The Delay... Again

So at the last minute trump pulls off another TACO (Trump Always Chickens Out) with his Iran War, by staging a "third party" offer from Pakistan to hold a "cease-fire for two weeks" in order to let the markets calm down and give trump a chance to pretend none of this really happened. 

But Tom Sullivan over at Digby's Hullabaloo has it right: What the hell happens next?

You can stop ducking and covering for now. Politico’s landing page this morning announces “World exhales — a little — as US, Iran agree to ceasefire.” It’s a two-week ceasefire in the illegal war Donald Trump threatened on Sunday to turn into civilizational genocide. Two weeks? That’s enough time to roll out the “terrific,” “phenomenal” and “fantastic” new health care plan to replace the Affordable Care Act he’s been promising in two weeks since taking office in January 2017.

It’s also enough time for Trump’s accelerating mental decline to worsen. Or for him to attack Cuba.

It's that madness, that chaotic uncertainty underlining every act trump and his lackeys have staged up to this moment. We have no idea what will trigger trump's ire within the next week, next day, hell within the next hour. For all we know, all those planes and troops gathering for Iran are going to flip around and invade Greenland.

Secretary of WAR! Pete Hegseth just completed a press conference focused heavily on how many bombs the U.S. dropped and on a partial list of targets hit with no clearer definition of U.S. strategic aims...

Why are we bombing Iran exactly? We still don’t know. But “Hegseth just called President Trump ‘a president of peace.’”

The question remains: What will Trump do when in the interim demands renew for a full release of the Epstein files? He’ll need another flashy distraction.

Given how trump's latest Acting Attorney General Todd "Good Name For a White Boy" Blanche is acting like the whole Epstein case is closed (when it's clearly not), we can expect blowback on that scandal to drive trump to lower depths of insanity.

We are still damned, America, thanks to every asshole who voted for this (and YES, you DID vote for this).

I want one day without a CNN alert that scared the hell out of me! - Cecily Strong in an SNL Skit back in 2017 (yes, it STILL hasn't stopped)