WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 2026
We think we have his answer: Yesterday morning, President Trump offered this post on Truth Social:
Truth Social
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!
The president gave his blessing to "the great people of Iran," even as he threatened, during the day, to destroy all their bridges and all their power plants and to destroy their ancient civilization.
At the start of last evening's The Last Word, after the president had announced a fourteen day pause, Lawrence O'Donnell suggested that the president's threats had already destroyed "a whole civilization"—our own.
He said the mere fact of the past week's threats had created "a stain" on the way the United States is seen around the world. He said that stain will never be washed away.
We don't know if that's right or that's wrong.
Near the end of the previous hour, David Remnick had appeared on The Briefing with Jen Psaki.
Remnick has been editor of The New Yorker ever since 1998. He had a question to ask about the president's astonishing threats:
"Who talks like this?" Remnick asked.
He had asked a very good question. We'll guess that Remnick is aware of one (obvious) possible answer.
At this site, we feel fairly sure that we can answer his question! Because we're still weirdly under the weather, we'll offer the answer tomorrow.
Sounds like a Christian.
ReplyDeleteWhat is funny about Christians is that Muslims believe in Jesus Christ, whereas Jews do not.
DeleteYet Christian supremacists are aligning with Jewish supremacists to fight Muslims, strange bedfellows.
All religions are a scam.
DeleteOnce they get you to believe in something as ridiculous as "God", they can get you to believe anything.
Agree.
DeleteReligious freedom is important, but the real harm is in the indoctrination, perpetrated on children.
Many Christians are surprised to learn they worship the same god as Jews and Muslims, which is chuckle inducing.
Somerby talks a lot about the Greeks vs Trojans without making it clear that the Gods started the whole thing and meddled in the conflict itself. If you visit the Acropolis, the sculptures around the top depict battle scenes such as the fall of Troy. The Greeks thought they won it, much as Somerby portrays it. They also depict other battles such as the war against the centaurs, showing men battling mythical horse-man creatures. The Greeks who built the Parthenon thought they existed too and that the humans were victorious.
DeleteThese were the religious stories of the ancient Greeks before their conquest by the Macedonians, Rome and Persia. Somerby has thus seen both the factual inaccuracies (impossibilities) of those religions that preceded Christianity and their rise and fall. He may have had that in mind when he moaned that our fragile democracy would fall too because we are too puny to defend it (given how bad our press is).
We in the USA do not have 3000+ years of history to put anything into perspective. Beyond the native Americans who lived here before the American colonies were established, we have an extremely short history that has changed in small ways, unlike Europeans with their very long and changing span of history. Archaeology lends perspective we do not have here in the USA.
But the horrific deeds committed in the past (like the "Red Wedding" depicted in Game of Thrones, modeled on an actual event in history) do live on in myth and literature and history (written and reconstructed) and Trump's misdeeds are as bad as those of the people being compared to him, such as Caligula and Hitler. Trump should expect to remain a stain even as governments rise and fall and times change for better and for worse. Because there is constancy to what human beings consider good and evil and moral teachings across faiths tend to be the more consistent aspects of comparative religion.
Trump's supreme ignorance (lack of education) keeps him from recognizing how he is judged by others, so nothing pierces his grandiosity and he assumes he is admired for being so wealthy and successful (corrupt) and getting so many women. This is a very primitive way of looking at himself and the world. Others do not think that way, so he will be seen for what he is, an evil man who has hurt others while contributing nothing, and thus is despicable.
Those who are wondering if Trump is the Antichrist may have a point.
It's the corruption stupids. They don't care who dies, as long as they pocket the cash:
ReplyDelete"A drone maker backed by President Donald Trump’s two oldest sons is trying to sell to Gulf countries while they are under attack by Iran and dependent on the U.S. military led by their father.
The sales drive by Florida-based Powerus – which announced a deal last month to bring aboard Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. – positions the company to potentially benefit from a war that their father began.
“These countries are under enormous pressure to buy from the sons of the president so he will do what they want,” said Richard Painter, a former chief White House ethics lawyer under President George W. Bush. “This is going to be the first family of a president to make a lot of money off war — a war he didn’t get the consent of Congress for."
It’s amazing how much corruption King Chickenshit can get away with when we don’t have a free functioning media anymore
DeleteTACO Tuesday strikes again.
ReplyDeleteIt's ALL about the Benjamins.
