STILL WAITING FOR THE THUD

For those who aren’t familiar with the expression of “waiting for the second shoe to drop”, it comes from the old days of wooden boarding houses and thin walls and floors. A person on the first floor, trying to get to sleep at night, hears a thud on the ceiling above, it’s the work shoe of the person up there getting ready to go to bed. Now you’re waiting for him to drop the second shoe so you can get to sleep.

That’s what it’s like having Donald Trump for our President. He keeps saying that this or that is going to happen, and we keep waiting for it to happen, and if it finally does, that’s still not the end of it. Like the bombing of Iran’s Fordow underground nuclear enrichment site. He says it’s obliterated, but no one actually knows if it is or not and can’t know until the Iranians dig down to it and find out.

Trump said that this attack ends the war between Iran and Israel. It does not. He said that the cease-fire he engineered will be permanent, and he can’t possibly know this. In fact, that’s extremely unlikely.

This attack was supposed to end Iran’s quest for nuclear weapons but it doesn’t, it just slows it down. Israel is glad for the bombing, it gives them a break from an imminent threat of getting nuked, but their goal is to bring down the Ayatollah Khomeini dictatorship and that whole regime, and now Trump is supporting the regime. He is, he just removed the blocks and tariffs on Iran selling oil to China, when it’s the money from the oil sales that’s paid for Iran’s ICBM industry and nuclear weapon development. Iran still openly wants the destruction of Israel, possession of nukes and domination of the entire Middle East.

So now we’re waiting to see if the Iranians really did save all that highly refined Uranium they want to make bombs out of, and if it’s buried under a collapsed Fordow installation, they’ll dig it out and start in again, and this time they won’t have much more to do to finish the job.

So NO, this hasn’t ended a thing, it’s just slowed things down, there’s no finality here with Trump’s Great Victories And Amazing Leadership Achievements, and instead of only having to wait a minute or so for that other shoe to drop, now the thud may be months away. But it’s coming, it surely is, and again, we get to wait while Donald Trump goes for the Quick Fix, then takes lots of bows and smiles for the camera as he takes all the credit and our anxiety grows.

Thanks a lot, Donald.