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jerryleber 04-15-2026 07:40 AM


Originally Posted by METO Guido (Post 4023605)
Good heavens no.

That's good otherwise people might assume you are grossly misinformed in addition to being an inscrutable sophist.

furloughfuntime 04-15-2026 08:59 AM


Originally Posted by Excargodog (Post 4023580)
Depends on the audience. It might have been intended to convince a certain Shiite theocracy that he is just as bat$hit crazy as they are and they’d best negotiate while they have something left to negotiate with.

The mental gymnastics needed to portray a dementia driven all-night twitter rant as some sort of 5-d chess psyop on the enemy is quite impressive.

If this is really the case, then why did he try to explain it away by claiming he was a "red cross doctor" when the press asked him why he was portraying himself as Jesus? Why did he subsequently take the post down? Another 5-d chess move on the shiite theocracy?

Undermines your argument entirely, but nevertheless I do admire the flexibility of your mental contortions.

at6d 04-15-2026 09:10 AM

Just to clarify—he did or didn’t create the post?

rickair7777 04-15-2026 09:25 AM


Originally Posted by furloughfuntime (Post 4023649)
The mental gymnastics needed to portray a dementia driven all-night twitter rant as some sort of 5-d chess psyop on the enemy is quite impressive.

If this is really the case, then why did he try to explain it away by claiming he was a "red cross doctor" when the press asked him why he was portraying himself as Jesus? Why did he subsequently take the post down? Another 5-d chess move on the shiite theocracy?

Undermines your argument entirely, but nevertheless I do admire the flexibility of your mental contortions.

Alternatively, actually being bat-poop crazy might be something the Mullahs will recognize and appreciate.

Strategic ambiguity is often quite useful, whether calculated and staged, or just a consequence of one's inherent nature.

METO Guido 04-15-2026 09:37 AM


Originally Posted by jerryleber (Post 4023612)
That's good otherwise people might assume you are grossly misinformed in addition to being an inscrutable sophist.

If that means dubious of sancta sedes, yes.

word302 04-15-2026 09:40 AM


Originally Posted by at6d (Post 4023658)
Just to clarify—he did or didn’t create the post?

Does it matter?

APCbot 04-15-2026 10:38 AM

So did you guys figure out if we're all losing our jobs or not, yet?

Excargodog 04-15-2026 11:08 AM


Originally Posted by rickair7777 (Post 4023672)
Alternatively, actually being bat-poop crazy might be something the Mullahs will recognize and appreciate.

Strategic ambiguity is often quite useful, whether calculated and staged, or just a consequence of one's inherent nature.

Yep. Few even remotely rational people would choose to “play chicken” with a kamikaze.

Profane Kahuna 04-15-2026 11:30 AM


Originally Posted by rickair7777 (Post 4023672)
Alternatively, actually being bat-poop crazy might be something the Mullahs will recognize and appreciate.

Strategic ambiguity is often quite useful, whether calculated and staged, or just a consequence of one's inherent nature.




Strategic Ambiguity was actually a feature, not a bug, of cold war era US policy.



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Ice Bear 04-15-2026 02:06 PM


Originally Posted by rickair7777 (Post 4023672)
Alternatively, actually being bat-poop crazy might be something the Mullahs will recognize and appreciate.

Strategic ambiguity is often quite useful, whether calculated and staged, or just a consequence of one's inherent nature.

Okay, but, is this really the best argument to be made for current POTUS? That doesn't bode well. Nixon looks amenably reasonable and sane by comparison. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madman_theory

Also want to thank you for letting us diplomatically have it out in this thread, relatively speaking. Genuinely. This is a big deal and affects all of us in so many ways.


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