Armchair_Politician wrote on Apr 23
rd, 2026 at 10:40am:
Big Donger wrote on Apr 23
rd, 2026 at 10:29am:
The sheer incompetence of sending Kushner and Whitkoff to negotiate a war.
These two have derailed every government deal they've ever meddled in. Neither have experience. Kushner's not even on the White House pay roll. He can't even get a security clearance - in the last administration, he failed 24 applications, lying on every one.
These two go into meetings, get the agenda over with in five minutes and get down to business, starting up the side hustles. They have no knowledge or interest in international relations. They have no attention span. Their only reason for rocking up is doing business deals for themselves.
Imagine sending them in to deal with KGB-trained operatives like Lavrov. Or cunning, Oxford-trained polyglots like the Saudis. Their very presence at high-level diplomatic negotiations shows exactly what DL's up to. He's not out for the US interest, he's getting a piece of Whitkoff and Kushner's profiteering.
This, perhaps, is the biggest unspoken secret of Trump 2.0. Forget the ties to Epstein, all history. When the Congressional investigations get going, the committees need to follow the money trail.
Once they subpoena Whitkoff and Kushner's bank statements, it'll start to become clear. Even then, of course, there will be shadows. In this administration, deals are done in memecoin. Congress will need to get their hands on the offshore accounts.
If they do, they'll find the most corrupt, self-serving administration in US history, all being carried out now, right under our eyes.
Yep. If anyone is to go, it should be Secretary of State Marco Rubio, maybe also the Vice President J.D. Vance. Rubio has been conspicuously absent from all talks, even though this is quite literally his job!
Marco's got the two biggest jobs in cabinet: Foreign Secretary and Acting National Security Advisor.
What he does have is teams of skilled negotiators and experts on Iran, but why would DL want that?
He's only interested in whatever piece Whitkoff and Kushner can extort out of the mullahs/Big Oil.
Marco's NSA job's easy. DL no longer takes briefings, but ultimately, the White House doesn't give a sh
it.
Any negotiations are posturing only. The entire administration is effectively out to lunch, rudderless from the top down. Even the Pentagon's gone its own way, with Dan Caine unable to communicate with DL.
It happens to everybody at some point. If you were Iran, you wouldn't want to deal with DL or his minions either.
Let's face it, this mess is going to be left to Chi-na to clean up.
We'd do best to pin our hopes on Chi-na too - for the next two years, anyway.
DL's running a clown show. The quicker he's put out of his misery, the better it will be for us all.