Donald Trump has issued his latest threat to Iran and said that if officials fail to make a deal with the United States “the whole country is going to get blown up.”

The president also made threats Sunday morning to target civil infrastructure after it was reported that Iranian forces were refusing to allow ships to pass through the Strait of Hormuz this weekend.

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[–] 92 points 6 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 116 points 6 months ago* (9 children)
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  • [+] -17 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Cool. Pointing out GOP lies and hypocrisy. Great work. Totally effective.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I'm sure ignoring the lies and hypocrisy would be a much better strategy.

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  • [–] 33 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    Again? Didnt he sundown this same tantrum like 3 weeks ago?

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    According to another article it's all a strategy/fake to make them think he's unstable and just do what he says.

    https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-was-only-pretending-to-be-removed

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah, Mad Man Theory, which dates back to the Nixon Administration. It's debatable whether it worked back then, and it's definitely not going to work against a theocracy.

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  • [–] 29 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

    So that relatively small group of soldiers sitting in boats far from shore without adequate food or supplies are going to crush the much larger and entrenched entire Iranian military now huh. Sounds real scary.

    One silver lining to all this is that evidently Trump has learned that its harder to attack a mid sized country halfway around the world --without allies-- in challenging terrain -- than it is to attack some unarmed civilians trying to get to work in portland or minneapolis.

    Progress of a sort.

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  • [–] 25 points 6 months ago* (3 children)

    The question is, will the Secret Service do its duty if he decides to nuke Iran? Because he sounds crazier than ever to me, if any President would, it's him.

    Hopefully, an agent will follow their oath to protect the United States from all enemies, foreign and domestic.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago

    Considering the SS paraded the photographers and journalists around Trump when his "ear got shot off," and that crane that slowly lowered the flag down for that infamous picture. I'd say they're all for on board.

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  • [–] 68 points 6 months ago (11 children)

    If ONLY there was SOMETHING we Could do to STOP this!

    -Congresspeople doing NOTHING to Stop this!

    💯 1
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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (9 children)

    Idk, I think I'm going to scream at voters for this. Primarily leftist voters, though. I still think I can win over the conservative voters and Congress critters by being nice to them.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    I'm still screaming at voters, they made an incredibly stupid decision and are now too immature to admit it.

    You help Trump come to power, you're a fucking scumbag, not a hero.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    You help Trump come to power

    More than likely no, you didn't. The election was on rails when Biden decided to drag his moldy ass into a race he couldn't win, rather than stepping aside after a single term and opening up the primary. Trump came to power because Merrick Garland refused to prosecute him for his many crimes and Silicon Valley swept in to money bomb him.

    Individual voters had no say in any of that. The EC guaranteed they had only the most marginal say in which way their state went. And even the on-the-ground campaigns were dwarfed by the degree of corporate, industrial, and overseas manipulation of public opinion.

    To say any given voter is "responsible" for Trump is like blaming any given butterfly for the next hurricane.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    Really it's the left's fault for wanting basic human rights and an end to genocide. The Democratic party simply can't accommodate such extremist views /s

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    If they wanted that, they wouldn't have helped Trump come to power.

    You DO NOT have the moral high ground on that issue by bringing Trump to power. You put Palestinians in an even worse position so you could throw your pathetic little temper tantrum.

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  • [–] -1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Man I'd love to just put all the leftists and maga on a boat and just push you out into the ocean.

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  • [–] 20 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    What does he do on sundays that gets him so riled up?

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  • [–] 19 points 6 months ago

    Spook the market Sunday, spend spend the first half of the week blustering, place Polymarket bets on Thursday, announce the problem is solved and count your profits Friday, golf on Saturday (well, actually every day, but Saturday you don’t have to tweet if you don’t want to).

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  • [–] 19 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    The only thing Trump's gonna blow up is his diaper.

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  • [–] 18 points 6 months ago

    US Diplomacy at work ladies and gentlemen.

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  • [–] 18 points 6 months ago

    80 year old pedophile dementia patient says what??

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  • [–] 17 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    Trump talks the talk, but I would be surprised if the Iranians didn't quietly start to walk the walk and prepare some blowing up of their own.

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    [–] 18 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    Is this a new threat to blow up the country, after his last threat to do so where he claimed to have gotten a ceasefire (which Israel breached on Lebanon less than 24 hours later)?

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  • [–] 34 points 6 months ago* (11 children)

    I blame the criminally passive GOP congresscritters and senators for letting Trump and his fascist henchmen destroy the country. All it would take is for a few of them to agree to 25th Trump's ass and impeach Vance and Kegbreath for this madnest to end right this minute.

    History will not be kind to them, and I hope the courts will hold them accountable for what they did one day too.

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  • [–] 29 points 6 months ago

    Don't let them or the media convince you that their actions are passive. They have had many opportunities to put the brakes on this administration, and every time they deliberately side with Trump. Every Republican congressperson is complicit with his agenda.

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  • [–] 14 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    You kidding me. Once this fucker is gone, every single one of them will decide that the orange lying asshole was the only problem, and will reliably pull their team’s lever again and again…

    Edit - goddamned autocorrect.

