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silence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago

Trump Will Make South Korea Pay for His Iran Humiliation | His rage is driving him to make irrational policy choices.

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Trump Will Make South Korea Pay for His Iran Humiliation | His rage is driving him to make irrational policy choices.

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silence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago
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    Is this in addition to the irrational policy choices he makes while not enraged?

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    I mean he attacked Iran as a distraction from the Epstein Files coverup, soooooo it’s not like he started off making rational policy choices.

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      Technically, that wasn’t irrational. The Epstein files are not getting nearly the attention that they were. At least for now.

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    NK is big on money laundering and crypto scams. I wonder if some of that ended up in Trump’s pocket.

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      You can count on it

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    Trump is everything chauvinists were afraid would happen if a woman was elected president.

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      Also everything Republicans were afraid would happen if a commulist got elected

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      It’s all projection. They have poor empathy and don’t understand other people, so they just imagine themselves.

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      Underrated comment

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    What explains all the irrational policy decisions made before now?

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      Nothing, it’s just more lip service from the media while the world crumbles.

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        The Atlantic really is shit

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    Has he ever made a rational policy choice?

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      No, he has only ever thrown temper tantrums when he doesn’t get his way. His staff are the ones that try to turn each of those tantrums into actual policy choices.

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    When has he ever made rational ones?

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      Didn’t his net worth increase by something like 2.2 billion dollars as president? (…so_far.gif…)

      Must be really good at predicting the markets, somehow. He’s perhaps not that irrational when you consider his actual priorities (himself and his family), not whatever he is saying (MAGA).

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      Does being blackmailed count?

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    Huh? He’s going to punish South Korea for not joining his Iran war, by warming relations with North Korea, who are supplying Iran in the Iran war?

    So he’s pissing off both Taiwan and South Korea, while also trying to have a trade war with China, and also win the AI compute war. Good going.

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      There’s no point trying to discern any kind of strategy here.

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    His age, incompetence, his pettiness, his hubris and his inability to accept truth ALSO drive him to make stupid choices.

    It was funny when he only hurt himself, but as president, it’s a war crime.

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    Hey South Korea, I would do yourselves a favor and hack the US + leak the Epstein files. Just saying.

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    Driving him? That mother fucker left rational far behind, crashed the car, stole the ambulance and drove it off a fucking cliff

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    His narcissism, stupidity, and racism are making him make irrational policy choices. There is nothing new about this.

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    He was always known for such rational choices before though…

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    That’s not rage, it’s very clearly dementia.

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      Dementia often induces rage.

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        So true. His dementia often induced my rage.

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    Everyday trump and his maga dogs dig the US deeper and deeper into isolation.

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