Gridlock in DC Explained

For John, BLUF:  Explains a lot.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Over at The Washington Post is this item on a report from the Semi-Official Iranian New Agengy, Fars News.  "Iranian news agency says the U.S. is secretly run by Nazi space aliens.  Really.".  The author is Max Fisher and the dateline is 13 January, at 11:31 AM.  Here is the lede:

Iran's semi-official news outlets have something of a reputation for taking conspiracy theorism to the next level.  They've written on Israel's secret plans to annex Iraq, the conspiracy by Western media to fabricate quotes by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani condemning the Holocaust and the secret Jewishness of the British royal family.  You may notice a certain theme here.

On Sunday, the hard-line semi-official Fars News dropped one of its biggest bombshells yet:  The United States government has been secretly run by a "shadow government" of space aliens since 1945.  Yes, space aliens. The alien government is based out of Nevada and had previously run Nazi Germany.  It adds, for timeliness, that the controversial NSA programs are actually a tool for the aliens to hide their presence on Earth and their secret agenda for global domination.  This is all asserted as incontrovertible fact with no caveats.

There are some practical considerations here, as noted by Mr Max Fisher in The Washington Post article:

A worldview that sees the U.S. as an evil hegemonic force so irrationally driven toward global domination that it must be run by space aliens is not a worldview that is predisposed toward negotiation or accommodation.

Regards  —  Cliff