And then the Iranians got real real mad, and then the Iranians fired ballistic missiles at a US base in Iraq and kinda missed on purpose but not really, and The Troops stationed there were unscathed but got brain damage from being so close to the blast, and then it turned out the US and Iran were communicating through a Swiss back channel to arrange a "proportionate" counter-response to each other, and then Trump tweeted that everything was fine, and the libs got mad he didn't immediately invade Iran over what amounted to Havana Syndrome for The Troops and then everything got buried over COVID?
That was pretty fucked up when you think about it
EDIT: Oh YEAH -- AND THEN the Iranians got real paranoid and on high alert and ended up shooting down one of their own airliners on accident the same day, in a sick sort of mirroring of the USS Vincennes incident
This part didn't happen. No less of a Democratic ghoul than Pelosi said:
Even she was criticizing it as "dangerous escalation," and other Democrats were more direct.
Libs are bad enough in reality -- making stuff up about them will just make us sound like cranks when we have real-world conversations about this stuff.
There were some liberal pundits in the news that were cheering on the drone strikes, even when the party establishment reflexively spoke out against it. If it wasn't swallowed up by the next week's news cycle, we probably would have seen more of the party members repeating talking points they got from television.
Some pundits with 24 hours to fill talking about "looking presidential" at a press conference is not the same as actual politicians (or rank-and-file libs) calling for an invasion. And we know they wouldn't have changed their tune had we gotten closer to war, because they kept hounding Trump for this through the summer even as the news cycle moved on (the House voted to repeal the AUMF, which was floated as a justification of the assassination, in June).
Revisionist history will make you show your ass when you're talking to the libs in your life. Despite their best efforts, Democrats do not get every single issue wrong.
I suppose it's a good thing I'm bringing it up as a counter-factual hypothetical online, rather than asserting it as truth in the real world.
People sometimes say things they get off the internet in real life. It's good to be accurate, or at least not take issue when someone else is.
Well, for what it's worth, you're correct. Nobody with any real power, save for the people in Trump's cabinet, would come out uncritically fellating the action. It was nonetheless demoralizing and giving me that sinking heart feeling like the runup to 2003 seeing these Acela corridor ghouls vibrating through the woodwork on social media crowing about how Trump truly became president that day, twisting themselves into pretzels to justify, entirely post hoc, how Soleimani was the most dangerous terrorist to have ever existed and that his death was a net benefit to humanity despite 99% of them having never heard of the fucker until that morning. In the eyes of the pundits, the think-tankers, the wonks and columnists, Trump had done the most Presidential thing they could possibly imagine: murdering a dozen brown people, and important ones at that, for no fucking reason. And in the wake of Iran's (frankly rather pathetic) retaliatory strike, those same creatures would come out urging Trump to strike back even harder at Iran for daring to fight back and mildly inconveniencing the The Troops by blowing up a bike shed in disused part of their base. They smelled blood in the water, and by god they were gonna go for it.
It's true the dem leadership, and the libs who actually wielded any real degree of political power would ultimately condemn Trump's actions, but I suspect it wasn't out of any principled objection to the inherent act so much as a reflexive impulse to condemn Trump for any action he took, such as it was in the waning Resistance era. They were probably more upset he beat them to the punch, given Obama's and Hillary's propensity for doing the same. Still, they did come to the right conclusion, for the wrong reasons.