Limbo

Here are my thoughts on the events of the past week:

1. Truth Is Always Preferable To Illusions – As much as I hate being proven wrong, I would rather know the truth than continue to drift in illusions. Just a few weeks ago, I wrote and delivered a speech in South Carolina that was a defense and endorsement of Trump’s second term. Needless to say, I am seething over having made a fool of myself and feel like I have been rug pulled.

If Donald Trump is dragged into a war by Netanyahu and we end up fighting a war with Iran for Israel on the basis of garbage intelligence from the Mossad, then it will be fair to conclude that America First means Israel First in practice and that Netanyahu is who is really in charge. It will mean that Miriam Adelson bought our foreign policy. It will mean that we have learned nothing from the endless wars that Trump spent a decade slamming and vowing on the campaign trail would never happen again.

I’m grateful there is no ambiguity about this. Israel started the war with a Pearl Harbor-style attack on Iran in which Iranian diplomats were killed in their beds. Israel did this to scuttle the peace talks. It operates like a Gangster State. Israel is trying to force Trump to endorse its actions and join the war it started. The whole question of Iran’s nuclear weapons program is besides the point. The real question is whether Trump is so weak that he will throw away his agenda and legacy to go along with Netanyahu’s war.

Is Trump the driver or the passenger in his own presidency?

Before this happened, I thought Trump was in the driver’s seat for a number of reasons. He had Elon Musk’s vast fortune on his side. He had X and independent media to get his message out. He crushed Ron DeSantis in the primary who was backed by Rupert Murdoch. He ran and won a decisive victory on staying out of foreign wars. He was hemmed in by a decade of his own rhetoric. He has spent months styling himself as a peacemaker and recently condemned regime change wars in Saudi Arabia. Young voters who were furious with Joe Biden over Gaza handed Trump the presidency.

2. No Blackpilling – Unlike in Trump’s first term, I am not going to “blackpill” if he destroys his presidency to jump into a dumb regime change war for Israel in Iran. Instead, we will just use it as an opportunity to mainstream the Jewish Question, as we have already done with other subjects.

3. Total Disaster – The politics of this are a total disaster which has taken the spotlight off the anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles. Instead of passing Trump’s immigration agenda, Senate Republicans are going on FOX News fear mongering about Iran setting off a nuke in New York City. They are taking us back in time 22 years to the George W. Bush era. They haven’t learned a damn thing about how we got Obama.

4. Trump Isn’t Running Again – We voted for Donald Trump for the last time in the 2024 election. Trump will never be on the ballot again. The GOP Congress will stand or fall in the midterms on the basis of its own image. Sen. Katie Britt is on X saying she is trying to save Western civilization from Iran.

5. Salvage Operation – I’m still hopeful that we can salvage some wins on other issues under the Bibi Netanyahu presidency. The trans rights case, for example, went the way that I expected at the Supreme Court. The border is still relatively quiet. Maybe tariffs will spur some reindustrialization. Nothing that is happening in Iran will negate the progress we are making on other issues.

6. Refocus on the future – If Trump pulls the trigger and is dragged into a war with Iran for Israel, then I will no longer support him because I know I am unable to get past that. He doesn’t need my support. He isn’t running again. In a year and a half, he would have been a lame duck anyway.

I’m not going to sperg out like I did over Syria in 2017. I’m not going to bash everything he does to drive a narrative. I will just refocus on other things that interest me and pay less attention to news and politics. I still think we should remain engaged in politics. Millions of people will be disillusioned by this. There are still things we can do at the state and local level. We should also try to get more people who aren’t puppets of AIPAC like Ted Cruz elected to Congress.

Right now, this is what I am thinking and where I am leaning toward going. If American bombs start falling on Tehran, it will bring more clarity.

Note: Elon Musk has speculated that Trump is in the Epstein Files is being blackmailed by the Mossad. Maybe there is more to that than I thought. I don’t know.