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PCIntern

(25,541 posts)
Fri Jan 3, 2020, 12:25 PM Jan 2020

Oh come on, folks...

This war is only gonna take two, maybe three days at the most. Look, Trump knows more about the militaries of the world than anyone including his own generals. They’ll just scramble the B-52’s and those planes you can’t see even when you’re looking right at them.... you know they have beeps coming out of them so the pilots and mechanics can find them on the tarmac...and in no time Hell on Earth will be unleashed. Meanwhile since the Iranians have never considered this possibility of dealing with President Superman, they’ll be so flustered that they’ll just give up, sign a treaty that will allow Trump Hotels, Resorts, and Golf Clubs to be built in all major cities.

What could go wrong?

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Oh come on, folks... (Original Post) PCIntern Jan 2020 OP
Dang you... you made the coffee come back out of my nose. GemDigger Jan 2020 #1
PC owes me a new computer keyboard! Laffy Kat Jan 2020 #3
That made me chortle. GemDigger Jan 2020 #8
Recommended. H2O Man Jan 2020 #2
Sweets and candies for everybody!!! Proud Liberal Dem Jan 2020 #4
GMTA Dennis Donovan Jan 2020 #6
Flowers and candy, too Dennis Donovan Jan 2020 #5
And beautiful Persian rugs dalton99a Jan 2020 #13
Lol. You betcha. Nt BootinUp Jan 2020 #41
Shock and awe returns! nt coti Jan 2020 #14
This; gab13by13 Jan 2020 #21
Putin would like nothing better than us shouldering DENVERPOPS Jan 2020 #35
Watch for a statue of two to be pulled down by the liberated people. llmart Jan 2020 #22
Pimple actually did say the Iranian people would consider this a liberation! nt tblue37 Jan 2020 #31
After Trump bombs them back to the stone age Kaiserguy Jan 2020 #44
Pffft* Child's play. TheCowsCameHome Jan 2020 #7
Yep. What could POSSIBLY go wrong? calimary Jan 2020 #9
With underwriting for the hotels, resorts and golf clubs from... Fritz Walter Jan 2020 #10
Experience required to fight Iran Traildogbob Jan 2020 #11
If anyone misplaced one, I have one of those invisible planes in my driveway..... getagrip_already Jan 2020 #12
Heh. Doesn't show up in the pictures. SammyWinstonJack Jan 2020 #17
If the plane is invisible, don't people still see you flying over them CaptYossarian Jan 2020 #26
no silly, it's magical..... getagrip_already Jan 2020 #29
That was you? CaptYossarian Jan 2020 #33
LOL this sounds like part of an episode of Welcome to Night Vale yellowdogintexas Jan 2020 #50
You forgot the most important thing durablend Jan 2020 #15
Just hope he doesn't wear a codpiece for it. Crunchy Frog Jan 2020 #36
What could wrong? sarge43 Jan 2020 #16
Haven't you heard, "Wars are easy". Pepsidog Jan 2020 #18
Yeah, they are easy to win! n/t Chemisse Jan 2020 #23
Peace on Earth, good will toward men SCVDem Jan 2020 #19
Trump is such a Stable Genius. MrModerate Jan 2020 #20
Then why did he confuse a potato peeler with a home circumcision kit? CaptYossarian Jan 2020 #27
It'll take me awhile to unsee that. n/t MrModerate Jan 2020 #42
I was going for the auditory sense. If you think he's loud at a rally... CaptYossarian Jan 2020 #43
They could have avoided all this if they had a couple of Trump golf courses lunatica Jan 2020 #24
You mistyped. You said days when you meant decades. Kablooie Jan 2020 #25
As we all know Trump is a genius! rurallib Jan 2020 #28
I thought Iran was defeated already? getagrip_already Jan 2020 #30
FIRE AND FURY, BABY! EveHammond13 Jan 2020 #32
The Donald will need to one-up Bush though, so he'll do "Mission Accomplished" BEFORE any attack. Rainbow Droid Jan 2020 #40
It will be a cakewalk. And we'll be greeted as liberators. Crunchy Frog Jan 2020 #34
It has been noted that he is very frightened about war.. maybe why he's been AWOL from twitter Thekaspervote Jan 2020 #37
What could go wrong, you ask? The collapse of Saudi Arabia, orchestrated by Russia and Iran... hunter Jan 2020 #38
Trump needs something personally out of your otherwise plausible scenario. Rainbow Droid Jan 2020 #39
It's at that level, yes. PCIntern Jan 2020 #45
Or a retaliatory terrorist attack by Iran wnylib Jan 2020 #49
Ugh! warmfeet Jan 2020 #46
I heard Trump thinks this may "stop the cycle of violence" Skittles Jan 2020 #47
Because he thought it was a terrorist motorcycle he was killing. Rainbow Droid Jan 2020 #53
It will be a cake walk XRubicon Jan 2020 #48
Shock and awe brokephibroke Jan 2020 #51
I'm waiting to hear catchnrelease Jan 2020 #52
Don jr. , Ivanka , and Eric should be inducted into the Armed Forces immediately. MasonDreams Jan 2020 #54
careful there... he has the ability to make them generals.... getagrip_already Jan 2020 #55
Our laws don't seem to work, perhaps we should subject them to the UCMJ. MasonDreams Jan 2020 #57
sigh...... getagrip_already Jan 2020 #59
Ok, perhaps we should close this portal to fast track fascism. MasonDreams Jan 2020 #60
The boys will be home before spring. Swede Jan 2020 #56
Seems we are no longer welcome in the places we are? pwb Jan 2020 #58

