Okay, but why would this be a good gift? US stuff wasn’t involved in that as far as I’m aware, and even if there was US involvement, it happened under Biden, not Trump. This is like me celebrating a friendship by gifting my friend a photo of me holding a trophy that has nothing to do with him. It’s either a threat, or some kind of weird narcissistic social ineptitude. And I’m not saying it can’t be the latter, but it’s weird either way.
Also, to be honest, the fact that they apparently gave him a real pager at the same time tips it a bit towards “threat” for me. “Hey, remember that time we gave people pagers that were really bombs, so we could blow them up whenever we wanted? Anyway, here’s a pager.”
It's not a "good" gift. It is a gloating gift. There was probably some intel sharing in the background that we don't know about but for the most part they are gloating. Not to mention, Trump seemed to think the attack was great. The gift was about "look how we got those bastards". This isn't like a personal friendship.
I don't know anything about a "real" pager. Not sure why he would care unless they were trying to tell him "hey, we're about to do this, standby".
how else can you possibly interpret this gift?
They're not confessing, they're gloating.
This is a giant dick wave of how clever they are for bombing the shit out of Hamas.
How are you not getting this?
You know exactly why.
I do, but Heretic is normally smarter than this.
Okay, but why would this be a good gift? US stuff wasn’t involved in that as far as I’m aware, and even if there was US involvement, it happened under Biden, not Trump. This is like me celebrating a friendship by gifting my friend a photo of me holding a trophy that has nothing to do with him. It’s either a threat, or some kind of weird narcissistic social ineptitude. And I’m not saying it can’t be the latter, but it’s weird either way.
Also, to be honest, the fact that they apparently gave him a real pager at the same time tips it a bit towards “threat” for me. “Hey, remember that time we gave people pagers that were really bombs, so we could blow them up whenever we wanted? Anyway, here’s a pager.”
Yeah it's a threat.
It's not a "good" gift. It is a gloating gift. There was probably some intel sharing in the background that we don't know about but for the most part they are gloating. Not to mention, Trump seemed to think the attack was great. The gift was about "look how we got those bastards". This isn't like a personal friendship.
I don't know anything about a "real" pager. Not sure why he would care unless they were trying to tell him "hey, we're about to do this, standby".
how rude