Also today: a Fox reporter tweeted Trump’s letter to Erdoğan, and the White House confirmed it’s the real thing. It’s…shockingly stupid. I’ve always assumed they have grownups translating the trumpese into semi-appropriate language, but this one has been only minimally adulted up. Short stupid exclamatory sentences that don’t lead into following sentences – that’s a genuine illiterate right there.
Let’s work out a good deal!
Let’s put on a show! Let’s go to the mall! Let’s take your dad’s car!
I don’t want to be responsible for destroying the Turkish economy – and I will.
I guess “and I will” is trumpese for “but I will if I have to” or “but I can.” As it is it’s not even English.
Don’t let the world down. You can make a great deal. I don’t know how to think or write.
It’s always worse than you thought possible. Always.
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He writes the best letters.
Hard to believe this didn’t persuade Erdogan.
He passed a letter from the Kurdish General on to Erdogan ‘confidentially’. FFS
“Let’s make a deal!”
“Okay, I’ll take curtain #3!”
“It’s a Kurd … with a goat!”
Good thing we don’t have any career diplomats interfering with all this deal-making. Ffs. When I first saw this letter, I thought it was from The Onion.
I know. That’s why I included the White House confirmation. It strains credulity.
His ‘signature’ is just one shape he’s learned to repeat for a certain length so people think he knows how to write. That’s not just sloppy cursive like many people’s signatures, it’s literally just repeated teepee-shapes, with the ones at the beginning of each ‘word’ written larger than the rest.
If he didn’t want to be slaughtering thousands of people he wouldn’t be doing it… Where the hell did that sentence come from?
DJT said it was a “nasty” letter? I thought he only did perfect things, the best things.
And, the word “deal” is poisoned for me forever. DJT never makes a real deal. All he does is put the goalpost at a certain point within the terms of a contract, but that’s just the new starting point for the next shoving match and goalpost moving. He never has any intention of keeping any promise. It’s just so many gibberish sounds to him; he never considers himself bound by anything. Oaths, promises, contracts, “deals,” are never obligations. He never means a word of it.
The West is seeing only a tiny fraction of what is happening. The murderous fundamentalist impulse is being fully unleashed on Kurdish women who are in the YPG. Warning about the footage.
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1184761208769011713
American allies just ten days ago.
I wish I had not watched that video. It’s just brutal in it’s casual cruelty. The fact that soldiers feel able to film a war crime and share it says that they do not expect any repercussions at all.
Why should they? They’re part of NATO and thus none of their fellow NATO members can do shit to them.