The Hottest of Takes: What Happens When the Biggest Fuck Up in the History of the World is elected to the Most Powerful Office in the World?

Are the Seventy-Seven Million Little Scientists?

Perhaps George Kelly was right after all. Maybe people really are little scientists, creating and testing hypotheses to better understand the world. For example, apparently, the American electorate decided to test the question of what would happen if we elected the world’s biggest fuck up to the world’s most powerful office. It’s the only thing that makes any sense of what we’re going through of why anyone would’ve wanted this beyond wanting to benefit from the corruption, racism, and misogyny, of course, because that goes without saying.

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome. You cannot re-elect someone to an office and not expect them to do more of what they did the last time. That’s why you re-elect them, you want more of the same, right? It’s not dim sum where you’re selecting what you like from a little trolley being rolled around the dining room by a nice person and can leave out the dishes you don’t like. This is like your meals at an ICE detention facility run by the GEO Group where everything you get is inedible and gross. You can’t send it back hoping for something better.

We weren’t electing the things we liked about Trump and opting out of the things we didn’t like. There are no options and no substitutions when electing people to office. We are well and truly stuck with this mess until the next elections.

Let’s take a look at some of the things happening in the world today that could only be due to having the biggest fuck up in the most powerful office, starting with the most obvious.

Trump’s Excursion into War Crimes in Iran

Ending the War would get Trump the Piece Price, Right?

I’m surprised that the pundits and MSM haven’t caught on to Trump’s Iran game yet. Admittedly, it is complex since there are four whole components, so maybe it was just confusing for them. First, Trump’s frequent predictions of peace being imminent only to have it not materialize is his jenius plan to facilitate insider trading on the stock market. He thinks no one will notice. Other than the MSM and pundits, everyone has, though. But, that’s all he’s doing with his “peace” negotiations. He sees the entire war as a grifting opportunity. Who knows if it started out that way, but that’s what he is doing.

Second, according to the Iranian government social media accounts, much of what he is posting and saying in public is meant for the American public. It is painfully obvious that there is a mismatch between his public statements and what seems to be happening in the peace negotiations. His public statements are just jactations meant to soothe Trump’s fear and anxiety around not being able to end his excursion into war crimes and to gaslight his base.

Trump understands that all politics is not only local, but personal, occurring between him and each individual MAGA member. If he takes care of that relationship, he’ll be okay. Much like Reagan did — Anyone else remember Reagan making national speeches to go directly to the American people? — Trump is speaking directly to his MAGA base through his social media posts, only his communication is synonymous with gaslighting. He needs to keep MAGA gaslit.

Third, Trump has two tools. First is badgering, intimidating, threatening, and cajoling his victims. If that doesn’t solve the problem, he lets the issue fester until someone else has to step in and solve it for him. If those two tactics don’t work, he’s at a complete loss. So, we’re stuck in this infinite loop of Trump trying his two tools over and over again to see if they’ll work this time. And, you know what people say about doing things over and over again expecting different results, kinda like reelecting the same person, expecting them to do something differently than they did the first time.

Trump is increasingly agitated by his inability to make Iran capitulate. Don’t they realize that exceptions should be made for him? Even though they’ve out maneuvered him and are able to withstand the withering damage that we’ve inflicted on them — We’ve not damaged them as much as we either think we have or pretend we have — they should make an exception and surrender even though they have the upper hand. That’s Trump’s narcissistic reasoning at work.

And four, Trump is dishonest. He negotiates in bad faith.During their previous nuclear negotiations, Trump attacked them. Now, from what I understand, the Iranians want some confidence-building measures from us. Used to be that we would demand such commitments from others. My how times have changed.

Our master deal maker is frustrated because Iran won’t take him at his word. He’s dancing around the world stage, in the spotlight, begging for a deal to be made, showing his whole ass, and Iran is saying nope, not until he prove you can be trusted. Is it any wonder that every time we try to slip a ship through the Strait, they attack it? Every time we aggress towards them, they counter attack? They’ve got to work to keep us honest, to punish Trump for negotiating in bad faith.

