The president who spent all last year telling us how many wars he stopped has launched his biggest conflagration yet. For a moment it looked like it was just going to be a fireworks show to let Iran know that the US meant business when it came to a new nuclear arms deal. Unfortunately, the fireworks show escalated quickly as Iran was none too happy about having their Ayatollah taken out. It's one thing to kill a high-ranking general. It is quite another to kill a supreme leader.
It really made no sense as just last week our roving goodwill ambassadors, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, met with Iran's foreign minister Albusaidi and announced "significant progress" had been made on a nuclear deal. And then this!
It looked eerily similar to the air strikes on Venezuela. The initial aim was to take out the supreme leader and hope that Iran's vaunted Revolutionary Guard rolled over and play dead. You knew that wasn't going to happen. Iran played nice the first time the US and Israel lobbed bombs at suspected nuclear targets but this was a whole different matter.
Not only did the US and Israel take out the Ayatollah but they inadvertently bombed a girls' school in Minab, killing at least 165 persons, most of them children. So much for smart bombs, if there ever were such a thing, especially when you have dumbfuck leaders who shoot first and ask questions later.
This air attack came so far out in left field that the world was left aghast. There was no consultation with anyone. Trump and Netanyahu decided between themselves to do this, acting as if they could handle the collateral damage, which is mounting as missiles are striking everywhere as Iran aims at US military bases in the Gulf States. Not surprisingly, Hezbollah has joined in, resulting in at least 9 Israelis killed in the reprisal bombings. So much for the "iron dome."
This goes beyond stupid into the realm of the totally incomprehensible. What fucking moron suggested this? I will assume it was Bibi but then the US has been mobilizing an "armada," as Donnie calls it, in the Gulf region over the last several weeks, so you figure some of the top Pentagon brass were in on it, chiefly the War Secretary himself, Pete Hegseth. This looks like something a Fox "armchair general" would orchestrate, totally oblivious to the consequences.
In the chaos that has ensued, Kuwait shot down three US jets not knowing if they were incoming Irani jets. Whoops! My bad. For the last several years we have been arming the Gulf States to the teeth, obviously without much training when it comes to identified friendly aircraft. But when you see all that smoke what's a poor Arab to do?
Oh, and oil and gas shipments have come to a grinding halt, meaning Americans will see a big spike at the gas pump in the weeks ahead. It's going to cost a bundle to fill that Ford F-150 36-gallon extended mileage gas tank. This after Trump told everyone in his State of the Union address how low gas prices are under his term. Man oh man, he's going to have a lot of explaining to do! Saying this war will last "four weeks or less" ain't going to cut it.
Probably the biggest mistake these fucking morons made was thinking Iranians would just take to the streets to topple the government in the wake of the bombings. Protests haven't gone very well in that country, leaving everyone a bit gun shy. Even if Iranians were to rise up against their theocratic state, the last person they would want coming back is this guy. Go fuck yourself, Reza Pahlavi!
The level of intelligence, military and otherwise, is the lowest I have ever seen. Reza was parading around the Munich Security Conference a couple of weeks ago saying how he would bring peace and prosperity to Iran and everyone seemed to forget that it was his fucking father who got us into this mess all those years ago. 1979 to be exact when the Shah was unceremoniously ousted and this Islamic State put in its place. Papa Pahlavi died shortly thereafter from a hidden cancer and his eldest son has been carrying on the family name ever since, as if he has any legitimacy. This family is pure cancer!
But, our president lives in the past. He wants to drag the world back to the days when he was the self-proclaimed King of Wall Street, ignoring everything that has happened since. He first considered running for President in 1988. When that didn't work out, Donnie tried to get himself on the Bush ticket in 1992 but Pere Bush stuck with Dan Quayle. Disgruntled, Donnie became a Democrat and then an Independent and then a Reform Party candidate in 2000 when Ross Perot chose not to run for a third time. Donnie was all over the place until finding a cult following in 2015 perfect for his brand of predatory politics, taking over the GOP and dragging it into the gutter.
Republicans sadly sit back, too afraid to lose this hot-tempered base if they challenge Trump. Yet here we are with a president who has literally gone back on everything he claimed to represent. This was a man who said he would keep us out of nonsensical wars, bemoaning the lingering war in Afghanistan when he first came to office in 2017. He even invited the Taliban to Camp David to work out a deal, but then had second thoughts and negotiated a deal in Qatar, with no input from the Afghan government or NATO members helping to prop that government up. Sound familiar?
Trump was going to invest in America, bringing untold prosperity to the dispossessed, "so much winning," he called it. Here we are ten years later and the MAGA cult is still bitching about egg and gas prices as if it is all the Democrats' fault.
The guy is a fucking pathological liar. We all knew that. Deep down I think the MAGA folk even knew that but for some idiotic reason they chose to re-elect him in 2024 and for an equally damn fool reason, he won the general election because Americans apparently don't feel comfortable with a woman running the show.
Well I tell you now, Kamala Harris certainly wouldn't have thrust into a war with Iran. Nor would she have invaded Venezuela. Nor impose an utterly inhuman embargo on Cuba. Nor would she have tried to steal Greenland. Nor declare Canada the 51st state. Unlike this demented man in the White House, she is a sensible woman who actually would have made an effort to ease the financial burden so many Americans face. Instead, we are stuck with Donnie Demento for another three years, by which time you can pretty much expect to see double digit-inflation and unemployment and an economy on the brink of collapse.
All for what? Is this some power game tech billionaires are playing by using Trump as their Trojan horse, or is he simply being manipulated by Bibi Netanyahu and Vladimir Putin to do their bidding? Honestly, I have no idea. None of it makes any sense from any perspective you take. It just feels like someone is off his meds and took a baseball bat to the psych ward, lashing out at everyone around him. We are truly in deep shit if this is the way the White House is going to run for the next three years.
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