GemDigger

(4,305 posts)
1. Dang you... you made the coffee come back out of my nose.
Fri Jan 3, 2020, 12:27 PM
Jan 2020

Maybe a warning of no drinking while reading this might have been appreciated.

gab13by13

(21,323 posts)
21. This;
Fri Jan 3, 2020, 01:41 PM
Jan 2020

When we bomb Iran I expect they will welcome us with rose petals, just like the Iraqis did.

DENVERPOPS

(8,817 posts)
35. Putin would like nothing better than us shouldering
Fri Jan 3, 2020, 03:05 PM
Jan 2020

The expense of taking out the other oil suppliers so he gets more sales

llmart

(15,536 posts)
22. Watch for a statue of two to be pulled down by the liberated people.
Fri Jan 3, 2020, 01:50 PM
Jan 2020

Also, that's a "yellow cake" walk.

Kaiserguy

(740 posts)
44. After Trump bombs them back to the stone age
Fri Jan 3, 2020, 06:11 PM
Jan 2020

then he will use our money to built all of those 5 star hotel and golf courses that no one will be there to use.

calimary

(81,238 posts)
9. Yep. What could POSSIBLY go wrong?
Fri Jan 3, 2020, 12:46 PM
Jan 2020

Oh, I dunno... a so-called “leader” with no impulse control and delusions of divine emperorhood.

...just maybe EVERYTHING...

Fritz Walter

(4,291 posts)
10. With underwriting for the hotels, resorts and golf clubs from...
Fri Jan 3, 2020, 12:53 PM
Jan 2020

Vladdy Daddy, and his band of merry oligarchs.

Traildogbob

(8,731 posts)
11. Experience required to fight Iran
Fri Jan 3, 2020, 12:54 PM
Jan 2020

They have been fighting for 5,000 years, we have been fighting our entire existence........which is how long exactly? Our dept and deficit is gonna continue to explode, while trump tax break Recepients will pay nothing, especially lives, in the war.

getagrip_already

(14,742 posts)
12. If anyone misplaced one, I have one of those invisible planes in my driveway.....
Fri Jan 3, 2020, 12:56 PM
Jan 2020

I keep hitting my head on it so I'd like to get rid of it. I'd post it for sale on ebay, but it doesn't show up in the pictures. I found what think is the instruction manual, but it is invisible as well.

I'm not sure how it got there, but I gave some very nice small grey people with very large eyes some of my recent bodhi crop. They bowed, pointed to the driveway, waved, and disappeared in a cloud of smoke.

Anyone want a slightly used late model stealth attack ship from sirius-b?

CaptYossarian

(6,448 posts)
26. If the plane is invisible, don't people still see you flying over them
Fri Jan 3, 2020, 02:26 PM
Jan 2020

in a seated position?

That must help folks give up alcohol.

getagrip_already

(14,742 posts)
29. no silly, it's magical.....
Fri Jan 3, 2020, 02:32 PM
Jan 2020

Everything inside it becomes invisible, which makes it hard to read the instruments. I haven't figured out that part yet.

Also, I've wondered what happens if I turn on a dome light. Do people on the ground see lights in the sky?

yellowdogintexas

(22,252 posts)
50. LOL this sounds like part of an episode of Welcome to Night Vale
Fri Jan 3, 2020, 10:36 PM
Jan 2020

which I happen to be listening to.

I can almost hear the Voice of Night Vale reading those words!!

 

SCVDem

(5,103 posts)
19. Peace on Earth, good will toward men
Fri Jan 3, 2020, 01:27 PM
Jan 2020

Another reason I just cannot celebrate this holiday.

