Wed Jan 8, 2020, 12:08 PM
Ohioboy (1,581 posts)
Does anyone else think there's something suspicious about the way it's all supposedly "well" now?
Did Iran actually take credit for last night's attack that didn't do anything?
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Ohioboy | Jan 2020 | OP |
gopiscrap | Jan 2020 | #1 | |
LakeArenal | Jan 2020 | #2 | |
Dennis Donovan | Jan 2020 | #3 | |
Bettie | Jan 2020 | #6 | |
Dennis Donovan | Jan 2020 | #9 | |
alittlelark | Jan 2020 | #7 | |
Dennis Donovan | Jan 2020 | #11 | |
KPN | Jan 2020 | #4 | |
pangaia | Jan 2020 | #5 | |
KPN | Jan 2020 | #8 | |
pangaia | Jan 2020 | #12 | |
DemocratSinceBirth | Jan 2020 | #10 | |
pangaia | Jan 2020 | #13 |
Response to Ohioboy (Original post)
Wed Jan 8, 2020, 12:10 PM
LakeArenal (16,102 posts)
2. Every breath in the last three years is suspicious.
Every move the make
Every vow they take....🎶 |
Response to Ohioboy (Original post)
Wed Jan 8, 2020, 12:11 PM
Dennis Donovan (18,609 posts)
3. They took credit, and they're likely not finished.
Maybe no missiles for awhile, but that wasn't proportional to losing Soleimani - there's something else up their sleeve, IMO.
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Response to Dennis Donovan (Reply #3)
Wed Jan 8, 2020, 12:25 PM
Bettie (10,335 posts)
6. OR they are simply awaiting the election
and a leader who isn't a megalomaniac and an idiot.
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Response to Bettie (Reply #6)
Wed Jan 8, 2020, 12:31 PM
Dennis Donovan (18,609 posts)
9. Best case scenario - I hope you're right.
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Response to Dennis Donovan (Reply #3)
Wed Jan 8, 2020, 12:27 PM
alittlelark (17,950 posts)
7. My $ would be on attacking tRump properties.
THAT would be apropos. One attack would send his revenues plummeting - who would want to spend $ or time at an international Target?
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Response to alittlelark (Reply #7)
Wed Jan 8, 2020, 12:32 PM
Dennis Donovan (18,609 posts)
11. How could they not?
They're big fans of soft targets, apparently.
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Response to Ohioboy (Original post)
Wed Jan 8, 2020, 12:19 PM
KPN (11,630 posts)
4. Yeah, McConnell has his votes. Sigh -- the kabuki theater meme is so damned true! One day,
this will all be behind us. I can't wait ...
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Response to KPN (Reply #4)
Wed Jan 8, 2020, 12:25 PM
pangaia (24,324 posts)
5. Why is "kabuki" being used as a comparison?
Doesn't anybody understand what kabuki actually is?
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Response to pangaia (Reply #5)
Wed Jan 8, 2020, 12:28 PM
KPN (11,630 posts)
8. Short answer: no! I think the real point is "theater".
![]() How about this -- the elaborate, crafted drama that we have to watch routinely and the media calls it WH and Presidential news. |
Response to KPN (Reply #8)
Wed Jan 8, 2020, 12:52 PM
pangaia (24,324 posts)
12. humm...
thanks.
Kabuki is highly serious, classical, very old art in Japan.. not like we think of theater in the West... The Minami-za theater in Kyoto is over 400 years old.. and is a " Japanese Tangible Cultural Property ", something like a national treasure. I always try to go there when I am in Kyoto... ![]() |
Response to pangaia (Reply #5)
Wed Jan 8, 2020, 12:32 PM
DemocratSinceBirth (95,992 posts)
10. The phrase...
The phrases Kabuki theater, kabuki dance, or kabuki play are sometimes used in political discourse to describe an event characterized more by showmanship than by content.
Thus are the U.S. politics of the Iran conflict a Kabuki performance, punctuated by occasional moments of Iranian jujitsu https://www.dictionary.com/e/pop-culture/kabuki-theater/ |
Response to DemocratSinceBirth (Reply #10)
Wed Jan 8, 2020, 12:54 PM
pangaia (24,324 posts)
13. Except that doesn't really describe kabuki. :)))))
Of course it isn't Noh, but nevertheless....
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