I wonder if some alien civilization way out in the galaxy and receiving our broadcasts, will conclude that in the early 21st century, the most overriding concept that the party in power in the world’s leading nation was “owning” the other party. And they were willing to destroy the entire planet, if need be, because what an ultimate own that would be. It reminds me of a law professor that I worked for once. He told his students a story of a joke he heard at the Manhattan Project, where he was assigned during WWII. One physicist said to another, “I’ll bet you $100 that the bomb ignites the hydrogen in the atmosphere and we burn up.” And the punchline was, “Who’s going to be around to collect the bet, then?”
So here we are in the same gallows humor situation, but worse, if that’s possible. Donald Trump did an immensely stupid and rash thing yesterday but J.D. Vance is pitching it as a genius move — and beyond that, a “smart” move that other “dumb presidents” didn’t have the brains to make, apparently. What kind of brains does it take to start a war? Usually history records that these things were awful mistakes, after all the dust settles and all the bodies are buried. The real brains is in staying out of war.
According to Grok it has cost the American tax payers over $200 million dollars to get ourselves into an endless war with Iran, or as JD puts it, a war with Iran’s Uranium. pic.twitter.com/xYrTD4s1tO
— Michael Cleere (@mikecleere) June 22, 2025
Now it won’t surprise you one bit when I tell you that this observation of J.D.’s is not going over well. In fact, the Hindenburg went over better.
That set off a firestorm on social media, with one critic writing, “OMG I thought this was a joke. Talk about dumb.”
“Dumb presidents? Both were republicans. We have an even more dumb president now so idk how this is a flex…’ noted Bluesky user Jeremy.
Colleen Strider wrote, “And now we have deranged man babies as president and vice.”
“Why does the entirety of the Administration sound like fifth graders? We are in dangerous times because we have yet to hear anything cogent out of their mouths,” Sonder observed.
Another wrote, “Good grief this is just hopeless at this point. They are brainless morons, we are being dragged down the pike by useless morons who think they know what they are doing.”
“Like former president Donald Trump?” Lindsay quipped to which another commenter added, “Literally that Arrested Development meme”
Maho Pacheco expressed surprise and wrote, “Oh wow, I thought you were ‘translating’ political lingo, this was actually a quote,” with another agreeing and adding, “OMG I thought the quote was satire, but he really said that!”
Jennifer Keith added, “Oh my god. My disdain for this loathsome idiot is boundless.”
“This man should never open his mouth to speak. Like ever,” advised Suzan Rose.
Well, J.D., I don’t know if you’ve got a lock on the 2028 nomination at this point. First of all, we don’t know if the world will be here. But then again Donald may fix things so there is no election, so I guess that’s what you’re depending on. But if any semblance of normalcy exists in three point five years, the expense, lives, and misery that your genius boss is in the process of creating may wash over onto you, and you’ll be buried up to your neck in Trump’s shit, just like that level in Dante’s Inferno.
And let’s ask ourselves a very pertinent question here: Would you want to nominate anybody for president — let alone vote for — somebody who believes that Donald Trump is a smart man? Smarter than other presidents before him? Maybe this is the new MAGA punchline, “Trump Is Smarter” or TIS. My head may explode between now and 2028.
