#whatawaste — Public Fediverse posts

According to Semafor: "Senate Armed Services Chair Roger Wicker, Republican, argued that the deal’s $300 billion reconstruction fund for Tehran 'would make Iran’s payoff under Pres. Obama’s 2015 deal look like a pittance by comparison."'
#IranWar #WhatAWaste #politics

#Democrats #WeakDemocrats #Iran #DealOrNoDeal #WhatAWaste #ChrisMurphy #Secrets

"We haven't seen it but we'll agree to it"...WTF??

https://www.notus.org/democrats/democrats-trump-iran-deal-congress-vote

I think the only thing we can do is end the war, but I mean, Iran gets everything they want out of this — sanctions relief, implicit control of the Strait of Hormuz, no commitments on nuclear program,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Connecticut) told NOTUS. “It’s a disaster, but it’s probably a necessary disaster.”

The rollout of the so-far secret deal has not impressed many in the legislative branch. “If it was so great, wouldn’t the president have printed it on gold leaf paper and sent it out to all of us?” Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nevada) said. But Democrats seem ready to sign on the dotted line if Trump asks them.

What they’re not willing to do is continue to back Trump’s calls for increased defense spending. NOTUS’ Joe Gould reports on how the bipartisan coalition that has generally supported an ever-increasing Pentagon budget is fracturing. Last week, more Democrats on the Senate Armed Services Committee voted against the National Defense Authorization Act than voted for it. Last year’s NDAA was passed out of the committee 26-1"

Barack Obama accurately wrote about Trump's #IranDeal: “It is doubtful that any agreement that arises is going to be significantly different or a significant improvement from the deal that we had in the first place."
#IranWar #OperationEpicFailure #WhatAWaste #politics

"Rep. Ashley Hinson, the likely Republican nominee in Iowa’s critical Senate race, said last week that the #IranWar will become a political liability (for Republicans) if it extends much longer":
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/02/ashley-hinson-audio-iran-war-iowa-senate-00946145
#OperationEpicFailure #WhatAWaste #military #politics

Sen. Jon Ossoff: "While you pay more for everything, Donald Trump wants your tax dollars for what many are calling the #JeffreyEpstein Memorial #Ballroom."
#politics #inflation #WhatAWaste

Scott MacFarlane: "Donald Trump's fingerprints are all over a new Justice Department's court filing defending the Trump #Ballroom. It has random capitalization, it claims that Trump is providing America an 'invaluable gift,' and it claims the project is 'underbudget' despite a Senate request for $1 billion in taxpayer money."
#lawfare #GrandTheft #WhatAWaste #politics

Emily Singer wrote: "So all this war did was strengthen Iran and fuck over Americans with higher gas prices. Thanks Trump!"

That isn't fair. The #IranWar also killed many innocent people, weakened the reputation and the international alliances of the United States, and enriched Russia.
#WhatAWaste #OperationEpicFailure #politics

RE: https://mastodon.social/@RonSupportsYou/116544528408013307

It looks like the winners of Trump's unnecessary #IranWar will be Iran and China.

"China is watching how fast America burns through its high-end missiles, from Tomahawks to Patriot air defenses. Every missile being used in Iran is a missile that can’t be used to deter in the Indo-Pacific."
#OperationEpicFailure #WhatAWaste #politics

The #IranWar "is revealing American military and strategic vulnerabilities — and offering important lessons to its biggest rival. China is watching as the U.S. fails to cut through an Iranian blockade and expends heavy firepower, the Trump administration struggles to extricate itself from an unpopular war, global gas prices soar":
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/08/china-lessons-iran-trump-xi-00912539
copy: @renewedresistance #politics #OperationEpicFailure #WhatAWaste

"Trump Tells Congress Why He Doesn’t Need Its Authorization for the Iran War":
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/us/politics/trump-congress-authorization-iran-war.html
#IranWar #OperationEpicFailure #WhatAWaste

"Iranian attacks since late February inflicted far greater damage on US #military bases in the Middle East than officials have publicly acknowledged. Strikes hit over 100 targets across 11 bases, breaching air defenses, destroying infrastructure and aircraft, and causing billions in damage":
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/insight/iran-strikes-caused-far-greater-us-base-damage-reports-say/gm-GM93256EA6?gemSnapshotKey=GM93256EA6-snapshot-9
#IranWar #WhatAWaste #OperationEpicFailure copy: @renewedresistance #politics

#IranWar Update from Tom Nichols: "The president of the United States does not know what he's doing. He's an unstable person and the people below him are incredibly incompetent. His negotiating team is his son-in-law and a real estate developer. The Secretary of State is somewhere. The Director of National Intelligence is virtually invisible."
#OperationEpicFailure #WhataWaste #politics

Sen. Chris Van Hollen said the #IranWar costs our government about one billion dollars per day.
#OperationEpicFailure #WhatAWaste #politics

Bill Kristol: "Trump six weeks ago: 'I demand UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER.'

Trump today: 'I basically surrender on regime change, the nuclear program being gone once and for all, missiles, proxies, sanctions, and paying off the Iranian regime.

