Day 1 of Trump's Presidency... and all the days that follow

[Rizotto]

Trump states that the crews of tanker ships need to show some guts and keep trying to get through Iran's blockade of straight of Hormuz, although Iran has already struck several tanker ships and several tanker sailors have died.

Trump's Plan BACKFIRED! Iran's Blockade Got Worse

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=WID7pk6AWjo

[Rizotto]

"Get ready to be drafted and sent to die in the mountains of Iran."

Military Draft Rules Change As Iran War Ramps Up

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=zJO0-gMIR38

[ThePythonicCow]

Posted by ThePythonicCow (here)
I too recommend the Promethean Updates Youtube channel and their Promethean Action website.

Here's another commentator with astute insights into some of what's going on, in particular at present, into what Trump is up to with the attack on Iran.

In the following two articles, Burning Bright, on Substack", considers how Trump is dismantling the "never ending contest" between the "radical Islamic clerics headquartered in Iran" and "God's chosen people, the Jews returning to their homeland in Israel". (I exaggerate both sides, reflecting more one of the narratives we've been fed, than the realities of the various people living in those two lands.)

1. Donald Trump and the Path of the Torpedo -- In a World of Shadows and Stories ... When Is a War Not a War?
2. Trump's Test -- On the Real War Beneath the Fake One

The author, Burning Bright, of these two substack essays, is a bit more wordy than would fit easily here on Avalon in their entirety. So I recommend you follow the above links to them. If you don't like wordy analogies to Star Trek events, these essays might not be to your liking on that account.

As one example of the way Burning Bright is thinking about these affairs, he writes in the first of the above two linked Substack essays:

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These actors are not recoiling because American power was deployed. They are recoiling because the deployment points toward a contained, precise conclusion that does not feed the perpetual machine they serve.

And while Europe fractures, Trump doubles down on explicit references to the operating framework that delivered results before, signaling direct involvement in shaping the next Iranian leadership—not through external imposition, but internal realignment that maintains functional sovereignty while cutting the strings that made Iran an asset for regional destabilization.

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Putting this detail, that Trump intends direct involvement in shaping the next Iranian leadership, in my own terms:

For the last 50 or 100 years, the leadership of both Israel and Iran has not been chosen by the people who lived in those lands, but by some globalists with mansions outside cities such as London. Those globalists were placing black and white chess pieces on the board, using the never ending conflicts they created, from the very borders defined on global maps about a century ago, to control a major global resource - Persian/Arabian petroleum.

The choice now is not whether Iranians or Trump has deciding control over Iranian leadership. The choice is whether the globalists continue to covertly control who is the Black King on the Iranian squares of their "Middle East" chess board, or Trump overtly ensures that the next Iranian leadership is primarily concerned with Iran's best interests in a more peaceful world of commerce between nations.

Burning Bright has a quite different writing style than do I; but the above observation is I believe a fair representation of one of Burning Bright's many points.

Overall, Burning Bright's point is that Trump is dismantling a complex fabric of narratives that has been woven by the globalists deeply into our discourse and institutions. What's actually happening, and what Trump is actually saying, are at the same time seemingly sharply inline with, and sharply contradicting, each of the major narrative threads, which is driving a whole lot of analysts, institutionalists and power players bonkers. "Good!" I say.

[ThePythonicCow]

Posted by Rizotto (here)

"Get ready to be drafted and sent to die in the mountains of Iran."

So - a change in the law made in December of 2024 (when Joe Biden was, nominally at least, President), that was made to take effect in two years (that would be December of 2026), to automate the already required registration with the Selective Service (registration is not a draft; a draft would require further legislation to be passed) is being construed as meaning Trump is about to start a draft to fight and die in Iran, now in March of 2026.

Someone is working over time to falsely twist the reality in order to try to paint Trump in a bad light.

[Bill Ryan]

This was formally published by the White House, presumably with Donald Trump's approval. Two identical videos here, the first on Facebook and the second on Instagram (in case anyone can't see one or the other).

The video is titled 'Undefeated'. It might be interesting to take a look at the comments if you have a moment.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/2962637007278366

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVyhWwTDeLg

[JackMcThorn]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
This was formally published by the White House, presumably with Donald Trump's approval...The video is titled 'Undefeated'.

