A Dead Crippled Country Can Still Bomb People to Smithereens
APR 02, 2026
I watched President Trump’s speech to the nation last night on the Iran War. The lies and boasts flew thick. According to Trump, America is winning and winning big. Under Joe Biden, America was “crippled” and “dead,” but Trump has reanimated the dead and healed it. (An obvious aside: Trump has a serious Christ complex.)
From dead and crippled, America is now the meanest, toughest, hombre in the valley. We take what we want and if you resist we’ll bomb you back to the Stone Age. As the New York Times reported: “We are going to hit them extremely hard,” Trump said. “Over the next two to three weeks, we’re going to bring them back to the Stone Ages, where they belong.”
The proud Iranian people, with Persia as one of the cradles of civilization—they mean less than zero to Trump. It doesn’t matter how many people have to die for Trump to feel like a winner.
A transcript of the speech is here. You’ll read about America’s “beautiful” B-2 bombers and how they’ve performed “magnificently.” You’ll read about America’s “warriors” and “heroes” who “laid down their lives” to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. You’ll read about their families who, even as they grieve the loss of loved ones in this war, are beseeching Trump to “Please, sir, please finish the job.” Every one of them, Trump added.
There were many reasons to be offended by Trump’s speech last night, but the idea of every grieving family member begging the president to “finish the job” by continuing to bomb and kill Iranians is certainly high on the list of offenses to morality and truth.
More than anything, what Trump’s speech told us is what he values. First, of course, himself and his identity as a man of action—a winner. The economy and the stock market. Oil and gas. Military might. And taking cheap shots at perceived opponents.
This sentence was especially revealing: The most violent and thuggish regime on earth would be free to carry out their campaigns of terror, coercion, conquest and mass murder from behind a nuclear shield.
Trump was referring to Iran here, but what he’s really saying is that only one violent and thuggish regime merits such a blank check on inflicting global violence protected by a nuclear shield. It’s not Iran’s, it’s his.
Bracing Views 
I forced myself to watch it, or rather, tried to watch it. I found the first minute, about the moon launch, to be reassuringly lucid. After that in went rapidly downhill, into the usual verbal, incoherent swamp. I also thought, dear God, this stuff is in the historical record, what will future historians – big assumption, or presumption, will there be a future from which historians will write? – make of this nuttiness? That wasn’t the accumulation of these unhinged ramblings enough to have him committed?
There needs to be an emendation here: “… what he’s really saying is that only one violent and thuggish regime merits such a blank check on inflicting global violence protected by a nuclear shield. It’s not Iran’s, it’s his.” Tack on Israel to that.
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I can’t bear watching him, but then I got to that point with Clinton, GWB and Obama as well. The President is essentially a con man.
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And when there’s much oil to be had via military invasion, violence and theft:
“It’s not a question of enough, pal. It’s a zero sum game — somebody wins, somebody loses. Money itself isn’t lost or made; it’s simply transferred — from one perception to another. Like magic.”
[from the mouth of the morbidly greedy bank-financier Gordon Gekko in Wall Street, 1987]
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“Now you’re not naive enough to think we’re living in a democracy, are you, Buddy? It’s the free market, and you’re part of it. Yeah, you got that killer instinct. Stick around pal, I still got a lot to teach you.”
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“Sell it all. What the hell, so we only make ten million.”
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“I don’t like losses, sport. Nothing ruins my day more than losses.” … Maybe in Gekko’s morbidly capitalistically corrupted mind, only making $10 million actually constitutes a loss, relative to him.
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Not only is he a con man but a morally corrupt individual who should be wearing an orange jumpsuit along with his ass kissing buddy nethanyahu.
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In 2002, Netanyahu implored the United States Congress to invade Iraq because, he alleged, Baghdad was developing weapons of mass destruction. This was utterly, and likely knowingly, false; however, the brutal damage had largely already been done, mostly to innocent Iraqi men, women and children. He is pulling the same stunt with Iran’s nuclear energy production.
The U.S. consistently drinks the Israeli state’s used bathwater. PM Netanyahu is the greatest warmonger of all yet still has the most powerful foreign connections acting as his puppets, notably the Trump administration. President Donald promptly bends over for Netanyahu’s Israel, gets back up, then unconditionally rearms the Israel Defense Forces with American state-of-the-art American-taxpayer-supplied weaponry to indiscriminately use against Palestine’s innocent non-combatants, notably children, and other foreign parties Israel deems a threat.
Arab nations cannot trust Israel, at least while it’s under the rule of Netanyahu (which, BTW, is not even his real name; it’s Mileikowsky), who has repeatedly proven himself to be a snake in the grass. Also, not so widely known by the outside world is that Netanyahu’s military-officer brother was killed during an attack against Palestinian and German hostage-takers in 1976 by Israeli forces. Netanyahu may still want even more Palestinian lives for that, however innocent.
… And Trump’s lame, immoral idea of creating peace is compelling one side or party that: “You’re not holding any cards.” However, human beings, both individualistically and collectively, want to feel a sense of self dignity, and therefor Trump’s you’re-not-holding-any-cards likely won’t work.
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Trump, himself, may not really know what he’s trying to accomplish with attacking Iran. … On Nov.6 of 2024, Donald Trump publicly stated: “Many people have told me that God spared my life [from two assassination attempts] for a reason. And that reason was to save our country and to restore America to greatness.”
The institutional ‘Christians’ who still vocally and politically support Donald Trump tend to see him as literally Godsent. Many also perceive Trump’s presidency as divinely-intended punishment against liberals. If anything, he’s evidence of a great evil being unleashed onto a largely powerless world. If Trump’s presidency does end up boding well for the world overall, I believe it will have been accidental.
Last year, American comedian/actor John Mulaney compared the Trump presidency to a horse that has broken loose inside a hospital: “It’s never happened before. No one knows what the horse is gonna do next, least of all the horse. He’s never been in a hospital. He’s as confused as you are.”
The analogy is very funny, however legitimately worrying. Trump is the very unstable, vengefully angry and self-centered/-serving type willing to take the world for a most brutal spin, perhaps even for the sake of him making it into the historical-‘greatness’ books.
Yet, many Trump fans still admire him as some sort of genius that resists/challenges the Deep State, etcetera. And there’s “the swamp” that Trump claims he’ll drain — although he himself is a part of it. Since both Trump administrations kowtow(ed) to big fossil fuel, mostly via the recklessly significant loosening of environmental protections, he, far from genuinely trying to “drain the swamp”, actually wallows in it.
And then he wades even deeper into the filth by siding with big-money military industrial interests and Netanyahu’s Israel in un-provokedly bombing Iran last summer and again now.
… Then again, is Donald not the first aspartame-abusing U.S. president to have also tried smoking pot but never exhaled?
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