The Old Hack

This is the latest outrage that has right wingers up in arms. It is apparently aimed at a population group with brains that have significant trouble keeping up with a moldy cheese. On a good day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l3CD7qo2xQ

Um, has it become accepted norm to bill the enemy for losses you sustain during a war you started? Will we be seeing Japan sue the estate of Admiral Nimitz for the loss of four fleet carriers during the Battle of Midway?

I kinda liked him back then. That ended with his later escapades. I can mourn what he was back then. I will shed no tears over what died today.

He is by far more likely to be remembered as the man who destroyed the status of the US as a superpower.

It is an amazing plan. Commit an illegal act of war that will alienate all the most important allies of the US at a massive cost, all to get something that the US could have had for the asking just by informing the Danish government that they wanted it!

That disgusting tubful of decomposing orange lard you keep festering in the Oval Office just made the following observation about NATO. When informed that his actions might cause it to break up, he casually threw out "They probably wouldn't have helped us anyway." I am going out on a limb here and assuming that the people present on these forums have heard of the events of September 11th, 2001. In the immediate aftermath of these, the United States invoked Article Five of NATO, calling the other member states for aid -- the only time so far in the history of NATO that Article Five has been invoked. And they DID come. Denmark in particular made a larger per capita contribution than any other member state and also suffered the largest proportionate number of casualties. But that has clearly slipped the Mango Kaiser's rapidly dimming mind. I mean, the destruction of the Towers didn't really rate as far as history goes. Bah!

Well how about that. Even Senator Tom Tillis of the GOP thinks attacking Denmark is a bad idea. That at least is a small relief.

Articles of impeachment have been filed against the Doginator. I approve. Not sure how big a chance of success they have but it is nonetheless brightening my day. EDIT: I have just received a complaint from a Dr. Heinz Doofenschmirtz who says that DHS Secretary Noem is not one of his inators as they possess both charm and style. I hereby apologize for any confusion.

Political joke. After the Trump administration abducted the President of Venezuela without a preceding declaration of war, it didn't take long for various others to decide that if the US could do that maybe they could as well. Soon, the Penguin Liberation Front of Heard and McDonald Islands saw an opportunity to strike, entered through a hole in the half-demolished White House and made off with Donald Trump. On the very next day they released a video tape stating their terms. "Attention, American tariff lovers! These are our demands! We have your president! You have 48 hours to pay us a hundred million dollars! And if you fail to meet the deadline, WE WILL RETURN HIM TO YOU!"

And precisely how would that be any sort of constraint on the demented orange howler baboon? It is not exactly as if it has a history of respecting preexisting treaties or agreements of any kind.

Senator Mike Lee of Utah has just proposed reintroducing letters of marque and reprisal so private US citizens may be empowered to go after enemies of the US. A grand return to the age of piracy on the high seas. There is no possible way this could in any form or shape go wrong! Arrrrrrr! (Someone mentioned planting something illegal on some billionaire's megayacht and using that as an excuse for seizing it, plundering it and haul it off for selling in some neutral country, and this has caused me to be on the verge of being in favour of this insane idea. Where's my One Piece pirate flag?)

Anyway I was wrong. It wasn't two battleships. It was twenty-five. Twenty-five. I don't think the US had twenty-five battleships at the height of World War Two. Trump is a fucking moron and the people who enable him are a disgrace to the United States.

The convicted felon in the Oval Office has decided to build two new battleships for the US Navy. Battleships. I am sure they will not at all be obsolete from the moment the keels are laid and I look forward to the new vessels USS Inadvisable and USS Defaulted.

Supposedly he is going to stop breathing eventually. As far as I am concerned, once that happens it will be the best thing he has ever done.

You have to admit it. When it comes to diplomacy and international relations, Trump's abject incompetence and utter lack of comprehension is in a category of its own. He is currently doing all he can to worsen diplomatic relations with Denmark and the rest of NATO, citing the need for US access to Greenland, its strategic position and its rare earth elements. This notwithstanding the fact that he could have had all he wanted just by asking nicely back when NATO was still an ongoing concern and the US the most respected nation in the world. Denmark would happily have let the US have all the bases it wanted as well as access to developing facilities for the extraction of REEs. The only national leader I can think of that was even nearly as bad in history was Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, whose efforts helped work European relations into such a tangle that when WW1 was set off it spread like wildfire and ultimately ended three empires. In theory King Christian VII of Denmark was worse given that he was literally and medically retarded, but since his diplomatic efforts consisted solely of tamely signing whatever document was put in front of him, in practice he was only as bad as whichever political faction had access to the throne at the time.