All the dolts who were mad at the 6B the Democrats released will be very glad to know that this only cost 20B to get the uranium + the billions spent on the war.
Art of the Deal.
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National-Two24172 days ago
+55
Well it's frozen assests both ways. But I agree Obama deal makes Trump look like a schmuck
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SlowRunner20262 days ago
+73
Obama gave back money originally belonging to Iran. Trump is paying for Uranium and the cash, when it is sold, will probably go into an unmonitored account in Qatar.
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ianc121512 hr ago
+1
I feel like calling Trump a schmuck is an insult to schmucks.
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Tsakax2 days ago
+38
And what did you as an American peasant get from all this beside higher gas prices and a waste of life and $$?
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mapf00002 days ago
+24
Higher stock prices apparently
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Economy-System19222 days ago
+17
Guess I should have gambled the money I need to survive on the stock market!
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PlatformVarious89412 days ago
+5
Which doesn’t mean shit if the dollar value crashes like it’s doing right now.
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Uhhhhh552 days ago
Which means fuckall. The bulk of people in the USA with anything in the market have it in their retirement. I don't give a shit what the market is doing, I know it's going to explode before I retire. Even if somehow it doesn't, I optimistically won't retire for another thirty years. F*** what the market is doing.
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mapf00002 days ago
+5
Nobody gives a shit about the plebs. Trump, Musk and the other kings want profits, thats what counts. Thats what america voted for.
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Ok-Lingonberry71432 days ago
-7
You should have been putting extra cash in after-tax accounts during the dip. Everyone who thought this was the end of the west was hilarious.
I’m off to buy a movie projector with gains today.
I’m guessing you are also the type of person that complains about money and the economy all the time too. Don’t lump all of us in with you lol
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Uhhhhh551 day ago
+5
I'm guessing you're a complete f****** idiot who thinks everything is totally fine and normal and argues with people online about how any hardship is their own fault and they should just get tuggin on those bootstraps. Just invest your extra cash bro!
I'm doing fine. Probably better than you, not that it matters at all.
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Ok-Lingonberry71431 day ago
-7
Yeah you sound like you are doing fine lol.
Just another angry listnookor that’s online too much and thinks the world is about to end. Who else would be complaining about the market doing well?
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Uhhhhh551 day ago
+7
This is the last reply I'm going to give you because I can tell that you're a brainless fool and I'm wasting my time. The only sentiment I tried to convey is that the market is not indicative of how people in America are doing. It is completely divorced from the lives of the majority of normal people. If you think otherwise, there is no amount of education in the world that could possibly save you.
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Ok-Lingonberry71431 day ago
-6
What a wrong opinion
You understand the importance of equity, and market growth to the viability of businesses right? If companies are not doing well, they don’t hire people, they don’t spend money on R&D. The government will collect less tax revenue..
If what you say is true then the Great Depression or recession should have only impacted rich people right?
Oh wait you won’t reply. Come back bb, I’ll be good this time. I SWEARS!!
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LabRevolutionary89751 day ago
+2
So markets doing swell but trumps job numbers are negative and everyone’s laying everyone off but the market being good means all those companies are doing great not to mention the millions of immigrants we ejected who were also doing jobs so… where are the jobs? Why is everyone struggling to find work, especially work that can pay the bills? I feel like if your representation of the world is objectively wrong on just a cursory glance you should probably consider that it’s possibly wrong.
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Bunnymancer2 days ago
+7
I'm more likely to get spat on if I travel
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Jaeger7162 days ago
+5
Not even mentioning the billions spent on the war. The billions lost in world revenue because of the closure to the straight and lasting damage to infrastructure. All for nothing to really change and to have iran stronger in the long run
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84Cressida2 days ago
-1
Iran is not stronger than before. The hits to their leadership are real and they’re fractured.
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dbandit11 day ago
-1
So why are the straits still closed, genius?
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SirRichardLove2 days ago
+1
About 80 billion
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Playful_Rip_12802 days ago
-1
They just said no funds would be unfrozen apparently.
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itsa_luigi_time_2 days ago
+8
The same folks who said this war was already over back in March?
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Playful_Rip_12802 days ago
+1
Yes obviously everything we read from every side right now is propaganda. We’ll just have to wait to see how things shake out.
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OptiPath2 days ago
+65
Market sentiment is that major military escalation is less likely to happen now. Both US and Iran don’t seem to want more military fights.
Both sides will play games for the time being…
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-JackBack-2 days ago
+51
Israel is the wild card. They are implementing a cease fire in Lebanon and now they are freeing up resources to attack Iran again.
Remember, the only reason the US attacked Iran is because Israel was going to attack.
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OptiPath2 days ago
+11
I agree. Don’t know what Israel got on Trump so he committed all in for the military attack.
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Careless_Guitar_4632 days ago
+19
He was stupid enough and they convinced him to come with. I don't think it's more complicated than that.
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HendrixChord122 days ago
+2
Epstein was rumored to work with Mossad so…
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owen__wilsons__nose2 days ago
-7
They dont have anything on him. This is such a tired conspiracy theory
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Kribo0162 days ago
+7
Just like most things Trump told on himself. He was saying Obama or Biden would start a war in Iran because of low polling. Trump was dumb enough to join Isreal because Republicans were clearly going to lose in the mid terms and he thought a war would rally everyone to his side.
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owen__wilsons__nose2 days ago
+9
He also was drunk on power after Venezuela and Bibi convinced him it would be a quick operation and then the Iranian people will take over and topple the regime. So he went for it
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derfy21 day ago
+1
> Remember, the only reason the US attacked Iran is because Israel was going to attack.
