Yep, and literally begging our allies to save him.

He’s talking awfully big for a guy getting his ass kicked by a country with a depleted military.

everyone over there in the uNazied States of america needs to not let them forget that they were ok with all the child raping he did over the years,

It’s a nice thought, but Donald and his ilk are never going to be held accountable in any meaningful way. Here, the people in power make sure there’s cover for the criminals, always. Hell, we didn’t even hold the Confederate generals meaningfully accountable and they killed 600,000 American soldiers.

We’re already seeing it. Donald has lost nearly every election in 2025 and 2026, and most are in districts he won by double digits in 2024.

This means that even if he wants to try to fight dirty, he really can’t, because clearly the Republican Party can’t accurately project which districts will be safe in 2026. The downside of all this is that it’s not going to change a whole lot, because Dems are not going to elect 30 Mamdanis or Kat Abughazalehs, and that’s what we need if we want actual opposition.

There’s also value in making him even less popular at home

Abso-fucking-lutely. It gives people cover to oppose him politically, which is desperately needed.

Even though I’m an American, it pleases me that our allies aren’t just going along with it this time. That’s partly why the War on Terror lasted way longer than it should have, and how we were able to destroy millions of people’s lives.

In a war like this, the world gets a vote too, even if Congress won’t hold one.

Same thing happened when Alabama tried what Donald is doing. Mass deportations are very disruptive.

Politicians love them because of the easy, performative cruelty and most politicians are wealthy and insulated from the economic effects, but increased prices, empty schools, and crops dying in the field for lack of field workers have a dramatic effect on local economies.

after his year long backstabbing tour.

It’s wild that someone with his status hasn’t figured out that maybe we shouldn’t bully every single country in the world, if only out of self-preservation and our own self-interest.

I really hate that we as a people no longer care if our presidents have functioning brains.

I remember these discussions being had in the 90’s, and the excuse was always: “But it’ll cost a lot and take decades.”

And now here we are. Decades.

To be fair, it wasn’t people “simply forgetting over generations.”

The other contributing factors you mention are correct, but it’s eminently fair to say people simply forgot. Until 9/11, most Americans had no real connection to anything even resembling war, and the vast majority have no empathy whatsoever for the US genocidal foreign policy.

Hell, we still have whimsical snacks on grocery shelves called ‘bomb pops’ that are colored in red, white, and blue.

The hat thing is just a natural extension of no one in his orbit holding him accountable for decorum ever, which is most evident in his language. Sad to see, but yeah.

It would be nice to see someone, somewhere finally hold him accountable for refusing to pay his bills.

You’re not wrong.

We have the Mad King in charge of all this, and to him, it makes perfect sense to carpet bomb tens of thousands of people in order to feel like a big boy.

Abso-fucking-lutely they will. Our people, by and large, are truly ignorant when it comes to the realities of war.

Man, I wish I could live in a world where I could have any hope for a positive outcome from US military intervention, but I’ve ready too many history books. The only positive thing here is that Iran is fighting back, because capitulating to Donald only makes things worse.

I wish I knew how to make Americans more empathetic and anti-war.

History has demonstrated over and over again that it is wholly possible to piss people off enough that they’ll attack a fortress, even a $750,000,000 one. (But of course, none of the people leading the US Government right now have ever cracked open a history book.)

I hate that the only chance the US has at becoming anti-war is having a war fail so spectacularly that the next generation doesn’t want anything to do with foreign interventions, and then the generation after that always forgets how shitty it was to always be at war.

That is Don-roe Doctrine, baby.

4D chess or some shit. I wonder if Donald even knows how to play actual chess, come to think of it.

Ugh.

The service has been quite good for ten years.

Guess it was good while it lasted.

If Iran had nukes none of this would be happening.

And all he had to do was make life less soul-crushing economically, and people would have gladly lined up behind him to support anything he wants to do, no matter how awful.

But they’re not. They’re poor and starving, so he’s losing everyone, including his own coalition.