Since this will all be a part of history I thought it would be fitting to mention in my blog that a week or so after Israel began pummeling Iran, Trump, exercising his policy of FOMO (Fear of Missing Out), maintained that he would need two weeks to decide whether to bomb Iran or wait for diplomatic channels to open. Hint! He was, as is his custom, lying. He had already decided to send over two B2 bombers with “bunkerbuster” 36,000 lbs of TNT to destroy Iran’s nuclear stockpile. Since Iranians knew this was likely to happen it’s likely that they moved their enriched uranium to some safe haven.
The bomber bombed. Trump used the word “obliterated” to describe what happened. The press was not so sure. Here’s what Trump said in response.
Were the targets obliterated? Trump said it. Leavitt said it (twice). Hegseth said it. It must be true. Unless it isn’t. A classified intel report leaked to CNN suggested that total annihilation actually meant a six month or so temporary setback. No one’s happy at the White House.
And here in a New Yorker cartoon is what everyone knows to be true.
Trump has no plan, no policy, no idea about what to do. He’s opened the proverbial can of worms, Pandora’s box, and the repercussions are already being felt. First to go was Truth Social: “The social media platform Truth Social briefly crashed late Saturday evening after President Donald Trump announced that the United States had “completed” its attack on three Iranian nuclear sites.Users of Truth Social, which the president launched in 2022, began complaining about the website being unusable on X.” Today rockets were launched to a US airbase in Qatar. The fun is just beginning.
And if that wasn’t enough…
Trump demands special prosecutor investigate 'stolen' 2020 election, loss to Biden
Trump cited Biden's poor record at the border and maintained that he won the 2020 election in a landslide
The mystery of why 75,000,000 people found this felonious fascist preferable to Kamala Harris will follow me for the next god-knows-how-many years, but follow me it will.
Is America strong enough to withstand this pitiful excuse for a human? And if so, for how long?
The Onion, America’s satirical and prescient publication, took out a full page ad in the NY Times on Sunday. Here it is.
Congress, Now More Than Ever, Our Nation Needs Your Cowardice
Published:
June 20, 2025
Who will stand up for our democracy? This question, fraught in even the most peaceful times, has only grown more pressing as our country approaches its 250th anniversary. Each passing day brings growing assaults on essential liberties like freedom of speech and due process. Meanwhile, our delicately assembled legal system faces a constant barrage of threats. Even as this issue reaches publication, the U.S. military has been deployed against peaceful protestors. We teeter on the brink of collapse into an authoritarian state. That is why, today, The Onion calls upon our lawmakers to sit back and do absolutely nothing.
Members of Congress—now, more than ever, our nation desperately needs your cowardice.
Our republic is a birthright, an exceedingly rare treasure passed down from generation to generation of Americans. It was gained through hard years of bloody resistance and can too easily be lost. Our Founding Fathers, in their abundant wisdom, understood that all it would take was men and women of little courage sitting in the corridors of power and taking zero action as this precious inheritance was stripped away—and that is where we have finally arrived.
Now is not the time for bravery or valor! This is the time for protecting your own hide and lining your pocket. Now is not the time for listening to your idiotic constituents drone on about what’s happening to their precious democracy. This is the time for getting down on all fours and groveling. Now is not the time to say, “Enough is enough,” and have the tough conversations about resisting the ongoing assaults on American liberty. This is the time to let the wave of apathy and indifference roll over you as you think about getting a really nice renovation to your house in Kalorama.
But what can I, one coward, do alone? you might ask. It’s true. As a solitary person, your fecklessness will make little impact. But if you join together with the most craven senators and representatives in the Capitol, the impact will be immense: The corruption, the disregard for the rule of law, the shipping of residents to foreign gulags, the attacks on judges, the censorship and chilling of speech, the punishment of any and all dissent—it can be made that much worse if you just find it in yourself to clutch your head in your hands, wet the bed, and cower in the hope of being spared from the White House’s wrath.
It won’t be easy, but you must search deep within yourself and muster up every ounce of gutlessness you have. Then, bend over and lick the president’s boots.
Why? Because ultimately none of this matters. Democracy? Equality? The U.S. Constitution? These are hollow phrases. They mean nothing. But money—delicious money? That is solid. You can hold it in your hands. You know this. We know this, too. Only our infantile citizenry fail to appreciate how much you stand to gain by kissing the ring.
In our nation’s darkest moments, the public often looks to Congress for profiles in meekness. We search for men and women much like yourselves, emotional weaklings who are afraid to meet their own glance in the mirror, insignificant do-nothings who quake in their boots at the mention of the slightest exertion. Many of you have already distinguished yourselves as such individuals. To them, our country’s oligarchs can only offer their boundless thanks.
Take solace knowing you are not alone in this endeavor. Over the grand expanse of American history, there have been countless lawmakers who managed to summon up their complete lack of backbone and do the easy thing. Think of the members of Congress who turned a blind eye to Japanese American internment, McCarthyism, or the horrors of the Holocaust, all because doing something seemed a little too hard, a little too inconvenient. These men should be your inspiration. Never forget: You stand on the shoulders of spineless giants.
But we have not descended entirely from a nation of fearful men, have we? Let this be the moment to make amends for any missteps of American bravery and valor. Congress, we are asking, nay, demanding: This coming Independence Day, don’t wave the Stars and Stripes, that enduring symbol of liberty and rebellion.
Instead, wave the white flag of surrender.
Tu Stultus Es,
The Onion Editorial Board