Saturday, August 1, 2026

Trump would rather side with Iran than a blue state

Trump would rather side with Iran than a blue state

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Trump would rather side with Iran than a blue state

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A water tower is seen Thursday, July 30, 2026, in Plymouth, Minn. A cyberattack targeted the operating technology at over 30 water systems in Minnesota, including Plymouth's, earlier this week, state officials said. (AP Photo/Ellen Schmidt)
A water tower is seen on July 30 in Plymouth, Minnesota. A cyberattack targeted the operating technology at over 30 water systems in Minnesota, including Plymouth’s, earlier this week, state officials said.AP

Earlier this week, more than 30 municipal water systems in Minnesota came under a coordinated cyberattack, one that both U.S. and state officials suspect is the work of Iranian hackers. But if you think a president currently engaged in a war against Iran would therefore condemn the attacks, you’d be wrong. 

President Donald is blaming Minnesota. 

“We heard in Minnesota there was a cyberattack and they blame it on Iran. I don’t think so, I think I blame it on Minnesota because they’re grossly incompetent,” he said during a Cabinet meeting on Friday. “​​There was a cyberattack of 30 water plants and I would blame it on Minnesota and the governor, the corrupt governor of Minnesota. They like to say, ‘Oh, it was Iran.’ Iran should be so lucky. Iran’s got bigger problems than worrying about Minnesota.”

This is unhinged. Driven by his loathing for Minnesota’s Democratic Gov. Tim Walz for the crime of being on the presidential ticket that ran against him in 2024, and by his loathing for Minnesotans for standing up to his murderous immigration thugs, Trump is defending the honor of Iran—the country he is bombing.

President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House about Dulles International Airport modernization, Wednesday, July 29, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
President Donald Trump, shown on July 29.AP

It’s also unhinged because Trump’s own federal government has been warning about this possibility for months. 

In April, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, along with the FBI, the National Security Agency, and others, published a joint advisory warning that Iran-affiliated hackers were targeting water and wastewater systems by trying to compromise internet-connected devices, such as controllers that allow remote management of water equipment. And Minnesota officials have stated that these new attacks did just that. 

Wired obtained communications to members of the Water Information Sharing and Analysis Center, an industry group, saying that the Minnesota Fusion Center, the state’s umbrella intelligence-sharing entity, had issued an alert and found the attacks were likely “aligned” with this Iran-affiliated hacking campaign.

The reported lack of a ransom demand to the affected areas also points to Iran, with the goal of the attacks seeming to be disruption, not financial gain as with ransomware attacks on municipalities. Additionally, we know Iran has been launching cyberattacks since Trump’s war began, including successfully hitting Stryker, a major medical equipment company, in March.

Of course, Iran-linked hackers also successfully broke into FBI Director Kash Patel’s personal email account earlier this year, releasing photos of the incompetent dork sniffing Cuban cigars and looking at himself in the mirror. 

Despite all this, and despite the fact that at least seven states have been impacted by the recent cyberattacks, per the FBI, Trump is so blind with hatred that he’s siding with Iran here. So now we have the ridiculous specter of Trump declaring that Iran is not to blame even as CISA, his own cyber defense agency, issued a new alert on Thursday, warning of an increase in actors targeting water infrastructure.  

It’s just the latest instance of the crumbling of federalism, of Trump using the federal government as a weapon against Democratic-run states. This is no different than his refusal to grant disaster aid to blue states while giving it to red ones, no different than the Department of Justice admitting in court that it stripped energy grants from states based on whether they voted for Trump. 

What’s the plan here, really? Does the federal government now stop working with Minnesota on this because the crumbling madman in the White House must be appeased? Do we have to now all pretend that there is no coordinated Iranian hacking campaign? Do red states get assistance from the federal government to combat this while blue states twist in the wind? 

We’ll just have to wait and see, apparently, but this is no way to run a country.

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  1. Comment by WawaintheBay.

    I think he is in league with Iran and Russia. He defended Russia’s hacking and now he’s doing it for Iran.

    If you look at this war and the outcome, Russia and Iran are actually better off. And now the people of Israel and Palestine are as unprotected as they’ve been in decades.

    We are now the third spoke in the Axis of Evil.

  2. Comment by RedboatSuperior.

    An attack on municipal infrastructure from any foreign nation is a national security issue and therefore the responsibility of the Federal Government to respond. Yet another example of how Trump does not take his job seriously. If there was a data breach from foreign countries that is on him.

  3. Comment by Betty Lou.

    Someone should ask him if the water problem happened in Florida would you blame Desantis instead of Iran? His answer would be, what a stupid question and he'd ask who do you work for, then it would be it's a failing news station blah blah blah. Anything but blame a governor from a red state!!

