Trump Announces the U.S. Has Bombed Nigeria
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I know things were pretty fucked - I haven't been a lifelong cynic for no reason - but still, it's amazing how quickly snd completely the US has descended into screeching insanity.
And all at the hands of this demented lunatic, his psychopathic enablers and his legions of angry and stupid followers.
What a world....
And all of it because billionaires want to fuck children and not pay taxes.
— billionaires
Not even the end of Y1
That's the most astonishing part of it to me.
Reality has gone completely off the rails. Virtually every day, I read another account of blithering insanity, and painfully obviously dangerous and destructive insanity, from this administration, and then I watch as all of the official entities that are meant to check that sort of insanity just treat it as another day and another press release from another President's office.
It's like The Emperor's New Clothes, only far far worse.
And all in less than a year...
The media is highly complicit in how they sanewash the most insane shit we've ever seen
People still doubling down on their actions in 24, not acknowledging that those very actions led to the orange idiot being elected. Again.
As long as there is no acknowledgement, we can expect a repeat of the very same in 28, possibly with the literal devil on the other side, while the voters smugly criticize the minutae of the more sensible candidate and sit it out.
Sometimes you put yourself aside in the interest of the country.
Oh look - it's the DNC Defense Force, here to get an early start on guilt-tripping leftists who won't vote for whichever shitty center right neolib hack the DNC will likely end up trying to foist on the voters at the behest of their corporate donors.
Fuck that. It's not the voters' responsibility to vote for a piece of shit just because they stink a little bit less than the other piece of shit - it's the DNC's responsibility to run candidates people actually want to vote for. And when they can't (or more accurately won't) even do that, then they and nobody else are responsible for the consequences.
And this is how we got to Trump, the other side acts like psychos but at least they have kind of a coherent football team mentality going on, even if they're fucking ignorant racist sons of bitches. They don't focus on the minutia of how they disagree with each other at every turn and spew vitriol and divide themselves like this. Nobody fucking hates the other factions on the left like a lefty. We are all so fractured and individual it's a fucking joke. Like herding fucking cats, buddy. We should be able to use the anger from this moment to unite, but none of us can even decide what the fuck we should be uniting around. Meanwhile violent sociopathic pedophiles can corral enough morons to crash their way into the capitol whenever they want. We all have lofty ideals about the best possible form of government and the people to staff that government, but in order to have an operational government you have to have a team of people who are united. We can't even agree on the morality of violence, much less point of finger in the direction we should go from here. Fucking frustrating homies.
Oh and....
The fact that this whole norion of a lack of lefty unity is complete bullshit was neatly demonstrated by leftist voters coming together to overwhelmingly support Zohran Mamdani.
And who didn't support him? The fucking establishment neolib hacks - the exact same people who keep fucking us over by putting up shitty candidates then trying to guilt trip leftists into voting for them. We finally got a candidate we wanted and they couldn't even be arsed to endorse him.
Enjoy the next 3 then. It's not even what I'm implying. In fact, I'm positive you will - the fact that the two comments above sound the same tell me all I need to know.
At least flip your scripts once in a while.
Supporting genocide is not fucking "minutia."
Should the DNC have run a better candidate? Yes!
Was Harris a dream president? No!
Would she have been better than Trump? Undoubtedly!
Should people have voted for her? Yes, if you oppose Trump’s fascism. But no, if you don’t really care about your fellow citizens who may be at risk for deportation/prosecution/dehumanization.
Harris and the DNC would’ve been a bit more amenable to the popular opinion than trump and the GQP have ever been. So after her election, people could have protested in Washington dc against Israel’s genocide and have found a listening ear in Congress.
You shouldn’t base your presidential vote purely on one single issue. Especially not if it’s a foreign affairs issue, which is what the Israeli genocide in Palestine is. You need to look at the much broader picture. Look at the other policies and ideas that both candidates have.
We knew about trumps desire to hurt his political enemies, we knew about his hatred for trans people, we knew about his desire to deport immigrant, before he got elected. So you could have based your vote on that.
oh look, another votescold so thoroughly convinced that everything would have been fine if only everyone followed their campaign strategy, that they're literally blaming anti-fascists for fascism. How about blaming actual fascists instead?
Ok, I'll take the non raping, non narcissist, non child abusing, non twice impeached, non trying to save his fat lardy ass, non looking to use the office to take revenge on anyone and anything he disagrees with one, thanks.
touch grass
It's unclear if Nigeria asked the US for help but they seem to be accepting it.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/us-launches-strikes-against-islamic-state-militants-northwest-nigeria-trump-says-2025-12-25/
At this point though, that's just noise.
