Whatever you’ve been told you’re going to get from the war with Iran, what you are actually getting is abundantly clear by this point. Gasoline prices have soared up to over three dollars a gallon and getting higher. Four bucks a gallon, or even more, is a given by the end of March.
At the end of March, we’ll see April roll around, then May, and finally Hurricane season in June.
Imagine a hurricane barreling down on New Orleans with gas already at four bucks a gallon.
With the Gulf of Mexico rigs out of production, even for a short while, we’re looking at gasoline prices somewhere around five bucks a gallon. If the war is still raging at that point, it might be considerably worse.
Higher gas prices during the spring means farmers, those who are left by this time, will pay much higher prices to plant, and to harvest, which means we’ll be paying even more for food by the middle of the summer.
By the teeth of hurricane season in September, we could be at the point farmers, those who could afford to plants, are unable to harvest. The states pounded by hurricanes could be looking at limited help from the government, and unable to pay for fuel to do search and rescue.
Hopefully, the Pedophile War, that war of distraction from a sitting president doing anything possible to distract from his crimes, will be over, but I doubt it. Trump knows he had to remain a moving target, creating one distraction after the next, regardless of what it costs the average American, or America herself.
Sadly, even if after midterm elections, even if Trump is impeached and removed from office, the forces that allowed something like this to happen are still in place. We still have a population of voters who believed everything Trump said and willingly followed him down his path of destruction and supported him at every turn.
We still have a government that doesn’t function well at all, and the two sides of the aisle in Washington are little more than bought and sold lackeys of corporate America.
We still lack the will to put a leash on campaign funds, or prosecute elected officials who are on someone else’s payroll other than the taxpayers.
House prices, food prices, fuel prices, medical care and transportation are all priced out of range for the average American, whose paychecks are getting smaller as government gets bigger, yet not better at all.
Trump is a cancer, that needs to be removed, and everyone paying attention knows this to be true. But the causes of this disease are still in place, and recurrence is 100% unless we change the way we run elections, and our schools.
The stench of Trump’s diapers might be gone when he goes, but we’ll be dealing with the same sh!t until we come together for real change.
Take Care,
Mike
As I’ve been saying for years, DT is not THE problem, but rather the latest expression of the problem. The real problem is the 70 million people who thought he was a good idea. Other than changing the national education system (which they control), I don’t know how to change this.
Let’s preface the following story with this fact. When Bibi came to the States, he would often stay at the Kushner’s home, sleeping in one bedroom while Jarod slept in another. So, it’s safe to say that Netanyahu and the Kushner’s were close.
Here’s what we know. The third round of nuclear talks between the United States and Iran wrapped up in Geneva on February 26th and 27th. The Omani foreign minister, who’d been mediating the talks for months, told CBS News on the eve of the bombing that a deal was “within our reach” and that Iran had fully given in to American demands and agreed it would never produce nuclear material for a bomb, or an ICBM capable of striking the United States.
A fourth round had already been scheduled for Vienna the following week to work through the technical details following final discussions in Tehran. The Iranian foreign minister told reporters his team was ready to stay and keep talking for as long as it took.
And then, less than 48 hours after those talks in Switzerland concluded, the bombs began to fall.
On the morning of February 28th, Iran’s Supreme National Security Council was gathered together in their offices for meetings. That body, the one that manages Iran’s nuclear dossier and makes the regime’s most consequential decisions, is exactly where you would expect the Iranian leadership to be sitting after a round of talks with America that their own foreign minister was calling “historic.”
They were almost certainly deliberating whether to accept or reject Jared Kushner’s American proposal. And according to the Wall Street Journal, American and Israeli intelligence had verified that senior Iranian leaders would be gathered at three locations that could be struck simultaneously. How they knew that is, as the Journal carefully noted, still unknown.
In other words, Iran’s entire decision-making apparatus was assembled in one place most likely because they were in the middle of an active negotiation with Jared Kushner. The talks had created a predictable, intelligenceable window.
So, negotiations were just a ruse in order to set up a gathering where the most casualties could be inflicted upon the leadership of Iran.
This war of choice, was a con set by Netanyahu upon the addled brain president of the United States. While it’s safe to say this toddler-in-chief has set the stage for our country never to be trusted again for hundreds of earlier misdeeds, this recent event has pretty much killed any image of morality we may have had.
It may take decades to rebuild a reputation of being that beacon on the hill that this moron destroyed in less than a year and a half.
The political machine learned long ago that if you pit dissatisfied citizenry against any group less enfranchised, the citizenry will be consumed with attacking the less enfranchised and the in enfranchised. They’ll be so busy hating people who are already struggling that they will not stop to think about how the working poor and the shrinking middle class got this way: the political machine catering to their own pockets and their corporate donors.
Politicians, corporate profits, and corporate executives are raking it in while all the other salaries and hourly rates have creeped up at about 2% per year for at least 30 years.
It isn’t the foreigner nor the non-white who is creating general dissatisfaction and financial woe.
Unite with the downtrodden, because that includes you, and throw the political machine in the garbage.
Take November seriously. Vote for anyone other than the incumbents or their kin. Newbies can’t possibly make it worse, and they may actually right the ship.