I’m just so tired we’re running the same stupid playbook except somehow the people in charge this time are worse and it never stops and it never gets better I want to get off this ride - ThreadSky

rincewind.run • 2 days ago

I’m just so tired

we’re running the same stupid playbook except somehow the people in charge this time are worse and it never stops and it never gets better

I want to get off this ride

Reposted from Acyn

Vance: I empathize with Americans who are exhausted after 25 years of foreign entanglements in the Middle East. I understand the concern, but the difference is that back then we had dumb presidents

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abigalesburner.bsky.social•2 days ago

Ditto.

ferrous.bsky.social•1 day ago

He is already admitting this will take years, this will be going on for decades

edpichon.bsky.social•1 day ago

At least the Bush administration had the decency to lie about it. Trump is not even bothering with that basic courtesy.

ethanf97.bsky.social•1 day ago

Fukuyama was right in the sense that we will be looping the years 1980-2020 ad infinitum

stoupax.bsky.social•1 day ago

as a NYer who remembers seeing the debris of the WTC fly past my 2nd grade classroom windows who now lives in the same city at this fucking creep... well, I don't even know how to finish this post, it sucks so bad. his kids will likely not have memories like this but many many others do and will.

samsterdave.bsky.social•1 day ago

dumb? the orange fart creates a new book of dumb-ness, written complete in very big crayon.

kaitou.org•2 days ago

Cautionary tales are all well and good, but do we have to live through one?

bel-the-ghost.bsky.social•1 day ago

Someone clip him saying "this isn’t gonna be some long drawn out thing" and get back to me in a year or so :/

catkimbriel.bsky.social•1 day ago

. . .Now they want to tell us we had dumb presidents.

Why is it so hot? I need to plant more trees.

onesarahwatters.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yep. Same. [Hugz]

bokross.bsky.social•2 days ago

This isn't Trump's second term.

It's Dubya's fourth.

multiangular-dog.bsky.social•1 day ago

"...dismantle over the coming years."

My man assuming theyre gonna have that long to fuck up more shit.

donettes.bsky.social•1 day ago

The fact that they’re even making these half hearted soy right apology vids is different from Iraq. They don’t have full control of the media this time.