Unfortunately, the mass media is complicit in the insanity - they've abandoned principles, integrity, honesty and accuracy in pursuit of profit and/or the owners' agenda, whichever might be deemed more important in a given organization.
That's not to say that that story is necessarily false. It's simply that if it's a spin that serves someone's agenda, as this obviously is, then it will be published somewhere, entirely regardless of whether it's true or not, so the fact that it has been published means nothing at all.
Mainstream media is just billionaire media.
And the government is just billionaire government.
The only war is class war.
Sorry for being picky, just wanted to point out this bit of redundancy:
That agenda ultimately is and always will be profit for any company even a hundredth of that size, let alone a straight up monopoly.
Other than that, no notes 10/10
The scariest part is how surprised and unprepared the rest of the world was. "Sanity will prevail!" Really? Why?
Quickly it was not. This has been in the works since Nixon. Now it just when it's coming to a head. And it'll only get worse from here.
No, that's what
was seemingly referring to
It's accelerated a lot recently, but this has been in the works for a long time, and many people were ringing alarm bells.
I'm old. My first awareness of the world of politics was the Watergate hearings, so I actually lived through most of the run-up to this.
It's certainly the case that the US has been moving more or less steadily toward plutocratic oligarchy since at least Nixon, and progress has definitely accelerated (though it really started accelerating with the Wall Street bailouts in the wake of the 2008 real estate bubble collapse and hasn't really let up since), but that's not really what I'm talking about.
I'm talking about the literal insanity of Trump and his sycophants. They aren't merely corrupt tools of the plutocrats like so many past politicians - they're deranged lunatics. That's not hyperbole - it's simple fact, plainly obvious to anyone who takes a step back and honestly looks at what they do and say.
It's not that the US has accelerated toward autocracy in less than a year (though it has), because yes - that's the direction it's been headed for decades. The astonishing thing to me is that the US has effectively gone insane in less than a year.
If the US was a person, it'd be on a psych hold. And that's something I wasn't prepared for, even as cynical as I've always been.
I'm sorry, you think this sort of behavioral escalation is distinctively Trumpian? Go look up the military actions of Obama, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Reagan, etc. This is the the US - nonstop mass murder, constantly, unending, brutal, insane. Trump is just rubber stamping what the military puts in front him. He isn't planning these things out.
bOtH SiDeS eXaCtLy ThE sAmE. Bullshit like this is all I hear from people who want to suck Trump's dick these days
Obama literally got the Nobel peace price while bombing civilians with drones in the middle east, do you really think that what's happening in Nigeria is significantly worse?
There is a difference yes, equating the two allows the people who are less justified and also currently doing things to get away with more than I think you're realizing. I'm also pointing out that that is basically the main strategy for people who support Trump right now, pretend the bad things Democrats have done are basically exactly the same level of bad as this straight up fucking evil bullshit fascism we are seeing. I'm simply saying that equating everything and calling it all the same amount of bad is not productive and allows the worst to become more normalized than they would otherwise. I'm not justifying anything bad that any Democratic president did, just saying that we need to have gray areas here and recognize some level of tiers of evil, not just pretend that somehow Obama and Trump are the same person.
Ok, point out the material difference between war crimes conducted by obama and trump. "Decorum" or "justifications" don't count as material differences.
trump is worse on many other topics, from outright fascism in the US to openly supporting fascists abroad to cutting USAID and such, but in terms of military action this administration is mostly just following the long-established bipartisan war crime traditions.
For support for fascism, look no further than Truman (D) presiding over Operation Paperclip which collaborated with the Vatican to save many Nazis and relocate them all over the US and South America, give them new identies, jobs, money, and protection.
I'm not saying D are all paragons, in fact fuck much of what they have done, and fuck them for being beholden to the rich, fuck them for a bunch of other stuff besides, but there was more genuine intent for good than this absolute filth fascism horseshit. Lefties are supposed to be the side of the spectrum that can actually parse differing levels of evil, but it seems more like many of us want to make perfect the enemy of good
My point is the opposite of normalizing Trump. What needs normalizing is the (correct) view that the USA has always been a genocidal war-crime state, and that a mere change of leadership back to Kamala "most lethal army in the world" Harris-type democrats will not suffice. I equate them because, in international policy, they're indistinguishable, geopolitics are bipartisan in the USA and they've always been. Trump surely is worse for USA inhabitants than democrats, no doubt, but I'm a Spaniard, not an US citizen.
