Oil has soared into three digits. Diesel sets records at US pumps. Inflation inflates. The US is losing in Iran, losing in Yemen, losing in Ukraine. Trump reacts with an hour-long-video of himself saying the word winning.

I guess it’s important to always look on the bright side.

For example, when Wayne Madsen grumbled that Trump “sent a low-level State Department flunky named Hooker” to King Harald’s funeral in Oslo, I commented:

Look on the bright side. Sending a low-level flunky named Hooker is better than sending a low-level hooker named Flunky.

Which is the kind of thing that you couldn’t rule out Trump doing.

It’s now been almost ten years since more than a few 9/11 truthers voted for the Orange Baboon, imagining that his wacky off-script utterances were a good sign.

On 9/11/2001 Trump said:

“When I first looked at it, I couldn’t believe it because there was a hole in the steel… and in between was just heavy steel. I said, ‘How could a plane, even a 767 or a 747 or whatever it might have been, how could it possibly go through this steel?’ I happen to think that they had not only a plane, but they had bombs that exploded almost simultaneously, because I just can’t imagine anything being able to go through that wall.”

The good news is that Trump talked about bombs in the buildings, and was the first to voice what later became a minor 9/11 truth talking point: How could planes cut through the steel perimeter columns of the two Towers? That led mainstream journalists to wrongly imagine Trump had said the buildings were demolished with explosives. The bad news is that Trump never again mentioned explosives. What’s more, his claim about planes needing bombs to penetrate steel perimeter columns was very likely wrong. (People with physics and engineering credentials are invited to debate that in the comments section.)

Our president may be an incontinent narcissist moron who is trying to use nukes and start World War Three as he strives to destroy the seventh and final country on Israel’s 9/11-triggered “seven countries in five years” hit list. But let’s look on the bright side: Iran is winning!

I’m feeling cheery on this 25th 9/11 anniversary as I gaze out my New York hotel window, see tall buildings (with no planes flying into them), and kill a couple of hours before heading over to the optimistically-titled Turning the Tide conference at 5th Avenue and 104th Street. One reason for my upbeat buoyancy is that my plane from Morocco to NYC didn’t crash—neither into a building nor into the ocean—after a slightly unnerving incident. Twenty minutes after takeoff, the pilot announced: “We apologize. We have to have to return to Casablanca. We will be landing in twenty minutes.” The plane started turning around.

My first thought was: Did the Israelis do another big false flag, like I predicted? Is this another 9/11-style global aviation shutdown?

Strange rattling noises issued from outside the plane, and a smoke-like vapor began pouring from a tube on the back of the wing. As it turned out, they were just dumping fuel into the ocean so the plane wouldn’t be too heavy to land. But even after the fuel dump, it was the hardest jet landing I’ve ever experienced.

Fortunately we were only stuck on the ground for a little over an hour as the aviation maintenance problem, whatever it was, got taken care of. Meanwhile I started chatting with fellow passengers. One of them was a 25-ish Gen Z dude who turned out to be surprisingly well-informed about Israel’s likely responsibility for 9/11, Charlie Kirk, and so much more. We chatted for hours, with occasional participation from other passengers. My new friend said everybody his age knows these things. They’re all plugged into Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, and just waiting for the Fox News watching boomers to die off, after which things will undoubtedly change, in ways that will not be to Israel’s liking.

Turning the Tide

So the tide is turning. But how fast is it turning at the Turning the Tide conference? Old fogies like me make up the great majority of organizers and participants at 9/11 truth conferences, and our generation, the pre-Gaza-Genocide generation, was taught to defer to Israel and to the larger Jewish nation/tribe/ethnicity it represents. People like Christopher Bollyn and Laurent Guyénot and Wyatt Peterson and Ron Unz don’t get invited to these conferences, because pointing at the elephant in the room—“Israel did it”—is still taboo, even though I would estimate that the majority of organizers and presenters know or suspect that it is true.

Why not take WC Fields’ advice and “take the bull by the tail and look the facts in the face”? People who organize 9/11 conferences know that downplaying the Israeli angle helps avoid or at least minimize the kind of ferocious Zionist kamikaze attacks that can get people debanked and deplatformed—and even get their conference venues canceled.

I understand why people sometimes conceal their dangerously truthful messages in outwardly harmless form. That is what neocon guru Leo Strauss taught his followers to do—in a bad way.

I did that in what I hope is a good way in my latest book, Bad Birder’s Birding Report, which initially purports to be a work of ornithology, then on examination turns out to consist of humous nonsense verse accompanied by droll cartoons, with only a smattering of conspiracy content. It is so disarming that even your conspiro-phobic friends, relatives, and co-workers will enjoy exposing themselves to its subversive influence.

Stop by the Turning the Tide conference and buy a copy—or ten. I also have copies of several of my other, more serious books, as well as Ron Unz’s Our COVID-19 Catastrophe as Biowar Blowback and a couple of titles by Germar Rudolf, who will be hanging around my table during at least part of the conference.

So look on the bright side: Exactly 25 years after 9/11, people are still gathering in New York City and holding the perps’ feet to the fire.