<![CDATA["His reality distortion field has run into a brick wall."]]>"His reality distortion field has run into a brick wall."

~ David Smith


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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/30/trump-iran-war-reality

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/fe06a304-be65-4cb9-b919-8774acf3fdd2/his-reality-distortion-field-has-run-into-a-brick-wall.RSS for NodeWed, 08 Apr 2026 22:39:56 GMTMon, 30 Mar 2026 14:19:11 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to "His reality distortion field has run into a brick wall." on Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:53:31 GMT]]>"What’s always a danger for a bogged-down empire is a heightened risk for a superpower led by a man with a short attention span who is enthralled by military spectacle. ...

Whatever Trump lurches towards next, his stupidity, racism, hubris, and provincialism will — as it has for past U.S. administrations far less burdened by those weaknesses than he is — prevent him from seeing his avowed enemy clearly or on its own terms."


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]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toad.social/users/wdlindsy/statuses/116318929647292817https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toad.social/users/wdlindsy/statuses/116318929647292817Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:53:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "His reality distortion field has run into a brick wall." on Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:52:04 GMT]]>"The only thing more dangerous than an unbound strongman launching elective wars is when those wars begin to go badly.

There’s no telling what President Trump will resort to doing to save face, create the mirage of victory, and extricate himself from the box canyon into which he so triumphantly galloped.

This is old-style mission creep on steroids."

~ David Kurtz


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https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/trumps-iran-war-objectives-have-collapsed

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toad.social/users/wdlindsy/statuses/116318923922639011https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toad.social/users/wdlindsy/statuses/116318923922639011Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:52:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "His reality distortion field has run into a brick wall." on Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:48:18 GMT]]>@wdlindsy if Drumpf can't read, how does he read the prompter? Are they in pictures?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/LanceJZ/statuses/116318909125775169https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/LanceJZ/statuses/116318909125775169Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:48:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "His reality distortion field has run into a brick wall." on Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:29:36 GMT]]>@wdlindsy would not need a deal if Drumpf had not screwed it up in the first place.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/LanceJZ/statuses/116318835619286378https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/LanceJZ/statuses/116318835619286378Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:29:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "His reality distortion field has run into a brick wall." on Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:49:17 GMT]]>@wdlindsy

Iran had a treaty. They were in compliance. Trump ripped it up. More recently, Iran was at the table in good faith negotiations, Trump bombed them.

Trump has shown that the US can not be trusted.

The way to end this war is to remove Trump and his henchmen from any kind of power.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/Babcia54/statuses/116318677061268244https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/Babcia54/statuses/116318677061268244Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:49:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "His reality distortion field has run into a brick wall." on Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:46:13 GMT]]>@hypostase Yet, ironically, it was monks in the early medieval period who preserved many of the precious manuscripts transmitting the long legacy of Greek and Roman thought from the pre-Christian era.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toad.social/users/wdlindsy/statuses/116318665005652305https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toad.social/users/wdlindsy/statuses/116318665005652305Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:46:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "His reality distortion field has run into a brick wall." on Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:39:22 GMT]]>@wdlindsy

Does think giving an airplane was such a good idea?

While modifies 's plane, it needs to build another E-3G to the tune of a half-billion dollars.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Stinson_108/statuses/116318638053262397https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Stinson_108/statuses/116318638053262397Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:39:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "His reality distortion field has run into a brick wall." on Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:30:59 GMT]]>@wdlindsy
Reading's probably not Christian, anyways, least not until it's been interpreted as the Spirit moves you.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://bsd.network/users/hypostase/statuses/116318605134617328https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://bsd.network/users/hypostase/statuses/116318605134617328Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:30:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "His reality distortion field has run into a brick wall." on Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:28:43 GMT]]>@wdlindsy

"Competent negotiators and a sane president"

You don't need negotiators if you have intelligence analysts and military planners. One obviates the need for the other.

has presented a small but quantifiable nuclear threat since quit the JCPOA. Iran has supported terrorists in and . Neither was an existential threat to the U.S. has nuclear. We didn't feel the need to bomb them.

Now we risk a global conflagration.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Stinson_108/statuses/116318596191575590https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Stinson_108/statuses/116318596191575590Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:28:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "His reality distortion field has run into a brick wall." on Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:26:34 GMT]]>"Trump can't read so he gets his briefings on video. Hegseth won't read because it's not manly. Rubio denies being able to read, to fit in. Pam Bondi fears reading because it's usually a subpoena."

