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News & Current Events Mar 31, 2026 at 1:03 PM

"Go Get Your Own Oil": Trump's Message To UK, Other Countries On Hormuz Strait

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TheRC135 Mar 31, 2026 +9632
Empires have fallen before, but I'm not sure I've ever seen one jump off a cliff.
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peon2 Mar 31, 2026 +2152
The Khwarezmian Empire (which ironically included modern day Iran) comes to mind. Ghengis Khan sent diplomats to ask about trading with them. The Khwarezemians imprisoned them. Khan sent another party, they were beheaded and had their beards shaved (an act of huge disrespect to the Mongols). Well, instead of getting a new trading ally the Mongols invaded and absolutely obliterated their entire empire in what wikipedia refers to as "one of the bloodiest conquests in human history" all because the Shah thought it'd be funny to shave off some beards.
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francis2559 Mar 31, 2026 +608
Interesting! [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khwarazmian\_Empire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khwarazmian_Empire) Also, not around for very long.
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littlesaint Mar 31, 2026 +250
Ye very short indeed, only an independent state: 1170s–1221
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francis2559 Mar 31, 2026 +90
Interestingly, Francis of Assisi was right around that time and tried to stop a crusade. 1181-1226, IIRC. The birth years is a lil fuzzy.
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owen__wilsons__nose Mar 31, 2026 +43
And some time after that Andrei of Agassi defeated many opponents on a clay court
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Otis_Inf Mar 31, 2026 +26
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_invasion_of_the_Khwarazmian_Empire Hot damn, between 2million and 15 million deaths
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ConnectionEdit Mar 31, 2026 +181
Jaysus pick your battles like
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floatablepie Mar 31, 2026 +99
He thought he did. He had just conquered his way to owning one of the richest and largest empires on the planet. His armies were vast and well trained. They crushed their rivals and consolidated power. But he wasn't fighting a heavy infantry based, large army looking for a set-piece showdown. The Mongols were just not anything he was ready for.
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Tribalbob Mar 31, 2026 +321
Everyone gangsta till you hear throat singing over the hills.
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chicaneuk Mar 31, 2026 +2162
I mean Brexit was a tremendous example of punching ourselves in the bollocks. But Americas fall from grace has been really quite spectacular.
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Havehatwilltravel Mar 31, 2026 +418
It was a cannonball into a kiddie pool. He blamed his advisors saying "they told me it was deep".
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Exoduc Mar 31, 2026 +291
Trump would be happy to be in the kiddie pool
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retiredchildsoldier Mar 31, 2026 +141
**Back** in the kiddie pool* Let’s not let others think that he doesn’t have a history of sex with minors.
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jameson71 Mar 31, 2026 +58
Let's be real, Trump never left the kiddie pool, not even when he married his illegal alien. The majority of voting Americans are fools and will believe anything someone born rich tells them.
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cates Mar 31, 2026 +306
Living here in the states and seeing this happen in 2016, almost happen in 2020, and then happen again in 2024 is hard... but the hardest part is talking to friends and family that to this day still support this guy.
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psparks Mar 31, 2026 +179
This right here. I live in California but a large part of my family and friends are republicans. Some have finally started started to say they don't support trump, but they still watch fox news, are still republican and have no problem with all the other republic politicians who support trump. They'll try to pull the 'I didn't vote for him this time around' to which I follow up with, 'Did you vote for Kamala then?" and you damn well know the answer. It's all such disingenuous bullshit. Theater. They are performing theater just like their leader always has.
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JyveAFK Mar 31, 2026 +121
They're not happy. Wifey's family, staunch republicans, they're... it's a strange mood. They've ridden the ride before, they know the ups and downs, have the fox news talking points ready to go, moan about prices but spend longer talking about pronouns. But now, they're all feeling it. Wifey warns me not to stir things up, but if they mention the stock market just once, the price at the pump, I'm rubbing it in, hard. And a few "what happened with the Epstein stuff?" But their 401k's... they used to proudly announce how much the market's up, how much they've made. But no-one's been on vacation abroad yet. They're all waiting for the dems to do something/anything they can point to. But it's not happening, and they're not happy. the dems trying to lay as low as possible and just let Trump keep being Trump is working.
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ItsKlobberinTime Mar 31, 2026 +66
Are they ever actually happy? That whole ideology revolves around being angry and/or afraid *all the time*. It must be exhausting.
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andante528 Mar 31, 2026 +38
My conservative relatives all look so old and bitter, and they keep supporting policies that hurt them (and/or their kids) more than just about anyone. It's like they're metaphorically choosing not to wear sunscreen just so they can brag about being "free" or "anti-woke" or whatever while also loudly complaining about getting burned over and over again.
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BoJackMoleman Mar 31, 2026 +44
For you at least it was once and done. Sure the consequences sucked but you had a literal roadmap with an eventual exit path. Trump it's like leaving a child unattended with matches in an antique store. Even if you take the matches away their other parent insists on their right to have matches, maybe bigger matches. There's talk about giving the child a flame thrower or dynamite. Edit: We get a fresh new hell every morning.
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chicaneuk Mar 31, 2026 +38
I genuinely can't imagine how painful it is for people in America who, you know, are capable of rational thought and actually have empathy for other people and want a president they can look up to and admire. It's unbelievable watching from overseas.
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JohnExcrement Mar 31, 2026 +16
Every morning I wake up and then the dread of “what did he do today?” hits me. When Biden was declared the w***** in 2020, my literal first thought was “Thank God, now I can sleep at night.”
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If_you_have_Ghost Mar 31, 2026 +54
America always does what we do… only bigger, harder, and stupider!
