I wonder if our own military will balk at striking cultural sites of no military value when they know that is a war crime under international law, laws that the United States was instrumental in writing in the first place. The president is not yet a dictator.
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In the future, we will evolve into big-brained geniuses. Or so we thought. The Internet is making us more stupid, I think. Just like comic books, it’s full of colors and immediate gratification, rarely anything of substance. And, sure, I contribute to that, as well. I guess I came to the 'Net AFTER a well-grounded history in hard-core reading. (I once spent an entire year doing nothing but read.)
Too many people is a large part of the problem. If we could reduce our population, not only would the planet be better, but we might gravitate more toward personal interactions because of the rarity.
More people = more competition for business = the business trying to stay ahead of the game = the greater number of businesses that succumb to bending or breaking the laws.
It’s all related.
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His idea of cultural sites are tRump Tower and Mar la Gogo and all else can go to hell.
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It’s now hidden, along with the “Shit, that was Desenex on my toothbrush!! Ewww. How the fuck did I do that?!” emoji face.
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Donald J. Trump’s steps to implementing successful foreign policy:
Step 1: Tear up all previously negotiated deals with our enemies
Step 2: Do something crazy. Maybe it’s an unhinged Tweet-threat, maybe it’s a state sponsored murder. The crazier the better.
Step 3: Threaten war crimes.
Step 4: Shit on all of our allies all over the globe, especially the ones bordering our enemies. Who needs em!
Step 5: Success!
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I know it sure feels that way, but it’s still just the same gene pool as 30,000 years ago when we didn’t even have villages. We have to get smarter as a culture. We have come a long, long way, but time has run out. We have to do it now.
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How attractive would the Trump Tower be to some whacked out Jihadi flying an airplane over Manhattan?
And
Step 6: get re-elected!
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After Adam Sandler passes the healing can begin.
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Whatever it might take to de-escalate this situation right now, we can rest assured that Trump does not have it in his arsenal, nor does anyone in his administration have the ability, foresight or desire to make the appropriate strategic move that will help put out this fire. My opinion is we are even more fucked than we think we are. The fact that no one was able to stop this terrible decision by a seriously flawed and incompetent leader tells me all I need to know about where this administration is right now.
Trump has always been the instrument of his own destruction - now we get to join him completely on his narcissistic journey. For the rest of the world, Trump IS the US now, and cannot be trusted in any circumstance to act intelligently.
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Iran and Iraq have already started those trade and investment talks–with China. https://www.juancole.com/2019/09/netanyahus-himalayan-miscalculation.html
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The world knows the truth Donald. You can’t hide it.
Scientific studies prove Trump is in the 15th-25th percentile for hand size.
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Maybe now the effing military will stop short of including the most extreme, over the top options in their presentations to Trump when dealing with any situation. Idiots.
“Sir, Canada is skirting our dairy tariffs. We can respond with additional tariffs on other Canadian products. Of course, you always have option “B”, nuke Toronto. What’s it gonna be??”
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Precisely!
We have a psychopath as President who has access to weapons of mass destruction and a willingness to use them to commit crimes against humanity.
In a slightly different vein, has anyone asked Susan Sarandon if she’s content with her advice to voters in the fall of 2016? And where’s Jill Stein these days? She’s been awfully quiet in her criticism of Trump.
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You clearly have not seen Uncut Gems yet.
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And silence from the Republicans in Congress. Likely waiting for a terrorist attack in the US or an attack on US troops. Then they can come out of hiding and blame it on the Democrats for failing to support Trump.
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I suspect those running iran are much more sober about things.
They need to sooth the outrage internally, but will be more measured than our nutcase.
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Could’ve fooled me. When the pResident says he will inform Congress by way of tweet what he plans to do if we are going to bomb cultural sites, use any type of disproportionate means to attack Iran and start a full-fledge war…and that barely makes major headlines in the news, I just don’t know anymore. There seems to be no red line that the major media in this country will consider that tRump has crossed beyond his authority. Or consider it they will, and then just as quickly move on to the next tRump chaos-created manic episode.
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The good old days of relatively low-rent vandalism compared to what he’s talking about now…
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Hitler painted some passable street scenes. Those efforts don’t excuse his full body of work.
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