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The Hostage-Ceasefire Deal

Likely, you’ve heard highlights dissected and discussed, but being an intelligent person, you don’t need a TV blabber to be your interpreter. Here’s a link to “Trump’s” 20-point plan.

As you read it, try to imagine Trump sitting at the Resolute desk, thinking deeply about a myriad of critical details to unravel this millennia-long, infinitely complicated conflict. We’re told that his goal was to craft the one plan that will work to create peace. Makes me wonder who actually cobbled together the ideas and who wrote it. No way Trump, with his gnat-like attention span and inability to grasp anything more complicated than a grift.

Nearly everything in this plan has been proposed many times before and rejected as many times. There are two points that stand out as different and worthy of comment.

10. A Trump economic development plan to rebuild and energise [sic] Gaza will be created .  .  .

A Trump economic development plan? Really? He’s the Baron of Bankruptcy, the Foreman of Fraud. The Poacher of Philanthropic Funds. The King of Cons and the Prince of Payoffs. And he’s going to make the economic development plan for Gazans? But his plan to rebuild Gaza includes creating the “Riviera on the Mediterranean” for his own benefit.

Puke-able.

20. The United States will establish a dialogue between Israel and the Palestinians .  .  .

The U.S. will do this, huh? Just as though Hamas and the Gazans trust the U.S.? Can you think of even a single reason why Palestinians should see this as a trustworthy path for their lives and their children’s lives? Why isn’t some other arbiter that is trusted by both sides named as the facilitator, like Saudi Arabia or Egypt or Jordan or the UAE or Turkey?

Is there even a faint reason for Gazans to risk their future to the hands of the U.S., the provider of Gaza destroying, Palestinian killing bombs? Don’t be surprised if Hamas finds a way to scuttle this deal, claiming some U.S. act is to blame. Or Netanyahu scuttles it, claiming Hamas transgressions that required him to send in the IDF after dropping bombs.

Here’s the key about these two points: Trump is managing to make the entire peace and hostage returning process about Trump and for the benefit of Trump. This is Trump clawing for yet more attention and more self-aggrandizement, even as his cognitive capabilities disintegrate before our eyes. This is Trump trying to get a Nobel Peace Prize next year.

Puke-able.

Recall that there was an earlier hostage/ceasefire agreement in 2023. It was a 3-stage deal that fell apart almost immediately, with just a handful of hostages and Palestinian prisoners exchanged. We can hope this time the agreement will hold, but hardliner Netanyahu can’t be trusted any more than Hamas can. And Trump is the least trustworthy human on the planet.

Set your hopes and your expectations on extra low.

Everyone applauds the return of hostages. Everyone applauds the cessation of bombing and killing. It’s just such a shame that anti-Semitic, Islamophobic, racist, misogynistic, xenophobic, homophobic Trump and his band of scoundrels would get any credit. That’s making my head and my heart hurt.

From the Israel Policy Forum:

We applaud President Trump and his administration for their hard work in bringing this historic moment to fruition and encourage them to continue to stay focused on the challenging road ahead to negotiate a better future for Israelis and Palestinians.

Wait a second.

1. Trump’s “hard work” consisted solely of threatening Netanyahu and getting him to humiliatingly apologize to the Qataris whom Netanyahu killed while trying to kill Hamas leaders in Qatar. The apology was okay, but it was not hard work for Trump.
2. Trump can’t even stay focused on the teleprompter in front of his face, much less will he have what it will take to do the long term work to make and keep peace in that most dangerous neighborhood. Expect from Trump only transient attention to this middle-east process, absurd braggadocio and nothing related to any reality on Earth 1 except his fear of sharks and sparks. Those are real.

María Corina Machado, Venezuelan Opposition Leader Won The Nobel Peace Prize

Right wing idiotic reactions were swift in coming, as there have already been booger flicking stupidities from Putin and White House communications director Steven Cheung. Watch for disparaging comments ranted soon by Trump in incomprehensible press conference blabberings and on social media about both Ms. Corina-Machado and the Nobel Committee, because:

1. Trump has done the most amazing things, more than anyone has ever seen. You’ve never seen anything like him before. He stopped 8 wars, made Napoleon go home and the won the Big Mac eating contest. And that was just his first day in office.
2. He’s like a peace superstar, a superstar against violence everywhere, and the world loves him and she’s a loser.
3. Everybody is saying, I mean people are saying that she cheated, having international losers lobby for her and that isn’t fair. That isn’t right. That isn’t fair.
4. Trump revealed that George Soros, Antifa and the Hate America coalition are behind this dumb Peace Prize decision. He’s already directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to prosecute all of those people, as well as all members of the Nobel Committee. These are horrible people. Terrible people. The International Human Rights Court in The Hague has never before seen injustice like this. Never. This has never happened before.
5. Trump will play a golf grudge match against Ms. Corina-Machado, with the winner to take home the Nobel Peace Prize. Trump knows that his score will beat hers because his score card is already filled out.
6. She’s from Venezuela, a sh*t hole, Tren de Aragua country. She better not go for a pleasure cruise because maybe Trump will send a drone to blow up her boat, kill her and dump all the fentanyl she will have on board into international waters. He will claim humanitarian superstardom for having protected American druggies from the drugs and will expect to receive the Nancy Reagan “Just Say No Award.” He will insist that after he receives the award that it will be retired and that the Nobel Peace Prize be redirected to himself.
7. You think Greenland has trouble? Nobody goes there. Nobody. It’s just a big ice cube. They’re ready to surrender to Trump. Trump is tough. Very tough. Let the Norwegians think about that.
8. The Norwegians better reverse this Peace Prize award, because they have a nice little country. It would be a shame if anything were to happen to it.

The Trump Sh*t Spray

From Marc Elias, Democracy Docket, October 10:

We are not approaching a constitutional crisis; we are in one. We are not risking authoritarianism; we are experiencing it. We are not crossing the Rubicon; that famous river is so far behind us that our shoes and clothes have completely dried during the journey.

Reported by Heather Cox Richardson on October 10:

Trump threatened to retaliate against China [for saying they would restrict exports of rare earth minerals to the U.S.] and suggested that there was no reason to go through with an upcoming meeting with China’s president Xi Jinping.

Trump’s threat [of vastly higher tariff rates on goods from China] sent stock prices tumbling.

After the stock market closed for the day, Trump posted on social media again, saying he would impose tariffs of 100% on products from China beginning on November 1. This levy is on top of current tariffs. Stocks fell further in after-market trading.

Unavoidable conclusion: Trump is an economic moron.

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