slothropTop Trump counterterror adviser resigns over Iran war: 'No imminent threat' - ABC News
WatDabneyI’m never quite sure what to make of stories like this.
On the one hand, it’s admirable to take a stand, but on the other hand, the stand implies that Trump’s decisions before this were acceptably sound, but this one passed some threshold making it unacceptably unsound.
The obvious reality is that Trump’s decisions barely even count as decisions, and can’t really be judged as eirher sound or unsound
Instead, they’re just the whims and obsessions of a delusional narcissist with the emotional maturity and attention span of a toddler, and the degree to which they might provide some benefit or serve some national interest is effectively random, since those are considerations of which Trump isn’t even capable. There’s barely room for anyone or anything else at all in Trump’s pathologically egocentric universe, and the degree to which other people and institutions exist at all to him is almost entirely just the degree to which they manage to threaten or soothe his ego.
So it’s sort of like watching a blindfolded drunk firing a gun into a crowd and just nodding along complacently as long as he doesn’t hit anybody, then only when he does hit somebody saying, “Hey now - wait a minute! We can’t be having any of that!”
TropicalDingdongI’m never quite sure what to make of stories like this.
MAGA is reforming without Trump. It’s largely about the need for narrative coherence. Trump’s cooked, and regardless of his political future, the dudes like 200 years old. He’s done.
As a movement, Trump is giving MAGA a chance to make a clean and coherent break from a ‘dear leader’ who wasn’t going to be useful in 2 years anyways.
Those who reject Trump will get to make this presentation. That they resisted him. Those that stick around Trump will get to say that he was a mad man, they were just trying to steer him to better decisions, and those that support Trump from a far will get to say it was just bad advisors around Trump. Everyone will have an excuse that allows them to present themselves as the good one among a pack of devils.
On the one hand, it’s admirable to take a stand, but on the other hand, the stand implies that Trump’s decisions before this were acceptably sound, but this one passed some threshold making it unacceptably unsound.
The dude supported ALL of Trump’s policies and political theater. The ship is sinking and this rat crafted a convincing lifejacket. Put a bet down 👇 on what office this week will be pursuing in two years. How blovious and long winded will their speech at the RNC be?
I really hate that in order to have even the slightest coherent,
Man I wish people actually were, or would at least regard the analysts whose claims and analysis predict future states of the world correctly more highly than those whose claims make them feel good about their positionality in the world. There was no need for a second Trump term and we ended up in that position specifically because people in general, and a majority of commenters in this forum, are actually pretty bad at political analysis. Or at least, they weight the perspectives that make them feel good about who they are and what positions they perceive themselves to occupy in reality over those perspectives which, while potentially discomforting, do predict future states of reality.