yeah.

time for a deduction, kids: iran. what's going on?

well, it's easy to conclude from the coverage that the president is a fucking moron, and that he's about to do something stupid - something stupid which would happen to hand over yet another oil producing region to the country's primary competitor. and, i bet the democrats would have fun insinuating that putin and trump are in kahoots over it, too, right?

that's not reality.

i like to find little pieces of evidence that would be impossible if it weren't for the alternative narrative i want to present; it's a kind of proof by contradiction - although i'm abusing the language, here.

iran is threatening to blow up american military bases if they put down sanctions. that's not scary; that's comical. it's a threat that's emptier than jagmeet singh's suits. but, they would hardly risk that kind of language if they weren't told the truth about what's happening.

iran knows that what trump is doing on iran right now is for domestic consumption, so it is producing it's own nonsense for it's own domestic population, and the media is laughably reporting it all as real. there is no other way to make sense of iran's threats, and america's decision to not even respond with a sardonic remark.

i kind of expected this from trump. the only thing he was ever really serious about was china. everything else he said ranged from ignorant to absurd.

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.