The Madness of King Trump and his Schmeacefire
The whole world is mocking the TACO King’s claim of victory.
Apparently the reason there is so much confusion over Trump’s Schmeacefire is that no written agreement signed by all parties exists! Iran is operating off any one of three lists of its own demands, believing (or claiming to believe) that one of those is what the Trump Administration agreed to. Team Trump is operating off of the list of its demands, claiming that was what was agreed to. Israel is operating off wanton desire to exploit the void. JD Vance, Trump’s key negotiator with Iran now, is operating on the basis that this is all just a simple misunderstanding between mortal enemies.
One might have reasonably thought that, on a matter as important as whether or not an entire civilization gets wiped off the face of the earth forever, as the Peace Prez threatened on his way to the Nobel late one night, a signed agreement of mutual understanding might have been a good idea!
Apparently, what we are witnessing is the art of the no-deal deal, which is deployed if you need to rapidly retreat from a bellicose bluff of destroying your enemy in four hours … after they called your bluff. It is used so that both parties can say they almost totally agree to a total non-agreement, telling EVERYONE there is very little daylight now between their positions (but only because they are both working off different pages and agreeing only to their own page).
What the Schmeacefire deal gives to the Don is this: If he now steps back into war because the deal is broken (all over the place), he can step in without reissuing the bombastic and deranged threat of total annihilation, which would include destroying the lives of those millions of Iranian citizens he said were ready to revolt against the ayatollahs and the 1,000,000 Christians who live on a razor’s edge inside Iran. He can now try to let that vain threat fade into the next news cycle and later claim he never said it.
One would think the president hammered out his original bluff while drinking too much Smirnoff late at night, holding a gold-plated telephone in hand, after a hard day of reviewing the latest plans for his new East Wing billionaire party bunker. Smirnoff, though the prez doesn’t drink, is the kind of liquor that inspires a good Schmeacefire.
So far, the no-deal deal has been shredding faster than … well, it cannot be shredded because it apparently does not exist on any signed paper. So, let’s just say, neither Israel nor Iran have been honoring the oral assumptions. The president, meanwhile, seems happy to take a break in order to down a few more tacos and diet colas. The war actually accelerated on Israel’s end on what some are describing with the most common word in the English language these days—an apocalypse in Lebanon (though holocaust* would be the correct word). Iran responded by reclosing the strait within hours of decreeing it partially open for limited extortion traffic and by bombing more oil pipelines, etc.
* I don’t think it is any stretch at all to say that destroying all of Iran’s electricity and all of its major bridges could have easily resulted in civilian genocide equal in scale to Hitler’s holocaust of the Jews. Tehran is no longer an Oasis with a few Arab tents. You cannot keep a modern city of millions alive in a desert at this time of year without electricity and without most of their arterial roads. How do you keep enough food in the country without refrigeration and without roads to move new food in? How do you get emergency water in when lack of electricity shuts down all the plumbing and lack of roads and railroads limits the ability to transport in such massive quantities? How do you breathe in modern high-rises that trap in the desert heat (some with windows that do not open) without HVAC?
The world that could have been
The cussing, diaper-wetting, sole destroyer of NATO continues to rage against the treaty organization that the US and friends founded, which could have been strong-armed by a noble American president of a truly peaceful mindset into a purely defensive alliance, as originally, intended by sharpening its language to clarify that it will desist forever from starting anymore preemptive wars, even against terrorists (meaning without an initial attack by the terrorists), putting NATO back in its original WWII box. He could have enforced what I’ll call the Eisenhower Doctrine, though it was more of a warning, against the MIC.
A president of strong, noble character, could have also petitioned congress, while his party held the majority and he held the party, to terminate its wide-open approval of presidential war powers over every vague terrorist threat and to take back into their own hands the solely-held, constitutional obligation to be the entity that declares wars; thus pressing Democrats to join in removing those powers from their future presidents’ hands, too, while fulfilling his vows of being the Peace President.
He could have demanded congress revoke the vast expansion of intelligence gathering on Americans under George Bush the Second’s misnamed “Patriot Act” that turned out be be what many of us constitutionally minded folk feared—something totally open to the FISA abuses under which the Don, himself, claims he was persecuted with illegal lawfare, especially during the Orwellian days of Joe Biden. But all of that would be to expect the Donald to virtuously honor his campaign promises.
The world that is
Instead, the deranged, self-appointed emperor of the new Greenland-North-and-Central-America+Venezuela-hemispherical-conglomeration-project said the pause created by the Schmeacefire opens room for his generals (he likes to call them that) to start preparing for a “new conquest!” In that context, the wannabe world conqueror then proceeded to start talking again about taking over Greenland. Apparently, the mad, baby-boy king is tired of Iran’s uncooperative war, so he wants to move on to a new game with other friends who will let him win better.
As Trumpty Dumpty made overtures from his padded play pen for retreating to some of his earlier grand visions for making America great again, such as conquering Canada, the baby king also proclaimed his unilaterally recognized victory over Iran to be a “beautiful thing” because apparently the version of the Schmeacefire he is working off of says that he will get fifty percent of the new revenue from the Hormuz Toll, a joint financial agreement the mullahs claim they have no knowledge of.