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MrParadux Mar 31, 2026 +79
Same idea. Russia was way, way more successful with their digital misinformation campaigns and buying of politicians than anyone expected.
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chicaneuk Mar 31, 2026 +28
Yeah.. they must be laughing their asses off at how they have managed to manipulate us..
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SneakyIslandNinja Mar 31, 2026 +200
The British Empire fell long before brexit. That was pure nostalgia.
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NoBSforGma Mar 31, 2026 +218
As a elderly US citizen.... this is beyond embarrassing. I don't know how many times we can apologize to the rest of the world for this idiot. I've just given up and will wait it out and then hope we can repair the damage. Might take a LONG time tho.
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rab2bar Mar 31, 2026 +205
Like Germany, the only recourse will be to change the constitution to try to ensure that something like this can never happen again. And even then ...
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WavingWookiee Mar 31, 2026 +112
A constitution is only valid if it's upheld. The current US one is being shat on right now, what's stopping the new one from being used as toilet paper?
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eerie_midnight Mar 31, 2026 +21
I’m so ready to watch Republicans wipe their asses with the constitution for three more long years only to then have to listen to a Dem president say “there’s nothing we can do, the constitution forbids it :/“ If Democrats don’t do everything possible to fix this clusterfuck once they’re back in power, that’ll be the end of the Democratic Party. Voters aren’t going to continue to buy “incremental progress” and “unlike the republicans we play by the rules!” after they’ve seen everything Trump has done and gotten away with. Evidently there *are* no rules anymore. So let’s take advantage of that and do some good.
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NoBSforGma Mar 31, 2026 +48
Even then.... and even NOW, Trump ignores the Constitution AND the Supreme Court when it's convenient. Who's going to stop him? Congress? Is some branch of the military or Federal police going to the White House to arrest him? I mean... according to the chain of command, he's their leader. Who prevails in this case, The Supreme Court or the Presidency? And who would enforce Supreme Court rulings? It's an interesting Constitutional situation that is perilous for the rest of us. I have NO IDEA what we could put in place that would avoid the situation we are in now.
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LowLIFO Mar 31, 2026 +62
No offence, but as a Canadian I am not sure you will be around to see the relationship between our two countries return to anywhere near what it used to be.
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NoBSforGma Mar 31, 2026 +23
I totally agree. I am elderly, but even for the young, it might take a generation or two to undo the damage that's been done.
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nanoman92 Mar 31, 2026 +148
The Roman Empire in 408 decided to go full racist, had its top general (who was *only* half roman) murdered and went full genocide against all germanics living in the empire. These consisted of a) Women and children b) Their husbands and fathers, which formed most of the army. Immediately, the empire lost most of its army, that now coalesced around Alaric, a failed goth rebel who had just been beaten the year before, and now found itself leader of the largest army in Europe. A year later, the city of Rome was sacked by that army for the first time in 800 years. So yes, shit like this by racists has happened before. edit: it seems the USA wants to go the same way, just announced https://newrepublic.com/post/208407/ice-target-family-members-us-marines
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tophernator Mar 31, 2026 +40
I feel like the Romans had to deal with erratic narcissistic leaders on quite a few occasions. The US senate seem like pussies in comparison.
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Zealousideal_Hat1568 Mar 31, 2026 +19333
I just took a shit in the kitchen..it's all over the counter tops and walls. Go make your own dinner.
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Elegant_Emu952 Mar 31, 2026 +3234
Appropriate analogy.
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StrobeLightRomance Mar 31, 2026 +858
I thought it was a fairly shitty a***-ogy. I'll see myself out now. ^I'm ^sorry.
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IngeborgBritt Mar 31, 2026 +1034
And you better help me clean it up or else!
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canspop Mar 31, 2026 +636
More like, 'clean it up for me, I'm off to shit in another kitchen'.
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HockeyRules9186 Mar 31, 2026 +96
No actually it should read I’m off to blow another 1.3 million on golf today at your expense.
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Routine_Temporary661 Mar 31, 2026 +192
You better help me clean up and pay me for all the shit that I have shitted
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msbigheadsvocalcords Mar 31, 2026 +242
"THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!"
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McNalienBro Mar 31, 2026 +57
*THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS FECAL MATTER ftfy
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rrrrrivers Mar 31, 2026 +413
And don't forget to wear a suit and say thank you!!
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Ok-Explorer-6779 Mar 31, 2026 +109
But not a tan colored suit
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caseydee Mar 31, 2026 +120
The art of the meal
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LarktheDog Mar 31, 2026 +54
Wow. You’re an excellent negotiator too.
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EmotionalBag777 Mar 31, 2026 +42
Stop complaining the kitchen isn’t open
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No_Iron_8087 Mar 31, 2026 +7054
By using the ‘opposite is true’ approach, as one always should when reading Trump’s tweets — I have now learned that the U.S. is struggling in Iran, especially with what to do with the Strait and desperately wants to drag Europe into its ill conceived war. I’ve also found out that U.S. does not, in fact, have plenty of oil.
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Gentleman_Nosferatu Mar 31, 2026 +868
Good tip!
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NotUniqueWorkAccount Mar 31, 2026 +315
That's not what she (Stormy D) said 
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WretchedBlowhard Mar 31, 2026 +93
A child's bite marks can really do a number on a man's d***.
