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I'm hoping that the military leadership is starting to realize that they WILL have to forcefully remove Trump, if anything to protect the safety and security of the country. Also the PRIMARY purpose of the US Armed forces is:
Not one fucking word about protecting pedos or presidents.
You mean the military that’s commanded by people who were telling their troops that Trump was sent by God to protect Israel? Yeah, I wouldn’t get your hopes up.
Remember, within the first month of this term, he fired all the 5-star generals and other military leadership who would have had the wherewithal to pull this off.
You say "fired all the five star generals", I say "created new leadership opportunities for disgruntled veterans".
America is going to end up with two armies, one full of soldiers and one full of sycophants and idiots. Boy, this doesn't sound familiar or anything, does it?
It would not be a difficult math problem nor a stretch to calculate and conclude that he is a domestic enemy.
Only an American would ever possibly hope for a military coup... I know you guys don't have a lot of history, but if that happened, it would be much, much worse than Trump.
This asshole seems incapable of humiliation.
He should be ashamed to even show up in public given what he's done and what a dumbass he is, but I see him in front of cameras nearly daily, mugging and gesturing and holding forth, often for very long periods of time.
Being shameless is his superpower. I suspect it's what makes him so appealing to MAGA.
"He says what I'm thinking!" (and gets away with it - that's the thing that really sends a tingle up their legs - they have wet dreams about being able to say and do the sorts of things that PEDOnald did all his life and had no consequences for it)
His neurons have rotten and fallen out of his ears, he doesn't have the brain capacity to be humiliated
I think even at 20, he didn't really have to ever face real, grinding humiliation. Except for maybe from his parents.
I think he and his cuckservative cult members all just tell themselves that anything that might be humiliating to him is just someone else having what they call "TDS".
We are rapidly approaching the decision point between fighting and dying for Trump and hesgeth in Iran or fighting in Washington for ourselves.
Fighting in Washington was always on the table and it is clear by now that there are no takers.
We are waiting for the Midterms. There is no sense in blowing up America now, when we still have a couple of legal options left. If we get through the Midterms and 2028, we might be able to rebuild.
But if they somehow manage to cheat their way out of the Midterm bloodbath, there will be serious repercussions, and if they steal the 2028 election, it's all over. Then we have nothing to lose, and it's Civil War.
Also, if they cancel/suspend an election. We've never done that in American history, not even during the Civil War. That is a bright red line, that must not be crossed. If he announces that elections are cancelled, then we no longer have a democracy, America is dead, and it's Civil War.
Better not wear black when talking like that.
How does anyone still listen to him? Every decision he’s ever made has not come from a place of intelligence, reason or foresight, but just what he feels at that moment.
A combination of: the people in positions of power stand to benefit personally for decisions that are bad for everyone else, and a failure of the people to hold him to account (which is itself caused by a mix of apathy, ignorance, and hatred).
It's only surprising if you have taken the competence and stability demonstrated over the last 70 years for granted.
There are a whole lot of dumbasses out there would rather have a complete idiot in power rather than someone that makes them feel stupid, or, in other words, is clearly smarter, more educated, and more capable than they are.
It's an infuriating trait and I don't understand it at all.
I could do a better job than this idiot, and I am self-aware and smart enough to realize I have no business being anywhere near that kind of job. I happen to want people far smarter, more experienced, more education, and more wisdom than myself in there. I don't feel smaller by having someone better than me in there.
This is about the only job I can think of where there are certain types of idiots that cast about for non-experts for that role. You don't people agitating to have "outsiders" in their sportsball team. You don't see them calling for things like "term limits" on sports, either. Same for a whole host of occupations. People don't put out ads for positions at companies seeking someone with zero experience, but who makes them feel good about their own capabilities in comparison.
But, for a role that We, The People hire for, we have this incredibly bizarre and stupid selection criteria - dumb things that include "wanting to have a beer with them", or "running the country like a business". Things like intelligence, capability, education, wisdom, and experience don't seem to really matter for this hiring process.
The funny thing is that that actually makes you very good for the job, or at least it’s major part of it. A leader of anything from a company to a small work team needs to be the kind of person who can assemble teams of experts and give them the resources they need to succeed.
He's made a looot of $$$ from his decisions.
He is winning, unfortunately.
