orlyowl

Needs to be a full page spread in every major newspaper.

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I hope every fucking thing he’s stamped his name on gets reversed within days of when he’s out of office.

He’s grown more agitated with news coverage and has failed to find a way to explain why he started the war — or how he will end it — that resonates with a public concerned by American deaths in the conflict, surging oil prices and dropping financial markets. Even some of his supporters are questioning his plan and his overall poll numbers are declining.

I feel like these articles are just feel-good puff pieces for those of us who don’t support trump. Best as I can tell he continues to do whatever he wants and it really doesn’t matter how it sits with laws or judges or congress. Poll numbers certainly don’t matter to him. He stands no chance of being impeached (or convicted if somehow he was.)

You get headlines like this article because it’s what we want to hear, but in the end he just does what he wants.

It’s not the only tool he has, it’s just the only one he wants to use.

I’m kind of amazed they admitted this. Under any other president I’d have been slightly surprised they admitted it, but with Trump lackeys in charge of seemingly everything at the federal level I’m outright stunned that they admitted it.

Good points, especially this one:

To me, the fact that it happened nowhere near Iran is the bigger deal. It means that parts of the world that aren’t aligned with either side in the war now have to wonder what might explode in their own territory.

I skipped right over that but it’s part of it for sure.

I just learned that five minutes ago, and it really does make it even worse.

It feels different in a few ways to me. One, it feels much more personal and “fuck you in particular.” It’s one thing to lob missiles at a base and fuck whoever happens to be there, but you KNOW there’s a real possibility that you kill every mother effer on that ship if you hit it with a torpedo.

I’m not articulating it very well, but it’s just got a different sort of cruelty that something like shelling an airbase just lacks for me.

This sinking seems like a really big deal to me, but I don’t feel like it’s been treated that way. Everyone seems to react like it’s just another example of Trump being shitty, and it is, but also, we sank another country’s warship with a torpedo. That seems pretty momentous no matter what country it was.

So bleak and so accurate at the same time.

Confessing my own ignorance - why is Iran attacking Dubai in retribution for US/Israel attacks on Iran?