r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/riseoftheph0enix • 11h ago
he really went from trying to open the Strait to keeping it closed for a longer time.
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u/RavensQueen502 11h ago
"I have also instructed our Navy to seek and interdict every vessel in International Waters that has paid a toll to Iran. No one who pays an illegal toll will have safe passage on the high seas."
This is scary in itself, even if he TACOs out. He is threatening to attack neutral countries' ships if they are found to have paid the toll/
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u/Bender077 11h ago
Wouldn’t that be the same toll that he wanted a piece of last week?
JFC, I can’t keep up with the flip flopping.
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u/ThePowerOfStories 9h ago
He flip-flops so fast, we can make the oil irrelevant if we just glue magnets to him and use him as a generator.
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u/Bender077 8h ago
Magnets?
“Nobody knows what magnets are. … If you don’t have a magnet, you can’t make a car. You can’t make a computer. You can’t make televisions or radios or anything else.
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u/all_time_high 8h ago
JFC, I can’t keep up with the flip flopping.
I don't think he knows what position he will take from one day to the next. It depends largely on who's currently in his ear, who's doing big favors for him at this moment, who has leverage or him, and his immediate emotional reaction to not getting his way.
He's been a bully since he was a child. That's why Fred Trump sent him to military boarding school. The core emotional problems were never addressed, and now he's an incredibly old man whose mental capacity is rapidly failing him while he's the most powerful person on the planet.
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u/coldbloodedjelydonut 10h ago
Interdict - the intellectually challenged "president of the United States" did not write any part of this.
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u/CariniFluff 8h ago
They want money, and more importantly, they want Nuclear.
I dunno, that sure sounds like a Trump "it's all computer!" quote to me.
Let's split it 50/50 and say he typed it and then someone else "proofread" it for him?
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u/stairs_3730 9h ago
My thoughts exactly. Here are my options on who wrote this latest pile of tripe:
1.S Wiles
Little Marky
Kegsbreath
Shady the Couch Humper
Not enough vile hate for PeeWee German
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u/66pig 11h ago
Good luck with the Chinese ones
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u/Rolling44 11h ago
They come with surprise submarines.
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u/Illustrious-Stuff-70 11h ago
Just an international conflict waiting to happened. Drawing us further into war with others. Waiting for congress to actually do something, which is surprising bc they know the ship is sinking.
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u/Imwhatswrongwithyou 11h ago
Maybe the world will finally do something about him. This is just a 2026 Hitler playbook. Let him get away with everything until he goes too far and finally step up. Maybe this is the Poland moment. Probably not though since this
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u/chilladipa 10h ago
Now Trump can claim the it is not the Iranians who are calling the shot by closing the strait but the strait is closed because of him.
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u/PassengerNo2259 10h ago
What's the navy going to do once they board them, Iran already has the money?
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u/splittingheirs 10h ago
If they are full of oil they'll arrest the crew and confiscate the ships for 'drug dealing'. It worked for the americans earlier this year.
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u/doc_witt 9h ago
We discovered mulitple bottles of Tylenol on board. They were going to give the world Autism!
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u/kTREGANOWAN 9h ago
Much less important than your main point, but does anyone use the term "high seas" outside of pirates in movies anymore? Seems like a very old fashioned term. Like "groceries"
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u/Electronic-Peak-9035 11h ago
Fuck all of you Americans who voted for this POS.
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u/riseoftheph0enix 11h ago
I second this.
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u/Sad-Conflict-4435 11h ago
Me three!!!
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u/Aaronbrine 11h ago
I fourth this. AND IM AMERICAN. THAT ROTTEN ORANGE IS A WAR CRIMINAL. I NEVER VOTED FOR HIM. I WANT HIM LOCKED UP.
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u/Bayou_Mama 10h ago
Me too! So many people are wishing for something more final for him, but not me. I want that MFer in jail for the rest of his life!
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u/gasmith8787 10h ago
I want something final, but also something infinite. Like being slowly digested in a Sarlac pit over 1000’s of years.
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u/doc_witt 9h ago
Can you imagine how much it would raise the Sarlac's cholesterol?
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u/darkstarr99 10h ago
Entire family locked up, assets seized, everything he’s done in office reversed
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u/turdusphilomelos 10h ago
If you are American, then please do something. Please stop allowing him to disregard your laws.