I think when you’re born with that much money, you don’t tend to lose it easily. His father insulated him from his stupid decisions. Now he’s got a cult of personality behind him and is way further insulated from his stupidity. He’s failed upwards his whole life because he’s privileged.
I mean, he was just a millionaire real estate developer. He successfully infiltrated the US executive branch and used it strategically to become a billionaire.
He was given $500 million from his dad. When you have that much money, you point at stuff you want to happen and people you pay make it happen. He’s been a grifter his whole life and takes advantage of people even more stupid than he is. The only difference now is that it seems there’s more of those stupid people in his orbit that he can feed off of.
Dipshit dips shit.
This minorfucker and his DUI hire didn't calculate shit. Probably just type into Grok for a intelligence assessment and went with it.
They got railroaded by Bibi. It was blatantly obvious.
Do you mean caught in a honey trap?
it's so plain that epstein was running a kompromat factory and trump's everywhere in it. hope it gets reflected in the histories.
hope there's enough of a civilization to record history....
jfc what fucking president says "bombing the hell out of the shoreline". This isn't call of duty with your buddies dumbass
How can it be miscalculated when it wasn't even calculated at all to begin with?
Trump, 79, told his administration that he thought Iran would capitulate to the U.S. before it closed the Strait, adding that even if the Strait was threatened, the U.S. military could handle it
Hitler, forcing his experienced Generals to follow his own incompetent strategies.
What's funny is they got into this mess solely by their own crass ignorance. I'm persuaded they thought it would be like Syria or other asymmetrical wars they fought. Well though luck dipshits, Iran is a whole other kind of beast.
They already shit their pants in Afghanistan despite it being literally nicknamed "the graveyard of empires". But Iran is not that, Iran is its own empire and has been for thousands of years. Good luck trying to get Elamites and Medes to bend the knee. You're not the first to try.
Well though luck dipshits, Iran is a whole other kind of beast.
If only every single person who knew anything at all about Iran had tried to tell them this repeatedly for years and years.
Isn't that kind of their signature moves? Trying something that sounds kinda sorta like common sense but it's profoundly stupid or has already failed countless times before...
...and then later saying, with zero hint of self-awareness, that "nobody knew that [issue] could be so complicated"
Who would'a thunk ?
This is an extremely weird take. Iran/Persia and its predecessors have been conquered many times. As far back as Alexander and as recently as WW2 with the Arabs, Turks, Mongols all taking control of it in between. Iran's culture is as unique as it is because of all the ethnic admixture, not due to some imagined unbroken ancestry from Elam.
You're right to point that out it's shady to conflate a modern nation with some past empire within its borders, i didn't mean it like that, or in the ethnic way.
I meant that this region, broadly speaking "Persia", has often been the center of its own empire and a peer to its neighbors. It's not some recently stabilized nation state with limited collective experience, it's an old old place that already had a complex urban economy when western Europe was still neolithic. That's why i joke with the Elamites, that shit is deep history man, broken to the yoke of empire time and time again.
I love Hegseth’s response. It’s handled. We’re taking care of it. So don’t worry about it.
Like dude bro, they’re not “worried about it,” in their job capacity as reporters, they are asking you about it because it’s their job.
This isn’t like “who’s gonna load the dishwasher?” “Don’t worry about it, I’ve got it covered.”
We fucking got our asses kicked in smaller countries like Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
Who would have thought the US could win against Iran?
The biggest mistake they made was thinking Iran is like Iraq, Syria, or Afghanistan—countries characterized by dictatorship or clannism/tribalism, where the populations were already divided. Although it is an Islamic Republic, Iran operates as a republic with regular elections where citizens vote for government officials. This is a long-established system that maintains a degree of popular support. Unlike those other states, where it was easier for outside forces to support separatists, the current situation has instead bolstered the government's narrative. They have effectively managed to convince many that the government was telling the truth about the U.S. and Israel intending to destroy Iran. Ultimately, this has united a large portion of the population behind the state. I fear it will be a long conflict unless something fundamental changes.
Why does Trump want the strait OPEN?
He's the one that CLOSED it.
Ooh yea, that OLD trick he uses when he makes a problem and then fixes the problem he made.
Trump, what a deal maker. /s
Trump, 79, told his administration that he thought Iran would capitulate to the U.S. before it closed the Strait
Yeah that's what it seemed like, he thought he'd just bomb a little and everything would go his way. Got hopped up success in Venezuela and thought it would be the same.