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There will be no deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER! After that, and the selection of a GREAT & ACCEPTABLE Leader(s), we, and many of our wonderful and very brave allies and partners, will work tirelessly to bring Iran back from the brink of destruction, making it economically bigger, better, and stronger than ever before. IRAN WILL HAVE A GREAT FUTURE. “MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN (MIGA!).” Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP

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    Who is the person that can unconditional surrender for Iran ? Who is Trump writing to here ?

    Teachers of dead school children ? The dead leaders ? The dead Americans ?

    Are we Americans supposed to surrender Iran to Trump ?

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      Yes, I American am declaring to Donald J Trump that Iran has officially unconditionally surrendered. He should immediately fly to Tehran and hand pick the next leader. Thank you for your attention in this matter. God Bless MAGAts.

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    Just like Putin he wants to expand. Doesn’t matter who or how. Venezuela, Canada, Cuba, Greenland, Iran. He just wants to be remembered as the person who expanded the US. And the scary thing is, he has resources to do it, but luckily not the competence.

    More annoying is the lack of pushback.

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    What could go wrong with such a brilliant strategy built upon an ultimatum, when we have a basic bunch of drunk podcasters in command of the military. The levels of Dumb and Wrong are way off the charts now

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    Have any of you seen this guys videos on game theory? He’s been discussing why Usrael is destined to fail this fight. And explains things in a way most people (like myself with limited knowledge on the topic) can understand.

    Has a few million views already. It’s worth watching.

    https://youtu.be/jIS2eB-rGv0 Professor Jiang #9

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      I was interested until I finished his last video. Between his complete dismissal of the kurds as nothing but “hustlers” looking to rob the US for what it’s worth and then him ending the video with “oh btw this is a war for global control of human consciousness.” I was like… Yeah… No…

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        What videos are you referring to ?

        I don’t recall any of that in this video I linked.

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      This statement could apply to every second of every minute of every hour of every day of both Trump presidencies.

      First as tragedy, then as farce.

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        Untrue, stopping production of the penny was one thing he did right. Might have been accidental lol.

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          I’m gonna go out on a limb and say there’s literally hundreds of way more important issues that need to be addressed in the US than the waste of printing pennies. Like, it’s such a drop in the bucket compared to underfunded healthcare, rampant homelessness, mental health crises, broken education system, rising pollution, bomb trains, aging and failing infrastructure, bridges about to collapse, water treatment plants failing, a patchwork power grid that was built for the 19th century, dams about to collapse, resurgence of major diseases due to anti-vaccine hysteria, intense levels of propaganda via unregulated social media…

          Anyway, I could keep going, so seriously, you’re joking right? The waste produced from pennies is literally a drop of water in an ocean of fucking problems that are way more massive , way more impactful, and overall just way more important. If stopping minting pennies meant we could fund Medicare For All for the next fifty years I might give a shit, but it didn’t and even with a better congress, supreme court, and President it still wouldn’t have saved enough money to fund anything significant.

          So I genuinely don’t give one flying fuck about stopping minting pennies or if they had kept minting them. It makes no material difference in my daily fucking life whereas ICE being the world’s third most well funded military means jackbooted fucking thugs are roaming my streets looking to black bag my neighbors. I just can’t, the idea that the penny thing can be counted as “a good thing” in the face of the tsunami of bad shit is a joke.

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            Well said, all of this, even if it was a joke. Way too many reactionary centrists in my life try to pull the “but what about the dyes in food, tho?” and a few have noted the penny thing was something worthwhile, even though he screwed the pooch on rolling that out, if you can even call it a rollout.

            Because they literally have nothing else, I guess? Even the reactionary centrists seem to realize that kidnapping people and giving them the extreme rendition treatment is a bad look.

            On the dye thing - first of all, it was easy and free for me to avoid dyes if I so wished. Secondly, I have not seen anything actually happen on that front. And seriously, even if that was something I was wishing on a star to have happen, the tradeoff is…what? Threatening every single one of our allies, attacking Venezuela, Iran and attacking our own cities? Ripping way healthcare from millions? Firing untold numbers of government workers? Even more handouts to the already ridiculously rich?

