Donald Trump erupted at the United Kingdom Tuesday morning over its refusal to join the United States in its war against Iran, issuing the European nation a notice that the United States would no longer be offering it “help.”
“All of those countries that can’t get jet fuel because of the Strait of Hormuz, like the United Kingdom, which refused to get involved in the decapitation of Iran, I have a suggestion for you: Number 1, buy from the U.S., we have plenty, and Number 2, build up some delayed courage, go to the Strait, and just TAKE IT,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.
Now hopefully the UK will finally stop letting the US use them as an aircraft carrier… right?
I’m half expecting him to declare martial law tonight.
Damn, what a petulant little child he is. Anyone who feels he is the right person for the job has not been paying attention
US owes most of its national debt to UK after Japan and China btw.
Great advertisement for Chinese solar tech.
Yes please, stop helping. And thank you! See? I didn’t forget to say it.
But really, you have done more than enough. A LOT more. Some would say you have done way too much. Get on your couch, turn on the tv, order a Big Mac and please, please, stop helping.
What is a king if his crown is worthless? Not a man of the people, but surrounded by cultists. Praised by the loudest, loved by the thoughtless. Crowned not by honor, but by lies that were endless.
His walls crumble as whispers grow louder, Causing once-shaking hands to grip blades ever prouder. The throne he once clutched, now colder than stone, His fate sealed by the seeds of ruin he’d sown.
He feasts while his kingdom is left to rot, Drunk on his power yet blind to the plot. A puppet on strings, now tangled and caught. If he ends up dead, then that is his lot.
The crown on his head, a mockery now, A hollow gold band on a sweat-ridden brow. No glory remains, no trumpets resound, Only silence and ash on the burning ground.
Betrayed not by foes but those he called his closest friends,
Their daggers ensuring his rule meets its end. No prayers are whispered, no mourners will weep, For kings who sow torment shall fall just as deep.
When he ends up dead, the people have spoken, A crown polished with falsehood is a crown that is broken. And a kingdom built on cruelty is one which ends with dread,
The crown on his corpse was always a crown of the dead.
Source?
The Muslim Outsider on YouTube, I think.
Hopefully he didn’t use ChatGPT to write it lol but it doesn’t really strike me as AI-written.
Sounds like Tolkien to me.
Thanks!
I read it on lemmy, just above your comment.
ChatGPT
Maybe we can build even more big beautiful windmills.
oh nooo… they kill millions of birds and [insert random idiot argument]…
Ohhh…my headaches…
bald eagle screaming intensifies
plus they’re eating the dogs!
and are giving our kids autism!
I’m not saying the system was good (far, far from it) but this asshole walked into office and started dismantling 100 years of economic diplomacy and peace through trade. There’s no way you can tell me he isn’t a useful idiot for Russia.
And all it took was letting someone capture him doing the most vilest and evilist shit to children.
All it took was for virtually no one to do anything to stop him from doing whatever he wants
He’s a useful fool every supermaster above him, especially those we don’t know.
In a pub, in 2004, an ex-colleague of Trump’s told us about what a joke of a narcissist he is, being played by his psychopathic handlers, priming him for a puppet presidency.
And his entire campaign was based on convincing willful idiots that his presidency would do the exact opposite.
Now the US is dead last in education, science, GDP and trade. Lmao
Good luck blaming all that on Biden and Obama as if it’s possible to pretend that any facet of society wasn’t objectively better. There is no war in Ba Sing Se!
We will! And it’ll have blackjack … and hookers!
The US economy is generally down, but there are exceptions. Some companies make more profit than they did before, especially US oil companies.
Why? Simple. Prices for oil are up, the US oil companies continue to extract the same amount out of the ground, which they can now sell at higher prices -> higher profit.
Meanwhile the UK is hosting USA bombers. Grow a pair - kick them out and close airspace until they show some gratitude.
European nation
Not if some of them can help it.
As with most developed “democracies”, the UK’s political class are too busy cashing the cheques of their corporate overlords to display any actual morals or virtue. They are bottom-feeders who only know how to bottom-feed.
e.g. opposing genocide is terrorism!
Grow a pair. Confiscate their bombers since they’re being used for genocide and land theft.
What they going to do, remove the UK from the continent?
I mean technically it’s an island next to the continent lol
I’m beginning to think the hardest job in the entire world is Secret Service Agent. I mean, c’mon, millions of lives are at risk, you’re armed, and he’s right there. Instant hero. /s
Edit: forgot /s. Obviously.
True story.
My buddy used to work for NYC EMS. One day when Clinton was President his ambulance was assigned to an event. He and his partner were chatting with the police when some Secret Service agents walk by. The partner starts ranting about how much he hates the Secret Service.
One of the police asks him what the Secret Service did that was so bad?
“This bastards say they’ll jump on a grenade for the President, but not one of them jumped on Monica! God damn it, I’m willing to take a blowjob for my country!”
Because it went great for the Roman Empire when the Praetorian Guard were the ones choosing the Emperor. You don’t really want to open that door.
There’s a difference between a military coup and a rogue secret service agent killing the fuck and turning himself in.
