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[–] Linken@lemmy.world 313 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (23 children)
  • Mar 3: "We won the war."
  • Mar 7: "We defeated Iran."
  • Mar 9: "We must attack Iran."
  • Mar 9: "The war is ending almost completely, and very beautifully."
  • Mar 11: “You never like to say too early you won. We won. In the first hour it was over.”
  • Mar 12: "We did win, but we haven't won completely yet."
  • Mar 13: "We won the war."
  • Mar 14: "Please help us."
  • Mar 15: "If you don't help us, I will certainly remember it."
  • Mar 16: "Actually, we don't need any help at all."
  • Mar 16: "I was just testing to see who's listening to me."
  • Mar 16: "If NATO doesn't help, they will suffer something very bad."
  • Mar 17: "We neither need nor want NATO's help."
  • Mar 17: "I don't need Congressional approval to withdraw from NATO."
  • Mar 18: "Our allies must cooperate in reopening the Strait of Hormuz."
  • Mar 19: "US allies need to get a grip - step up and help open the Strait of Hormuz."
  • Mar 20: "NATO are cowards."
  • Mar 21: "The Strait of Hormuz must be protected by the countries that use it. We don't use it, we don't need to open it."
  • Mar 22: "This is the last time. I will give Iran 48 hours. Open the strait"
  • Mar 22: "Iran is Dead"
  • Mar 23: "We had very good and productive talks with Iran."
  • Mar 24: "We’re making progress."
  • Mar 25: “They gave us a present and the present arrived today. And it was a very big present worth a tremendous amount of money. I’m not going to tell you what that present is, but it was a very significant prize.”
  • Mar 26: "Make a deal, or we’ll just keep blowing them away."
  • Mar 27: "We don’t have to be there for NATO."
  • Mar 28: No major quote
  • Mar 29: Claimed talks were progressing
  • Mar 30: "Open the Strait of Hormuz immediately, or face devastating consequences."
  • Mar 31: Claimed a deal was "very close" and that Iran would "do the right thing"
  • Apr 1: "We’ll see what happens very soon."
  • Apr 2: Repeated that a deal was likely, while warning of continued strikes if not
  • Apr 3: "Something big is going to happen."
  • Apr 4: Said Iran must comply "immediately" or face further consequences. "Tuesday 8 PM ET".
  • Apr 5: "Open the fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah."
  • Apr 6: "We can bomb the hell out of them"
  • Apr 7: "A whole civilization will die tonight"
[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 59 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

I like your post. 50 years from now, high school students are going to open their US History book and read what the orange bumble fuck said during a war he started. Humiliating and perhaps the Americans might learn a lesson from the MAGA disaster.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 31 points 1 week ago (3 children)

If americans could learn we wouldn't have a 2nd trump presidency. We're on average stupider than bart with the cupcakes.

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[–] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Beautiful. Thanks for compiling this.

From that, he does seem to have been getting a lot more agitated over the past week. We'll see how that translates into actions.

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[–] dellish@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] slevinkelevra@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 week ago (3 children)

That's the thing I was wondering about the TACO meme. Is it good to mock him on chickening out when it is best for everybody that he does chicken out?

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[–] DisgruntledGorillaGang@reddthat.com 24 points 1 week ago (2 children)

He's the biggest fucking dumbass in the universe.

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[–] HuudaHarkiten@piefed.social 203 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Iran has been calling his bluff at every point. Not surprising.

Hilarious to see. Would be great if it didn't ruin everything while being hilarious though.

[–] evenglow@lemmy.world 104 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Republicans had a choice. They chose to make things worse. They can't complain about laughing out of frustration or dark humor. Not after decades of sabotaging America so they could finally control USA.

[–] HuudaHarkiten@piefed.social 60 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Republicans had a whole bunch of choices. They still have a lot of choices. They keep choosing to do the stupid and/or evil choice. I'll be laughing at them and what happens to Americans for years or decades.

I'm more concerned about the rest of the world having to deal with the consequences of moronic republican decisions.

[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social 33 points 1 week ago (26 children)

I’m more concerned about the rest of the world having to deal with the consequences of moronic republican decisions.

This is the worst part of it. I didn't vote for that moronic child fucker. I can't even vote in that shithole because I don't live there. Yet, I'm getting fucked, and roughly, because of them.

But hey, 'don't go "all americans" because some of them didn't vote for him'. Well fuck you! You didn't vote for him, but what about us? Getting screwed by someone who's not even in our continent just because he fucked kids and don't want to go to jail for it?

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[–] banazir@lemmy.ml 161 points 1 week ago (36 children)

So, hey, Americans, your president is openly threatening genocide. You might uh, want to do something about that. Just a thought.

[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 84 points 1 week ago (17 children)

Open to suggestions.

I don't think any of y'all know how well protected this asshole is

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 48 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

Seriously, there seems to be this delusion that we all just have magic buttons that execute our politicians on a whim. What the fuck do you expect us to do, specifically, to fix this?

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago (16 children)

In pretty much every other western country, the populace could reasonably exert force over their national armed forces because those armed forces are reasonably sized. But the entire active duty military of Germany has fewer personnel than the on-base population of a single US military base (JBLM 210k, Germany 185k), and JBLM is only the 4th largest base in the US....

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Not to mention, our military budget is more than the GDP of 85% of the countries in the world, and it's only getting bigger. The proposed budget for next year is more than 90% of the world's countries' GDP. Think about that for a few minutes.

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[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's mind boggling to me there have been no riots by this point.

[–] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 week ago (3 children)

If that's mind boggling then you really need to read an actual history book.