This is where I get lost on the professionalism of the WH. For such a magnate in a board-room you would think he would have a modicum of professionalism. This is worse than Bush's pre-mature victory banner of mission accomplished.

[Rizotto]

"Today on Legitimate Targets, Jackson Hinkle speaks to USAF Lt. Col. (Ret) Karen Kwiatkowski about the FAILURE of the U.S. Air Force in the Iran War,
Trump's plan to deploy 5,000 marines to the Middle East & more."

IRAN OBLITERATES U.S. AIR FORCE | LT COL KAREN KWIATKOWSKI INTERVIEW (RET)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=1chIK5QtSXs

[Rizotto]

Posted by ThePythonicCow (here)

Posted by Rizotto (here)

"Get ready to be drafted and sent to die in the mountains of Iran."

So - a change in the law made in December of 2024 (when Joe Biden was, nominally at least, President), that was made to take effect in two years (that would be December of 2026), to automate the already required registration with the Selective Service (registration is not a draft; a draft would require further legislation to be passed) is being construed as meaning Trump is about to start a draft to fight and die in Iran, now in March of 2026.

Someone is working over time to falsely twist the reality in order to try to paint Trump in a bad light.

Biden = Trump = Uniparty of War. For decades now, the president of the United States of Israel, Bibi Netanyahu, has been obsessing about sending USA troops to die for his greater Israel hegemony plans.

USA will be in perpetual wars until the majority of the USA public realize this, and take concrete steps to remove the parasites from their governmnt.

[ThePythonicCow]

Posted by Rizotto (here)
For decades now, the president of the United States of Israel, Bibi Netanyahu, has been obsessing about sending USA troops to die for his greater Israel hegemony plans.

If a gang has been using drugs, extortion, violence, sex, gambling and other nefarious means to profit off your neighborhood for most of your life, and some more honorable sheriffs from neighboring counties send in an armed posse to clean out that gang, then likely the bought and paid for local media will report even more shootings and violence, that it can blame on that posse. It can be hard, until the dust settles, to know the real intentions or predict the outcome, of this new twist in the ongoing, seemingly perpetual, saga of violence and evil.

Neither of us knows whether Trump's administration is the one taking those concrete steps to remove the parasites, or just another gang of parasites, fighting for turf. Sometimes the best we humans can manage, even the more honorable amongst us, is to fight fire with fire.

I am more optimistic than you, but know this: Neither of us can know for certain, while the battle rages, what are the intentions of whomever will be the winner. Neither the fact that you can find the current battle to be like so many that have gone on before, nor that I who can find hope that "this time is different", will persuade the other. We shall see.

[BMJ]

CONTROLLED: Trump's Kharg Island Strike Ends Iran's Oil Terror Premium

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=P4O04VlBWrg

Promethean Updates
Mar 15, 2026
Summary:
00:00 The Saturday Wrap-Up - CONTROLLED: Trump's Kharg Island Strike Ends Iran's Oil Terror Premium - March 14, 2026
02:25 Debunking the “No Plan” Narrative
05:42 The Iran "Terror Premium"
07:54 Trump's Mideast "Nuclear Century"

President Trump announces U.S. forces bombed military targets on Iran’s Kharg Island while leaving oil infrastructure intact, which Barbara Boyd argues reflects a doctrine and long-term strategy rather than instinct.

She disputes claims of an imminent oil crisis, citing Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent that the Strait of Hormuz has not been mined, and says price spikes are driven by London’s insurance and spot markets, noting Lloyd’s of London negotiating after the U.S. created a vessel-insurance mechanism.

Boyd frames the conflict as an effort to dismantle a 50-year financial empire tied to the petrodollar, oil speculation, and the “Iran Terror Premium,” which Peter Navarro estimates added $5–$15 per barrel and drained about $10 trillion over 25 years.

She highlights preparations including energy independence, Russian oil positioning, the Abraham Accords, and a U.S.–Saudi civil nuclear cooperation agreement as part of a broader nuclear-focused development agenda.

