How’d we get in this Dire Strait?

“Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell” — words of Donald J. Trump, directed at Iran. (Sorry Iranians. We wish we could take The Donald’s favorite messaging toy away from him, or, at least shut it down at night when he goes on his craziest of crazy old man rants.)

Consider yourselves lucky, you Iranians who also happen to be fellow humans. We Americans live with this man from Hell every day.

Our economy was teetering on the edge before he woke up one morning and decided to bomb Iran while his best pal Netanyahu bombed the hell out of southern Lebanon. Bibi knew that them Hezzbolalalahs were hiding there somewhere. But he learned that to destroy Hamas, the enemy in Gaza, you bomb everything, leaving several blocks of rubble under which there will be dead people, some of them who could be the enemy. A bunch of Gazans dead, too. Meh, not his problem.

Our Donald, ever lacking originality in his prose, tried to scare the shoogies out of Iran with his last and most, shall we say, “intemperate”, threat. It goes like this: “Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell.” Might have been music to the ears of ordinary MAGAs, many of whose lives may involve living with varying degrees of threats and bullying day to day. People who are bullied by lack of education, work, money, landlords, etc., could adopt such behaviors and lash out.

Lord Trumpy apparently considers himself exempt from the Ten Commandments and thus to be spared the fires of Christian Hell. Roasting in the eternal fires? Nah, just two weeks, maybe three by Trumpian calculations. The Quran happens to be a literary treasure. We find that many of the prophets of Islam are shared with Christianity: “‘We believe in God, and the revelation given to us, and to Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob, and the Tribes, and that given to Moses and Jesus, and that given to all prophets from their Lord. We make no difference between one and another of them, and we submit to God.'” (Quran 2:136)

Lordy. Who knew? But then there can be no escape from damnation for those unbelievers. And the punishment that awaits them is terrifying: “Surely! Those who disbelieved in Our Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.) We shall burn them in Fire. As often as their skins are roasted through, We shall change them for other skins that they may taste the punishment. Truly, Allah is Ever Most Powerful, All-Wise.” (4:56 Quran) Kricky! Like the worst sunburn ever times infinity, or, as Trump says, two weeks, maybe three. But that registers with the Iranian vow to set invading Americans on fire, a direct introduction to Islamic Hell.

When it comes to bullying, the Ayatollah (Supreme Leader) of Iran takes a back seat to nobody. He needs only to unleash his Revolutionary Guard on protesters that he labels “rioters.” That was like declaring open season on anybody caught protesting the oppression of the people. Thousands died in January for the crime of objecting to their government. Most were gunned down in the streets without mercy.

Here’s another lesson in semantics, people. What the ruling authorities decide to call you could present you with a life-death decision. Flee the protest, or stay and maybe die. Both Americans murdered in the streets of Minneapolis by ICEmen were labelled “domestic terrorists” by ex-DHS boss lady Noem. Our own President Bone Spurs has experimented with threatening language against protesters.

In Davos, Switzerland, for the January economic summit, Trump said the “fake” American protests were “done by agitators and professional insurrectionists. … They’re professional troublemakers.” If troublemaking is a paid “profession” why aren’t more people doing it? Of special notice is that the Iranian protesters were being slaughtered on the streets of Tehran even as American protesters were being slandered by our president.

But, I digress. As our president, the so-called leader of the Free World, uses the most virulent form of profanity to address whoever is in charge of Iran these days, the last downed pilot was rescued in a corner of Iran. So the Iranians were denied a great propaganda opportunity. At least we are spared that. Our capable military moved in and pulled the injured airman out.

Republicans won’t do their jobs and deter a madman in the highest office in the land, one who is driving America, and now the world, to ruin. Putin is laughing his ass off. The 25th Amendment awaits.