No, he needed to distract from the Files and it appears to have worked.
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Pure_Growth45282 days ago
Drag you into a war, their population constrols government water and electricity,don’t recognize nukes, but say they will use, don’t declare territory limits for future expansion,Iran doesn’t seem that bad after all xD
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dbandit11 day ago
No way that was the only reason
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exMemberofSTARS2 days ago
Yes…a few ships blocking some water will be what finally brings pease to the Middle East after wars have been going on since humans have existed there. /s
Common, you think Iran wants to stop?
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National-Two24172 days ago
-7
Or Iran needs time to get their cells in America in position while us troops are transported to the me.
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Durzel2 days ago
+43
Didn't he tweet not long ago today saying that it was totally open? Am I having a fever dream?
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Wolfgirl902 days ago
+34
Iran opened the Strait of Hormuz for other people to use. The US is blockading Iranian ports, not the strait itself.
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letmeinjeez2 days ago
+10
Hormuz is totally open and they are just blocking Iran now apparently
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dbandit11 day ago
+1
Its not open
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letmeinjeez1 day ago
+1
Apparently
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KenUsimi1 day ago
+1
That’s what happens when you keep a bloackade in place specifically for the nation you’re trying to get a peace deal from while letting everyone else pass through.
A bloackade is military action, you can’t sign a peace deal *and still do military action* then expect it to hold, that’s literally not how peace deals work.
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Rantanplang172 days ago
I think it's a 4 years term of fever dream !
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groovyinutah2 days ago
+5
Yeah....he says lots of shit, occasionally it even turns out to be revelant in some backassward way.
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Mana_Seeker2 days ago
+22
Excerpt
"WASHINGTON, April 17 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that the naval blockade on Iran will "remain in full force" until a deal with Tehran is struck.
"The Strait of Hormuz is completely open and ready for business and full passage, but the naval blockade will remain in full force and effect as it pertains to Iran, only, until such time as our transaction with Iran is 100% complete," he wrote on Truth Social in all caps."
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P0Rt1ng4Duty2 days ago
+18
>...until a deal with Tehran is struck.
The deal is if they stop making the Lego videos he'll call off the blockade!
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hpark212 days ago
+4
So, it is "Schrodinger's Straight"? It is both open and closed at the same time?
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milkonyourmustache2 days ago
+2
Why would Iran agree to that? It's the reverse of the situation they were in when they had leverage.
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spitman6122 days ago
-3
Same reason DeeBo got that guys bike
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BlazinAzn381 day ago
-1
So it’s not open then right?
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InevitableAvalanche2 days ago
+3
Is his goal blockade or opening? Does he know what he is doing?
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ThisAd70701 day ago
+3
Playing with the market much? 📈 it is Friday, should we assume anything less
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I-Might-Be-Something2 days ago
+5
I'm pretty sure Iran has said that they'll close the strait if the blockade isn't lifted. So this might be a new record in terms of a deal being reached and then broken.
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GuildensternLives2 days ago
+10
Trump says thanks to Iran for opening the Strait.
But Trump also says it's blockaded.
The Strait of Hormuz in a superposition. No one go measure it, otherwise it collapses.
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tech01x2 days ago
+11
How is this hard?
The Strait is open for ships that do not go to or come from Iranian ports. The US is blockading Iranian ports.
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MrF_lawblog2 days ago
+1
While offering to pay them $20B for their uranium
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GuildensternLives2 days ago
-5
Everything's gonna be OK. I was making a joke.
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Most-Cloud2 days ago
+6
I mean you're getting the facts wrong deliberately if you knew this, and it's only a joke that works if it's true, no? Otherwise it's just misinformation, and you're playing it off as a joke when you're called out on it
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Meowser022 days ago
The strait is blockaded to Iran only, so basically the reverse of before
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aedroogo1 day ago
+2
Can we get an "Is Abe Vigoda Alive?"-type browser extension for "Is the Strait of Hormuz Currently Open?"
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Boys4Ever2 days ago
+6
Is this what dementia looks like?
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slayermcb2 days ago
+3
Only Trump could make the Iranians looks like the reasonable and level headed side.
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Caymonki1 day ago
+1
What billionaire is going to end up with the uranium? For their personal nukes? Since Trump said he wasn’t opposed to the idea.
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k6tcher1 day ago
+1
Fallout is actually a documentary.
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devil1fish1 day ago
+1
So… it’s not open?
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warzonexx1 day ago
+1
I have whip lash
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Fotiomousy2 days ago
+1
So is it open or closed or simultaneously opened and closed at the same time?
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bunker9312 days ago
STOP, EDGING, MY, PORTFOLIO!
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naptown-hooly2 days ago
What are they going to do if the tanks don't comply? Take over foreign oil tanks and then claim it?
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Ultra_Metal2 days ago
-5
Good. This is the right way to handle the terrorist regime that illegally occupies Iran. Make sure the pressure is constant and always on until the Islamic Republic collapses and the people of Iran can be free.
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Alive_Internet2 days ago
-5
Are Chinese ships allowed in and out of the strait again? If so, the US just gave up their biggest bargaining chip against China. Trump could have asked China for concessions (like forcing Iran to accept a deal or removing China’s tariffs on US imports) in exchange for opening up the strait.
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PayMeNoAttention2 days ago
+5
They are allowed, just like they always have been, so long as the ship is not coming from an Iranian port. Or so says Trump…
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Historical_Owl_16352 days ago
+6
lol if the US intentionally kept blocking Chinese ships it wouldn’t be considered a bargaining chip, it would’ve been considered an escalation against China which even Trump doesn’t want a major fight with right now.
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