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The Rise of Cruelty and Chaos- The WARNING (Original Post) MagaSmash 16 hrs ago OP
The picture that Schmidt paints is very bleak. That's because the current situation is bleak. flashman13 15 hrs ago #1

flashman13

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1. The picture that Schmidt paints is very bleak. That's because the current situation is bleak.
Fri May 2, 2025, 07:52 PM
15 hrs ago

That's not exactly news.

What scared me was the fact that possibly the only person on Trump's staff, Mike Waltz, that had even a modicum of qualifications for his job, has been fired. He commanded Special Forces troops under fire in the Middle East wars on multiple occasions. The Army does not advance stupid people to that position. He served in the Pentagon as a policy advisor. He had hands on government experience. In an administration totally peopled by unqualified sycophants, he is the one that had at least minimum of qualifications.

Qualifications are important because the National Security Adviser is a big deal position. While we have been buried 24/7 by the tRump shit show, the rest of the world has been ticking away. Nutty Bebe continues to drop bombs hither and yon, tRump is positioning the military for an attack on Iran, the nuclear twins Pakistan and India are at one another's throats again, and let's not forget the blood letting continues in Ukraine, and we now find that Herr Goebbels/Miller is going to be overseeing and advising on these unfolding events. What can possibly go wrong? Cynicism aside, that idea is scary as hell. Everything could go wrong all at once, everywhere.

Good night and good luck.

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