The mad tyrant speaks


Well, we know that gas prices are rising, the Strait of Hormuz is closed, oil tankers are stacking up before the strait, bombs are falling on Tehran, Tel Aviv, and all kinds of nearby countries, and honestly, I don’t know what’s happening or what’s going to happen, because my country is being run by a senile madman. Also, the media aren’t helping. For instance, here’s a report from Bloomberg that says that Trump is adamant and is going to keep the pressure on.

A senior Arabian Gulf official warned that it would ultimately only be the sustained rise in oil prices that would force Trump to stop fighting and claim victory, leaving regional allies to deal with the residual threat from a wounded and angry Iran.

For the moment, Trump is vowing to continue the campaign, claiming he’s not ready for a deal — though Iran is. Officials in Tehran remain convinced they can outlast the mercurial US leader, but the damage is mounting.

He shouldn’t have started this war in the first place, but OK, he’s taking a position. A stupid position, but let’s deal with it. Except this is the very next paragraph:

Trump pivoted sharply over the weekend to calling for other countries to join the fray to reopen the strait — a possibility seen in those capitals as ranging from questionable to fanciful. From his Florida golf course, Trump sent a string of mixed messages on social media, calling for support in a war he’s said repeatedly he’s won, and for help in a strait his administration has insisted remains open. He claimed Saturday that Iran wanted a deal, which Iran dismissed.

So now he’s begging for aid from his “allies” to reopen the strait while simultaneously claiming that he has “won” his “war”, if that’s what they’re calling it now. What’s obvious is that Trump done fucked up, has delusions of grandeur, and is going to continue to screw up the world. Now he’s talking about “taking” Cuba.

He can do whatever he wants, and the institutions of the United States, the Supreme Court and Congress, will do nothing to oppose him…while 30% of the country is also cheerleading for his insanely destructive assault on responsible leadership.

We’re the most dangerous country in the world. This is not going to end well, and we’ll deserve it.

Comments

  1. cheerfulcharlie says

    “Come join me in this lovely Iranian tarpit!” bellowed the big orange pig. “No, no, no!” replied the other animals. Pottery store rules apply. You broke it, you own it. Hegseth fired the generals who knew what they were doing. The state department fired a lot of their experts on Iran. Expect Iranian economic warfare for the upcoming 2026 off year elections.

  2. robro says

    cheerfulcharlie @#1 — Just maybe if they…and you can’t put this all on Dumpster…create a dire enough situation they will find reason to suspend the mid-term elections, and thus preserve their slim majority in Congress and continue to stonewall on the real crisis here: The Files. Not only is Dumpster in them doing who knows what but so are a lot of other very rich Big Daddies, and they’ll do anything to hang onto power. Plus The Files may have something on Dumpster Daddy, or others, that could really send them to jail. Not just child rape…that’s nothing…but actual deaths or even murders.

    Of course, one sneaker here is New Mexico which is starting to investigate Zorro Ranch. Maybe they won’t find any skeletons in the closet or buried on the grounds. Maybe.

    I read that Schumer is proposing reading from The Files during the filibuster on the “Save America” bill, which is pure Orwellian doublespeak.

    JD may have to rethink his Catholic conversion given that the Pope blasted them for using God’s name to justify their stupid killing spree as a get out of jail card. But then he might loose his wife who is presumably a devout Catholic. How did she hook up with that jerk? O well, a jerk can always get another wife, and he’ll still have a couch.

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