That would certainly be justice of a poetry-adjacent kind.
Yeah. Though Donald may be all in for “war not social services” out of his general bloody-mindedness and desperate need to be seen as a Tough Guy, he’s also in it because grifting defense spending is a lot easier than grifting pre-school provision. (More time-honored, at least.)
Also, social spending helps people, while the military hurts people. Only “losers” help people, while “winners” hurt people; therefore cutting social services of all sorts is a worthy goal in itself, because it prevents other people than Trump from benefiting from society.
Trump’s worldview is a black hole of malignant narcissism; all benefits must only go one direction, to him.
Don’t forget how he’s managed to also hurt the military and their families under the guise of helping them by stealing from them.
Yes, very much so. And as you say, the ‘being a loser/being a winner’ “distinction” definitely is crucial to him.
But none of this will be an asset to Republicans running in just a few months. Can Donald really assure them that he can rig elections enough to overcome the disadvantage he’s imposing on them with the ‘war only’ message?
Easy off-ramp:
25th Amendment.
Announce that Trump has brain cancer: not his fault, affects his otherwise perfect decision-making. President Vance sues for peace, and spins the cost as something that our newfound economic freedom (=the old status quo) will buy us.
It will happen if he can squirm march triumphantly out of this war while declaring himself the winner. All it will take will be denying reality and lying with all the conviction of his narcissistic ego. I can see it happening. Truth and reality mean nothing to him, so no prob.
That’s an easy off-ramp for the U.S. but not for Trump.
And is also not so easy, who in that bunch of spineless wonders will have the huevos to event think about that?.
Yeah, I know. Just dreaming. You’re right that there’s no easy off-ramp for Trump: he’s painted himself into a corner, here and elsewhere, by making big decisions intiuitively instead of with preparation and diligence. Turns out, bullshitting and bullying aren’t as effective success strategies as he and his followers had hoped.
Sure he can. He’d be lying, but it’s not like that’s ever bothered him.
Also, the Republicans are not Trump; therefore, their welfare is of no importance to him. They are in the same position as all the other people who have sucked up to Trump in hope of advancing themselves, only to be casually discarded the moment they irritate him.
And, if you can find it, the first and best of the lot, The War Game
Not the Matthew BRodserick WarGames
This is why I am extremely nervous that Trump’s next big idea will be dropping a nuke somewhere in Iran. And this is why Generals are being shown the door; they are saying not just no, but hell no.
I’d put the odds at 10%, which is way, way too high for my liking.
That was my first thought when I read his post.
Fundamentalist Protestants baulking at nuking fundamentalist Shia Muslims?
Things have improved from way back in the day, no?
I mentioned Threads to a coworker recently. Later that night he messaged me “10 out of 10, will never watch again”.
I am too nervous about this as well as you are.
Also worried that our troops are injured/killed before a maga bomb attack, thus killing innocent people again and again, as already happened with the children’s hospital bombing
I’d be happy with a US withdraw and still claiming a false victory than this continuing.
I am a bit nervous about all of this as well. Trying to stay calm.
I think that trump’s mysterious disappearance makes it a tad worse.
Word is Tulsi Gabbard is the next to go.
She doesn’t agree with him regarding nuclear war with Iran.
That’s exactly how he’s treating the election he lost.
Right. There’s no way Rip van Simple wants to take a chance on the US having our very own Yevgrafovich Petrov.
Continuing on the theme of good military officers.
Rome? Three locations? Coincidence?
@Moriarty It makes me quite nervous to hear the felon talking about “if Iran had a nuclear weapon they’d use it immediately”. Why? Because you know everything he accuses others is wha he’s doing himself. The US already has nuclear weapons. This is tantamount to him announcing he’s going to turn his vanity war nuclear at the first opportunity.
Another day, another departure, another wish for a pardon. (The formatting is from the original.)
Patel’s now threatening to kill everyone who touches a cop.
“We’ll put you down.” Yeah, that’s some real community policing and coalition-building there.
Paula White claims that when Trump (who cannot name a single Bible verse or even say which testament he likes better) was a boy he went to Sunday school three times a week.
No word on whether he had to walk 10 miles in the snow, uphill both ways, clutching a baked potato for warmth.
If he went to Sunday School at all, big deal. That’s just where the kids get dumped while the adults are in Church. It’s a crèche, not an indicator of Faith.