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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.
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...
It's unclear if Nigeria asked the US for help but they seem to be accepting it.
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.
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.
Sorry for being picky, just wanted to point out this bit of redundancy:
in pursuit of profit and/or the owners' agenda
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.
U.S. military's Africa Command confirmed it had conducted a strike that killed multiple militants at the request of Nigerian authorities.
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.
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's to say?
Who knows man
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.
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.
I never would have thought that the recipient of the great FIFA Peace Prize would do something like that 😮
"I really deserve a peace prize" > bombs people for Christmas
So more distractions from the Epstein files?
He's absolutely scrambling to have us talking about something else.
Still angling for that Nobel Peace Prize...
I hate this man so very much.
Don't just hate him alone. Remember: he is a puppet and he is being used. Doesn't excuse him, but see the bigger picture and don't forget about the motherfuckers that surround him.
the pEaCe pReSiDeNt
Oh, so this is what the rhetoric of " they're persecuting Christians in Nigeria" was leading up to.
wild that the only reason he knows or cares about the violence in Nigeria is because he saw something about it on Fox News.
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?
Please die donald
Noooo. He's more dangerous dead! Just wish for consequences of his actions.
8 year olds dude ...
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)
"Christian" is not an ethnicity.
"Trump the Dove"
Fantastic. suppose I should stop expecting that prince to email me my million dollars now.
Judges for the noble peace prize I would like to nominate…