This is hilarious!

Disgusting. Any reasonable person being attacked like this would fight back, and then they’d shoot them. The U.S. is done. No sane person should come here, and I need to get my shit together and get the hell out.

Here is a scenario that is terrifyingly likely. To control the Strait of Hormuz, the U.S. really needs to take Kharg Island. It doesn’t seem like that big of a deal, because the U.S. has the military power to do so. However, holding the island will require a continuous U.S. presence, including troops and keeping them resupplied. The importance of the island in controlling the Strait and the blockade of Iran makes this a critical strategic loss for Iran that it cannot accept, so you can be 100% certain that Iran will throw everything it can at making the invaders regret their efforts. The island is just off the coast of Iran, making it relatively easy for Iran to attack. Inevitably, their drones or missile strikes will have some success. Perhaps sinking a high value U.S. ship, killing many and embarrassing Trump. Trump, a raging narcissist that has long been itching to use the nukes, will see this embarrassment as an excuse to show the world that the U.S. “will not be pushed around”, and order the use of nukes. Having cleared the sane people from military leadership, replacing them with his handpicked loyalists, they will do it. Ironically, this will be the end of the U.S. as we know it. To the extent the world’s leadership has been willing to tolerate Trump and the belligerent U.S., it will open eyes and turn the world completely against the U.S… I hope this scenario doesn’t come to pass, but the odds of a nuclear attack happening are far greater than at any time prior in my lifetime.

His Iran war is on the escalation track. My guess is either that the U.S. will do something between now and Thursday to escalate the war, most likely some sort of ground offensive to take key locations to attempt to take control over the strait of Hormuz, or that he will make the case that it is necessary to escalate the war as part of his weak-ass saber rattling campaign. My greatest concern is that sooner or later he’ll reach for the nukes, which he’s been itching to do for a long, long time.

Trump says a lot of shit, most of it lies.

The quote I lifted is from Clarence Darrow’s 1932 memoir.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/05/05/darrow-obituary/

“I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.”

The use of the phrase “Chinese Communists” is just fearmongering tailored to the ignorant maga base. It would have been sufficient to just assert that the pope was an agent of the Chinese, but the addition of the word “communists” emphasizes the perception of evil amongst far-right chuds.

You can bet that if Republicans get blown out as they deserve, Trump will declare the election invalid and set up a constitutional showdown to which he’s bringing the military, which has been cleansed to remove any Trump opposition. This fall is going to be very interesting in these interesting times.

GraphenOS may protect from this attack.