Folks, CALM DOWN, this is still in the workshopping phase ok? First we bomb them, then we workshop WHY we bombed them, do you not understand the plan!?

Democrats, predictably, were apoplectic. “There was no imminent threat to the United States of America by the Iranians,” said Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee, who had received classified briefings from Rubio. “There was a threat to Israel. If we equate a threat to Israel as the equivalent of an imminent threat to the United States, then we are in uncharted territory.”


Meanwhile somewhere below decks on the Titanic 11:45 PM (ship’s time) on April 14, 1912

Well, if we were to equate the threat of icebergs to an imminent threat to our ship, then we would be in uncharted territory! - a well dressed crew member with an officer’s hat calmly explains to a passenger.


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    The Trump War Evading Epstein (TWEE) with no way of telling if we’re “winning” or “losing.” I’m pretty sure we’re losing if we’re blowing up elementary schools.

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    Unsanctioned military operation. Not war. Illegal command from a compromised POTUS doing the work of his master.

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      In my opinion what defines a war at the heart of it is that a war is a series of events that do no entangle themselves in abstracted arguments about definitions but rather form together, organically or artificially, into a violent reality abstracted from meaning.

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    If you state reasons for doing something that gives everyone a thing to look at to see if you are succeeding or failing.

    Trump is, above all else, a master in marketing. He has complete confidence that, through marketing skills, he will be able to take credit for anything good that comes, and all failures can be either ignored or blamed on someone else.

    But stating reasons up front makes it harder to do this.

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      also gives them a totally arbitrary goal so they can keep going or withdraw whenever. we don’t know if this will be 6 days, 6 weeks, or 6 months because there are no clear objectives to accomplish

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    Well they could just tell the truth and admit it was to distract from the Epstein files.

    “Operation Epstein Distraction”

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    They gave a reason, it’s just stupid.

    Rubio said it was a preemptive strike to preempt their strike after the Israeli preemptive strike.

    Kinda WW1 logic.

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    The causus belli is probably somewhere in the Epstein files, let’s all check them thoroughly!

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      The thing is if these bombings are supposed to be distracting everyone from the tRUMP-Epstein files then why is it called Operation Epstein War?

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    This is easy one: Trump went to war to get the fact he’s child rapist off the front page.

    This evil man is just fine with Americans dying to divert attention from his crimes.

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      they wouldn’t see consequences for the epstein stuff at all anyway

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      Bibi has the kompromat.

      If Bibi has a problem, Trump has a problem.

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    I haven’t seen any news about this, but my family keeps saying that Iran attacked a US outpost first.

    Edit, thanks for the sanity check.

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    They bombed Iran to get people to forget that Trump and his circle are mass-scale slavers, child rapists, and traitorous foreign agents.