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Should be a wild four years.

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I think it's super funny how Dems are surprise Pickachu faced everytime Trump makes a deal previously thought impossible when.

He made billions of dollars making deals

He had a hugely successful TV show revolving entirely around making deals

He literally wrote a fucking book called "The Art of Of The Deal"

Gee who would have thought this man may be highly talented at negotiating?
 
I think it's super funny how Dems are surprise Pickachu faced everytime Trump makes a deal previously thought impossible when.

He made billions of dollars making deals

He had a hugely successful TV show revolving entirely around making deals

He literally wrote a fucking book called "The Art of Of The Deal"

Gee who would have thought this man may be highly talented at negotiating?
Because to Dems Trump is a self aggrandizing retard who can do no right.
 
Personally, I wonder if the Democrats preferred propping up the Shias and playing ball with them as Middle East regional leaders
This is what happened essentially


biden continued Obama's legacy of cooperating with Iran. Obama's Iran envoy Robert Malley who headed the Iran deal talks was found to be an Iranian agent.



we essentially have an open Iranian spy in the Pentagon that no one has done anything about who has constantly contacted IRGC official Mostafa Zahrani asking for his advice on Iran related things

They showed that Malley had helped to infiltrate an Iranian agent of influence named Ariane Tabatabai into some of the most sensitive positions in the U.S. government—first at the State Department and now the Pentagon, where she has been serving as chief of staff for the assistant secretary of defense for special operations, Christopher Maier.
In February 2021, Malley hired Ariane Tabatabai to join his Iran team at the State Department. The emails document her cloying determination to prove her worth to the Iranian regime. Shortly after the 2014 meeting in Vienna, Ariane Tabatabai sent Zahrani a link to an article she’d co-authored with Esfandiary. “As I mentioned last week, Dina and I wrote an article about the nuclear fuel of Bushehr [nuclear power plant] for the Bulletin which was published today. Our goal was to show what is said in the West—that Iran does not need more than 1500 centrifuges—is wrong, and that Iran should not be expected to reduce the number of its centrifuges.” Zahrani then forwarded the email to Zarif.
In June 2014, Ariane Tabatabai emailed Zahrani to say she’d been invited to conferences in Saudi Arabia and Israel and asked for his prior approval of her trips. “I would like to ask your opinion too and see if you think I should accept the invitation and go,” she wrote. Zahrani replied that “Saudi Arabia is a good case, but the second case [Israel] is better to be avoided.” She responded: “Thank you very much for your advice. I will take action regarding Saudi Arabia and will keep you updated on the progress.” There is no record of Tabatabai traveling to Israel.
A month later, she again wrote Zahrani asking for additional instructions. She’d been invited to join academic experts Gary Samore and William Tobey to brief House members on the Foreign Relations, Armed Services, and Intelligence committees. “I am scheduled to go to the Congress to give a talk about the nuclear program,” she wrote the IRGC official. “I will bother you in the coming days. It will be a little difficult since both Will and Gary do not have favorable views on Iran.” Zahrani forwarded the email to Zarif.
 
I've been saying this for at least a decade personally. As someone who grew up in a rural part of the bible belt, leftism feels identical to how many Christians around me acted. Especially with the hypocrisy of it all. And no I am not dogging religious people, both of my parents were very devout and genuinely great people and even though I am non-religious I am glad I went to church as a kid because it shaped my moral compass.

But I say that to say this, why the fuck are leftists considered liberal? It's like words mean nothing anymore. Hardcore leftists are closed minded, absolutely hate the idea of any sort of positive change in the world, and are constantly hypocritical. They embody everything about the literal definition of conservatism. I mean shit look at how much stuff they try to get banned or cancelled. When I was a kid I remember Christians hating on Harry Potter and wanting it banned because it was satanic or some shit. Fast forward twenty years and you have leftists literally creating black lists of people who streamed Hogwarts Legacy online.
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

Now map that onto DEI, and identity politics in general, and the modern left starts to look very conservative. Probably because it's now full of old people for whom conservatism is natural. But it's being sold as liberal, which is absurd.
 
So if that loony left of the 1960s and 1970s had "smartphones" and "social media" back then, it could've been Current Year Clown World even back then, instead of such really taking off after the Occupy movement failed? I get the impression that loony leftism still wasn't nearly as influential as "social justice" got after the "GamerGate" circus.
It wasn’t as influential. It was just there. What the Left was pushing was, aside from trannies (not really a thing yet), very similar to now. Most of those people were literal Maoists. But the public was far less tolerant/indulgent of them.
 
Women should not hold any actual responsibility in society nor should they truly be held accountable for their actions, because they are insane.
Until their rights reflect that they shouldn't be held accountable then it's a moot point. They do have equal rights and so they should have equal responsibility too. This is why they should be drafted into the military too, to be consistent.