DeleteTiedrich reminds us of how right Hillary Clinton was about Trump:
ReplyDelete"...to find today’s Hero of the Day, we had to go all the way back nine years — because it’s presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, on the campaign trail in 2016.
everyone remembers the email lady’s famous (and totally accurate) line about how Donny is ‘temperamentally unfit’ to be president.
“he is not just unprepared. he is temperamentally unfit to hold an office that requires knowledge, stability and immense responsibility. this is not someone who should ever have the nuclear codes — because it’s not hard to imagine Donald Trump leading us into a war just because somebody got under his very thin skin.”
but do you remember what she said next?
listen to the email lady perfectly predict how Donny would shit the bed in Iran.
“Donald Trump says we shouldn’t have done the deal. we should have walked away. but that would have meant no more global sanctions and Iran resuming their nuclear program, and the world blaming us. so then what? war? telling the world ‘good luck, you deal with Iran’? of course, Trump doesn’t have answers to those questions. Donald Trump doesn’t know the first thing about Iran, or its nuclear program. ask him. it will become very clear very quickly. there’s no risk of people losing their lives if you blow up a golf course deal. but it doesn’t work like that in world affairs.”
HOLY FUCK, ALL THAT SHIT CAME TRUE.
don’t you miss the days when actual experts were running this country? don’t you miss leaders who could speak in complete sentences?
Hillary was one hundred percent correct about what America would be like under the reign of a Mad King Donny — and how did America respond? by telling her to shut the fuck up and go away and learn to knit."
Remember what Somerby said about Hillary Clinton? He said she was a terrible candidate. He said that during the campaign, while he was chiding us Democrats for giving the election to Trump by calling Republicans sexists and racists. If we'd been nicer to MAGA, Somerby said (in so many words), they might not have voted for Trump -- like that would have happened!
DeleteBut Hillary was right about Trump and so many other things and Somerby was an asswhole who claimed to be a Democrat but dissed the Dems every day during a crucial election. His words helped bring us to today's brink and people are dead all over Iran (and in other places too) because Somerby couldn't support a highly qualified woman for president.
I do not forgive Somerby for bringing us to this point. He owes all of his readers an apology.
The worse tragedy in recent history was the way Hillary was kneecapped in 2016 by everyone
DeleteIt is wild how Somerby says we can not recognize things like racism, sexism, and xenophobia - he says these are things of the past too - yet Somerby is just fine with throwing the word "insane" around.
DeleteSomerby is a poor thinker, driven by misguided biases and bigotry.
I've read the howler for a couple of decades now, including around the 2016 election. You should really have your head examined if you read somerby's posts and thought he was for donald trump. plus you don't forgive somerby for bringing us to this point? i think you give somerby way too much influence, ultimately he is an inconsequential blogger. I mean, how many people actually read this blog? hardly enough to swing an election i would think. and judging by the comments, most seem to come here with a preconceived position, so i doubt many, if any, were swayed by somerby's posts one way or the other.
DeleteBelieving that Somerby is making any kind of important point, is on you.
DeleteDon't drag the rest of us into it.
That's a strawman.
DeleteWe do not know if Somerby is for Trump or not.
Many Republicans oppose Trump, more so every day.
We do know that Somerby appears to be against Dems. Strongly against Dems.
Somerby says he finds aspects of the current iteration of the Republican party distasteful in how they present themselves, but that he finds that much of what they represent has value. His criticisms of Trump and Fox News primarily involve a concern that this boorishness is bad for Republican branding. Instead of discussing actionable things like Trump's corruption and criminality, Somerby has a zombie like focus on Trump's mental deterioration. Somerby reliably focuses on things that do not help Dems, only help Republicans, and he tries to hide behind his reputation that he built in the 90s back when he attacked corporate media for being little more than stenographers for the Republican party.
Notably Somerby handwaves anything related to racism, sexism, and xenophobia; he is clearly right wing. Those oppressions in fact remain prominent in our society.
Somerby is one voice, but he is part of a larger movement (and an early joiner) of "liberals" who formerly seemed to be progressive even but in the Trump era transitioned to a solid right wing agenda.
Many of these players have been revealed to have received payments from right wing billionaires and foreign entities.
In Trump's messages, one could argue that Trump is expressing genuine heartfelt outreach to Iran and Muslims when he says things like "Praise be to Allah" and "God Bless the Great People of Iran". But I doubt you buy that. No, we do not take what people say at face value, that is a fool's errand. It is specious to argue that Trump's "I will announce the greatest thing in two weeks" is genuine, same goes for Somerby's slop.
