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Slutitution
Jun 26, 2018

by Nyc_Tattoo

Helsing posted:

Trump's entire persona was to more or less "lean in" to any criticism. He did the exact same thing when Jeb! tried to attack him over his criticism of George W. Bush and his handling of 9/11. When Bush said "my brother kept us safe" Trump had no problem saying "no he didn't, the attack happened on his watch". That's not something you're supposed to be able to say in front of a Republican primary audience in North Carolina, but he said it and won the debate and went on to win the primary and then the presidency.

Just imagine the look on the Bush family's faces in the audience the moment Trump said that along with calling out Dubya's Iraqi WMD lies. They were literally the only two substantive things ever said in the entirety of the 2016 GOP primary "debates". The fact it took a stuttering narcissist to say it makes it even more embarrassing.

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Slutitution
Jun 26, 2018

by Nyc_Tattoo
Crossposting from the C-SPAM thread:

Slutitution posted:

LOL

https://twitter.com/cenkuygur/status/1126351043619577856

https://twitter.com/cenkuygur/status/1126357598028963840

Progressives in 2019: Trump realizing destroying Venezuela will be the end of his Presidency with his base somehow translates to DIRECT EVIDENCE of Tom Clancy Manchurian candidate bullshit. Does this fat gently caress even remember that Trump won the primaries in part because he was talking mad poo poo about the Bush family and neocon wars in general? Does he not remember the reaction his base had when he bombed Syria? It still amazes me how Trump can make supposedly smart people completely lose their minds like this. ffs Jimmy Dore left TYT just in time. TYT foreign policy positions have been loving awful for years now anyway.

It's truly remarkable to watch people dissolve into a fact-free reality with religious zeal like this. It's permissible to become Alex Jones as long as you have the "correct" narrative and politics. I'm curious as to what kind of investment Cenk is looking for here.

Slutitution fucked around with this message at 17:43 on May 9, 2019

Slutitution
Jun 26, 2018

by Nyc_Tattoo

Sodomy Hussein posted:

It's way simpler than what's being suggested re:Putin anyway. Fox News is coming out against it, so that's end of story for Venezuela intervention.

But please don't act like campaign Trump's foreign policy maps perfectly with president Trump. His stance on "interventionist" policy is totally incoherent; peace with NK at all costs (with nothing to show for it), but Iran is a terrorist organization that we can't work with. We have to do active measures against Maduro and we're back to square one with Cuba, but other dictators are great.

(What's actually happening is that Trump's limited attention span is being taken advantage of by the hawks in his cabinet).

Oh, I'm not. Trump doesn't give a poo poo one way or another about intervention, but a sizable portion of his base sure does. Him realizing this in campaign season is not :siren: DIRECT EVIDENCE :siren: of taking orders (lmao) from a foreign power.

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