Everything he says is final until he sees a different headline or talks to someone else. its just terrifying that attacking an entire countrys power grid is being handled like a reality tv cliffhanger
6455
stay_fr0sty4 days ago
+624
“I’ll turn this car right around if you don’t listen!!! And that’s FINAL!!!”
624
mr_pineapples444 days ago
+291
"THAT'S IT! BACK TO WINNIPEG."
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LifeDraining4 days ago
+38
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DerisiveGibe4 days ago
+59
1, 2, 2 and half, 2 and 3quarters...
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HousingThrowAway10923 days ago
+6
Except in this case “turning the car around” is a war crime that should result in Trump being arrested and tried at The Hague.
6
TheProfessional94 days ago
+895
He's already tacoing tonight
895
5HITCOMBO4 days ago
+724
Source? I hate that our news cycle is "whenever this mf posts on social media"
724
yourpseudonymsucks4 days ago
+624
Remember when he didn’t post for like three days and everyone assumed he was dead? What a time that was.
624
SSGASSHAT4 days ago
+349
Imagine what it'll be like when he's actually dead. God, what a time that'll be. Maybe I'll be able to resume the intellectual development I postponed when I was 13 and started watching this shit.
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[deleted]4 days ago
+192
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hikealot4 days ago
+44
When that happens, there’s going to be a lot of champagne. And a lot of pearl clutching; delicious pearl clutching.
44
letsg0b0wling14 days ago
+49
It’s only pearl clutching if It’s from the Pearl region of France
We’re gonna have to dip into our strategic sparkling wine reserves
9
b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh4 days ago
+7
Fortunately, Trump - in his infinite wisdom - has preemptively undermined American booze exports, so if one isn't too picky, there should be plenty of surplus bourbon to go around. Very civic-minded and uncharacteristically forward-thinking of him, really.
7
thegunn4 days ago
+29
I’ve got a really nice bottle of tequila I’ve been holding onto.
29
Sweet-Competition-154 days ago
+11
That seems to be more appropriate. Or a nice Ukrainian vodka.
11
ohhellperhaps4 days ago
+9
Remember that the Reps in congress could shut that shit down right now if they wanted to. The rot is much deeper than trump.
9
SSGASSHAT4 days ago
+6
I realize this. I realize that he is just the tip of a massive, oily, bilious turd that's been emerging since at least the Nixon Administration, if not earlier. I realize that the elites have engineered a population that's stupid enough to believe anything it's told, lazy enough to buy anything regardless of price or quality, and evil enough to sell its own children for football tickets. I also realize that nothing is likely to stop it or reverse its course short of the breakdown of this country's woefully flawed culture as a whole. But if there is one thing that I will get to enjoy in my god-forsaken 22 years of life in this country, it will be celebrating the death of Lord Crêpes Suzette when it comes.
6
Hey_HaveAGreatDay4 days ago
+64
Listnook didn’t load for me about 5 minutes ago so I typed “is” into google and it auto filled “Donald Trump dead”
Spoiler: he’s not
64
skratch4 days ago
+28
Oh man when he got covid it was like an electric feeling
28
Binspin634 days ago
+23
Yep, those were the hours!
23
marzipan074 days ago
+89
Is it alright for another country to target all of our power plants? Is it alright if all of us are without power indefinitely? It's a war crime, and he ought to think twice and thrice before doing it.
89
3d_blunder4 days ago
+89
They killed an entire ICU of people in Cuba, just by limiting power. They Don't Give a F*** about anybody but themselves.
89
denver9894 days ago
+18
Iran could argue that Trump's threats give them justification to conduct reprisal attacks under rule 145 of the Geneva Convention.
18
kyrsjo4 days ago
+12
That's basically their version of MAD - if US/Israeli bombing makes Iran unlivable, they can knock out power, oil, and water in the regional allies of their enemies, making them also scorched and unlivable and without income.
12
miriafyra4 days ago
+14
Except we all know that once Iran does that, the universal condemnation only goes one way when official statements are released.
Another variation of "We urge Iran to cease their violent attacks and for their regime to abide by international law." while either completely omitting *why* Iran fired back, or pulling the usual "Iran's power plants and energy grid suffered catastrophic damage, in what could be considered a war crime. Investigations are underway to determine what happened." as if we all don't f****** know who did it.
14
nezzzzy4 days ago
+34
A depressing thing about Trump committing war crimes is that he won't be tried and sentenced until a point where he's so old he's likely to drop dead any second. This man will never be fully brought to justice.
34
Moonshadetsuki3 days ago
+5
So thought Gaddafi, Mussolini and Ceausescu. One can hope...
