At this point I will happily take predictably awful with competent White House staff over the what-will-he-ever-do-next Trump and his gaggle of flying monkeys.

This is an overly fatalistic viewpoint. Other than the possibility of Trump starting a war with NK out of idiotic self-importance, anyways.

Trump is a dumbass. Being insanely narcisstically egotistical also happens to give a man good instincts for fucking somebody over without remorse, and fucking people over without remorse is how he’s made almost all of his money.

Could you consider the rails the carry the charge down the center to be rifling? Does a gun barrel necessarily *have* to be a completely enclosed cylinder, so long as it properly fires its projectile and does its job?

What exactly *is* your point? Are you concerned that that Iran or Benin or Hezbollah is going to somehow buy a NK nuke and use it?

Hahahahaha FUCK somehow the news that fucking ERDOGAN IS IN THE WHITE HOUSE is the LEAST most ridiculous fucking thing going on today. God DAMMIT

‘The devil you know’ and all that. At least Pence would be predictable in his awfulness as opposed to the seemingly random lunacy of Trump.

It’s ok, they did it too soon. The Director of the CIA will be briefing the intelligence committee shortly on Trump’s oopsie.

I hate Mike Pence. Socially speaking, he’d be one of the most horrible options for President possible.

Nobody is going to start a nuclear war on behalf of their fourth-hand cold-war-era Soviet weapons’ distributor.

Oh yeah, the the China bubble is a scary one... that’s a whole other can of worms. They keep financing infrastructure that they can’t pay for. I won’t even try to armchair that whole thing, trying to predict markets is basically impossible even without shit on that scale.

If ‘war were declared’ as it were, then the one holding more debt is the loser. Nobody is going to continue paying debt interest to a nation they’re at war with, and the USA losing credit rating with the World Bank still isn’t anywhere near as severe a consequence as China losing the US as an international trade…

Yeah, the only real-world situation I could see China getting into military conflict with the US is the aforementioned South China Sea disputes suddenly going hot with Japan for one reason or another, and this causing the US to have to step in as Japan’s primary military ally.

Oh I know. NK has no interest in honoring any kind of treaty deal or trade agreement or disarmament deal. Hell naw. My whole point was just that they have zero friends willing to go to war with them and that while a nuclear attack WOULD be horrific, it would not spark WW3.

Why would China ever declare war on the US? What stake would they even have in such a conflict? Are you suggesting China would destroy its own economy to protect a country that does nothing for them?

The deal you’re describing has been tried again and again and again, unfortunately. NK is not interested in a deal that requires them to remove their talons, no matter how ineffectual they may ultimately be.

The likelihood that Trump *actually* has got any meaningful dirt on anybody implies that Trump has done legwork behind the scenes. Trump has proven again and again and again and again that he *lies* about the wrongdoings of others, oftentimes to divert attention from his own wrongdoing.

At this point, the best way to get yourr GOP congressperson to turn against Trump is to point out the fact that not even Comey - whom Trump had no end of praise for and helped him win the election - was immune to being throw instantaneously under the bus with absolutely zero warning whatsoever, just because his…

Frankly, of all the ways the war to end the world could start, you have no reason to be afraid whatsoever of North Korea.