I Can't See It Any Other Way

For some reason trump decided to extract Nicholas Maduro and his wife from Venezuela and take them to New York for some sort of "trial".

Maduro is an obnoxious pompous, dictatorial and corrupt shithead, kinda like trump, so I can see why the donald might need to do that.

Looking at the move from a mob boss's point of view the whole thing coheres.

Might could be a little shaky from the viewpoint of the executive of a country, but ya gotta let trump be trump.

I guess the apparent ease of that gambit made regime change look like a piece of cake.

So, when Bi Bi called donnie a few days later and said, "hey let's you and me bomb the shit out of Iran - we've got their leaders all gathered together like fish in a barrel (that has worked especially well in Gaza) trying to decide what to do about Jared and Witkoff's offer - we kill all of them and you can be a hero", donnie bit.

I woke up one Sunday morning early last year and I heard donnie saying he had declared war on Iran (I thought Congress did that) and he had done that to change the regime and turn the country over to its people.

That whole affair fairly swiftly became a debacle the magnitude of which can be easily measured daily by the rising price of gasoline posted each morning on the sign of a gas station somewhere near you.

It's impossible to find a republican who doesn't incessantly tell us that donnie did that in the early hours of 3 January 2026 to give the 330 millions of us who are all out here quaking in fear of a nuclear weapon that Iran doesn't have, and couldn't deliver if they had it, and probably wouldn't deliver if they could because we can point 16,000 similar devices at them at a moment's notice, freedom from intense fear of being immolated in our beds.

What happened to regime change and the people of Iran? 

I thought I heard someone say.

I'm glad that we have that cage match to look forward to this weekend.