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koshgeo Mar 31, 2026 +184
The irony is, the US *does* have plenty of oil, but that doesn't do much to the price. Trump for some strange reason thought affecting global supply elsewhere in the world wouldn't matter much at home, or that the effect would be only brief, because the US has "energy independence". It totally does matter. He's being schooled on what a global market commodity is. You can't take about 20% of the supply out of the market without having a huge effect on prices everywhere. That same barrel of oil produced in Texas yesterday is now worth more, and costs more when you refine it into gasoline and sell it at retail even if nothing about your production or refining system in Texas has changed. The only way to manage otherwise would be if the US could somehow suddenly magically replace 20% of global supply. That's a hard "no" on a timescale that would influence things in a major way. The most creative interpretation of his massive f-up is that Trump thought "we'd make lots of money" (i.e. oil companies in the US) even if he did screw up supply in the Persian Gulf a bit. Now the prices, both crude and refined, are frozen in for months and there *will* be broader negative economic effects from that, globally, especially with actual production and delivery facilities damaged in the Gulf region that will take time to fix even if ship traffic goes back to some semblance of normal immediately, which it isn't yet. TL;DR: Donald Trump did not learn much about global commodity markets when supposedly studying at Wharton. This is exactly what people would have predicted would happen for decades.
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ranatalus Mar 31, 2026 +40
his only option there is export controls, which big businesses will NOT be happy with
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takeda64 Mar 31, 2026 +24
Also US refineries are tooled to process imported heavy sour crude while most of US crude is light sweet. Retooling refineries would take a lot of time and a lot of money. Ironically the whole EV and renewable energy looks so much better now. This is why China put so much into it, it's national security, it's not that Xi became a tree hugger one day.
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lordph8 Mar 31, 2026 +582
Listened to a podcast about some navy guys talking about it. As awesome firepower as a carrier strike group has, it only has x amount of interceptors and has to be resupplied. When dealing with drone swarms they expend them quickly, when low on supplies they have to return to a safe port to get those big missiles in quantity, that's pretty far away because Iran has proved they can reach out pretty far. So they can't spend a lot of time on station, and they do not want to get too close.
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Grand_Sock_1303 Mar 31, 2026 +405
Interestingly, i too was listening to a podcast on the subject where they were highlighting that the aircraft carriers are no longer the pinnacle of naval warfare. Despite the enormous cost and length of time to build them, they can be taken out with military drones costing a fraction of the price. War has evolved a lot in the past 5 years.
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Durandal_Tycho Mar 31, 2026 +151
If only the Military wasn't beholden to the military industrial complex! They might have tried to buy some of those interceptor drones that Ukraine has been using since last year which work pretty well on Shahed drones and cost a fraction of an interceptor missile (and a lot easier to build).
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SunshineSt8Reprobate Mar 31, 2026 +108
It's honestly wild how little the US military has apparently learned from the Ukrainians, vis-a-vis modern warfare. I'd contend that US infantry/mechanized elements would get absolutely mulched on the battlefields of Ukraine, their strength is overwhelming air-superiority that's proven to be incredibly expensive and vulnerable to supply crunches. It's so embarrassing being American these days.
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StonedGhoster Mar 31, 2026 +14
I began writing on the Russian invasion some weeks before it happened, and have continued to advocate for supporting Ukraine for a variety of reasons, one of which is the observation and intelligence opportunities it would provide. It is a dereliction of duty that the military has not paid nearly enough attention to what has happened there as it should have.
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ArcaneDemense Mar 31, 2026 +204
Actually the carriers themselves are just fine. The issue is what they put on the carrier. You could very easily retrofit Ford class carriers to take a large drone complement, or deploy an e***** boat to do that job depending on the tradeoffs you wanted to make. The problem is that for political and MIC reasons plus having morons currently in charge the US has not made those choices.
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punkindle Mar 31, 2026 +98
Why are we still doing things the insanely expensive way? We spend billions on giant ships with high tech weapons, Iran slaps together some $1000 drones and we run away. Where's our drone army? I can't believe we don't have someone working on that.
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writers_block Mar 31, 2026 +132
We're seeing something that happens regularly over military history. Nations prepare for war based on the last war, but until shit hits the fan, nobody really knows how the changes in technology will affect the way war works. Just like industrial-scale use of artillery in WWI, air space superiority and bombing in WWII, and the shift to close quarters/urban combat over the Iraq war, we're now seeing the expansion of the impact of drones that we already saw guiding the conflict in Ukraine. The reality is that we do have a pretty remarkable arsenal of drones, but the asymmetric nature of this conflict means we can't put them to the same kind of use. Using a drone to intercept another drone isn't nearly as easy as using a drone to target a large, slow ship or infrastructural target, and half the benefit of those drones is that you can keep them anywhere so you don't need large, targetable depots for your arsenal. Drones seem to be shaping up to give a truly massive homefield advantage that invading forces simply don't have the tools or tactics to neutralize yet, but who knows if that will change in the near future.
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SunshineSt8Reprobate Mar 31, 2026 +79
Except for the fact that the war in Ukraine really dictated what the new gameplan for war should look like, and we're copying none of their strategies. No low-cost interceptor drones to take these Shaheds down, no protective netting to protect aircraft left on open runways, and no concept whatsoever about what we've blindly stormed into. Our entire military industrial complex is designed with high-dollar asset production in mind instead of making more pragmatic choices about what resources really do the job efficiently. All bling, no basics. We're truly being led by some of the dumbest f****** people alive, thanks for that MAGA.
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PixeldamageDotNet Mar 31, 2026 +106
Or stop electing Fox News hosts to run your Ministry of {ahem} “War” and waste money on bombing school children, civilians. Meanwhile the “f****** d*****” beats his chest and talks about how many times he’s won the war. Everyday. Winning
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DreadedFistNW Mar 31, 2026 +125
You could use the blind man in a snowstorm approach and still see these clowns have no idea what they are doing. The truth is probably that the sycophants he has around him didn't think a few bombs would matter all that much, but they can't let him invade Iran.  That will be an absolute bloodbath for the US, and they probably can't 'win' even with an unlimited budget. Now he's stuck and rolling around on the floor like a toddler who doesn't want to go to bed.
