let’s all watch a French general tell Donny to go fuck himself
merci, mon ami
everything, everywhere continues to fucking suck out of control, so let’s just put the hero of the day right up top. here’s France’s General Michel Richoux on live TV, telling America’s Mad King to go fuck himself.
the dialog is in French, but the captioning reads, “he shot himself in the foot. he wanted to invade a European Union country, Greenland, not long ago. and now, his old friends whom he didn’t consult, whom he scorned, especially the British, telling them, ‘we’ll remember this,’ and now he needs us? frankly, he can go fuck himself.”
now, I speak enough French to get by — and I can indeed confirm that our hero general does in fact say ‘qu’il aille se faire foutre.’
ace job, Donny. you’ve manage to alienate our closest allies and turn America in a pariah state. you’re so universally loathed right now that the only people willing to defend your fucked-up antics are the lickspittle toadies of your own party.
here’s Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to explain that it was totes acceptable for Dear Leader to gloat over the passing of Robert Mueller, because Mueller was very very very very very very very mean to him.
Meet the Press host Kristen Welker: “do you think it’s appropriate for the president of the United States to celebrate the death of an American citizen, someone who’s a Bronze Star, Purple Heart recipient who served in Vietnam?”
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: “neither one of us can understand what has been done to the president and to his family.”
Welker: “is it appropriate for the president to celebrate the death of any American citizen?”
Bessent: “I think given what has been done to President Trump and his family, it is impossible for either of us to understand what he’s been through.”
Welkler: “so you don’t think there’s anything wrong with a post saying, ‘good. Robert Mueller's dead’?”
Bessent: “we should all have a little empathy for what has been done to him and his family.”
I’m sorry, but excuse me?
wait, we’re supposed to feed bad for the criming criminal who got caught criming and then literally got away with it?
oh, boo fucking hoo.
fuck straight off, Soybean Scott. empathy for Donny? I have a much better idea. how about Donny have a little empathy for the We the People. has Donny once in his soft, pampered Very Special Boy life ever given one microscopic shit about anyone but himself? absolutely not. free clue, bro: empathy has to be earned.
Donny wants our empathy? remind me, how did General Richoux put it? oh, right: ‘qu’il aille se faire foutre.’
hang on, Soybean Scott wants to weigh in on Donny’s don’t-you-dare-call-it-a-war with Iran.
“sometimes you have to escalate to deescalate.”
oh, huh. well, now that Soybean Scott has explained it so well … it still makes no fucking sense. tell me, where have we heard this Orwellian up-is-down, black-is-white bullshit before? oh, right — during the Vietnam war.
why is anyone putting the Treasury Secretary on TV to defend an indefensible war? what does Soybean Scott know about military strategy? dude’s a bean counter. a number cruncher. ask him about shit he’s supposed to know about, at least his lies will sound more convincing.
in fact — while we’re on the subject — why is anyone still putting Lindsey Graham on TV? all he seems to be doing these days is cheerleading for Armageddon.
Lindsey Graham on a ground invasion of Kharg Island: “we did Iwo Jima. we can do this.”
‘we’ did Iwo Jima? who is ‘we,’ you bloodthirsty warmonger?
could Donny’s flunkies please stop telling us how easy all this is going to be? does Old Linz imagine that American soldiers just waltzed into Iwo Jima to plant that fucking flag?
that’s far from the truth. pick up a history book, Lindz — or, if you can’t be bothered do that, at least read some tweets.
Around 7000 Americans were killed on Iwo Jima and 19,000 wounded, and it was part of a campaign that ended with a nuclear weapon being used, so maybe not the wisest comparison.
Iwo Jima was a long and bloody battle — and Old Linz is living a dream world if he thinks an actual invasion of Kharg Island would be any kind of cakewalk, complete with cheering Iranians throwing flowers and greeting us as liberators. it’s such a great story. where have we heard it before? oh yeah, from this snarling fuck, 23 years ago.
on March 16, 2003, three days before the invasion of Iraq, Dick Cheney went on Meet the Press and uttered the words ‘we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.’
George W. Bush’s warmongering neocons assured us that a war with Iraq would be over in six weeks, tops.
could someone please remind me, how long were we stuck in the Iraq clusterfuck? oh right — 8 years, 8 months and 28 days.
my god, I’m so tired of chickenhawks who have never been to war telling us how amazing and simple wars are to win. they’re not. wars are messy things that are super-easy to start and goddamned near impossible to end.
if Lindsey Graham wants to see an American flag planted on Kharg Island, he should put on a fucking uniform and go do it himself. send us a postcard, bro. let us know how it’s working out.
that said, what the fuck is the endgame here? Donny blundered straight into his unprovoked, unnecessary and illegal war on Iran without any planning or forethought. the stupid shit couldn’t even articulate a coherent reason for the attack in the first place — so how does this all play out?
in a post published this morning, Robert Reich predicts Donny will have no choice but to declare an imaginary victory and get the fuck out.
He’s about to wind down and exit because he doesn’t give a damn about anything except maintaining his wealth and power — and the war is now costing him both.
It’s hurting his financial backers in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar — whose wealth has been seriously diminished by the war and whose vulnerability has been exposed.
It’s pissing off Trump’s wealthy political backers at home — who are getting pummeled as the U.S. stock market sinks under the weight of the war.
Reich’s premise is that Donny knows he’s in way over his head, with no clear exit strategy, and that he’ll have no choice but to surrender, and then brag to his cheering cultists about how it was ‘a great victory, a victory like no one thought possible, perhaps the greatest victory of all time,’ and how big, strong, teary-eyed Ayatollahs came up to him and said ‘sir! sir! no one has ever defeated us as soundly as you did. sir!’
is Robert Reich correct, that Little Donny Rottingbrain will have the clarity of mind to understand he has no choice but to pull out, and act like he won? I have no fucking clue, but I would never put money on Donny making a rational decision.
wait, hang on — some breaking news from the Washington Post, as I sit here writing this at 7:49 in the morning.
President Donald Trump said Monday the United States is negotiating with Iran to end the three-week-old war, declaring that the two sides had two days of “very good and productive conversations” that will continue throughout this week.
holy shit, it looks like Brave Sir Donny really is going to run away.
I guess that means we should move on to the other atrocity from yesterday.
here’s that Fred-Flinstone-looking shit-kazoo, Tommy Bags-o-Cash, to confirm that Donny’s harebrained scheme to replace TSA agents with trigger-happy ICE thugs will indeed begin today.
CNN host Dana Bash: “with respect, if you’re doing this in twenty-four hours, how well-thought-out could it possibly be?”
Tom Homan: “how much of a plan does it need to guard an exit to make sure that no one comes through that exit? we’re talking about security options, and these are officers well-trained in security, and they’re well-trained in identification.”
Jesus wept. I’m running out of ways to tell these fucking fucks to fuck off. it’s been well-documented that ICE thugs are barely trained, handed weapons, and rushed into action in order to meet Nosferatu McGoebbels’ insane deportation quotas.
let’s ask Alex Pretti and Renee Good just how ‘well trained’ ICE is. oh wait, we can’t.
and now Tommy Cash-Bags is going to put these goons in airports, and have them make split-second decisions about who not to shoot? are you fucking kidding me?
Dana Bash is right to question the sanity of rushing this half-baked plan into action. you can’t successfully implement a policy like this in one day. putting Donny’s private Gestapo in airports is going to be a nightmare. none of this shit has been thought out. remember, these are people who act first and think never. that’s why they’re continually clownfucking themselves into disasters that anyone with a brain could have seen coming a mile away.
it’s like when Donny sent the National Guard into Los Angeles so hastily that the troops had to sleep on the floor of a warehouse.
or — hey! — it’s like when Donny blundered into a war with Iran because his piss-drunk, self-neutering SecDef assured him it would be over in one afternoon.
to paraphrase the guy from All the President’s Men, these are not very bright people, and everything they do gets out of hand.
now let’s turn the Stupid Dial all the way to eleven. do you know where Donny got the fuckbrained idea to put ICE goons in airports? from watching Fox News — because of course he did.
we really do live in the stupidest possible timeline.
good lord, we certainly need a palate cleaner after all that. General Richoux, can you come back in here a minute and play us out?
merci, mon ami.
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I love me some French 'la bombe f'
bessent what a pathetic fuck.