Life for the avg America is FAR from problematic enough to have riots start yet. Even our worse off tend to have just enough care from other Americans to be upset but content. We are taking care of our down trodden just enough.

You need starvation, active destress, or wide spread unemployment.

We have food it's just expensive.

We arnt in active physical danger.

We have just enough jobs that groups of people arnt massing together.

End of the day the very same message of help your fellow man, do good in your community and decades of social safety nets put into place. Are doing their job of allowing the American people to coast by happy enough.

If you want riots then you need to start making people physically miserable, scared and hungry.

[–] RustyShackleford@piefed.social 25 points 1 week ago

You’re not wrong about the conditions that historically lead to unrest, material desperation, fear, and breakdown of basic stability tend to be the tipping points. The U.S. government isn’t there for most citizens, and that’s not accidental.

But what’s worth pointing out is that this “just stable enough” environment didn’t emerge naturally, it’s been actively managed over decades. And a strong case can be made that this is less about general governance and more about a long-term political strategy, particularly on the Republican side.

You’ve had a pattern where social safety nets are publicly criticized, underfunded, or slowly eroded but rarely eliminated outright. Why? Because removing them completely would create exactly the kind of instability you’re describing. Instead, they’re kept barely functional. Enough to prevent collapse, not enough to meaningfully improve mobility or reduce inequality.

At the same time, there’s been consistent resistance to policies that would shift people from “barely stable” to genuinely secure, things like stronger labor protections, universal healthcare, or aggressive wage growth. That keeps a large portion of the population economically stressed, but not desperate enough to unify or revolt. It fragments people using base animal instincts, keeps them focused on short-term survival, and limits collective action.

Add in cultural and political polarization, and it further diffuses pressure. People incorrectly channel frustration horizontally, at each other, instead of vertically at faceless institutions.

So yes, you’re right about the threshold for unrest. The uncomfortable part is recognizing that a lot of political strategy has been about keeping the country just below that threshold, stable enough to barely function, and strained enough to control.

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[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)
[–] northendtrooper@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 week ago

Its been proven that the impeachment doesn't do shit. Infact the last time we impeached our president he was allowed to run and be elected again.

[–] a4ng3l@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Unanimously supported or is it again an isolated democrat move? Asking because it’s kindof annoying to let USA delete a whole civilization…

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[–] Willoughby@piefed.world 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We didn't get up when we found out he was a pedophile. That ship kinda sailed.

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[–] Artaca 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Someone may have replied with this already, but: https://stoptrumpswars.org/ we're trying.

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[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 71 points 1 week ago (15 children)

The US had a perfectly good nuclear deal with Iran, but Trump chose to rip it up nine years ago because it had Obama's name on it.

Should come to no surprise that Iran don't want to end this crisis diplomatically with the same guy who stabbed them in the back just to spite the Democrats...

Trump sparked anger and concern around the globe on Tuesday morning with his post, which read, “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!”

I've not read the full wording of his Truth Social post until now, but why does it read like he's trying to cut a wrestling promo?

I mean his description of the US airman rescue operation in yesterday's press conference where he called the Iranian army a "hostile, very talented, very good, very evil military" was giving me Danhausen vibes...

[–] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If he plays his cards right, he might end up winning the WWE Peace Prize.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Did you misspel WW3? 🤭

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[–] YeahIgotskills2@lemmy.world 52 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

Out of curiosity I checked out how Fox News is covering this shit show. Totally fucking unhinged is an understatement. He could livestream eating a baby and they'd be praising his bold nutritional choices.

It's wild. Meanwhile, other mainstream media channels are accused of leftist propaganda by these deranged lunatics, simply for reporting the facts.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Dude at work randomly walked up and said Iran is gonna be a nice parking lot. Like I've known you two weeks and my toolbox is covered in socialist stickers, either you can't read or you're real real fuckin dense.

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[–] But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 50 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Americans if this is not the time for second amendment I don’t fucking know what it. This is Munich 1938, it’s now or deal with a king and a world war where you guys are the Nazis.

The opposition has been infighting and soon you’ll all be silenced too. Before Germany invaded Europe, they stamped out any dissent within their borders first. Throwing the growing list of undesirable in camps without due process.

It’s not like this is already happening in America is it? 🤔 But really Americans how much more do you need? And don’t just throw your arms up in the air and dodge blame while you sit on your couch watching Netflix.

Your country was won by fat farmers and every profession in between when they realized it was UNITE OR DIE

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[–] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 42 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

No one in their right mind talks with a lunatic.

By acting crazy and threatening people, dj appears to have made up his own mind long ago.

[–] icelimit@lemmy.ml 39 points 1 week ago (2 children)

"we don't negotiate with terrorists"

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[–] DontRedditMyLemmy@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I'm so confused. I thought there was a 2 week cease fire starting today?

[–] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

Everything is a lie unless an Iranian official confirms it. That is the new order of things.

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Huh. Weird. Turns out when you show a demented willingness to cause mass genocide, people might get the impression that negotiations aren't really an option anymore.

[–] OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (3 children)

This could be a blessing in disguise. He called Biden a retard on Monday. He's now upped the threats a notch.

Could be he got some very bad health news from Walter Reed medical over the weekend.

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[–] RockBottom@feddit.org 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Who would've thought the art of the deal is just black mailing?

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[–] northendtrooper@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is 'Sum of all Fears' level of OH FUCK.

[–] LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yep it's not funny. Some commenters seem to find this funny. It's not. He's an incredibly dangerous man and easily capable of killing millions with zero remorse.

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[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 20 points 1 week ago

That went well.

[–] bagsy@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

He's a shitting, screaming, spoiled child having a temper tantrum. Oh, he also has access to the nuke codes. Nothing to worry about. /s

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