Somerby was willing to predict that Trump would win but is now unwilling to call Trump an obvious stain on our nation's history?
DeleteBefore you call Somerby inconsequential, consider that he has a Wikipedia page and used to be quoted and discussed by other pundits and editorial writers. No one said he swung the election, but his pretense to be a Democrat while pushing Trump and Republican talking points every day may have influenced a few voters. Add that up across Trump's Russia-funded campaign and you may understand why Clinton lost the swing states in the so-called Blue Wall (PA, WI, MN). Back in 2015, Somerby was pretending to be a Bernie supporter (before Hillary won the nomination) but when have you ever heard him express an opinion even slightly consistent with Bernie's views?
Also, recall that Somerby was highly critical of Elizabeth Warren back when Trump was calling her Pocahontas and the Republicans were attacking her for being part Cherokee (a fact that was subsequently supported by a DNA analysis). What Bernie supporter goes out of his way to knock Warren?
DeleteExactly, 12:25. The only thing he ever wrote about Warren was to mock her listing herself as an American Indian, over and over. And he also once claimed she had no health care plan, despite his buddy Kevin Drum saying hers was the most detailed of any candidate.
DeleteNone of these comments are persuasive.
DeleteNeither is yours. A fine example of the Liar's Paradox.
DeleteI am more and more struck by the unyielding, blind criticism of Trump. Anything he does is evidence of mental illness, evil and incompetence. The fact is that the US substantially won this war with Iran. (I say substantially, because the question of nuclear weapons is still unsettled.) But, Remnick doesn't notice. For him, what matters is Trump's un-Presidential words.
ReplyDeleteOne has to step back for a moment to realize how odd this criticism is. Thousands of people died, Iran's military is in shambles, a nuclear war may (or may not) have been averted, yet what matters to Remnick is Trump's intemperate words. BTW it's even possible that the the words may deserve praise. They may have helped end the war.
I suspect the reason for Remnick's lack of proportion is that he's reasoning backwards. He starts with the axiom that anything Trump does or says is wrong. Then he works backwards to figure out in what way everything Trump did and said was wrong.
BTW I see this principle illustrated by criticism of the White House ballroom. There is no waste of government money. On the contrary, it's a boon to the government. There's no evidence of corruption. Yet, many people are convinced that it's bad for America, that it's a scandal. They start with the conclusion that whatever Trump does is bad. Even though they can't point to anything bad about the ballroom, they are certain the badness is out there. It just hasn't been discovered yet.
I am constantly struck by how fucking stupid you are
DeleteI for one "Yen" for the day when the US dollar was the world's currency and all of Europe didn't hate our guts. You are a gross human being. Why wish so much harm on other humans when the nukes that you "fear" were "totally obliterated" nine months ago you sick freak.
DeleteIt's wrong to blindly criticize Trump.
DeleteLeave the criticism of Trump top those of us with the eyesight to see Trump's name on page after page of the Epstein Files.
The ballroom? He tore down a huge chunk of the White House without getting approval. He doesn’t own it.
Delete‘A federal judge … ordered construction of the White House ballroom project halted, siding with a historic preservation group that argued the effort violated federal law.’
David repeats this nonsense over and over again but never listens to the many, many thoughtful retorts to his worship of the Donald. Where the fuck is the money coming from and what do the donors want in return? Don't fucking tell me they are shoveling money to Captain Queeg out of shear patriotism. It's just another fucking grift. Just like this bullshit Trump's Board of Peace horseshit. Where is the fucking billions of $ going, who controls it, is this a fucking government agency that Trump just magically created out of thin air, why is the fucking U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) involved???
DeleteThe U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is pursuing two trademark applications for Donald Trump’s "Board of Peace" initiative, launched in January 2026 for Middle East, specifically Gaza, peace efforts. Filed by USPTO Director John Squires, these "intent-to-use" applications cover the name and a globe-and-shield logo. The move is considered highly unusual as federal agencies typically do not trademark, nor act as agents for, such initiatives, sparking congressional scrutiny.two trademark applications for Donald Trump’s "Board of Peace" initiative, launched in January 2026 for Middle East, specifically Gaza, peace efforts. Filed by USPTO Director John Squires, these "intent-to-use" applications cover the name and a globe-and-shield logo. The move is considered highly unusual as federal agencies typically do not trademark, nor act as agents for, such initiatives, sparking congressional scrutiny.
