I few months ago I was driving down to Louisiana to play golf with some friends of mine. I had a craving for a bag of those pecan nuts that they serve at Buc-ee's. (If you know you know). Anyway, I got distracted and missed my exit. I was pissed and frustrated because there were all kinds of signs along the way telling me where to get off. The farther down the highway I got, the more anxious I became, because I was intent on going back and getting some of those damn pecans. I kept looking for an off- ramp to turn around, and it seemed like it took forever for me to finally find one.
I imagine that's how Donald Trump had to have been feeling as he tried to get out of this mess of a war that he got us into with Iran. We all know why he did it in the first place, to distract us from the Epstein files and all the ugliness that comes with it. By all objective measures this has been a disaster of epic proportions. The real winners were the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. Not only did they realize their strategic hold over the Strait of Hormuz, but they also realized that they could pretty much destroy the world's economy and make a ton of money by holding the world's shipping markets hostage. We dropped bombs on Tehran and destroyed their buildings, but they will make enough money when this is all over to build bigger and better buildings. We took out their leaders, but they have already replaced them with younger and more fanatical ones.
No wonder Trump was dying for an off- ramp. He saw himself getting deeper and deeper into something that was only going to make things worse for his flailing presidency. So, as a result, he made a deal. A very bad deal, but one that allowed him an off- ramp. He declared victory and lied that the war was a success, but at this point, he had no choice but to do that. He had to say something to save face.
Iran will now add billions to their coffers, they will maintain power over the Strait of Hormuz, and they will keep their subterranean stockpiles of near-bomb grade (60% enriched) uranium. Yep, those scuba tanks filled with thousands of kilograms of highly enriched uranium is still there. In the end, we spent billions of dollars, sacrificed 13 American lives, and the lives of hundreds of Iranians (including 120 school girls), all for naught.
I took the off-ramp and got back to Buc-ees's in no time. It just seemed longer, because I was so anxious to sample the pecans. Mr. Trump will not be so lucky, he took an off-ramp, but he is going to find that the treat he is looking for will be nowhere in sight.
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“We all know why he did it in the first place, to distract us from the Epstein files and all the ugliness that comes with it.”
He also did it because the Republican establishment are “all-in” on supporting Israel, and for all intents and purposes consider it the 51st state, for no good reason whatsoever —and Israel’s leader said we should do it.
And I think Netanyahu’s words to Trump were truly seductive. He told Trump that Iran’s leadership were in this dire, enfeebled state, and just a little bit of bombing would topple them. We’d be rid of this rotten, defiant, little regime that had flipped the bird at America ever since they took our embassy staff hostage in ‘79. The Iranian people would be free of a genuinely oppressive government. And Donnie would be a huge hero, having done what a bunch of American presidents before him could not do. Finally, he would have done something great that nobody could deny.
But then it all completely fell apart, because it was based on a lie about the weakness of Iran. This was a lie that appealed to Trumpism, which is partly an American exceptionalist nationalist misunderstanding:
The United States is the most powerful nation in the world (true). Therefore the United States is actually all-powerful and able to bend every other country to its will, and other presidents before Trump were just too weak and wimpy to wield this power for the benefit of everyday Americans (an insane fantasy).
Trump just does not get that making other countries do things by force either comes at a very high cost, or is sometimes impossible, which is why previous US leaders have relied on diplomacy and allies and pursued international institutions and a stable world order — basically all that “globalist” stuff that Trump considers dumb and useless.
Question, Field... Did finding an off ramp and going back to get your pecans constitute unconditional surrender on your part?
“Question, Field... Did finding an off ramp and going back to get your pecans constitute unconditional surrender on your part?”
In this analogy, I don’t think Trump gets his pecans at all. He only gets to leave the highway (which is leading someplace very bad), and has to go home empty-handed, wishing he’d never taken this damn trip in the first place.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/harmeet-dhillon-opens-civil-rights-investigation-major-league/
Total BS.
TDS
Trump is right about everything.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/06/19/he-lied-tulsi-gabbard-releases-evidence-fauci-directed-funding-risky-coronavirus-research-linked-big-pharma-pursuit-universal-vaccines/
https://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/trump-admin-ramps-up-effort-to-revoke-citizenship-obtained-through-fraud/
https://www.prometheanaction.com/promethean-overviews-trumps-regime-change-the-iran-deal-ukraine-and-the-fed/
https://thefederalist.com/2026/06/19/court-filing-democrat-ags-behind-lawfare-coordinated-with-leftist-groups-about-how-to-stop-trump/
There is no room in America for marxism/communism.
Yes Mike, it did😃
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