Everything He Touches...

 Some MAGA commentators online have decried the media focusing on the gross incompetence demonstrated by the Reflecting Pool shitshow. "Why do you care about this, when Trump just signed a triumphant peace agreement that re-opens the Straits of Hormuz!?" (As of the moment I'm writing this, the Straits are closed again.) 

The reason the Reflecting Pool - like the destruction of the East Wing of the White House - is such a good story is because it so compellingly visualizes the greed and corruption of the Trump Administration. With the Reflecting Pool, it's also the appalling incompetence. My favorite commentary is by some sun-leathered pool guy who comes out and stands by the pool and says exactly what went wrong. The average pool guy knows what's up, but Trump doesn't, and his every utterance has become Gospel to MAGA.

Anyway, I bring this up, because we can see that everything Trump touches turns to shit.

Case in point, Netanyahu made a wager a few years back to align himself with the Republican Party generally and Trump specifically.  It's a natural alliance, because they are both racist and corrupt. Game recognizes game. What Netanyahu failed to understand is that everything Trump touches turns, as I said, to shit. He also burns the reputation of everyone who comes in his orbit. He's basically sending JD Vance out to be the face of this Iran "peace deal" in case it fails. 

Trump's popularity in Israel was really high. It was basically the only country in the world that really liked this guy. His conduct in this war, especially the "peace deal" has soured Israelis on him.

The good news is that perhaps this is the final nail in Netanyahu's political coffin. He has to hold elections soon, and despite overseeing the catastrophic failure of 10/7, he could point to persuading the American president to wage war on Iran. 

Only now, Iran has won the war, because the president is a feckless idiot who hires people like Pete Hegseth to manage a war, when he can't manage a one car parade.

If the result of the Iran War is the death of much of Iran's leadership, the defeat of Netanyahu and Likud in the coming elections and the defeat of Republicans in the midterms, that would be objectively funny.

Regime change begins at home.