{"id":28376,"date":"2026-05-12T19:23:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T23:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/?p=28376"},"modified":"2026-05-12T19:30:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T23:30:58","slug":"the-art-of-no-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/the-art-of-no-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of NO deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hate to have to say it, but <a href=\"https:\/\/instapundit.com\/796414\/\" target=\"blank\">Trump is an idiot<\/a>, and he\u2019s screwing the pooch by the numbers.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Trump: No Need to Rush Anything With Iran <\/p>\n<p>Frankly, I would rather see action rather than talk<\/p>\n<p>I would like to see oil prices and inflation back down<\/p>\n<p>And I am sick and tired of Iran poking us in the eye on the world stage, and making it look like we&#8217;re desperate for some sort\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Betts (@JohnFromCranber)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnFromCranber\/status\/2054278162087879124?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 12, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the ugly truth of the matter, via <a href=\"https:\/\/theviewfromladylake.blogspot.com\/2026\/05\/battling-congestion-100-years-hence-and.html\" target=\"blank\">Lakeside Joe<\/a>. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"TwelverTruth.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/TwelverTruth.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p>That penultimate line\u2014\u201cThe regime can only be stopped by force\u201d <em>et al<\/em>\u2014assumes something not so far in evidence, namely that \u201cAt some point, Trump will be convinced of this reality.\u201d It\u2019s my considered opinion that Trump, being at heart a basically decent sort who derives no pleasure from killing people in job lots, would vastly prefer to make some kind of deal with the Mullah regime, even though any deal the howling Western infidel makes with the Mullahs won\u2019t be worth the paper it\u2019s printed on.<\/p>\n<p>Which in turn means that Trump, having an entirely unrealistic view of the opponents he is confronting\u2014ie, a far too charitable one regarding their willingness to deal fairly and honestly with \u201cthe Great Satan,\u201d among other things\u2014should never have dragged us into the Iran quagmire in the first place. His Presidency will be regarded by future historians, if any, as a catastrophe, one this piss-poor excuse for a nation will be paying for for generations, possibly even centuries. Sorry, but IMO that\u2019s the long and the short of it.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Update!<\/strong><\/em> Just got off the phone with my brother Jeff, who just minutes ago shelled out $1100.00 at a truck stop to fill up his Freightliner with diesel fuel, but won\u2019t make anything close to that much this week. He says another month or so of losing money like this and he\u2019ll be out of business, and the truck will be up for sale. No need to rush anything, eh, Donald? <em>*spit*<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hate to have to say it, but Trump is an idiot, and he\u2019s screwing the pooch by the numbers. Trump: No Need to Rush Anything With Iran Frankly, I would rather see action rather than talk I would like to see oil prices and inflation&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"easywp-readmore\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/the-art-of-no-deal\/\">Would you like to know more?<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  The art of NO deal<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,11,16,17,22,202,40,42,54,61,62,74,77,95,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-almost-but-not-quite","category-assholes","category-bah","category-believe-it-or-else","category-big-tsimmis","category-business-as-usual","category-culture-of-incompetence","category-dhimmi-wits","category-disasters-near-and-far","category-fucking-morons","category-hmmm","category-hubris-and-nemesis","category-losing","category-meltdown-what-meltdown","category-savages","category-we-are-soooooo-screwed","wpcat-4-id","wpcat-9-id","wpcat-11-id","wpcat-16-id","wpcat-17-id","wpcat-22-id","wpcat-202-id","wpcat-40-id","wpcat-42-id","wpcat-54-id","wpcat-61-id","wpcat-62-id","wpcat-74-id","wpcat-77-id","wpcat-95-id","wpcat-120-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28376"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28379,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28376\/revisions\/28379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}