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It’s Monday …

President Shit’s public schedule …

Monday, March 2, 2026
7:45 AM In-Town Pool Call Time The White House  In-Town Pool
8:00 AM The President participates in Executive Time The White House  Closed Press
11:00 AM The President participates in a Medal of Honor Ceremony East Room  Pre-Credentialed Media
1:30 PM The President participates in Signing Time Oval Office  Closed Press
2:00 PM The President participates in a Policy Meeting Oval Office  Closed Press
4:00 PM The President participates in a Policy Meeting Oval Office  Closed Press

I don’t even know where to begin. We are now in another ‘regime change’ “It is NOT a war!” war, this time with Iran.

In the wee, dark-thirty hours of February 28, the US and Israel attacked Iran. Why? Well, it depends on who is lying at any given time. One version from Trump and his minions Not War is to stop Iran from “just days” of gaining nuclear ICBM warheads capable of possibly, maybe, one day, in the future, according to Marco Rubio, could reach the US.

How it started 30 years ago …

If you want to follow live updates, everyone appears to be using Associated Press as their source, might as well go there.

How it started, February 27th …

From Politico:

Rubio to visit Israel as US Embassy authorizes staff to leave ahead of potential Iran strike
The guidance comes as the White House considers whether to again strike Iran.

February 27, 2026; 11:14 AM EST:

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is set to travel to Israel next week ahead of a potential military strike on Iran, a move that comes as the State Department is allowing non-essential employees at the U.S. Embassy there to leave the country due to “safety risks.”

“Persons may wish to consider leaving Israel while commercial flights are available,” the embassy said in a travel advisory update Friday. Earlier this week, the U.S. Embassy in Beirut pulled out non-essential staff.

The embassy also encouraged government employees and family members to refrain from traveling to certain parts of the country “in response to security incidents and without advance notice,” including the Old City of Jerusalem and the West Bank.Rubio is scheduled to be in Israel beginning on March 2 to “discuss a range of regional priorities including Iran, Lebanon, and ongoing efforts to implement President Trump’s 20-Point Peace Plan for Gaza,” State Department spokesperson Tommy Pigott said in a statement.

Politico

Transcript of what people woke up to February 28th, Saturday morning:

“A short time ago, the United States military began major combat operations in Iran. Our objective is to defend the American people by eliminating imminent threats from the Iranian regime, a vicious group of very hard, terrible people. Its menacing activities directly endanger the United States, our troops our bases overseas and our allies throughout the world. For 47 years, the Iranian regime has chanted “Death to America” and waged an unending campaign of bloodshed and mass murder, targeting the United States, our troops and innocent people in many, many countries.

Among the regime’s very first acts was to back a violent takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, holding dozens of American hostages for 444 days. In 1983, Iran’s proxies carried out the Marine barracks bombing in Beirut that killed 241 American military personnel. In 2000, they knew and were probably involved with the attack on the USS Cole. Many died. Iranian forces killed and maimed hundreds of American service members in Iraq. The regime’s proxies have continued to launch countless attacks against American forces stationed in the Middle East in recent years, as well as U.S. naval and commercial vessels in international shipping lanes. It’s been mass terror, and we’re not going to put up with it any longer.

From Lebanon to Yemen, and Syria to Iraq, the regime has armed, trained and funded terrorist militias that have soaked the earth with blood and guts. And it was Iran’s proxy, Hamas, that launched the monstrous October 7 attacks on Israel, slaughtering more than 1000 innocent people, including 46 Americans, while taking 12 of our citizens hostage. It was brutal. Something like the world has never seen before.

Iran is the world’s number one state sponsor of terror, and just recently killed tens of thousands of its own citizens on the street as they protested. It has always been the policy of the United States, in particular, my administration, that this terrorist regime can never have a nuclear weapon. I’ll say it again. They can never have a nuclear weapon.

That is why, in operation midnight hammer last June, we obliterated the regime’s nuclear program at Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan.

After that attack, we warned them never to resume their malicious pursuit of nuclear weapons, and we sought repeatedly to make a deal. We tried. They wanted to do it. They didn’t want to do it. Again, they wanted to do it. They didn’t want to do it. They didn’t know what was happening. They just wanted to practice evil.

But Iran refused, just as it has for decades and decades, they rejected every opportunity to renounce their nuclear ambitions, and we can’t take it anymore.

Instead, they attempted to rebuild their nuclear program and to continue developing long range missiles that can now threaten our very good friends and allies in Europe, our troops stationed overseas, and could soon reach the American homeland. Just imagine how emboldened this regime would be if they ever had, and actually were armed with, nuclear weapons as a means to deliver their message.

For these reasons, the United States military is undertaking a massive and ongoing operation to prevent this very wicked, radical dictatorship from threatening America and our core national security interests. We are going to destroy their missiles and raze their missile industry to the ground. It will be totally, again, obliterated.

We’re going to annihilate their navy. We’re going to ensure that the region’s terrorist proxies can no longer destabilize the region or the world and attack our forces and no longer use their IEDs or roadside bombs, as they are sometimes called, to so gravely wound and kill thousands and thousands of people, including many Americans.

And we will ensure that Iran does not obtain a nuclear weapon. It’s a very simple message. They will never have a nuclear weapon.

This regime will soon learn that no one should challenge the strength and might of the United States Armed Forces. I built and rebuilt our military in my first administration, and there is no military on earth even close to its power, strength or sophistication. My administration has taken every possible step to minimize the risk to U.S. personnel in the region. Even so, and I do not make this statement lightly, the Iranian regime seeks to kill. The lives of courageous American heroes may be lost and we may have casualties. That often happens in war. But we’re doing this, not for now. We’re doing this for the future, and it is a noble mission.

We pray for every service member as they selflessly risk their lives to ensure that Americans and our children will never be threatened by a nuclear armed Iran. We ask God to protect all of our heroes in harm’s way, and we trust that, with his help, the men and women of the armed forces will prevail. We have the greatest in the world, and they will prevail.

To the members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, the armed forces and all of the police, I say tonight that you must lay down your weapons and have complete immunity, or in the alternative, face certain death. So lay down your arms. You will be treated fairly with total immunity, or you will face certain death.

Finally, to the great, proud people of Iran, I say tonight that the hour of your freedom is at hand. Stay sheltered. Don’t leave your home. It’s very dangerous outside. Bombs will be dropping everywhere. When we are finished, take over your government. It will be yours to take. This will be, probably, your only chance for generations.

For many years, you have asked for America’s help, but you never got it. No president was willing to do what I am willing to do tonight. Now you have a president who is giving you what you want, so let’s see how you respond. America is backing you with overwhelming strength and devastating force. Now is the time to seize control of your destiny and to unleash the prosperous and glorious future that is close within your reach. This is the moment for action. Do not let it pass.

May God bless the brave men and women of America’s Armed Forces. May God bless the United States of America. May God bless you all. Thank you.”

CBS

By Saturday afternoon the narrative had changed …

Short answer: There is no plan …

The world, people, THE WORLD!

Short answer: They lied. Again…

Shot:

Chaser …

Smith: This is the most cavalier manner that any president has ever gone to war in the history of this country. I mean, he does an eight minute truth social post at 2AM and then basically drops the mic and walks away and lets the war go.

I, as the ranking member of the House armed services committee, still have not heard from anybody from the Department of Defense, nor has Chairman Mike Rogers.

Basically, the mobster is playing mobster …

Short answer: 🤦‍♀️

Follow the money …

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