The Girl of Lemongrab

It’s literally just the fucking Stalin bit omfg

It really does sound like they are panicking and want to declare victory and go home. But, uh, does Iran agree?

I will never doubt any historical account of the reign of a mad king or emperor ever again.

If you don’t understand how this administration floats trial balloons by now I don’t know what to tell you.

I don't have these saved or anything it's just trump's whole career is saying someone else is going to do a bad thing that he himself is doing

that said, nobody involved here has infinite capacity

trump and netanyahu having entirely different goals and end states here is going to be a considerable impediment

Netanyahu is not going to let Trump TACO is way out of this.

there's a lot of competition for this distinction, but political and economic theory writ large have the inside line on becoming the biggest rug pull of the 21st Century

Great idiot theory, many people are saying it

it's still early, but this seems to be the major lesson of the 21st Century

The same principle applies to media trustworthiness. "All media is a bunch of liars and propagandists, you can't trust anyone" is a parallel belief, and you can see how active measures for disinformation try to advance this very belief

Never seen a thread so perfectly embody a "Jesse what the fuck are you talking about" meme, right down to the name

Trump is bombing which is bad but he's bombing so much that later the US will have fewer alternatives to bombing and will need to bomb more to achieve its objectives and that's good

A world where the US continues its trajectory under Biden-Harris was a world where we were absolutely on track to reach our climate/emissions goals by 2050, yes

People in Sudan, Myanmar and many other places don’t feel like he’s less competent, brown and Black people don‘t seem to feel that way, and my queer ass, despite being in a slightly more stable position overall (no thanks to him) don’t feel that way.

“Trump is less competent at doing evil“ lol, tell me you haven’t been effected by anything that he has done on a personal level without saying it.

Fuck you.

Millions are going to die because of dismantling USAID.

I'm sorry for the deaths, BUT

They blocked out the sun over Tehran. You know, the big glowy yellow thingy from which warmth and light comes. The thing that lets us see and grow food and whatnot. That sun.

At least we could blame the Electoral College the first time

Technically we elected him, then elected someone else, he staged a coup, the coup failed, he faced no consequences, then we elected him again after he vowed revenge on us.

boy in retrospect, really shouldn’t have elected the worst person in the entire country president. that, it appears, was less than wise

It's all very millenarian, including everybody whipping themselves up into an ecstatic state trying to immanentize the eschaton, and then collapsing into cynicism and despair when the Messiah fails to return on the appointed date once again.

A problem following US politics on Bluesky is that once a week, Trump decides to inflict a massive wound on himself for no reason and Bsky insists that this is it, he’s finished this time, and then people get disappointed and act like he’s fine because he’s merely bleeding out with one limb left

Wow there were hiccups in logistics and suddenly every factory on earth was idling, quelle surprise

You could see a similar thing happen in Feb 2020 if you asked about supply chain impacts on JIT manufacturers, to which every finance person would stare at you like a deer in the headlights