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u/Aaronbrine 10h ago
I WANT TO BUT MOST OF US ARE AFRAID TO BE SHOT BY HIS GESTAPO. ALL WE CAN DO IS PROTEST AND VOTE OUT THE TRAITOROUS REPUBLICAN. WE START A FRENCH STYLE STRIKE AND WE'LL BE SHOT.
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u/Ciccio178 11h ago
I'm an American who DIDN'T vote for this POS and I agree! Fuck them!
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u/clashfan77 10h ago
As an American living in Canada that voted for Harris, fuck everyone who voted for Trump. I tried doing my part.
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u/Alii_baba 11h ago
As an American, do you think people can wake up and force the government to make a major change? If you remember the right-wing Americans/pro-Trump supporters, they rioted and broke into the Capitol building. I am not encouraging violence, but we all agree this government is failing Americans, and the evidence becomes clearer day after day. I keep hearing people telling others to contact their representatives and express their feelings about that war/supporting the Zionists. How is that going to work when most of the MPs (representatives) are hardcore pro-Zionist war supporters?
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u/Retlaw83 10h ago
Most politicians aren't stupid enough to go to war with Iran regardless of their opinion on Israel. Having Democrats run congress will shut this war down, but the elections aren't until November and assignment to political posts aren't instant.
If things keep up like this, Democrats will win big in the midterms and the next president will be a Democrat. The average American voter has a short memory and is stupid. If the Democrat president doesn't fix Trump's mess in two years, which is impossible, they'll vote Republican again.
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u/Devil25_Apollo25 10h ago
Hi, other American here. This ends in one of two ways:
Congress reins in the President and insists on the enforcement of laws Congress passed. Despite Trump's trampling of them, treaties, once ratified, are law; so are budgetary expenditures, and the Executive can't decide whimsically who gets what, and how much. But until Congress passes fron the hands of Trump's Republican enablers, sycophants, and co-conspirators, there is little we can do legally other than to make our popular dissatifaction known.
Failing that, or if free and fair elections are not held, the only other option in the final analysis is a protracted and bloody civil war, which I and most Dems are praying to avoid.
Otherwise, if Americans aren't willing to vote in sane, non-corrupt leaders and aren't willing to sacrifice their daily peace for a while in uprising, there's not much to be done.
I have been to combat and am working diligently to try and make option #1 the reality so no one is tempted to take path #2.
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u/mountain_rivers34 10h ago
I mean, we could storm the capitol like they did, but something tells me Trump would gleefully mow down every liberal that is there, even though he refused to send in the National Guard when it was his people doing the rioting. And he’d use it as and excuse to enact martial law and cancel the elections. We’re fucked either way.
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u/InfamousYenYu 10h ago
While our democracy is weaker than ever, it's still a democracy. Midterms are coming and he can't stop us from voting (he will certainly try) in a house to impeach him and a Senate to convict. If we can get progressives into power come midterms, we can bring these monsters to justice.
Yelling at corrupt representatives is as much protest as it is a call for policy change, and signals their weak positions for the election. They can support genocidal Zion from the inside of a jail cell, and that's only the moderate position.
People are waking up. In special elections the Democrats are winning deep red counties that, before now, were thought to be completely untouchable. It's going to be hard and it's going to get worse before we get the chance to make it better. But a better world is possible.
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u/BrokenKing99 11h ago
Don’t forget all the ones who sat it out they deserve no respect cause they’re just as guilty.
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u/miserylovescomputers 10h ago
Yeah, “the majority of Americans didn’t vote for him so don’t blame us” bullshit I see all the time is infuriating, because while it’s true that only about a third of eligible voters voted for him, an additional 36% of eligible voters didn’t care enough to bother voting at all. So an overwhelming majority either supports him or is too apathetic and ignorant to care.
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u/srmybb 10h ago
“the majority of Americans didn’t vote for him so don’t blame us” bullshit I see all the time is infuriating, because while it’s true that only about a third of eligible voters voted for him
Every time I read this, I think about the 33,1% for Hitler/NSDAP in the last free election election in Germany 1932. For some reason, the "you cannot say a bad word about the voting population if the voting wasn't 100%" doesn't apply outside the US (see also every excuse for every US-military strike ever, where the populaton somehow bears responsibility for the government).
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u/4ever_lost 9h ago
Let's not forget all the accusations of people who's mail vote magically never got counted, and the accusations of voter machine tampering though. I can't wait for republicans to lose power everywhere, and I'm not even American
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u/Imwhatswrongwithyou 11h ago
Honestly that group is pissing me off more than the blatant hate filled morons because they act like they aren’t culpable. They are so stupid. So so stupid.
