The Haters Who Want America To Lose

Do you consider yourself in a living hell right now?

We are in a war. Everyone in our country is temporarily suffering from somewhat higher gas prices. The other country has no functioning government, and is a terrorist state that shoots people in the streets.

But you can always count on the useful idiots, people who truly hate America. They think America should be less powerful in the world.

I can’t think of a single military conflict — including military conflicts with which I disagreed — where I hoped America would lose. I might have thought that the involvement was not correct, but the idea that it would be better for America to lose is anti-American.

Period.

Ryan Grim, a favorite on the horseshoe Right — the grievance party which has decided that isolationism is the way — comes from Drop Site News, which is a left-wing misinformation site. He responded to investor Shaun Maguire, who asked, “How did we get to the point where so many Americans are rooting against America?”

“If this is an honest question, I’d say Americans are rooting against America because we facilitated a genocide,” Grim declared.

Presumably, this would be Israel’s action against Hamas, which was not even remotely close to a genocide.

He continued:

… 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 volley ball team, an unfinished bridge we claimed was transporting weapons and then a nuclear power plant … we are now promising endless attacks on civilian infrastructure.

Every single thing he states is a lie. We have hit those sites because they are dual-use sites, except for the ones that we hit by accident.

If you truly believe that the American military is so evil that we target girls’ schools for the fun of it, that there are no mistakes made, that we just decided to get up one morning and murder a bunch of schoolgirls, get the hell out of the country.

You hate the country, and you hate the military. There’s no other way to explain what you are saying. There’s no other way to explain it.

Do you think Pete Hegseth and President Trump are sitting around drawing up a target list, and they say, “You know what? Just for good measure, let’s kill a bunch of Iranian schoolgirls”?

Is that what you think? If you think that you despise America.

You can oppose the war. You can oppose the way that the war is being fought. You can have problems with the overall strategy. You can have honest questions about the war.

But that’s not what we’re talking about here.

We’re talking about people openly hoping that America loses because they do not like America, because they think a more powerful America in the world is a bad thing. 

And Iran is counting on these people to undermine support.

This is nothing new. This happened throughout American history. If you go back to the Vietnam War, the Vietcong were counting on university students to claim we were the real bad guys, not the communists who were murdering hundreds of thousands of people. That’s why you had the students chanting in solidarity with Ho Chi Minh.

We have the same sorts of people now: a large swath of the Left and a significant part of the online Horseshoe Right.

Tucker Carlson put out a tape over the weekend celebrating the end of the American-led world order. He said a bunch of untrue things, which is what he does for a living now, while selling nicotine made in India. He said:

What’s happening in Iran is the end of American empire as we understand it. And that’s sad. Boo-hoo. Empire’s dying, but it’s not the end of the United States. It’s not the end of our influence on other nations, hopefully positive influence. It’s not the end of our economy. It’s the beginning of a very rough time in our economy, of course, but it’s hardly the end of it. What we’ve been doing, for likely your lifetime, if you’re under 80, is, well, it’s not working anymore. It hasn’t actually helped the United States long-term.

Your grandkids at this point don’t have the promise of a better life than you had. So it’s not actually a successful experiment. And now it’s ending because we’ve reached the limits of our demonstrated power. We can’t open the Straits of Hormuz. The president of the United States said that last night. Someone else do it. So we’re done. That’s okay. It was always going to end. Hopefully you can get out without a nuclear exchange, but now it is ending.

“It was okay. It’s okay if that happens. And it would probably be good if that happens because you’ve been lied to for generations.”

He is a liar. He’s a liar on economics, on military power, all of it. He’s gotten all of it dead wrong.

Remember this schmuck was telling you last year we were going to be in World War III if the United States struck a nuclear facility with one B-2. Has he been right on a single thing all along the way here? What has he been right on?

Also, why not just say what you really mean? He went even further.

He called President Trump a war criminal over the weekend:

Franklin Graham, son of Billy Graham, shows up at the White House yesterday to pray over the president so he will have wisdom and restraint? No. To endorse the murder of civilians, which is a war crime. But more important, it’s a moral crime. You can’t kill people who have committed no crime, who did nothing wrong. You can’t murder the innocent.

We should point out that Tucker Carlson is perfectly fine with Vladimir Putin killing people who have committed no crime. He literally said so. He said, “That’s what leaders do.” Tucker Carlson has been super pro-Russia throughout the entire Russia-Ukraine conflict as Russia targets civilians. He has been extraordinarily pro-Iran throughout this entire conflict, after Iran murdered tens of thousands of people in the streets and has facilitated the murder of civilians all over the Middle East.

As to his generalized argument, which is that somehow the last 80 years of history have been a giant failure for America, do you know how ignorant of American history you have to be to actually argue that? Destroying the Soviet Union, building the single most powerful economy in the history of planet Earth, is somehow a giant loss?

That is a lie. The statistics prove it’s a lie. A new story from the Wall Street Journal states, “America’s middle class is becoming wealthier as more families scaled the economic ladder into higher earning groups. New research shows the ranks of the affluent have grown markedly over the last 50 years or so.”

This would be the period that Tucker says was terrible.

Meanwhile, former Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, who doesn’t have two neurons connecting in her brain, put out this statement on Easter morning:

Everyone in his administration that claims to be a Christian needs to fall on their knees and beg forgiveness from God and stop worshipping the President and intervene in Trump’s madness.

Listening to Marjorie Taylor Greene lecture everyone else on morality is a hell of a thing, knowing her personal history.

She continued, “I know all of you and him and he has gone insane, and all of you are complicit. I’m not defending Iran but let’s be honest about all of this. The Strait is closed because the US and Israel started the unprovoked war against Iran based on the same nuclear lies they’ve been telling for decades, that any moment Iran would develop a nuclear weapon. You know who has nuclear weapons? Israel.”

Yes, Israel does have nuclear weapons. Do any of our allies feel threatened by Israeli nuclear weapons? If so, I would love to hear how.

These are the people that Iran is counting on to help out.

Candace Owens put out her usual mirage of insanity. She tweeted, “This is a satanic administration. We all realize that satanic Zionists occupy the White House, and Congress needs to move to have the Mad King Trump removed. All of our lives may depend upon other countries realizing Trump is deeply unwell and surrounded by religious fanatics who have convinced him that he is a messiah.”

What in the world is she even talking about?

Tim Miller of the anti-Trump group The Bulwark echoed her, writing, “The Satanic Zionist Clause undermines an otherwise compelling critique of Trump.”

Selling your soul for a salary at The Bulwark is a hell of a thing to do.

Pod Save America’s Jon Favreau endorsed the Candace tweet with a retweet.

Here’s the thing. The president is not listening to them, and he shouldn’t listen to them. Why would you listen to people who believe that it is a good thing for America to be weaker in the world? Why would you listen to people who believe that the president of the United States is deliberately targeting civilian schoolgirls?

The answer is you shouldn’t. The answer is you wouldn’t.

That’s because those people don’t like America very much. They will say, “I like a different form of America, an America in my head.”

Thankfully, that America doesn’t exist. The America that does exist is the America that you live in right now. The one where President Trump is the president. The one that ensures the freedom of the seas and the free flow of commerce, the America that fights off terror nations, the America that protects our allies, the America that does not wish to see the world’s worst people with the world’s worst weapons.

That’s the America you live in right now. Do you like that America, or do you hate that America?

When Joe Biden was president, I still loved America because America is awesome. I didn’t like Joe Biden as president very much, but I still loved America.

I wasn’t rooting against America.

Real Americans don’t.