I don’t think he even knew it was going to happen till he did it
he knew he had to keep creating worse and worse distractions and this is where he ended up.Â
B-Z_B-S on
Because of what Trump did in the Epstein Files.
IllustriousRange226 on
It’s a distraction and it’s working.  Iran should have just renamed Kharg Island to Epstein Island and Trump would have gone straight for Cuba.
Imaginary-Ad-7919 on
Top distraction.
Shack70 on
Only half?
dokikod on
War of Distraction. The Trump accuser’s story was getting too hot.
cycling-expat on
The other half don’t follow the news enough to know we bombed Iran.
Dazzling-Act4426 on
the rest of the free world just showed congress how to stand up to a bully … HOPEFULLY they are taking notes
AdHopeful3801 on
The other half think Netanyahu told him to.
Dependent_Tune_1333 on
Well, the President of the United States of America IS a pedophile
MountainMan2_ on
I know this is just another “party think other party bad” poll, but the fact that the Epstein files are so damning that the entire democratic party coalesced around this interpretation for an event that’s completely separate from the Epstein files on the outside is just crazy.
Dude is so thoroughly fucked that his other bad decisions are all getting tied to it by meta-analysis.
FWIW I don’t think it has much to do with covering up the files case in the news. I think he’s warring with Iran because Israel threatened to release an Epstein tape with him on it if he didn’t comply. So, not so much covering up the case as adding to it. After all, he’s said it many times: trump thinks the files exonerated him. He thinks he’s in the clear. If you went through a whole investigation and still got away with murder, your next big step would probably be to make sure no more evidence comes out, right?
StrigiStockBacking on
Yeah this, and he’s secretly hoping Iran somehow puts together a skirmish on American soil >!in order to suspend elections because he knows he’s fucked the GOP straight up the ass and is taking the ship down with him and the midterms will reflect that resulting in a blue wave of irreversible loss of control/power!<
Sminahin on
On one hand, yes. On the other, I’m not 100% certain Trump’s brain is capable of that sort of cause and effect thinking anymore.
OtherBluesBrother on
He still hasn’t given a good argument as to why he had to start a war with Iran. Maybe if he would have asked congress, talked about it with the UN, made the case publicly, and built a coalition that would commit resources then it wouldn’t look like he’s doing it to distract from Epstein.
Miserable_Heart_4755 on
The main reason was personal enrichment, which is his motive 99% of the time. He and his son in law have already carved up Gaza for their rich people playground and they need to secure it. Israel told him they would help on this front if he did them a solid with Iran. Second, he thought he could pull a Venezuela, swoop in and kill the leader, insert someone friendly to the US, take all their sweet, sweet oil and be the hero.
Malaix on
I don’t like this argument because I think it downplays the fact we did this for the Evangelicals and Israel. Epstein is dead. The evangelical church and Israel are alive and well and shitting up the world right now. We need to confront those two things and their unifying zionism before it destroys the planet.
Kind_Relative812 on
I am going to start a war because 1. I am a stable genius and it will divert attention away from my crimes 2. Because someone told me to do it. Stupidity hemorrhages from that man’s existence.
troveofcatastrophe on
Bibi asked, Trump said sure, distractions bonus.
Remarkable_Sea_1430 on
So the other half is stupid. Got it.
Maximum_Tree8170 on
Holy sh*t, what does the other half believe in? The tooth fairy?
FoxyInTheSnow on
The other half believes it was because he’s netanyahu’s lapdog; the third half believes it was to declare a state of emergency and disrupt the mid-term elections; the fourth half believes it was because he thinks Iran has nice tits and he wanted to grab ’em; the fifth half believes it was so that pootin could sell his oil and restock his army in order to annex the baltic states; the sixth half believes it was so that trump and his buddies could gobble up even more filthy lucre on the back of arms sales and dodgy insider trading in the war economy.
I just learned today that one whole has 6 halves, and that they’re all equally rotten and equally plausible.
Equivalent_Worker687 on
At least half. His recent conversations suggest “bombs are fun!”
crazybones on
In other words, half of Americans see draft-dodger Trump as he really is: someone who has no qualms about sacrificing the lives of countless US troops so he can avoid facing any consequences for his sex crimes.
Syrairc on
Americans are so hopelessly partisan that you could ask anything Trump related with one negative answer and one positive answer and it will be split approximately 50/50.
Quest_Marker on
From Kirks last day there has, IMO been a fairly straight line trending upwards in escalation of events all to avoid the Epstein files.
Tracazoid on
They’re technically correct, the best kind of correct. Okay Futurama jokes aside beyond the long decades long “we’re going to fuck you up Iran” and Middle Eastern policy it is also absolutely to jangle the keys away from the Epstein files.
Chrysalii on
He didn’t.
He is incapable of coming up with even such a simple thing. He is that stupid, he is that impulsive, he is that open to manipulation.
I wish it was meant as a distraction because the reality is far scarier. Donald Trump is profoundly stupid and people keep overestimating him. His brain is not capable of making a distraction, and his ego is incapable of thinking he needs one. Reality has shown that last statement to be true, sadly.
However stupid you think Donald Trump is, subtract 75 IQ points and you’re still probably overestimating him.
Stop overestimating him.
WitchsmellerPrsuivnt on
Because he did.Â
DJC_Kowalski on
Seems like a reasonable conclusion.
Other options:
1) Because Netanyahu told him to.
2) He wanted to get the polling bump that a lot of wartime Presidents get.
He certainly didn’t do it because he had worked out some plan on what to do after the bombing.
AnalSoapOpera on
(because he did)
dpmad1 on
It’s blatantly obvious.
JazzFan1998 on
And the other half is MAGA!
Flewoverthenorthpole on
Yes, I believe that. I also believe that this guy has dementia. And needs to retire to a memory home ASAP.
Glittering-Storm-651 on
It’s criminal to commit war crimes to silence its own crimes
blackopal2 on
I’m in that half. But the other competing reason is, he is an idiot!
You-Only-YOLO_Once on
I know I do!
SomewhereAtWork on
Therefore the war is now officially called /r/OperationEpsteinFury
thethrill_707 on
Or, BeBe has dirt on Trump from the Epstein files or some other debauchery. Trump likes Netanyahu. He says what he wants, does what he wants. You know a man’s man. Killing Muslims, kids, fist pumping all the way. Perhaps Trumps next project will be to become a war criminal like BeBe. You know, fly around the world avoiding countries where his plane will be forcibly landed by fighter jets to arrest him. You can do it Donny.
Does saying that make me antisemitic? No it doesn’t. Even though some may super-uper-duper want it to.
Vaeon on
That number seems suspiciously low.
ChuckaChuckaLooLoo3 on
90% know he did but only 50% are willing to admit it.
Buddercakes on
They are all meant to distract from each other in order to make it hard to focus on one issue. Epstein Files, ICE Concentration Camps, Reduced freedom of movement for “undesirable citizens” like trans people, immigrants, people of color and the disabled, Healthcare and Education Guts, Oil raining from the sky in Tehran, it’s all meant to distract from the others meaning to stop one thing we have to give up on something else. This administrations use of “flood the zone” puts us into a stressed state where we are more susceptible to outside influence. The Department of Defense being led by essentially a mass communications specialist is about the propaganda, someone who knows how to manipulate the media zeitgeist. Pam Bondi and Kash Patel covering up the files. The world will have to step in if this cabinet is not stopped by the American people and when others come in to fix your problems, you don’t always get a say in how it’s fixed.
Local legislature is where the real damage is being done right now, with cities and states allocating extra police spending at the cost of education and infrastructure, because when you take away resources people can become desperate enough to commit crime and it feeds into the Prison-industrial-slave complex. Through imprisonment and removing eligibility to vote and disproportionately target black and brown populations they artificially control the voting population. Arizona is a majority POC state, yet 30% of our African American and Latinx population are ineligible to vote do to either still being in prison or felony. These people still rely on public resources, are our neighbors, and have families and children that will be affected in the years to come.
ReportBug on
no shit. who in their right mind could not see this ??
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I don’t think he even knew it was going to happen till he did it
he knew he had to keep creating worse and worse distractions and this is where he ended up.Â
Because of what Trump did in the Epstein Files.
It’s a distraction and it’s working.  Iran should have just renamed Kharg Island to Epstein Island and Trump would have gone straight for Cuba.
Top distraction.
Only half?
War of Distraction. The Trump accuser’s story was getting too hot.
The other half don’t follow the news enough to know we bombed Iran.
the rest of the free world just showed congress how to stand up to a bully … HOPEFULLY they are taking notes
The other half think Netanyahu told him to.
Well, the President of the United States of America IS a pedophile
I know this is just another “party think other party bad” poll, but the fact that the Epstein files are so damning that the entire democratic party coalesced around this interpretation for an event that’s completely separate from the Epstein files on the outside is just crazy.
Dude is so thoroughly fucked that his other bad decisions are all getting tied to it by meta-analysis.
FWIW I don’t think it has much to do with covering up the files case in the news. I think he’s warring with Iran because Israel threatened to release an Epstein tape with him on it if he didn’t comply. So, not so much covering up the case as adding to it. After all, he’s said it many times: trump thinks the files exonerated him. He thinks he’s in the clear. If you went through a whole investigation and still got away with murder, your next big step would probably be to make sure no more evidence comes out, right?
Yeah this, and he’s secretly hoping Iran somehow puts together a skirmish on American soil >!in order to suspend elections because he knows he’s fucked the GOP straight up the ass and is taking the ship down with him and the midterms will reflect that resulting in a blue wave of irreversible loss of control/power!<
On one hand, yes. On the other, I’m not 100% certain Trump’s brain is capable of that sort of cause and effect thinking anymore.
He still hasn’t given a good argument as to why he had to start a war with Iran. Maybe if he would have asked congress, talked about it with the UN, made the case publicly, and built a coalition that would commit resources then it wouldn’t look like he’s doing it to distract from Epstein.
