Krugman; has the Gulf of Trumpkin incident receded from the top of the news unusually fast?

[Dennis Donovan]

Link to tweet

[malaise]

1. the Gulf of Trumpkin incident?

Perfect

[Dennis Donovan]

2. yeah, thought so too!

Wish I thought of it.

[ananda]

9. Me too!

That was great!!!

[hlthe2b]

5. +++

[dawg day]

3. No one even bothered to believe him for an instant.

And Mike Pompeo has lost whatever meager credibility he still had... blaming every attack in the world on Iran the other day-- he made it all too plain Trump wants a fake war with Iran to divert everyone.

[dchill]

11. Let's face it, he had nothing to lose.

[DFW]

4. It's as if Bolton had said....

"Alright, alright, so this one didn't work. Don't worry, I have more where that one came from."

[malaise]

6. Sadly they are fucking with the lives of millions of people

These are the planet's real terrorists

[pangaia]

13. It is what dictatorial authoritarians do..

Out of a myriad of information on different types of authoritarian states---

WIKI--

"Authoritarianism also tends to embrace the informal and unregulated exercise of political power, a leadership that is "self-appointed and even if elected cannot be displaced by citizens' free choice among competitors", the arbitrary deprivation of civil liberties and little tolerance for meaningful opposition.[10]"

Totalitarianism Authoritarianism

Charisma High Low
Role conception Leader as function Leader as individual
Ends of power Public Private
Corruption Low High
Official ideology Yes No
Limited pluralism No Yes
Legitimacy Yes No


The right side sure looks like we we have.

[GeorgeGist]

7. Jared and MBS are probably ...

WhatsApping this monkey furiously.

[DFW]

8. We can be grateful for their ineptitude

If this had been Cheney and Rumsfeld, the first body bags of our troops KIA would already be on the way home.

[shanny]

12. Very true on the ineptitude.

However, I think even Cheney and Rumsfeld would have a problem getting away with it a second time. Our reputation is shot, not only at home and not only by rump.

[dchill]

10. Extremely nice wordsmithing!

[McKim]

14. Yes, It Didn't Work for Them!

Yes, it didn’t work for them. People are getting smarter but they aren’t. If they are so right why aren’t they continuing to justify their version of events? Look out for more attempts. We initiated and held a town hall here in Portland last night with our local US Representative. The Iranian American Community came to talk about the sanctions and the Muslim Travel Ban and how they were hurting their families and the threat of war. Everyone should do this all over the country. Don’t let them win. Our family lost a brother in Vietnam for a lie, don’t let it happen again!!!!!

[zonkers]

15. Bwahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!

[SCVDem]

16. Fool me once, Tonkin

Fool me twice, WMDs

We won't get fooled again!

[Ford_Prefect]

17. They will keep throwing them at us until they appear to stick.

As they did in the media push leading up to Iraq they will overwhelm the MSM with as many memes as they can dish out until the simple effect of hearing of so many "events" will persuade people that "We need to do something NOW!"