Trump Could Win the Entomological Foundation Peace Prize

Trump: "My decision on Russia is a very simple one. I am in the process of negotiating Peace in the war between Russia and Ukraine, and don’t want to do anything that will drive, foolishly, Russia away from the bargaining table. Great progress is being made, and that includes current hostage negotiations! Signing that document at this time will do that, and I can sign it later, or any time that I want! Perhaps more importantly, Russia is doing very little, if anything, to help the Islamic Republic of Iran, compared to what they could be doing, and I want to keep it that way, and will, unless stupid people get in the way. Lastly, Zelenskyy is using Diesel Refineries in Russia as a target, knowing that these attacks are seriously hurting the world diesel markets, including those in the United States. Farmers, ranchers, and businesses of all kinds are suffering greatly from this, but Russia is, nevertheless, sending, at a low price, millions of barrels of diesel to the World. Zelenskyy doesn’t care, and frankly, with all of the money that Europe is famously giving him, and that Crooked Joe Biden gave him in the past, he doesn’t want to end this war, and probably never did. He could have made a better deal two years ago than he can now. His country is in shambles, a large portion of his land is lost, his oceans and seas are gone, and his male population is low, wounded, and/or dead. I WANT THIS WAR END! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP"

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 18, 2026

Unsurprising coming from Putin's puppet.  But man, if he really wanted to be seen as a Man of Peace, he should end this conflict, which scientists have compared to World War I trench warfare:

A 2006 UC San Diego announcement counted five Argentine ant supercolonies in southern California. The giant coastal one borders three of the four smaller ones, including a colony centered on Lake Hodges, north of San Diego near Escondido. Those colonies are genetically distinct and, crucially, they don't recognize each other as kin.

Ants tell friend from foe mostly by smell, sniffing chemical cues on each other's bodies with their antennae. Within a supercolony those cues are so uniform that a stranger from 500 miles away smells like home. At the boundary between two supercolonies, the cues don't match, and the result is a fight to the death... 

The team found sharp, well-defined borders at 16 contact zones between three pairs of supercolonies. They visited nine of those zones every week for six months in 2004 and saw consistent, intense fighting. Thomas collected the dead along small stretches of the border and scaled up. Her estimate: border clashes around the Lake Hodges colony killed at least 15 million workers in six months.  

The front wasn't hard to find. Holway told the San Diego Union-Tribune that you could spot the piles of dead ants from the car. The paper described the battle line winding through Escondido neighborhoods west of Interstate 15 and along the western edge of Lake Hodges. Despite the carnage, the boundary barely moved.

Crazy shit.  And still not so crazy as the fact we have a dude with an ant-sized brain grinding our Republic into the fucking dirt.

Selah.

PS - Hat tip to The Verified Post.

PPS - Suddenly reminded of A Republic of Insects and Grass by Jonathan Schell.  Read his book The Fate of the Earth, which includes that essay, for my class on nuclear war freshman year (1987, yikes).  Perhaps we won't nuke ourselves, but rather cook ourselves instead, and I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords.