What Was That?

You would think that by now I could no longer be flabbergasted. Like my flabbers are no long gastable, thank you very much. But I forgot that this administration has unlimited amounts of gast to flabber and so here we are again.

I last wrote after the US bombed Iran and I was worried about it growing into a bigger conflict, which I still have that worry, but not as much because...

Well.

It seems like with all of his broadcasting (truthing out to evacuate Tehran right now!) and posturing, that Iran had plenty of warning and moved a lot of things out of those underground nuclear facilities so we were bombing mostly empty storage cabinets. And then Iran's response was to give us and Qatar enough heads up to move people and equipment off of the US base in Qatar and allow the Qataris to close their airspace to civilian flights while they shot down the missiles headed for the base. Which again, had been pretty cleared out just in case those missiles missed.

Then Trump declared himself the winner, stated there was now peace in the Middle East and went back to demanding a Nobel Peace Prize.

Of course Israel and Iran were like, but how about a few more rounds of bombing instead. Which made Trump shout that they didn't know what the fuck they were doing and stomp off to get a Big Mac (I presume).

I just...

I mean...

What?

I don't know what any of this means. And I don't know that anyone really does. I hate that it opens up all of the conspiracy theory channels to choose your own adventures, but it does. Which is part of what this administration does on purpose, I believe. The whole flood the zone with shit paired with deny obvious truthful statements lie brazenly and repeatedly. All of that leads to not being able to trust anything. I have no faith that what our government tells me is true. Not at all. Which means that if what they are saying isn't true what is true? Well have I got a conspiracy theory for you...

And some of those conspiracy theories could end up being true which will just make it all that much easier next time to fall for one that isn't.

And they aren't the fun kind of conspiracy theories we used to have. Like aliens and mind reading goats. They are the lame ass ones like colluding with foreign powers and just being completely inept.

But right now the one that seems like it makes sense in a twisted way is that Trump spent the time after his disastrous military birthday parade (where more of us (USA) went out and protested at the No Kings day protests than showed up to watch his spectacle) watching Fox News, as is his way. And Fox, instead of shoring up his ego showed Israel bombing Iran and praising Netanyahu for being a big strong Daddy. So the Trump administration went from from We had no idea THEY were going to do this! To WE did this and WE will do more.

Netanyahu needs more war. If wars end and they call a snap election in Israel he's out and he knows it. And not only is he out but he's probably on his way to jail so he really wants to stay in power. (Sound familiar?) So he bombed Iran. Trump's pal Putin was like don't even think about it, boo boo, when Trump started seeing his cheering squad at Fox start chanting War! Hunh, God God, Y'all What is it good for? RATINGS! And so he was like okay, but what if, and hear me out here, Vladdy. What if we let Iran know the strikes are coming, they clear out, and we bomb? I mean, it's going to wreck a lot of land but it will also give them an opportunity to strike back AND these kids today don't even remember why they chant Death to America so do they really have that solidarity you are looking for?

They bomb, we bomb, they bomb. War footing is established in each country with a boost for the person in charge (plus Putin) and the world keeps wobbling along.

And it sort of kills me that that all makes perfect sense to me. Not in a what a fun story to write about sort of way but in a what a shitty world we live in sort of way.

Add to that the Supreme Court just said that it's totally cool to send the people that the masked, no badges, no warrants, unmarked cars, thugs, are pulling off the street to other countries. Not back to their own country, but just away. With only a glancing thought at due process.

Death to America, indeed.

I am flabbergasted.