In his resignation letter, Kent wrote, “As a veteran who deployed to combat 11 times and as a Gold Star husband who lost my beloved wife Shannon in a war manufactured by Israel, I cannot support sending the next generation off to fight and die in a war that serves no benefit to the American people nor justifies the cost of American lives.”

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    He KNOWS something and he doesn’t want to be holding the bag when “it” happens.

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      This is my thought. The admin (not Trump because I don’t think he can plan more than five minutes ahead right now) is either going to launch a false-flag, or deploy a nuke. Maybe both, so we can say “look, we SAID Iran had nukes!”

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    I’m never quite sure what to make of stories like this.

    On the one hand, it’s admirable to take a stand, but on the other hand, the stand implies that Trump’s decisions before this were acceptably sound, but this one passed some threshold making it unacceptably unsound.

    The obvious reality is that Trump’s decisions barely even count as decisions, and can’t really be judged as eirher sound or unsound

    Instead, they’re just the whims and obsessions of a delusional narcissist with the emotional maturity and attention span of a toddler, and the degree to which they might provide some benefit or serve some national interest is effectively random, since those are considerations of which Trump isn’t even capable. There’s barely room for anyone or anything else at all in Trump’s pathologically egocentric universe, and the degree to which other people and institutions exist at all to him is almost entirely just the degree to which they manage to threaten or soothe his ego.

    So it’s sort of like watching a blindfolded drunk firing a gun into a crowd and just nodding along complacently as long as he doesn’t hit anybody, then only when he does hit somebody saying, “Hey now - wait a minute! We can’t be having any of that!”

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      This was my first thought too. This guy backed Trump through all the bullshit of the last 10 years, but it was bombing Iran that finally made him break? I don’t buy it.

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        Maybe he’s getting out before the fake terrorist attack on US soil happens because it’s so unbelievable for the story they have cooked up he doesn’t want to look like a complete idiot. 😉

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          I do suspect Trump wants an Article 1 in invocation to get the Strait opened back up.

          Nobody is supporting him, I wouldn’t put it past them to try something like a false flag.

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      I’m never quite sure what to make of stories like this.

      MAGA is reforming without Trump. It’s largely about the need for narrative coherence. Trump’s cooked, and regardless of his political future, the dudes like 200 years old. He’s done.

      As a movement, Trump is giving MAGA a chance to make a clean and coherent break from a ‘dear leader’ who wasn’t going to be useful in 2 years anyways.

      Those who reject Trump will get to make this presentation. That they resisted him. Those that stick around Trump will get to say that he was a mad man, they were just trying to steer him to better decisions, and those that support Trump from a far will get to say it was just bad advisors around Trump. Everyone will have an excuse that allows them to present themselves as the good one among a pack of devils.

      On the one hand, it’s admirable to take a stand, but on the other hand, the stand implies that Trump’s decisions before this were acceptably sound, but this one passed some threshold making it unacceptably unsound.

      The dude supported ALL of Trump’s policies and political theater. The ship is sinking and this rat crafted a convincing lifejacket. Put a bet down 👇 on what office this reek will be pursuing in two years. How blovious and long winded will their speech at the RNC be?

      Are you excited to hear them being quoted on Fox news? I wonder what the book title will be.

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        You know, I really hate that in order to have even the slightest coherent, political opinion today, we all need to be top-tier political analysts. Compared to 30 years ago, this world is completely unrecognizable.

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          I really hate that in order to have even the slightest coherent,

          Man I wish people actually were, or would at least regard the analysts whose claims and analysis predict future states of the world correctly more, highly than those whose claims make them feel good about their positionality in the world. There was no need for a second Trump term and we ended up in that position specifically because people in general, and a majority of commenters in this forum, are actually pretty bad at political analysis. Or at least, they weight the perspectives that make them feel good about who they are and what positions they perceive themselves to occupy in reality over those perspectives which, while potentially discomforting, do predict future states of reality.

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            At the same time, you can hardly blame most people for their violent denial of the second coming of the worst of the worst…

            I mean… If you saw a torrential hurricane of acid vomit coming your way, would you not you run away from it as fast as you could?

            And where the fuck could you go?

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      it’s because every single person involved is a committed liar. people who play the literal game of politics do not have actual principles tied to their morality no matter how loudly they claim otherwise. time and time again politicians and their cabinet members will “take a stand” only to some time later completely abandon that stand if it clashes with their ultimate goal of power, money, and relevancy. right now is the perfect time for this subhuman scumbag to criticize Trump, because it makes him look like not-a-fascist even though he is. he will say whatever is necessary to remain one step ahead.

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    They’re gonna replace him with someone who finds fat orange toes more palatable. Counterterrorism? Sounds like a job for some shitweasel who works at Faux Entertainment as their first job!

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    Brace yourselves for a 9/11 style false flag on American soil to both galvanize the war effort and secure Trump’s forever term.