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SethTriggs's avatar

Well diplomacy isn't flashy and doesn't get angry people who like to brutalize others the tinglies in the downstairs bits.

That's also why racist carnival barkers need to destroy every single thing touched by a Black man. So if there was a deal that kept the peace, nope, gotta get rid of it. It's the same spirit as to why so many jerks in the USA hate "Obamacare" but love their state branding for the same thing.

And in the end this is more proof that racism, bigotry and stupidity are very, very expensive.

Sherry's avatar
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We have so many that want to help us but we don’t need any help. Yeah sure Jan.

He’s like a child who wants all the popular kids to come to his party and when they all declined he didn’t want them there in the first place.

Diplomacy replaced with a temper tantrum isn’t a good idea.

He’s fired or pushed out real experts and replaced them with sycophants who have zero idea how to the job but use those positions to enrich themselves and try to become media stars such as Krazy eyes Kash.

Frank Talk, Action Pundit!'s avatar

OT: And if you're tired of the endless, murderous, tax-wasting Republican bullshittery...

𝗡𝗢 𝗖𝗥𝗢𝗪𝗡𝗦. 𝗡𝗢 𝗧𝗛𝗥𝗢𝗡𝗘𝗦. 𝗡𝗢 𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗦.

𝗡𝗼 𝗞𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗠𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗡𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘄𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟮𝟴

Trump is doubling down — sending militarized agents into our communities, murdering citizens, silencing voters, and handing billionaires giveaways while families struggle. This isn’t just politics. It’s democracy versus dictatorship. And together, we’re choosing democracy.

On March 28, millions of us are rising again to show the world: America has no kings and the power belongs to the people.

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Cateck's avatar

Where is the media, calling this out? There's no hope for a 25th Amendment solution here, he's surrounded by sycophants, most of whom were confirmed with Dem senate votes. Yet another thing broken in our system that needs to be fixed. At the very least, the trump era has exposed every single weakness in our governmental structure. Because he has exploited them all. I mean the people controlling him have, he's way too fucking stupid and crazy to figure anything more complicated than a cheeseburger wrapper.

SethTriggs's avatar

The owners of the media organizations are generally on the same team. The regulatory capture and those juicy, juicy Republican tax cuts are quite delectable. And of course let's not forget the power of Murc's Law.

Linda1961 is proudly woke's avatar

Wow! That Obama dude sure was powerful at age 18 to be able to have started this mess with Iran! Or did he travel in his time transport back to 1979 to do so? That's powerful too. But problems with Iran didn't start in 1979, they started in 1953, 73 years ago, when we, with the UK, regime changed Iran. The democratically elected president was toppled and the Shah installed. Why? Because of oil.

trump doesn't understand soft power, and thinks that it has no value. Diplomacy and humanitarian efforts are part of soft power. Also, not insulting and lying about your allies, while sucking up and praising despots. Hard power can only get you so far, and can run out. Ask Napoleon or Hitler.

Cateck's avatar

And trump, like a moron, still just wants the oil while cancelling wind projects here in the US.

Dave Zimny's avatar

Only one word of comment needed here: DEMENTIA.

BrandoG's avatar

This all has “I’m breaking up with you, why won’t you call me back?” energy and it’s very humiliating to see America led by such a demented monster who any honorable public would have hanged already. To think that if we had just done nothing since 2016, we’d have Iran continuing with inspections, detente likely (with the Saudis accordingly pressured to get closer to us to compensate) and no nuclear threat as we’d have leverage with lifted sanctions. Instead the dumbest electorate in history decided to put the worst American they could find in charge, and to decide, just for him, everything would be graded on a curve (“COVID would have been hard for everyone! Not his fault!”) and give him no checks on his power. Now we are being humbled, weakened, an6 our treasury drained. That’s assuming we don’t also lose several thousand American lives on top of the civilian lives that Americans don’t value because they’re brown and foreign.

It’s almost as though Trump wants to take Bush’s mistakes and double down on them. Even Bush didn’t jeopardize getting any oil out of the Gulf. But apparently U Penn—which people still want to go to after they accepted this monster due to his dad’s bribe—did not teach him about how US oil prices were affected by global supply and demand. Nice job, Penn! Hope the money was worth it.

I don’t see how this war ends without an invasion. Iran cannot trust any deal while the dotard remains in power and any leader who accepts the humiliation that Trump will demand (as a cruel, demented child he cannot conceive of winning without humiliating an opponent, imagine if this bag of shit was in Truman’s position after WW2) would be killed by his own people. And we can’t use the straits until Iran allows it. So I hope we send in the Proud Boys first, with the inadequate military training that greaseball Hegseth’s will allow them.

Cateck's avatar

The gop has been working on that "dumbest electorate in history" thing for 40 years now by gutting education. With what's happening now in schools with AI, I'm scared for the future.

Late Blooming's avatar

For over a year now he has insulted our (former) allies, threatened to take their territories, tried to financially extort them...tf did he expect, they would be standing in line to bail him and Bibi out? Nope, I bet they'd let oil prices hit $500 a barrel before they would do that.