Posted on 08/11/2017 11:43:36 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Did Donald Trump really just walk us to the brink of war with North Korea on a whim this week, or has this all been a figment of our lurid imagination? It seems crazy to contemplate that the world now stands on the edge of disaster because the American president simply lacks self-control. And yet that’s exactly the discussion on the table.
Trump’s bizarre statements about “fire and fury like the world has never seen,” coupled with the follow-up press conference in which he declared a “whole new ballgame” and doubled down on his apparently extemporaneous threats against the North Korean regime should chill the bones of every military family and every American with a child of draft age.
Trump talks in many ways exactly as Kim Jong Un does—in disjointed statements full of bellicose hyperbole. He blusters in a clear effort to shore up his flagging ego; to make himself seem strong when in fact he is weak; an isolated, morose figure lumbering from self-named golf course to self-named golf course and imprisoned by the office whose grandeur he cannot measure up to. He screams into the ether to try and push back the void, when the void is deep inside him.
He is a bitter, angry, frightened man, cornered by prosecutors, rejected by a majority of Americans, declaring his leaking aides are merely fighting to prove who loves him the most and yet unsure which of his former lieutenants—or maybe even family members—will sell him out to save themselves. His dream of finally commanding global respect by becoming president of the United States and of besting his obsession, Barack Obama, has collapsed before his first year in office is even complete.
His sycophant lieutenants believe the country should respond by lining up behind the Narcissist in New Jersey, comparing his North Korea bluster to the Cuban missile crisis. In fact, it is the inverse: President Kennedy in that crisis answered Soviet brinksmanship, he didn’t provoke it.
Donald Trump is a weakened president, and a man not prone to controlling his impulses. Given his temperament, personality, and looming legal predicament, there is literally no telling what a cornered Donald Trump will say or do. And in the case of North Korea, his bluster is aimed at a man who has killed his own family members to preserve his absolute power, and who waves the threat of nuclear war around like a hand grenade with the pin pulled out, sometimes just to demand the world supply the nation he is starving, with grain. To threaten war with such a regime is, to put it bluntly, an act of insanity. No wonder Trump’s own administration are pleading with the world to ignore him.
There’s good reason. Make no mistake: War with North Korea would be a cataclysm. The Hermit Kingdom possesses long range missiles that could in theory reach the American mainland and apparently, miniaturized nukes, too. Ten million souls live in the shadow of the Kim regime in Seoul, South Korea, including nearly 29,000 American troops. The media walking us through the potential bombers and bombing routes, as if reigniting the active Korean War is a thing to be contemplated by rational minds is almost as barmy as Trump’s pronouncements. And yet, with Trump in office, what choice is there?
1.Bubba--Lets give them anything they want,you guys want some nuclear power to make some bombs with? Yeah? OK.
2.Bush 43--wow this guy is crazy. Let's hope he goes away. Hey I'm going to the ranch to ride my bike.....
3.Obama,ahhh... another fellow commie..let's pretend we don't like him....
4. Trump,don't mess with me fat boy I'll blow you off the face of the earth!
Kim jong uns response; releases a prisoner and backs off hitting Guam. Guess he knows when a real potus is in office.
We have a lot of “Lord Haw Haws” in this country.
Note to Joy:
Did you sleep through the “homecoming” and death of the American tourist the North Koreans tortured into a coma?
We may have stumbled into something here...
...And Cuba’s still a dictatorship that keeps Women in White in prison and helps keep Venezuela the stinking hungry cesspool it is so it can continue as a main stopover in the flow of Jihadi opiates and communist cocaine trade and harbor the occasional passing Hezbollah operatives.
How’s that Kennedy Cuba legacy going again, Joy?
He may be rational but extremely ruthless. He is definitely not a liberal.
I’ve never been a fan of sedition or even treason. Apparently the Ctrl-Left cannot say the same.
That’s for sure, more like a crazy commie hell bent on getting attention.
If I ever want to read drivel from an imbecile, I’ll let Joy know.
Well, that does explain why she's stuck on stupid and has discarded ALL common sense.
Now that would be lovely and it may be the only way for America to clean it's gutters, so to speak.
Nah, they will be royally pissed.
They hate America and want it to be a third world h-hole.
Quota....
On the affirmative action track.
Teach Joy-Ann Reid the Spandau Ballet, before it’s too late...
People would pay good money to see a video of Reid getting the teeth beaten out of her lying face by a homeless female bum.
I’d suggest that we ELIMINATE all the corrupt media and “save” America from the fake news being spewed out daily.
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