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Trump’s Iran Fiasco Takes Humiliating Turn as Leaks Grow More Damning
(newrepublic.com)
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imagine raising a kid for 18 years only to have him/her go overseas and get blown up in the most pointless bullshit war in history. for the purpose of making a whiny weak loser con man reality tv failure look like he's tough
Also to distract from the discussion about how he molested children.
Didn't that discussion happen already and nobody cared?
the notion that "nobody cared" is definitely the message that mainstream media is pushing (successfully, it seems in your case), because the people who own the media also don't want anyone getting paying attention to the epstein files
Not sure about the minors part, but 79 million americans voted for an adjudicated rapist. It would be weird to assume those people would suddenly have qualms just because some of his victims were minors.
when you're rich they just let you do it or something like that
To me, donnie was always just a washed-up never-was with a big mouth. A rapey and racist failson. And that's before he was given that reality TV show.
He's only devolved since.
Trump was washed up in the 80s and the butt of jokes. Bloom County roasted him for a year, transplanting his brain into a cocaine addicted cat.
Oh shit that was supposed to be Trump? I was a kid when I read those comics and didn't get much of it at all, I thought that the psycho cat was just supposed to be like a Sid Vicious/Dr Gonzo crossover.
He was at first, then there was a whole long thing where Trump got put into Bill The Cat's body
Hahaha holy shit I need to revisit that comic, I'll be on Internet Archive all night. Cheers! ACK!
Sounds like they raised a stupid kid
Even worse, Trump's doing the bidding of a genocidal foreign leader who had been trying to get the US to do this for decades. Trump was the only president ignorant and gullible enough to fall for it
Believe it or not, Israel is the puppet of Amerika’s ruling class, not the other way around. And this isn’t just on Trump. One person, even the president, cannot mobilize the war machine without substantial approval from the capitalists. These wars have all been long-term goals of the ruling class, they just now have a deranged idiot to take the fall for the high costs.
As Biden said, if Isreal did not exist, we would make it exist
And then failing to realize that purpose.
Before finally giving fully into the sunken cost by continuing to support the grifter who sent your child to death.
As pointless bullshit wars go, this one's pretty mid.
" choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are hard, but because we thought it would be easy"
"We choose to invade Iran in this decade and do the other fascist things, not because they are hard, but LEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRROYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY mmmmmmmmmmJJJJJJJEEEENNNNNKKKKKKIIIIIINNNNNNNSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Don't intend that as a correction, just more my take of how this shitty administration does shit.
It's important to remember the mmmmmnn before Jenkins. You did well here.