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Ambitious-Cake-9425 Mar 31, 2026 +45
Pretty much. He has no idea what to do.
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crc_73 Mar 31, 2026 +117
What happened to those 10 free oil tankers he was gifted last week...?
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thoroughbredftw Mar 31, 2026 +112
"8 big boats,,,10 big boats..." Big dummy doesn't even know to use the word "ship".
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crc_73 Mar 31, 2026 +47
He forgot that he can use his thumbs to count with.
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helpnxt Mar 31, 2026 +51
Crazy how similar to Putin he is
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Gighatec Mar 31, 2026 +76
They have oil. A lot of oil. What they dont have is the means to convert it into the type of oil they want. The type of oil they need. F*** that man
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abiron17771 Mar 31, 2026 +104
He also knows many Americans who support him will draw the line at slightly elevated gas prices (child r*** is okay though!).
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HeathenSwan Mar 31, 2026 +34
"I am not a child, so child r*** is fine. Higher gas prices affect me personally, so it's unacceptable." -Magats
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DasBoggler Mar 31, 2026 +45
Yeah. I imagine this started because Trump is too dumb to realize that all oil is not the same and US refineries are set-up to process oil that is mostly from the Middle East. He thought, now we can control Venezuela and so we have tons of oil. Let's go f*** with Iran and it's no big deal He may have inadvertently shifted the US away from fossil fuels and toward renewables and energy self reliance. Americans might realize they don't want to be reliant on the whims of monarchs halfway across the world and also realize the obscene amount of wealth that is transferred there.
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MephistoHamProducts Mar 31, 2026 +35
> Americans might realize Found the flaw in your logic. Have quoted it above.
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WigSplitter117 Mar 31, 2026 +1831
He's lost control and is now desperate. If only he didn't threaten and bad mouth all of America's allies.
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90gradi Mar 31, 2026 +509
still, why no one seems to do nothing? can a sane american explain what is going on from the inside? is Trump untouchable? are your politicians doing something concrete? EDIT: all comments were useful to better understand the situation.
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sachiprecious Mar 31, 2026 +649
Explanation: Republicans in Congress are refusing to hold him accountable.
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arrakis2020 Mar 31, 2026 +366
Correct. They are all Trump. Remember this when they try to distance themselves from this shit show. It will happen....
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BigD_277 Mar 31, 2026 +65
It's already happening. Look at all the republicans leaving office. Take MTG for example.
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Duckmemans Mar 31, 2026 +36
He turned on her though, she's just retaliating. She didn't suddenly wake up one morning and realise what a humongous thunder c*** he is. People like her enabled him and are the reason we're where we're at today.
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Supreme_Primate Mar 31, 2026 +133
Slight correction, ALL of the US federal government are refusing to hold him accountable. Either through negligence, incompetence, or fear of not being reelected. Maybe add the controlling interests are telling them to do nothing as well. Corruption, indifference, fear, all likely factors. We are completely fucked right now.
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mikeyriot Mar 31, 2026 +21
They want war. They are actively trying to initiate Armageddon to coax Jesus to come back.
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fang_xianfu Mar 31, 2026 +188
The issue is that they don't actually want him gone. The Republicans in Congress are still very afraid of Trump. People who are turned on by him and his machine don't do very well. Nobody knows what's going to happen at the end of Trump's term, and even the people who are against him in principle are clinging on to the tiger as hard as they can and hoping they can wait him out. Meanwhile, it's a porkbarrel feast for grifters. They requisitioned $200bn for DHS in the OBBBA and you know tons of that money went to contractors. So they can keep their heads down, get incredibly wealthy, shift all the blame onto Trump, and hold out until he's gone. Personally I think that's part of the benefit of the "unitary executive" idea, from the perspective of Congress. In principle they should be upset that he's usurping their power, but in practice they can correct any particular imbalance with legislation any time they like, and in the meantime, Trump is taking on all the authority and thus all the blame. It's why there's been no vote about the Iran war: so long as there's no vote, it's Schrodinger's issue. If it goes badly they can blame Trump and if it goes well, they can say they supported it by not holding a vote to block it.
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MildlyMixedUpOedipus Mar 31, 2026 +39
> People who are turned on by him I retched a little reading that...
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Anothercraphistorian Mar 31, 2026 +125
Hi, liberal here Republicans: they tied themselves to Trump, in a desperate bid to maintain power and now no longer control their own destiny. Record numbers of Republican lawmakers are retiring or not running in 2026. It’s like the end of Titanic. Democrats: people always wonder why most Democrats are quiet or just plain weak, but it’s because they simply want to go back to how things were before Trump. They stymie any real progressive change in order to keep their corporate donors. So…as typical in American politics, the Conservatives re-brand all the time and Democrats hope their re-brand is so awful it gets them elected. There is no leftist party in the wings looking to demonstrably change American political culture for good. Lastly, Americans have goldfish memories. They’ll punish Republicans here, but after 4 years of trying to clean up the mess, Americans will get impatient and vote in whatever new iteration of the Republican Party comes back in 2032, smarter and more hateful than ever.
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ImperialPlaztiks Mar 31, 2026 +16
The real answer is horribly banal, money. Thats all it is, what ever ideologies they screech into the internet and microphones, they just want money, all the money. Anything that is said anything that is done, is just some ruse to get more money.
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DroidArbiter Mar 31, 2026 +2693
In any Parliamentary system, this clown would have been tossed on his ass within a week.
