They are certainly old enough that they could remember it, but they don't believe history has anything to teach them, so they never learned it in the first place.
Pure hubris. "I am a force of nature and will bend history to my will" meets "Hi, I also have a machine-gun" and loses, badly.
"The enemy always gets a vote" is a great way to express it.
#hubris #ignorance #arrogance #Hegseth #PeteHegseth #Kegbreath #PeteKegbreath #MachineGun
"Screw negotiations. Screw soft power like USAID and VOA. Screw partnering with allies. What matters most to them is making the biggest booms. ...
If you can’t answer 'What is my ultimate goal?' and estimate the cost of achieving it, then all the big booms are useless if not counterproductive."
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #PerformativeMasculinity #violence #arrogance #hubris
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"Trump and Hegseth seem to be in love with what they think of as their Big Boy Toys. Supreme excellence in their minds seems to be blowing things up better than anyone else can blow things up. We can blow up more things than anyone else. We can blow things into smaller pieces than anyone else can. We can blow up things from a greater distance than anyone else can."
~ Peterr
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #PerformativeMasculinity #violence #arrogance #hubris
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https://emptywheel.net/2026/03/12/great-tactics-mean-nothing-if-you-have-no-strategy/
>> it's due to the #hubris of the #DemocraticParty…
It is #greed, not hubris.
>> #Democrats can't have it both ways. They either have to listen to their voters… or they should just give it up and act like the "elite" …
They have given up, but to the wrong elite — the wealthy. They don't represent ordinary voters, regardless of education level. They are only responsive to those with money.
For latest example, see #GavinNewsom fight #wealthTax on #CA #billionaires.
#GeoPolitics: Imagine that you're a superpower who picks a fight with a theocratic regime half way across the world for no good reason. And you're about to proudly declare victory when the theocracy goes on a rampage, pulls the entire neighborhood into the war, blocks a strategic shipping channel & causes a severe oil supply shock.
And that's when it hits you! You forgot to top up your Strategic Oil Reserves before entering the war! 🤦
Winston Churchill (1874-1965) British statesman and author
My Early Life: A Roving Commission, ch. 18 “With Buller to the Cape” (1930)
More about this quote: wist.info/churchill-winston/11…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #churchill #winstonchurchill #control #declarationofwar #error #events #expectations #fortune #hubris #misfortune #overconfidence #perspective #presumption #surprises #uncontrolled #unexpected #victory #war
Let us learn our lessons. Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he…
⬆️ @eliasulrich
High #hubris uses #AI to hit children's school — Far more catastrophic than the 2008 #financial meltdown caused by indiscriminate use of #mathematical modeling of #creditDefaultSwaps.
>> "As planning for a potential strike in #Iran was underway, #Maven, powered by #Claude, suggested hundreds of targets, issued precise location coordinates, and prioritized those targets according to importance…. The #AItools also evaluate a strike AFTER it is initiated…"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/03/04/anthropic-ai-iran-campaign/
Trump wants not just one coin minted with his image, but two.
One in gold.
Despite the long-held tradition in the #USA of NOT putting the images of sitting presidents on coins (or bills) to ensure no appearance of monarchy.
The new coin has to yet be approved by the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee, where it is meeting resistance (the committee can slow down the minting process, if not block it).
David Scott Moyer
C.
William Lindsey 
Ramesh #NotGoingBack
Gokul Das
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