"War, huh, good God, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing!" - Trump Thread #157

[Spandauer]

It ain't nothing but a heart-breaker
(War) Friend only to The Undertaker
(Edwin Starr 1970, written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong)

Unless, of course, your name ends in Trump, when it ain't nothing but an opportunity to grift, deflect and destroy.

Previous thread:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5496818-beware-the-ides-of-march-trump-thread-156

It's spring time and to quote Old Note by Lisa O Neil

"A star ran rings around the star before me"

I think maybe people who are shocked by Tom Lehrer's songs don't understand the concept of satire.

He used at one point to claim he stopped writing satire when Kissinger won the Nobel peace prize, because it was now impossible to out-do real life in the satire stakes.

Evening

TACO

Politicians hide themselves away
They only started the war
Why should they go out to fight?
They leave that all to the poor

Oh, seems like the bigly war is won and oil is on the way down, never mind that there has been precisely no regime change in Iran so you could argue that the whole thing has been entirely pointless, but, a minor detail…

By all means if ur stops the war I’m happy. But didn’t they ‘have nothing left’ 8 months ago?

Although on the basis that I work on the principle that every accusation is a confession with Trump then I assume what he means in this case is probably that the US has now run out of things to shoot down Iranian missiles with.

pmk

He’s rambling utter shite.

It’s like a stream of crackhead consciousness.

What's pmk?

As an 80s teen, I'm afraid my brain first went to Frankie goes to Hollywood for the thread title and I'm stuck with flipping Culture Club as an earworm!

War, war is stupid and people are stupid
And love means nothing in some strange quarters
War, war is stupid and people are stupid
And I heard them banging on hearts and fingers
War

Can't now find the recent interview with John Bolton, but IIRC he predicted Trump would get bored, declare victory, and any part of the situation he didn't like he'd blame on other people.

Ie normal Trump.

And of course, he's going to have another tantrum when he realises he can't get the cat he unleashed back in the box.

In fact I'll make my own prediction, based on Trump's behaviour re Ukraine.

If Iran continues to attack neighbouring states, Trump will blame those states for being attacked, claim they're carrying on the war after he ended it, and say he wouldn't have allowed it to happen if he'd been president of those states.

Place your bets now.

place marking

Trump: "We took a little excursion because we felt we had to do that to get rid of some evil. I think you'll see it's going to be a short-term excursion."

I’m not sure the Iranian regime will see it that way.

He's lit the blue touch paper and set chaos in motion.
Absolutely no forethought before hand to where it would lead even more so for the Iranian populace.
GradeA cretin.

Useless fact. In my previous life as a mortgage broker Edwin Starr was a client. Cool, huh?

Most definitely❤️
I met him a couple of times at Northern soul niters.
Absolute Gent.

That’ll be someone else’s fault though. Probably Biden’s or maybe Obama’s.

The new ayatollah, who apparently is madder than the old ayatollah and has had half his family killed by the US and Israel? I’m sure he’ll be cool with it.

On a serious note, Trump might get bored. I don’t see Bibi getting bored anytime soon and I’d imagine he can refocus Trump.

So how does that work with the current CNN Chyron (and words coming out of his mouth): "Trump speaks as US launches new strikes on Iran"

"The soil was no match for our interceptor missiles". HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Yes arsehole, missiles win over DIRT every time!!

Bawbag. Bellend.

This. Everything has been made worse. Along with the hundreds killed, lives upended.

He has created a new generation of US haters. Absolute demented ignorant twat

Trump says US Navy sank Iran's warship off the coast of Sri Lanka because "it's more fun" to sink ships than capture them.