"Iran Beats the Snot out of Trump:
TACO KING Gets Nothing for Ending War He Started"
by David Haggith
"Of course, the interminably-teased deal isn’t done yet, but if it turns out anything like what has been indicated, then the biggest LOSER is Donald Trump as he runs from his own war. If the deal that Republicans are ranting about is the deal, Trump will now walk around with the scarlet letter “L” on his forehead, and he will be the one who put it there.
The old-world, warmongering, Neocon Republicans are furious with him, and the new-world, civil-war-mongering, MAGAcon Republicans haven’t really got anything better to say about the deal being tossed around as an achievement out of a war they never wanted in the first place. Almost everyone in America will be furious down the road when they finally figure out the enormous price they will be paying for years because of another war the United States lost to a weaker foe that, according to JD Vance and Tulsi Gabbard, it never needed to enter.
Even according to Trump, the need to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon was completely accomplished last summer, unless we are supposed to believe in a different Trump than that one, who even boasted that he deserved the Nobel Peace Prize for saving the world from a nuclear Iran. This year’s Trump now claims he started his new Iran war in order to end Iran’s nuclear program again, after having already proclaimed victory for “completely obliterating” Iran’s nuclear program in a one-day war last year. That’s insane.
His efforts to re-obliterate Iran’s nuclear program now end with Iran richer down the road if the deal goes through as presented so far. Mostly the new deal as represented so far leaves Iran globally empowered by proving it can stand up to anything the US throws at it, short of the United States’ own nuclear bombs. The old regime is still in place. The uranium is still in place, albeit entombed under ground for now. The thing most notably not in place are the decades-old sanctions that will now be lifted by the rumored deal, even though the terror-sponsoring Islamic Caliphate still waves its flag over the Middle East.
The other “hyuge” winner, as the Donald would say - ”a bigger winner than the world has ever seen before; there is nothing like it”—is the US military industrial complex. The billionaires of military commerce now get to spend years enriching themselves as they gorge at the taxpayer trough by rearming the US for its next imperial adventure. The billionaires are smiling wider than anyone has ever seen before.
The high costs of war: The biggest losers are average Americans, now saddled with more government debt than they have ever seen before as the national debt during this war and as result of this war finally soared, as reported here, to a level only matched by the end of World War II. That’s by a measure that compares the scale of the debt to the scale of the US economy. The interest all Americans owe on that debt also skyrocketed because of Iran’s retaliatory oil blockade, which is shattering the global economy with lightning bolts of longterm inflation.
Average Americans will lose for years to come by paying higher gasoline and diesel prices than they have ever paid before due to all the damaged oil infrastructure. In fact, oil experts in one article today, say that, if the deal is signed this Memorial Day, tankers will still be very slow to start shipping through Hormuz. Experts warn that the fuel crisis will likely worsen in the near future as global crude oil stockpiles rapidly deplete….
U.S. President Donald Trump announced Saturday via Truth Social that an agreement had been “largely negotiated, subject to finalization between the United States of America, the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the various other Countries…” The deal will reportedly include a 60-day ceasefire extension and a reopening of the Hormuz Strait, a U.S. official told Axios…
Even if the warring nations sign the agreement, energy markets will still be reeling for months after the weeks-long war… Experts have indicated that gas prices will remain above $4 per gallon until tangible progress is made on reaching an agreement [as in more than a 60-day ceasefire]….
The research firm ClearView Energy Partners also warned that clearing the waterway “could take weeks to months.” Details of the deal shared by officials with Axios indicate that Iranians will be expected to clear all mines and tolls laid in the waterway as part of the agreement. Meanwhile, “repairing damaged facilities, restoring pre-war output levels, and restocking depleted inventories could take multiple calendar quarters to years,” the firm added in a client note Sunday….