5
Apart-Rent58174 days ago
+78
What’s this now, the third final warning or the fourth?
78
overkill4 days ago
+26
Final\_Warning\_3\_(2)\_b\_(3).txt
26
crypticbru4 days ago
+48
More likely that this is a way to keep the news cycle away from the story that whatever operation led to the shooting down of the planes last weekend was a total bust. If everybody is focused on the next threat, no-one is asking why the planes and airmen were there in the first place.
And maybe make a few bucks in the stock market while youre at it
48
wanderer-co4 days ago
+35
Except this isn’t trust the power grid of a single country, it’s the power grid of the entire world. Hooorayyyyyyyy…..
35
_Bangkok_4 days ago
+59
He literally gets his “ideas” from watching Fox News.
59
gingerzombie24 days ago
+48
Can someone just put some Bubble Guppies or something on for him instead?
48
creddittor2164 days ago
+5575
Can we take a second to appreciate how wild it is that the guy from The Apprentice gets to pick and choose bombing targets tempting WW3? It’s like a Kurt Vonnegut book, but even more absurd
5575
drunkcowofdeath4 days ago
+1207
I could write down everything that happens in the last ten years verbatim and send it to 2010 and people would think I'm f****** insane.
I mean Rudy Giuliani scheduling a press conference at a landscaping business in northeast Philadelphia because he confused it with a five star downtown hotel declaring the host of the apprentice actually won re election while hair dye dripped down his head everyone wore masks because of a global pandemic that the president floated the idea of injecting bleach over?
This is reality?
1207
marbanasin4 days ago
+481
That Four Seasons debacle still makes me laugh so f****** hard.
481
WampaStompa334 days ago
+201
What's especially wild about it is how the Trump officials (and by extension, his cult) continue to aggressively pretend like it was always the plan to do a press conference in that random alleyway
201
RJ8154 days ago
+164
To me it was the moment that cemented they will double down on everything, no matter how insane and stupid.
164
Sensitive-Deal36054 days ago
+73
They have literally never admitted being wrong about anything. 💯% cult
73
Friscogonewild4 days ago
+54
Across the street from a crematorium and a few doors down from a d**** dealership.
54
LordSmokio3 days ago
+12
''D**** dealership'' has me hollerin'
12
ChronicBuzz1873 days ago
+11
Kudos to the guy or gal who got a call like "*We want to book the lobby for a Trump press conference*" and immediately went "*Sure thing bro! Looking forward to it!*" xD
11
deliciousearlobes4 days ago
+7
Oh, they absolutely meant to go to the 4S Hotel, but one of the “witnesses” they used to speak at the conference is a convicted sex offender of children.
The Hotel is just a couple blocks away from a school. So they had to change to location if they wanted that witness to speak.
7
HorseMeatSandwich4 days ago
+269
I truly believe that was one of the funniest things to ever happen in human history. The absolute absurdity of the whole situation felt like a completely over-the-top bit from a show like Arrested Development, but it *actually happened.*
269
hypatianata4 days ago
+80
I guess it’s supposed to be some kind of consolation from the Universe that we not only live in the darkest timeline, but also the stupidest.
80
Peace_Harmony_74 days ago
+22
This is to be expected. Evilness is stupid.
22
jermany7554 days ago
+23
The hurricane sharpie thing still f****** kills me.
23
GoldandBlue4 days ago
+10
Don't forget his hair dye leaking down his head from the sweat.
10
GenericRedditor04054 days ago
+40
To this day, adding on “Total Landscaping” to the name of anything makes me laugh a little. Complete absurdity. That and the head of lettuce that outlasted Liz Truss’s time as British PM are my favorite bits of political ridiculousness in recent memory
40
Technicalhotdog4 days ago
+20
It's like a deleted Arrested Development scene
20
Sensitive-Deal36054 days ago
+8
That’s the hilarious thing. America got conned by the dumbest administration.
8
Irr3l3ph4nt4 days ago
+74
Imagine telling a 1998 Democrat about how the Republicans would handle their runner being a felon as a result of hiding an affair... with a p*** star. None of them would have lifted an eyebrow at Lewinsky had they known. I mean, unless you start telling them about Bill and Donald, and their friend Jeff, and their parties. F***, I miss the naivete of the 90s politics sometimes.
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PopularRain61504 days ago
+44
Trump initiated operation warp speed to develop the vaccine that his flowers say is designed to kill his followers.
His health sec says it’s the deadliest vaccine ever created.
He got the Covid booster again a few days ago…..
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CyroSwitchBlade4 days ago
+27
You didn't inject the bleach?
Was I the only one who injected the bleach?!?!
