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If everyone's determined that everything Donald Trump says should be taken seriously just because he's "crazy enough to do it," or crazy enough to try it -- that all his ideas, no matter how laughably impracticable or even objectively infeasible, demand earnest deliberation simply because the colocation of an uneven disposition and the US presidency in theory opens the door to a much wider distribution of outcomes than would be the case in any other administration -- then everyone's condemned to
Mar a Lago has a lot of ” fresh, beautiful land”
Mar a Gaza?
Trump advocating for Jordan and Egypt to take on millions of refugees while Trump does everything possible to deport and block refugees that are under threat from their countries (e.g. Afghans who supported the US, Venezuelans, Syrians, etc.)…irony is dead.
Well said Mr H. This is truly theatre of the absurd.
Thank you. You did a great job of tying this together.
To think that anyone can solve the middle east quagmire with another forced migration is profoundly naive. Now I wait to see if he doubles down on this idea as he has done with other stupid ideas.
Gosh, Xi’s people must be rooting for this one. Imagine having the already seriously depleted US military (in both personnel and armaments) all tied up in Gaza! It’ll be even easier to snap up Taiwan.
TBF aren’t there fewer than 2 million people in Gaza now.
Isn’t Trump a fan of Andrew Jackson. So they’d have the whole Trail of Tears thing in common.
Watching that press conference I thought Bibi might pee on himself
They played this masterfully. Keenly aware of thirst for headlines to distract from firing FBI agents, CIA and heist of our government’s payment system. I guess we as ‘good germans’ are suppose to be mulling this over and debating the merits of this headliner.
I was watching live when he suggested injecting bleach. Obviously, a much less consequential idea, because after a few very quick and painful deaths the tragedy would be over. But for pure unadulterated stupidity it’s still my all time fave.
My problem with your first paragraph is where do we draw the line? There a lot of things he has said where people thought “he doesn’t really mean it” but in the last 3 weeks he has done it.
He’s following in the footsteps of his alter ego who thought it was a good idea to invade Russia after rolling over western europe.
Looking at it from Trump’s conquest thinking, why wouldn’t the people of Israel be just as happy with a good fresh beautiful piece of land.
I find it interesting that they now say Isreal will ‘clean out’ the enclave before handing this gift of land over to the United States. Seems impossible scenario to spill blood then to gift the land spoils over to the USA.
It’s seems odd to me that many of the reactions I’ve seen in the press to Trump’s Gaza statement were about how it took his staff by complete surprise.
His son in law outlined the program quite some time ago.
Good observation of how the propaganda machine operates. This idea has been around since 1948. At the time the comparisons to German train rides from Polish Ghettos was too much in public’s mind to entertain as a “solution”.
Today, in the era of, ‘forget your guilt’ man, you got a shot. And other autrocities we are witness to a rehash of old ideas. The people (or shall I say buzzards?) circling this train wreck of a presidency include: Insurrectionists, slavers, crusaders, rapists, thieves, dictators and con men. Any one group should be reason for pause or even no vote, that we have all these actors acting is history in the making.
I was waiting for an article about this “big beautiful” idea. Thanks, H.
Without a doubt, the stupidest thing any American President has ever said in the history of the world! It was good for an excellent laugh though.
Maybe it is something like “Bibi, you cleanse the West Bank and Gaza, then give me Gaza. Oh, you get a bigger Golan Heights. I hear Lebanon has some nice coast?”