Trump puts ‘Project Freedom’ on hold, saying he hopes to finalise a deal with Iran | US-Israel war on Iran | The Guardian

It is a nail, and the US military is a hammer, but the people making the decisions just put the hammer next to the nail and expected the magic to happen, because they don't know how to use a hammer. Because Trump surrounded him with yes men who make promises they can't keep (like Trump himself). It's all bluster, threats, noise, and bullshit top to bottom. This administration and everyone Trump put in charge of anything is incompetent at best, or fully corrupt, or both.

But surely witkoff and kushner are the best men for the job. How can it go wrong?

I heard an interesting take on this by Scott Lucas . Trump has been quoted as saying he doesn't like clever people around him, only 'losers' because he wants them to listen how amazing he is, blah blah blah. Think of it from another angle... Having unqualified people in his cabinet means he keeps tighter control over decision making because they have to go to him.

Just look at what Hegseth is doing, firing seasoned, experienced military leaders. Why would anyone fire top military brass if their war was going well?

... and the orange painted shitgibbon attempted to abolish the Department of Education by executive order.

Have they really? I guess I can see it. I was taught reading in school, but I noticed people started spelling words like "u ok?" instead of "are you okay?" sometime later, and that shorthand grew to the point where now people sincerely believe that anyone speaking in full, grammatically correct sentences are using AI. I've probably already written more in this comment than one of those people is willing to read.

We need to do general strikes. (This is the big tool you see get used in Europe to force change, besides govt dissolving when they can’t govern.) Like when we do normal protests, the people who might force Trump to change stuff (his supporters) all watch Fox News or other stuff that downplays protests, accuse people of being paid actors etc. If enough Americans do a general strike you basically threaten to tank the economy which forces the monied interests to apply pressure to the president and congress. It’s also not so easily ignored by right wing media.

You have Trump, who has openly admitted to fiddling the vote, and you have Musk throwing money at people, for a vote in return... In the rest of the civilised world, you could not get away with such nonsense. Did Musk Payout by the way? No.. course he didn't. Yet it seems no-one is doing f*** all about it... All we hear every day is Americans tapping furiously at their keyboards... Interestingly it seems it takes Fuel prices to rise for Americans to get really angry... You Americans want to speak to the French.. they know how to get their view across they destroy bridges, and buildings, instead of whining about it on social media. Anyone with an ounce of brain power, saw what Trump was upto when running for his second term. For Those that didn't vote for him get out there and make your point accross. For those that didn't vote at all.. you deserve everything you got.

They already are - they just SCOTUS’d back Jim Crow with the neutering of the voting rights act and are restricting Louisiana and probably other states too. This kind of stuff (gerrymandering back and forth in obviously partisan ways to disenfranchise enemies) certainly looks like part of a greater death spiral of democracy. (Not just gerrymandering but like widely antidemocratic actions.)

yeah but they haven't just left lol, Legit im waiting on it to happen pull all ship out of the middle east and just be like well f*** all y'all we're done here.

What f****** king are you talking about? seriously are you just spouting gibberish you heard from some other Maga brain dead tard? We clearly don't have control of the skies or have you already forgotten they shot down a f****** plane, We haven't secured venezuelan oil all the oil companies told Trump it was too risky to invest in and to f*** off essentially. The president can stop the sell of oil? assuming you mean sale and make it the rest of the worlds problem? sure the rest of the world can stop trading with the US as well and demand payment on their bonds they hold which crashes our economy.

\>>The Russians were helping Iran enrich and protecting them until they got overextended in Ukraine.<< Yeah the skyrocketing price of oil has definitely been a huge blow to Russia. /s

trump during his first term wanted to bomb North Korea regardless. He had to be talked down. You're giving trump and this moronic administration too much credit. He doesn't have the capacity to think about anything in broad terms unless it means profit for him directly. He fired all the smart people that could have talked sense into him. This is having MASSIVE implications for the US and the petro-dollar that America has spent decades building. (or arm-twisting the rest of the world.) There is no plot with him other than 'distraction' and 'profit.' [https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-discussed-using-nuclear-weapon-north-korea-2017-blaming-someone-rcna65120](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-discussed-using-nuclear-weapon-north-korea-2017-blaming-someone-rcna65120)