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Enough already. We’re exhausted, exasperated, and bored with the continued cognitive dissonance coming from the White House. Why did he give that ridiculous speech on Iran? He said nothing new. He didn’t clear up anything. He didn’t clarify a plan. He is a broken record that seems incapable of anything other than repetition of nonsense we absolutely do not believe. On March 1, he gave a short NYT interview in which he seemed to change his mind about whether he wanted regime change in Iran. On March 6, he demanded unconditional surrender IN ALL CAPS. On March 9, he said the conflict was “pretty well complete.” On March 13, he said Iran had been “totally defeated.” On March 20 he said that the nation was “getting very close to meeting our objectives.” On March 21, he said the operation had achieved his objectives “ahead of schedule” — although there has obviously been no surrender, with or without conditions. Later that day he said he would start hitting Iran’s power plants, no doubt a war crime, unless the supposedly already defeated country let oil traffic through the Strait of Hormuz. Earlier this week, he told reporters the conflict would be ending “very soon. Last night he said military activity in Iran was “nearing completion.” But then he added that, in the next few weeks, U.S. strikes will bring Iran “back to the stone ages.” Did anyone else lose count of how many times he said “like nobody’s ever seen” and “decimated” and “never before.” Perhaps this is the ‘fog of war’ we hear about? This is ridiculous. He’s flailing. The GOP Congress continues to prop his crazy up. And mainstream media sanitizes it all for public consumption. Meanwhile he’s more upset about the delay in his ballroom construction than anything else. But he did make time to visit the SCOTUS to watch their version of a UFC fight. He wants to take away birthright citizenship from a country of immigrants. Fortunately the level of legal incompetence of the government’s argument to do so was in full bloom. I expect he sat, glowered, made faces, looked impatient, took a nap, then called it a day when the words got too big. I’m sure he thought getting up and leaving cut the justices to their core. What a sad mob boss he makes. It would have been funny if it were an SNL skit. But not as a facet of our country’s governance. Plaintiff’s lawyer later described what it was like to argue before the high court. It’s “a nerve-wracking experience to argue any case in the Supreme Court, and especially one as weighty as this one, where the president of the United States is taking aim at a cherished American tradition and individual right of citizenship based on your birth in this country. I myself am a Fourteenth Amendment citizen because my parents had not yet naturalized when I was born. So I walked in today with the spirit of my parents and so many people’s ancestors in that first generation of Americans—whether they naturalized or not, I consider them all Americans. They came to this country with hopes and dreams, and they gave birth to future Americans, and that’s us.” That is all of us. Trump is revitalizing patriotism in this country. Just not his twisted, white nationalist, hateful, sycophantic, authoritarian version of it. We the people rule. THAT is America.