General Trump hilarity free-for-all thread

[Doktor Howl]

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/06/politics/john-bolton-testify-impeachment-subpoena/index.html

Bolton says he will now testify in the senate if subpoenaed. 

Either he's ready to let Trump off the hook because of the Iran thing, or he thinks the war is inevitable now under anyone, and so now he can get payback on Trump for Trump back-handing him.

[Cramulus]

given that he waited for the [already fucked] senate hearing + the timing of the iran developments, I'm not optimistic

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

True.
But we have another assload of unhinged tweets to look forward to.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/06/us/politics/trump-esper-iran-cultural-sites.html

[Doktor Howl]

What actually happens when you get a "million man march".

https://apnews.com/add7a702258b4419d796aa5f48e577fc

[Doktor Howl]

From a link embedded in that article, concerning the 2015 Hadj disaster:

"It's largely a physical phenomenon, not a psychological one," says Dirk Helbing, a professor of computational social science at ETH Zurich, who has studied crowds and disasters.

When the density is too high, movements of a body "transfers forces to other bodies. These forces can add up and create uncontrollable movements in the crowd," he said Thursday.

[Doktor Howl]

Annnnnd Romney wimped out again.

CALLED IT.

[Doktor Howl]

"Because we've taken ourselves so far outside of — it's not even mainstream, we're not even near a stream," he said. "We're just kind of standing in the middle of nowhere with Donald Trump screaming at us."
- Michael Steel, former RNC chairman

[Cain]

It sure is a shame that the Chairman of the RNC has no power whatsoever and so he couldn't do anything about it while in office.

[Doktor Howl]

It sure is a shame that the Chairman of the RNC has no power whatsoever and so he couldn't do anything about it while in office.

Yeah, but he's free to mush-mouth about consequences now, right?

[Cain]

Naturally, much like Boehner did.

[Pergamos]

What actually happens when you get a "million man march".

https://apnews.com/add7a702258b4419d796aa5f48e577fc

"We tell our enemies that we will retaliate but if they take another action we will set ablaze the places that they like and are passionate about,"

Sounds like basically the same threat Trump made, to bomb cultural sites.

[Cain]

Iran's launching short-range ballistic missiles against US targets in Iraq.

[Doktor Howl]

Iran's launching short-range ballistic missiles against US targets in Iraq.

Very sloppy.

[Bu🤠ns]

Isn't Putin in the area meeting with Assad and Erdogan? That seems...convenient... for a thing

[Cain]

The strikes do seem mostly symbolic.