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There Is No Defense Against Stupidity
In a fog of lies about making Gaza the ‘new Riviera,’ a bigger Trump lie gets immediately fact-checked by Saudi Arabia.
Do you see this war-torn neighborhood? Don’t blink because before you know it, this street will be filled with some of the world’s most luxurious hotels, streets lined with fashionable boutiques, and cork trees to provide shade. There might even be an “all-you-can-eat humus” place if we are lucky — well, let me say more accurately if someone mixes up a bowl of really-super-pooper good humus for Dear Leader and he falls in love with it.
Dear Leader is, of course, Donald Trump, our beloved president and developer-in-chief.
Donald Trump is used to speaking to stupid people. Stupid people love listening to his fairytales, which lure them into a stupor, and like drooling zombies, they go out into the world confident that their burning pants are actually good for their private parts — “It’ll hurt a little, but the pain will lead to a gain, bro.” What Trump doesn’t realize, though, is that more than half of the country isn’t part of the cult. We see through his blitzkrieg of lunacy and lies. We know damn well that no U.S. bulldozers will ever be “removing the ruins of Gaza,” as Trump so callously said yesterday, and a new U.S. own French…
