I was going to write about our vacation, but events external to us have moved up the list. Specifically the US under Diaper Donald, the Grifter in Chief, launching an airstrike on Iran and the political fallout that is following along as expected.
That the airstrike was well-orchestrated and carried out flawlessly is a given. The mechanics were excellent and as expected from professional US DoD planners, technicians and strategists. No argument with that, very well done. Did Diaper Don have anything to do with it, aside from saying “Go”? Highly unlikely, otherwise his Secretary of Defense, the DUI hire, Pete Hegseth would have told all his friends and the neighbours around Mar-A-Grifto about it. About all Donny did was point at the plans and selected the with one with the prettiest highlighter colour.
The reason he selected it are manifold.
Starters, media and politicians alike are demanding the long-promised release of the Epstein Files, where Donny’s name figures prominently.
Second: The Economy. Yes, it is cratering in the US because the tariffs are actually doing what tariffs do: Raise prices for the end-user consumer. A 50% tariff on steel means that the cost of a new car just bumped up by about $4000 by one estimate and that doesn’t include the cost bump on trucks, trailers, rail cars, kitchen hardware, electrical transmission towers, girders, steel roofs and so on. Manufacturers have refused to eat the higher prices, so they pass them on and often magically add another percentage for the paperwork and government paperwork submissions.
ICE Agents, with full face coverings and no visible identification kidnapping people off the street without a warrant, explanation, or even an polite howdy do. There is one clip circulating where a bystander was trying to take a picture of the ICE agent’s license plate. The Agent pulled his weapon and pointed it at the bystander and told him to back off or die. Another bystander caught the whole scene. There are significant rumours that many of the ICE agents are not even police officers, either local, state or federal regardless of department. Any sworn police officer has to have a warrant card and be able to produce it on request, or a visible badge number and name. These are not agents, they are paid thugs trying to help Stephen Miller get to 3,000 deportations a day, regardless of due process.
The term than comes to mind is Brownshirts (Nazi party thugs, circa 1933) or GESTAPO (Geheime Statz Polizi – Secret State Police) circa 1936.
Then there is the general cluster of morons cluttering up Washington DC, all barking for airtime and the benevolent tweet from the Grifter-in-Chief. By the way, the Trump Cell phone is yet another in the long line of grifts, starting with sneakers, loyalty cards, Citizenship fast-track grifts, watches, guitars and the rest. He learned from Trump Steaks, Vodka, University and Mattresses that licensing his shit means money in his pocket. Maybe he could help pay for E. Jean Carrol’s judgement against him and toss a couple of bucks to Rudi Giulliani. Just sayin…
Then there’s the two flagpoles at the White House, one of which is right in the flightpath of Marine One when it lands on the lawn. Or paving over the White House Rose Garden and not talking about the Qatari 747-800 that he asked for.
So many distractions, and the bombing in Iran is just a bigger distraction with nuclear implications and millions of potential deaths so the Toddler-in-Chief and his fart catchers can distract us from the parade float of everything else horrible that he’s done.
Sorry, but I don’t recall anyone else but Amerika being responsible for all this sewage. Perhaps someone should do something about it.
RoadDave 