Mary Trump's incredible substance: "What's it all for?"

[lindysalsagal]

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How exactly is a war of choice halfway around the world going to improve the lives of the American people? There is no good answer to that question. There isn’t even a coherent one. And this is the thing people need to get into their heads: Donald Trump does not care about the American people, just as he does not care about the Iranian people. The rationale for this war has changed repeatedly which means there was no legitimate rationale for waging it in the first place. We’ve been told we had to attack Iran in order to stop Iran’s nuclear weapons program, which, according to Donald, we obliterated less than a year ago. Then we were told it’s about regime change, even though in the initial strikes not only were the leaders of the regime killed, including Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, but the candidates the Trump regime had identified to replace the cabal of religious fanatics who have terrorized their people for almost five decades were also wiped out.

According to journalist Jonathan Karl, this is what Donald had to say regarding that:

The attack was so successful it knocked out most of the candidates. It’s not going to be anybody that we were thinking of because they are all dead. Second or third place is dead.

So, what is this war about? Donald can’t tell you. The people in his inner circle can’t tell you. We know his military advisers advised against it. The generals think it’s a terrible idea. In the end, do the motives even matter? I don’t know that they do. What matters is that we are at war with a nation that posed no imminent threat to us. The International Atomic Energy Agency and American intelligence assessments made it clear that Iran was not projected to have nuclear capability until at least 2035. That is not an imminent threat."

[mvd]

1. She knows TSF better then anyone

Her analysis is always spot on. K&R

[dalton99a]

2. Kick

[Blues Heron]

3. It's about knocking the Epstein child rape files that mention Donald Trump 1,000,000 times off the front pages

[bmichaelh]

4. From Dostoyevsky

From Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov; almost perfect analysis of Trump:

A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth either in himself or anywhere around him, and thus falls into disrespect towards himself and others. Not respecting anyone, he ceases to love, and having no love, he gives himself up to passions and coarse pleasures, in order to occupy and amuse himself....and it all comes from lying continually to others and to himself. A man who lies to himself is often the first to take offense. It sometimes feels very good to take offense, doesn’t it? And surely he knows that no one has offended him, and that he himself has invented the offense and told lies just for the beauty of it, that he has exaggerated for the sake of effect, that he has picked on a word and made a mountain out of a pea—he knows all of that, and still he is the first to take offense, he likes feeling offended, it gives him great pleasure, and thus he reaches the point of real hostility …