Nobel Peace Prize material right there, folks.
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I hear you WTF
Totally sane approach to winning it as well
He's going to build a desolation and call it a peace.
When asked by a reporter why he would not ask Congress for a declaration of war, he replied: "I think we're just gonna kill people. Okay? We're gonna kill them. They're gonna be, like, dead."
He added: “The land is going to be next. And we may go to the Senate; we may go to the Congress and tell them about it, but I can’t imagine they’d have any problem with it."
Fuck I hate this guy so much. Can't even call a Nazi tyrant war criminal a Nazi tyrant war criminal.
BTW I don't agree with Candace Owens on anything else, but I don't think her claims that Trump may have been involved in Charlie Kirk's assassination (or at least allowed it to happen) are exactly "unhinged," when he's comfortable openly saying this kind of shit to the fucking press. If he can talk openly about just murdering people on a whim, if he can release an official memo that very much implies he plans to do the same for any American citizen who disagrees with him, why would it be "unhinged," to think he's capable of something like that?
He wouldn't be able to keep his mouth shut, if there is a conspiracy it's coming from the puppeteers; Stephen Miller, Roger Stone, Susie Wiles, etc.
It's always seems so weird to me that the night Charlie Kirk was murdered, he called him a "martyr for free speech." Then he started cracking down on free speech and framing it as terrorist activity.
Then he literally bragged "we took away the freedom of speech."
I think if there was some kind of conspiracy to allow it to happen, then everybody in his administration is aware of it. Hours before he was murdered, the Senate finance committee asked Scott Bessant why he wouldn't release the bank records for several banks including JP Morgan, regarding Epstein and people like Peter Thiel.
Then Republicans in both the House and Senate blocked an attempt by Democrats to subpoena those records, but nobody even noticed bc everybody was paying attention to the assassination.
So many wealthy and powerful people were desperately in need of a big distraction that day. Not only did it work to distract, it allowed them a BS reason to claim they had to crack down on the left and any opposition.
Imagine if Obama said "We're just going to kill people" in any context. I hate this shit so much.
To be fair...Obama did "just kill people" by the thousands.
Liberals like Obama because he did it while keeping a low profile so they could keep their conscious clean.
MAGA like Trump cuz he gloats about it so they can revel in it.
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Dawg is he actively trying to launch into an actual emergency or war to try to hold on to power? Looks like it.
Yeah. He tried to get into a war with Iran in term 1. He "predicted/projected" Obama would start a war to increase his polling to get reelected. So we know he thinks this way
All of the above.
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He'll declare war before the midterms and claim that there can't be elections while the US is at war.
shame we held open and fair elections during every war we've had in the past, including civil war
Learning from Russia
Well, from Ukraine, though an actual war is occurring. Russia are more than happy to hold elections since they're rigged anyway.
Ukraine has a different constitution than us, with provisions for suspending elections during war. We do not have any such provisions in our constitution.
Sure.
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Terrorism is the unlawful use of violence or the threat of violence against people or property to intimidate or coerce a civilian population or government, often to further political or social objectives. It can be categorized as international, involving foreign groups, or domestic, driven by domestic social or political issues.
Dictators don't even say that shit out loud.
He's not smart. Even for a dictator. And the bar's pretty fucking low there.
Can we please do the right thing here and convict this man of war crimes. Even if he's already dead when allegedly sane people get back in power, they need to sue the shit out of his remaining trusts and kids for corruption, bribery etc.
This guy is so dumb, man.
As if "we'll just kill people" isn't just a declaration of war. 🙄
The US hasn’t technically been at war since WW2 by US definition technicalities, a system that many Americans seem to enjoy stating when talking about the millions of people killed by the US military and allies since in various invasions and occupations
it's like the opposite of "i declare bankruptcy!"
A war is a two-way conflict. No way they want that.
”He loved to watch people burn, the way their skin blackened and blistered and melted off their bones. He burned lords he didn't like, he burned Hands who disobeyed him. He burned anyone who was against him. Before long, half the country was against him. Aerys saw traitors everywhere.”
Shit is that the Mad King?
That's Stephen Miller's inner monologue
Declaring war is a boring, formal process that acknowledges authority other than himself, of course he doesn't want to do it. Why do all of that when he already has the thrill of ordering the deaths of random civilians and having the footage streamed live to him while he scarfs down a McDouble? If he wants to send in a Marine division he'll just say go do it, who's going to stop him?
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"Just" 🤦🤦🤦
in order to distract from the files, he would have to declare war like Nixon did.
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renames Department of Defense back to Department of War
declines to actually declare war
What is even the point, then? Ignoring the whole "only Congress can declare war" part, of course, but it's not like that's going to be a particular difficult hurdle for the regime.
The point of pretending to change the name of the department was so Petey could pretend to be a big tough warrior in front of all the army guys.
It's theatrics and make-believe, because Republicans live in a fantasy of their own imagination
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you know, in comparison dubya at least tried to have this kind of diplomatic subtlety that is nowhere to be found in current administration
Cheney/Dubya laid a lot of the groundwork for the fascist wave currently swamping the USA
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