Has the US lost the Iran War? Robert Kagan thinks so. And things seem to be going supercalifragilisticexpialidociously badly: In negotiations, Iran just asked for reparations, and end to sanctions, and permanent sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz. Those are âsign your surrender in the same railcar you made us surrender inâ terms â weâre lucky they didnât ask for Trump to eat a jar of bugs at the UN. âTrump is playing 4D chessâ is like âSociety will achieve enlightenment through Ted Talksâ: Itâs a belief that no serious person can hold. But maybe someone else was playing 4D chess, and the brilliance of their moves is only now becoming clear â I speak, of course, of the environmental movement. Environmentalists have come to be known for throwing soup on famous works of art and generally acting like human polyps on the societal colon. But weâre now poised for a change to global energy markets unlikely anything in my lifetime, and Iâm wondering if maybe environmentalists were incredibly annoying LIKE A FOX! Tell me that these puzzle pieces donât fit together: Phase 1: Make everyone hate you If this was Phase 1 of environmentalistsâ plan, it was a rollicking success. Fringe climate doomers left no stone unturned in making ordinary people yearn to see them trampled by buffalo. Desecrate national landmarks? Check. Make mundane tasks suddenly difficult? Check. Annoy commuters? Check. That last one is especially brash â commuters are already annoyed, theyâre like pit bulls who have been fed cocaine and poked with sticks, theyâre psychos on a hair trigger and in some cultures1 merging incorrectly is functionally a suicide attempt. Environmentalists could not have more effectively become targets for ire if they had scrubbed their asses with every toothbrush in America. Phase 2: Help Trump get elected by poisoning the Democratic brand Fringe environmentalists arenât really Democrats, per se, but theyâre definitely on the left. And therefore, anything they do affects the Democratic brand. This would be true even if Democrats forcefully denounced actions by fringe weidos, but thatâs hypothetical: The trend in Democratic politics is to try to play nice with the cultists who are destroying our entire project. Many Democratic staffers and politicians would rather watch their lifeâs work fail than get made fun of by 17 year-olds on TikTok. In 2024, left wing activists were a better friend to Trump than Jeffrey Epstein ever was. They savaged Harris on social media. They harassed Democrats at public events. They pressured Democrats to take unpopular positions, and when they succeeded, they simply asked for the next thing and accused Democrats of genocide. They did more to elect Trump than Fox News and Joe Bidenâs dementia combined, which only makes sense if: 1) Theyâre idiots, or 2) This move was the masterstroke in their 4D chess strategy. Phase 3: Watch Trump fall back-asswards into a global energy crisis, thus creating the biggest win for green energy in history Long-term Iranian control of the Strait of Hormuz now looks like a real possibility. Iran continues to threaten refining capacity throughout the Middle East. Oil prices have already spiked, and theyâre poised to go higher if the situation isnât resolved. This is the game-changer that people who worry about climate changer dared not even dream about. Trump may have bungled his way into higher energy prices worldwide â the Iran War is functionally a global carbon tax. Soon, people will ask themselves âShould I wait for Trump to fix this, or start looking into less-energy-intense solutions?â And âwait for Trump to fix thisâ is clearly a position for suckers and losers who subconsciously want to fail. If the past decade-plus of environmentalist weirdness was a grand strategy to ignite a green energy revolution, then I take back everything bad I ever said about environmentalists. If true, theyâre not even puppet masters â theyâre puppet necromancers, operating on a level that my mind canât comprehend. And the cherry on the sundae is that Trump was an unwitting pawn in turbo-charging the development of the clean energy he loathes â positively genius, you crunchy green freaks! I genuflect to the long con of the century; may a thousand blessings be upon your dirty, hippie heads! Because I did not have the foresight to plan this. And I donât think that you did, either, but âbravoâ on the off-chance that you did. 1 Boston.
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