The guy at the end of the bar had some thoughts this morning

The guy at the end of the bar had some thoughts this morning

by digby

Nascar and war in the same breath:

Watch this clip while reminding yourself that this is the guy who is on the brink of plunging us into a world war pic.twitter.com/tsVDWuViSW

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 20, 2019


I appreciate the fact that Trump was trying to give Iran an excuse. People on my TV say that it's likely Trump heard this in a briefing about some intercepts showing that it was some kind of individual over-reaction (or maybe the drone slipped into Iranian airspace briefly of something.) The fact that he says "If I'm right, and I'm right a lot" indicates that he knows something that isn't public.

Whatever, any de-escalation, however brief, is welcome, even if Trump is playing some weirdly ineffectual good-cop-bad cop routine.

This is the public bad cop. (The inside man is Bolton, of course.)



And then there's this:



Let's just hope nobody does anything stupid.

Oh wait ...