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Miles Archer

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14. They see him for exactly "who" and "what" he is.
Fri May 15, 2026, 10:16 PM
3 hrs ago

I am assuming that because of the decline in his physical and mental health, that's the reason why he's not out doing a MAGAt rally a couple of times a month, or whatever his schedule was in his first term.

He NEEDED that hit off of the crack pipe. He NEEDED to get out there and run through his tired, predictable material, and hear the adoring laughs and cheers of his morons in their red hats.

Just because his mobility decreased, the need did not. He keeps crafting these tales of how all of these authoritarian fascist dictator "strongmen" love him to pieces.

Xi insulted him to his face, it took him 24 hours to realize it, and when he did, he claimed Xi was referring to Biden.

I hate to replay this disclaimer every time I talk about Iran, but I also know "who" and "what" THEY are. I don't admire them. I don't respect the atrocities they have committed. That said, they are not Republicans in Congress or 1/3 of America in red hats. They're not impressed with Trump. They're not afraid of Trump. And we can never, never forget that the way Trump BEGAN THIS WAR was by murdering 160 innocent Iranian children.

I'm sure they haven't forgotten it either.

I'm sure you're familiar with the classic film Night of the Living Dead. If you have the opportunity to pick up one of the DVDs, like the Criterion Collection version, you can hear commentary about how director George Romero considered the movie to be an allegory for the Vietnam War. Briefly summing it up, America did the "HOO-RAH" thing, we're going to go over there and wave our flag and kick some ass and in very short order they realized they were out of their element, slogging through swamps, getting slaughtered by a country that was more prepared for them than they imagined. That's the "overwhelmed by flesh-eating zombies" part, the allegory, the metaphor, what have you.

And that's what happened with Iran.

We had a 79 year old rapist who thought the war would be a shits & giggles distraction from Epstein, and a drunken sexually abusive Fox "News" InfoTainment personality CosPlaying as G.I. Joe, and it was gonna be shock and awe and the MAGAts would cheer, except none of that happened, and now he doesn't know how to get out of it. and Iran is the cat with one paw on the mouse that's struggling to break free.

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