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Cyrano

(15,063 posts)
Tue Apr 25, 2017, 11:24 AM Apr 2017

"One Hundred Day" Distraction Needed (North Korea?)

Most Trump voters are clinging to the belief that Trump is a sane person.

He wants funding for his wall, which was an incredibly stupid idea to begin with.

He’s in a panic because he said he’d get it started in his first hundred days.

He also said he’d rid the country of Obamacare “… on day one.”

Most American’s don’t want those things to happen. Many Trump voters do.

This unhinged president believes he can force these things to happen this week.

However, these two BIG campaign promises are in the toilet. They’re dead.

The unhinged man in the White House has discovered there are things called the congress and the courts. He’s found that he can’t do whatever he wants to do. He’s found that being president is not like being Emperor.

DISTRACTION NEEDED

BUT, and this is a big BUT, Donald Trump cannot allow himself to be perceived as losing. EVER.

We’ve already seen his pattern. If his alternate reality doesn’t work, use distraction.

But what could be big enough to distract people from the “!00 Day” promises?

Ahh, North Korea. Bombing the hell out of them, or attacking them with special forces would be more than sufficient to make people forget about that “One Hundred Day” thingy.

Yeah, yeah, North Korea has nukes and could destroy South Korea and Japan. But put yourself in Trump’s shoes. Would he rather fail at bringing about what he promised would happen during his first hundred days? Or, if he could cause a distraction by having North Korea launch its nukes, kill a few million people in South Korea and Japan, would that be preferable to people noticing that he failed to bring about the things he promised?

So here’s the question. Do you think this mentally unstable man in the White House would let himself be seen as failing? Or would he use North Korea, and millions of deaths, as a “handy distraction?” (And, yeah, it could bring the world into a possible nuclear confrontation and possible annihilation, but what does any of that crap matter when Trump's self-image is at stake?)

So what do you think?

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"One Hundred Day" Distraction Needed (North Korea?) (Original Post) Cyrano Apr 2017 OP
FF45 is not going to nuke anyone Thomas Hurt Apr 2017 #1
I'm talking about the North Korean guy using nukes Cyrano Apr 2017 #2

Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)
1. FF45 is not going to nuke anyone
Tue Apr 25, 2017, 11:50 AM
Apr 2017

but he is going to have a great dog and pony show with Tillerson's Magical North Korean Mystery Tour for the Senators. In said show Tillerson will regale the Senators with information they already know and I suspect some juicy Bannon conspiracy theories.

Cyrano

(15,063 posts)
2. I'm talking about the North Korean guy using nukes
Tue Apr 25, 2017, 12:42 PM
Apr 2017

His haircut is even worse than Trump's and he's more unpredictable than Trump.

This is a guy who could order the launch of a nuke on a whim.

And with our own bad haircut in the White House, who knows where it could lead?

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