# Trump to Declare Victory, Hope Iranians Die Laughing

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Podcast: [Truth Jihad Radio](https://stenobird.com/podcast/truth-jihad-radio-4243549)
Published: 2026-04-30T12:03:25+00:00
Episode link: https://kevinbarrett.substack.com/p/trump-to-declare-victory-hope-iranians
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## Resource

Video link We interrupt this satire with a promo for my new book Bad Birder’s Birding Report: Nonsense Ornithology from Bad to Verse . Normally it’s twenty bucks plus shipping for a hard copy or five bucks for a Kindle ebook, but from now through midnight Pacific time tomorrow, Friday, May 1, you can download the Kindle version free ...then leave a review before the Zionists get there! Why would you want to do that? Humor isn’t just a weapon, as the satire below exemplifies. It’s also healing. Studies show that laughter releases endorphins, reduces stress hormones, and improves cardiovascular function. Slashing satirical humor can be a weapon against tyranny. Gotta love those Iranians who laugh off Trump’s deranged threats, like Mohammed Marandi and the Iranian diplomatic team laughing off threats to their lives from the CIA-linked Washington Post (“hey Mohammed, I could strangle you now and collect the bounty ”). But silly, lighthearted nonsense humor, like most of the poems in Bad Birder’s Birding Report , also has benefits. It unleashes the inner child, keeping the mind flexible and the heart human. Reading nonsense poetry to children—or to cats, as in the above video —is a great way to take a break from the ongoing insanity of media-distorted “reality.” And if you’re seeking Serious Literary Value, Claude Levi-Strauss would tell you that the poem “Catbird” (see video above; text here ) begins with the binary opposition cat/bird built into the name of a certain meowing feathered species, and resolves it into Lewis Carroll’s famous “ grin without a cat ” (in this case a grin without a bird, either) thereby questioning the premises of mainstream ornithology and warming the hearts of conspiracy theorists and other epistemological ne’er-do-wells. If it leaves the reader…

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