The main reason was personal enrichment, which is his motive 99% of the time. He and his son in law have already carved up Gaza for their rich people playground and they need to secure it. Israel told him they would help on this front if he did them a solid with Iran. Second, he thought he could pull a Venezuela, swoop in and kill the leader, insert someone friendly to the US, take all their sweet, sweet oil and be the hero.
I don’t like this argument because I think it downplays the fact we did this for the Evangelicals and Israel. Epstein is dead. The evangelical church and Israel are alive and well and shitting up the world right now. We need to confront those two things and their unifying zionism before it destroys the planet.
I am going to start a war because 1. I am a stable genius and it will divert attention away from my crimes 2. Because someone told me to do it. Stupidity hemorrhages from that man’s existence.
Bibi asked, Trump said sure, distractions bonus.
So the other half is stupid. Got it.
Holy sh*t, what does the other half believe in? The tooth fairy?
The other half believes it was because he’s netanyahu’s lapdog; the third half believes it was to declare a state of emergency and disrupt the mid-term elections; the fourth half believes it was because he thinks Iran has nice tits and he wanted to grab ’em; the fifth half believes it was so that pootin could sell his oil and restock his army in order to annex the baltic states; the sixth half believes it was so that trump and his buddies could gobble up even more filthy lucre on the back of arms sales and dodgy insider trading in the war economy.
I just learned today that one whole has 6 halves, and that they’re all equally rotten and equally plausible.
At least half. His recent conversations suggest “bombs are fun!”
In other words, half of Americans see draft-dodger Trump as he really is: someone who has no qualms about sacrificing the lives of countless US troops so he can avoid facing any consequences for his sex crimes.
Americans are so hopelessly partisan that you could ask anything Trump related with one negative answer and one positive answer and it will be split approximately 50/50.
From Kirks last day there has, IMO been a fairly straight line trending upwards in escalation of events all to avoid the Epstein files.
They’re technically correct, the best kind of correct. Okay Futurama jokes aside beyond the long decades long “we’re going to fuck you up Iran” and Middle Eastern policy it is also absolutely to jangle the keys away from the Epstein files.
He didn’t.
He is incapable of coming up with even such a simple thing. He is that stupid, he is that impulsive, he is that open to manipulation.
I wish it was meant as a distraction because the reality is far scarier. Donald Trump is profoundly stupid and people keep overestimating him. His brain is not capable of making a distraction, and his ego is incapable of thinking he needs one. Reality has shown that last statement to be true, sadly.
However stupid you think Donald Trump is, subtract 75 IQ points and you’re still probably overestimating him.
Stop overestimating him.
Because he did.Â
Seems like a reasonable conclusion.
Other options:
1) Because Netanyahu told him to.
2) He wanted to get the polling bump that a lot of wartime Presidents get.
He certainly didn’t do it because he had worked out some plan on what to do after the bombing.
(because he did)
It’s blatantly obvious.
And the other half is MAGA!
Yes, I believe that. I also believe that this guy has dementia. And needs to retire to a memory home ASAP.
It’s criminal to commit war crimes to silence its own crimes
I’m in that half. But the other competing reason is, he is an idiot!
I know I do!
Therefore the war is now officially called /r/OperationEpsteinFury
Or, BeBe has dirt on Trump from the Epstein files or some other debauchery. Trump likes Netanyahu. He says what he wants, does what he wants. You know a man’s man. Killing Muslims, kids, fist pumping all the way. Perhaps Trumps next project will be to become a war criminal like BeBe. You know, fly around the world avoiding countries where his plane will be forcibly landed by fighter jets to arrest him. You can do it Donny.
Does saying that make me antisemitic? No it doesn’t. Even though some may super-uper-duper want it to.
That number seems suspiciously low.
90% know he did but only 50% are willing to admit it.
They are all meant to distract from each other in order to make it hard to focus on one issue. Epstein Files, ICE Concentration Camps, Reduced freedom of movement for “undesirable citizens” like trans people, immigrants, people of color and the disabled, Healthcare and Education Guts, Oil raining from the sky in Tehran, it’s all meant to distract from the others meaning to stop one thing we have to give up on something else. This administrations use of “flood the zone” puts us into a stressed state where we are more susceptible to outside influence. The Department of Defense being led by essentially a mass communications specialist is about the propaganda, someone who knows how to manipulate the media zeitgeist. Pam Bondi and Kash Patel covering up the files. The world will have to step in if this cabinet is not stopped by the American people and when others come in to fix your problems, you don’t always get a say in how it’s fixed.
Local legislature is where the real damage is being done right now, with cities and states allocating extra police spending at the cost of education and infrastructure, because when you take away resources people can become desperate enough to commit crime and it feeds into the Prison-industrial-slave complex. Through imprisonment and removing eligibility to vote and disproportionately target black and brown populations they artificially control the voting population. Arizona is a majority POC state, yet 30% of our African American and Latinx population are ineligible to vote do to either still being in prison or felony. These people still rely on public resources, are our neighbors, and have families and children that will be affected in the years to come.
no shit. who in their right mind could not see this ??
And 90% of non-Americans