[Bill Ryan]

In this long and fascinating conversation in which Bret Weinstein hosts Tucker Carlson, Weinstein advances the following hypothesis, which he concludes may be the only one that explains the apparent facts that seem to be becoming increasingly visible. And Tucker agrees.

Here's what he suggests.

• In the Biden presidency (documented extensively in this thread!), the Deep State strategy was already to systematically destroy America. Their plans were foiled by Trump (a) not being assassinated, and (b) winning the 2024 election.

• Trump started off well by immediately taking a bunch of active steps to reverse all that. But then something happened.

• Weinstein argues that the current plan, well in progress, is to take down not only Trump himself but also continue the takedown of America. Somehow Trump was convinced to initiate the Iran war, with whoever really persuaded him to do that KNOWING that this would be sure to finish off not only Trump (who may well be impeached and even imprisoned if the midterm elections go badly for the Republicans), but also end America's hegemony in the world once and for all.

Here's the two hour video, which in many places is a highest quality, deep personal exchange of views and experiences. (The first half is mainly about antisemitism and societal prejudice in its various forms.) Weinstein shares his thoughts on the new takedown of America starting around 1:22:31. His thesis is compelling.

Unholy War: A Conversation with Tucker Carlson on DarkHorse

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=YRskSFo191Y

[Ewan]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
Here's the two hour video, which in many places is a highest quality, deep personal exchange of views and experiences. (The first half is mainly about antisemitism and societal prejudice in its various forms.) Weinstein shares his thoughts on the new takedown of America starting around 1:22:31. His thesis is compelling.

Unholy War: A Conversation with Tucker Carlson on DarkHorse

Umm, the video you posted above is only 16 mins long.




From Bill:
Sorry! Wrong link. (corrected now)

[Rizotto]

"Today on Legitimate Targets, Jackson Hinkle speaks with Ex-CIA Station Chief Michael Scheuer about the odds of a ZIONIST FALSE FLAG to justify a ground invasion in Iran, Trump's decision to send 5,000 marines to the Middle East & more."

IRAN WAR FALSE FLAG INCOMING? EX-CIA MICHAEL SCHEUER INTERVIEW

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=aYBJJWquVcs

[Rizotto]

"The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss how Trump's cronies are exploiting the Strait of Hormuz crisis he instigated to manipulate markets while US consumers feel the pain."

Trump's war in Iran crushes US working class, enriches cronies

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=gzDt2kKjMvA

[Bill Ryan]

Donald Trump posted this on Truth Social just over 12 hours ago.

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...35861005528220

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Iran has long been known as a Master of Media Manipulation and Public Relations. They are Militarily ineffective and weak, but are really good at “feeding” the very appreciative Fake News Media false information. Now, A.I. has become another Disinformation weapon that Iran uses, quite well, considering they are being annihilated by the day. They showed phony “Kamikaze Boats,” shooting at various Ships at Sea, which looks wonderful, powerful, and vicious, but these Boats don’t exist — It’s all false information to show how “tough” their already defeated Military is! The five U.S. Refueling Planes that were supposedly struck down and badly damaged, according to The Wall Street Journal’s false reporting, and others, are all in service, with the exception of one, which will soon be flying the skies. Buildings and Ships that are shown to be on fire are not — It’s FAKE NEWS, generated by A.I. For instance, Iran, working in close coordination with the Fake News Media, shows our great USS Abraham Lincoln Aircraft Carrier, one of the largest and most prestigious Ships in the World, burning uncontrollably in the Ocean. Not only was it not burning, it was not even shot at — Iran knows better than to do that! The story was knowingly FAKE and, in a certain way, you can say that those Media Outlets that generated it should be brought up on Charges for TREASON for the dissemination of false information! The fact is, Iran is being decimated, and the only battles they “win” are those that they create through AI, and are distributed by Corrupt Media Outlets. The Radical Leftwing Press knows this full well, but continues to go forward with false stories and LIES. That’s why their Approval Rating is so low, and I can win a Presidential Election, IN A LANDSLIDE, getting only 5% positive Press — They have no credibility! I am so thrilled to see Brendan Carr, the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), looking at the licenses of some of these Corrupt and Highly Unpatriotic “News” Organizations. They get Billions of Dollars of FREE American Airwaves, and use it to perpetuate LIES, both in News and almost all of their Shows, including the Late Night Morons, who get gigantic Salaries for horrible Ratings, and never get, as I used to say in The Apprentice, “FIRED.” Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP

[Bill Ryan]

A few hours later, Donald Trump posted this.

