Trump has grown so frustrated, the Schloss-Blog has observed, that he keeps threatening but then goes TACO on bombing Iran back to the Stone Age.
He wants a total surrender from Iran that he apparently will never get. Meanwhile, the Strait of Hormuz remains closed, on both ends, and gas prices at the pump in the U.S. remain hovering just under $5 on this holiday weekend.
What a celebration!
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WAIT: News Flash: Trump, Iran hint at a peace deal in the works. But, is it long last? Does it open the Strait, end uranium enrichment, kill the regime and guaranty anything that Trump wants?
Still waiting on all of that.
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OK< back to reality.
The one place where Trump has gotten a surrender is from his MAGA base. They believe in him, believe every lies he tell, no matter what, and would do whatever he tells them to do, no matter what (see 6, January).
And the other place would be from Democrats, who simply believe in complaining about Trump's grift and policies and are counting on Trump's gross unpopularity with the American public to carry the day for them in the midterm elections this November.
That better work for them, because their own unpopularity with the American public is just as problematic. Americans don't trust them nor know what they stand for any more than they do Trump and the lying, scheming 'Trumpettes' in Congress and in Trump's Cabinet.
You would think. But after Trump told the media, "I don't think about Americans' financial situations," at a time when Americans' financial situations are perilous and they're struggling to make ends meet, you would think Democrats would pick up that fumble and run it over the goal line in the form of ad after ad after ad all the way to November. Yes, Trump puts outright winning the war with Iran and directing all funds and resources toward that ahead of finances and healthcare for the American people.
Now, the Dems say they are prepping ads to leverage this and further destroy Trump's credibility, especially in toss-up states, in toss-up midterm races and to influence those especially independent voters they may have lost in 2024. That's true in a state like Arizona, where the governor's seat is on the docket and both houses of the state legislature are held by the Republicans. And by whisper-thin margins.
Or in Georgia, where Jon Ossoff is battling to maintain his Senate seat and even a Republican-turned-Democrat, Geoff Duncan, disgusted with Trump and his party, is seeking the governor's chair.
And in Ohio, where Democrat Sherrod Brown is running to grab a Senate seat after losing his there in 2024.
And even though Trump-backed candidates have done well in some primaries, especially against perceived Trump opponents, it's the general elections in November that will test them.
Especially in Texas, where Trump is backing scandal-ridden AG Ken Paxton instead of incumbent John Cornyn, to the dismay and disbelief or Cornyn's Senate colleagues, who feel that if Paxton gets the nod, the seat becomes even more vulnerable. And if nothing else, Republicans will have to spend, spend and spend some more in bright red Texas to win that race, pouring in resources that they could spend in races in other states.
Where they're badly needed.
So, what's the real cost of this war, for Trump, for Americans? For starters. whatever the dollar cost, it depicts Trump's insensitivity toward Americans' finances and their healthcare needs while spending it all on his "little skirmish" with Iran, supposedly $29 billion and counting, the Pentagon tells us. However, the Brown University Costs of War Project is keeping a "running" estimate," which it says is based on the Pentagon's own reported figures.
Which just might put it at ... wait for it ... $90 billion, and counting.
However you cut it, real financial impact to Americans is estimated at about $350 per household, and climbing, or some $45 billion additional in fuel costs alone.
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So, how are you feeling about the war and meeting the objectives of regime change?
No, I mean, restricting Iran's nuclear enrichment program, leading towards ... a nuclear bomb (OMG), which we're told, the Iranians will put on a plane and drop on the U.S.
No, wait, we mean reopening the Strait of Hormuz. It was open when the 'war' that is not a 'war' began. In February.
These floating objectives keep shifting in primacy for the Trump administration.
Maybe that's why, as we said at the top, he keeps going #TACO on bombing Iran back to the Stone Age. The only age he's bombing at is how own (79), and the American people are highly disapproving.
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Good night, Mrs. Calabash. Here's to you, Erin Mercado.
More Sunday night on my Radio Free Phoenix rock 'n' roll show.
Let's go Knicks.
And R.I.P., Barney Frank.
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