You're failing in your goal
They're not wrong tho, how do we stop the libs from going back to brunch while Gavin Newsom continues 98% of Trump's policies, and then hand power back to the republicans in 2030?
That's your opinion, good to know
The nobel peace prize really has never been an indicator of someone not causing wide spread death and destruction both indirectly or directly.
The name is kinda misleading. The whole peace aspect is an ideal not a reality sadly.
Not defending it in any way, but he got the award before the drone campaigns I believe. I think he got it like as soon as he took office?
Also, it's not just Nigeria. If this were a vacuum, sure. But these kinds of arguments just come off as disingenuous these days.
Odd that you think believing that the US is a violent, terrible, evil, exploitative globe-spanning empire exporting death, destruction and poverty is equivalent to liking Trump.
You can't convince me the person that wrote this comment is not a Russian fucking troll. You're going to lecture me and use the r word in the same comment? You really got your head up your ass buddy. I'm not deflecting shit, just not throwing every leader we've ever had into a trash bin out of hand. Equating Democratic leadership and conservative leadership right now is exactly the playbook of trump supporters that's what I'm trying to say.
100% bot assault, it’s so painfully clear
ZERO US citizens would equate Obama and OrangeShitsHisPants, because only a Russian bot (or someone cosplaying a Russia bot) would see them as the same
Nobody sees them as the same, sure. Some people see Obama as worse. 30% of the country think Trump is doing great.
I will, fuck US imperialism and fuck the soapbox they gave you to stand on and the propaganda they emboldened you with.
I don't owe the murder capital of the world anything for being born there.
Now who's fake news?
Emotional overreactions aren't discussions, and devolving into name calling is the same thing a fascist would do on Facebook,
Good job!
Da comrade, extra bread for you dis veek
I hear you, and I empathize, genuinely. But this attitude isn't exactly fuckin productive now is it? Expressing things this way is exactly what those fuckers want to think about lefties. Why would anyone try and parley or have a constructive discussion with a person who says shit like this?
Real free thinker vibes
None of them made their policy decisions based on short entertainment segments on Fox.
I never would have thought that the recipient of the great FIFA Peace Prize would do something like that 😮
It’s in the game!
Hey, they gave him that prize because they knew he was the kind of dictator who would only use regular bombs on (most likely) random civilians. He'd never be so heartless as to use a nuke.
FIFA is just a club for racist colonial grifters... Trump should be president of FIFA.
From the article:
"In November, CNN reported that the president’s initial threat against Nigeria came after he watched a Fox News segment about violence in the country."
So the solution is to introduce more violence?
For the US, generally, the answer is "yes."
tRump is trying to play to his base. He doesn't care that Christians are committing the same atrocities as ISIS.
He also needs to try to distract everyone from the Epstein files.
Only if the bad people are killing the good people that we like. At this point I’ll be not surprised when we find out Nigeria has oil or rare minerals.
Nigerias got oil, it’s not a secret
You know those Nigerian prince scams?
They started because the Nigerian government is in collusion with the oil companies at the expense of the Nigerian people, who have had their fishery and farming practices destroyed by oil pollution.
The people found the only way to survive was join organized crime and scam rich foreigners.
Have you tried bombing the violence?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-says-us-hit-isis-232435995.html
It's a little unclear if Nigeria asked for it but they seem to be going along with it.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/us-launches-strikes-against-islamic-state-militants-northwest-nigeria-trump-says-2025-12-25/
Nigeria's government has said armed groups target both Muslims and Christians, and U.S. claims that Christians face persecution do not represent the complex security situation and ignore efforts to safeguard religious freedom. But it has agreed to work with the U.S. to bolster its forces against militant groups.
So, that's the thing, right? We're so used to everything this administration does being Absolutely horrible. Rightly so.
But they took out Islamic State(TM)? That would be a win for humanity. . .but is it true? Sheesh, that's the hard part. Who's to say? It's always more complicated than a single headline or news article can contain.
We're almost entirely in a post-truth society at this point.
Sometimes the why can be just as important as the action.
Did this happen because Donald Trump wanted to do a good thing that would benefit someone that isn't him? Probably not.
Did this happen because headlines are flying around that Donald Trump is a child rapist/baby murderer and any distraction is a good distraction? I'd say the timing is pretty fucking on point for a new conflict or a newly publicized conflict.
I feel like this is something that could have possibly been the right the to do, but I am more than certain that it wasn't intended to be.
Who knows man
I thought you were supposed to be the one with a definitive answer to the "who's to say" question!
