Tulsi Gabbard Fired / Resigned

May 22, 2026

Hmm …

Is this an additional sign that a new round of USraeli strikes on Iran are imminent?

Gabbard resigns as Trump’s top US intelligence official – Reuters

WASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) – Tulsi Gabbard said on Friday she is resigning from her job as President Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence, saying her husband had been ‌diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer and that she was stepping away from her role to help him.
Gabbard advised Trump of her intention to step down during an Oval Office meeting on Friday, Fox News Digital reported earlier. The resignation is effective June ⁠30, it said.
…
A source familiar with the matter said that Gabbard had been forced out by the White House.

Posted by b on May 22, 2026 at 18:18 UTC | Permalink

Comments

She wasn’t Zionist enough for the occupation government.

Posted by: AmericanIconoclast | May 22 2026 18:28 utc | 1

I was just commenting on this. She’s leaving the sinking ship. I used to think she had integrity – her time with Trump has demonstrated she does not

Posted by: Chris N | May 22 2026 18:28 utc | 2

no good person can stand what is going on in Washington..

Posted by: snake | May 22 2026 18:31 utc | 3

She’s leaving the sinking ship. I used to think she had integrity – her time with Trump has demonstrated she does not
Posted by: Chris N | May 22 2026 18:28 utc | 2

Never underestimate Larry Loomer’s control over Trump.

Posted by: AmericanIconoclast | May 22 2026 18:36 utc | 4

That stinking rat should have left the sinking ship much earlier.

She is still a supporter of genocide in Gaza….

Posted by: Trond | May 22 2026 18:36 utc | 5

Tulsi Gabbard should never have debased her name by joining the Trump government.

Posted by: sirdavide | May 22 2026 18:41 utc | 6

2 months late and still a hundred grand short, Tulsi should have bailed out when the attack on Iran started and saved her integrity, what pray tell, did she use those 60+ days in the Trump administration to do? that’s right, Nothing! Nothing to show for it except a big juicy government pay check and now Trump has thrown her out on her ass with not a single accomplishment to her name while in the White house regime. But don’t worry she’ll be well taken care of and will get a book deal that will make it all worth it. Shame that the common people who she claim to represent will have to be happy with the higher fuel costs, higher food costs, higher taxes, more debt and of course more blood sacrifices for the Zionists. Oh well, cant wait to see the new boss, same as the old boss!

Posted by: Kadath | May 22 2026 18:50 utc | 7

Kōki Hirota, also resigned, and was also found guilty of war crimes at the Tokyo Trials. He was hung by the neck until dead.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kōki_Hirota

Posted by: Exile | May 22 2026 18:52 utc | 8

Is this the final sign it is bombs away this weekend or next?

We await the US military going kamikazi simply because its officer corp doesn’t have a single man with the courage of a Gaddafi to overthrow a government that needs to be put out of its misery.

Posted by: EoinW | May 22 2026 19:10 utc | 9

Boy. How convenient for the Con-Artist in Chief. Now it might be bombs away. We shall see. He may go ahead with it and say it was for Memorial Day as a gesture to the fallen soldiers. And the suckers out there will shake their heads up and down in agreement.

Posted by: octavian61 | May 22 2026 19:17 utc | 10

Why assume that Tulsi did not do her job, i.e., to serve the American people. She may have been the sane voice that was clearly needed in the Administration how is resigning over policy going to help the people? I’ve seen a lot of this in government–honest patriotic officials hang on hoping their voices may be heard at least to some degree however slight. Eventually, some of them understand that the whole government is too deeply corrupt and evil for reform–but can you blame someone for trying? The federal government has been in transition for some time–there are still people there at all levels who care even if they go along with toxic policies. Gabbard came aboard because she was led to believe there would be a substantial change in policy. But power being what it is caused Trump to go in the direction of the deeply set and unalterable policy of imperialism that has been the exact policy since 1963 in government, the media, and the oligarchs above all. My hope for the Trump administration was that he would totally fuck up the imperial policy. My verdict is that he has almost done that so let’s see what happens. I think Tulsi Gabbard understandably supported Trump (look at the alternative) perhaps she made the right choice and bailed just in time. Maybe she sees the writing on the wall. Will imperialism actually be degraded now? That’s what I hope for–I don’t care about Trump or any public official–I just hope they all look as bad as possible.

Posted by: Chris Cosmos | May 22 2026 19:19 utc | 11

Kōki Hirota, also resigned, and was also found guilty of war crimes at the Tokyo Trials. He was hung by the neck until dead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kōki_Hirota
Posted by: Exile | May 22 2026 18:52 utc | 8
ehh where are the similarities? and if you look behind us unlawfully betrayed geneva convention by embargo japan from oil shipments where are the unlaw in japan behavor? where are the similarities with tulsi? Tulsi was a miss but she didn’t control and conduct the missbehave ,thats the idiot’s missbehave

Posted by: Sveno | May 22 2026 19:24 utc | 12

Just been speaking to Shank, a very, very reliable source in ‘State’ who said that she had failed to satisfy the POTUS_Sycophantic Index for the third time in suicidally speaking ‘TRUTH’ socially to Power – three strikes and she was OUT.

Of course, she was never really ‘IN’ with that crowd.

Posted by: Don Firineach | May 22 2026 19:36 utc | 13

Maybe two days ago I saw a Vance/Gabbard ticket floated. I’ve thought Vance needs to watch is six since he attempted that war negotiation in Islamabad.

