'What an idiot!' Trump gets no mercy after confused blunder wrongly puts 2 nations at war
'What an idiot!' Trump gets no mercy after confused blunder wrongly puts 2 nations at war
In a speech carried by C-SPAN, Trump claimed to have stopped a war between Armenia and Cambodia, two small countries on different sides of Asia that have never been at war with each other.
"appeared to confuse"? His brain is mush; there's no "appearing" about it. Tell it like it is.
The corporate media have been sanewashing him since day one. Don't expect them to stop, no matter how much worse he gets. They'll still be doing it when he literally just mumbles incomprehensibly.
I heard he also ended the war between Turks and Caicos.
I heard it was Turkey and Costco.
No those are rotisserie chickens
Careful, Thanksgiving is coming.
I thought it was Turks and CousCous
He also settled the war between "Aberbijian" and "Albania".
Aberbijian has never invaded Albania, so he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.
(Americans and geography...)
Many people don't know this, but I also settled the horrific conflict between Zootopia and Californistan that left trillions dead, just in case there are peace prize nominations being thrown around.
The Red Hot Furry Pepper Wars were truly a tragedy.
And he prevented the Bowling Green Massacre.
"Bababiba and Albania" would be more correct.
Honestly I have IRL morons claiming Trump ended these wars in Azerbijan and Armenia and also in Kongo or some other African country.
Me telling them this was just Trump doing nothing and being there for the photo in the white house was not accepted.
Also apparently whataboutism by me when I ask about these wars in Ukraine and Gaza that were supposed to be ended.
Good that some people somewhere put down their rusty AKs and pitchforks for some amount of time don't get me wrong. But next level cope to say he ends wars.
He's tried to end the war in Ukraine by pressuring Zelenskyy to surrender. And in Gaza, he's pushed to end the war by telling the Israelis to hurry up and "finish the job."
In his first term, he also ended the Afghan war by surrendering to the Taliban and selling out every Afghan who supported the previous government, handing them over for almost certain torture and execution.
The daily show skit on this was fucking hilarious.
I think most people in the world probably couldn't point to Azerbaijan on a map, so that's not really fair.
But, obviously anyone who was actually involved in resolving the conflict in that region should be thoroughly knowledgeable about the geography, culture, and history of all parties involved
Sadly, I admit I could not locate Aberbijian on a map either.
Like when he stopped the war between Abrzenban and Albania?
Edit: oh, like the article says.
25th Amendment. It's time, no, it's overdue.
Only downside of this is JD Vance.
Downside is his middle name. That's the D in JD.
First name: Just. He's Just Downside.
The theory I hear is to nuke Trump after 2 years, then JD can rule for 10 years.
I don't buy it though. I think by the time mid terms comes around Trump will have started a war of some sort, rolled troops to large cities, and shut down voting forever.
His ego and idiocy are definitely big enough to do this on purpose and also not in purpose - but it will happen.
I honestly don’t know which I’d prefer. On the one hand, Trump’s obviously compromised mental condition makes him much easier to control as puppets go, but it also significantly hampers his effectiveness. On the other hand, JD Vance is likely more dangerous with the reigns of power than Trump on account of being not completely stupid, but he lacks the “charisma” (air quotes and a heavy eye roll on that one) and allegiance of the MAGA crowd that Trump has.
Though, after saying all that, it’s not like things are going to get better as they are, and it’s not like the MAGA crowd is ever going to acknowledge Trump’s declining mental state, no matter how loudly they screamed about Biden’s, so I figure it’s probably worth it to roll the dice to see if we can splinter the right. Unfortunately, that risk of splinter is probably precisely why the 25th won’t be invoked by Vance and the cabinet - the MAGA crowd would see it as a betrayal, I should think.
Lemmy shill for Big Sofa.
They'll never do it. It basically requires a mini coup to overthrow their cult leader.
Wasn’t it aberbaijan and Albania?
No, Afghanistan and Andorra
It was Austria and Alderaan
Alabam and Albinostan.
Just an average day
This week it's "Armenia and Cambodia" while just last week:
Trump touts his peace deal between ‘Aberbaijan and Albania’ – getting both countries’ names wrong
I'm sure I missed some. He's like the King Midas of making peace.
King Mierdas maybe
Everything he touches turns to 💩
Yeah, but bIdEnSoOlD!
Jake Tapper where you at??!
Death has wishlisted this mf. He is just waiting for the good steam sale for the time to strike. Figured he is good at doing his job so death can take a vacation to the beach. The ladies are nice this time of year.
Maybe he confused Armenia and Azerbaijan with Cambodia and Thailand?
This is less weird than when he came up with "bowling green massacre"
He likely couldn't point to any of these countries on a map.
Correct, but he probably vaguely remembers an advisor telling him about the war between Azerbaijan and Armenia during his first term, and the Cambodia-thailand situation going on now, and since those are just vague names rather than real places in his soupy brain, mixed up the two.
Ah yes, the great Armenian-Cambodian war. Nearly sparked WW3 when they brought in Bolivia and Liberia into the mix, who as we all know, have beef with one another.
/s for those who think these are baltic states or something.
No Greenland, Panama or the Gulf of Mexico in it. 2/5 there was so much potential.
You forgot Poland!
It could be worse if it was "'What an idiot!' Trump gets impeachment hearings after a confused blunder wrongly puts Europe, Africa, and Asia at war, triggering WW3."
Extreme Long distance war...
Oh, grandpa.
I remember when Gary Johnson got absolutely crucified for not knowing what Aleppo was; a name I hadn't heard before or since that interview.
Johnson not knowing what Aleppo was isn’t really a great example of people being unfairly crucified, because Aleppo had just spent a fair amount of time in the news cycle as part of the Syrian civil war and the invasion from Turkey. You had to really not to be paying attention to the news to miss it, which is fine for random people, but perhaps not ideal for a presidential candidate
It wasn't forefront of my mind but I knew a conflict was happening in Syria at the time and primarily the media reported it as a "Syrian conflict".
I was just thinking that as I was reading this article. Remember the shit Quayle got for adding an E to the end of potato?
I think the average person could maybe be forgiven not knowing Aleppo
But for anyone who was paying attention to world/middle east news at the time, which I think is reasonable to expect of someone running for president, the Syrian Civil War, and specifically the battle of Aleppo was in full swing at the time, it was a fairly big news story .
And so a lot of people were paying attention to Syria at the time this was around the same time that ISIS was pretty big in the news, the last "S" standing, of course, for Syria. If you were on Reddit at the time you might remember a whole lot of people seemed to think it was really important to call them "Daesh" instead of "ISIS." So while maybe not quite a household name, but probably something that would have rang some bells for a lot of people to at least be able to say "oh yeah, that's a city in Syria where something is happening right now"
Now with that said, I am actually willing to give him a little leeway on that, I'm pretty sure I remember that question being a little out of left-field, like immediately before the "and what would you do about Aleppo?" question they were talking about something completely different and there wasn't really anything to segue from that to the topic of Syria, and I can understand that, we all have brain-farts now and then, and it can take a second for your brain to switch gears, I think we've all experienced that once or twice.
I'd much rather have a leader willing to admit when they don''t know something than one who pretends to know everything better than everyone in the room.
Who's Gary Johnson?
He was the libertarian presidential candidate a few elections back
A man who thinks the government should issue drivers licenses
He said it so fucking smug is what turned me on him.