“Targets included missile launch sites and Iranian boats attempting to emplace mines. U.S. Central Command continues to defend our forces while using restraint during the ongoing ceasefire.”

The strikes come just hours after Trump said negotiations with Iran were “proceeding nicely.”

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    Always happens when the market’s closed. Drag up the war then say it’ll end by the end of the week. Hope no one notices the Epstein files. Repeat.

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    What’s most fucked up about this is it is strictly 100% about manipulating the markets and making money, that’s it.

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      Anyone who thinks President JD Vance is going to end the the war is going to get rug pulled harder than folks holding the HawkTuhaCoin bags.

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        I have no illusion things will get better under the other motherfucker. I just want things to get worse for that one motherfucker.

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            Nostradamus was a prophet of doom. I’m just a Joe Average who, after 18 months of having to watch this shitshow unfold, seeks some much-deserved solace in the knowledge that one particularly despicable sack of shit is finally with the worms.

            Champagne is in the cooler, waiting to be popped. You’re not going to take this away from me, mate. ;)

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              one particularly despicable sack of shit is finally with the worms.

              There’s a line of shit out the door and around the corner to take his place. If Trump did not exist, Ted Cruz would be president and nothing would be any better.

              These problems aren’t individualistic. They’re systematic. In a better world Trump would just be filling the shoes of Joan Rivers, not commanding a nuclear arsenal.

              Losing sight of the reactionary forest for one big orange tree is how we ended up with Joe Biden flubbing it for four years during the Trump interregnum

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                If you’ve got haemorrhoids, it’s OK to want them gone, even if you know they’ve got underlying cause. Likewise, you can do both: see the systemic problems that enabled Trump, and still be happy to see the motherfucker meet his timely demise.

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                  If you’ve got haemorrhoids, it’s OK to want them gone

                  You’re just pointing to one orange bump and praying it goes away

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            You don’t have to be Nostrodamus to predict that the 80 year old man who really looks their age and has near monthly “routine” health checks and brags about passing the kinds of cognitive tests they only give when they think you have dementia is going to die soon…

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              I think people are getting their hopes too high expecting him to expire any day now. Actuarial tables for men give only like a 5-6% chance of death in a year for men his age. While he’s obviously not in peak condition, the average Americans those tables are based on certainly aren’t either and unlike most of them he does have the benefit of insane resources to throw at whatever medical challenge (ex. the experimental Covid therapy that saved his life when he got infected with that) and very regular scanning. Plus genetics is a factor and his dad lived to 93 while his mom got to 88.

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    This is it, the reckoning we have all suspected was on the way. The inevitable backlash of all America’s sins consolidated under one presidency. One violent, insular ignoramus to rule them all. A completely dysfunctional government laid bare for all to see. Decades of “full spectrum dominance” brought to its inevitable end. No nation has ever existed solely by the power of it’s military dominance. Every nation that has attempted to do so has fallen.

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    Every week is like groundhog day. Trump declares victory, claims that peace talks are underway, and then they drop more bombs, without any deal being reached.

    It amazes me that there are still people gullible enough to believe that this isn’t another forever war for us and that gas isn’t going back down any time soon.

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      It dropped 5% for the holiday weekend. Never seen that happen before. The art of the deal

      There’s a sucker born every minute and 30+% of the population still think he’s a good president

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        It dropped 5% for the holiday weekend.

        Off an 80% spike since the year started.

        30+% of the population still think he’s a good president

        As a person in the O&G industry, I regret to say he’s good for me. My salary/bonus is fully outrunning inflation. Nevermind the compound stock gains juicing my 401k.

        Trump’s still shit in my book. But if I started out a Republican, why would I object to any of this shit?

        A Global Crusade Against The Wretched Islam, ballooning profits, violent police actions against all those horrible minorities we don’t like, that cool new ballroom, kidnapping the president of Venezuela, our SCOTUS is rigging the next election, what’s not to love?

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          O&G was booming under Biden as well though? Like the endless expansion in the Permian Basin was going full throttle, just with a least some oversight. The companies weren’t even drilling all their leases because they didn’t want to drop the price of oil.

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            O&G was booming under Biden as well though?

            It was actively competing with Alt Energy that the federal government sought to subsidize and promote.

            Nobody in the Biden administration was paying TotalEnergies a billion dollars to abandon plans to build offshore wind farms off the coasts of New York and North Carolina

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      It’s only a forever war is we don’t remove the motherfuckers who refuse to stop him.

      November may be our last chance. I know not everyone here loves the Dems, but they really are our only hope at this point, and we need to support them in the general election.

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    Friday: Trump close to a deal with Iran

    Monday: Trump doubles down on attack of Iran

    Friday: Trump close to a deal with Iran

    Monday: Trump doubles down on attack of Iran

    Rinse and repeat…

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        I don’t get how some people can’t see that this has been a huge get-rich scam for Trump and his cronies literally the entire time. It’s absurdely blatant.

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          Is anything dumpy does not a get rich scam? All the orange turd does is scam people

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    Targets included missile launch sites and Iranian boats attempting to emplace mines. U.S. Central Command continues to defend our forces while using restraint during the ongoing ceasefire

    How do ceasefires work.

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      Fart of the squeal.

      Bakrupts casino

      Decides that’s not big enough

      Bankrupts the US and plunges the world into a depression

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          THREE casinos

          How in the actual fuckity fucking fuck do you bankrupt ONE casino, let alone fucking three of them

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            Intentionally.

            Hey guys, invest money in my new casino! It’s a license to print money!

            Cool, now I’ll just pay myself from the casino funds for my contribution to marketing, interior design, management, consulting, and it’s gone. It’s all gone. Oops, bankrupt. It happens, business is risky.

            Hey guys, invest money in my new casino!

            And suppose that the investors were using dirty money for the investments, and trump was giving it back to them after the fact with just a little skimmed off the top for himself, also getting in their good graces and accumulating favors for laundering that money. It sure would explain all the ties between him and the Russian mob, huh?

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    The thing that amazes me is that media even bothers to report what Trump says about anything. The chances he’s lying is only exceeded by the chance that he has absolutely no fucking clue what he’s talking about.

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    You mean the deal that only Trump and his henchmen said was going swimmingly but nobody else saw or heard any detail about fell through? Gee, color me surprised…

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      He’s like a school kid that didn’t finish an essay. He keeps saying he’ll turn it in tomorrow. Then tries to lie and say he did turn it in but the teacher hasn’t graded it yet. Then when that doesn’t pan out somehow the teacher lost it. It can’t possibly be his fault.

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        A lot of rich people act exactly like that, they know their lawyers will get them out of any trouble they really get into. A lot of times other folks just stop arguing with them and they get their way because they just kept the lie up in such a delusional way, it’s easier to walk away.

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    I’m seeing in the billionaire-owned media that they were “self-defense” strikes. SMH.

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    Isn’t pretending to have peace talks while bombing them a war crime or something

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        Not exactly. Roosevelt scheduled talks with Japan, and then had the diplomats to Japan skip the meetings. He did this multiple times. IIRC that was either the 12th or 13th meeting that the US delegation didn’t attend. At that point Japan decided that the US wasn’t actually interested in peace talks and attacked.

        So in that case, as an American, I am inclined to believe that Japan was genuinely interested in the peace talks. We weren’t, or more specifically our president wasn’t interested in peace talks.

        Wilson also didn’t help matters by setting the stage for WWII.