So, that’s the hottest take on the peace negotiations. Trump has made a complete mess of the world’s economy and started a war he cannot stop. Can he haz all of the Noble Piece Prices now?

The New World Order

Trump, the best negotiator in the world, has given Netanyahu a get out of jail free card. Netanyahu can scuttle any and every peace deal he wants by attacking Hezbollah. Because Iran — unlike the US — actually seems to care about its allies and values their alliances, they’ve linked the opening of the Strait of Hormuz and ending of the Trump’s war crimes to the ending of Netanyahu’s war crimes in Lebanon and Gaza. As long as Netanyahu continues murdering civilians in Lebanon and genociding Palestinians in Gaza, the Strait won’t open. The only person who doesn’t seem to get that is Trump.

Because Trump and many US politicians cannot quit Israel no matter how many Palestinians have been genocided, Netanyahu gets to grab Trump by his pussy and Trump has to let him. That’s the new world order.

Single Party Rule

Not only did the seventy-seven million re-elect Trump, they gave him both Houses of Congress, essentially giving the one party state a test drive. We didn’t really need to test that hypothesis, though, because several states have tested it for us. We only needed to checkout how good single-party rule has worked out for Texas and California.

Texas has been run by Republicans for about twenty-five years. They controlled the governor’s office and judiciary for a few more years, but took the legislature in 2002. While the politicians in office make promises about lowering utility and property tax rates, property taxes have surged to all new highs, and the power grid remains unreliable and costing the average Texan far more than it should. The party also keeps sending more money to private schools, and by some miracle a disaster occurs letting Abbott award a donor a juicy no-bid state contract. After twenty some odd years in control of the state, you’d think Texas would be a Republican paradise now. Maybe it is, if you have the right income and relationship to Greg Abbott.

Democrats have held the California governor’s mansion and both houses of the legislature for fifteen years. In that time, most judges have been appointed by Democrats. While California is the fifth largest economy in the world, it is currently hemorrhaging people and businesses because it is unliveable. Taxes are high, regulations strict, and the government is slow to act. Most residents complain of receiving too little by way of state services for the high tax burden and the ineffectiveness of the state’s ambitious social service programs.

Both states are examples of what happens when you don’t have two competitive viable political parties. Much like capitalism, competition and the risk of losing an election actually makes us better by driving our office holders to be effective. Insulation from accountability allows politicians to continue with business as usual until the business becomes corruption. Just ask Ken Paxton!

Graham Platner

Is Graham Platner the John Fetterman of the 2026 Senate race? The Senate race in Maine is so important for the Democrats chance of taking the Senate, it is unnerving to hear that Platner has shot his campaign in the foot again by his foolish and reckless behavior in his youth, the latest incident was in 2022, four years ago when he was 38. Hrmph.

If there is any lesson we take from the Trump years, it is that we need to elect people of quality to office. The Platner scandals force us to question his quality as a person.

Why would someone with so many skeletons in their closet run for such a high profile office? I get it that we all do stupid things all the time. I get it that we make stupid decisions assuming that we won’t ever run for office, but why would you run, knowing what will eventually come out? That’s the problem. He decided to run knowing about all of his baggage.

Is it bad luck? Poor judgment? PTSD? Narcissism? Why would you put yourself and your family through this? Why would you run such a risk when the stakes for the country are so high right now? His race is literally the difference in control of the Senate.

Having elected the biggest fuck up in the world to the most powerful office in the world, we now have to rein him in by taking control of Congress. The more we control, the better the country and the world will be. Taking the Senate is no longer optional, cue the next Graham Platner scandal.

The Seventy-Seven Million are testing their hypothesis. I think we’ve got enough data to make our conclusion. We needn’t carry on with this experiment any longer. Can’t the Institutional Review Board put an end to this ungodly and ill advised experiment? Haven’t we suffered enough?

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