"Why are we going into Iran? ...[I]t is the president's vainglory. He thinks he's on a roll, that... this is easy to do; that you can knock off dictatorships like Venezuela, and then have a parade; that this solves a lot of his problems. It gets people not talking about the Epstein files. ...[A] huge chunk of Donald Trump's foreign policy is rooted in trying to get people to stop talking about the Epstein files. ...[H]e is that narrow and crass. ...Now he's going to say he's a war president. That means you can't criticize me... I can stomp on the press... I can declare a national emergency. ...As the British Parliament said... in [~]1944... "This is not a propitious time for an election." ...[[wikt:mischief#Noun|[M]ischief]] comes with a war because... presidential war powers... become almost unchallengeable."