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Canada1971 Mar 31, 2026 +1251
He’d be out in a week in a functioning republic too. It’s just that too many people are satisfied that the guardrails are off and believe that their team will never be out of power again.
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BellyCrawler Mar 31, 2026 +552
You have the oligarchs making tremendous amounts of money, the deplorables loving it because it's owning the libs, allies thrown for a loop, enemies smacking their lips, and all the while, countless victims of child r*** are victimized all over again by the lack of justice. But hey, Kamala laughed weird.
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ashayh Mar 31, 2026 +171
No system or constitution or laws can help if no one is willing to enforce them, when 2/3rds of the people are dumber than a pile of rocks.
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likpoper Mar 31, 2026 +231
This shows that American system is one of the worst in the world
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ExoUrsa Mar 31, 2026 +101
The American system is based in part on the Roman Republic, which was also far from immune to failure and corruption. As a member of a country with a parliamentary system, it's also not perfect. But one thing we definately have going for us is a long history of calling unexpected elections after the government gets toppled by a vote of no confidence. We're also more willing to change political parties. In my life I think I've voted for four different political parties.
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ShakespeareStillKing Mar 31, 2026 +49
Westminster (assuming you're from the UK) also has a pretty good track record of evolving and self reforming when it needed to. Glorious revolution, the 1832 reform, Salisbury Convention, the Devolutions. Westminster is a breathing, living institution. Americans like to unchange the constitution when Birtain has an uncodified and not despite, but because of that felxibility it bends then reforms when needed. The US constituion will break due to its rigidness.
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Akikiriri Mar 31, 2026 +52
America is just too proud. They have their constitution and their founding fathers, they're holy, America is best, case closed, no reforms needed, DemocratsTM vs. RepublicansTM forever. Nowadays their constitution is being eroded by the minute, but they don't care or realize, because they're too high on the "America is best" supply. America is cooked and most astonishingly, cooked itself.
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mata_dan Mar 31, 2026 +13
Yep it's one of the least reformed democratic systems in the world, or the very least even. It's basically the same as it was hundreds of years ago, back when that was a new and good standard but it hasn't lasted.
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DamianLuis Mar 31, 2026 +1205
The message is clear: Never rely on the US as a supplier of oil and gas. Trumps erratic policies will accelerate the shift towards the electrification of mobility and heating - not in the USA but everywhere else.
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tony_truman Mar 31, 2026 +426
I think the bigger message is never rely on the US again....period!
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xXRazihellXx Mar 31, 2026 +148
Canada learned it
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Bobbler23 Mar 31, 2026 +85
Cool, maybe take old Musks brand new license to provide energy to the UK off him? Afterall, we can't trust the USA to do anything
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EnlightenedApeMeat Mar 31, 2026 +26
Any world leader at this point would be derelict in their responsibilities by trusting the USA in any meaningful way. It pains me to say this, but we are a rogue former superpower with nukes. It’s like your neighbor’s teenage son got dumped by his girlfriend and is driving around in a fully armed Abram’s tank. You can’t trust him and you can’t ignore him.
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time-surfer Mar 31, 2026 +1477
How can Americans take this mentally unstable person as their President?
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Ezekiel_29_12 Mar 31, 2026 +491
> The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
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olsondc Mar 31, 2026 +96
Not even a recent quote. The American satirist, journalist, and critic H.L. Mencken, written in the Baltimore Evening Sun on July 26, 1920.
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QaddafiDuck01 Mar 31, 2026 +175
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders. George Carlin
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Black_Moons Mar 31, 2026 +27
"These people don't appear outta thin air... This is the best America could come up with" - George Carlin.
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LargeSnorlax Mar 31, 2026 +91
The Presidency more accurately represents the American voter more than ever before, I'd say.
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Beelzebeetus Mar 31, 2026 +16
When I retired out of the country, people asked where I met other Americans to socialize with. B**** I didn't move across the world to spend time WITH Americans
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Athlete_Cautious Mar 31, 2026 +353
In short, to represent them
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Automatic_Actuator_0 Mar 31, 2026 +132
Well, you see, we really don’t respect black people and women, so we had to vote for an idiot psychopath.
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tstop22 Mar 31, 2026 +130
Because our system provides inadequate methods of removing him. Fingers crossed that the midterm elections aren't suppressed.
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askaquestion334 Mar 31, 2026 +66
In a way though he was elected on a platform very similar to what he is doing. Granted lots of people voted on single issues and are now surprised Pikachu's but most of it was out in the open and even with Iran, everyone on the left knew that he was the most likely one to use military force on top of being unstable and an overall piece of shit.  Isn't the American electorate responsible for the situation? I'm not even sure removing him is popular enough. With Putin they obviously rig elections and going against him is an easy way to get tossed out of a window. Here we kind of just tossed ourselves out of a window after having full access to all the information we needed. It shows that access to information is not enough when people aren't able to understand that information. Hopefully the world can isolate us as soon as possible and move on, it will be a tough breakup but nothing is going to improve from here on out in the USA. It will just get worse as the impacts pile up from the current regime gutting education and social services and voting access. Expect us to become more and more like Russia or a theocratic but nuclear armed nation ironically like Iran.
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sadferret123 Mar 31, 2026 +3769
Extraordinary incompetence in full display. Go in without a plan, drop a bunch of bombs killing many innocent people including children, then flail around for a bit and blame your allies because they didn't come to help you with your illegal war that you started during negotiations.
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Critical-Usual Mar 31, 2026 +141
Everyone was getting their oil until he decides to invade
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kitkatclub_visitor Mar 31, 2026 +1437
I laugh my ass off when Iran allows Spanish ships to pass through because of the restricted airspace for US planes. More countries will follow soon and Trump will look like an even bigger baboon.