Trump's legacy is now baked in, and he did it to himself.
DeleteTrump will forever be known as the most vile, corrupt, and criminal president, the worst president in modern times, by a mile.
Reagan is rolling over in his grave at how Trump has ruined the Republican Party, and W is rolling his eyes over the same, even though together they represent a triumvirate of evil.
DeleteThey're not outraged by his words. They are seething that he succeeded and aggressive language is all they can find to criticize.
I'm waiting for Trump to drop a nuke on the US, before I believe he's a worse President than Reagan.
DeleteThe Strait that was open before the war is closed. The US has spent down its weapons supply. Our 80-year alliance with the demcracies of Europe is frayed at best and probably broken. The Islamic regime remains in control. The destruction spread across Iran and Lebanon and to ur bases and embassies.
DeleteSo much winning.
Quaker - I agree that the resulting Iran are not fully satisfactory. Re NATO I think the Iran war did not so much destroy NATO as expose the fact that it barely existed. In practice it was not so much joint defense as the US defending them. At great cost to you and me. Yet, rather than being grateful, Europe looked down on us.
DeleteQuaker - I agree that the resulting Iran are not fully satisfactory. Re NATO I think the Iran war did not so much destroy NATO as expose the fact that it barely existed. In practice it was not so much joint defense as the US defending them. At great cost to you and me. Yet, rather than being grateful, Europe looked down on us.
DeleteGo fuck yourself, dickhead. NATO came to our defense after 9/11 you monumental racist jackass.
DeleteThis stupidity in Iran was an offensive unprovoked attack because your country of Israel demanded it.
"I am more and more struck by the unyielding, blind criticism of Trump." You aren't and your fainting-couch routine is sooo played.
DeleteYou feast on these comments since it's apparent you have nothing better to do than troll this site.
Someone once wrote:
DeleteDiC had not a thought in his head that was not a slogan, and there was no imbecility, absolutely none, that she was not capable of swallowing if Donny Smallhands handed it out to him.
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@12;24 - I could have not have said it better.
DeleteYou admit you don't have a speck of evidence, yet you somehow know that the ballroom is corrupt.
You don't know what the fuck you're talking about, dickhead. How can I have any evidence what king chickenshit hides it all? You are the one who keeps chirping about how great the deal is when you know jackshit about what is going on, you fucking fascist freak. Answer the fucking questions you fucking cunt.
DeleteWhere the fuck is the money coming from and what do the donors want in return? Don't fucking tell me they are shoveling money to Captain Queeg out of shear patriotism. It's just another fucking grift. Just like this bullshit Trump's Board of Peace horseshit. Where is the fucking billions of $ going, who controls it, is this a fucking government agency that Trump just magically created out of thin air, why is the fucking U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) involved???
TACO TRUMP STRIKES AGAIN!
ReplyDeleteHCR called it yesterday, noting how the language of Trump and other circumstances (VP Vance in Hungary) all indicated an attempt at a bluff was the more likely case. She still noted that the bluff was lunacy (it is a war crime) and that Trump needs to be removed from power. She noted that Dems are calling for his removal, and that the Republicans are staying silent on the matter; a stark difference.
Bombings are continuing today and the Strait of Hormuz remains restricted.
Still bombing, still closed? Say it ain't so! Grumpy told us he's done it again.
DeleteTalking like a gangster or two-bit dictator hungry for lebensraum doesn't make someone insane. It makes them evil. If you pay attention to what Trump is saying, it is about the money for him. He is the playground bully who threatens and beats up smaller children to steal their lunch money, except the adult equivalent. His father sent him to military school to learn advanced bullying techniques.
ReplyDeleteSpot on.
DeletePoor bullied Iran. Poor poor bullied Iran.
DeleteIn Trump's "Art of the Deal" the wimp steals the bully's lunch money.
DeleteArt of the Deal is a work of fiction written by a ghostwriter.
DeleteNo need to pity Iran, 12:31, but it seems fair to ask if in the middle of good faith negotiations it’s appropriate that Trump attacked them, and how that affects their reactions going forward, not to mention those protesters that Trump promised to help, only to ensure that the oppressive regime remains entrenched.
