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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI think he was in a panic breakdown last night & didn't recover - non/words, spaced out
I thought he would have recovered himself a bit taking the overnight off. I firmly believe that he didnt make an appearance last night because he was in a full out screaming, gasping, hugging the gold toilet to vomit. Oh, the gold toilets are in his Tower, not in the White House. Plus, the commodes at his properties are reportedly filthy.
He was even more odd than usual, like a zombie, if thats his impersonation of what gravitas looks like. And the mispronunciation of several words ("tolerRIDE"?! "accomplikaids?!" ), the strange cadence and monotone, with his sycophantic, leftover staff (all the Actings no permanent department heads), the military dude behind him with SHOCKED eyes of petrified FEAR.
First, the network hosts were saying he was going to be conciliatory. HAH, fooled again! No responsibility. He blamed OBAMA, blamed Iran, blamed Europe, wants everybody else to pick up the slack. Took credit for no casualties and our own early warning, while the reporting is that Iran gave the early warning. For him to be conciliatory would be acknowledging Irans restraint, whether they restrained themselves for their self-interest in self-preservation or not. They gave him a way out of his mess.
And do we need to mention that OBAMA-KERRYs treaty was working and Iran was abiding by it?! And that it was his spiteful, envious, petty trashing the treaty that led to today? And now he wants a NEW deal. Oh, there WAS a deal in place?! And he wants NATO and everybody to join him in working out a deal?!
The only sign of life was at the end where he beamed smiles to say thank-you thank-you. Like, who said anything to him that would be commensurate to appreciation warranting a thank you? He really thinks he did good.
************ON EDIT: Thanks to dewsgirl for posting the video, got 8 of the mispronounced/slurred words::
* "cree-gime" - regime?!1
* "terr-rist"
* "toler-rided"
* "accompli-ments"
* "de-tear-rant" - tear rhymes with "hair"
* "na-shuns"
* "sic-it" - seek it
Girard442
(6,075 posts)...with nothing to keep him from deflating but the pharmaceuticals.
Johnny2X2X
(19,066 posts)Really? Never heard of him before, but he's responsibly for nearly all the deaths of the last Iraq War?
The lies are unchallenged by the media now.
UTUSN
(70,706 posts)karynnj
(59,504 posts)against American troops. The question in that is would the Iraqi Shiite militias, fighting an asymmetrical fight against the US troops NOT have used some sort of device - especially as John Kerry noted in October 2004 - after it was reliably reported - that the US did not secure the ammo dumps. You have to assume that the Iraqis were not very intelligent to think that they could not have found ways to create these terrible devises. One claim I heard this week is that Iran gave them ways to make them more deadly.
The problem with this is - do you blame Iran for every death during the insurgency that could be attributed to the Shiites? Not to mention, most of the attacks were from Sunnis - and they ended because we paid off the Sunni warlords (when the surge was going on in 2006 - 2007).
That questions the estimate that they were behind nearly all deaths. On the other hand, Iran certainly did support the Shiite militias there and elsewhere in the MiddleEast.
IronLionZion
(45,450 posts)Really? Never heard of this before but if he says it in a speech then it must be true.
The media wants war because it gets people to watch the news. It helps their careers, ratings, advertising, etc. They're not going to challenge his lies.
C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)brewens
(13,590 posts)that letter wasn't ordered by Trump. Probably his reaction to their telling us to get out. He said okay, tell them we're leaving and see how that works out for them. Then someone got him to reverse that somehow.
Then it's announced that he will be speaking to the nation and that was cancelled. They probably had to talk him out of going on in the state he was in. He may very well have announced we were at war with Iran.
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)I truly tried to listen carefully, but it was difficult. I may have missed the place/person Soliemani and his people were going to kidnap or kill.
I don't think I'm the only one wondering what made this killing so critical. Granted, the guy apparently earned the target on his back for what he had done over the years, but this imminent thing must have been something Trump and his advisors felt was important enough to warrant moving quickly and without permission.
Surely, it had nothing to do with impeachment or the upcoming election.
