Normally this would end a Presidency within days of making remarks like that.
Nothing about this is normal.
Don’t let them normalize this shit.
Join the next general strike or you’ll be the next victim he can brag about or blame you for being a terrorist.
Resist and unsubscribe, if everyone did what they could, might be more effective.
One atrocity can dissolve a government. But one atrocity every day can keep even the most hated and incompetent leader in power for a long time. While we‘re busy processing what has happened yesterday he already committed another unforgivable crime. And it goes on and on and on. He simply overwhelms the people with atrocities to the point everyone fights their own battle and debates which of the many crimes is worse and needs to be addressed.
I’ll join the general strike that lasts for more than a day
Christ, what a fucking asshole.
What a fucking piece of shit
Hey, all you American servicemen. All you ICE thugs, and everyone else with a gun who’s doing stuff because this guy is telling you to do stuff. Note how he thinks of you. Why are you risking your life for him, again?
I mean, I probably know why you ICE thugs are doing it - you get to go beat up and kill brown people, something you’ve always wanted to do. But you’re also cowards, so maybe consider that angle. He’ll sacrifice you in a heartbeat.
Fuck that draft dodger. He should send his kid to die over there.
No he should go there in person.
“We expect casualties with something like this,” [Donald Trump] said. “We have three, but we expect casualties - but in the end it’s going to be a great deal for the world.”
So, follow me on this. Iraq’s population was actually initially happy saddam had been deposed. And that turned into a $16T, 15 year, million life quagmire. And Iraq is still a weak, uncooperative country. I can’t imagine taking over Iran, a country that hates us and accepts its leadership, with weapons systems orders of magnitude greater in number, and far more modern equipment.
There can be no good deal for the world. I feel like I’m listening to a car salesman, but he’s the president. He’s literally bribing the military industrial complex to keep himself in power post-term and selling it as a good thing. Uuuuugh.
I feel like I’m listening to a car salesman
That’s all this asshole ever was and ever will be, really. Guy made shitty real estate deals as a nepobaby failson and had a very big mouth. That’s pretty much all he is.
Most of the people in NYC, and probably most of the people on the Eastern seaboard, tended to know who he was even by the early 90s. If they paid even the least bit of attention. But that stupid gameshow and that dumb book gave a whole lot of idiots the idea that he was really something more and somehow worthy of giving any power.
Accepts their leadership with a gun to their head you mean?
Some yes, some no. They’re still a theocracy by popular decision, in spite of changing demographics. Last I checked, 60% happy, 40% unhappy
I can’t say “Fuck this guy” enough.
I’ll second that. Fuck this guy!
JFC… 😯
I have to laugh because I know this won’t phase his base.
“We expect casualties with something like this,” the president said. “We have three, but we expect casualties - but in the end it’s going to be a great deal for the world.”
That’s not quite that what the said.
“We expect casualties with something like this,” the president said. “We have three, but we expect casualties - but in the end it’s going to be a great deal for the world.”
Not the phrasing I would have chosen, but it sounds like he means “a great deal of good” as in “We’ve done a great deal to help.”
With that said, any President has to weigh the costs and benefits in lives of military action - it would be crude to explicitly say that some number of soldiers’ lives is a favorable exchange for a military objective, but it’s essential to do that math in private.
Boot polish is toxic, but you do you.
You must be buff as hell with all those mental gymnastics.
Not sure why you’re bending over backwards to extend such grace to trump. He called them suckers and losers in his first term, and it should be obvious he means a deal as in extracting wealth by way of invasion. Mostly for oil companies but surely for trump personally as well. Have you been paying any attention for the past 10 years?
If he didn’t refer to every single foreign policy interaction ever as a “deal” you might be on to something. But you’re not.
I’m with you on this. Trump is human garbage, and his war with Iran is a terrible decision, but the idea that we sometimes have to trade lives for the greater good (whether or not we agree that the trade is worth it in this particular instance) is not new. Outrage is better spent on the war itself, not his stupid choice of words.