27
Greenpoint19754 days ago
+9
And then they voted for him again after almost a civil war on January 6th. Americans are uneducated just like they planned and Meta is just rotting their brains now.
9
WillArrr4 days ago
+248
The Simpsons "predicted" president Trump because in 2000 him being President was a satirical jab at American politics going completely off the rails. He was literally their worst-case, "this is how bad things could actually get" scenario.
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ianindy4 days ago
+85
He ran in the Reform Party primaries in 2000, so they didn't have to stretch too much to make the joke.
85
WendellSchadenfreude4 days ago
+42
I just wanted to read up on that a bit, and Wikipedia's selection of Trump quotes from 2000 is just hilarious...
> "'If I feel I could win—win—then I'd run. I think I have a good chance. Hey, I've got my name on half the major buildings in New York,' he said. 'I went to the Wharton School of Finance, which is the No. 1 school. **I'm intelligent. Some people would say I'm very, very, very intelligent.**" He further said: **"It's very possible that I could be the first presidential candidate to run and make money on it."**[15]
> During the California primary, he received 15,311 votes or 37% of the Reform votes cast, giving him the lead in a five-person field. His total was 0.3% of the entire California primary vote.[16] Trump ultimately withdrew his candidacy. During an appearance on The Today Show, he stated: "The Reform Party is a total mess! You have Buchanan, a right winger, and you have Fulani, a Communist, and they have merged.... I don't know what you have!"
He already had "the best words" back then. Very, very, very intelligent! And he could run and make money on it, which if I'm not mistaken is the whole point of running a presidential campaign, isn't it?
And then he turns around and totally trashes the party that he ran for.
I think it's clear that after that campaign, there could never again be a serious political party with even an ounce of self-respect in which Trump would have a chance of becoming candidate. For that to happen, you would have to assemble the biggest morons and losers on the planet into a single party, and even then, you'd probably have to feed them poisonous lies for decades.
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brobastian02274 days ago
+829
This is exactly like a Vonnegut novel. He was so disappointed and angry at Bush before his death. I don't even know how he would feel about Deputy Tiny Hands.
829
creddittor2164 days ago
+285
I wish he, Richard Pryor, and George Carlin were around for this
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brobastian02274 days ago
+213
It kills me that some people share Carlin clips and completely miss the point
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creddittor2164 days ago
+59
God, that drives me insane! Thank you!
59
brobastian02274 days ago
+29
And they always use him to spout the most abhorrent views. Not realizing he was pretty misanthropic towards the end of his life.
29
Brobeast4 days ago
+51
He was pretty anti "political correctness" (back when political correctness was its own thing prior to what it is now). I dont believe he would have ascribed to the right leaning talking points of "woke/cancel culture".
All he REALLY railed against was the elite class and religious zealots. I thoroughly enjoyed his times on Bill maher's show. He gives me the same fix that the late Christopher hitchens did, when it came to calling out "political show operatives" weilding religion like a shield/corrupting tool.
Edit: name
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phanfare4 days ago
+25
Let's be real though- Carlin would also be extremely critical of performative wokeness too.
25
-Rush21124 days ago
+7
Add HST to the list.
7
Archercrash4 days ago
+22
Bill Hicks
22
TournamentCarrot04 days ago
+17
I think we know how he’d feel.
17
brobastian02274 days ago
+15
True. I miss him everyday. He really shaped my sense of morality as a teen.
15
Hero_of_Brandon4 days ago
+8
So it goes.
8
1should_be_working4 days ago
+17
Just hope this one doesn’t end like Cats Cradle
17
Content_Geologist4204 days ago
+14
Damn he really would be the perfect author for this shitshow of a timeline.
14
noleksum124 days ago
+14
Kafka meets Vonnegut... it reads crazy to me as well.
14
recumbent_mike4 days ago
+32
Kafka meets Vonnegut is just Vonnegut.
32
BuddhistNudist9874 days ago
+8
And just like a Kurt Vonnegut novel there will be no heroes to save us. Poo-tee-weet?
8
ManikArcanik4 days ago
+15
"The guy from The Apprentice" is what tears at my gall. He's always been *that f****** guy*, late nite frozen steak salesman and probably other stuff but I was wicked high and I 'member he was a stuffy no-good DemoCommie before he got found by the slushie fund.
15
YoureProbablyAB0t4 days ago
+45
How many people watched that show and knew he was raping children at that time?
45
zombietrooper4 days ago
+31
A lot.
31
FunnyGuySully4 days ago
+14
I don't think Trump knows much about what's going on. He just opens his mouth and spews diarrhea. I used to think he was just the Yes or No man. But I don't even think he's being informed on most of what's happening.
