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We are basically Japan 1941 (Original Post) edhopper 9 hrs ago OP
10 years of waiting for reckoning. bucolic_frolic 9 hrs ago #1
Not for Trump edhopper 9 hrs ago #2
Ugh. This is not going to be cheap. /nt bucolic_frolic 9 hrs ago #3
Have not wanted to contemplate "Evil Empire," status. cachukis 8 hrs ago #4
We are edhopper 8 hrs ago #5
Not a mirror I image I want to accept, but as an cachukis 8 hrs ago #9
30's Germany. usonian 8 hrs ago #6
It's been fashionable for some time to insist Japan was provoked OC375 8 hrs ago #7
I am telling ANYONE who will listen....this is a GLOBAL EMERGENCY Moostache 8 hrs ago #8

cachukis

(3,947 posts)
9. Not a mirror I image I want to accept, but as an
Thu Apr 2, 2026, 04:10 PM
8 hrs ago

American, on the world stage, must.
Calling out my trumper friends of yore, seems to have no impact.
We need analysis as a nation, and the dark side of human nature, the wilfully ignorant side, seems to have taken hold.
Worrisome.

usonian

(25,381 posts)
6. 30's Germany.
Thu Apr 2, 2026, 03:39 PM
8 hrs ago

We gotta stop the madman before he annexes Austria Cuba.

We'll all pay for that fucker's sins.

He'll destroy the whole world just to cover up and distract from the Trump-Epstein illicit sex, blackmail and money-laundering empire.

So, a new A.G. needs to have hearings?
Asking for a friend.

OC375

(942 posts)
7. It's been fashionable for some time to insist Japan was provoked
Thu Apr 2, 2026, 03:43 PM
8 hrs ago

I'm not sure drawing comparisons with Japan and the run up to the Pacific Theater does much but murk things up, and open doors to distraction. But, I do wholeheartedly agree, there will be a reckoning for all this insanity. I'm thinking this time around, no one gets to sit out the crap storm.

Moostache

(11,190 posts)
8. I am telling ANYONE who will listen....this is a GLOBAL EMERGENCY
Thu Apr 2, 2026, 03:46 PM
8 hrs ago

Trump has a nuclear bomb fetish and ALWAYS has... he asked his cabinet why they could not just use nukes in his first term. He is nearly dead now, ineligible for any more terms in office (regardless of what he would like) and is more likely to die in prison than as a free man... his final "fuck you" to the world will be to aggressively launch a nuclear attack just so he can go down in history as the first to do the most insane thing imaginable.

This is NOT a hyperbolic take on the current situation, its a logical extension of the last 10 years to its horrific conclusion.

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