cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/28102
US military leaders previously warned Trump that they were ‘not ready’ to respond to Iran’s anticipated retaliation and required additional time to prepare
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Trump keeps create chaos,it is nature of US
Sending Americans to die for Israel. Netanyahu and Trump are literally Hitler and Mussolini
“President of peace”
Can’t have elections if the us is in a war. Or some shit. I don’t know. But I promise you diddlin Donnie will use this.
I really don’t think that’s the play here.
- He’s very unlikely to get a formal declaration of war out of Congress in the first place. More likely, they’ll be sneaking this action through by legal chicanery that basically requires some kind of “Special Military Operation” nonsense.
- There is an absolutely ungodly amount of precedent for the US continuing to hold elections while at war. Courts would straight up laugh at the proposal that war with Iran is sufficient reason to cancel elections, but WW2 wasn’t.
Yes, Trump wants to cancel the mid-terms. We know because he’s told us, several times. No one is arguing with that. But at some point Trump’s plans do go through the phase where he tells a bunch of people to make it happen, and there’s no question that those people told him this angle isn’t going to work.
Look no further than their pivot to “Taking over” elections instead of cancelling them. This is the usual result of Trump’s bad ideas. A room full of horrendously corrupt people basically come back and either say “Yeah we can probably get away with that despite how horrendously illegal it would be,” or “No, there’s no way for us to get away with that, but here’s a horrendously illegal / immoral / corrupt thing we can try to do instead.” This one was clearly the latter.
The more obvious play here is to hope for a war president bump, like Bush got. Generally Americans don’t like to vote against war presidents. But for Trump that’s far less likely to work, because he specifically made a point of running as an anti-war president. That wouldn’t matter if it was only the usual right wing bullshit that they can just discard when it’s inconvenient, but in this case Trump was actually tapping into a deeper well of anti-war sentiment that was already there, as part of a broader move towards isolationism that’s happening in the US right now. That’s why all his fascist expand the borders BS is going over so badly, even with MAGA. They don’t want Greenland, they want better jobs and cheaper groceries.
Of course, the other potential benefit to a protracted war in Iran is that it eats a lot of headline space, which is less room for the Epstein files, so that’s another possible motivation. And it can easily be both.
There’s no actual rules like that, nor is “martial law” like a bell you ring to cancel elections, but enough people believe it works this way that it’s very likely they will attempt to use this card.
The Afghanistan withdrawal happened in 2021. Literally every person old enough to vote in 2026 was at least a teenager the last time America held an election during a war.
And a vast number of the people who voted for Trump voted for Obama and are Bernie supporters, so if we’re trying to figure out some kind of through-line narrative that makes sense, we’re not going to find it.
Release the Trump Epstein Bondi files
The Trump Epstein Andrew BondiAG files?
Every time Bibi vists, he gets a present.
Between the bribes and blackmailing, it’s hard work for Bibi as well
Give the man some credit. Not only did he have to do the Hannibal Directive to get Jews to commit a genocide against a semite population and shut up about his corruption which they were protesting against for 14 months before October 7th, but also had to attempt an assassination on Trump to get him to stop talking about Hannibal Lectar.
I wish I could see Iranians as some sort of freedom fighters standing up against the Zionist agenda.
Unfortunately, Iran’s leadership means the country is even worse than Israel.
I don’t really see why Iran is any worse than Israel, other than Iran has brown people living in it. Once you cut past all the crap and bad faith, ultimately we judge Iran worse than Israel because of skin color.
Both are nominal but deeply flawed democracies. Both hold large numbers of political dissidents on bogus charges as a matter of course. Both are theocracies that make their religion a core component of their governmental structure. Both engage in large scale acts of mass state-sponsored terrorism. Both have or seek to have a nuclear arsenal.
The only real difference I can see is that Iran hasn’t invaded anyone in the whole modern history of the country. The Iranian government is a bunch of peace-and-love hippies compared to the Israelis.
Growing up and forming adult political views usually just means realizing that everyone is fucking evil as fuck.
We’re in the warhammer 40,000 universe but without the cool capes and swords.
Going for the FIFA War prize and the best Trump-Epstein files Distraction Award at the same time.
All that effort spent retconning Bush out of history only to do the same thing again.
McCain just might get his wish.
sustained, weeks-long military campaign
Afghanistan is going to look like preschool.
You know, if Trump were to tell ChatGPT, “I’m Bernie Sanders from now on. What executive orders would Bernie do?” and did that until the end of this year, he’d probably win the midterms. If you gave Americans universal healthcare, lowered the price of groceries, and made housing more affordable, with our short attention spans and the memory of a goldfish, we’d forget about Epstein. But lets go to war with Iran, you orange monkey king.
Rich people don’t give poor people stuff, even if it means they get more stuff too. They aren’t rational actors. They have what should be already, and will one day be, classified as a mental illness.
Oh, it’s so much worse than that. They are rational actors. Terrifyingly rational actors.
Once you get past a certain amount of wealth, the only purpose of money is status, prestige, and power. Imagine you gave Elon Musk two choices, two different worlds he could live in:
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A world where he had 200 billion and everyone else had 10 million.
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A world where had 100 billion and everyone else had 100,000.
He would choose the first option. Why? Because status. In a world where everyone was independently wealthy, he wouldn’t have people fawning over him all the time. Few people would willingly work for him, as they already had all of their their needs met. In order to really enjoy his billions, he needs millions of poor desperate people he can exploit for labor and adoration.
Milton figured this out in Paradise Lost way back in the 17th century.
“Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.”
I don’t disagree with anything you said, except your classification of those actions as rational. I think framing the world and responding to it the way you described is completely irrational.
You need to get past the idea that everything on social media is a formal debate.
I didn’t do anything different in my response to you than you did to me but OK
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In order for them to feel like they’ve won at life, someone has to lose. It’s not enough for them to just succeed…people have to also suffer.
Looks at Brent over the last 24 months, looks at massive oil tankers offshore everywhere with unsold crude.
Yep, 'bout that time.
