Regular unleaded is now back to over $4 per gallon again, courtesy of Trump’s Ahab-like refusal to accept that the war is lost. Like Ahab, he is determined to pursue his white whale to the ends of the Earth, even if it means his own destruction and ours along with him.
AAA says regular unleaded is currently – as of July 30 – about $4.10 per gallon. How much higher will it go as Ahab continues to rail at (and bomb) his white whale? More finely, Netanyahu’s white whale. The real president’s visit is coincident with the restart of the war. The factotum president – who is more a viceroy – did as he was told to do.
And now we’re paying for it, again.
So are the Iranians. We in America ought to reflect that while we are experiencing pain at the pump, the Iranians are experiencing a different kind of pain. That so many Americans are indifferent says a lot about America. There is also something to say about the Republican Party, which is now grossly complicit. It has shrugged both its constitutional as well as its moral duty to reign in the spray-tanned Ahab. That we are at war is self-evident truth. It is insolent to the truth to claim otherwise. Congress has a duty to reign in a president who takes the country to war at his own behest. An illegitimate – a criminal – war. Iran did not attack the United States. The United States attacked Iran at the behest of a foreign state. If this is not a treasonous act then what is?
Clintigula was excoriated by Republicans for lying about his personal business. The GOP never does anything substantive about the public’s business. Then as now. This time is however a different time. Clintigula was popular; this stupid, evil war is not. It is the only war in memory that was never popular. Many Americans initially supported The Chimp’s WarrnnnTrrrr – including the manufactured war against “Saddam,” as The Chimp routinely referred to him. It is worth recalling that it was the same state that got us into that war that got us into this war. Israel fed The Chimp bullshit about “weapons of mass destruction” – and mass destruction did indeed ensue.
The public – including lots of Republicans – eventually soured on The Chimp’s wars, which led to eight years of Barry Obama. Vietnam was another war that – at first – roused the Lee Greenwood Legions. Some 60,000 dead Americans later, they were no longer Proud to be Americans.
This is worse than that. A minority of Republicans, mostly elderly Fox News consumers, support the war. Pretty much everyone else was – at best – deeply ambivalent when Trump started the war and that shifted over to disgusted trending toward enraged as it became clear the thing is not just a war crime but a disaster. Hitler’s war was initially extremely popular – chiefly because he was winning, or so it seemed. By 1943, not so much – except in the hysteric rants of the those-days equivalents of today’s Sean Hannitys and Pushy Pink Peddlers (i.e., Glenn Beck). It did not end well for their analogs of 80 years ago and it is not likely to end well for them, either. No matter how often they play the Lee Greenwood song.
The GOP is at a crossroads. It can do something, while there is still time to do something – before it is too late, in other words – or it can do something do reign in Ahab and (perhaps) thereby save itself from what it otherwise coming.
For all of us.
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