Our Long National Nightmare is Just Starting

 

    

     It's becoming impossible to overstate just how horrible things are both domestically and beyond. Since Trump took over, the cost of food is up nearly 20%. The CORE CPI rose between February and March by 2.5% but that's misleading because it excludes food and energy, which are the two things hitting Americans the hardest. Otherwise, why would affordability become the biggest issue and why is the administration snarling at anyone who even mentions the word?

    Until today, TSA agents had been working for free for a month and a half until the Senate finally passed a bill that funds DHS and TSA (but not ICE) just before leaving for a two week recess. Things got so bad that a food bank was set up at the airport in Pittsburgh so TSA agents could eat. Many slept in their cars because they couldn't afford the gas to commute from home.

    Speaking of ICE, they're still rounding up largely innocent people, many of them children, in large concentration camps like the one in Dilley, Texas.

     Then there's Iran, the war that's further made us the pariah of the world.

     I know I'm leaving a lot of stuff out because Trump's well-documented capacity for evil and cruelty is literally inexhaustible..But I'm sure you get the picture.

     That's why it's so alarming to hear a psychopathic war criminal like Erik Prince saying at CPAC that he'd warned Trump about going to war with Iran and for all the right reasons. This is what he said today:

     "I counseled as loud as possible against doing this in the first place. We face an extremely difficult challenge. The Iranians learned their lesson from what happened to Iraq. Decapitation of the leadership structure of the Iraqi army. The Iranians have done the exact same thing. There's 31 different military districts. All clear direction given to those 31 commanders is to continue to wage war against whoever they can with whatever they can.

    "The only person that can countermand that order is the supreme leader. And we've killed the supreme leader now, his father, his wife, his sister, other family members in an ancient society — in an ancient society that understands blood oath.

     "I don't share the optimism of the administration that there's going to be a peaceful stop to this."

     In spite of Prince's notorious past when he owned Blackwater, the same criminal organization that murdered 17 people in Nisour Sq. in 2007, it's hard to argue with anything he said at CPAC.

     There are, indeed 31 provincial corps, one for each of Iran's 31 districts (although he neglected to mention the 32nd one that's for the capital city of Tehran). He's also correct about the authority and aims of the Supreme Leadership. Murderous psychopath or no, the man's done his homework.

      And when Erik Prince emerges as the voice of reason in this illegal war against Iran, you know we've gone 'round the bend.