So why are you still in the US if you think Trump is as bad as Putin or Kim Jong Un? You don't really think Trump is as bad as any of these men. You just can't stand to see his foreign policy succeed, while President Obama sending jumbo jet loads of cash to the Ayatollah proved to be a complete waste of taxpayer money!
Stupid question! I am still in the US because I love this country and much of what it has stood for and accomplished and still believe in its potential for greater and better accomplishments. As a voting citizen I can be part of the effort to vote out the corrupt and immoral elements that are ruining it and causing great injustice. Trump may not yet be quite as bad as Kim Jong Un and Putin, but he has unabashedly expressed admiration for them, and I am still convinced that he aspires to acquire and retain the same absolute power and wealth they have. Like it or not, he is a convicted felon, a self-admitted and even boastful sexual predator, and almost certainly a pedophile as claimed by numerous credible victims and accusers. If you still can't see how utterly corrupt and immoral he is, you are either a hopelessly deluded fool or somehow shamelessly complicit in his perfidy.
And yes, I can't stand to see his foreign policy succeed, because it would be ruinous to most of the world and has justly earned both the ridicule and enmity of much of the world--even of many of our best friends and allies!
No precept or claim is more suspect or more likely to be false than one that can only be supported by invoking the claim of Divine authority for it--no matter who or what claims such authority.
I've got to admit that MAGA was right. They told me that if I voted for Kamala Harris, that we'd end up internationally despised, with the economy destroyed, and in a new war.
Not as dangerous of an illusion as the illusion that if we just be nice to the Ayatollah's and send them jumbo jet loads of taxpayer cash, that they'll cease to hate America and rethink their antisemitism. During the entire 8 years of Obama Iran continued to do everything possible to develop nuclear weapons, sponsor terrorists, and teach their kids to chant death to America and death to Israel.
Suggesting that the alternative to Trump's policy is "be nice to the Ayatollah's and send them jumbo jet loads of taxpayer cash" is simply a silly distraction from trying to to think seriously what the likely medium to long term results of Trump's current policies will be. Currently it is not at all clear that such policies will produce a country whose effective leadership is less hostile to the US.
Whoever the new leadership in Iran is, it cannot be worse than Khamenei. Whatever the consequences of destroying Iran's nuclear weapons factory, it can't be worse than just letting them obtain the bomb and use it on us.
Obama tried appeasement and sending jumbo jet loads of cash to Iran. It didn't work. It never works.
And when the Confederates saw Jackson standing fearless like a stonewall, the army of Northern Virginia took courage and drove the federal army off their land.
Nazi Germany was proof of that. It revealed that there is likely no culture, religion, people and society that can remain untouched by moral failure, sometimes with supremely disastrous consequences.
If Germany is the most immoral country, than why did nation building work in Germany and Japan but not Iraq or Afghanistan?
1. Can you point to who presented - and where - the claim that ‘Germany is the most immoral country’?
Whoever the new leadership in Iran is, it cannot be worse than Khamenei. Whatever the consequences of destroying Iran's nuclear weapons factory, it can't be worse than just letting them obtain the bomb and use it on us.
Obama tried appeasement and sending jumbo jet loads of cash to Iran. It didn't work. It never works.
So there are choices. We can (1) send Iran’s own assets back to them on a pallet, or (2) spend the same amount or more of actual US taxpayer dollars on military hardware and actions in order to ‘obliterate’ Iran’s nuclear capacity … every 6 months or so, and at the risk of US citizen deaths … because the current Administration ends up not really obliterating it after all. Forever war, if you will.
Suggesting that the alternative to Trump's policy is "be nice to the Ayatollah's and send them jumbo jet loads of taxpayer cash" is simply a silly distraction from trying to to think seriously what the likely medium to long term results of Trump's current policies will be. Currently it is not at all clear that such policies will produce a country whose effective leadership is less hostile to the US.
Whoever the new leadership in Iran is, it cannot be worse than Khamenei. Whatever the consequences of destroying Iran's nuclear weapons factory, it can't be worse than just letting them obtain the bomb and use it on us.
Obama tried appeasement and sending jumbo jet loads of cash to Iran. It didn't work. It never works.
This is a good example of why it’s pointless to engage Xanax. It’s been explained to him, in detail, why President Obama sent Iran cash by plane. It was actually pretty brilliant politicking, but why bother? This is why Americans have developed the reputation for being thicker than pig crap. They’d rather stubbornly cling to their stupidity and get tons of people killed in the process, than to learn why things work the way they work and then better themselves. No wonder the US is a gollum. It’s easily controlled because it’s a moron composed of millions of morons.
Suggesting that the alternative to Trump's policy is "be nice to the Ayatollah's and send them jumbo jet loads of taxpayer cash" is simply a silly distraction from trying to to think seriously what the likely medium to long term results of Trump's current policies will be. Currently it is not at all clear that such policies will produce a country whose effective leadership is less hostile to the US.
Whoever the new leadership in Iran is, it cannot be worse than Khamenei. Whatever the consequences of destroying Iran's nuclear weapons factory, it can't be worse than just letting them obtain the bomb and use it on us.
Obama tried appeasement and sending jumbo jet loads of cash to Iran. It didn't work. It never works.
Whatever the alternative to giving up trying to get a rational response out of ajax18 may be, it cannot be worse than hitting yourself over the head with a frying pan for the time it take to write a post for this thread.
Maksutov:
That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.
Mayan Elephant:
Not only have I denounced the Big Lie, I have denounced the Big lie big lie.
America doesn’t have to constantly police every region of the world… Our interest, I think very much, is in not going to war with Iran. It would be a huge distraction of resources. It would be massively expensive to our country.
- JD Vance on the Tim Dillion podcast
I wonder if Vance can muster the courage to ask Netanyahu if he’s even said thank you once? Or if these expenditures in munitions, lives, and treasury are grotesque in the same vein as the supporting the Ukrainian people? Strategically, this doesn’t make any sense, especially given the posture toward China competent people understand as being a near-peer adversary within a few presidencies. If China were going to make a move, the time to do is after we’ve expended the bulk of our munitions and international good will on Iran. In fact, after isolating ourselves with this move (and this petty-assed administration full of chuckleheads) and pissing off allies in NATO, if China does move on Taiwan and we decide to fight them, who will have our back?
In fact, after isolating ourselves with this move (and this petty-assed administration full of chuckleheads) and pissing off allies in NATO, if China does move on Taiwan and we decide to fight them, who will have our back?
- Doc
I have been waiting to see someone say this out loud. This was my first thought when the action started, "Welp! There goes Taiwan!"
"He disturbs the laws of his country, he forces himself upon women, and he puts men to death without trial.” ~Otanes on the monarch, Herodotus Histories 3.80.