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          But he even half-assed that. He stopped the production of new pennies but they’re still in use and not being destroyed. In Canada, we made a law that, starting on a certain date, prices were rounded to the nearest five for cash transactions. Pennies were still accepted currency but gradually sent back to the mint to be destroyed and, after a while, they stopped being used at all.

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            Yep, even the most basic of things that should be a slam dunk are things he completely bungles.

            He should have easily been able to unify the nation in dealing with a pandemic. But, nope. He so totally fucked that up. And same with the penny thing - we have plenty of examples, like Canada, where we could have learned about the rollout.

            Instead, it’s announced via his LieSocial site or whatever the fuck. With no phase out and no plan and no direction given.

            He’s just a complete asshole and has no idea what he is doing. He just wants his name and his dumb mug on things and that’s about it. Oh and shiny medals being given to him.

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                He really is quite stupid. Watching him first steer into the “but muh economy!” thing nearly at the outset, to initially being hopeful it was going to kill off more black people than white people, to having Jared withhold life-saving supplies and equipment from entire states not deemed loyal enough to Donvict, to stoking stupid conspiracy theories and nostrums like horse dewormer, while also wanting all the credit for the vaccine (which we really had Obama to thank), and so on…

                Again, almost any normal human being without a broken brain and who had the barest modicum of empathy, or the ability to at least fake that empathy, could have done better at it.

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      We’re in the “find out” part of the “fuck around”.

      America is run by a pedophile death cult that is controlled by a genocidal death cult. There’s a lot of overlap between those groups.

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        You know they will retaliate. You know they can’t directly invade us. That leaves tactics like suicide bombers, hijacking planes, internal sabotage of utilities. I wouldn’t go anywhere populated anytime in the near future.

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          That’s just fear mongering. Iran is already retaliating in the scope that they can. They are attacking US bases near them.

          Iran doesn’t want anything in the US just like Iraq didn’t want anything in the US. I’ve seen this fear mongering song and dance before.

          The new song and dance is just like the last one but with half the brain cells. The last one was at half the brain cells of a normal person.

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            What we did is unforgivable. We’re going to start something we can’t stop if we haven’t already. That’s not fear mongering, it’s truth.

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      Nothing bad can happen, it can only good happen

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    Add nation building to the budget. Im sure there are some gov contractors just itching to do next to nothing and get paid millions for it.

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      You know what unconditional surrender will mean.

      Trump always chickens out? That’s what it means, right? After bankrupting our military and sending countless US soldiers to their deaths in a mire of a war that will make Vietnam look like a cakewalk, he will just walk away with no gains pretending like he won?

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        I suspect two possibilities:

        • Trump chickens out by April and says he got everything he wanted out of Iran anyways.
        • Trump feels spiteful and decides to do The Big One on Iran because they really pissed him off.

        I feel Trump is going to declare victory over nothing, but there’s always that intrusive thought that Trump will do something more unprecedented.

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          Surely…SURELY…someone in that administration was smart enough to snip the wire in big red button knowing that Trump is a lunatic.

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            You cowardly bastard! You’re not the voice of the people, I am the voice of the people! The people speak through me, not you! It came to me while I slept, Sonny… my destiny. In the middle of the night, it came to me - I must get up NOW, RIGHT NOW, and fulfill my destiny! Now you put your goddamn hand on that scanning screen, or I’ll hack it off and put it on for you! DO IT!

            The missiles are flying. Hallelujah.

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5N4JWy-i98

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        You know, I really hope so. But this year he really needs the line to go up because that’s the core value his cult worships and line don’t go up from war unless he secures some oil.

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    Maybe if you want the supreme leader to surrender you shouldn’t have killed him. Very hard to get a signature from a crater.

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    We tried to tell everyone that Trump is a terrible business man, he can’t even understand the order of numbers.

    America FIRST?

    I guess MAGA and Trump were meant for each other, neither seem to understand that first would imply that it comes before others.