I was really just arguing that an adult woman can't do as much long-term damage to a teenage male as an adult man could do to a teenage girl.
I disagree (especially in a world where abortion is allowed up until the moment of birth), there's at most equal long-term damage.

Either way, excluding the mother, women should not have power over men in any circumstance. This way they would not have to be held accountable for their decisions as their insane decisions would not carry any weight. Outside of being smacked with an open hand when they transgress badly, as is natural and described very well by Sean Connery (sometimes you just gotta).
Smacking doesn't work, it only leads to resentment. If your relationship is at the point that a woman needs to be smacked then it should accompany a breakup because it's pretty much unsalvageable anyway.
 
Won't ever happen but he does deserve it and if it did ever happen I think there would be actual mass suicides.
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Can you imagine him winning it, coming out and giving a speech about how he earned it, not like the participation Nobel they gave Obama? I genuinely think they'd start trying to hunt him down in the street.
 
That's what I see in him that's so promising, a firebrand stopping them reverting to their neocon ways.

I still like that in signalgate he voiced his opposition to intervention even if he was resigned that it was gonna happen regardless. In private. Pretty strong moral character stuff.
Eh, I feel like "neocon" is what a lot of people use to refer to foreign policy hawks. The term neocon specifically refers to GW Bush-era Republicans who believe in "spreading democracy" through military intervention. There are plenty of people who favor US military intervention when it suits our interests, such as myself, who have no retarded ideas about "spreading democracy" whether it's sincerely-held or not. People like me simply think that the US should use its military when it's in our interests. This isn't a new idea nor is it uniquely American.

I get the "fuck foreign wars" sentiment and I don't think people who hold those ideas are necessarily wrong, but it's been championed lately by a lot of compromised people on both the American left and the American right who are taking money and cues from foreign governments. Case in point:
This is what happened essentially
How many liberals can we name who were in favor of being nice to Iran, only to find out they were Iranian agents all along? How many conservative pundits can we name who are pro-leaving-Iran-or-Russia-alone but take money from either country and its intermediaries?

I believe isolationists when they say "I don't give a shit about Burma, period, spend that money on fixing American bridges and helping American veterans." I do not believe isolationists who start sperging about Israel or multi-polar worlds and, knowingly or not, spout anti-American sentiment. I am 100% in favor of American Empire and I don't give a shit what anyone says because it's a helluva lot better than being under the thumb of Europeans, or Arabs, or the Chinese, or really anyone else. Rome did not become great by being isolationist. Britain did not become great by being isolationist. Hell, Russia and China didn't get where they are by minding their own business.
 
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Trump met with the President of Syria
Holy shit that was fast

They must have shoved that sucker into the nearest clean suit and flew him out an hour later.

Trump say's "I'm willing to meet the new Syrian President"

2 hours later the dude's on a plane to Qatar. Man can Trump make shit happen, no wonder the swamp creatures are 100% against him.
 
They must have shoved that sucker into the nearest clean suit and flew him out an hour later.
He's a big guy.

In all seriousness: he wants international recognition. Meeting with the US president gives recognition. Trump wants this camel jockey to sit at the table and cooperate. The one thing Trump does right is he's not afraid of playing tit-for-tat if the outcome is positive. Too many American politicians (and past presidents) think too hard about prestige and idealism.
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Man. I know democrats really get off on rice dick, but please tell me this isn’t why they push solar so hard

You don't think all those solar farms in the Southwest are American-owned, do you? Oh, my sweet summer child...
 
Man can Trump make shit happen, no wonder the swamp creatures are 100% against him.
That was one of the biggest things that stood out to me during Trump's first term, and he's continuing to do it in his second: You can just do things. Everything doesn't have to run through 15 committees and be focus grouped and the lobbyists consulted first. You can just get on a plane and go talk to people and cut deals using America's enormous leverage. Other politicians pretend to be really shitty at doing things so they can have plausible deniability, keep their gibs rolling in and never actually do anything, and it almost seems believable until someone like Trump reminds you that no, it's not actually hard when you are genuinely trying to make things better.
 
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Holy shit that was fast

They must have shoved that sucker into the nearest clean suit and flew him out an hour later.

Trump say's "I'm willing to meet the new Syrian President"

2 hours later the dude's on a plane to Qatar. Man can Trump make shit happen, no wonder the swamp creatures are 100% against him.
Trump wants a world at peace, not a world at War. He removed the 1979 sanctions. Regardless of his words, his actions alone prompted a response. He has earned respect.
 
Wtf dude, I didn’t even watch Johnny Bravo cause it was past my time

I’m not talking about who OWNS it, I’m talking about the latest example of China trying to sabotage our shit
How do you think China managed to Trojan horse that shit in, you dunderhead?

I also wanted to draw attention to the China-owned and sponsored solar farms in the US.
 
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