He’d sacrifice his life and be arrested and tried, he’d have Luigi level fanfare (though Luigi didn’t do it, obviously) and a clear conscious to help him sleep better at night in prison.
Being not a military coup, it might actually trigger the violent stage of the arguably ongoing civil war, Vance declares martial law and his children and top supporters start calling for the execution of everyone who ever condemned him as retribution.
The current collapse of the US empire is fast, but it sure as fuck can accelerate. People who think Trump dying solves all problems are heavily over indexing on him as the singular bad guy, he’s just a loud symptom of a nasty disease.
There’s a lot of rot, but they’ve been depending on a cluster of personality. Those often collapse when the personality dies without a sucessor with popular support, which requires the cult leader to groom the public to their sucessor.
The thing with Trump is he has too much ego for that, and Vance doesn’t have the loyalty of the MAGA militant.
Right, which is why they would kick it up a 100 noches. Once he’s gone, they’ll use everything in their power to remain in power, they won’t just go away silently.
Vance doesn’t have the loyalty, which is why Trump’s kids will rile them up on the idea of revenge, they won’t be fighting for cancer, they’ll be fighting for Trump “alongside” Vance.
Democrats will condemn the violence of the assassin, they’ll call for unity and give long eulogies for Trump, they’ll say it’s time to unite and denounce violence. Slowly, Vance will become the new figure head, or be replaced through a coup if unable, but the power won’t change. The coup won’t come from opposition, it’ll come from within.
History gives us plenty of cases where killing the strongman did not end the system. Caesar’s murder helped trigger civil war and an “avenge the leader” politics. https://www.history.com/articles/julius-caesar-assassination-fall-roman-republic
Park Chung-hee’s assassination opened a succession crisis that Chun Doo-hwan used for an internal coup under martial law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_South_Korean_coup_d'état
Trujillo’s killing did not kill the machine, his family and loyalists tried to preserve it amid chaos. Indira Gandhi’s assassination becme a pretext for mass revenge on a broader population. https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1958-60v05mSupp/dr_d21
So yes, cult regimes are vulnerable when the central personality dies, but that vulnerability often shows up first as repression, martyrdom, and a fight inside the ruling group, not a clean collapse.
I’d expect this will escalate quickly once Vance takes power. He doesn’t have the car salesman personality Trump has, and I don’t think he’ll maintain the MAGA following but Peter Thiel put him there for a reason. Vance will have to speed it up.
The US has tried assassination of it’s presidents twice already. No matter the lunatic in charge murdering democratically elected leaders is not the way. There are mechanisms to pursue Trump that should be used.
So it wouldn’t have been right to kill Hitler even though he took dictatorial control? It can easily be argued that once a democratically elected leader moves to nullify elections, purges non political government positions, and starts to ignore the authority of other elected positions, that their contract as a democratic leader is null and void. We’re already there with Trump on all accounts. Him starting a war without congressional approval should make it obvious that he will take every shred of power the other branches have left given enough time. His position isn’t the only one we vote on, but he will ensure that no other result matters.
Besides, he plans to stay in office until he dies, and if he corrupts the military with enough loyalists by 2028, he’ll succeed. The only mechanism to remove him will be him dying and hoping his replacements are too weak to maintain the grift. I don’t say this as a call to action, but a statement of fact.
Oh feel free to kill Trump if he becomes a dictator like Hitler. Or you know, persecute him before that.
bruh, genuinely where have you been? There is a gestapo loyal to Trump who round up his culture war scapegoats. There are concentration camps that hold immigrants in perpetuity. I could literally get sent to one of those camps for being trans if that gestapo ever carded me, something they could easily do thanks to racial profiling. If that did happen, not only would I be denied my hormones while in captivity, I could be medically tortured by psychoactive drugs in the hope that it causes lasting psychological damage.
I’m sorry, but Trump is already a Hitler like dictator, and you’re ignorant beyond belief if you truly don’t realize that.
I’m aware lol The thing is that most democratic institutions still hold and there’s opposition that might provoke a change in Congress. It’s not the same situation
I mean… the first instance of that was replacing Caligula with Claudius. It just kinda went south after that.
Did Claudius also fuck couches?
Claudius wasn’t 2nd in command. He was way down the list.
And the first thing he did as emperor was execute some of the Praetorians for being overzealous when cleaning house.
The problem is that the SS is staffed with people who think Trump is the good guy. Lots and lots of “patriotic” Mormons.
I used to think that they are defending the office, rather than the individual. And that is the honorable thing to do regardless of the person. But when you see them assisting that person to stage an assasination, I realised they are in the cult too.
Turn the US into an authoritarian empire, and you risk turning the Praetorians into something similar to the Roman ones…
The SS? Clue might be in the name, there.
Yes the agency created to fight money counterfeiting before Nazis existed, but same initials scary!
If you’re still working for Trump at this point, what else are you but nazis?
Even in that statement he seems to suggest taking oil from another sovereign country. Taking over other countries is sadly our British history, but not current practice, unlike the US.
translatio imperii - The empire just moves westward throughout human history.
