This is a mid-week extra, trying to get buy-in for my outside the box ideas for getting this administration gone, where the midterms could be too late to save us. Bearing in mind he is cornered now, so he might be receptive to such things, how about this?
Dearest Donald,
How’s about we get serious about you going down in history as a hero? You must know that’s dead in the water now, even if it was alive before the attack on Iran. You’ve thrown the whole world into a tailspin. What if you could reverse that? You, single-handedly? Unless people die of shock from you issuing something like this, this could be a win for you and humanity.
Dearest Humanity,
Have I ever screwed up. My dream, that got me to make bold moves, was that we were going to enter a new era, where governments that made it terrible for their people, like Iran, would be a thing of the past, and the world would be a place for everyone to thrive. We are in such difficulty now that it has opened my eyes, as tragedy will do, to how I should be encouraging what’s good and leave countries with oppressive regimes alone.
Blinded by how problematic the regime in Iran was, I didn’t realize they would be able to ward off my grand plan. I am so sorry I misjudged that. And that I’d let people go who would have given me better advice than those I selected for my administration, with the idea that functioning like a family could get all Americans feeling that way.
That was a big mistake. My appointees were not as well-informed as they needed to be, so I was operating blind, innocent of any idea of the trouble Bibi had involved me in. Oh, Bibi Bibi, Bibi. It’s a one-world system, and your idea that bombing Lebanon, for a different reason than you had for attacking Iran, was so insane after our ceasefire agreement that you can get no more financial support from the U.S. And, Bibi, maybe you too would apologize.
Actually, how about we issue a joint apology and promise an end to aggression against Iran, with our only caveat still holding, for them not to have a nuclear program?
Another kind of Trump fantasy. This one is from 2024:
Here’s an Idea To Do Something With
August 03, 2024Everybody talks about Trump, but how about what it would be like to be him? I could see it as a uniting exercise, where many people write their versions that would give us insight into how anyone could be so repulsive. I’d see comical ones, too — even for Saturday Night Live. Here’s mine.
Getting into Donald’s Head Could this be his lizard brain speaking?
“The big box I’m in is to win. That’s really all I see. Everything goes on the gameboard of how I come out on top. It’s just the way I am.
“You know about telling a big enough lie? That sounds so tame. I don’t evaluate based on lies and truth. It’s not my objective. And I do see how well it works to have the lies get bigger and bigger.
“My objective is to win. I’m off the charts in that regard. I don’t even really know what love is. But to be honest, it doesn’t matter to me. It would get in my way. And I see the principles of fairness, but they create pawns for me, little people as per my game, to be swatted away. And I can’t get too stirred up by those apocalyptic things, since they don’t figure to kick in while I’m still here.
“I want whatever I want when I want it. Even that isn’t the biggest truth. Winning is even bigger. What is that about me? It just is. Like I have skin. Growing up, the winning thing kicked in. It just was.
“I’ve gotten so good at it. It gets easier and easier, where I’m kind of riffing in it now. I’m saying weird things that I’m letting myself do stream of consciousness, or some stream of something, and I stay excited seeing the fuss I stir up in the newspapers and on TV, where I am omnipresent. Oh god, it is so sweet.
“You know, you only live once, and to just keep slobbering along as a winner suits me fine.”
Something everybody can do is to stay aware and alert, and if you just read one person tracking the world situation I suggest Heather Delaney Reese. She keeps you tuned into the throughline of what matters, with a wonderful writing style that makes you feel like you are family. Here are excerpts from a great read that I encourage you to click through to for all of it.
Consequences Are Coming for Trump
Heather Delaney Reese
April 08, 2026Excerpts: “A former Fox News host standing behind a podium stamped with the Department of Defense seal, trying to sell a catastrophe as a victory…He read a list of dead Iranian leaders out loud like a scorecard...stated that media coverage of American service members killed in action exists primarily to make the president look bad. That’s who is running the Pentagon. A man who treats enemy casualties as trophies and American casualties as bad press…Calling that regime change is like saying you demolished a building because you broke the windows…The UAE confirmed that very morning that it had intercepted seventeen ballistic missiles and thirty-five drones launched from Iran, while Hegseth stood there calling it “a big day for world peace.”…Manufacture a crisis. Escalate it to the brink. Execute a destructive “solution.” Then immediately declare success, regardless of what actually changed. And before anyone has time to process the damage, shift the focus to what comes next. Reconstruction. Opportunity. Profit…It doesn’t sound like leadership. It sounds like a racketeering operation…“Pete is not speaking truth to the president. As a result, the president is out there repeating misleading information.”…And now Trump is floating a “joint venture” with Iran to collect tolls on the Strait of Hormuz. A joint venture. The President of the United States wants to go into business with the country he just bombed for thirty-eight days, splitting shipping fees on a waterway that was free and open before he started this war…Landers tried to ask if he regretted that Truth Social post, the one about wiping out a civilization. She referenced the huge pushback from Democrats. And he hung up. The President of the United States hung up on a reporter for asking the question that so many want to know. He couldn’t face the question or defend it. So he ran away from it.”
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The complicit and/or in-denial nations of the white North need to get a spine and institute war crimes tribunals. Americans would be *shocked to the core* seeing their president being hung. That's how far the ENTIRE Western order has gone, lead by that rogue regime. Surface cleaning, rearranging the political furniture, all misses the point.