted for him again. And didn't bother to give a glance at Project 2025.
The United States Congress is nothing more than an information gathering apparatus. First they give up the responsibility to declare war. Then they give up the right to levy tariffs. Then they give up the responsibility to require its budget to be followed. Their clarion call
When questioned is “Its not the right time”. We should ask each of them every day “Is today the right time?”. I suspect though the answer will always be “no”.
This is the latest “unprecedented” from an “unprecedented” administration! I hope all these suckers remember at the polls, assuming they are allowed to vote, that this is the first time Americans have been abandoned by their government. I realize that it should come as no surprise that if this ends it will be because Trump gets some kind of a payoff from the Iranians. A few billion put into an offshore account free from the prying eyes of the IRS and available to Trump or his children. As for Congress I am reminded of the quote from Julius Caesar “What meat doth this, our Caesar feed?”
Any chance of BOTH the State Department and Defense Department Secretaries being FULLY RELIEVED OF DUTY? - how about THAT? Anything less than this is CAPITULATION to the FILTH.
Not with this Republican Congress. Every Republican has sold out. Truly stunning yet not entirely unexpected: Republicans’ superpower is loyalty to each other and theories, whether empirical data supports those theories or not.
Disgraceful!
I keep thinking about regime change in the United States. Sure, we have free and fair elections but that should not matter to a foreign enemy who does not like the regime we have. What stops an adversary from determining that our leadership needs to bombed off the planet? Turnaround is fair play, all is fair in love and war, karma is a bitch.
What stops them are oceans, border security and a stronger DEFENSE. Not war, we have no business going to war with a sovereign, albeit shitty, country. Did you have a lousy time in Paris? Bomb that shit. Don't like your in-laws? Bomb their home country.
Hegseth and Rubio need to be bombed to see what it is like to see their children blown to bits. How's that feel, daddy?
May I submit a short list of additional targets Katy?
Adam, I am sure we can do that telepathically. The shorter list is to spare.
The incompetence of this administration is staggering.
But Trump had several MAGA “influencers” flown out on a private jet. Have to get those priorities straight.
Slipshod planning costs lives. Thank you.
No planning
Is spite of the deplorable disregard for citizens in the Middle East and the nightmare these folks are now enduring, ALL Republican Senators voted to give trump continued king-like power to:
do anything his brain from the 80's decides he wants or
anything Stephen Miller whispers in his ear
or anything Netanyahu flatters him to do.
trump is the worst possible leader for his own war but REPUBLICANS are worse because they are not doing their Constitutional duty that Congress has.
I got stuck on the ground in a plane on the runway in London as we were bombing Iraq? Ethiopia? for hours and hours. Horrible experience.