Dateline:      DisharmonyVille, April 20, 2026

A lot of analysis of the Iran conflict has been published. Here’s a different take for your consideration.

Unless it launches nukes, which it doesn’t currently have, the Iran leadership knows it can’t beat us militarily. So, to win the conflict the leaders are going for Trump’s political jugular.

With our midterms a mere hop, skip and a jump away, Iran is playing for time. The longer a resolution is delayed, the worse it gets for Trump. He knows that without a positive outcome and soon, the GOP will lose seats in the House and even the Senate. To avoid a major midterm defeat he may be forced to declare victory and depart the field leaving Iran, with its enriched uranium and lunatic leadership, to rebuild from the rubble.

Iran is dragging out the conflict by playing Trump like a fiddle. The notion of a split leadership in Iran with the ‘moderates’ on one side and the ‘crazies’ on the other is an illusion. The idea that the crazies would allow moderates to negotiate is foolish. Since when has division been tolerated in Iran’s power structure? Since never. The crazies, who obviously have the firepower, would just kill the moderates. Rather than being a divided leadership, it is necessarily united.

The Iranians have Trump on a seesaw. The moderates negotiate terms favorable to Trump. The U.S. markets soar, public opinion ticks up for Trump. Then the crazies close the Strait of Hormuz and fire on a few vessels. The market reacts negatively and public opinion in the U.S. dips.

Up and down. Up and down. If it goes on long enough, the Iranians will win through a GOP defeat at the ballot box.

Trump ran himself up a blind alley weeks ago by declaring victory prematurely. He better bite the bullet and get the job done. Now.

Dateline:      InTheDitchVille, January 4, 2026

In grabbing Maduro, Trump’s guys executed a focused extraction of a thug under Federal indictment for killing millions of Americans through his drug operations. He is an illegitimate dictator who, supported by the military, refused to cede power after his last election loss.

The extraction was similar, but not identical, to the 1990 seizure of Manuel Noriega, the Panamanian Dictator whose drug cartel made him wealthy. The difference is that it took several days of fighting to snatch Noriega. Maduro was taken immediately. Maduro’s VP remains in Venezuela.

The opposition in Venezuela is demanding installation of Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia as President. Gonzalez was the actual winner of the last election. The VP is currently in power. It remains to be seen what position the Venezuelan military will take. There is some speculation that the Generals will attempt to seize control themselves.

Venezuelans worldwide are celebrating in the streets. The prospect of democracy in their homeland gives them a joy that cannot be suppressed. This joy is echoed by all Americans who are tired of our citizens being victimized by foreign drug lords.

Russia, China and Iran have condemned the action. No one cares. Every air breather knows that autocrats oppose democracies. Our Democratic Party immediately joined in the condemnation. It’s singing from the same hymn book as tyrants. That isn’t as much of a head scratcher as it should be. The Dems hate Trump with a passion that surpasses understanding. Everything he does is wrong and must be distorted and denounced.

In taking Maduro, Dems claim that Trump declared war and launched a large-scale military operation in violation of the Constitution. He should be impeached and/or shackled by Congress to act only as it sees fit. In reality, there was no war and no large-scale anything. It was a limited operation to arrest a vile criminal offender.

The Dems are a Party lost in the noise of its own babbling.

Dateline:   InTheDitchVille, August 10, 2025

The Democrats are having a rough year. The most recent CNBC polling reported a net -32% favorability rating, the worst since 1996.   It’s not surprising. They have no leader and no policies or moral authority. Just extremism, division and vociferous recriminations.

Possibly more serious, they pull PR stunts that push positions rejected by voters in the 2024 Presidential election. Like antics that support criminal illegal immigrants without a mention of their victims and disingenuous gerrymandering hypocrisy.

When the stunts backfire, Democrats resort to endless lies about Trump which grow larger as his successes pile higher. Lately, lies apparently aren’t enough. So, they bolster the fabrications with profane screaming, name-calling and threats. It’s doubtful that this behavior cuts a wide swath with voters.

Many of the congressional Democrats who rush to participate in this buffoonery have no legislative record that benefits their constituents.  Rather than representing their voters with positive legislation, they use their elected position as a social media platform. How these people got elected in the first place is a head scratcher.

What impact will all of this have on the 2026 mid-terms? Time will tell. But hope remains that voters will open the door and boot these Democrats through it.

Dateline:   StupidVille, June 27, 2025

From time to time an Empty Award is given to the politician whose rhetoric is breathtakingly devoid of rational thought. Really stupid. But not just plain stupid. The winner has to be falling down dumb with a remember-to-breathe kind of vacuous mind.

This week the Award goes to Senator Chris Murphy, D-Conn. Yesterday, Murphy disputed the effectiveness of Operation Midnight Hammer. He cited a partially leaked preliminary DIA report of “low level confidence” as his justification.

The report, which was issued hours after the bombing, did not include input from any other intelligence agency inside or outside the US. Since then, other intel organizations, national and international, have reported the complete destruction of Iran’s three nuclear sites.

Murphy’s dispute of the effectiveness of the Operation is stupid. But not Award winning. For sure, belief of a partially leaked, preliminary report unsupported by any other source is idiocy. But, it is also pretty SOP for politicians who want to destroy Trump’s agenda.

Murphy’s Award winning performance is his response to the question of whether he would have approved the Operation if he’d been advised of it beforehand. He firmly stated, “No…you cannot bomb knowledge out of existence.” In other words, if you develop world-ending weapon systems you are free to use them.

That remark truly takes the stupid cake. Murphy rejects the notion of defense of Country, protection of life and liberty, self-preservation. His extreme position is beyond destroying an agenda. It is societal suicide.

Dateline:   GrandstandingVille, June 23, 2025

The responses to our buster bombing of Iran on Saturday are varied.  Most Americans, our allies and even neutral countries praise the action. Iran is the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism. The regime has murdered thousands in furtherance of its attempt to dominate their enemies most especially Israel and the U.S. A nuclear armed Iran would be a danger to everyone everywhere.

Some reactions are not laudatory. Most of them express fear of Iran’s response and revulsion at the prospect of yet another protracted war. But, Trump’s action was taken to avoid nuclear conflict. It was not taken to stop the fighting that has been ongoing for years between Iran and its proxies and other nations in the area.

Other negative feedback alleges that Iran was not a threat to the US. The exponents of the latter response either have their heads in the sand or are pro-Iran. Either way, few, if any, take them seriously.

The most ridiculous of the rejoinders are, not surprisingly, from members of Congress. There are two primary flavors of response. The most prevalent is that Trump’s action was unconstitutional. The bombing was solely within Congressional authority. Any action should have been proposed to Congress where it would have been extensively, and openly, debated. The other flavor of response was, of course, that Trump must be impeached.

Regarding the unconstitutional argument, they must be kidding. It confuses short-term military action in defense of the Country with declarations of war. Ford, Carter, Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Clinton, George W. Bush and Obama all ordered military action on foreign shores without prior Congressional approval.

The destruction of Iran’s nuclear facilities was a surgical strike that lasted hours, not days or weeks. There were no troops on the ground. The strike was the shortest military action taken by any of the previous Presidents. Its success depended on secrecy and rapid action. Neither is possible with the political grandstanding that characterizes all Congressional ‘debate’.

Regarding the impeachment response, AOC is one of the chief proponents, which is the one of the best arguments against it.