and notice how Trump is not doing anything about this.  I made the point the other day and I will make it again.  Trump controls Israeli politics now.

I'm disappointed in Iran.  They turned out to be bluffing the entire time.  Maybe I'm going to be wrong about that, but as of right now the facts on the ground state pretty clearly that Iran was a paper tiger.  --Tom Luongo

7:40.  And my position is very clear now. Iran never gained a nuclear weapon because they never wanted to gain a nuclear weapon but not for the reasons that Alex and everybody else have been talking about, the fatwa, no, it has nothing to do with that at all.  It's clear that these guys are in bed with freaking GCHQ on both sides. It's the search for the nuclear weapon.  It's the striving for it that is the casus belli, not the actual nuclear weapon.  If they wanted to make a nuclear weapon, they would have done so 20 years ago.  Hell, f*cking North Korean made one.  And if the Russians wanted them to have a nuclear weapon, they would have had one.  If the Chinese wanted them to have a nuclear weapon, they would have had one.  My logic here is not wrong.  My logic here just comes to a different conclusion than your logic, and we're going to find out who's logic is correct, and there's no amount of brow beating me into submission on this.  Because at the end of the day, I understand the strategy of bitches like Christine Lagarde and Andrew Bailey and all the rest of them, and Tony Blair and Benjamin Netanyahu.  The goal is chaos.  Of course, they want regime change in Iran.  Of course, it's playing out like a certain freaking script, and notice how Trump is not doing anything about this.  I made the point the other day and I will make it again.  Trump controls Israeli politics now. The British are trying to resurrect, you know, Reza Pahlavi.  It's not working.  The Russians are going after the NGOs in all of the -stans.  They are arresting people.  Aliyev in Azerbaijan is trying to prop up his failing regime.  He's been caught with his hands in the cookie jar, helping Israel attack Iran from the north, and betray Russia at the same time.  He knows he's in trouble.  

After all of the drama on the slack server for the last couple of days, again I think it's funny that everybody thought I would be upset about this, "Don't tell Tom."  I don't give a s***.  I hope you all found your soulmates being juiceburgs together it's Grand I always want people to find there in the world and if you're not part of mine it's great I don't want you to be in that in this club.  

11:27.  This is my position because I'm trying to end this nightmare.  We have been blackmailed by these evil freaking people for 85 years, 80 years, since the end of World War II, the Cold War, Cold War Redux, the Lost 90s in Russia, all of it.  It's all Downstream of this when you stop to really do the math about how much money is spent trying to deal with minimizing the threat and of nuclear weapon proliferation, and the amount of money that's spent on defense and espionage and cloak-and-dagger stuff, all of it, the Congressional hearings, and the lost wages, all of it, the SG&A costs, [Selling, General, & Administrative Costs] and every corporation in the world.  It's trillions upon trillions upon trillions of dollars every year.  And who does that serve?  Level up and see through the b*******.  The way to end all this is to start cleaving Gordian knots.  Your move, or you get a B2 up your ass.  Your move, or we fly in some F-22s.  Your move.  If you want to know why I have anger in my voice, I'm disappointed in Iran.  They turned out to be bluffing the entire time.  Maybe I'm going to be wrong about that, but as of right now the facts on the ground state pretty clearly that Iran was a paper tiger.  That's what we have and I've been pretty clear, I don't like Israel.  I'm trying not to use the word "hate" because I don't want hate to be the operative means by which I do analysis because that's a bad way to do analysis . . .  because you know that whole anger-fear-aggression path that leads to the dark side, like it's real, folks.  Hate makes you powerful, like yeah.  I'm just not playing that game.  So I want Israel to pay for their crimes, all of them, including the ones where they got us involved and s*** that poured moral stain all over me because I wound up paying for it.  I'm angry about that.  I really wanted to Iran to really knock their freaking teeth in.  Really did. A little angry about that.  A little sad, sad that I was actually sucked into that b******* for a few years.  That being said, they hit them hard enough and hit us hard enough because of the perilous state that our actual military supply lines are in and our ammunition supply lines are in, which has a nugget of truth to it, which is not . . . not untrue that we can't sustain that war for that long.  But we can sustain it longer, long enough to get rid of the assholes who were "fighting the good fight of the resistance." I love Star Wars but it's a bad metaphor for this.  We're not the Empire, they're not the Rebellion or the resistance.  That's not the way this works. Okay so let all that go and let's move forward and say you know what I don't want to be blackmailed by evil f****** shitbags anymore you guys want to fight amongst yourselves for resources you want to text us for military's and all that great great you developed weapons now where you only have to fight each other we're back to where the wars are fought by the King's armies.  And only the king's armies need to be targeted, and the civilians can be left alone.  You know, gentlemanly warfare.  Lob ballistic missiles and drones at each other's ammo dumps and weapons development sites and research departments and Skunk Works and all the rest of it and their barracks.  You sign up for the military, your life is forfeit.  My dad was NYPD.  I never once was under any illusions about the fact that my dad had to put himself In harm's way in order to protect and serve.  And I found it offensive the older I got here in the United States, as time went on, we sat here protecting cops.  F*** protecting cops. Cops are forfeit in service of protecting and serving civilians.  If you've read this month's newsletter I think you understand my perspective on this if you haven't read this month's newsletter maybe consider spending an extra $7 a month on it, or $8 bucks, whatever it is. 

17:50.  I've just come into a different state of mind about all of these things watching this play itself out brought a lot of clarity I'm tired of watching the Vorlons in the Shadows manipulate us into fighting their f****** wars for them.  I want a new way even for people like us.