At least Trump got a nice golden pager out of the deal. Distracted by a shiny!
I’d so love to be there when Trump tries to pawn it and is told it’s 10k gold plate.
It probably has a listening device hidden within.
Hezbollah liked their new pagers once.
Also note that the mention of casinos and bars are a subtle (by Trump standards) way of being clear that he’s not imagining it being a home for Muslims.
Re: golden pagers
A disgusting sick joke considering the number of innocents also harmed.
At first I wondered if Bibi would (ironically) have also rigged this device with something, like a hidden mic. But then I remembered that he doesn’t need that, Trump is giving him everything he wants, and probably telling him anything he wants to know.
Trump probably thinks this will work because he’s in dementia.
But there are people in his administration who believe in the Apocalypse. And who believe that it would be a very good thing.
And the Apocalypse starts with war in the middle east, with lots of other countries attacking Israel.
So there are people in the US government who want that to happen. Doesn’t this seem like a good way to cause it?
Ayup.
It works on the level of a scam, which is how Trump thinks. Trump skims off millions or billions of the funds allocated to the project, foreigners who want to bribe him know this and “invest”, and nobody involved is surprised or concerned when the project itself never amounts to anything or turns into a disaster. Maybe some workers kill killed by terrorism or whatever, but that doesn’t matter; they’re just fuel for his profits, of no worth other than how they can benefit him.
As for the speculation of it leading to war or even a world war, what does Trump care? He’ll be dead by then, and as far as he’s concerned once he’s dead the world has served its only purpose and it doesn’t matter to him if civilization is destroyed. If billions dies that’s zero cost to him; none of them are Trump, therefore none of them are of any worth whatsoever. He’d kill the world for a dollar if the date of execution was after his own death.
I haven’t seen what Muskrat’s take on all this is. How military adventures comport with governmental efficiency deserves a lengthy bullshit answer.
Just because it’s a scam it doesn’t mean it won’t get many many thousands of people killed. It won’t get a single casino or resort built, that’s a complete nonsensical fantasy that no one believes (Trump and his cronies least of all), but that doesn’t mean it won’t happen.
Sure. But none of those people will be Trump, so as far as Trump is concerned that’s zero cost.
Trump speechified somewhere recently where he, no shit, said this project wouldn’t cost the US anything at all. It’s his “day one” promises writ large.
I’d have to imagine that we’d also be “greeted as liberators,” wouldn’t ya’ think?
Well, there’s no need to worry about that if no one is there…
Towards the end of WW2, there was a movement in Sicily that wanted to join the US. There may still be a few embers of that sentiment that could be fanned into a flame with trump charm and musk money. Forget Gaza. Sicily has it beaten in every way.
Trump said today he will cut off aid to Jordan and Egypt if they don’t take the Palestinian population of Gaza. He also said they will be denied the right to return.
Mr. Trump expanded on the idea of forced displacement of roughly two million Palestinians, a move that some scholars have said would amount to a war crime and ethnic cleansing. In an interview with Fox News broadcast on Monday, Mr. Trump said he did not envision Palestinians who left Gaza to make way for the redevelopment plan ever returning.
Asked in the interview whether the Palestinians would eventually “have the right to return” to Gaza after his proposed construction projects had been completed, the president said, “No, they wouldn’t.”
As for where they might go, he said: “I think I could make a deal with Jordan. I think I could make a deal with Egypt.”
As has been noted, this is unlikely to happen for multiple reasons but no one has explained this to the POTUS.
The immediate concern is to what degree talk of this may destabilize the King of Jordan and his government.
Quoted by, not written by, @Kolak_of_Twilo.
Some scholars? Some scholars? Wouldn’t that be ‘most scholars’? Wouldn’t that be ‘most anybody with any sense’?
“I’d say they ought to be returned by 12 o’clock on Saturday. And if they’re not returned — all of them, not in dribs and drabs, not two and one and three and four and two – by Saturday at 12 o’clock. And after that, I would say, all hell is going to break out."
This idiot is going to blow up a ceasefire that everyone involved is happy with.
It is already over and done pretty much, Hamas has refused to release any more hostages.