Deal or No Deal
That's NOT the Question
Demented Donny really, really means it this time. Iran had better submit to his demands or he’s gonna flatten all of their infrastructure, send’em all back to the Stone Age, and make their lives a living hell. Whoo boy! If that isn’t some stirring, soaring POTUS-y rhetoric. Move over JFK. Hold my drink FDR!. Honest Abe, go see a play at the theater - or don’t.
Oh, and he claims that (presumably US or Israeli intelligence agency-collected) signal intercepts show that the “Iranian people” are urging him to keep on bombing. They love it! Yes, they want us to keep bombing the hell out of them! Collateral damage is for woke weenies! Real men, and women who stand by them (and their kids, of course), are literally begging him - this smoldering mammoth of manliness, this leviathan of leadership - to get pounded by U.S. bombs and other assorted ordinance.
I’m guessing the truth might be a wee bit different, so let’s just dispense with the snark and sarcasm and say the obvious: Donald Trump is once again lying his pimply dookie encrusted ass off.
When I was a little pisher, sitting dutifully bored out of my skull at Sunday school, I remember one of the lessons about why we should never lie. The lesson included an illustration that showed some poor little schlub trying to balance a Jenga-like tower of plates stacked one on top of the other. The lesson was that when you lie, you (1) have to continue to lie to cover up the preceding one(s), causing you to (2) create an insanely difficult-to-manage narrative that eventually (3) comes crashing down, leaving you with an even worse, bigger mess to clean up.
So here’s Dear Leader stacking one plate - “Iran is an imminent threat!” - after another - “they killed tens of thousands of their own people!” - after another, “they shot women in the face; they’re animals!” - ad infinitum. At some point this tower of filthy dirty dishes/lies will come crashing down. Only, there’s a twist at the end of the story. Who do you think will be stuck with cleaning up the ungodly mess?