14
AdFlaky99834 days ago
+5
While his wife talks about staying loyal to liberating Iran children no less. I don’t understand how the people who sit in for these speeches don’t f****** laugh.
5
BrightEdge81714 days ago
+1197
Must be nice being accountable to absolutely no one
1197
FathomTime4 days ago
+301
Putin
301
mion814 days ago
+112
Satan
112
KinTharEl4 days ago
+40
Satan is saying "Hell Naw dog. This is your mess. Leave me out of it."
Republicans literally gave control of the military to this guy.
781
redditobserverone4 days ago
+525
He was impeached twice. The Republican Party betrayed the nation and the world twice by not cleaning up their mess. Now here we are.
525
GlobuleNamed4 days ago
+162
For republicans, this is not a mess, it is winning.
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GMNestor4 days ago
+47
That's the scary part. The voters would actually like MORE of this to treat their inferiority complex and project power onto other people while also, ideally, not participating themselves.
A hint of reflection can happen when leopards eat their personal face.
47
201270106031705623164 days ago
+34
I'm tired of all the winning.
34
PsychicDave4 days ago
+33
Don't absolve the American people for failing to prevent his election, twice. Like they say, fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
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FoamToaster4 days ago
+35
I thought the saying was "Fool me once, shame on... shame on you. Fool me... you can't get fooled again".
35
Esternaefil3 days ago
+7
It's a saying in Texas, I think it's in Tennessee.
7
Embarrassed_Force8614 days ago
+44
And the American people, at least once. I can understand the first vote, but the second one?
44
Trust_No_Won4 days ago
+29
It’s simple when you understand how misogynistic and easily led a lot of people in the US are
29
Worldly_Cobbler_10874 days ago
+36
Americans betrayed the world, they should never be forgiven and this should never be forgotten.
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-Zoppo4 days ago
+47
From the outside looking in that isn't really a good enough excuse. None of you ever told him no or did anything about it. *Americans* literally gave control of the military to this guy.
47
jugalator4 days ago
+29
Agreed, Trump looks to me like the result of a long standing, massive cultural problem in the US. Somehow, it feels like it was always going to end up with a guy like Trump. The culture is wide open for "a Trump", a hard-liner with quick fixes where the scapegoat is someone else, someone that isn't you.
Unfortunately, politicians within EU have also caught on and realized that we're open to this kind too. In my country, we might soon be having our first Trump, too.
People just aren't that bright in general, not when the leader knows and speaks to them, let them hear what they want, and veiling their incompetence by a strong will and loud voice, and a convenient scapegoat that is usually immigrants of some kind, religious groups, etc.
29
oldschoolczar4 days ago
+183
NOTE. He means it this time, until 9:15 AM EDT on Tuesday.
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Free-Way-92204 days ago
+17
he has already bombed them twice in major events, one last year and at the start of this war
17
No_Performance_86574 days ago
+563
He can’t die soon enough
563
LaCaipirinha4 days ago
+455
Will be a good day but you can’t ignore the fact that this guy was twice elected by the American public, that is such a deep red flag of an underlying cancer that it will only be a short time before some fresh hell emerges in his place.
455
p_29234 days ago
+184
I will never look at an American the same way for a long, long time.
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probablysmellsmydog4 days ago
+66
I remember being in Amsterdam and the Dutch tour guide was talking so much shit about Obama.
I’ll be back in about a month and I can’t wait to see how much worse I’ll be treated 😂
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linkolphd4 days ago
+35
You’ll be fine. It’s only on the internet where people have no appreciation for nuance. Generally, most people are good people who don’t judge on immutable characteristics everywhere, even if Listnook is a place for grandstanding.
Sure, if you were outwardly supporting of Trump you’d probably have a problem, but I assume that won’t be the case. If you go on the trip, you’ll be treated just fine and have a good time
35
EncomCEO4 days ago
+7
Hey, only slightly less than half of our country vote for that massive twatwaffle. I was not one of them. The majority of us HATE his ass.
7
Binspin634 days ago
+20
I doubt there will ever be peace in this country again. We are so hopelessly divided.
20
Cataclysma4 days ago
+25
70% of Americans either voted for him, or didn’t vote against him. It’s an absolute joke.
25
MeddlinQ4 days ago
+16
And what's actually going to improve? 77 million people voted for him. He's not a one-off anomaly. He's a representation of how large percentage of people in the US think.
16
wishful_lizzard4 days ago
+8
And then you get JD Vance and Pete Hegseth as leaders. That'll make things better for sure.
8
KGB_cutony4 days ago
+70
Remember the old days when a president doesn't have to say "100% no caps confirmed final final final" to make people believe it's gong to happen?