I'm allowed to make murky/neutral statements at best, rules are rules after all
World police again!? Didn't our diddler and chief explicitly say he was against this. What a moron.
The real morons are the people who voted for him thinking he's the anti-war candidate.
The real morons are the people who vote
Just cause the cops retired doesn't mean he can't hit black kids…
Another Epstein diversion.
The really sad thing about this is I think you're right
Draw and quarter
12-15 apparently, he likes them ivanka young.
"I really deserve a peace prize" > bombs people for Christmas
I hate this man so very much.
THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR IS PEACE
THE RADICAL LEFT IS SLAVERY
FOX NEWS IS STRENTH
HAIL BIG BROTHER
Ok Hitler guy
The book reference is “1984”
Killed 'em with kindness like I have never seen!
That's an excellent user name as well, for what it's worth.
Other presidents had families they spent Christmas with, Donnie. This motherfucker spent it in some bunker ordering murder across the world
Would you spend time with Eric and Junior?
Well, if you have to choose..
And ranting dementedly on social media
Still angling for that Nobel Peace Prize...
The victims are the right color so he's got a chance.
Attacked Venezuela. Largest oil reserves in the world.
Bombed Nigeria. Largest oil reserves in Africa.
Expressed an interest in invading Greenland. Guess what?
Yeah, but the US used to be a bit more subtle.
Do you prefer the subtle party or the unsubtle party?
Hahahahaha
The USs brand loyalty was shinier. That's literally it.
No it didn't?
You had better P.R., but we all knew the shit you were doing.
cant just distract from the epstein files, gotta profit from the distraction to.
cause hes a greedy pig.
I wonder, if in some future timeline where conservatives have managed to drill the absolute fuck out of the planet and use it all up, will their attitude towards EVs and windmills and nuclear change then?
bold of you to assume there'd still be a habitable planet left by then
Doctor Strange told me there were at least a few timelines where it happened that way.
In that scenario we would end up with FF7.
When we start fighting wars over fresh water, Trumps plans for Canada and Greenland are going to be seen as genius...
Dude, desalinisation is right there.
I'm just so grateful that all the previous presidents refused to do this and setup safeguards to ensure that Trump will be punished. \s \s \s
Previous presidents are only part of the equation.
The other part is having a society that isn't stupid enough to elect a felon rapist pedophile insurrectionist.
The situation we find ourselves in is as much American's fault as it is our politicians. Actually moreso, since those politicians are only there because of American's decisions.
It's truly more complicated than that. The USA electoral system is weird worldwide, but more than weird, it's antiquated and by design, by tradition, very prone to be manipulated, and this goes from the caucus system to the elections themselves.
It's set up for the people to feel they are actually choosing leaders, but the reality is the political representation is only achieved for an increasingly narrow economical and ideological subset of the people. The American political class is very conservative, and it always breaks my heart that many Democrats feel offended when people from other countries, like me, point this out.
European countries have a variety of electoral systems, and to my knowledge right wing parties are gaining significant vote share in all of them. Is there a country whose electoral system you see as best helping them deal with populist reactionary figures?
I am currently a proponent of ranked choice voting - Australia is the country I know of with the most widespread use example. They aren't magically utopian, but it seems to be helping there. Always on the lookout to learn new things, though, so interested in pointers.
European countries have a mindset of colonialist countries that will try to reach for their roots. Unfortunately, that's part of their political struggle. I actually like the way it is in my country, Mexico. You have one 6-year term only, you can't have any re-elections, ever. It's possible to ask for a referendum in the middle of the term, in case the person in chair is not doing as they promised. In the legislative power, we don't have dinosaurs thanks to this, politicians can go from lower to higher level cameras in this bicameral legislative power, but that's it. "No reelection" is ingrained with blood in our culture. Of course, electoral systems can only do so much against populist reactionaries, as you put it.
I like the idea of ranked choice voting a lot, but I don't know how viable that is for the USA. They need change, urgently, and ranked choice voting would be as good as it gets in terms of change.
An people have done nothing to change it. That's the point.
The people have done what they can. Politicians have failed to them. That's why Trump was headed to last 4 years in power only, and then the Democrats handed him, on a silver plate, another presidential term by being essentially equal to their rivals. As I see it, the political class is the one failing, by showing the people there is not a real path for a leftist government once and again. Americans need brutal leftist politicians as they have brutal right-wing ones in spades. The people is eager to support a younger Sanders-like face, someone that won't compromise the benefit of the majority's views.
I'll believe it when you're a Republic again. Until then you're all accomplises.
