You Will Anyway: The screws aren't just loose

Wednesday, January 2, 2019

The screws aren't just loose - they're completely missing

Trump says he had a meeting about Iran and the Middle East with lots of good-looking generals: "Like from a movie. Better looking than Tom Cruise, and stronger."

Trump added that there were many "computer boards" in this Iran meeting [...] . (I had to wait until other people tweeted "computer boards" to make sure I wasn't imagining this phrase.)

Trump's assessment of Syria: "We're talking about sand and death. That's what we're talking about."

Asked about the Syria withdrawal, Trump said he never said it would be "fast." He said it would happen in 30 days.

Trump: "Russia used to be the Soviet Union. Afghanistan made it Russia. Because they went bankrupt fighting in Afghanistan. Russia."

Trump said he gave U.S. generals "all the money they wanted" for Afghanistan, but they did a bad job. Of Mattis, he says, "What's he done for me? How has he done in Afghanistan? Not too good. Not too good."

Trump mocked Modi, I think, for reminding Trump that India built "a library" in Afghanistan: "We're supposed to say thank you for the library. I don't know who's using it, in Afghanistan..."

Trump said Russia was "right" to invade Afghanistan in 1979, since Russia invaded "because terrorists were going into Russia." Shockingly, that is not at all what happened.

Trump angrily complains about inspectors general doing public reports about the conduct of U.S. wars: "What kind of stuff is this? We're fighting wars and they're doing reports?" He says: "'The public' means the enemy. The enemy reads those reports."

If a wall is "immoral," Trump says, then someone has to "do something about The Vatican," because "The Vatican has the biggest wall of them all." (The Vatican is not encircled by walls.)

Trump criticized the late John McCain by name, twice, for voting against Obamacare repeal.

Trump on his hard line on trade and his unpopularity with European publics: "I could be the most popular person in Europe. I could be -- I could run for any office if I wanted to. But I don't want to."

We do, Bonespurs. We do. You haven't even led a successful business, and you've tried many, many times. Not to mention your loose relation to reality.

And Rudy isn't faring any better, either.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE: The Times of India says Trump is ignorant. In a diplomatic way.

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Life, as Explained in "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead"

GUILDENSTERN: What a fine persecution---to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.

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ROSENCRANTZ : The only thing that makes it bearable is the irrational belief that somebody interesting will come on in a minute.

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GUILDENSTERN: But for God's sake what are we supposed to do?!

PLAYER: Relax. Respond. That's what people do. You can't go through life questioning your situation at every turn.

GUILDENSTERN: But we don't know what's going on, or what to do with ourselves. We don't know how to act.

PLAYER: Act natural. You know why you're here at least.

GUILDENSTERN: We only know what we're told, and that's little enough. And for all we know it isn't even true.

PLAYER: For all anyone knows, nothing is. Everything has to be taken on trust; truth is only that which is taken to be true. It's the currency of living. There may be nothing behind it, but it doesn't make any difference so long as it is honoured. One acts on assumptions.

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GUILDENSTERN : We act on scraps of information... sifting half-remembered directions that we can hardly separate from instinct.

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PLAYER: Life is a gamble, at terrible odds-if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.