70
Letterkenny-Wayne4 days ago
+124
This dude is pleading with Iran to get him out of this war and his base wanna tell you we’re winning 😂😂
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Gorsham4 days ago
+29
Probably doing some market manipulation for his friends again
29
Turkish274 days ago
+316
I wonder how many people in the military have just said, "no" to orders like these, only to get sacked/replaced/demoted/discharged so that a "yes" man will do it.
I don't mean the generals, because we've all seen that happen already. I mean the actual troops on the ground.
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Jman1re4 days ago
+80
they're cycling top generals until one of them agrees with using nuclear weapons. /s (hopefully)
80
smoothjedi4 days ago
+75
Tucker Carlson believes he'll do it, and is calling for the 25th amendment. You know it's bad when TC is on the right side of history.
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Money_Do_24 days ago
+45
TC is a demon but he can feel the winds blowing. This stance isnt a sign of any conviction on his part, but it is a sign of the next wave.
TC was light liberal. He went far right during the first Trump cycle, to cling on. And now he feels that base dying off, and looks for another. Cynical hanger-on, he is. But, it is a good sign he can tell the Trump momentum is fading.
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therealbman3 days ago
+22
*light liberal?* Do you need your head checked? Listnook Cares team, I think someone is having an aneurysm. Tucker has always been a rightwing stooge.
The only difference now is he got sent to the B team of Kremlin-aligned media personalities. He is just there to catch any fleeing rats from the Trump ship so they don’t actually find land. This mirrors Russian internal propaganda techniques exactly.
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idekbruno3 days ago
+15
Tucker Carlson has never been on the liberal side of the political spectrum, the closest he’s been is saying a single sensible thing every couple years that he’s immediately attacked for by other conservatives
15
smoothjedi4 days ago
+17
>TC is a demon but he can feel the winds blowing. This stance isnt a sign of any conviction on his part, but it is a sign of the next wave.
Although on a certain level I think you're right, on the other hand he, along with every other sane person on the planet, knows how f****** insane and stupid it is to drop a nuke in this situation. I think he's just as worried about WW3 as the rest of us. That's something that really should bring us all together.
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DopamineQuest4 days ago
+51
70% of them are part of the cult
51
sns20174 days ago
+70
They’re indoctrinated to follow the orders
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jinzokan4 days ago
+43
The sad reality is that is a necessity. the second one person is allowed to question a order and delay the whole chain falls apart.
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iyamwhatiyam80004 days ago
+120
Should BLOTUS attack power plants then Iran will destroy what is left of Gulf oil infrastructure and the Strait of Hormuz will become irrelevant if oil cannot be loaded - 20% of global oil supply will then be taken out for years and what is already shaping up to be an economic recession could well become a global economic depression.
120
narkybark4 days ago
+101
The one thing he's actually good at, ruining functioning economies.
101
ratherstayback4 days ago
+32
Also every company he has ever touched. Electing this guy as a president.. what could go wrong?
32
hoffsta4 days ago
+18
This has Project 2025 written all over it. I feel like this is some nefarious right wing game theory c*** to destroy the world and come out back on top.
18
iyamwhatiyam80004 days ago
+11
Project 2025 has the US returning to the gold standard.
Vulture capitalists depend on recessions for bargain basement acquisitions while capital flows into the safe haven of US treasuries.
This enabled public spending to stimulate the economy into a growth cycle. This time, however, US treasury bonds and the USD are being deserted.
National bullion reserves are being removed from the Federal Reserve because Trump cannot be trusted not to appropriate.
France sold its bullion before the price fell and bought it back again for a huge profit. German economists are urging their government to do the same.
It smells like an intention to default and then revive the domestic currency with gold.
The petrodollar is cooked.
11
GreenLurka4 days ago
+14
A win for climate activists then?
14
awmaleg4 days ago
+31
Worldwide recession then. Due to one moron.
31
ebulient4 days ago
+57
No. It’s also due to all the people who had the power to stop him but didn’t.
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InevitableAvalanche4 days ago
+114
War crimes. 25th or impeachment. Or Republicans are complicit.
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capz11214 days ago
+52
War crimes have and will be committed. Republicans will abide. NOTHING will happen to any of them. I hope I am proven wrong.
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Jedi_Swimmer24 days ago
+91
Either TACO, or it’s blatant War Crimes on full display!
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Colbert20204 days ago
+53
I think it's crazy how flippant everyone is about this. There is a good chance he'll do it. He blew up that bridge because of a temper tantrum he threw. If he does this, this is going to be the biggest humanitarian crisis of in living memory.
