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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • I feel like I’m living in a Groundhog Day scenario.

    The year is 2018. Donald Trump is somehow president of the United States. He believes paying Iran to not enrich uranium is a waste of money and cancels an Obama-era nuclear deal with them. Iran immediately begins a uranium enrichment program.

    The year is 2025. Donald Trump is somehow president of the United States (again). He believes Iran is enriching uranium, and he drops a bomb on the suspected site. Trump claims Iran nuclear capabilities are “obliterated”.

    The year is 2026. Donald Trump is somehow president of the United States (still). He believes Iran is enriching uranium (still). He publicly announces plans to strike the suspected site.

    So I’m guessing that dropping a bomb on Iran annually will be something you’ll eventually be able to set your watch to. At least while Trump is around.






  • The very first thought that popped into my head when I heard about this was that Trump is so stupid he doesn’t even realize that we haven’t actively used battleships in our naval doctrine since the end of World War 2. Aircraft carriers will always be more versatile, have longer range, and cast a larger sphere of influence than a battleship of any size ever will.

    So this is little more than a glorified pet project to stroke Trump’s fragile ego, set to the tune of multiple billions of dollars in R&D and private contracts to his wealthy friends, for a project that will unlikely be done before he leaves office or leaves this mortal coil, whichever comes first.

    I expect that if we end this madness and get a Democrat in office, if they have any good sense at all, they’ll cancel the project. However, the damage will be done between now and the next three years. Taxpayer money will be shoveled into this pit and evaporate into the ether.





  • China will be the dominant world superpower for a while and their standard of living will drastically increase. Middle East will be unlikely to stabilize any time soon. Africa might be put into play as serious economic competitors to fill the gap in skilled labor and services that the United States will leave behind in its wake. South America might finally have a chance to heal from the destructive regime meddling of the USA.






  • True, I did not think of that. Trump’s new favorite tactic seems to be doing (or saying that he will do) the thing that everybody wants, but then complaining that his hands are tied by the courts or the law, even though neither of those things prevent him from breaking the law when it suits him. “Oops, sorry, we so badly wanted to release the full unredacted Epstein files but the law says we can’t gosh golly darnit, what a bummer, you saw that I supported it, but it’s these activist judges that are preventing the truth from getting out!”

    Bondi is 100% running cover for him if they do get released.


  • My own theory on the flip-flop back to his original stance:

    1. The DOJ/FBI have finished sanitizing the entire document to clear Trump and Republican loyalists, so releasing it now will only help them.

    2. The worst of the damning information (about Trump knowing about the girls and not stopping it) has already been made public so there’s no point in hiding it anymore. Republicans have already spun the narrative as “not that bad” and Trump survived, so why not win some brownie points and release the official document in it’s entirety?

    I can’t see any other reason for why he suddenly wants them to go public again. Trump only ever does things that serve his own self interests, so him blocking it for so long was beneficial to him in some way, and now continuing to block it doesn’t benefit him.