Even the diehard anti-interventionists have to admit it was pretty cool to drill a hole in a mountain, and that we appear to have gotten away with it. "I'm gonna break your nose and get away with it" is pretty congruent with Trump's first term foreign policy.
But Epstein is a total aboutface. The people around him have been talking up the list for months. Only the most rabid were demanding a full disclosure, but I think everyone expected a special prosecutor and a few big names brought to trial with incontrovertible evidence. People know the rich and powerful are a parliament of whores, they wanted some vindication seeing a handful of them nailed to crosses.
I'm gonna break your nose (for Israel) and get away with it
The polls on Iran, like all polls, were fake and gay. A handful of astroturfed weapons fetishists creaming themselves over military hardware is a drop in the bucket compared to the bottom falling out on Trump’s gen Z approval ratings.
The Epstein Bungle accelerated the collapse of his approval because much of Trump’s base - almost certainly correctly - perceives that this is yet another instance of him kowtowing to Israel.
Don't compare Iran to Epstein.
Even the diehard anti-interventionists have to admit it was pretty cool to drill a hole in a mountain, and that we appear to have gotten away with it. "I'm gonna break your nose and get away with it" is pretty congruent with Trump's first term foreign policy.
But Epstein is a total aboutface. The people around him have been talking up the list for months. Only the most rabid were demanding a full disclosure, but I think everyone expected a special prosecutor and a few big names brought to trial with incontrovertible evidence. People know the rich and powerful are a parliament of whores, they wanted some vindication seeing a handful of them nailed to crosses.
It's not in the same ballpark, sure, but Iran was still an idiotic gamble that didn't benefit single-citizenship Americans in any way.
Still on-par for Trump. People tend to memory hole how much pro-Israel his generation is. Trump has always been in the "greatest ally" camp.
I don't understand how anyone was shocked about Iran.
Boomers gonna boom, sure, but that was also guaranteed to piss off the younger parts of his base.
The polls on Iran, like all polls, were fake and gay. A handful of astroturfed weapons fetishists creaming themselves over military hardware is a drop in the bucket compared to the bottom falling out on Trump’s gen Z approval ratings.
The Epstein Bungle accelerated the collapse of his approval because much of Trump’s base - almost certainly correctly - perceives that this is yet another instance of him kowtowing to Israel.