DeleteThere are many people who think that Trump actually accomplished things described in the works of fiction and his TV shows. Trump is an entertainer. In his dimwitted, dementia-ridden mind he can no longer grasp reality; he doesn't understand that people are being killed because of his desire to entertain.
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ReplyDelete"He [O'Donnell] said the mere fact of the past week's threats had created "a stain" on the way the United States is seen around the world. He said that stain will never be washed away.
ReplyDeleteWe don't know if that's right or that's wrong."
Why doesn't Somerby know about this? It is easy to verify by reading press coverage in other countries and seeing what they are saying about us, the worldwide reaction to Trump's threats.
Or Somerby could consider the reaction in history to Hitler's similar behavior, the memory of the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese and similar atrocities in our own and others' past. Are such events forgotten or do they leave a "stain." I think it is obvious that such events live in infamy, as FDR said in his speech to Congress, leading to our own declaration of war in 1941.
In 2016, Somerby eagerly predicted that Trump could win the election. But when Trump does something awful (as the rest of us predicted he would), Somerby doesn't know whether a prediction about the stain on our nation could be true or not?
If Somerby is being excessively literal and worries about how long stains last in history, and thinks that forever is too long a time to make statements about, he can paraphrase O'Donnell, who means that this is a really bad stain that has caused other nations to think badly of us, and that change may last a very long time. If that is a more comforting way to think about it, then he should know the answer when he considers whether the statement is true or not.
It is obvious that Trump made a huge mistake that reflects badly now on all of us, that has damaged our reputation and standing as a nation. If he didn't already do that with his stupid tariffs, unwillingness to support Ukraine and NATO, his refusal to prosecute Epstein's crimes as other nations are doing, and so many other failures that are an ongoing embarrassment to our country.
But Somerby is not willing to say that Trump has done something wrong, even when he threatens to obliterate that ancient civilization after bombing a girls' school without justification in an illegal war.
If Somerby cannot bring himself to call out Trump's wrongs, he has no standing to call Trump insane or evaluate his behavior in any other way. In fact, if Somerby won't tell the truth about Trump's wrongdoing, Somerby has nothing to say to any of us on any topic.
Perhaps Somerby is thinking that Netanyahu and Israel are cheering on Trump's actions, so they do not consider him a stain on our national conscience. That is like arguing that Hitler was morally OK because his Axis friends applauded his success in horribleness. History will not be kind to Trump simply because the Saudis like him.
It is hard to know what Somerby is thinking when he writes outrageous sentences, because he doesn't tell us, but it is hard to find any meaning that makes his "maybe Trump's not so bad" stance any less offensive. And no one has the luxury of waiting forever before making up one's mind about how to think about Trump and his bad deeds.
I shudder thinking about Somerby standing in front of a classroom and saying to children "We don't know whether Hitler was bad or not..." Teachers are expected to communicate values not just information. So, when Somerby makes these odd remarks about whether Trump has stained our nation with his acts of war, I have to return the question: "Who talks like that?"
don''t worry, the cycle will continue, a Democrat will step in and try to repair the damage Captain Queeg leaves us, and then Somerby will undermine the Dem enough to guarantee another moronic republican will come back in to fuck things up again.
DeleteBob: our president is insane
DeleteEveryone else: ok what should we do
Bob: never talk about racism, never!
Everyone else: gtfo, you're the lunatic
And Bob: don’t impeach, and don’t prosecute Trump. But do pity him!
DeleteCorby, how is the bridge playing going?
DeleteFine, thanks for asking.
DeleteIf you are interested in finding a good hobby, here's a place to get started:
https://www.acbl.org/learn/
Glad to hear it. Appreciate the link!
DeleteTrump threatening to “take out the entire country in one night" and bombing Iran's power plants and bridges was actually one of his greatest plays of all time.
ReplyDeleteSome people lost their minds over Trump's recent comments and post. And that's because they lack a negotiation filter to make sense of him.
Trump has been aggressively scope-setting--establishing a ceiling so high and gruesome that everything below it would eventually look like a reasonable outcome.
I would even argue that this ceasefire wouldn’t have seemed reasonable at all had we not have had Trump’s Easter post. Think about it.
Imagine Trump never having threatened to blow Iran off the map, and the world spending 48 hours ruminating about it.
A ceasefire would’ve seemed mediocre. Not anymore.
