Le Sigh
This is exactly why conservatives should be humble about what government, intelligence agencies, and foreign intervention can achieve.
You did not just misread a date.
You saw a video that confirmed what you wanted to believe, then immediately built an entire fantasy around it: Trump’s secret plan, CIA coordination, Israeli operations, organized resistance, the IRGC collapsing, Kurds taking the north, no deal needed, regime basically finished.
None of that came from verified facts. It came from confirmation bias.
Then, once you realized the video was four months old, you tried to soften it into “I was seeing what reactions I would get.”
Come on.
That was not an experiment. That was a course correction after getting caught running with bad information because it supported the story you wanted to be true.
And that is the bigger problem. If your read of Iran can go from “the regime is toppling right now” to “oops, old video” because of one clip, then maybe the correct posture is a little less certainty and a lot more skepticism.
Especially when people are using that same certainty to cheerlead war, regime change, CIA games, and another round of “trust the plan” foreign-policy magic.