Someday everyone will claim to have always opposed him.

This doesn’t hurt Iran at all, it just makes the problem worse for everyone else. All this will accomplish is loading more international pressure on the United States to end the conflict immediately with major concessions to Iran.

If you lose to Donald Trump, you are literally unelectable.

How convenient for her 🙄

It remains to be seen if Trump can keep a lid on his ego long enough for the whole thing to blow over and Iran to get the concessions they want. The markets are reacting strongly to the news, but I am not convinced that the two week ceasefire will amount to anything if the Trump admin can’t leave the issue well enough alone. We’ll just have to wait and see if the war is more profitable for Trump and his insider trading buddies than it is politically volatile for him.

He’s obviously going to try and spin this as a victory if he does manage to pull out successfully, but it’s important to ask the question - what were the US war goals and did they achieve them? He should not get credit for starting a war and then ending it swiftly, that is the expected outcome. Seems to me that they’ve accomplished nothing and are bragging about cleaning up the mess that they created. Hopefully people will still remember come midterms this year.

Comforting as this angle might be to some, I hate that people are trying to excuse what are clearly a lifetime of personality flaws and intentional bad behavior by removing his agency and attributing it to severe mental illness.

He’s not demented, he’s just an evil piece of shit.

To think that in the interest of electoral fairness, we let this guy be president again instead of putting him in a prison for life where he absolutely belongs.

To any democratic strategists out there who might be reading my post, if you want my attention, start getting your candidate to talk loudly and often about how they will punish Trump and every single member of his administration on Day 1. Lifetime prison sentences for Epstein related coverups. Hangings for treason, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Lengthy prison sentences for fraudsters who are insider trading and former DOGE staffers. Restitution to be paid back to the American taxpayers for the theft and embezzlement of tax dollars. Anything less that that is a mockery of justice.

It was a no-win situation. If he stayed, the Republicans who pretended to care about war being a bad thing would have raked him over the coals about throwing out future FIFA peace prize recipient Donald Trump’s flawless exit strategy.

And we see that when he went through with it anyway what a fucking mess it was, and they blamed him for it imploding anyway.

I’m of the firm opinion that we could have occupied Afghanistan for a century and the result upon exiting would have resulted in the exact same outcome. There were perhaps better ways to do a drawdown that wouldn’t result in leaving billions of dollars worth of military hardware, vehicles and munitions behind for the Taliban to sieze and use for themselves, but it still eventually had to happen and we got what we got.

Democracy can’t be given to someone else. It must be hard fought for and won by the people themselves, or it’s value will never become apparent to them.

Better the USSS watch list than the Epstein list.

lmao, “settled” the say.

If you think the bar can’t go any lower, I’ve got some shocking news for you. The corruption, cronyism, and grifting have only just begun.

“build fast, ship fast”

Ugh… these people are going to be the death of us.

That ought to blow over well. Nothing could possibly go wrong with jackboot thugs being asked to manage lines and direct passengers.

Remember folks, be sure to wear your “Fuck ICE” and “Abolish ICE” t-shirts to the airports this week. Be loud and be proud.

Gulf of Whatnow? Sorry, could you point to where that is on one of Trump’s maps, please? 👉

I’d gather them up and melt them down into ingots, then sell the ingot for scrap. It would probably become a net loss overall, but anything to rid the nation of that insufferable traitor’s visage on our currency.

With the exception of Mary Trump, this entire bloodline is cursed beyond belief. Small wonder that the kids in the family grow up to be little clones of their shitty parents.

Nonsense! He can just push the “Lower Gas Prices” button that Biden refused to push for his entire term! It really is that simple, folks.

Congrats! Glad to hear you are doing better!

He’s a super safe pick, that’s pretty clear. Safer than Gavin Newsom, imo.

However, I’d like to see what his platform is before I make up my mind about him. Amnesty for the fascists is a complete non-starter for me. Trump and his cronies must be punished. He needs to be clear about that on the campaign trail, and not weasel his way around it like Biden did.

It’s was supposed to be the executive’s check on the judicial, like a veto but instead of bills passed by congress it’s convictions made by a federal court. This was of course back when there was some semblance of judicial independence, nonpartisan interpretations of the constitution, and most people acting on good faith and in the best interests of their constituents or the American population at large.

Sadly, we are now ruled by idiots who have co-opted the government apparatus to serve their own interests.

I kind of agree with other commenters that we should do away with the presidential pardon and replace it with a check that is less likely to be abused for personal gain.

Im surprised as how many people discount this feature. Sometimes I sit in voice chat in my small Discord server alone for hours because nobody would show up if nobody was around.

We’re all adults with jobs and responsibilities and shit, we don’t want to have to dial people in to shoot the shit late at night. That would feel like a chore.

An alternative with no drop in voice chat is a non starter for my group.