Can we call Brits ‘sackos’?
He says that he eschews the strong drink, so, you know, he has to get his booz somehow.
Here is an explanation of the rapid identification - How U.S. Commandos IDed a ‘Mutilated’ Baghdadi So Quickly.
Were there any spontaneous celebrations of Baghdadi’s death in front of the White House? It would be interesting to compare any crowds there with the spontaneous celebrations when Bin Laded was killed.
Interesting as in the sense of making Trump aware of how silly it was to claim this to be in the same league as getting Bin Laden and force him to lie once again about the crowds he gets, compared to what Obama got for helping get Bin Laden.
Image Search for crowds outside the White House celebrating death of Bin Laden:
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Search for crowds outside the White House celebrating death of Baghdadi:
The few crowd pictures there are the ones from the celebration of the death of Bin Laden then, sad so far.
TBCF, bin Laden was far more infamous and reviled within the US than al Baghdadi, the latter who never actually planned and orchestrated a massive attack on the US that resulted in a number of previous future-depicting movies being rather inaccurate.
Right, but the point I was dealing with was Trump’s declaration that what he did was better than what Obama did. “Bin Laden was big but this was bigger” -Trump.
Not even his MAGAts could make an appearance in front of the WH for the cameras? The point also stands that then Trump looks even sillier when one remembers why Bin Laden was hunted.
This will help Trump get re-elected. I’m certain of it.
Yeah. I know. Believe me, I know.
“We knocked the hell out of ISIS, folks, and we’re bringing troops back very strongly” is going to become the big thing that he promised he would do when he was running for president and which he eventually did. It won’t matter that he didn’t actually destroy ISIS but only manage to eliminate one of its leaders, or that Trump himself isn’t responsible for it, or any number of other things that are true about what went down - he will spin it as an example of an accomplishment and people will believe it.
Well, maybe, in the sense that the die-hard ~30% of voters who will vote for Trump no matter what are now a little less likely to be eroded down to ~29%, with the tiny difference being voters who get soured off voting entirely. That erosion is Trump’s biggest liability, I figure. He has this base, and if he gets enough additional Americans who vote Republican just out of habit even if they dislike Trump personally, he could get re-elected.
It wouldn’t be Trump’s success, it would be America’s failure.
Trump slipped into the baseball game last night to a smattering of applause, then sat down. (I’m guessing he was hoping to just kind of blend in.) But when he was introduced and shown on the big screen, the welcome wasn’t everything he could have wanted. They must have been saying “Bruce” or something.
Quite possibly, actually. My understanding is that bin Laden was no longer active in ISIS - possibly a revered figure, but not really doing much (more than willing to be corrected). Big from a justice (and PR) standpoint, but strategically perhaps not a big deal (although the fear that the US will get you eventually has value). Knocking off an active #1, even if he is immediately replaced, is no small thing.
Except that he isn’t bringing any troops home, just shuffling them from one hot spot to another. Of course, the poorly informed may not realize that.
Yeah but it’s OK, cause the Saudis are totally paying for it, bigly. And by paying for it I mean not paying for it except in the strictest “bribing Donald J. Trump personally” sense. But what is good for Trump is good for America, because Trump IS America and everyone has a share !
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Trump slipped into the baseball game last night to a smattering of applause, then sat down. (I’m guessing he was hoping to just kind of blend in.) But when he was introduced and shown on the big screen, the welcome wasn’t everything he could have wanted. They must have been saying “Bruce” or something.
[/QUOTE]They were saying “Boo-urns”. Boooourns - YouTube
When you consider that FPT* performs some headline-grabbing stunt every day (or more often), I’m guessing that by next year, everyone will have forgotten this.
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Trump slipped into the baseball game last night to a smattering of applause, then sat down. (I’m guessing he was hoping to just kind of blend in.) But when he was introduced and shown on the big screen, the welcome wasn’t everything he could have wanted. They must have been saying “Bruce” or something.
[/QUOTE]My emphasis.
FPT* wanting to “blend in”? In a crowd? I think not.
Probably what he was picturing was that he would slip in quietly and then someone would see who it was ("OMG! Is it?? No, it can’t be! Yes! It IS!') and a ripple of excitement would fly around the stadium (like a spontaneous Wave), and the crowd would surge to its feet, drowning him with screams or orgasmic joy! Oh, that they would be privileged to (if only for one brief, shining moment) share the same space and breathe the same air as their hero…
… but it didn’t work out like that. FPT* no doubt blamed a staffer for the lukewarm response. Or Obama.
He was just upset they didn’t let him throw out the first asylum-seeker.
I love how Trump says the reason he didn’t tell the Democratic Senate leaders about the raid (but told the Republicans. And the Russians) because he was afraid of security leaks, then does this:
All I could think of was the scene from Airplane:
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Trump slipped into the baseball game last night to a smattering of applause, then sat down. (I’m guessing he was hoping to just kind of blend in.) But when he was introduced and shown on the big screen, the welcome wasn’t everything he could have wanted. They must have been saying “Bruce” or something.
[/QUOTE]No, they were saying BOOOth. Look in the BOOOth.
Or they were calling on the spirit of John Wilkes Booth, I dunno.
I do know my idiot congressman finally got his time with the Sith lord that he’s been angling for since he got elected. It was probably the Pizza Raid that got him the seat at the table. Though, still, trump probably called him “Riggs” and asked how Murtaugh was doing, but by golly! he was there in the presence of the Lord!
I think Biggs was just there to be a human shield in front of trump.
Well, thanks for that, but I did not say it was a small thing (I had him on my list because I do know what a nasty terrorist Baghdaddi was), only that it remains silly to claim that it was bigger. AFAIK the Bin Laden raid gave us lots of intelligence and helped prevent other planned attacks, I expect that this raid gave us something similar.
I agree, but as noticed, even the poorly informed are not caring as much as Agent Orange thinks they are, The nonofficial announcement came on Saturday and his pompous official announcement of the raid was made early Sunday, it is clear to me that Trump expected ovations in front of the White House and on the Baseball game, but instead the army guys were applauded while the Cheeto got boos.
Whatever al-Baghdadi’s importance, he was - and I am being very, very generous here - maybe one hundredth as notorious in the USA as Obama bin Laden. If on Friday you’d gone around asking random Americans “who is the leader of ISIS?” or “Who is Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi?” fewer than one in ten would have answered either question correctly. I doubt one person in a hundred could have named him if shown a photograph.
No President would have gotten the same applause for killing this ISIS guy that any President would have gotten for killing bin Laden.
Naw, it’s close to Baltimore, home of the Orioles and the crowd thought he was their beloved Boog Powell. “Bo-o-o-o-g!”
Al Bag-Daddy? Never heard of him.