Inflation rebounds, and so does the war
No, wait. There’s peace again.
Sometimes, it’s hard to write anything because the news cycle is so fast these days. For instance, inflation just surged to its strongest level in three years, powered by war-level oil prices. Before that news, or the news that Donald Trump declared, “I love inflation,” could be absorbed, the war was back on.
A US Army AH-64 Apache helicopter crashed into the Persian Gulf and the pilots were rescued by a drone boat, an apparent first. Trump blamed an Iranian drone for the crash and called for retribution, even though it wasn’t apparent that the collision was intentional.
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Trump launched attacks, and the Iranians launched counterattacks. Trump went to the brink, once again threatening to invade Kharg Island, raising the hopes of war hawks once again before abruptly canceling further strikes and, once again, claiming that a deal was imminent.
You can be excused if you’ve lost track of how many ground attacks have been averted and how many peace deals have been imminent. You can also be excused if the brief flare up in Iran seems a convenient distraction to the bad economic news that also includes a growing trade deficit. I mean, what are a few more Iranian lives in grand scheme of midterm elections?
Things aren’t going well, either at home or abroad. Trump is out of his depth and acting erratically. His policies aren’t working, just as most experts warned, and now he has no idea what to do except lash out at his enemies and cling to his alternate reality.
Republicans are heading into midterms with messaging that inflation is good, high gas prices are good, and endless wars are now not so bad, especially when they end every few weeks.
I haven’t written this week, partly because I’ve been busy at work, but also because I don’t really know what to say. If this was a movie, no one would buy the plot because it’s so stupid.
The Democrats are pretty obviously going to win the midterms, but we chose Donald Trump, and now we have to deal with the consequences of our actions. Barring a sudden attack of stiff spines among the remaining Republicans, we are stuck with Trump for at least another two years. All I can really tell you is that it’s going be a wild ride.
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