“You say eether and I say eyether. You say neether, I say nyther. Eether, eyether, neether, nyther. Let's call the whole thing off. You like potato and I like po-tah-to. You like tomato and I like to-mah-to. Potato, po-tah-to, tomato, to-mah-to. Oh, let's call the whole thing off. “(‘Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off’/Ira Gershwin, circa 1937)
Iran closes Strait of Hormuz again over U.S. blockade and fires on ships. Iran’s joint military command warned it would continue to block transits while the U.S. blockade remained in effect. (MS NOW)
Demented and the self-anointed new Jesus Christ, Trump, lives in some make-believe land where he is adored and desired by his cauldron of collective sycophants, and due to his delusional world, thinks that when he lies, it is the truth, and when he creates fiction, it becomes fact. To that point, Trump, the newly anointed Jesus, has received little to no blowback from his army of Christian Crusaders of Republicans in Congress and his Clown Car Cabinet members.
But there is another group of gang members in Iran who have also anointed themselves as God, albeit not Jesus but Mohammad, and they too believe that they are the divine, and in doing so, they also believe that they too have the power to lie, cheat, and steal, but since they holier than the mere peasants of their country, they too can get away with bull shit and snake oil.
There was no war; there was an excursion, like a family vacation to a foreign land. Then it became a war. Then it was nothing more than some kind of Venezuelan thingie, where Trump was just protecting America from a perceived invasion. Then there was victory, then there wasn’t. Then we won because Trump was the architect of the deal, but the deal collapsed. Then it was on. All the while, the billionaires were making money from the Futures Market, and then they weren’t. We blew Iran to bits, but then there remained the pieces. Trump played us for the fool, with the permission of his Republican majority, and then Iran played Trump for the fool.
As the song goes, ‘let’s call the whole thing off’!