I live in a republic, don't know what you mean.
Morbid Elon fixed the election as he basically said he did.
Ehh... Wouldn't put it past him having told some engineer to rig it and boast about rigging the election, all while the engineer did fuck all, because they were just a janitor fixing the thermostat in the office of some rich douchebag high on ketamine.
The ruling/owner class has waged a decades-long war to undo the forward momentum of the New Deal.
There's plenty of blame to go around, but most of it belongs to generational wealth and the "haves" not the average person brainwashed by poorly funded and heavily propagandized public education.
The alternative was an outright jingoist who ran to the right of Trump on foreign policy, insisting that she would massively ramp up military spending and build "the most lethal military in the world." Given the history of Democrats with how much Biden and Obama loved drone strikes, it is rather disconnected from reality to think that Democrats wouldn't be bombing as well.
Foreign policy is something that Democrats and Republicans have always agreed upon, have always been warmongering parties and CNN and Fox News always come to agree on every war the US ever gets involved in. There literally wasn't an option to avoid US imperialist wars.
Well, there are third parties, but if you talk about voting for third parties then everyone will claim a third party is secretly a vote for Trump and then try to paint you as equivalent to Trump supporter.
So more distractions from the Epstein files?
He's absolutely scrambling to have us talking about something else.
Implying killing people is less bad than being a pedo? Is he distracting from being a piece of shit by being a piece of shit?
In his point of view, yeah. Bombing countries will win him favor with his supporters, but implications in the Epstein files does the opposite.
He's so guilty and has so much blood on his hands already that outrage over spurious bombings is completely ineffectual. Sure, I'm angry he's killing people again, but that doesn't get me anywhere.
Oh fuck off, they're out there, and you're still parroting this? "The epstein files" (the idea of them, not the actual files) are distracting you from your president bombing people on Christmas mate
Yes they’re out and there’s some terrible shit about him in there but he doesn’t want anyone asking him questions about it. You should know since it sounds like you’ve had enough time to read over 30,000 pages.
Do I think being best buddies with a known peodphile and sex trafficker is the worst thing he’s done, probably not but he absolutely doesn’t want to talk about it because he has no good answers.
It’s all part of his flood the zone tactics to control the narrative of anything. So, he’ll continue to violently kill and imprison people, and put his name on stupid shit, and kill the planet with coal, and tear down the norms of this country. Anything to provide distractions that his base can focus on and to avoid any questions or prosecution.
Of course he has "answers": liberal witch hunt, they don't want America being great, blah blah blah. If facts were relevant, he would've already faced the consequences for shitting on the constitution every other day since he took office. It's mind boggling to me that Americans are still expecting justice to come from within a system that is part of the problem.
What do you expect to happen? That if memes reach critical spiciness he will implode? Asking questions will stop him?
And these "distractions", they are just more heinous actions. It's not some empty news cycle drama. Killing people across the world just adds onto the pile of reasons he needs to be removed
Probably nothing and he dies a sadly comfortable life.
I participate in protests and boycotts, I donate as much as I can to organizations I believe in. I talk to my friends about trying to organize more and I constantly talk to them about a general strike and a need to shut the system down as it is. My career actively helps against waste and climate change. You’ll probably say that’s the bare minimum and maybe it is but I have a family to take care of so I can’t be out there like Greta Thunberg. It’s not that I don’t think violence can change things but I’m a nonviolent person.
I understand that my comments on a niche social media website will do nothing to change anything.
My apologies if that’s not enough for you random stranger.
Thanks Ruzzia!
Uhh ok sure. I'd love to hear your reasoning behind this, but actually don't bother. I don't want to lose braincells
You sound exactly like all the Russian trolls.
If you’re not one, you got tricked. If you are one, you got tricked.
Just fyi Nigeria has the 11th largest oil reserves in the worl.
There I was, 10,000 years ago, when Nigerian's oil was stolen from the US by Nigerians. That oil is rightfully ours.
11th place somehow doesn't sound alot considering there aren't many oil countries
It kind of does, but then you look at the list and kind of realize a pattern of this Trump administrations actions.
This has not even been a year and we are 5/11 with one of the countries being the US.
Trumps says he killed 'ISIS scum' who terrorized Christians in Nigeria
Oh. I thought the choice of country was strange. Now I understand.
We only need consult the list of countries by proven oil reserves to identify the next attack.
Here ya go..
Pretty sure this has been ongoing for decades.
the pEaCe pReSiDeNt
Cruel idiot can't even take a break on Christmas.
