Watching the markets the last few weeks certainly supports the notion that the markets are decoupled from reality.

Expect drone strikes on poultry plants

happily vote for the next Trump

You mean Trump himself? There's no chance in hell he wouldn't try to run again if he hasn't kicked the bucket by then.

It's pretty unlikely he'll make it until then and if he does die I'm not sure who will be his successor (definitely not charisma black hole JD) but if not then he's too proud to give anyone else a chance.

even after this war decimates the US economy

War has traditionally been a boon to the American economy, as the US workforce is heavily integrated into the Military Industrial Complex. The surge in state spending under the Trump administration, combined with the construction boom from AI, is what's currently keeping us out of recession. And domestic oil exports only benefit when countries like Kuwait and Qatar can't export fossil fuels.

Losing Vietnam didn’t teach them anything

It's the Max Bialystock strategy. You win by losing. Another multi-decade long military engagement means multiple trillions of dollars invested in equipment, technology, and private contractors.

Iran, Ukraine, Venezuela, I guess Cuba is next, maybe we get to Nigeria or North Korea down the line... the wars never end and the profits never stop flowing.

They're going to frame it as "See? The most powerful navy in the world is struggling, imagine how worse a threat Iran world be if Trump hadn't intervened! He's a tactical jenius!"

The problem has been "the only other option" was neoliberal who won't help us either, but are bad liars about it.

We got a fair DNC again, we can get a FDR style Dem who actually helps people, meaning Dem turnout doesn't get depressed and the next shitty Republican doesn't get an open court layup.

That's all it takes to break that cycle. It's why neoliberals were always willing to lose a general in the primary if it meant stopping a progressive.

They never had the same goal as Dem voters, but Dem voters got the DNC back from neoliberals over a year ago.

I read it as control of the situation, particularly his self perceived control of the war. Weird for a headline to play to that. Your critique is valid, the headline is poorly written.

I read it differently. That sentence makes it sound like the “President” is actually a competent leader whose plans are falling apart, rather than the dangerously stupid puppet that he is. All media outlets keep sane-washing him like he has plans to begin with, is capable of strategic thought, and is somehow actually trying to do any kind of good for anyone but himself and his handlers.

America is rat-fucked until the people can establish at least one media outlet that isn’t indifferent to all the evil being perpetrated against them.

I particularly liked the underlying assumption throughout the article that Trump absolutely has to have Iran capitulate and therefore the only thing they can do is to continue to escalate. That "declare victory and leave" isn't something they've even considered.

implication is that a sitting leader of one sovereign nation should have control of another sovereign nation

This is normal US media implication since 1940s. Supreme right. The control reference in article seems to be that there may have been some minor miscalculations about whether "allies" would be made to die to impose US authority on Iran, and to obtain certain glory, we'll just start a mandatory draft, and shoot any protestors. It's the only way, and we are not allowed any other ideas.

I’m actually shocked that he hasn’t already declared victory

He did do that part