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If you think the left-media – which is to say, 90 per cent of the legacy media – are maximally Trump-deranged, you clearly haven’t been reading the normiecon legacy media.
Poor normiecons, there they were, sitting in their little club, reclining comfortable in the leather armchairs with their brandy balloons, pontificating pearls of puerility that absolutely no one wanted to hear. It was a pathetic, lonely, mostly empty club, but it was theirs.
Until that crass Bad Orange Man gatecrashed with all the aplomb of Al Czervik (Rodney Dangerfield) farting and belching his way through the exclusive environs of Bushwood Country Club in Caddyshack (a comparison I’ve been making since Trump first announced his candidacy in 2016). The Australian’s Greg Sheridan has been doing his best impersonation of Mrs Smails (Lois Kibbee) ever since: endlessly fainting and clutching his pearls over that awful man.
Even worse, the kids love him.
Even worse – he keeps winning. To the absolute horror of the normiecons, Trump is well on the way to achieving what six previous American presidents, including their beloved Reagan, were unable to: bring down the reign of the mullahs in Iran. What’s a normiecon to do?
Easy: just do what the legacy media always do – lie.
It’s official. Donald Trump has told us that regime change in Iran is no longer a serious US policy goal.
Except that it’s not ‘official’ at all. Sheridan is doing exactly what the left-media did, when they made up lies like ‘Trump called white supremacists very fine people!’: taking a typically meandering, non sequitur Trump statement and spinning it to mean whatever the media want it to mean.
Early this week, oil prices skyrocketed, stockmarkets plummeted, bond markets were destabilised. More than almost anything in the world, those sorts of movements get Trump’s attention and determine his actions.
He responded by giving an interview in which he said the campaign in Iran was “nearly over”, that the US was “way ahead of schedule”, referring to the four to five weeks he had previously suggested as the likely duration of the military effort.
Now watch Sheridan shuffle the pea and shells and start spouting complete lies.
In fact, Trump said, the US had achieved virtually all of its goals already. It could declare it was finished and go home tomorrow and the operation would have been a great success.
In fact, he never used any of those words. Notice how Sheridan has stopped using even cherry-picked quotes? That’s because he’s literally making it all up.
These lines from Trump seemed directly to contradict his earlier insistence that he would accept nothing less than “total surrender” from the Iranian regime and that he, Trump, would have a role in choosing Iran’s next leader.
They only ‘seemed to’ if you’re a normiecon making up bullshit ‘quotes’ out of thin air.
Then there’s the armchair pontification that is humiliatingly contradicted before Sheridan’s even taken a self-satisfied sip of Calvados.
Trump also threatened that if the Iranians interfered with a single ship going through the Strait of Hormuz, America would rein “death, fire and fury” on Iran beyond anything it’s experienced yet.
This also seems an odd statement on its face because the Iranians have effectively already shut the Strait of Hormuz.
Except…
The US military has sunk 10 mine laying boats in the Strait of Hormuz, Donald Trump says.
After earlier threatening Iran it would face military consequences, “at a level never seen before,” if any mines weren’t removed “forthwith,” Mr Trump wrote on Truth Social: “I am pleased to report that within the last few hours, we have hit, and completely destroyed, 10 inactive mine laying boats and/or ships, with more to follow!” […]
The United States is preparing to launch its “most intense day of strikes inside Iran”, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said.
Giving an update on Operation Epic Fury at the Pentagon, Mr Hegseth says America would be deploying “the most fighters, the most bombers, the most strikes” since the war began.“We will not relent until the enemy is totally and decisively defeated,” he said.
Poor normiecons. It must hurt to not just be so consistently wrong, but to realise that hardly anyone’s even listening to you.
Even worse, you grudgingly have to admit that Bad Orange Man is still winning.
Trump’s interview achieved its tactical purpose. The oil price fell, the stock prices recovered. If this fighting ends soon, the global energy market will probably recover soon.
Let’s face it: Trump could cure cancer, the common cold and achieve peace on Earth and the normiecons like Sheridan would still be muttering into their snifters, “Yes, but...”
