Soooo..? How's our Splendid Little Gulf War going this week!?
Well,
Felony Fats supposedly gave one of his patented Fireside Weaves
Wednesday evening. I say "supposedly" because I didn't listen to it...
(Confession;
it's not so much the projectile vomit of lies, more lies, and even
weirder "is this even a lie? WTF?" that comes out of Orange Foolius'
piehole that keeps me away from his YouTube fodder; it's the tone. The actual sound of him; that nasal, whiny, Queens-white-trash thing he always does. No matter what he actually says - and Jim Wright does a perfectly good job of describing his
Wednesday word salad - it's that nails-on-a-blackboard sound of his
voice that drives me to instant loathing. So I read the transcript.)
...but apparently we've won.
But
we're going to keep winning for just another
Infrastructure-Week-slash-GOP-heathcare-plan-units (hint: two weeks) and
then...something something build a Victory Arch.
The IRGC and whoever else is sending the commo check messages from Tehran seem to disagree that "...we are on the cusp of ending Iran's sinister threat to America and the world." and as Clausewitz (drink!) would remind us, the enemy gets a vote, too, so.
Included in that vote are the numerous Iran-connected Shiite militias in Iraq, which, since all this explosive winning ("Their leaders, most of them and the terrorist regime they led, are now dead,")
has removed the IRGC liasons that acted as strategic dampers on the
angry Shiite guys in the basement of the Basra Rite-Aid, are now coming out of the woodwork,
as anyone who'd lived through Dick n' Dubya's Excellent Iraq Adventure
would have told you was as predictable as a Republican lying about
immigration, health care, or Social Security.
From the link:
"For
years, Iranian-backed groups like Kataib Hezbollah have targeted U.S.
and coalition bases, headquarters, embassies and other facilities in
Iraq. While these groups have been supported by Iran with funding,
weapons, intelligence and command and control, the Islamic Revolutionary
Guard Corps (IRGC) has also reigned them in. With the IRGC fighting for
its own survival now, and its command and control structure decimated,
their grip over the militias has loosened."
Y'think? And even if those IRGC C&C operators were in place, why would they want
to go all kumbaya on the angry boys from the Muqtada al-Sadr Memorial
Marching and Chowder Society? Why would the Iraqi militias want them to?
Fuck. If I were a twenty-something taxi driver in Mosul, y'know what?
I'd be hating on some American ass. Any American. ALL Americans.
Because it'd feel like every ten or twenty years the fucking ferenghis show up and just kill a shitload of people who look like me.
For "reasons". Kuwaitis. Oil. "Freedom". Geopolitics.
Me
in my taxi with the Twelver iconography and the radio tuned to that
Emirati pirate hip-hop station? Like I give a shit about the "reasons".
These murderous sonsofbitches are about as welcome as a dose of the
clap. If I had the chance to blow some Yankee bastard into fun-sized
pieces, y'think I wouldn't take it?
Meanwhile back here in the
Land of The Free Because Of The Brave? What are We the People getting
for all this multibillion-dollar gold-plated explosive winning?
"President
Donald Trump on Wednesday said it’s “not possible” for the federal
government to fund Medicare, Medicaid and child care costs, arguing that
it should be up to the states to “take care” of those programs while
the federal government focuses on military spending."
Ummm...
Talk about saying the quiet parts out loud.
Oops.
Of course, Tubby's spokesliars had race out and walk, no, run,
his blabber back inside the Bodyguard of Lies, because showing the
rubes too much of the script behind the GOP kayfabe might actually scare
some of the less-uninformed normies:
“President Trump
was referring to rooting out the billions of dollars of fraud in these
vital programs — and his record proves he will always protect and
strengthen Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid,” White House spokesperson Olivia Wales said in a statement.
“The President proudly signed historic legislation eliminating taxes on
Social Security benefits for nearly all seniors and barring illegal
immigrants and other ineligible individuals from fraudulently receiving
Medicare and Medicaid benefits. The Trump economic agenda will continue
to lower costs, making everyday life more affordable for hardworking
American families.”
Okay. "Waste, fraud, and abuse"?
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha(gasp)hahahahahahahaha...
Suuuuure, Livvy. Gotcha. Enter the DOGE Boyz, pursued by a bear.
Back in the day there was this guy;
Muḥammad
Saʿīd Al-Ṣaḥḥāf. He was the Saddam-version of the Nightly News, and was
tagged with the nicknames "Comical Ali" and "Baghdad Bob". His job was
to rep the Iraqi "version" of what was happening as the Westerners blew
the ever-loving hell out of Iraq.
He was widely mocked; ridiculed
because his "version" was - had to be, given the one-sided nature of
those earlier Gulf Wars - a ridiculous farrago of lies, evasions,
bullshit, and bombast.
And, no matter how hard he spun his
version, the brutal reality of those wars - that Saddam's Iraq was
hopeless before reality, that his master had no plan, no scheme, no one
secret trick that would have allowed Bob's bullshit to become fact -
meant that in the end he was and is remembered only as a sad, tattered
clown whose performance was nothing but a tawdry sideshow, a kayfabe of
nonsense that was buried beneath a charnel heap of death.
Whose
American authors were, in turn, shown to be fools for the fooling, liars
and cheats that lied and cheated for nothing, whose imperial ambitions
came, in the end, to ruin and merciless hatred.
The
ironic twist to the end of Tale of Baghdad Bob is that, in the fullness
of time and the foolishness of the goddamn American public...
...his
enemy has become him, the speeches of his enemy's leader have become as
bloated with lies and foolishness as his speeches were, and those lies
have come full circle, and the meaningless pile of destruction has
turned round upon it's maker.
(Cross-posted to MilPub)
