• Lon3star@lemmy.world
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    Allowing terrorist attacks opens the door to “national emergency” just in time for election season

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      This is the plan. Roll out the red carpet for terrorist attacks. Declare national emergency. Cancel elections. Then it’s revolution to get the country back. What a lame timeline

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    “Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid”

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    I’m… honestly both in awe and aghast at how fucking blatant the regime is being about it. They’ve literally shut down the team that is in charge of addressing and categorizing security threats to the US originating from Iran immediately before starting a fucking war with Iran. Like… I just… what the actual fuck. I can’t even.

    Between this and the documents leaked about their plans for the election, the intent couldn’t be more obvious if they put it on a fucking billboard. I hate that it comes down to such imbecilically stupid and petty US political bullshit like that, and that it’s killing so many people and fucking up so may other parts of the world… but seriously, I really think that was a massive part of their rationale here. It’s a distraction (operation Epstein fury), combined with creating an extremely obvious opening for an asymmetrical/terroristic threat that will be used as a justification for removing the electoral process. That’s the plan.

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      I’ve been telling everyone I know that it’s extremely obvious they’re trying to provoke a terror attack on US soil.

      They want another 9/11, so they can indefinitely cancel elections. That’s the whole fucking plan.

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        Would be funny if it backfires and at the next SOTU just one American does the right thing and set off a bomb vest in the middle of that crowd.

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      They WANT another major terrorist event. Hell, they would also rather see see dozens of little terrorist events (mass shootings, bombings, etc) by disgruntled Iranians or other people who are pissed off at the US’s actions. They need this shit to justify their actions and enact more measures that are vague enough to apply to anyone… and then apply it exclusively to their opponents and anyone they don’t like. This is how you get highly oppressive laws that are allegedly supposed to stop criminals and terrorists but don’t seem to be doing much in preventing that, but are doing a damn fine job of making social changes and legislation passing/enforcement of things that protect people a lot more difficult.

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      Well yeah when you know you need that disaster to happen then you do this, bonus because you might have to do the disaster yourself and you will not have anyone to link it back to you.

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    if America gets attacked because of this fat man and his administration’s war, a firing squad wouldn’t be enough to quelch my rage.

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    He’s getting his tiny rotten mushroom dick half hard at the idea of another 9/11 happening between now and the midterms - he’d so very happily sacrifice 10s of thousands of Americans if it meant more power for himself…

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    Anyone who didn’t think this would increase the threat of terrorism has forgotten what they said they never would.

    (Or they weren’t born yet.)

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        I literally saw one of the caddies drop a ball where Trump was going to stroke it. They weren’t subtle. They might as well just have someone near the hole to drop one in the moment Trump makes his first stroke to say he has a hole in one despite all evidence to the contrary

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          Every time diaper donnie talks about golf, I think of this story. It was relevant in his first failed term, now that he’s gone completely unchained in his second failed term, especially when we see his cabinet “meetings” and the way he holds pressers in front of a compliant media, all the more so…

          But in the 1990s - another moment in time when an event in North Korea varies (some say it happened in 1991 and others in 1994), the late dictator, then 50 (or 53) years old, set a golfing standard that will assuredly never be surpassed. It occurred at the grand opening of the Pyongyang Golf Complex, which contains North Korea’s only 18-hole golf course.

          After picking up a golf club that day for the very first time in his life, the Dear Leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea fired a 38-under-par round of 34 at Pyongyang. According to the 17 security guards who observed the performance, the score included an amazing 11 aces. Naturally, the event was dutifully reported to the North Korean masses by the state news agency.

          https://golfnewsstoriesonline.com/news/all/golf_news/alltime_golf_scoring_record_goes_with_death_of_kim_jong_il.html

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            Sometimes I hate writing on my phone, but I make countless typos that change the meaning of my posts. At least I can correct them.

            But to answer your question: Even a reptile egg is too dignified to do what Trump wants it to do.

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    Hey Iran, I bet you could get a sizeable bomb to maralago, just say you’re giving him a golden gift and he’ll be there. Maybe get lucky and his whole cabinet too.

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    A Mediaite repost of Daily Mail…

    I keep saying this over, and over, and over again in this community. Keep information hygiene in mind, please. Post the original source at least, and try to avoid serial reposters, like Mediaite. Mention Mediaite in the body as your original reference, if you wish.

    …And try to avoid tabloids like Daily Mail, too, or at least mention a “take the source with a grain of salt” in the post’s body if its an interesting original report. This is good reference to start with:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Perennial_sources


    But no one ever cares.

    Past commenters seem to agree when I bring this up, yet poster and mods don’t do anything.

    This is the final straw for me. I don’t like blocking anything; I’ve only blocked two other Lemmy communities, one a bot spamming one. But I’m blocking /c/News, as apparently it isn’t going to change, and I came to the fediverse to get away from mass-upvoted tabloid reposts flooding the top of my feed.

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    Cool, so while dimbulb donnie is invading other countries for no fucking reason and Stephen Miller is giving absurd quotas of brown people to kidnap and throw in concentration camps and/or extreme rendition, they are increasing the danger to all Americans on top of that?

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      A terror attack will drum up more support for the war and give them.an excuse to declare emergencies to further trample civil rights.

      It’s the best thing that could happen for this administration.

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      The White House didn’t accidentally bomb a girls school.

      This was done to incite anger, create groups looking for revenge, have a major terrorist activity on US soil, then lock the entire country down “because war”. They want a 9/11.

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    Luckily the “highly qualified” head of Homeland Security just got replaced with someone new who in ADDITION to being unqualified is also inexperienced.