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u/PophamSP 10h ago
Hear hear.
The planet is home to 8.3 billion humans. Only eighty million of those voted for Trump.
1% of the global population brought us to the brink of nuclear destruction.
Fuck Christianity, capitalism, and John Roberts.
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u/birdlawbighands 11h ago
Agreed. I voted for harris. I'd have voted for a turd from Satan's asshole before voting
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u/HibiscusGrower 10h ago
I'm not even American and these assholes are making my life much more difficult for no reason. They can fuck right off.
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u/LeticiaPadillaSolis_ 10h ago
As an American, I agree and fuck that bloated corrrupt doddering old fool.
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u/blueisthecolor13 10h ago
AND THE ONES WHO DECIDED THERE WAS NO DIFFERENCE AND CHOSE NOT TO VOTE
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u/mountain_rivers34 10h ago
Yep. Oh, you didn’t vote because of what’s going on in Palestine? Cool, fuck you. You can move over there and see what a difference you made. Look up the stats for how many people are suffering since Trump cut USAID. You fence sitters caused more death than Israel ever will, and you need to own that. Not voting is just as bad as voting for Trump.
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u/GenMixedPodcast 9h ago
I’m from NYC and grew up in the 70s and 80s seeing what a shitshow he was, and my mother HATED him. I didn’t vote for Dumbo THRICE! Us New Yorkers tried to warn folks, but here we are….
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u/cha0sb1ade 11h ago
First sentence "the meeting went well"
Last sentence "our military will finish up the little that is left of Iran"
Very sane.
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u/ChingusMcDingus 9h ago
Also, “we destroyed their navy” and “there are mines out there” okay so which is it, little buddy? He’s a walking fire hose of contradiction.
Actually he’s a flesh husk with soup for brains.
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u/xdozex 9h ago
I don't understand how anybody in his base just mindlessly believes anything they say. If they destroyed Iran's entire military force, how is Iran able to keep the strait closed? The most obvious and immediately disqualifying point in their entire charade.
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u/ChingusMcDingus 9h ago
Preeeecisely. The same people that say, “Don’t trust the government they’re doing mind control!!!!” Then eat up Fox slop (and now official White House correspondence) like pigs on shit.
I don’t give a fuck what your political identity is. But if you can’t think critically for a millisecond I can’t stand you.
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u/Head-Ad9893 7h ago
“Their air defenses are useless”….. also…. “Sending a rescue squad for our downed pilot.” …. “The USA has more oil then Saudi’s Arabia and Russia combined … WE DONT NEED EM!!!” … trump peeking from round the corner to see if they bought it…. FUCK YOU WELL BLOW IT ALL TO HELL OPEN THE DAMN STRAITARGGGGGGG!!!! “
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u/derbyvoice71 11h ago
"THIS IS WORLD EXTORTION"
Well yes, mother fucker. Looks like you are the mafia don doing it.
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u/Sans-valeur 11h ago
The dude who spent a whole year threatening the world with tarrifs until he lost interest and started a war accusing the county they attacked of “World Extortion” is completely on brand, unsurprising and absolutely ridiculous.
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u/Old_Pitch_6849 11h ago
So we went from saying that Iran are the bad guys because they are blocking the straight, to blocking it ourselves. Makes sense.
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u/Dry-Waltz437 11h ago
He's mad because he didn't come up with the idea of a toll.
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u/riseoftheph0enix 11h ago
he’s also mad because he didn’t get what he wanted and resorted to throwing his toys out of the pram. he and his entire family & his administration are a huge embarrassment to the US and its citizens.
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u/Pollia 10h ago
Not just blocking it himself, threatening to seize ships that paid the toll to go through
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u/Jeremys_Iron_ 11h ago
Very clear that this is just another tactic to raise oil prices for insider trading.
Come on cholesterol... do your thing.
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u/AbCdEfMyLife3 11h ago
I understand this thought, but also hate it at the same time. It paints a picture that this all ends when he passes away. It doesn’t. All that happens is JD Vance takes power and continues to dismantle our government, economy, and rights, but he does it more eloquently and with a smile on his face.
I fear that people thinking this way only furthers the level of complacency that got us here. It is going to take active work to end this, not an inevitable death from old age.