Posted by: frito | May 22 2026 19:42 utc | 14

Tom Waits/Cookie Monster mashup – God’s Away On Businesshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5X4N2exOsU

Posted by: Trond | May 22 2026 19:46 utc | 15

Thanks b.

I was disappointed with Tulsi.
I had hope she would have been the voice of reason. The fact that she did not resign earlier along with Joe Kent destroyed any credibility she may have had.
Even though Dan Bongino bailed first, his silence on the Epstein Documents condemns his soul.

Field Marshall Munir’s off/on trip is finally settled, and he has landed in Tehran alongside another from Qatar.
Yet Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, UAE and Bahrain have issued a joint statement condemning and rejecting the PGSA.

I can only surmise that Qatar is there to sell a backroom deal where damages and war reparations are done in such a way that removes the PGSA and make it look like USA did not have to pay.

Very logical. But so were all the assessments, modelling and wargaming that predicted a disastrous outcome for US going to war with Iran.

Yet here we are. Trump is staying in Washington and missing his son, Don Jr’s wedding.

Posted by: Suresh | May 22 2026 19:58 utc | 16

“Is this an additional sign that a new round of USraeli strikes on Iran are imminent?”

It is just a sign that the Trump regime is a sinking ship and that anyone with a functioning brain and hopes of a post Trump political career is getting out while it’s still possible to do so.

Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayastha | May 22 2026 19:59 utc | 17

She should have bailed out last year when the Magnificent Retard publicly stated « I don’t care about what she says ».
I believe it was during the Venezuela boat blow exercise.

Posted by: scc | May 22 2026 20:02 utc | 18

Thanks b. Gabbard’s resignation could well suggest more war, or just another opportunist rat abandoning Trump’s sinking ship. Which gives rise to a bigger question. How much longer will Americans avert their eyes and ignore their responsibility to stop the evil global menace that is their government?

Posted by: John Gilberts | May 22 2026 20:04 utc | 19

Tulsi has more integrity than 95% of the Trump administration…That was the problem…and the husband excuse may well be true….

Posted by: pyrrhus | May 22 2026 20:09 utc | 20

Now all the US has are zionist jews- from stem to stern…the parasite will consume the host ever more quickly now….

Posted by: Original Newbie | May 22 2026 20:11 utc | 21

Gabbard completely blew her chance to be an alternative within the Democratic Party, of course the DNC would have done everything possible to hold her back. Instead we will probably get AOC or the Getty-vassal governor of California.

It is highly questionable whether Trump will medically make it to the end of his term, let alone politically. So she may be intelligently jumping off the obviously sinking ship to be a player in 2028 within the Republican Party, which still makes her simply power-hungry. She could be a good choice for the oligarchy to choose as an “alternative” to what is becoming an utterly disastrous (from a polling point of view, and quite possibly from a foreign policy point of view but not from a domestic policy viewpoint) Trump administration. JD Vance may be very damaged goods by the end of this. And she is a non-white woman to boot! And she is Hindutva and therefore anti-Muslim and very supportive of Israel. And she will have been the dedicated wife who took time off to help her husband’s fight for life. I can see the campaign commercials already!

Posted by: Roger Boyd | May 22 2026 20:22 utc | 22

Tulsi bailing out now is probably more about maintaining her mainstream “creditability” for future political office as the acceptable face of the anti-war establishment. in 3-7 years Tulsi will be back sniffing around for another government posting, campaigning on her anti-war credentials and how she bravely stood up to the Trump Administration and if only she hadn’t been forced to resign she could have kept America out of its’ latest disastrously failed war. Of course the reality will be that she was just another empty suit reading a prepared script, but whatever, Hilary 2.0 here we come.

Posted by: Kadath | May 22 2026 20:22 utc | 23

Can’t wait til she appears on Candace Owens.

Posted by: johnf | May 22 2026 20:22 utc | 24

US civilian gov‘t officials might take notice:

……He was sentenced to death by hanging and was executed at Sugamo Prison. The severity of his sentence remains controversial, as Hirota was the only civilian executed as a result of the IMTFE proceedings.

As foreign minister, Hirota had received regular reports from the War Ministry about the military’s atrocities, such as the Nanjing Massacre, but lacked any authority over the offending military units themselves. Nonetheless, the tribunal condemned Hirota’s failure to insist for the Japanese Cabinet act to put an end to the atrocities.[12]………

Posted by: Exile | May 22 2026 20:23 utc | 25

tulsi is / was, a huge disappointment.. bailing now seems irrelevant, but maybe the reason she provides is legit.. i don’t see her being salvagable in a future election, but the media is good at conning people into forgetting how useless in the past and more.. thanks for the update b..

Posted by: james | May 22 2026 20:26 utc | 26

But don’t worry she’ll be well taken care of and will get a book deal that will make it all worth it.

Posted by: Kadath | May 22 2026 18:50 utc | 7

That book would hit the remainder bins within days of publication.

Kōki Hirota, also resigned, and was also found guilty of war crimes at the Tokyo Trials. He was hung by the neck

Posted by: Exile | May 22 2026 18:52 utc | 8

Japanese penises are that long?

Tulsi has more integrity than 95% of the Trump administration…

Posted by: pyrrhus | May 22 2026 20:09 utc | 21

That’s saying precious little.

Posted by: malenkov | May 22 2026 20:29 utc | 27

Some ho quit? Why can’t everyone just up and quit due to illness? What makes this worthless zionazi so special?

