ISIS

[*Nately120*]

(01-23-2017, 06:57 PM)McC Wrote: Time will tell.  He's been if office three days.  Open mindedness be damned.

My mind was open on Trump's timeline of defeating ISIS...until he said he'd do it in 30 days.  God help me, I'm holding a man to his promises!  Egads!  I'm not saying I'll flip my lid and declare the whole thing a failure if it takes 31-1,300 days but I can't stress this enough:

Trump is the one who said 30 days...not me.  Not the lying media, not the Clintons, not a bunch of butt-hurt liberals.  Trump said this.

What really blows is that the president can say "I'll defeat ISIS in 30 days" and part of me thinks "Wow, that's great...we must really be on to something and/or have a great plan, or we are way closer than I thought!" and then I remember that Trump is the one making the promise of 30 days and realize that means we have no idea when this will happen and I'm a big dumbass for thinking he actually meant what he said.

Remember that TV show Name that Tune? Contestants would bid back and forth to challenge each other to name said tune is less notes than the other.
Contestant 1: I can name that tune in 7 notes!
Contestant 2: I can name it in 5 notes!
Contestant 1: I can name it 2 notes!
Contestant 2: I can name it in 1 note!
Contestant 1: Name that tune....

If you named the tune in the number of notes you said you could, you won. If you failed to name it, the other guy won.

Trump is constantly setting himself up to be that contestant who smugly states that he can name that tune in 1 note and then when he's asked to "Name that tune" he says "Well...I'm going to name it in 7 notes actually. What do you care? The tune got named, right? Actually, I named it in 1 note but the show was edited to make it look like I failed...yeah, that's it."

Trump said 30 days, so I'm asking him to name that damn tune. Is that insane? Yes, I fear.