Trump left humiliated as Iran scheme backfires - Another Day - Brian Tyler Cohen

[TexasTowelie]

BTC: Donald Trump takes America to war. I expected more from the proud recipient of the FIFA Peace Prize. This is just another day.

It has been a harrowing weekend for the United States. Thanks to Donald Trump, America now finds itself at war with Iran. A war which has sadly already claimed the lives of multiple Americans. A fact that even Republicans are furious about.

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Lindsey Graham: This is a national security failure where four brave Americans died.

(Montage of other speakers)
Four dead Americans.
Dana Perino: Four people are are have been killed.
Four dead Americans.
I find it morally reprehensible and behavior that if it was your son or your daughter or one of your family members or friends who were on that ground that night and you watch the actions in Washington DC, you'd have every right to be disgusted with the response from the senior American leaders.

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BTC: Oh. Uh I'm sorry. Those were Republicans furious about the four dead Americans in Benghazi. Here is today's GOP.

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Senator Tuberville: It's just unfortunate that but this is war. It's going to get worse before it gets better.

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BTC: There's the Republican outrage that we've come to know so well. Treating war like it's the first season of the American Office. It had to get worse before it got better.

And it wasn't just Senator Tuberville, who's now okay with the cost of war. Republicans like Trump's ambassador to the UN, Mike Waltz, tweeted, "Freedom is never free." And Congresswoman, Anna Paulina Luna, was so rocked by the news that she tweeted out a sad face emoji. That's Congresswoman Luna extending the same level of sorrow for our fallen service members as the rest of us do when our friend has to cancel dinner plans.

The level of Republican cognitive dissonance over Donald Trump's war with Iran is simply staggering. Look, if there was one meal the GOP dined out on for years, it was Hillary Clinton saying, "What difference does it make in regards to the four Americans getting killed in Benghazi?" They repeated it at press conferences, used it in their campaign ads. In fact, they still throw that quote around to this day to illustrate how apparently callous she was.

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Pam Bondi: Hillary Clinton famously once said about Benghazi, "What difference at this point does it make?" Well, it makes a difference to Donald Trump.

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Dan Bongino: What difference does it make? Four Americans were murdered. Are you freaking insane? This is what's called gaslighting, framing, and narrative building. It was all bullshit all the time.

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BTC: And who better to spot gaslighting and narrative framing than Dan Bongino, the man totally cool with this administration's cover up of the Epstein files after being the same man who spent years saying…

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Dan Bongino: That Jeffrey Epstein story is a big deal.

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BTC: And that's why he put up almost a full year's worth of work into it because it was such a big deal to him.

But you heard them. What difference does it make? was the most heartless response a politician could have made to the men and women in uniform who gave their lives for this country. Thankfully, Republicans love competition in the marketplace.

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Trump: And sadly, there will likely be more before it ends. That's the way it is.

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BTC: I believe we have a new winner. Gosh, I really hope that none of the other Board of Peace members were watching that. I would hate to ruin our standing with other global beacons of peace and prosperity like Azerbaijan, Turkey, and Kazakhstan.

Now, over the past few days, there has been plenty of confusion around Trump's actions with Iran and for good reason. See, in order for the president to take America to war, he would need congressional authorization.

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Mike Johnson: It's not a declaration of war.

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BTC: Exactly. Because Trump didn't go to Congress and if he took us to war without doing so, that would be illegal. So, America can rest easy. We are not at war.

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Pete Hegseth: We set the terms of this war from start to finish.

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BTC: (bewildered) Wait, but the other guy said. Okay, so now we are at war?

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MarkWayne Mullin: This isn't a war."

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BTC: Got it. America is not at war.

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Kristen Welker: Is the United States at war with Iran?

Lindsey Graham: Uh, I think the Ayatollah would say, "Yeah."

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BTC: My god, there has not been this much back and forth since Lauren Boebert got her hand on her date's dick.

The linguistic gymnastics that Republicans and members of this administration are going through to justify what is clearly an illegal war is honestly quite impressive.