Posted by: Duck n cover | May 22 2026 20:30 utc | 28

Stanislav Krapivnik: Tulsi Gabbard Resigns! – Hezbollah Crushes IDF – War Becomes UNAFFORDABLE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWXaAN633c0

Posted by: unimperator | May 22 2026 20:34 utc | 29

Tulsi made enough, for now, on insider trading. Nice hiding behind cancer and family though. Nice having socialist healthcare.

Posted by: Duck n cover | May 22 2026 20:35 utc | 30

Well, after finally getting rid of Massie, the die-hard Israel-first crowd applied pressure to the next target on the list.

Posted by: Clueless Joe | May 22 2026 20:38 utc | 31

Tulsi flipped when it became convenient for her career to do so. She went from reasonable to wacko, ie: from anti-war to promoting GWOT anti-Muslim boilerplate (ridiculous nonsense on its face). She seemed like an intelligent person until then, and around the same time she revealed religious aspects/beliefs (Hindu?) that were strange and anti-other as is common among tribal religious affiliations (I mean ALL of these).
That said, while she abandoned principles, she was still the most intelligent person in the entire Trump admin. full of dimwitted criminals.

Posted by: Chaka Khagan | May 22 2026 20:47 utc | 32

Two issues that threatened Gabbard’s life if she did not resign:

1. Her investigations and indictments of high level Russiagate perps (deep state honchos);

2. Her investigation of US Pentagon-sponsored biolabs in Ukraine and elsewhere.

Posted by: norecovery | May 22 2026 20:51 utc | 33

What makes this worthless zionazi so special?

Posted by: Duck n cover | May 22 2026 20:30 utc | 29

She had a fleeting moment of “special” when she wiped the floor with Kamyhoe in one of the 2020 Dim Party primary debates. Since then, not so much “special”.

Posted by: malenkov | May 22 2026 20:51 utc | 34

Tulsi proved to be a disappointing pushover… good for nothing but peddling ZIO PEDO lines.

Posted by: Liberator | May 22 2026 20:51 utc | 35

i lost faith in Tulsi on March 1.

Posted by: Toxik | May 22 2026 20:56 utc | 36

I am surprised that TG has lasted this long (almost a year and a half) and that she agreed to “resign” using her husband’s illness as the excuse. At this point in time, given the past friction between her and DJT, we can be certain she was forced out – but the way in which she was compelled to leave does not say much for her character. Any supporters she has who were hoping she would be a future POTUS must now be sorely disappointed and disillusioned.

Posted by: Refinnejenna | May 22 2026 21:00 utc | 37

Do you all remember when the Brotherhood of the SuperFriends assembled at the start of DJT 2.0: RFK Jr., Gabbard, Mr. Anti-Censorship-Musk, Jewish Stephen “Deport-them-all” Miller, Matt Gaetz?

What a team!

I wonder if they all gathered around a round table with Trump attending via a hologram that projected up from the center of the table.

The usual line “watch what they do, not what they say,” has been superceded by the rule that these key cabinet members don’t mean shit.

The plan was Iran to scramble Axis cohesion and make the bond between Russia and China more difficult to maintain.

Everything else is the lowest of the low method of presenting a shiny turd to the masses and calling it scrumptious.

Posted by: NemesisCalling | May 22 2026 21:02 utc | 38

Hmm a lot of Tulsi hate. She seemed earnest enough and was i thought quite convincing.

Like she tried to serve her country again, and again under tough circumstances. If you were trying to hold back a tide of shit doesn’t it reflect well on a person to stay as long as possible? Bailing out at the first sign of problems isn’t necessarily the most virtuous course of action.

Anyways back to the trolls and zionazi bandwagon. Carry on.

Posted by: Neofeudalfuture | May 22 2026 21:03 utc | 39

does this mean there will be a Gabbard Massie ticket 2028 ? I can see it now Park GM in the Whitehouse.

Posted by: snake | May 22 2026 21:09 utc | 40

Chaka Khagan @ 33:

TG’s birth family associated with a Hare Krishna cult called Science of Identity Foundation. The cult is known to be Islamophobic and homophobic. I am not sure who currently leads the cult – founder Chris Butler led it for at least two decades (1970s onwards) and he might still be leader or mentor.

Posted by: Refinnejenna | May 22 2026 21:13 utc | 41

Resigned per June 30 … not fired.

Gabbard’s letter did not mention the war. She said that she was “forever grateful” to Trump for selecting her to serve as director of national intelligence.

Trump did not allude to any tensions in his social media post, as he acknowledged Gabbard’s resignation.

“Tulsi has done an incredible job, and we will miss her,” Trump wrote on X. [Source MEE]

Posted by: Oui | May 22 2026 21:37 utc | 42

Another “Shooting Star” passes from the scene. IMO, only Trump-like people can stand being around Trump–Murders, Grifters, and Criminals all. Gabbard cannot escape the Trump Taint. Once upon a time it seemed like she had integrity, but that was long ago.

Posted by: karlof1 | May 22 2026 21:38 utc | 43

First came across Tulsi when she appeared on the Joe Rogan podcast. She seemed like a decent person. Politics is a dirty business.

Posted by: Siddhartha | May 22 2026 21:44 utc | 44

I do recall that Tulsi and her husbanded became separated early last year around the time she became DNI!
My google search doesn’t show any thing on that
It’s odd that her husband has a rare form of cancer.