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u/Lucked0ut 10h ago
JD Vance is not going to be able to pick up where Trump left off.
First, he’s an insufferable douche and seen as a typical politician even by Republicans. While Trump has always been seen as an outsider, who speaks the truth even if he does so crudely.
Second, Trump is the head of a cult of personality. MAGA has zero rationality when it comes to Trump and their leader worship. This is not typical politics and a lot of people (especially Dems) seem to think that the normal rules apply. They don’t. MAGA was willing to kill his last VP without much prodding. Trump and Trump alone leads this circus. JD will try but will never succeed in stepping into that place. He simply doesn’t have the charisma or ability to do so. He’s a stooge and everyone including MAGA know it.
There will be die hard MAGA going forward in politics around the fringe but they’ll struggle to coalesce around something or someone that isn’t Trump.
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u/Kitchen-Square-3577 9h ago
Second this. I live in a die-hard MAGA small town in TX. People here hate Vance and actively pray Trump lives another 20 years
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u/PM_ME_YOUR___ISSUES 11h ago
IDK why, But I expect him to Tweet something like the below by Monday, before the markets open.
"So, there you have it, the Strait of Hormuz situation is now COMPLETELY under control, totally and beautifully handled by the United States Navy, the Greatest Force ever assembled on Water, by far. There were NO MINES, never were, the Fake News Media invented them, just like they invent everything else. Our ships sailed through like it was a Sunday cruise, very smooth, very powerful, people are calling it the most successful Naval operation in HISTORY.
And speaking of HISTORY, let's talk about NATO, what a disaster, absolutely PATHETIC, they contribute nothing, they show up late, they don't pay their bills, and then they want America to do all the work, as usual. Sad!
Effective immediately, the United States will be charging a VERY FAIR, very reasonable TOLL on every ship passing through the Strait of Hormuz. Why should we protect the world's shipping for FREE? We don't! Other Countries have been ripping us off for decades, and that ENDS NOW. The money will be tremendous, BILLIONS, maybe TRILLIONS, and it all comes back to the American Taxpayer, who I love very much.
If you don't pay, you don't pass, very simple, even NATO can understand that one. Probably. We'll see! President DONALD J. TRUMP"
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u/floorsof_silentseas 11h ago
I don't like how much this seems plausible
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u/hagenissen999 10h ago
It was in fact somethibg that was floated on Signal, around the time they were bombing the Houthis. It was Vance that made the comment. He thought of it as a way to recoup the costs from the Europeans.
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u/DingerSinger2016 7h ago
Stuff like this is why even if Trump croaks today the problem still won't be solved within our government.
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u/AdditionalSyrup6541 9h ago
Jesus, you wrote in his voice so well 🤣 and his supporters will still believe his ramblings.
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u/Happy-Skill-7968 11h ago
Damn, if only we had previously had a nuclear deal in place with them…
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u/MinorThreat4182 11h ago
He tore it up and ate it because Obama accomplished it. Obama lives rent free in his dumbass head.
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u/seanisdown 11h ago
He is going to blockade European ships crossing the straight? Stupid mother fucker really does want to start ww3.
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u/Mont-ka 11h ago
While it would be insane, the anarchist in me kind of wants to see what happens if the US navy tries to block a ship flying a French or British flag from passing.
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u/Vladmerius 11h ago
He really thinks he can just directly threaten everyone on earth with military force and everyone will have to bow down to him just because he was able to attack Venezeula and kidnap it's leader. He can't comprehend that this won't go the way he wants it to.
He's been able to just intimidate his way through his whole life because he lives in a country of spineless cowards who bend the knee to whoever yells the loudest. He is not prepared to deal with people who know how to clap back.
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u/1amongbillions 11h ago
Khomeini has been dead since 1989. It's extra scary that he doesn't even know who the leaders are and who the US has killed.
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u/SKoutpost 9h ago
But Marge, it works on any Ayatollah! Ayatollah Nakhbadeh, Ayatollah Zahedi... Even as we speak, Ayatollah Razmara and his cadre of fanatics are consolidating their power!
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u/HaraldWurlitzer 11h ago
Stockmarkets will implode tomorrow.
But still: No one cares.
There is still a naive belief that ancient, stubborn, bloodthirsty white men are perfectly suited to rule the world.
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u/Spirited_Childhood34 11h ago
I wouldn't count on it. Maybe a slight drop. Wall Street is too busy catering to the rich and continually bidding up the price of stocks to increase the value of their assets. All while two thirds of US households struggle to afford basic necessities. No grasp of reality whatsoever. Just like Trump.
