By way of introduction, allow us to excerpt a few passages from one of our latest posts in which we attempted to explain that if you can get past the utter ridiculousness (which admittedly is hard to do), the game of nuclear chicken between Trump and Kim is actually pretty serious, because you know, “nukes and all“…
Just when you thought it couldn’t possibly get anymore absurd, it invariably does.
So as you know, North Korea’s Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho said on Monday that Donald Trump has effectively “declared war” on Pyongyang.
That was apparently a reference to this tweet:
Of course that tweet was itself a response to Ri, who last week said it was all but “inevitable” that North Korea’s missiles will one day be launched in the direction of the U.S. mainland.
But then that was a response to Trump who, after calling Kim “Rocket Man” in front of the U.N. General Assembly, threatened to “totally destroy” the North.
rocket man pic.twitter.com/UKM6AKMAw7
— Trump Draws (@TrumpDraws) September 20, 2017
And we can trace this back as far as you want to go. It’s just middle schoolers lobbing insults at each other, only these middle schoolers are heads of state with nuclear weapons.
Lost in the sheer absurdity of it all is the fact that both Trump and Kim are threatening to kill each other on a near hourly basis. And not only that, they are threatening to kill other people too.
Well on Monday — and you’re not going to believe this — Twitter felt it necessary to respond to what apparently were multiple requests to have Trump’s tweet (the one shown above) removed.
Those requests appear to stem from the fact that the tweet in question amounts to the President of the United States threatening to murder 26 million people.
Now on to some excerpts from a longer piece by for the Washington Post…
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Pity the Pacific, a portion of which faces ultimate destruction should “Rocket Man” follow through on his reported threat to test a hydrogen bomb in the ocean in response to recent anti-North Korea comments from President “Dotard.”
So it goes in Toontown, where two of the planet’s most unstable state actors call each other names and spin the roulette wheel toward nukes and annihilation.
Within days of President Trump’s address to the U.N. General Assembly last week, in which he threatened to “totally destroy North Korea” and referred to Kim Jong Un as “Rocket Man,” tensions between the two nations escalated from a game of blind man’s bluff to a drag race of nuclear chicken.
“I will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged U.S. dotard with fire,” proclaimed Kim, who apparently relied upon a translation tool that uses archaic English vocabulary. Millions wondered, “Dotard?”
Racing to our dictionaries, we learned that the word means, more or less, an old person of diminished mental capacity. Not recently in use but popular as far back as the 14th century when Chaucer used it in “The Canterbury Tales,” it’s a derivative of “dotage” and not of the word you (and I) were thinking.
dotard pic.twitter.com/jUboV5BzRH
— Trump Draws (@TrumpDraws) September 22, 2017
I confess to being hooked on Dotard as a nickname for Trump, which seems wonderfully apt, though admittedly more so before I knew the word’s meaning. It seems, too, that I’ve seen this movie before, a comedy in which an insane dictator named Rocket Man fires a missile at President Dotard’s power tower. Or perhaps it was a comic-book series written by “Dilbert” creator Scott Adams, who lately has become an Internet sensation as a wry devil’s advocate favoring Trump.
How this unfunny comedy resolves itself is anyone’s guess, which is the problem, isn’t it? Nothing like real diplomacy or containment seems plausible in the current scenario. Indeed, one easily imagines the world going up in flames over a flipped coin or an incorrect “Jeopardy!” answer – or an insult too far. Boom.