Posted by: ngelo | May 22 2026 21:48 utc | 45

If you look at Gabbard’s bio, she is even more unqualified for her job then Kegsbreath. My guess is because she is kind of stunning, she got recruited into military intelligence while serving in regular army. Islamaphobic isnt a sufficient job qualification for the Trump regime; he only wants genocidal Zionist psychopaths and that is probably a bridge too far for Tulsi.

Posted by: Deniz | May 22 2026 21:51 utc | 46

Damn. To this day, she’s still the only politician I’ve ever donated to. First Massie’s out, now her. Ik a lot of people here are on the left, and hate that she was with trump, but I’d hope you can recognize that she was not like other politicians.🎶 Where’d all the good people goooo? 🎶

Posted by: Waru | May 22 2026 22:00 utc | 47

Tulsi’s resignation is a huge loss, she was one of the few in the DJT’s War Cabinet to stand up state that the joint IDF/US attack on Iran was going to be a disaster. Her sound advice was reject by the War mongers alliance.

Tulsi also announced the investigation into the existence of CIA funded bio warfare labs in Nazi Ukraine……….

And you wonder why she is on the way out…….Zionist money is on the hunt for non believers……….

Posted by: tobias cole | May 22 2026 22:02 utc | 48

Trump is staying in Washington and missing his son, Don Jr’s wedding.

Posted by: Suresh | May 22 2026 19:58 utc | 17

thats ominous.

anyone watching the Washington pizza orders site?

Posted by: Melaleuca | May 22 2026 22:05 utc | 49

anyone watching the Washington pizza orders site?
Posted by: Melaleuca | May 22 2026 22:05 utc | 50

Haven’t been able to find any current ones, and lots of 403 warnings. Raised this as a red flag in earlier thread.

Posted by: Suresh | May 22 2026 22:08 utc | 50

Did we ever learn more about the reported CIA raid on Tulsi’s office the other week?
Documents were removed?

Then mocksloppers said it wasn’t a raid?
and then…… “nothing to see here, move along” ?

Posted by: Melaleuca | May 22 2026 22:09 utc | 51

Based on the Trump campaign persona of 2024 promising no regime change wars, Tulsi agreed to her appointment in the Trump cabinet. She is on record advising Trump of her assessment that Iran was not developing nuclear weapons which was at odds with Israeli intelligence. Trump chose to reject her assessment and accept Israel’s bogus intelligence and launched an illegal war of aggression. Tulsi’s value is as a witness in possession of crucial evidence in Trump’s eventual trial for treason.

Posted by: Willow | May 22 2026 22:10 utc | 52

Posted by: Suresh | May 22 2026 22:08 utc | 51
yeah, once pentagon and Washington pizza tracking went mainstream, they “shut it down “.
and the gay bars…. When it’s lights on late at the pentagon (planning double taps on school girls), the gay bars report low numbers.

Posted by: Melaleuca | May 22 2026 22:12 utc | 53

My opinion is that Tulsi Gabbard was earnest about doing her job and was effective at exposing intelligence wrongdoing that many wanted to remain hidden. The fact that she was attacked multiple times by the WaPo means that she wasn’t appreciated by the intelligence community which means she was most likely doing her job.

This may be a signal, but may not. There are several signals that the US is going to attack Iran again. The president isn’t going to the AFTER-wedding celebration of his son this weekend. The stock market is closed from 2 pm today through Tuesday morning. And airspace in western Iran will be closed until Monday morning, with the exception of daytime flights only, according to Iranian media.

The latest Robert Kagan piece in the Atlantic may have been a spur to Trump to try to degrade Iran’s position or to at least be able to claim a few more times that he won. “Trump’s Endgame Is Surrender – He seems to hope to slip away without Americans noticing the magnitude of this defeat”.

Posted by: Belle | May 22 2026 22:17 utc | 54

What’s disappointing with the Marjorie Taylor Greens, Massie, Gabbard… is these dissidents should (have) aligned and formed a loose coalition of resistance and opposition to Trump.

But no. They spend too much energy resources and time fighting each other. And then Trump (and his minders), are able to target and take each one out, one at a time.
6 months back, an unlikely “coalition of the concerned” could have controlled Trump. Who knows who else would have stepped up once opposition to Trump’s owners gained traction.
but Trump and his owners stay united, while those who resist all fight alone (and lose).

Posted by: Melaleuca | May 22 2026 22:25 utc | 55

Gabbard blew it. Her credentials impeccable: non-Christian, woman of color, ex-military, etc., but not too smart. Gabbard correctly assessed the nation’s sentiment for no foreign intervention, but foolishly ignored the Beltway imperatives. Although Tulsi panders to and grovels before the Jewish supremacists as much as everyone else within the Beltway and mainstream media, Gabbard not smart enough to recognize that anti-interventionism is tantamount to antisemitism, as Israel demands U.S. intervention. Witness the Iran fiasco.
Gabbard gambled her non-interventionism would positively register with the voters. It certainly does but we know voters don’t count. The Jewish-supremacist establishment is unforgiving. Gabbard’s political prospects, henceforth, are toast.
Best of luck with her sick husband. Recommend Tulsi don an apron and crank out Asian ethnic dishes in the kitchen.

Posted by: Zwingli | May 22 2026 22:26 utc | 56

Never trust an anonymous “source familiar with the matter”.

Anonymous because they were apparently told not to speak to the public but strangely they always do speak to the public. No verification, could just as easily be someone’s imaginary friend or part of the three quarters of Washington who simply hate Trump and want to ruin him at every opportunity.

