And the Toddler is lying that the new memorandum of understanding with Iran amounts to unconditional surrender. If it did, we’re the ones who surrendered. Giving them $300 billion which is waaay more than they got under the Obama agreement the Toddler abandoned. Something even Republicans in Congress are pointing out. Hell, the Toddler’s hinting that if it goes south, he’ll blame Vice President Vance. Ben Shapiro is happy to blame the turkey on Vance. MAGA podcaster, jackass and Kremlin sock-puppet (allegedly unwittingly) Benny Johnson thinks everyone who doesn’t support the Toddler’s decisions should shut the hell up. NYT right-wing pundit and warhawk Bret Stephens insists the Toddler could have won it, rather than admitting everything the president did was in character. Sen. Lindsay Graham insists it’s an insult to the military to say Iran came out ahead and predicts we’ll soon take the Straits of Hormuz from Iran.
The Toddler has been whining for a couple of months about Republican voters who don’t love him enough. I’m sure this will add to the burden on his snowflake fee-fees. By contrast, he has zero remorse for bombing an Iranian girls’ school and no interest in accepting responsibility. He’s much more invested in punishing the meany poopyheads who spoiled his latest precious, the reflecting pool. Unsurprisingly he’s lying that the pool’s current problems can be blamed on Obama, the media and Biden. Certainly not little baby Donny.
All that said, it’s in our interest (and our bottom line) and Iran’s to end this. But will we? At first we couldn’t even set up the initial talks. At LGM, Robert Farley said last week the obstacles to successful negotiations — including that the current memorandum of understanding only gives us two months — are probably too great. As witness that on the weekend, the Toddler was already ranting about occupying Iran or imposing tolls on the Straits (in between melting down over the reflecting pool). And committing a major diplomatic no-no, threatening Iranian envoys.
Unfortunately even the Toddler, for all his bluster about unconditional surrender, may be aware that he’s failed miserably (though he’s also declared he’s now the most powerful man in all history). And unlike normal people he never retreats to plan or lick his wounds — so what stupid thing will he do next? One possibility: take Cuba. It might be an easier win and he’d then focus on his status as the Great Conqueror and forget Iran ever happened. Or maybe he’ll go back to taking Canada to stop the (non-existent) waves of Iranian terrorists crossing the Canadian border.
One thing we opponents should do next: make him pay a political price! Criticizing his abysmal peace negotiations is not the same as being pro-war; pointing out he’s ended it badly does not make someone pro-war. Nor does ending it make him a man of peace: “Trump is in fact an unhinged bloodthirsty warmonger and anyone who says differently is lying”
Switching to another Toddler controversy, here’s an NYT report assessing the evidence Jeffrey Epstein killed himself, and concluding he did. That was my initial assumption, which changed after reading Perversions of Justice; perhaps I was right the first time. Either way, we still need to know whose names are in the Epstein files.