  4. Comment by NicktheGolfer.

    It is simple: Trump, the Criminal, hates America.

  5. Comment by Digler.

    Trump farts then blames the dog. Typical

    Lather rinse repeat

  6. Comment by thanxamillion.

    Another motive for Trump not wanting to blame Iran for the hack could be, he will be blamed for it because it is his failed war that in exposing Americans to these problems.

    It all falls in line with Trump’s strategy for dealing with any problem. If he denies there is a problem, it’s not his problem.

    Election? I didn’t lose the Election because it’s rigged.

    Covid? There is no Covid because we’re not testing.

    War? This isn’t a War, it’s an Excursion/Cease Fire/ Whatever.

    Hacking Water Systems? There’s not hacking of Water Systems.

    Climate Change causing Fires? Canada needs to rake their forests.

  7. Comment by The Lone Apple.

    What Trump said at that display of brain damage called a press conference was nothing less than un-American. It was anti-American. I guarantee that the only thing he would care about is if the Iranians hacked into Mar a Lago and messed with the golf reservations.

    • Reply by thanxamillion.

      🤯 That would call for a Nuclear Response!

    • Reply by madatyou.

      I just backed up and re-read the post to look for the press conference and possibly a link to it. There is no, none, not a single mention of a press conference in the above post.

  8. Comment by IowaBiologist.

    Does this story really need this stock photo of trump?

    • Reply by The Lone Apple.

      My bile rising would say no, but since it's a recent photo, it shows his continued deterioration.

  9. Comment by LeMoJoust.

    Lard Lad lives if the "rural diner" of his own mind. The feckless New York Times would allegedly write about the diner they visited in Possum Nutz Ohio full of KKK, lily white half-wits, & Nazis, but drawn to the Cheeto- pedo because of "economic uncertainty." No matter the gibberish the pathetic media will be there to have his back & mine the clicks of pure gold. Why quit the freakshow when it's so much profitable & so much fun. What would they write about President Harris? They'd have to create controversy like they did with President Biden, remember, his dog didn't like the Secret Service, who turned out to be fascists.

  10. Comment by Jim McHenry.

    At this stage, do we really expect anything other than this from an incompetent dumbass like Donald Trump? He "thinks" that everyone is like him in his comments that Iran "has bigger problems than worrying about Minnesota" because he can't have anymore than one thought at any one time going on in his big brain, neither can anyone else. I am still perplexed how Donald Fucking Trump is POTUS. This is still, even 10 years into this mess, like something from an alternate timeline in a sci fi. movie.

  11. Comment by Velvetfish.

    What this demonstrates is that even for national security, states can not rely on Trump to do his job. Minnesota and other blue states need to start thinking about setting up parallel systems to catch the problems that come as a result of Trump's incompetence. Campaign on it as yet another means of demonstrating how pathetic this administration is about everything.

  12. Comment by zoom314.

    I'm surprised Trump hasn't declared Blue States to be Disloyal to Trump...

    • Reply by notusuallyhere.

      Not only is Chicago disloyal, we are continually irritated by Trump Tower in the Loop, one of Trump's last erections

    • Reply by thanxamillion.

      We see what you did there. 🍄

    • Reply by Adammc2112.

      Tick tock…tick tock…

  13. Comment by notusuallyhere.

    I went to Macalester College in Minnesota until graduating 1979. We had several Iranians who were unable to go back to Iran after the revolution. No love lost between these students and the government of Iran. You would have to look far and wide to find people with more reason to hate the Iranian government.

  14. Comment by Aspiring Polymath.

    Those danged Iranians are just really cagey aren't they. Looks like they can read Trump's mind. Maximum disruption, attack blue states. Trump does nothing and the disaffection of people in swing and blue states just gets worse.

    • Reply by A Noah Count.

      A 'Dick and Jane' primer is harder to read than that idiot's mind.

  15. Comment by swkirby.

    I remain ever hopeful.

    Just a reminder, folks.

    • Reply by A Noah Count.

      Every morning, so far, when I log on, I get disappointed.

  16. Comment by getplaning.

    He sided with Russia.

    Now he's siding with Iran.

    The articles just write themselves.

    • Reply by A Noah Count.

      One would think the Democratic Party's ADS would write themselves!

      But, Heaven forbid the Democratic Party's leadership be so "divisive."

  17. Comment by blastrock.

    “We’ll just have to wait and see, apparently, but this is no way to run a country.”

    Unless you mean to run it into the ground.