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rackfloor4 days ago
+23
His ego is painting himself into a corner, so there is increasingly high risk than he actually follows through on something like this.
23
McortezLSU3 days ago
+11
Thats why psychopaths and narcissist DO NOT BELONG IN POSITIONS OF POWER.
Ill vote the f*** out of a party that classifies these traits as mental disabilities barring one from positions in which they have any power over another human being. These **things** are the main cause for 99.99% of wars, violent crimes, sexcrimes, harressment, bullying and they just make the world a worse place. With them removed from positions in which their mental disorder can cause harm to other people, i f****** promise that the world we live in wont be perfect, but it will in contrast to ours look like a f****** utopia.
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b3arz3rg3r4Adun4 days ago
+8
We're flippant in part, because we're well aware of how powerless the rest of the world is to stop him. Since the americans are unwilling to do something, the rest of the world can only treat him like a natural catastrophe. We can do as much to stop this unhinged, senile old man as we can to stop a hurricane or an earthquake. So gallows humour it is.
8
Key_Ant64734 days ago
+15
Which will then destabilise Europe with refugees...
15
EQBallzz4 days ago
+46
I really wish our military members would refuse to participate in war crimes. If that bloated orange buffoon actually orders the bombing of civilian targets they should refuse this order. This is EXACTLY what that open letter was talking about. If they go through with this our transformation into a Russian clone will be nearly complete.
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slptodrm4 days ago
+21
they’ve been committing war crimes for the last month. there are no consequences. it’s very upsetting to see. but it’s a logical continuation after we just spent almost two years watching israel commit war crimes in real time.
21
Fit-Significance-4364 days ago
+14
His handling of this war is worse than all his other foreign affairs wrapped into one.
14
-Griff4 days ago
+95
Somebody stop this madman. He’ll doom us all.
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Frequent-Suspect57584 days ago
+32
The next Democrat should run on a platform of joining the Hague and honoring their warrants for past US presidents. Taco Tuesday is promising to commit war crimes - he should be held accountable. It might energize the Democrats who I feel are as energized as a dead fish. I bet a lot of people would vote for them - $7 gas in CA!
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xbenayx4 days ago
+205
Remember your oath.
Edit: My comment is referring to Joe Biden’s reminder here - https://youtu.be/LfDv3AkbPF4?si=cfXh-U8fgmhL2a4k
We all know Trump doesn’t give a shit, but there are tens of thousands of service men and women that should.
For clarity sake, my comment should not be construed to show support for Iran. That regime has horrendously offended the basic decency of humanity. They should never be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons. I have always loved the ideal of the United States and know full well it will get through all this.
I have no real clue what the plan is, and I’m not going to pretend like I’m a war expert. I have never served, and I frankly don’t plan on it. With that being said, the US is supposed to be the best of the best, and a beacon of hope and freedom. Please live up to this expectation, and do the right thing.
Thank you 🙏
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rocky_iwata4 days ago
+94
He didn't even put his hand on the book during the 2nd term ceremony.
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PapaTahm4 days ago
+72
In his defense, he would burn if he did.
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TrumpsDoubleChin4 days ago
+13
Think that might be referring to all the rank-and-file soldiers and their directs who are soon going to be told to commit confirmed war crimes.
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KaptainChunk4 days ago
+5
That would 100% be his defense in court.
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The_Frozen_Inferno4 days ago
+12
Oaths mean nothing to him. Neither do laws. Neither do trade agreements. Neither does the constitution. To him they’re all just fleeting words.
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SkinnedIt4 days ago
+12
Pre-declaring war crimes is awfully nice of him.
His world is going to shrink once he's a former president - unless he pops his clogs first.
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ConcentrateDeepTrans4 days ago
+135
He's bluffing. Iran called his bluff. Everyone knows it. Trump Always Chickens Out.
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TekHead4 days ago
+101
We hope he's bluffing. There is always the possibility the prior Generals were not willing to commit war crimes and were since fired.
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kc8181814 days ago
+52
That we're living in a reality where the US President repeatedly threatens to commit war crimes is wild.
If he goes ahead with it, living in a reality where the US President can't travel internationally because he'll be extradited to the Hague will be wilder.
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HPPD24 days ago
+21
Except when he doesn't. Or we wouldn't be at war with Iran.
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TonySu4 days ago
+13
It’s be nice to not have to play chicken with a historical war crime and the worst humanitarian crisis of our lifetimes. We are talking about cutting off the power to a nation of 90 million.
Add that to the 90 million in Iraq and Afghanistan who’ve had their lives fucked with by America, and that’s a lot of people who have a good reason to do harm to America in the future. That really bad news if America loses its hegemony in the next two decades.
