The element of surprise was totally key to winning this war. When you kill ailing 86 year old pope, and 160 grade school girls, you make everyone in Iran immidiately embrace Mossad/CIA style democracy. -- Don Tzu
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Please do Germany next.
If you’re stunned you have not been paying attention to the last ten years.
Not to worry. He’s going to be SLAMMED for this. Perhaps even someone will BLAST him. And since journalism is literal Pokémon moves now he might even be CONFUSED or HYPNOTIZED
It was a BOMBSHELL statement.
President Trump used DISTRACTION! It's not very effective against Epstein Files...
Or even just 9 months ago, when he told the leader of Germany that D-Day "was not a pleasant day for you."
No fucking thanks to the rich assholes who put him into power, not just those who voted for him for the worst single-minded reasons.
If he's not actually courting war coming upon him, it would be nearly every country except maybe Israel and Russia boycotting from ever making business with not until he and his gang are removed.
That wasn’t a joke. He was not joking. He’s an abusive asshole.
He's a sociopath, no two ways about it. I remember a story his nephew told about bringing his developmentally disabled son (can't remember the exact condition) to the White House and having multiple meetings with Trump about setting up a bill that would benefit Americans, including his own great-nephew. In one of those meetings, after it had all seemed positive, everyone left the room but Trump and his nephew, to whom Trump immediately said "be a lot easier and less expensive if all these disabled kids would just die".
What a fucking moron and stoops to level of fucking Tojo. US Navy intelligence broke the Japanese code in 1937 and they knew exactly when the fleet departed and their target.
Wow, I thought the title is exaggerated but the room did fell silent after that joke. Even Trump seemed to notice it didn't land that well. Impressive.
"Why didn't you tell me about pearl harbor? I was -5 years old at the time"
Interesting that Trump seems to understand that we "did a pearl harbor" on Iran, but somehow still thinks that we are the "good guys"? He almost got self aware for a second there.
He doesn't believe in good guys, he thinks everyone is just as evil as him so it makes his continuous assault on all limits of human decency OK in his mind.
Yup, this is why his accusations are always confessions. Projection is the psychological phenomenon where you refuse to see yourself as bad, so you justify your bad actions with “everyone does bad stuff like this, so it doesn’t make me bad to do them.” But when all of your interactions are colored by that “everyone does bad stuff like this” part, it means you project those bad intentions onto others and default to assuming they’re just as bad as you are. So when he’s accusing people of bad things, it is because he has projected those intentions onto them.
And Trump’s narcissism refuses to let him do any kind of soul-searching that may lead him to stop projecting. And thus, every accusation is an admission.
He learned that from Putin. The difference is that Putin is well aware he's the most evil.
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I can’t tell if this is dementia or his regular poor taste and racism.
It's damn both.
Probably a mixture of all three, most people would be smart enough to keep that thought in their head.
I hate Trump. Fuck Trump.
However, out of all the disgusting and ghastly shit Trump has done and said, this one is not that bad. Poor taste, sure. Racist? Come on. Did you even read it? It was actually witty compared to his typical knuckle dragging bullshit.
A reporter asked Trump why he didn't tell U.S. allies, including European and Asian countries, such as Japan, that he was planning joint military strikes with Israel on Iran.
"One thing, you don't want to signal too much when we go in," Trump said. "We went in very hard and we didn't tell anyone about it because we wanted surprise. Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor?"
This guy is a sex predator, pedo who is trying to be a dictator and is taking our democratic rights away. Let's focus on that first. Don't let this petty bullshit be the focus.
I'll take my downvotes now.
I'm sorry but this is terrible diplomacy and diminishes America's soft power on the world stage.
Yes we're moving into a multipolar world where soft power matters less but narrative building is always relevant and rubbing your allies the wrong way is just terrible strategy from any vantage point.
Trump's caused so much damage to Western credibity in so little time just by highlighting and widening fault lines at a records pace. This will create a vacuum that others will seek to occupy. This comment may not seem like much but it's another little cut that will slowly bleed away America and the West's standing in the world.
Yeah but this anecdote betrays his shitty personality. At the end of the day he is an unapologetic child rapist first and foremost, and it's hard to imagine what could surpass that depravity, but these little vignettes help paint the picture who have trouble believing the commander-in-chief is also the chomo-in-chief.
I guess he could always do worse and joke about Hiroshima...but I wont give more ideas...
Give it time. War aint over yet.
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Yes.
Well...she's a huge fan of Trump so she deserves all she gets.
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It was a funny joke tho hahahajaj
And she just sat there like a little puppy 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Does he not realize what he’s implying based on the ultimate fate of imperial Japan after they did the Pearl Harbor?
Also, Germany (Japan’s biggest ally) was pissed when they heard about Japan’s attack, because they were hoping to conquer all of Europe before they even considered taking on America. The surprise attack was a surprise to Germany too. And not a welcome one.
And sure enough, America’s allies all balked when Trump begged them for help in securing the strait.
I guarantee you he does not.
Why? Seriously, why are they stunned? He was a crass, low class, racist thug well before the dementia hit. Why would anyone expect better?
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