By the time all of that works itself through - even if a 60-day extension of a mere ceasefire v. treaty goes through today - the global economic damage will be massive. Gas prices may see a short-term drop from the current lofty levels as a big relief hits speculators over the Strait of Hormuz being re-opened if this deal happens; but the reality of oil remaining lower in production for 2-3 years will seep back in like a slimy black tide soon enough, keeping prices higher than they were before the war.
Americans will lose for the rest of their lives as inflation soars due to higher energy prices for all businesses in the entire world and due to huge shipping delays for oil and its many by-products, which are major resources for industry because many prices, once escalated, won’t go all the way back down. They rarely do. The rise in prices of all those ingredients and higher interest rates for businesses conglomerate as additional inflation pressures over and above the inflation that was finally starting to come through from the Trump Tariffs.
America’s losses: America’s respect among former allies has been trashed by America going it alone in this war, against its allies’ expressed deep reservations, while the chicken-TACO king had the audacity to keep demanding they pony up by helping fight the war they didn’t want in the first place. That’s ridiculous. America’s regard by allies has been ravaged by a president so imperial in his madness that he has even repeatedly announced his delusional intentions of conquest over former allies like Canada and parts of Denmark! These are the people he goes to for help with his war.
America will be loathed by people all over the world for the extreme calamity all nations will face over the next few years in the form of shortages, diminished businesses, and higher prices. That rage and loathing will expand over time as the economic punishment continues month after dragging month. Everyone on earth will experience this loss because of the Trump-Israel-Iran War along with the Taco king’s endlessly vacillating trade wars with our former trade partners, both of which in the end accomplished no actual objective whatsoever.
America’s military might has been diminished in the eyes of all, not because it failed to wreck a lot of damage - Lord knows it did plenty of that - but because it couldn’t make the briefly decapitated former Persian empire even blink. It is clear the vain and vacuous Trump expected a quick and easy victory like the one he won in Venezuela because he wasn’t wise enough to discern the vast differences between a middling South American, failed communist state that never had any military power in the first place and a former empire that once dominated the Middle East, which has lusted after the dream of reclaiming its position over the region and has armed itself with modern weapons or carnage that strike far deeper wounds than the scimitars of old.
No, this war for the chicken-TACO king is the biggest loss of his life, but it is a loss for all of America in glory and economic strength and a lifestyle made rougher and harder to hold onto than it was before the war. The carnage of tariffs as taxes on Americans that other nations never paid as promised by the president, now being handed down from businesses to consumers, along with the financial burden of rearming the nation for its next conflict, should it ever actually need to defend itself, rather than fight ill-conceived wars for Israel, the cost of the president’s new golden dome (now perhaps more needed than ever as we have fewer allies and hotter enemies, and the debt for fighting this latest war with the higher interest rates it has imposed … all will weigh down on Americans for years to come.
MAGA loses: So, IF there is anyone who still believes MAGA was ever really going to happen (which would be the remnant of people who never believed me when I warned in 2017 that Trump was a Trojan horse), genuflect to your TACO king all you want, but you’ll be paying for this for the rest of your lives, as will everyone in the world! That is likely to settle in for you over the long haul as a vague and misplaced discontent, seeking something to blame - anything -other than the obvious because the obvious requires admitting you were sorely mistaken in order to move on from the mistake and learn from it.
You may doubt me on that eventuality now because the inflation has only just begun to heat up, but come back here after a year of scorching inflation and try to tell me how your scorched Earth is actually better because of another ill-guided American imperial war, started unilaterally by a demented, wrecking-ball of a president who already assured you last summer he had “decimated” Iran’s ability to launch a nuclear attack, meaning this war accomplished nothing that, by the presidents own words, was not already accomplished.
I’m speaking only to those who still believe, not to those who had high hopes but who like MTG, Tuckered Carlson, Joe Rogan, Nicholas Fuentes, et al., have come out of their Trump Derangement Syndrome to realize the dreams of MAGA were never going to actually happen under self-centered, rich egoist like Trump and that it was NOT the rest of the world that was deranged for not believing in Trump but they who were deranged for being sucked in by this narcissistic billionaire was never on the side of average Americans. Trump was and always is on Trump’s side only. Trump was just exploiting their rage to gain power!
