I posted below about a possible panic move to start a war to get good headlines once the economic madness starts to hit home and lose the base; it's the american way.

Your quoted conversation is another, more sinister, reading of it with the domestic trouble being the lever for war.

I have definitely been getting the feeling that some of this stuff is too extreme to not be part of something else and the tariff calamity has to have some deeper idea behind it because even if donny scumbag is pushing some idea he's got into his head there will be someone in the entire administration that could tell him what a complete pile of shit he's dropping out.

They have definitely tried to gut a lot of the mechanisms that prop up the much vaunted "checks and balances" so who knows. He recently "joked" about there being "ways" to get a third term but even for this maniac that would be outrageous.

I guess we're going to see.