This is the latest from the guy who set off a cycle of violence and retribution that can now be blamed for the accidental deaths of over 100 people on a civilian airliner in Iran.

(And, by the way, this in no way lets the idiots who failed to ground the plane off the hook. Who starts firing off commercial air traffic again in the immediate aftermath of firing off ballistic missiles? It’s idiots all the way down.)

"It was flying in — not in our system, it has nothing to do with us. It was flying in a pretty rough neighborhood and somebody could have made a mistake. Some people say it was mechanical. I personally don’t think that’s even a question, personally.”

Next from Republic Pictures: Rough Neighborhood In The Sky.

“I actually had a name. NATO, right? And then you have M-E. Middle East. You’d call it NATOME. I said, ‘What a beautiful name.’ NATOME. I’m good at names, right? USMCA. Like the song YMCA. Nobody could remember USMCA. I said, ‘think of the song YMCA.’ Now everybody says it.”

Yeah. I got nothing.

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Charles P. Pierce Charles P Pierce is the author of four books, most recently Idiot America, and has been a working journalist since 1976.

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