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‘Worst foreign policy blunder in decades’: Republicans turn on Trump over Iran deal
(www.the-independent.com)
But did it distract from the epstein files?
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worst foreign policy deal in the history of foreign policy deals maybe ever.
Turned on him?
Is he in shackles?
You voted for it.
People pointed out that Trump had tried to deny his own nephew health care. That he had ties to the New York Mafia. That he had boasted of perving on young women. That he had a history of catastrophic business failures. That he had a history of lying so bad his own lawyers had to double team him to get the facts...
... and they'll do it again!
Look, all I'm saying is let's give the leopard a few more chomps at it.
MTG picked the perfect moment to leave Congress.
At this point, I have her as the front runner for the 2028 GOP nomination.
She is just insane enough to make it work. Then again she is a woman. And shes fetal alcohol syndrome or whatever that is. That's the redeeming quality.
I don't think she'll ever make a serious bid at the presidency. She might throw her hat into the ring to grift and raise money but MAGA will never accept a woman as a leader and even the majority of conservatives think any white man is better than a competent woman or non-white individual.
Harris never won a primary and ended up Veep and a potential President.
Politics is a complicated game, and so far she's shown some good moves.
2028 is along way off. I am not counting anything out.
I guess we'll see. On the one hand she's a blithering idiot, which is a feature for the smoothbrains that vote Republican.
But on the other hand, she doesn't have a penis, which might make it really hard for the Nat-C types in her base to overcome. I mean, their own text prohibits women having dominion over men.
I've never spoken to her, or met anyone who has. But let's look at the facts.
She didn't just leave Congress. She waited until a point in the news cycle where she'd get a lot of notice. She gave up her office before being placed in a position to go against Trump in a realistic way [e.g. voting for impeachment.]
She's in a great position to be a TV pundit for the midterms, which means more money and more exposure.
For a nitwit, she's played some pretty cunning moves.
I mean, we've already seen them vote for and otherwise support women (including MTG herself) for political office, so it seems this "principle" is pretty flexible/unimportant compared to all the hateful shit they'd like to get up to.
True. That's why it will be interesting to see how it plays out. I saw some of them go ga-ga over Palin as potential VP, too. And she was just as gross and nasty and unqualified as MTG. And McCain was up there in years, and so him passing while being in office was not all that remote of a possibility.
It's possible that she was a factor in him losing that election, though.
I'm familiar enough with lots of conservatives and heard them talk about women holding power. Being a Rep is one thing, being President is quite another...I don't know who she ran against as far as Republicans, but she was from a R+19 district.
But ultimately, watching them try to balance "but she's a woman she should not rule over men" up against the truly awful and un-American and disgusting things she would likely try to bring about, for example, making this a "Christian nation" will be interesting.
National conservatism is a variant of conservatism that prioritises the defense of national and cultural identity, often based on a theory of the family as a model for the state. It is oriented towards upholding national sovereignty, which includes opposing illegal immigration or immigration per se and having a strong military —Wikipedia
That may very well apply here, too, but by "Nat-C", I was turning around Christian Nationalism and making it match, phonetically, the party that it most closely resembles.
If people are not already familiar with Christian Nationalism / New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) and the plots and schemes of movements like the Seven Mountain Mandate, they should definitely brush up on it.
Marj is associated with Christian Nationalism and the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) by the way.
I find it rather alarming to see that some people seem to be platforming Marj (and Tucker, FFS!) just because she's criticizing PEDOnald on the Epstein thing and things like needless wars. Sure, a broken clock can be right twice a day, but people need to be very, very wary of people like her. Same goes for Tucker. I could see those two forming a ticket, by the way.
I have her as the front runner for the 2028 GOP nomination.
I haven't seen any polls that put her at double-digits.
You voted for it.
I mean, half the joke is that they didn't vote for it. Trump has been outspokenly in opposition to wars abroad, in direct refutation to members of his own party (during the primary) and the opposition (during the general). American national politics is a sucking void of anti-war candidates, such that even a serial liar and shameless two-faced shit can fill it.
