Re: [OT] Not TACO anymore?

Not a TACO at all but
a TOFU
Trump Always F's Up.
On 6/18/25 10:29, quadibloc wrote:

Looking at Google News, I've seen a spate of op-eds saying that Donald
Trump is too emotional, childish, and erratic to be trusted with the
nuclear launch codes.
 While I don't disagree with the basic sentiment, as I think he is
unsuitable to be trusted with the post of municipal dogcatcher, let
alone POTUS, I was a bit surprised by this. After all, given his
policies on the Ukraine conflict, it seemed obvious that he is terrified
of a nuclear war, and would prefer to let Russia overrun all of Europe
to taking the risk of standing up to it.
 But it's obvious what prompted this. Iran.
 It's hard for me, but here I'll actually defend something Trump is
doing. Just like Bush with the second war on Iraq, really. Sure, Tulsi
Gabbard may well be right that Iran poses no immediate threat of
becoming nuclear armed, just as Iraq didn't really have WMDs.
 But Iraq did not 100% totally cooperate with weapons inspectors.
 So if even the tiniest possibility of Iraq having WMDs is absolutely
intolerable, Bush was right.
 And this is what's happening with Iran. Iran insists on enriching
uranium beyond levels needed for peaceful electrical power production.
It refuses to totally cooperate with the IAEA.
 So if they aren't going to totally comply with what's needed to ensure
they will never, ever, possibly get nukes, fixing it by force is what's
needed.
 Basically, my feeling about Trump and nuclear war hasn't changed from
what his policies on Ukraine led me to. The danger from him isn't a
nuclear war. It's a Co-Dominion world, where Russia gets Europe, China
gets Taiwan and a bunch else, say Korea and the Philippines for
starters, and the U.S. gets Canada, Greenland, and all of Latin America.
 And all three of the nuclear superpowers that peacefully (in terms of
peace between them; the takeover of the rest of the world will be by
force) divide up the world will of course by tyrannical. The U.S. will
go beyond the worst nightmares of liberals about Project 2025.
 That, and not its opposite, nuclear war, is the real danger Trump poses.
 John Savard

Curiously I wa born in 1937 as the NAZIs consolidated their power and the
JIA got serious in China.  My (waking) nightmares include a lot more than people
who did not live thru the propaganda of WW II. The collapse of the Union as the
foolishness of the American Special Interests split apart the USA. The eruption
of several volcanoes in California, the adjustment of the sesmic fault off the
coast of the NorthWest States resulting in a tsunami on the West Coast and
matters unforeseeable like the eruption of the crater that is Yellowstone or
further violent earthquakes in the Mississippi drainage and of course the
inevitable rise of the sea into that vally giving us the true Gulf of America
not to be confused with the Gulf of America and the loss of the cities of
the Eastern Seaboard.  Whatever political arrangement ensues will not be
the one that liberals or even progressive liberals hope for.  As for Trump
read the." Iron Heel" by Jack London which I bellieve was inspired by the last
Gilded Age of concentration fo wealth and the attendant corruption.
Also a Harry Turtledove Crosstime Traders story "Welcome to the Disunited
States" where several states have Nuclear Bombs and hostilities between
states are constant.
bliss - How do you know how bad the nightmares of liberals are?