Posted by: Tel | May 22 2026 22:37 utc | 57

This story also at *T which also offered:

Gabbard will be replaced by her current Deputy DNI, Aaron Lukas, Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social platform. “Tulsi has done an incredible job, and we will miss her,” the president added.

Politics in the Washington, NY, City of London, West Jerusalem Axis of Perverse Evil is dirty, offering Gabbord was fired opens that innuendo that innuendo for future use.Just sayin’.
Can be found:
https://www.rt.com/news/640431-tulsi-gabbard-quits-trump/

Posted by: Formerly T-Bear | May 22 2026 22:40 utc | 58

Funny how this fits with Larry Johnson’s assessment of the CIA’s advice to the Trump administration yesterday.

“Until recently I had serious concerns that my old outfit, i.e., the CIA, was failing to do its job in providing accurate analysis to the President. Looks like my concerns were misplaced. While there have been a few occasions in the history of the CIA that the analysts told the then active administration what they believed the President wanted to hear, the more common problem is that the CIA analysts rain on the President’s parade and their analysis is ignored. That appears to be the case now with Iran.”

https://sonar21.com/looks-like-cia-analysts-are-doing-a-pretty-good-job-regarding-iran/

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | May 22 2026 22:54 utc | 59

Noticed she had an ongoing investigation into US sponsored bio-labs just ~ 2 weeks ago.
Her offices were raided more recently.
Now she resigns…
I think there’s more to it.

Posted by: Ledovik1 | May 22 2026 22:55 utc | 60

Tulsi’s value is as a witness in possession of crucial evidence in Trump’s eventual trial for treason.

Posted by: Willow | May 22 2026 22:10 utc | 53

Treason is “giving aid and comfort to the enemy”, and the Zionazi Entity is, unfortunately, not a declared enemy of the USA.

Nor can Trump be tried for anything he does while in office — there’s a Supreme Court ruling to that effect — with one exception: The Senate can conduct a trial following a House impeachment, but the only punishment is removal from office.

Posted by: malenkov | May 22 2026 23:08 utc | 61

This isnt complicated.

The Trump regime used Tulsi and RFK, Jr. to channel the Bernie voters. When Tulsi challenged the Zionists, they chewed her up and spit her out. That is what happens when the middle-class confront the Epstien class.

In contrast to Tulsi, RFK Jr. knew that he must kiss the Zionist ring and is old establishment, so he gets to stay.

Posted by: Deniz | May 22 2026 23:09 utc | 62

Aaron Lukas

[Posted by: Formerly T-Bear | May 22 2026 22:40 utc | 59]

I wonder what his passports are.

Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayastha | May 22 2026 23:15 utc | 63

Ledovic1 (61)
Way too much smoke to not be a fire . At some point Trump will have to be thrown under the bus due to unpopularity and cognitive issues. Having resigned she will be able to avoid the fallout .

Posted by: The fossil | May 22 2026 23:18 utc | 64

see the video at the first link

https://x.com/sahouraxo/status/2057934419214631392
sarah @sahouraxo

BREAKING: Israel is massively bombing the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon right now, in the middle of the night, with zero warning given to civilians.

Families are asleep in their homes. No military targets. No justification. Just Israeli bombs falling on civilian areas in the dark.

————————-

https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/32291
Middle East Spectator — MES

There is a possibility the U.S. will give the green light for Israel to attack Iran, with no or minimal U.S. participation, to avoid dragging in the Arab states.

Note that Iran almost certainly won’t let this fly.

————————

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/5/22/iran-war-live-signs-of-progress-amid-efforts-to-reach-us-iran-peace-deal
Iran’s IRGC says 35 ships passed Hormuz with permission in last 24 hours
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy has issued a statement saying that 35 ships, including oil tankers and container vessels, have transited the Strait of Hormuz in the past 24 hours.

It said that these movements took place with the permission of and coordination with the IRGC Navy.
Yesterday, the IRGC said 31 ships crossed the waterway in a 24-hour period.

Posted by: michaelj72 | May 22 2026 23:35 utc | 65

I’m resigned to the fact that Trump is going to serve his masters in Tel Aviv. Trump will strike again but as long as he doesn’t use nukes, he will lose. The U.S. will only stop when we suffer a defeat that it too obvious to ignore.

Posted by: Christian J Chuba | May 22 2026 23:38 utc | 66

As some have already mentioned, even B I believe, round two will not begin until sometime in June once the pilgrimages to Mecca concludes. Then again, they could be more unhinged then suggested and might go for it…..guess we’ll just have to wait.

Posted by: drsmith | May 23 2026 0:10 utc | 67

Hajj or no, I wouldn’t count out this weekend for a renewed attack. Since when did the Trump Gang care about the feelings or religious convictions of Muslims?

Posted by: malenkov | May 23 2026 0:16 utc | 68

I think she was deceived by the Trump lies just like the public that voted him into presidency, and he picked her to reinforce the false impression.
Afterwards it was likely a dilemma between leaving or trying to survive in her role while mitigating the damage.
Her replacement will likely announce an imminent threat of Iran nuke.

Posted by: ArmChairGeneral | May 23 2026 0:17 utc | 69

How much longer will Americans avert their eyes and ignore their responsibility to stop the evil global menace that is their government?
Posted by: John Gilberts | May 22 2026 20:04 utc | 20

Longer than it takes for Hell to freeze over or the time it takes before the Sun to explode into a supernova.