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AdeonWriter4 days ago
+10
Why is the Republican party doing this?
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jjax20034 days ago
+80
Mar 3: "We won the war."
Mar 7: "We defeated Iran."
Mar 9: "We must attack Iran."
Mar 9: "The war is ending almost completely, and very beautifully."
Mar 11: “You never like to say too early you won. We won. In the first hour it was over.”
Mar 12: "We did win, but we haven't won completely yet."
Mar 13: "We won the war."
Mar 14: "Please help us."
Mar 15: "If you don't help us, I will certainly remember it."
Mar 16: "Actually, we don't need any help at all."
Mar 16: "I was just testing to see who's listening to me."
Mar 16: "If NATO doesn't help, they will suffer something very bad."
Mar 17: "We neither need nor want NATO's help."
Mar 17: "I don't need Congressional approval to withdraw from NATO."
Mar 18: "Our allies must cooperate in reopening the Strait of Hormuz."
Mar 19: "US allies need to get a grip - step up and help open the Strait of Hormuz."
Mar 20: "NATO are cowards."
Mar 21: "The Strait of Hormuz must be protected by the countries that use it. We don't use it, we don't need to open it."
Mar 22: "This is the last time. I will give Iran 48 hours. Open the strait"
Mar 22: "Iran is Dead"
Mar 23: "We had very good and productive talks with Iran."
Mar 24: "We’re making progress."
Mar 24: "[Iran] gave us a present and the present arrived today, and it was a very big present, worth a tremendous amount of money."
Mar 25: “They gave us a present and the present arrived today. And it was a very big present worth a tremendous amount of money. I’m not going to tell you what that present is, but it was a very significant prize.”
Mar 26: "Make a deal, or we’ll just keep blowing them away."
Mar 27: "We don’t have to be there for NATO."
Mar 28: No major quote
Mar 29: Claimed talks were progressing
Mar 30: "Open the Strait of Hormuz immediately, or face devastating consequences."
Mar 31: Claimed a deal was "very close" and that Iran would "do the right thing"
Apr 1: "We’ll see what happens very soon."
Apr 2: Repeated that a deal was likely, while warning of continued strikes if not
Apr 3: "Something big is going to happen."
Apr 4: Said Iran must comply "immediately" or face further consequences.
Apr 5: "Open the fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah."
I stole this post fair and square from u/BaconManDan9
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Time-Weekend-86114 days ago
+14
You forgot "Get your own oil." That was my favorite.
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RealLavender3 days ago
+10
Remember when the biggest freak out America had was because their president wore a nice suit? What a time that was.
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Galliagamer4 days ago
+54
Any military officers that follow these orders should, along with Trump, be prosecuted for war crimes.
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Colbert20204 days ago
+34
This is not even a good punishment. If the orders are fully carried out, we are looking at a humanitarian crisis that's ten times bigger than Syria.
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SuspicousBananas3 days ago
+8
Isn’t attacking civil infrastructure a war crime? I thought these types of attacks usually happen by “accident”.
Also won’t Iran just start targeting that same infrastructure in the UAE and Saudi Arabia causing a humanitarian crisis?
Is there something I’m missing here?
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LumiereGatsby3 days ago
+6
First I murdered your children and now I’m coming for the rest of you!!
So guys : how is Micheal Bay and Katheryn Bigelow and Tyler Sheridan gonna make the movies where the soldiers have PTSD about all the children they murdered and civilization they ended work exactly?
How does America spin this for its kids in 2035 about how the former and deceased president of the USA (twice so they loved him) made their lives horrible but it was worth it cuz he needed to change the narrative on his pedophilia document release?
How does this play out for the kids who are seeing their world f****** crumble because their parents couldn’t rise up to an 80 year old child rapist?
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bijelo1234 days ago
+369
TACO Tuesday
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Abradolf19484 days ago
+508
We need to stop treating everything this administration does as a joke. It's the reason he's gotten away with this much so far.
Dude is *still* constantly talking about annexing Canada and Greenland. He's not as dumb as he looks/sounds. And his handlers are even worse.
It being dismissed so easily is all part of the plan.
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kl04 days ago
+310
I don’t imagine you’ll get much positive traction to this comment, but it’s absolutely correct.
Between the endless jokes and then the recycled one-liners, it’s pretty hard to have any kind of serious discussion on what is actually a very serious situation.
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ConfederacyOfDunces_4 days ago
+48
Thank you for saying this.
All I’m seeing is people telling jokes, but none of this is f****** funny. Maybe he backs down, again, but regardless, we are in a scary spot now. We literally have a maniac at the helm, a man who actually has nuclear weapons at his disposal.
