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[conuly]

“As I have stated strongly before, and just to reiterate, if Turkey does anything that I, in my great and unmatched wisdom, consider to be off limits, I will totally destroy and obliterate the Economy of Turkey (I’ve done before!)”

...is it just me, or is that even batshittier than declaring he could just pardon himself if found guilty of anything?

This is the fucking worst timeline, I swear. I can't even be amused by the wacky hijinks anymore.

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[lavendertook]

It really fucking is.

[jessie_c]

25th Amendment time yet?

[archangelbeth]

Pence would never; he knows that if he loses the reflected cult-love of the die-hard ~30%, he won't have anything to run on in 2020. (Plus he may be impeachable as well.)

[dewline]

According to Maddow, Pence is already under investigation for that.

[archangelbeth]

Gods, but I hope they could both be nailed to the wall. Metaphorically, USSS. Metaphorically. Really.

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[readerjane]

It really is.

The next good president will be able to startle us just by being rational.

[conuly]

One can only hope.

[silverusagi]

IN MY GREAT AND UNMATCHED WISDOM.

Geez, this sounds like Supreme Leader stuff.

[conuly]

But without any shred of irony or self-awareness.

[negothick]

Expecting to hear him style himself "The Great and Powerful Oz" next.

[wendelah1]

I was just thinking the same thing.

[dewline]

It's not just you. I assure you of that.

[brokenallbroken]

I can't even remember the last time I could tell the difference between parody and reality.

[lilysea]

This is the fucking worst timeline, I swear.

I mean, I think the WORST timeline would be

if Hitler had managed to invade Britain and the US;

or if Stanislav Petrov hadn't refused to press the button to deploy nuclear weapons[1].

But this timeline certainly has serious problems. And it's infuriating how solveable/avoidable many of them are if people would just THINK/listen to experts.

[1] "On 26 September 1983, three weeks after the Soviet military had shot down Korean Air Lines Flight 007, Petrov was the duty officer at the command center for the Oko nuclear early-warning system when the system reported that a missile had been launched from the United States, followed by up to five more. Petrov judged the reports to be a false alarm, and his decision to disobey orders, against Soviet military protocol, is credited with having prevented an erroneous retaliatory nuclear attack on the United States and its NATO allies that could have resulted in large-scale nuclear war. Investigation later confirmed that the Soviet satellite warning system had indeed malfunctioned."

[conuly]

If the world had ended mere days before my 7-month birthday, I wouldn't be around to care now, so I'm rejecting that as a possibility from the start.

As far as Hitler goes, was him invading the US ever an actual possibility? This is the dude who thought he could do what Napoleon had failed to do and take Russia in the middle of winter without adequate equipment.

[rhoda_rants]

UUUGGGGHHHHHH. Is he KIDDING?? Part of wonders if he's getting worse because Impeachment is looming, but I can't tell anymore. I have lost the ability to gage levels of batshit with this guy.

[mtbc]

It does smell of desperate distraction and now we even have a former national security advisor call it as it is on https://twitter.com/colbertlateshow/status/1181363210596835328

[hudebnik]

OMG, I hadn't seen that tweet before. He really did.

[sabotabby]

Nor I.

[ayebydan]

Turkey is....not a country you want to pick a fight with. Their leader faked a revolution to get himself more powers ffs.

[zesty_pinto]

I often tell people that the years have gone more and more of a parody with our politics. The worst part is that it doesn't even resemble clever parody anymore.

[silveradept]

The longer it goes on, the clearer it becomes to everyone that he was never going to be a bumbling clown when in office. One hopes that if the is a next Congress and President, they get to immediate work making sure that none of the things done in this timeline get to happen again.

[shadowkat]

Yes, I've begun to wonder if he's forgotten that he actually is running a country and not on some unscripted fictional reality series competing with SNL for best political satirist of the decade.

Also this show he thinks he's on? It needs better writers.

[kyrielle]

The author for this timeline should have had their script draft stamped with a big red REJECTED right off the bat.