u/drunken_augustine

So, for the record, I don’t actually believe any of these attempts were fake. I personally would argue that they’re the unfortunate but natural result of his destruction of political norms and normalization of corruption and violence as political methods.

That disclaimer said, I think it speaks volumes about who Trump is as a person and his utter inability to be honest that folks won’t believe him even when someone tries to kill him. It’s got “the boy who cried wolf” vibes. Puts me in mind of a quote from Tolkien: “oft evil will doth evil mar”.

Just a random thought, but I feel like the Iran war is evidence of the ultimately self-defeating nature of evil.

Donald Trump clearly wants to be a “strong man” like Putin and other worldly despots. This weakness of his soul, the ever grasping desire for more power so that he, not God, might rule Creation, is ultimately what led Trump into the same error as Putin.

Iran is the US’s Ukraine. It is a conflict born of an old man’s vain desire for immortality through legacy. And for a crown.