Incidentally, taking an anti-war tact is how Obama beat Hillary in 2008. And how he obliterated McCain several months later. And "Double Gitmo" Mitt Romney four years after that. It's also how Clinton beat Bush Sr in '92 (people hating Operation Desert Storm). And it was a long-forgotten part of the Bush Jr campaign against Gore (criticizing US involvement in East Africa and the Baltic States). Hell, Kennedy and LBJ both campaigned as anti-war candidates. They beat Nixon by promising to de-escalate the Cold War (and avoid any future Korean Wars). And then Nixon ran the same playbook eight years later. Reagan beat Carter on similar grounds (peaceful extraction from Iran).
Candidates regularly run - and win - on anti-war positions, only to enter office and reverse course, generating a backlash as a result. Trump's just the latest and most glaring example.
Point of order: all of your contrasting examples were competent.
Plenty of people will happily argue that Operation Desert Storm was a shitshow. Just ask all the veterans with "Gulf War Syndrome". Or the millions of starving Iraqis that incentivized the "Oil for Food" program (itself an enormous swindle). Similarly, if you crack open Howard Zinn's "People's History of the United States", he's got some hard truths to drop about the US intervention in Kosovo and Serbia. For that matter, it's worth interrogating why Yugoslavia disintegrated so quickly to begin with (TL;DR; perestroika).
And then you've got Korea, which I would argue is the gold standard for "Failed US Wars" even relative to the current Iran cockup. MacArthur runs laps around Pete Hegseth when it comes to disastrous military adventurism.
Even the Bush Afghan/Iraq Wars are bigger blunders by sheer volume. Hard to compete with a 23 year long calamity inside a mere four months. We did not - blessedly - turn Iran into a narco-state that sent thousands of tons of cheap heroin into the veins of western allied nations for decades on end. We do not appear to have created a new ISIS by engaging in de-IRGC-ization. We killed tens of thousands of people rather than millions of people.
Coulda been way worse.
Nobody is worse at military operations than Pete Hegseth, nobody.
As for the rest, too tired to argue.
I would be hard pressed to name a military command more disastrous than MacArthur's decision to invade China.
He bankrupted a casino. That should be everything you need to know
He got caught saying 'grab them by the pussy.' That wasn't enough.
A conservative woman went on the TV show The View to defend him.
Another panelist kept repeating 'pussy' over and over.
Finally the conservative lady had to demand that the other panelist stop using that offensive word.
*multiple times*
Then impeach and remove him from office. You have the power to do this. Until you put rubber to road and actually do this then this is just lip service to try and help midterm turnout for republicans.
lol
Bill Cassidy (primaried by trump), Nikki Hayley (ousted by trump), and some fox news sewer rat.
That’s the “members of trumps own party!”
They’ve turned on Trump so many times now they could be generating electricity.
Invariably these articles about Republicans/magas turning on trump use headlines that make it sound like it's some kind of sea change, and then you get into the article and it's one or two people.
“Reagan is rolling over in his grave,” said Louisiana senator Bill Cassidy
You’ll never get the orange paint off ya, Bill
Ronnie Raygun's "legacy" is far overblown (how quickly people want to brush aside Iran/Contra, which was worse than Watergate), most especially by the "liberal media" and the conservatives, but yeah, PEDOnald's debacle here managed to look even stupider than Vietnam, Ronnie Raygun and W.
Hopefully this keeps him from doing stupid shit with Panama, Cuba, Greenland, Canada, Mexico, and ___ and even more stupid shit with Venezuela...
Hopefully this keeps him from doing stupid shit with Panama, Cuba, Greenland, Canada, Mexico, and ___ and even more stupid shit with Venezuela...
Then maybe they should have done something about it.
Republicans have turned on Donald Trump over his plan to ~~end~~ start the war with Iran, accusing him of making the “worst foreign policy blunder in decades”.
Fixed it for them.
No? Those warmongering psychos were perfectly fine with bombing schoolchildren, they're just upset that he stopped bombing schoolchildren:
Trump’s former vice president Mike Pence also issued a rare criticism of his former boss, arguing the Memorandum of Understanding “does smack of the kind of appeasement that our administration rejected in the Obama-Iran nuclear deal”.
“I would urge the President to take a step back, continue the blockade and pursue a negotiated settlement that commits Iran to dismantling their nuclear program, dismantling this missile program, ends support for terrorist proxies and opens the strait.
“Failing that, we should let our Armed Forces finish the job on our terms,” he wrote on social media.
That’s crazy! I was certain republics would lick his boots till it literally killed them. Maybe the cult is breaking.