Such blatant hypocrisy.

CaptYossarian

(6,448 posts)
27. Then why did he confuse a potato peeler with a home circumcision kit?
Fri Jan 3, 2020, 02:29 PM
Jan 2020

That's why Melania didn't care that day.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
24. They could have avoided all this if they had a couple of Trump golf courses
Fri Jan 3, 2020, 02:07 PM
Jan 2020

And a Trump Tower or two and a cool Trump luxury resort. Ivanka posing in the Trump hotels would have worked out really well for them.

getagrip_already

(14,742 posts)
30. I thought Iran was defeated already?
Fri Jan 3, 2020, 02:34 PM
Jan 2020

And isis was disbanded. How can they be dangerous in the age of trump? Impossible......

hunter

(38,311 posts)
38. What could go wrong, you ask? The collapse of Saudi Arabia, orchestrated by Russia and Iran...
Fri Jan 3, 2020, 03:42 PM
Jan 2020

... followed by a flood of 30 million unemployable refugees who will not be welcome anywhere in the world.

The price of Russian and Iranian oil and natural gas will skyrocket.

But that's not what will end Trump. Putin will release the infamous "P" tape, taken from Jeffery Epstein, in which Donald Trump and William Barr are recorded boffing an underage girl. Trump's Evangelical base will not be upset by that, per se, except that Trump is seen enthusiastically groping Barr's ass.







Rainbow Droid

(722 posts)
39. Trump needs something personally out of your otherwise plausible scenario.
Fri Jan 3, 2020, 04:24 PM
Jan 2020

You know, like maybe dirt on Joe Biden?

wnylib

(21,446 posts)
49. Or a retaliatory terrorist attack by Iran
Fri Jan 3, 2020, 09:24 PM
Jan 2020

inside the US. Imagine what he could do internally in the name of national security. And how could we even think of trying an impeached president in a time of national emergency? Or switching leaders via election at such a time?

warmfeet

(3,321 posts)
46. Ugh!
Fri Jan 3, 2020, 08:52 PM
Jan 2020

“Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now.”

― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Please, not again?

Rainbow Droid

(722 posts)
53. Because he thought it was a terrorist motorcycle he was killing.
Sat Jan 4, 2020, 02:29 AM
Jan 2020

Some kind of Muslim "Knight Rider", apparently.

At least that's what a lot of people are saying.

XRubicon

(2,212 posts)
48. It will be a cake walk
Fri Jan 3, 2020, 09:00 PM
Jan 2020

Did you hear they have remote control planes that can reach New York city?

Saddam.. er I mean the Iranians could cause a mushroom cloud. Yeah, I heard that.

MasonDreams

(756 posts)
54. Don jr. , Ivanka , and Eric should be inducted into the Armed Forces immediately.
Sat Jan 4, 2020, 04:00 AM
Jan 2020

Our sons and daughters are at risk, yours should be as well.

getagrip_already

(14,742 posts)
55. careful there... he has the ability to make them generals....
Sat Jan 4, 2020, 11:35 AM
Jan 2020

Under the emergency powers act, he can grant a commision to anyone. Then he can put them in charge of white house defense forces.

I'm sure he doesn't know it or he would have already done it.

MasonDreams

(756 posts)
57. Our laws don't seem to work, perhaps we should subject them to the UCMJ.
Sat Jan 4, 2020, 05:13 PM
Jan 2020

Go ahead make my day. Try your Judge bribing, witness tampering, and mobster threats whith a court-martial system.

getagrip_already

(14,742 posts)
59. sigh......
Sat Jan 4, 2020, 07:12 PM
Jan 2020

Unlike judges, officers have to follow orders. That's why there were no charges, or dishonarable discharge, or even discipline against those 3 soldiers

Remember that rear admiral who stood up and made bald faced lies about trumps health? Orders.

Sure, they aren't required to obey an illegal order, but we know what happens next.

MasonDreams

(756 posts)
60. Ok, perhaps we should close this portal to fast track fascism.
Sat Jan 4, 2020, 07:32 PM
Jan 2020

Sometimes, I just need to fantasize about an easy way to positive change. A break from the endless spiral, that things will have to get worse before they get better.
Can't we just eject, float back to earth under a parachute and let the war machine crash into a mountainside.

pwb

(11,261 posts)
58. Seems we are no longer welcome in the places we are?
Sat Jan 4, 2020, 05:40 PM
Jan 2020

All those years of trying, down the tubes. I think it is time we left. After ten years in Nam Walter Cronkite said "We did the best we could" and the country agreed. We left and peace was nice for the people. For me it is time for that again. Let the people find their own way.

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