TACO Tuesday: Good News and Bad News
Trump’s surrender will accelerate his breakdown.
Donald Trump has performed his greatest TACO yet, backing down at the last minute from his threat to make “a whole civilization die tonight” in Iran.
This is good news. Full stop. No sane person wanted to see the suffering he was going to unleash.
However, there are several problems here. First, the 10-point plan that Trump agreed is a “workable basis” leaves Iran in a far more powerful position than before the war. Iran will make billions on extra oil revenue and lack of sanctions—just in the two week ceasefire period.
This would be not just a failure, but a full on defeat by the Iranians—in every conceivable way. The war has cost 13 US soldiers’ lives & hundreds wounded, thousands of civilian deaths in Iran, conservatively $250 billion in military expenditures, and a major depletion of ammunition.
In exchange, Iran has more leverage and credibility than they could have imagined before the war. Instead of an aging Ayatollah leading a pariah-state, they have younger, more radical leadership, now hardened and emboldened by the conflict. And thanks to Trump, they now control the world economy.
Trump is already not taking this well. When CNN read the braggadocios statement by the Iranians, Trump went ballistic and claimed it was “FRAUD”—which it is not. He knows he got rolled over, played once again by Bibi Netanyahu, and coaxed into a no-win scenario by Pete Hegseth and the neocons.
Trump’s psychology cannot suffer defeat. It is not just agony for him; it is existential. He will be forced to compensate, or more accurately, to decompensate for the injury to his ego. His malignant narcissism is an endless pit, a spiral going endlessly toward the bottom. If the ceasefire holds, which is tenuous at best, Trump will pick another target for his sadism—probably his own country, because its population is threatening to take his power over Congress away in the midterms.
As hard as Trump will try to declare victory, he knows everything he’s doing, all of it, from ICE to tariffs to eliminating vaccines is not working. He thought starting a war in Iran would stop the humiliation of losing in the midterms—but all it did was ensure his lame duck status.
Expect a short period of mourning and pouting as Trump’s regime tries to scramble back to its feet. But soon enough, he will find a new target: us.
Batten down.
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You're right Jim. Little dick is too much of a coward to go up against Iran again, I hope but that doesn't mean that his own countrymen can breathe a sigh of relief because they are going to have to suffer instead in order to appease his ego. When he dies btw his tombstone will read "Two Weeks TACO Trump LIES here."
I do not believe that he is making any decisions anymore, if he ever was. He's too senile and deranged.
Steven Miller, Susie Wyles, Paula White, Steve Bannon, Peter Thiele, Jared Kushner, are the decision makers - they just wind him up and point him in the direction they want to send fire downrange.
Surely the Iranians know how senile he really is?????