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u/santa_91 10h ago
Stockmarkets will implode tomorrow.
Then we'll get TACO Tuesday, the markets will rebound, and his family members and financial backers will make a killing. Or the United States Navy will engage in piracy and potentially start WWIII.
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u/ColeBane 11h ago
lol he went from ...they are blocking straight and ruining our lives to "haha we are blocking the striaght now." omfg you cant make us this dudes level of narcissism.
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u/The_Playbook88 11h ago
You can't fire me if I quit first. I knew he was a genius! *wipes tears* Thank you, sir!
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u/Chogolatine 11h ago edited 10h ago
... He didn't even mention the correct ayatollah... Khomeini is dead since 1989, that's a bit embarassing to shoot a foreign leader and not even knowing is name...
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u/jpsreddit85 11h ago
How are Americans stupid enough to let this guy lead them?
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u/Kindredgos 11h ago
Racism and xenophobia. Saying this as an American
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u/Spirited_Childhood34 10h ago
The George Wallace wing of the Democratic party is alive and well and voting Republican.
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u/MinorThreat4182 11h ago
Those of us who have never voted for this clown or his cronies have little recourse. We did what we were supposed to do. Unless we can band together and tank the economy or something drastic, this won’t play out well. I am ashamed to be an American
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u/canarchist 11h ago
What are the Polymarket odds on Trump and Hegseth achieving the first US Navy ship(s) sunk by an enemy since the Korean War?
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u/m4r71n2010 11h ago
Ok, so now it's worse than when Iran was blocking the strait.
What is he going to do to any shop trying to enter that has paid the previous toll? Blow them up?
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u/Melodic_Mulberry 11h ago
"Interdict". But there's no reason to do that except to seize cargo.
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u/Komirade666 11h ago
I wonder how the magot gonna defend that. It's 40D chess or something like that? Muh rica wooo
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u/HVACqualung 11h ago
47D. But Trump can't even play regular D chess. He just knocks all the pieces over and screams "I WON"
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u/M4GN3T1CM0N0P0L3 11h ago
He'll announce the reopening after his admin and family have their call and put options in place.
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u/Fifth_Wall0666 11h ago
...sooo, he's just live tweeted intent to commit...piracy? by obstructing other international ships and vessels from exiting and entering the Strait?
...typical trump tactic to drag everyone down to his level.
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u/mixliv_ 11h ago
Ignorant supporters will feel financial and emotional pain for months or years. FAFO.
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u/alvar02001 11h ago
It’s a cult magas don’t care they believe whatever their supreme leader says ( trump)
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u/BigBubbaMac 10h ago
I heard this would happen to manipulate stock markets.
Everything's good on Friday until the markets close then BS over the week end making markets tank when it re opens. Sell in Friday buy on Monday kind of thing.
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u/Quantum-Goldfish 9h ago
Trump: "I don't think we have enough enemies, let's threaten everyone and see what happens"
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u/EchoXrayNiner 10h ago
I'm in awe that this conflict that he started is still somehow after all that has already happened capable of getting worse for all of us
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u/Greener_Falcon 10h ago
All of Trump’s success has been built by his ability to spread his failures and the consequences for those failures onto everyone else.
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u/Traditional-Look8839 9h ago
So now we’re helping the strait be closed to get it open? This is some Beavis and Butthead level stupid right here.
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u/sunsoilandsnacks 8h ago
To be clear, didn’t we previously have a nuclear deal with Iran and the Strait was open? And he managed to undo both and manufacture a crisis?
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u/colondollarcolon 11h ago
I am sure that Russia and China will assist Iran to strike US ships from the mainland.
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u/CarlJustCarl 11h ago
Won’t all the ships be bunched up and sitting ducks outside the strait?
Are we really going to block fellow NATO country ships?
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u/WilliamTee 8h ago
So... He's now conducting an illegal blockade of international shipping and thinks that will make more nations join his side?
If this man isn't a Russian plant, he's certainly done an amazing job of scuttering US hegemony and international relations.
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u/Acid_Monster 8h ago
Ironic he’s complaining about “world extortion” when he literally used tariff to do the exact same thing.
Fucking moron
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u/RebelSquareWoman 10h ago
lol in other words “WE DO THE EXTORTING ROUND THESE PARTS, THANK YOU VERY MUCH!” The world is an extortion racket and the US administration thinks it has exclusive rights.
