Heroes in Hollywood movies talk about ideals like freedom. Trump doesn't give a shit about that, he doesn't know what an ideal is. He only does bombastic threats and gloating.
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Heroes in Hollywood movies talk about ideals like freedom. Trump doesn't give a shit about that, he doesn't know what an ideal is. He only does bombastic threats and gloating.
Trump talks like a comicbook supervillain, for example when he threatened to unleash "fire and fury" on North Korea. He's like Dr Doom but without the intelligence.
Or when Trump brought back John Bolton to be his National Security Advisor in 2018/19.
Book titled "The Forty Years War: The Rise and Fall of the Neocons, from Nixon to Obama"
They'll have to change this book's title to "The Sixty Years War: The Rise and Fall and Rise of the Neocons".
I don't think they want to pick up the pieces. Trump's admin wants to create media content; Israel wants Iran to be a mess and they don't care what kind.
A Reductress post features a photo of Kristi Noem with the headline, “Kristi Noem Put Down for Being Too Hard to Train”
Screaming
Would the US need to have boots on the ground to keep the Straits open?
Many have pointed out that Trump's administration is primarily focused on the generation of media content. His repeated use of the word "performance" to describe the war in Iran is strong evidence for this. For his entire adult life, Trump's main aim has been the pursuit of attention from the media.
At the moment, but there are those who want to make us more like the United States. I'm thinking particularly of Reform's allegations of electoral fraud in the Gorton and Denton by-election. That can't be conducive to a high trust society.
You’re right that the racism isn’t new. Trump’s corruption, lawlessness, egomania, and incompetence are unprecedented however.
Success Kid meme
Hulk Hogan just did an atomic leg drop on the Iron Sheik and the audience aren't cheering.
Immuration avoided. No feline version of The Cask of Amontillado.
I'd add that Trump claimed to be anti-war. He said in Nov 2024 "I'm not going to start a war. I'm going to stop wars." The GOP described Trump/Vance as the "pro-peace ticket". They did not run as "pieces of shit". Quotations taken from this article:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Q: Is the man who, in 1989, paid for full-page ads calling for five black teenagers to be executed for a crime they didn’t commit, racist?
A: It’s complicated.
The Indian frigate, Khukri, was sunk by a Pakistan submarine in 1971. The South Korean ship, Cheonan, may have been sunk by a North Korean mini-sub in 2010.
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What do you think are the forces behind this radicalization? Things are very similar on the right wing of UK politics.
America's rhetoric used to be "we are powerful but moral". Now it's "we are powerful and evil". Who is the latter supposed to impress? Who's going to feel good about it? Not many people.
Trump's admin *is* divorced, from the majority of the US. It's speaking only to America's assholes.
Trump is another example. Very obviously an atheist and a huge piece of shit.
If Silicon Valley psychos have taught us anything it’s that you can embrace Reddit atheist thought and be much more of a piece of shit than a Lutheran grandma
Until Trump, I had no idea there was a segment of American society that heard all the US's Cold War and War on Terror propaganda about spreading freedom and democracy and thought "No, we should be completely immoral, acting only in our self-interest."
Over the last ten years of US politics, the single most useful heuristic has been, “Orange man bad.”
“Parents denied their children access to medicine that protects them from measles. Instead they got measles.”
Unfortunately claims of fraud have recently entered UK politics, likely inspired by the GOP. Reform alleged Muslim voters in the Gorton and Denton by-election voted as families and called for postal votes to be restricted.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
with a superhero called Beast so both aspects have been retained to some extent.
In the world of the TV show, there's an imaginary 1980s film called Wonder Man about a kind of sci-fi superhero. I think this might be partly based on Buck Rogers in the 25th Century but I'm not sure. /2
I enjoyed Wonder Man. It's a buddy show set in Los Angeles about an aspiring actor and a has-been (played by Ben Kingsley). In the comics Wonder Man is a pretty boring third rate superhero. The TV version is much better. The comics version is known for his acting career and close friendship /1
In Fleming’s books, Bond has a Scottish father and a Swiss mother.
Simpsons guy sad because he's imagining peace and rainbows.
I’m sure that conservatives who have called for “intellectual diversity” will strongly object to this.
Yeah but Obama gently mocked Trump at the 2011 White House Correspondents' Dinner so he was really left with no choice other than to start a war.