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Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, repeatedly warned Trump that Iran would likely disrupt the Strait of Hormuz in response to a U.S. attack, according to a new report in the Wall Street Journal.
Trump, 79, told his administration that he thought Iran would capitulate to the U.S. before it closed the Strait, adding that even if the Strait was threatened, the U.S. military could handle it.
I’m hoping that the military leadership is starting to realize that they WILL have to forcefully remove Trump, if anything to protect the safety and security of the country. Also the PRIMARY purpose of the US Armed forces is:
- To support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign or domestic.
Not one fucking word about protecting pedos or presidents.
Remember, within the first month of this term, he fired all the 5-star generals and other military leadership who would have had the wherewithal to pull this off.
You say “fired all the five star generals”, I say “created new leadership opportunities for disgruntled veterans”.
America is going to end up with two armies, one full of soldiers and one full of sycophants and idiots. Boy, this doesn’t sound familiar or anything, does it?
It would not be a difficult math problem nor a stretch to calculate and conclude that he is a domestic enemy.
Only an American would ever possibly hope for a military coup… I know you guys don’t have a lot of history, but if that happened, it would be much, much worse than Trump.
They’ve already been purged, dude.
This asshole seems incapable of humiliation.
He should be ashamed to even show up in public given what he’s done and what a dumbass he is, but I see him in front of cameras nearly daily, mugging and gesturing and holding forth, often for very long periods of time.
How does anyone still listen to him? Every decision he’s ever made has not come from a place of intelligence, reason or foresight, but just what he feels at that moment.
A combination of: the people in positions of power stand to benefit personally for decisions that are bad for everyone else, and a failure of the people to hold him to account (which is itself caused by a mix of apathy, ignorance, and hatred).
It’s only surprising if you have taken the competence and stability demonstrated over the last 70 years for granted.
There are a whole lot of dumbasses out there would rather have a complete idiot in power rather than someone that makes them feel stupid, or, in other words, is clearly smarter, more educated, and more capable than they are.
It’s an infuriating trait and I don’t understand it at all.
I could do a better job than this idiot, and I am self-aware and smart enough to realize I have no business being anywhere near that kind of job. I happen to want people far smarter, more experienced, more education, and more wisdom than myself in there. I don’t feel smaller by having someone better than me in there.
This is about the only job I can think of where there are certain types of idiots that cast about for non-experts for that role. You don’t people agitating to have “outsiders” in their sportsball team. You don’t see them calling for things like “term limits” on sports, either. Same for a whole host of occupations. People don’t put out ads for positions at companies seeking someone with zero experience, but who makes them feel good about their own capabilities in comparison.
But, for a role that We, The People hire for, we have this incredibly bizarre and stupid selection criteria - dumb things that include “wanting to have a beer with them”, or “running the country like a business”. Things like intelligence, capability, education, wisdom, and experience don’t seem to really matter for this hiring process.
The funny thing is that that actually makes you very good for the job, or at least it’s major part of it. A leader of anything from a company to a small work team needs to be the kind of person who can assemble teams of experts and give them the resources they need to succeed.
Which part? The part about wanting to surround yourself with people smarter than yourself?
Ye.
100%: that’s the kind of leader that tends to get nearly unswerving (real) loyalty and admiration from their team, too.
I’ve seen plenty of weak leadership in both private sector and in the government in my personal work life, and when you see someone that is secure enough to be humble enough to seek out and value those that are better than them at things is something to truly treasure. If they don’t have someone sabotaging them from above, that team is often a sight to behold in how much they can accomplish.
Weak leadership usually seeks out yes-men, will hire their friends, fraternity brothers, and former co-workers even when it makes no sense - will even engage in nepotism - in order to get people that will rubber stamp their activities
I could do a better job than this idiot, and I am self-aware and smart enough to realize I have no business being anywhere near that kind of job. I happen to want people far smarter, more experienced, more education, and more wisdom than myself in there. I don’t feel smaller by having someone better than me in there.
You got my vote!
Ha ha! No way I’d ever win even a low-level office; I’m not much for the small talk, I am a terrible speaker, and not great at pressing of the flesh and so on.
Also, I really have no business doing such work - I’m not very great at time management, my people management skills are subpar, and my in-person/on the spot memory is trash. I have no background in law or politics, either.
This minorfucker and his DUI hire didn’t calculate shit. Probably just type into Grok for a intelligence assessment and went with it.
They got railroaded by Bibi. It was blatantly obvious.
Do you mean caught in a honey trap?
it’s so plain that epstein was running a kompromat factory and trump’s everywhere in it. hope it gets reflected in the histories.
hope there’s enough of a civilization to record history…
I feel like even Grok would have made better decisions than these morons.
Dipshit dips shit.
How can it be miscalculated when it wasn’t even calculated at all to begin with?
He’s playing 4D Monopoly…
He has his hand in the Treasury.
4D Chutes and Ladders
jfc what fucking president says “bombing the hell out of the shoreline”. This isn’t call of duty with your buddies dumbass
Why does Trump want the strait OPEN?
He’s the one that CLOSED it.
Ooh yea, that OLD trick he uses when he makes a problem and then fixes the problem he made.
Trump, 79, told his administration that he thought Iran would capitulate to the U.S. before it closed the Strait
Yeah that’s what it seemed like, he thought he’d just bomb a little and everything would go his way. Got hopped up success in Venezuela and thought it would be the same.
Still using the bad archive site.
Why is that one bad and which one should be used
It’s the same service as archive[.]today, more on the subject here (last paragraph of history section at the time of this comment). Short version: it’s unreliable and uses visitor traffic to attack other sites.
I try not to make specific recommendations in order to avoid shill-like behavior but there are some other options listed on this page.