It’s time to break the denial. Yet, many will continue to believe Trump is their savior even after this massive betrayal at extraordinary expense by the man who promised them he would end America’s imperial wars. I’m sure many will still believe MAGA is really going to happen. Let anyone who does, prove their continuing belief in this president is justified by telling me now how their world is better today because of the Trump Tariffs.
To any who still malinger in the Trump cult after all of these assaults on their trust and fidelity, tell me: Did you see the promised big expansion of better-paying jobs for Americans from his tariff wars? Are you enjoying the higher inflation that started arriving due to those tariffs before the latest war began? How about the new inflation that is rising at warp speed, as the president was once fond of saying about his vaccine?
Speaking of that, let’s look back at Trump 1.0: Are you happy about the vaccines he delivered to be tested on the entire world all at once (because a full global TEST is always prudent). Are you pleased with the way he achieved that speed by permanently shielding the makers of those vaccines from any law suits over their reckless pursuits? Can you point to the completed wall that was going to be so easy to finish ahead of schedule because he said he is a man who is “a builder”? It’s what he does, he said. Can you tell me how Mexico paid for it? If you suggest they paid tariffs through price adjustments on their products, I can argue you down definitively on that!
Tell us how you are thrilled with how Obamacare still hasn’t been rescinded and how no plan that is “better so much better, just you wait and see” has ever been proposed by a Republican anywhere to replace it. Tell me how you love seeing a third of the White House in rubble as the prefect symbol of this warmongering, wrecking ball of a president and how your life will be made better by a giant ballroom for billionaires that you are now being asked to help fund.
Tell me how all the chaos and conflict of a divisive president has actually made your life more prosperous and peaceful and your enjoyment of your extended family deeper and richer. Tell me why you enjoy life in an enriched America now more than before. Is it just that your bloodlust for big fights, fostered by years of reality TV, gets endless entertainment in the modern equivalent of the Roman coliseum? Trump does put up good Roman fights to keep the masses entertained as he dines at Mar-a-Lago, eating cake with billionaires.
Tell me how you love seeing him make billions of dollars more than those pikers Hunter and his dad #NoMoJoe ever dreamed of making off the presidency. Explain to me why you thought it was outrageous for the Bidens, yet you turn the blind eye of denial to the Trumps when they do it at levels that that are repeatedly a hundred times greater than the Biden's exploits by any objective observation. Is that you are impressed with the scale of their exploitations?
Explain to me how this raging, chaotic, TACO King, who starts wars all over the world then turns tail and runs, after raining longterm economic destruction on the world, is less demented and safer than that the old fart who shook hands with curtains and spoke to the dead during public speeches and teetered off his bicycle. Tell me how all the kings men are doing less to prop up King Trump than the Dumocrats did to prop up old Bernie for a weekend or two.
Tell me all of that as you watch the chicken TACO king drag his bad leg, pudge out, and rant as wildly as the word salad of ol’ Joe’s worst days. Tell me how much more physically and mentally fit Trump is than his predecessor, having started this term at the same age creaky old Joe hit when he started his term. Tell me how he is less cranky than bilious Biden. Tell me how he, as Redactor-in-Chief of all the Epstain Pedo Files, who was often photographed cavorting with the young girls, is less creepy than old Uncle Joe or less dangerous. Explain to me why it is more righteous for you to continue to support this creep, who lied and said he was barely in the Epstein files, whose name we now know to be in there tens of thousands of times, than it was for Dems to endlessly cover for creepy Uncle Joe as he sniffed the hair of little girls. Explain why one unproven but obvious pedo is better than another!
