But why bomb Iran? Because for Trump, nothing else seems to be working.
The only way Trump has managed to win a court case was by getting elected for the second time last November. After that? All those legal woes that were circling The Donald like sharks wearing bibs simply disappeared. Of course he’s still guilty of 34 criminal counts and he’s still a convicted rapist, but that doesn’t seem to matter quite so much anymore. What does matter, though, is that no matter how hard Trump and his sad sack legal team have tried during these first six months of his second term, with very few exceptions, the judges simply won’t give the sitting president a break. Meaning they won’t bend the law for him. And so far, Trump hasn’t managed to buy them off or successfully threaten them, which has resulted in a loss of 93% of his cases according to Democracy Forward.
“At last count, the Institute for Policy Integrity at the New York University School of Law found that the Trump administration has lost 79 of 85 cases involving federal agencies on deregulatory or policy issues — a historically low 7.1% win rate. (Most administrations have a 70% win rate). As TheWashington Postnoted, more than a few of these are cases we’ve brought on behalf of municipalities and organizations, successfully forcing the Trump administration to reverse course on illegal policymaking.”
Speaking of bad policy, Trump was sure that Americans were as anti-brown people as he was, so he figured surely they would bow down in the streets in thanks and praise as he unlawfully sicced ICE on not just undocumented immigrants but fully legal (non-white) Americans to deport them to anywhere else but here. Surprisingly, and sickeningly, as I pointed out in last week’s post, Supporting ICE is how we lose. Earlier this month, 75 Democrats broke away from the majority of their colleagues and openly supported ICE’s illegal and traumatizing tactics.
To the contrary, literally millions of protesters took to the streets all across this country and around the world, protesting Trump’s horrific deportation policies, demonstrating just which direction the political winds are really blowing. And they did so during Trump’s embarrassing failure of a military birthday parade. So that would be another loss.
Remember when Trump was first elected and he was talking about all that winning he was going to be doing? Now he appears to be the one thing he fears more than anything: a complete and total loser.
So why wouldn’t he bomb Iran? How much worse can it get for Trump, and how long can it remain this bad before we all find out what ‘much worse’ really means? Few pretend to truly understand how Trump’s mind works, except to agree that it doesn’t. Still, as someone who revels in being unpredictable and unreliable, bombing Iran as a ‘strategy’ to raise the sinking Titanic that are his ratings seems perversely plausible. Consider that it was last Wednesday, June 18, when Trump said, “Nobody knows what I’m going to do” about Iran, as if contemplating the possibility of bombing another country at a whim without any input from Congress or anybody else was perfectly acceptable. Several days later, on June 22, Trump bombed Iran. Soon after that, he boasted that the bombing had been a tremendous success. From The White House website:
President Trump: “Monumental Damage was done to all Nuclear sites in Iran, as shown by satellite images. Obliteration is an accurate term! The white structure shown is deeply embedded into the rock, with even its roof well below ground level, and completely shielded from flame. The biggest damage took place far below ground level. Bullseye!!!”
But then, soon after that, it turns out that…well, maybe not. Probably not. Who knows. Whoops. Moving on.
Except that we can’t.
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I would give GHW Bush the benefit of the doubt, even though he himself was an "oil man." He dislodged Saddam Hussein from Kuwait and then stopped. (As far as I know.)
I would give GHW Bush the benefit of the doubt, even though he himself was an "oil man." He dislodged Saddam Hussein from Kuwait and then stopped. (As far as I know.)