We can thank our lucky stars that Comrade Chaos knows more than the generals.
Otherwise this could quickly become a very dangerous situation.
And now this …
We’re dead. We’re all fuckin’ dead.
Because that worked so well the last time we were in a military conflict in Korea.
It’s not like starting a land war in Asia has become so obviously idiotic that there’s even a 30 year old Hollywood joke about it being the most famous classic blunder, right?
No shit. Maybe if Tillerson is REALLY good, he can heat up the 115 year old Russo-Japanese war.
Statements like this really need more context, TPM. When you say “capable of reaching the U;S.,” do you mean the Aleutian Islands? Alaska? Hawaii? Seattle? Los Angeles? Or anywhere they like in the continental 48?
I mean, yes, it’s a problem if NK has a missile that can reach California, but it’s not so worrisome if someone is screaming OMG they can reach the US when all NK has is a missile that can maybe hit Attu Island (uninhabited since 2010) if the wind blows just right.
His first trip as secretary of state, undertaken without the standard pool of reporters accompanying, and the guy is already threatening nuclear war. Unfuckingbelievable.
I forget - does one rattle one’s saber in the scabbard, or drawn out?
This gives the definitive answer about Tillerson’s smarts.
Dumb as a box of rocks.
In scabbard. If it rattles when you’ve got it drawn out, it means the handle is loose - which is a lot less scary and makes you look kind of inept.
I am hoping that Preshitident Trump can go to war after He finishes his military operation against Mexico and finishes stealing the oil from Iraq. Besides, the plans for the war against North Korea have already been drawn up during an earlier visit to Mar-a-Lago. The guests paying $200,000 to the Trump Organization helped the Preshitident put a fantastic plan together.
Cut “meals on wheels”
Increase military spending
Threaten with a new war
Donald’s administration sure knows how to sell it, his popularity will sky-rocket…
And here we go.
Then again, we’ve always been at war with southeast Asia, haven’t we?
Appropriate though for this Administration. Though rattling nukes just sound a whole lot more ominous.
@jgabriel Touche! That’s what I thought.
Now if we had a President who’d actually been a Secretary of State, and could get just about any stellar expert in diplomacy to sign on as her own SOS and handle these things with as much knowledge and subtlety as possible, with the help of a still-intact and functioning department, that would be bad because we’ve had experienced people before but Fox yelled they were no good so we’ve got to “get someone new in there” and “shake things up” and so forth. And we need to “shake things up” because “it’s a dangerous world, folks, believe me” and I just can’t today.
P.S. I wish there was some example in recent history that would help people remember the difference between preventive and pre-emptive war. Maybe even remember the lessons learned from that.
@mattinpa Yeah, well, Santayana and all that…good luck.
I cannot fucking believe they’re poking at the most paranoid crazy rabid freak of a human on the planet, who happens to be armed with NUCLEAR WEAPONS, and THREATENING him.
What-The-Actual-Fuck?!?!??
This freak has his uncle murdered openly, and then had his brother assassinated. And that’s only the stuff I know off of the top of my head! He’s probably reaching top 10 in the “most paranoid humans to live on Planet Earth”, and they threaten preemptive action against him? Are they fucking nuts?!?!??
Maybe his son Tyler can lead the charge.
Hey, just another day in America.