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
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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.
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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.
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With this headline, you could replace "Iran" with "pants"
These are the kind of idiots who think they can win a fight by just wildly swinging their arms in every direction. Meanwhile, the opponent just keeps his distance, takes a few easy swings when there's an opportunity, and waits for the Idiot to wear himself out. Then the opponent steps in a finishes the job. Or maybe the Idiot just falls down out of sheer exhaustion.
Either way, we're the Idiot.
When I close my eyes and fantasize, I see punishments with extreme prejudice ruining the life of every piece of shit Senator who voted yes to confirm Hegseth as Secretary of Defense.
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The only response we are going to get from the administration is to go after the soldiers who leaked the photos... all the while calling the pics 'fake news'
It was never supposed to be successful in the first place. Trump and his merry band of criminals already got exactly what they wanted out of this.
He’s on record stating he doesn’t give a shit about what people are going through because of the war, the tarriffs, or any of his schemes designed to line his pockets.
The price of Russian oil is all that really matters. It doesn't look like it's going to even help them though. That and getting the Abraham Lincoln away from the Baltic.
The extremely non strategic retreat from the Middle East is kind of wild though. I'd have thought Trump was the very definition of blood for oil.
It does seem like they've gotten away with six months more than they expected to.
A mostly complacent media not willing to ask tough questions is part of the problem of why we don't hear about this stuff as much as we should be.
The media isn’t complacent, it is cowed / controlled by Trump supporting billionaires. To call them merely complacent is flattery.
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And avoid his degeneracy being truly known. That is his biggest motivator. The "trump/epstein" brand is here to stay. We just need to put out all of his deflecting fires beforehand.
The CBS article with the pictures in question: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-photos-damage-u-s-kuwait-saudi-arabia-iran-drone-missile-attacks/
"These are not 'squirters' getting through," the service member added,
uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
That was supposed to be off the record!
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this goes hard!
idk why they put a blury picture of an old loser as the articles picture instead of the actual news
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"more damning"? He's already gone through all nine circles so this is just dessert for him.
Iran has one percent of the US’s military budget and they are kicking the state’s ass with it.
Wasn't Iran's military complete destroyed like a year ago as well? According to the white house of course.
They want to win a lot more than we do. War is just business to us, no one is hyped up about this. For them tho, this is an opportunity decades in the making.
For the USA it is to steal other countries ressources, for Iran it is a matter of the survival of the state and their civilization
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What happened, did a bomb hit them mid sentence?
As one put it: “This is major damage to our ba... BOOOM!!
That made me chuckle too. A fine example of unintentional humour.
It's wild, man. For like twenty years I was arguing with anyone who would listen that going to war with Iran would be a really shitty idea. And yet I'm not very satisfied to have been proven right.
The cost of all that - is not soaked up by staff of military, or private firms or by politicians. The costs are passed on to citizens. Every plane down, or fuel burnt is paid for by public money..
Even without the leaks, and because it's trump, everyone already assumes heinous shit is occurring.
Does anyone support this guy anymore? All the maga dupes in my life have gone silent or are suddenly “ not interested in politics “.
They still support. They just don't have any quips to say when the economy has so obviously gone bad.
Ha! The stroke picture!
Krasnov's conception of strength follows Project 2025 and whatever the damn Muscovites want him to do.
Y'know, I'm all for electing someone who puts this guy in jail but with all this forced demilitarization... I think I'd run on that momentum and downside the US military presence. It's literally required if we want to reduce the deficit, but "rebuild the bases" is absolutely not something the next leader can afford.
Demilitarization is just a (admittedly big on account of how counter to the long running paradigm it would be) single step.
The next 5 presidents will have a lot of work to do over the next 20 years...in the as of now extreme hypothetical thought exercise where the country is steered towards actually being an honest member of the global community.
This hypothetical can't even happen as long as the fascism is on active display mind you, so that means it would have to be thrown back into the shadows (most likely imo) or finally fully eradicated (I fucking wish).
But after all that, the next 20 years of US history would need to be a lot of demilitarization, a lot less meddling in the affairs of other countries with the sole goal of "How does the US come ahead of absolutely everyone?" and a hitherto unknown for practically the entire country's history period of "What do we negotiate to make a better world in which the US thrives because the world was made better?".
In addition to a lot of work and money spent to recoup any semblance of soft power back, and a lot of loss in easy political wins.
The soft power can't even begin to pretend to be restored without a lot of spending on public education and I don't just mean schooling for children.
Extensive outreach to deprogram the 'might is right' and other assorted fascist/racist bullshit out of the population would be required, because it's easy as shit for other countries to see when there's no political will in the American people to force its leaders to carry through with something.
Fuck, I could stay here all day, but it's also kind of depressing. It's not impossible, none of it.
But the hurdles to fix this fuckery? Hella.
Maybe with some dragon gold hoards in the people's Treasury, and some nice and fancy dragon scale armor, it would be easier. Grinding boss fights for XP tends to make the journey easier 🗡️.
That probably should be one of the earlier steps and sure would show the world some commitment.
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Just here to say I love this photo of him.
here, for your wallet:
He never fully recovered from that 4th of July stroke, did he?
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In the end, this is gonna turn into the pedofuhrer Vietnam. Keep going Donnie!
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