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Flessuh Mar 31, 2026 +72
Wouldn't be surprised if the US starts blocking the straight due to "safety concerns" just to block the flow of oil..
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crowmagnuman Mar 31, 2026 +26
This is exactly what would happen. The whole aim here, alongside our tendency to pamper, support, and obey Israel, is to *isolate the US* from the rest of the world, for who-knows-what reason. Whoever is pulling trumps puppet strings wants America to have its own kind of Brexit. Our leadership, if you can call it that, also wants to weaken the rest of the world as we do so. The perfect way to pamper Israel, isolate ourselves, AND weaken the greater world economy? F*** up the Hormuz. If somehow, impossibly, we managed to sweep in, topple Iran, and then control the strait, I absolutely guarantee you the very next move the orange shitgibbon would pull would be to start charging everyone exorbitant tolls, and outright blocking passage for others based on no good f****** reason at all. He's already trying to call it the Strait of Trump. All he ever wants is power and control, and no amount will ever be enough.
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ThisTheRealLife Mar 31, 2026 +324
And if the UK follows and blocks the usage of their bases too :P
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Several_Cold_7160 Mar 31, 2026 +219
Sadly I doubt we will do that. It would be incredible but I dont see us doing it i cant articulate why 
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TtotheC81 Mar 31, 2026 +245
Starmer is still trying to keep Trump placated, which is going to be impossible between his malignant narcissism, ADHD, and dementia. The problem is that Trump has already proven that placation only lasts a matter of days, at best. He hasn't got the long-term memory or impulse control for diplomacy, and that's without throwing in his malignant narcissism and antisocial personality disorder. Our biggest problem is that we're in no-man's land when it comes to international trade, thanks to Brexit.
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Liquid_Trimix Mar 31, 2026 +94
Carney called it rupture of the western order.  Only leader invited to "The Board of Peace" and then disinvited.  Starmer has to walk a finer line I think due to the realities on the ground.
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External-Praline-451 Mar 31, 2026 +127
Incompetence or is it all working out as intended? That's if you're a Russian asset, and intent on crippling Europe and isolating the US from its former allies.
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sadferret123 Mar 31, 2026 +84
I honestly think it's both. Russia probably helped to get him elected, but they knew their job was done after that. The rest was going to be done by DJT's own vanity and stupidity.
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zoobrix Mar 31, 2026 +52
The Iran debacle is showcasing Trump's rampant narcissism even more than before which I didn't think was possible. All these people are mad at him but it couldn't possibly be *his* fault because in his mind he's never wrong so all the consequences are someone else's problem. But everyday the consequences just grow and grow and he has no idea how to stop any of it now and as the pressure builds he'll just get even angrier.
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Downtown_Ad6875 Mar 31, 2026 +759
I don’t think the USA will ever recover from him.
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flyinchipmunk5 Mar 31, 2026 +297
Yeah cause dumb f****** republicans are gonna try and replicate him for years. Just like Regan turned the party into basically catering for the evengelical right. Trumps is gonna make the party cater for the far right
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crazedizzled Mar 31, 2026 +85
It'll be difficult for them to find another person that is as dumb and malleable as trump, that can also please a crowd of dumb people.
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One-Collection-5184 Mar 31, 2026 +131
Trump is a symptom, and 2/3 of the population being f****** braindead mouthbreathers is the cause, which won't go away with the next election (if that even happens) I can't wait to not f****** have to care about this shithole's politics ever again
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crazedizzled Mar 31, 2026 +98
Not a chance. This will be the spot on the graph that America stopped being the world leading super power. The general population is just too damn stupid to recover. Really the only possible way to recover is to get rid of the electoral college, and make it so that a state with 800k people doesn't have the same power as one with 40 million.
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rsa1 Mar 31, 2026 +593
Fine. Let's end the petrodollar then. The deal behind the petrodollar was the world would buy in USD because the US protected the ME. If they're not willing to do that, we shouldn't need to buy oil in USD. Let's see how the US economy fares when dollar inflation isn't global taxation
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Ok-Click-80085 Mar 31, 2026 +152
This is literally the plan and the end game of BRICS
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stuffedandpickled Mar 31, 2026 +55
By the end of this excursion. China will come in and repair all the damage the war did in return for better oil prices….in petroYUAN. They re the biggest oil consumer from that whole region. Israel won’t attack anything by China or risk being screwed. This will be the end of the US petrodollar.
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strzeka Mar 31, 2026 +111
Careful. They invaded Iraq because Saddam threatened to ditch the dollar for euro. The dollar is worthless without oil transactions.
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Ozone021 Mar 31, 2026 +79
As soon as UK or other US "allies" sign a pact with Iran to allow oil for them through the strait of Hormuz, I wonder how big of a tantrum this monkey will throw :D
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RunningPirate Mar 31, 2026 +35
ALL COUNTRIES THAT GET OIL FROM IRAN AND DONT IMMEDIATELY GGIVE IT TO PRESIDENT DONALD J TRUMP TO BE SOLD BACK TO THEM IS NO LONGER AN ALLY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
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squelchy20 Mar 31, 2026 +12
Needs more exclamation points
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lonigus Mar 31, 2026 +1522
I miss the times when the biggest news headline was Clinton getting a b****** from Lewinsky.
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pareech Mar 31, 2026 +919
I miss the times when the biggest news headline was Obama giving a news conference in a tan suit.
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lollysticky Mar 31, 2026 +209
and that dijon mustard! can you believe it!
