86 points

The media just assumes Americans are too lazy to bother to listen to what was actually said. Trump is 1,000% correct here and in no way is this some sort of “threat” to Liz Cheney. War hawks like her and John Bolton love to bray for war but it’s not them who are taking bullets.

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He’s correct because he knows how to measure the temperature of the room (aka most Americans, most PEOPLE, do not like or support “war” generically. It has to be repackaged, propagandized, and sometimes done covertly to convince enough people to not care or accept it as necessary and support it)

The problem is (and not saying you did this) people hear him shit on Liz Cheney, Dick Cheney, Bolton, even Biden/Harris, etc. and they leap to this false conclusion that Trump is actually anti-war and not just speaking the words we (almost everyone not invested in Raytheon and shit) want to hear.

In some hyper specific scenarios Trump was less pro-war, but in other ways he was just setting the inevitable conditions for war to break out (for example in Palestine by continuing to encourage a Saudi-Israeli alliance without regard to the fate of Palestinians).

So, again, not saying you said or meant that. But I do hear and see some of the most annoying hoglets online saying that all the time. If Trump was anti-war he wouldn’t have just fired Bolton from his job he’d have fired him from a cannon directly into Tehran so they can prosecute him for all his various thousands of crimes. Or send him to Venezuela.

Maybe send Hillary, Pelosi and Biden on a trip to Beijing with a little phone call to Xi while they’re en route that he gives his blessing to arrest them and prosecute.

I actually wish Trump would do this shit because not only would it be hilarious and deserved by the “victims” (most of the politicians especially the national level ones deserve this in some way or another) but it would be actually, literally, “anti-war” as in removing the warhawk pieces of shit. He’d probably be the most popular president ever with normal people too and absolutely despised by the media and also the “deep state.” Ironic that he claims to want to drain the swamp, yet never even tried. I hope he does try! (Although this is prime “monkey’s paw” territory… Bolton lands in Iran around some anti-IRGC dissidents and manages to pull on old CIA adjacent ties in the region to organize them and overthrow the current government there and Bolton is made the new Shah…)

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and their assumption is right

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77 points

“Let’s put her with the rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her. OK, let’s see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face.”

When the shittiest person you know is just spitting bars

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That kinda stuff is why he won in '16
He’s a stupid piece of shit, but at least he doesn’t have decorum or pretend it’s not about empire and money. In a just world he would be in a pit. But all the other politicians run around thinking about decorum and civility and triangulators and hemm and haww, and then there’s Trump who has figured out that if you call Ted Cruz a nasty weirdo shitbag, then people will like that, because that’s what we would do. At least he somewhat resembles a human being.
Libs will hear him say this and gasp and look around the room waiting for everybody else to gasp too. “Can you imagine she should face consequences for being terrible? And he’s terrible too! Doesn’t he know that?”

Edit: Shane Gillis has a bit about the first debate with Trump which is pretty descriptive.

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61 points

Trump as the “peace” candidate is proof that the demiurge is trying to punish us specifically for its twisted, indiscernible reasons.

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I don’t believe Trump is going to bring peace to Gaza, but on the very bizarre off chance that he does (he won’t)…I mean I’ll be celebrating but I’ll also enjoy rubbing it in Libs’ faces that their chosen candidate and her predecessor were absolute vampires and they can’t even use Trump to say they were the lesser vampires.

But he won’t. Neither of these candidates will bring peace to Gaza and/or justice down on the Israeli government.

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It’s funny they call him a peace candidate when he wants a war with China and Iran.

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5 points

The bar is descending below the galactic plane and appears to be picking up speed.

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like shit, if he promised to put either of the cheneys in front of a firing squad, i actually would vote for his senile ass

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I would be sorely tempted but he promised to lock up Hillary and didn’t do it, so ultimately I would not even if he promised this. but I would applaud it

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Seriously his most disappointing unfulfilled campaign promise

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It’s hard to actually read between the lines when the only media you consume is marvel movies and the back of funko pop boxes

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