Trump rejects your reality, and substitutes his own.
I thought it was obvious but let me confirm that it is.
My point, which I made in the next line, was Trump’s public approval is dropping and he’s not in a position where he can afford to keep screwing up.
That, he does. If only Norman Vincent Peale would have realized what he was helping to unleash on the world.
There’s a lot to this, which is why I think the Trumpites are doing everything they can to encourage terrorist attacks on US soil. Every time Rachel Maddow features a story on how incompetent the Trumpites are for firing all the FBI ‘Iran specialists,’ etc., I want to reach into the TV and say DON’T YOU REALIZE THAT THEY want TERROR ATTACKS TO HAPPEN HERE??!?!?!
I mean, they are incompetent. But they’re also fairly evil.
According to this Pew study (details shown on page 4 of the article), his approval rating among Republicans was down to 73% in January, compared to 84% in February of last year.
That’s fine. Trump can live in whatever delusional world he wants to - once he’s safely locked up in a prison cell.
The reality we need to have is making the rest of the Republican party aware that if they don’t take down, we will take them down along with Trump.
Besides, he and the Republicans already have their excuse for that, the supposed massive voting fraud perpetrated by “illegals”. A war doesn’t actually give them an excuse to do anything involving domestic elections, the alleged fraud does. And as you say, the timing is off.
Plenty of other countries to choose from later in the year. Cuba, anyone?
Reposting for emphasis. They provoked resistance in Minneapolis and Chicago to justify their presence and escalation. Same thing now.
Famously, when Bush II entered the White House, his national security folks simply pitched all the briefing materials and intel on the Al Qaeda threat that the Clinton Administration and transition team had assembled over the previous eight years.
Abject stupidity, simple hubris, or planned blind eye? Hard to say. But it did work to get the USA into a major long-term war in the Middle East.
Yes, absolutely. I’m already seeing breathless posts in social media about “OMG, Iran is attacking us now! We must destroy them!!!11” They seem to have forgotten who started this shit-show. (yes yes, Iran is not totally blameless given their past history of supporting terrorists… But we’re talking about the current shooting war going on. The current state is a war OF CHOICE by Israel and the USA)
Yes, and several people made a LOT of money. (Which is all that really matters… to them.)
And the Trumpites were dismayed to find the Americans whose cities they were invading to be utterly un-cooperative. No burning cars or broken windows! No firing on Government agents!
This is why I think Miller et al need the war in Iran----and domestic effects----and NOT just “allegations of election fraud.” They’ve been pushing the latter for years and Americans are singularly unimpressed. Using “fraud” to justify declaration of An Emergency simply won’t work.
But terror incidents in the US combined with overseas slaughter of Americans*? That has the potential to actually WORK as a rationale for Emergency.
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*Aided by helpful Vlad Putin, who is handing intel to the Iranians to help them target Americans for said slaughter. Which Hegseth has said he finds to be no biggie.