Tulsi Gabbard left no doubt when she testified to Congress about Iran’s nuclear program earlier this year.

The country was not building a nuclear weapon, the national intelligence director told lawmakers, and its supreme leader had not reauthorized the dormant program even though it had enriched uranium to higher levels.

But Donald Trump dismissed the assessment of U.S. spy agencies during an overnight flight back to Washington as he cut short his trip to the Group of Seven summit to focus on the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran.

“I don’t care what she said,” Trump told reporters. In his view, Iran was “very close” to having a nuclear bomb.

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[–] 116 points 1 year ago (16 children)

He's an idiot who has never been able to distinguish between his fantasies and reality

He's spent a lifetime making shit up, and never being held to account for it

He's a child, and what's worse, he has dementia.

He also lies as easily as he breathes. Truth means nothing to him. He sees being honest as a weakness

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  • [–] 52 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    Just the person to entrust the most powerful military of the world with.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    "But what choice do we have? Entrust the military to a lady? We'll take the dementia-addled toddler instead"

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Don't forget that under the orange paint, he's white

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (8 children)

    Didn't matter. Look at the three elections that Trump ran, and his performance against the candidate with a penis vs. the ones without one.

    The American electorate will vote for a Black penis-haver (particularly if he is a baller) over any vagina-haver right now. They still won't say "I'm a sexist pig" in the exit polls, though, so we get reasons like "She didn't explain her policies enough" or "She wasnt authentic enough" instead.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Maybe I’m just being hopeful, but I don’t think the vagina thing is as big of an influence as it seems. First, we only have a sample size of two.

    One of them, Clinton, was just an objectively awful person. She wasn’t popular with anyone, including women.

    The second, Harris, had an abbreviated campaign caused by Biden’s unwillingness to step down. She also wasn’t built up in preparation fora campaign during her VP term. On top of that, she was very unexciting policy-wise. Basically status quo when everybody is clamoring for progress.

    Contrast that with Obama, who ran on “hope and change” and got people excited for actual progress. Which he didn’t deliver, but that’s another story.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    I don't flatly disagree, but I think to call Hillary or Kamala as "electable" as Obama is a hard sell. He was a better public speaker than any president in my lifetime and he played things off well. Kamala was certainly more likable than Hillary, but she didn't have as much sauce as the sauce king at least before he was usurped by the sauce god Mamdani.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Why do women win Governor elections, then?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Because not every state is full of misogyny

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    That is not so clear-cut https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/11/01/17-states-havent-had-a-female-us-senator-and-18-havent-had-a-woman-governor/ I'd have to go see if there is any correlation between these and Kamala/Hillary's results, but I'm not expecting it to be strong.

    (Oh, and of course, I didn't check if any of these elections were woman vs woman, where it would not serve as an indicator of misogyny to elect a woman)

    My point is that even women can win elections in deep red states, particularly if they follow "conservative" values close enough. But then again president has the whole commander-in-chief aura...ok...

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