Will Today Be TACO Tuesday?
So, here’s where we are:
Trump grumps that if the decision were left entirely up to him, he’d stick around in Iran and steal all their oil. But, he says, the American people want the troops to come home, so he won’t.
Let’s parse that one: He’s running out of scapegoats to fire. His rolling ultimatums have been exposed as the ludicrous empty threats of a cornered bully. He’s alienated almost all our allies, so there’s no one left to rely on for help and advice except the Israelis and Saudis, both of whom are benefitting enormously from the carnage, and are whipping Trump, a simpleton, into a destructive frenzy. His bestie, Russia, is actually sneering at him by helping Iran target Americans.
So he’s starting to blame us for his disastrous, destructive, discretionary one-man war against a country that was no immediate threat to ours. Trump says we don’t have his resolve. It’s the people’s fault.
Trump has now once again blustered out a shallow, shaky line in the shifting sands — 8 o’clock Eastern time tonight. He says if the Strait of Hormuz is not opened by then, he’ll blow up Iranian bridges and other infrastructure, including power plants that will be “burning, exploding and never to be used again.” He thinks that way, like Hitler did. The Fuhrer, a mediocre painter, could not draw people because he could not see people. He saw architecture. If Trump does what he threatens to do, it would kill and maim tens of thousands of civilians, and likely end the lives of vastly more over time through disease and hunger as the country bleeds. It would make Trump a war criminal, an international pariah, and would make this country a rogue state supported only by opportunistic autocracies — the way North Korea is.
Stock analysts say that Trump Always Chickens Out. The last time he was asked about this acrid acronym he claimed he’d never heard of it and savaged the female reporter who dared to ask the question. Well, now he’s heard of it. How will that affect his septic, infantile decision-making now?
Obviously, we are at what political euphemists call an “inflection point” but that actual people like us call a fucking horror.
I am really hoping today becomes Taco Tuesday.
That’s all I got.
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