Expressly to make certain that does not happen, the Iranian leadership is collecting the toll in Bitcoin with something like fifteen-second transaction windows as a way to make sure that instantaneous US sanctions will not likely be able to snarf any of the extortion money away from them, a common practice for which the dollar remains wide open. It is, of course, also a new move to terminate the petrodollar.
No, I’m not making up Trump’s glee over joint ownership of the new tolling authority as additional comedy. It writes itself. Well, TheRump writes it for me:
Trump welcomed the idea on Wednesday, telling ABC: ‘We’re thinking of doing it as a joint venture. It’s a way of securing it—also securing it from lots of other people.
‘It’s a beautiful thing.’
Maybe for the United States … if it winds up on the take with Iran. Not for any other nation or people. As another unwritten agreement, it is also unclear whether the US government will share fifty percent of the extortion funds or whether that share will go strait to Trump, Inc. Perhaps Trump’s team of star negotiators will even switch the form of crypto being used to $Trump to make the president happy. Well, that will only happen in his Pepsi-pounding dreams because Iran is never going to agree to shared custody of the globally extorted funds in international waters. That’s its racket.
All of this baloney goes to underscore the list of many reasons I laid out yesterday for paying subscribers as to why and how this ceasefire is likely to deteriorate into madness.
MegaMAGA Truth
Another encouraging and interesting article today shows how even Trump’s own Truth Social is suddenly coalescing against him. Over forty-thousand posts raged against the president within twenty-four hours of his insane claim that he would end Persian civilization as we have known it for thousands of years. (More posts than the number of years Iran’s nearly ten-millennia-old civilization has been around.) Apparently, there are still people among conservatives who have a heart and soul. On a website that is almost entirely made up of people who have been head-over-heels infatuated with Donald Trump …
More than half of those responding to Mr. Trump’s warning on Tuesday morning that Iran’s “whole civilization will die,” were deeply critical of his comments.
Here is a smattering of representative comments:
An account named President Trump 100%, wrote that Mr. Trump had demonstrated a “lust for blood.”
Trump loving conservative wrote that such threats would destroy the president’s legacy. “I’m honestly heartbroken,” the user added.
In response to Trump’s “Praise be to Allah.” Trumpwillsaveus2024 wrote “Even if it was a joke, you’re actually so immature it’s sad and I voted for you twice, and stick up for you all day long on Facebook.”
Peace, who says she is “MAGA, not Republican…. Christian trying to do God’s will,” wrote, “I don’t support prez yahoo or this kind of talk. It’s Easter. What’s wrong with you? I voted x3 for you. WTH is wrong with you.”
MagnumForce44 said, “While I have been a staunch supporter of you, and voted for you all three times, I take exception to the vulgar language and the potential damage to the innocent Iranians who were asking for regime change.”
“Mr. President you are losing me as a supporter with this kind of behavior. I have supported you for so long and I am just to my point where I am ready to wash my hands of supporting you. I have been put through a lot of garbage for supporting you since 2016.”
Going “through a lot of garbage for supporting” Trump is what anyone can expect to get when they give their fealty to an easily recognized narcissist who boasts more than any human in history and who has the stinking morals of a blustering, part-grabbing, locker-talking, accused rapist of underaged women, serial-marriage, deal-breaking, serial bankruptcy, snake-oil salesman for president. It is not like there were very few warning signs!
But now the revotes are coming in fast and furious:
Only a quarter to the comments on the ultra-Trump site were supportive, which is now the lowest show of support for Trump ever on Truth Social, exceeding any same-sized period during the MAGA outrage over Team Trump’s handling under AG Blondi of the Epstain Files.
I know many GOOD people—friends and family with kind hearts—who supported Trump out of vain hopes that he would bust up the evil deep state in this nation and end the imperial wars that have overrun the past 40 years, but it was an illusion. I never believed it, but I fellowship with and care about those who did. It is time for everyone to wake up and realize the hard truth that Trump is nothing but a self-serving megalomaniac like Babylon’s King Nebuchadnezzar.
It’s time to join the many former ultra-Trump supporters on Truth Social—and even the major celebrity supporters like Joe Rogan, Alex Jones, Nick Fuentes, MTG, Tucker Carlson, Megan Kelly and others—who admit they feel swindled and get on the right side of history! A president who threatens to annihilate a nation in what sounded for all the world like drunken-rage posting—a nation that has not attacked our nation—who exhibits as many signs of dementia as Joe Biden-His-Time needs to be removed from office before he destroys what little is left the world and of the United States’ reputation and of any hope of peaceful living during the remainder of our lifetimes.
It is time to make clear there is no ignoring the danger of demented kings when they violate so many major campaign promises in such enormously destructive and deranged ways. Unless you just want to burn it all down, it is way past time to take this conquering clown off the world stage.
Here is a video that strongly declares the madness of King Trump & Baby Netanyahu and the absolute illegality of their war on Iran, especially if Trump follows through on his genocidal threats, should you need any additional convincing that this is INSANITY. It also lays out how Trump is the deranged climax of decades of US imperial policy by both parties:
(Lots of headlines about the king’s madness and his fake victory and flailing ceasefire follow below for paying subscribers as well as an extra-dose of political humor since mockery from the world and anger from Trump supporters are all the rage today.)
