Louisiana Voice

Last March doesn’t seem like such a long time—unless you’re a Boston Red Sox fan or Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. In those cases, it seems like an eternity ago.

In early March, Red Sox fans were looking forward to a possible division championship and possibly a World Series appearance. After a dismal start and after dropping 3 of 4 to the hated Yankees this past weekend, that division title appears an impossible dream, though Boston is still in position for a wild card playoff spot. But World Series? That’s about a remote as Donald Trump going a single day without requiring a diaper change.

Also, it was in early March when House Speaker Mike Johnson, apparently speaking through some other part of his anatomy proclaimed at a Repugnantcan retreat that the war with Iran was “nearly completed” and that “gas prices will readjust after that.”

We were reminded of those fateful words of Louisiana’s 4^th District Congressman by Daily Kos on Monday. But Johnson wasn’t through.

He added, confidently or not (you’re never sure with him), “The Strait of Hormuz has been closed by the regime down there, but it will be reopened, and it will take a couple of weeks, but gas prices will come back down.”

That “couple of weeks” has turned into six-plus months with no end in sight, striking a familiar refrain for the U.S. habit of engaging in never-ending wars with no victories to show for the efforts. (Remember, it was TACO Don who pledged “no more wars” during the 2024 campaign.)

And gas prices damned sure haven’t “come back down.”

The funny thing about the Repugnantcan mindset—John N. Kennedy, Bill Cassidy, Johnson, Clay Higgins, Julia Letlow, et al included—if POTUS (Pedophile of the U.S.) says it, the GOP (Gelatin Offensive Predators) sheep have no choice but to parrot whatever sewage spews from his mouth as if the message was delivered from Mount Sinai.

Case(s) in point, also according to Daily Kos:

“I liken it to a street repair. It’s always a pain when the street has to get repaired, especially your home street, there’s traffic congestion and whatnot,” Republican Rep. Aaron Bean of Florida told CNBC, also in March. “But there comes that day when they release the cones and whatnot, and it’s smooth and easy and widened and safer, and that’s what’s happening.”

What??!! But wait. There’s more:

“I am hopeful that we can bring this to a close in the next few weeks,” Rep. Tom Barrett, a Michigan Republican, told The New York Times in April. “Once there is stability in the region, oil prices and subsequently gas prices will come down, while Americans will be safer because we’ve neutralized one of our most determined enemies.”

Stability? Really? They’ve only been fighting “stability in the region” for a few thousand years and Cadet Bonespurs’ war is going to change things in “a few weeks”? Good to know.

Boy, these guys really are living in some alternate reality.

And these are our elected leaders? What must that say of the followers, the MagHats?

Perhaps The Wall Street Journal said it best when it recently asked the difference between Iran and Vietnam.

“Trump had a plan for getting out of Vietnam.”