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Marco Rubio: We went proactively in a defensive way to prevent them from inflicting higher damage.

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BTC: Yes. Proactively in a defensive way. You know, like the way parents punish their children before they've done something wrong just to make sure that they know what could happen if they stepped out of line. Except in this case, we illegally punished a country with bombs.

The reality is, it is beyond fitting that this war with Iran has been dubbed Operation Epic Fury because epic fury is exactly what Americans are feeling right now. In just over a year into his second term in office, Donald Trump has been able to break every single one of his campaign promises.

He promised to lower costs, but while his tariff boner rose, our costs rose, too. Apologies for that imagery.

He promised to protect earned benefits, but instead gutted Medicaid from 17 million Americans and cut ACA subsidies from 24 million Americans.

And when it came to war, this man was a promising machine.

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Trump: We've spent $8 trillion in the Middle East and we're not fixing our roads in this country. How stupid. How stupid is it? And we're not fixing our highways, our tunnels, our bridges, our hospitals, even our schools, even. It's crazy.

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Trump: Under Trump, we will have no more wars, no more disruptions, and we will have prosperity and peace for all.

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Trump: I am the candidate of peace. I am peace.

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BTC: That's right. Trump is just one giant dove with an olive branch in his mouth. And it's not just Trump who has abandoned literally every single promise he made before coming into office. It's practically everyone in his administration. Pete Hegseth…

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Hegseth: I I've been a recovering neocon for six years now. Like the foolishness with which we ricocheted around the world intervening think it was in our best interest when really we just overturned the table and created something worse.

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BTC: Tulsi Gabbard…

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Gabbard: A vote for Donald Trump is a vote for a man who wants to end wars not start them.

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BTC: Even Jerome Druthers Vance claimed to be the anti-war candidate.

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JD Vance: Our interest I think very much is in not going to war with Iran. Right. It would be huge distraction of resources. is it would be massively expensive to our country.

America doesn't have to constantly police every region of the world. We should empower people to police their own regions of the world, right? And I and one we would save a lot of money. Two, we'd save a lot of focus. But unfortunately, I think Harris, she's got this weird thing where I actually think she kind of likes war. Maybe she feel like she feels like a tough guy about it.

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BTC: I mean, what the actual fuck? This is the equivalent of Diddy being on a podcast talking about how much he hates baby oil. It is all bullshit. Donald Trump ran on the populist message that unless you wanted to continue having a corrupt government where fat cats in Washington get rich and aren't held accountable while hardworking Americans get screwed, you had to put him in office.

And it would have been bad enough if he got elected and continued the status quo. But it was so much worse. Trump has shown himself to be the antithesis of every campaign promise he ever made. His secret crypto dinners, his $400 million ballroom, his jumbo jet gift from a foreign government, costs for everyday Americans are going up at the same time that Donald Trump in the past year has increased his wealth by $4 billion.

And now, after spending years criticizing prior administrations and pledging that he wouldn't get us into an endless war overseas, that is exactly what he's done.

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MarkWayne Mullin: This isn't a war.

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BTC: Please shut the fuck up. These lies are not a bug. They are a feature. And frankly, with three years left, the only consistent thing we can expect from Donald Trump and his administration is this. I would love to believe that this action would be the line in the sand for Republicans. That the unnecessary death of American soldiers in an unnecessary war would be a bridge too far, but I'm not holding my breath. And when it comes to these lies, as one man once said,

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Trump: "Sadly, there will likely be more before it ends. That's the way it is."

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BTC: It sure is.

[MLWR]

1. "What difference does it make?"

" was the most heartless response a politician could have made to the men and women in uniform who gave their lives for this country"

I beg to differ. The "most heartless response" IMO was "suckers and losers," "What's in it for them?" "They knew what they signed up for."

[some_of_us_are_sane]

2. Politics

is 90% THEATRICS and only 10% sound decisions AFTER looking at all possible outcomes.

( BOTH parties do this, but Republicans are worse.)