It is a long post- and well worth the entire read. I couldn't decide where to start and stop but here is my abbreviated version. Go and read the whole thing.... link at the bottom
And then shit got real, really fast. In a surprise to no one except the alleged American president and his lackey the [alcoholic and quite mentally disturbed] alleged Secretary of War, Iran did not fold. Instead, Iran began attacking ship traffic in the Straits of Hormuz, through which around 20% of the world’s crude oil transits, and began firing missiles and drones at various targets throughout the Middle East, especially American military targets, and Israel. It was quickly discovered that despite the hype, the Americans and their allies had a very limited supply of extremely expensive interceptor missiles, and that Iran seemed to have an endless supply of drones (and a whole lot more missiles than anyone anticipated). And so, with a shooting war in place that every single American president (including the first iteration of this one in 2017-2021) understood would have disastrous global consequences, strategically, economically, politically, you name it, the markets responded by sending the price of a barrel of oil way up over $100/bbl (with attendant U.S. gasoline prices going from $2 something a gallon to over $4 something a gallon) and attendant stock market losses, the alleged American president watched his already anemic approval ratings hit hitherto unknown lows.
For their part, the Iranians started playing favorites, and began allowing ship traffic in the Straits of Hormuz to pass if they paid a toll (around $2 million) and were from favored countries (most notably NOT the USA or Israel). Further infuriating the alleged American president.
So… when the going gets tough… the grifters get insider trading. And thus, every Friday, just after financial markets closed, the alleged American president would announce some fanciful progress in negotiations that would result in the war being over within hours, and of course, the Iranians would then deny everything, in the interim, large trades would mysteriously be placed on various financial markets, and then, come Monday, profits would be taken, lather, rinse, repeat. Until Mr. Market stopped playing. And the Iranians stopped playing too. The Iranians also got really good at posting mocking Lego-movie videos, featuring the alleged American president and his humiliations at the hands of the Iranians (whom he kept insisting lost their navy, their air force, their air defenses…)
At which point, the alleged American president began to truly panic, and start posting shit on his proprietary social media platform that was unhinged even for him. This was his Easter Sunday posting:
Kind of weird that his first term was dominated by failed contentions of “Infrastructure Week,” when after four years, he managed to barely build sections of his Medieval border wall. But wrecking Iran’s infrastructure… definitely on the table.
And despite all of his bluster, Iran continued to fight back, forcing the U.S. to abandon most of its bases in the Middle East, its embassy in Iraq, and forcing two of its supercarriers to sail hundreds of miles away from the Persian Gulf to be out of range of Iranian drones and missiles.
And so, the alleged American president who was supposedly obsessed with nuclear weapons during his first term (largely because he is a moron) has decided to double-down on the threats of violence, by having one of his psychopathic aides (I would guess Stephen Miller) draft his latest social media posts suggesting that “a whole civilization will die tonight.” The alleged president has backed off of his threats so many times thus far that an acronym (“TACO”) has been developed to suggest he “always chickens out.” Perhaps humanity’s future is dependent on “TACO Tuesday” actually coming to pass.
I don’t know. I just know that enough American racists just loved the idea of one of their own back in power, notwithstanding that his last go-round resulted in the gross mismanagement of a healthcare crisis that resulted in over a million Americans dying and tens of millions infected with a debilitating disease, possibly for life, to decide to bring this senile moron back. But this ill-mannered imbecile who now suffers from age related dementia (including vile diet and exercise habits) has access– exclusive access– to the American nuclear codes, and has clearly threatened to use them against a nation that presented no threat to us until he unilaterally attacked it. It’s possible that enough senior members of the military haven’t been purged who will refuse to follow blatantly illegal orders; it’s also possible that they will go through with what the commander in chief tells them.
I don’t know anymore. There were and are things I’d still like to do. One of which is see the Loquacious Pup continue to prosper, as she pursues an advanced degree (unfortunately out of state so I can’t be with her now). I’m sure the same is true for most of you. We all have unfinished business. But unless something I am not anticipating steps up and thwarts the imbecile who can now kill us all in the name of his petty racist hatreds, all of our business may be finished for us in days, if not hours.
I would just like to tell the Loquacious Pup, Mrs. TD, TD Mom, TD Brother and Sister and their kids, and my late TD Dad, and all of my friends and my comrades, I love you all. I don’t know how much that means to you, but it means everything to me. If those in charge were capable of love– and there is no evidence that they are– maybe we wouldn’t be facing what might be the end of everything.
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