Many thanks and God bless Tulsi and her husband Abe in these darkest of times. https://xcancel.com/TulsiGabbard

Posted by: unsightfulviews | May 23 2026 0:17 utc | 70

Here are some of the reports that I’ve seen in the last hour that have a rather ominous tone:

Severe GPS jamming is currently occurring over southern Syria, Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman. https://t.me/Alsaa_plus_EN/27012

President Trump has arrived at the White House. The White House immediately announced a press lid—Trump will not be speaking to any members of the press for the rest of the evening. https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/184729

Weekend golf plans cancelled. Top US officials halt holiday travel. https://t.me/RezistanceTrench1/65432

Iran’s armed forces on highest alert. https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/32293

Iraqi channels report enemy aircraft activity over Baghdad. https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/184731

Posted by: Belle | May 23 2026 0:28 utc | 71

Tulsi Gabbard’s replacement is a career clandestine operations CIA officer with more than 20 years experience. Here is the government blurb about him.

https://www.dni.gov/index.php/who-we-are/leadership/principal-deputy-dni

Posted by: Belle | May 23 2026 0:31 utc | 72

When and if Trump attacks Iran again, since much of his tough talk is exactly that and only that, it will likely be a catastrophe for US forces and for America as a whole – this will also hold repercussions on all of the world. In my view he is living off borrowed political time through maintaining a fantasy world distanced from the sober minds that could give him realistic advice. It is a counterfactual dream world concerning who he is, his levels of power compared to other world leaders, and what he has actually achieved. It’s also quick sand. My sense is that America will also erupt, and that kind of action will extend well beyond its shores.

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | May 23 2026 0:39 utc | 73

Speaking of bio labs and Wuhan.

Are those delegations from Pakistan and Qatar to Iran carrying “hidden” gifts?

Back when I was still blind, the conspiracy theory doing the rounds were MERS (cov) syndrome was a bio weapon. Can’t find earlier sources but this came up as posted today. Curious coincidence?

Arab News @ https://www.arabnews.com/saudi-arabia/news/802221

Posted by: Suresh | May 23 2026 0:39 utc | 74

“US defeat in Iran War will change the world – Now even American hawks admit it!”

Ben Norton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrlXNHSCfoQ

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | May 23 2026 0:45 utc | 75

I liked Tulsi. For a militaristic nationalist, she was frequently honest and rational, from her reactionary perspective. But when she joined Zio puppet Trump administration and carried out all their Zio propaganda and foreign policy, I lost all respect. The woman was and is a mercenary: the lowest form of life.
Why did she quit? Israel probably felt she wasn’t reliable and told their dildo Trump to get rid of her. Her husband may indeed have cancer, which is tragic. Wouldn’t wish it on anyone. But, in the grand scheme, if you aren’t Zio compatible, your career will be very short in the US government, if you by some miracle even make it into the Zio billionaire government.
Nonetheless, it is very sad, in the Greek tragic sense. You get the sense she knew better and collaborated anyway. And, naturally, was destroyed. Her life would make an excellent play.

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | May 23 2026 0:52 utc | 76

Iran armed forces have just activated full combat alert.

NOTAM issued.

Qatari delegations was escorted out by IRI fighter jets.

There is a sense of justice that finally the Desert Arabs, Europeans and US lackeys are learning first hand how painful “sanctions” can be.

Munitions is in town.

Posted by: Suresh | May 23 2026 0:53 utc | 77

Last statement is Munir still in town

Posted by: Suresh | May 23 2026 0:54 utc | 78

Hajj or no, I wouldn’t count out this weekend for a renewed attack. Since when did the Trump Gang care about the feelings or religious convictions of Muslims?

Posted by: malenkov | May 23 2026 0:16 utc | 69
Possible, but I tend to doubt it. Just feel they are going for the boobie prize with Cuba this weekend.

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | May 23 2026 0:54 utc | 79

How much longer will Americans avert their eyes and ignore their responsibility to stop the evil global menace that is their government?
Posted by: John Gilberts | May 22 2026 20:04 utc | 20
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If you’re seriously asking that question, my answer would be “probably from here on out as far as the eye can see”.

Unless you’re high on some kind of hopium that impels you to see some kind of silver lining here …

Posted by: George the Zeroth | May 23 2026 0:56 utc | 80

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | May 23 2026 0:52 utc | 77

I think it also needs to be said that Tulsi Gabbard left the democrats due to her loss of faith in the party, and particularly in Joe Biden.

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | May 23 2026 1:04 utc | 81

Posted by: George the Zeroth | May 23 2026 0:56 utc | 81

It takes very little to turn the tide and tear a rip in the fabric that will bring out social outrage. Not always obvious or predictable with human beings. The “Storming of the Bastille’ in Paris 14th July 1789 is a case in point. A minor event in anybody’s understanding of rebellion, but it was the match that lit an expanding period of social cohesion between people, and the formation of enraged yet organized groups that produced the result we all know about from history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storming_of_the_Bastille

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | May 23 2026 1:20 utc | 82

Tulsi Gabbard is in training. Training to be a possible future president. It’s all a psyop.
This is how the game works: NOBODY gets into a position of power these days unless they are corrupt and controllable. They will die in a car/plane crash or be suicided if they are good and uncontrollable. The candidate needs to be shown as being “for the people”, “working against the global mafia” and being “hated and attacked” by the same mafia. Then their popularity rises and they eventually announce a run for presidency. Just think back to the con that was done with Trump – they (media, business and politicians) dissed and hated him, launched legal action aganist him, he said all the right words to con everyone, and now look at him… a warmongering pig working for Israel.
Identify a pattern. They do the same thing all the time. They’ve done it with Elon Musk too, so prepare for a possible presidential run from him too. Remember, they will do this to many different people to “set them up” for future, then pick the right one at the right time. But they will all be the same zionist chosen mafia pigs, you can count on that.