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...36498017197393

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Mark Levin, a truly Great American Patriot, is somewhat under siege by other people with far less Intellect, Capability, and Love for our Country. Mark is Tough, Strong, and Brilliant, hence the nickname, “THE GREAT ONE,” conceived by our MAGA friend, the wonderful Sean Hannity, after years of dealing with Mark in Legal, Media, and other capacities. Mark would often do Sean’s show, speaking as a lawyer, and Sean realized then, as did others, that he was special. Mark Levin was not looking to do Television, Radio, or anything else, but he was drafted by very smart people who understood that there are few like him. He is a true Conservative, and Intellect, far smarter than those who criticize him but, above all, he is a man of Great Wisdom and Common Sense who truly loves our Country. When you hear others unfairly attack Mark, remember that they are jealous and angry Human Beings, whose “sway” is much less than the Public understands, and will, now that they know where I stand, rapidly diminish. Other than for his wonderful wife and family, Mark Levin only cares and wants one thing, GREATNESS AND SUCCESS FOR AMERICA! Those that speak ill of Mark will quickly fall by the wayside, as do the people whose ideas, policies, and footings are not sound. THEY ARE NOT MAGA, I AM, and MAGA includes not allowing Iran, a Sick, Demented, and Violent Terrorist Regime, to have a Nuclear Weapon to blow up the United States of America, the Middle East and, ultimately, the rest of the World. MAGA is about stopping them cold, and that is exactly what we are doing. GOD BLESS OUR GREAT MILITARY, WHICH I HAVE REBUILT SINCE THE BEGINNING OF MY FIRST TERM, TO ACHIEVE EVERLASTING PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP

[Bill Ryan]

Shortly after, Donald Trump posted this in two parts.

(Sometimes it can hard to find the full originals. The best source seems to be https://trumpstruth.org.)