It was ISIS and Nigeria asked him to do it.
If you read the articles on this it sounds more like the US told Nigeria it was going to bomb people and to just deal with it. Even Nigerias response to the bombing does not strongly indicate they requested the US to act.
Edit: Fixed spelling.
Yep, most likely. Nigerians probably just can't afford to say that they didn't have a part.
If we taxpayers are paying to airstrike people at the very least I want to see a list of names, what crimes they are accused of, and a report on the results of the strike including collateral damage.
Trump is a terrorist
Every day I see a new headline and think, it's almost like this guy is trying to instigate WWIII by any means necessary because he wants to kill us all.
You know how these fascists are obsessed with patriarchy and authoritarianism? Sometimes narcissists commit familicide before they off themselves.
I have Trump pegged as the anomic type. Possibly disappointed.
He wants a war, so he can have a draft, and take control of the most dangerous demographic group - military age men, who also share the characteristic that they are easy to manipulate through propaganda, which is easier to control in a military setting.
If you can gain control of their brains as they turn 18, you can preserve those who take to the propaganda, and send those with decent Critical Thinking Skills to the front line.
But what's the end game? He and Putin (along with several other of the world's richest and most dangerous psychopaths) are reaching an age where their end of days due to natural causes is rapidly approaching.
However, if they were to die tomorrow, they risk leaving their "legacy" and the history that will be written about them, to a planet that would have been better off if they never existed. What is the only way they can ensure that doesn't happen?
I think the End is the endgame for a lot of these rich asshats. They fly in private jets and eat with gold forks while alive, who cares about anyone or anything else after that’s done.
Exactly. The Endgame is them living bigger than a King until the day they die, and they're doing their best to live to at least 150. They don't care what happens after that. Do you think Trump gives a single rat's ass what happens to his kids after he's gone?
Either we build guillotines or zoom in on Taylor swift in the suite box.
I love sports but I’m pretty handy with carpentry and tired of this obscene class divide
Yup. The NPD family annihilator Anthony Todt pulled the same stunt but he was too chicken to fuck himself so he ended up at trial for the murder of his wife, and his three kids.
But the kicker was his testimony during. It's the most narcissistic display I've ever seen. He tried to pin it all on his wife and her, get this, "lyme disease". I know, wtf, as if that causes you to go on a murder spree on your family.
He was literally caught red handed with their putrified corpses still in the house.
If dude wanted ww3, he would attack a fellow empire (russia, china, etc).
Instead he's just another coward murdering the poorest people on earth.
Like any president.
He did.
Now unredact Trump from the Epstein files.
He's already mentioned to have raped and killed his own bastard child by throwing it in a lake, nobody will do shit about it.
He could be a proven... Well there's nothing worse than that so idk what hypothetical to go on...
The only way magats will leave him is by having that bubba BJ photo got released. They can tolerate him being a child rapist and murderer but they can't tolerate him being gay.
They could tolerate him being gay, they couldn't tolerate him bottoming.
What about power bottoming
Putin could release the pedo tape tomorrow and he'd probably gain points in support.
Please die donald
Here's the thing. There's absolutely no way his cronies, nor the American population itself (which they should feel ashamed about), will ever EVER put any consequences on this orange child rapist. Ever.
I think he could literally rape a child on the Whitehouse lawn and nothing would be done about it. Nothing. Shameful.
On the other hand death is inevitable. So in these two imperfect scenarios I'm wishing for death.
My perfect list goes like this:
1 Arrested. Convicted. Jailed for his crimes. (The same fate to his cronies, and family, will soon follow)
2 Painful untreatable disease that debilitates him completely so all he can do is sit in shit and watch as his cronies and family are arrested then jailed. The tRUMP name becomes synonymous with corruption, and the whole empire is taken to pieces while he watches.
3 Slow very painful death. Cronies and family get fucked over as above etc etc.
4 Slow very painful death.
5 Slow painful death.
6 and onwards are the death option with various amounts of pain
...
998 Quickish death with pain
999 Slow death no pain but the terror of him realising he's dying.
1000 Death.
As you can see death is my last option, but it's the only option that will actually happen.
The only saving grace about all this is that history will treat him and his name accordingly. The recent Epstein debacle proves this. Yes he may be able to hide all this whilst he is alive, may be. But not when he's dead.
I don't think he could rape a child on the Whitehouse lawn. I know you're being over the top for the sake of the example, but the reason that wouldn't work out for him is that:
Lose any of those criteria and he'd get away with it, but all three? I think that's too much. His supporters are low information narcissists who happily drink spin with every meal. But if you force them to confront something that actually affects them, or that they can actually feel, then the spell starts to break. Half the problem with everything he does is that it's missing one of the above, or it takes too long for the negative effects to be felt.
