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Hello Americans! Today it’s totally fine and normal for your president to spins wheel … invite Iran to bomb progressive cities! Hooray.

Every item you’ve ever bought costs diesel.

Yeah. It’s gonna be a real shitshow.

The dems are expecting an orderly process and just aren’t prepared.

People think Trump has a nice tidy “plan” but the plan is to just try everything.

Isn’t that what they’re going to do before the midterms?

I’m genuinely asking, would getting the fuck out be enough?

He would need to capitulate. He would need to acknowledge his fuckup, to the satisfaction of Iran. I don’t think he’s capable of that. Not simply that he doesn’t want to, although that’s also true. I mean he’s not equipped to negotiate an end to this hostility.

I’m not surprised in the slightest. This is absolutely on brand for Trump. Anyone who thinks he’d react any other way is an idiot.

Because theyre not idle threats he really will tariff the fuck out of you if you don’t comply.

The thing is, it was this b type of hubris that b for him into this mess and it’s not going to get b him out of it

Hey! I’m batin’ in here.

Oil producers are wealthy donors. Farmers are not.

Hah. My thoughts exactly. It’s so pathetic with these guys. 100% he’s gay, or rapes minors or some fuckery.

If I understand correctly, this would really cut into the profits of US oil producers.

He’s not gonna do that.

Imagine thinking that ordering a renovation using tax dollars is some kind of achievement.

… but they’re in the bible, and Christians are in the Bible, and Christians are like Jesus, and Jesus is good, so they must be good, right?

I think that’s a good suggestion.

“What if a pre-op mtf transgender person was in a female change room and cis-females felt unsafe”

Its such a strangely constructed hypothetical fixated on a really bizarre premise.

The conversation quickly devolves into some kind of “id rather encounter a bear while hiking” kind of thing where only women can have a valid opinion.

As a male, in an anonymous medium, I feel comfortable opining that aggravated sexual assault in changerooms isn’t a credible risk, and the incidence of that type of assault is not increased by allowing pre-op mtf transgender people to use the change room.

To the surprise of absolutely no one.

Where are the nimrods that were pushing brexit, or more accurately: why isn’t anyone holding far-ages feet to the fire over this?

What fucking “trans issues”?

The world is burning. Children are dying. No one can afford anything.

Done correctly

Two little words doing some heavy lifting there.

Dems couldn’t “done correctly” a fuck in a brothel.

Perhaps another way to say the same thing … other sane governments are reliable partners, and it’s worth upholding the agreements we have made for the moment, while we make other plans.

“Insider Trading” is illegal, just never enforced.

IDK whether what Trump is doing meets the definition of “insider” trading because the law is intended to prevent CEO’s and managers trading on the strength of pre-release financial information.

However, like a great many of the behaviors of this administration, no one ever really thought of making it illegal in the past for two reasons. Firstly presidents have always had respect for the office, some less so than others but they were all somehow aware of their duty to fit and proper conduct. Secondly everyone assumed that if a president were to very unashamedly enrich themselves through the office, they would be removed from office.

Narrator: sadly however, the people of America were mistaken

It happens more slowly than you might think.

Here in Australia the US has been our major ally since WWII and is generally seen as the enforcer holding off Chinese expansion in our region.

When the tariffs were announced ours were minimal and largely to our benefit anyway.

The general feeling was, the Americans are having a bad day, but we can weather that to maintain our long term relationship.

We have an agreement with the UK and US to build nuclear submarines, which would be helpful in maintaining control in south east Asia. This is a long term strategy with many billions involved, likely to stimulate entire regions in Australia. However, the arrangement is looking very unappealing presently and no one actually believes the US will deliver on their end.

I think the summary is, everyone knows that Trump is not a reliable partner but he will be dead soon, and these relationships run pretty deep.