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it-is-what-it-is-mmk Mar 31, 2026 +82
worst day ever, f****** Dijon mustard.. never forgive, never forget
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CthulhusSoreTentacle Mar 31, 2026 +16
Maybe we should vote in a demented, narcissistic child rapist to show how pissed off we are! Oh wait ...
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LardHop Mar 31, 2026 +25
When presidents can actually speak coherent sentences.
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tetrasodium Mar 31, 2026 +51
Or holding a coffee cup while saluting an honor guard on his way past
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[deleted] Mar 31, 2026 +194
I miss when i as a european didn't even hear about it.
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Desperate-Custard355 Mar 31, 2026 +11
i now know more about american politics than my own country and am thoroughly over it
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No-Soil1735 Mar 31, 2026 +41
God I miss the 90s!
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prof_dr_mr_obvious Mar 31, 2026 +300
I can not wait to never hear from this infantile jackass ever again. And I will never forgive or trust the USA for putting the world through this. That m*********** should have been arrested and jailed pending trail on Jan 6 2021. Yet somehow they failed, failed and failed again at every junction we passed to get him away out of public life and in jail where he belongs. 
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BoldestKobold Mar 31, 2026 +101
> And I will never forgive or trust the USA for putting the world through this. There is basically no reason anyone should ever trust the US as a partner or ally so long as American conservatives and evangelicals exist in anything close to their current form.
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theartofrolling Mar 31, 2026 +68
"Hey I have a problem can you help me with it?" "Sure what's the iss..." "I'm gonna take Greenland!" "Um, no you are not actually." "So anyway I need you to help me with something." "Well okay but we all think you need to be a bit more careful and apologise f..." "I don't like your dead soldiers, they never did anything for me." "Well that's disrespectful and untrue, we helped you in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Suez cr..." "I'M INVADING IRAN!" "You... You what? Why? Why didn't you give us any warning? Do you have a plan for how this will en..." "Your battleships are pathetic. Please can you help me with this war, I mean "Military Operation"? The Iranians seem to be fighting back, which we did not anticipate." "F*** off." "WELL I HATE THE UK THEN! STUPID UK! I NEVER LIKED YOU!" "The King is going to stop by next month." "OH YAY I LOVE THE KING! I LOVE THE UK! IT'S FANTASTIC!" This is just beyond mad now isn't it?
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nedhamson Mar 31, 2026 +311
457 UK soldiers died in Afghanistan supporting US war there... just saying
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No_Criticism_5861 Mar 31, 2026 +83
Hell, the Americans bombed a dozen Canadians that were in Afghanistan fighting the taliban.  But yeah, we just stayed behind the front lines or some stupid bullshit
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BenoOoO_FRag Mar 31, 2026 +333
Reminder that America is the only country Article 5 of NATO has been invoked to defend. The UK answered that call faithfully and over 450 British personnel paid for it with their lives. We asked for nothing in return yet all we get is contempt from America. Trump started bombing a country on a whim with no exist plan or strategic goals. Nobody is willing to help, so the demented fool is literally having tantrums at 2am. The damage Trump (and the US public who elected him twice, let's not forget the yanks asked for this) has done to America's global standing will echo for generations.
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Onderdeurtie Mar 31, 2026 +11
Oh, they will remember, don't you worry. They are letting their favourite dumbass put his name on all sorts of things, musea, schools, bridges, even their money isn't safe. I'm kind of waiting for the day they let him rename their country, USA becomes USoT.
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theclash06013 Mar 31, 2026 +51
Does this goddamned moron not understand that every country buys oil in US dollars which is a huge benefit to our economy? Genuinely the dumbest motherfuckers on the planet.
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Karlzynsky Mar 31, 2026 +280
Sooo the war is not won?
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Stoned_Gandalf420 Mar 31, 2026 +89
The war is won in Trumps tiny little caveman brain. To everyone else, the writing is on the wall. I’m sure he’ll be telling us of his next mission to obliterate the obliterated later today.
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BlobTheOriginal Mar 31, 2026 +13
Mission not accomplished?
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alu5421 Mar 31, 2026 +259
77 million votes for an idiot. You own this. People warned you. Sex abuse survivors warned you the courts warned you. Jack Smith warned you and here we are...
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ashayh Mar 31, 2026 +149
And 90m stayed home on voting day. Not sure whos the bigger idiot between these.
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RapunzelLooksNice Mar 31, 2026 +124
If you don't vote, you automatically support the winning party.
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jrec15 Mar 31, 2026 +59
So in total that’s about 70% of the voting population thats dumb as shit right? God damn this country is fucked
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solidmarbleeyes Mar 31, 2026 +20
Yes. 21% of USA adults are functionally illiterate. 54% of adults read at or below a sixth grade reading level. There is roughly a 50/50 chance when you meet someone in the general public you are talking with someone who has the reading comprehension of a child.
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alu5421 Mar 31, 2026 +11
I agree with you
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TinyInformation3564 Mar 31, 2026 +150
Conservatives will still tell you that Trump is playing some 8D Galaxy brain chess, even when it's apparent that a third grader would come up with a more coherent plan than this garbage. Lol it's even worse cause he surrounded by ass kissing yes men that are somehow even more incompetent than him.
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Ble_h Mar 31, 2026 +36
I’m fairly certain the orange moron only consulted with Israel for the decapitation strike. His dementia riddled brain is on full display.
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Trick_Definition2478 Mar 31, 2026 +72
The irony of telling the UK to "go get their own oil" after we blew up the global supply chain is staggering. Everyone was getting their oil just fine until this administration decided to drop bombs during active negotiations. To start an illegal war that destabilizes the entire world’s energy market and then tell our closest allies "not my problem" is the height of diplomatic malpractice. We are effectively telling our friends that the U.S. is no longer a partner, but a liability.