He's too old for that. A country who's president is, say, around his 50s, should fear for potential consequences. Trump? He'll be dead long before a single actual trial is even started at this point. Better stop the murder and destruction sooner than let it go in the prospect of posthumous condemnation.
It should be mentioned that the Nigerian government says they requested the strike
Did they? All I see is this:
https://san.com/cc/us-strikes-isis-in-nigeria-on-christmas-day-california-battles-flooding/
It's not clear to me of that tweet was accurate or not, or if they were just saying they requested it
I saw it here
This is true, at least some officials of the Nigerian government have stated so.
"It's Okay, we had permission to do this war crime."
No new wars, but plenty of "special military operations".
We haven't technically had an official war since WW2. Every "war" was a special military operation. So this is business as normal because no president wants to have to go through Congress to declare war officially. But hey why should we care about checks and balances on power?
And just like that, the name "Epstein" is forgotten by "The News."
The road to peace. Give that man a prize! Oh yeah...Epstein files will bring you down you old beast.
As cynical as it sounds, it's not clear to me if the epstein files will be his downfall.
They won't, his fucking cult believes everything that comes out of the news that his cronies continue to rapidly buy. Even if they did, they're okay with pedophiles as long as they hurt the people they don't like.
Oh, so this is what the rhetoric of " they're persecuting Christians in Nigeria" was leading up to.
So now the Americans are killing innocent farmers in Nigeria?
Innocent fishermen wasn't enough. "Peace time president"
The Trump Crusade has begun. India has recently been having attacks against Christians, so let's see if he starts bombing them, too.
Pretty sure both of these are christian/white supremacists conspiracy theories. Definitely just racist conspiracies about Nigeria.
I understand. It's important to separate the truth from the propaganda. The Indian issue seems to be real, with a steady increase in anti-Christian attacks over the last few decades, and it seems to have been particularly bad during this current holiday season.
Alarm as Hindu vigilante groups target Christmas celebrations in India
The Nigerian issue is more nuanced, and mostly about Boko Harum attacks, who is attacking EVERYBODY, including Muslims. In fact, many sources believe that they've killed far more Muslims than Christians. But all Trump cares about is the propaganda power of killing Christians, so that's what he's concentrating on. Plus, it's a black country, so that makes it so much more fun when you're killing black people with your bombs.
I personally don't give a flying fuck about any religion, and couldn't care less if they are killing each other.
While this is true, that is not specifically an anti-christian feeling or attacks. It's a general attack to anything that is not Hindu. I remember being there over 10 years ago and being advised not to walk around town on st Valentine as simple actions could be misinterpreted as celebrating the day and lead to being beaten up.
If anything in India the big thing is anti-muslims, and that is indeed a big problem.
Didnt he already bomb them with shit?
How will Keystone Kash and Usha respond?
By claiming the best, smartest, biglyest president can do no wrong and it was an inspired idea.
move aside USHA, ERIKA has the new leather couch pants.
his distraction escalates as epstein news escalates.
I’m not even mad at the rotten orange, this is just mold.
Every single person who swore an oath to the CONSTITUTION, not a person, should present themselves for Captain’s Mast at the very least.
How fucking could you pull the trigger
Well merry Christmas to you too, I guess?
This is normal now. Christmas is about bombing scum, thanks giving is about retards or something.
I want my normal world back
Super Christian of him
wasnt aware ISIS was in nigeria.
Lost of splinters and cells scattered around the Muslim world as I understand it, but the amount of ranges between major insurgent army to dumbfuck backwoods militia.
Merry Christmas, Nigerians!
Thanks
Article talks about kids who were kidnapped from schools by gunmen. If you want to do something good, stop dropping indiscriminate bombs and go rescue those kids.
There's two things people in position of power are good at: talking about child safety, and not giving a single crap about actual kids.
Those kids are born and In no danger of seeing porn on the Internet, they are safe. /s
The last thing that humanity needs is this fucking creep "saving" more kids.
"Christian" is not an ethnicity.
Yeah. Funny how they never defend Christian Palestinians
8 year olds dude ...
Terrorists spreading terrorism
bro, russia is right there
What worries me is that these Boko Haram arses have kidnapped lots of children and young women over the years - I fear some could be killed in these strikes.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nigeria-mass-abduction-boko-haram-girls-kidnapped-reports-isis/
Why? To ruin Christmas
what resources/raw materials are in nigeria or bordering nigeria?
