Like the carnie he is at heart, he's amping up the tension.
I hope this is another moment of chickening out, maybe a deal, maybe just another nothing speech where he bloviates. I think it was Robert Evans who said you can't understand Trump without understanding pro wrestling?

April 07, 2026 - 13:51 UTC

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Threatened genocide and presumably nuclear weapons use can't be shrugged off. I keep saying that these bells that cannot be unrung, Chekov's pistol is on the table etc but it's true. Everyone now has to assume Trump really is crazy enough to do it.
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Yeah in past situations like this he would either back out of the situation and let it die unresolved, or make some standard agreement and call it a Huge Deal. That might work in boardrooms with business dweebs, but it's clearly not working with an ideologue nation that knows it can call every bluff
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That it is not working concerns me. The orange pedo does not react well to being told "No". He will go to extreme lengths to punish those who tell him "No" even if said "No" was inconsequential. See Hurricane Dorian. What will TACO do when TACO no longer works? I don't know, and that's scary.
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