Over the weekend, Trump was ranting on Twitter about "Patriot Farmers" because his trade war isn't going so well, and the farmers who've lost markets in China and other places are starting to complain, of course, because their business is in free fall, and China is hitting back at the Trump administration with another round of retaliatory tariffs.
And then of course...not just the snipped Tweet above, but also it's source...caught my eye.
I'm not sure if it's just base ignorance or what, But Trump is really starting to talk like he thinks he's some kind of Communist dictator.
And people laughed at me in 2015 when Trump started talking about a wall and I said "Republicans are basically Communists now."
Well...all I have to say is, welcome to the Idiot Revolution.
The Revolution will not be Televised...unless you have Cable...it will be Facebooked and #Hashtagged and Instagrammed and Tweeted. It will sell cheap Made-in-China dumb shit to idiotic Florida Men and its soldiers will be Russian Bots on the battlefields of social media, and the occasional real-life Keyboard Warrior with his Hot Pockets and Waifu pillows (And if you don't know what those are...don't ask.) Their weapons will be misogyny and racism and shitposting on social media. It's goal is nothing less than something something gazpacho angry white dudes all hail God Emperor Donald Trump!
Okay, I'll be back, I need to go soak my brain in bleach now. That actually hurt to type. If none of this makes any sense to you, don't worry. It doesn't make any sense to them, either. They just don't care. This is what happens when a political party, or movement, or whatever, is basically about nothing more than angry stupid white dudes wanting to feel good about themselves right now.
Here we have Seb Gorka getting all soggy and hard to light over a cartoon rat's gay wedding. I guess there was a gay wedding on the PBS Cartoon "Arthur" recently and I don't know why that matters to anybody...but if you think people who get bent out of shape about something so simple that it can be avoided just by changing the channel are going to be able to successfully fight a war or run a government, you have another thing coming.
It's a cartoon, for fuck's sake...and not a very well known one, either. If my ex-wife hadn't had a kid, or we'd had Cable in our house I'd have never know that cartoon even existed. But to these small men, it's a "War on our culture."
Oh, don't worry, these same fucking idiots want to have a real war or two, while they're at it.
This isn't going to end well.
By which I mean, we have an excellent chance of just straight up getting our asses kicked, especially with what amounts to even less troops than went into Iraq in 2003.
Once the Iraqi Army was off the field, that op went to complete shit and bogged down in an insurgency in no time at all. This one won't get to that point before it goes to hell.
The Iranians have a modern military that, as a friend of mine pointed out, trains to BE invaded. They have the support of their people, and of China and Russia (including the Russian mafia) and we *Won't* have the support of our allies or the rest of the world on this one. You can count on that.
Not to mention, Republicans and Trump keep dividing and causing chaos here?
As far as I'm concerned, even considering this is likely a recipe for some sort of disaster.
My take? It's probably going to go about as far as all the saber-rattling against Venezuela did a few weeks back, which is "not very" and then "Conservatives" will simply go back to threatening their neighbors. Anything else, it seems, is too hard.
Iran is a vast and ancient country, of mind-boggling complexity and vastness...and its civilization was a peer to that of the Ancient Greeks and the Romans, whose works form the basis of the "Western Civilization" that people like Seb Gorka talk like they value so damned much, except that the Greeks won, and so Iran, or Persia as it was then called, is a part of western civilization too, and became even more so when the country was later mostly converted to Islam and cast aside its Pagan and Zoroastrian belief systems. It's not just a bigger version of Iraq. In point of fact, Iraq spent a lot of time being a part of what is now Iran...and Baghdad was in fact once the Iranian capital.
Iran is, despite its current form of government, far from the Republican ideal of some kind of religious theocracy. Abortion is legal there, and the use of birth control strongly encouraged. A large percentage of its population is young,,,and young people need jobs that the economy or the government or whatever sometimes struggle to provide. Yet Iran is somehow more advanced than Alabama, just sayin.'
You think these idiots are going to master a situation that complex? I don't.
Probably more than half of these people's voters would have trouble finding Iran on a map.
From what I've seen since I saw these articles and stuff, I guess Trump is none too happy with John Bolton and his push for war against Iran. Trump equates that idea with the Bush administration, which is somehow bad and icky and it probably reminds Trump that there was a time where being a Republican didn't involve acting like a beast.
Come to think of it, I seem to remember there was a time when being a Republican didn't involve dictator blowjobs at the White House, but like somebody said, Viktor Orban (who visited the White House a few days ago) is basically what Trump wants to be.
And of course, Viktor Orban is a scumbag who's looting his own country, even as a large percentage of its more educated citizens and more well-off-but-short-of-Oligarch-or-regime-crony-status people have left the country...presumably for other places where the leadership is less fascism-curious.
Just sayin' if we don't vote that motherfucker out next year, this is the future conservatives want.
Not that I think they'll get it, this crop of idiots is too damned careless and incompetent, I think. And after all, it's not like Republicans have ever made decisions for political expediency or immediate gain that would later backfire in horrible ways...
Oh, what is this, you say" Ronald Reagan sitting with Afghan Mujahideen leaders in the White House, under a painting of George Washington? Some of these guys would later go on to be part of the Taliban, and would fight against Americans.
And this time, it's worse. At least Reagan had a basic level of competence, for most of his time, anyway. At least Reagan could pick...and could get...competent people to work for him. The guy we have now? He can't do that. He wants to suck up to murderous killers and we don't even get the fall of the Soviet Union out of the deal. We get...trade wars, for which the American consumer must pay.
Welcome to the Idiot Revolution.
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