Down with the Home Team

In a Twitter post (or X or whatever), Shaun Maguire, a 41 year old venture capitalist with Sequoia Capital and advisor to Trump wondered aloud:  "How did we get to the point Where (sic) so many Americans are rooting against America?"  Ryan Grim offered this response:

If this is an honest question, I'd say: Americans are rooting against America because we facilitated a genocide and followed it with a surprise attack on a girls elementary school followed by attacks on universities, medical centers, more schools, a world famous pharmaceutical research center,  a volleyball team, an unfinished bridge we claimed was transporting weapons and then a nuclear power plant.  We are now promising endless attacks on civilian infrastructure.

We are hunting and targeting anyone who might be involved in ceasefire negotiations.

Most people do not pay enough attention to have absorbed all the propaganda about the U.S. and Iran. So people coming to this fresh see us for what we are: absolute monsters.  And monsters must be stopped.  That's why people are rooting against us and for civilization to prevail.

 To which I would add, who are the traitors here?   The American people, or the "President" who was apparently blackmailed by Israel into conducting an illegal war against a county that not only was not attacking us but that after at least 2 other unprovoked attacks by this President including most recently the murder of a general by bomb last summer, was prepared (and expecting) to enter into talks with the US and Israel that very day but was besieged by deadly weapons instead.  Without consulting Congress or making even a gesture of an attempt to persuade or seek buy-in from the American people (which given the shaky foundations of this bellicose Administration's motives would have been fruitless anyway).  Is it the people who were not asked or informed (to this day) about the intentions, let alone the reasons for engaging in this war, or is it the "President" whose reckless conduct of this purposeless assault on a non-threatening country has already deeply damaged the American economy and threatens very much to engender a global depression that is likely to dwarf the one a century ago.  Who is the traitor?  The answer was recently unilaterally glued onto the front end of the Kennedy Center.