But memo to my followers: Let’s pretend it’s all good'!"
#IranWar #WhatAWaste #politics

RE: https://mastodon.social/@RonSupportsYou/116416639290596837

Donald Trump is a uniter, not a divider, as we can see from how opposing political factions in Italy joined together to condemn Donald Trump.
copy: @renewedresistance #politics #IranWar #WhatAWaste

Jamelle Bouie: "To have spent any amount of time observing Pres. Trump over the last month is to conclude that he is in far over his head. The president is struggling with the consequences of his actions, raging in protest of the fact that for all its firepower, the United States cannot bomb Tehran into submission":
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/opinion/trump-iran-power-unitary-executive.html
#Trump #MentallyIll. #IranWar #OperationEpicFailure #WhatAWaste.
#HowTrumpHarmedAmericans #politics copy: @renewedresistance

Donald Trump's latest boneheaded move in the Persian Gulf
is described in this captioned image from sandawgscorch.
#IranWar #WhataWaste #stupidity

I was delighted to hear what Paul Rieckhoff had to say on #RealTime. He brilliantly and persuasively spoke about important subjects, such as mistakes that Pres. Trump made during the Iran War. Paul accurately said: Trump didn't get the nation behind the #IranWar, get Congressional approval, or get our allies behind it. Trump failed at all three because he did not even attempt to achieve any of those three goals.
#IranWar #incompetence #WhatAWaste

"Regardless of how the war with Iran ends, the damage to America’s reputation has already been done. Trump’s War of Choice Will Become a War of Regret":
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/opinion/us-iran-war-trump-american-credibility.html
"Trust in American leadership, trust in American judgment, trust in American intentions — that trust is eroding."
#IranWar #OperationEpicFailure #WhatAWaste #TrumpHiredTheWrongFoxNewsHost #politics copy: @renewedresistance

Trump's style is to start an unnecessary war against Iran that leaves Iran stronger, financially enriched by its control of the Strait of Hormuz, and that leaves our military weaker due to the weaponry we wasted, and that will result in Iran soon getting its own nuclear weapons.
#IranWar #OperationEpicFailure #WhatAWaste

"Approximately half of Iran's missile launchers and one-way attack drones are still operational despite five weeks of heavy strikes by the US and Israel":
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-891978?utm_source=activetrail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=April32026
"CNN's sources, after reviewing the recent US intelligence assessment, determined that Trump's two-or three-week prediction for ending the war was wholly unrealistic."
#IranWar #SoMuchDeathAndDestruction #AllForNothing #WhatAWaste #politics copy: @renewedresistance

"Republicans aren’t rushing to save Trump’s ballroom":
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/02/congress-trump-ballroom-construction-00855048 #WhatAWaste

Our fragile country
We never had a wealth fund
Our stolen future

#UK #Haiku #Senyru #WhatAWaste

@KentNavalesi ‘Quantum Computing Takes Off With $55 Billion In Global Investments’ https://www.forbes.com/sites/sylvainduranton/2024/06/26/quantum-now/

Meanwhile. How will that cure us of Artificial Information; AI is #IP stripping for ideological egomaniacs. Meta, Instagram, X, ….. down to the smallest apps. run to strip people of their creativity, intellect, dignity, values, humanity and time just for scammers and losers, so QC for what? More war and terror? The control of information processing is exactly that, tech slavery by the mob; oligarchs ultra fascist cults, not freedom, peace, security, wellbeing or any flourishing! #RapingEarth #ForWhat #FascistsEndlessWars #OligarchsHell #OligarchsTechFixLie #FascistInjustice #NonRenewableEcocide #AiScam #FascistInequality #WhatAWaste

Ian Dury & The Blockheads - What A Waste! (1978)

#45vinyl #ianduryandtheblockheads #whatawaste #newwave #funkpunk #poprock #1978 #1970s #70smusic #7inch #gxml

Wordpress - https://genxmusiclover.wordpress.com/2025/05/28/ian-dury-the-blockheads-what-a-waste/
Blogspot - https://genxmusiclover.blogspot.com/2025/05/ian-dury-blockheads-what-waste.html

@flexghost Elon will likely want to build a Cyber Tank next. Fascist narcissists are outnumbered, but oligarchs and dictators have delusions of grandeur, so believe they are apex predators or gods, so living in that virtual cybernetic worlds of game think, imagine
they’re safe. Watching the people go medieval and diabolical on their ass will be quite a spectacle! Gates knows it, that’s why he wants to give away his billions. No matter, once the people know their future is fucked, no bunker and army or private mercenaries will protect the broligarchs. #Vengeance #Elon #EmperorElon #Elon #HumanNature #WhatAWaste #DeathCults #Billionaires #Ecocide #BillionairesAreFascists

Ok, so every Syrian gets 600 € ?
I doubt that very strongly. And the main qustion is: why is the "world" financing a criminal regimes ?

#Official Development Assistance #stupid #stopthat #politics #geopolitics #stoipfinancingcriminals #whatawaste

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Länder_nach_erhaltener_Entwicklungshilfe

I've really not made the most of this, as yet rain free day. #WhatAWaste

A small detour on the way home via the Ian Dury artwork on the old Cricketers pub, next to ‘Cat Shit mansions’
#whatawaste