Or just explain to me how this war looked out for America first and how America is greater because of it! Will you excuse his huge losses here and great betrayal of campaign promises and your trust like you have excused every other Trump failing? Is all of this what you voted for? You foisted Trump upon all of us, and we’ll all pay for that for a long time, but if you can admit it was a mistake, I can forgive you because that is hard for any of us to do! However, if you keep defending it …
Let’s hope this enormous blunder of a war finally busts the denial about what Trump really is. He is certainly much closer to the Antichrist than the real christ some compare him to. I fear my hope that the remainder of MAGA will wake up at last is naive, given how one reader busted my chops a week go for saying in a previous article the president had won nothing with this war. According to that reader, I was a victim of TDS because Trump had accomplished something no other president had ever done (at warp speed I guess) by using this war to bring an end to Iran’s nuclear program!
“How so?” I asked, when Trump said he already ended that problem last summer? Which time was he lying? Why did we need to end something already ended last summer? How is it more ended now when the uranium still remains buried in the ground where it was last left, and the new plan says the US and Iran will continue to do nothing but talk about the uranium that remains for the next sixty days? How is that more definitively resolved? Iran has played the lets-talk-about-it game for decades now. How has this war changed the nuclear equation one iota when Iran’s nuclear stockpile hasn’t changed a bit and all of its reactors are still running? All of that seems so obvious that it boggles my mind that I even have to say it.
The proof of that view being wrong is as large as multiple nuclear reactors, still blowing steam into the skies of the Middle East! So, in that case, just tell me how it is that this war left Iran’s NUCLEAR program even more decimated than it was before and how it changed the regime one iota, or stop endlessly blowing your own steam and hot air into the skies.
It’s long past time to ditch the cult of Orange jesus (big, fat “O,” small “j” intentional), the mad emperor who, IF he was appointed by God, as he has often claimed by quoting his prophets of false profits, he was clearly appointed to be God’s wrecking ball for America, now besotted as it is. It was not to make America great. Since Trump is more AntiChrist than Christlike, guess who he is setting the stage for.
The wrecking of America is clear now that its economy lies is rubble under tariffs and massive war debts and loss of old allies and the oncoming flames of certain inflation, hazed in its fading delusions of grandeur, and totally swamped by the military industrial complex that has made and is set to keep making more money than those warmongers have ever seen before! People are telling me there’s nothing like it!
There has been so much winning now that Trump stopped the war in Ukraine on day one, as he vainly promised would easily be done! There is so much winning now that he has stopped starting so many new wars America didn’t need! There is so much winning over former allies as he wages, at least, a war of words against many of them. Meanwhile the Peace President, as he likes to call himself, is now locked and loaded for Cuba!
So much winning of a kind that makes it easy to understand why he joked in his State of the Union Address that people keep telling him to “Stop winning so much! We can’t handle so much winning.” We now know by clear demonstration it is because winning like this last major victory over Iran might undo a formerly great nation, but that nation isn’t Iran! Just so much winning!
Trump retorted this morning in a rage post that those criticizing the rumored deal don’t know what they are talking about because it has not been finalized and because he would never sign a bad deal. Well, maybe so. The problem is that, once it is finalized, it will be too late to talk about it. So, the time to hold his feet to the fire for a good deal that means anything at all is now or never.
Trump, himself, is responsible for creating the rumor of an imminent deal, which he has pounded several times in the last three days; and he ought to have a enough junior-league wisdom by now to KNOW that, if you don’t provide any details, others will try to fill in the vacuum about the deal as best they can. If you don’t want that, don’t get ahead of yourself by announcing an “imminent” deal that isn’t done! Trump, because he loves negative energy, likes to light the press on fire by tantalizing them and then criticize them for burning up.
And if this is just another no-deal deal as Iran counterclaims this morning and as recent Trump history says is most likely, then we should get hot over more fake jawboning of the markets from the Liar-in-Chief about a deal he claims Iran is dying to make that Iran is not even trying to make at all. I’ve already said Iran is fine with inflicting more pain than the Donald can stand for longer. The longterm economic and political damage to the US is accumulating rapidly, just as Iran hopes, so time is not on Trump’s side, especially as he has already stopped adding damage to Iran.
