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As Trump continues to wage war against Iran today, he's put his own supporters in the impossible position yet again of trying to reconcile what Trump said when he was pandering for votes and what he's doing now that he actually has power. And there are two camps here.
One camp of people who are proving that they stand for nothing other than blind falty to the God King and another camp of people who are waking up to that reality. You will be shocked to learn that one of those lists is much longer than the other.
Let's start with JD Vance who wrote in 2023 Trump's best foreign policy not starting any wars or said this in 2024. "But America's interest is sometimes going to be distinct. Like sometimes we're going to have overlapping interests and sometimes we're going to have distinct interests and our interest I think very much is in not going to war with Iran, right? It would be huge distraction of resources. It would be massively expensive to our country." and yet today happily retweeted a picture of himself in the situation room starting a war.
Back in 2024, Nikki Haley said this: "because I am confident that his first task will be to do the work to walk us back from the brink of war. We cannot be prosperous unless we are at peace." But today, Nikki Haley wrote, "Opperation Epic Fury is a true example of good versus evil."
Just months ago, Pete Hegath said this: "The War Department will not be distracted by democracy building, interventionism, undefined wars, regime change, climate change, woke, moralizing, and feckless nation building." And yet today, Hegath wrote, "The Iranian regime had their chance and refused to make a deal, and now they are suffering the consequences."
In 2024, Steven Miller wrote, "Kamla will send your sons to war." And yet today he giddily retweeted Trump's speech where he said this: "The lives of courageous American heroes may be lost and we may have casualties. That often happens in war, but we're doing this not for now. We're doing this for the future and it is a noble mission. We pray for every service member as they selflessly risk their lives to ensure that Americans and our children will never be threatened by a nuclear armed Iran."
Quote, "The lives of American heroes may be lost and we may have casualties that often happens in war." Now, where have I heard that one before? "Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I am willing to make." Ah, that's right. And of course, don't forget it came right from the horse's mouth.
This is from 2011: "Unfortunately, we have a president that doesn't know the first thing about negotiation. We have a real problem in the White House. So, I believe that he will attack Iran sometime prior to the election because he thinks that's the only way he can get elected. Isn't it pathetic?"
This is from 2012: "You know, I've said before I think Obama will go to war with Iran because I think he views it as good politically and I that's pretty sad and it's a pretty sad thing to have to say, but I think he will absolutely go to war with Iran. I think he views that as a positive from a political standpoint and I think he's just waiting for the right moment. And I think Iran better be damn careful because they are overplaying their hand just like Gaddafi and just like Saddam Hussein. And at some point, there's no question, as sure as you're sitting here, unless something else happens first, like somebody wanting to get elected and the only way he's going to do it is to start a war with Iran. Because I tell you what, if Iran isn't negotiating now, they got to be crazy because they are sitting, and I said this the other day, they are sitting on hot timber. They are really crazy if they're not negotiating. And by the way, they do, in my opinion, want to negotiate. But we may have somebody that wants to have war because he doesn't want to accept a negotiation which could turn out to be much stronger than war. And you could make a much better deal than war, but it may be good politics. So I actually blogged the other day. I love this twittering and tweeting. I love it because, you know, I'm bigger than the New York Times. I got millions of people. I like it's like I own the New York Times. It's crazy. It's crazy. That's called the new age. You know, I always wanted to own a newspaper. Now I own a newspaper and it didn't cost me anything. It's unbelievable. So, I did say though that I predict there's a very good chance that we'll end up in a war with Iran because I think it's politically possibly a positive for Obama, even though it's not a good thing for our country."
And of course, here are some from 2024: "We don't want to see wars. I don't want to see wars. I was in no wars other than we finished a war with ISIS and we completed it 100% complete. Uh but I don't want to see wars. I think it's so horrible, so unnecessary, so costly in terms of lives and money and that order and and destroying these countries. You know, you're destroying culture. When you look at Ukraine, that would have never happened if I were president. You look at the October 7th attack on Israel. Would have never happened. I will tell you, you're not going to have a war with me and you're not going to have a third world war with me. That I can tell you."
With that said, for every thousand bootlickers and sick of fans whose position changes as the wind blows, there are some folks who are waking up to the reality of what they helped usher in. Like for example, Margie Teller Green who wrote, "We said no more foreign wars, no more regime change. We said it on rally stage after rally stage, speech after speech." Trump Vance, basically the entire admin campaigned on it and promised to put America first and make America great again. My generation has been let down, abused, and used by our government our entire adult lives. and our children's generation is literally being abandoned. Thousands and thousands of Americans from my generation have been killed and injured in never-ending pointless foreign wars and we said no more. But we are freeing the Iranian people. Please.
But again, let's be clear. She is in the minority. Because for every one of her there are a thousand people like Cat Turd who wrote last summer there would be no war if Trump was president and is now writing just watching this with a bunch of fire emojis because something something we hate foreign wars and look it's hard not to recognize the con Trump campaigned expressly on being the peace president. I mean hell this is the FIFA peace prize winner that we're talking about after all. They don't just give that prize away to any What's that? Oh, they they do give that prize away to anyone. Got it.
Well, look, regardless, the hypocrisy could not be more staggering. And let's be clear, the absence of a single long-standing principle with Donald Trump isn't limited to his apparent love for foreign wars. He promised to lower prices, and in said prices are surging. He promised to protect earned benefits, and yet he's gutted Medicaid, weakened Social Security, and cut ACA subsidies. He promised to bring down inflation and the latest report has inflation now rising and it's basically at the same point as it was when Biden left office. The Epstein files were supposed to be released and instead he's engaged in a governmentwide cover up to suppress them. This is a recurring theme for Trump. He will say anything and everything to get elected. His mouthpieces will all put their credibility on the line for him. And then once he has power, he turns around and does the polar opposite, leaving everybody else twisting in the wind. When I say that Donald Trump's sole priority is himself, this is what I mean. When you support a guy who doesn't actually stand for anything, you shouldn't be surprised when he eventually exposes the fact that you don't stand for anything either.
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