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Trump is 'calling for a nuclear strike,' former White House comms director says

https://www.irishstar.com/news/politics/breaking-trumps-former-comms-director-36980303
11•ndsipa_pomu•1h ago

Comments

ndsipa_pomu•1h ago
Obviously, a nuclear strike is the worst action that could be taken.

What concerns me is that this seems like it could be the reason that experienced military leadership was just recently purged by Hegseth.

abraxas•1h ago
Americans, you elected someone with the mentality of a child to the highest office in your country. You should be ashamed.

Face it, this is not some recent attack of dementia as some of you claim (perhaps trying to defend your extraordinarily poor judgment). The first time I heard that man talk was in 2016 when I saw fragments of his debate with Hillary Clinton. He was as childish and incoherent then as he is now. Later, seeing some clips of his behaviour during your election campaigns it was evident that he has the language and mannerisms of a child. I suspect he stopped his mental advance around the age of early adolescence or even earlier. This is not how an adult talks or behaves.

You gave nuclear codes to a 79 year old child. I can't condemn your recklessness enough.

MegagramEnjoyer•1h ago
You make children sound unreasonable. My 4 year old is way more coherent.
tim-tday•1h ago
Ouch. But same.
tim-tday•1h ago
I’m not ashamed.

Because this is democracy. I didn’t want this, I didn’t vote for it. But democracy is not just electing the people you want. The last presidential election was by all accounts a free and fair election.

As terrible as the current insanity might be, this is the president the majority voted for.

It may destroy the world economy, he might commit war crimes (attacking water infrastructure might be a war crime) and crimes against humanity (tbd). Those crimes may be prosecuted following due process, but until that happens this is the president the people elected.

Condemn the people who voted for him all you want, propose rules changes to prevent it from happening again, but he was democratically elected and I can’t be ashamed of democracy.

lawn•1h ago
The democracy in the US is faulty in many ways. Democracy isn't a black or white kind of thing, so of course you can be ashamed of the lack of democracy that ended up with this person in charge.
ndsipa_pomu•1h ago
I'm not convinced that the last election was free and fair. There's the strange comment that Trump made about Musk fixing the election machines and all the GOP comments about fixing elections sounds to me like projection
jacquesm•33m ago
That's all fine and good as long as you keep your trash indoors. Iran is halfway around the world and the title here should make anybody feel ashamed, not just those from the country that proposes this. It's a failure of humanity, not just of democracy that we let things get this far.
bearjaws•1h ago
This war is a shining example of how just a few small slips in a democracy can slide into collapse in just under 50 years. Everything felt fine up until 2008 and now America cannot fix itself anymore.

Citizens United

Shelby County v. Holder

First-past-the-post

ChrisArchitect•9m ago
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