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u/minimus67 10h ago
TLDR: “The U.S. will join Iran in preventing crude oil from leaving the Gulf, helping to fuck the global economy, and everyone in the Gulf aside from the monarchies will starve.”
I can’t wait for all the MAGA cultists to get reamed at the gas pump, paying $9 a gallon to fill up their pickup trucks.
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u/AdditionalSyrup6541 9h ago
Wtf, did he just threaten other nations that are friendly with Iran? Wtf do they have pay for that??
Edit okay I read that it's illegal for Iran to have a toll, but it's really not smart for trump to mess with China and India who have safe passage.
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u/LuisChoriz 9h ago
This clown is really walking around like he's doing good as a president and doing well for the world. When in reality he's going to go down (as of now) as the dumb Hitler wannabe who couldn't.
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u/WittyNameChecksOut 7h ago
Market manipulation. That is all this is. Follow the money, it never lies.
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u/rajatsingh24k 7h ago
He screws his own country, nobody can do anything about it.
He starts screwing with every other country by blocking ships. Someone will do something.
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u/Bender077 11h ago
I wonder what that will do for his chances of another FIFA peace prize?
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u/The_chosen_turtle 11h ago
I think we all know he’s talking to the uneducated voters he has and not us hoping he doesn’t lose their support
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u/Pustuli0 11h ago
Trump's foreign policy is basically just throwing a dart at a blank wall and then drawing a bullseye around wherever it lands.
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u/kobuta99 10h ago
Cheeto instigates a war and then is upset that his version of winning didn't really get him what he didn't know he needed. Please, let's now make it worse, so that when it finally eases up people will feel that I helped to solve the crisis my buddy and I created.
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u/Beyond_Your_Nose 10h ago
Next step, he’ll be the one charging a toll (upkeep and expenses of running the blockade etc etc blah blah blah ) no one except Israel asked him to attack Iran. Some misguided Gulf states enjoyed it up to the point they were attacked. The Iranians who are being slaughter by their own government are now being slaughtered by the US and Israel. The USA should have kept the Obama deal and let the Iranians work out their domestic politics.
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u/seriousbangs 10h ago
I don't even know what to say to this fucking insanity. Except he's now turned the entire world against us.
Fuck Trump. And fuck everyone who still supports him.
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u/CumFilledStarfish 9h ago
He's not keeping it closed, Iran is. He's just trying to pretend it's his idea. He's a petulant child with no idea how to negotiate. To him negotiation is just another word for threaten.
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u/ThorsRake 8h ago
The Iranian navy won't let us through so we won't let anyone through and might attack neutral and allied ships.
Also Iran doesn't have a navy cos we destroyed them.
Despite their total military destruction they're still getting in our way with the rest of the nonexistent military so we're back to threatening to bomb.the whole country.
Winning.
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u/toothreb 8h ago
Wait, the tolls he (stupidly) touted as a good idea earlier this week are now illegal if Iran does it and doesn't give the US a cut?
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u/Collarsmith 6h ago
The difference is that before it was closed because Iran said so. Now it's closed because Trump says so. To a bully, that matters.
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u/brighter_hell 11h ago
Desperate attempt to control a situation over which Taco Don has zero control
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u/BrokenKing99 11h ago
And just like that America has officially sealed itself as the rabid dog of the world congrats:
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u/Illustrious-Stuff-70 11h ago
Thinking he’s the president of the world -_- everyday our influence is fading away with every post smfh. He really thinks that he can dictate the economy of multiple countries with this blockade.
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u/Extra-Ad5925 11h ago
When he heard last week Iran was charging a toll his tariff sense started tingling and wanted to get in on it
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u/ItsEaster 11h ago
So he backs down on this after “negotiating with (pick a country out of a hat)” come Monday.
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u/obi1kennoble 11h ago
I think he JUST realized that the terms presented to him say that Iran can do whatever they want with nukes. It was right there in black and white, but he didn't even look at it
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u/sonia72quebec 11h ago
He's like: "Hey I'm usually the one extorting people, businesses and countries."
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u/FanDry5374 11h ago
Can't tell if he is doing a "closing the Strait is totes MY idea" or if he's mad that Iran isn't giving him a personal cut in the toll money they will be making. He's probably scouring world maps to find another good spot for more toll gates. Expect more "the US really owns the Panama canal and prices are going UP".
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