JD Vance Explains Why Losing Is Actually Winning | Steve on the Porch
Steve, your retired old guy on a porch, breaks down Vice President JD Vance's attempt to spin the Iran deal collapse into a foreign policy triumph — complete with coffee, cicadas, and a healthy dose of reality.
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Steve, your retired old guy on a porch, breaks down Vice President JD Vance's attempt to spin the Iran deal collapse into a foreign policy triumph — complete with coffee, cicadas, and a healthy dose of reality.
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Well, good afternoon, my fellow Earth Travelers. You ever notice that no matter how big the disaster gets, somebody always gets assigned to explain why it's actually a good thing? Today that somebody is Vice President JD Vance. According to the folks running Trumplandia, the war with Iran ended with Iran getting hundreds of billions of dollars and sanctions disappearing. Oil flowing again. The Strait of Hormuz back open for business. Which sounds suspiciously like the exact opposite of what they told us they were trying to accomplish. But don't worry. JD is here to explain why losing is actually winning. Why surrender is actually strength. And why the giant smoking crater where the administration's foreign policy used to be should be viewed as a tremendous success. I imagine JD standing in front of a room full of reporters, armed with nothing but a PowerPoint and the confidence of a man hoping nobody asks a follow-up question. See, he says — when we said we'd stop Iran, what we really meant was we'd help them restart. It's the kind of logic that only works inside a circus tent. Meanwhile, Whiskey Pete has to put away the war toys for a couple of months. Iran gets a rebuilding fund the size of a small nation's GDP, and everybody is expected to clap like this was the plan all along. Sure. And I'm the starting center fielder for the Houston Astros. But that's life under the Big Top. Every day brings a new act. Every act somehow costs more than the last one. And somebody always has to explain why we're supposed to cheer. I'm Steve, your retired old guy on a porch — reminding you that reality still matters and facts are stubborn things. This wasn't in the retirement plan.