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago* (6 children)

    It will only make JD Vance president, and he is no better than Trump, and the American population will just elect another psychopath a few years down the road. We might as well get it over with and have USA destroy itself now.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    It will only make JD Vance president

    Re-read what I wrote.

    the American population will just elect another psychopath a few years down the road

    Indeed, you're correct. Trump and MAGA aren't the problem, they're a symptom. The disease is a population with the IQ of a lemming and a penchant for fascism.

    But you will note that I said "stop THIS madness". The next madness is next. But at least this one could be halted quickly.

    We might as well get it over with and have USA destroy itself now.

    I'm hip about that. The problem is, America is dragging the rest of the world down with it.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago*

    Re-read what I wrote.

    Impeaching him will do nothing, it hasn't really done anything to prevent a president in power since Nixon was threatened with it back in the 60's.

    But you will note that I said “stop THIS madness

    "This" is not specific, I read it like the madness of USA, not the administration or congress, but the people electing insane psychopathic politicians.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    *the capitalist billionaire class will thrust two psychopaths one the American people and tell them they're the only options.

    Americans haven't had a say in decades, if ever.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    You had me with the first line, but lost me with the second.
    USA is still a democracy although imperfect, and we just saw in Hungary how a near dictator of 16 years was overturned despite conditions for the elections were just as bad as they are in USA, and despite Orban had control of the national media and the courts.

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  • [–] 16 points 6 months ago

    Lets gooo blood clot

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  • [–] 15 points 6 months ago

    AI Jesus with his psalm of genocide. Praise Epstein!

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  • [–] 15 points 6 months ago

    oh yeah... that'll work.

    Just like when he told everyone the Straight was open and for some reason Iran didn't believe him

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    I smell a 🌮, and I want a 🌮

    Iran deserves to be

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    A lot of people rooting for the fall of the west.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    Almost as if brutal colonialism and wars for profit makes people despise you.

    who knew, right?

    Yes and that includes Russian and China too, before you cry with the only strawman you can come up with.

    Nothing is ever the west's fault is it?

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago

    Turns out that the Secret Service really is one of the few truly competent branches of government still around these days. I guess it's just always, regardless of party or doctrine, in the best interest of the president to have the service operate with extreme competence. Trump will happily fill government branches full of incompetent goons instructed to gum up the works. He'll happily dismantle multiple Congress-mandated departments and programs. He'll grift off every bit of government graft he can. But I bet the Secret Service is the one he actually lets be run competently. If there's anything the man cares about, it's himself.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    You do realize that it's a hard thing to do?

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    All very good points.

    My "teamwork" comment would work if there was a "no kings" rally but with guns and it was a march on Washington. Obviously that would be borderline impossible to organize but at this point I think a loud enough public call to action (maybe by a celeb) could actually make it happen.

    As far as doing it like James Bond, I don't think there would be an escape there. It would be a suicide mission, accepting that you'll die is part of it.

    Your comment never touched on fertilizer bombs like Timothy Mcvay (would be tough to get close but not impossible). Especially with an MMA event happening on the front lawn of the white house soon.

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    It is, but at the same time it happens very often. Was it half or 1/3 of all US presdents died by being shot? And most of those were not actively trying to destroy their own country and any international relations it had.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Actually died? Lol, no. Four out of 46, or roughly 8-9%. Lincoln, garfield, mckinley, kennedy.

    If you include those shot at you can up those numbers a bit. Off the top of my head roosevelt, trump, reagan, and the other roosevelt, ford,

    Jackson is the fun story, where an assassin pulled two pistols and both of them misfired or jammed. Taft had an assassin apprehended before he shot. Truman had assassins in the white house, but wasn't in immediate shooting range/sight line. Nixon had a guy who wanted to shoot him, but the car went by too fast, so the assassin later shot a governor. Obama and clinton both had rifles fired at the white house.

    So if we include everything involving firearms, we have lincoln, garfield, mckinley, kennedy, roosevelts 1&2, ford, reagan, jackson, obama, and clinton. That's 11/46, or ~24%. Bump that up a wee bit if you want taft to be included.

    There's also some standouts for grenades and bombs, but we were originally talking about death by being shot, so...

    https://.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_assassination_attempts_and_plots

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Absolutely crazy how many terminally online people casually call for someone to just throw their life away.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago*

    I mean at least 1/3 of Americans say it's why we have the 2nd amendment. And 2/3 of the Supreme Court would likely agree, just they wouldn't admit we are at that point where it is necessary. It's ingrained in our culture down to the American revolution. But yeah, whenever leftist groups arm themselves they get wiped out, see the Black Panthers as an example.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Saying you're surprised something hasn't happened is a long shot from encouraging that it's done.

    With the amount of unstable and desperate people out there I'm surprised nobody's kidnapped Elon musks kids for ransom. I don't wish his kids any harm, and don't hope it happens, but I'm still a bit surprised that it hasn't happened when you consider the amount of people out there with nothing to lose, questionable morals, and a big desire to make a lot of money.

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago

    do as I say or I blowded you up.

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago

    shart of the deal

    "make huge demands so that big demands look small" (it does not work)

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago

    Threaten and do nothing.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I'm tired... when will this end?

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago

    Again? Haven't we gone through this already?

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago

    Taco Tuesday

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago

    This shit again? The old bastard is senile.

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    Who's this Mr Nice Guy he speaks of?

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago

    I made a non-credible diplomacy meme for this weekend's version of the TACO meal prep.

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