    • Reply by AnotherOklahoman.

      That’s their plan.

    • Reply by thanxamillion.

      By “their” I think you mean Putin and Trump. I agree. Not joking.

  18. Comment by yunohu.

    Wow! When I first heard this claim, I assumed iit was Trump falsely accusing Iran in order to get Minnesotans or blue states angry at Iran. So this angle is a complete surprise, but at least as appalling. Maybe in reality it is a false flag, perpetrated by this regime against Minnesota & blamed on Iran. Now that sounds most like what this regime would do.

  19. Comment by oldcrow.

    Until his second misadministration, Trump was a fake billionaire, with a negative balance sheet. His current run of graft and extortion has made him a billionaire, but his narcissism and sociopathy result in strange actions and statements. Minnesota should seek to join Canda, an honestly run nation, because we won't get anything but abuse from the Trump regime.

    • Reply by oldcrow.

      Canada

    • Reply by Pittwoman.

      I have been saying that for forty years. Minnesota doesn’t have to put up with all the federal bs.

  20. Comment by fredmonger.

    Yeah, I'm from Minnesota and I'm among the so fucking stupid class that we sabotaged our own water supply. Thanks Donnie. At least Iran didn't vote for Harris, right?

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Friday, July 31, 2026

the 40 days of trumpmas - a surreal serial poem

the 40 days of trumpmas - a surreal serial poem


Remember, remember! The fifth of trumpvember

 the 40 days of trumpmas - a serial poem

 

for 40 days the trumpeter reigns,

his lies and hate on whom he disdains,

but election day will come so soon,

we'll no longer hear the orange baboon;

 

in 39 days full of world wide problems.

we could elect him to get rid of the muslims,

but as he'll rant on trivialities of his presidential life,

what could be worse? - you could be his wife;

 

in 38 days just what will you do?

the donald has said he likes lgbtq,

but as he bullies his women and all his men too,

if youre questioning, what stops him from bullying you?

 

in just 37 days, some people are saying,

(or pleading or hoping or some even praying)

the duke of prunes will dye his forelock purple my friend,

and thus make america grape again,

 

our days are down to just 36,

before our problems the don will fix,

he will on day one do what hes said - true,

he'll wall out our enemies - and fat women too!

 

on the 35th day of trumpmas

yes just seven weeks remain!

will the polls and tallies deliver us

donald with his golden mane?

 

34 days and the vice-pipers have piped,

though pence didnt say why donalds suit shouldnt be striped,

he wouldnt defend his master's string pulling,

to make america great? - who do they think they're fooling?

 

just 33 days till the macho tornado,

unless its blown away by hurricane machado,

with women and voters he has so much to loose.

keep your mouth shut donald (unless youre changing your shoes)

 

32 days and we’ve been hit by the big blowhard,

donald spoke here in fla (oh, we had a hurricane too)

this administration gives us playing the race card, a weak economy, and unemployment

but if you want a job you could be donald’s campaign manager (unless youre a jew)

 

31 days, just a month, remains;

will the donald say hes sorry, and his baser impulses restrain?

or keep blaming bill clinton for our moral demise;

when trump speaks to us, our NO votes must be our replies!

 

election comes this time (in 30 days) each 4 years,

time for praise and tears and fears;

as polls will open in many states,

vote early, please dont vote late!

 

down to 29, just a leap february,

and theres still the donald quite

contrary;

donald donald, how does your garden grow?

quoth the master debater, "with pretty maids groped in a row"

 

just 28 days - later or soon,

and the zombies will rise, led by the big goon;

unless everyone gets a reality inoculation,

i might have to move to canada for a well deserved vacation; 

 

now just 27, less than 4 weeks,

no time for you to say 'yikes!' or 'eeeks!'

obama wants to go to mars and colonize it for man,

lets send trump tomorrow! and colonize it for orangutan!

 

26 days are all that remain,

will our democracy and economy go down the drain?

if we all keep listening to the blustering oaf,

will he give jobs and prosperity? - or just half a loaf

 

25 days - will more women speak?,

of the antics of donald who the presidency seeks,

dating 14 year old girls or groping their mothers,

how did the gop pick him over the others?,

 

24 days - were down to two dozen,

the next woman who speaks just might be your cousin,

or mother or sister, aunt, niece, even daughter,

describing the circumstance in which donald caught her,

 

23 days left and trump doesnt yet have as many accusers,

as cosby, but he assures us that they are all really losers,

sent by bankers or hillary with secret agendas,

to disrupt our election of him - our defender!,

 

