The president of the United States would like you to know that he has given thought to committing the worst genocide in human history, but decided to go in a different direction. https://t.co/nwSsZRZTIq
— Paul Waldman (@paulwaldman1) July 22, 2019
Trump later boasted at length about how big a hole in the ground and how loud a noise his "Mother of All Bombs" made in Afghanistan in 2017, then claimed, "They were going to make many of them, and I said no. We don't have – I don't want to drop that. I don't want to do that."
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 22, 2019
“I do not want to kill 10 million people. Surely that’s worth a Nobel Peace Prize”.
— JKRamon ?? (@jkramon1313) July 22, 2019
Video: https://t.co/dLnP62XOee
— Stephen Schwartz (@AtomicAnalyst) July 22, 2019
Is he aware we’re not at war with Afghanistan per se
— Tom Hitchner (@thitchner) July 22, 2019
what if the president has sat through like 200 meetings with the joint chiefs thinking that the problem is that we havent been able to crush the army of afghanistan
— the norms misser (@cd_hooks) July 22, 2019
We so rarely talk about how Trump's hard-on for war crimes jeopardizes US troops overseas. Green-on-Blue attacks have been the biggest threat for years and he's out here shouting to every Afghan soldier, cop and allied militia that he has plans to nuke their families.
— Zeddy (@Zeddary) July 22, 2019
Plato
But Hillary is a warmonger !!!
Baud
I can only shudder at the thought of what Hillary the Hawk would have done.
Lapassionara
And just think, his poll numbers are improving.
Patricia Kayden
@Plato: Yep. Susan Sarandon told us that over and over again. And too many silly people believed her.
I wish the military leaders would condemn Trump’s reckless warmongering. It’s dangerous and puts our soldiers at risk for attacks.
Mj_Oregon
And this is one of the reasons why I’m still awake at 2 AM. Some nights all my nightmares are happening when I’m awake. I still feel that I tripped over a crack in the sidewalk back in 2015 and somehow slipped into a horrific parallel universe.
Brachiator
He’s like a sullen, dull-witted 9 year old playing with toy soldiers.
Worse, his equally destructive cousin comes over to play and make a mess all over the place.
In this case, the spoiled, destructive cousin is Boris Johnson, who likely will become the new UK prime minister in a few hours.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: She’d nuke Iran and Iraq as well.
plato
@Brachiator: Yup, who cudda thought that two of the oldest democracies would end up with two most moronic thugs as their ‘leaders’ in double quick time.
?BillinGlendaleCA
I went to churches on Friday and Saturday, this one is pretty impressive.
plato
LOL. Modi and modi bhakts used to worship the totus thug. Until the thug threw him under his lying bus.
rikyrah
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
That was beautiful ?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@rikyrah: Thanks.
ETA: It’s St. Andrew’s in Pasadena.
Chyron HR
@Brachiator:
B-but Bernie and his Squad teach us that an imbecilic white nationalist can only become leader of a western democracy because of Shillary’s failyuh.
gene108
@plato:
Don’t get your take. From the article, this Trump throwing gasoline on another fire, trying get more attention. How many times has Trump lied about people asking him to do this or that? Fucking asshole.
Neither India nor Pakistan has ever asked for a third party intermediary to settle things between them.
And India would choose Trump after almost 72 years? What complete and total bullshit.
Fester Addams
It’s one of those times you can hear in his babbling the echo of a conversation he had with someone with a functioning brain. “Yes, Mr. president, you could use the atomic bombs but…” I imagine they convinced him it would be bad for his ratings.
SRW1
@plato:
Never misunderestimate the power of The Murdoch!
Searcher
@Brachiator: What’s up with the race between the US and UK to see who can descend farther, faster into self-destructive nationalism?
plato
Aaand bumbling boris it is. 2 to 1. Bummer.
Even his ‘clapping’ looks so artificial and so awful.
Steve in the ATL
@?BillinGlendaleCA: if I hadn’t pied you for your libelous comment about lawyers in another thread, I would have been impressed with this photo
SFAW
@Steve in the ATL:
What did Bill type that was libelous? That he knows at least one ethical lawyer?
And, by the way: where are you today?
Steve in the ATL
@SFAW: it’s too painful to repeat.
I’m in between business trips, so we are chilling at Lake Oconee, about two hours east of Atlanta. Conference calls are less painful when I’m sitting on the deck watching the boats go by!
Zinsky
What a hideous man – inside and out. To so dismissively say he could have inflicted a nuclear radiation bath on most of SE Asia to achieve “victory” in Afghanistan by vaporizing millions of human beings is chilling. In addition, his personal coloration is even more garish than usual, some odd mixture of orange and sienna on his cheeks and wispy platinum blonde hair with a horrific pink scalp that looks like a chihuahua’s ass. This monster belongs in the trash heap of history!
Tinare
@Mj_Oregon: I have often felt like maybe I actually died and don’t realize it and my hell looks a little bit like real life, just worse.
Sab
@SFAW: Bill implied that our lawyers lack a sense of humor. Some of our lawyers were not amused.
SFAW
@Steve in the ATL:
Sounds nice. Lakeside is good.
SFAW
@Sab:
Stunned, I am, to read that
Richard Guhl
@Tinare: Well, just make sure your zombie self does its civic duty on November 3rd, 2020. Also, resist the urge to eat the brains of Trump’s supporters. They’re full of toxins.
laura
@plato: Vlad coulda thought that.
mrmoshpotato
@Plato: @Baud: @Patricia Kayden: I’d be fine with Dump dropping small bombs on Sarandon’s and Maureen Dowd’s houses.
“I’m luxurious and classy at being a dove!”
Jinchi
I always thought it a bit absurd that they built a “Mother of All Bombs” decades after Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Toni A
@?BillinGlendaleCA: St Andrews in Pasadena. It’s a treasure and over 125 years old
Uncle Cosmo
@Fester Addams:
Is how the thug with a non-functioning brain thought he heard it.
Jay
@Jinchi:
MOAB stands for Massive Ordinance Air Blast.
It replaces the Vietnam Era “Daisy Cutter”.
Jay
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-afghanistan-trump/afghanistan-seeks-clarification-on-trump-talk-of-wiping-it-out-idUSKCN1UI0Q9
Heywood J.
@Zinsky:
That’s why it’s important to keep shaking the spray can vigorously, until you can hear the marble rattling in it.
Man, he really wants that Nobel, doesn’t he? What about all the countries I DIDN’T nuke, huh? HUH? Because I totally could have, you guys! What a maroon.