Sunday, August 17, 2025

It’s 1968 All Over Again!

I don’t have that much delusion imagination. In a WEEK? Even Rome wasn’t built in a day.

I’ve been seeing pictures of DC. Lots of military trucks rumbling down clean streets, lots of uniforms surrounding stopped cars. Or: I’ve also seen pictures of 1968, after Dr. King was assassinated. NG on the streets, silhouetted by fire and bombed out buildings. A true war zone. Not some privileged 19 year old white guy who thought he was tuff enuff, and got a bloody nose from a teenager.

Which is all Trump’s got. For about three more weeks.
Coach played football without a helmet one too many times.
Every cloud, right?  The week is young, but it’s certainly likely after half of European leadership shows up tomorrow to tell Zelensky they’ve got his back. 
Exactly. The whole world is watching. That’s not an announcement of a deal, and he ends pointing not to Alaska, but to D.C. And he still doesn’t understand what he did:
I think Trump may have thought that having a B-2 flyover accompanied by F-22s, the aircraft that, of course, were involved in Operation Midnight Hammer against Iran, was somehow suggesting a show of force to Putin," Edelman said. "I don't think that's how Putin saw it. I think he saw it as a mark of respect, actually. That's certainly the way it's being presented in the Russian press in the reaction to all this, which has been that this was an unqualified success for Putin."

"What it did was resuscitate him both domestically and internationally as a respected player on the international stage," Edelman continued. "This is very reminiscent of Kevin McCarthy going down to Mar-a-Lago in February of 2021 after Trump had left office disgraced by what happened on January 6th and his failure to stop the insurrection. That basically brought Trump back to life politically. That, in effect, is what Trump has done, I think, to Putin on both the domestic stage in Russia and on the international stage."
Trump is simply too stupid for our national good.

What a difference a three hour summit makes:
I’m sure he’ll be resolute tomorrow, in the face of his putative allies.
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2 comments:

  1. jim, some guy in iowa8:03 PM

    y'know, I disagree with the notion Putin is somehow elevated by all this. He's *still* a war criminal in the eyes of most of the world

    my take is *we*, the United States, lost even more of *our* standing by having the whole world watch Trump do practically everything but roll over and show his belly

    still a win for Vlad, of course

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  2. Rmj8:08 PM

    Excellent point. Putin looks good at home, which is what really matters to him. And that’s on us.

    How bad do we look to the world? That’s why so many European leaders are coming to D.C. tomorrow morning.

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