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  1. Mission Accomplished right guys!? There’s no way they had contingency plans in place for the 87 year old asshole. Surely this means everything is done now. Nevermind the fact that this means powers already been transferred to the next in line since theyre still launching. You have to be either way too young or a fucking moron to fall for this shit again.

  2. Rude_Grapefruit_3650 on

    What is this year? We abducted the Venezuela president and now this?

    (Both objectively bad people, but what are we doing?)

  3. Apprehensive-Care20z on

    Let me check the Repercussion Meter. ….. well, it is measuring zero – absolutely no repercussions at all, nothing.

    oh wait

    it’s not plugged in!!

  4. If I’ve learned anything from history, it’s that US involvement in the regime of Iran has always worked out perfectly!

  5. Provided that this is true, that is not a guarantee that the next guy will not be worse. Furthermore, there will likely be quite the appetite for revenge in his successor.

    This is not going to go the way Trump thinks it will go.

  6. I still care about the Epstein files and the fact that the DOJ has deleted the most incriminating files on Trump.

  7. Abject_Panda_4710 on

    Patiently awaiting the law of unintended consequences to rear its head, as it always does when the US attempts regime change.

  8. TheExistential_Bread on

    I think it’s a good time to share this letter from author KA Applegate about the conclusion of her series the Animorphs, which the primary theme of was war. Bolded by me, and spoilers for the series.

    >Dear Animorphs Readers:

    >Quite a number of people seem to be annoyed by the final chapter in the Animorphs story. There are a lot of complaints that I let Rachel die. That I let Visser Three/One live. That Cassie and Jake broke up. That Tobias seems to have been reduced to unexpressed grief. That there was no grand, final fight-to-end-all-fights. That there was no happy celebration. And everyone is mad about the cliffhanger ending.

    >So I thought I’d respond.

    >Animorphs was always a war story. Wars don’t end happily. Not ever. Often relationships that were central during war, dissolve during peace. Some people who were brave and fearless in war are unable to handle peace, feel disconnected and confused. Other times people in war make the move to peace very easily. Always people die in wars. And always people are left shattered by the loss of loved ones.

    >**That’s what happens, so that’s what I wrote. Jake and Cassie were in love during the war, and end up going their seperate ways afterward. Jake, who was so brave and capable during the war is adrift during the peace. Marco and Ax, on the other hand, move easily past the war and even manage to use their experience to good effect. Rachel dies, and Tobias will never get over it. That doesn’t by any means cover everything that happens in a war, but it’s a start.**

    >**Here’s what doesn’t happen in war: there are no wondrous, climactic battles that leave the good guys standing tall and the bad guys lying in the dirt. Life isn’t a World Wrestling Federation Smackdown. Even the people who win a war, who survive and come out the other side with the conviction that they have done something brave and necessary, don’t do a lot of celebrating. There’s very little chanting of ‘we’re number one’ among people who’ve personally experienced war.**

    >I’m just a writer, and my main goal was always to entertain. But I’ve never let Animorphs turn into just another painless video game version of war, and I wasn’t going to do it at the end. I’ve spent 60 books telling a strange, fanciful war story, sometimes very seriously, sometimes more tongue-in-cheek. I’ve written a lot of action and a lot of humor and a lot of sheer nonsense. But I have also, again and again, challenged readers to think about what they were reading. To think about the right and wrong, not just the who-beat-who. And to tell you the truth I’m a little shocked that so many readers seemed to believe I’d wrap it all up with a lot of high-fiving and backslapping. Wars very often end, sad to say, just as ours did: with a nearly seamless transition to another war.

    >**So, you don’t like the way our little fictional war came out? You don’t like Rachel dead and Tobias shattered and Jake guilt-ridden? You don’t like that one war simply led to another? Fine. Pretty soon you’ll all be of voting age, and of draft age. So when someone proposes a war, remember that even the most necessary wars, even the rare wars where the lines of good and evil are clear and clean, end with a lot of people dead, a lot of people crippled, and a lot of orphans, widows and grieving parents.**

    >If you’re mad at me because that’s what you have to take away from Animorphs, too bad. I couldn’t have written it any other way and remained true to the respect I have always felt for Animorphs readers.

    >K.A. Applegate

  9. Jesus Christ. Our soldiers won’t be safe in the region for *decades.* Maybe not ever.

    Deny him his war, Congress. Then remove him.

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