Oil
(Nigeria is a vast country with diverse resources, but oil is among the better infrastructurised)
Nigeria has oil.
https://www.amnesty.org.uk/shell-criminal-enterprise
Cobalt??
Oil.
At least 1,000 kilometres off. Cobalt is mainly from Congo.
You can find cobalt almost anywhere its just really bad for people/the environment/living things in general to mine/refine so it gets sourced from places with regimes that don't value human life. (This goes for most rare earths.)
Focus, please. We were speculating whether there's an ulterior motive to the US-led airstrikes and while Sokoto in Nigeria may or may not have Cobalt resources, at the moment it doesn't have a significant Cobalt mining industry (professional or not), mainly because the mining industry in already established places outperforms most new attempts of mineral exploitation by price. I only say this, because we wouldn't make such claims if it were in North America or Europe (e.g. 'bombing Prague, to gain control over Alsatia' or 'Seattle for San Francisco')
He also dropped a bomb in his diaper.
In before Trump starts ranting about "the Nigers". You know it's only a matter of time...
Cares about Christians in Nigeria while at the same time limiting VISA applications?
No, this is to distract from his 600+ searchable appearances in the Epstein files and the vast scale of the redactions. Get the media covering something else quick. “Flood the channel with shit.“
Fantastic. suppose I should stop expecting that prince to email me my million dollars now.
"Trump the Dove"
Killing Africans (Or anyone, except yourself) will not get you the nobel peace prize
It will though.
Obama
Trump killing himself would be the ultimate catalyst for peace
“The Diplomat” Explains Trump’s Obsession with Greenland
Judges for the noble peace prize I would like to nominate…
https://archive.is/rTdqV
I'm so sick of the US and its bullshit. And I say this as an American myself.
If Nigeria kicks our ass I give up.
History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LaTbI7FCLl0&list=RDLaTbI7FCLl0&start_radio=1&pp=ygUbcGhpbCBvY2hzIGNvcHMgb2YgdGhlIHdvcmxkoAcB
it is one of the favorite he likes to say often on his reality show behind the scenes, except the -IA part.
the country of Niger? (🇳🇪)
except with the G, and hard R.
Apparently they hit an empty field with a dozen tomahawks, no casualties
How long are we going to tolerate Boomers existing and sacrificing the lives of children? Every war that has been initiated since Millennials started being born were started by Boomers: 1) Gulf 1 (Regan and Boomers); 2) War in Afghanistan, Iraq 1 and 2, Syria. Now, Venezuela and Nigeria?
On top of all that, climate change.
The world will be soooo much BETTER OFF once we finally start putting them in boxes
Was Charlie Kirk a boomer? What about the TP USA fans? There are a lot of young people in this group. You are aiming at the wrong target with boomers. Many of them were members and initiated the hippies and peace and love movement during the 60s.
I can tell you, from personal experience, that this doesn't really mean anything about who they are now.
But it may be a hint who you will be in 50 years from now.
Which amounted to nothing but casual sex and drugs. Then they sharply and consistently voted for selfish and exclusive socialeconomic policies.
I'm not sad for the boomers that I've personally interacted with and their cohorts when they are in boxes.
False. According to Google, today's boomers are divided almost equally between Republicans and Democrats (48% D, 46% R).
> Humans have been causing existential climate change.
> False. Google tells me 1/4 of the year is still winter.
You should read an actual history book on Boomers and neoliberalism sometimes if you're honestly curious about the answer 😂. Or don't - I don't care.
Fixed
Hate to say, but people have been saying that for probably almost as long as people could talk.
Reagan was elected 45 years ago, when most of today's boomers were in their 20's and 30's.
Nope. They woulda been late 30s
According to Google, average boomer age = 70 (b 1955), would be 25 in 1980 when Reagan elected.
I mean you're right: Regan, himself was not a Boomer, but he certainly would have worked with them. Regan was born in '11, so he'd have been silent generation. But, my point still holds a bit in that Boomers started to come about in '46. So, by 1980, they'd have been 34. That means, they'd have been old enough to sit in Congress, and would have been eligible to run for offices as early as '73. So, they've been spoiling things for a few days short of 53 years.
Not only are you describing the very oldest possible boomers, but you're describing their voting behavior long before they were boomers. Most young voters back then were quite Liberal.
An old Boomer is still a Boomer.
silent generation.
a small group of SILENT generation is still in congress right now, they seem to hold alot of power sitll.