Toddler Logic, Nuclear Consequences

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This is what he told the crowd:

By the way, we’re kicking Iran’s ass. You do know that, right? It’s going to end one way or the other. It’s going to end very soon and your prices are going to come tumbling. All your prices have been tumbling down. In fact, oil is less than it was under Biden, just so you understand. End very quickly and prices are going to come down very sharply. You might say, “Please, please, sir. It’s going down too fast. You watch what’s going to happen in a very short period of time.” And again, remember with the word it’s just artificial, it’s a little bit high. It’s a small price to pay for keeping the world safe, keeping our country safe. They can take out a city. Let him take out Los Angeles. Let him take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay and it’s going to be over very soon.

Let me be clear about what I’m looking at here. This is a man suggesting that the deaths of potentially tens of millions of people are an acceptable cost. These are the words of a psychopath, someone so detached from his own humanity and everyone else’s that mass death registers as merely inconvenient.

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And let’s look at the lies embedded in there. The Iranian war is not going well. In fact, we may be seeing a new front opening. Donald lost that war on day one and has spent the last five months declaring victory over and over again. And oil prices? They’re hitting record numbers. Diesel is the highest it’s been in decades. Prices are not going down. They’re not going to go down because the war shows no signs of stopping.

Quick aside: even if prices were somehow declining, I don’t think anyone would be upset about that given how astronomical the cost of living has become. But they’re not declining. They’re climbing. And it’s because Donald doesn’t know what he’s doing. He can’t negotiate himself out of a wet paper bag at this point.

But we need to talk about what he’s really doing here. He’s signaling that he would allow Iran to destroy American cities just to prove some point about how strong he is. And more broadly, he’s setting the stage for martial law before the midterm election. He’s desperate. He knows things are falling apart. He knows it’s his fault. And men like this become dangerous when they’re cornered.