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It makes me think of the SNL skit where Trump prank calls the "President of Zimbabwe", who says, "You cannot even walk down a flight of stairs, YOU LITTLE WHITE *BITCH*!"https://www.youtube.com/wat...

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Moving out the equipment actually takes a lot of time and planning. And that is an activity that would be observed by the enemy and noted as an opportunity to take advantage. Telegraphing. But Trump knows all about telegraphing moves, because he did that when he made a one-sided ‘deal’ with the Taliban.

Let’s apply this strategy to how Trump dominates a ramp:

First, you bring out the American citizens (his captive audience is now present and observing).

Then you bring out all equipment (ramp… check! Shoes with lifts… check! Girdle to compensate leaning due to lifts in shoes… check!).

Then you bomb the bases into smithereens (make a painfully bad speech, drop mic like you didn’t, and struggle on your way down the ramp as you evacuate).

And then you bring out the military (you probably want the military’s assistance down that ramp, given how vertically disadvantaged you’ve made yourself with all those vanity accessories).

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Exhibit A for my recent post in this morning's Tabs thread. This filth is certainly all aboard the "the Afghanis didn't step up" band wagon.

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I'd imagine there are some serious CTE concerns for those who had to sit through military strategy briefings with TFG from all the head shaking, face-palming, and forehead slapping they must have undergone.

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Not a peep from the "liberal" media about this or a bunch of the other bullshit he's spewed the past week.Instead it's all Biden's fault.

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Claudia Tenney is pushing the same thing.Really going to enjoy NY Dems drawing her out.

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It's said now that people will be shorter in heightThey can fit twice as many in the same building site

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They say it's alright.

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They say it's alright..

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Friedman gets a big F.U.

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Plus, it makes Afghanistan safe from hurricanes. Win-win!

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And they support him because he's a straight shooter.

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Dunkirk was only possible because Hitler thought the generals were taking control of the war away from him and made a stupid decision to show he was still in charge.

Sound familiar?

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Someone smart? Like who? Matt Gaetz? Marjorie Taylor Greene? Louie Gohmert?

MAGAts are, by their very nature, stupid.

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Friedman became unhinged after the 9/11 attack.His war boosterism reached its apotheosis in the infamous "Suck on this" moment. He was always a sententious twit but that attack accelerated his descent into self-caricature.

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I disagree strongly with that characterization. I think 9/11 revealed his fully hinged and true nature, a conscienceless Dunning-Kruger exhibit, who as an influential media war booster has profited handsomely while suffering neither responsibility nor accountability for his role as an architect of untold bloody tragedy.

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