22 days and we know charity begins at home,

but donalds attention is so prone to roam,

his gift that disappeared to 911 survivors from his foundation?,

oops! maybe donald spent it on a vacation,

 

21 days and trump says the election may be rig-ly,

if hes not the winner and his total's not big-ly,

tremendously higher than hillary gets,

he warns his supporters may all lose their wits,

 

20 days left and while george zimmerman still walks free,

the man who shot at HIM got 20 years - while trayvon got eternity,

trump wants us to support our cops and maintain law and order,

he'll put all the inner city dwellers in jail, and send the immigrant criminals far across the border,

 

19 days left till we all go to pretend,

to elect someone to lead us, as if on it our lives depend,

but wise man, donald trump, already really knows,

who we really voted for - a wolf in president's clothes?,

 

18 days and we bad hombres demand a rebate,

on the ill feelings left since the comments of one candidate,

the debaters have met in their final grudge match,

but only donald can say from whose hands victory will be snatched,

 

17 days and our government is corrupt with quid pro quo,

did you take latin at wharton? is that how you know?,

donald wants us to fire at them all - the bureaucrats lined up in rows,

and believe me, corruption is a subject. that donald really knows,

 

16 days - lets set term limits on all our office holders,

and put all our women in binders - or maybe in folders,

donalds endless complaints are becoming a sour whine,

have a little cheese with that, from wisconsin, where 

hillary's doing fine,

 

15 days and on stocking covered thighs did linger,

two miniature hands with two thumbs and eight tiny fingers,

they belonged to the donald who believed that he owned,

any thing that he wanted - or anyone he got alone,

 

14 days yes only two weeks,

till the duke of orange assends to the throne he seeks?,

to rule all americans, the strong and the weak?,

and dominate the globe with power that's peak?,

 

the 13th day to go - does that seem unlucky?,

not for donald whos lately been appearing quite plucky,

claiming media, polls, and parties are against him,

and rallying his multitudes with wit waxing dim,

 

on the 12th day of trumpmas donald awoke with a jerk,

promptly fired his latest campaign manager (who considered that a perk),

if youre "AAAfroAAAmurikan" and unemployed i can put you to work,

barked donald the businessman from behind his sly smirk,

 

it's the 11th and engineer casey trump is in the caboose,

i hear some of you saying oh no! what's the use,

our campaign will probably just go off the tracks,

but donald says its ok - cause he's got "the blacks",

 

just ten days left yes only one-zero,

til donald is hoping that he'll be your hero,

as new hillary emails come under investigation,

donald hopes to rename camp david to camp donald for

his vacations,

 

like a cat has nine lives we're left with only 9 days,

till we're subject to donald? and his old wicked ways,

on foreign affairs he says he'll save us from isis,

but his domestic affairs are misogyny and crisis,

 

our days are numbered - yes only eight,

till once again we make america great,

by getting rid of candidates who have nothing to add,

goodbye donald you wont make america sad,

 

just one week to go - its day minus seven,

till america's lifted above - to trumpty dump heaven?,

where for rich folks like donald opportunity abounds,

and we keep the working poor with a wall that surrounds,

 

how the time it does fly its already day 6,

till americans problems the donald will fix,

his solutions begin on trumpday number one,

dont you like them? they'll come at the barrel of a gun,

 

Five days to go, baby, One in five,

No one here gets out alive, now,

david dukes not opposed to all jews,

he backs trump - who are you going to choose?,

 

only 4 days left till the armaged-don,

he'll seize power by the horns once he has won,

and donnie will be what he longs for - a winner,

using the FBI to wreak havoc on hillary the sinner,

 

only three left, just a triad of days,

and the donald his supporters continues to amaze,

with hoopla and folderoll made up in his head,

his winning temperament will leave us all dead,

 

just a pair of days - 2 - till trump paradise,

since these words you're reading please heed my advice,

the creatures that surround us are beginning to bite,

'blacks for trump' fear the Illuminati so lets turn out their light,

 

just a single day left till our thanksgiving,

deliver us from donald and preserve the living,

forget sanity and disgard your misgivings,

but pray hard to your gods that they'll be forgiving,

since we've got the nukes why can't we use'em?,

on the road to 2016 why couldn't we lose HIM?,

 

and trumpmas now has finally come,

the tallies will count up to a winning sum,

unless the earth is struck soon by a cataclysmic comet,

to elect a candidate who just makes you want to vomit?,

we wish you a merry trumpmas at this time each 4 years,

if you have'nt voted you've lost the chance to mitigate your fears,

cause donald duck is ready to lead, forget your crocodile tears,

so you'd better get the vaseline and lubricate your rears!

 

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