I told my boss this morning that Trump’s impulsiveness stimulates my tic. Every time he threatens someone, my neck twitches hard from stress. I should ignore him but it’s hard to do that.
If they do that then they need to come up with a better event than the People’s SOTU, because that came off as anateurish and anticlimactic. They had the righ people saying the right things, but it was outdoors on a February night and I don’t think it was well attended.
To speak truth to power often means you need to be in the same room.
Heh! The fact that Donald Trump even got into the Oval Office in the first place, if one gets the drift.
To the people who wanted Donald Trump in as POTUS. You screwed everybody, including yourselves.
A Japanese reporter asked Trump why he didn’t tell allies of the impending attack on Iran. Ever the masterful diplomat, Trump answered that “You don’t want to signal too much [before an attack],” and further clarified, “Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn’t you tell me about Pearl Harbor?” The look on the Japanese Prime Minister’s face was fucking priceless.
Many of them are ok with that and even expected it. As long the ‘other’ sort gets it worse
The old sparrow on a curtain rod so long as the other fellow doesn’t even have a curtain rod quote I can’t find right now.
“Because you weren’t born yet.”
Oh, that’s interesting. I wonder how quickly and cheaply the war ended after that sneak attack. Must have knocked the other side out from the beginning, right? Minimal fuss and over in a week, right?
There’s also the… remarkable… implications of Trump not understanding the difference between warning your allies of an impending attack on a target, and warning the target themselves.
See, Mr. President, this is why military strategy communications are usually highly classified. For actual strategists, the official designation “TOP SECRET” on a document means something beyond “LOOK HOW SPECIAL IT MAKES ME TO HAVE ACCESS TO THIS VERY IMPORTANT PIECE OF PAPER THAT I CAN SHOW YOU TO IMPRESS YOU WITH HOW IMPORTANT I AM”.
Trump got the question of who attacked Pearl Harbor right? Damn.
Sure, he fucked up the whole space/time aspect of it, but he got the country right? Damn.
One day, somebody will publish a coffee table book featuring photos of the reaction faces of foreign dignitaries and interpreters along a caption of the shocking and/or blindingly stupid thing he said, and it just might sell very well
Just don’t tell him how that ended for the people who started with a sneak attack, you don’t want to spoil it for him.
I nominate for the coffee table book cover - Donald staring into the solar eclipse.
In my dreams she would have said “We told Hitler”
I agree; the opposition to Trumpism hasn’t scored well (yet) on Messaging That Works.
Good that they keep trying, though.
Too bad it couldn’t show a gif of Trump pushing aside the Montenegro PM.
Stay Classy, Don.
Honestly, part of me wish she had said, “We informed our allies.”
If you want to succeed in this business, you have to train.
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TBF, AIUI, Japan kept the attack plans secret even from other Axis powers? AFAIK, YMMV, tyvm.