We must try to find the words, even though Donald Trump and the misfit toys around him have tried to dull our senses and flood the zone and exhaust us with the constant drama and misdirection. This nightmare of an administration has upped the ante now, with the assassination of the Ayatollah and attack on Iranian targets.
It is not easy to settle for the obvious calculus—that this is, unbelievably, still all about the Epstein files. But Trump has been caught in lies so often that maybe we’ve learned to maintain our focus on what makes the most sense: the man is desperate and deprived, and he would most definitely encourage this vast military build-up and put Americans in harm’s way simply in order to divert attention from the domestic rat’s nest he appears to be consumed by.
And, as Rachel Maddow suggested last night, he pre-emptively has paved the way for who-knows-what sort of measures to ensure that the 2026 midterms and 2028 presidential election are tampered with—because, you know, Iran was involved in attempts to tamper with the 2020 and 2024 elections and we must guard against such eventualities going forward…
With this outbreak of hostilities in the Middle East, Trump and Hegseth and the rest have perhaps unleashed the latest unwinnable 20-year war, or worse– because it gave Hegseth a chance to live into his self-proclaimed moniker– Secretary of War– and it provided yet more false praise and cover for Trump, who, as it turns out, is nothing more than putty in the hands of people like Miller and Vought and Putin and Netanyahu.
3 Cents' 