Epic fury

The guy who campaigned on, among other lies, promises to avoid going to war has taken us to war. Raise your hand if you're shocked.

Secretary of Drunkenness Pete Hegseth calls this campaign of unwarranted, unexplained, and unconscionable violence "Operation Epic Fury." Well, we're furious, all right. Here's the alleged president of the United States, without any authorization or legal basis to do so, raining missiles and bombs down on a sovereign nation and assassinating a head of state for reasons he is not sharing. The rationale he and his flunkies have trotted out so far are absurd, no one takes them seriously. We know they're lies. So we can only speculate as to why he's really doing this.

It's worth noting, again, that the United States and Iran had a functional, working agreement, one that took years of negotiations and tenacity to obtain, to curtain Iran's nuclear ambitions. Felon47 tore that agreement up when he was Fraudster45 for no reason other than it was something the Black guy did. That abdication of international agreement by the U.S. led directly to last summer's bombings that Felon47 claimed, ridiculously, had "obliterated" Iran's nuclear infrastructure. Today's unprovoked attacks put the lie to that claim, or render it irrelevant. The Tyrant of Mar-a-Lago probably did this, not for any national security reasons, but at the behest of his enablers in Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and other Mideast kingdoms. And maybe to help out his fellow war criminal Bibi Netanyahu. And to make the news focus something other than the Epstein files and the spectacularly bad polling on Felon47 generally.

Felon47 has committed myriad abuses of power, so many that it's almost impossible to catalogue them all. Yet, this unconstitutional military action violating international law and inviting utter chaos on an already unstable region may well be the worst abuse in history, by any president. It's an ongoing lowering of the bar, it seems there's a new option for worst abuse of power every day, but this one is truly spectacular.

The fact that Felon47 has not been removed from power already is an indictment of the Republican party that should bury it for decades if not destroy it outright.

And I am embarrassed by, ashamed of, and, yes, epically furious with my fellow countrymen and -women, the 70 million-plus of them who preferred this demented oligarchic rapist, this convicted fraudster, this petulant septuagenarian with the intellect of an eight-year-old, this hate-filled illiterate narcissist, this bigoted sack of insecurity and misogyny, the most prolific liar ever to step onto the public stage. The 70 million-plus that said, yeah, that guy, because the alternative was a competent and accomplished woman of Afro-Indian descent, eewww.

We fucking warned you. Over and over again. But you voted for the liar, the rapist, the bigot, the moron anyway.

And the death toll just keeps on climbing, now including at least 85 schoolgirls killed in a missile strike today.

I'll end by quoting the great Will Bunch:

A cruise-missile assault aiming to change the government in Iran is, in reality, a desperate plea for regime change in Washington, D.C. Democrats, who could gain power in the House as early as this year thanks to GOP scandals and illness, must make clear that Trump’s impeachment and an end to American autocracy is their main priority.

For now, we have unnecessarily injected ourselves into a long-troubled corner of the world where there are almost no good guys, where theocratic dictators are unceasingly slaughtering the citizens of other theocratic dictators. Maybe that’s because, over the course of 250 increasingly tragic years, the United States has finally become exactly like them.

The only epic fury should be our own.