Posted On: Tuesday - March 3rd 2026 7:22PM MST
In Topics: Trump The Neocons World Political Stupidity
Most of these are not Peak Stupidity’s original thoughts - they come from the usual sites I read. I’ll try to put them in somewhat of an order.
1) Realpolitik: The same would-be professor (he oughta be, by all rights, but there’s NO WAY he’d ever fit in) whose thought we included in Venezuela, China, and the DonRoe Doctrine, brought up Realpolitik wrt to Iran a few months ago when Trump had it bombed.
Realpolitik, by my definition, means a practical strategy for the good of our country without regard to solid principles, promises made, etc. An article from yesterday on ZeroHedge, Trump's Strategy Is A High Risk-High Reward Gamble , lays out the Realpolitik of it all pretty well, IMO, that is if you don’t worry about such things as right and wrong so much. The originator (I don’t think that’s a given name) Rabobank is concerned mostly with the effect of this war on world and various nation’s finances and resources.
2) Realpolitik would be for the point of stopping nuclear proliferation, most importantly to crazymen. Well, there’s water under the bridge, unfortunately, if one considers Pakistan. Israel got the nukes 6 decades ago, but, barring the idea of the Sampson option, I consider the government a little more sane.
3) An Iran with nukes is a big threat to Israel. It wouldn’t be any kind of threat to America were we not so involved in the area to… support Israel. If Trump were not waging this war on Israel’s behalf, as Secretary of State Marco Rubio may have unwittingly admitted, there’d be no need for Realpolitik.
4) Of course, that all assumes that Iran really is so close to having nuclear-tipped ICBMs like (whatever still works) in the US and Russia and those in China. I’ll repeat Mr. Anon’s great comment again:
So – let me guess: We are now destroying the nuclear facilities that we totally destroyed last summer to prevent Iran from building the nuclear weapon that it has been one month away from building for the last thirty years.2 1/2 decades ago we were told that Iraq had these Weapons of Mass Destruction, something, something, 9/11, and we’d better DO SOMETHING! Pretty much everyone agrees that was a big lie, though they may still disagree on whether it was right for the US Government to lie like that to excuse the starting of a war. I am not inclined to believe them this time around.
5) Yes, this IS a war, not just an “attack”, and it’s ridiculous for anyone to claim America didn’t start it. The Gateway Pundit site, as I’d have expected, is almost completely pro-war*, with likely a hundred articles on the subject having been posted. I recall one or more noting how “we’re just finishing this.” Is that right?
Yes, and Iran has - wait, the people of Iran, the leaders, who exactly? - killed thousands of Americans over the last, whatever… and plus those 52 hostages. They were released 45 years ago plus a couple of months with none of them killed even. Seriously, is that what we’re finishing? In that case, I could see dozens or hundreds of attacks on America being justified as “finishing what you started” based on some events or tragic loss of life, purposeful or not, direct or indirect, caused by the US 20 years ago, 30, 50, a hundred?
This is being fed to us in case we don’t go for that “they’re about to key in the launch codes” bit.
6) About these Ayatollahs, I really think that a significant proportion of Americans believe, or are being led to believe by omission, that this last Khamanie(?) guy with an “a” is that same guy Khomeini who was in power when those 52 hostages were being held at the embassy for 444 days till about 45 years back.. Yes, he’d be REALLY freaking old, but who does arithmetic anymore in this age of Artificial Stupidity?
This is very much the same as the taking advantage of uninformed Americans that, after 35 years, still see the Russians as The Communist Soviets that were locked in the Cold War against us for the 4 decades prior.
So, I read on the Gateway Pundit (good for news, but NeoCon as all hell, same as Instapundit, BTW) that, hey, it’s about TIME we got Iran back for that one and finally killed that Ayatollah guy! (He died in 1989, but they’ve got more of them.)
7) I wouldn’t call this a sneak attack in the Pearl Harbor sense, but it sure ruins any reputation left of America as having a consistent responsible foreign policy that Trump played games with the supposed negotiations. Realpolitik is one thing, but running foreign policy as if one is making and breaking deals with casino owners is a bad look. That IS Trump, I gotta say.
8) American politics: Trump broke a big promise to MAGA, the Constitutionalist types, and even some of the non-‘tarded left that are honestly against American warmongering. It’s a blow to us who have been supporting Trump based on his great work in fighting - stopping and even reversing - the Population Replacement Programme, wokeness, Globalism, the Climate Calamity (greatest con-job every perpetrated on the World).
Besides that this will lose Trump support from people otherwise fairly pleased with
9) Trump is being lambasted by the left, as hypocritical as that is, for starting this war. No, it’s not Constitutional. They’ll tell you he’s Commander-in-Chief. Yes, when a war has been declared by Congress, he’s Commander-in-Chief for that war! This C-i-C role doesn’t mean the President is allowed to assassinate foreigners, or Americans, for that matter, or start wars like this.
That hasn’t stopped anyone since the
10) “We have freed the poor oppressed Moslems of Persia!” That’s a big theme being expounded, and stories abound about the protests encouraged earlier by President Trump that resulted in… thousands of people getting rounded up, arrested, and executed. Are we supposed to feel great about that? Maybe just a few more executions, and we’ll get that Democracy and freedom spread over to the Moslems of Persia.
Oh, and the Kurds, they are happy about this war! Great excuse for a war, I guess, but 95% of Americans wouldn’t know anything but a cheese curd rather than who these people are. Are they better than the “regular” Iranians? I don’t know - I don’t keep track, I don’t care, and we shouldn’t HAVE TO care!
