House of Cards
Diana Hochman, May 2025
America needs to clean the house. And to choose leaders who truly put America first, but not at the expense of other nations.
Yesterday, America attacked Iran's nuclear sites, thereby directly entering the War in the Middle East. As I was reading and this came across my desk, I was stunned. I suppose I did really hope that somehow, the US President would not make such a bad choice. But now? Things are as they are. Iran will respond and it has a moral right, if not imperative, to. Parent talk on classic school yard doctrine: Never take the first punch. Name calling and taunts are just that. Never mind. But, if someone takes the first punch, you better hit them back and lay them flat on their a**. That's how it is. Now Iran will not only continue its peaceful nuclear program, which is its sovereign right, but will also develop a nuclear arsenal by which to deter further aggression, which is now also its sovereign right.
Self-defense is a nation’s primary responsibility
Trump's name will be blemished for eternity. His reckless actions are going to bring much suffering to the American people, and Bibi's actions in Israel are going to bring great suffering to the Israelis. Bibi, too, will go down in history as one of the worst and most evil leaders who ever existed.
Iran is calling out Trump's boastful lies about obliterating Iran's nuclear infrastructure, much in the same way India refuted his lies of mediating peace between Pakistan and India, and much in the same way China refuted his lies during the first round of Tariff Face-offs, and much in the same way he lied about all the best friend agreements between him and Putin, to which the Kremlin issued a stark though more subtle response, "Wait for us to announce something officially." Everyone in the world knows what a liar and con and utterly untrustworthy partner Trump is. He lies about e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g. And everyone in the world, except his followers, knows this. Fox News is complicit.
American soldiers will perish on foreign soil all for a gross strategic blunder by a crudely gross so-called president, a wannabe dictator who is treating his presidency like a Reality TV show-grift scam. The situation is somewhere so far past jaw-dropping and astonishing, it is setting a new precedent for what constitutes the bottom of the barrel. In all my born days, I never imagined America would stoop this low. No one is interested in staying tuned for the next episode. The whole world wants this sh*t show, The Reign of Trump the Terrible, cancelled asap, along with his co-star Bibi the Bloodthirsty Villain.
Israelis are now hearing the menacing siren of the death knell day and night. And it is only going to get louder and louder. Many innocents will perish for Bibi’s bloodthirst. Meanwhile, last I heard, Bibi's son is partying it up in a million-dollar Florida high-rise. But who knows? Maybe by now he went back to Israel to fight with courage and valor for his country, alongside all the other soldiers dying on the battlefield.
It is the people alone who are the shareholders in every nation. Presidents and other heads of state are merely temporary stewards, whose sole guiding force is supposed to be to secure the interest of their people for however long God keeps them as a faithful steward and charges them with this noble duty.
How did Trump's midnight cowboy battle star galactic escapade put America First? Just like all of his other choices so far, it has uniquely destabilized America (and the world). Trump's tired trope, the War in Ukraine would not have happened had the election not been stolen from him is a big lie. He just whines all the time. It’s annoying. Well, Trump is president now and he just started a war against Iran. What’s his excuse now? If there was any election stolen in recent times in America, it was in November 2024. Just ask Elon Musk. He knows how and why. Sure, Biden aggressively started the War in Ukraine (get Ted Cruz the memo), but Trump has fanned its flames before and since. Trump is a man who does not think. He has no wisdom or courage or understanding. He cheats and scams his way through life.
America creates needless and senseless wars around the world. We always try to topple other nations and effect regime change and we always leave nations ravaged, and their people devastated, thus sparking migrant crises’ that breed endless more social problems for people everywhere. And then when we don't want to deal with the problems that we create, we just decide to toss out the people whose lives we exploited as if they are human garbage. The deep state in America is made up of both Republicans and Democrats. Both sides are evil and complicit in causing great harm to human beings in every place.
In the end, America will be demoralized to the brink of ruin under Trump for this fiasco, just as America lost esteem due to Biden’s fiascoes in Afghanistan (2021) and Ukraine (2022). And also George W. Bush’s two fiascoes in 2001 (Afghanistan) and most definitely in Iraq (2003), which closely mirrors Trump’s 2025 blunder. Bibi lied about an imminent bomb threat in order to start a war, likely to distract from his domestic issues, a false flag operation bar none. Biden did this in 2021, which led to the War in Ukraine in 2022.
There were no weapons of mass destruction in 2003 in Iraq. Many Americans believed our government then, with blind faith, and we were all in on the mission. When we later learned that we were lied to, we felt badly burned. This caused a deep wedge between many of us and our government. Washington lost its street cred or clout, and we no longer blindly believed what we were told. Ever since, we have lived by the adage, fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Now, a great majority of us are on a different level and we know exactly how screwed up our government is and all the evil sh*t it does and we are not okay with this. At all. The People must keep fighting against this behemoth at home. As for other countries, we know what our country has done and does. Don’t let the neocons bully you. Fight back.
When Trump’s cabinet gets tossed out at midterms he will be impeached. The Democrats are going to flip the House. Democrats need to be ready to serve that letter on day one. No playing games and charades. Get straight to the point, zero to 60 in 2 seconds flat. Trump’s MAGA Americans f*cked around and now they are going to find out that they put their faith in the worst possible human being on the planet. The guy is no good, he has no moral fiber. No shame. No grace. No class. He is about Trump, first.
We must work with people in our modern age, not against each other
When American soldiers die on the battlefield for Trump’s folly, and store shelves are empty and gas prices are high, and people lose jobs and corporate profits dip, and even the people Trump promises an unfair tax cut to (the billionaire nerd boy club), well, they’ll feel it, too, when people don't have money to spend on their products. The cries of the people will just get louder as they protest the injustice of their predicaments. America needs to clean the house. And to choose leaders who truly put America first, but not at the expense of other nations.
Addendum
War Powers Act of 1973 meant US Congress needed 48 hours notice before any military action in order to limit presidential power, therefore, granting Congress the sole right (discretion) to declare War. For the past 42 years, every President has circumvented Congress, and thus the will of the American people. The pattern: Wage undeclared war, assassinate leaders, effect regime change. Destabilize a country, next. Rinse, cycle, repeat. On June 17, 2025 Congress introduced a resolution to prohibit military action in Iran without their approval, citing the War Powers Act of 1973.
The balance of power has shifted significantly in the past 80 years. America is no longer a unipolar hegemon. Every action America is taking is only digging it deeper into a hole. 2022 spelled the end of the Neoconservative agenda.
Biden, Yemen 2024; (Russia 2021)*
Reagan, Libya 1986; Grenada 1983
*Ukraine [by proxy]; NATO closing in on Russia, forces Russia to act in Feb 2022 to prevent Libya, Iraq, Iran, etc.
