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On the contrary, the plan is to distract us from the Epstein files.

I challenge Lemmy users and everyone else, everywhere else I post, to please, please open up conversation with your maga uncle or neo-liberal parents.

Do not be dumb and try to start an argument, don't accuse, don't talk about identity or race or gender or any other issue they're already distracted with. Just ask if they think this is going to lower their groceries costs, their medical care, ask if they wanted a war with a country they can't point to on a map (don't say that) when they supported this administration, and if that's going to guarantee their social security and investments. Ask if it's "great again" yet.

Just ask. Just make them work the question and answer out in their head, that's your ONLY job, just plant the seed of asking how to connect these ideas, it doesn't even matter if they get mad at you for asking, your job is to make them figure out ways to make this work in their head.

Individually, you can't usually reach these people, but if enough of us do this all at once, we can start looking at it sociologically, like fluids, like percentages. We can still turn this around broadly, and Trump starting a war his own political-capital base doesn't want is how we get there so we can actually use this.

🎶 I've been through the desert
with a man with no plan

La, la, la, la, la, la 🎶

At this point the US president exists to take the blame for the will of Israel

And these dumb motherfuckes just do it. They just follow the pedophile

This is going to spiral out of control. The whole Middle East is going to suffer from this. How is Russia going to react? What are the domestic repercussions going to be during an election year?

No love for the Ayatollah's regime but this is a disaster. This admin has such limited forethought they will make the Bush admin look like geniuses in retrospect

Cheney very much had a plan. It was G W Bush's job to play the ass-clown, since admitting to that plan would have been electoral suicide.

"We'll use 9/11 as an excuse to attack a country that had no connection to 9/11 and that has been killing any Al-Qaida supporters in their own country, in order for us to steer tons of money into contracts for Halliburton to rebuild the oil infrastructure we'll destroy. And of course the defense contractors will get rich too. And meanwhile the oil price will be higher because Iraq will be offline. And Blair will help us lie about reasons for the war."

Fucked Up Beyond All Repair...

From what I understand, the global economy can survive 2 to 3 weeks without Persian Gulf oil supplies and then it's recession time. All thanks to the MAGA dipshits.

This cat....

Told me the plan is to setup the USA for a National Emergency™. To skip the mid terms. He also suggested a false flag bombing in NY will happen. Trump is desperate because without his Presidency, he will be jailed.

Then he yakked up a fur ball.

Like the holy, esteemed FIFA Peace Price means nothing!!

If you are in the US or Israeli military, you are a baby killing piece of shit, and you should be shunned by your neighbors. Fuck veterans. Take their rights.

I think his plan is to die and be remembered as the guy that started the war with Iran.

He's just gonna give that mess to his successor, and he's fine with that.

“Massive” war launched by a man with no future.

There are a ton of angles and takes on this. I'm not here to proclaim that any of them are particularly wrong or right -- I'm not a fortune teller and I don't see the future. Having said that, this headline sort of feeds into my personal take on this. This was performed by an incompetent administration. It's easy to tear shit down. It's much harder to build good, strong things. The ramifications of these, and other recent actions, are basically a giant FUCK YOU to the next administration. And I'm sure they're at least half expecting the next administration to be Democrats. That's part of why they're doing this. Create an insurmountable problem, that no matter how well it's handled by the next leaders, is sure to be a political bombshell. And obviously, the fact that it's a news cycle distraction from the Trump-Epstein files and the shitty economy pretty much meant this was bound to happen at some point. Not to mention the fact that if this becomes a bit of a slow boil, then it also becomes a convenient excuse to cancel elections. Hope I'm wrong, of course, especially on that last point, but it's all too predictable.

As is American tradition.

I hope they need a draft, and I hope they're tone deaf enough to draft white red state kids.