Illustration by Dan Baril · Click to enlargeTo me, obliteration sounds like blowing stuff up.
Annihilation, you’d simply disappear. No?
Moreover, if you already “completely and totally obliterated” that which bothers you about someone, how is further annihilation even possible and what could possibly be accomplished?
Could it be obliteration never happened or Iranian tenacity was grossly underestimated? Or, did Agent Orange discover the geopolitical equivalent of killing a dead horse and then threatening its ghost?
If Mark Carney has taught the global community anything, it is that alternatives exist and are worth pursuing—and that eventually, simply ignoring the blowhard is its own form of obliteration and annihilation.
My personal conclusion is the more absurd things become, the closer we must be approaching insanity’s demise. Media bans and unhinged UN addresses can only mean the end is near—but not near enough.
Let’s not celebrate just yet. Waiting in the wings are Vance, Hegseth and Rubio—the understudies who watched the entire disaster unfold and somehow concluded the problem was insufficient enthusiasm. They have learned, after all, that consequences don’t exist.
Sing along, everyone:
“In Springfield they’re eating the dogs…they’re eating the cats…they’re eating the pets of the people that live there!”
The leader of the free world, ladies and gentlemen.
God help us. 🤦