How do you lose a ceaspire? El Presidente? But the bigger question, did Trump call off his genocide? Did he? As a Twitter wag suggested, play both Hitler and Chamberlain here because he didn't need the missiles flying this week, because this is way too early to precipitate some kind of security crisis here in America? Did he give the Iranians control of horror moves and let them keep their uranium and get them out from under the sanctions? Because while the first reason for this pointless brinksmanship was a distraction from the Epstein files, the second reason was to have a reason in late summer and early autumn to maybe declare a domestic emergency here and mess with the elections. Is this not about nukes and Israel and oil in forty seven years this and regime changed that, and I already killed their civilization, so now I'm going to kill it again? Is this instead about the chance that in his fascist madness and fugue state, and with his dissolving brain, he completely screwed up the timing. He didn't need retaliation from Iran and maybe terrorism real or staged or just made up on April ninth. He needs it on October ninth. So this was all not only postponed, but it was postponed already pre sabotaged. So he can keep it on a back burner till then, or bring it back later when he needs to lie and say Iran is a threat right here at home. I could paraphrase the historian Tim Snyder, who was smarter than the rest of us and has already moved from Yale to the University of Toronto last year, But why paraphrase? Let me quote? On Twitter, Tim Snyder invoked Hungary and victor Orbon and his false flag fake terror scam there, which was made as JV Vance was arriving there. And to that, Tim Snyder added this quote, we are seven months away from the most consequential mid term election in the history of the United States. Meanwhile, we are fighting a war. These are the structural conditions for a coup attempt in which a president tries to nulli FI elections and take permanent power as a dictator. Unquote. On his substack, Professor Snyder fleshed out this nightmare, and again, out of respect, I'm just quoting this. Trump tells us that he is chiefly concerned with the permanence of his own comfort and power. Think about ballroom and bunker, much of which he will lose when his party is defeated decisively in the midterms. He regularly declares his intention to meddle in the elections. His party backed a bill which would have turned elections into a sham. Trump wants to increase the defense budget by nearly fifty percent without any review of what the money is for. This is strategic nonsense and has to be understood as a payoff for the men who, as he imagines, will help him install a dictatorship. Tim Snyder, to be clear, the other part of this, Iran is a threat in America. So we can't have the midterms, or we have to have troops at the polling places, or you can only vote if you show your passport or Iran hacked the computers, I'm throwing out the elections. That's me theorizing, not Snyder. I will again add that the ceasefire is not the end of the Iran excuse. It is merely the postponement of the Iran excuse. If you give everything another two weeks, every two weeks, you only need to do it about a dozen more times, and then suddenly the threat from Iran to our elections comes back up around election day. Regardless the exact mid term plan, whatever it is he might use to try, this is almost incidental to the phony rationale, the rationale oh Iran or oh threat from I don't know, Mexico. That's what counts. And Snyder said it more succinctly, and he also has an idea. His idea is he proposes a nationwide day of mobilization and protest on May first.

I suppose Trump might postpone that for two weeks. Stepping back from the political science fiction brink, and sadly it may be anything but fiction. There is a domestic crisis at the moment because this past week has underscored the hidden truth of the Trump criminal cartel that he is a moron, a moron who cannot even subvert the government properly while he is in charge of that government. Trump didn't just break what little stability was left in the Middle East, He erased whatever was left here. Who is our military expert? Trump says he is? Who is our Middle East expert? Trump says he is? Who is our wartime leader? Trump says he is? Who is our man of peace? Trump says he is? The reality is Trump literally struggles to successfully point to the drawing of the camel on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment test, and his people yesterday decided to have an argument with the Pope over peace. Should we remove Trump as president because he's evil? Should we remove Trump as president because he's crazy? Or should we remove Trump as president because he's stupid? The only outcome of this his version of the Cuban missile crisis. The only outcome of this his version of the Pearl Harbor Plan minus the seat part. The only outcome is America officially has given control of the Strait of Hormuz to Iran. Iran, which did not get to decide which ships got past Hormuz and which didn't, now gets to decide that Trump now claims we will share in the tolls reportedly two million dollars. A ship spoiler alert, we will not share in the tolls, and Iran will make billions. And remember, on March twenty second, Trump declared Iran was dead. On March sixth, he had demanded its unconditional surrender. This is unconditional surrender. He gets to share the toll booth at the Strait of Hormoz with a country he said was dead, and he's the one who gets to work the night shift. Oh and we have Trump, in his amazing and escalating idiocy, calling it a double sided cease fire because he's too much of a dying, melting brain more to realize that all ceasefires are double sided,