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braudan Mar 31, 2026 +31
I'm pretty sure we don't need to take anything by force. If we asked Iran to sell us oil for Euros they would happily trade.
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IShouldaDownVotedYa Mar 31, 2026 +29
This is how he rolls. Fucks up everything he touches, including the underage victims.
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crc_73 Mar 31, 2026 +81
At this point, we're just waiting for him to die.
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eyluthr Mar 31, 2026 +57
the actions of the last month will reverberate for decades
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Z0idberg_MD Mar 31, 2026 +30
Everyone is rightly calling out the insanity of attacking your allies, starting a war, and then complaining when you don't get assistance from a "defense" agreement coalition. But there is something else here which is more dangerous: he is saying he is "getting" his own oil. He is admitting his goal here is to plunder and take their oil just like he did in Venezuela. A bafflingly criminal presidency and sending the US back to the dark ages on the world stage.
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Catch_022 Mar 31, 2026 +109
What would that cost? Kicking US bases out of your country? That sounds like a good deal actually.
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agha0013 Mar 31, 2026 +279
Imagine a daycare full of toddlers who built something cool to play with, then toddler trump comes along and breaks it out of spite, then demands they make another one after he threatens to take it for himself. It's NOT YOUR OIL you f****** piece of shit.
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patentattorney Mar 31, 2026 +50
Its more so, imagine you are at school lunch, one kid doesnt like another kid - so kid 1 throws his milk at kid 2 because he was looking at him strange. Then, imagine kid 1 blaming everyone else for not helping him clean up the milk - even through the milk got on every other kid at the table.
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Svennis79 Mar 31, 2026 +26
Its more lots of kids in line to get milk, kid 1 throws the milk he just got at kid 2, kid 2 throws his milk back at kid1, so kid 1 pushes over the milk cart. Demands everyone clean it up. Nobody has milk and are pissed. Kid 1 tells them to go f*** themselves and buy their own milk.
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The_bruce42 Mar 31, 2026 +24
"You don't like the problem I created? Then fix it yourself"
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johhnny5 Mar 31, 2026 +23
When my dog shits on the floor, he at least has the decency to act guilty and not look at me while I clean it up.
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Corn22 Mar 31, 2026 +22
“Please help. But also we don’t need your help, nerds. But also also, you really need to help us because oil. But also the problem is already fixed and this is about regime change, not oil. But but also we blew up the people we were negotiating with so the war is over and please help…by the way check out this AI generated ball room.”
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goldbeater Mar 31, 2026 +19
Imagine if Canada said we’re going to sell all our oil elsewhere (we supply 60% of their oil) and he could go find his own. The States would be shut down like they did to Cuba.
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gerousone Mar 31, 2026 +22
We did have oil until you fucked it up you clown. When is America going to do something about this guy? Bunch of pussies
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AJGrayTay Mar 31, 2026 +16
We keep saying there's no bottom to his ineptitude, yet he keeps managing to surprising me.
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Counterpoint-4 Mar 31, 2026 +16
All western countries should be suing Trump for wrecking their economies - 100 billion a country - he likes these round numbers.
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Kaarothh Mar 31, 2026 +15
What a moron
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Markus_zockt Mar 31, 2026 +14
So he admits that he’s too weak to clear the strait and that others have to clean up after him. Right, got it. A bit of a let-down for the supposedly strongest army in the world, but then again, we’ve known for four years now that the title ‘one of the strongest armies in the world’ doesn’t mean much.
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Luize0 Mar 31, 2026 +15
Would be super funny if Iran just lets through EU stuff and just blocks israel/US
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BackgroundGrade Mar 31, 2026 +13
Canada: Okey-Dokey. Turns off pipelines to the US, calls Europe: I've got some extra lying around, you want?
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Canada1971 Mar 31, 2026 +45
I agree that more countries should be purchasing oil in currencies other than USD.
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I_R0M_I Mar 31, 2026 +11
We were more than capable of 'getting oil' before this shit show. We just bought it on the open market like every other civilised Country.
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AllyMcfeels Mar 31, 2026 +11
I don't know if we're normalizing something as incredibly surreal as this. In any case, it only took one month, one damn month, from declaring victory to threatening half the free world with oil and, literally, a blockade. (Not just Europe). The period of American diplomatic dominance over the last 60 years is collapsing in less than a month.
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Pale_Leek2994 Mar 31, 2026 +12
No one would need to do anything if trump wasn’t such a f*** up.
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Bigmoochcooch Mar 31, 2026 +11
How was Biden almost impeached and this guy isn’t
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Bitter_Nail8577 Mar 31, 2026 +11
They literally raided Venezuelan ships to steal oil like pirates
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Eddie919 Mar 31, 2026 +11
“We’ve had vicious kings, and we’ve had idiot kings, but I don’t think we’ve ever been cursed with a vicious idiot for a king.”
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mtn_doo_codebrown Mar 31, 2026 +10
Can anyone name a bigger, whinier crybaby ass b**** bigger than trump? Europe didn't do anything to cause this problem, you did. Israel did. YOU created this problem for the entire world. Now you're upset that people won't bail you out? You're upset that you have to face the consequences of your own shitty actions? I'll be happy when it happens, but it still chaps my hide knowing that this POS got his way and never faced any sort of consequences for his entire life. He literally got everything he ever wanted, did everything he ever wanted, and never had to face any form of consequence. The most undeserving POS got his way his entire life.
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Elegant_Emu952 Mar 31, 2026 +42
Trump is a monumental disgrace to human beings.
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