Posted by: Rob12345 | May 23 2026 1:23 utc | 83

anyone watching the Washington pizza orders site?
Posted by: Melaleuca | May 22 2026 22:05 utc | 50

@ DOUGHCON 1
https://www.pizzint.watch/

Posted by: FollowsTheWay | May 23 2026 1:31 utc | 84

It takes very little to turn the tide and tear a rip in the fabric that will bring out social outrage. Not always obvious or predictable with human beings. The “Storming of the Bastille’ in Paris 14th July 1789 is a case in point. A minor event in anybody’s understanding of rebellion, but it was the match that lit an expanding period of social cohesion between people, and the formation of enraged yet organized groups that produced the result we all know about from history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storming_of_the_Bastille
Posted by: GeorgeWendell | May 23 2026 1:20 utc | 83
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Yeah, yeah: that, and perhaps you could include the Russian, Chinese, Cuban and Nicaraguan revolutions while you’re at it.

But I don’t see it happening here, at this point. All of the above events occurred because there was desperate, grinding poverty, feudalism, and despotic governance. None of which we have here in the U.S. Sure, you could argue that our government is corrupt and all that, but that’s not the same thing at all as being ruled by a ruthless, despotic system. That is not the case here. With some exceptions, people here are by and large doing reasonably well: we don’t have “third-world” poverty here for the most part, and there’s still at least the remnants of a middle class. After all, the news pretty much dominated by the upcoming midterm elections, not food riots or Hoovervilles or demonstrators being mowed down by machine guns. Not yet, at least.

The most we can hope for here is enough rising dissatisfaction on account of fuel and food prices, not any kind of grassroots, egalitarian revolt from below. I think that hoping for that at this point is entirely unrealistic. But that populist revolt in itself is insufficient to bring about the wished-for changes; only a complete overthrow of the existing order would do that, and that is just not in the cards.

Sorry, but that’s reality, not hopium-induced wishful thinking.

Posted by: George the Zeroth | May 23 2026 2:04 utc | 85

Nothing more performative than leaving a key position inside a rotten dangerous administration. For what… to virtue signal? None of the shitbrained commenters condemning her here know what she was able to accomplish or tried to accomplish behind the valence. I’m sure the predatory zionist and Christian zionists in the administration are delighted as she was a thorn in their side despite giving just enough lipservice occasionally to avoid termination. I believe her when she said she’s leaving to care for her husband who has bone cancer. She did the right by staying on board to do whatever little she could to influence a course correction, and then did the right thing by leaving when Trump decided today to begin bombing again. I think she reconized that there really is no chance whatsover in influencing him.
OTOH, Joe Kent’s resignation was a totally different story. He was not the head man, so his departure mattered little whereas the strategic value of his departure was of major significance as he was bale to reveal to the public that Trump is a tool of Israel and that all the promises he had made were lies.

Posted by: Manorborn | May 23 2026 2:05 utc | 86

@ DOUGHCON 1
https://www.pizzint.watch/
Posted by: FollowsTheWay | May 23 2026 1:31 utc | 85
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Heh; love that pizza-slice cursor.

Posted by: George the Zeroth | May 23 2026 2:11 utc | 87

Sorry, but that’s reality, not hopium-induced wishful thinking.
Posted by: George the Zeroth | May 23 2026 2:04 utc | 86
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Just to clarify, before you pound out a rebuttal to my post, I’m not some starry-eyed idealist claiming that there’s no poverty, injustice, police-state-ism, etc., in the U.S. But conditions here are just not terrible enough at this point to provide the necessary fuel for a revolution.

And besides, the population has been really well vaccinated against socialism and the other ideologies that could engender such a revolution. Whatever impulses towards those egalitarian ideals exist is marginal enough to not be any kind of realistic threat to the ruling order.

We are well and truly fucked.
As I always advise, enjoy the ride while it lasts.

Posted by: George the Zeroth | May 23 2026 2:16 utc | 88

osted by: George the Zeroth | May 23 2026 2:16 utc | 89

The “revolution” when it comes in the USA will be fascist not socialist. After 30 years of fascist oppression then perhaps the socialist revolution but not before.

Posted by: watcher | May 23 2026 2:25 utc | 89

Sorry, but that’s reality, not hopium-induced wishful thinking.
Posted by: George the Zeroth | May 23 2026 2:04 utc | 86
Posted by: George the Zeroth | May 23 2026 2:16 utc | 89
After 30 years of fascist oppression then perhaps the socialist revolution but not before.
Posted by: watcher | May 23 2026 2:25 utc | 90

Couldn’t agree more matches my thoughts a few days back.

And as for Massie. What else could we expect to happen. It’s going to get a lot worse before it gets better.
Posted by: unsightfulviews | May 20 2026 2:38 utc | 141

American democracy and rule of Law is an illusion. The popular chorus however isn’t assembled yet. The Mandela-Kennedy like figures haven’t arrived to speak out and name the immorality of what’s been done here. But every time the machine eats someone like Massie, more people see, even if they don’t say it out loud yet. One day they might. But that’s decades from now.
Posted by: unsightfulviews | May 20 2026 3:30 utc | 142

Posted by: unsightfulviews | May 23 2026 2:46 utc | 90

Brace for impact.