It feels like Trump stopped WWIII. He put the image in everyone’s head that Iran was going to get sent back to the stone age. That didn’t happen, so a ceasefire and more negotiations seem like such a big win.
And here’s another move that nobody is talking about. Each time Trump extended a deadline (and he extended four of them) he wasn’t just buying time. He was letting the architecture get bigger.
Deadline one: US-Iran bilateral. Reopen the strait or face strikes.
Deadline two: Pakistan enters the channel. The conversation is no longer two parties; it’s three.
Deadline three: Pakistan hosts Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey in Islamabad. Now it’s a regional table.
Deadline four: the “Islamabad Accord” framework--a named document with regional backing and two phases.
By the time tonight arrived, Trump hadn’t just been negotiating with Iran. He’d been building a coalition of every major regional stakeholder around a shared interest in the outcome.
Saudi Arabia and the UAE have wanted Iran contained for decades. Egypt and Turkey wanted regional stability and a seat at the table. Pakistan wanted the credibility of brokering a historic deal.
In tonight’s post, Trump did something extraordinary: he announced the ceasefire “on behalf of the United States of America, as President, and also representing the Countries of the Middle East.”
He’s not brokering a US-Iran deal anymore. What he's doing is positioning himself as the representative of a regional coalition--Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt, Turkey, Pakistan--all behind the framework that’s now being finalized.
The permanent deal, when it comes, won’t be Trump versus Iran. It’ll be Iran versus a bloc that includes every major power in the region, with Trump holding the pen.
Again, Trump went from a Strait of Hormuz negotiation to a Middle East security architecture. A week ago this didn’t seem possible. Even a few days ago it didn’t seem possible. And yet here we are.
Trump kept the ceiling high enough that the deal had room to grow into something much larger than where it started.
Trump is on an all-time run.
It’s generally good form to cite your source, 12:29, rather than copying and pasting someone else’s words.
DeleteThe mullahs in Iran are entrenched for at least another generation, after beating back the great Satan. The destruction of the United States is proceeding apace.
ReplyDeleteStill beating that dead horse I see.
ReplyDeleteIn addition to the bringing to mind the scene from Apocalypse Now that I mentioned yesterday, the following song also seems appropriate in describing Bob and the entire media's campaign about Trump's insanity, I give you "Words" by Missing Persons:
My lips are moving, and the sound's coming out
The words are audible, but I have my doubts
That you realize what has been said
You look at me as if you're in a daze
It's like the feeling at the end of a page
When you realize you don't know what you just read
[Chorus]
What are words for when no one listens anymore?
What are words for when no one listens?
What are words for when no one listens? It's no use talkin' at all
[Verse 2]
I might as well go up and talk to a wall
'Cause all the words are having no effect at all
It's a funny thing, am I all alone?
Something has to happen to change the direction
What little filters through is giving you the wrong impression
“It's a sorry state,” I say to myself
Indeed, it is a sorry state. lol
One thing words are for is to clarify the thoughts of the person using the words to express themselves. You find out what you think and feel when you try to put your own thoughts into words. Clarifying your own beliefs then allows you to choose actions that make sense in your life.
DeleteThe song is about the frustrations (futility) of communicating with others, but another function of using words is to understand yourself, to make things subconscious explicit to conscious awareness.
Self-expression must be important given that it is the basis for music and literature, as much for the artist as for their audience.
I remember all last year when the MAGA trolls were extolling the virtue of Trump’s capricious tariffs, accusing the rest of us of just being haters. Now that prices are up, jobs numbers are dismal, new business development is at a standstill, the deficit and debt are exploding, and the tariffs were declared unconstitutional, it seems that maybe the critics had a point.
ReplyDeletePerhaps those same critics now have a point about Iran.
Actually Trump did achieve protective tariffs. Industrial production is up since Trump took office.
Deletehttps://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/INDPRO/
You truly believe Trump’s tariffs caused this, DiC? If so, why?
DeleteShips are now FREELY passing through the Strait of Hormuz after Iran CAVED to President Trump.
ReplyDeleteGod bless Trump, the PEACEMAKER!
From an hour ago: “Iran is again blocking ships from passing through the Strait of Hormuz just hours after agreeing to reopen the waterway, blaming the reversal on Israel striking Lebanon — despite President Trump making clear Beirut was never part of the cease-fire agreement.”
DeleteBy the way, 3:19, were ships freely passing through the strait prior to the US attack on Iran? Just curious.