So there's the 'whole civilization will die tonight' angle of this insanity, but I was also struck by the WHO KNOWS? coming from the guy with access to the largest intelligence gathering apparatus in history and with access to huge nuclear arsenal.

Like, you, dude. You are supposed to know.

April 07, 2026 - 13:44 UTC

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I don't think he even knows where he is most of the time.
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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?
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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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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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to me it came across as harkening back to his reality TV roots. got to keep people interested with the uncertainty. tune in tomorrow to find out, and all that
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the whole thing reads like a stinger for WWE
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Is it not completely obvious by now?

President Caligula is insane.

It’s time to do something about him.

We are the United States of America.

THIS is not who we are.

#25thAmendment
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We must take hope on that, someday, President 47's years of extortion, corruption and death, will also finally end.
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"Nice store you got here, would be a shame if something happened to it, but WHO KNOWS? if you give us some money maybe it will be safe."
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I realize one is not supposed to say this in politics, but it is just clearly the case that 77,302,580 voters have blood on their hands for this, bear real, moral culpability for deciding that it was a good idea to put idiot Fox News Grandpa back in power for [reasons].
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No, his voters have been culpable the whole time. He showed what he was before he was even elected the first time.
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Going to push back slightly. Obviously this is a disaster, but at the time Trump's first term had been relatively peaceful compared to other recent presidents. He seemed committed to reducing our troop commitments. Trump 2 has been dramatically different from Trump 1.
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And when he's gone, none of this will be anyone's fault, especially not the people who voted for it, cheered it on when it was happening, and will still support it whenever the next guy does it. Even suggesting otherwise will be "TDS".
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Everyone who didn't vote has blood on one of their hands but not the other

Maybe this pushes the metaphor a bit too much
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Because there is the realm of, "we tried our best, things go wrong, big countries can break big things by accident" and then there is the realm of, "we made an intentionally negligent choice because we thought it was funny and wouldn't effect us."

And this is the latter.
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Not the blood of many American citizens though, so not real people.
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Add the approx. 88 million eligible who did not vote. Not voting = Don't give a crap.
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Don't forget the abysmally stupid and gullible suckers that refused to understand the "DEMOCRATS = GENOCIDE, SO DON'T VOTE" campaign was a calculated tool by the people that really really want to do genocide.
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And it's not like it was a mystery how badly this would go. People just didn't want to believe.
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I have had to literally bite my tongue to keep from saying this in work meetings where the price of oil is going to have a real measurable impact on what we can afford to do this year. Because at least one coworker has a Trump 2024 sticker on his phone and I'm not supposed to notice.
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His sons will be making millions out of it by betting on it.
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imo it's a victim-blaming tactic, a "don't make me hurt you" thing. It places the onus of responsibility on Iran's response to his threats rather than his own decision to threaten.
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He has access to intelligence in the same way vegans have access to BBQ.
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Oh, he* knows. He's going to claim that Iran came to him begging, and he magnanimously called off the strikes, and Iran will deny it and not change anything. The stock market will go back up.

(*"He" meaning the administration. Trump won't have a clue until the viziers tell him so.)
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It rings oddly like the prophecy the Delphic Oracle gave Croesus..?

What are the odds that his very expensive education touched on this, but no money in the world could have made him pay attention, so he never got the point?
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This seems too on the nose as an allusion to Herodotus for my tastes, but as usual, nobody asked me.
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this man is insane — and a threat to humanity
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Cf "I very much hope and pray" from an elected senator about not getting into a war
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