How to Argue with Trump Loons About Iran, plus Some Bastille Groveling

And also, why sharing is caring!

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My comment area will always remain free, too, unless I can’t manage the trolls. So far, so good. I usually delete their comments before anybody sees them, then they get the banhammer.

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I don’t enjoy promoting my work. But I’ve been told by several readers that this newsletter should be enjoying a much larger subscription base, paid or free, than it does. Who am I to argue with that?

There’s a lot of variety here. There’s fiction, satire, rants, deep dives. This isn’t the usual “I hate Trump” newsletter, although I happily engage in a lot of that, too, because, well, I hate him more than all the cancer cells in the world. He is a scourge against humanity. I long for the day when I never write about that dying orange pustule of human waste ever again.

Between rants against him, I try to include periodic heavyweight articles like the one I did yesterday, which I feel is very important. It’s a long read, so it will never gain a lot of traction, but we needed to change the narrative on Iran before the war, and those of us who tried were ignored.

So I did it again with a headline that Trumpers use in their pro-war arguments, then I explain just how full of troll excrement the argument is:

If you haven’t read it yet, I really think you should. Bookmark it, restack it, share it.

It’s a history lesson. MAGA lives in a world of stick figures and crayons, so they’ll never read it, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be putting this stuff out there.

Last night, JD Vance stumbled out of a meeting with Iranian negotiators looking like he had just seen a ghost. Today, the conniving minstrel of malfeasance announced that the U.S. will impose a blockade on the Strait of Hormuz. We are living in a nation whose head of state has a broken brain.

The ridiculous timeline of this war is bad enough, but more people will die soon unless the idiot in the oval decides to just declare victory and move on, which is very possible.

But just know that if he does, he’ll create a new crisis that same day.

No matter what his broken brain instructs him to do about Iran, the damage is done. Europe and Canada hate us, and if you think those of us who didn’t vote for him get a pass, well, bless your hearts, but the anger is toward all of us, not just him.

So I agree with readers who say my posts should have a wider audience, but not because I’m trying to grab people’s money. I genuinely think we need to change the narrative that led us to this point.

If funds are tight, then I encourage you to hit the restack button if you like something. Restacking = information dissemination. When you restack a post, that’s almost as good as becoming a paid subscriber.

Restack, restack, restack

Thank you to those who do so regularly. You know who you are. I appreciate it more than I take time to say. The real reason we restack, though, is not to reward a writer. It’s to disseminate information.

Oh, did I show you this? I can’t remember:

I think I did. Sorry.

If you’re a social media maven, maybe grab a few of your fellow doomscrollers and get an even bigger discount (30%):

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Here are a few things that might be worth disseminating.

This post gathered 39 different crimes Trump has committed against the American people in one place, from his rapes to his grift. Check it out. It’s appalling:

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Did you miss my Easter vampire short story?

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How about this first Ruminato movie production announcement?

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Or this reminder that, sorry, folks, climate change is still killing us:

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Sometimes I drop an excerpt from works in progress, like this alternative history novel about an African empire rising in Carolina’s Low Country:

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I also did a deep dive recently into President Krasnov:

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Sometimes I put on the old software engineering hat and try to offer a primer on stuff like AI:

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Speaking of AI, I was even a very naughty boy and used it to help me create a song about Trump. I wrote the lyrics, and Suno did the rest.

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There’s also occasional bits of humorous fiction, like this:

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There’s even an origin story about my little substack hedgehog:

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For history buffs, I wrote a guide to U.S. presidents that you probably won’t see Heather Cox Richardson (who I also read every night) post:

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Fun for the whole family!

There’s something for everyone. Explore the website if you are feeling adventurous.

And most of all, thank you for reading!

Hey, did I remember to include this?

Oh, yeah, I think you did. Have a fantastic Sunday.