Table of Contents
More TDS madness.
We are witnessing what happens to a person who is consumed with the need to dominate, but cannot.
Iran is unlikely to give in. It can withstand the economic pressure of a blockade better than Donald Trump can withstand the political pressure that comes with rising gas prices (now nearly $4.50 a gallon, on average), soon followed by rising food prices.
They have no army, no navy and no real army. They have no resources, no leaders, no friends and their economy is being squeezed. All they have is guns and the only ones they can use them against are their own people. But hey, Iran is winning!
Those rising prices coupled with an increasingly unpopular war have increased the likelihood that Democrats will take back control of the House and even possibly the Senate in the upcoming midterms.
Note: The author, Robert Reich, worked for Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, and was in the cabinet of Bill Clinton.
[…] His ego cannot accept a humiliating loss, as we saw after the 2020 election. His need to bully, dominate and gain submission is so hardwired inside his insecure head that the defeats he’s now facing – to Iran and to Democrats – are already setting off explosions.
Oh yes, the 2020 election. Wasn’t that the one that was rigged by the Democrats?
[…] More of his posts are bizarre AI-generated paeans to himself, his godlike powers, his wished-for physique and his self-image of omnipotence. On Friday night, he posted an AI-generated image of himself, JD Vance, Marco Rubio and Doug Burgum, all shirtless and with young physiques, standing in the reflecting pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial, along with an unidentifiable woman in a bikini.
FFS get a sense of humour.
His mouth – never in control – is now in diarrheic mode. He’s even back to attacking the pope, accusing him of “endangering a lot of Catholics and a lot of people”, adding, “but I guess if it’s up to the pope, he thinks it’s just fine for Iran to have a nuclear weapon”.
And Trump was right.
His thin-skinned vindictiveness is beyond anything we’ve seen before, which is saying a lot. Last week, after the German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, said the US was “being humiliated by the Iranian leadership”, Trump repeatedly attacked and ridiculed Merz. The defense department then said it was pulling 5,000 troops out of Germany, and Trump said he was increasing tariffs on European cars and trucks to 25 per cent (from 15 per cent).
And fair enough. By saying those things, the German chancellor was acting as a propagandist for the Iranian regime. There is no way Trump could let it stand.
[…] Facing the two monumental failures of Iran and control over Congress, Trump is fanatically seeking other ways to assert dominance. On Tuesday, his education department announced a civil rights investigation into Smith College over enrolling transgender students.
On Thursday, Trump demanded that Hakeem Jeffries be charged with “INCITING VIOLENCE”, linking the attempted shooting at the White House correspondent’ dinner with Jeffries’s call for a “maximum warfare” redistricting campaign in response to Republican efforts to gerrymander their states.
Regardless of what happens in Iran, he’ll claim victory. That will be difficult to do convincingly when gas prices remain more than $4 a gallon, but he’ll undoubtedly try.”
Well, of course he will and fair enough.
What if Democrats win control of one or both chambers of Congress in the midterms and he claims they lost or cheated? The nation barely survived the last time Trump’s fragile ego faced a major loss.
The Iranian regime is defeated. Rumour has it that UAE has sent in soldiers but we don’t know, as Iran is in blackout mode.
Sure, Trump could send in the troops. But why risk American lives? The Iranian regime is a dying rat. All Trump has to do is watch it die.
The tragedy is that the Democrats’ and the media’s hatred of Trump is so all consuming that they would rather have an evil regime win than Trump be victorious.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/08/trump-iran-defeat-personal-political-crisis
