President Macbeth
A tale full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
From the Daily Mail …
Iran says it has closed Strait of Hormuz again after US refused to remove their blockade as Trump threatens to resume bombing
By ELEANOR MANN and OLIVIA ALLHUSEN, FOREIGN NEWS REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 02:43 EDT, 18 April 2026 | UPDATED: 05:33 EDT, 18 April 2026
OK, bombing didn’t start at 0500, but it sounds like he really wants to. Despite the announced Israel-Lebanon ceasefire, there are reports Israel continues to destroy houses in Southern Lebanon. I would suppose Israel would tell us they have no ceasefire with Hezbollah, and these are all Hezbollah houses, QED.
Wait, what?
IDF officers in southern Lebanon report they were not informed of ceasefire deal
April 18, 3:31 AM
source: https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/2026-04-17/live-updates-89332
OK, so it’s just an oopsie then. That’s probably a better way to play along with the charade of who is running things in this special combat operation.
It occurred to me that the current iteration of President Gas is a modern version of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, with Bibi Nutjobyahoo playing the role of Lady Macbeth. One can only wonder when, having turned the “Peace President” into a murderous tyrant, the good lady will start to be relegated to her own mad demise… his “Out, damned spot” moment will be probably play out in another dash to Berlin.
True story: I was on the cross-town M57 bus in Manhattan in the 1990s, and as the bus passed a stop, a frantic woman pulled the “request stop” cord a bit too late, shouting “Out! Out! Damn, Stop!” You’d be surprised how many anecdotes like this one experiences in NYC. One day, again on the M57, a young lady carrying a cello boarded and asked the driver, “How do I get to Carnegie Hall?” At least ten of us dead-panned, “Practice, practice, practice.”
Life was so much more fun even as late as 1999. The Year-2000 problem actually started on 7 November 2000. Not that Algore would have been anything other than a different path to ruin, because the wheels started to go off the bus in 1989.
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By 1989, I assume you refer to the breakup of the Soviet bloc and (therefore) the famous "Unipolar Moment" beginning.