Dude’s gonna be shitposting the whole way to The Hague.

How cute, people still think Trump will ever suffer repercussions for his actions.

And for the record, it is enshrined in our Constitution that the US doesn’t recognize the authority of any foreign body such as the ICC and in fact has laws on the books authorizing military strikes against the Hague if a US citizen is being detained there. Even if Trump were to face a trial, it would be in a US court in front of a US jury.

So the mission that is likely to spark regional wars in the Middle East was either a success, or it wasn’t. And Israel and Iran have agreed to a ceasefire, unless Iran hasn’t.

Ladies and gentlemen, the Trump administration.

So is this a 12 hour ceasefire? 24? Permanent (read: until the next time)?

And why does it start in 6 hours? Do the two sides get to just lob missiles at each other for the next 6 hours and then just say “gg” in a text to each other or something?

Whether Trump had anything to do with any agreed upon deal should also be taken with several grains of salt. Remember, he likes to take credit for things he had nothing to do with such as the ceasefire between India and Pakistan. This assumes there is even a tentative ceasefire in place, which itself I question given the source.

Or Iran could just be playing Trump for a fool. Let Trump think that he won because he’s the bestest thing ever, and then while he’s taking a victory lap, lob some bombs at Tel Aviv and make Trump look like a complete moron in the process.

Trump doesn’t even get that far. He stopped at the words “due process” and said “Nope.”

As far as I’m concerned, the next terrorist bombing on US soil is Trump’s fault. And the one after that. And the one after that. Because they are going to retaliate. There’s no chance that they’ll be able to directly attack the US with planes, military troops, or even missiles. So most likely their response is going to come in the form of a WTC-style bombing.

What frustrates me is how we, especially on the left, tend to fumble these moments. Instead of recognizing that some of these people might be waking up, we rush to humiliate them. We waste the opportunity to build something better just so we can rub their faces in it and get our own little high.

I’ll give a prime example of this: Liz Cheney.

Now don’t get me wrong. I disagree with 99.9% of her policy decisions. And yes, she helped create the beast. But we keep asking when Republicans are going to finally say “I’ve had enough of this.” and stand up to Trump. And she did. Again, say what you will about her policies but in the end, she literally put her career on the line and got excommunicated from her own party in order to expose Trump and attempt to hold him accountable.

And we responded to the courage it must have taken her to be the first prominent member of her party to break ranks with Trump by ostracizing her too. “HAHAHA now teh leopardz r eating ur face”. We laughed as she was basically run out of politics at warp speed. Rather than at least try to work with her and use her to build a bipartisan coalition against Trump, we decided to get a few kicks of our own in while she was down. And then we wonder why nobody else from the party has followed in her footsteps.

I’m not saying we should have thrown her a ticker-tape parade or anything like that. But we keep asking what it’s going to take for Republicans to break ranks and cross the aisle to stand up to Trump. How can we expect them to do that when that is how they’re going to be treated? If the best Democrats have to offer them is to make fun of them and kick them while they’re down, it shouldn’t be a surprise that they stick to the abusive relationship they’re already in. And I’m not saying that we needed to vote her back into office. But there was an opportunity to use the influence she had to at least try to build a bipartisan coalition against Trump and we squandered it because we have also allowed politics to get so tribal that anyone on the other side is always wrong no matter what and is always the enemy forever and ever and ever amen instead of ever admitting that they may actually have a point once in a while.