Something... something... History rhymes. My country is so fucking stupid:
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So he has reached all his goals? Or did he forgett what he wanted to do? What is now with the eppstein files?
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2 weeks till its done, just like healthcare, tax reform, all of his other plans etc.
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Gets drunk, smacks a hornets nest with a stick, declares victory.
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Someone has had a whinge to him about share prices.
Things are just getting started. He destabilised the region, and Iran doesn't have any reason to discipline tinge aggression now.
They can destroy a passing ship every few weeks with a $20k drone while the US spends 100s of millions a day just to be present.
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The... man who lies with every breath. People are trusting what he claims!?
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"We have a plan that I think is going to be fantastic. It’s going to be released fairly soon."
- Trump discussing his health care plan in 2017
I don't talk to my friends this casually.
If I said "very complete, pretty much" I'm pretty sure they'd bring me to the hospital for a stroke.
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“They’ve shot everything they have to shoot, and they better not try anything cute or it’s going to be the end of that country.”
He's gonna nuke them, isn't he?
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Mission Accomplished
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Did oil price go so bad?
you can start a war on your own, but pretty sure both sides have to agree to end a war.
I guess one of the advantages of having literally zero plans other then "kill the current bad guy" is that you can just stop whenever you want and declare victory.
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Never mind about that, he changed his mind again.
After comments that seemed to suggest President Trump was looking towards an exit from his war with Iran, Trump said in a speech to Republican lawmakers in Florida that “we have won in many ways, but not enough. We go forward more determined than ever to achieve ultimate victory that will end this long-running danger once and for all.”
The enemy cannot anticipate your actions if you have no plan! No doubt Sun Tzu would have said something like that if he were American.
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The Party said that Oceania had never been in alliance with Eurasia. He, Winston Smith, knew that Oceania had been in alliance with Eurasia as short a time as four years ago. But where did that knowledge exist? Only in his own consciousness, which in any case must soon be annihilated. And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed -if all records told the same tale -- then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past,' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.' And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting. It was quite simple. All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory. 'Reality control', they called it: in Newspeak, 'doublethink'
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