There is no coming back quickly from this:
This is the worst day in American history. Worse than the day the Civil War started, worse than the day Dred Scott v. Ferguson was decided, worse than the day that Pearl Harbor was attacked, worse than the days that MLK and RFK were murdered, worse than the day that President Grievance was first elected, worse than any other day in the history of this nation. And yes, worse than 9/11 because in the aftermath of that tragic day the government didn’t react in any way like Trump did over something much less awful.
American voters decided in 2024 that they believed the propaganda: that Biden was senile, that Kamala was a warmonger, that Trump wasn’t really that bad, that the Democrats deserved to be punished. The news media played along because 4 years of Biden was boring. Plus they had to actually learn about government because Biden got stuff done, and it was so much more fun to just be Trump’s stenographers, laughing at the oh-so-droll things he said and having so much more free time to write their best sellers using all of the stuff they didn’t report on because everyone overreacted about Trump the first time.
And so the increasingly demented pedophile in the White House, caught in a trap of his own making that he could not get out of, decided to threaten to kill thousands of innocent Iranians, easily the worst thing an American president has ever said.
And then, to make it even worse, the GOP reacted in its completely normal ways. Like glorifying genocide:
Rep. Carlos Gimenez: "I support what the president is doing. Iran is like a cancer. Sometimes the cure to cancer hurts, but the cancer has to be eliminated. And the cancer is Iran."
Or just straight up gaslighting:
BERMAN: Do you think Congress should have a vote if the United States is going to make a whole civilization die?MIKE LAWLER: John, you are parsing here BERMAN: I was quoting
And then suddenly, magically, right before the deadline Trump announced that the crisis was averted. For now.
Give me a break.
Not all Republicans were on TV barking on command like trained seals. One of my senators, Shelley Capito, spent the day touring my area, carefully protected from the public by the law enforcement and firefighters she was visiting:
WV’s other GOP senator, Jim Justice, was only concerned about local sports:
My useless House rep, Shelley’s otherwise unemployable nephew, Riley Moore, doesn’t actually ever visit constituents, so he spent the day pushing his bill to make the day after Easter a federal holiday:
And WV’s other House rep, Carole Miller, had nothing to report today at all.
The worst day in American history came and 4 very wealthy West Virginians, with deep ties to the state and/or their local communities, cowered before him. It’s sickening.
And then we got the news that Trump TACO’d again. And because everyone involved in this is a joke, here’s how the totally organic news about the cease fire was announced to the public:
Trump White House drafts a message for Pakistan's PM to post, and he posts it without removing the header. Ooops. bsky.app/profile/thet…
— Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) 2026-04-07T22:38:45.600Z
Oh and in his announcement Trump let the world know he had conceded control of the Strait of Hormuz to Iran. Then Iran claimed victory and we will do it all again in 2 weeks.
The worst day in American history, courtesy of a deranged president and an impotent Republican legislative branch which won’t act as a set of checks and balances.
I’ll leave you with this: