The Trump Presidency 2.0
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I hope he blasts the shit out of Iran.
Next new moon, if not sooner.
Look at Clinton's (stated) reason for going into Bosnia, Iran isn't much different; and it's payback for all the terrorism they sponsored.
Fuck Iran,
Next new moon, if not sooner.
Look at Clinton's (stated) reason for going into Bosnia, Iran isn't much different; and it's payback for all the terrorism they sponsored.
Fuck Iran,
It was months after the carrier strike group got in place outside Venezuela before Maduro got hit. I was home a couple weeks ago when news said the "armada" was heading to the Persian Gulf. I think this week, especially with leaks, would be premature.
2005 me: We really should have invaded Iran and not Iraq.
Seemingly the rest of the world: Are you crazy?! WMDs! Gulf War! Iran! He was a bad guy and a threat!
Obama's first term to the present me: Told you so.
The entire world, the whole ass thing, is in a much better place today if Iran falls in 2003.
Fuck the Neocons, Pakistan, and everyone who gleefully benefited from Iraq.
Seemingly the rest of the world: Are you crazy?! WMDs! Gulf War! Iran! He was a bad guy and a threat!
Obama's first term to the present me: Told you so.
The entire world, the whole ass thing, is in a much better place today if Iran falls in 2003.
Fuck the Neocons, Pakistan, and everyone who gleefully benefited from Iraq.
Devildoc
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Sorta kinda like Venezuela.....
I don't think he wants a war like anything in recent memory. For one, he has the balls to use every asset available to overwhelm and destroy the enemy. Not send them hugs and kisses. The second, the Iranian population isn't Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia and so on. Sure they are run by Islamic terrorists, who are directly responsible for spreading it around the world. BUT the majority of the population are not Islamists, love America and the most important part; want the bombs to drop. Not just want, they were begging in the streets; while being shot in the head by snipers brought in from Iraq.
Forces given ‘blank check’ to kill protesters in Iran, senior official says
You wanna' be the world's policeman, you have to write littering tickets in the country club and chase murderers through the projects. You're in parades, in schools, walking a beat, and sitting partnerless on a street in the 'hood. You have to respond to a DV in the trailer park, stumble across a meth lab which can go up at any moment, catch wildlife in a retention pond, conduct wellness checks, and tape off a crime scene with 5 dead babies drowned by their mom in a bathtub.
I don't think the US ever grasped the significance of being the world's policeman. We decided to pick and choose, often with disastrous results. We behaved more like a mafia don in his neighborhood than a policeman.
I don't think the US ever grasped the significance of being the world's policeman. We decided to pick and choose, often with disastrous results. We behaved more like a mafia don in his neighborhood than a policeman.
I think we're OK with the role, we're just tired of the free riding and the shit talking about the way we do it.
Being the world's policemen helps us set up systems and practices that benefit us. But too many people have gotten too comfortable too long, with too little appreciation. To paraphrase that world-renowned international relations scholar Kendrick Lamar,
"Sometimes you've gotta pop out and show 'em."
Being the world's policemen helps us set up systems and practices that benefit us. But too many people have gotten too comfortable too long, with too little appreciation. To paraphrase that world-renowned international relations scholar Kendrick Lamar,
"Sometimes you've gotta pop out and show 'em."
+5 for the K. DOT ref... one note, he's ubiquitous enough that you don't need to say who said it, let em google.
For Iran- the only reason I am even sort of inching closer to being ok with this is because of the DoW actions in Iran 1 and Venezuela.
Targeted glassing and schwacking of high level government folks, no boots on the ground, weapons our adversaries don't have, executed perfectly?
If that's how this goes, let the boys off the leash and bring everyone back home. Clarified intent, guidance, execution, endstate, straight into Phave 5 ops.
Oh and also no need to include any allies. Not for planning not for "joint ops". We don't need anyone else. Keep the messaging clean.
That's pretty short sighted of you. We need allies to be successful in a modern world.
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Are you vacationing in Iran?
Remember when we talked about economics and stuff? Good times. Anyway, Trump was right about tariffs; the Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 decision that a 1977 IEEPA statute (the underpinning for the tariffs) can't be used. Nixon used the same wording and the same statutes and was upheld.
As always, Clarence Thomas cooks in his dissent, Trump invokes more tariffs globally, and now that the SC just clarified a very small portion of the statutes and his constitutionally vetted powers, Trump will just use other statutes.
As always, Clarence Thomas cooks in his dissent, Trump invokes more tariffs globally, and now that the SC just clarified a very small portion of the statutes and his constitutionally vetted powers, Trump will just use other statutes.
ThunderHorse
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Now this is funny:
Topkick
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Uniparty AF. Its a club and you ain't in it.
ThunderHorse
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Not my point at all. My point was that Soros lost a shit ton of money trying to short the market just because Trump became president. So we have individuals and hedge funds out there distorting the market to fuck with us. On a serious point he should be in prison for that.
Topkick
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I realize it wasn't your point and I didn't mean it to be personal toward you. I have used this quote by George Carlin here a few times and it was a great example of what it means. Trump's boy used to work for Soros.
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