Amid all this talk about a “hard landing” that was probably like “landing” on a sheer cliff face in heavy fog at 90 miles per hour for Iran President Ebrahim Raisi and his entourage raises quite a few questions about what the fuck is going on and why it’s taken at least five hours for word to leak out to Sky News’s Middle East correspondent that maybe crews might be able to reach the spot where the chopper’s transponder signal was last pinged. Or why, if this was a flight of three copters with the other two carrying other officials, that they maybe didn’t turn around and try to figure out what happened to the one carrying the president. Or why they didn’t have military escort aircraft following them and ground-based radar tracking and all that shit keeping a close eye on the flight.

Above all that is the question of if, as disgraced former President Trump has claimed repeatedly, shit like “Iran would not have – they had no money. Iran was broke, with me. I said, anybody buys from Iran, no oil from Iran. If you buy from Iran, you can’t do business in the United States. They went flat out broke. They had no money. Now they have $250 billion. They’re a rich country and they’re in a much different position” since Biden defeated him in the 2020 election, then why didn’t they spend some of that money to make sure this didn’t happen? Couldn’t they have splurged a bit on a safer mode of transportation for their second-most important leader, if the impounded oil revenue that Biden didn’t really release in exchange for hostages was supposed to “fungible” then why couldn’t they hire a more competent and safety-conscious pilot to fly what should’ve been a routine mission?

Anyway, same shit, different rhetorical questions about a situation that manages to make both the Iranian Regime and domestic Republicans look like complete incompetent assholes in one go.