Captain Jackoff Turkey

  • Aequitas@feddit.org
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    10 hours ago

    I hate the US so much.They should finally stop dragging the rest of the world into their bullshit. I pay high gas prices because you can’t manage to put a bullet in the head of this fucking baby.

  • Korhaka
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    15 hours ago

    Is trump mad that he isn’t getting the bribe money

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      15 hours ago

      Yes. So fucking obviously yes. He claimed days before the farcical “negotiations” recently that he would be getting some of the bribe money, so there’s really no question that was one of his demands. And now that’s he’s been told no, he’s throwing a tantrum like the baby we all know he is.

      • JamieDub86@piefed.social
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        13 hours ago

        I would love to know what each party brought to the table, cause the media isnt saying Iran bad, but its implied.

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          The US media? Oh they choose their wording carefully, sure, but the message absolutely is Iran bad. Has been for years.

          And they brought a plan for peace, including what they felt were reasonable concessions; we brought accusations and a list of demands for surrender, control, and money. I thought that was kinda obvious.

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            12 hours ago

            Not just USA media.

            But yes, the message has always been Iran bad. With these negotiations though no one has said its Iran thats been in the wrong.

            Edit: they arent saying Iran bad, just leading you there.

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              Oh. Huh. Yeah, I can see that. It’s fucking weird that the assholes running this dumpster fire right now are so damn stupid they can’t get the propaganda right (even Dubya was better at towing the party line, and that moron was probably high off his ass for most of his speeches). Messes with my head. But, I concede that point.

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                  12 hours ago

                  Corporate armies taking over? WW3? Just a really fucking sloppy way to make billionaires richer?

                  Yeah, with you on that one…

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          14 hours ago

          There’s rumors that the massive levels of corruption in our military has resulted in lower stockpiles and overall combat readiness than claimed, and that a prolonged conflict will eventually reveal that.

          Fucking hell I do not want the world to find out, though. Cause all that insane bastard would have left would be nukes. And the common folk like myself are all living paycheck to paycheck, absolutely no safety net, pretending we’re all doing well but actually afraid of any disruption - because that would land a man in the streets and homeless.

          So, pray he breaks our collective backs and we finally rise up first; but the propaganda here is beyond belief, so that’s gonna take a lot to say the least. 🤕

          • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
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            13 hours ago

            Rumours? The US is already reneging on deliveries because it’s stockpiles are depleted. Launching billions upon billions of dollars of hightech missiles at Iran punched a huge hole in the US stockpiles, to relatively little effect.

            The Iran war had the same problem as Vietnam. You can’t use a million dollar weapon to take out a ten thousand dollar weapon and expect long-term success. So the Trump government did what they do best, and tried to solve the problem by making the same mistake more rapidly and at greater scale.

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              13 hours ago

              Fair. Mango Mussolini is clearly desperate in his attempts to bully others into doing his dirty work for him.

    • MrMakabar@slrpnk.net
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      12 hours ago

      This is getting the bribe money. Insider trading on Trump is going to be much better then under say Biden. He also makes the rich even richer and especially the oil and gas industry in the US.

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      13 hours ago

      Partly. But he also just realized that all his buddies sell oil at market rates, and market rates just skyrocketed. Every company producing oil in the US is making an absolute killing right now.

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    16 hours ago

    Trump: Dang, I can’t make the price of oil go down.

    Also Trump: Hey, what if I intentionally make it go up some more so my buddies can do more insider trading?

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      15 hours ago

      Not really insider at this point. The insider part right now is that all the forces of capital are doing what they can to keep oil prices low. With the disruption that we have had so far it should be significantly higher to reduce demand down to actual supply. And, at a certain point, it becomes an entirely non elastic demand as critical infrastructure of entire countries can’t be maintained.

      Shit is not gonna go well. I’m in Seoul South Korea now and I’ve already seen a reduction in energy usage by the state. They had a lot of moving pathways and escalators turned off in the subways this weekend. We’re gonna see much more of things like that VERY VERY quickly. Buy some solar panels.