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...36561191626050

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The Courts treat Republicans, and me, so unfairly, always seeming to protect those who should not be protected. They are highly politicized. Cases don’t matter, the Judge does! As an example, how is this absolutely terrible Federal Reserve Chairman, Jerome “Too Late” Powell, not even allowed to be investigated for the horrible job he does? How is he allowed to be Billions of Dollars over budget, and years behind schedule, on the simple renovation of the small Federal Reserve Complex in Washington, D.C., where he created an absolute disaster — A money pit, and embarrassment to our Country for the whole World to see! It is a little project that has been under construction for many years. The Contractor on the job, along with Powell, should also be heavily investigated, in that it is impossible for a “professional” to have such enormous Cost Overruns. It is THE HIGHEST PRICED BUILDING, PER SQUARE FOOT, OF ANY PROJECT EVER BUILT, with no end in sight, and may not even be open for many years to come. I strongly criticized Jerome “Too Late” for his horrible performance throughout his tenure, which is either gross incompetence, total dishonesty, or both, and, in return for this well justified criticism, get viciously and wrongfully blamed by, as usual, a Wacky, Nasty, Crooked, and totally Out of Control Judge, named James Boasberg, a man who suffers from the highest level of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS), and has been “after” my people, and me, for years. The D.C. Circuit eagerly supported the arrest and persecution of innocent Republicans for no crimes at all, but is now preventing even a basic investigation into the gross financial mismanagement of the Federal Reserve. In case after case, Boasberg has displayed open, flagrant, and extreme partisan bias and contempt against Republicans and the Trump Administration. To preserve the integrity of the Judiciary, he should be removed from all cases pertaining to us, and suffer serious disciplinary action, as should numerous other Corrupt Judges that, unfortunately, our Country has had to endure! What Boasberg has done on the “Too Late” Powell case, and many others, has little to do with the Law, and everything to do with Politics. He is exactly what Judges should not be! Boasberg would do better to focus on Justice and Fairness, not his own, and the Democrats’, Political Agenda, which has become LEGENDARY! Much like “prosecutor” Deranged Jack Smith, and many others, Boasberg is a disgrace, as was his predecessor, to our Legal Process, and our Highly Politicized Court System, which was just witnessed firsthand by the unfortunate and unwarranted TARIFF decision, recently handed down by the United States Supreme Court, which was a GIFT to Countries and Companies who have been “ripping off the United States of America,” for decades, at levels never seen before.

~~~

(An hour earlier, he had posted this.)

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The decision that mattered most to me was TARIFFS! The Court knew where I stood, how badly I wanted this Victory for our Country, and instead decided to, potentially, give away Trillions of Dollars to Countries and Companies who have been taking advantage of the United States for decades. Our Supreme Court has made these Countries very happy but, as the Court pointed out, I have the absolute right to charge TARIFFS in another form, and have already started to do so. The Hundreds of Billions of Dollars that our Adversaries want our Country to pay back to others that have disrespected the U.S.A., until I came along, should be marked down, in the eyes of the Public, as just another reason why the United States had been in such major decline — But, not anymore, because we have MADE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN and, very soon, it will be GREATER THAN EVER BEFORE!

I want to thank Justices Alito, Thomas, and Kavanaugh for their Wisdom and Courage pertaining to the TARIFF case, and for understanding, in addition to the Law, that our “Unfriendly Competitors” should not be reimbursed and rewarded for the decades of Damage they have caused THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. I will fight hard to make sure that this does not happen! The Democrats on the Court always “stick together,” no matter how strong a case is put before them — There is rarely even a minor “waver.” But Republicans do not do this. They openly disrespect the Presidents who nominate them to the highest position in the Land, a Justice of the United States Supreme Court, and go out of their way, with bad and wrongful rulings and intentions, to prove how “honest,” “independent,” and “legitimate” they are. The Democrat Justices just vote Democrat — They always stick together! Our Country was unnecessarily RANSACKED by the United States Supreme Court, which has become little more than a weaponized and unjust Political Organization. The sad thing is, they will only get worse! They wouldn’t even call out The Rigged Presidential Election of 2020, because they said that I, as President of the United States, did not have “standing” to challenge it, and now, with time, it has been conclusively proven to be stolen — And look what happened to our wonderful Nation by allowing a grossly incompetent man, Sleepy Joe Biden, to be our “President.” This completely inept and embarrassing Court was not what the Supreme Court of the United States was set up by our wonderful Founders to be. They are hurting our Country, and will continue to do so. All I can do, as President, is call them out for their bad behavior! This statement about the United States Supreme Court will cause me nothing but problems in the future, but I feel it is my obligation to speak the TRUTH. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! President DONALD J. TRUMP

[Bruce G Charlton]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
Donald Trump posted this on Truth Social just over 12 hours ago.

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...35861005528220

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Iran has long been known as a Master of Media Manipulation and Public Relations.

This is, of course, so false a statement as to be the inverse of reality!

But it does reinforce the extent to which the accusations against their enemies made by the Western Leadership class are very often "projections": I mean, Western leaders reliably vilify others for doing exactly what the West is doing. They guess at what their enemy is doing, on the basis of what they know themselves to be doing.

This is partly because they habitually lie about almost-everything nearly-all of the time, and cannot stop themselves; and partly because it is a characteristic of those in service to evil that they can only evaluate the motivations of others by their own motivations.

An example from Lord of the Rings; is how Saruman always assumes that Gandalf is scheming to seek tyrannical power - because Saruman simply cannot conceptualize any other motivation.

[Rizotto]

I was trying to listen to this interview, but was stalled a continuous barrage of ads. (It must be a really good interview!) So, I'm posting it here not really having watched it yet. But at least, playing the video from here means no ads.

"Trump, who is not very bright, has fallen into a very deadly trap, says Chris Hedges. The Israelis tricked him into the war on Iran that they've been lobbying for over three decades. The consequences are dire"

INTERVIEW: The madness of The Donald

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=iJAGYkh1qzo

[Rizotto]

"Prof. Jeffrey Sachs argues that desperation is growing in the US and Israel as they fail to defeat Iran, and nuclear weapons could be used if we continue down this path."

Jeffrey Sachs: Israel Could Use Nuclear Weapons Against Iran

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=gmtJZvmOOes