11) There are stories, pictures, and videos of/by the Iranians, mostly women, so glad to be free of the Mullahs. Bully for them. I’m not on the anti-Social media, but I’ve seen a few still pictures of these women speaking up (probably from OUTSIDE Iran). Yes, they DO look like sluts. Is the point of this war to help Persian women become sluts? That’s not realpolitik, it’s not ideology, it’s just stupid. Is OnlyFans a Trump donor?
It’s a Moslem country in the middle of the lands of Islam - let them be Moslems over there. Next thing you know, the Persian communities over here full of people who came to escaped the Mullahs will be out there in the streets ululating over the speakers in the streets 5 times a day… maybe in skimpy outfits, I don’t know.
12) And here’s just one more worry: Drone Strikes On Amazon Data Centers In Middle East Reveal Urgent Need To Defend AI . Yes, that ZeroHedge article probably written by AI says we need to defend AI. Uhhh, nah. Were I flying one of those F-16s (don’t need those newfangled F-35s) it’s possible one of my sidewinder missiles might get off track and hit one of those data centers or maybe during practice runs in Utah that NSA facility over there… I’m just not very good, is all.
First ZH comment (I didn’t even read the article) from someone with the handle “Tits”:
Hopefully Iran can hit the TikTok, OnlyFans, and SNAPCHAT servers too.My favorite so far, from MoccasinGull1870:
THIS IS EXISTENTIAL!!!
If I can't get on the internet to see pictures of:
Chinese wimmen, jogger, & Pocohantas NAZI soldiers
to download (which PROVE white Christian male supremacy)...
How can humanity ever survive?
Alright, that’s it for tonight.
* Instapundit is too, also, as I would have expected. We were surprised with Glenn Reynolds’ and co-bloggers’ undying support of the Ukraine, but that’s because I hadn’t been to the site much for about a decade. See also Instapundit Neocon Hypocrisy .
** … with protests to come as arranged by Roy Singham and paid for by the CCP and US government-funded non-government organizations.
Comments:
Moderator
Wednesday - March 4th 2026 2:13PM MST
PS: That was indeed a distraction from the goings-on, Alarmist. I don’t usually peruse the People magazine style articles. Miss Bertinelli looks OK in a bikini even now, but mainly, the draw is that she’s kept that 1970s hairstyle. (I think those are coming back for college students now.)
Moderator
Wednesday - March 4th 2026 2:10PM MST
PS: The 10th Century Mullahs would be scarier if they were smarter people.
As it stands, with all that talk about their having nukes any day now, “Speaking to the media on Tuesday this week, Rubio said: “Iran is run by lunatics – religious fanatic lunatics. They have an ambition to have nuclear weapons.” An ambition? I guess we’re fighting their ambitions there, so we won’t have to over here… or something. That was from your 2nd link, Adam.
I like your analogy too.
As it stands, with all that talk about their having nukes any day now, “Speaking to the media on Tuesday this week, Rubio said: “Iran is run by lunatics – religious fanatic lunatics. They have an ambition to have nuclear weapons.” An ambition? I guess we’re fighting their ambitions there, so we won’t have to over here… or something. That was from your 2nd link, Adam.
I like your analogy too.
The Alarmist
Wednesday - March 4th 2026 10:37AM MST
PS
Anyway, it’s all a big distraction from news our 1970s selves would have cared about ….
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15614221/Valerie-Bertinelli-65-reveals-secretly-boob-job-20s-quietly-removing-two-years-ago.html
Anyway, it’s all a big distraction from news our 1970s selves would have cared about ….
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15614221/Valerie-Bertinelli-65-reveals-secretly-boob-job-20s-quietly-removing-two-years-ago.html
Adam Smith
Wednesday - March 4th 2026 10:34AM MST
PS: 𝑜𝑛
Dammit. ☮️
Dammit. ☮️
Adam Smith
Wednesday - March 4th 2026 10:31AM MST
PS: Good afternoon, Achmed!
"government" employees killed Jesus in an attempt to appease a mob of screeching jews.
"government" employees attacked on Iran in an attempt to appease a mob of screeching jews.
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose?
Slightly off topic...
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2026/03/03/military-officers-accused-of-framing-iran-war-biblical-mandate.html
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/4/why-are-the-us-and-israel-framing-the-ongoing-conflict-as-a-religious-war
At the risk of sounding redundant...
𝐼𝑡'𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑠 𝑖𝑓 𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑜𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑛 𝑤𝑒𝑎𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑟𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑎 𝑏𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑧𝑒 𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒, 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑏𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑧𝑒 𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑏𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑧𝑒 𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒.
(or something?) ☮️
"government" employees killed Jesus in an attempt to appease a mob of screeching jews.
"government" employees attacked on Iran in an attempt to appease a mob of screeching jews.
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose?
Slightly off topic...
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2026/03/03/military-officers-accused-of-framing-iran-war-biblical-mandate.html
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/4/why-are-the-us-and-israel-framing-the-ongoing-conflict-as-a-religious-war
At the risk of sounding redundant...
𝐼𝑡'𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑠 𝑖𝑓 𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑜𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑛 𝑤𝑒𝑎𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑟𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑎 𝑏𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑧𝑒 𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒, 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑏𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑧𝑒 𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑏𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑧𝑒 𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒.
(or something?) ☮️
The Alarmist
Wednesday - March 4th 2026 10:29AM MST
PS
If you think Tenth Century Mullahs are scary, just think of Binyamin Nutjobyahoo having a death-grip on Middle-East energy.
I’d rather take my chances with the Twelfth Imam.
🕉
If you think Tenth Century Mullahs are scary, just think of Binyamin Nutjobyahoo having a death-grip on Middle-East energy.
I’d rather take my chances with the Twelfth Imam.
🕉