Dan scavino just post a video of B 2s.

Kuwait reports GPS jamming.

Iraq reports unusual air activities.

Posted by: Suresh | May 23 2026 2:47 utc | 91

Trump has arrived at WH, media blackout in place.

Posted by: Suresh | May 23 2026 2:49 utc | 92

The “revolution” when it comes in the USA will be fascist not socialist. After 30 years of fascist oppression then perhaps the socialist revolution but not before.
Posted by: watcher | May 23 2026 2:25 utc | 90
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That’s a definite possibility.
A fascist “revolution” powered by the likes of the Canadian trucker protests of 2022.
(Not that they didn’t have legitimate grievances, but the thrust of their movement was definitely not towards a more just society.)

Posted by: George the Zeroth | May 23 2026 3:16 utc | 93

The original comment calls the Bastille a “minor event.” It was not.

In the context of the 1780s, attacking a royal prison was the equivalent of attacking the Pentagon. But more importantly, it only worked because the groundwork was already laid. From the 1760s philosophers (Voltaire, Rousseau) spent decades drafting their ideas in cafeterias dismantling the legitimacy of the monarchy, creating a “revolutionary blueprint” long before anyone took to the streets.

In June Commoners defied the King and formed a “National Assembly.” This wasn’t a riot; it was a calculated act of political insurrection by educated groups of revolutionaries. The “intellectual revolutionaries” had already won the argument; the people were just enforcing the verdict at the Bastille. If not then it could have arrived later but it took decades of groundwork and building of coalitions to get to that point. Nothing minor about that.

The Russian Revolution took many attempts. The 1905 Revolution was a “failed” attempt that served as a crucial precursor to 1917. Followed on from decades of defeat of revolutionary groups like the Bolsheviks who formed back in in 1898. They spent nearly 20 years organizing, being crushed, and regrouping again and again. Mao’s Communists equally so. When the Tsar fell in 1917, it wasn’t a surprise “100th monkey” moment. It was the culmination of decades of specific political agitation, cooperation, planning and war fatigue.

The Phillipines example of bringing down Marcos proves this again. The trigger (Aquino’s assassination in ’83) happened three years before the eruption (’86), but the building (martial law declared in ’72, economic collapse in the ’80s) took 14 years!

There is zero revolutionary spirit or coordination going on inside the US today. It’s only moaning and bitching nothing more. There is not one thing that’s radical, intellectual or revolutionary in America. It’s a pathetic joke.

Posted by: unsightfulviews | May 23 2026 3:18 utc | 94

Looks like it i9s about to start again.

Posted by: watcher | May 23 2026 3:20 utc | 95

@ 94 george

Those truckers likely put up and suffered far more than you ever have in your life.

Have you been debanked?

Have you been depersoned?

Have you abandoned your work for a time, sacrificing your livelihood for a noble cause?

Have you been called a fascist as you smear them now?

Because, keep in mind, George, that there is always someone further left than you, eager to condemn your lack of enthusiasm for their idea of what constitutes good governance.

Posted by: NemesisCalling | May 23 2026 3:28 utc | 96

Have you been called a fascist as you smear them now? [referring to Canadian trucker protests] Because, keep in mind, George, that there is always someone further left than you, eager to condemn your lack of enthusiasm for their idea of what constitutes good governance.
Posted by: NemesisCalling | May 23 2026 3:28 utc | 97
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I didn’t call them fascists, nor do I think they were. But they were unwittingly on that slippery slope because of their approach to their protests. The end result of their movement, had it been successful, would just as likely have been some kind of reactionary state as any other outcome. Not what I would hope for.

Yes, I’m sure some of them have suffered far more than I ever have.

And I agree with your last statement.

I’ve been reading Fanshen, William Hinton’s colossal book on the Chinese Revolution. Highly recommend it.

One thing he covers repeatedly in his accounts of revolution in the small village he was in, Long Bow, is the excruciating self-examination that went on with all the bodies concerned with the revolution and land redistribution: they called out mistakes made by the cadres on both ends of the spectrum, “leftism” and “rightism”. Fascinating stuff.

Posted by: George the Zeroth | May 23 2026 3:50 utc | 97

Posted by: George the Zeroth | May 23 2026 2:04 utc | 86

I simply point out (in post 83) that it was not predictable when it would happen, and what it would create in the initial stages – nobody knows the future, neither you nor I, and we can only draw comparisons from former historical events. It can happen or not 50:50 chance. Not playing Nostradamus. In France it took well over 100 years to get to the point where a small crack in the wall appeared i.e. Bastille, but not long after that in terms of years did it really set off a huge reaction and it became obvious how enraged people had become. Hard to know with US but it appears that there is a lot of dissatisfaction and frustration all the same.

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | May 23 2026 3:59 utc | 98

Do it Trump! Do it! One more kick And the mullahs will fall!

Easy low hanging fruit!

https://substack.com/home/post/p-198041997

Posted by: Surferket | May 23 2026 4:02 utc | 99

Posted by: unsightfulviews | May 23 2026 3:18 utc | 95

The Chinese overthrow of the Qing Manchu dynasty rule took hundreds of attempts, hundreds of years, millions of lives.
It finally succeeded in 1911 over a small uprising that suddenly snowballed. Even caught Sun Yat-sen by surprised as that wasn’t the uprising that he had planned.

Posted by: Surferket | May 23 2026 4:06 utc | 100

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