Turning over a new leaf: So, as we celebrate Memorial Day, let’s do it by, at least, pausing to remember how great it used to feel to live in America before Trump ever came on the scene with all of his chaos and conflicts and the cultic insanity that surrounds him, as well as before the imposed, ugly, 1984-style interlude we got to have under the Lunatic Left as they propped up creepy candidate Joe and before Joe’s Covid tyranny and the Great Gender Genocide of America’s youth and the indecency of co-ed bathrooms and all other such madness.
Let’s pause and reflect on what a more rational America once felt like before ALL of this civil war, even with all its lying politicians who, at least, behaved in a more civil manner back then as people like Tip O’Neil and Ronald Reagan struggled for compromises before enjoying dinner together. It was far from perfect, but it sure beat this hell on scorched earth. Both parties need to end their divide-and-conquer approach to America and start serving the CENTER of America again, instead of their own lunatic fringes. Instead of leaving the center without a home, go back to leaving the lunatics without a home.
Better still, let’s end the two-party/uniparty system that has for the last twenty years put party over country by starting a third centrist party. I’ll take a Reagan or Clinton as president any day over a Trump or a Biden, both catering as they have to the fringes of America and leaving the rational center far behind. The few remaining moderates among Republicans need to join with the few remaining moderates among Democrats and with 30% of Americans who independents and maybe the Libertarians and develop a plank for their party that …
Pledges to curb the military industrial complex by never again starting a preemptive war, never again starting a war to achieve regime change, never starting another drug war, never starting or enjoining any war that is not purely for the defense of America or its allies, working toward freezing NATO expansion and working toward eliminating nuclear and chemical weapons through treaties around the globe in a Reaganesque, verifiable manner, and mandating by law that neither the CIA nor any other government agency can work in such manner either. [Why we would ever believe those who make such pledges, though, I don’t know.]
Pledges balanced budgets that pay for every government expense as we go, except in times of constitutional, congressionally declared defensive war. Pledge, in fact, to set a course for gradual pay-down of the debt, as started to happen under Gingrich and Clinton.
Reforms the Fed by completely removing its jobs mandate to reduce it to the single purpose and power of maintaining the dollar for a symmetrical 0% inflation rate, meaning, if we creep above that, then we have to go below it for a similar amount of time.
Pledges to fully respect and abide by the constitution and particularly its Bill of Rights, letting everyone believe as they want, speak and write as they want, so long as they don’t cause harm to any individual with false statements or release of truly and rightfully private information.
Abolish the Patriot Act of the George W. Bush era with all of its fake FISA protections in order to truly protect privacy as the constitution envisioned and to underscore strict constitutional government.
That is a starter list, but it should not evolve into a wish list, or it is sure to fail from the get go. Nothing should be added to the list to please the fringes. It should all aim for the center (the core) of American politics by which I mean it should focus on solely areas of common consent and common sense as the limits of government, not using the power of government to force social change in EITHER direction, conservative or liberal. In essence, stick to mere constitutional government.
If anything on my short list doesn’t fit that center of common consensus, it should be removed and remain out of the Constitutional Party’s objectives. Let such matters that are outside of the Constitution and centrist consent win over the public heart by debate and persuasion in hopes the greater truth prevails over time, not by political force.
That’s probably all a naive hope, but you have to offer something positive… once in awhile. A civil war is not going to heal America or make it great again. Both sides lose in a civil war. Take some lessons from the history of civil wars. Neither are the two parties who have turned American into such a divisive mess going to heal it - not unless they can each seriously reform themselves toward the center and reclaim civility in recognition that the present ways in which they have moved apart have been a gross failure for America. No one is happier living here than they were forty years ago, flawed as that time was."
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