~ Paul Rudnick


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https://xcancel.com/PaulRudnickNY/status/2037990417694638577#m

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toad.social/users/wdlindsy/statuses/116318587755767225https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toad.social/users/wdlindsy/statuses/116318587755767225Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:26:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "His reality distortion field has run into a brick wall." on Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:25:32 GMT]]>"That war-peration not going great."

~ Marcie Jones


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https://www.wonkette.com/p/call-your-girlfriend-tabs-mon-march

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toad.social/users/wdlindsy/statuses/116318583663701168https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toad.social/users/wdlindsy/statuses/116318583663701168Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:25:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "His reality distortion field has run into a brick wall." on Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:24:58 GMT]]>"His utterances each day about the war and the global crisis he has created make as much as sense as 'light inside the body' during COVID."

~ Simon Rosenberg


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https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/trumps-global-crisis-worsens-where

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toad.social/users/wdlindsy/statuses/116318581452953530https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toad.social/users/wdlindsy/statuses/116318581452953530Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:24:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "His reality distortion field has run into a brick wall." on Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:24:13 GMT]]>"Other presidents have been accused of negotiating with themselves. Trump is negotiating with his imaginary friends. There’s no reason at all to believe that these talks are actually happening."

~ Paul Krugman


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https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/pete-hegseth-believes-in-the-lethality

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toad.social/users/wdlindsy/statuses/116318578487098277https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toad.social/users/wdlindsy/statuses/116318578487098277Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:24:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "His reality distortion field has run into a brick wall." on Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:23:20 GMT]]>"So, a ground invasion then, huh? We’re no Dionne Warwick or Mulan, but assorted half-assed boot-ground raiding into a country of 90 million people sounds like a strategy to do not much more than get a lot of (American) servicepeople killed."

~ Marcie Jones


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https://www.wonkette.com/p/just-67000-us-troops-in-iran-hanging

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toad.social/users/wdlindsy/statuses/116318575043176428https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toad.social/users/wdlindsy/statuses/116318575043176428Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:23:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "His reality distortion field has run into a brick wall." on Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:22:38 GMT]]>"Donald Trump has lost his Iran war. He is the Iranian hostage. ... If there is any consistency to Trump’s policy, it is a series of frantic attempts to justify his original blunder and extricate himself from its dire consequences."

~ Sidney Blumenthal


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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/30/trump-iran-war

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toad.social/users/wdlindsy/statuses/116318572288138557https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toad.social/users/wdlindsy/statuses/116318572288138557Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:22:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "His reality distortion field has run into a brick wall." on Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:22:06 GMT]]>"Despite all the positive words and all the tough words from President Trump, behind closed doors, he understands that he is in really deep trouble, that he made a huge mistake.

When leaders are desperate, they do foolish things."

~ Tymofiy Mylovanov


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https://xcancel.com/Mylovanov/status/2037879776803717314#m

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toad.social/users/wdlindsy/statuses/116318570168151320https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toad.social/users/wdlindsy/statuses/116318570168151320Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:22:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "His reality distortion field has run into a brick wall." on Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:21:29 GMT]]>"If only the U.S. had competent negotiators and a sane president, a deal might be reached soon. We don’t. Tragically, more lives will be lost, billions more spent before the war’s end."


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]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toad.social/users/wdlindsy/statuses/116318567771574461https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toad.social/users/wdlindsy/statuses/116318567771574461Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:21:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "His reality distortion field has run into a brick wall." on Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:21:15 GMT]]>"He therefore flails about, desperately trying to end this debacle without total humiliation. Thanks to the considerable leverage Trump’s blunders have given them, the Iranians surely expect to avoid Trump’s most draconian demands. They want the war to end, but not at any price."


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]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toad.social/users/wdlindsy/statuses/116318566864010750https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toad.social/users/wdlindsy/statuses/116318566864010750Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:21:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "His reality distortion field has run into a brick wall." on Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:20:26 GMT]]>"This is what happens when impulsive, ignorant men — intoxicated with blowing things up — utterly bungle a war. ...

In sum, Trump did not get regime change or an unconditional surrender. His lack of strategy gave Iran advantages (e.g., control of the Strait of Hormuz, asymmetric missile/drone capacity) that neither he nor his yes men anticipated."

~ Jennifer Rubin


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https://www.contrariannews.org/p/what-deadline

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toad.social/users/wdlindsy/statuses/116318563637098312https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toad.social/users/wdlindsy/statuses/116318563637098312Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:20:26 GMT