Headed back to 2003
CNN is scum, MSDNC is scum, the New York Times is scum. They’re bad people, they’re sick.
— Donald Trump, June 25, 2025
Donald Trump’s Iran attack was a failure.
The Iranian nuclear program was not destroyed.
Here is what happened.
The United States used more than half of its bunker-busting arsenal of GBU-57s to obliterate a mountain top, and Little Marco, Champagne Pete, and JD Vance got to appear in a prime time episode of national disaster television behind a demented old man filled with malice, delusions and venom.
Here is what was achieved.
Nothing — except for making the Iranian regime more dangerous.
Both Trump and Netanyahu went for the proverbial head of the snake and missed. The nuclear program is intact — perhaps set back by just a few months — while the top of an Iranian mountain has had an explosive redecoration.
Perhaps before Donald strolls out to the first tee of his Bedminster Golf Club he will spend a moment in repose at the grave of his first wife Ivana, nestled just off the putting green.
There, alone, he can be himself, and face the fact that his Iran attack was his biggest miss since Junior and Eric.
Meanwhile, the American media seems to be deeply enthralled to the idea of another war begun with “shock and awe.” It turns out that summer of 2025 is throwback season. We are headed back to 2003, but the load is light because the heavy baggage — the stuff that carried all the lessons — has been thrown off the carriage.
Have you noticed how everybody in America and around the world who questions the Trump regime is either sick, lying or criminal?
It’s quite a coincidence, n’est-ce pas?
Understand that all authoritarians view their critics and dissenters in the exact same manner. Since no criticism is warranted against perfection, and Trump is divinely ordained, it must be that it is the critic who is deranged and deformed.
I recall reading about Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Some people looked at Donald Trump and saw God.
Other people looked at Donald Trump and saw a fascist.
The people who found their God cannot stand the scrutiny of their shame. As a result, they are willing accomplices in the delusion that holds that truth is what Donald declares it to be, while reality and the recognition of it is a sign of mental illness.
What do you see in these photos?
Why are these men wearing masks?
It is not to keep you or anyone else safe.
Understanding that doesn’t make you crazy.
It makes you smart.
It marks you as right and aware.
We live in a world where the one thing that remains certain remains deeply true: Donald Trump cannot be trusted to tell the truth to anyone, at any time, about anything.
Ever.
The bill for all of this will come due.
It always does.
After all these years, it still sickens me to see the president of the United States use words and sentences like a middle school bully. I can’t get over how the American people thought this is best we can do. Steve you’ve been spot on from the start on everything. This isn’t over.
"The bill for all of this will come due."
I have a serious but maybe stupid question. How would accountability work?
It was disclosed that Stephen Miller holds a substantial stock interest in ICE contractor, Palantir. In essence, the cash register rings for Stephen with every deportation. It's a conflict of interest but is it illegal?
The deportations without due process were clearly illegal until the Supreme Court ruled they are not.
I could continue with a laundry list of Trump regime outrages and never finish, but ultimately what would it take to hold these miscreants accountable?