When asked by a reporter about why the U.S. didn't share their Iran war plans with Japan, President Donald Trump said it was necessary for the element of surprise. The president followed this with a joke, saying, "Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Ok, why didn’t you tell me about Pearl Harbor?"

“Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Ok, why didn’t you tell me about Pearl Harbor?”

“You believe in surprise, much more so than us.”

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      We’re dealing with fascist secret police kidnapping legal citizens, starting a war to distract from a global network of pedophiles, and government agencies in the process of creating legal mandates to spy on every human on the planet if they can.

      We’re well beyond social faux paux.

      • phutatorius@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        5 hours ago

        starting a war to distract from a global network of pedophiles

        Well, that’s one reason, but driving up the oil price to bail out Putin and enrich the other fossil-fuel companies is a bigger one (the same objective that’s behind the attacks on environmental laws and renewable energy).