Dear Jake, How Many Times Do We Have to See Trump & GOP Plans and Promises Be Sabotaged Before You Realize Plans Mean Nothing?
- john raymond
- Jul 27
- 3 min read
Dear Jake,
How many times?
How many times do we have to watch Trump and his enablers float a plan, promise a policy, tease a deal—and then sabotage it—before you finally realize that plans mean nothing when they come from a man who lies for a living?
This is not new. This is not a misfire. This is the script. It has been the script for years.
We saw it with Trump’s tax returns: “He’s under audit.” That turned into a half-decade charade meant to delay, confuse, and ultimately dodge accountability. We saw it with the Graham–Blumenthal sanctions bill, which made headlines, stirred hope, and died before it hit the floor like every other “bipartisan” fig leaf meant to distract from GOP cowardice.
We saw it again with Trump’s May 8th Truth Social post, where he announced a 30-day countdown to punish Russia with sanctions. Thirty days passed. Not a single consequence. Not a single step taken. Not even a bluff worth naming. Just another rhetorical con.
And now?
Now you’re wide-eyed about a planned $30 billion drone partnership. A factory that might someday produce a thousand interceptors a day. A Trump administration that’s supposedly “easing into” support through logistics and training. You float this like it’s meaningful. Like it’s credible. Like you haven’t watched this same Lucy-and-the-football routine over and over and over again.
Jake... Dear. Fucking. God!
How many times does Lucy have to yank the football away before Charlie Brown admits he’s being played?
You say Trump is “testing the waters.” No, Jake. He’s stalling. You say he's “gauging reactions.” No. He’s buying time. For Putin. For himself. For the collapse of Western resolve. You say Trump wants to “look good.” No. He wants to maintain plausible deniability while sabotaging Ukraine without getting blamed for it.
This is asymmetric betrayal. And you’re reporting it like it’s a budget rollout.
Every time you relay one of these “plans” as if it’s on track, as if it’s progress, you launder false hope. You treat the performance of governance as if it were governance. You give credibility to men who have weaponized delay and made sabotage indistinguishable from incompetence.
Let’s be clear: there is no drone deal until drones are delivered. There is no support package until systems are deployed. There is no sanctions regime until money is frozen, assets are seized, and Putin feels the pain. Until that happens, nothing is happening.
This is not about whether Trump looks annoyed with Putin. It’s about whether the United States is actively helping Ukraine or not. And your analysis is still caught in the middle of that ambiguity—as if ambiguity isn’t the tool of the saboteur. As if “planning” isn’t exactly how the GOP disguises betrayal long enough to avoid consequences.
You treat “tentative support” as if it’s worth the same as real commitment. It isn’t. Not even close.
Because while you’re counting the press releases, Russia is counting on you not to notice that nothing has actually changed. And that’s the plan. That has always been the plan.
So please. Stop treating a memorandum of intent like a strategic breakthrough. Stop treating plans that will have a ribbon-cutting ceremony like the ribbon’s already been cut. Stop pretending like words from people like Trump are worth the paper they’re not even printed on.
We are not in a war of updates. We are in a war of attrition—of strategy, of will, of time. And when you treat Trump’s fake promises like forward motion, you give him cover to keep stalling while Ukraine burns.
Plans are not policy. Promises are not protection. Delays are not diplomacy.
This isn’t a pattern of misfires. It’s a method of betrayal. And every time you forget that, Jake, you help them do it again. And fucking again!
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