This week, our moron-in-chief tried to claim that Iran somehow got some of our Tomahawk missiles and then used one of them to bomb themselves. This somewhat implausible story came in this speech, wherein he was attempting to deflect the accusation that we bombed a girls’ school in Iran. Specifically, he said:
Well, I haven’t seen it and I will say that the Tomahawk, which is one of the most powerful weapons around is used by, you know, is sold and used by other countries. You know that. And whether it’s Iran, who also has some Tomahawks, they wish they had more, but, uh, whether it’s Iran or somebody else, the fact that a Tomahawk, a Tomahawk is very generic. It’s sold to other countries, but that’s being investigated right now.
Oh, they’re very generic, are they? Well, I suppose that, except for the part where they’re only manufactured in the US at a cost of $2.5 million and can only be sold to foreign countries through a complicated legal process ... yeah, super generic. If you want reactions to this speech, you could have the “Armageddon Update” one (short but crude), or the Have I Got News for Your Ears one (longer, but ... well, honestly, still kinda crude).
The funny part is, when I first heard this part of his speech, I thought he’d said ”... Iran, who also has some Tomahawks, I wish they had more ...” Which would have been insane. But I didn’t question it. The man is so dementia-coded at this point that it’s hard to try and make sense of anything he says any more, so you can pretty much believe he’d say anything.
Other things you need to know this week:
- Legal Eagle had two great videos this week from their military legal expert, Spencer the Scowl Owl. The first was an excellent take on the illegality of the war in general, and the second was on the possibility that our bombing of that girls’ school may have been a war crime (answer: it’s complicated).
- On Runaway Country, Alex Wagner interviews Stephanie Ruhle, who provides a good breakdown of the DoD/Anthropic battle. I thought it was a very balanced take.
- Kat Abughazaleh turns all the attack money coming in from AIPAC into a stand-up routine. I hope she wins this thin
g— she has certainly fought the good fight.
- On this week’s Coffee Klatch, Robert Reich and Heather Lofthouse interview E. Jean Carroll. Reich fawns over her a bit, but she really is quite remarkable in her ability to handle what happened to her and turn it into victory.
- Normally, when I talk about the Some More News crew, I’m pointing you at Even More News, their twice-weekly show covering current events (it used to be only once per week, but then, you know: Trump). Their main show, however, is more of a deep dive into a particular topic (similar to what John Oliver does on This Week Tonight). This week’s Some More News is a profile on Laura Loomer. And it explains so very, very much.
- Another pretty decent week in review from Adam Kinzinger. He’s still way more hawkish on the war than I’m comfortable with, but at least he recognizes how moronic it was that Trump never bothered to convince the American people that it was a good idea.
And that’s where I’ll hang my hope this week. Fun fact: this is the only war (since we started tracking such things) where a majority of the American public didn’t support the war at the beginning of it. Even Vietnam, apparently, was at least somewhat popular when we first went in. But not this one. Because even when Trump tries the wag the dog strategy, he still can’t help but fuck it up. As many people have said (including Elie Mystal, W. Kamau Bell, and Jamelle Bouie), our one saving grace is that we have incompetent fascists. If we were being run by competent fascists, we’d be toast by now.
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