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Starbeach

(395 posts)
Sun Jun 14, 2026, 06:30 PM 23 hrs ago

If You Solve an Emergency You Created, Is That a Win?

At most, Trump is engaged in repair of the breach he created by starting the war. When a president is hastily trying to compensate for the costly reverses of the war - against his own people! - that is hardly the achievement of a statesman.

Yes, it's his birthday - Congrats! - but this is all a pathetic rescue from the disaster he created. And we don't even know if any of this is true.

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If You Solve an Emergency You Created, Is That a Win? (Original Post) Starbeach 23 hrs ago OP
More like: "If you *don't* solve an emergency you created, but insist that you did anyway..." RockRaven 23 hrs ago #1
"I must break it so I alone can fix it" dalton99a 22 hrs ago #2
Depends on what you think a win is JBTaurus83 22 hrs ago #3
Depends... Are these "Victory" flags? hlthe2b 22 hrs ago #4

RockRaven

(19,939 posts)
1. More like: "If you *don't* solve an emergency you created, but insist that you did anyway..."
Sun Jun 14, 2026, 06:32 PM
23 hrs ago

JBTaurus83

(1,792 posts)
3. Depends on what you think a win is
Sun Jun 14, 2026, 06:40 PM
22 hrs ago

A lot of his supporters will just forget what happened 6 months before if dump claims a win today. The mistake the Dem Party refuses to stop making is that the message doesn’t really matter. It’s all about their cult and “feelings”, if this Iran war ends tomorrow they will all be back in his fold. Our hope is to turn out our own voters and register non voters. Telling them that everything is great with the economy and that we are going to Support Israel no matter how many people they murder isn’t going to be winner, just a spoiler.

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