An Unhinged Palin Gets The Iran Deal Wrong Then Lectures Obama About Unicorns

At a rally full of wingnuts saying shockingly silly things, even for them …

Palin is back and still devoted to making sure all Americans become aware of just how low the Republican cabal has fallen.

So at a rally full of wingnuts saying shockingly misinformed things — even for them — in an effort to “stop the Iran deal”, Palin called the Iran deal a “treaty” in yet another gaffe. She also accused President Obama of being on a unicorn and some other stuff that made no sense.

Palin seems to have been overtaken by her bitterness and gone over some kind of cliff from which there is no return:

“Only in an Orwellian Obama world full of sprinkly fairy dust blown from atop a unicorn as he’s peeking through a really pretty pink kaleidoscope would he ever see victory or safety for America or Israel in this treaty,” Palin screamed, coming closer and closer to being totally unhinged. “You don’t reward terrorism. You kill it!”

So, I haven’t the will to address all of this. Really quick:

A) The Iran deal is NOT a treaty. A treaty would require a different approval process, one which would give Republicans more power to kill it.

This explains why Gohmert (R-TX) vowed to “quit Congress and await ‘nuclear Holocaust’ if Iran deal passes”, saying he wants the deal to be treated as a treaty. If Congress will treat it as a treaty, Gohmert will take his toys and go home. (Something to consider.) Several days ago, he introduced a resolution to call the Iran Deal a treaty.

However, even Republicans have agreed it is not a treaty. They gave that up when they passed the Iran Review bill. Wingnuts are super angry at Republican leaders over this, so they are just pretending none of it happened. I mean, why not deny reality and go back on their word? Isn’t that what trolls do?

From Roll Call:

Their argument was that the Senate has the constitutional prerogative to ratify treaties (the Senate technically approves a resolution of ratification) with a two-thirds majority and that senators forfeited their role in the process by passing the Iran review bill.

Under that bill, just 34 votes will be needed to uphold a presidential veto of a disapproval resolution, just more than half of the 67 needed to ratify a treaty.

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But recent precedent is squarely on McCain’s side, notwithstanding the Webster’s definition of a treaty as “an official agreement that is made between two or more countries or groups.”

And the vast majority of international agreements in recent decades haven’t been submitted to the Senate for approval.

So Republicans, facing their own humiliating defeat on the Iran deal, want a do-over and Palin is just climbing on her “Orwellian unicorn” to pretend that this particular dream is real.

To be fair, it is most likely that Sarah Palin does not actually know that the Iran deal is not a treaty. Someone probably told her it was and she decided it proves Obama wrong again, so off she went.

B) President Obama does not reward terrorism. He is the one who got Osama bin Laden, while the shrub said he didn’t spend a lot of time thinking about Osama. No, Republicans don’t get to rewrite this part of reality either.

C) While Palin in an expert in aerial wolf hunting and thus killing, and she shows a lust and startling zest for killing, she has never actually done one thing to “kill” terrorism. Not from a land in Alaska from whence she may or may not have tracked Putin, and not even when she quit her job as governor half way through.

In fact, Palin doesn’t kill terrorism, if anything she has carelessly fed the growing domestic terrorism and record breaking threats against this president. She is in part responsible for the rise of the violent teabaggers in 2010, due to her accusations that Obama was someone who “sees America it seems as being so imperfect that he’s palling around with terrorists who would target their own country?” and “This is not a man who sees America as you see it and how I see” and was going to “fundamentally change” America”. Palin accused Obama of trying to kill her child with affordable healthcare with his “death panels”. Those are some pretty scary notions if you believe them. (See the sadly gullible teabaggers.)

For more wingnut fun, cops roughed up a protester while Palin was speaking (maybe someone who doesn’t believe in Palin’s Orwellian Unicorns?).

Good times! It’s all unicorns and pretty sparkles until the edges start to fray and give way to the bitter reality that everywhere she has turned since her 2008 mega-stardom morphed into her being the short lived Queen of the Angry People in 2010, Palin has been an unwanted failure.