• chahn.chris@piefed.social
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      No kidding, my entire life all I’ve seen is republican presidents take us into stupid ass wars.

      Why does anybody believe any of these people when they say they want to keep us out of wars?

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        They’ve dragged the US government into 38 trillion dollars in dept dropping nearly a trillion dollars a year into the military industrial complex without an ability to pass an audit. Soon the largest expenditure in the US federal discretionary budget will be paying interest on on debts taken to feed that beast. But forgiving student loans and providing healthcare… we can’t afford that.

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          Yea dude, the we can’t afford healthcare is an ubsolute lie.

          They want to keep us dependent on working for healthcare because they want their slave population to stay quiet.

          At some point if people want healthcare or anything else they are frankly entitled to people need to rise up and fight for it.

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      We won’t be sending in ground troops this time. So there can’t possibly be a quagmire like we had in Iraq or Afghanistan. And Trump promised money to any ship that gets attacked in the Straight of Hormuz (which I’m more than confident that he’s good for) so trade will pick back up again as soon as the smoke clears.

      Honestly, I think he did a heck of a job and I’m excited to see what kind of incredible progress he can achieve for American foreign policy in Cuba next.

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    So he has reached all his goals? Or did he forgett what he wanted to do? What is now with the eppstein files?

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      If his goal was to take a nation on the verge of revolution and cement the dictatorship for another generation, radicalizing thousands, then mission accomplished.

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      His goal is to foment Iranian terrorist cells to attack on US soil, thus giving the pretext this regime was looking for to institute martial law or cancel midterms all together.

      Also his other goal was to do anything Israel wanted so they don’t release all the kompromat of Trump raping children.

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          True, but it would be much better if the Iranian regime just attacked themselves, then the American regime wouldn’t have to pile on even more lies.

          Straight outta Putin’s playbook, with the Chechen terrorist attacks, that somehow used a very specific material that only Russian military would have access to and then the FSB confiscated all evidence and never investigated it again.

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      His attention span has been massively exceeded, so he’ll declare victory and start another fire somewhere else.

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      When everything is for show, you don’t even have to half-ass it. Some bombs were dropped, some folks died, he got to salute coffins for the camera after looking tough. Mission Accomplished, what’s next?

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        He wouldn’t want that as that means the media going back to the (pedo)files. Time to attack Cuba.

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    The Party said that Oceania had never been in alliance with Eurasia. He, Winston Smith, knew that Oceania had been in alliance with Eurasia as short a time as four years ago. But where did that knowledge exist? Only in his own consciousness, which in any case must soon be annihilated. And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed -if all records told the same tale – then the lie passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’ And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting. It was quite simple. All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory. ‘Reality control’, they called it: in Newspeak, ‘doublethink’

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      He doesn’t lie, he lives in a narcissistic delusion. With his brain melted, he’s actually terrible at lying… Watch him talk about the Epstein files, he goes stiff like he forgets how to move his body

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        Finally, someone said it. He’s too honest for his own good. He doesn’t lie; the people around him do. He just repeats what he’s told and what he believes. He flipflops his opinions and plans every 2 seconds because that’s how long it takes to convince him or a new idea. He doesn’t have the mental capacity to lie.

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          Maybe not anymore, but he used to lie like it was going out of style. If his brain wasn’t mush, he would be lying. Now he just repeats whatever the nearest person to him has said.

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          The reality is that nobody can reliably assess what he believes or doesn’t believe. Maybe he believes his own bullshit, maybe not. But it’s still bullshit regardless, and his culpability is the same either way.

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      Right, but he just goes inside and the hornets buzz around impotently, then he is hung over the next morning and pisses on the knocked down hornets nest and goes about his day never giving another thought about it.

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    Someone has had a whinge to him about share prices.

    Things are just getting started. He destabilised the region, and Iran doesn’t have any reason to discipline tinge aggression now.

    They can destroy a passing ship every few weeks with a $20k drone while the US spends 100s of millions a day just to be present.

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      Nah man, Putin is Trump’s hero. Watch us take some territory and refuse to give it up through multiple cease fires. Not only did he not stop the war in Ukraine, he turned America into fucking russia. Fucking dumb timeline

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      They can destroy a passing ship every few weeks with a $20k drone while the US spends 100s of millions a day just to be present.

      Well they said the same about the Houthis

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        Iran’s got a couple of orders of magnitude more materiel, wealth and population than the Houthis.

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    “We have a plan that I think is going to be fantastic. It’s going to be released fairly soon.”
    - Trump discussing his health care plan in 2017

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    I don’t talk to my friends this casually.

    If I said “very complete, pretty much” I’m pretty sure they’d bring me to the hospital for a stroke.

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    “They’ve shot everything they have to shoot, and they better not try anything cute or it’s going to be the end of that country.”

    He’s gonna nuke them, isn’t he?

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      Why wouldn’t he? Might makes right in his mind, and he is happy to use the unbridled power to reshape the world.

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    I guess one of the advantages of having literally zero plans other then “kill the current bad guy” is that you can just stop whenever you want and declare victory.