UTUSN
(70,706 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Watch for Pompeo and Esper to be gone in a couple weeks. The Orange Anus will turn on Pence big time. Nikki has already done her Audition.
maryellen99
(3,789 posts)He cant get rid of Pompeo he knows too much.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)will vanish to some undisclosed location.
ALBliberal
(2,342 posts)Maybe he can get some encouragement from Kim Jong-Un (right name? N Koreas dictator).
duforsure
(11,885 posts)...everything is failing on him,his health , preventing his taxes from exposing his crimes, this war he's caused for his own political gains, the Ukraine impeachment , and he can't stop it all because he knows the truth will expose them all for their acts against our country. It'll escalate against him too , and he knows it. He's addicted to some things is also the cause, and its showing.
UTUSN
(70,706 posts)on the phone, toggling between full out *dread* and screaming *laughter*!1
And a DUer said the ayatollah was probably asking himself why SHITLER loves all the *other* despots but not HIM!1
ginnyinWI
(17,276 posts)That Elvis comb-over pompadour is getting thinner and more flat as the years pass. And I noticed that he must use two kinds of make up: the bronzer on the front of his face, and a lighter almost white shade around the eyes--clown white? Because it is lighter than his ears, which you can look at to compare what color his face and eye area are supposed to be. If he were smart, he'd employ a make up artist who knew how to do it. But no.
Reminds me of my mom, who, in her last years and with increased dementia, started to put blue eye shadow on her white hair around her face, because she thought she needed some more color. They don't know how it looks to others.
Traildogbob
(8,748 posts)The staged late entrance with God's sacred light beaming directly on him. Stooges at attention behind him like profits to Jesus. End the hell of the joke of this administration. Or.......America is done. Chase the illiterate cult back under the filthy rug, with bed bugs, in the back rooms of WalMart, not as the voice of our nation. This vet is imbarressed of the nation I served. Great again my ass.
nolabear
(41,984 posts)Hes a simpleton. An outright fool. I think the generals are in stunned disbelief.
Oh, and Obama rocked. I miss the hell out of that mans intelligence and humility.
Traildogbob
(8,748 posts)I love President Obama. Brilliant, class, dignity and strength. And how many photo ops did Michelle provide with encouraged kidneys with Hershey's kiss size Nips straining to stay in a bra. Real Christian women, those trump girls are. Class........complete class. Obama's....Cookies and freedom, the smell of cookies and freedom. Oh, was the speak in tongues white house Virgin Mary that creates sacred ground everywhere she stands in that line up behind the puppet?
aggiesal
(8,916 posts)Who would ever trust us to uphold our end of any treaty?
Pendejo45 has destroyed any semblance of trustworthiness
this country had ever accumulated.
ashredux
(2,606 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,608 posts)or some other type of tranquilizer.
nolabear
(41,984 posts)onethatcares
(16,170 posts)an a Rohrer 714 giving that thing he calls a speech.............
BigmanPigman
(51,608 posts)every morning. Quaaludes, the breakfast of champions, makes for a safer planet until he is out of office.
Karadeniz
(22,528 posts)Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)PatSeg
(47,496 posts)behind him and yes, he looked petrified. I can just imagine what was going on in his mind.
Trump appears to be in rapid decline. It was painful to watch.
sarge43
(28,941 posts)that's Army Chief of Staff McConville. He isn't petrified; he has on his old academy cadet face "Don't move or it'll attract the crazy man's attention".
The other dude is the Chair, JoS, Milley. He just looks ready to use his tranq gun or "How the everloving fuck did this happen?!"
PatSeg
(47,496 posts)on the right of the image, and that is pretty much what I imagined going through his head. His eyes were darting all over the place and he looked terrified.
C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)Either way, he was in no condition to make it to the tv cameras last night. And by the look of things, he barely made it today. IMO, he's one happy meal and a big snort of adderall away from a massive coronary.
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C Moon
(12,213 posts)RT Atlanta
(2,517 posts)let's assume he truly was a barking madman last night - where are the patriots in the staff to inform the cabinet that the dear fellow is not up to the task and needs to be immediately removed?