The president nearly met his Maker again. With the possibility of death comes consideration of what might await one in the hereafter. With little doubt that Christian tradition would have Donald Trump downward-bound, the question remains: what exactly will his eternity look like?
Why is the stock market hitting record highs? Why are oil futures not even higher? Even if the Strait of Hormuz were reopened immediately—which it will not be—it will take six months or more to restore oil supplies to an Asia that is already running short. The IMF says the odds of a recession are way up. Why aren’t traders paying attention to the slow-motion disaster heading our way due to the Iran War?
Trump is spending at least $2 billion a day to attack Iran, which doesn’t include the economic cost of the disruption to oil supplies. Now he’s offering $500 million to the oil-rich UAE for no discernible reason. Everyone is getting in on the grift of taxpayer money except the American taxpayers who are suffering in a crappy job market and rising prices.
When an American pilot was shot down behind enemy lines during the US War against Iran, the military and conservative politicians crowed that we have a culture of “no man left behind” in such situations. If and when the same man suffers from PTSD and winds up homeless on the streets of America’s cities, as have so many veterans, however, there will be little to no help on offer.
What does it say about the American political system and the American people that we can’t do anything about the fact that the president of the United States is obviously insane?
Once again, the US government is issuing a highly dubious sales pitch to American voters about why they should risk life and treasure overseas.
Conservatives are decrying New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s plan to impose a pied-à-terre tax on luxury second homes, calling it the beginning of a slippery slope that could eventually affect us all.
Right-wing supporters of President Trump’s war against Iran have pivoted from bragging about low gas prices to saying that the high prices caused by the conflict are a small price to pay to liberate the people of Iran (assuming this war can do that). Will voters buy that pitch this fall?
Those who back Trump’s war against Iran argue that the United States has defeated Iran because it has killed many Iranians and destroyed so much of its military and civilian infrastructure. As we’ve learned in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq, however, outkilling the other side is hardly a guarantee of military victory.
After President Trump posted a social media message threatening to destroy Iranian civilization, his defenders and supporters argued that words are meaningless, that he wasn’t serious, and that nothing he says is meant to be taken seriously. If true, should such a man be president?
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