This morning, the president posted this to Truth Social:
The inner Gen X kid in me, the one who grew up with the threat of nuclear war pretty much daily, is screaming his head off.
I wrote my Congressman, Lloyd Smucker (R-Toady).
I don’t know that I need to quote what the president said on Truth Social this morning about Iran, because I am sure that you have seen it, but for the record I must.
“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.”
The president is announcing his intention to destroy Iran, a civilization that pre-dates Christianity by four thousand years. He is announcing genocide, a moral atrocity, a crime against humanity.
In this, the 250th year since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the president is destroying everything the Founders fought and died for, the quiet power built across centuries, the “shining city on the hill” that has been a beacon to billions around the world.
In those words — “a civilization will die tonight” — the United States no longer stands for freedom. Instead, it stands for death. It stands for moral atrocities that will forever stain our flag, our land, our people.
The United States will forever be a monster in history. We will forever be a pariah state.
And we will deserve it, if President Trump goes through with his threat of seeing that Iran “will die tonight.”
And if you do not stop it, through invocation of the 25th Amendment or immediate Articles of Impeachment, history will forever remember you as being complicit in a genocide because you could have stopped it, and you failed to do so.
Donald Trump must be removed from office before this day is out.
If he is not, if “a civilization will die tonight,” may God have mercy upon all our souls. Though if there is any justice in this world, He won’t.
Nothing will come of it. Donald Trump could salt all the Amish farms of Lancaster County so nothing would ever grow again, and Smucker would thank him profusely, bend the knee, and kiss the ring.
Still, I had to write something.
Trump, a demented, deranged old man. Hegseth, a vacuous monster with an unslakeable bloodlust. It’s still a war crime, even if war hasn’t been declared.
We may not get out of this one. “I give us one chance in three,” to quote Marko Ramius.
In other news, today is the Harrisburg Senators’ home opener. I may go. I may not. I didn’t renew my season ticket plan due to, y’know, unemployment. I thought I’d have found a job by now. I haven’t bought a ticket yet.
I’ll decide later. It’s a bit chilly right now!
But it might take my mind off the feeling of dread.