SERIOUSLY, why hasn’t anyone tried harder to cap this sorry motherfucker? I certainly would; if in the unlikely event I ever got within arm’s reach of this piece of human garbage who is so awful he could make Satan weep, I would sacrifice myself, take one for the team in a manner of speaking, to choke this bastard out for the good of humanity. Donald Jane Trump is absolutely the worst human being to have ever lived, and every day he remains alive is a pox on civilized human existence.
The ongoing attack launched against Iran by the President who lobbied for the Nobel Peace Prize and yet has still managed to set a record for bombing seven countries in a single year, is certainly appalling. My heart bleeds for the innocent Iranians who have been killed, and for the thousands more in the Middle East region and around the world who will die because of his actions.
I apologize for the particularly vicious tone of this commentary, but in one sense I am not sorry, because it needs to be said.
Iran is a difficult thing for a lot of people to come to terms with, because most people are simpletons who cannot wrap their minds around complexity. The Iranian regime is terrible. It brutally oppresses its own people, and has severely handicapped their right and opportunity to dignity and well-being. It has fomented violent unrest and rebellion across the Middle East region, and it is a matter of state policy that the nation of Israel should be destroyed.
To be perfectly honest, I no longer believe that policy is entirely off-the-mark. Nonetheless, it results in many innocent people of all faiths, cultures, and nationalities being hurt or killed, and on that basis alone it is illegitimate.
Let me clarify where I stand when it comes to Israel. I reject any theocracy, in any form, but true Israel, the one envisioned by the original Balfour Agreement that led to its creation, is not that. I love and am fascinated by Jewish people and their culture (and their food!); I grew up surrounded by it. And I absolutely believe that they have a right to a safe and prosperous homeland. But not at the expense of anyone else, particularly the Palestinians, because no one else in that part of the world has any less right to their own homeland. Imperial Zionism as carried out by the current regime in Israel is evil, and should be destroyed. It is a mortal sin and a crime against humanity for the US government to be supporting that. Not an Israel that lives in harmony with its neighbors, but the toxic Zionism of the present day.
Should we accept that the bastardized version of Shi’ite Islam that the clerics of Iran use as a political framework be the instrument of Zionism’s destruction? No, absolutely not. Two wrongs do not make a right, and through 40+ years of power, the Iranian clerics have demonstrated clearly that they have no real higher aims than absolute control over their own people, and to pose a threat to their neighbors to whatever extent is necessary to preserve their power. All the same, there is no moral or ethical justification for the US to defend the equally violent and self-interested Zionist regime, which, when it comes right down to it, is the only thing this current war being waged by President Bobo the Simpleminded is about. May Hell welcome you with open arms, you peace of shit, and may your brother-in-arms Benjamin Netanyahu join you.
The regime in Iran needs to be overthrown, but that is up to the Iranian people, which makes the current crisis an expression of criminal cynicism on the part of the US. If the US and its horrible leader were at all sincere in maintaining America’s role as the world’s “bastion of democracy,” it would have thrown its support behind the protests of the Iranian people against their regime in the past couple of months, instead of allowing that regime to brutally suppress the dissent and kill 30,000 civilians – and maybe more – in the process. The US did not do that, however, because Mango Mussolini and the Christofascist technocracy machine for whom he is a mere puppet find the concept of democracy and self-determination repulsive.
I read a post by someone on Bluesky in the past day or two that said something to the effect of, if you cannot keep the ideas that the Iranian regime is terrible (mostly to its own people), and the US-Israeli action against Iran is also condemnable in your mind at the same time, you are wrong. This is a messy situation, not at all a black-and-white affair.
I am saddened that US servicemen (and probably Israeli too) have lost their lives in this unnecessary, vile conflict, the fact that they should be bigger people and reject inhumane and unacceptable orders notwithstanding. I am saddened that so many innocent non-combatants, no matter where they are from, have also been killed, wounded, or otherwise put in harm’s way because of the callous sentiments of America’s evil dictator and his criminal Israeli sidekick. Today, it was reported here in the Philippines that a Filipina worker, just 32 years old, working in Israel (along with her husband), was killed by an Iranian retaliatory strike. There are hundreds of thousands of Filipinos working in the countries that are now under fire in the Middle East, and I have a dreadful fear that she will not be the last.
One other thing that bothers me about the prospect of “regime change” in Iran – which neither the US, or Israel, or the two combined will actually achieve, although the Iranian people might – is that at least at present, the alternative that is being proposed is almost as horrible as what it may replace. So far, the sentiment seems to be in favor of the return of Iran’s Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi, the heir to the former Shah. This is frankly a terrible idea. The reign of the Shah, who was in every respect a puppet of US and British oil interests and anti-Communist pretensions, was marked by brutal oppression and economic stagnation for the Iranian people, and there is absolutely no reason to assume at this point his son would be any better; the fact that the US, Israel, Britain, and most of the bigger European powers are tacitly supporting him certainly contraindicates it as well.
This is something about the current developments that I absolutely cannot wrap my head around. The inhumane excesses of the Shah’s regime are what brought the current regime, bad as it is, to power in Iran in the first place. It is the height of folly to believe that returning to what came before will have any good result in the long run.
I am so tired of this world, and the ignorant, awful people in it. Send the goddamn meteor that will end all life on Earth already. The fact that it hasn’t come yet only reinforces my belief that there is no God.
