Iran sides with Vance over Trump on why Republicans lost the midterms

…(cont) November 1st. The Hill catches Vice President Vance in Weatherton, Texas, what the paper calls road-testing a 2028 campaign message, as the President keeps up almost daily midterm rallies.

November 3rd. The votes get counted.

November 4th. The Daily Caller runs the same five words under a headline calling it the Vice President carving his own path.

November 4th. CBS News reports the President now acknowledges the war's role in his party's defeat, and says he would have done it anyway.

November 4th. The Hill again — Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, the speaker of Iran's Parliament, on the results: "Conscience or the cost of living, Americans said NO TO WAR, and we endorse this message."

That's the order. I don't have anything to add to the order. I just have the order.

I've got a glovebox in my car — the one with the fan belt that complains on cold mornings — and in that glovebox I keep inspection stickers going back further than I should admit, stacked by date, oldest on the bottom. You pull the stack out and read down and the stickers tell you exactly what happened and when, no opinions, just dates. That's all I did with these six.

Here's what sat underneath them, from four weeks earlier. October 7th, a recording surfaces — Common Dreams headlined it Ken Paxton blaming what the headline called "the illegal war" for his own numbers sinking in Texas. October 14th, Social Security announces a 3.6 percent cost-of-living raise for next year, about seventy-five dollars a month, the same week the government reports inflation at 3.7 percent for September. Those are old stickers. I'm not asking anyone to relitigate them. I'm asking why they're underneath the new ones, in the same glovebox.

Because here's my easy question: is the war Vance means on November 4th the same war CBS says, that same date, has dragged into its ninth month?

The president himself said so last night." By the Vice President's own account, the President already said this himself, the night before, and then the Vice President said it again, out loud, on the record, the next day. I'm not drawing anything from that order. I'm just reading it the way it's printed.

Then Tehran. Not a spokesperson caught in a hallway — the speaker of Iran's Parliament, on the record, naming the cost of living and the war in the same breath, calling the American results a message his own government endorses. A government the United States is, as of this writing, still at war with. Grading the election. Agreeing with the Vice President over the President.

Excuse me — one more thing, before you go. The letter asking Iran to restart diplomacy went out October 29th. The message crediting Americans for rejecting that same war came back November 4th — six days later — from the office the letter was addressed to. I don't know what six days means. I know the word they used for what came back. It's sitting right there in the quote, same as it's been the whole time I've been reading this to you. Is six days enough time to earn that word — endorse?