So I’m seek of seeing the same jokes over and over. The time for jokes is over, this is scary as hell. And if what he’s saying is even remotely true, so many people are going to die.
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Saradoesntsleep4 days ago
+13
It's because it doesn't really affect them.
Boohoo gas prices. That's nothing compared to the threat of having your home destroyed and your loved ones killed. So they just keep making the same jokes and memes over and over again.
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12PoundCankles4 days ago
+15
I would expect the economic damage to the US from this choice to be irreversible.
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Colbert20204 days ago
+15
Everyone talks about economic damage to the USA, blah blah. How long have people been saying Russia's economy is going to collapse from the Ukraine war, and yet we are on year four.
I don't think you fully understand what plunging the entire Middle East into a destructive war will do and who it actually impacts the most: Europe.
The price of oil doesn't matter if the supply of it won't actually meet demand. If the infrastructure of the other Gulf states are destroyed by Iran in retaliation, you are looking at a crisis we have never seen before. There won't be enough oil supply to meet demand physically. Europe imports its oil.
In a real crisis, the USA could forbid all oil exports and carry on as usual. But Trump doing these strikes would trigger a massive humanitarian crisis across the Middle East that will spillover into Europe, while also causing a shortage of crude oil.
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AnySwimming63644 days ago
+12
\>In a real crisis, the USA could forbid all oil exports and carry on as usual.
I agree with a lot of what you said. But not this point.
First, the US mainly produces light, sweet crude oil BUT most of its refiniries are set up for heavy crude oil. So the US couldn't actually *use* a huge fraction of what it produces.
If the US stopped exporting that light, it wouldn't lower gas prices, but it sure would hit the economy.
Second, even assuming we could miraculously refine all that stuff we export, yes, it would protect the US against many of the economic shocks felt by other countries, but it wouldn't avoid it. The global economy would collapse and the US relies on international business to function. Petrodollar, global manufacturing supply chains, international software purchase. These things would melt.
It would still be a Great Depression level event for the US, even if it's slightly worse elsewhere.
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PloppyTheSpaceship4 days ago
+15
Remember when one of his excuses for the Iran war was to liberate its people? The same people whose vital infrastructure he's about to destroy?
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Araminal4 days ago
+7
I just feel happy for the preppers who will finally be vindicated if a second depression occurs.
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IcyExtent37404 days ago
+7
Trump is a war criminal and should be tried as such in The Hague. Netanyahu knows all about that.
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DieHardAmerican953 days ago
+7
Why would he bomb them? According to his own statements, he’s already won this war about 4 times now.
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Noughmad4 days ago
+13
Decision_final_v14_really_final3.doc
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totallysurpriseme4 days ago
+5
Such an impressive leader.
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Starbuckker4 days ago
+6
Jeffrey Epstein really did a number on this guy.
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Wakanuia4 days ago
+6
Wasn't this about liberating the Iranian people? What do you think they will do without water and electricity?
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OldWolf24 days ago
+21
Absolutely the last. Final. Full stop. Cross my heart and hope to be spanked until my bottom goes purple.
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PerfectGanache71344 days ago
+27
Go back to bed, grandpa
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TheBioethicist873 days ago
+6
Why would anyone negotiate with someone who talks like this? Your decision is final? So wtf are we negotiating?
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Ihavenoideatall4 days ago
+13
Sure sure. Ok ok.
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pumpkinspicecum4 days ago
+9
This is what happens when you elect a D-list reality show celebrity to be president
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Tsakax4 days ago
+12
200$ oil incoming
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GabeDef4 days ago
+15
Iran is making the biggest fool out of this Administration just by doing nothing.
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DaGrinz4 days ago
+8
Next war crimes ahead. Do not forget, HE IS RAPING KIDS.
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ogpterodactyl4 days ago
+3
Tune in on Tuesday for this episode of will I cause the second Great Depression. Tuesday 8-7 central.
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rugbat4 days ago
+5
It's illegal. Let's see if the military hierarchy have the nerve to refuse illegal orders.
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Electricengineer4 days ago
+5
I got a present today so I'll give them 5 days
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solo1184 days ago
+4
It's always final. Till it's not.
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harosokman4 days ago
+4
I'd love a timeline where the ICC issues an array warrant for him and after his term he can't travel anywhere for fear of being arrested.
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givin_u_the_high_hat4 days ago
+4
Because there aren’t enough immigrants on the planet, Trump decides he wants to make a country of 93 million unlivable. Never has the US had a dumber president.
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TetraThiaFulvalene4 days ago
+4
Surely he knows that that means that the desalination plants in his ally countries are fair targets too?
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